Chapter 475: A Chaotic World In April 3049, the spring of the third year of the Imperial New Calendar, although spring plowing was still in progress in various places, the faces of the cultivators were no longer full of joy for the future harvest, but full of worries about the future.
Even the villagers already knew that the empire that had just been established was now in chaos again, and the main culprits in the chaos were the demons from the abyss and the angels from the heavens.
Since the Emperor of the Empire was destroyed by a sudden demon in January, the entire empire has been constantly attacked by beast angels.
Although these beasts with glowing wings do not appear very often, every time they descend from the sky, it means that another city or cities will be turned into flames.
It is far easier to destroy than to build, most of the cities that humans have spent hundreds or even thousands of years building have been turned into charred ruins overnight under the attack of beast angels, and the total number of human cities is less than a hundred, and if it continues at this frequency, it will not be long before the civilization of the human world will be destroyed.
As for the only armed force of mankind, although the Imperial Army has tried its best, they still can't stop these terrible attacks that fall from the sky and can neither be avoided nor predicted, often when the Imperial Army arrives at the attacked city, the city has turned into a sea of fire, and those beast angels have long been gone.
After the destruction of one city after another, there were a large number of casualties and refugees, and a great deal of complaints about the incompetence of the Imperial army began to appear among the general population.
However, everyone knew that this was just a complaint, because the strongest army in the world could not do anything to those beast angels, and ordinary people could only vent their fear that was constantly growing in their hearts by complaining.
Complaining is complaining, but when it comes time to make a choice, they are still willing to get as close as possible to the Imperial army for more protection, and where they receive the most protection is naturally the first question that these fearful people need to think about.
The question of where the imperial army is the most has become a question that everyone has been thinking about for several months, although the information dissemination of the human world has been much faster and more convenient than before in recent years, but the question of the subordination of the army is not something that an ordinary person can get, but it is definitely not just ordinary people who think about this question, and soon people find the answers they need in the actions of the rich and nobles everywhere.
A large number of wealthy people throughout the empire all over the empire began to destroy the city at the same time, they all invariably sold their property or selected the agent manager of their assets, and they themselves took the transportation to the new city after dealing with all this, if it was one or two such actions may not attract the attention of most people, but when the vast majority of the upper class people in a city made such a choice, people's attention to the new city began to increase again.
After the destruction of the imperial capital, the Supreme Council changed the name of the new city to the new imperial capital in a low-key manner, and then the city began to operate in a low-key manner as the new center of the empire, but after all, the new imperial capital is located on the remote northwest plain, and compared with the old imperial capital, which is located in the place where materials must pass through, it seems that the new imperial capital will not be the center of the whole world again.
It is precisely because of this that people's concern for the new imperial capital is far lower than the concern for the beast angels, until those big people begin to take their families to the new imperial capital together.
People were surprised to discover the figure of the new imperial capital from the list of beast angel attacks.
The new city, now renamed the New Imperial Capital, seems to be the only city that has not been destroyed by the attack of the beast angels, and what this means is self-evident.
In March, the new city was suddenly attacked by more than 400,000 beast angels, but the beast angels did not even penetrate the huge magical barrier above the new city, and they were overwhelmed by the overwhelming artillery fire.
In the end, after leaving nearly 100,000 beast angels in vain, the beast angels flew into the sky and disappeared without a trace, and this battle was also the first victory since the humans and beast angels began to fight.
Taking refuge in the new city has become a matter for almost all well-informed people, and the most life-threatening wealthy class has already begun to act before them.
A large number of merchants and minor nobles entered the new city by convenient means of transportation, and this time the new city opened its doors to everyone.
Not only that, but a large number of peasants in various places were forcibly transferred to the northwest in the name of labor conscription by the empire, although the peasants were full of fear of going to the northwest, but under the propaganda of the empire, after recognizing that the northwest is the only safe place for mankind at present, the peasants' resistance was not too much in the eyes.
