Witch Wind

Chapter 217: Unsolvable Hatred (Part )

Xing Tianli, headache.

In his previous life, he was just a standard liberal arts student, and also the unlucky guy who failed the civil service exam. He was so frustrated that he ran around in the mountains and forests. Luckily, he found the way to Taoism and became a celestial being.

In this life, he is still a otaku who practices liberal arts at heart. Although he has done some things, such as what he did in his own territory in Jieshi County, they are nothing more than plagiarism.

Copying homework, he was exhausted from copying. If he did not have tens of millions of elite soldiers and extraordinary power comparable to that of ordinary golden immortals, the homework he copied would have become a mess. After all, from his previous life to this life, the total number of years he has lived is less than a hundred years. Most of the time he has been in seclusion and practicing, how can he have any experience in dealing with people?

In Falusi, he was really at a loss.

The Baidanfeng City was occupied, and the blood-red flag of the Black Crow Flying Empire was already flying high on the spires of every landmark building in the Baidanfeng City.

Soldiers dressed in black and red imperial uniforms ran through the streets with their heads held high, taking over the state-owned assets of the old Commonwealth, confiscating the wealth of the old Commonwealth congressmen, and flirting with the young girls and wives, having some interactions with them that went beyond friendship but had nothing to do with love, just good interactions between money and flesh!
The lower-level officers and soldiers were making fortunes by taking advantage of their power, and there were also romantic and dissolute Farus women who threw themselves into their arms. They drank wine, ate meat, hugged the girls, and lived a carefree life, so they didn't have any big pursuits.

But the upper echelons of the Imperial Army...

The generals that Yingjishi had placed in the army, and those that Xing Tianli had recruited - many of them were gang leaders from the slums. To put it bluntly, in the Dayu Dynasty, they were just low-class street gang leaders. If the government couldn't solve a major case by the end of the year, they would be the kind of people who would be blamed and beheaded...

As for these people, Xing Tianli took into account their influence, appeal, deterrence, notoriety, etc. in the slums, and appointed two or three hundred similar gang leaders to serve as generals of the imperial army.

Xing Tianli also gave them nicknames, such as Scar One, Gun Scar Three, Cripple Five, Leper Seven, Plum Blossom Nine and so on... The so-called Plum Blossoms, as the name suggests, are a group of bastards who cannot keep themselves clean, like to run around in secret doors, and are covered with big red sores.

Xing Tianli appointed more than fifty such generals, and their code names were Plum Blossom One, up to Plum Blossom Fifty-Four!
Other scars such as knife scars and gun scars are also common.

These people, after becoming generals of the Imperial Army, were full of complacency and ambition. They thought that as they led the army to attack Farus, promotion and wealth would be easy for them, and awards for meritorious service would be their due.

As early as when they first landed in Farus, they had been calling each other "Your Excellency the Duke" and "Your Excellency the Marquis", and they were happy to use these titles. Some of them even secretly had family seals of "Duke So-and-so" and "Marquis So-and-so" engraved with gold or silver!

What a bunch of makeshift crew, a bunch of shit that is not presentable!
The result is great!
They were like cattle and horses, leading a large group of people, marching towards Baidanfeng City with "grunts and grunts" in a competition. His Majesty Black Crow's confidant, the little-known Prince Blood Crow, actually instigated all the officers of the Baidanfeng Legion to rebel, directly launched a mutiny, and took control of the entire Baidanfeng City!

Even the officers of the Bai Danfeng Corps tipped off their old friends before the Imperial Army arrived, resulting in the Federal Army along the way not firing a single shot while they held up white flags and welcomed the Imperial Army with food and drink!
Credit?

It’s all due to fart!

Award?

Bullshit awarding of honor!

You didn't fire a single shot, you didn't kill a single federal soldier, and you still want credit? You still want to be awarded a medal?
Baidanfeng City, Parliament Building, Meeting Hall.

