Ming Dynasty and New Rome and Infinite Magic Machine

Chapter 1481 Wild Hunt
With a parasol and a small table, Shangluo sat next to the crater and drank tea. The Jinyiwei was surveying the impact point here, so he set up the tea area here.

Like a hunter who has let out his hounds, Shangluo waits quietly for the results.

[I wonder if you have any misunderstanding about hunting dogs? Hunting dogs are not fully automatic hunting machines. Hunting dogs are good enough to kill a rabbit. For large prey like wild boars, dog teeth can only break the skin. If you want to hunt, you have to wait for a real hunter.]

"I didn't raise them just to be hunting dogs. They have to capture and kill, at least try - although this is indeed a dropped knife, but I still hope they can solve the problem automatically."

As he was talking, Lu Huaiyang came over from the crater. Shangluo, who was sitting in the tea area, raised his hand and poured a cup of tea for Lu Huaiyang and handed it to him.

"Thank you." Lu Huaiyang said nothing, but drank it all in one gulp. "Why are you so relaxed here, working as a tea boy?"

"My job is to bring the right people to the right place. Actually, I have nothing to do here. I just need to wait for everyone to finish their work, and then I will collect the materials and submit them."

"That's true. After all, you're the one who built the whole thing. By the way, what did you shout out just now?"

"The Wild Hunt is actually the same thing as the Elodeasha we are attacking. However, no one says that we can't use the Wild Hunt to hunt the Wild Hunt. Let them kill each other, and we don't have to invest too many resources here."

This is the fundamental reason why Shangluo chose the Night Shift Bureau: they are European inhabitants, their history has left a deep mark on the land, and the disasters of the elves all started from their land. In this case, they are also capable of making their own response to the elves. In an ideal situation, they should also be able to solve the threat of the elves on their own.

Shangluo never intended to let the king's teacher help them maintain world order. They should protect themselves from the threat of elves instead of always relying on external forces.

It turns out that they are indeed capable of protecting themselves.

Under Shangluo's organization, the Night Watch also had its own Wild Hunt - because the Wild Hunt could be initiated by a dead noble, and Hans happened to be a dead noble, and he was also the Prince Regent of Prussia. The Wild Hunt he initiated could fully represent the power of this land.

This is just the beginning. The Royal Army will launch a larger-scale operation in the Germanic-ruled areas to completely solve the problem here - the Royal Army will assist in this process at the beginning. After all this, they will have to protect themselves. The Wild Hunt initiated by the Night Watch is a preview of this future.

This will create a virtuous cycle. As the first driving force, Master Wang will give them a push and keep a long-term gaze in the days ahead.

Master Wang will watch but will not take action at any time.

After all, the Heavenly Palace didn't have that much food. Europe was only a small part of the world, but it gave birth to a large part of the enemies. If the King's army continued to devote its energy to fighting the elves, it would sooner or later cause a big mess.

This reminds Shangluo of the chaotic times at the end of the Tang Dynasty. In fact, the court could always solve the problems at the beginning. But every time the court solved the problems, it actually did not have the ability to reward the people who solved the problems. For example, the Four Towns Rebellion that started in the second year of Jianzhong (781) was because the Chengde Jiedushi rebelled and sent troops to besiege Chengde. As a result, Youzhou and Weizhou, who besieged Chengde, did not receive any rewards and simply rebelled again.

The vassal state is very important. The last time when Zhu Xianxun from Shangluo discussed the [Zhao Kuangyin Plan], they reached a consensus that the vassal state is very important. If there were no vassal states, the court would always have to use the core territory to resist external invasion. But the best place for the vassal state to appear is in someone else's territory, such as Saiwang. Setting up a vassal state in the core area is not considered chronic suicide, it is just the old man hanging himself because he is tired of living.

Combining the lessons of the Tang and Song dynasties, the Ming Dynasty should have its own plan.

But in fact, the Ming Dynasty already had its own plan - [Emperor Taizu Gao's plan] was to establish the King of the Frontier. The royal family would be in charge of a powerful military force at the border, so that the emperor at the center of power could withdraw from the bureaucratic system and rule the world in peace and quiet, thus becoming invincible.

