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【1189】 Sand pirates and mercenaries

When Shiville first heard about the “Fate of the descendants of the Shurima Royal Family”, she scoffed at this statement.

Even though the other party did show amazing magic, she still regarded it as the words and rhetoric used by the witch in the dilapidated tent when she was fooling people money - although Shiville did not understand why the other party was fooling her.

Shiville never believed in fate, nor did he think that someone would bear any responsibility when he was born, because according to normal fate, she should be a little princess in a wealthy family, rather than a mercenary who lost her parents since childhood, could only struggle in the market in Nash Latin America, and when she grew up, she could only work hard.

So, she rejected Azir's invitation and would rather be with Yasuo - for her, spending money to hire is a more familiar and reliable means of trading, royal blood, established destiny, etc., all of which are nonsense!

However, just after Shiville escaped in this way for a few years, the world began to gradually make her unable to understand.

In the eyes of other countries, the Battle of the Three Emperors heralds the changes in the Shurima pattern and the drastic changes in the international form of the Runeland.

But from Shiville's perspective, what she saw was the complete collapse of the old order.

In the Battle of the Three Emperors, Noxus won, Azer did not lose, and Zelas collapsed, but after the war, the order of the entire Beishurima region completely changed.

During the large-scale war, the mercenaries were inevitably involved and then became part of the war in various forms - some of them were incorporated into cannon fodder and scouts, some were simply swept away when the battlefield was opened, and many of them saw that the situation was wrong, so they simply pulled their brothers to join the army.

When the war ended and the truce was signed, a few mercenaries who had avoided this disaster came back and found that Beishurima, which was once a city-state, had no room for mercenaries to move.

In the past, the Beishurima city-state had always only cared about the one-acre and three-point land in front of it, but the economy was still highly dependent on trade, mining and handicrafts. In addition, many Piltwolf's "explorers" were patronized, the blank area of ​​order between the various city-states gave the mercenaries huge space for activity.

In this case, mercenaries can be mercenaries, bodyguards, and work hard for the big family in the city-state. The most common thing in the entire Beishurima is the way to make money.

For Shurima people who have no skills, sand thieves, scavenging and mercenaries are the three most serious ways out, and it doesn’t cost much, and it’s extremely easy to enter the industry.

However, as the Battle of the Three Emperors swept across the entire Beishurima, countless sand thieves were nourished here, and the soil of mercenaries and scavengers seemed to have been plowed by the fire of war, and it was completely unrecognizable.

The area occupied by Noxus soon entered the state of military control. After the battle, the three giants of the Choi Farley parliament rarely reached a unified opinion, all believed that this place needs to be purged carefully and thus truly become a part of Noxus.

Sand thief?

According to Noxus law, the sand thief will be hung after being caught!

Mercenary?

Noxus welcomes mercenaries, but all mercenaries can only have one employer, that is, the Noxus Empire - mercenaries can only be mercenaries, bodyguards, guides, and brokers fighting for Noxus. Don’t think about hanging a mercenary sign, take care of everything!

And... have you paid the tax?

The occupations are divided into heavy taxes, and the lives of the mercenaries have taken a sharp turn.

However, while bringing strict laws, Noxus also brought countless opportunities - the mercenaries who participated in helping with material transportation, information transmission, and battlefield covert in the Battle of the Three Emperors received commendation from Svein. The commander of the commander gave these guys who thought they were cannon fodder with the honor of the empire, and when several mercenaries knelt on their feet to serve allegiance, they said the words that represented the "Noxas Spirit".

"In the past, the nobles asked you to kneel down, and now, Noxus asked you to stand up!"

Through this method, Svein resolutely changed the situation in central and eastern North Shurima. Except for a few mercenaries with certain capital who ran to Picheng, Nizhen and other places, the other mercenaries quickly disappeared invisible under the means of the commander of the Noxus and gradually became part of the war machine of the Noxus Empire.

