However, while Victor was busily organizing agricultural production during the occupation period, East Sea Alliance also noticed his moves.
After giving the Allied Army's actions in the occupied territories some thought, they understood why it had done this. It was clearly trying to restore agriculture and commerce in the occupied territories, using the resources of East Sea Alliance's occupied lands to supply the Allied Army and support its later invasion of East Sea Alliance. Naturally, East Sea Alliance could not allow such a thing.
East Sea Alliance swiftly sent some personnel into the occupied territories. Although the Allied Army had now established numerous checkpoints along the border between the occupied territories and East Sea Alliance, making it impossible for them to send large numbers of troops through the entire border to support the resistance as they had before,
for these local operators from East Sea Alliance, smuggling a small number of people across the border was no difficult task. Thus, many agents disguised as civilians and merchants entered the occupied territories.
These people carried no weapons. Most brought only money, and the border checkpoints could not stop them at all.
After entering the occupied territories, they went straight into the countryside and spread rumors everywhere. They claimed that things like the Allied Army's seed loans were merely schemes to deceive farmers; once the farmers accepted loans for seeds and farm tools, when harvest time came, both the farmland and all the grain growing on it would be seized by the Allied Army and the foreign nobles behind them.
Such rumors immediately unsettled many farmers in the occupied territories. Combined with the brutal administration of the occupation forces in certain areas, which further fueled the chaos, there were even widespread actions in some rural areas against farm tool and seed loans.