All Gods: Lord’s Conquest

Eastern continent.

The Eternal Night Empire.

It was already late at night at the No. 1 Shipyard, but the lights were still brightly lit in the factory. Workers were busy moving around, and a large number of extraordinary experts cooperated with the command to accurately place heavy steel parts on the ship's hull.

Behemoths are being built one after another. These ships are more majestic and powerful than any previous ships in the empire. The cannons on the ships are also the latest development. They were just researched and put on the ships after simple testing. They have extremely terrifying weapons. Destructive power.

After these years of confrontation with the navy of the Hundred Nations Alliance, the navy of the Evernight Empire has been fully developed. This development is not only reflected in the technology of naval warfare, but also in the replacement of ships.

There is a saying that war is the most effective technological catalyst.

In the constant battle, both sides aim to kill their opponents, and if they don't want to die, they can only progress and develop.

The oppression of death is very strong, so the speed of development is also very fast.

At the beginning, the navy of the Hundred Nations Alliance had a suppressive power on the Eternal Night Empire. After all, they have been developing for so many years, so it would be strange if they could not suppress it.

However, the Eternal Night Empire implements a mixed navy, and the naval ships cannot compare with it, so it is better than others. Relying on the large-scale sea troops, the Imperial Navy has flattened the gap between the two sides, and even carried out counter-suppression.

After knowing that the Eternal Night Empire had a large number of sea warriors, the Hundred Nations Alliance was not a fool. They immediately developed various new weapons and formed a new naval fleet, using a more conservative style of play.

At this point, in the naval battle, they also fell into a war of attrition.

In the process of consumption, the Eternal Night Empire was able to absorb the essence accumulated by the navy of the Hundred Nations Alliance over the years, thereby quickly improving its own naval construction and saving a lot of time.

To be honest, Su Xingyu was not very interested in the navy.

Because this world is a little different. Regardless of the two major forces in this plane, the Hundred Nations Alliance and the Blood Empire, he has not solved them yet, but that is only a matter of time.

As mentioned before, the pace of unifying this plane may be slower, but it is definitely moving forward firmly.

Therefore, his opponents have never fought against natives from this plane, but from the void plane outside, or other players. In this case, developing a navy is not of great significance.

After all, you can't go on an expedition with a naval fleet, right?

That's outrageous.

What's more, even if it can be used, it won't be of much use.

Without the support of the logistics system, the strength of the naval fleet will be greatly reduced.

Therefore, in terms of cost performance, the significance of developing a naval fleet is really not as good as developing a sea kingdom.

But...

From the empire's perspective, things are not that simple.

In pursuit of an overall strong empire, we do not allow ourselves to leave such obvious shortcomings.

Therefore, the naval fleet may not be used, but it must be available, so we can only bite the bullet and allocate part of the resources for development.

In a relatively quiet workshop.

A group of short-haired, gray-faced engineers were discussing.

"The overall performance of the third-generation naval warship has been improved by about 70% compared to the second-generation, and the effective range has reached 100 kilometers. It is much more powerful than the previous castrated version. It can be said to be a real beyond-visual-range strike."

"It's amazing. It's worth spending so much time improving, and finally we have a workable answer sheet."

"Yes, if we don't produce some results, I'm afraid the financial officer will cut off our funding,"

"Haha, you don't know that when the boss went to apply for funds a few days ago, the financial officer's face turned dark."

"With these three generations of warships, the navy of the Hundred Nations Alliance will not be a problem. Even without the Naga Kingdom's sea army, we can defeat them. When the time comes to completely block the routes of the Northern Continent, I would like to see if we lose the sea. How are they going to fight us with logistical support?”

"Don't talk too much. I think we should increase the production first. Otherwise, no matter how strong the performance and quantity of these few ships are now, they won't be enough to fill the gap between the enemy's teeth."

"Indeed, production must be increased. The fleet has not formed a large scale and has a shitty combat effectiveness. If we build hundreds of ships and a linkage magic array, even if the demigods come, they will have to lie down."

