Gold is Justice

Hearing Natalie's words, Tidal's nose and the corners of his mouth twitched a little.At that moment, his body trembling with excitement seemed to be instantly frozen, and he lost control of himself——

"You... How do you know these things? I don't allow them to tell these things... No one should know these things!"



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To this, Natalie's answer was extremely understated: "Of course I have a way to know the news. You think you have mastered the entire palace, and after you replace everyone with the Duke of Jinguo, I don't have any information." Is there a news channel? Remember your words, Tidal, you will return the throne to my son, the orthodox heir to the throne of the Blue Bay Empire——Whirlpool Bilan. I not only need your own promise, I also have enough strength to guarantee you You will keep your promise."

For Tidal, the woman he lost to for the first time in his life was (Harmony) Ariel Garcia.It was also because after that loss, he had a new understanding of women in his heart.

Therefore, the emperor didn't feel any sense of shame or humiliation for Natalie's oppression of him now, but felt that it seemed to be taken for granted...

It was this kind of feeling that made him quickly accept the fact that the news network around him had been infiltrated into a sieve, nodded immediately, and said: "Then... Sister-in-law Huang, even if I will definitely take the throne in the future Give it back to my nephew...but the premise is that our empire must still be there! Isn't it? I promise here! As long as the situation stabilizes...or the whirlpool age is reached, then I will immediately return the throne to him! If If I don't fulfill my promise, then let me throw myself into the blue sea, and let me become the food of the abyss!"

As an aristocrat who had gone through a period of downfall, Natalie would not believe the emperor's so-called promise.Promises are only effective between people of equal status. If you want the other party to keep the promise, it is best to have a certain guarantee, and this guarantee must not be the so-called "trust". ".

However, now is indeed not the time to pursue such matters.At least Natalie also admitted that if she wanted her son to inherit the throne, she must maintain the integrity of the Blue Bay Empire instead of making the empire precarious as it is now.

"Block the news first."

Natalie said.

Sitting paralyzed on the sofa next to him, Chao Chao seemed to have aged this handsome and elegant man by ten years in just one year. Disclose the news... whoever dares to say it, I will kill him."

Natalie nodded and continued: "In addition to blocking the news, we also need to declare that we have won the war, and now the entire marginal province has returned to the empire's control."

Tidal was slightly taken aback, then raised his head to look at Natalie: "This...so? But I obviously lost...or a fiasco..."

Natalie seemed very relaxed and said: "The battle line cannot be faked, but the battle report can be. As a member of the elegant and noble Blue Royal Family, as the emperor of the Blue Bay Empire, all you need to do is to let everything It seems that they are on the right track. Even if this right track only appears in public opinion, it must be promoted like this.”

The queen turned around, walked slowly towards the gate, and said as she walked: "We want to let the territories that are still under control, especially the people of Hanhai City, know that the empire is still invincible. To this end, we must To extinguish any flames of instability and continue to maintain our image."

After thinking about it for a while, Chao said, "This... is it really okay? But we really lost too much... It's just a propaganda that we won, is it really okay?"

Seeing how stupid the emperor was, Natalie really wanted to turn around and slap him in the face.

But now, she still had to swallow this breath, and said slowly: "As long as there are heads of the rebels, that's fine."

Chao Chao was stunned: "The head of the rebel army? Where did it come from—"

Natalie: "Find a remote village that won't attract people's attention. Solve it quietly, and the heads of the rebels will be all. As for how to explain this village in the future, say that those rebels killed it. Even, You can directly let our people wear the clothes of the mermaid army to do this kind of thing. As far as I know, the Holy See of Light seems to be very suitable for this kind of thing, and you can ask them to do it." Chao Tide was dumbfounded, and in less than 1 minute During that time, he felt that his cognition had been completely changed.

In his impression, this sister-in-law of the emperor should be a gentle and pleasant person, even though her words are harsh, she is a kind-hearted person.On several occasions, Tide had witnessed the emperor's wife distributing food in the slums and caring for the homeless.

But now, this sister-in-law of the emperor is a terrible person who can say such words, and even treat the people like nothing!

Is this contrast real?Which one is the real queen's wife?Or, the person my brother Menglang once really loved... the one who would distribute food to the homeless with a smile on his face?Or is this one in front of you ruthless in doing things?

Tide can no longer distinguish such things, but even if he thinks he can, there is no need to distinguish now.

Everything has a result and must have a result.

In order to maintain the dignity of the royal family, some costs must be borne...

