In this regard, Natalie's answer was an unusual understatement: "Of course I have a way to know the news. You think that after you take control of the entire palace and replace everyone with Duke Jinguo's people, I don't have any

Have you heard of the news? Remember your words, Tide, you will return the throne to my son, the legitimate heir to the throne of the Blue Bay Empire - Whirlpool Blue. I not only need your own promise, I also have enough power to guarantee you

You will fulfill your own promises."

For Chao Tide, the first time he lost to a woman in his life was named (Harmony) Ariel Garcia. It was precisely because of that loss that he already had a different understanding of women in his heart.

New understanding.

Therefore, the emperor did not feel any sense of shame or humiliation regarding Natalie's oppression of him now. Instead, he felt that this seemed to be a matter of course...

It was this feeling that made him quickly accept the fact that the news network around him had been infiltrated into a sieve. He immediately nodded and said: "Then...sister-in-law, even I will definitely take the throne in the future.

Return it to my nephew... But the premise is that our empire must still be there! Isn't it? I promise here! As long as the situation stabilizes... or the Uzumaki age reaches eighteen, then I will immediately return the throne to

Him! If I don't fulfill my promise, then let me throw myself into the blue sea and let me become the food of the things in the abyss!"

As a noble who has experienced a period of decline, Natalie will not believe the emperor's so-called promise. Promises only have a certain effect between people of equal status. If you want the other party to truly

If you want to keep your promise faithfully, it is best to have a certain guarantee, and this guarantee must not be the so-called "trust."

However, now is indeed not the time to pursue this kind of matter. At least Natalie admits that if she wants her son to inherit the throne, she must maintain the integrity of the Blue Bay Empire instead of letting the empire become as precarious as it is now.

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"Block the news first."

Natalie said.

Chao Chao sat slumped on the sofa next to him. This short period of one year seemed to have made this handsome and elegant man ten years older. He said with a bitter look on his face: "I have already given the order, and no one can do it."

Reveal the news...I will kill anyone who dares to speak out."

Natalie nodded and continued: "In addition to blocking the news, we also need to make a big announcement that our war has been won, and now the entire marginal province has returned to the control of the empire."

Chao Xiang was stunned for a moment, then raised his head and looked at Natalie: "Is this... like this? But I obviously lost... or failed miserably..."

Natalie seemed very relaxed and said: "The battle lines cannot be faked, but the battle reports can. As a member of the elegant and noble Blue Royal Family, and as the Emperor of the Blue Bay Empire, all you need to do is to make everything happen.

It seems that everything is on the right track. Even if this right track only appears in public opinion, it must be publicized in this way."

The queen turned around and walked slowly towards the gate, saying as she walked: "We want to let the territories that are still under control, especially the people in Hanhai City, know that the empire is still invincible. For this reason, we must

We need to extinguish any flames of instability and continue to maintain our image."

After thinking about it, Chao Tide said: "Is this... really okay? But we really lost too much... Is it really okay to just say we won in publicity?"

Seeing how stupid this emperor was, Natalie really wanted to turn around and slap him in the face.

But now, she still had to swallow her breath and said slowly: "As long as there are rebel heads, that's fine."

Tide Tide was stunned: "The rebels'... heads? Where did they come from -"

Natalie: "Find a remote village where no one will notice, and deal with it quietly. Then all the rebels will be killed. As for how to explain this village in the future, just say that it was the rebels who killed them. Even,

We can directly ask our people to put on the clothes of the mermaid army to do this kind of thing. As far as I know, the Holy See of Light seems to be very suitable for doing this kind of thing, you can ask them to do it."

Chao Xiang was stunned. In less than a minute, he felt that his perception had been completely changed.

In his impression, the emperor's sister-in-law should be a gentle and pleasant person. Even if she speaks harshly, she is a kind-hearted person. Several times, Chao Chao has personally seen the emperor's sister-in-law distributing food in the slums.

, taking care of those who are homeless.

But now, this imperial sister-in-law is a terrible person who can say such things and even treat the people as nothing!

Is this contrast real? Which one is the real royal wife? In other words, the person that my brother Menglang once loved... the one who distributed food to the homeless with a smile? Or the one who started doing things in front of me?

Cruel and ruthless?

Tide couldn't tell such a thing anymore, but even if he thought he could tell it, there was no need to tell it now.

Everything has a result, and everything must have a result.

In order to maintain the dignity of the royal family, some prices must be borne...

Yes, the villagers in remote villages can only suffer from you.

"By the way, Sister-in-law, there is one more thing."

After completely turning on the "switch" in his heart, Chao Tide suddenly asked -

"What should we do about the element machine? Should we also use this kind of thing to make weapons?"

Natalie was about to leave, but her footsteps suddenly stopped.

Regarding things like elemental machines, the former queen also has very complicated feelings now.

Obviously, the woman who once worked as a maid with him, and was supposed to remain a maid for the rest of her life, was able to challenge the empire because of a brand-new thing like the elemental machine.