Xing Tianli exchanged back with the ghost commander who replaced him, and he turned into His Majesty the Black Crow again, while the ghost commander carried the skin of the Blood Crow Prince, sat on the top of the stepped seats with his feet crossed smugly, drinking old wine, smoking a cigar, and overlooking the room full of soldiers who were on the verge of a fight.

Admiral Louis... no, now it's Prince Louis, and a large number of the White Maple Legion, as well as other generals of the old federal army who opened the city gates along the way and welcomed the royal army without firing a single shot. They were arrogant, wearing brand new, straight imperial noble uniforms, and talking happily with smiles on their faces.

These imperial nobles who were transformed from former federal army generals numbered about a thousand. They occupied the eastern seats in the parliament hall. Xing Tianli silently gave them a name in his heart - 'Dongchang Gentlemen'.

As for those guys who were so angry that their faces were distorted, even though they put on the uniforms of senior generals, they still did not look like soldiers. Instead, they had a strong sense of roguery in their bones. There were about two to three thousand of them. They were wearing black and red uniforms of the Imperial Army and they occupied the west side of the parliament hall.

Xing Tianli also silently gave them the title of "East Factory Wise Men".

Surprisingly, in the middle of the parliament hall, there were members of the final review committee of the former Republic of Faroese - there are always talented people in the world, let alone these people who can occupy the pinnacle of power in a country for decades?

The total number of these guys on the final review panel is about a hundred people.

They are the richest people in Farus today, the largest bank shareholder, the largest factory boss, the largest manor farmer...it's all of them, all of them.

Take for example the landlord who owns the most land among the final review committee. Not only does he own most of the land in seven provinces in Falus, but his colonial corps also directly controls the territories of the two new continents in Falus' overseas colonies.

Although the natives of the two new continents were still constantly rebelling and the situation was extremely turbulent, the total area of ​​land firmly controlled by this big landlord was more than three times the total area of ​​the thirty-eight northeastern provinces of the Dayu Dynasty and the four provinces of Shanhe!
So terrifying!
Such strength.

The influence of the largest bank shareholders was even more terrifying than the millions of landowners under the command of the colonial army. For example, the salary of the White Danfeng Army was paid through their bank accounts. Prince Louis and other new rich people had all their wealth in these banks. Through these banks, they invested in the entire Western Continent and overseas colonies, which brought them rich returns every year.

Even Prince Louis' two sons and the daughters of two big bankers got married three or five years ago.

We are all related by marriage.

Everyone's relationships are complicated.

The mutual interests are deeply involved.

To the extent that even Prince Louis' army, even though it had taken control of the entire City of Baidanfeng, even though it had arrested all the members of parliament in the city, and even though the official channels of Farus had already spoken with one voice, the Black Crow Empire had already replaced the Farus Republic and become the new master of this land.

These members of the final review committee can still sit in front of Xing Tianli openly.

Using their assets, their connections, and the extremely terrifying wealth they controlled, they talked to Xing Tianli and demanded from him the status and position they deserved in the new empire.

Xing Tianli also knew very well that unless he was an extraordinary being who possessed billions of great power, no other emperor with a normal mind would touch a hair on these guys.

If you touch them, the entire economy of Farus will collapse immediately, and countless ordinary people whose interests have been damaged will immediately rise up and roll up their sleeves to fight you to the death!
Since these final reviewers cannot be moved, the hundreds of reviewers behind them who are calm and confident cannot be moved either. Their assets and connections are all over Falus and even as far as the Western Continent. Unless Xing Tianli wants a chaotic and war-torn Falus, he can only win them over.

Xing Tianli called these guys sitting in the middle of the council hall - 'Inner Factory Officials'!
Then, it was the Blood Crow Prince who led the old and young people of the old Farus Kingdom thirty years ago, whose faces were red and dancing with excitement. These guys, hehe, when they learned that the emperor of the Black Crow Empire was the heir to the Earl of Allande's family, they trembled.

