Out of the cage

Fengfu calendar July 14th to 18th, 3599.

The battle in the south of the Eiger Kingdom lasted for four days, and finally ended with the victory of the kingdom's knights, but the tragedy of this battle shocked all parties in the mainland.

In order to encircle and suppress these undead rebels, the knights of the Kingdom paid a heavy price. Among the most elite Imperial Griffin Corps, 134 people were swallowed by ghost hot air balloons. Even if the friendly forces penetrated the ghost hot air balloon at the fastest speed, they found nothing except the smell of rotting corpses and burning ashes.

And the ground dragon formation led by Prince Danny was blocked by a strange machine when they attacked the camp of the undead army, and one-third of them were injured.

When the gigantic chainsaws of those strange machines swung down suddenly with negative dark energy, as soon as they touched the armor of the ground dragon, it was like cutting open a can with a kitchen knife. Then the clip popped out from under the rusty cover of the cunning machine, and the bone scum was ejected, and the internal organs of the Dixing dragon were clipped out. The scene was very bloody.

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The negative energy level of these tricky machines has reached the fifth ring. At this energy level, although there is no feeling of melting heat, the steel has "melted", and the metal lattice structure has been loosened, like milk skin.

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42 ground dragon knights died in battle. But the kingdom's corps finally broke the steel defense line of the undead corps.

However, in the ordinary pikemen, the dead musketeers caused 4,000 casualties, burning phosphorous fire, corrosive sulfuric acid, or maggots. Let the frontal troops collapse, and thanks to the large-scale purification of divine magic, the front line can be stabilized.

In the end, the rebel army was completely undead in the encirclement battle, unfolded a dark purple and green magic circle, and performed the final sacrifice. Countless bloody drills gushed out from the ground, assaulting the human dragon formation, smashing The belly of more than a hundred ground dragons was eaten.

But the last magic of the undead did not save the defeat.

As the leaders of the resistance army were sniped and killed by the arcane beam, the undead army finally collapsed and collapsed because the negative spiritual energy it maintained was exhausted.

But this time it was a real siege, and no undead branch was left to break through.

The Empire of Egg put an end to the Mechanical Rebellion in the South after paying a heavy price.

The Duke of Goldblade fell in this battle. The cause of death was that in order to protect Danny, he drove the Thunder Lizard into a strange machine, and was swallowed by the black flames of the self-destructed machine.

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After the end of the rebellion in the south, detailed news spread to the north, and there seemed to be no waves. It's just that the apprentices in the north found that their arcane rune cards were lowered by the purchasers.

However, the lower prices were temporary, and after a few months, the prices of these runes went up again.

The markets for Apprentice Runes in various parts of the mainland have actually not shrunk, but instead grown. ——The rebel army took these runes and carried out armament production, demonstrating to the small forces in various regions on the entire continent what "the times have changed".

Now on the Fengfu Continent, only Carret's "General Industrial Planning" has strengthened governance of the vast countryside outside the big cities.

In other regions on the mainland, there is no ability to govern areas far away from cities, including the areas outside the big cities of the Suspended Olympic Alliance, and the rural areas are alienated from the central government.

The same is true of the main world in ancient times. If the governance is not good, there will always be things like guns, control of knives, and illegal associations.

The small local lords quickly began to upgrade their armed forces, and used these self-made weapons in the battles in the countryside.

The fighting on the entire continent has thus entered a new era.

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With regard to this repression and the battle against repression in the South,

After Wei Keng got the final detailed information, he fell silent.

It's not about regretting the revival of the Aiger Dynasty - Mr. Wei likes to eat melons, but he doesn't expect to have big melons every day.

It wasn't that he was shocked by the death of the Duke of Golden Blade either—if this old thing died, the balance in Aegne would definitely be broken, and the Northern Territory would also be involved. But no big deal.

Wei Keng's mood swings were due to the route of the rebel army.

Although Wei Keng proved in his historical evolution model that "if there is no strong will to advance", all historical events will eventually deteriorate.

However, the deterioration of the resistance army, from the victim to the perpetrator quickly, and then to the extreme, still made Wei Keng feel speechless.

