Chapter 249 Chapter 731 The Benefits of Opening the Sea
Chapter 249 Chapter 7.31 The benefits of opening up the sea
In the arcane plane, six-ring spells and acid mist spells can summon thick acid mist within a range of dozens of meters. In the core area of the mist, steel will quickly rust, and its acid mist attributes are superimposed with "aging" and "impregnation", etc. Complex quantum information.
Most of the yellow-green gas that filled the Xinghui Peninsula battlefield in 3579 was only at the first energy level when it was first released. It's just that the scope is so wide that it would even make a giant dragon speechless! After all, the dragon's lungs cannot store the storage capacity of tens of thousands of steel barrels.
On this night.
According to the tactics of the leaders of the Sea Tribe, they originally wanted to take advantage of the humid night to have hundreds of thousands of servants outflank them under the cover of darkness, but they ran into this strange rolling mist head-on.
When the physical constitution exceeds fifteen points, it is equivalent to a magical steel heart. Such resistance can survive the acid mist. Most muscle naga can also be used, as can war turtles and merfolk.
However, most of the middle and low-level sea tribes, as well as the mutated fighting fishmen, rely on the "Moist Sea Breeze", a divine blessing equivalent to a zero-level spell, to breathe on land.
When the acid mist enveloped me, there was no scream, because opening the oral mucosa would make it more painful.
There was also no coughing. A large number of the Sea Clan's cattle and horse soldiers relied on their gills to breathe. Finally, he twitched and twisted silently and died in a green cloud three to four meters high. This kind of death before death sets off some cloud waves like fish jumping due to lack of oxygen.
After twenty minutes of this horrific killing, the acid mist at this energy level was filled with a large amount of death information, reaching the level of a forbidden curse.
Most forbidden spells are almost legendary means. Forbidden spells are not linked to high-level spells.
As long as a spell causes the casualties of tens of thousands of creatures, information of death, fear, and decay that can shake up tens of kilometers will be generated, and as the spell spreads, the negative effects will be pushed to the living creatures within the range.
Soon in the death fog, those highly resistant sea tribes could no longer hold on. Their skin turned pale and they were hit by a lot of negative information. This large-scale acid mist has already exceeded the seventh level in cursing the few living creatures that are still squirming.
A few war turtles tried to resist by squatting in pits, but were directly cursed to death by the negative death aura! The acid mist is not fatal to them, but the negative effects caused by the death of tens of thousands of creatures in an instant can cause the vitality of 90% of the cells in the body to decline.
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That night, as the thick miasma drifted by, the corpses of the Sea Clan were strewn across the land. The quantity has been reduced by more than 95%.
What originally looked like a concentrated distribution of troops became scattered after the fog drifted away.
Nine hours later, when the early morning light has arrived, the acid fog has dissipated from the land, and the remaining exhaust gas has arrived and dissolved in the spray. Still large pieces of fish and shrimp smoked to death.
The human militiamen in the position were required to wear masks soaked in soda water and guard the position on higher ground for a full night. Although they were upwind, some smells from the mist still came to the position.
Coupled with the continuous pitiful sounds of conchs dozens of kilometers away, the militiamen were still nervous and stayed up all night.
Just when the sky in the east was about to turn white, the glass-shaded kerosene lamps in the staff of the human coalition were also lit all night.
Groups of strong young men from the Northern Territory Military Group were updating the status of the Sea Tribe on the sand table every hour, and the nobles from the Xinghui Peninsula had no choice but to stay up late to discuss military meetings.
Robin, the new governor, proposed to lead the knights in a surprise attack at night.
Karit first confirmed that the idea proposed by his cub was a good one.
However, due to insufficient militia training, as well as night blindness and other unfavorable conditions, Carret rejected Robin's plan to make a ghost fire at night.
When there was no one else, that is, when the two of them went to urinate in the trench, Carrette grabbed Robin's ear and warned him: "Don't expect anything from your rookie teammates. It's good that they don't cause any trouble for you." ”
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Half an hour later, the eastern dawn rose from the distant land, and the wake-up whistle sounded throughout the camp.
The tank's boiler has been warmed up and checked. The soldiers who spent the whole night clutching their legion badges before falling asleep have also washed up and poured in the "Tea Herbal Oral Liquid"~ Well, a pure herbal drink with a taste similar to "Wang Lao Ji". Oh, the reputation of this thing in the Northern Territory is like the "Red Bull" brand effect in East Asia in recent times. Drink it and it will refresh you.
All positions were prepared, while the musketeers and knights began to attack quickly.
After receiving the order, four teams of knights from the Northern Territory, a total of fifty people, stepped on the accelerator of the heavy motorcycle and rushed directly to the coastline, blocking the large group of sea tribes from escaping back to the sea.
Ninety percent of the strategic goals have been achieved.
