Next week, dragon language exams will be held in all major cities of the occupied territories. Those who pass will receive a certificate from the Imperial Ministry of Education on the spot, as well as a 20% tax reduction for the next three years.

The Imperial occupation forces were bound to collect a tax on the whites of the land, up to sixty percent. Taxation covers everything from the most basic agricultural cultivation to the trading of different categories of goods.

Such a high tax rate is sure to provoke the anger of the white populace and a revolt. In fact, since the occupation of Moriente, there have been numerous local white revolts. The cause was mainly the exorbitant tax rate, and then the dissatisfaction with the alien races from the north.

Tianhao has only one countermeasure: kill, kill all those who dare to rebel, and kill until they are afraid.

In the case of the city of Morente, the execution bench has been in use since the day of the occupation. On the largest day, more than 400 people were hanged, and more than 200 felons sentenced to "capital punishment" were put on wooden poles and wailed for most of the day before finally dying.

As long as you are logical and right-minded, you don't want to die. Although the levy of 60 percent is high, it is not so harsh as to rob civilians of their last surplus food, leaving them hungry and starving to death. Therefore, when the corpses of the brave were hung high above the city, and the spears could be seen everywhere, the flame of anger in the heart was extinguished, and the thought of rebellion could no longer be aroused, and it was better to be a toiling turtle than anything else.

As for the management of the whites in the occupied areas, Tianhao had a detailed explanation to the commanders and senior officers of the various regiments: "They must be made to feel the cruelty of war from the beginning. They were robbed of most of their possessions and imposed high tax rates, which even the nobles had to beat them into abject poverty. Those who refused to obey were to be killed, and those who resisted the most were tortured. On the premise of ensuring the supply of slaves, the most basic agricultural production in the occupied territories was maintained. Starting next year, all food supplies for the occupying forces will be settled on the spot, and only weapons and ammunition will be transported from the country, as well as 50 percent of the clothing. ”

Brutal expropriation is linked to a policy of free education. Tianhao's purpose is clear: it is necessary to make the white civilians in the occupied areas feel the difference in rank through living reality. The 20 percent exemption is very high, which actually means that the normal amount is 40 percent. But giving it directly to white civilians will have no effect, and will instead be seen as a disguised overture by the Empire.

Giving a beggar a piece of bread directly is far less effective than giving him a job and then treating the bread as payment. So you get workers for the same price, and the beggars think it's logical.

There is another sinister purpose of Tianhao's language education program, and those who pass the language level test can only receive a personal tax exemption, and the certificate issued by the Imperial Ministry of Education is numbered, and this preferential treatment cannot be extended to family members.

Taking a family as an example, the normal situation should be three generations of grandchildren, young people have flexible brains, eager to learn, and it is not difficult to pass the language test. However, the tax exemption is only valid for him, and the rest of the family members cannot benefit from it. If the young man who passed the exam is gentle and tolerant of people and things, then even if other family members have been unable to pass the language test and receive the corresponding tax exemption, the family will still be able to maintain without too many problems.

However, there are not many people who can actually do this, very few. People who receive benefits will have the idea of "I have supported the whole family". White people are far less respectful of the old and love for the young than the empire, and they value individual ability more, which can lead to the intensification of conflicts in the whole family, and then the family is divided.

That's what Tianhao wants. Only a divided white populace is in the interests of the empire, and the traditional family model is not conducive to imperial rule. With the victory of the war, the wealth of the land was plundered in large quantities, but to maintain social stability and prosperity, a new class must be created.

Everyone in the world is a poor ghost, and they will join forces against the Empire.

Pick a portion of them and qualify them for wealth, and at some point in the future they will become middle class, the defenders of the Empire, and work with the Empire's Harmony Army against the damned poor devils.

As for the seizure of their property in the early days of the war...... Time can erase everything, the constant threat of death is terrifying, and they will never act rashly except to work honestly and obey the orders of the Empire, nor will they have the idea of "seeking political power".

