Ju Zi naively thought that attacking Heavenly Soul, Dou Ling, and the Star Luo Empire would yield the same results. Yet after taking only two provinces, she was already struggling and considering turning back to seek reinforcements.
The Heaven Dou Empire pulled a dirty trick suggested by Huo Yuhao: they burned the local "operating system."
What was the operating system of the territories ruled by the Heaven Dou Empire?
Naturally, it was the identity records of local citizens in the Household Registration Department and Archives, records of all sorts of resources, documents detailing local farmland conditions, and any other written materials that could help the Sun Moon Empire take over governance here.
Who were refugees, who were commoners, who were nobles, and what everyone could do? Go find out for yourselves!
Where were the mines? Where were the tools? Go look for them yourselves!
Though the Heaven Dou Empire was an agricultural nation through and through, reaching its present state had still created an extremely pressing need for refined divisions of labor.
By taking away the operating system wholesale, the Heaven Dou Empire had completely stumped Ju Zi. Every place she reached required tremendous effort and manpower just to determine the local situation, greatly slowing her march.
By now, Ju Zi was considering whether she should return to the Sun Moon Empire for reinforcements—not to mobilize more Soul Engineer Legions, but to bring back a batch of administrative personnel.
Two provinces, half of Heavenly Soul's Western Territory, dozens of cities—Ju Zi no longer had enough people under her command!
She could hardly send those regiment commanders and battalion commanders off to serve as city lords in every city. That meant drawing personnel from company-level units, but pulling out a company commander alone was not enough. They also needed part of