Chapter 212: The Empire’s Bon Appetit

Chapter 208 – The Empire’s Good Appetite
“Corenth’s daughter? It’s which little girl named Kayla, right?” Owen was distracted from Maya’s report while controlling the spell-casting quill pen to write something on the document, then said slowly.

“That’s the little girl that came to me today, wanting to participate in the Junta.” Maya said with a soft sigh, it reminded her of her own youth, when she was just a reserve maid, and was also filled with eagerness.

“You didn’t tell her what the Junta was all about?” Owen said a little strangely, after all that thing wasn’t a proper military cantonment.

“Told her, but she still insists.” Maya replied with a frown, after all, she was the one who perfected most of the military cantonment program, and she couldn’t have been more clear on exactly what it was for, it wasn’t something a little girl was fit to be involved in.

“Never mind, at sixteen she’s already an adult, since she’s made her choice she’ll agree to it, but privately send a letter to Kerens so he can relieve Kayla of her duties at any time, just in case something goes wrong.” Although it’s not good to let a young girl participate in this kind of thing, but Owen doesn’t care, after all, this world is not the previous world, even in the previous world not all the young generation of all the countries can enjoy peace and education in its entirety.

“If the performance is outstanding, you can try to cultivate it.” After thinking about it, Owen continued.

Maya nodded at his words, she still had a good impression of Kayla, not every young girl could insist on practicing swordsmanship all year round, and not every young girl would not hesitate when faced with a dangerous choice.

So if the performance satisfied her, it wouldn’t be bad to focus on cultivating it.

“Then in your name, a set of Silver Scale Chest Armor with a fine musket.” Owen casually said, then focused on the documents Maya brought.

Maya’s efficiency was quick, before dinner was even eaten, the temporary identity card and things were delivered to Kyra’s home.

Kayla who got the identity card representing the temporary position was excited, even if it was only a third level knight, it was already a good start for her.

And the silver scale breastplate is also good, it is made of secret silver steel, light weight, very flexible, and not only can it protect against bullets, it can also spread the impact to the whole body, very suitable for women to use.

The boutique musket Silver Spike is a rear mounted rifle built of metal through and through, with a mounted scope and an effective range of up to five hundred meters, and is four feet long, and can be used as a spear if the folding bayonet under the barrel is ejected.

Kayla didn’t eat her meal, put on her silver scale breastplate, carried her musket and went to the backyard to practice.

Compared to Kayla’s excitement, Katie as a mother was more worried, but she also knew that her daughter had been very opinionated since she was a child, and that this was what she had always dreamed of, so after hesitating for a few moments, she ultimately chose to help her pack her bags, and then wrote a letter to her husband, which was the only thing she could do.

At the moment Kerens, who knew nothing of the incident, was busy reinforcing the walls of the town as things were now getting worse and worse.

As one of the transit points between the north and the south, the town of Mara was always well-informed, and Kerens was even more keen to realize that the situation was about to deteriorate, so he not only reported the matter, but also actively responded to it.

The main reason for the deterioration of the situation is that the Imperial Border Army has not yet closed the gap that was previously opened, leading to the influx of tens of thousands of people into the Northland every day, becoming a source of chaos.

The total population of the Northland is only how much, according to this speed, in less than a month the number of influx of chaos people will exceed the local immigrant population, by then the order will be gone.

Under the great pressure, those small nobles in the north who always have a lucky chance, neither willing to rely on, nor able to fight alone, can only choose to embrace the warmth of the group now.

So from the center of the Northland gradually appeared some loose small nobles alliance, they do not want to lose their own rights, even if this so-called rights in the eyes of the real nobles is so ridiculous, but like poison, so that they are blind to the impending danger, but instead of luck, trying to rely on the so-called alliance claimed to frighten off the enemy.

Unfortunately, their fate is already predetermined, a group of people with evil intentions to warm up to each other, not stabbing in the back is even good. As expected, with the gradual spread of the chaotic people in the north, these so-called alliance has no effect, there is that person who is stupid and kind-hearted to take the initiative to help their allies, the result of the first death is them.

With the spread of news, now everyone knows that the group warming is a dead end, so they first fought, because annexation is the fastest way to be powerful.

Now that the entire northern land was in chaos, there was no hope of it calming down anytime soon.

And chaos will always breed evil, originally in the northern part of the sneaky action of the evil organization gradually let go, anyway, here is not the empire, do not have to worry about being the empire blocked right to check the water meter, so that is called a group of demons.

After receiving these news, Owen could not figure out what the empire was thinking, because it would only turn the Northland into a chaotic evil place, or even a hidden threat to the empire, rather than a place that could generate benefits.

But Maya understood after mulling it over for a while, and explained it to Owen with a sigh.

Previously in their conception, the Empire would release a portion of the chaotic people to the Northlands, and then close the mouth and wait for the Northlands to digest it, in this way it would only take five to ten years for the Northlands to initially mature to be able to generate benefits, and the Hydra family would be able to use this to develop and grow.

But they underestimated the empire’s appetite, compared to the slow and easy step by step cultivation, the empire’s upper echelon intends to eat until full.

The process is very simple, as far as possible within the empire will be driven to the north of the people, so that probably live to the north of the hundreds of thousands of people can be greatly supplemented by the lack of population in the north of the country.

Although this will break the original order of the north, but as long as the empire intervene, pacify all this is not difficult, and even only need the empire’s border troops, all will be calm in a short period of time, when the population of the north at least doubled a few times, you can pick up the knife and fork to share the cake.

To put it bluntly, the title of nobility in the north promised by the empire is a joke, the pioneering corps is the bait, it’s all a lie, and there’s no need to worry about the reputation because the influx of hundreds of thousands of chaotic people will destroy everything, no one will remember.

Owen spat fresh grass and greeted the Empire’s top brass cordially, even ready to send his former devilish style god to hell to book a super package for these sons of bitches.

Originally, Owen was worried about nothing more than the impact on the territory caused by the arrival of the Second Northland Pioneering Corps, and then with the strength of the powerful, already have enough backbone to deal with, and then no longer worried, but now directly replaced by the Empire to take action, the backbone and other things naturally do not exist, so he began to be anxious again, a pot of coffee will go down half of this time.

Seeing Owen’s mood is not right, Maya began to help him further analyze, because the situation is not as bad as imagined.

If the only one who was planning to meddle in the Northlands was the Empire, then they could either wash their hands of the situation or Owen washed his hands of the situation and took the initiative to find whichever noble he wanted to be his son-in-law.

The problem was that the empire was not a single family, but a mega-mix of royals, nobles, transcendents, religions, etc., so with intertwined checks and balances, they would rather have the Northlands completely rotting away than allow one family to have a monopoly.

In this way, the opportunity will come, Owen can be completely in the fish in the water, quietly develop their own at the same time, from which to choose a family as an ally, to complete the initial inward development of their own, outward looking for allies, both hands have to grasp both hands to hard plan, completely in the empire to stand firm.

It’s easy to say, but it’s hard to implement, and the territory must be strong enough to develop in a short time, otherwise no one will listen to the conditions.

(End of chapter)