Twenty-four, the frustrated elves

Twenty-four, the frustrated elves

Xianglong Empire, Shanghai, Public Concession, Pudong New Area

The bright red sunset slowly slid from the west horizon, and the beautiful glow of the sunset covered the entire sky and shone on the window frames of thousands of households.

In the bustling city, tall and gorgeous buildings reflect a faint golden light under the sunset. The lights of thousands of houses are also lit up one after another in the drooping twilight, but the noisy crowds between the streets and alleys are still as noisy and lively as during the day.

In a corner of this bustling city, the former member of the Golden Elf Royal Family, Lieutenant General Daniel, was sitting haggardly at the 15-day coffee table in a cheap tavern by the river, looking melancholy as the rolling Huangpu River flowed past his feet.

The once neat and majestic gorgeous military dress has been dirty with greasy and stains; the originally sharp and sharp eyes are full of shock, and are full of mi and hesitation...

At this moment, Lieutenant General Daniel looked decadent like a decadent look of being down and drowning his sorrow with alcohol.

Behind him is an artificial forest in the Pudong Plain more than ten miles. The world trees that are regarded as symbols of home by the elves, stand proudly like towering mountains, towering into the clouds, and together with the slightly lower maple trees, birch, oak and other towering trees, as well as the low grass and shrubs below, form a rolling vast sea of ​​trees.

In the drooping twilight, the cool evening breeze blows through the canopy, causing ripples to make every leaf rustling sound; the gorgeous sunset spreads over the afterglow, casting layers of hazy halos, covering the lush forest with a layer of jewel. The grass under the trees competes, scatters of fragrant fragrance, making the most picky visitors intoxicated; flocks of birds flutter their wings and soar, making the vibrant land full of wild and mysterious charm...

In front of him, that is, the west bank of the Huangpu River, there is a bustling city with bright lights and bustling lights. Countless ports, docks, merchants, warehouses, markets, factories, schools, villas, apartments, fortresses, temples and even wizard towers representing advanced civilizations are densely gathered in it. Various ornate buildings are lined up, showing infinite prosperity and prosperity.

On both sides of the busy streets, there are buildings of various countries in the world, including Western-style granite buildings, Japanese-style cardboard wooden houses, and more are traditional Central Plains mansions with carved beams, painted buildings, flying eaves and brackets. Under rows of bright street lights, countless charming yanfu are walking, and there is no shortage of drunken staggering drunks. The lights are filled with red and green wine, and the rich and rich are everywhere...

On the Huangpu River, which separates the two, there are countless large ships floating. Among them are tall Western sailboats decorated with statues of goddess ships, exquisite painting boats with colorful painted gold and oriental style, and simple and thin hand rowing boats without tufts and sails. Clusters of rising and falling lights are reflected in the Dry River surface dyed red by the sunset, full of dreamy colors.

——Noisy and tranquility, prosperity and nature, civilization and wildness... are just a narrow river separated by a river, just like two worlds. However, they are harmoniously combined, showing a wonderful atmosphere of ancient and reality.

However, Lieutenant General Daniel had no intention of appreciating the strange beauty with a strong contrast in front of him.

In this unfamiliar bustling city in the Far East, he has been stranded for half a year and has not dared to set off and return to his country to report his life.

Because, he, the chief inspector of the overseas territories of the Elf Kingdom who was given high hopes by Queen Akdina, was fully responsible for organizing the second elves' retreat, and this time he had completely ruined the matter.

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Since his defeat in the rainforest of Mazka Grand 6, Daniel has realized that his luck seems to be getting worse and worse.

Especially this time, the task of organizing the second elf retreat has almost become the death talisman that makes him die.

For the Elf regime of Yongju Island, which Lieutenant General Daniel is loyal to, now is a sad era of rapid decline in the country's power.

In recent years, the desperate battle between the elves royal family and powerful ministers has led to the destruction crisis of the entire country.

Frequent military coups, shameful cedes and treaties, collapsed national economy, upper-class powers who were sinking into internal fighting and power games, and one continuous colonial rebellion after another, almost exhausting the last bit of energy of this world-class power.

——The most powerful troops were destroyed by killing each other, the wealthy overseas territories rebelled one after another, and the vast empire territory was shrinking.

Although the indomitable elf queen, His Majesty Akdina, was not discouraged after repeated defeats, was still committed to revitalizing the country, regaining lost land, and even reconciling with his political enemies for this... But the problem is that sunken warships can be built again and lost colonies can be reclaimed again, but those elf citizens who have decreased sharply in War 1 cannot be replenished in batches for a while.

