Chapter 266 The Third Leg
Lin Wen has always had two plans, the "Super-Limited Growth Plan" and the "Perfect Reincarnation Plan".
These two plans are his core fulcrums, equivalent to the two legs he uses to walk.
But for a long time, one of them has been lame.
Due to the huge bad karma, it is impossible for Lin Wen to reincarnate. Even if he encounters the opportunity, he can only give up helplessly.
And now, after walking with a limp for so long, is there finally a chance to recover?
Lin Wen immediately punctured the water drop and used this luck.
"Demon Disintegration" turned into a black light and hovered over [Yuankong] as Lin Wen looked.
The magical power is broken down into two items:
One is to follow the laws of nature, which means reducing the cost of casting spells.
The other is the emptiness of karma, which means reducing both good and bad karma.
Lin Wen focused his attention on the item "Only Emptiness of Fate", and black light immediately flew into it.
Soon, the three words "Yuan Kong" turned into black steam, and black lightning covered it, just like an evil fate magical power, which seemed out of place among the golden good fate magical powers.
The description of the magical power has also changed.
[Yuankong] (Demon state): Extremely quickly reduces good karma, quickly reduces bad karma, and no longer reduces spell consumption.
This price is quite high, Lin Wen thought.
If the spell consumption is no longer reduced, it means that he has to cast spells twice, which means a huge loss.
If you want to avoid losing money, you have to lie down and not use magic.
Therefore, Lin Wen decided to go into seclusion for seven days, ignoring worldly affairs, concentrating on cultivating immortality for seven days, and accumulating his primordial spirit for seven days.
In this way, Changshan County ushered in the first seven days without County Chief Lin.
But, it seems, nothing has changed.
Everything is as usual, in good order and on schedule.
All businesses, factories, and departments were operating normally, and although the county hall was busy, there was no chaos.
Zhao Minggong is in good health now. Although he still needs bed rest and special treatment, he can work six hours a day, which greatly relieves Yang Shaohu's pressure and ensures that the most arduous administrative system does not have any problems.
Qin Luoshuang called back a large number of old subordinates and began to recruit and train new ones. Her county chief's guard department rapidly expanded to more than 8,000 people. KGB agents have completed the protection of the entire Changshan County and even sent a large number of intelligence personnel to collect information and spy on intelligence in other places.
The Changshan County Forbidden Spell Master Corps took on the role of supervisor, closely monitoring the Changshan County government staff, which had reached nearly 60,000, and the subordinate county-owned factories, totaling more than 400,000 people (most of which were Tianjiang Fishery Company and Changshan County Food Factory).
While Chen Xingtai organized manpower to reclaim wasteland, he also did not forget to recruit a large number of people from other places, and at the same time fully supported non-governmental organizations in various places.
Yang Shaohu and Huang Mingxiao are responsible for extremely large refugee affairs, and the Refugee Management Committee has become the largest organization in the empire.
No one could have imagined that such a massive organization could emerge from Changshan County, a remote and desolate place. The power they unleashed was unimaginable.
Yang Shaohu, Huang Mingxiao, and millions of refugees from the Refugee Management Committee made tremendous efforts and used manpower to dig out millions of tons of rock and clear all the buildings on the mountain.
Now, all 30 buildings and the huge central square in the mountain complex have been transformed into habitable areas.
In order to accommodate more refugees, Yang Shaohu also came up with the "double sleeping method": some people sleep during the day, and some people sleep at night. In this way, the number of people accommodated in a room is doubled.
With this method, Yang Shaohu crammed more than 4.5 million people in, with almost one person living in every square meter. If measured by population density, this place is already extremely crowded.
The extremely high population density brought extremely high management difficulty, but Yang Shaohu took it on with his strong ability. Not only did he maintain order in this super building, but he also made life better and better. The cave-like building was becoming more and more like a normal home.
With the joint efforts of Yang Shaohu and Huang Mingxiao, the refugee camp in Qingcheng finally disappeared, and all the refugees were taken to Changshan County.
Now, there are only scattered refugees outside who are rushing towards Changshan County, but their number is very small.
At this point, the refugee reception project has been completed, but a more difficult task has also begun.
The total number of refugees in Changshan County is close to 8 million. In addition to the huge management pressure, the surge in population has once again widened the food gap.
So, the real test is how to get through this day.
Yang Shaohu and Huang Mingxiao were making nervous preparations.
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The fact that Changshan County accepted so many refugees was not widely known, and few people knew about it except Zhongzhou and the Council of Advocates.
The Council deliberately suppressed the news, pretending that the refugees had vanished into thin air. Besides attacking Zhongzhou in the newspapers, they also implicitly accused Changshan County of acting selfishly, disregarding the greater good of the empire, and monopolizing high-tech blades.
There were also many unofficial tabloids that were smearing Changshan County. In addition, Changshan County refused all interviews with reporters, and reporters who had smuggled in were all caught by agents. As a result, there was not a single good word about Changshan County in the public opinion of the entire empire, and negative news about it was everywhere.
The Council did this for two purposes: one was to isolate Changshan County, and the other was to force Changshan County to hand over the production formula of the knives.
Currently, all the coke used for smelting at Changshan Iron and Steel Plant cannot be purchased within the empire. The Qin Group has blocked most of the channels, and the Council of Advocates has completed the blockade of the last part of private channels.
All the coke the steel mill needed was purchased from abroad by Qin Luoshuang. Because of her former unique status, she knew many channels. Although she was no longer the eldest daughter of the Qin Group, most of these channels were neutral and did not serve the Qin Group alone. As long as the money was enough, they would do any business.
