I became a witch, but I started the industrial revolution

The little tree king looked at her in confusion, and without thinking too much, he waved at her to signal her to keep up with him. Medea raised her foot to walk away, but Anna beside her stopped her and whispered, "Isn't this unsafe?"

She always felt insecure in other people's territory, and subconsciously did not want Medea to leave the army's protection circle.

Hearing the voice, Medea held Anna's hand and glanced at the dragon girl Elsa who followed. Seeing her nod slightly, Medea patted Anna's hand gently and said, "It's okay."

Following each other's pace, the two walked to a wooden altar decorated with green plants. The little tree king then turned around and said to Medea: "You... you relax, I will take you to see my companion..."

As she spoke, she floated over to Medea, took her hand and whispered, "Some elders don't like you, so be prepared."

Before Medea could answer, she felt a shock in her spirit, and the surrounding environment began to become blurry and distorted.

When she regained her composure, she discovered that the altar was still there, but now there was a rectangular wooden table in the center, with seven or eight women sitting around it, dressed similarly to the Little Tree King.

Among them are old and young, including a little loli who looks similar to the little tree king. They look no different from several generations of grandparents and grandchildren living together.

An old voice sounded in Medea's ears: "You are the one, the Destroyer of Worlds."

Medea raised his eyebrows when he heard this: "What do you mean? A trial by three judges?"

Why not just call her the Terminator?

"You destroy and mine a large amount of various materials in this world, and the things you create are constantly polluting this land and destroying the environment we depend on for survival."

One of the middle-aged women chided, "You cut down more trees and mined more ore in a month than you did in the 100 years before you appeared! Nature can't recover at this rate. Aren't you still a destroyer?"

Medea's eyelids twitched. Why can't I escape the Environmental Protection Association even if I live on another planet? Damn, they don't even give me a chair.

"The resources are there. No matter what race you are, anyone who can use them can use them. Everything is for a better life. Is there any problem with that? I don't think there is any problem."

"To survive and develop, I don't think it's wrong to use all the materials around me! If we can feed ourselves by drinking dew, then the war in this world can be reduced by 90% immediately. But is it possible?"

Mitia said with a hint of hostility in her eyes: "I didn't come here to listen to your nonsense. You can survive by photosynthesis, but we can't."

"If you invited me here to discuss how to restrict the development of the alliance, I can give you a clear answer right now as the Queen of the Alliance. It's impossible!"

The middle-aged tree king stood up angrily and pointed at Medea: "You!"

Medea's face suddenly turned cold, and he shouted in a low voice: "Sit down!"

"If you dare point your finger at me again, I will make you kneel down and talk to me!"

Seeing the other person's chest heaving violently due to anger, Medea's purple eyes flashed with a cold light: "Ugly thing, if you don't believe me, you can try it. I can make you kneel in the flames for eternity."

The little tree king gently tugged at Medea's skirt, his big eyes full of worry.

A woman who looked to be in her twenties or thirties said at the right time: "Okay, Emma! Don't be rude, sit down first."

The middle-aged woman sat down angrily, and Medea immediately understood who was the leader among them. It seemed that this treeman tribe was led by the middle-aged tribesmen.

"Your Majesty, please forgive their rudeness. They are just a little worried. The forest environment is the foundation of our survival. If the environment is destroyed, we will die."

The other person's voice was very gentle, and seemed to have a special ability to soothe other people's emotions.

Mitia remained noncommittal: "I respect the way of life of all tribes. As I said before, joining the alliance and applying to the federal government as an alliance tribe to set up a nature reserve, prohibiting logging and destroying the local ecology, is a feasible solution."

"The other way is to do what that lady wants to do, and become a rare protected animal and be protected by our alliance."

The woman was a little confused: "Rare protected animals?"

Medea nodded, lowered her head and touched the top of the little tree king's head and said with a smile:

"Because they are rare and few, they are protected. Anyway, I prefer to raise children, so leaving these little ones behind is enough~"

Although Medea was smiling, the nonchalant and life-disregarding attitude in her words made the adult tree people around her feel cold and a little uneasy.

Chapter 142 Autonomy is your lie

Subsequent conversations between the two sides were much more friendly. In principle, the Treemen agreed to bring all the Elves to join the big family of the Seris Alliance.