——The elf kingdom at this time, through the continuous "elves attacks" overseas for nearly two or three hundred years, has expanded its territory from a lonely remote island in its weakest period to a world-class power with tens of thousands of miles. However, because the elves' lifespan is too long and their reproductive ability is very weak, the cycle of shēngzhi is often calculated in the century. Even a hundred-year-old purebred elves can only be considered children. Considering that the expansion wars will inevitably be accompanied by a large number of sacrifices, even in its heyday, there were only four million citizens of the tribe in the country. This is based on the new wartime policy, all the half-elves of the blood species were counted.

As for the rest of the foreign tribes in the country, they are inferior people and even slaves without citizenship, and are objects of oppression, exploitation and guard against. When the country is strong, they may be tamed by the swords of the elves, but in the era of decline, they can basically not expect their loyalty.

In short, the elves, which seem to be vast in territory, is actually just a colonial company controlled by four million elves citizens, relying entirely on force to deter and exploit foreign people. If the elves' military power is strong, the colonial country will naturally be as stable as a rock. Once the elves' military power tends to decline, all parts of the country will definitely rebel.

However, these four million loyal and most confident elves have been reduced by 1.5 million in just a few years since the recent series of internal and external wars that destroyed xing, and most of these dead people are the young and middle-aged warriors who are the most capable and brave in fighting within the elves. The rest are all the old and weak - almost means that the backbone of the entire country has been broken.

Therefore, after repeated defeats on Yongju Island, he was already in a terrible dilemma of exhaustion of human resources, ending the mountains and rivers, and no soldiers to conquer. However, the rebellion on the remaining half of the territory was still getting worse and worse, and the situation was about to be out of control.

In desperation, Queen Akdina had no choice but to use the wrong idea of ​​tearing down the east and filling the west walls, allowing her most trusted Lieutenant General Daniel to serve as the imperial envoy and the chief inspector of the overseas territories of the Elf Kingdom to be fully responsible for organizing the second elves' retreat - specifically, it was to give up the various elves' colonies scattered in the Far East, mainly referring to the spice archipelago with 500,000 elves citizens. Then, the elves and garrisons there were continued to retreat back to Yongju Island to shrink their precious troops and fill the human resources gap caused by previous defeats.

——According to Her Majesty the Elves’ Queen’s speech in her Presbyterian House, it is: “…You cannot be distracted from looking at the idle stables in the backyard when the bedroom has already caught fire…”

Unfortunately, all bad ideas have a common characteristic. They all look like good ideas before they are shown to be bad ideas... and it is often too late to actually realize it is a bad idea...

——Obviously, Queen Akdina overestimated her prestige, overestimated the loyalty of her subjects, and even overestimated the centripetal force of the Yongju Island King's Court, but underestimated the courage and rebellious spirit of the overseas expatriates... It is important to know that in the dynamic world, loyal ministers and righteous men are absolutely rare animals, while traitors are always tenacious insects that are flooded with disasters.

So, after learning that the Queen, who had been defeated repeatedly, had fantasized and ordered her to abandon all her property and return to Yongju Island to join the army and suffer blood and suffer life, the 500,000 elves who had lived in the Far East Spice Island for nearly three hundred years were really angry for a moment. They all scolded Queen Akdina for not being able to stay in the country, but wanted us outstanding citizens to suffer. Unfortunately, she was so stupid and violent that she had been in trouble for eight lifetimes... So, it's time to end this mistake.

Then, in a crazy atmosphere of crowds, the Spice Islands separated from the Yongju Island King's Court and announced their independence and establishment.

This is like stabbing the elf kingdom that had already been shaking and stabbing it hard from the back.

The imperial envoy Lieutenant General Daniel, who went to pass the imperial edict, was also "gifted out" by the authorities of the Spice Islands. Because of the complete failure of the mission, he did not dare to return to Yongju Island to welcome the queen's thunderous anger. For a moment, he felt that he was desperate and did not know where to go.

Finally, at the suggestion of Raphael, the president of the original Spice Islands colony, the current president of the Spice Islands Elf Republic, he had to bite the bullet and continue sailing northward to another relatively colony established by the elves in the Far East - the elves concession in the Shanghai Port of Xianglong Empire - to try his luck and see if he could bring back a group of "patriots" to the end.

However, after finally reaching the Shanghai Concession and witnessing the scene here with his own eyes, Lieutenant General Daniel finally became completely desperate.
Chapter completed!