When the sun began to tilt toward the horizon, the afterglow of the setting sun cast an orange glow on the gradually darkening sea level. Before darkness begins to dominate the world, this is like the last struggle of light, but it is also the most glorious tribute.
???????????????????????????????????????????????????? The witch-refining sorceress Ariel, who has the title of "Red Priest" among the abyss demons and has begun to take charge of the Orendal Order, has now transformed into a beautiful woman in her prime. She was wrapped in a gorgeous and coquettish purple robe, walking on the milky white beach with rhythmic steps, listening to the rhythmic "sand" sound. She seemed to be quite enjoying the feeling she was having. She walked very slowly until she reached a small trestle and stopped when she looked at the kind old man who was fishing leisurely on the trestle.
"Teacher, the activities on the Calais side have ended. The Duke of Lancaster has surrendered, the Auckland Empire's favor to the western and southern princes is irreversible, and the prestige of the Holy Spring Royal Queen will no longer be inferior to Her grandfather, the Sun King. No, in other words, the central imperial power in Auckland's history has never been so powerful!"
The old man nodded, and suddenly lifted the fishing rod slightly. The gentle movement seemed like he was fishing for a sardine, but what came out of the water was an overlord red swordfish that was more than four meters long - this thing was from the Falling Star Sea The famous offshore product, the meat is delicious, but also ferocious and cunning. It should not be caught with a fishing rod in the first place, let alone the ordinary wooden pole in the old man's hand that looks like a commercial product. However, this offshore overlord, which was already close to a phantom beast species, barely dared to move. It only subconsciously twitched a few times, more like trembling than struggling.
"You guys have taken it orally today. Oh, but the last time I cooked red swordfish was when I was a human. I don't know how much of my cooking skills I still have left." The old man threw the Overlord's red flag on the beach. He stood up with satisfaction, carrying the fishing rod and walked towards the small seaside villa not far away.
The woman made a spell, pulled out the invisible magic chain, and dragged the huge red swordfish to follow.
"Arielle, it has been more than six thousand years. Back then, this place was at the peak of the rule of the Griffin family of the Griffin Dynasty. Now, the Griffin family has disappeared, and even the subsequent Flame Dragon royal family Dragor has also been cut off. Bloodline, but the coast here hasn¡¯t changed much! I can still catch red swordfish here.¡±
"So, when the Royal Holy Spring becomes history, from history to legend, from legend to myth, I will come fishing with you again, okay?"
"Stupid girl! If this is really the case, why should I take such a big risk and cooperate with that crazy missing person?" The old man transformed by Orendar showed an expression of "You are still a childish girl after all." Deliberately speaking with a sincere attitude: "You, like Lilivi, still have something to learn, so I let you join this organization."
"Isis that so?" The witch refining sorceress was still a little confused.
"Witness everything here. Then, you will have the future!" Orendal said to his most proud disciple: "Then, Ariel, tell me, the researchers and wealthy businessmen that the future lady asked you to look for, Do you have any direction?"
"There are indeed candidates who can be used as alternatives. However, Lily and I have discussed it. Since it is so important, why not do everything by ourselves? Therefore, Lily has already gone to Neosphia to investigate."
Orendar paused for a moment, looked at his disciple up and down, and showed a happy and satisfied smile: "This is the most satisfactory answer I have heard today."
The young girl with purple hair is elegant and slender, but because she is wearing a light and comfortable work skirt, she is a little more capable. She walked neatly on the streets of Neosfia's East City New District, holding a large stack of documents in her hand. She looked through it as she walked, and finally showed a satisfied look.
"It looks like things are going well, right?" The person who spoke was a girl named Saimuyi. She was three or four years older than the delicate purple-haired girl. Her temperament was tougher and more heroic, and she walked with a dashing spirit. She has a androgynous boyish style, so now her ordinary housewife's home clothes always feel a bit inappropriate. Even carrying a large vegetable basket feels out of place. She always feels that she might take out two knives from it at any time. Kill people.
"Overall, it's going well, Sister Ina." The purple-haired girl greeted with a smile: "I have already negotiated with the induction furnace factory here, and they have agreed that we will supply them with energy transmission pipes. In addition, the registration with the new district government has been completed. Next month, our Olina Guidance Workshop will be officially and legally open for business."
"Is this no problem? Olga, just call it the Guidance Workshop. Is the goal too big?"
