Chapter 401 Reconciliation
If the truth on Earth is only within the range of cannons, then in this alien world, the truth is only where the soldiers' spearheads point.
If only the Kenyan Empire could unilaterally send troops to attack and harass the undead regime thousands of miles away, then for the Church of the Fiery Sun, condescending to negotiate with the Nightmare Butcher would be an extremely ridiculous thing that was absolutely out of the question.
After all, the size gap between the two sides is extremely large - at worst, the Middle-earth province can give up one or two territories and withdraw its troops to the Eastern Kingdom. Even if it cannot overthrow the Undead regime in the short term, it will be enough to give the Nightmare Butcher a hard time.
As a result, the Nightmare Butcher released Gajir, who knew the characteristics of the Tarantan Undead, without saying a word, and simultaneously teleported the undead to the Middle-earth province for an armed journey... The proposal for peace talks became less ridiculous.
The Kenyan Empire's aristocratic group, which has a close relationship with the Inquisition and is almost on the same page as it, has invested a lot of money in Middle-earth. The stability of the situation in Middle-earth will determine whether the emerging aristocrats who have risen up with the advent of the Age of Discovery can continue to compete with the old-school aristocratic groups.
No matter how much the Inquisition hates the Nightmare Butcher, it must first overcome this hurdle before it can think of a way to prevent its own land from being wantonly trampled by the undead!
So... three days later, on February 7th, an airship the size of a spaceship with the emblem of the Church of the Fiery Sun painted on its hull arrived at the capital of the Rhine Kingdom.
Before airships on Earth were eliminated for safety reasons, hydrogen airships with a maximum speed of 190 kilometers per hour had been developed.
The airships in this alien world do not use hydrogen as the buoyancy gas, but use a combination of magic arrays invented by alchemists and array masters more than two hundred years ago as the driving force. The potential safety hazards are greatly reduced, and the speed of large airships can be maintained at around 150 kilometers per hour. If the airships are mainly for carrying people and do not require a large load, the speed can exceed 220 kilometers per hour.
The only drawback is that it is expensive... It is expensive to build and drive. Only the rich and the nobles can afford it. Ordinary people can't even think about it.
The arrival of the airship of the Church of the Fiery Sun alarmed the Rhine royal family. The old king personally led people out of the city and rushed to the airship field outside the city to carefully inquire about the purpose of the airship. When he learned that the airship came to visit the black magician Yang, the old king was stunned on the spot.
The grudge between the Nightmare Butcher and the Church of the Fiery Sun...if not known to everyone, it is at least well-known to everyone.
Why does it sound so strange that people from the Church of the Blazing Sun flew all the way from Middle-earth on an airship to visit the Nightmare Butcher?
No matter how unbelievable it was, the Rhine royal family still had to do their best to entertain people sent by a giant force like the Church of the Fiery Sun.
After inviting this small delegation consisting of a white-robed priest, two paladins and four priests into the guest hall of the royal palace, the old king sent someone to invite the black magician who seemed to have been forgotten by him for a long time.
Yang Qiu openly accepted the invitation and went to the palace to meet with the envoys from the Church of the Lieyang.
There was no such thing as enemies turning jealous of each other when they met. Both sides were as polite and courteous as if they were good friends who had not seen each other for many years. After exchanging pleasantries, they sat down and began to talk about business.
When releasing Ge Jier, Yang Qiu was told to take back the peace negotiation conditions. He was very polite and asked for a sky-high price, making demands that the Lieyang Church would never agree to, and just waited for the Lieyang Church to pay back the money on the spot.
The Church of the Fiery Sun was no pushover either. The peace envoy they sent this time intended to sign a light paper agreement in exchange for Yang Qiu's promise to never let the Tarantan undead set foot in Middle-earth and to release all captives, including the defector Walton and others.
Both sides are equally shameless, so naturally they will be caught in a long-lasting argument...
