Out of the cage

In May of 3233 in the Fire Emblem Calendar, Iron Star has become more and more dominant on the Wanlun Continent.

The Confederate Government of the South tried to negotiate with Iron Star, but these lords in aristocratic costumes and smoking pipes and Iron Star's blue cloth working group were on core issues such as "material procurement", "industrial capital" and "financial currency". Always can't agree.

The gangsters in the south wanted to bypass Iron Star's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and talk directly to the highest level of Iron Star (Enma), but this attempt was unsuccessful.

Enma: I am a middle-of-the-road person, and I can be "familiar" with one or two skills. It is impossible to be proficient in everything, so professional matters (diplomacy) are left to professional people. Financial interests are such a professional matter. Let me intervene.

Wei Keng wants to avoid unnecessary sophistication, but the "social friendship" that has evolved for thousands of years can always achieve his goal through detours.

Ludis had a conversation with Enma on May 4th in the division of the defense zone.

This dialogue includes reminiscing about the past, but the two sides still cannot agree on core issues.

Enma learned from Ludis's words: The "reconciliation faction" in the south is counting on the north and the south to rule according to the line of Braun City, York City, and Limin Steel City.

However, the Agricultural Youth Association has established a large base area in the south, and Iron Star has rushed to repair two railways going south, which can directly transport industrial products from the north to the agricultural areas in the south.

Enma uprightly criticized Ludis' wrong ideas.

Ludis remained silent because of his wrongdoing.

Compared with the depression of the major cities in the empire, the Iron Star Northern Heavy Industry Group has personnel, and the accumulation of technology is almost the same, so it is impossible to give up the agricultural consumer market in the south.

Enma further fought for Ludis: Even if the reformers in the imperial city are making some fucking reforms, they are just making the city people fair and playing the game of voting rights for citizens in the city.

The agricultural areas are still neglected. As a result, in the southern agricultural region, in order to control its own light industrial capital, it is impossible to let the city down.

Especially when the reformists came to power, in order to win foreign aid, they signed a series of unfair trade agreements, so that Anglo's high-priced industrial products came in to plunder.

After these scandals were uncovered by the Agricultural Youth Daily, the enthusiasm of the farmers and villages in the southern part of the former Sky Empire suddenly became higher than that of the citizens. (Guo is a collective term for public interests. Governing the country is to link public interests to all people through real channels.)

A few years ago, the reformists had been persecuting the upper echelons of the empire with the enthusiasm of "protecting the country". Now they are roasted on the stove with the same words by the mud legs, and they feel a little arrogant in their hearts that "you are also worthy of protecting the country" .

Oh, of course they don't say what's on their minds so bluntly, but they complain in a large number of newspapers in the city: "village vulgarity", "irrational and extreme", "patriots!" and so on.

…within a few years, comrades who had been in the trenches began to part ways. …

On May 25th, Enma and Greif met at the agricultural technology pilot site where the agricultural mechanization in the south was pulling nets on the largest lake in the south and "raising food fish in captivity".

Three kilometers away from this meeting place, four "heavy infantry" land frigates led by Orr are responsible for security. The thick gun barrel and the quiet fish pond form a unique contrast

Enma chose this location to provide evidence in the dialogue with Greve. Both of them are veteran party members.

Oh, and Greve is older in a way, but the Young Farmers' Association, which the Postman is in, is far more successful than Grave, a smaller and smaller faction in the Southern Union. sub-color.

Faced with the fish coming from the net, Greve's stomach is how to persuade the "postman" to contribute to the overall situation of domestic peace. However, there was a strange fragrance.

…While the water splashes are dancing, a big fish comes out of the water, cleans the dirt, and puts it into the hot oil pan…

Enma picked a fish weighing one and a half catties, cooked it on the spot, cut open the belly of the fish, took out the gills, removed the internal organs, and threw it to the free-range chickens. After washing the black film, he coated it with oil and instant noodle seasoning. , use wine, green onion, ginger and garlic powder, marinate for half an hour, ignite the charcoal of the iron stove with a straw, roll and bake, brush the oil every three minutes, and then sprinkle the cumin with a knife.

Only 20 minutes, the first step of baking, the outer skin is fragrant, but the fish is not yet cooked. (If such a large fish is fully cooked, the meat will fall apart)

The next step: put the raw inside into an iron plate, put a ceramic plate full of hot salty soup in the fish belly, and then cover it for steaming, ensuring that the hot soup in the ceramic bowl continues to heat and cook the fish belly rotten. In this way, the smell of roasted smoke on the outer skin is maintained, while the inner bone is melted,

After opening the lid, there was a scent of fragrance, and the cooked rice noodles came up just in time. Wei Keng served Gray a bowl of rice noodles, then cut a piece of fish, and scooped out a few spoonfuls of fish soup.

