Chapter 256: A Good Opportunity
Even if it is useless to send a letter, sending a letter is a kind of statement: Luo Ming is loyal and reliable, sharp-eyed, and resolutely fights against evil.
I believe that those big people will have a better impression of him, so he took advantage of the chaos to encroach on a few pieces of land of the "unfortunate war dead", "raise" a few orphans, and help them regency until adulthood...... This little thing will probably be acquiesced.
He was not worried at all that after his three letters were sent, it would cause a big reaction from those who received them, and then he would dispatch a large number of forces to prevent it from happening.
- Directly eliminate a turmoil before it happens, and let your preparations be in vain.
This kind of thing can't happen at all.
For example, there is a joke in the Qing Dynasty that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in the south is eroded by several provinces and has a huge momentum, while there are officials in the north who have never heard of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
At that time, the Tartar Emperor actually mistakenly thought that it was "Baishangdijiao" more than half a year after this riot, and the intelligence ability of the Qing court was so poor that he even mistook the name for others......
A highly centralized dynasty like the Qing Dynasty had this virtue, not to mention the Duchy of Lotsa, which was still in a semi-feudal and semi-centralized society.
Even if the holy war is jointly launched in the name of the gods, it has to go through a period of preparation and propaganda work, and even many local nobles will accidentally become accomplices of the evil gods even if they do not believe in cults, such as desperately preventing the jihadist army from passing through their territory, and even not hesitating to fight a battle, or forbidding their subordinates to join the jihadist army, or even putting them all in prison......
This is called the wind can enter, the rain can enter, and the grand duke cannot enter.
Many aristocrats are in fact true tyrants, and they are as sensitive as a powder keg to the entry of other forces, even those of their own immediate superiors, into their own territory.
After all, the ruler of a country may have to change families in a few hundred years, and his own fief as a nobleman can always be passed down in the family, as long as nothing else.
To put it nicely, this is called local self-government...... To put it mildly, this is the disobedience of yang and yin, and even directly calling for the central government as a local.
According to Aya's judgment, since it was an evil god this time, it was naturally extraordinary—it was impossible to just attack a county, which was too wasteful.
According to her and Her Highness the Black Sun's estimation of the ancient and powerful evil god of the Mother of the Mire, it would be enough to disaster the entire Duchy if it were to strike with all its might - but how could it do it with all its might?
Although the evil gods must have some tacit understanding in dealing with the goddess of springwater, this does not mean that any of them will take too much risk for the other evil gods.
Send you to death, pick up the bargain and I'll do it - everyone wants to do this, even if they try to control themselves and take care of the overall situation, but it is said that these evil gods have cheated each other several times, and now they can't really cooperate wholeheartedly anyway.
Unless the gods of the righteous path launch another all-out holy war and prepare to inflict heavy damage or even eradicate the evil gods, it is absolutely impossible for them to exert their full strength until the time of life and death has not come.
Judging in this way, the Mother of the Swamp naturally refuses to give her all and be picked up by others - it will definitely keep a hand.
Judging by the record of several of its attacks in history, as well as the intensity of its own efforts, the extent of the damage this time is most likely between twelve and twenty-six counties.
Under normal circumstances, if the central government on the Grand Duke or the princess's side wants to intervene in the locality, it has to go to the front half a year in advance to do the ideological work of these Tu Overlords, so that they don't make trouble and try to cooperate with the work.
Even if the situation is urgent, it will take at least a month or more to send troops, and it will be greatly criticized - many people will mumble that the royal family is looking for an excuse to intervene in various places - even if the royal army's army really does not commit any crimes, those people will immediately say, "This is all thanks to the fact that we saw through the royal family's conspiracy in advance, and made them scruples."
There is a very ridiculous example in the Ming Dynasty: the imperial court did not hesitate to risk reducing the defense of the frontier and sent elite troops back to the interior to suppress the peasant uprising, but the local local government refused to pay the army a copper plate salary or a grain of grain, and even closed the city gate to prevent a soldier from approaching. even often made small reports to the imperial court, saying that they were not.
It is worthy of being an elite soldier, and at first the peasant army, which was in a great advantage in numbers, was hung and beaten, but the people were iron and steel, and in the end this army was actually starved to death. Some became deserters directly, some became bandits or simply joined the rebel army in order to have enough to eat, and some were easily defeated by the rebel army in hunger, and since then they have lost the last hope of the Ming Dynasty to continue their lives.
In the end, of course, the local government offices were easily breached by the rebels, and the officials were tortured out of their property and then all had their heads cut off.
Even in the information age, it is common to see people on the Internet who can't help but want to ask, "Do you have a bad brain?", not to mention this era when power is basically entirely hereditary, there is no shortage of fools anywhere, after all, some people will never leave their village once in their lives, and even many nobles have only gone out once - that is, to register with Brandon.
Therefore, a nobleman who is responsible for teaching the next generation like Charlotte's uncle will be respected by Luo Ming from the bottom of his heart.
Even if the princess really gave an order with great determination and courage to let the army immediately go to various places to prevent disasters, it is estimated that it will not be able to prevent it.
After clearing the county one county after another, it will basically be next year - it is impossible to use troops on a large scale in winter, and when the snow melts in the spring, then there will be mud swamps everywhere, and before they become passable, those "seeds" will have ample conditions to hatch monsters.
Although the level of water transportation in the principality is good, after all, the number of waterways is limited, and it is expensive to dig canals, and it is impossible to extend in all directions and penetrate as much as the land routes.
Sure enough, Aya said that "Mother of the Swamp, this guy's brain can't turn a little" is quite vivid.
This is a godsend, in the chaos the weak are swept away, a capable person like Luo Ming can expand the territory and power, and the central government of the principality can also take advantage of the local strength to be damaged in the name of disaster relief and assistance, and recover some of the land that has basically died of the heir.
It can be said that the Mother of the Swamp not only lifted a stone to shoot herself in the foot, but even added chaos to other evil gods by the way.
The other evil gods may curse their pig teammates, but they themselves have been intriguing for many years, how can they suddenly become cooperative.