Living your daily life in a shonen anime seems to be wrong.

Although he seems a bit lazy.

"Then I'll get to work."

"Um...oh, wait a minute."

It seemed like something suddenly came to mind.

Seeing that she had stopped, he asked her a question.

Want a lollipop?

"?"

“Fibril”.

"Ah."

The little girl playing nearby responded.

She walked up to Chelsea and took out a bunch of lollipops from her pink heart-shaped bag.

He handed it to her with a big smile.

"Sister, have some candy."

"……Oh."

He nodded somewhat blankly.

She took the lollipop and was about to thank him when she noticed that Qi Ye had already walked up to her.

"Rabbit, this time..."

"rabbit?"

"Your hair accessory looks like bunny ears. Come to think of it, you might be well suited to a bunny girl outfit, but that's not important."

Qi Ye shook his head.

Then, he reached out and patted her on the shoulder, speaking earnestly.

"In short, you have to do things with a legitimate reason. So even if you're going to overthrow those corrupt officials, you need to have a reasonable justification. Do you understand?"

"not understand."

"Well... never mind, just use things like 'In the Name of the People' anyway."

"Oh."

Chelsea nodded.

This boy...

He seemed a little strange, speaking in a language she couldn't understand.

But I didn't think much of it.

Seeing that Qi Ye had no further instructions, he turned and left.

……

The city has changed.

The first to change were the city garrison's barracks.

The newly arrived lieutenant general single-handedly defeated hundreds of soldiers who refused to obey orders and then drove them out of the city's defense forces.

The city's defense forces are quite numerous.

Rather, it's more accurate to say that the world's population is already quite large, with the Empire's regular military force maintaining a strength of over two million.

This was due to years of continuous warfare.

The empire needed military force to suppress foreign tribes surrounding it, internal rebellions, and revolutionary armies in the south.

In addition to the troops that fought year-round, local areas also established city defense armies to maintain local stability. These armies were controlled by the prefects, who could be said to hold both military and political power.

Absolute power breeds corruption, and corruption leads to darkness.

The army was also corrupted by this darkness.

So the first thing Mine did was to ensure the purity of the city's defense forces, something Nanaya taught her.

"From today onwards, I am your general."

She said that.

Standing on the reviewing stand, he scanned the soldiers below with sharp eyes.

There are probably more than two thousand people here.

However, this is not enough. We need to expand the army and increase the size of the force.

Now, we need to get all these people under our control.

"From this moment on, apart from the orders of the prefect and myself, no one has the authority to mobilize you. Anyone who dares to mobilize troops without authorization will be executed without mercy. Do you understand?"

"Yes."

"Are you even men? Your voices aren't even as loud as mine. I'll ask you one more time, did you understand?"

"Yes!"

"Louder."

"Yes Yes Yes!"

"very good."

He nodded in satisfaction.

Then, he continued speaking without any expression.

"Now, I announce some new military orders: Soldiers are duty-bound to obey orders; those who disobey orders will be executed! Soldiers are duty-bound to protect their country; those who dare to bully civilians or women will be executed! Soldiers are duty-bound to..."

……

The changes in the military camp are one example.

Then came the changes in the political arena.

The newly arrived prefect seems to be a greenhorn, unaware that the various factions in officialdom are deeply entrenched, and that all the officials here have connections above them. If you touch them, it will bring down even more and bigger officials.

No, perhaps it's not that they don't know, but rather that they simply don't care.

At his behest, Acting Governor Chelsea, with the assistance of Lieutenant General Mayne, led the city's garrison soldiers to swiftly eliminate the corrupt officials who usually acted arrogantly and domineeringly.

Many people also ended up in prison.

This delighted the people, who then began to speculate about when the new governor would be eliminated.

Of course, there was no result.

Nothing happened; everything was peaceful.

It was also very lively.

The governor's office provided funds and technology, and recruited personnel to establish factories and other facilities.

This world does possess science and technology; even firearms can be manufactured, although it seems that only the empire's regular army, or rather, only a small number of regular troops, can be equipped with them, while the rest are still basically equipped with cold weapons.

But the fact that they have the technology is undeniable.

The only problem is that the industrial base is relatively weak, and given the current situation, nobody is interested in playing these games.

So Qiye was playing.

He was about to begin mass-producing various types of firearms and then use steel to crush the enemy.

After that, training and recruitment are needed.

A single city cannot provide enough soldiers, so it is necessary to annex other cities...

No, it started in those villages.

"After all, so-and-so once said that we should firmly follow the path of encircling the cities from the countryside at the beginning."

The words of our predecessors are right here.

So it started in the villages. Natural disasters and man-made calamities caused many villages to lose their harvests, and the people couldn't even afford to eat. They either starved to death or were suppressed by the imperial army because of riots.

So this can be considered a good deed, even though it will require many people to join the army and fight in the future.

But it's okay, we have the experience of our predecessors.

The key tasks at present are recruiting and training soldiers, producing food, weapons and equipment, and cultivating various talents, which are no easy tasks.

At least in terms of cultivating talent, it will take a long time.

Therefore, Qi Ye turned his attention to those soldiers and administrative talents who were eager to serve their country but were frustrated in their careers, and wanted to bring them over and turn them into his own people.

They were, after all, prefects, lieutenants, and city garrison commanders, and were considered part of the empire. They weren't openly rebellious revolutionaries or any kind of foreign race, so those people were still willing to come.

Of course, once you're on that pirate ship, getting off isn't so easy.

But none of that matters.

The important thing is that Shichiya abused his power for personal gain, acquired a piece of land, built a shrine, and then started to slack off in the shrine, never going out all day, and even drawing doujinshi.

"When material needs are met, people will pursue spiritual fulfillment, and at that time, a notebook becomes very necessary."

So, how do we save the common people?

Don't joke around, that's just Mine's idea, it has nothing to do with Shichiya.

Nanaya just wanted to sell her books.

Yes, that's all.

Chapter 300: None of it matters

Autumn goes and spring comes.

A year has passed quickly.