Chapter 51: The Discolored Half Leaf (I)
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"Look at the wind and descend".
It was the headline that appeared in newspapers across Elta the next day.
As the title describes, the defenders of the Church of the Two Moons on Banba Island surrendered without any suspense.
Less than 200 of the thousands of permanent men on the island finally showed up in the barracks to lay down their arms and surrender - needless to think, most of the local temporary conscripts had slipped home, and they had long since lost the confidence and determination to fight against the Elta army.
The Celta Marines marched into all parts of the island without any waves, taking over all the facilities including the docks and churches, while the Vigilantes marched into the towns and took up the streets to put order in order and carry out post-war work.
A banner reading "Registration of Residents of Banba Island" has been erected with wooden poles in front of the church, and the Suppression Army has assisted the residents in registering - after the raising of the distinctive inverted bilunar flag of the Suppression Army, the Provisional Government of the Lancas Islands has taken over all the functions and responsibilities of the government on the island.
The pre-prepared notices were quickly posted in prominent places throughout the island, and their contents were basically the same as the three chapters of the covenant that the New Elta Army had posted everywhere during the reconquest of the country:
Murder and arson, robbery, theft, rape of women and other vicious crimes are immediately hanged as soon as they are discovered; Those who hoard and disrupt order without permission and make "national distress wealth" will all be confiscated; The tearing down of this proclamation, or the flagrant disobedience to the orders of the Provisional Government, shall be punishable as a criminal offence.
It was this set of harsh punishments, and the "mob" of Elta who died at his hands was not ten thousand, but also eight thousand. But the gallows was erected, and the mixed Suppression/Marine sentry who was overseeing everywhere kept their eyes open, and the first day of the takeover of the island was that there was no hapless man who should have shoved his head into a noose and removed the plank.
As for why this is the way it is, it has to start with the church behind the gallows in the square.
Generally speaking, the church of the Bilunar Church also functions as a local government. And Hanba Island was originally an island that relied on magic to make church-related supplies (primary handicraft industry), and the government and merchants supplied magic powder, and the residents of the island undertook the processing, as for where would the magic powder and the food as a reward be placed? Needless to say, this is certainly under the management of the church (on the side of the church).
According to reconnaissance photographs taken in advance, reports from local residents of Banba Island in the Cult Army, and Peterson's intelligence, the "government warehouse" of Banba Island was located in the church wall near the pier in the center of the town of Banba Island, and was directly controlled by the archbishop of Banba Island (who was actually equivalent to the island chief......
Coincidentally, just after the "Dragon King" observation post carried by the 96 boat on the Ao Guang ship officially touched the area around the church according to the information revealed by Peterson, they got an important information from the friendly observation post at the dock:
The archbishop's ship was not found in the harbor!
In the case of a theocratic church, the archbishop of a place is the head of the government of that place. And the war is approaching and the swarm of insects is leaderless, which is really too bad to be a bad state of affairs.
But this is good news for the Chinese. The original deployment of the Dragon King's observation post included risking the killing of the enemy's military and political officials on Banba Island, and the absence of the archbishop was naturally a nuisance.
When the news of the defeat of the defenders reached the Archbishop's personal soldiers, who were stationed in the local church and warehouse, they were unable to react to the archbishop's pre-arranged arrangements - the archbishop of Banye Island, anticipating the possibility of an invasion by otherworlds in the worst-case scenario, had begun to repeatedly insist on burning the church warehouses in such a situation as a few months ago, so that none of the supplies contained would be used to finance the enemy.
But at this moment, he could not directly command his subordinates to do so - the present gods were afraid of directly witnessing the leakage of the bishops and archbishops of Chen Heng's killing of the gods, and it was extremely foolish to ask them all to come to the main island of Lancas and live under the temple for unified management and surveillance.
It can be said that it was the "strange" political structure system of the Bimoon Church itself that led to the inability to implement the plan of the "Scorched Earth War of Resistance". On this side, the archbishop's personal soldiers did not have the decisiveness to dare to burn down the warehouse, and on the other side, the archbishop was "under house arrest" on Lancas Island, knowing nothing and hearing nothing, so naturally they could only be captured by the dragon king action team who rushed into the warehouse.
This is a warehouse of a feudal theocratic government, and it is not going to open a warehouse to release grain and relieve the masses because of the hardship of the residents. Although the current trade channels are still not very smooth, this official warehouse is enough to hide the semolina needed for the entire island to "work" for two months, and as for the magic raw materials used in the magic manufacturing industry, it is not comparable to it
While the outer defenders fled, the Dragonlord Observation Post had been working with the action team in the church, firmly controlling the most critical point on the island, and even the magic seals and locks attached to the warehouse did not move in the slightest.
