Why did the lord rebel

Chapter 176 Firepower is the truth

What is "the economic base determines the superstructure"?
The great teacher Friedrich Engels, in his speech at Mahon's tomb, summed up this theory as:
"Men must first eat, drink, shelter, and clothe themselves before they can engage in politics, science, art, religion, etc.;
Therefore, the production of immediate material means of subsistence, and thus a definite stage of economic development of a nation or an epoch, forms the basis;

People's state facilities, legal views, art and even religious concepts are developed on this basis. "

And if we want to explain this theory more rigorously, we have to go back to the original text expounded by Mahon himself in the "Introduction to the Critique of Political Economy" (it is worth mentioning that the "Critique of Political Economy" is the masterpiece The prototype and predecessor of "Das Kapital"):
"In the social production of their own lives, people enter into definite, necessary, and independent of their will relations, that is, production relations that correspond to a definite stage of development of their material productive forces.

The sum total of these relations of production constitutes the economic structure of society, that is, the real foundation upon which rises a legal and political superstructure and to which correspond definite forms of social consciousness.

The production mode of material life restricts the whole process of social life, political life and spiritual life. "

In other words, the radical transformation and development of productive forces and production relations will definitely bring about political reforms and progressive national spirits—

When the vast black Africa and the impoverished East Asia tremble under the iron heels of the capitalist market, we will see the dream of explorers and the fantasy of novelists;

When the old production relations stagnate and the productivity cannot be improved, the "fanniao" who laments "coming from the end of the world" will sigh and mourn for "the white land is so clean";
Similarly, when it becomes more and more difficult for an economy to create incremental growth, the only way to make a big cake is to grab it, and the controversy of "involvement" and "laying flat" will be rampant in public opinion.

Xia Houyan had already understood the above theories of political economy when he was studying on Earth;
But after he really traveled to another world and became a lord, he really had a good understanding of what is meant by "the economic base determines the superstructure" from the development of Shuangfengling.

When the Igor family was struggling to survive, the structure of the entire territory was extremely rough and chaotic:

Although nominally divided into military group, artisan group, agricultural group, waste... business group, basically, the strong labor force of Phoenix Terrace is moved wherever it is needed;

If something big or small happens in the territory, you can quarrel all the way to the lord;
Not to mention Mayor Joel and Master Laurie, who are nominally the leaders of the agricultural group and craftsman group respectively, they can't wait to divide one person into two——

——Going up to the crusade against the Moon God Village, down to the tent of a certain leader's house being blown up by the wind, all these bad things need to be handled by the high-level leaders of the territory, and the old people are almost exhausted.

But after making a fortune in the elven treasury of Dragonbone Peak, everything changed.

The artisans, farmers, and idlers who came with the recruit team, while rapidly increasing the population roster of the territory, it also means that dedicated personnel and hierarchical management have finally become possible.

In order to coordinate and manage the ever-expanding people, the lord decided to learn from Shang Jun's good example, organize five to ten families of the people into a "family group", and then appoint a group leader for each group;
The trivial matters in the daily life of these groups are collectively handed over to the management of the business group that was busy fishing a few days ago.

By the way, Xia Houyan adapted to the situation and gave the business team a new name, "Ministry of Internal Affairs", um.

As for the people in the production activities, the laborers still belong to the agricultural group and the artisan group to coordinate and manage, but these two groups are no longer the basis for dividing the population.

The same trend also appears in the military field.

In the initial stage of hard work in the territory, almost all reconnaissance intelligence and military affairs were reported directly to the lord by the members of the military team, and then Jahouyan, Clement, and Alice met to discuss;
But now, Alan Hotelling, who has rushed back to Frost Maple Ridge, even with the huge information in his hand, can't directly break into the lord's account to meet the supreme leader——

——Now, at the gate of the lord's big tent, there are two new recruits on duty every day. Anyone who trespasses will be chopped with a knife!
And the only person Allen could find to report to was Chris Mann, the deputy commander of Igor's pioneering army who had sent him out before.

In Chris's tent, the conversation between the two lasted only 3 minutes. Chris poured Alan a cup of hot tea with his own hands, and then rushed out of the tent to find the lord.

Allen suppressed his excitement and overwhelming sense of honor, drank hot tea, choked four or five times during the period, and then walked out of the commander's adjutant's tent slowly, with that kind of pretending to be calm on his face, but others can see it at a glance. See through the expression of indifference.

