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After the black smoke cleared over the heads of the coastal slope city, the two departments that had spent a considerable amount of magic powder, namely the municipal superiors on the priest side and the navy, all angrily led the list to the warehouse to demand reimbursement for the damages, and the navy not only used magic without authorization, but also made a claim for reimbursement quite justifiably.

"If we go through the normal channels and you don't approve it, then we will have to apportion the amount of this use to the amount of war replenishment and daily replenishment!"

In the face of this somewhat justifiable demand, the treasury is also helpless. Even if it is reported to the temple, the result is generally "go with the flow" - anyway, the guys in the temple are said to not even vote, and the left and right of this kind of thing naturally has little to do with them.

Compared with the people at home, even if the fire under their noses is full of sorrow, as long as they have nothing to do with the enemy, they can not take it seriously - in contrast, they are more concerned about how the navy will be broken in the outer oceans, and when the people of the other world will have the intention to invade the island; Or is there a magic plan that can make people from other worlds surrender......

In other words, if the temple hierarchy of the Bilunar Church is compared to an organ of state power, now it is only the Ministry of Defense that is still "functioning". As for civil affairs, natural sciences, and other affairs that were originally in charge of people, the "decentralization" has already been imperceptibly completed.

Under such circumstances, it is common sense that the civil affairs departments are weaker than the military and political departments. But this weakness obviously did not reach the level of making the top brass of the civil affairs department bow down and accept everything.

Even if the purpose is not for their own selfish interests, but to accomplish the common goals of the department, and then ensure the collective good, they will "represent the collective" and repeatedly tug at each detail. Even the different factions in the department will use a discordant attitude to change the relationship of sincere cooperation in order to compete for limited resources.

As a result, on the one hand, the prestige of the Bilunar Church as the ruler is gradually lost, and on the other hand, the overall governing ability of the Bilunar Church has inevitably declined.

"This time, the damage near the Navy Shipyard was very great......"

In the middle of the temple, there was a waiter kneeling in a cold sweat at this time, who didn't dare to raise his head. Although he was not responsible for the incident, he was still afraid that the living gods of the mottled curtain would be angry with him.

"How big?"

"Yes, yes," the attendant who was interrupted, of course, did not dare to express any resentment, "there are more than 200 single-family houses that have been directly damaged to varying degrees, and most of them have been completely destroyed. And in order to keep out the flames, the citizens demolished an additional 42 houses......"

"Hmph." A disgruntled sigh came from behind the curtain, and the chamberlain shuddered like chaff again. "A single fire caused such a big damage, is it someone from another world who is making trouble?"

"Present...... Now it is found that there is no trace of deliberate arson. As for such a large explosion, the Bishop has instructed the Inquisition to investigate in order to quickly find out the real culprit. ”

Nine times out of ten, there is no way to find out that he is ugly. Not to mention the inner servant who kneels obediently at this time, but has a heart like a mirror, even the idiots on the throne of God understand this truth. Today's Bimonthly Church is not only short of supplies, but also short of people -- not mediocre people who do nothing in the corners of the city, but petty bureaucrats and technicians who understand business and can do practical things.

Without these mainstays, who can the Bimonthly Church count on to climb up and fill the void?

Of the two previous expeditions launched by the Church, only the second had the opportunity to falter back to the islands. However, in the Second Expedition, the Church still lost empty ships and more valuable magical talents than air ships, and the High Magi were almost completely lost - none of them wanted to be tossed on the sea, and the result of their choice was nothing more than being crushed by iron bombs all the way to the bottom of the sea. 、

As for the first 400,000 near-total annihilation, it was even more slashed at the weak point of the church. Most of them play important, if not indispensable, roles in various departments of the Bilunar Church. A barrel with a short board will certainly allow water to leak out of the short board, but the bucket itself will not be affected much; However, the pressure of a cracked hose will only make the cracks between the planks bigger and bigger, and finally it will rupture completely......

When Frankuts was "pulled" out of the rubble, he was already dying. Before the war, he should have been able to be quickly contained and treated in the event of such an accident - no, before the war there was almost no possibility of such a thing happening, whether it was a fire of this magnitude or a belated aftermath.