Although these experienced mercenaries are difficult to become part of an elite legion, they can at least contribute to Noxus in their own way.

For example, the war stonemason organization successfully recruited a large number of people here. After professional training, they would go to other places in Shurima to be pioneers and outposts for the arrival of the imperial army, and collect important information and information.

When one after another of the Noxtolas rose up and spread across all the cities in central and eastern North Shurima, the empire's rule will be as solid as a rock and unbreakable!

There will be no sand thieves and mercenaries here, only the Imperial War Machine, one brand new part after another, and one piece of flesh and blood fuel, supporting Svein to control this terrible war machine and continue moving forward.

The victory of the Battle of the Three Emperors is just the beginning.

Svein's Shurima conquest plan has begun!

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There are winners, there are losers.

In the west, as the unlucky guy who suffered the most losses in the Battle of the Three Emperors, Zeras simply chose to do it himself.

That's right, the ancient witch spirit personally took his subordinates to sweep the sand thief nest in the territory. A demigod ascensioner, the arcane life body actually crawled into the sand sea shamelessly. The sand thief nests were over, and then gave all the sand thiefs who were defeated by themselves.

Either surrender or be finished.

Faced with this choice, no sand thief would foolishly commit suicide. In this way, Zelas returned a wave of blood and barely had the manpower to maintain order.

Then, just as the mercenary was watching the wall and laughing in his heart, Zelas quickly turned his gun and attacked the mercenary.

The cunning Wu Ling did not directly force the mercenaries to choose one of them like a sand thief. He adopted a three-step strategy, narrowing the scope of activities of the mercenaries step by step.

First, he ordered the mercenaries to register, and if they did not register, they would not be able to take on the job.

Registration has been tried in various city-states in the past, but mercenaries are more sloppy than anyone else. How can you register at will? If you want to register, you can just use a pseudonym; do you ask for employment contract registration? The real content of the genius registration!

However, just when the mercenaries thought that three fires had burned, Zelas began the second step: paid report.

It is said that it is a paid report, but it is actually to publicly encourage fishing law enforcement - hiring mercenaries. If the contract and actual content are inconsistent, the employer has nothing to do with it, and the mercenaries will be arrested and exiled!

I, Zelas, are very reasonable, you don’t register well!

This kind of fishing law enforcement has brought considerable chaos to the local order. Some people even began to cheat mercenaries in order to report the rewards - so for a moment, all the mercenaries were in danger.

When the chaos subsided, some mercenaries chose to leave or transfer their jobs, while the other part simply did things in a regular manner. Anyway, the mercenary market was large. Although they would be subject to heavy taxes now, the subsequent rewards were also good.

But, do you think Zelas let the mercenaries go?

Too naive - Just when the mercenaries thought everything was going well, Zelas simply announced that the mercenaries were "illegal activities".

The mercenaries who have always worked properly were all stupid. They never dreamed that Zelas would simply be shameless.

Of course, Zelas was not suddenly in a state of distraction. While announcing the illegality of mercenaries, he also announced the legalization of public security autonomous groups in various places, and gave autonomy to various city-states and small cities in legal terms.

These legal small city-states are qualified to take over these mercenaries and turn them from illegal mercenaries into legal public security autonomous groups, while Zelas's "Central Army" is responsible for mobile defense, road maintenance and other matters.

To some extent, Zelas's behavior was a complete split act, a reversal of history - but, with the Noxus eyeing the north and Azer in the south, the lords of various cities were willing to unite by Zelas.

Zelas fully absorbed the experience of mutual protection in the Northeast and made a clear self-determination from the beginning. He never interfered in matters within each city-state. He just wanted the lords and governors of each city-state to be responsible to him, and then used the profits to maintain the central standing army to fight against the enemies on both sides of the north and south.

