I became a witch, but I started the industrial revolution

Equality is without distinction, and justice is without partiality.

Everyone has land to farm and everyone has food to eat.

The nobles have no privileges, but the common people have dignity.

All privileges of the nobility will be abolished, and noble titles will be made honorary, with no material rewards, no special rights, no political bonuses, and no inheritance.

Slavery was abolished, and all people in the territory of Astar were citizens with equal rights and obligations.

In social, political, economic, and legal aspects, nobles and commoners enjoy equal treatment, fair decisions, and equal treatment in equal situations.

After the soldiers read it loudly, the people watching around suddenly cheered loudly and ran around to tell each other.

Medea had been doing this before, and only now, when the time was right, did she begin issuing notices to deepen the public's impression and make the facts more deeply rooted in their hearts.

At the same time, they secretly began to spread the message that once Lord Astar was defeated, the small noble manor owners who had been driven away before would surely make a comeback and take back everything they had now.

How could ordinary people who had just found a place to live and former slaves accept such consequences? They gathered together in anger and began to march.

A wave of opposition to the Kingdom's meddling in the affairs of Astaire was set off and quickly expanded, with slogans gradually evolving:

Oppose any form of oppression! Oppose the privileges of the landlords! Oppose the invasion of the Kingdom of Owenia!

The policy proposals and slogans launched by Mitia are the most pragmatic pain points of the masses.

Ordinary people don’t need you to give them any privileges, and they don’t need pie in the sky. All they want is fairness, and they have to work hard for the rest.

And this is exactly what is absolutely impossible to obtain under the aristocracy.

The system that Media is currently implementing is to only distribute means of production and purchase grain from farmers at market prices for reserve and to control grain prices.

We don't care about the cultivation of downstream land, we reduce the commission to the lowest level, and we don't control the specific means of production. We try our best to achieve the standard of getting as much as you work based on your work.

Of course, it is limited to the current two points: food and land.

But this is enough. From the perspective of today's world, many other things are still at a stage where they do not exist or are unimaginable.

Medea has been doing all this for nearly five years. Ordinary people in the territory have long been accustomed to and accepted the benefits brought by such a system. Everyone is a beneficiary of the new policy.

In such a hopeful situation, it would be strange if they were not panicked and angry when Media suddenly said that the Kingdom was attacking and wanted to restore the old system.

The parade outside was grand, but the Astaire Manor was as peaceful as usual. The loss of the marquis title had no effect on their family.

There were no slaves in the manor, and the maids and servants were all paid. Elisa and the others had been influenced by Medea for many years and had long accepted her ideas.

Medea didn't care about how much noise was happening outside. At this moment, she was practicing with the little Koi with a long sword.

"Don't shake your wrist, hold it steady! How are you going to protect your sister in the future if you can't even hold the sword steady?"

"Push harder! Haven't you eaten?"

"Stab! Don't hesitate!"

"But...I'm afraid of hurting you, sister."

Mitia laughed out loud upon hearing this: "Ha! Koi, I won't allow you to dream in broad daylight. It will take you another ten years to hurt me."

As she said this, she exerted a little force on her hands and pushed Koi to sit on the lawn. The little guy immediately refused to obey and pouted his mouth to the sky: "Bad sister! You won't give in to me! I won't play with you anymore!"

Ignoring the little thing that was lying on the ground and wanted to be kissed, hugged and lifted up high, Medea threw the sword to Betty who was not far away: "It's boring, you should continue to play with him."

Betty nodded seriously: "I will give in to brother Koi."

Alyssa, who was sitting aside and watching the show, shook her head in disapproval: “Betty, you can’t always give in to him. Look at this brat, he’s so fat that he has a little belly.”

Mitia, who came over and picked up the teacup, also said, "He really needs to exercise. His arm strength is too poor. His sword-holding hand was shaking so much that he almost gave me a cold."

Alyssa suddenly laughed out loud: “Puchi…Don’t tell him to cry, you can comfort him yourself when the time comes, I won’t care.”

After drinking a sip of tea, Medea shook his head: "In the future, he will only have an honorary noble title, which will not be hereditary. What happens in the future depends entirely on him."

"It can be said that starting from his generation, everyone will briefly stand on the same starting line again. If he doesn't work hard now, he will have a lot of setbacks to bear in the future."

Alyssa became a little worried when she heard this: “Is it really okay for you to do this? Give them a chance to be promoted. What if we don’t compete in the future and get backlash…”

Mitia gave her a strange look and said, "Mother, you don't think that if we don't change and just keep it the way it was before, our family will be able to be passed down for thousands of years, right?"

Alyssa was a little confused: “Ah?”

Mitia patiently explained: "No matter how smart a person is, they can't know what the family will be like after three generations, or whether there will be a prodigal son."

"I abolished the inheritance of noble titles in order to keep the family under constant competitive pressure and prevent them from living a corrupt life by relying on the merits of their ancestors."

"The most important point is that I started this. So if Koi's descendants are really not good enough... then the Astaire family will only be in decline, and there is no danger of being liquidated and exterminated."

Alyssa swallowed her saliva when she heard this.

"Like the powerful nobles before, if our family really had a foolish and cruel head, and was eventually overthrown by the subordinates, what do you think would happen?"

Chapter 17 Hi! Medea!

As he had some free time, Medea told his mother about his plans for the future of the Astar family.

With her current path, the Astaire family will either lead her into trouble or soar to fame.

If it was the latter then she should be able to live a long time, but she really didn't intend to bring out the entire Astar royal family.

Everything that goes up must come down

It is best for a family to hide behind the scenes, have some power, but not overly influence national decision-making. It is good enough to be able to continue the bloodline normally, so that she can give an explanation to Ackerman.