"Stop dreaming, producing hundreds of ships? A third-generation warship requires a ninth-order crystal core as the core, and countless other materials. The financial officer would be crazy to allow you to build it like this. According to my estimation, There will only be dozens of ships if they are exhausted.”

"Well, the empire has recently been expanding into half a plane, and it has harvested a lot of resources. However, the harvest is great, and the consumption is also great. The army is still the main force of the empire. It is good for our navy to get a piece of meat."

An engineer who looked a little old smiled and said: "To be honest, we have to thank the Hundred Nations Alliance. If it weren't for their strong naval strength, the empire would probably not even think of us."

"Hey, I definitely have to thank you... Defeating them and integrating and inheriting their technology is the best way to thank them."

"Although the number of dozens of ships is a little less, as a vanguard, it is enough. Let's apply jointly. If nothing else happens, this should be the largest amount of funding we can get in the near future."

"good."

"Hurry up, time waits for no one."

"I can't wait to see how powerful they are."

…

…

Evernight City.

Presbytery.

Sitting on the first seat, Ye San took out a document, looked at the elders, and said lightly:

"War Zone 11 has basically been captured. Next, we need to send someone to represent the empire to sit there to ensure the interests of the citizens of the empire. Do you have any good candidates?"

The Yongye Empire has been advancing smoothly in the northern continent, expanding its territory countless times, and now has captured nearly 1/6 of the land.

However, it is easy to acquire a piece of land, but it is difficult to manage it afterwards.

Especially now that the Hundred Nations Alliance has not fallen and is still resisting, resistance armies will appear from time to time in those empire-occupied areas.

Under the strict supervision of the Eternal Night Empire, these resistance forces are not very strong, but they are particularly annoying.

It's like a mosquito in summer, always buzzing in your ears and stinging you from time to time. It's not harmful, but it's extremely annoying.

Therefore, after capturing an area, a governor from the Evernight Empire would go over to re-govern it, restore local production, and maintain public security there as much as possible.

Due to wartime regulations, these governors had great powers.

After all, the Northern Continent is too far away from the empire. Even if there is a special communication method, it will take several days for a message to go back and forth. Therefore, if you want to govern well, you must delegate power.

Locally, the governors of occupied areas can be said to be like Turkish emperors, and they can even adjust their own strategies based on local conditions.

There is nothing we can do about it.

Rules are dead, people are alive.

Just because this rule works well elsewhere doesn't mean it will work here.

Adapt measures to local conditions and formulate different local strategies according to different environments.

From any other perspective, being the governor of an occupied territory is a fat job.

But at this moment, facing the Archon's inquiry, everyone below bowed their heads and remained silent.

They have no choice in mind.

Ye San tapped his fingers on the side and looked at the elders with a headache, "If you push someone out, the pace of empire expansion will not slow down. The rear must be stabilized no matter what. If there is no candidate, you will have to go in person. "

While expanding the territory of the empire, conquering planes, and managing the development of the empire, all of which require people, which makes the empire once again fall into the problem of population shortage.

The rapidly expanding territory and the huge population attached to it have once again overwhelmed the Evernight Empire.

For those surrendered areas, they can implement the policy of settling the religious cult, changing their beliefs, and slowly transforming the people of the kingdom. With the help of the surrender faction, this policy is going very smoothly. In a few years, the local people will Submit to the empire.

But it is not possible to capture areas. Bandits, rebels, resistance forces and other troubles, even if the empire supports a puppet, it will be useless. Civil and military forces must come together.

The problem is that people who can manage such a large area at the same time are first-class talents no matter where they are placed.

The empire itself is somewhat short of such talents, and has no spare capacity to support and manage the occupied areas.

"Your Majesty, now that the empire is building affiliated kingdoms and expanding its planes, manpower is needed everywhere. We can no longer squeeze out other teams." Seeing that everyone was silent, an elder with gray hair had to say.

