Chapter 180: Aftermath
Sean's name is a little steward of the manor, a guy that Sean has never even seen or heard of by name, actually relied on his name, bullied men and women, and abused power for personal gain, and was reported to the Military Supervision Yuan, and after verifying the truth, he was sentenced to hanging.
After Sean learned about it, not only did he not come forward to intercede, but instead applied to personally supervise the execution, and afterwards fined himself three months.
If it was placed in the Byron Alliance, in the eyes of those lords and nobles, this was a very incredible and very humiliating thing.
But in the Eternal Night Army, it is normal, and it is very alarming.
Even the servants and employees of Sean, the supreme commander of the Eternal Night Army, make mistakes, convict those who should be convicted, cut off their heads when they should be beheaded, and pay taxes when they should pay taxes, what qualifications do they have to do privileges? Even if they have a great contribution to the Eternal Night Army, can they be greater than Sean?
And this is what Sean wants to see, some things are the easiest to stand up in the very beginning, but they are also the easiest to ignore, and when the disease enters the bone marrow, and then thinks about healing, it will be difficult, even if it is heavy, it will not be effective.
Among them, corruption by abusing power for personal gain is a great enemy for any force, especially the Eternal Night Group Army, which takes economic development and construction as its main keynote as soon as it gets started.
Sean didn't want the forces he had single-handedly pulled up to not be defeated by the enemy, but ruined in the hands of internal moths.
Rather than self-discipline, Sean believes in a sound system of laws and supervision.
The facts have also proved this, many moths were pulled out by the Military Inspectorate before they caused more damage, deterring more potential moths, so that the Eternal Night Army can maintain relative purity - don't think that the mountain people are simple and not easy to produce this kind of behavior, when the power is in hand, some things will be self-taught, if there is no sword of the Military Inspectorate hanging over their heads, the speed of degeneration and corruption will be beyond imagination.
Not to mention the previous life, even now, Sean is not a qualified politician, many policies are idealized, and the cognition of some small citizens in the previous life is also affecting his decision-making and judgment, but everything is forgivable to cross the river by feeling the stones.
Rather than starting a factory, Sean is now more inclined to farming.
After all, opening a factory makes it easier to entangle interests with the Eternal Night Army, and instead of competing for profits, many boundaries are difficult to draw clearly, and a little carelessness will turn into an output of interests.
It's not necessarily that Sean will do this, but when the people below do it, they will care about his face, and they will involuntarily do it and do the wrong thing with good intentions.
There is not so much trouble in farming, as long as you pay taxes on time and in full, the rest can be tossed as much as you want.
Even if it's farming, Sean can grow tricks.
In addition to self-sufficient food, Sean's estate is more inclined to cash crops, all kinds of vegetables and fruits.
This is also related to the fact that Sean's manor's main cultivated land is distributed in barren mountains and mountains, and Sean can avoid things that compete with the people for profit.
When the barren mountains and mountains are in his hands, they can also create wealth.
One of the most representative is the chili fruit tree, after nearly three years of continuous planting, has begun to bear fruit, many barren mountains and mountains that are not suitable for cultivation have been smashed by Sean hired people to smash this kind of vegetables growing on the tree.
Although the pepperfruit tree is found in the Desperate Swamp, the tree really does not require much water, and it is not difficult to adapt to the arid environment.
The taste of the fruit also varies depending on the amount of rainwater absorbed during fruiting, even if it is the same variety.
Too much rain produces less spicy capsaicin and has a sweeter taste, more similar to a fruit with a strange taste.
If the rain is less, the fruiting rate will be greatly reduced, at the same time, the capsaicin will increase sharply, the kind of drought on the verge of death, a tree only bears one or two dry spicy fruit is the most ferocious, a bite, can make the person's esophagus spicy numb, bad stomach, and even spicy stomach bleeding.
For ordinary people, this kind of extreme spicy fruit is useless, and a little ordinary spicy fruit can be used as a daily condiment, but for a water-based warlock like Angie Bena, it is simply a treasure-level medicine.
Angel Bena is now spicy and happy, she eats one a day, her body is all over the world, and even the magic power enters the realm quickly.
What's even more interesting is that the big men of the Skull Crusher who have the blood of the Kentana barbarians also have an unusual love for chili nuts, but they are not used to eat, but to make wine, and the spicier the better.
