Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 636: Suppressing the Colonies

While the preliminary activities for the Prime Minister election were in full swing, Princess Anne, who had been away from the North for more than three months, finally completed the suppression or recovery of the empire's colonies and returned to Chernoborg.

The return of the eldest princess undoubtedly gave the royalists a shot in the arm.

Originally they were planning to nominate the eldest princess as a candidate for prime minister, but because Princess Anne had not returned from overseas, the matter had been delayed.

Now Princess Anne has finally pacified the colonies of the empire and brought them back under the rule of the imperial center.

With such a great victory, Princess Anne's support among the people was unparalleled for a time.

The royalists then took the opportunity to push Princess Anne to the position of prime minister candidate and mobilized all their resources to promote her candidacy.

This kind of temporary addition of candidates should have aroused opposition from everyone.

But due to some subtle reasons, this seemingly outrageous thing was actually passed by the National Assembly, and even no one in the Imperial Conference opposed it.

This immediately surprised many people, because originally in their opinion, the Northern forces would never allow Princess Anne to run for election.

Before Princess Anne returned, the situation in the Prime Minister's election was dominated by Northern forces. After all, the public support brought by the joint candidacy of the North and the Dominions was astonishing.

Coupled with the various means used by Perfectot, the candidate nominated by the northern forces is now far ahead.

It can almost be said that only the combined forces of other parties can compete with the power of the Northern Territory alone.

After all, the candidates they nominated are really... not as good as mud, but it's hard to say how much better they are either.

There are no particularly big problems with these candidates themselves. Except for a few candidates who really have no ability and experience, most of the candidates have served as civil servants of the empire or have relevant work experience. It cannot be said that they are completely unqualified for the position of Prime Minister of the Empire.

However, most of them are still some distance away from being the Prime Minister of the Empire, and Perfecto's propaganda operations have magnified this gap, making the gap between them and the candidates nominated by the North increasingly larger.

With Perfecto's guidance, Wellington and Kallen came up with a complete and perfect policy platform. They also tried their best to be targeted in their campaign propaganda, accurately identified their supporters, and then specifically targeted them to win them over.

With such a professional campaign strategy, the support rates of Wellington and Karen naturally rose rapidly.

As for other forces, they obviously lack experience in this area.

Although there are people who have followed the example of Wellington and Kallen, reorganized relatively complete policy platforms, and started to humble themselves to win over voters, there is always a sense of imitating others without success, which greatly reduces the effectiveness of their propaganda.

Not to mention that Wellington was an experienced imperial civil servant in the past, and Kallen was also a leader of the workers' movement in the dominion, and both of them had rich practical work experience.

In this situation where the candidates are stronger than their opponents in terms of personal ability, overall quality, and the publicity strategy of their campaign teams, if they are still not far ahead, Perfect will have to consider whether it is right to nominate them to run for election.

Naturally, other forces also saw the huge gap between themselves and the North, so some people began to connect and prepare for joint elections under a sense of crisis.

After all, even if one company can't beat them, two or three companies combined can't be defeated.

Although the alliance could slightly reverse the situation, it was still difficult to compete with the powerful North due to the lack of a leader with sufficient stature.

But at this moment, Princess Anne returned, which immediately provided the various forces, which already had little chance of winning, with an excellent candidate to fight against the North.

Therefore, even though some people questioned this, with the compromise of all parties, the Royalists successfully replaced Princess Anne with their candidate, and directly downgraded the original candidate to Princess Anne's deputy.

While explaining to Princess Anne how to run for election and other related matters, the Royalists also began to connect with other factions, apparently wanting to form a joint government to counter the joint election of the North and the Dominions.

Princess Anne was still confused about this, but she soon understood the general situation after hearing the explanations from relevant people. So she didn't say much and began to prepare for the election seriously.

For Princess Anne, as long as it can make the empire better, she will work hard to do it.

On the other side, Perfecto also met with the young official who was sent to suppress the colony with Princess Anne.

"How is the situation in the colonies? I was a little surprised that you could return to the North in such a short time." In the office, Perfecto sat behind his desk, looking at the dusty young official in front of him with a curious look.

When this young official went there, he was full of energy and had a sense of urgency, but after this experience, he has become much calmer and looks more capable than someone who has been tempered.

"Thanks to you, this trip went smoothly. However, if it weren't for the Knights of Divine Grace, I probably wouldn't be able to come back, and Her Royal Highness the Princess wouldn't be able to complete the suppression of the colonies." The young official first bowed to Perfect, and then introduced their experience this time: "Her Royal Highness the Princess' first stop was the Desert Kingdom, which was less affected by the cold winter, and some areas even had arable land, so the situation was relatively chaotic.

When we arrived, the evil god sect had completely controlled the desert kingdom. One of their chieftains was the ruler of the evil god sect and had a very fierce conflict with us.

If Her Royal Highness the Princess had not mobilized the local garrison and cooperated with the Knights to launch a swift and decisive decapitation strike, I am afraid it would take us several months to quell the unrest in the Desert Kingdom. "

"The unrest in the Desert Kingdom? It's expected." Perfect was not surprised. Dr. Jones was imprisoned in the Desert Kingdom. This itself showed that there was an evil cult active in the Desert Kingdom, and it was very powerful. However, Perfect didn't have much energy to pay attention to this matter at the time. In addition, the Desert Kingdom was far away from the empire, so she didn't care.

Judging from what the young official has said now, perhaps if she had paid more attention to some things at the beginning, things might have developed differently.

Afterwards, Perfect asked some detailed questions about the Desert Kingdom area and learned a lot of details.

