Thousands of sparks

Chapter 124 Choice

The sky is getting darker, and the violet night is gradually falling on Albin.The gas street lamps on the street began to be lit one by one by the workers, but this time...the number of street lamps lit was much less than before.

Curious citizens asked the reason when they passed by, but the answer they got was only one sentence, "It's an order from the Bureau of Internal Affairs."

Under the command of Escobar, who returned to his post, the Internal Affairs Bureau burst out with unprecedented efficiency. More than 60 teams rushed to every city in Newsale in every kind of transportation they could find.

Every "high-level goblin" that Escobar "raised" boarded the vehicle of his choice with a murderous look.Deputies of the Home Office near the Oberalbin region can choose from steam carriages, trains and even ships.For cities farther away, you need to rely on the red shuttle ship of the Newsail Post Office to reach them quickly.

No matter how uncomfortable the journey is, even if the "higher goblins" who weigh more than four hundred pounds need to cram themselves into wooden crates to squeeze into the extremely small space in the red postal shuttle. .

After 20 years in Upper Albin, these high-level delegates have already suffocated to go to those damn country places to have a good time.This time, he set off not only for work, but also for personal revenge.

The Internal Affairs Bureau in Upper Albin is a poor place. Apart from free canteens and fuel subsidies, the apparent income is almost only one-third of that of the dispatched agencies.

Every employee of the Internal Affairs Bureau who can fight his way out of the many competitions in Upper Albin and successfully obtain the qualification for expatriation has won very "difficult", even "bloody".After all, expatriation means that there will be a large amount of fixed-point funds issued by the Bureau of Internal Affairs, and there is almost no supervision on the use of this funds.In other words, almost all the allocated funds have become fat in their mouths.

However, the proportion of funds occupied by overseas agencies is as high as more than [-]% of the total budget of the Bureau of Internal Affairs—the [-]% here refers to the cash that is actually sent to the Bureau of Internal Affairs.

Therefore, dispatching "high-level goblins" became Escobar's first operation to control the overall situation.

Only by returning all the heads of the Internal Affairs Bureau in various places to the direct faction of Upper Albin can it be ensured that all orders for Upper Albin in various places are fully implemented.

And as these "high-level goblins" set off for various cities in Newsail, there was also an order sealed with wax paint.

This order was directly issued by Dusand himself, requiring all postmen in red in the local post office to fully cooperate with the work of these commissioners of the Interior Bureau, assist them in controlling the local people's livelihood, market, storage, etc., and complete the inventory of strategic materials and storage tasks.

When performing tasks, they should carry and be equipped with sufficient weapons and equipment, and cooperate with the Privy Council guards who are responsible for protecting the commissioners.Under the premise of ensuring the safety of the special commissioner, do everything possible and use all means that should be used to complete the task.

In other words, Dusand almost instructed Escobar to send more than 60 imperial envoys with complete power of life and death.Moreover, almost all of these imperial envoys seemed to be full of evil spirits.

A bloody storm is about to sweep across the entire Nusaal, and Dusand is not concerned about this matter at all.

Duchamp was finally called back by Dusande with more than 20 urgent letters, and now, he found that he was the happiest person in the family.

"What's the matter?" Dusan managed to free himself from the weightless state.In the battleship, even eating is tasteless.Although he didn't understand why his son called himself home with more than 20 urgent emails through the Newsale Arms Office, it was difficult for him to get down with a steak and a pile of good food in front of him.

"What I'm going to talk to you about...may not be very good for your appetite, so let's eat first." Dusande, who hadn't slept properly for more than a whole day, is not sleepy at all now.He felt his mind was extremely clear and sharp, and he was shocked.

The emotional tone of shock has been lingering in Dusand's mind for a long time.That was the only feeling he had ever had since Escobar had spelled out to him that "the butcher knife of the empire was about to fall on Nuucal."

What?The empire wants to slaughter its own colonies?The physical kind?
Every pioneering noble has more or less complained to each other in private, that Orin's rule of the colony is too rough.High tax rates and expensive licensing fees were just one of the ways the empire economically slaughtered the colonies.It is the most obvious result of this carnage that all the major corporate headquarters are located in Olympia, not in the colonies.

What's even more frustrating is that the empire doesn't care about the feelings of the colonies at all.They don't even care much about whether the colony can develop in a healthy and healthy way-as if the only purpose of the colony is to provide Orin with a steady stream of raw materials, dumping grounds and money.