Enma gave it to him with both hands: "Noodles with fish soup, a farmer's method" (Bai Linglu in the system snorted: "Oh, you are feeding cats, fish soup with rice" Of course, she did not deny that this would be very good eat)

Greve picked up the tongs and picked up a piece of noodles: it smelled of smoke and roasting, while the fish meat did not lose its soft and glutinous flavor.

Of course, Greve knew that he had lost this time without making any remarks.

...At the level of "governance", the theory is not as good as the actual example...

Next to the two people's meeting is an agricultural and sideline product processing factory. The processed big fish and fish meat will be dried and marinated, then put into vacuum packaging bags, and then put into tinplate boxes and transported to the supermarket. Fish heads and fish viscera will be It is dried and processed into feed to provide protein for pigs, cattle, sheep, chickens and ducks.

This is after the enthusiasm of rural and rural governance has been ensured, the accumulated "capital" has continued to invest, and production efficiency has been greatly improved. In the era of the sky empire, farmers and villagers could not do such "enterprises". Ordinary people might just have some oil and water in their homes, and they would be attacked by some bastards. The so-called: 'These mudbloods can't eat too much, otherwise they won't work. 'The unreasonable reason, to search.

In the "Postman" agricultural newspaper, it ridiculed Duma's "talkers" and criticized the so-called governance of the urban reformers for selfishness and stupidity to maintain various interest groups in the city through violence. Stable, but ignores the rough collection system, and will plunder the little rations that everyone in the countryside has. But can't get much supplies.

On the contrary, under the governance of the Agricultural Youth Association, it also supplies materials to the city.

The food output per unit area of ​​farmland is three times that of the old empire!

Moreover, the labor force for growing grain is only one-tenth of the past. A large amount of labor has processed a large amount of meat, and the amount of agricultural by-products is more than 20 times that of the past, and a large number of cement-hardened roads with third-level indicators are still being built.

In terms of actual wealth production, can any agricultural area controlled by the urban faction reach such a level?

Nowadays, the urban faction just wants to rely on the "currency issuance center" to obtain the economic achievements of the Youth Youth Association in the past, so as to fill their own economic loopholes.

Economically, the Agricultural Youth Association has no shortcomings here, and has won the Northern Heavy Industry Group.

And after winning the arm wrestling with Anglo, the western economic belt has achieved stable industrial production space.

But the reform faction in the city is talking about food, and even the industry that should be their advantage now is getting worse and worse, with only 30% of the production capacity in operation.

The 30% in the city is mainly due to the agricultural ticket channel. In exchange for the "food" and "light industrial consumer goods" that are currently in short supply in the city, the flexible cadres of these factories directly accept orders for "fertilizer" and "hydrocarbon fuel". "Orders, and of course some key steel bearing parts.

...Even if those "strong men" in Duma want to "rob", the city system where they live is now unable to act, and only stubbornness remains. …

After the meal, Greve asked Wei Keng, "What are your conditions!" Wei Keng glanced at him, but did not speak.

Greve looked at Enma. Once upon a time, he felt terrible when he saw the youth and execution ability of 'Enma'. At that time, the two sides belonged to the same camp, but now the two sides look at each other.

Greve stated his own conditions: "If we promote domestic peace, we will elect you as the consul of the United Duma."

En Ma sighed: "First, the royal family of the Sky Empire must abdicate completely, and all imperial properties must be subject to Iron Star review. The royal family, dukes and nobles must be tried according to the law. Second, banks, railways, and all heavy industrial factories must be collected. Be owned by the public. Third, adopt the system of spokespersons for agricultural and industrial positions (prohibition of elections, that is, to prevent money and feudal status from gaining seat advantages)..."

Enma was about to raise his fourth finger, but seeing Greve's expression twitch, he shook his head and sighed: "You can't promise us any of the first three. So, sir, it's difficult for me to discuss this issue with you. "

Greve stared at Wei Keng, wanting to be angry, but seeing Wei Keng's unmoved expression, he sighed: "We have different ideas. It's too expensive for you to do so."

En Ma nodded: "That's right, we have different ideas, because I think the cost of doing this is worth it, and if you don't do this, the cost of dying would have been wasted before."

…After three glasses of wine on the table, En Ma made a new fish for his old friend to take along on the road. Can't eat and walk around...