The Desert Kingdom region was not a focus of the Empire in the past, but because this area was close enough to the Old World, the Empire, like most Old World countries, chose this land of hot sand as the starting point for colonization.

In general, the land in the Desert Kingdom is relatively barren. Coupled with the limitations of the backward agricultural level and hot climate conditions, it is difficult to get a satisfactory harvest even if the land is reclaimed and cultivated.

The empire originally established a colony here mainly to obtain a supply point for opening up the eastern route, and because of the abundant resources such as gold and ivory here.

As for the slave trade, that came later. At the beginning, the empire looked down on these "barbaric and backward" native savages.

However, as the empire's colonial activities in the area grew, the empire's influence gradually penetrated into the local area, and driven by the ambitions of some people, it began to control the entire desert kingdom area.

After all, the empire's eastern route had been opened by then. If one did not want to take a long detour on the sea, the most appropriate approach would be to transport the goods to the Desert Kingdom and then to the Old World by land.

Therefore, controlling the desert kingdom became a necessity for the empire, especially when the empire was planning to dig a canal to break through the barrier between the Old World and the Eastern Route, greatly shortening the voyage of transporting goods from the Eastern Route to the empire's homeland, allowing goods to reach the empire's homeland directly.

It is precisely because of this that the Empire launched a war in the Desert Kingdom area and fought with France over the ownership of the Desert Kingdom.

It was basically at that time that Princess Anne served in the Desert Kingdom and participated in the war. Because of this, Princess Anne was very familiar with and knowledgeable about the Desert Kingdom.

The Desert Kingdom is not a single kingdom, but a group of chiefs, large and small, who rule their respective tribes. Strictly speaking, it is more like a tribal alliance.

Therefore, there are naturally some kings and chiefs who are inclined towards the empire, and some who are unwilling to side with the empire.

When the doomsday winter came, the empire's control over the local area declined rapidly, which made some kings and chiefs feel that this was a good opportunity to rebel against the empire, so they launched another round of war.

Due to the lack of support from the mainland and the lack of enthusiasm of the local garrison, the Empire was naturally unable to suppress the momentum of resistance in time. As a result, when Princess Anne arrived at the Desert Kingdom, the Empire had basically lost control of the area.

So after arriving in the Desert Kingdom area, Princess Anne quickly contacted the familiar Desert King Chief and took control of the local imperial garrison in the name of the princess.

Relying on her status as the eldest princess of the empire, Princess Anne quickly stabilized the areas still under the control of the empire, and then ordered the Knights of Divine Grace to cooperate with her knights to carry out decapitation attacks on several major kings and chiefs who resisted the empire.

The cooperation between the Steam Knights and the Divine Grace Knights was an absolute dimensionality reduction blow to the Desert King's army who were still using scimitars and bows and arrows. Even if there were some extraordinary people among them, or people equipped with muskets, they were still unable to fight against the Steam Knights who were powerful enough to crush everything.

With the help of local garrisons, the situation quickly improved and the empire's rule over this land was quickly restored.

But a very fatal problem soon presented itself to Princess Anne, that is, some of the kings and chiefs had turned to the evil cult, and through means such as sacrifice, they had created some enemies that were quite difficult for ordinary Steam Knights to deal with.

The chieftain, who was the controller of the evil cult, didn't care about human life at all. He summoned an entire army for himself through sacrifice, causing great suffering to the local garrison.

However, with a Divine Grace Knight unlocking his Overdrive Mode, they were able to quickly behead the chieftain and destroy his army.

The empire was able to recover the Desert Kingdom area in a short period of time.

The subsequent experiences in the Mawwa Colony and the Australia and New Zealand Colonies were basically the same as those in the Desert Kingdom. There were evil cult activities in both places, especially in the Mawwa Colony, where the activities of the evil cults were particularly rampant.

The reason why they spent three months was that a large part of the time was actually spent on suppressing the Desert Kingdom and the Movo Colony. On the contrary, the Australia and New Zealand colonies did not take up much time because they were places for convicts and were sparsely populated.

After understanding what happened, Perfect was not surprised. Seven members of the two teams of Divine Grace Knights she sent out were killed. One could imagine what a fierce situation they encountered.

"So, now the empire's several major colonies have returned to the empire's control?" Perfect tapped her desk with her fingers absentmindedly. No one knew what she was thinking.

The young official nodded affirmatively: "At present, the main colonies of the empire have been returned to control. As for some other smaller colonies, they are too small and have been abandoned. After all, they cannot bring any benefits to the empire. In the past, they were only used because the empire controlled the world's routes and needed supplies.

As for those colonies that have certain value but are not too large in size, Princess Anne plans to deal with them after the election.

She felt that the election of the Prime Minister of the Empire and the reform of the National Assembly were major events concerning the entire country, and she had to rush back to witness them, or at least to contact and hand over the relevant matters to the first Prime Minister of the Empire to ensure that the suppressed colonies could be properly handled in the future. "

"Aunt Anne has a good plan, but it's a pity that she didn't expect that the royalists planned to promote her to be the first prime minister of the empire." Perfect couldn't help but sneer, then stood up, turned around and walked to the window to look at the scenery outside: "If this really happens, she will be the only queen in the empire who has served as prime minister, which is not a bad thing."

The young official did not respond. This topic was very serious and he did not have the courage or qualifications to respond.

However, Perfect didn't seem to expect him to take any position, and quickly made new arrangements for him: "Go find Mr. Wellington and serve as his secretary to assist in the election. Get more training, and maybe you will have the opportunity to run for election in the future."

(End of this chapter)