That is: using one war to eliminate the vitality of the Hai Clan for decades at once. (In the history of Eastern civilization in the main world, this is Li Mu’s famous work on the Xiongnu.)
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Eight hours later, the human coalition was busy from morning to afternoon.
On the sea, the fleet of the Northern Territory, which had retreated to the inside of the harbor before the war, also appeared on the scene at this time and blocked several river crossings. A network of metal barbed wires blocked the river.
Note: Just as human heavy machinery maneuvers along roads, the Sea Tribe's sea snakes and war turtles all move inland along rivers and leave the rivers, and their speeds are as slow as turtle speeds. The Sea Tribe tried to attack at night and just sent the giant beast into the river area.
So don't worry about other places, seal the traffic lines, and the Hai Clan will be the turtle in the urn.
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On the 5th, 45 hours after the battle of acid fog,
In Qingzao Bay, two sea snakes fell down under the anti-large rocket spears.
These two giant beasts that can overturn merchant ships in the ocean lanes fell to the ground in the bay with a depth of less than three meters.
The three rivet-strung ironclad warships, the Birch, the Willow, and the Cypress, occupied the deep water area at the exit of the Xinghui Peninsula Harbor, and used steam catapults to eject a large number of flame heavy crossbows.
In just four hours, the two sea snakes were full of burning steel thorns, and the scales on the neck of the upper body were all burned off, and the rusty iron chains on the spines were also crackling and burned into a flame necklace.
As for the ironclad ship, the anchor thrown out by the giant beast hit the steel shell with a bang. This metal sound made the sea people who originally had illusions completely give up.
After the two sea snakes were annihilated by the gunboat, the battle was coming to an end.
In the two-day battle, the Sea Tribe lost 200,000 cannon fodders on land, and the subsequent large logistical units, such as tortoises and oversized crabs, were forced to be abandoned by the Northern Territory Musketeers, who fought with steam chariots more than 20 times in a row.
Now only the Mermaid Mage and the Guards of the Sea Tribe are left. They are now trapped in three puddles. They are more than ten kilometers away from the coastline.
Just like the "fish" trapped in the reef pit after the tide recedes, they squat in a puddle less than three meters, holding their bone weapons, and remain fierce in despair, looking at the human race on the shore, waiting pitifully for the fate to be decided.
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The militiamen of the Xinghui Peninsula were quickly mobilized to dig on the white line drawn by the civil engineers with lime powder.
Oh, most of the earthwork was dug by excavators, and a small number of large rocks in the soil were knocked out by the militiamen with levers.
These canals allow the Sea Tribe defenders to connect the puddles with the lower terrain. ——Wei Keng: "Faced with such an arrogant fish, we can't indulge it, we must pump out the water."
In just a few hours, the canal was completed. As the explosives blasted and blew up the last layer of soil that blocked the canal and the puddle, the water in the entire puddle rushed towards the sea, but the mermaids in the puddle could not escape.
This process is bad for the big fish in the puddle.
The mermaids fell into the mud as the water level dropped. Any floundering was consumed by the mud resistance.
All this is not over yet. According to the next plan of the Northern Industrial Leader after the water is released, it is to prepare to sprinkle hundreds of tons of lime in to adjust the acidity and alkalinity of these puddles.
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Of course, this last step is against the harmony of nature. Well, after cleaning up the battlefield ravaged by acid mist, Master Wei felt that he had killed enough.
Carret gave the final warning to the heads of these sea creatures.
As a result, overnight, the invading sea creatures came to talk.
On the high ground, Carret looked at the mermaids crawling out of the mud pond. Master Wei looked at the mermaids: Although their bodies were covered with mud, I have to say that the mermaids have a good figure, that waist, that waistline above the belly button. Tsk tsk.
Through the art of comprehension, Carret understood that the morale of this sea tribe was low.
And he learned that the sea mermaids had passed a coup and controlled all the conservative priests. Now they want to make peace with humans and are willing to accept human conditions.
In the tent, Carret glanced at this sea tribe: "So, everything is instigated by a dragon, right?"
Little did he know that this dragon is now in the mechanical camp as a scribe on the scene.
Miss Blue Dragon, who was recording the content of the negotiation, looked very aggrieved~ It was him (Carret) who asked her to call people for this invasion, but in the end it turned out that it was her instigation.
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The three female mermaids who came to negotiate, the status of women in the sea tribe is higher than that in the human world. Because, first, there are too few male mermaids, and they are responsible for taming the sea monsters. Second: female mermaids have higher magic talents than male mermaids. The charm attack brought by the sound waves of adult mermaids often starts from the third ring.
As for the mermaids who came to negotiate now, they were also pitiful and claimed that they were instigated by an unknown evil dragon.
Hearing this,
Wei Keng exhaled: "But why are you so easily instigated?" Wei Keng looked at these sea people with interest.
