Chapter 636 Suppressing the Colonies
While the preliminary activities for the Prime Minister's election were in full swing, Princess Anne, who had been away from the North for more than three months, finally completed the suppression or recovery of various colonies in the empire and returned to Chernobog.
The return of the eldest princess undoubtedly gave the royalists a shot in the arm.
They had originally planned to nominate the eldest princess as a candidate for prime minister, but the matter had been delayed because the eldest princess Anne had not returned from overseas.
Now Princess Anne has finally pacified the empire's colonies and brought them back under the rule of the empire's center.
With such a great victory, Princess Anne's popularity among the people was instantly unparalleled.
So the royalists took the opportunity to push Princess Anne as a candidate for prime minister, and mobilized all the resources at hand to build momentum for her candidacy.
This kind of temporary addition of candidates should have aroused opposition from everyone.
But for some subtle reasons, this seemingly outrageous thing was actually passed by the National Assembly, and no one even objected to the Royal Council.
This immediately surprised many people, because in their opinion, it was impossible for the northern forces to let Princess Anne run for election.
Before the return of Princess Anne, the situation in the Prime Minister's election was dominated by the Northern Powers. After all, the public support brought by the joint candidacy of the Northern Territory and the Dominion was astonishing.
Coupled with Purficott's various methods, the candidates recommended by the northern forces are now in the lead.
It can almost be said that only the other forces combined can compete with the forces of the Beijing Family.
After all, the candidates they recommended are really... It can't be said that they can't be put on the wall, but it's hard to say how much better they are.
There are no particularly big problems with these candidates themselves. Except for the fact that some candidates really have little ability and experience, most of the candidates have served as civil servants in the empire or have relevant work experience. It cannot be said that they are completely incompetent for the empire. The position of Prime Minister.
It's just that most of them are far away from becoming the Prime Minister of the Empire, and Purficott's propaganda operation has amplified this gap between them, making the gap between them and the candidates elected by the North wider and wider.
Wellington and Kallen came up with a complete and complete set of policy agendas because of Purficott's guidance. They also tried their best to be as targeted as possible in their campaign propaganda, accurately locating their support groups, and then specifically Win over them in a targeted manner.
Under the operation of such a very professional campaign strategy, the support rates of Wellington and Karen naturally increased steadily.
As for other forces, they obviously lack experience in this area.
Although not everyone followed the example of Wellington and Karen, reorganized a relatively complete policy platform, and began to put down their own efforts to win over voters, but they always showed a sense of imitating others, which greatly reduced their propaganda effect.
Not to mention that Wellington was an experienced imperial civil servant in the past, and Karen was also a leader of the labor movement in the Dominion. The two of them also had very rich practical work experience.
In this situation where the candidates are stronger than their opponents regardless of their personal abilities, overall quality, or the campaign team's publicity strategy. If they are still not far ahead, Purficott will have to consider whether it is right to nominate them for election.
Naturally, other forces also saw the huge gap between themselves and the Northern Territory, so some people began to connect and prepare for joint elections under a sense of crisis.
After all, if one family can't defeat it, two or three families combined can't defeat it.
Although the alliance can slightly reverse the decline, it is still difficult to compete with the already powerful Northern Territory due to the lack of leaders with enough stage.
But it happened that at this time, Princess Anne came back, which immediately provided an excellent candidate for the forces to fight against the North for the forces that had already had a hard time winning.
Therefore, even if some people questioned this, with the compromise of all parties, the Royalists successfully replaced Princess Anne as their candidate, and directly downgraded the original candidate to Princess Anne's deputy.
While explaining to Princess Anne how to run for office and other related matters, the royalists also began to connect with other factions, seemingly wanting to form a coalition to counter the joint election of the Northern Territory and the Dominion.
Princess Anne was still confused about this, but she quickly understood the general situation through explanations from relevant people, so she seriously devoted herself to the preparations for the election without saying anything more.
For Princess Anne, as long as she can make the empire better, she can work hard to do it.
On the other side, Purficott also met with the young official who was previously sent to suppress the colony with Princess Anne.
"How is the situation in the colonies? It's a bit beyond my expectation that you can return to the north in such a short period of time." In the office, Purficott sat behind his desk and looked at the dusty young officials in front of him. He showed a curious expression.
This young official was high-spirited when he went there, showing off his sharpness and sharpness. But after this experience, he became much calmer and looked more capable after being tempered.
"Thanks to you, this trip went smoothly, but if it weren't for the Divine Grace Knight, I probably wouldn't be able to come back, and Her Royal Highness the Princess wouldn't be able to complete the suppression of the colony." The young official first asked Purficott After bowing, they introduced their experience this time: "The first stop Her Royal Highness the Princess went to was the Desert Kingdom, where the impact of the cold winter was less severe, and there was even arable land in some areas, so it was relatively The situation is also the most chaotic.
When we arrived, the Evil God Sect had completely controlled the desert kingdom. One of their chieftains was the controller of the Evil God Sect, and he had a fierce conflict with us.
If Her Royal Highness had not mobilized the local garrison and cooperated with the knights to launch a quick and decisive beheading attack, it would have taken us several months to quell the turmoil in the desert kingdom. ”
"Is the turmoil in the Desert Kingdom? It's expected." Purficott was not surprised by this. Dr. Jones was imprisoned in the Desert Kingdom. This incident itself shows that there is an evil sect operating in the Desert Kingdom area, and its power Very powerful. However, Purficott did not have much energy to pay attention to this matter at the time, and since the desert kingdom was far away from the mainland of the empire, she did not take care of it.
Judging from what the young official said now, perhaps she was more concerned about some things at the beginning and might have developed differently.
