Realm of Power

Feishan area has a terrain that is high in the east and low in the west. Except for the dozens of miles near the coast, it is full of undulating hills. This unique mountainous area has been the boundary between the east and west of Obalo a thousand years ago. In April, the temperature in Feishan began to rise, followed by the arrival of the rainy season, especially in the Feishan area near the coastline. The rivers gradually merged into a mighty river, fish jumped out of the water, and birds flew across the sky. m Large expanses of colorful wildflowers quickly covered the vast wasteland outside the city, heralding the time to enter the sometimes violent and sometimes dreary summer. Heavy rains began to fall on the earth, seeming to herald the coming of an era when all things flow.

The black-haired young man stood in a pavilion in the courtyard of the villa. Beyond this garden was another larger garden, with a majestic mansion standing in the middle. As the secret controller of the Feishan area, Dorok Cloud, like this There are many other aristocratic properties, but this one is the only one that can be so fresh and elegant, because this is the residence of gauze and flowers, and it used to be The Feishan royal family's villa in the coastal area was built on a cliff with an unobstructed view of the sea. It was quiet all around. Along the wide garden path paved with gravel, both sides of the path were planted with exotic flowers. There are fish ponds, artificial stone mountains and streams connected one after another. In the early morning, watching the sun leaping from the horizon here is enough to make people forget about the dust.

The emperor also had to admit that the Feishan people living in the mountains knew the art of life better than the people in the plains. After all, they were sandwiched between the two camps of the East and the West, and they were also the intersection of the two cultures of Obalo and the West. above, where you can see several architectural styles coexisting,

Just like the garden in front of you, it presents a Gallic-style sculptural cross in the north, but the exit at the other end of the road uses a unique curved door in Istanbul. Looking down from a high place, one side is blue. The sea, on the other side are people and streets as thin as ants, and in the distance are rolling mountains like giant dragons

"There are only two ways to conquer this area. One is to go from the flat coastline area to the high-altitude area to form a strategic encirclement of front and rear attacks. This is what the talented and ambitious emperor of the Istan Empire did. On the one hand, he used The main force pressed Fei Shan's army. On the other hand, he sent the crown prince to lead his army to sweep across the coast. However, at the moment when the encirclement strategy was about to be completed, the success failed. The emperor unexpectedly disappeared on his way back to the country. Feishan's army came back across the board. Hundreds of thousands of the elite troops of the Istan Empire fell into chaos. The crown prince of Istan only went back to seize the throne, but instead Hundreds of thousands of troops were lost in the mountains of Feishan, becoming the main reason for the collapse of the Istan Empire."

The black-haired emperor paused, glanced at the gauze flower sitting next to him, and said with a smile, "Another way is to go down from a higher terrain than Feishan Mountain. Attack from below, for example from the Bavaria Terrace Driving into Feishan Mountains is equivalent to avoiding Feishan's biggest barrier. What we have to do next is to go all the way down... But I didn't expect that Feishan is a big quagmire. No wonder Saladin I of the Istan Empire was also It took half a year”

"Three hundred thousand people were killed, and the main force of the kingdom was wiped out. No one can bear it. Now His Majesty has asked Plais to accept the more than 100 former Feishan nobles. Aren't you afraid that these people will cause trouble when they come back? Is the wind disturbing the rain?" The gauze flower's beautiful eyes flickered and looked at him with interest, while her tone was as cold and calm as ever.

She knew that the emperor rarely told people about war. Even though the emperor was known as the God of War, according to the emperor, war was nothing more than killing people. Killing people was not something worth showing off. He was more of a war person. The subsequent reconstruction is the stability after the turmoil, and the empire is renewed piece by piece. The opening of trade routes was what the emperor thought he was proud of. This time he accidentally mentioned the Battle of Fei Shan, which made the entire continent talk about it. This was entirely because the emperor wanted to let himself know that for Fei Shan before Not only did the nobles and the emperor not have the slightest favor, but he even had strong contempt for them.

"If you knew who the former Feishan nobles were forced to come back by, you wouldn't think so."

To the surprise of Gossamer Huali, the emperor's calm and composed face showed a hint of cunning. "They are the people of Eero. These former Feishan nobles went to the south of Eero and provided financial resources to the nobles in the south of Eero to counterattack against Eero. The condition of the royal capital is that if Eero is recaptured In the north, they were allowed to set aside an area in the north of Hérault to establish the new Feishan Kingdom. Unfortunately, the nobles in the south of Hérault took their money, but they were perfunctory in the attack on the capital of Hérault, and in the end even these The guy drove from the south of Hérault Come out, now no one dares to take them in except for returning home, because all the countries are afraid that this will become a reason for the empire to use force against them. It is such a group of people. If they return to the Feishan Mountains, they will not cause trouble. When the news comes, I'm so sorry for taking them in. You know, these people came back with the intention of dying, just thinking about how to use their own heads to prove how the empire brutally treated the Feishan nobles. If the empire kills That’s what they want!”