Economic carnage is good for Olin, and the good is huge.But physical carnage?

Apart from causing a large number of casualties and investing a huge amount of resources and money, and in exchange for ruins and panic in other colonies of the empire, the empire did not get any benefits at all.

Act personally, and perhaps make decisions based on emotions.But a country is not an individual. It is a collection representing the interests of countless people. It is a machine without life and emotion that tends to maximize its own interests.The so-called country has no feelings but only interests is referring to such a "phenomenon".

Therefore, starting from a rational point of view, Du Sande does not think that the empire will raise the butcher knife against Newsail—especially when there is no foundation or sign of rebellion in Newsail.

The empire will not do things that have no benefits but only disadvantages.

However, the uncharacteristic analysis of Escobar made Dusand really feel uneasy.The uneasy factors come from three aspects.

According to Escobar, he is a graduate of Olin University's School of Economics and History.In the library collection of the Academy there is a letter from the rebel Salvador to His Majesty Justinian, the then Emperor.

In the letter, Salvador, who was still the Grand Duke at the time, greeted His Majesty Justinian and asked if he would still act on "April [-]".

The year the letter was written was the year when El Salvador rebelled. On April [-] of that year, the imperial city was attacked and killed and injured numerous.And five days later, on April [-]th, His Majesty Justinian killed El Salvador with his own hands in the hollowed out Pisk Mountain, the fourth highest peak in Olin.

Based on this letter alone, it is not difficult for Escobar to come to the conclusion that "Salvador the rebel is not necessarily really a rebel".

On the other hand, Escobar also provided Dusande with some clues about the "El Salvador plan".These clues come from his college sweetheart.

His lover was recruited by the Imperial Mining Federation after graduation. After seventeen months of detailed background investigation, his lover was transferred to a department called "Mining Investigation Section".

The mining complex has adopted highly confidential management measures for its own department, and all employees are not allowed to go out at will.In order to meet him, Escobar's lover chose to meet with Escobar privately during a work trip, and confided some work content to him.

The main work of the Mining Survey Section is to assess the natural reserves of resource types and quantities on all imperial colonial planets, and to analyze whether these colonies can maintain independent development once they break away from the empire.

In the survey of the Mining Survey Branch, Newsail is one of the colonies with the best natural conditions.

"Never go to Niusal, there will be big problems on that planet." Escobar, who was already preparing to work in Niusal, was warned by his lover, "If the El Salvador plan is implemented, the people on the colonial planet will at least half dead."

Neither Escobar at the time nor the current Director of the Interior Bureau of Newsale understood why this plan would cut the population of the colonial planet by half.Based on some rumors he heard in college, he made a guess, "Is it some particularly powerful weapon?"

"It's not a special weapon. The Alpha plan is used to deal with the alliance." Regarding Escobar's guess, his lover gave a negative answer, "The Alpha plan has reached the point where it can be implemented decades ago, but it is not Know why it hasn't started."

These contents are all one-sided words of Escobar, of course Dusande will not easily believe these nonsense.Not to mention the red-clothed postman who is engaged in intelligence, even the aunt who buys vegetables has to compare the prices of the two previous companies to believe that this is the lowest price.Of course, Dusande would not trust the other party directly.

Subsequently, Escobar produced a piece of "evidence" that was sufficient to support what he said.

It is somewhat imprecise to say that it was the evidence he produced—Escobar provided an address, and the postman in red found a thick stack of opened letters at this address.

The letter paper was yellow, and the notes on it were somewhat blurred, but Dusande, who read a few of the letters, was completely frightened.

There was nothing unusual about the contents of the letter, it was just that the daughter of a viscount was exchanging heart and soul with her lover.After all, in Olin, it is not too rare for children of mid-level nobles to marry free people.

But what frightened Du Sande was that the viscount's daughter was named Eleanor Khorevna Wharton.

Escobar's lover, whom he met at Olin University, is now the Empress Dowager.

Continuing to read the contents of the letter, Dusand also found a piece of information that made his heart stop for three beats.

Eleanor was still having a secret tryst with Escobar two months before marrying His Majesty.And now His Majesty the Emperor, Alfred, was born prematurely, eight months after the "royal wedding".

(End of this chapter)