Menglu City is located on the east coast of Mengluo Prefecture, less than 600 kilometers away from Silver Moon Bay, and the distance from Silver Moon Bay to Golden Gallon Port is three times that distance.

Although the Tasang River is a fast river and its basin is not as wide as that of the Yongliu River, it can also benefit two or three states, covering 20 to 30 million people.

With a unique geographical advantage, and close to a group of "cat slaves" who are good at trading, this settlement has not been developed, which is also quite confusing.

The population of Menglu Prefecture is less than 10 million, but Mengluo City, the only settlement, is only about 800,000 people.

Poverty in the port of Golden Gallen was a problem for the Empire before, but poverty here does not seem to depend on the Empire.

After all, the Empire's control over the area has always been in a state of a model lake, although it is nominally the territory of the Empire, and the nobles and people of the Empire live, but because there is no road network and river transportation links, Tiandu himself often forgets that he still has this land.

In other words, the autonomy has always been high, and only a few times do the witches think of taking care of it.

Ms. Han Mingyue, a social science researcher of the Alliance's scientific research group, conducted an investigation and came to the preliminary conclusion that serfdom had caused a part of the population to be kept in captivity in aristocratic manors, hindering the "urbanization" process of Mengwu City.

Another is that due to the poor "infrastructure access" in Mengqi Prefecture, the crops produced cannot be transported, and the goods from outside cannot be transported in, so yeoman farmers only need to produce the food they consume, and there is no need to communicate with each other, and naturally there is no need to gather in the city.

The second problem can't be solved in a day or two, but the first problem was quickly wiped out by Uncle Lassy.

The manors of the nobles are distributed along the Tasang River, and even the embankment for flood prevention and irrigation was built by the nobles.

Wouldn't the problem be solved by blowing up the embankment?

Now the land in the hands of the noble lords and the local army they raised are all soaked in the flood.

The serf just didn't want to run away from the manor, so he had to rush into the ranks of the deserters......

……

Outside the city.

The sudden flood that overflowed the river not only washed away the fence wall outside the city, but also washed away the village not far from the fence wall.

In the past two days, seeing that the weather has improved, the flood has finally receded, and the villagers who have taken refuge in the mountains and forests have finally returned to their homes with large bags and small bags.

And when they saw the situation in their homes, they all fell silent, and their eyes stared at the collapsed wooden houses and fences and the missing animals, and for a moment they all lost their minds, and did not know what to do.

Slowly, people seem to finally recognize the reality.

Some of them began to move numbly towards their collapsed house, trying to pick up some things that were still usable, things that had not yet been picked up by those who came first, at least with their own families to pass the day.

Others wander around, rummaging through the rubble in silence or asking if they have seen their families.

However, everyone knows that it is just in vain.

"Mother! Daddy——! Where are you?"

Next to a collapsed wooden house, a thirteen or fourteen-year-old child stood alone, staring blankly in one direction, and shouting from time to time.

His voice was weak and his voice was almost hoarse, but no one paid attention to him until a group of men with white bandages on their arms came up.

With an LD-47 rifle on his back and a shoulder strap firmly welded to his shoulder, Ackerman stopped next to the kid and looked him up and down.

This kid is a little similar to him a month ago, with no father and no mother, and a cowardly face...... It should be the person Lassi is looking for.

He didn't talk nonsense, and asked directly.

"Your name?"

The young man looked at the fierce-looking guy in front of him in a daze, and then at the people with guns

Moved his lips consciously.

"Udi."

Ackerman then asked.

"What are you doing?"

"I'm looking for my mother...... She seems to have been washed away."

Udi whispered, looking at the men expectantly, hoping they would take him to his family.

However, to his disappointment, even despair, the child in front of him did not do so.

"She's gone." Ackerman took a captured Ripper rifle and slipped it directly into the child's hand, looked at him and asked, "Will it be used?"

The boy looked blankly at the gun in his hand, then at him again, with a bewildered expression.

Ackerman patted him on the shoulder.

"It doesn't matter if you don't use it, I'll teach you, now you're my soldier."

"But...... I have to wait for my mother to come back." Udi took a step back in fear, but his shoulders were grabbed.

"As I said, she's gone, and your father, your brothers and sisters. If they're still alive, will they leave you here?"