Relying on this new technology, the magic that once existed has become vulnerable. In the entire Golden Continent, what measures a country's military strength is no longer how many magicians in the country can release the Great Meteor Technique, but how many magicians it has.

Elemental cannon.

If you want to maintain the military power of the empire, then you must have things like elemental cannons and elemental tanks. But on the other hand, Natalie has also read "On the Collapse of the Empire" by that despicable woman.

She was able to rise from a down-and-out nobleman, or even to a lower class like a maid, to climb up to the position of queen of a country in one fell swoop! How many people know the hard work involved? How many people can understand the sadness and tactics involved?

How could she accept that she was asked to give up her status as a royal family and return to a... down-and-out noble... no, even to a position where she needed to wash, cook and serve others?

Therefore, it is absolutely impossible for elemental machines that can cause the collapse of the empire to appear within the empire. Even if the productivity of the entire empire is forced to a lower level, it must be suppressed! You must not allow anything to challenge you.

Royal status, never allowed!

But on the other hand, if you simply reject the element machine, your combat effectiveness will not be able to keep up... If you want to balance the power here, there must be only one way.

"Elemental cannons, elemental guns, elemental armored vehicles, of course we want them."

Chao Xiang was stunned and felt a little nervous. After all, the Magic Association and the Holy See of Light made the matter bigger just for this matter.

"However, we cannot accept things like elemental machines. In other words, we must take the empire as the foundation and elemental machines for external use. We can set up elemental machine factories, but all elemental machines cannot be used for civilian purposes, nor can they produce anything other than weapons.

Anything outside of it. These demonic machines must be under the strict control of our empire and controlled by dedicated personnel."

"As for who should be in control... Aren't the old guys from the Magic Association most afraid of losing the meaning of their existence? Then let them manage these factories that produce weapons. In this way, they will probably have no objections, right?

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Hearing this, Chao Xiang nodded slightly, but after thinking about it, he seemed to feel that something was wrong, and quickly said: "But the emperor's sister-in-law, in that bitch's "Collapse Theory", there is a part that specifically explains how our royal family

The possible consequences of managing these element machine factories...isn't your approach exactly the same as what she wrote in her book?"

Natalie gave Tide a fierce look and snorted coldly: "If everything she said is right, then you can step down from the throne now, and then hold Bai Qi to Pelican City in front of her

Kneel down and surrender!"

Faced with Natalie's fierceness, Chao Xiang didn't dare to speak for a while.

Natalie: "No matter how much knowledge she has learned, she is still just an ordinary person. In fact, she is a pariah. Do you really think she is a god? Can all the predictions she makes be accurate? Could it be that she is

Can't she write something wrong? Even if all her predictions are correct, her book says that our royal family will directly manage the Element Machinery Factory. But now we let people from the Magic Association manage it, and they

They are not members of the royal family, but grasshoppers who are loyal to us and bound to us by a rope. And they themselves know very well that only by completely destroying the witch can their status be preserved. How can it be like that in the witch book?

Is that what you said?"

After Natalie said this, Chao Xiang finally breathed a sigh of relief. He clutched his chest. After experiencing the tragic defeat, he finally felt that he could see a little glimmer of hope.

As long as there is hope of victory, then everything will likely return to the most "normal" state!

The emperor's sister-in-law was right. The reason why that woman was able to win the war was because of the weapons made by those elemental mechanisms. So, as long as both sides have the same weapons and equipment, the balance of victory will definitely tilt towards the empire!

must--!

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The Holy Night Festival has passed, and a new year has begun.

Everything here in Marginal Province seems to be prosperous, and everyone's face is filled with happy smiles.

In the new year, the construction of Pelican City has been basically completed. Now the city has surpassed Lagoon City and become the largest city in the entire marginal province.

There are several living areas divided here. There is a night market specially arranged for the Night Clan, a tree house area where the Flower Fairy Clan come to live, and of course there are commercial areas and industrial areas specially used for various commercial activities, etc.

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Due to the previous victory in the war, the encirclement of the marginal provinces has been completely ended. Various materials can be continuously transported here through the outside world, processed into various commodities in these factories, and then transported out through transportation pipelines.

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Now, a "traffic pipeline" has been completed and is ready for its first departure.

Wooooow————————!

In a large "station" on the edge of Pelican City, a somewhat different element car is preparing for its maiden voyage.

Compared with other elemental vehicles, this elemental vehicle is larger in size, even larger than the elemental armored vehicle!

The only difference is that behind this large elemental car is towed many carriages, one after another, constantly linked by hinges.

Moreover, this elemental car is not driving on a normal road, and its wheels look very different. The wheels of ordinary elemental cars are made from the slime of thick-fleshed starfish, extracted and shaped.

Flexible wheels.

The wheels of this elemental car are made of steel, just like when the elemental car was first made, and it doesn't look very practical.
To be continued...