While this great uprising lacked "forward movers", there were also a large number of "backwards".

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This is equivalent to that when encountering unfair events in ancient times, most people wanted an open and fair solution, but a small number of people on the Internet could take advantage of these events and deviate from the rhythm. Wei Keng, as a middle-aged person, as a member of the vast majority, found that in the trend he formed, he could only watch helplessly as the trend was maliciously diverted by the "reversers".

For example, every time there is a counterattack against the popularity of island culture, there will always be radical incidents, and Jingri will send them to seize the excuse and make a "reasonable" evaluation from "another angle".

However, domestic brands, such as mobile phones and electric vehicles, want to publicize, but there are always "guys who have blown away" to make the trend irrational, and give opponents the opportunity to "sensibly attack".

Against letting pets occupy public space, there is something called "maliciously attacking search and rescue dogs", which provides an entry point for multi-angle communication.

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Industry can crush obvious enemies.

But in the process of advancing history, there will always be some things that want to join you, and then seem to follow your trend, but deliberately create fallacies and evil spirits. Leave the handle for reversing and let other competitors criticize.

The industrialization of the arcane world,

There will also be people with ulterior motives like this, who make such evaluations: I am also a person who has experienced industrial development, and I understand everything, but I always feel that I lack xxx, maybe I only focus on xxx, and there is no real xxx.

The devil who mixes with order likes to use this trick.

Originally, most of the rebels in the south just wanted to give a push to their cart, which was on the road of pursuing justice.

But the devil who lured the Rebel into signing the contract is, from the point of view of the hitchhiker, accusing you of not being a good car.

In this mechanical rebellion, those devils who made troubles seemed to be on the same track as the rebels, but in fact they never planned to help the rebels push the carts. They just wanted to turn the rebels into carts, then go back and drive into the abyss .

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Wei Keng shook his head and ended his thinking on this aspect.

Continuing with another aspect of the analysis: the problems presented by this uprising.

First of all, when this great uprising finally degenerated into madness, the power displayed came from "industry", which is the dark side of "industry".

If there weren't a lot of rune seals flowing south, farmers would still be using dung forks. If there hadn't been a large number of machines flowing into the south and being used viciously by capitalists, it would not have been possible to produce such amazingly destructive machines on the battlefield.

Although Wei Keng did not cause malicious damage, it was a mistake as an industrial priesthood.

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And the "science" side, is it a mistake? Or "malicious connivance"?

Among the three priesthoods, science should be the pioneer to break through the dark fog of superstition, industry should be the backbone to draw the vast number of people into progress and cooperation, and machinery is the accumulation of production and the totem of the progress of civilization.

There is a division of labor between the three parties. ——But in this incident, the priesthood of "science" did not play a role in the first place.

When the resistance army has reached a large scale, the concept of thinking still stays in the small peasant economy, and still stays in the expectation of the traditional god of justice!

When the temple of the god of justice was sidelined and sided with the nobles, the rebel army urgently needed a new belief, or a banner to call for it, but "science" did not appear.

If Wei Keng was negligent in the development of "industry" before, then Sainz was a naked dereliction of duty in the development of "science".

If Sainz really did this deliberately, then on his way to truly integrate the godhead, there will be an extra bump created by himself.

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Continue to investigate, during the "Great Siege" period when the rebel army was suppressed by the kingdom,

The arcane emitter used by the Royal Army to curb the "grain making technique" in the whole city now has enough evidence to prove that it came from the Suspended Olympic Alliance.

Its principle is to stabilize carbon dioxide, and by controlling the chemistry of the area, it hinders certain creation techniques.

This kind of large-scale Arcane equipment can only be produced in the northern industrial area and the Austrian Alliance in Xuanao City in the entire continent.

For the industrial party, it is used for agriculture, such as allowing 100% of the atmospheric charge in a storm to participate in nitrogen fixation. At present, the technology of the Industrial Party is still a generation behind the Alliance of Truth. After exporting such large-scale equipment, it still needs after-sales maintenance by the manufacturer's personnel. As for the maintenance-free, fool-like equipment that the Kingdom Army would use, United Industries' own market was in short supply, and it needed to be imported from the Alliance of Truth, so it was impossible to sell such equipment.