Yes, the villagers in those remote villages can only suffer from you.

"By the way, sister-in-law, there is one more thing."

After fully turning on the "switch" in his heart, Tidal suddenly asked——

"What should we do about the elemental machine? Should we also use this kind of thing to make weapons?"

Natalie, who was about to leave, stopped suddenly.

Regarding things like elemental machines, the former empress is also in a very complicated mood now.

Obviously, the reason why the woman who used to be a maid with herself, and should have been a maid all her life, was able to challenge the empire relied on a brand new thing like the elemental machine.

Relying on this new technology, the magic of the past has become vulnerable.On the entire Golden Continent, the military strength of a country is no longer measured by how many magicians in the country can release the large meteorite technique, but how many elemental cannons it has.

If you want to maintain the military power of the empire, you must have things like elemental cannons and elemental chariots.On the other hand, Natalie had also read "The Fall of Empires" by that mean woman.

She was able to climb from a down and out nobleman, even down to a low class like a maid, to become the queen of a country in one fell swoop!How many people know the hard work here?How many people can understand the sadness and tricks in it?

How can she accept that she should give up her status as a royal now and return to a... down-and-out aristocrat... no, even return to a position where she needs to wash, cook and serve others by herself?

Therefore, it is absolutely impossible for an elemental machine that can cause the collapse of the empire to appear in the empire.Even if the productivity of the entire empire is forced to a lower level, it must be suppressed!You must not allow anything to challenge your royal status, never!

But on the other hand, if you simply reject the elemental machine, the combat power will not be able to keep up... If you want to balance the power inside, there must be only one way.

"Elemental cannon, elemental gun, elemental armored vehicle, of course we want it."

Chao Tide was stunned for a moment, feeling a little nervous.After all, the Magic Association and the Holy See of Light made a big fuss just because of this matter.

"However, we cannot accept such things as elemental machines. In other words, we must take the empire as the foundation and use elemental machines for external use. We can set up elemental machine factories, but all elemental machines cannot be used for civilian use, nor can they produce anything other than weapons. Anything other than that. These diabolical machines must be kept under the strict control of our empire, and put in the hands of dedicated humans."

"As for who will control it... Aren't the old guys from the Magic Association most afraid of losing their meaning of existence? Then let them manage these factories that produce weapons. In this way, they probably won't have any objections. .”

Hearing this, Chao Chao nodded lightly, but after thinking about it again, he seemed to feel that something was wrong, and quickly said: "But Mrs. Huang, in that bitch's "On Collapse", there is a part that specifically expounds that our royal family is responsible The possible consequences of managing these elemental factories... Isn't your approach exactly the same as what is written in her book?"

Natalie gave Chao Chao a hard look, and snorted coldly: "If everything she said is true, then you can step down from the throne right now, and then go to Pelican City with a white flag in front of her." Kneel and surrender!"

Facing Natalie's fierceness, Chao Chao dared not speak for a while.

Natalie: "No matter how much knowledge she has learned, she is just an ordinary person. Even, she is a pariah. Do you really think she is a god? All the predictions she made can be accurate? Could it be that she Can’t you write something wrong? Even if everything she predicted is correct, in her book it is said that our royal family will directly manage the element machine factory. But now we let people from the Magic Association manage it. They are not members of the royal family, but grasshoppers who are loyal to us and bound to us. And they themselves know very well that only by completely destroying that witch can their status be preserved. How could it be like that in the witch's book? As said?"

After being told by Natalie, Tidal finally breathed a sigh of relief.He clutched his chest. During the time after the fiasco, he finally felt that he could see a little bit of hope.As long as there is hope of victory, then everything is likely to return to the most "normal" state!

Sister-in-law Huang was right, the reason why that woman was able to win the war was because of the weapons made by those elemental mechanisms.Then, as long as both sides have exactly the same weapons and equipment, the balance of victory will definitely tilt towards the empire!

must--!

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The holy night festival is over, and it is a new year.

Everything in Marginal Province seems to be thriving, and everyone's face is filled with happy smiles.

In the new year, the construction of Pelican City has been basically completed, and now the city has surpassed Lagoon City to become the largest city in the entire Marginal Province.

There are several living areas divided here, there is a night area specially arranged for the night people, there is a tree house area where the flower fairies come to live, and of course there are commercial areas and industrial areas specially used for various commercial activities, etc. .

Due to the victory of the previous war, the situation of the border provinces being surrounded has completely ended. Various materials can be continuously transported here from the outside world, processed into various commodities in these factories, and then transported out through the transportation pipeline. .