However, the older group of tree people chose to continue to live in seclusion. In exchange for seclusion, the two tree man kings shared a forest, and the elves under the other party's command had to cooperate with the Alliance's Agricultural Science Department under the organization of the Alliance to catalyze the cultivation of new varieties of potatoes and sweet potatoes.

The other group of younger tree people were more open-minded. They agreed to establish a secular elven tribe on the outskirts of the forest, which could trade and even travel with the outside world.

At the same time, each sub-tribe will send out some elven priests to cooperate with the forestry department of the alliance to select fast-growing tree species and cultivate fast-growing forests specifically for the needs of the alliance.

Among them, several young tree kings were easier to deceive. They were tricked by Medea into contributing their bodies and taking root in a location close to the secular tribe as the biggest attraction of the scenic spot. In fact, it was equivalent to moving.

However, Medea did not treat these little creatures unfairly. They took the lion's share of the profits from the output of their forest resources, while other tree people only took 2-4%.

Don't think that money is useless. With the stability of the Saimeng regime, there are many things that can be done with currency, such as hiring specialists to patrol the forests and conducting environmental protection propaganda within the federation.

Or simply spend money to buy surrounding land from the government to expand the forest area.

When Medea signed the treaty, she did not give away all the forests where they now lived to the other party for free. Instead, she drew a boundary around the forest, with one side belonging to the Federation and the other side belonging to the tree people and elves.

But this treaty is not very rigid. They can buy back the original forest area little by little with currency, and Medea will not stop this.

Medea didn't scare them. Protecting the ecology is easier said than done.

With the current technological level of the Seris Federation, most of the pollution can only be controlled by filtering and diluting to reduce the level of pollution, and more will not be done.

Now even the waste gas from burning garbage to generate electricity cannot be filtered to meet air quality standards, and other aspects are even more difficult.

The same applies to the collection of resources. Except for destructive mining, no other aspects will be controlled.

Regardless of whether it can be done or not, the cost will not allow it. Given Serris' current thirst for resources, a slight increase in cost would be an astronomical figure if it were magnified to the entire league.

This is a question of priority: environment first or development first? The international situation is unstable and there are so many potential enemies, so development naturally comes first.

Development comes first, so many problems must be ignored. Even Media has begun to hint through the parliament that it is preparing to build several waterways that run through the east and west of the alliance.

At the same time, the existing river channels will be connected or expanded, and new canals will be dug. Once the project is successfully implemented, the seaport navigation routes behind the Seris Alliance can be reduced by more than two-thirds in an instant.

How much ecological environment will this mega project change along the coast? I'm afraid no one can tell for sure, but the strategic benefits it brings are inestimable, so necessary sacrifices are necessary.

To say something that is not acceptable

Take care of yourself now, and you can come back and remedy the situation later when there are fewer external threats.

What if the alliance is gone, what is the point of this world?

She was not so lenient with other countries that joined the alliance. Allowing them to join the alliance was not because Medea had nothing better to do and wanted to alleviate poverty.

She wants these new lands and populations to become a sacred and inseparable part of the alliance. Autonomy is her lie.

Not only were all the former rulers taken away for further study, the territories were changed into states, and the autonomy was limited. The military, political and other parties were all subject to the direct control of the alliance center.

At the same time, officials of local origin are not allowed to hold office in the local area, and the entire ruling team of the three lines of state, city and town is not allowed to have a local background, even the local garrison troops are also not allowed to have a local background.

At the same time, all the other party’s finances and taxes are paid to the central government, which will be redistributed in proportion after the central government has calculated them correctly. The subsidies for local troops are allocated by the central government and distributed vertically by the central military.

Positioning similar to a state

Autonomy is limited to village autonomy. Customs, culture, and even tribal or clan rules are allowed to exist and be handled by themselves, but clan rules must be combined with the current alliance laws.

For example, if someone in a village commits a crime, he should be executed according to the clan rules. If the alliance law also stipulates the same, then the village will enforce the clan rules on its own under the supervision of the bailiffs, and the surviving bailiffs will help to shoot him.

If the law does not warrant the death penalty but instead decades of imprisonment, but clan rules require shooting, then the clan can only use punishments other than execution and then imprison the person.

If clan rules do not constitute a death penalty but the law does, then the execution should be based on the law, which means it can be severe but not lenient.

