I'm in Terra

He had only one requirement for supporting the rebels, which was to publicly declare that the team's management methods were 'learned' from Luxembourg, and to use Luxembourg's current situation as an example to promote it among the rebels.

What Victoria wanted was never an invincible army. What he wanted was ambition. The ambition of the civilians and those infected for a better life.

If you have ambition, you will move forward, and if you are willing to move forward, you will naturally stand by his side.

This is his trump card.

"The domestic chess game has been finalized, and now it's time to prepare for another game."

Caressing the girl in his arms, Victoria's thoughts gradually drifted away.

167 Brother, you smell so good

The growing chaos within the country would inevitably culminate in an unprecedented uprising. Even though the nobles held military power and possessed an absolute advantage in combat power, with the covert assistance of Victory and others, the rebels might still be able to fight.

But what Victor was worried about was never the fighting power of the rebels, or even the complicated power structure within Ursus, but the possible spying and coveting.

Fortunately, Victor and Kashena had a very long-term strategic plan from the outset. From the growth of the Reunion Movement to the Checheng Incident, they had intentionally managed the pace and progress of time. As a veteran Arknights player, Victor was all too familiar with the chaos and disputes of this period.

From Xiosta and Dossores to Casimir next door and Victoria not far away, every city-state will usher in its own drastic changes during this period.

There are the Xiosta volcano, the rebellion of Old Panqiao of Dosores, the fierce friction between the Casimir Business Association and the old nobles, and Victoria is caught in the vortex of power struggle between Tara Rebellion and Sarkaz's seizure of power.

Furthermore, Yan Nation had just concluded its conflict with Ursus. While Ursus had suffered a crushing defeat, this did not necessarily mean Yan Nation was the victor. With damage to several mobile cities, including Longmen, the fluctuations in the Sui Xiang seal, and the Sui family's second son secretly stirring up trouble, Yan Nation was unlikely to spare the time to embarrass Ursus.

As for Colombia, Iberia, Rem Billiton and other places, they are far away from Ursus and there is basically no possibility of intervention.

Sami, Kjerag and Syracuse are even smaller places among smaller places. They should be thankful that they can handle their own affairs. They will not take the risk of coming to Ursus to cause trouble.

What really worries Victoria is Leitania and the East Country.

While the former had long since withdrawn from international affairs due to the Witch King's remnants, this didn't mean that Leithania lacked ambitions in this area. With a sophisticated warlock training system and a stable social environment, Leithania could easily send a massive warlock army into the vast lands of Ursus if they so desired.

Unless they dispatched a full-scale artillery unit, Ursus had virtually no way of responding to this kind of attack...

No, that's not right.

As he thought about it, Victoria's brows gradually relaxed. He stood up, hooked his hands around Mudstone's shoulders, and lay down beside the silly girl.

Victoria certainly didn't have the ability to stop Leithania from destroying or looting, but that didn't mean Ursus didn't have it.

The Emperor's Blade.

This combat power, which he had never taken into account, was the real trump card of Ursus in foreign wars.

Even if only one person is sent, it is enough to sink an entire land-based ship.

In this case, as long as Victoria can grasp the general movements of Leithania through Gertrude, he can easily intercept any possible attempts.

Then the only problem lies with the East Country.

Will this country, which has long been at odds with Ursus, send people to cause sabotage after learning that Ursus is in civil strife?

The answer can only be yes.

Victoria's hand, which was supporting Mudstone's shoulder, moved down quietly, and inconspicuously hugged Mudstone's slender waist with a prominent vest line.

Mudstone trembled slightly, then forced herself to relax as if nothing had happened. Her trembling wasn't just due to Victoria's touch; the stimulation of the Originium particles near her abdomen also played a role.

But Victoria, who was thinking, did not notice this problem. He just instinctively stroked the waist of the mudstone, and his fingertips gently stroked the crystals from time to time.

Just like when Sakota met the Sarkaz, the once peaceful Easterners harbored considerable hatred for Ursus. Even with just a little thought, Victoria was certain that the Easterners would take advantage of Ursus's difficulties and kick them in the back.

As for whether Yan Country will give way to the East Country’s army?

Do you want to see which country the Ursus troops just withdrew from?

"Mudstone, let me ask you a question." After finishing his thoughts, Victoria gently loosened his thieving hand from the girl's waist and took a sip of the already brewed coffee. "If you learned of the impending invasion of Sakota during the Sarkaz Civil War, what do you think the rulers would do?"

"A Shakotan invasion?" Mudstone tilted his head. "While that's unlikely, if there were news of a Shakotan invasion, both sides would probably suspend the civil war and prioritize driving the Shakotan out, right? While I personally don't have any prejudice against the Shakotan, I hear many Sarkaz hate them to the core."

"Stop the civil war and prioritize dealing with external enemies?" Victoria nodded. "That's a very reasonable idea, and it's pretty much what I expected."

"Boss, have you come up with any good plan?" Seeing Victoria's brows relaxed, Mudstone asked curiously.