"Don't worry, Neosphia now belongs to the future.There are already more than a dozen large-scale guide factories under the direct control or guidance of the ?? Chamber of Commerce. Seven or eight small businesses that produce supporting parts for them open their doors every day, and they all call themselves guide workshops. Who are we? Of course, none of these small businesses will survive next month, but we must be an exception. Having said that" Olga looked at the big vegetable basket in the other person's hand: "How is brother? "
"It's still the same as before, hiding in the house, drinking and cursing and not coming out" Ina sighed, her face filled with the sadness of "My husband is a loser, what should I do? I'm waiting online in a hurry."
"How is this possible? After all, he can write and calculate in several languages, and he also worked as a small leader in the Department of Land and Resources and the Shipping Commission. I still expect him to do the work. We can't afford to hire people now. The whole family has to be busy! After going back, Sister Ina will still use the old method of giving up smoking and drinking for him! Get up at six o'clock every day and work for me! If you don't dare to see people, just stay in the basement and burn alchemy for him. Tube!"
"This, I can also understand Duide. Olga, after all, Elishaer's side"
"Sister Ina, as I said, when I left the Federation, Elishael had nothing to do with us. My grandfather wanted me to do this, and my father should have wanted me to do the same. So, everything that happened to Elishael Don't even tell me. I don't dare to listen yet Do you understand?"
Under the contempt of a weak girl with no power to restrain a chicken, the famous genius warrior princess from various countries in Sosnes did not dare to say another word, so she could only say yes.
"However, you are right about one thing. Staying in Neosphia and living under the business of the Future Chamber of Commerce is not a long-term solution after all. I do have the idea to open a factory in Sosnes or even the Western Continent. That is the edge of the future chamber of commerce, but this requires our own core technical competitiveness. Oh, forget itthis is all a story for later, maybe it is just a daydream of mine. It is very likely that, from his lifetime , we can only live in their shadow, looking for scraps to survive." Olga smiled bitterly. At the age of twenty, he now laughs at the vicissitudes of sixty years old and the love of the world.
But at this time, a soft, sweet, even childish and cute child's voice suddenly sounded in their ears: "So, if there are enough funds and manpower to support it, is it still a later matter?"
Olga was suddenly startled, but Princess Ina next to her actually took out two daggers from the large vegetable basket. But at this time, the two of them discovered that they were in a scarlet and barren wilderness.
However, they should obviously be in the bustling city of Neosphia. At least that was the case a second ago.
"Who is it? Or where does it come from?" Princess Ina shouted in a deep voice, stopping in front of Olga.
She was mentally prepared to fight desperately to make Olga escape, but when the other party suddenly condensed from a hazy shadow into a solid entity and appeared in front of her, most of her momentum was immediately lost.
It was a little girl who looked to be only eleven or twelve years old and was wearing a red dress. She was cute, delicate and pretty.
"It's weird and so on. It's really unpleasant. First of all, my name is Liliwei. I like you very much, so I hope you can call me Lily after we get along for a while." The little girl said seriously and old-fashioned.
Seeing that the two people on the other side were still in a state of confusion, the little girl thought for a moment, patted her little face, and immediately showed a flowery smile full of fireworks: "Anyway, I have a strange secret society here. The tickets are filled with very interesting people. Are you interested in joining? Let¡¯s share your knowledge and become bad guys together ah no, let¡¯s make our business bigger together!¡±
The whispers hiding in the shadow of history still continue. They do not expect history to go back, but they hope to move into the future with the positive direction of history. They know very well that shadows will last forever, just as the stars lingering in the night sky will last forever, and the glory of the day will last forever.
Lu Xi, who was in the Azure Palace, already knew that the three women who had given birth to children and were about to give birth to children seemed to have reached an agreement to divide the world, but he had nothing to say. As the liberator (or conqueror) of Elishal, and the true master of the Azure Palace, he is indeed currently busier than ever, with too many matters waiting for his judgment and decision.
When the heads of the sect headed by Turner Veerambat were hung on the gallows to dry, the two oldest and most influential giants, Veeranbat and Dandelion, were also completely liquidated. Their property was confiscated, their lands were confiscated, their families were liquidated, and a large number of slaves were emancipated.
"But, without the master me, where can we go?" The slaves were confused.They stared blankly at the government clerks who appeared in front of them. They were not as ecstatic as they had imagined. The clerks who regarded themselves as liberators suddenly felt a chill in their hearts.
"You will be free from now on and can make the decisions for your own life!"
"Do it, call the shots? What does it mean to be the master?" The people who had just gained citizenship returned to their shacks in confusion. When the time came, they spontaneously returned to their workstations and worked mechanically without waiting for the foremen to drive them away. stand up.