Looking at the silent child, Ackerman squeezed his shoulders tightly, then released the hand that was holding his shoulder.

"People go through this day, and I go through what you have experienced, until a man grabbed me by the collar and told me that as long as the Empire still rules here, what I have experienced will happen again and again, and all the people around me will go through it again and again, unless we send those nobles to the gallows and kill the people who enslave us one by one."

「…… It's an empire." The boy read silently, his breathing growing rapid, his eyes red, and his hand gripping the rifle tightly.

Looking at the young man holding back his tears, Ackerman patted him on the back of the head appreciatively and pulled him to his side.

"Yes, follow me."

……

The villagers outside Mengli City didn't know what was happening, and the survivors inside Mengli City didn't know what was happening either.

Most people only yawn when they hear someone shouting, "Here comes the water!" And then the flood came.

The first to be breached was the fence wall outside the settlement.

It was only used to keep out wild boars and wolves and crocodiles, and it was of no use to the roar of the Tasan River.

Then there are the city's messy shacks and brick houses built directly on the mud. The former was swept away by the first wave of floods, while the latter was violently overwhelmed by the river that flooded the streets.

In addition to the nobles with good economic strength, only the church of the Silvermoon Church and some houses where the merchants of Silvermoon Bay lived survived.

As a result of the habit they developed in Luoxia Province, they used to bury foundations under buildings so that they could sleep peacefully.

However, seeing that the whole city was flooded, and they were not affected, the merchants of Silvermoon Bay did not dare to stay here for long, so they packed up their softness and ran away, and only the missionaries who were not afraid of death stubbornly stayed in the church and did not leave.

The first thing Lassi did when he entered the city was to send a church attached to the side of the fishing dock to protect the clergy.

It's not that he believes in nonsense like "the moon god of the Moon Clan and the Silver Moon Goddess of the Silver Moon Church are out of the same door", it's purely because the development of Mengli Prefecture needs those rich gods.

Whether he believed it or not, at least he had to act like he respected the other person's beliefs.

As for himself, he led people to occupy the city lord's mansion in Mengqiu City, and used it as the headquarters of the resistance army, while arranging for the resistance army's subordinates to take people to disaster relief, and at the same time commanding his henchmen to "invite" the gentry and nobles in the city.

Sitting in the city lord's chair, Lassi looked down at the group of dignitaries with their heads hanging and trembling with a hint of contempt in his eyes, and his military boots were on his knees.

"Lao Tzu, no matter what title you used to have on your head, from today onwards, whoever dares to put any noble lord's score in front of me, I will even have his head with the title

Let's cut it together!"

Everyone was silent, only to feel that they were standing at the entrance of hell, with two-headed dogs on both sides watching, not daring to say a word, their knees weak but not daring to kneel.

Seeing that no one objected, Lassi cleared her throat and continued.

"Lao Tzu came here to do three things, but you only need to know one."

"From now on, slaves will be banned in Mengqiu Prefecture, and whoever dares to keep a slave will let him move his head!"

The voice was neither light nor heavy, but it echoed in the ears of all the nobles present like thunder.

Looking at the silent City Lord's Mansion, Lassi saw that no one answered, his eyes narrowed slightly, and he suddenly raised his voice and scolded.

"Did you hear me? Speak!"

Startled by the voice, the nobles could no longer hold back the fear in their hearts, and knelt on the ground with a thud.

"Yes, yes! Your Excellency!"

"I, I'm going back and letting go of the slaves at home!"

"We don't dare anymore!"

"We...... I don't want to embarrass the Moon Clansmen...... It's all Your Majesty...... Bah! It's all an order from the witch, and we have no choice but to ......do it."

After all, the Yue clan is a nobleman of the previous dynasty, although not everyone is a nobleman, but the overall living standard is still much higher than that of snakes, rats, insects and birds, and the proportion of educated people is not low, so there is no shortage of handsome men and women who are knowledgeable.

Because of His Majesty's order, all the Moon Clansmen in the empire were reduced to slaves, and they did take advantage of the fire to loot and collect some "beautiful canaries" to keep in captivity in their own houses as playthings.

These things can't be washed away even if you want to, so just find someone in the city and ask them.

Lassi looked down at them and said with a sneer.

"Lao Tzu Teniang is not talking about the Moon Clan, and slaves from other races are not allowed. From today onwards, Mengli Prefecture will talk about equality!"