When the representatives of the Suppression Army, the Provisional Government, and the Marines of Elta jointly opened the warehouse, all the officers and staff present were stunned.
"Although the corruption situation in the local departments of the Bimoon Church is a long-known plot for us, the 'Sword of the Church', the actual situation is far beyond our imagination, but before I went to work in the Southern Continent, I have never witnessed the level of corruption in these grassroots units, and it stands to reason that the warehouse deficit and hidden warehouse in the Southern Continent are already very terrible. But even the astonishing corruption and embezzlement on the southern continent of Elta is no more exaggerated than the small church on this small island! ”
Afterwards, Ofer Mondrich, who wrote an extremely exaggerated description in his memories to describe the wonders of the semi-underground warehouse of the church, naturally opened his mouth wide and froze in place as a member of the delegates, watching the soldiers who came to clean the warehouse move out of the warehouse box by box of materials from the warehouse.
The supplies were not placed in another warehouse, but spread out evenly in the square of the island, facing the people who had been ordered to gather here by order of the Cultists. Needless to say, the ordinary inhabitants of Banba Island soon understood who the things that had been brought out of the church belonged to them, and why they were stored in this warehouse.
In this way, the Church of the Two Moons instantly lost the hearts of the people on this Banye Island - the Sujiao Army specially sent two squads of soldiers and a cooking squad to bake bread here on the spot, hoping that the aroma could reach all corners of Banba Island from this square in all directions.
On the first day of the "liberation" of the entire island of Banba, all the residents who completed the registration were able to receive their own bread. Whoever is good to them and who doesn't take them seriously, these "faithful followers of the church" will naturally see it clearly.
The so-called attacking the heart is the top, and the siege is the bottom, which is probably the case. Since the first day of the storm, the provisional government of Banba Island has posted a work poster at the entrance of this church since the second day, and its work is not far from the general content, and of course it is related to the construction of various facilities in the transit port of Banba Island, such as roads and storage yards.
Ofe Mondrich had naturally experienced this routine of bringing the people of the enemy country to the hearts of the people, and this was the second time - but the first time he was a bystander, and this time he came here as a savior, so he was naturally full of emotion.
The next day, there were not many residents of Banba Island who were called to work—Eufamont Mondridge personally led a tour around the island with signs and loudspeakers, only to find that most of the people who came were relatives and friends of the soldiers who were already in the army.
Ordinary people can't help but panic when faced with this situation, and ask themselves if the post-war work has not been done properly, has not been recognized by the local people, or is it because the remnants of the Bilunar Church are in the way? -- In fact, the clergy and other religious bureaucrats were screened out early and thrown into the prisoner of war camps by the sea for "limited freedom reform", and it is absolutely impossible to say that these people, who have been starved by the Church for several months, now see that the warehouses are full of all kinds of daily necessities and that there is any basis for the loyalty of the Church.
Turning over the "White Paper on the Guidance of Post-War Order Reconstruction" in the hands of Ofer Mondridge, it is to explain all kinds of post-war aftermath problems in the past two years in the Elta continent in an orderly and clear manner.
These people are waiting for the feedback of the people around them, "the vast majority of the people are conformist", the white paper is really written clearly in black and white, stroke by stroke, in the face of this situation, the white paper also made corresponding guidance, "neither humble nor arrogant, strictly in accordance with the current standards, to have full confidence in their own superiority, enough trust in the judgment of the masses." ”
As a result, for these scattered and scattered conscripts who did not form a complete phalanx, the officers who led the team to start work did not frown at all, but still drew names and sent tools one by one, and went to work according to the points, without advance or delay.
In the end, everyone is given bread from the same mold, which is a fair and just process - this seems simple, but in the eyes of Ouffel Mondridge, it is not easy to practice. How is it that you are neither humble nor arrogant? Not allowing the islanders to be lazy and giving them the opportunity to complain about how much they are paid is a sign of humiliation, and to bow down is to create artificial tolerance and social inequality, which is tantamount to indirectly sowing the seeds of discontent.
But to make these workers "kneel down and pick up their hot urine" is directly creating dissatisfaction with the new government. The strength and intensity of various measures need to be learned and grasped by the implementers themselves, and it is naturally far easier to do than to say.