With the subsequent "clue investigation" (mysterious exploration method), it has been confirmed that the arcane equipment that suppressed the southern uprising was produced by the arcane organization in the "Land of Secret Words" in the southeast of the Alliance of Truth.

In other words, the reason why the rebel army was short of food and had to choose a contract with the devil in the end was the intervention of 'external forces'.

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Of course, Master Wei has no clear evidence to testify against Sainz! In other words, the information that Wei Keng possessed was not strong enough to overthrow Sainz.

(This kind of silence often makes the planners of the conspiracy feel that they are seamless.)

For example, in ancient times, a certain lung disease appeared all over the world. At that time, countries had no evidence, but they all had doubts about a country with the most biochemical laboratories in the world.

Bai Linglu has already started investigating this matter. She is much more active than Master Wei in this regard. And she caught Sainz's motive—that is, wanting to gain leadership among the three priesthoods.

Bai Linglu: "As for the evidence, it's easy to check. As long as you find this machine and analyze the information residues, you can find its production channels, and then find people, and give it shelter in the name of Godhead, it's enough to dig out the cause and effect."

Master Wei: "There's no need to do this, you have the evidence in your hands, and you can just talk about it in the end."

Bai Linglu paused, wanting to say something. Finally a low "huh". Bai Linglu knew that Wei Keng endured this question because he, the supervisors, had cards in their hands.

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Outside of Wei Keng's will, the situation continued to develop after the end of the Southern Counter-Insurgency War.

August 4th

Prince Danny returned to the capital with the troops who went south to suppress the rebellion. He was wearing a black robe, which is the mourning dress of this world, not plain onyx.

He buried the body of the Duke of Jinren in the cemetery of the Jinren family, brought the relics of the Duke to the capital, and handed them over to the temple.

The old man's death made him very sad.

This war gave him a belief that the origin of the tragedy must be ended.

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Danny, wearing armor, came to the main hall and explained the experience of this bloody battle to the king, that is, his grandfather.

When the king comforted him and asked him what reward he wanted.

The prince said sadly: "Your Majesty, I don't need any rewards, I just hope that the loyal warriors can rest in peace. ——And this disaster comes from greed. Our greed for machines makes us forget our own people , I hope that the empire can stop all the machines on this day of the year, so that the heroic spirits of this land can spend the day quietly."

The king looked at the grandson and didn't know how to respond. After a long time, he said, "Danny, I understand how you feel. Take a good rest."

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The occurrence of historical events is the result of the participation and fermentation of multiple factors.

The fate of the royal capital of Aiger is arranged by the gods.

Therefore, when a mortal is in a crucial position, whether he wants to be a villain or not depends not on himself, but on "fate". ——The arrangement of "fate" will turn some mortals into villains inexplicably.

[Of course, some 'middle-of-the-road' have so many cards in their hands that they can't be classified as villains no matter what. It’s just that for the gods of the order department, this god-chosen is lying there, and he is not striding forward on the path of decency, so he must be urged]

Prince Danny, heir to the Shinche family, offered an "objective" view of industrialization. His attitude immediately provoked many reactions.

In the royal capital of Aiger, the forces of anti-industrialization are very strong!

Most people in the territory of the old forces have not enjoyed the dividends of industrialization. The dividends were eaten by the royal family and the great nobles. The arcanists in the capital, as well as the small and medium nobles, were very dissatisfied. These contradictions were suppressed only for the reason that they could not openly oppose the royal family.

Now the heirs of the royal family have proposed anti-industrialization (in fact, Danny did not propose it, but the tricky machinery left him with a bad impression), and this wave rose almost instantly.

With the publication of newspapers in the capital of Aiger and the presence of bards from the opera house, a wave of voices emerged.

The nobles of the capital raised a new voice to tax the products of the northern industrial territories to make up for the damage caused by the rebellion in the southern territories.