For minor conflicts, the degree of punishment can be decided by the individuals themselves. When it escalates to the point where human life is at stake or the impact is extremely severe, the local court will intervene and act within the framework of the alliance's laws.

Media does not just do things that cheat people. For each newly incorporated territory, a large number of geological survey personnel are dispatched to conduct large-scale exploration of the overall resource distribution based on local data.

Use this as a basis to reposition its role in the alliance.

The original dwarf kingdom is mountainous and rich in mineral resources, with astonishing reserves of phosphate, various metal mines and coal mines discovered. It would naturally be positioned as a mineral export destination.

At the same time, a tungsten mine with astonishing reserves was discovered in its territory, and chromium and molybdenum were also detected in the mine, which attracted Media's great attention.

Tungsten has many uses. Tungsten with high hardness and high temperature resistance is involved in all aspects and fields.

Industries such as machining, metal materials, chemicals, electrification, and aerospace are all vital basic raw materials.

For this purpose, Medea mobilized a large amount of TNT to the area for the troops to use for blasting.

According to the resource priorities set by the alliance, states with rich mineral reserves will give priority to building railways and airports, as well as transportation networks such as airships.

At the same time, a large number of supporting factories are built, and professional and technical workers are mobilized to train new employees. Once the other party achieves self-production, the finished materials are manufactured on site and distributed to the surrounding areas for use.

The Palia region is mostly grasslands and deserts, so the proportion of war horse breeding is low, and the breeding of other livestock such as cattle and sheep is increased, making it a meat supply state for the alliance.

As for the area occupied by Ortu... the original orcs have the most say. They call it a godforsaken place where no one lives. They were able to survive there purely because they were poor, as there was nothing valuable left except humans.

But what’s interesting is that the exploration team, which had originally given up hope, discovered dozens of large and small oil fields in Ortu. The specific reserves have not been fully explored, and they only gave an astonishing reserve.

This caused Medea, who was working, to frequently look at the secretary sitting in the corner with cat ears moving around. No wonder she always felt something was wrong. It turned out that she forgot to wear a headscarf~

Chapter 143: Tears of the Grave Robber

While conducting an inventory and survey of resources, Medea did not forget to alleviate regional famine. Thanks to Medea's previous floating food price strategy, the former federation's food reserves were very abundant.

First, local villagers were mobilized to spontaneously form a farmers' association to wait for alliance rescue, and at the same time a large number of former rural farmers' association backbones were transferred to the disaster area.

By using large airships to deliver supplies to the disaster areas, the anxiety over the spread of famine was alleviated, and under the leadership of the farmers' association, farming production was resumed and irrigation canals were dug.

A large number of agricultural machinery are also continuously supplied to the region through various means.

The alliance also achieved a key breakthrough in the military field. The elves have a long lifespan and no worries about food and drink. They generally have many interests and hobbies, which makes them usually knowledgeable.

Although they don't know much about industrial technology, or even understand nothing about it, they have a very deep foundation in life technology and the inscription alchemy that gives Medea the most headaches.

The elves even have their own independently developed wooden machines!

When Medea saw the five-meter-tall tree people with all kinds of colorful decorations hanging on them running all over the experimental site, she was completely stunned.

Didn't they say that elves rode deer with bows and arrows? She wasn't surprised to see them riding white tigers, but what on earth was this fancy wooden Gundam?

You know what, even though it's made of wood and doesn't look very reliable, the wood they use has a good magic immunity effect, and it's useless to burn it with fire.

Compared with the general-purpose machines on the main continent, it has considerable advantages. Of course, the old problem still exists: it is not resistant to the kinetic armor-piercing weapons used by the Alliance.

But Medea doesn't care about this. What she cares about is that she has a group of talented people with profound attainments in inscription alchemy!

Because the ductility of wood and metal is completely different, the ideas used by the elves when designing their machines are also very different from those of the goblins on the main continent.

The elves worship life, nature, and harmony, so when they create machines, they try to use as few inscriptions as possible and worship the use of wood itself.

In terms of transmission, they are more focused on combining various structures and making it like a wooden work of art.

This idea is actually very similar to that of mechanical engineering and has great reference value.

Of course, the extensive use of components also means that the complexity increases sharply. If something is broken, I guess other races except the elves themselves won’t be able to understand it.