However, due to the long distance, the Council of Advocates specifically checked the imperial foreign cargo ships heading to Changshan County and collected various fees from them, causing the price of coke shipped across the ocean to triple.
The rare earth elements needed for the flying sword workshop were also out of supply. These were things that were difficult to buy abroad. Fortunately, Lin Wen had the foresight to build another rare earth factory on the rare earth mine in Changshan County.
Changshan County itself also has iron ore, so although the cost of raw materials has increased a bit, the production of Changshan Iron and Steel Plant has not been affected at all, and the impact on profits is minimal.
In fact, due to the self-production of rare earths, the price has actually increased a lot.
The Council is considering banning cargo ships from outside the Empire from entering, but this involves the relationship between the Empire and countries around the world and may cause protests and disputes in foreign affairs, so they have been hesitant.
The Foreign Affairs Bureau, led by Qin Luoshuang, has recently recruited many capable people. In addition to some veteran cadres from Sky Song, there are also a large number of students majoring in world affairs and international relations who have just graduated from the Imperial Capital Higher College.
These people are not academics. Those who can enter the World Affairs and International Relations major of the Imperial Capital Higher College and graduate have all experienced actual combat and are very familiar with the situation inside and outside the empire.
The reason why Qin Luoshuang was able to recruit so many outstanding talents and let them give up their favorable environment and come to Changshan County was because of Xia Xiaoxiang's idea.
Among them, the three most important elements are: there are many beautiful women here, a super goddess boss, and treatment that is far better than the Imperial Foreign Affairs Department they will enter after graduation.
These people did not disappoint expectations. They cried and shouted everywhere, shouting that Changshan Iron and Steel Plant was no longer profitable and was about to go bankrupt. They begged all the bosses to spare them because they were almost unable to continue.
The Council believed it and decided not to pay a high price to ban the passage of foreign cargo ships from the Empire for the time being.
Of course, this is only a temporary expedient. The conflict between Changshan County and the Council is irreconcilable and will eventually break out.
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The imperial war has now entered its most critical period. The Third Army and the Seventh Army of the Papal States recently launched the "Autumn Offensive", trying to take advantage of the Empire's lack of ammunition to defeat the Empire's external defense line in one fell swoop.
The Empire's twin stars, Yang Jiewei and Xu Feili, fought a fierce battle with the Papal States with the help of Li Linyue, who was ordered to lead the Royal Guards to support them.
In the world, the empire, as the most powerful country in the world, has always appeared as a powerful hegemon. Although it is not as powerful as before, it is still a hegemon.
All countries would like to see the once domineering empire suffer a setback.
Although publicly everyone called for peace and condemned the Papal States' massacre of civilians, privately they were frantically selling weapons, ammunition, oil, and even missiles and airplanes to the Papal States, hoping to bleed more blood from the empire.
The envoys of the Papal States went out for a tour and got all kinds of military aid and supplies. Not only were there no restrictions, but they were also cheap and good quality.
They even provided free aid of many anti-biological and anti-virus materials to help the Papal States resist the biological and chemical attacks that played a huge role in the Empire.
After all, the Papal States now traded in gold, digging up precious metals from temples, chapels, cathedrals, and even mausoleums. In today's economic crisis and the over-issuance of currencies by various countries, they were the glittering gold of the wealthy.
The empire's envoys went out for a walk, and the things they collected could not even fill a train car. There were even high-ranking officials within the empire who were trading arms and selling them to the other side.
The situation was undoubtedly very unfavorable, and the empire had obviously noticed this. Emperor Li Longxing launched an investigation into "Who is obstructing the empire's victory" and received full support from the Supreme Council.
While Li Longxing was investigating internal corruption, he was also taking the opportunity to change some unreasonable systems.
As a result, there were some improvements within the empire, with unemployment rates falling, lower-income incomes increasing, public security improving, and the economy prospering.
The four great elders of the empire also once again emphasized the importance of stability in the empire, requiring all places to abide by the law. At the same time, they strictly prohibited internal strife and internal consumption in various regions, and strictly prohibited all local conflicts. Officials who dared to undermine stability would be severely punished, or even dismissed from office.
Under this double strict control, most people acted cautiously and prudently, fearing that they would touch the reverse scale of the empire's supreme ruler at this time.
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Shizhou.
Governor's Office.
Shizhou Governor Gu Xuanli was in a rage.
"You're a bunch of trash! You brag so loudly on weekdays, but in your eyes, the Royal Guards are trash. If you were to go to the battlefield, you would flatten the Papal States in a matter of minutes."
With a bang, he slapped the desk to pieces, showing his profound internal strength.
"What's the result? After so many people fought until now and still haven't wiped out the Chuanluo rebels, they're still going to attack the Papal States. If you went to fight, I'm afraid the empire would be destroyed by now!"
The group of military leaders below were all silent, only Wu Daxiong argued: "The Chuanluo Army is too vicious..."
"I don't care!"
Gu Xuanli shouted angrily and pointed at his nose.
"The Supreme Council of Elders has issued its second directive, demanding that all regions maintain stability. Seokjuk is the only province in the empire still experiencing civil unrest. The Supreme Military Headquarters has also issued an ultimatum, demanding that we provide 10 million tons of food within the next month!"
"No matter what methods you use, you must wipe out those rebels within this month and plunder enough food. Otherwise, I will lose my position as Governor, and you will all be buried with me!"
Everyone looked at each other, with cruelty in their eyes.
Deep inner strength is an adjective, it does not mean that one really has inner strength︿(￣︶￣)︿
(End of this chapter)
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