The whole migration plan can be said to be going smoothly, and the vast majority of people do not have much resistance to going to the safe northwest, but there is a disagreement in the noble class, and the small nobles who have no territory basically choose to go to the new city without hesitation, but those noble families with deep roots in the local area seem to hesitate a lot.
Until April, a large part of the nobles had simply sent their families to the new city in the northwest, while they themselves remained in the territory and refused to leave.
According to the laws of the Empire, a noble lord who leaves his territory during a war is tantamount to giving up his domain, and although the punishment for relinquishing his territory under the new imperial law is only to deprive the inheritance of the territory, few territorial nobles are willing to give up the land ownership of the nobles who are called nobles.
Although the empire has maintained the status of the aristocracy on the surface over the years, in fact, the nobles can clearly feel how clear the empire's will to weaken the aristocracy is.
Although the angelic attack was a force majeure force majeure this time, the news of encouraging the nobles to abandon their territory aroused the vigilance of the nobles.
Especially in the matter of peasant migration, which was mostly the forced relocation of entire villages, gave the nobles who remained in their territory a bad premonition.
However, these nobles are not capable of resisting the orders of the Empire, whether it is the Imperial army, demons, or angels, they are far from being able to resist.
Because of this, the Empire's move to the final shelter beneath the new city is still ongoing, but many of those who have chosen to stay are also looking for a way to survive.
The territorial aristocracy bears the brunt of the most reluctant to leave, these original power holders of the human kingdom in the past ten years, gradually from the undoubted existence like a god, and finally fell into mortals controlled by the laws of the empire, the rights are compressed, the force is deprived, and even the wealth is completely taken away by the empire with various means that are not easy to be detected, for them, the only land is now their last treasure, even if they die, they will not give up easily.
However, after experiencing these cruel exploitation and oppression for them, the nobles of the territory now, at this moment of angelic and demonic invasion, they suddenly realize that an opportunity has come for them to rise again.
Now the imperial army is exhausted in order to contain the demons that are constantly pouring out of the old imperial capital, and the elusive angels are constantly being sent from one place to another, and it can be said that they are exhausted.
In this case, the civilian officials who were originally arrogant and did not have any intention of bowing their heads when they saw the lords had become panicked, and if it weren't for the fact that the empire did not allow the officials to leave their posts without permission, the vast majority of city officials would probably have taken their families to the new city.
In the midst of such a chaotic situation, the noble lords suddenly found that the mountain that weighed on their heads had disappeared, and that without the supervision of officials and the army, they could do many things by certain means in the land that their ancestors had run for countless years.
Although the empire was now in chaos, the various factories in the noble lords' domains were still working hotly, and each lord used his authority over those factories that belonged to them or did not belong to them, and the products produced by these factories began to appear in a process that could only be understood and unspeakable, and the private soldiers under the lords who far exceeded the number of private soldiers.
When the nobles began to establish their forces again, the people who remained in various places began to unconsciously move closer to the nobles, and for a moment it seemed that the lords had returned to more than ten years ago, and they had become the masters of the territory again, not only becoming more authoritative, but also becoming more powerful.
The vast majority of noble lords' private soldiers are ancestors who have followed the nobles around for generations or even dozens of generations, and the loyalty of these people is far from being easily changed by a few conscription movies in the empire.
Even if the empire forced the private army to disband, the vast majority of the real elites under the noble lords did not join the imperial army, but directly chose to retire from the army and become civilians.
It is precisely because of this that although the empire has achieved military unification on the surface, it still does not take too extreme actions against the lords and nobles when implementing the unification plan, except for those nobles in the peripheral provinces who are instigated by those who are motivated to resort to violence, for the weakening of the nobles, the empire has always used those economic means that kill people without blood.
However, now, even if the Supreme Council learns about the nobles' movements, they are powerless, and they are anxious to deal with the invasion, and it is absolutely impossible for them to send soldiers to eliminate them after learning of the nobles' actions.
What's more, the names of these nobles did not have the name of being purged by the Supreme Council at all.
With the righteousness of mankind, the self-defense army that defends against demons and is loyal to the empire has turned the ground into a new era of princes rising up for a while.