Start with the Soul Forge

Chapter 212: The First Street Lamp Begins to Rise in Taixu

At what cost?
When this question was raised, Mo Hao couldn't help but be stunned.

Because he really hadn't thought about what price Cecilia would have to pay, because from the beginning he had no intention of gaining any benefit from the other party.

The driving force that drives him forward and backward is the tasks on the task panel.

Under the premise that the mission reward is guaranteed, Mo Hao really doesn't know what price he will make the other party pay.

Contribute boys and girls every year?

Not to mention that he didn't have any magic to bring good weather, he also had no way to freeze the 800-mile-wide Tongtian River overnight.

The need for young boys and girls as sacrifices fell to the great demon Ketu Rahu for no reason.

I seem to have many memories of being asked what price I had to pay.

Mo Hao didn't even know whether he should hold the bowl of radioactive green soup and say something like "Drink it, this is the fate of orcs."

There are a lot of related scenes in his mind, but Mo Hao doesn't want to use any of them.

At the same time, Princess Cecilia was quietly waiting for Mo Hao to quote a price, a price that she could not refuse at all.

Although his face appeared calm, his white knuckles revealed what he was thinking.

Cecilia was obviously worried, worried about the figure she had seen earlier.

The demon's aura was overwhelming, disrupting yin and yang. After seeing the terrifying figure of the great demon Ketu Rahu, the princess would never believe that the other party would make demands that were in line with the values ​​of a normal person.

"As for the price, we'll talk about it when the time comes."

He really hadn't thought of a price yet, nor could he imagine what price the other party would have to pay, so Mo Hao had no choice but to postpone asking for the so-called price.

"Okay, now let's talk about how to rebuild the Kingdom of Reyasinwa."

Without giving Princess Cecilia time to react, Mo Hao's words directly attracted the other party's attention to the other side, and he stated his plan very bluntly.

"I'm going to kill the giant dragon that turned into a human, as well as those guys who have mixed in with the blood of the dragonborn. This way, you can regain the ruling power of this territory as quickly as possible."

It is not enough to say that they are the last royal family and have legitimate inheritance rights.

If you want to truly rebuild the Kingdom of Reyasinwa, you must have territory and an army.

Hearing Mo Hao's plan, Princess Cecilia shook her head. "If we just kill the lord, the people in the territory may not necessarily choose to follow us, especially when the lord is doing very well and many people already have many loyal followers."

If one wants to take control of one of the few intact territories within the borders of Reyasinwa, it is not enough to simply kill the lord transformed by the dragon.

Belonging to one's own interest group, winning over the wavering fence-sitters, and finally combining the strength of both sides to beat up the opposition, this is the royal knowledge that Princess Cecilia has learned.

That is a secret knowledge that is not passed on to other countries, and only the royal family can learn it.

What Cecilia didn't say was that if the lord was killed rashly, the lord's diehard fans might be lurking in the city and start a security war behind them.

And the security war is always a quagmire that should never be touched.

Whoever touches it will be trapped, and it will not be easy to get out then.

"If they are afraid of a security war, my suggestion is to directly draw up a list of names and deal with those who are staunch opponents, fence-sitters, and those who are not absolutely loyal according to the list."

There was already a map on the table, and Mo Hao slowly lowered his hand, covering most of the map.

His voice was erratic at this time, and at the same time, a cold wind blew from nowhere, like the cold wind of the Netherworld that blew away the soul, and it kept circling in the room. "The most effective way to solve the security war is to massacre the city. The security war will increase the cost of social governance, but as long as there is no society, there is no need for governance, and there is no need for security."

The cold words made Cecilia feel a chill on her back. She didn't expect Mo Hao to handle the problem so directly and decisively.

Don't deal with the problem, deal with the person who raises the problem.

If the person is gone, the problem will naturally disappear.

Before Princess Cecilia could think of how to refute these words and dissuade Mo Hao from massacring the city, Mo Hao smiled and withdrew his hand.

"Of course, if you want to rebuild Reyasinwa, you can't massacre the city, otherwise no one will join you. Even if you send people to abduct the population, it will be very troublesome."

Thank God you still have this idea.

Just now, Princess Cecilia almost thought that Mo Hao would rush out of the room, and then she received the news that the local lord had died in an assassination.

Even in the lord's residence, there would be hundreds of guards to bury him.

"In fact, after killing the dragon, it is not impossible to bring the territory under your rule."

After killing the lord, it is not difficult to seize power over this territory.

The difficulty lies in how to make people follow you instead of following the dragon clan.

At this time, Mo Hao spoke softly and gave the answer, "People don't care whether the one above them is a noble, a king, or a savior."

"Most people only care about whether they have enough food to survive the winter and whether their houses can be warmer."

"If you can solve the problem of food, clothing, housing and transportation for the group of people at the bottom who can't survive, then you will have more than half control over this territory."

"But Mr. Mo Hao, we don't have that much supplies. Even if we plunder the lord's mansion and sell all the property in exchange for food, it is impossible to satisfy all the people in the territory."

Mo Hao's suggestion was a good one, except for ignoring the fact that this place did not have that much food to supply.

But he just smiled and said, "It's you who has no food and supplies."

While speaking, Mo Hao also diverted some of his attention to the world of the Heavenly Book. In a specially cleared space, it was now filled with everything he needed.

Food, cloth, steel, even plastic.

Mo Hao's experiment produced a result, which was definitely good news.

That is, he can communicate across worlds with Su Zhilan and Zhang Xueqing through the world of heavenly book.

The supplies piled up here were purchased through the [Tree House] and brought in by Zhang Xueqing.

The mountains of supplies only told Mo Hao one thing.

That is, in this largely agricultural society, he has large-scale mass-produced goods of industrial society.

Using industry to harvest agriculture is something Mo Hao has never actually done.

But it just so happened that the textbooks he had studied since childhood had taught him how to perform the "industrial scissors gap".

"Should I teach the people here what [Sheep Eating People] and [Enclosure Movement] mean?"

The great demon released another devil in this world without hesitation.

(End of this chapter)