Chapter 2875: Dog-Headed Military Advisor
This is a world where humans and gods coexist. Although the gods have gone to the spirit world with the expansion of humans, it does not mean that the elves and gods have disappeared. Humans can occasionally encounter some. At the same time, the lion turtles that once protected humans also exist, moving in the ocean like moving islands.
And in places where humans have never set foot, there are powerful ancient elves who guard their land and can even easily flatten villages.
But the conflict between humans and elves has not ended, and the conflict between people has begun again.
Humans are constantly expanding. Among the four major forces, even the most peaceful Air and Earth tribes are increasing their population and occupying many high mountains. The Earth Kingdom has established the largest country and occupied the most vast land.
The Fire Kingdom has an archipelago, so it has developed a powerful navy and has expanded greatly in the past hundred years. The Water Kinds mainly live in the South and North Poles. After being attacked by the Fire Kingdom, the Water Kinds in both places had to resist.
Without the intervention of the Avatar, the Fire Kingdom is one against three. In the past, the strongest must be the Earth Kingdom, because the earth control technique can be used for farming and production. In the past, the most useless people were the Qihe tribe, because the Qibiao technique could not be used directly for production, so the Qihe tribe could only live in the mountains.
Then there were the Shuishan tribe, who could fish as long as there was water, so even if they lived in the North and South Poles, they could live very well by relying on navigation and fishing trade. But with the development of the times, the role of fire is getting bigger and bigger, especially in metallurgy and energy, and the flame has pushed the Fire Nation into the industrial age.
Firebending to boil water is a steam engine, and firebending to smelt iron is a steel mill. With firebending, there is no need for coal. Therefore, the Fire Nation popularized education and turned every citizen into a screw for expansion. Of course, the expansion of the Fire Nation is understandable. After all, their living area is indeed dangerous. On the archipelago, the land area is originally small, and there are volcanoes on many islands, so they are eager for a wider land. After all, the previous generation of supernatural powers died from inhaling too much poisonous smoke in order to prevent volcanic eruptions. It can be seen how bad the environment of the Fire Nation is.
However, because the other three major forces are opposed to the expansion of the Fire Nation, the current situation is one-on-three.
Bending was originally a power given to humans by the lion turtle, which controlled fire, air, water, and earth through body movements. Later, humans could also learn bending by imitating elves.
The object of imitation of the Fire Nation is the dragon, but in the past few hundred years, the Fire Nation has carried out dragon-slaying activities. Why kill dragons? There is no specific meaning, and there is no benefit. In short, the strong men of the Fire Nation always like to kill dragons. In the end, the last way was killed thirty years ago. The dragon slayer was the younger brother of the Fire King and the wise general of the Fire Nation. The dragon slayer was disheartened because his son died in battle, and now he is wandering with the exiled prince.
In short, the relationship in the royal family is also very complicated. The son killed his father, the elder brother was afraid of his younger brother, and the younger sister wanted to replace her brother, and they intrigued for power.
The navy of the Fire Nation is very strong, but the army is average, so the attack on the Earth Power Kingdom is not smooth. Of course, many coastal cities have been captured as strongholds. With these strongholds, tanks and equipment are manufactured, and the army is strengthened to attack.
The Earth Kingdom has a strong army, but a terrible navy, so it blocked the Fire Kingdom but could not counterattack. The two countries have been in a stalemate for a long time, so the Fire Kingdom later adopted the tactic of first destroying the Water Tribe and then conquering the Earth Kingdom.
Duran learned about the military deployment of the Fire Kingdom from the princess's side. They were gathering the navy and preparing supplies. The next wave was to flatten the Water Tribe.
However, Duran knew that the Water Tribe also had spirit beasts and could summon gods, so the Fire Kingdom would be defeated this time. Science cannot beat metaphysics. And Duran also knew that the Avatar, who had been missing for a hundred years, had returned. At the age of twelve, the Avatar ran away because he could not bear the pressure. He encountered a storm and fell into the sea. In order to save himself, he froze himself and remained frozen for a hundred years.
Until recently, the Avatar was discovered by a pair of brothers and sisters from the Water Tribe and rescued from the ice. Although the twelve-year-old Avatar was surprised that he had missed a hundred years of history, he did not realize how dangerous the situation had become, and still wanted to play around. He didn't know that the Qihe tribe had been exterminated, and that the Fire Nation had spread the flames of war all over the world. He didn't know that there was not much time left, and he had to master the four kinds of control techniques as soon as possible to activate the magic power and save the world.
After waking up, the young man 'An' began to play around and found a destroyed Fire Nation warship. There was no such warship a hundred years ago. Out of curiosity, An entered the warship, but triggered the mechanism inside and fired a flare, which was discovered by the wandering prince who was patrolling nearby.
The story of the wandering prince and the Avatar began.
Of course, the prince's uncle also saw the flare and moved forward immediately. After this encounter, the Avatar, which had been missing for a hundred years, finally returned to everyone's sight.
The princess also knew that her unlucky brother had a chance to be lucky, and she was very angry: "I didn't expect that he would meet the Avatar?! If he caught the Avatar, maybe his father would withdraw the order of exile."
"Your Highness, you think too much. The reason why the prince was exiled was not because of his lack of achievements, but because his ideas were not in line with your majesty. Even if he caught the magic power, it would not change. But it is precisely because the prince and your majesty have different ideas that the prince told his own story. Therefore, even during his exile, your uncle and many military commanders still supported the prince. Although you are in the palace, no one will support you." Duran said that the princess was just a yes-man for the Fire King and could not get everyone's support at all.
The princess has not only heard Duran say that she should tell her own story well, but what story should she tell? She looked at Duran with dissatisfaction and asked, "Then what story should I tell?"
"Your majesty's story is to expand for the Fire Kingdom, and the prince's story is to care about every citizen of the Fire Kingdom. They are all for the Fire Kingdom, but the routes are different. Princess, if you also want to gain support, you can try citizen supremacy, that is, except for the "citizens" of the Fire Kingdom, all other people are not people." Duran said that this is Naturiism.
"What is a citizen?" There is no such saying in this world.
"It's the Bender. Only the Bender is a human being. Others should serve the Bender. In this way, you can get the support of the Benders across the country. Take the wealth of ordinary people and give it to the Benders to win their hearts." Duran said that this way he could quickly get the support of a group of extreme Benders and build his own power.
"Is that so?" The princess likes to listen to Duran's class because Duran never hides his goals and tells her about the distribution relationship in the most straightforward and explicit way.
The distribution relationship of the Fire King is militarism, based on expansion war, and resource allocation prioritizes military industry and soldiers. The distribution relationship of the prince is based on internal affairs, first developing domestic facilities, including domestic Benders and ordinary people. Then the princess can give priority to Benders. Anyway, the power of Benders is the most critical. She can directly engage in Nacuism and give priority to Benders.
They are all distribution, but different distribution relationships will lead to different routes. The princess thought it made a lot of sense. She was the most powerful Bender. If she engaged in Bender supremacy, she would be the most noble existence. I feel more and more that Duran should not be a swordsmanship teacher, but a military strategist.