This was originally a perfect plan. But everyone knows that this plan died after one generation, because the King of Sai went to Yingtian. After that, naturally no one mentioned the King of Sai. After all, those who could have been the King of Sai had been cooked into roast ducks in a stewing oven, so only the nobles and relatives could hold on. In the end, the nobles and relatives were also wiped out -

Then the question arises: the emperor can be the judge of the world in peace and quiet because he can always stay out of the affairs of the civil officials. But if the emperor and the civil officials are in conflict, who can stand on the side of the emperor unconditionally? In the past, there were the kings of the frontier and the relatives of the nobles. Now the kings of the frontier and the relatives of the nobles are gone, and only the eunuchs, the Jinyiwei, and other secret agencies are left.

When even the eunuchs were liquidated.
After that, we can only rely on the "Yongqing Restoration" - when I was a child, Zhu Xianxi once asked: Why do we have to talk about restoration? Is it because the previous ones were not good? Where did the "revival" come from? What is the Little Ice Age?

He did not get an answer at that time. He only knew that although the King of Sai did not return after the restoration, the nobles and relatives did. Now there are powerful vassal towns stationed in all directions, and these vassal towns are all located in other people's territories. This can be regarded as a proper implementation of [Emperor Taizu Gao's plan].

But it was Shangluo who was planning to build the Night Shift Bureau into a vassal state.

This fence should play the role of a fence, which should separate the mess outside from the things that need to be protected inside the fence. As for whether the fence itself will be damaged in the process, it is completely unimportant.

The military governors were barriers, and barriers were consumables. The Tang Dynasty's overall victory rate in foreign wars was not particularly high, but as long as the war was fought on someone else's territory and with someone else's resources, it would not be a loss no matter how it was fought. Because the military governors were the bumpers of the empire, and if the bumpers didn't rot when they should, then the owner's wallet would be the one that got rotten.

However, the court's treatment of the Night Service Bureau was different from that of the Ming Dynasty's military governors. In fact, the Ming Dynasty's military governors were vassal states in many ways, and they were powerful states. They not only managed the civil affairs within their jurisdiction, but also the military affairs. The Night Service Bureau was closer to the traditional military governors, that is, an army, rather than an administrative level.

As a vassal town, the most important ability of the Night Shift Bureau is to solve the problems of the court and share some of the burden for the court. This is the role that the vassal town should have - only when they can really help the court share some of the tasks, they really need to exist. They should stand there, motionless. The court will not often recruit them to do other things like the Romans, and will not cause them trouble. Similarly, the court will not give them the same promotion opportunities as the Romans. They just stay where they are and don't move around - this is the difference between the Ming Dynasty and Rome. The premise that Rome always tosses the barbarians is that they will really accept the barbarians into the Roman army. The Ming Dynasty does not like to toss the barbarians. The premise is that it is almost impossible for the barbarians to really obtain a real power position in the army. At most, they get a title of tributary, but they are still just managing their old subordinates.

"I personally don't have any opinion on the barbarians." Shang Luo took a sip of tea, "I just think that the barbarians have their own countries. Keeping the good barbarians in their own hometowns is the true kindness."

Lu Huaiyang stood by and poured himself another cup: "That's absolutely right, we have always done this. We don't discriminate against barbarians, we just pretend that barbarians don't exist and we don't want to see them."

The interaction that the Ming Dynasty could accept was the interaction with the tributary states. At this time, the tributary states were not regarded as barbarians, but as objects that could be educated. In many cases, the tributary states were necessary to support the situation, and they would receive the treatment they deserved when paying tribute - but whether the tributary states should be expanded to the barbarians was another matter.

The tributary states were the tributary states, and the barbarians were the barbarians. Whether to open a channel for transformation between the two actually depended on the interests of the emperor himself.

Zhu Xianxin obviously had no interest in this aspect. He had no interest in all foreign affairs, so he delegated all of this to Shangluo. The treatment of these Germans was basically Shangluo's decision. And Shangluo respected them very much. After all, Shangluo really treated them as human beings, and felt that their land needed to be properly handled. This is how the Night Shift Bureau came into being.