This method of similar feudalism seems stupid, but in fact it is extremely clever. Zelas' biggest problem is that he has no control over the grassroots. He could only rely on the Lieyang Sect before, but the Battle of the Three Emperors proved that the Lieyang Sect was purely a pitfall, so after thinking about it, he simply ignored the grassroots.

centralization?

The right to collect a hammer, but Zelas does not have any manpower to do so!

In this way, Zeras really made his territory very vivid - the lords from all over the country showed great enthusiasm, allowing Zeras' new Shurima to quickly get rid of the previous dilemma and even greatly reduce his dependence on the Lieyang Sect!

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Unlike Zelas, Azer's choice has completely gone in another direction.

Zelas won over the lords through enfeoffment and taxation, and gained support by giving up the grassroots, while Azer grabbed the entire opposite eyebrows and beard.

To centralize power, to the death - the emperor will take all the power of Shurima!

After the Battle of the Three Emperors, Azer did two things in total.

The first thing is to eliminate the sand thieves - all sand thieves will be wiped out, and the sand thieves caught will be counted one by one, and they will be thrown into the mines. They will work in the mines in the south until they die.

The second thing is to eliminate mercenaries. Azer is in charge of justice and does not engage in those fancy ones. He directly declared that "in Shurima there is only one team of the Royal Army, no mercenaries." All mercenaries either change their positions and become professional guides, fixed bodyguards in the caravan, or go to the test to see if they can join the army and become a glorious royal soldier.

It is actually very dangerous to cancel a large number of mercenaries in one step, which can easily cause turmoil in the situation. However, after just finishing the sand thief, Azel, who had freed up his hands, easily eliminated all dissatisfaction with Nathers and Recton.

More importantly, he divided a few soldiers separately to do the work of mercenaries before (that is what Shiville saw). They had official endorsements and represented Azer's will. Some people dared to make trouble and directly smashed them with the emperor's iron fist, so that even if the mercenaries lowered the price, they could not compete at all...

With two-pronged approach, the mercenaries gradually declined in Azer's territory until they disappeared without a trace.

Shiville did not see Azer's killing, but just seeing the safety guarantees of the guards in the office was enough to make her understand the differences in competitiveness between the two sides - according to the case, there was once a big job to be sent to Bilgewater, and was intercepted by pirates halfway through. The escorted soldiers were killed, and only one escaped. Then Azer took Nathers and Recton to personally run to the Sea of ​​Watch, found the island occupied by the pirates, and killed all the pirates.

If you want to rob the caravan protected by Shurima soldiers, you can - as long as your head is strong enough to survive the mixed three dozens of Ascensioners!

Moreover, even though Azil and the other three were a little busy... Shurima's soldiers were not busy!

The regular army can clean up the sand thieves, it’s really okay to have hands!

After this battle, unless there is a national force behind the support, almost no one dares to take advantage of the materials escorted by Shurima soldiers. This security service for the country's end completely digs the roots of the mercenaries.

After learning all this, Shiville felt like a different life. After staying on Fukugawa Island for a few years, when he left again, Shurima no longer looked like he knew him!

At this moment, Shiville finally felt a sense of urgency. For the first time, she clearly felt that she was being abandoned and left behind.

She found that her life had undergone a fusion again. This time the change was not as intense as her parents were killed by the sand thief, but it was as strong as the one who had been killed by the sand thief, but it was enough to turn everything in Shiville upside down.

Shiville finally realized that she needed to do something and change something to adapt to this change, but after leaving the dock and thinking for a long time, she could only look confused.

Her ideal of making a lot of money has been shattered, and now she has no interest in money.

But she didn't have a clear understanding of what she was going to do. Shevil seemed to have returned to the time when she just lost her parents, and had no idea what she was going to do - no, at that time she at least knew to live, but now Shevil was sure that she could survive, but she knew nothing about what she was going to do.

Just when she was full of doubt and at a loss, Yasuo came.

"Let's go, let's meet your ancestors first!"
Chapter completed!
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