From Wild Mage to Wizard King

During the intermission, representatives from all parties were constantly moving around, wooing the remaining neutral members.

After all the members who had just experienced the meeting, except for a few people who really couldn't see the situation clearly, most members had already seen that the conflict between the two factions had reached a point where it was almost impossible to ease it.

If Locke hadn't been the host of the meeting, the two groups might have started fighting in the hall.

Therefore, all members who participated anticipated that a storm was about to sweep across the entire resistance.

Either one of the two factions will give in under pressure, or the resistance will disband, and there may even be a bloody civil war.

However, regarding civil war, most members still believe that there should be no civil war.

First of all, most of the border faction's military forces are deployed on the border. They need to guard against the green tide and cannot spare military power to fight a bloody civil war with the local faction.

Moreover, after losing the logistical supplies of the local faction, the border faction simply did not have sufficient material logistics to support them in a civil war.

As for the local faction, they are even less likely. Although they have united under the pressure of the border faction, they are still divided internally, and many things are discussed internally.

Moreover, they are here to make profits. The reason why they refuse to provide logistical supplies to the resistance is because they want to make more money. How can we waste resources to fight a civil war that does no good?

If the border faction is defeated, who will resist the green wave on the front line?

Therefore, most people from both factions do not believe that a full-scale civil war will break out. Most people only believe that the resistance army may be disbanded, and at most there will be some small-scale conflicts.

The reason for recruiting others was just to prepare for what they thought was a small-scale conflict next.

In addition, during the intermission, Locke did not give up his policy of balance and neutrality and met with senior leaders of the border faction and the local faction.

Try to persuade them again, ease the contradiction, let them support their policies, and let the resistance regain balance.

But it was no longer useful. Almost every high-level executive who communicated with Locke broke up on bad terms. Later, the top executives of both groups even directly rejected Locke's invitation, refused to meet, and made their choices with actions.

It's time for the resistance to change. They can either stay neutral and wait for the results, or choose which side to fall to.

In short, there is no place for Locke's balancing policy.

The meeting continued after the intermission.

Locke, who looked a little haggard, appeared in front of everyone.

It's obvious that Locke already knows that nothing can be stopped.

The second meeting was not as confrontational as the first meeting. On the contrary, after the intermission, both sides had made it clear that neither party was willing to compromise.

So there was little need for quarrel anymore, just lukewarm opposition to the bill.

No matter what motion Locke proposed, it would be opposed by either the local faction, the border faction, or both factions.

Because when the Resistance was founded, many things were decided by a group of wandering knights who didn't understand or only knew a little about politics. They made constant adjustments and modifications while fighting the green tide.

But no matter how it is modified, the foundation of the resistance is there, with obvious institutional flaws. What's more terrible is that even Locke has difficulty modifying these institutional flaws. Even Locke himself is not aware of these flaws. question.

Unrestricted local autonomy, unfettered local civil war, a bloated and unsystematic military system, a chaotic command system, and an arbitrary promotion mechanism.

It can be said that both the administrative system and the military system of the rebels are in chaos.

As the leader of the resistance, Locke had no idea about the situation in each local territory. He didn't know the local population, development, how much tax to collect, and how many soldiers were suitable. He usually just reported random numbers for collection.

As long as the local faction can buy the people who collect taxes, they can reduce the taxes and soldiers they have to pay.

Moreover, the most terrible thing is that Locke has no restrictions on tax collectors and no penalties.

As long as the tax collector said that there was a disaster in the place and the tax could not be collected, Locke would believe it. He would even provide aid materials, but he would not send anyone to check again.

Even if the matter is exposed, he will not punish the tax collector, he will just ask him to collect taxes in another place, and then it will be gone.

If it were Roland, he would have been killed long ago.

With this kind of tax collection system, it is not surprising that the resistance army has logistical problems.

Moreover, the restrictions on local factions are better than nothing, although they limit the annexation of each other by local factions.

But this kind of restriction all depends on consciousness, and only protects against gentlemen, not against villains.

Just push a puppet outside and pretend that those territories are not under your control.

This unspoken rule was something that the local faction took the initiative to win over Roland.

After knowing this hidden rule, Roland directly sent an elite team to kill the territories near Jiuqi and replaced them all with new owners.

Otherwise, the territories near Jiu Qi would not be so obedient. They would never cause trouble to Jiu Qi, and they could still draw blood from Jiu Qi to build themselves up.

In addition to the administrative system, the same is true for the military system. There is no clear standard.

You can get in with any team you form.

Moreover, the rebels do not yet have a clear command system. In addition to his own army, Locke does not even know how many troops the rebels have, so he can only carry out rough operations.

For example: which newly joined army will be assigned to whom to command, as to how many people, whether they can command, and whether they can command well, that is none of Locke's business.

Moreover, the promotion of generals is also without any standards, and they are promoted randomly.

Although Roland is a beneficiary of this chaotic system and has been promoted at the speed of light, Roland still feels it is against heaven.

In addition, the logistics supply system is also the same. The logistics personnel have no idea what materials and how much materials are needed on the front line. Anyway, they just send whatever they have. As for if they send the wrong materials and it is useless, they don't care. Anyway, Locke will let them work in another place at most, and he won't kill them.

In addition to these, what Roland feels most against heaven is the parliamentary resolution.

The parliamentary system of veto makes Roland numb.

Any proposal cannot be passed as long as there is a veto.

Is this a system that people can come up with? Everyone has a veto, which is too democratic and too free.

It is precisely because of this that almost all proposals have not been passed.

Only a few proposals were passed by Locke, who used his power, which he did not clearly define and was not sure whether it was useful, to forcefully explain it.

But even so, most of the local and border factions looked indifferent.

Passed ≠ I will execute.

After no arguments, all proposals were quickly concluded, and more than 90% of the proposals were rejected. As for the few proposals that were passed, it was obvious that no one would care or abide by them.

This meeting did not produce any results. Not only did it not ease the contradiction between the two factions, but on the contrary, it completely brought the contradiction between the local and border factions to the forefront.

The members of the meeting left unhappily, and most of them were ready to welcome the disintegration of the resistance army.

However, what they did not know was that Roland and the top leaders of the border faction had reached an agreement and were ready for a coup.

Before the meeting began, they had already prepared for a coup and a full-scale civil war.