"But I do have a question." Shangluo asked Lu Huaiyang, "Is there a precedent in history for promoting the unification of barbarians? After all, the UAE represented by the Night Service was originally a mess. I guess that the Night Service will gradually take a leading role in European affairs in the future."

"Well, we did care about this in the past, and we would use restraints to control it. But if the court completes the Ascension, then these issues will be irrelevant. No matter how big they are, mortals are still mortals, and they are useless and harmless to the court. They are a natural phenomenon, so just let it go."

"Then I will take care of things here."

The operation on Europe is about to begin. The Night Shift Bureau is a handy scalpel, and Shangluo is going to use the Night Shift Bureau as the theme to operate Europe's defense planning. But first, he has to clear out the other barbarian entities on this land, because he has to get rid of the elves first.

"Then the next stop is Poland."

"How long will it take you to return?" Lu Huaiyang asked. The attack on Poland was not within the scope of Shangluo's invitation, and he would return after he finished dealing with things here.

"Recently. After all, the sweep across Europe doesn't require me to be there all the time, but I will be there at some key points, such as taking some measures against the Polish regime - any regime that is incapable of governing the wilderness of its own country should be purged by the Night Watch."

"I think I saw that you sent Prussian troops to Poland? There are marks on your map."

"Yes. Prussia was the first to complete the transformation. It seems that the treatment given to our Chief Hans satisfied everyone. So this time, I mobilized Prussia to clamp down on the elves' migration routes. If you want to eat a horse, you have to 'pin' the horse's legs, right?"

At the same time that Shangluo sent out the Wild Hunt, the troops used to "tie the horse's legs" had already been dispatched. Openly crossing the border between Prussia and Poland, the Prussian army, under the control of the Night Watch, came out in full force without warning and began to rush into the Polish land. They were carrying out a goal that they themselves did not know why they were carrying out, because they did not attack important areas such as large cities at all, but went directly to a path in the "wilderness" that did not exist on the map, which was also part of the Night Watch's operation.

Although this was part of the operation, from the outside it looked like a full-scale Prussian attack on Poland.

The units used by Prussia to launch the operation were chariot units - not the heavy chariots in the Royal Division, but light chariots weighing only 5 to 7 tons and with only machine guns. These chariots performed their tasks at a highway speed of 40 kilometers per hour. The defenseless Polish army encountered the Prussian invasion everywhere. The chariot units belonging to the Polish army were also hurriedly dispatched to meet the attack. The first people they encountered were not the expected Prussians, but a group of enemies that they had not expected:
On a road less than 30 kilometers away from Shangluo, the Polish army's tank troops stopped there quietly, because the "invading enemies" that appeared in front of the road turned out to be a group of ghost knights.

Qi rode on a warhorse, wearing silver armor, and the Wild Hunt stood quietly in front of them.

[Hans said that he encountered the Polish army.] Apollonia received the news, [he asked for instructions, Elodea was just using the mortal world to change her position, and they were also tracking her in the mortal world.]

"Don't worry about them." Shangluo replied, "Their mission is to hunt down Elodeasha. Don't waste time on capturing Polish troops."

——As the order was issued, the Poles only saw the ghost cavalry charging towards them. The panicked chariots fired back, but the bullets from the mortal world could not defeat the Wild Hunt. The ghost knights charged directly to the vicinity of the chariot troops without any hindrance, and the Poles who were operating the chariots were so frightened that they jumped out of the chariots and fled in all directions.

But the Wild Hunt just passed by them.

Everyone looked at each other, not knowing what to do. At the same time, the support troops from Prussia also caught up, also with chariots.

Looking at the Polish tanks lying paralyzed on the road, the Prussian army picked up the trumpet: "Get off the road! Otherwise, we will fight!"

"Wait a minute. This is Poland, and you are Prussia. Why are we fighting here? When did we start fighting?"

"If you ask me to fight, then fight! If you don't want to fight, then get off the road and don't block the road! I'm on a secret mission and I don't have time to capture you!"

(End of this chapter)