The government clerks were stunned but unable to do anything. They were either recent graduates or junior officers who had retired from the Fourth and Sixth Corps. They were passionate and passionate, but they did not have the ability to handle this situation. They could only report these situations back, and finally they were summarized in Sexiliu's hands.
¡°It seems, it¡¯s different from what we imagined!¡± Sexiliu was also surprised, so he had to ask the omnipotent someone.
"This is understandable. For slave owners, slaves are property and means of production, and they need to be well maintained. Slaves are guaranteed at least three meals a day, and the masters are even willing to help them marry and have children. , start a family. If you meet a master who eats well and is relatively kind, your life is essentially more comfortable than that of some homesteaders in remote places. They don¡¯t have to think about the future, life or death, and just live as livestock. Until now. , slaves became so-called citizens, and all the above responsibilities that a free person needs to bear must be borne by themselves. For them, this is a quite unfamiliar word. Because it is unfamiliar, it is heavy. "Lu Xi was not surprised at all.
"To put it bluntly, if there is no stable economic foundation for liberation, it is really just self-satisfaction." Lu Xidao: "Fortunately, we have this foundation."
Of course the freed slaves had choices. They could continue to work on their former masters' lands and mines, yet receive a far more generous wage than they had received as slaves. In addition, the reclamation of Khadgar Island, Blackrun City and Triumph Territory requires immigrants, and the reconstruction projects in various places also require labor.
In addition, the construction of a new guided shipyard has also begun. This is the first step in the federal guidance force formation plan, to replace the flying beasts with too low safety factor with stable and fast guidance force regular ships - after all, traditional floating passenger ships are rare goods, and the tickets are not affordable for ordinary people. As the saying goes, if you want to get rich, you must first build roads. You can't build roads in the sky, but you can take a boat.
In short, with so many choices, the liberation of slaves can come step by step.
¡°In the following month, the parliament held more than a dozen meetings, which can be called their most diligent period in decades. Of course, nearly half of the people in both the Senate and the House of Commons are absent, either dead or in prison, but this does not affect the enthusiasm of the remaining members at all.
The first thing is to replace the staff. As a result, after (unreasonably efficient) citizen elections, a large number of members who were truly born into the ordinary citizen class entered the Azure Palace. Former gangster bosses like Taran even directly entered the House of Lords, becoming the first in the history of the Federation not to A literate patriarchbut so what? Isn't this a bit like a lighthouse?
The subsequent process was the establishment of the National Police Agency and the establishment of the FBI. General Agrol retired to the reserve and became the new Minister of Military Affairs. The former Governor of Black Man became the Federal Minister of the Interior and the Governor of the Orso Region, plus A series of personnel orders.
All the above are carried out within the framework of the parliament and are absolutely fair, just, legal and reasonable.
After that, it¡¯s the highlight.
Master Palon Avalar officially took over the position of leader of the League of Learning, and then held a meeting of magisters that had not been held for countless years. At the meeting, Lucy Berencaster was officially awarded the title of Grand Master. The Magister is also the youngest Grand Magister in history.
Therefore, Lu Xi also automatically obtained the rank of marshal.
On the 30th of the Glorious Era, while ordinary citizens were already preparing for the New Year celebrations and the subsequent Creation Day activities, the temporary speaker of the Senate, the previous president of the Federation, Mr. Kerbat, the sleek and smooth The big fat man is obviously much older and shriveled now. During the more than a month that he was dragged out to serve as the interim speaker, he suffered from anxiety and fear, and now it was finally time to get rid of it.
The old speaker looked at the awe-inspiring federal generals in front of him, wiped the sweat from his face, and then picked up the parliamentary seal with a slight trembling. The official document of "Supreme Consul" was stamped.
Therefore, the position of supreme governor, the true head of state, which has disappeared in federal society for a hundred years, has been officially restored today.??
However, on the same day, the rumbling power drill bit opened the mountains of Ashan, and within a few hours, a passage was opened that could pass through for several people.
This is the first time that force-guiding machinery has been used in the mining industry.
On the same day, a guided arsenal was established in Oakland and Virginia. Although their scale and technical strength are far less than that of the established Northern Industries, who can say for sure what will happen in the future?
Many things happened on this day, such as the Dragon Knights officially moving their headquarters into the Spiral Fortress; another example, a group of civil war refugees from the Federation finally arrived at an island off the coast of the New World; and another example, Sexiliu felt a little uncomfortable and wanted to vomit, so he finally refused the proposal to go with Lu Xi to accept the cheers of the people.
So, the Era of Glory ended in 1228, and the beginning of the new year was the first year of the Era of Guidance.