Every era has its own rhythm.

Although it is a bit cliché, social relations and even social systems are indeed determined by productivity.

The current cruel natural and external environment has caused the population to gather in large cities, and due to the distance between each other and transportation costs, each large city is destined to make a living independently.

Later, the expansion of spheres of influence and the construction of satellite cities were typically carried out independently and flourished everywhere.

Even if I sow the seeds and give them some fertilizer and water, it's up to you whether they can survive.

As a result, this era has unknowingly become a "feudal system" in a substantial sense.

The scope of jurisdiction of each entity unit is quite limited. The subordinates of my subordinates are not necessarily my subordinates.

The external jurisdiction of the central government is actually quite limited. No matter how bad he does, if his mayor/direct lord doesn't agree, he still can't deal with it. Of course, if there is evidence of treason, let's talk about it separately.

Taking Shiqian City as an example, using an inappropriate analogy, may be able to better clarify the strange system of this era.

The central faction is the royal faction in the Middle Ages. The mayor is the emperor, speaker, and prime minister, while the local faction is a group of lords such as marquises and earls. They are loosely related to each other and have no superior or subordinate relationship, but in most cases they can unite to face the central government or the central government.

Peripheral pressure.

As for the black armbands, they were similar to the imperial spies of that era. They were extremely ruthless in the capital, but in the local areas, they only had a scary reputation.

It must be admitted that the social system has regressed.

This seemingly anti-era social system is actually caused by the limitations and reality of the times. When the cost of communication and transportation is too expensive to bear, and when the security and management of each region can only rely on itself, this kind of independence will

The "enfeoffment system" of government has naturally become an unspoken rule that society does not say but everyone follows.

This is also the root of the first thing the emerging Renaissance Alliance did when it was established, which was the crazy investment in building the "Great Road".

Only by further reducing transportation and communication costs can more big cities essentially stand together. If three or five big cities become an integrated entity, the combined huge manpower, combat power, and financial resources can solve everything.

question.

By that time, not to mention that the imperial power will no longer go to the countryside, the "local factions" who know what they are doing will take the initiative to vote.

In front of the sun, the little meteor still needs to learn to be humble and obedient.

But this plan, or great undertaking, will take at least a hundred years to lay the foundation and three to five hundred years to complete. Zheng Li and his party don't have to worry about the day when he will be lucky enough to see the end, unless he turns himself into an old popsicle again.

"To be honest, I have always felt that it was the 'Great Road' that pushed the Atel people into a hurry and triggered the current war.

Zheng Li's thoughts actually aroused the recognition of many people in the group.

The Atels are not stupid. Their intelligence spies are numerous within the human sphere of influence. As enemies, they can even see clearly and further than humans.

"We may not be able to win now, but in three to five hundred years we will definitely not be able to win."

But at this time, there is no possibility of retreat. If the integration of the Renaissance Alliance and the construction of the great road are interrupted, it will not be as simple as returning to the starting point. The six cities in the central part may be directly beaten to pieces and completely return to the primitive era.

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Now that we have reached a turning point of the times, we can only bite the bullet and move forward without retreating.

As a man of two generations, Zheng Li saw farther than anyone else. He knew that war would become the main theme of the times, and that he and the generations after him were destined to grow up in the flames of war.

Rather than entrusting his fate to others, he chose to take charge of himself as a "little lord" during the war. He might be capsized by the tide, or he might be able to stand up and establish himself amid the hardships of the times, among the corpses of his colleagues and opponents.

own kingdom.

He is not a power-hungry careerist, he just hopes to be able to control his own future and destiny and be able to make choices about the future.

In Zheng Li's plan, the greatest wealth in his hands is this group of good brothers who have made it all the way up to now, as well as the knowledge and "technology" that the war group has accumulated by chance.

During the war, nothing can be sold as much money as selling arms. Considering the "timeliness" of man-made weapons and the high cost of transportation in this era, the production and transportation of arms on the front line is probably stable as long as the quality is passable.

The accumulation of Zheng Li and the Peace Corps has confirmed that their level is not just a passable level.

Originally, Zheng Li planned to hide on the second or third front of the war and make a lot of money from the war.

Once you have industry and stable funds, it's time to expand your army.

There is a battlefield on the front line, and recruits on the back line. He stands in the middle, producing weapons and ammunition to obtain resources, recruiting new soldiers, and training troops at the same time. Many people only see the weird lack of expansion of the Peace Corps. In fact, Zheng Li just thinks it is not the right time.

The troops are really going to explode. What is the use of Liang Shanbo-style earning a brother in most battle groups? Only through batch, institutional, organizational, and process-based recruitment, training, inspection, and forging can the army be stable and effective.

Increase backbone strength.

It sounds simple, but if it is successful, you can recruit local recruits, equip yourself with local weapons, train locally, and go to the front line to participate in the battle. By constantly polishing your skills back and forth, you will quickly go from newcomer to veteran.

In a hundred years, Zheng Li will be sure to gain the power to control his own destiny. At that time, if Shi Qiancheng has any ideas, he still has to follow it. After all, opposing the decision of Dacheng is tantamount to cutting himself off from the people in this era.

"Ten years, give me ten years."

Ten years can be said to have passed by in a blink of an eye for an ordinary emerging battle group. For the mythical sword master, it is even more of a matter of job rotation.

