Don't mess with that dragon

Chapter 708 Goals and Undercurrents

After capturing the three principalities including Frandy, the Blue Dragon Kingdom increased its territory and population by more than three times. Before digesting these gains,

For the time being, the Blue Dragon Kingdom's military has no plans to send troops again to attack other countries.

Unlike those feudal countries that are still in the middle world, after occupying the enemy's land, it is enough to send and promote a new group of nobles to manage it.

This knight like my nobleman, not my knight,
While helping the monarch to guard the huge territory, the noble lords also act like small independent kingdoms with extremely inefficient ruling methods, which is not acceptable to the Blue Dragon Kingdom.

In the Blue Dragon Kingdom, which is undergoing a magical industrial revolution, the management methods of these old aristocrats that hinder the process of industrialization are bound to be outdated ideas that will be swept into the dustbin of history.

Under the rule of the Dragon Nest government, from the vast urban residents to the vast remote mountain villages, the political organization is bound to be devolved to any place in the Blue Dragon Kingdom, and every citizen is brought under the rule of the Blue Dragon Kingdom government management.

This modern concept of regime management is conducive to bringing together the people of the entire kingdom into a whole, and they can gather and erupt extremely powerful forces.

Against this background,
During this period of time, the main attention of the Blue Dragon Kingdom is still to absorb and rule the original three principalities, to rectify the place, and to control the territory and the general public of the original three principalities.

only,
If you want to complete the transformation of the vast number of people in the territory of the original three principalities, even if the three principalities have been destroyed, it is not that simple to accomplish this goal.

Although before attacking the royal city, the Dragon Nest army had already swept away most of the old aristocratic families and lord forces,
Immediately afterwards, a large number of militiamen and grassroots logistics officials moved in, and a simple administrative management center was set up to initially appease and stabilize the main areas.

The initial regime has already been established.

but,

There are still many difficulties in trying to completely digest all the territory and population of the original three principalities.

When the Dragon Nest army swept northward to sweep the old aristocratic forces of the principality, it was impossible to go all over the mountain villages, wipe out all the castles of noble lords in the vast countryside, and wipe out all the oppressed serfs and the majority The peasants were liberated.

This is simply impossible,
The small nobles and lords that lined up in the general's territory all used the Dragon Nest army to attack and extinguish them. It was like killing a chicken with a sledgehammer. It not only wasted a lot of human resources of the army, but also greatly slowed down the attack speed of the Dragon Nest army.

In the course of the blitzkrieg, this is simply not allowed by reality.

The main targets of the Dragon Nest army's sweep were those big noble families gathered in the important cities, or the big lord forces located on the traffic arteries, and other places could only be cleaned up easily.

From this to the end, the targets of the Dragon Nest army are all the established old-style troops or warlord nobles.

Rather than those small nobles and small lords scattered among the vast countryside.

After all the leaders are wiped out, there are no leaders, and the old world rulers such as many small noble knights in extensive rural areas are not much of a threat.

That is,

During the process of the main force of the Dragon Nest army marching northward, destroying the formed army of the Principality of Flandy, and besieging the royal city, there are still a large number of small nobles and small lords remaining in the vast territory.

Now, the three principalities including Frandy have been wiped out,
Then, in order to completely control the territories and people within the original three principalities, these small nobles and small lords at the grassroots level ruled by extensive divisions naturally need to be cleaned up one by one.

This is a war that is no easier than destroying the three principalities.

In the face of the established aristocratic warlords and lords, since the main forces of the opponent are all gathered together, with the strength of the Dragon Nest army, they can easily crush the opponent.

But facing the small nobles and small lords at the grassroots level who are widely distributed all over the country, it is not so easy for the army to fight.

Facing this vast grassroots old-fashioned aristocrats, they feel a little trapped in the "ocean in the people's war".

This is not surprising,
After all, for the vast number of low-level serfs and commoners, the little nobles and lords on the top are their real masters. The king of the mountain who has ruled for many years has a certain ability to control the people under his command, and he also has the ability to belong to them. way of domination.

It is not impossible to incite the people in the territory to form a ruling tide against the Blue Dragon Kingdom by means of misinterpretation, smearing, etc.

Although the former three principalities have been destroyed, there are still wars everywhere in the vast occupied area.

prior to,

Although the Blue Dragon King's militia and grassroots regime personnel maintained the stability of the main cities and nearby surrounding villages, they used the wartime system to greatly boost the hearts of the people under their command.

But after all, the territory of the three principalities is a vast area with more than three times the number of people and territory, and the stability that can be maintained during the war is only the nearby villages relying on the city.

As for those large and more remote rural areas, they are still under the rule of the old-fashioned small nobles and small lords.

The flames of war are everywhere,

Against this background, the Blue Dragon Kingdom still needs a lot of effort to completely digest this vast territory. Basically, in the future, the main actions of the Blue Dragon Kingdom will be to reform and digest the newly incorporated rule. This aspect of the region.

but,

The Blue Dragon Kingdom's main attention has been diverted, but this does not mean that other actions cannot be carried out.

Now the family forces under Austin's command have formed a mature regime, and there are professionals to deal with the digestion of the occupied areas, and at the same time, they have not let go of the next aspect of action.

For example, the secret war of public opinion against the remaining five southern duchies.

Through the actions of dispatched agents and spies, hire local bards who are not very eye-catching, and provide some manuscripts specially written by the Blue Dragon Kingdom's Cultural Warfare Department, and use the Dragon Nest army to destroy the three principalities with lightning The background that aroused huge repercussions in the country was mixed with soft articles edited by the Propaganda Department, and the propaganda was constantly carried out in the enemy's territory.

The military action has ended, but the war on the hidden front has been going on in full swing.

Just like before the Dragon Nest army dispatched from the Great Wall at the border, they had already done a lot of prerequisite work such as public opinion guidance, spies gathering intelligence, and so on.

It's just that the target this time has changed from the original Three Kingdoms of Frandi to all the surrounding countries.

And in this turmoil,
The rulers of the surrounding countries may not pay much attention to the aspirations of the people under their command.

ps:
The fifth update is completed, and it will continue tomorrow.

(End of this chapter)