"No, I just thought of a good way to kill two birds with one stone." Victoria raised his eyebrows and gently pinched Mudstone's cheek. "Didn't we agree to call me Boss or just Victoria? Why are you calling me Boss again? I have to punish you now."

"Ah!" Mudstone screamed in dissatisfaction. After spending so much time with Victoria, she had already figured out his personality. "What kind of prank are you trying to play on me? Wouldn't it be better to let Yevina handle this?"

Victoria didn't explain, but leaned his head against Mudstone's ear and said, "I was just wondering, Miss Mudstone, having lived in such a harsh environment since she was a child, have you ever tried to do something like that?"

"No!" Mudstone's face flushed, with a cute expression that seemed to be neither hiding nor not hiding. Victoria felt itchy and gently sucked Mudstone's earlobe: "You don't have any either?"

"Not when...I was wandering around."

Under Victoria's skillful touch, Mudstone quickly got into the mood. Although her body did not resist Victoria's touch, she always had a slight inferiority complex in her heart.

This inferiority complex allowed Niyan to calmly watch Victoria's office activities, because she didn't think that Victoria would treat her as a member of the opposite sex. But every time she saw Victoria wantonly moving Yevina and Kashena, Niyan would feel some inappropriate throbbing in her heart.

Victor saw all this inferiority and throbbing.

"Since you didn't do it while you were wandering around, how many times did you generate power while working in Luxembourg? Don't lie, okay? If you do, I'll punish you even more severely."

Mudstone's eyes were tightly shut, his face flushed red, but he couldn't help but blurt out, "Ten...more than ten times. Ever since I became Victoria's bodyguard, I've already done this more than a dozen times!"

"Really? What an honest and good girl."

PS: Treating brothers as commas is the instinct of every Xianshu Cup spectator.

Right, brother, that's right, brother.

Brothers, brothers.

Wine pool and meat forest: 169 Dong Zhuo enters Beijing

Late September.

At the end of summer, Luxembourg is experiencing unprecedented bustle. Autumn in Ursus is very short, lasting less than a month. This is especially true in Luxembourg, situated on the edge of the Arctic. A mere few days of temperature fluctuation can mean the complete end of the pleasant climate.

During this extremely short autumn, Victoria mobilized all the people he could and began a massive harvest.

The frozen soil that was painstakingly reclaimed in the spring was rewarded at this moment, and the vast land was filled with charming golden color.

Good harvest, great harvest.

Luxembourg's pioneering efforts yielded remarkable results, and Norvinsk, as a pioneer, enjoyed the joy of both spring and autumn harvests. The bountiful harvests soothed the unrest and unsettled hearts of those affected, silently signaling Luxembourg's growth.

This winter, no one will starve to death or freeze to death. This is the best reward for the pure and simple people of the snow land.

Calculating harvests, storing grain, calculating taxes, and keeping both civilian and government grain in order—the Luxembourg tax department was swamped with work, having to complete all of this work in a remarkably short timeframe. At the entrance to City Hall, an endless line of infected people waited, waiting for their chance to survive the winter.

Soon, food coupons were delivered from the Finance and Taxation Department to each labor group. These food coupons not only represented the food they could receive for their future lives, but could also be exchanged for cash at the city hall when necessary.

After the harvest, they burn the wheat stalks and bury the ashes in the soil, letting the embers warm the land. Then they watch the wind and snow seal the land until it is recultivated the following spring.

A cycle of harvest ends here.

For Luxembourg, this winter is destined to be warm, but for the Ursus Empire, it is the countdown to its end.

There was no harvest and corpses were everywhere.

Just step away from bustling cities like Luxembourg and you will discover how cruel this snowy land is.

Even though some farmers had completed the autumn harvest, vast tracts of land remained abandoned. The rebels, crushed by the aristocratic armies, struggled to hold out, leaving them with no time for a good harvest. And for the aristocracy? A good harvest was merely another opportunity to collect taxes. With a simple adjustment of the tax rate, the common people would obediently hand over their year's worth of grain.

A great famine was inevitable, but what was even more terrifying than the famine was the sharp decline in Ursus's population.

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In just over three months, Ursus's population had dropped by nearly 10%. It was foreseeable that with the arrival of winter, this number would continue to rise. 20%? 30%? Or even more?

No one knows how the final outcome will unfold.

But some people were afraid.

When he learned that the empire was about to collapse, Fyodor finally became afraid. He forced himself to support his long-term illness and issued a series of orders based on Witte's advice.

He restrained the army, pardoned the Fourth Army for its crimes of disobeying orders during the war, pacified the rebels in many places, and promised to forgive the civilians for their rebellious acts as long as they laid down their arms. He even promised to open the national treasury to distribute money and food.

The most important point is that Fyodor wrote a letter of appointment in his own handwriting and delivered it to Victoria with a sharp hand.

The content was very simple, just a few short sentences, but these few short sentences represented the complete success of Victoria's plan.

