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Chapter 521: Locking guests in cages is exactly the custom of this world!

Author: pure little angel

Chapter 521: Locking guests in cages is exactly the custom of this world!

Linn's proposal was naturally approved without any surprise, and the subsequent proposals quickly shifted from preparations for war to discussions on internal politics.

Today, more than four-fifths of the empire's territory is under their control.

If we had not followed the orders of a certain magic star, it would have been faster to attack one city and clean up another.

However, the benefits of doing so were quickly reflected in public security. There were almost no large-scale rebellions in the imperial cities they captured.

This was also due to the fact that during the previous battle in the Holy City, Ella sacrificed countless bishops and devout believers in one go. In a sense, it also cleared the way for them to rule.

"Do we have enough food reserves?" Lynn turned to the congressman in charge of food production and asked this most important question.

As long as there is enough food in hand, there won't be much trouble in the city captured by the kingdom!

"The remaining food reserves can probably last for about three or four months." Councilor Tisha said with a headache. "If we want to build factories in those occupied imperial cities and implement the same food rationing system, then

Food is far from enough."

The people of the kingdom consume more than twice as much food as the poor people of the empire in a day. After all, the white bread bread is not mixed with wood chips and grass.

Although they had long expected that there would be a food shortage after regaining the empire, so they started stockpiling in advance, but the empire's 20 million people are 20 million mouths, and it is not easy to feed them.

The food reserves they prepared were simply not enough. Even if all the elemental wizards in the Parliament cast bread-making skills, it would be difficult to fill such a gap, unless the Parliament was willing to use precious nuclear fuel reserves to create food.

"How come there is only so much? There shouldn't be that much food shortage in the empire, right?" Vittorio couldn't help but frowned.

"This is true, but when those damn church remnants and nobles evacuated the city, they burned all the food and equipment that could not be taken away. Some people even set fire to the city to block our pursuit..."

Councilor Tixia said helplessly.

"Have these bastards been caught? They must be punished severely. Their bodies should be hung at the city gate, and their souls should be imprisoned and tortured..." The grumpy Arad immediately couldn't bear it anymore and roared loudly.

He believed that the past strategies of the parliament must have been too mild. If he knew that confronting them would result in a punishment ten thousand times more terrifying than death, then no one would dare to do such a bad act.

"Not yet, but these people probably won't be able to escape for long." Councilor Tixia shook her head and said, and the food was burned. Even if they were all arrested, they would not be able to make up for the losses.

"It seems that the pioneering will be stepped up..." Lin En muttered and asked someone to take a special large map, which circled an area of ​​200,000 square kilometers directly around a large river in the central plain of the empire.

This large area has fertile land and was originally the granary of the empire. Half of it was under the direct jurisdiction of the imperial royal family, and the other half was the territory of a powerful grand duke. Now of course, it is all owned by the parliament.

Lin En plans to turn this area into a specialized farming area, integrating all the fine farmland, and implementing magical planting and harvesting.

If done well, this area alone can solve the food problem of the entire empire!

"It's best to try to complete it before this year's autumn planting. In this way, it only takes a few months and when this batch of wheat matures, the food problem will be completely solved!" Lin En said encouragingly.

"This is too big..." Councilor Tixia looked at the big circle drawn by Lin En and felt a little numb.

The entire empire, including the desolate northern border, covers an area of ​​less than 7 million square kilometers. Now it is a fantasy to carry out cluster transformation of 200,000 square kilometers at once!

Not to mention this year, in his opinion, it would be good to catch up with next year’s autumn planting, or even spring planting the year after that!

"It just looks big. As long as the planning is done well, it may not be impossible to start construction in multiple areas at the same time. You underestimate the power of machinery and magic." Lin En said with a smile.

They don't need to cultivate the land manually. A group of farmers holding hoes to cultivate the land is a thing of the past. The agricultural cultivators of the Kingdom Alchemy Research Institute have already been developed into the third generation.

Not to mention that a large number of armored vehicles were produced before the meeting. With the current war situation against the empire, there is no need for these vehicles to be used on the battlefield. All the idle vehicles can be modified, and all the troops can be used to open up wasteland, and train troops there by the way.

Several unsightly hills in the plain were flattened!

"Deploy another four thousand elemental wizards to help. After the wasteland is cleared, let them station there to protect this grain-producing land and regularly cast magic to increase the fertility of the land..." Lin En said again.

On this planet, wizards are the greatest productivity. Especially when doing some delicate work, wizards with atomic-level control capabilities are much easier to use than machines.

In this way, we should be able to barely complete the reclamation before autumn planting - even if we only achieve half of the goal, the wheat produced will be enough to alleviate the problem of food shortage.

As for the past few months, we can only consider collecting some food from merchants for emergency purposes. Anyway, the establishment of workshops in various cities must not stop.

They must quickly promote reforms to free the people of the empire from the inefficient and old production methods of the past, so that they can take advantage of their huge population.

However, Linn's idea was very good, but was rejected by Vittorio. "Four thousand wizards are too many, and manpower is needed elsewhere. The council can only send 1,500 people there at most!"

Even though there are currently 20,000 official wizards in the Parliament, the problem is that manpower is needed everywhere now!

First of all, each newly occupied city within the empire needs powerful wizards who are proficient in management to be stationed there, and to cooperate with the locally selected affairs officers to stabilize the situation.

Secondly, many alchemy workshops require formal wizards as senior workers to produce some precision components.

Finally, there are many wizards in each school who are engaged in magic research. They can never force these people to put down their work and go to cultivate land.