These old men and women who had been restless for the past thirty years, during the thirty years of the Republic of Farus, dug out aristocratic formal suits that smelled of mothballs from their closets, carefully hung their ancestral medals on their chests, and came directly to the new empire, demanding that their titles in the old kingdom be restored and all the wealth they had lost in the past thirty years!
These people naturally united around Prince Blood Crow and sat at the top of the parliamentary seats facing the rostrum. Seeing them all dressed in gorgeous clothes and with an expression as if they were the emperor's confidants, Xing Tianli sighed and bestowed on them the wonderful title of "Jin Yi Cao Bao".

Hey, West Factory, East Factory, Inner Factory, Embroidered Uniform Guard, if Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty were present, he would surely regard the Black Crow Emperor as his close friend, right?
quarrel.

Crazy quarrel.

Prince Louis and his ilk, as vested interests, calmly declared that they had made extraordinary contributions to the establishment of the new empire and that their current titles were all their due.

And those Imperial Army generals with scars on their knives, scars on their guns, cripples, and plum blossoms were slamming the conference table in frustration and grief, roaring hysterically - all the warlords of the old Federation Army were enemies of the Empire, they should all be arrested and blown to pieces with 360-caliber mortars.

The merit should belong to the loyal soldiers of the imperial army and should not be obtained by these speculators.

The former federal congressmen from the central region who had turned to the light politely expressed to Xing Tianli that they had made due contributions to the prosperity of the new empire, that they were willing to use their lives to safeguard the rule of His Majesty the Black Crow, and that they respected the imperial power that the Black Crow Emperor should enjoy.

It was natural that they were about to pay a huge amount of real money, so His Majesty the Emperor should also express his true feelings - these former parliamentarians said that they knew that the new empire would confer seven princes and corresponding dukes, and they thought that among the seven princes, they, the "inner factory officials", should enjoy at least three princely titles. There were a total of seven princely titles, and two had already been taken. Prince Louis and Prince Blood Crow were present, and these old federal parliamentarians actually wanted to take three more?

As a result, all the generals of the imperial army and the idiots in brocade clothes were excited.

They slammed the table, threw chairs, threw cups, spit, danced wildly, and cursed at each other...

Then they started punching and kicking.

As a result, a group of old people from the old Kingdom of Farus were beaten to a bloody pulp by the new imperial army generals, their adjutants and guards. They howled in pain and rolled on the ground.

Whether intentionally or unintentionally, several teacups fell on several senior generals around Prince Louis, now the Duke of the Empire. As a result, the generals led by the Bai Danfeng Legion attacked in groups and joined the melee.

Several big bankers, factory owners, and landowners were also slapped inexplicably, especially the chairman of the Banking Association responsible for the issuance of Farus currency, who had his forehead broken by a gilded chair... These well-mannered capitalists also rolled up their sleeves and joined the battle.

Xing Tianli sat on the podium with great interest, overlooking the chaotic parliament hall.

Interesting, really interesting.

It seems that it is not bad to maintain this chaotic situation.

When the ground was covered with blood and two or three hundred of the country's best generals were lying on the ground, rolling and wailing, Xing Tianli finally picked up a gavel that he had found from somewhere and slammed it on the podium.

There was a crisp sound, and the entire parliament hall suddenly fell silent.

Xing Tianli looked at the rosewood gavel in his hand a little embarrassedly, secretly stuffed it back into his sleeve, took out a large Western-style gavel, and knocked it hard on the podium several times.

"That's enough, gentlemen."

"Please pay attention, be decent, be decent, be decent, don't act like a bunch of thugs... You are all nobles of the empire, you will all be nobles of the empire, you can't use force." Xing Tianli gave these guys a reassurance.

All the big guys who were fighting were stunned - Huh? They are all nobles? Then, why are we fighting?

All were restored to dignity.