As a result, as soon as he stepped out of the tent, he bumped into an unexpected figure.

Sean Mountbatten took two steps back, grabbed Allen's shoulder with his hands, and carefully examined his fellow recruits, the expression on his pale and thin face fluctuating.

"What happened to the Blood Demon Village?" Mountbatten let go of his hand and opened his mouth to ask.

"What...what?" Allen was stunned for a long while, "Sean... how do you know?"

"You came back too soon." Mountbatten grinned and bit his nails—this is his habitual action when thinking, "According to your personality, you must hope to find more useful information in the Blood Demon Village, if not There is an urgent military situation, you will definitely not come back in such a hurry!"

Allen looked at Mountbatten in surprise, and suddenly frowned and asked:
"But...how did you know that I went to scout the Blood Demon Village these two days? Guess?"

Mountbatten pouted:
"Fools will guess, wise men only need to reason - after you chatted with Mr. Chris that day, you left the camp and went northeast. You were dressed in a disguise that was easy to disguise, and you were clearly going to be a scout... What is there in the northeast? Isn't it 'Red Forest' and 'Blood Demon Village'?"

Allen carefully examined Mountbatten's slightly fluttering nose due to excitement, shook his head and said with a smile:
"Well, I did find a little bit of information—very, very good information, detective."

"What is it?" Mountbatten's face was full of anxious curiosity.

"Military secret...but you can try to guess."

——Alan left Mountbatten who was stunned and speechless, and left without looking back.

……

When Chris found Xia Houyan, the lord was fishing.

Well, really fishing.

Xia Houyan was leaning on a recliner at the edge of the Phoenix Terrace, with a long bamboo pole under his arm, and a piece of red and white raw meat tied to the end of the bamboo pole;

Zombie Dave is wearing a collar and chained to the Green Dam, trying to bite the piece of raw meat into his mouth with all his might;
Tom Lawrence, who had been promoted to the director of the Political Department of the Pioneering Army, stood aside and watched all this with his hands in his hands. The expression on his face was extremely complicated, as if recalling some bad memories.

However, the lord's attention is not on the "bait" and "fish".

He held a piece of letter paper in his left hand, and read the densely packed small characters on it intently.

Seeing Chris approaching, Xia Houyan crumpled the letter and threw it into the shredder——

——The so-called "shredder" refers to Zombie Dave: this undead creature, who has been in the infected area for a while, doesn't see what the lord is throwing at him. into the stomach.

"What's wrong?" Xia Houyan looked curiously at the panting Chris.

Chris told the lord about Alan Hotelling's wonderful adventure in detail.

However, contrary to Chris' expectations, the lord did not react much after listening to his narration, but shook his head with a sneer.

"Hey... Yanxi City..." Xia Houyan sneered, "They really have their share..."

Although he was upset, but this bandit attack involved the participation of the Duke of Houston, he actually had a premonition——

——When the bandit came to fight at the door, the high-level leaders of the territory discussed it with Karen Leperg. The conclusion was that forming a coalition force was a strange move that completely violated the wilderness bandit practice. There might be something behind the whole thing. who secretly operates;

Now, the information brought back by Allen only confirmed this point;

The Duke of Houston, who lost half of the Knights and Mage teams on Shuangfengling for no reason, was obviously in a hurry, and tried every means to destroy the Igor family - even the complete attack of mobilizing bandits to attack. Low B can think of any method that insults the dignity of the nobles. I'm afraid this old man has lost his mind.

Xia Houyan has already begun to think, under the constraint of "no war between lords" in the "Crown Act", how should he think of a way to kill the Duke of Houston?
It is not the style of a senior official in the Marquis of Xia to keep an old enemy in the north to secretly poke small tricks.

It has to be said that the recent rapid expansion of Shuangfengling's strength has also given the lord a satellite in his inner strategic planning: who would have imagined that Shuangfengling, who was still eating soil in the wasteland a few months ago, is now thinking about how to deal with it? Cooking an imperial prince.

Of course, the lord's sanity was not completely overwhelmed by the turbulent tide of arrogance and madness after all.