After Greve returned, this condition really aroused the surprise of the coalition ruling faction, who denounced this as wanting to launch a full-scale civil war.

However, Iron Star responded with practical actions. On May 28, the Corps surrounded York City. The reason for choosing this city was that 80% of the city's operations had been controlled by Iron Star, and the city was ripe for success.

Of course, the end result was particularly logical, and Sugemat announced a peaceful welcome to Iron Star. There was no fighting at all.

When Sugemat made this decision in the city of York, he said a very meaningful sentence: "The empire is gone, we don't need to fight anymore." (The die-hards in the old camp tend to die hard only once. Unlike the flexible conservatives, they can be conservative many times)

Two years ago, Sugemat was a royalist who was loyal to the royal family, but as the Revolutionary Party, that is, the reformists now came to power and wiped out the empire, Sugemat will put his loyalty in the south On the Reformists?

In addition to interests, York City, as an industrial city in the east and a city of reformers in the southwest, belonged to two factions. Obviously, the old general reached a comprehensive peace agreement, and the troops did not fight.

Of course, for Enma, this can't deal with Sugemat. To a certain extent, he agreed to Sugemat's conditions. Reorganize his troops, and at the same time, give them marginal benefits in economic restructuring.

… At this time, there are also complex interests within Iron Star, and it is extremely important to hold a clear banner. …

After June, six land frigates advanced into York City as the leader, followed by large and small steam chariots.

The whole city is a sea of ​​flowers. Willie also meets Sugemat. The old general was wearing a black officer's uniform, Mikael was very restrained.

Sugemat pulled out the perspective from the troops entering the city, and couldn't help admiring: "It really is a strong army."

During the subsequent meeting, Sugemat made a request: that is, to deal with the royal family issue on behalf of the new Iron Star government. In Tie Xing's words, without the Emperor's title, he can only be called Mister.

Willie said meaningfully to Sugemat: "I promise you, but there is one unpleasant thing to say before, if they collude with external imperial forces, then all the liquidation will be complete, please share your interests with them." say clearly."

...Under the rules of multiple planes, the longer something exists, the more aftertaste it has, and the Wanlun Continent Empire has existed for three thousand years...

In Enma's strategic plan, taking York City is a crucial strategic move, which means that Iron Star completely cuts off the east and west of the empire, and even if there is still resistance in the east, the city's ending can be established in three months .

But in the current plan, York City is voluntarily surrendering, which is not just separating the east and west of the empire.

The response effect of the big cities is very strong. When the Swan City rebelled, all the big cities in the south united to coax, which weakened most of the empire's power in one fell swoop.

The surrender of Sugemat also led to the surrender of the military chiefs of the major cities in the east. This kind of surrender is not the "nominal response" of the reformists.

Instead, even the highest military officer, armed with all his weapons, defected to Iron Star, and was asked to disband the original military system.

Why didn't these military chiefs resist? This is about the regional conflicts in Sky Empire

The eastern part of the Sky Empire is cold and inland. This is because the plates in the southeast are squeezed to form a plateau, which blocks the warm and humid air flow from the southern ocean. Therefore, the eastern part of the Sky Empire has always been a traditional agricultural area, and the capital is weaker than the port cities and river cities in the southwest.

In matters like business, there is more than enough damage to make up for what is not enough, and internal engulfment is even more serious. The imperial legion here can also be regarded as aristocrats, but according to the contempt chain of the aristocratic circle in the imperial capital of the sky, they belong to the rural aristocrats in the east.

In the era of imperial improvement three hundred years ago, there were only small businesses in the eastern part of the sky, and most of the people who could read newspapers were only farmers. When the Peasant Youth Association first started to expand, their organizational strength was low and they were completely trapped in the framework of the new order

Now these eastern rural intellectuals have been embedded in the rural and rural economic structure.

Under the original Eastern Imperial Army system, the manor families behind those military chiefs, even if a few people resisted at the beginning and were forced to redistribute, they were still redistributed within their families. Basically, the land was not lost, but the right to dominate. The resentment brought about by the loss of privileges has been filled economically with the new small and medium-sized factories. Immediately "really fragrant".

…there is a chain of contempt among the noble circles of the Empire. …

In short, these classes in the east who controlled the land used to be called the "noble" class, but in fact they only had some land.

These Junker nobles sacrificed their lives for their country on the front lines during the decades of war, but the fertilizer and machinery they obtained in the rear were in short supply, so that large tracts of land were abandoned, and they did not invest enough "technology" and "management". Food production has been insufficient, and even income is insufficient to support a decent enough life in the big cities.

