Chapter 112: A Precarious Alliance
"Oh, it's really a turbulent time." Xin Ling put down the latest edition of "New Mirror of the Times" in his hand and held his forehead with a headache.
In fact, she now wanted to tear the book into pieces and throw it away, but in order to maintain her elegant posture, she finally chose to throw the book aside.
In the past hundred years, in addition to the empire, a new force has emerged in Fairyland: the Fairy Rebellion.
Leading the group were four fairies shrouded in white robes. Two of them were exceptionally powerful, at least reaching the level of Saint-level fairies, and were responsible for military support, while the other two were mainly responsible for various leadership matters.
What’s even more hateful is that they hooked up with Marg, the author of “New Mirror of the Times”, without knowing when.
Nowadays, almost every issue of "New Mirror of the Times" publicizes the miserable lives of the fairies at the bottom of society, inciting them to fight against oppression and slave owners and inciting uprising.
After a long period of brainwashing, many middle-level fairies in the alliance are very convinced of "New Mirror of the Times". Even Xin Ling herself watches it often, not to mention the lower-level fairies.
Therefore, under the publicity of the reports, more and more lower-class fairies began to awaken their thoughts. They no longer blindly obeyed the orders of the privileged fairies, but began to pursue their own interests.
Where in the entire fairyland are there the most low-level fairies? Without a doubt, it is the Alliance.
Therefore, the alliance was the one that suffered the most from this ideological revolution.
Instigated by the reports, more and more lower-class fairies chose to defect. Some of them joined the empire, and some joined the rebels.
Moreover, after defecting, they will unify their statements in journal reports and step on the alliance, causing the alliance's reputation to become increasingly worse.
Xin Ling had also thought about banning the sale of the journal, but unfortunately the publisher of the journal was Princess Qing's younger brother, the current fairy sorcerer Zhou Yin.
Not to mention that Zhou Yin himself is very powerful, just look at how much Ai Zhen values Zhou Yin. As long as she wants to win over Princess Qing to fight against the empire, she must never do anything that would make her brother sad.
Since you can't fight against the publisher of the journal, find the author of the article.
As long as the Daisy Fairy Marg is controlled, this trend will also be suppressed to a considerable extent.
And the Alliance did capture Mag.
Marg's accommodation was not conspicuous, but it was not particularly remote either. There were some fairies in Wonderland who knew her, not to mention that the Alliance had conducted an almost carpet search.
They soon found Mag's new residence and imprisoned her.
In the following months, "New Mirror of the Times" did not make any more statements against the alliance. After all, it had stopped updating.
But you have to know that the more you suppress thoughts, the more they flourish.
The journal did not continue to report any anti-oppression speeches, but the countless early reports had already planted the seeds in the hearts of many ordinary fairies in the alliance.
The more we suppress this kind of thought and this trend, the more terrible the backlash will be.
No matter whether they are humans or fairies, they would like their freedom to be violated, and what the Alliance is doing now is precisely violating this freedom.
The ordinary fairies in the alliance are already slaves physically, and now they are even being trained to be slaves mentally... They have nowhere to go, they only have one way to go.
Revolt! Revolt! Revolution!
At this critical moment, the rebels also took action. They could not bear to see their comrades being imprisoned by the Alliance.
Although the middle and lower levels of the rebel army are very weak, they at least have the support of two saint-level fairies.
Taking advantage of the fact that Xin Ling and Luo Li, the two permanent fairies of the alliance, were out, they quickly rescued Mag who was imprisoned in the dungeon.
As soon as she was rescued, Marg quickly updated the 14th issue of "New Mirror of the Times", and attached the latest report with everything the alliance had done to her, as well as her current emaciated photo.
"Comrades, I have successfully returned alive!"
"At this moment, I am standing here not to accuse everyone of the evil deeds of the alliance, but to tell everyone that if fairies like me don't stand up and resist from now on, there will be no way out."
"I heard that two great monks in the human world once had a discussion: How should I deal with people who slander me, deceive me, insult me, laugh at me, look down on me, despise me, hate me, and cheat me?"
"Another monk replied: Just tolerate him, let him be, leave him alone, avoid him, endure him, respect him, ignore him, wait a few more years, and then you will see what happens."
"What an open-minded person you have. But when will this day of bullying end?"
"Rise up! Comrades, rise up! Patience will not bring us justice. We must use our hands and flesh to get justice for ourselves."
"If there are no fairies to rule for us, then we can rule for ourselves. The fairyland gave us birth, there is no reason for us to be slaves."
"Keep your head up high, we have the right to look directly at the sun! Comrades, revolution is imminent!"
She looks thin and has a depressed mental state, but her indomitable soul is shining brightly. All these things have made Magg extremely famous among the ordinary fairies.
After watching the film, the ordinary fairies thought of their own situations and burst into tears.
A fairy in a pink skirt quietly wiped away the tears from her eyes, looking miserable, "I don't want to endure it anymore, I want to live freely, not begging for mercy like a slave!"
"This huge fairyland has never been the home of us low-level fairies." The white-haired fairy next to her looked indignant.
If the oppression in the past was justified and within the scope of tolerance, then the oppression now is undisguised, cruel and ruthless.
Faced with the heavy pressure of the empire, the alliance must continue to enhance its war potential, but where will the resources come from?
Security tax, war tax, property tax, transportation tax...if we could count them all, that would probably be the limit!
They did not learn the empire's benevolence, but instead learned to use taxation to subsidize themselves, but ended up drawing a tiger but ended up drawing a dog instead.
Moreover, although the Fairyland War has not yet begun, local hot wars are inevitable, and friction wars of varying sizes have occurred in many places.
Ordinary fairies might even be sent to the battlefield by the alliance to fight for their lives at any time.
Life, property, freedom, all are gone. The contradictions between the upper and lower levels of the alliance have reached an extremely sharp point, and the people have long been full of resentment.
Now it has been discovered that the top leaders of the alliance want to imprison the thoughts of the people as well, and for this purpose they cruelly treat an innocent fairy.
Most fairies are kind and know that they are treated like this because of Mag, which makes them feel even more guilty. The more guilty they feel, the more they hate the Alliance.
In a short time, even the good reputation accumulated by the alliance leader Xin Ling for thousands of years was destroyed, and countless fairies defected.
The alliance is in turmoil...
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