The spicy fruit wine brewed with super spicy fruit will greatly stimulate their blood vessels, thus entering a state of madness similar to that of the Kentana barbarians, not only the strength has been improved, but also the perception of pain has been greatly reduced, except for a little loss of strength and drunkenness afterwards, the side effects are minimal, this wine is also called madness wine, which is a strategic material for the Skull Crusher Legion.
In addition, Sean Manor has the most kinds of fruit trees, not so much an orchard as a test field, and there are many apples and peaches on one tree.
To be honest, in this era of scarcity, it is not easy to eat some delicious fruit.
Seasonal wild fruits represent pure naturalness, and most of them represent sour and refreshing.
Many fruits become adapted to human tastes, not innate, but carefully selected and cultivated by humans.
In this area, the Andes mountain people are poor and white, whether they are good or not, it all depends on God's gifts.
The Byron Union is just getting started, with a scarcity of varieties and a poor taste.
What Sean's orchard has to do is to select the fruits with the best taste through artificial grafting, and after they are stable and ripe, they will be vigorously promoted by the Eternal Night Army.
In exchange, some wild fruit trees with a unique taste were sought out by the Eternal Night Army.
It is a mutually beneficial model.
As for the bad-tasting fruits produced in the past two years, it is not difficult for Sean.
Hand-cooked, pitted, honey and mountain spring water, sealed and stored, that is sweet and sour canned fruit.
Not to mention that those mountain people couldn't resist the temptation of this delicacy, even the lords and nobles of the Manyu army were full of praise after tasting it, and became the biggest customer of Sean's fruit canning factory.
Sean has a personal small treasury, in addition to these high-sounding reasons, there are also personal considerations.
After all, the Eternal Night Army is a collective, and if you want to allocate funds from it, there must be a similar reason, even if he is the supreme commander, there are also layers of formalities, which is time-consuming and laborious.
And many things in Sean's mind are beyond this world, and before the results come out, many practices even look a little incredible even if the Eternal Night Army has been cultivated by him.
There are a lot of things that Sean can't explain, because sometimes he doesn't have a bottom in his heart.
Just like this large-scale collection of antiques from the period of the ancient Andes Empire, it is the most typical representative.
Shaun can't tell them that he's picking up leaks and looking for the magic creations of the Andes Empire, right?
Without any explanation, Sean is not unable to contribute to this matter with his prestige in the Eternal Night Army, but in this way, it will become his dictatorship, which is obviously inconsistent with his own philosophy and is something he does not want to see.
If you have your own small coffer, you don't have to worry about this at all.
If it succeeds, everyone will be happy, and the Eternal Night Army will also benefit from it.
If he fails, he will only lose Sean's personal property, and he has nothing to do with the Eternal Night Army, which will not damage his prestige in the Eternal Night Army.
Although the Beast Mutation incident poses a great threat to the Eternal Night Army, life should be passed.
Before you know it, it's another year, and it's the harvest season that everyone loves to see.
The second spring wheat cropped by the Eternal Night Army is ripe.
This year's good weather has been smooth, and it has been a bumper harvest, and the taxes collected by the Eternal Night Group Army alone have more than doubled compared to last year.
In the past year, while the Eternal Night Group Army was expanding in the war, the people below were not idle, and they tasted the sweetness, and their enthusiasm for work was high, and more land was reclaimed.
In addition, nearly half of the territory of the Walled City Alliance has been swallowed, and not only the number of people has increased significantly, but the amount of cultivated land has also increased significantly.
The Walled City Alliance originally followed the example of the Eternal Night Army and encouraged the mountain people to open up wasteland and cultivate land, but the auxiliary facilities for irrigation and the cultivation of cultivated land were not illegal, and the same land did not even have half the yield compared to the cultivated land under the jurisdiction of the Eternal Night Army.
After the Eternal Night Army occupied this place, it raced against time to build all kinds of irrigation facilities, but the stalls were too large and needed too many manpower, and important projects such as the Twin Cities could not be stopped, and the progress was relatively slow.
Hurrying and hurrying, only one-third of the ancillary facilities in the area can be completed, and this is still the result of using cash-for-work and employing a large number of former leaders of the Walled City Alliance, and it will take at least a year to complete all the transformations.
However, in line with the concept that no matter how small the mosquito leg is, it is also meat, regardless of whether the land is good or bad, intensive cultivation or rough harvest, first smash the seeds, as long as the seeds can be recovered, the rest is considered harvest - as for the cost of labor, is that the cost?