After that, Purficott asked some detailed questions about the Desert Kingdom area and learned a lot of details.
The Desert Kingdom area was not the focus of the empire in the past, but this area was close enough to the Old World that the Empire, like most Old World countries, used this hot sand land as the starting point for colonization.
Generally speaking, the land in the desert kingdom is relatively barren, and due to the local backward agricultural level and hot climate conditions, even if it is cultivated, it is difficult to achieve a satisfactory harvest.
The empire originally established a colony here mainly to obtain supply points for opening up the eastern route, and because it was rich in products such as gold and ivory.
As for the slave trade, that came later. At first, the empire looked down upon these 'barbaric and backward' natives.
Only later, as the empire's colonial activities in the local area developed day by day, the empire's power gradually penetrated into the local area, and driven by the ambition of some people, it began to control the entire desert kingdom area.
After all, the empire's eastern route had been opened at that time. If you didn't want to take a long way around the sea, transporting the goods to the desert kingdom and transporting them overland to the Old World was the most appropriate way.
Therefore, controlling the desert kingdom became an urgent need for the empire. Especially at that time, the empire also planned to dig a canal to open up the barrier between the Old World and the Eastern Route, greatly shortening the voyage of transporting goods from the Eastern Route to the mainland of the empire, so that the goods could be transported Directly to the empire itself.
It is precisely because of this that the Empire started a war in the Desert Kingdom area, and fought with France over the ownership of the Desert Kingdom.
Princess Anne basically served in the Desert Kingdom and participated in the war at that time. Because of this, Princess Anne is very familiar and understanding of the Desert Kingdom.
The desert kingdom is not a single kingdom, but is ruled by different kings and chiefs of different tribes. Strictly speaking, it is more like a tribal alliance.
Therefore, there are naturally some royal chiefs who are inclined to the empire, and some royal chiefs who are unwilling to turn to the empire.
When the doomsday winter came, the empire's control over the local area declined rapidly. This made some royal chiefs feel that this was a good opportunity to resist the empire, and another round of war started.
Due to the lack of local support, the empire's local garrison was unwilling to fight, so it was naturally unable to suppress the resistance in time. So by the time Princess Anne arrived in the desert kingdom, the empire had basically lost control of this area. Take control.
So after arriving in the Desert Kingdom area, Princess Anne quickly contacted the desert king she was familiar with before, and took control of the local imperial garrison in the name of the princess.
Relying on her status as the eldest princess of the empire, Princess Anne quickly stabilized the areas still under the control of the empire, and then let the Knights of Divine Grace cooperate with her knights to behead several chiefs who mainly resisted the empire. .
The combination of the Steam Knight and the Divine Grace Knight is an absolute blow to the Desert Chieftain's troops who are still using scimitars and bows. Even if there are some extraordinary beings among them, or some are equipped with muskets, they are still unable to fight against them. The steam knight who crushes everything.
Coupled with the cooperation of the local garrison, the situation quickly improved, and the empire's rule in this land was quickly restored.
But a very fatal problem soon appeared in front of Princess Anne, that is, some royal chiefs fell to the evil god sect. They used sacrifices and other means to create some problems that are difficult for ordinary steam knights. enemy.
The royal chief who was the controller of the Evil God Sect didn't care about human life at all. He directly summoned an entire army for himself through sacrifice, which caused the local garrison to suffer a lot.
However, when a Divine Grace Knight released the Overlimit Mode, they quickly beheaded the royal chief and destroyed his army.
The empire was able to regain the Desert Kingdom area in a short period of time.
The subsequent experiences in the Mowa Colony and the Australian and New Zealand Colonies were basically the same as those in the Desert Kingdom. There were activities of the Evil God Sect in both places, especially in the Mowa Colony, where the activities of the Evil God Sect were particularly rampant.
The reason why they spent three months was actually that a large part of the time was spent suppressing the Desert Kingdom and the Mowa Colony. On the contrary, the Australia and New Zealand Colonies were a prisoner penal colony and were vast and sparsely populated, so there was no cost. What too much time.
After understanding what happened, Purficott was not surprised. The two teams of Divine Grace Knights she sent lost seven people. One can imagine what kind of intense situation they encountered.
"So, now several of the empire's major colonies have returned to the empire's control?" Purficott tapped her desk with her fingers carelessly, wondering what she was thinking.
The young official nodded affirmatively: "At present, the main colonies of the empire have returned to control. As for some other smaller colonies, they are too small and have been abandoned. After all, they cannot bring any benefits to the empire. In the past, It's just because the empire controls the world's routes and needs supplies.
As for those colonies that have a certain value but are not too large, Princess Anne’s plan is to deal with them after the election.
She felt that the election of the Empire's Prime Minister and the reform of the National Assembly were major events concerning the entire country. She must rush back to witness it first, and at least contact and hand over relevant matters with the Empire's first Prime Minister to ensure that the suppressed colonies could receive proper follow-up. deal with. ”
"Aunt Anne is very good at planning, but it's a pity that she didn't expect that the royalist plan was to push her out to be the first prime minister of the empire." Purficott couldn't help but sneered, then stood up, turned around and walked over Looking at the scenery outside from the window: "If this comes true, then she will be the only queen in the empire who has served as prime minister, which is not a bad thing."
The young official did not answer the question. This kind of topic was very dangerous. He did not have the courage or qualification to answer such a question.
However, Purficott didn't seem to expect him to take on anything, and just quickly made new arrangements for him: "You go find Mr. Wellington and serve as his secretary to help participate in the campaign. If you get more training, maybe you will be able to do it in the future." Opportunity to stand for election.”
(End of chapter)