In this regard, Yang Qiu said that he didn't care - the "random battlefield" mode has only been open for five days (Earth time) and players are far from getting tired of it. If the Church of the Fiery Sun wants to drag out the argument, then let it drag it out. It's not his territory that is being lost, and it's not his home that is being harmed, so he is afraid of nothing.
Thus, on the battlefield of words provided by the Rhine royal family, the two sides fought back and forth for nearly a week... The white-robed priest who was responsible for the peace talks finally couldn't stand it anymore.
During the peace talks, the Tarantan Undead continued to harass the Middle-earth province non-stop, working around the clock and visiting three or four areas a day .
The Krenniburg No. 4 mining area was attacked by the Undead Army five times in succession. By the fourth time, the local garrison had no more troops to send and was forced to abandon the mining area and the garrison that had been almost emptied by the guerrillas. But this was still of no use. By the fifth time, the Undead Army directly rushed to the city of Kru...
The situation is similar in other regions...
The fact that more than a dozen mines, factories and occupied areas were forced to shut down or even whitewashed had already made the aristocratic groups that invested in the Middle-earth province very dissatisfied; these undead who came and went like crazy wanted to further expand the scope of destruction, who could stand this!
The white-robed priest in charge of the peace negotiations sent several telegrams to the Grossen Province, and reluctantly gave in and accepted some of the peace terms proposed by Yang Qiu.
On February 16, 1033 in the new calendar of the alien world, Brother Lowell, who was in the southern wasteland of Adler Territory and leading the holy priests to visit and learn about the experience of developing new towns, saw the peace agreement announcement jointly published by the Fiery Sun Church and the black magician Yang in the Adler Weekly that was delivered to the new town one day late.
In the new town and new city outside the valley, Brother Lowell was having breakfast in a small hotel room, holding a weekly newspaper in his hand, his eyes fixed on the photo in the newspaper of a white-robed priest wearing the priest robe of the Church of the Fiery Sun and Yang holding hands, the two of them smiling at the camera together, and he was unable to recover for a long time.
"...After living for a long time, you can really see all kinds of strange things." Paladin Joyce Andre, who was dining with Brother Lowell, said with emotion, "It's really bizarre that the Church of the Blazing Sun will one day reconcile with the Nightmare Butcher."
Brother Lowell opened his mouth slightly, and in his mind, he kept repeating what Yang had said to him: "Only struggle can bring about true peace. Giving in and compromising will only lead to the demise of peace."
The new undead regime cannot withstand the full force of the Kenyan Empire. Yang, who has a deep hatred for the Fiery Sun Church, must negotiate with the Kenyan Empire if he wants to protect his undead regime.
However, Yang did not do anything to show goodwill to the Fiery Sun Church or the Kenyan Empire. On the contrary, he not only captured all the Fiery Sun Church members who were chasing him, as well as the investigation team that came to investigate the situation; he also retaliated against the Fiery Sun Church for sending people into Tarantan without hesitation, and sent the Tarantan undead to the Middle-earth battlefield to disrupt the Kenyans.
This attitude, which was not only unfriendly but also full of malice (Lowell knew too well how much harm those undead souls could cause to the local area if they were released), actually achieved the goal of dragging the Church of the Fiery Sun to the negotiation table.
"Only through struggle can there be peace."
Brother Lowell gently put down the newspaper, as if he was relieved, or as if he had finally made up his mind.
"Father?" Joyce Andre noticed that Lowell's expression had changed and asked in confusion.
"Andre, what do you think would happen if the village-based production model of Xinzhen was moved to the Principality of Shiga?" Brother Lowell asked.
Joyce Andre looked a little embarrassed. After hesitating for a moment, she told the truth: "It will be resisted by people."
"Why is it boycotted?" Brother Lowell asked, "and what kind of people would boycott it?"