Xia Houyan knows that it is one thing for Houston to send people to the wilderness to deliver food into boxes, but if they really want to go to their territory to attack the city and behead them, the current Shuangfengling is far from enough to see——

——After all, the main reason why the "Pride of the South" was deflated before was not because the Igor family was strong enough, but because Master Spencer wanted to show off...

The meal needs to be eaten bite by bite. The main task of Shuangfengling is to deal with the bandit coalition forces that are about to attack;

As for the other external enemies... at least wait until Messisan wakes up.

"'Frenzy'. Those Gorefiend Village people mentioned 'crazy', right?" He recalled Chris's report, and suddenly remembered a strange word, "What does that mean?"

"Alan Hotelling didn't know either. Those people probably didn't say much at the time." Chris shook his head regretfully. "It sounds...it seems like some kind of secret weapon or something."

"I hope their secret weapon can turn back this time." Xia Houyan sighed, "Let's not talk about it, Chris, have you been too busy lately?"

Hearing the lord's concern, Chris was obviously moved, and grinned:
"Commander, adjutant, you should do more work."

Lawrence on the side jokingly said:
"Serve the lord!"

These two former guards, together with the young lord, are old revolutionaries who have come all the way from the infected area. They looked at each other and laughed tacitly.

Chris, who was busy training recruits on weekdays, rarely came to the Phoenix Terrace. Xia Houyan simply threw the raw meat to Dave, stood up from the recliner, and led the two of them all the way to a dark corner behind the lord's tent. .

The sights of Chris and Lawrence were immediately attracted by a huge thing covered with oilcloth.

"What is this?" Chris looked at the mysterious lord.

"Do you remember the bed crossbow on the roof of my house before?" The lord pouted towards the second generation of Horned Eagle Manor, which was nearly completed not far away.

"I remember." Lawrence laughed, "Didn't you get killed by the bastard mage in Rock Creek City along with your house?"

Xia Houyan felt that the degree to which he spoke to this guy was so good that he had died so many times that he was not wronged at all.

"It's been killed, but not completely killed." The lord tilted his head with a half-smile, "The wooden structure has basically been burned, but the soft steel crossbow arm with snake pattern can still be used—plus that The two 'Roar Seven' that were blown up by the Scarlet Flame Demon Vulture also recovered a lot of parts a few days ago..."

The lord snapped his fingers, and Chris stepped forward two steps quickly, reaching out to uncover the tarpaulin.

The two former Eagle's Rest guards suddenly fell silent.

Because what appeared in front of their eyes was a complete steel monster.

Just by taking a quick glance, they accurately captured the clean soft steel with the snake pattern of the demons, the two wind rune arrays placed side by side, the thick and large stainless steel rivets, and the majesty that would kill any classical artist. , The outer structure of steel bars and iron plates...

"Awesome, isn't it?" Xiahou said proudly, "It was the idea of ​​a siege weapon master who defected from the left bank. The remaining parts of the three siege weapons, plus the spare parts from the town The parts are pieced together into such a super ballista! Master Laurie and I studied for a long time, and finally used a specially designed steel structure to restrict the range of action of the wind rune array-theoretically, this thing fires the ballista Its kinetic energy is fully equal to two 'Roaring Seven Styles'!"

Then, he pushed aside a bunch of springs, revealing a few wooden planks with the "Wind Protection" rune hidden in the depths of the ballista.

"There are too few rune boards found in the treasure house of Dragon Bone Peak, and it's not enough to weave a wooden armor. Master Kobe and I worked together and just stuffed them in to strengthen the power of the crossbow." Xia Houyan patted the monster. Ballista, "I announce that this ballista will be named 'Kill You 3000'!"

Chris and Lawrence didn't care about this unknown naming method at all. They just felt that a siege weapon with such obvious violent characteristics would obviously be placed together with words such as "disaster", "destruction", and "devil".

"This will be the first finished product of our Frost Maple Ridge precision military manufacturing industry!" The lord patted the ballista affectionately, and said lightly like a cat, "This time, we will use the stupid bandits on the wasteland to open a shop!" , in the future, I will use it to shoot crossbow arrows to the top of Rock Creek City and bombard the headquarters!"

Chris originally wanted to ask, where is the crossbow suitable for firing from this super ballista;
Then, not far away, in another corner covered by tarpaulins, he glimpsed piles of giant wooden guns and barrels of vine fuel oil.

Chris Mann wisely kept silent.

(End of this chapter)