Fyodor invited the Sixth Army to occupy Fort Saint-Germain in the hope of completely quelling the civil unrest. With the army on his side, the decree to restrain the army and appease the civilian population would no longer be empty talk. What Ursus needed now was a righteous army that would deter anyone.

Odor saw the stability and prosperity of Luxembourg and believed that as long as Victoria was willing to help, everything could turn around.

In fact, since the collapse of the First Army, Fyodor had been looking for new garrison candidates. However, he could not rest assured about any of the armies in the country at that time.

The Fourth Army, blatantly insubordinate and at the center of the storm, would be unwise to use. Chervin commands the Eighth Army and is a decorated veteran himself. If an olive branch were extended to him...

Fyodor did not believe in his ambitions.

But apart from these two most outstanding generals, the rest of the Third and Fifth Armies were insects among insects. They acted recklessly and behaved in an ugly manner during the chaos in the empire. It was their troops that Fyodor wanted to control.

Therefore, in the very end, when he learned that Luxembourg enjoyed peace and prosperity under Victor's governance and a good autumn harvest, he finally made up his mind to summon the Sixth Army to Beijing.

Fyodor originally thought that Victoria would bring his troops to the court without hesitation under the temptation of the title, but he did not expect that three days later, an expedited letter would be delivered to him first.

Victoria rejected Fyodor's request, and the reason he gave was simple and sufficient.

Luxembourg now has only 10,000 soldiers available. He must clear out and pacify the surrounding rebellions for the empire, while also stabilizing the borders to prevent further attacks from Yan and Dong.

Victor's rigorous and non-power-hungry attitude completely impressed Fyodor, who was used to seeing tigers, leopards, jackals and wolves. A day later, another expedited document was delivered to Victor's house, along with an entire Blade Squad.

12 people, the number of a standard squad. But the significance of this standard squad is no less than that of an entire legion.

Fyodor's intention was simple. Victoria could call upon this team at will. As long as the order was beneficial to the Ursus border defense, he would not refuse even if it meant asking them to self-destruct these sharp blades on the spot.

He wanted to use this team that was unable to fight in civil war to replace the capable soldiers of Victoria and the Sixth Army.

Faced with such a gracious invitation from the Emperor, Victor naturally had no reason to refuse. So, after arranging a wintering plan for Luxembourg, Victor, along with Tallulah, Kashiena, Mudstone, and W, selected nearly half of Luxembourg's soldiers and officially set off for Saint-Etienne Castle.

The Blade Squad was arranged by Victoria to be stationed in various border towns in rotation.

Incidentally, just in case, the sharp swordsmen Fyodor sent to Luxembourg were all royalists completely loyal to the royal family. And all this was not accidental.

The reason is very simple, because Black Snake also has collaborators in the Blade.

Once again, Victoria came to the Castle of Saint Jun. And this time, it would be the end of everything.

The Ursus Empire will be in his hands.

PS: Recommended again, yeah~~~ (Mambo~~~)

I'll see if I can manage three updates, four is out of the question. (It's almost Chinese New Year and there's a lot of shit to do.)

In addition, in response to the requests of many book lovers, Hokusai is preparing to launch a wave of rewards in the New Year.

However, the content of the reward is quite unique. Hokusai does not plan to offer a reward for additional chapters, but instead plans to publish a special episode.

During the New Year period, whenever the bounty reaches a certain amount, Hokusai will post a free chapter of the extra chapter of "Wine Pool and Meat Forest" on the external website.

Please refer to the announcement for specific content.

A New Day: Bounty

The New Year is coming soon, and Hokusai needs to work harder.

Let’s just offer a reward. Hokusai is planning to make a sequel to The Wine Pool and the Meat Forest.

One more chapter will be added for every 10000 rewards/100 blades. The extra chapter itself is free. Friends who want to read it can join the group to find out more.

Skirt number: 232414545

The group leader will post photos of legs in women's clothing from time to time.

Hehehe~~~~

Changing the World: 1 Going to Beijing to See the Emperor

Although Victoria was about to march into Saint-Jean Castle, Luxor was still his most important base. If Victoria lost contact for a long time, some unpleasant minor problems would inevitably arise.

Therefore, in order to ensure that the plans of both sides can proceed smoothly, Victoria once again took over Alina with the help of Kashena.

Although Alina has regained consciousness with Kashena's rescue, the possession from the black snake is forced and overbearing. Even the owner of the body cannot seize control of the body after Kashena completes the transformation.

However, considering the possibility of a long-term split operation, Victor did not use overly forceful means to directly control Alina. Instead, he negotiated with Alina and hired her as his acting secretary. Victor would only use her body to issue orders during working hours, while Alina was free to use her free time.

Considering that Victor's leadership had brought vitality to Luxembourg, Alina agreed to the proposal without hesitation. Although she felt a little sad about not being able to see Tallulah again, she also knew that the innocent girl with a strong sense of justice would never come back.