With this season's harvest, the rule of the Eternal Night Army over the newly occupied areas is not as stable as Mount Tai, at least the hearts of the people who were still in turmoil have gradually stabilized, and the possibility of the Walled City Alliance wanting to regain the lost territory has become even smaller.
The Walled City Alliance doesn't seem to have any intention in this regard, and Ben Hebrew swallowed the Walled City Alliance in one bite with his own superb means, but it is not easy to complete the internal integration, because it will touch the vested interests - those big and small city lords.
No one is willing to cut their own flesh, right?
What's more, the beast mutation incident is not only in the territory of the Eternal Night Group Army, but also in the territory of the Walled City Alliance, they failed to detect it in time like the Eternal Night Group Army, and by the time they realized it, the situation was already seriously out of control, and many beasts with greatly changed habits tortured those mountain people to the pain.
Not only the attacks on villages and people, but also the abnormality of the animals, the entire ecosystem has become extremely chaotic.
Take the beast legions slaughtered by the 3rd Corps of the 1st Army of the Eternal Night Army last year in order to explore the Odin Grand Canyon, especially the large number of pythons that were burned to death in the last fire.
Has seriously damaged the ecological balance of the Andes Mountains, in the spring of this year, the hare and voles that have lost a large number of natural predators, just like crazy cubs, especially the latter, the menstrual period is very short, two litters can be laid in a month, each litter does not come down ten, not more than two months, small voles will become big voles, and they can also give birth, just like a snowball, the later they go, the faster they will grow, and the outbreak of rabbit and rat infestation will inevitably occur.
Because the Eternal Night Army knew the situation in advance, it was taking precautions all winter, encouraging the mountain people, and all of them went out to lay traps on hares, dig the burrows and granaries of voles and mountain mice, and killed a wave.
Rao is so, at the end of the summer of the second year, the number of hares and voles is still frightening, even in the case of the whole people hunting rabbits and mice, the crops are still a lot of disasters by them, otherwise this year's grain harvest should be better.
However, hare voles are also considered a non-counting source of meat, and the loss of using them as a subsidy is not so large.
The Eternal Night Army, which had been prepared for a long time, was still like this, not to mention the unprepared Walled City Alliance and Mountain People.
Large-scale rabbit and rat infestation have greatly reduced the yield of the already small amount of food, and you can barely make a living through hunting in summer, but what about once it is winter?
Without food, the mountain people just sat and waited for death.
No one wants to die.
In order to survive, these mountain people will start fleeing the famine before winter.
When the time comes, their choice will be no more than two, the Eternal Night Army and the Walled City Alliance.
Except for those who are affected by the horse team, they know that they are running towards the Eternal Night Group Army, and the rest of the mountain people who are closed to the news will definitely follow the principle of proximity, and after they leave the mountain, whoever they bump into will be counted.
This will be a common test for the Eternal Night Army and the Walled City Alliance.
If it is handled well, it is an opportunity for strength to skyrocket, and if it is not handled well, it will be a disaster.
It may even directly change the pattern of Andes Mountain.
The military staff of the Eternal Night Army has already calculated this situation and is actively preparing for it.
The Hebrew of the Walled City Alliance was in a state of anxiety in order to deal with the rabbit and rat infestation, and even if he could see so far, he was powerless.
Compared to the mixed situation in Andes Mountain, the Manyu army was calm and terrifying, not only Philip and Patlem could not flinch, but even the aggressive slave rebel army, which had had the upper hand in the last two years, was also very quiet.
This should be the calm before the storm, with both sides waiting for this autumn harvest.
The two consecutive years of war have caused a food crisis on both sides, including the two heirs of Philip and Patlem, who are supported by the royal family of Lancelot and the Holy See of St. Aether.
The distance was the biggest obstacle, and the amount of food brought from the plains of Asia Minor was limited, and it could only be used for emergency needs, and the daily needs still depended on the output of their own territory.
The same was true of the grain trade between the Eternal Night Army and the Slave Rebel Army.
At most, from the political aspect, the Eternal Night Group Army should trade a small amount of grain to the other side for emergencies, and it is impossible to carry out a large-scale transaction, even if the Eternal Night Group Army now has a certain amount of military reserve grain, and the relationship between the two sides has not yet reached the level of sharing honor and disgrace and taking such a big risk.
It is very likely that a big battle will break out between the two sides around this year's autumn harvest.
But how to fight, no one can say, who made the slave rebel army now have a military commander who uses soldiers like a god!