"Because... the villages here are directly connected to the town hall of Xinzhen. The land output of the villages does not need to be collected by the fiefdom nobles, but can be directly taxed to the town hall. The excess harvest will also be purchased by the town hall at the market price." Andre said, "In this way, the fiefdom nobles will be dispensable, and all the nobles will resist with all their strength."
It took the undead regime nearly two years to gather strength to completely eradicate the feudal nobles of Innadli Territory with one thunderous blow. Only two or three families with clean backgrounds and no blood debts on hand escaped the liquidation - and families like the Darcy family, which had been cleansed by vampires and turned to the undead regime after Miss China Darcy came to power.
In order to get rid of the feudal nobles who stood between the government and the common people, Innadili only started to organize the villages and groups this year, establishing a direct connection management model from the municipal hall to the town hall to the village and group leaders.
The new town was a large agricultural town composed of pioneers. There were no feudal nobles to cause trouble, and the management model of the town hall connecting with the village groups was relatively mature.
Brother Lowell couldn't help but smile and said, "Then your previous wording was wrong. The boycott was only for the feudal nobles, not the 'people'. The feudal nobles cannot represent all the people."
Andre scratched his head and smiled sheepishly: "That's right... But even if only the feudal nobles object, it will be a lot of trouble. As you know, monk, every territory has a large number of feudal nobles, and these feudal nobles often have private soldiers."
"Yes." Brother Lowell said with emotion, "The lord needs the nobles to manage the territory for him and collect taxes. When facing the threat of war, he also needs the nobles to send troops to fight... So whether it is the nobles or the great nobles, they can legitimately operate and cultivate private armed forces."
"When the country needs change and needs to optimize the distribution of wealth, these nobles with private armed forces become the most resolute opponents - because they also know that they have already obtained wealth far exceeding that of ordinary people, and any change will cause damage to their interests." At this point, Brother Lowell's face had turned cold.
Joyce Andre didn't know what to say, so she could only remain silent...
He knew that before coming to Adler, the monk had talked to his great-great-grandson; but the young master Lance did not appear in the group that followed the monk to Adler for a visit and study. This was enough to show that the monk's descendants did not approve of the monk's decision.
Brother Lowell turned his head and looked out the hotel window.
The new urban area of the new town is still under construction, and there is a large construction site not far from the hotel; because spring ploughing has already begun, the project has been temporarily postponed, and a circle of barriers has been set up around the half-built building to prevent people from approaching.
Lowell knew that within a few years, this town, which was not very popular now, might become the second Westham or the second Everlook - because the pioneers here were so hardworking, and many families contracted wasteland to plant trees and raise livestock in addition to reclaiming wasteland; in the near future, many workers would be needed here.
These poor people, who were originally struggling to survive in the slums outside the city of Dutta, were able to work hard with great enthusiasm and give back to this desolate town that had just risen from the wilderness just by giving them the opportunity to gain wealth through labor and a little help.
Brother Lowell was very envious of the subjects of these undead regimes, but at the same time he was very confident - if the citizens of the Principality of Shiga could get the same opportunities as the people here, the people of the Principality of Shiga would also give back enthusiastically.
Facts have proven that the Shiga people are not much worse than the Rhine people... The achievements made by ordinary small town people like Mia and Collins under the rule of the Undead regime have given Brother Lowell full confidence.
The only difficulty is whether he can bring this "opportunity" back to his fellow Shiga people.
Brother Lowell closed his eyes, thought silently for a while, and then suddenly opened them.
On that day, Brother Lowell left the priests to continue their study and sightseeing in the new town, and rode alone across the wilderness to the city of Dutata.
In the Lord's Mansion in Dutata City, Lowell briefly greeted Kingsley who was in charge of the place for Yang, and then walked to sit in front of Yang's projection clone.
No undead came near, and Yang's projection just sat there motionless.
"Yang, I need you...I need your undead help."
Brother Lowell said sincerely.
The rigid projection clone shook slightly, then suddenly became alive and smiled at the ascetic monk.