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Now one-third of the nobles who came to power in the capital are new generations. They don't care whether the agreement signed between the capital and the Northern Industrial Territory is whether they have taken advantage of it.

They don't even understand the "balance of power in the past" and the "balance of power today".

All they know now is that when they are sick, they have to find a place where they don't feel pain and get injections and medicines. — they still regard the Northern Territory as their vassal.

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Under the integrated infrastructure system formed by the interweaving of complex systems such as meridian railways and energy grids, information from various places will quickly converge.

The sudden voice in King Aiger's capital quickly spread to the Northern Territory, and then a corresponding trend was stirred up.

The political new generation in the capital of Aiger is dissatisfied, and the new generation in the Industrial Party is equally dissatisfied!

All the agreements between the joint industry and the capital are old agreements from twenty years ago.

Now the population of the Northern Industrial Territory is 1.8 times that of the rest of Eiger. The local basic agricultural output value alone is three times that of other regions in Aiger. Not to mention the industrial output value, which is almost dozens of times.

As for the military, although there has been no war for more than ten years, military exercises have been developed all year round, and the level of technology is advanced. It has the confidence to face any force on the mainland. Even if the opponent has a lot of "battle destruction spells".

Now King Aiger has come out without knowing what is good or bad, and wants to collect taxes from the northern territories? Really ignorant.

These new generations can't wait to cut off the aid to the royal capital of Aiger immediately, and then end the "market subsidies for the export of industrial products".

However, all this ambivalence was once again pressed down by the leaders of the Northern Territory.

In August 1999, Carret, who was the grand duke of Xiange in the north, mourned the death of the Duke of Golden Blade in the south in private. And promise to Wangdu to further "manage and control the safety of machinery", and implement the "machine operator" grade assessment system on the mainland. (Just like a driver's license, you need a certificate)

In terms of production and sales, stop providing machinery to unlicensed parties.

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When faced with the questioning of the aggressive central administrators of the industrial zone,

Just finished the arcane experiment, Carret (Wei Keng split) in white overalls explained slowly: "When conflicts arise, there are often cognitive errors on all sides. Let's first put what we should improve first. The mistakes are corrected first, and when we deal with them, we can face conflicts calmly. Don’t worry, no one can escape the problems. The comparison is who is willing to solve their own problems first.”

The administrators were dissatisfied with attacking King Aiger, and Wei Keng smiled inwardly: "As a mortal, I can't help being worse, of course, I also want to be worse, but I have to be responsible for it afterwards, it can't be like this .”

Wei Keng followed the criticism of the Royal Capital by the administrators of United Industries: "Including the Xingche family, the entire Iger's aristocratic system has problems. Now they blame us for the problem, and their problem is actually bigger. .

Now, I definitely don't want to confess the crime they gave me.

At the same time, when denying the charges they gave, you cannot argue with 'guilty' or 'innocent'. Please note that when your opponent gives you judgment questions or multiple-choice questions, it is already covering up and distorting your claims.

Even if you win the debate and prove that "I have absolutely no responsibility and is perfect", it is a failure because of the loss of humility. This world is not perfect, and when the word "absolutely nothing" is said, one has already embarked on the path of willfulness.

We should focus on the standpoint of "whether similar incidents will happen in the future" and ask ourselves "whether we have a better response next time."

[An arm wrestling with a god must be assertive. ——As the main traveler of the Second Plane War in the main world, he is completely different from those packers. Wei Keng was very determined. 】

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Regarding how to deal with the dark side of "industry", Wei Keng came up with his own prescription.

For example: All mechanical operations must be tested and certified! to buy machinery.

This is not a problem for "industry" with strong social mobilization.

Although in industrial territories, almost every farmland has tractors and grain mills in every small town, under industrial governance, operators in villages have undergone strict training under the supervision of governors. When Caret just started industrialization, "safe production" was the responsibility of everyone.

After this policy is issued, these rural workers will review it again, take the exam, and make up a certificate.

But what about the rest of Aiger?

Wei Keng: In the arcane world, the machinery made by "industry" cannot spread at will.