Chapter 256 Acceleration

After returning to Old Qi City, Roland, who had just revised his plan, immediately fell into an endless overtime hell.

Although it looked impressive that Roland had cleared half of the warlord's territory in a month, as a price, Roland also had to endure the various difficulties brought about by the excessive expansion of the territory.

Although the administrative efficiency of the territory was improved after the administrative reform, the three-month Eastern Expedition and the swallowing up of an entire warlord territory in one go was still too much pressure for the administrative system that had just completed the reform.

The rapidly expanding territory, the continuous influx of refugees, adventurers from all directions, mercenaries and wandering knights, coming and going, and more and more caravans
The various phenomena that occurred in the territory brought a lot of difficulties to the territory: the territory could not be actually controlled, the increasingly chaotic population management, the conflicts between outsiders, refugees, and chambers of commerce, and the rapidly rising demand for food.
According to the original plan, the Eastern Expedition was supposed to last until August or September.

If everything goes according to plan, the territory will be able to swallow up the entire warlord territory bit by bit.

However, plans cannot keep up with changes. Odin's sudden visit, as well as the surrender of the Sinnar spellcaster, the White Knight of the Knights of Radiance, and the dwarf artificer, disrupted Roland's plan.

Roland could only punch his way through the entire warlord's territory in advance.

Therefore, when Roland hurried back to Jiuqi, he saw a somewhat chaotic and unstable territory.

Fortunately, Julius had been working overtime every day for the past month, so the territory was only a little chaotic, and no major problems had occurred.

Of course, if Roland had arrived ten days or half a month later, the territory would have been in real trouble.

Therefore, after returning to Jiuqi, Roland immediately went into work mode, working non-stop for 24 hours a day.

The expansion of the administrative system, the management of the territory population, the transfer and resettlement of refugees, the population filling and development of new territories, the cultural and traditional conflicts between different races, the compilation and updating of simple laws, and the creation of grain-making tools.
He received and settled the three military forces that came to surrender voluntarily, appeased the uneasy people, maintained contact and communication with the Border Area Faction through Odin, and personally formulated and sent people to implement the material plan to support the Border Area Faction.

He contacted representatives of various local factions, deceived various representatives through constant negotiations and consultations, and formed a secret joint chamber of commerce at the cost of concessions in grain trade, obtained the right of passage for local caravans, and successfully won over and stabilized the local factions by ceding interests.

Expand recruitment and adjust troop deployment, and secretly transfer elite soldiers as much as possible while ensuring border security.

Receive all the three-ring transcendents, guide them one by one to advance to the fourth ring, and provide them with the resources needed for the fourth ring.

He secretly met with Siqi, imparted various theoretical knowledge and development directions, and successfully persuaded the dwarf mechanics to transfer them all to the secret base to begin preparing for the subsequent mechanic plan.

At the same time, the report was modified to secretly mobilize resources to support the Qiji Project.

Just like the collapsed old Qi, the somewhat chaotic and unstable territory started to operate at high speed again under the impetus of Roland, the core.

In the past, when Roland had no reputation and his territory only had one city, almost no one in the outside world cared about the rapid development of Jiuqi.

But Roland has now made a name for himself. His ability to single-handedly kill the greenskin high priest and to quickly clear the warlord's territory in one month has proven his strength.

The huge and powerful army under his command also proved that they were a capable and strong army in the annihilation wars and the Eastern Expedition.

After independently swallowing up an entire warlord's territory, Roland became the lord with the largest territory among the rebels.

These three factors combined have given Roland the ability to influence the situation. Both the rebels and the new forces he has built up are paying attention to Roland.

Therefore, they saw the chaos and instability in the old Qi territory after it swallowed up the warlord's territory.

After Roland returned to Jiuqi, the entire territory quickly regained stability and developed rapidly, which they also saw.

Seeing all this, some people marveled at Roland's ability, some began to plot uncertainly, some joined him in ecstasy, and of course, some people began to wonder how Roland did it.

Although Roland felt that he was only squeezing other officials to work overtime in order to prevent the territory from collapsing due to overexpansion, and that it was not his own credit, as word of the territory's performance spread, the rumors about Roland became even more exaggerated.

However, Roland, who worked overtime 24 hours a day, was not very concerned and had no time to pay attention to these rumors.

He is so busy that he has no time to care about these trivial things.

Moreover, Roland has now become a well-known figure. With his current status and position, and the huge army loyal to him, Roland can ignore the opinions of most people in the outside world.

Even if it was Locke, the leader of the rebels, or some big shot from the coalition, Roland had enough confidence to face them.

Even if the news that Roland wanted to stage a coup within the resistance army spread throughout Donnar in an instant, the most Roland could do was to start a full-scale civil war.

If it weren't for Green Tide watching from the side, and if Roland's subsequent fight with Kan'ozu would require a large amount of manpower and material resources, and he wanted to preserve the vitality of the rebels as much as possible, Roland would have exploded with the rebels long ago.

Locke was, after all, just a high-ranking knight, and he had lost the support of the local and border factions.

Even if he was an enemy of Locke, Roland would not be afraid at all.

Although Roland cannot kill Kan'aozu now, but if he cannot defeat the legend Kan'aozu, can Roland still not deal with the high-level knight Locke?

Moreover, if the border faction either joins Roland or chooses to remain neutral, can the neutral members under Locke stop Roland's army?

As for the local factions, they were just a group of fat sheep without any military support. At most, some of them ran away, but they were simply unable to participate in the civil war.

Of course, civil war is a choice Roland would only make when the situation is at its worst.

If possible, Roland still hopes to subtly seize power from Locke in a bloodless coup.

Even if there was going to be bleeding, Roland hoped to be prepared and shed as little blood as possible.

Although people outside did not know that Roland had won over most of the border factions, seeing Roland's mad and aggressive expansion of troops and the large number of wandering knights joining him, even if they only looked at the surface strength, no force dared to go against Roland at this time, and even rarely sent spies.

Because Roland is really ruthless. He doesn't care about any unspoken rules. Once a spy is caught, no matter if he is an ordinary person or a supernatural being, he will disappear from this world immediately.

(End of this chapter)