But for Zheng Li, it was enough for him to transform from a mortal to a myth, and for the Peace Corps to transform from a newcomer group to a warlord group.

If it were still a period of pseudo-peace, Zheng Li would have the patience to slowly develop and accumulate resources, but if it was a period of war, if he didn't take some risks, he would just wait to be eliminated by the times.

Just like the military and technological competition during World War I and World War II, both sides would come up with "black technologies" that had been reserved for many years and update them every moment.

The classic routine of cultivating for sixty years in a certain mountain den, and then being reborn after the mastery of magical skills. The final result may not be a massacre, but a knight charging the machine gun barbed wire in World War I. It looks very fierce, but after a few waves, there is nothing left.

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Arrangements are never as fast as changes. What is supposed to come will come. The development process was forcibly interrupted. This does not mean that Zheng Li gave up his previous plan. It is just the huge initial investment and the bet on his career.

"Application" made it impossible for him to retreat.

What Zheng Li could do was to make all preparations before leaving to ensure that everything was progressing steadily.

"Shenjiang and Mr. Long probably won't participate in the war. Oh, sure enough, they won't take the initiative to participate in such a high-risk war. Then let's entrust them with the research and development work at the rear."

"In terms of defense, the outer camps and other things have been temporarily abandoned. All those left behind have retreated to their headquarters."

"Although we don't want to, we have to be prepared for the worst or even the worst. If we are unlucky, we will be involved in the battlefield, and what is even more unlucky is that we will be directly passed through. The most unlucky thing is that because the territory is too large, it will become a decisive battle.

There is basically nothing left on the battlefield."

Zheng Li thought about it and gave out choices and arrangements one by one to keep everyone busy.

Zheng Li, who was accustomed to making worst-case estimates, had even made arrangements for retreat.

"If you are really unlucky, you will have no choice but to give up on this world. It is better to work for decades in exchange for debt than to be pushed around. Only when people are alive can they have hope."

With the scattered arrangements completed, the precious three days of preparation time have passed.

After being urged by his superiors, Zheng Li could only sigh helplessly and set off with his people.

"Everyone, let me stop talking nonsense. Our rear is all our belongings and our future home. Whether we eat meat or eat pickles for thirty years depends on us. We are not fighting for anyone. We are

Fight for yourself.”—

The humid rainy season, the scorching sun, the cold blowing snow, and the manic winds. What does it feel like when these climates that are supposed to belong to the four seasons hit your face all at once?

"The clothes I washed yesterday were hung up at night. They were all wet in the middle of the night. They froze into popsicles in the morning and turned into mud at noon. At night, I only saw a few pieces of cloth hanging on the line."

Someone in the legion described the strange climate and weather here in very vivid words.

In the psychic network, people have never stopped complaining about the harsh environment here.

"I can understand that as a defender on the battlefield, we have the advantage of choosing favorable terrain. But when the command team made this decision, they really used their brains. If we continue to stay here, even if the Atel people don't come, we will

The non-combat attrition probably exceeds the combat attrition.”

"Stop talking, have you ever tasted the feeling of having a cold and heatstroke at the same time? Our regiment's infirmary has run out of beds. You have heatstroke medicine. Can you spread the cold medicine more evenly?"

"That's no problem. I'm just curious about what your people did to end up running out of cold medicine."

The Sword Master itself is a warrior of the physical strength system. Coupled with the increase in biological energy, every one of them is a physical superhuman on weekdays. It is rare to get sick.

Some warriors are curious about what kind of situation would cause a sword master with full resistance points to use up all the commonly used medicines.

"The young men in the front row, they had a snowball fight in the morning, wore cotton-padded clothes to bask in the sun on the deck at noon, and played a heat-resistant competition. In the afternoon, a storm came. They swam and had a water fight, but suddenly the weather changed and a super cold wave came. All of them

In the freezing water."

"I think they need brain surgery."

"Don't worry, I think they should have learned their lesson. Everyone else was busy at the time, and they were discovered in the ice at night. They had already enjoyed several rounds of weird weather."

When there are more people, naturally there are all kinds of birds. Some people asked "Why didn't they ask for help?" However, before the person concerned could answer, someone came to help.

"The lower half of your body is submerged in the freezing water. The wind is blowing so cold that you can't even feel it. In such an embarrassing situation, would you ask for help?"

"It makes sense, it makes sense."

There are unscrupulous people everywhere. Even if the person involved gave the answer "They threw the communication equipment on the deck while swimming, and everyone else was taking shelter in the room from the rain and didn't pay attention for a while," the topic still became more and more crooked.

"When a group of big men hug each other in the mud, wrestle and take a bath of ice and fire, will you call people to watch?"

"Tsk, tsk, tsk, it's a pity that there was no video at that time."

No one cared about the original question anymore. Even Zheng Li also took note of the unfortunate "Storm Return Chapter".

But in fact, Zheng Li can understand the occurrence of this kind of accident. Since entering this world, his team members have not left their homes for 24 hours.

After all, it takes some time to adapt to the intense sunshine during the day and the cold polar weather.

"Is this damn weather really effective on the Atel people? Why do you think we will be hurt first?"

As the defender of the battlefield, humans, who have lost the advantage of taking the initiative in time, have naturally gained the geographical advantage of choosing the battlefield.
To be continued...