As soon as he spoke, others immediately echoed:

"Yes, yes, I really can't hold on any longer. All the people the empire can send out have been sent out. Even those students who have just graduated and have no internship experience have been sent out. We really have no one to use. ”

"We don't want to slow down the pace of expansion. After all, if we let the Hundred Nations Alliance take a breath and integrate its internal forces, the trouble will be even greater. But if we continue like this, we can only mobilize internal talents, and then local development will affected……"

"If it doesn't work, we can only lower the local policy standards. We will directly select managers from the local area, and then we will have to suffer for the local people. We can make other arrangements after we have calmed down."

"I agree, their life is not very good to begin with, so what if they have to suffer for a while longer? And it is not that miserable. Compared to the period when the kingdom was ruled, their life has been pretty good since we took over."

"That's right. Comparing the policies of those gentlemen in the North, even if we lower our standards, we are still benevolent and worthy of them."

Everyone was talking, and the elders' house instantly became lively. They expressed their opinions, and they probably had the same idea, no.

We can no longer provide external support. If we continue like this, the development of the empire will be affected.

In the perception of the citizens of the Eternal Night Empire, there are high and low levels of life in the world. The empire headquarters, affiliated kingdoms, surrendered forces, and other forces, and those kingdoms that were captured belong to the lowest level of other forces.

They have not been incorporated into the system of the Evernight Empire and are still outsiders.

Therefore, when they affect the development of the empire, the elders will abandon them without hesitation.

After all, there is no reason to sacrifice one's own development to support outsiders. Isn't this pure nonsense?

Looking at everyone, Ye San frowned slightly and sighed secretly, feeling a little weak.

The expansion of the empire's territory will be beneficial to the entire empire. The elders are not short-sighted people, and they naturally understand this truth.

Therefore, the opinions they put forward did not slow down the expansion.

The opinion that the elders want to express is very simple, that is, to lower the standards for capturing the area. There is no need to be perfect in everything. It just needs to be maintained at the lowest level and will not affect the frontline operations.

Anyway, they are not the people of the Empire, so they can live a little harder.

Ye San naturally understood what they meant. In fact, this is the best solution at present. After all, the Empire really has no people left. If they don’t want to slow down the expansion, they can only do this. But this goes against the principles that the Empire has always followed.

“Your Majesty, the Empire’s foreign policy is too kind. Maybe it’s time to make some changes.” An upright and middle-aged elder who belongs to the Knights said, “For those people who have surrendered to the Eternal Night, there is nothing to say. I will help them. After all, we are all one family. But those rebellious guys, why should they also enjoy the preferential treatment of the Empire?”

“I agree with the idea of ​​the Seventh Elder. In the past, the Empire had abundant resources, so support was provided. It was not short of that little thing, and it could be managed. Now, if we continue to provide support, the Empire will be affected. Is it really worth it?”

“Please consider it again, Your Majesty…”

Other elders also spoke up. Although their words were slightly different, their meanings were similar. They lowered the standards of the Kingdom’s people and could not interfere with their own development because of outsiders.

Ye San sat in the first seat, lost in thought. After a long time, he said, "Since there is no consensus, let's discuss this matter again in three days."

Lowering the standard will not bring any harm, at least not in the short term.

But Ye San's intuition told him that this matter was not that simple. Therefore, although all the elders opposed it, he did not agree immediately, but used the word delay tactic, preparing to find someone to discuss it and think it through before making a decision.

"Yes, sir."

"Okay."

Seeing this, the elders had to nod in agreement. No matter what, Ye San was the archon.

Soon, the meeting ended.

Ye San left the Elders' Council, got on the carriage, and headed towards the temple.

When he arrived in front of the temple, there was already a young priest guarding outside. Seeing Ye San coming, he immediately stepped forward and saluted, saying, "Your Majesty, the high priest invites you."

Ye San was not surprised why the other party knew he would come, and ordered the guards behind him, "You wait here."

"Yes." The guards were a little disappointed that they could not enter the temple, but they still responded respectfully.

Following the priest, Ye San walked into the temple.

Two and a half days later, Ye San walked out of the temple with a smile on his face. It can be seen that he was very satisfied with this conversation.