They straightened their clothes, wiped the blood off their bodies, and helped up their colleagues who were lying wailing on the ground - well, the magical thing was that these imperial wise men who were knocked to the ground, wailing in pain, even foaming at the mouth, and their limbs twitching, after hearing Xing Tianli's words and getting the help of their colleagues, they all became energetic and stood up without any sore waists or leg pain.

They tidied up their appearance...well, their grooming, and returned to their seats, sitting there with their backs straight, like a group of well-behaved and obedient primary school students, staring at their head teacher intently, looking forward to the good news of the spring outing and the holidays.

"I will never be stingy."

Xing Tianli sat on the podium and set the tone for today's conference.

"The title will come."

"There will be a fiefdom."

"Money, there will be."

"Women... you can have it with your own abilities."

"The Empire will never let down any meritorious official."

"Of course, Blood Crow, my brother, my plenipotentiary envoy, said that the empire has only temporarily appointed seven princes... But please note that it is only seven temporarily. As long as the territory of the empire can be expanded, then there can be fourteen, twenty-one, or even more princes... Why not?"

"Even if everyone has made enough contributions in this process, then we can follow the precedent of the Saint Norman Empire and establish a new kingdom outside the empire, and let someone here become the founding monarch of a kingdom. Why not?"

"As long as our territory is big enough!"

Xing Tianli raised his right hand and dropped the heavy scepter to the ground with a dull bang. Behind him, a huge map of the Western Land that was more than ten feet wide fell down with a crash.

Xing Tianli smiled and said, "For example, across the Dusk Mountains, our friendly neighbor Yidoli... is rich, peaceful, romantic, and full of artistic atmosphere. Everyone says that the girls of Falush are the most elegant; but the most romantic and passionate girls are still Yidoli."

"If we can pass through the Dusk Mountains, if we can swallow up Idoli. With Idoli's territory and the titles of five princes, I will definitely not be stingy."

Inside the hall, the officials from the West Factory, East Factory, Inner Factory, and Embroidered Uniform Guard all began breathing rapidly.

An owner of a large factory in the inner factory suddenly jumped up and shouted at the top of his lungs: "Your Majesty, the noble, generous, and supreme emperor... Yidoli, of course, we all want Yidoli... But the mountain people in the Dusk Mountains are not easy to deal with. Our army cannot pass through the Dusk Mountains."

Xing Tianli whistled.

With a wave of his hand, large groups of strong imperial soldiers came in carrying large metal boxes. Countless gold bricks poured down and quickly piled up into a small mountain on the rostrum.

Then, the unstable gold bricks flowed down the edge of the rostrum, "clattering", "ding-dong", boxes of gold bricks were pouring down, pouring down, and becoming clear... Countless gold bricks were rolling and jumping... The blue-green sunlight shone in from the French windows on the top of the parliament hall and from the round dome of the big crystal...

As a result, the gold bricks reflected a dazzling light, which was so blinding that people could not open their eyes, but forced everyone present to stare wide-eyed frantically, for fear of missing out on this extravagant, luxurious and arrogant scene.

Even several big bankers were stunned, their bodies staggering and almost unable to stand.

Our Lady of Mercy.

Even in their vaults, there isn't so much pure gold!
"Dusk Mountains? Ha!" Xing Tianli laughed sarcastically, "I can easily conquer the Dusk Mountains, not with bullets and shells, but with gold coins and gold bricks... Do you think those mountain people will refuse gold bricks? When I give them enough gold bricks, will they refuse to become citizens of the empire?"

"No one is wiser than Your Majesty!" Facing the falling gold bricks, all the dignitaries knelt on the ground.

Absolutely!

The great Black Crow Empire is bound to be invincible!

The support of the nobility alone is not enough to support an empire.

Military support alone is not enough to build an empire.

Only the support of the people...well, in the Western Land, the people are nothing and their support is of no use.

But with its nobles, army, and endless gold bricks, this empire is bound to leave a mark in history books!
(End of this chapter)