And there is another advantage to this, that is, as long as Medea, as the leader, does not give the green light to the family, his subordinates will not be able to follow suit.

She is inherently invincible in dealing with such issues subsequently.

Even if later generations give the green light to seek benefits for family members, their rule will not be stable, and the people at the bottom can always raise the banner of Media to resist.

If the Astar family continues to develop in this normal way, they will accumulate a huge amount of wealth, which is already a great advantage.

If you can still fall into disgrace despite such an advantage, then shouldn't all the royal family members die? It would be better to just destroy them directly, which would be a disgrace to our ancestors.

Although it was a little hard to accept Medea's idea, Alyssa could only respond with a wry smile. Medea was the head of the family now, so of course what she said was what mattered.

Medea was not in a hurry. It was very normal for ordinary people to find it difficult to resist the temptation when faced with the huge power they might gain in the future.

This kind of thing cannot be implemented just by her saying it. Not only does it require her to set an example herself, but it also requires an iron-fisted approach.

Medea waited for a few more days, allowing the people's emotions to further rise, and then he took the opportunity to implement military reforms.

The previous mode of paying military salaries in silver and money was abolished, and the salary was changed to an "allowance" and became a supply system.

No more wages are paid, and all food, clothing and other expenses are paid for by the government, with only some pocket money given at most.

For soldiers who cannot accept this model, Medea will give them a portion of the retirement bonus so that everyone can part ways amicably.

The purpose of Medea doing this is to "purify" the troops under his command for the last time and filter out the soldiers who only care about collecting wages.

This type of soldier does not have much combat effectiveness. They join the army to make money, and make money to spend it. They will not fight to the death for the sake of spending money, because if they die, they will have money but no life to spend.

Such troops would be a huge burden on the finances, and if the supply was slow, they might even mutiny.

Medea doesn't need such soldiers. What she needs are the children of serfs who have successfully turned the tables through her previous reforms!

The Median reforms allowed their families to receive the lion's share of the land revenue.

The family will no longer be oppressed by the manor nobles, and their lives will undergo a 180-degree change. They will naturally fight to maintain this hard-earned life.

Such soldiers will not be easily bribed or defeated, because they are not fighting for money in the beginning, but for the hope of a better life in the future!

This is the difference between doing it for the emperor and doing it for yourself.

During the time when Ovinia's army was gathering and on the march, Medea also completed the screening and streamlining of his troops and the expansion of his reserve forces, and his combat effectiveness did not decrease much.

When Marshal Nipalmo led the 300,000 troops assembled by the Kingdom of Ovinia and broke into the territory of Astar from the front line of Sylvias, he was stunned by the "small town" of Hal that he once remembered.

Medea did not choose to defend the town. After all, the town was too small and she could not move freely, so she built a super position on the spot in front.

The railway tracks were laid directly to the town of Hal, and the newly developed cement and steel plates were delivered by steam locomotives at a high frequency. In just half a month, a fortress made of steel and cement was hand-knitted.

From the outer circle to the inner circle, dense barbed wire and iron chevaux de frise covered the entire position, and below them was a continuous trench defense chain, which made Nipalmo both confused and frightened.

He was puzzled because he had never seen such a defensive position, and he was afraid of the barbed wire that spread all over the battlefield and the meaning of the cast iron fortress in the rear that emitted a cold light.

Such large-scale use of iron products means that Astell has no shortage of high-quality iron materials and its production capacity is also terrifying.

So how many heavy cavalry and infantry would Medea have under his command? He had to think deeply.

Although he brought 300,000 men this time and it seemed like a huge show, in fact 200,000 of them were auxiliary troops, specifically responsible for logistics and miscellaneous tasks, and did not participate in frontal combat.

The only troops that were truly capable of fighting were the approximately 100,000 regular troops, which was roughly the same as Medea's previous estimate.

After a day of tense confrontation, both sides were reluctant to take action. The Nipalmo side was considering and analyzing how to fight, while Lord Astar was waiting for Medea.

Harlem Train Station

A group of military commanders from Astar were quietly waiting on the platform for the last train of the day to arrive.

They all wore newly issued pure black military uniforms and wide-brimmed hats on their heads. The slim and tough tailoring style also made their postures more upright and handsome.

The rank insignia on the uniform jacket is exactly the same as that used on the traditional uniform, and it is paired with a brown or white shirt.

In addition to the epaulettes, their ranks can also be distinguished by the twisted wires on their collar trims. Officers have silver, while the collar trims of the subordinate soldiers standing aside have black and white twisted wires.

'Ugh. '

As the train pulled into the station and slowly came to a stop, everyone who had been waiting for a long time stood up straight, raised their hands and straightened their chests. When Medea walked out of the carriage

"Hi! Medea!!!"

The uniform shouts echoed throughout the platform. Medea, who was standing at the door of the carriage, smiled and nodded.

After the military reform, most of the newly promoted middle and senior officers are very young.

They were also the first batch of officers to receive instruction in Media's modern military theory. The theoretical knowledge was enough, and now all they needed was a battle of blood and fire to complete the transformation.

Today, she changed her usual aristocratic long dress and put on a women's military uniform.

At present, because stockings cannot be produced, the bottom of the media has not been changed into a skirt. The men and women remain uniform. The difference is that the women's military uniform has a curly-brimmed hat on the head, which has a softer temperament.

Her collar has a golden trim, which is currently only found on Medea's military uniform.

She didn't spend much effort on the design of the military uniform, after all, it was already ready-made in her previous life. It was both beautiful and practical, so what was there for her to change?

Needless to say, her purpose of coming to the front line was natural. This was her first war in a different world. It was logical and reasonable for her to stay at the front line to witness this epoch-making collision between the two sides.