This is mainly because just a month ago, a group of former Feishan nobles who were in exile requested to return to Feishan, saying that they wanted to return to their roots and their homeland. They were squeezed miserably abroad. Regarding the return of the Feishan nobles, Prais still It is relatively open-minded, because Plais himself is from a noble family, and he has a special feeling for the pain of country subjugation.

Because except for the flat coastline, the Feishan area is covered with large mountains. These areas are unfamiliar to the empire. Although the empire has begun to move the Feishan people from the mountainous areas to the coast, Feishan People's hatred towards the empire is still very serious, and the coastal areas are relatively better. After all, With the new prosperity of the coastal area, the Feishan people on the coast who have tasted the benefits no longer hate the empire's conquest of Feishan. However, the Feshan people in the mountainous area are different. They are the main force of the Feshan people. The empire is in Ba In one battle, Valid killed 300,000 King Feishan's troops, most of whom were descendants of Feishan from mountainous areas.

And Varisian invaded Feishan from the Bavaria region. The army moved in and captured the city. All obstacles in front of the blade were shattered. The army's front was so sharp. Varisian naturally also dealt with the mountainous areas where resistance was fierce. After a brutal cleansing, hundreds of thousands of people were massacred again, adding up to four to five million people.

With such a large-scale population reduction, it is not easy to get the Feishan people to let go of their hatred for the Empire in just two years. It was Valicion who was stationed in Feishan in the past. Although the Feishan mountain people hate the Empire, they are after all. This butcher of the empire is afraid of killing, and the people's livelihood is in decline, so he can't afford to make a fuss even if he wants to. Come on, things are different now that Prais is a civilian. The 200,000 troops that the empire originally had in the Feishan and Istan areas have been transferred to the battlefield of the Order State. The military suppression force in the Feishan area is suddenly empty. Many areas On the surface, it is under imperial control, but the imperial decrees are violated openly and covertly, and bandits are rampant.

Every time he received news from the Feishan Mountains, Plais felt a headache, and the imperial administrative officers who were appointed also had gray faces. In just four months, six regional administrative officers had been killed. Eleven people were injured and returned home, and the number of attacks on the imperial outpost defenders reached 267, which is basically four or five times a day.

For the Feishan Mountain Area, even Plais, a tough-minded figure, can't do anything

Now Plais basically puts all his focus on the coastline, and has almost no concern for the mountainous areas, because the power at hand is really limited. The 20,000 Imperial Army can protect the stability of the coastal areas is the limit. As long as these mountainous areas There was only an unknown and flagrant rebellion in the area, and the situation had been reported to the emperor. During the Holy Capital War, the emperor was helpless, so the emperor's first stop when he returned to Nordic Barro was not the war-torn Central European Barro, but a seemingly peaceful one. But Fei Shan is as dangerous as in front of a volcano

"Your Majesty wants them to go to the Feishan Mountains to instigate rebellion, and then mobilize the imperial army to quell it in one fell swoop?"

She vaguely guessed the meaning of the emperor's words. Her pretty face changed slightly and she clenched her fingers nervously. The mountains of Feishan were very similar to the Doluoke Mountains in her hometown. Here, Shean Huali had a unique It feels like returning home, so she has a special emotion in her heart for the people here. They are all mountain people, and they all advocate romance and freedom.

The emperor naturally saw the change in the expression of the tulle flower. Knowing that the tulle flower could not tolerate the imperial suppression, he waved his hand noncommittally, looked at the veins of the mountains in the distance, and took a deep breath. , said in a cold voice, "Inciting riots? Stop kidding, these If people had such courage, how could they flee like bereaved dogs? They came back to die, not because they suddenly gained courage, but because their belongings were gone and no one wanted to take them in anymore. They were killed everywhere. If you drive them away, you might as well come back and die."

"So these former Feishan nobles..." Gu Shahuali asked hesitantly with a nervous look on her face.

"Plais is going to grant them the position of regional political officer, mainly responsible for the mountainous areas." The emperor withdrew his gaze from a distance and said decisively.

"Imperial Administrative Officer!" She Shahuali murmured in a low voice, glanced at the emperor with a resentful look, and said, "The one who can come up with this method should not be Plaice, but His Majesty. I remember Plaice wanted to All these people must be hanged to deter all anti-imperial forces in Feishan."