When the bastards of these rural nobles first came to the cities to go to school, they still wore old-fashioned clothes, which were out of tune with the new youths in the cities.

These aristocratic youths in the eastern part of Arida in the countryside were even ridiculed by those urban students who claimed to be more civilized in the city, "Is the first night tax charged to the daughter of the swineherd?" Such topics.

For in the haughty impression of the imperial cities the eastern countryside is ignorant. In the past two years, whenever there were conflicts in the empire, those intellectuals of the empire did not dare to directly criticize the imperial family, so they desperately mocked that these knight noble families who were conferred by the empire in the east were rude and barbaric. This further exacerbates the impression of contempt.

In order to ensure the loyalty of the eastern army, the empire's generals also recruited troops from noble families in conservative agricultural areas, rather than choosing combat forces from active cities.

...At the end of the Sky Empire, it took a lot of effort just to reconcile the contradictions between the east and the west. …

But two years later, when the Nongqinghui will supply them with enough fertilizers and then arrange busy farming, the cheap manpower teams needed for planting and harvesting will be hired. And after the purchase agreement and insurance agreement, these farming nobles can really have money to take care of their ancestral houses. Along with giving more funds to the "bastards" in the city.

With the collapse of the empire, this naturally included mid- and low-level officers under generals like Sugemat. Overnight, the ideological restrictions of allegiance to the empire were lifted, and they all tended to, the Agricultural Youth Association, the idea of ​​agricultural regional transformation.

The false left in the city (pretending to be progressive with a civilized stick) has bullied the extreme right in the rural and rural areas into emotional neutrality in the past two years, and the interests are too much to the left. "

...Now that Iron Star is currently in conflict with the "Southern Duma Capital" in terms of the political system, it has begun to cooperate with Sugemat...

After July, the Iron Star banner was planted in the entire northern and eastern region of Sky Empire, so that the main task changed from military takeover to economic takeover. But Iron Star now lacks cadres.

At present, rural cadres cannot replace urban cadres.

Wei Keng: The countryside needs a lot of liberal arts to explain the "policy" in a variety of "unconstrained" rural environments that are conducive to practical application. The large enough rural space is related to the characteristics, for example, it is possible to keep dogs on a leash, and you cannot have enough law enforcement force in a huge space. But the dog killed Lingju's chicken, and this chicken was at fault first, and ran to Lingju's vegetable field to destroy vegetables. It is impossible to have enough judicial resources to rule on such a trivial matter. We can only rely on cadres with excellent liberal arts to explain the truth according to the local conditions.

The city is intensive, and everyone naturally defaults to discipline. Even when walking, they must obey the "left-hand" order. When everyone has the requirement to obey the order, they must consider the issue of efficiency. Efficiency is calculated mathematically. Science cadres are needed.

Enma calculated Tie Xing's current wealth. In the heavy industrial cities currently under his control, all kinds of cadres are in short supply, and he cannot support a full takeover. Because once the offer is taken over in a hurry, the intellectuals of the old forces will infiltrate and enterprising,

Master Wei attaches great importance to the basic disk, and would rather expand slowly than eat "dirty" "things"

Therefore, after the end of the busy farming season in September, when a large number of agricultural laborers were transferred to factories, Iron Star even temporarily suspended the task of taking over some cities due to the lack of cadres.

So much so that these cities began to coordinate and govern themselves, waiting for the iron star farmers to take over.

In the final analysis, Iron Star is currently investing too much resources in the military. Of course, no one in Iron Star dared to underestimate the multi-party military power of the "Imperial Army", "Anglo Intervention Army", and "Osima Intervention Army" a year ago.

But in fact, the war that was originally planned to be fought for several years did not break out.

After Iron Star wiped out the second wave of Anglo intervention forces, Iron Star did not encounter a large-scale battle for half a year, and took down the city after low-intensity confrontation everywhere it went.

At this stage, Iron Star still started to expand its army in case of emergency. The Nongqing Army, which was originally entrenched in the north, had a strength of less than 700,000. During this period, it expanded to 3.2 million. Land cruiser units (more than 300 tons) From fifty-three, it expanded to two hundred and sixty-seven.

The construction of the army consumes a lot of talents, which makes the logistics a little tight

... Another year of fragrant grass and green sky, but the flowers are less blue and more red...

In May 3233, the Duma Front, which had originally announced that it would suppress the peasant youths, faced Iron Star, which controlled three-quarters of the country and the entire agricultural production area in just half a year.

Therefore, at the end of November, Greve looked at the "Duma Front" that had been compressed into a small number of large cities at this time, and murmured self-sarcastically: "Who betrayed whom?"