Speaking of this, he didn't care how dazed the faces of the kneeling nobles were, but only slowly followed the sentence.

"In addition, Lao Tzu said that you are not allowed to kneel."

With that, he waved his hand.

"Drag it out, and one of you will receive ten lashes before leaving."

"Yes!"

The guards standing on the side were ordered, their eyes flashed with fierce light, and they strode forward on the ground, dragging the nobles who were sitting on the ground to the courtyard like catching chickens.

They have wanted to do it for a long time.

If it weren't for discipline, they wouldn't have allowed these lackeys of the empire to walk into this mansion standing up.

One by two, they took the whip and used all their strength.

The screams of the nobles and the sound of whipping reverberated in the empty courtyard, and the ground was dripping with blood.

Looking at the nobles who had been whipped, the elders of the Resistance Army felt that something was wrong in their hearts, but because of the majesty of Lassy, they finally said nothing.

Although Narasi said that he wanted to talk about equality, the equality that was forced to be given was somewhat different from the equality they imagined.

They always felt that they could do it in a better way, just like the Alliance had done in the Golden Gallon Harbor in the first place, and use a more gentle way to promote the change in Menglu City.

But it's useless to think about anything now.

The number of resistance troops is no longer about 2,000 as earlier, but it is about to run for tens of thousands.

The guy's prestige in the military grew, and almost all the young lads regarded him as a spiritual leader and role model.

Even if they wanted to replace him, they wouldn't have that chance......

……

"Wow—"

Governor Bamut, who was unconscious, was woken up by a basin of cold water.

When he lifted his wet head, he found that General Dasina and the other officers had disappeared, replaced by an officer with a full body of gangsters and several teenagers with wolf-like eyes.

The sight that seemed to be able to kill made a cold sweat ooze from his head for a moment, and the person was also excited

The spirit came to his senses.

Memories of a lake of pulp gradually poured into his mind, and he vaguely remembered that when the flood came, he hugged a tree with a crooked neck, kicked the guard who was holding his thigh hard, wrapped his sleeve around the branch, and then soaked in the muddy river, and soon fainted.

Then a raft came closer, and several guys with white bandages on their arms grabbed him by the arm and dragged him up.

Then he lost consciousness.

As for the current situation, there is no need to ask too much, judging from the environment here, it is obviously a prison cell in Menglu City.

It is clear that he was captured.

"Ahem, I'll pay the ransom......" Before he had time to reflect on how he had lost, Bamut coughed and said quickly, "According to the sacred contract, you need to ensure that my three meals a day and personal safety are not violated, of course, I will cooperate with you as much as possible......

The teenagers smiled when they heard this, and the look of being amused obviously did not take his words seriously.

A hint of annoyance flashed in Bamut's eyes, but he clenched his fists but did not dare to attack, but only glared at the officer with fierce inwardness, trying to scare him away with the majesty of the noble, but he did not expect to receive a slap in the face.

The slap stunned him, and his eyes widened.

"You! How dare you hit me—"

"Say!" The officer let out a sudden snort, interrupting him halfway through.

Startled by the voice, Bamut's tone softened unconsciously, and suddenly there was no nobleman's shelf, and the whole person cowered like a mouse.

"Say, say what?"

However, the officer didn't ask, just stared at him for a moment, then smiled coldly and said slowly.

"If you dare to be hard-mouthed, hit me!"

Bamut: "???"

Before he could realize what had happened, Bamut heard a "whoosh" and a whip slammed into his face.

The whip was probably soaked in salt water, and he screamed in pain, and it didn't take long for him to wake up and almost breathe in pain. He tried to use his arms to protect his head, but found that his hands were tied to the back of the chair, and he couldn't move for a long time.

He has been a master all his life, he has only whipped people, when has he been whipped and beaten, he was so anxious that his tears flowed out with Huang's, and he begged for mercy even after shouting, looking so good.

However, the soldiers didn't care about his title, they just beckoned him with what they had in their hands.

"I...... I said......"

Hearing the faint voice, the officer raised his hand, and the young man with the whip stopped his movements, and stared at Bamut with vicious eyes and stood aside.

The dying Governor Bamut hung his head, gasped for a moment, and squeezed a sentence out of his mouth weakly.

"Wait a minute, you guys...... Do you know who I am......

