Utopia

"What year is it? Are you still using wooden hoes?"

"Here is a rare bronze dagger. But this is mine."

"How much can a palm-sized bronze dagger be worth? It's better to capture more prisoners..."

"You can't say that. We can only let them do what they want when we know what they can do."

Princess Jiaqi listened to the two senior officers with sabers beside her, who were enjoying their meals and were happy about the seaside town under their feet that finally had no resistance. She had to feel pity for the natives who became prisoners of war and were waiting to be sold to the Old World as slaves.

After all, the goal of the Kingdom of Negan is to expand its southern territory and add more livable seaside towns.

All threatening and unstable factors must be cleared up from the root.

What's more, she felt helpless when she saw the white snowflakes still fluttering in the sky and a thick layer of snow on most places on the ground.

You should know that the Kingdom of Negan dispatched more than 15,000 troops to the south. Although it is a tiny level compared to the Iron Fist Empire in the Old World, the total number of citizens in the Kingdom of Negan is more than 20,000. It is not a small matter for the kingdom to dispatch 10,000 troops.

If the troops had not won victory after victory on the way forward and beaten the natives so hard that they dared not easily show up in the daytime to die, the current Congress would probably have suggested a ceasefire.

However, as for the results of the three cities now, in fact... strictly speaking, they are very good. As long as they survive the winter, the natives will not come again.

In particular, the natives' troops have a fatal flaw-most of the soldiers are just following the call of the knights and want to come out to grab a handful of fat serfs.

Once the winter is over and the second half of the year begins to warm up, these serf soldiers will not be able to help but miss home, wondering if their own land will be left unattended and barren.

As for loyalty... these serf soldiers were just a group of speculators who wanted to make a fortune. Although they knew that they could easily die in the battlefield, there was a saying.

People die for money, birds die for food.

As long as there is enough profit, what does the threat of death matter?

Especially compared with the profit from "legal robbery", the harvest from their own farming is completely insignificant and cannot be compared at all.

She even heard the captives say that if they could work harder and pick up the armor or weapons of the fallen knights, their lives would be ready to be rich and noble.

Moreover, if they have the merit of killing the enemy on the battlefield, the lord will reward them and even promote them to be a small noble.

It has to be said that this is the worst part of the feudal system. The selfishness of the people will only lead to the inability of the entire country to resist the invasion of foreign enemies, and it is impossible for them to easily generate a common hatred of the enemy.

According to the information she knew, the natives who were sold out were happy that they had a place to work.

The only difference is that in the Old World, the policy of using whips and bayonets, and forcing people to change their names and speak normal language by burning them alive is really cruel, which has caused a small number of slaves to be dissatisfied.

But what if they are dissatisfied?

The Iron Fist Empire is famous for its extremely bad attitude towards foreigners, and it uses all kinds of torture to treat people of different ethnic groups from its main ethnic group.

The most famous example is the Yuanhe Kingdom in the west of the Iron Fist Empire. After this country was conquered by the Iron Fist Empire, the original royal family members who did not give up their original beliefs were directly burned alive, then torn apart, and then cut in half and sent to the fertilizer factory to be chopped up for fertilizer.

Of course, if it comes to the people, anyone with any opinions will be sent to the desert cliffs for labor reform until the day of death officially comes. Those who cooperate wisely will work as servants in some rich and powerful families until their descendants have the opportunity to redeem themselves (although this depends on the character of the owner who bought them).

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So, Princess Jiaqi shook her head. Everyone is like this. The weak have no right to appeal for themselves, nor do they have any right to change their own destiny.

Survival of the fittest, the strong prey on the weak.

The truth is so cruel and ruthless.

For this reason, she is glad that she was born and lives in a country that is not weak.

At the same time, she looked at a group of engineers outside. The territory under her feet will definitely become a coastal city of the Kingdom of Nigan with a first-level city defense system before the first sunrise of next year.

At the same time, Beian, who forged a steel billet for the third time with his own ability, looked relaxed. After all, his assessment content, forging a 5mm caliber howitzer barrel steel billet that has been used recently [To be honest, it has been used recently, Android and Apple are both available. ], he completed it.

So, his next goal is naturally the 55mm caliber field artillery barrel that has been used recently.

Although the arsenal had materials and finished products for him to see, as a blacksmith, he had to master the relevant gun barrel steel forging technology and apply it to industrial assembly line production.

After all, including the Orchid Republic in the north, there were many customers in the Old Continent who wanted to use 55mm caliber guns as their national treasures.

You should know that the Iron Fist Empire, which was the first to complete industrialization and enter the ranks of modern countries in the Old World, is not a friendly and kind person. They have always been very generous in the arms trade and have cheated many buyers.

Coupled with the technical blockade brought by the technological advantage, the Iron Fist Empire is eager to empty the buyers' pockets in the arms trade.

Therefore, this has led to the discovery of a new way of wealth by the Negan Kingdom, which is capable of imitating the weapons and equipment of the Iron Fist Empire. In this way of wealth, the Orchid Republic cooperates with the Negan Kingdom in aspects other than heavy weapons to jointly earn foreign exchange from various countries in the Old World.

Don't underestimate this foreign exchange. If a country does not have a sufficient amount of foreign exchange, that is, foreign currency, it cannot easily trade with foreign countries.

Like the natives of the New World and a large number of human countries in the western part of the Old World, the barter-style transactions that have not yet been completely terminated are synonymous with inefficiency.

When the Negan Kingdom was first established, Her Majesty the Queen would rather spend a lot of money to establish a royal bank, and the first issuance of interest currency was to promote domestic economic development.

Once the economy develops, national strength will also rise.

Therefore, the Orchid Republic in the northwest of the New World independently issued its own enamel currency based on sorghum rice.

After all, one of the most important symbols of an independent country is to have its own currency, which is widely issued and used within its own territory.

Countries that cannot do this are not only not qualified to call themselves powerful countries, but are even economic puppets of certain forces.

And puppets... are they beings that can control their own destiny?