Almost immediately, the civilians in charge of the search and rescue carried the well-dressed engineer to the door and to the nearest naval ambulance station. However, as was the norm after the sinking of the airship, even the Navy's infirmary here was not fully staffed - and it was not the inconsequential nurses and junior doctors who were missing, but the senior doctors who had traveled with the airship to the continent of Elta.

"We can only do a hemostatic bandaging for your husband, madam." Looking at Frankuttz, who was breathing a lot and taking in little air on the door panel, the junior doctor in the infirmary could only do nothing to wrap a strip of cloth for him while telling the truth to Inlet, who was crying into tears. "We haven't learned how to deal with this situation at all, so madam, you better have someone carry him to the city as soon as possible......

Looking around, Inlet, who didn't know anyone, was so anxious that she was about to cry again. Her husband, Frankuttz, has some say in the shipyard's frontline, but that's just the level of a single manager on a ship, a small cog in a huge navy and a whole war machine. Who really cares about that one cog? What's more, there are thousands of such gears in the field of shipbuilding alone, and who can have the heart and energy to pay attention to each gear?

There are still many ambulance stations in the navy, and these natural status that can be opened to the public is not high, so the shortage of personnel is understandable - among the sea-view villas where the high-ranking members of the navy live, there are also much higher-level doctors' residences, and there are special personnel in charge of their health, and the life and death of a material selection engineer is undoubtedly a secondary matter.

Knowing that the line of hard drilling the navy was no longer possible, Inlet had no choice but to scatter a few silver coins and hire a few people to make a fortune, and then rushed to the reliable infirmary in the city with the door panel in a hurry.

The miserable Frankuts died on the bumpy journey. In fact, even if he could still be carried to the city alive, Inlet would have been told that the only doctor in the city who could cure intracranial hemorrhage had disappeared in the empty ship incident, and that nine times out of ten he had returned to nothingness before Frankurtz, so it could almost be said that Frankuttz's breath was inevitable.

On the cracked surface of the cracked water pipe of the Bilunar Church, Frankuttz's death was nothing more than a small wooden fiber that had broken from the hoop. Without him as a material engineer, the shipyard could have increased the workload of others, or found someone from the apprentice to make up for it, which seemed inconsequential - but was that really the case?

"On a macro level, the Lancas Islands, controlled by the Bilunar Church, are not capable of sustaining such a large number of industries under the lockdown. Wood, shipping, ornament manufacturing, and most of the magic-related industries will not be able to continue under the blockade of the outside world, and as a starting point, a wave of unemployment will gradually increase in the Lancas Islands, and the rule of the Bilunar Church will inevitably lead to a great deal of social unrest. ”

On the other hand, the lack of various socially necessary service industries will directly and indirectly deconstruct the existing bimonthly church social system. Without the support of various resources, the Lancas Islands will inevitably degenerate into the most basic agricultural society, and the demand for a large agricultural population coincides with the surplus of idle labor brought about by the wave of unemployment. ”

The above is from the prologue to The Invisible Chain: A Record of the Maritime Blockade of the Lancas Islands, in which the author quotes directly from a report by a naval staff officer.

The Lancas archipelago is actually slightly larger than the island of Ireland after removing the uninhabited islands. Relying on the whole land and returning the whole people to farming and fishing, it is actually not very difficult for millions of people to feed themselves (not to mention food).

Of course, the information that the Chinese side has received from the living gods in Elta also shows that it is difficult for other "gods" to see the only way out of the negotiations. Not only do they lack the perseverance to make such decisions, but they also lack the foresight and courage to see the options clearly.

Even if the present world does not cooperate with the process of "regression" of this society, the process of "regression" back to the agricultural society is spontaneous. Failure to confront this process will only lead to more pain and social unrest among the subjects of the Bilunar Church, and the results will not be better.

In the process, it is natural that some people will learn from the pain and reflect on whether the Bilunar Church should move towards peace. In any case, a blockade is not enough for a month, and a month is not enough for a year - and as time goes on, fewer and fewer ships will sail to and eventually arrive in the Lancas.

This was Operation Siege, the first offensive blockade operation of the Elta Navy. Of course, in later generations, the survivors of the siege preferred to call it the "Siege", a figurative description of the days of living within the boundless walls.