The London plant of the Xiu Ang Brothers Steel United Company has been confiscated and is now under the jurisdiction of the Imperial Ministry of Industry. The plant had a huge production capacity, especially for the arquebuses currently used by the Saxon army, which already had a full-fledged production line. In the case of sufficient raw materials, the average monthly production capacity is as high as more than 3,000 pieces.

When Tyrant led the Marines in an attack on the City of London, the company lied to both Chancellor of the Exchequer Laurent and the Marquis of Brackbarne. At that time, there were large enough munitions in the city to equip more than 20,000 men. However, the Xiuon Company was actually a hidden enterprise in which King George had an absolute stake, and out of suspicion and wariness of Brackbar and the Council of Ministers, the King asked the company's representatives to offer an unacceptably high price to the Count of Laurent.

The king wanted to take this opportunity to get a large sum of money from the military, but he did not expect that the northern giants were so strong in combat that in less than three days, the Saxon capital fell completely.

Tianhao reorganized the steel joint company located in the southern suburbs of the city.

From Suolong Pass to London, the Empire's logistical supply lines gradually lengthened. If it weren't for the fact that the layout had begun many years ago and a large number of spore transplanters, including Elizabeth, the war against the southern continent would not have been possible so smoothly.

Take Viscount Cohen of Morente County as an example, over the years, Tianhao has spent as much as 200,000 pounds of jewelry and gold, and finally let this spore transplanter regain his knighthood, and control the whole of Moriente as a county warden, becoming the local real power. The Viscount also carried out personnel deployment and material integration for the entire Morente County in accordance with Tianhao's requirements. Under the pretext of "stockpiling grain to cope with famine," he built large-scale warehouses in the county town and surrounding cities, and purchased large quantities of easy-to-preserve food, such as grain and bacon, at prices slightly below the market price. Then there is the cloth, which has been purchased in large quantities by the county of Morente over the past three years, and although the price is lower than the market, it is better than the quantity...... No one doubted Viscount Cohen's real purpose in doing this, after all, he took out real money and never defaulted on the payment for the goods. More importantly, he did not expand the size of the army when he did these things, nor did he privately manufacture or purchase weapons, which fundamentally eliminated the possibility of "armed rebellion."

The current grain reserves in Moriente County alone are enough for all the southbound legions of the empire to consume for more than five years.

The same is true of the southern county of Gondor.

Food and clothing could be supplied on the spot, but weapons and ammunition had to be loaded by sea from Jeju Island and Panseong to the port of Le Bun, and then overland to London. It is now the front headquarters of the Empire's southbound troops, and it is also the residence of Tianhao.

The transformation and supervision of Xiuang Company is underway. Out of secrecy, Tianhao did not assign the production of standard rifles to the newly taken over white arms factory, but only planned to install and modify the corresponding bullet production line.

Nitroglycerin is nothing new. In fact, more than two decades ago, the company discovered this explosive substance. This was a top secret at the time, and the inventor did not consider it a feat, especially since the great power of nitroglycerin in the experiment made him feel extremely regretful, thinking that it was a devil released from hell...... He was a devout fellow, so he went to the church to confess to the priest and prayed to the Holy Lord for forgiveness for his heavenly sins.

Joseph ordered the inventor to be captured and imprisoned under the city of Gabriel, where he was later found guilty of suicide in his cell. At this point, both the Holy See and the Xiuang Brothers company were given nitroglycerin allocation methods.

The lack of civilization can lead to technological disconnections. This is best reflected in the company. The company's top brass soon discovered that the yellow grease was extremely unstable, and that sometimes a slight shake could cause an explosion, making it difficult to make it safe...... In short, this is a special substance that cannot be trusted. For security reasons, Xiuon decided to mothball the technology.

