Chapter 235 Looking East

Due to the special way of warfare used by the Locke Rebellion against the Green Tide, the Locke Rebellion's initial target was an entire warlord's territory.

Coupled with the conflicts between the border faction and the local faction of the Locke Rebellion, the Locke Rebellion was already experiencing some indigestion after swallowing up a reserved piece of warlord territory.

If the Locke Resistance is a person, then the local faction responsible for logistics and the border faction responsible for combat are the limbs of the person. Even with Locke as the brain to coordinate, the limbs are still in conflict with each other. Therefore, the Locke Resistance can only limp forward.

After swallowing up an entire warlord's territory, even if the border faction wanted to press on with the victory, the local faction, which did not want to invest more resources, would be unwilling to provide logistical supplies to support them in swallowing up another warlord's territory.

Therefore, even if Roland killed the greenskin high priest, causing a warlord territory to fall into chaos due to the loss of the greenskin warlord, the Locke rebels would be unable to move south and destroy them while they were weak.

As for Roland's side, since the logistics and military strength are firmly controlled by Roland, although the overall strength of Roland's side is not as good as Locke's resistance army, they can work together to run forward.

Considering Roland's record of killing the greenskin high priest, Locke believed that it should not be a big problem for Roland to attack a warlord territory without a greenskin warlord.

Therefore, considering that Roland took the initiative to ask for war, Locke, after thinking for a long time, still granted Roland the claim and power to expand eastward.

Now that he has the name and claim, and the military strength is sufficient, Roland will naturally not let go of this opportunity.

Therefore, less than a few months after Roland returned to the territory, he took action again.

On March 20th, when administrative reforms were in full swing, Roland led his army eastward. According to Locke's reward, the army took over the ownership of the frontier cities in the east of the territory, integrated all the soldiers in the frontier cities, and began a war of conquest against the warlord's territory.

At the same time, Roland also sent invitations to various places with great fanfare, welcoming other forces to join this war of conquest.

Although in Roland's future plans, the local faction is not the one he wants to win over, on the contrary, it is the main target of his massive purge and massacre. However, now, they are still useful. Therefore, Roland is still happy to show a friendly attitude towards the local faction in order to make friends with them.

Therefore, Roland also included them in the invitation he sent, inviting them to join this war of conquest. It didn't matter if they brought any troops or logistics, or even if they didn't bring any. As long as someone came, they could open up the land, build new cities, and make a lot of money. When you come, you will be exempt from taxes, and you can use the farmland and mine minerals as you like. We will make money together, and the biggest share will go to you. I will just take some hard-earned money.

Since the local faction has been invited, the district faction is naturally also included in the invitation range.

Roland did not directly discuss interests with the border faction. It was useless to talk about interests with this group of fanatical revenge seekers, so Roland simply explained the situation.

Fight the greenskins, provide logistics, and provide soldiers. Come quickly if you need them.

In addition to these two factions, Roland, who had gained some prestige by killing the greenskin high priest, also extended an invitation to everyone in the entire Donnar, welcoming anyone who was willing to fight against the green tide to join this war of conquest.

Roland was unknown before, and even if he recruited talents in a big way, it was not certain that anyone would come to join him. But now that he has become famous, the probability of recruiting people is much greater.

Roland's invitation was like a stone thrown into a lake. Although it did not last long, it still caused waves.

Although most of the local forces chose to wait and see, they all responded to Roland's invitation, and several friendly local forces near the territory took the initiative to join Roland.

When the border faction learned that Roland was in charge of logistics, they were very enthusiastic and all replied. Even if they didn't come, they asked their extraordinary people to lead a team to join in the fun. The reason why Roland made such a big fuss was not only to recruit some talents, but also to let some restless people in the territory know that Roland was leaving the territory.

If they are dissatisfied with the administrative reforms, it will be their time to show their talents after Roland leaves.

Administrative reforms will naturally have an impact on all aspects of the entire territory. Moreover, as local power is transferred to the central government and the powers of officials are clarified, the administrative system's control over all aspects of the territory will be significantly enhanced. Therefore, the loopholes in the administrative system were quickly filled one by one.

Therefore, after seeing the soldiers leave with great fanfare, some guys hiding in the sewers also had some bold ideas.

In the newly established human, half-elf, and dwarf villages, they were unwilling to see their power taken away due to administrative reforms. At the same time, they were jealous of the achievements of territory construction and began to connect with each other.

The ones who led this conspiracy were naturally the chiefs or nobles among humans, half-elves and dwarves. Having tasted power, they have never been willing to live honestly in this territory.

By winning over others and exploiting loopholes, they became leaders of the newly established villages in Roland's territory, similar to village chiefs and local sages.

They don't have to work, and can only make a decent living by relying on the price difference earned by middlemen.

In the past, the administrative system was imperfect, and they also took the initiative to bring people over. In order to gain population, the administrative officials turned a blind eye to this.

Of course, turning a blind eye does not mean that they can cause trouble. If there is population loss, or if they want to engage in armed colonization to grab land, they will not show mercy and the city defense forces will directly strike hard.

But things are different now. Roland's territory has become famous, and the caravans can provide a steady supply of refugees, so there is no need for such middlemen anymore.

Moreover, the population they brought with them have all settled down and quickly adapted to life in the territory, so they are no longer of much value.

Of course, the most important point is that Roland doesn't like them. As the only leader of the territory, Julius will naturally not oppose Roland's request because of these guys.

Moreover, Julius, who had not received traditional Donar and Sinar education and was not very fond of the feudal system, did not like these guys who were outside the administrative system and tried to cut off officials' control over the grassroots.

They dare to control grassroots villages today and disobey administrative orders tomorrow. I dare not even imagine what they will dare to do in the future.

This has to be a heavy blow.

Therefore, Julius very slyly agreed to Roland's idea of ​​striking hard at them, eliminating the middlemen, and directly establishing a grassroots village administration system.

Faced with the threat of administrative reform, some people chose to give up their power honestly, while others naturally chose not to, and wanted to take advantage of Roland's absence to resist the reform.

Under the surveillance of hidden soldiers, they thought they were secretly planning a riot.

(End of this chapter)