Everyone looked at each other when they heard this, and their faces showed mocking expressions.

When has this been?

This guy is still dreaming.

The officer was also amused by the thoughtless remark, and walked up to him, pinched his chin and lifted it, and smiled kindly at him.

However, in Bamut's eyes, the smile was not kind at all, and even like a ghost, he was so frightened that he swallowed back the words from his mouth, and no longer dared to squeak.

"Who are you? Oh, don't say you're just a duke, even if the witch camel himself came here, I can make him like a dog, so that he can't live, he can't die."

Listening to this disrespectful remark, Bamut's eyes widened, and the whites of his eyes were covered with bloodshots, but he could not see a bit of anger, only deep fear.

At this moment, he finally truly recognized the situation in front of him and understood his own situation.

These Moon Clansmen didn't plan to ask for any ransom at all, and they didn't care. They just want to get back the suffering they have suffered from him, an imperial nobleman.

He's only now

Remorse, why didn't you do it before.

So much so that the group of Moon Clansmen fled to the edge of the Tasang River, and blew up the embankment there.

This not only suffered him, but also the disaster-stricken manors along the river.

Mengli Prefecture is already poor, and now it is even poorer, and there is no food......

The officer didn't talk nonsense to him, and when he saw him awake, he spoke.

"I ask you, all you have to do is say yes,"

"Yes......" Don't dare to disobey him, Bamut said with a dying breath.

The officer continued.

"Did you blow up the embankment of the Tasan River?"

As soon as the word "yes" was about to come out, Bamut suddenly came back to his senses in a cold sweat and hurriedly said.

"No, it's not...... My lord, how could it be me—"

The officer raised his hand to interrupt him, just looking at him coldly.

"What did I just say?"

That look made Bamut feel like he was falling into an ice cave, and he forgot to breathe for a while.

"It seems that you still don't have a long memory, I'll come back to you later."

The officer laughed, got up from his chair, waved his hand at the sharp-eyed young soldiers next to him, and threw down only a sentence cleanly.

"Don't get killed."

The soldiers' eyes flashed with a fierce light, and they replied in a sonorous voice.

"Yes!"

……

The door of the cell was slammed shut, but the finger-thick door still could not close the miserable wail.

The officer didn't listen, and walked outside with a blank face, and looked at Lassi, who was standing at the door of the cell, and gave a military salute.

Looking at the henchmen who came to him, Lassi returned a military salute and asked casually.

"How's it going?"

This man's name was Shavar, and he appointed the leader of the stormtroopers.

The so-called stormtroopers are other units that directly serve him in addition to the pro-guards.

Moreover, it is a combat unit, which mainly performs a number of special operations missions.

Such as infiltrating, sabotaging, assassinating enemy dignitaries, and purging enemies in the ranks.

Most of the members of this force are young men over the age of 15 and under the age of 19, especially the guys of the Moon Clan.

Most of them were slave-born, fatherless and motherless, and absolutely loyal to Lassi himself.

And Lassi did not disadvantage them, they were not only equipped with LD-47 assault rifles from the Union, but also a small number of bulletproof cuirasses and even exoskeletons, which he trained as reserve junior officers.

The reason for the formation of such a force is, on the one hand, that the Moon Resistance Army does need it, and on the other hand, because of its effectiveness on the alliance administrators.

Most of the people in Harbor Gallen are learning the things of the Alliance, consciously and unconsciously, including himself.

When he was still at the head of the militia regiment, he heard that the administrator of the alliance had a guard regiment. Since then, he has been pondering the formation of such a force.

Now that he had resigned and joined the guerrillas, he finally had the opportunity to put all his thoughts into action.

A ghost-like force is a powerful deterrent to both the enemy and internal dissidents.

Although the establishment of this stormtrooper is only one battalion, the firepower configuration is not inferior to the Empire's thousand-man team, and it was their hand to blow up the embankment of the Tasan River before.

However, of course, they can't drink this dirty water themselves.

From the very beginning, he had thought that he would pinch the noses of the nobles of the empire and pour this bucket of dirty water into their stomachs.

「…… I haven't recruited yet, but it should be soon." Hearing the boss's inquiry, Shawa grinned, with a disdainful expression on his face, "The nobles of the empire are all soft-footed shrimp, and the bigger the nobles, the more so, Lao Tzu just touched his face, and he peed his pants."