"Then let's replace it with 1,500 formal wizards and 3,500 wizard apprentices with more than ten years of schooling." Lin En had no choice but to settle for the next best thing. These wizard apprentices with rich spellcasting experience only need to obtain the magic network.

With the blessing of computing power, it can also be used as a formal wizard.

"By the way, I remember that the church has a magic called Rain of Grace, which can make plants grow quickly. How about we copy it and improve it!" Lin En suddenly thought of this.

Although the clergy of the church have limited cultural level, they have developed many interesting magical skills over hundreds of years of accumulation, and Rain of Grace is one of them!

After a full half-day of discussion and refinement by members of the House of Representatives, the Magic Kingdom’s first half-year plan was officially released!

In the final analysis, it boils down to eight words: stabilize internal affairs and prepare for war!

I just hope that the so-called Lord of the Dead can discover the space-time gate later and give them more time to prepare.

Linn thought that maybe he could ask the crow again after he went back to see if he could get some new information.

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After today's meeting, Lin En returned to the manor in the royal capital without stopping, and then partially opened the cage, changing the cage wall from a completely sealed cage with no gaps to a neatly arranged column.

shaped frame structure.

However, at the moment when the shape of the cage changed, a black stream of light immediately flew out of it, trying to get out of the gap in the frame that was less than one centimeter long and wide!

But why didn't Linn guard against this? He constructed a force field magic on the outside of the cage. Compared with the cage on the surface, this was the basis for trapping the opponent.

The black crow tried several times in a row, but when he found that he could not escape at all, he became so angry that he kept jumping around in the cage and making all kinds of unpleasant curses.

"You stupid native, how dare you offend the messenger of the great God of Life and Creation. Your soul will be enslaved by the Lord of the Dead, and our world will turn into a lifeless death because of your stupid actions.

prison……"

Linn didn't mean to refute, he just leaned on the chair and listened to the crow's curses.

After being detained and tested with words before, Lin En found that apart from verbal threats, the crow seemed to have no way to deal with them.

Lynn thinks there may be three reasons.

First, this universe is not completely connected to the so-called main world, so even if the opponent is a god, he cannot cross the world to kill and punish himself.

The second is that the divine domain connected to this universe is under the control of the Lord of the Dead. If the other party wants to come over, it must pass there and pass the Lord of the Dead. This may cause a divine war to occur in advance!

Third, this crow is actually not as important as it says. It is just an ordinary messenger. Being slightly offended is not enough to offend the God of life and creation.

Lin En's mind was racing with thoughts, and he waited like this for more than an hour, until the angry crow was tired of scolding and stopped completely. The sharp crow could no longer be heard in Lin En's ears.

Only then did En finally come back to his senses, and spoke with a smile.

"Actually, we have no ill intentions, great Messenger of the Star. On the contrary, we are very grateful for the news you brought."

The black crow looked at the cage in which he was locked with a strange expression, and stared angrily at Linn outside the cage.

Is this how you express your gratitude?

Lin En shrugged and continued. "As ignorant natives, we know very little about the gods and the main world you mentioned. We are unable to confirm the authenticity of this news for the time being, so we ask the great Star Messenger to stay with us for the time being.

In your purpose-built residence.”

"In addition, this is not an offense or imprisonment, but a... well, a rather special custom!" Lin En looked at the cage he made and said very sincerely. "Yes, in fact, releasing the crows

Being in a cage is the custom of our world!"

The black crow rolled its eyes in a very humane manner. It was obviously not that easy to fool, but it was really tired of being scolded and didn't even want to speak.

Lin En smiled, ignored the topic, and turned to ask. "Great Star Messenger, you must have come to our world with a mission, right?"

The black crow raised its head proudly and was too lazy to reply to Linn's words.

"I think this mission should be related to dealing with the Lord of the Undead, which means that our goals are actually the same and we can completely cooperate." Lin En said solemnly. This is also the attitude of the council. They can cooperate but do not accept orders.

aspects of command.

"Cooperation?" The black crow seemed to have heard the funniest thing in the world, and said contemptuously. "The power and greatness of God are not something you can understand!"

Only beings of the same level can talk about cooperation.

Lin En didn't care at all about Black Crow's disparagement, but admitted it. "Please understand that we natives have limited vision. I want to know, can God completely destroy a world?"

The black crow paused for a moment, then squawked. "It is not uncommon for a plane to collapse in past divine wars."

Lin En was somewhat surprised. Conquering a world and destroying a world were two completely different concepts. His evaluation of God could not help but rise to another level.

Neither they nor Ella, who has gained godhood, have the ability to completely destroy a planet.

I just don’t know if this plane is the same as a planet, so it’s not also a universe, right?

"How did you find our world?" Linn asked the second question thoughtfully.

According to the words of this crow, the Lord of the Dead who controls the opposite divine realm should not have found any space-time door, otherwise he would have invaded long ago, but the God of Life and Creation was able to send an envoy to warn them in advance.

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This is also the reason why Lin En has always been suspicious of this Star Messenger.

"The God of life and creation is great, He knows everything and knows everything!" the black crow said arrogantly.

Know everything? Know everything?

Lin En had deep doubts about these words, because the Lord of the Dead, who was also a god, obviously did not have such ability.

If the gap between the two gods is very large and there is a lot of contradiction, then the Lord of the Dead will most likely cease to exist long ago, unless it has some special ability similar to prophecy.

Just as Lin En was thinking about it, there was a gentle knock on the door.

"Sir Speaker, Ms. Ivina said she has something important to ask you to see. She also brought a prisoner, probably a knight of the God's Punishment Army."

Lin En glanced at the crow in the cage. After thinking about it, he had no intention of imprisoning it again and said directly, "Let her in."

(End of chapter)