Now, there is a "traffic pipeline" completed, ready to welcome its first departure.

Whoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

In a large "station" on the edge of Pelican City, a slightly different element car is preparing for its maiden voyage.

Compared with other elemental vehicles, this elemental vehicle is bigger, even bigger than the elemental armored vehicle!

The only difference is that the back of this large element car is dragging many carriages, one after another, which are constantly linked by hinges.

Moreover, this element car is not driving on a normal road, and its wheels look quite different.The wheels of the ordinary element car are a kind of flexible wheels made of the mucus of thick fleshy starfish, extracted and then shaped.

But the wheels of this element car are made of steel, just like when the element car was just made, it doesn't look very practical.

However, these wheels are placed on two long steel frames, and these steel frames extend all the way to Xiehu City in the distance.

Woohoo!

The elemental car, which the city's children called the "roar car", made that terrible "roar" again.

The five carriages at the back have been filled with many packed goods and are ready to be transported.

"Then, I'll go."

At this time, Yi Ge boarded the second car, turned around, and waved to the members of Song of the Mermaid behind him.

Ariel smiled and waved, and said, "This car will be able to return in the afternoon, can you return?"

Yi Ge smiled, and said: "It depends on whether I can invite those noble gentlemen. Ah, the car has started. Then President, if everything goes well, I will come back in the afternoon! If there is a delay, then I will just Can wait for tomorrow's flight."

Accompanied by the slow start of the roaring car, Cream followed suit, laughing and shouting: "Then you can take another elemental car back! If you insist on staying in Xihu City for one night, are you greedy for the guild's funds? Okay." You greedy elf!"

Amidst the laughter of the crowd, Yi Ge waved his hand and left the platform in the roar car.

As the speed of the vehicle became faster and faster, the figures of the Song of the Mermaid disappeared, so Yi Ge returned to the carriage and found a seat to sit down.

Looking at the speeding scenery outside the window, the corner of the elf's mouth couldn't help but curl up.

Leaving Pelican City, the farmland outside was full of prosperity.

And the speeding of the roaring car seemed to pull everything into a slide show, and played it to the elf through the space of the car window.

For thousands of years, Egg traveled the entire Golden Continent.

But no matter how many years have passed, everything on the mainland seems to be so ordinary, so unchanged.

Whether it is human beings or other creatures, they are all using weapons similar to those thousands of years ago in battle, and they are all using similar trading systems as they were thousands of years ago.

They followed the imperial system similar to that of thousands of years ago, and followed the same system as that of thousands of years ago.

Even if the surname of the empire changes, even if the boundaries occupied by each race change, but everything else remains the same.For the elves, time seems to have stood still for thousands of years, everything is like a rock, without any change.

But now, a change has taken place.

The distance that originally took two or three days to reach can be traveled back and forth on the same day after using the element car.

Even, after taking this elemental car named "Rail Car", it only takes an hour to go to Lagoon City.

This is probably far from imaginable in the past... It does not rely on magic, there is no magic of space or time, but relying on the wisdom of these human beings, it only took one year from the conception to the completion. , and built such a rail car from Pelican City to Lagoon City and Tianhe City.

In just one hour, a large amount of supplies can be transported from Pelican City to the frontier city of the Marginal Province, and then continue to be transported to other occupied territories.

Such quickness and convenience, even a well-informed elf like Yi Ge, had to sigh now.In the blink of an eye, before he even finished drinking the cup of tea produced by the flower fairy in his hand, the speed of the rail car began to slow down slowly.And through the car window, you can see the station in Xihu City in front of you, and you are already waiting respectfully to welcome everything here.

After getting out of the car, Egg took a short breath.

There is a slight burnt smell in the air, which is the normal smell from the front of the rail car.

If he had smelled this smell in the past, it would have made him a little uncomfortable, but now, the elf liked this smell very much, so he sniffed it harder.

"Okay, time to get to work!"

Yi Ge lifted a package in his hand, which contained some important documents.Afterwards, he walked out of the station and showed his Mermaid Song badge to the station staff next to him.

Soon, the staff saluted Yi Ge in trepidation, and then respectfully expressed that they would send him to his destination.

However, Yi Ge still refused with a smile. After learning the direction of his destination, he walked towards the newly built building area in the center of Lagoon City.

It has been a year since Viscount Rich Wald became the lord of Lagoon City, and Yi Ge came here this time to invite him to return to Pelican City for the next work meeting.