What a wreck.

He had

After being hung at the door of Lowell's camp for three days and three nights, he was sunburned and did not beg for mercy.

When he followed Lassi to fight the Lowell camp, he personally hanged the warden on Tower Road, avenging the destruction of his family by that guy.

He still remembered that Lassi pointed to the warden hanging from the tower and said that one day he would hang all the nobles of the empire.

From that moment on, Shawar decided to follow the adult in front of him.

Whether it is the nobles of the Japanese clan or the nobles of the Mengli clan, they are all nobles of the empire.

Their persecution of the Moon Clan is the same, and there is no shortage of Moon Clan slaves in captivity on their estates.

In their eyes, the Moon Clan was like cattle in a sheepfold, so he and these nobles naturally had nothing to be polite about.

What's more, compared to the hardships he had endured in Rowell's camp, a few beatings were simply too merciful for the nobles of the empire.

Lassi nodded expressionlessly and asked.

"Did Dasina find it?"

That guy is the commander-in-chief of the local army in Mengqi Prefecture.

Originally, they planned to put their hats on the guy's head, but they didn't expect him to be quite fast, and they didn't know if he was washed away by the flood or ran away, but he didn't catch it.

It's still far-fetched to let Bamut take the blame, after all, that guy himself is a big nobleman, and he has a lot of land by the Tasan River.

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Regardless of who these guys were before, hungry people were the same, and these people were far more terrifying than a group of resistance troops who looked like bandits.

A little bit of their family alone can't stop these people, and if there is no strong army to protect Mengqi City, they will be eaten by that group of homeless people in a minute, and there will be no bones left.

Bamut and his local army are finished, and they have no choice but to offer their loyalty to their new master, and they must cling to the thighs of the new master.

Lassi was sure that even if he robbed the whole city, no one would dare to say a word.

But, of course, he wouldn't do such a thankless stupid thing.

Although Mengli City has the word "city", it is as poor as a big countryside, even if it is a big nobleman's home, there is not much oil and water, and there is no comparison with the Golden Gallen Port with a Craba market.

Even if he robbed it, he couldn't grab much of it, but it affected the evaluation of him by the federation, not to mention that now this is his territory, how can there be a reason to grab himself?

He's going to do three things here.

The first is abolition!

Only by abolishing slavery can compulsory education be implemented and the productive forces of Mengqi can be liberated!

The other is to take advantage of the defeat of Bamut and the unprecedented decline of the local aristocratic power that supported the empire, and snatch the land they have saved in their hands!

Thanks to the flood, neither of these things would have been too much effort.

The estates of the nobles were basically close to the river, and the most fertile land had long been enclosed by them.

Now these estates are also the most devastated, the serfs who can't escape are basically drowned in them, and the price of those lands is even more worthless, and the new authorities can easily get the land in their hands with only a little pressure, and even without shedding too much blood.

Some of this land could be used to build large farms run by the authorities themselves, and the rest could be divided among farmers and soldiers.

As for the last thing, it was the most important of the three things he had to do.

Mengli Prefecture is an agricultural province, bullets and rifles cannot be grown from the ground, if you want to get rid of poverty, you must develop industry, and if you want to develop industry, you must first have foreign exchange.

He had carefully read every "Survivor Daily", and although he did not have a systematic understanding of how to develop industry, he at least had a concept of a model lake.

To a large extent, the industrial take-off of the port of Golden Gallen is to undertake the backward production capacity eliminated by the alliance, and use its own population and raw material cost advantages to make these backward production capacity glow in the land of Borneo Province, and later catch up with the tide of the times when the adhesive community establishes a new order on the wasteland.

Although Mengli Prefecture started a little late, it is not completely without opportunities.

Coinciding with the end of the civil war in the southern seas, the northern islands were in ruins, and the huge infrastructure market and the huge labor shortage were in stark contrast.

It is said that the local engineering unit gave it silver coins!

There are 800,000 people in Menglu City, and there are tens of millions of people in the entire Mengqiu Prefecture, and the last thing he lacks at the moment is people, especially the poor who can't survive.

Although the slave trade was banned, a certain gang member who was not on the table had already set a good example for him with practical actions.

There are many ways to make money from people.

In addition to "labor agency", there is also the method of "labor dispatch......