There is also the influence of King George. As the hidden main controller of the company, the company's earnings were extremely important to the king himself. He needs more money, he needs to get more orders from the military through the steel complex. The arquebus had already proven to be an excellent weapon, and after receiving the approval of the Saxon military, it was quickly finalized and produced. Although nitroglycerin is very powerful, it is not easy to produce and requires a lot of investment in research. In contrast, it is the continued production of arquebuses that will be the most profitable.

A year ago, the Jeju Island Military Factory developed mercury thunderate, a detonator that was widely used in the era of civilization.

Diatomaceous earth, combined with a special heat dissipation method during the production process, made nitroglycerin manufacturing soon enter the industrial age. As for adding nitrocellulose and ammonium nitrate to it, it was Tianhao's inspiration to military researchers, and it did get the desired effect, and imperial researchers began to reduce and replace the proportion of nitroglycerin in finished products in various ways, ensuring power while continuously reducing production costs.

The "discovery" of nitrocellulose is also intentional by Tianhao. He used the same method as in history, and during an inspection at the Jeju Military Research Institute, he "accidentally" knocked over a small bottle of nitric acid and spilled it on a cotton rag. When several researchers present tried to dry the rag out of curiosity, the cellulose of the pure cotton was turned from nitrate to cellulose nitrate.

With sufficient nitrocellulose, it is dissolved with a mixed solvent of ether and ethanol, and then a stabilizer is added to make a hard rubber strip, which is then granulated and dried by mechanical cutting, and filled in a cartridge like black powder...... This is the principle of the production of rifle bullets of the imperial standard, and the basis.

Xiuang's factory in London was not damaged much during the war, and it took Tianhao two weeks to rebuild and adjust the factory. The production machinery has been loaded from Jeju Island and will arrive at the port of Le Bun the day after tomorrow at the latest. He was accompanied by 600 skilled craftsmen. They were to train three thousand white mechanics while producing bullets. Half a year later, these people will become the operators of the new assembly line, and London will also become a stable logistics supply base.

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Saxon South, Ivenson County, Naivod City.

It is a small city of 40,000 people. It is more appropriate to say "town" than a city. It is an agricultural area, the slopes around the city are full of grapes, and the winemaking and processing industry is particularly developed, making it a famous wine region in Saxon.

Vals hid in the basement, looking nervously through the cracks in the planks through the vents slightly above the ground.

Not everyone is willing to accept the fate of enslavement honestly. Valls was not an ignorant civilian, he had a higher education, two months of military training as a militiaman, and his considerable assets led him to quickly raise a guerrilla army.

From forty-one people to 1,206 people, it took only two months. The guerrillas were made of peasants, townspeople, doctors and craftsmen, wounded veterans, and even nobles.

Valls hadn't seen a protracted battle, but he knew that it was impossible for him to collide head-on with the Imperial army, and at most he would take advantage of the giants' lack of attention, sting them like wasps, and then slip away.

This loach-like style of fighting was very effective, and the guerrillas successively killed more than a dozen giant soldiers, killed and wounded more than 300 Zhiwei soldiers, and captured a lot.

When the battle is won, the hearts of the people become inflated. All sorts of voices began to emerge from within the partisans.

"Those giants are nothing remarkable, I can stand five hundred meters away and shoot them in the eye with one shot."

"In fact, the giants don't have much strength, their armor is just a camouflage, and the body inside is dry and thin, which is worse than the girls."

"I'm going to have to get a giantess to sleep with and let her know how good I am...... Hahahaha, give me a few more giant cubs, and I'll disembowel them while they're tender and taste fresh. They eat us, and I'll eat them again, it's fair. ”

People who have not suffered setbacks never know what danger is. People were complacent about this achievement, and even thought that the regular army of the kingdom was a waste. They clamored for "the great Vals to be the general" and to rule over the entire county of Evenson instead of the existing county guard.

As long as he becomes the county guard, we people will be able to sit in the corresponding positions naturally.