The emperor curled his lips with an ugly face. He didn't want to criticize his political officer like this, but the situation was like this. The Feishan area was unique and rare in the empire. He had obviously conquered the area, but he still couldn't do it. "Comprehensive control of the Feishan coastal area has gradually stabilized. Although these former Feishan nobles are in exile, they still control quite amazing power. Many of them are former elites of the Feishan Kingdom. When it comes to their familiarity with the Feishan area, It is known that they are far better than the administrative officers in Feishan Governor's Mansion in Plais." You must know that the most troublesome thing for Prais now is the appointment of administrative officers in Feishan. Feishan Mountains are like being covered with a veil so that you can’t see their true face. Plais even complained to me why Valician didn’t leave so many hidden dangers behind. He killed a lot of them anyway. Man, why didn't you clean it up a few more times? Now he's completely at a loss.

Plais said that last winter, the Feishan mountainous area experienced a severe cold that had not been seen in a century. Countless Feishan people froze to death, but even so, the number of people willing to go down from the mountain to the coast was still only a mere 100,000. In the Shan area, the population in the mountainous areas still accounts for 70%, and the coastal areas only account for 30%. This situation cannot continue, and the empire's patience has its limits."

"But if these former Feishan nobles really instigate hatred against the empire, wouldn't they be self-defeating?" Gu Shahuali's face became more and more confused. Since the emperor knew that the mountainous area was a big problem, he deliberately put the former Feishan nobles in to do it. What

"Haha, the fruits are all rotten anyway, so it doesn't matter if you stuff a few more. It's better to rot them together. Since Feishan Mountain is hostile to the empire, let these Feishan nobles manage it. We only need to manage these Feishan nobles That's good. Those who make mistakes will naturally be punished, and those who encourage hatred of the empire will be killed. Those who do well will also be praised and even promoted to a higher position. In the end, people in the Feishan Mountains will find that even the Feishan nobles , have already moved towards the empire, why are they still holding on there?

"But what if these Feishan nobles are always so hostile to the empire?"

"Impossible." The emperor shook his head. "Although the main force of Feishan was destroyed by me in Bavaria, the crown prince in the country is still there, and the number of troops is still 80,000. It is not that there is no strength for the First World War. , it’s just that Feishan herself has lost her courage, and the mountain The geographical advantage was lost, and these Feishan noble officials fled one after another before the battle, and the tens of thousands of Feishan's troops also dispersed. Otherwise, Crown Prince Feishan would not have committed suicide angrily. When Feishan was destroyed, these people Even if he didn’t stick to Fei Shan at all, let alone now

They came back with the intention of dying, but were appointed as regional political officers by the empire. Do you think they originally intended to stay in the mountainous areas where people could starve to death forever, or did they come to the prosperous coastal areas? There are always one or two people who will figure it out. The human heart is the most untestable thing. Plais did not send them to the guillotine because he did not want the newly stabilized Feishan coast to become a river of blood again. Or it may have cost a lot to buy the loyalty of these people before, but now, I am afraid that just a stable development opportunity is enough.

"As long as your majesty kills less people, it will be good." The gorgeous beautiful eyes of the gauze light up, flashing with the brilliance of wisdom. It is so touching that it makes people's hearts tremble, and it is also heartbreaking. The emperor's grasp of people's hearts is far better than before. On the battlefield, Miao Haodian has great control over thousands of troops. When it comes to the ability of thunder to turn into rain, no one in the entire continent can match it.

At this moment, an imperial guard came over with a thin middle-aged man and reported to the emperor, "Your Majesty, Lord Si Green is here."

Hearing this name, even Gossamer Huali couldn't help but be curious. She looked at the middle-aged man next to Konoe, and her heart was even more shocked. Si Green, the former Martin Liya Sam tribe's own army Commander-in-Chief, the famous general Martin Liya rose up in the battle of the Southern Holy Capital, and his ranking directly entered the top fifty. You know, this Si Green was not famous in front of him. The only famous general Martin Liya was known as An Xili for Silver Fox The young master of the family, but his ranking is only sixty-seven, and this person jumped to the top fifty, because he is the only one who can resist the emperor's attack with one person, and lead the remnant army of 200,000 Martins. The legend of returning to China is that during the North-South War, even with 700,000 Southern Allied Forces and famous generals, there were still few people who escaped from the hands of the emperor. But this man did it unexpectedly. For this reason alone, he is definitely in the top 50. Well deserved.

It's just that Gossamer Huali didn't expect to see this person here, and it can be seen from his expression that there is definitely a problem between this person and the emperor. Even if he is as indifferent as Gossamer Huali, his heart is still in turmoil, because Just two days ago, news came from the south. At the Martinliya Kingdom meeting, all the major lords attacked the Sam tribe at the same time, and unanimously stood on the side of the deposed former young master of the Sam tribe.