In the turbulent history of the ancient times of the main world. There have been many collective external adventures by countries, such as this.
In the subsequent more than 100 years of internal fighting, it was attributed to the instigation of the "madman" of the time. Oh, such a view of blaming a few bad people is that after the defeat, this group of cowardly thugs helped their entire social group to get rid of the crime. Forget history.
If the entire ethnic thought is not filled with: wanting to gather wealth by taking shortcuts and immersing in military adventures to achieve success. So how could all citizens be so stupid that they could be instigated by "a small group of extreme right-wingers"?
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On the Xinghui Peninsula, the fifth sea tribe war came to an end.
This war was a complete victory from all angles. In less than five days, the largest main force landing of the sea tribe in nearly a hundred years was annihilated.
Although a large number of fishmen were lost, the high fertility rate of the sea tribe would only take a few years to recover. However, the high-level sea tribes are long-lived species, and they face the problem of reproduction difficulties like the elves. If they are really wiped out on the shore, the entire North Sea mermaid tribe will be weakened for hundreds of years.
And this time, after blocking all the sea tribes, the human side did not completely slaughter them, but chose the path of reconciliation.
Most of the young mermaids were detained, and they were given human bodies by transformation (transformation system, four rings), and accepted the contract to trade in human society for three days.
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This is not to detain hostages, but to let them know the current situation of human society and the concepts of trade and exchange.
After the industrial age, plunder is the least efficient. And sustainable benefits are to plan the resources of the other party and conduct long-term sustainable trade with one's own side. At the same time, under the interests of trade, transform the social structure of the other party so that its social production fits the industrial supply chain system of one's side.
Hundreds of thousands of marine creatures of the sea tribe invaded at one time. Even if each sea tribe carried an ironware or ceramics, they could not bring back more than the cargo of a sunken ship.
And Carret now wants to tell them that as long as they abide by the rules, dozens of ships and hundreds of ships can deliver goods to them every year, and even customized industrial services can be provided.
After understanding the current situation, this group of "hostages" currently regarded by the sea tribe will become the first to try out new things in the sea tribe, master the sea and land business channels, and then obtain wealth and power.
The premise is to establish a consensus that can make both parties accept the exchange. Wei Keng: "We can't let these fish be scared."
No. 9
When Carret fulfilled his promise to release the first batch of ocean royals back to the sea,
the sea tribe immediately handed over a big gift, a one-meter-long shell filled with deep-sea pearls, and hundreds of conchs packed with gold.
The high value made Wei Keng consider how to give back enough items.
The goods given back to the sea tribe must be things that the other party thinks are "valuable in the exchange." At the same time, business integrity must be established.
There is no integrity in the sea tribe, but the human side must be honest.
In Carret's long-term perspective: it is necessary to prevent the wrong pricing of sea and land trade, smuggling caused by huge profits, and then develop uncontrollable forces. The human official gives a fixed value for land goods to the sea tribe trade, and the premium cannot be too much.
Therefore, about 150 tons of chrome-molybdenum-aluminum steel and ceramic forged currency were provided to them first.
When the sea tribe saw the "unprecedented" ironware and the promise of the land people to help with processing, some of them wondered if this was a trap.
The doubts of the sea tribe will be dispelled in time.
As for what the northern industrial leaders have to deal with next, it is the "begging of poor relatives".
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It took the Knights of the Eger Capital 18 days from departure to arrival.
When they arrived at the Xingyue Peninsula, the war was over.
Most of the militiamen in the peninsula area have begun to return home - they carry uniform canvas backpacks, which contain souvenirs such as kettles and shovels issued in this battle, as well as the silver coins promised in this battle and the boxed pearls distributed. Due to the residual memory of the ten-day training organization, most people still travel together on the dirt road in a line.
So what the belated King's Capital Knights saw was the "military" young and strong walking towards the village of Xingyue Peninsula.
It was as if the ‘Northern Territory’ was occupying all the territories of the Xingyue Peninsula on a large scale.
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In Xixue Territory, Hailiu City.
When the two cousins arrived, Carret was counting deep-sea pearls!
Oh, this thing is the largest trade signed between the Northern Territory and the Sea Clan. These natural pearls are difficult for humans on land to collect, so they are expensive.
But for the Sea Clan who have a ruling order in the ocean, it is easy to collect these pearls, and there is a large amount of production every year, which just happens to be a futures exchange with industrially mass-produced porcelain on land.
Natural pearls are just substances synthesized by calcium carbonate and shellfish organic matter in the main world, but in this era of residual quantum information, natural pearls contain information from the long secretion time of shellfish to get rid of sand and gravel.
This information can be used as raw materials for the purification of magic potions to enhance the stability of mental power.
Of course, the amount of information contained in thumb-sized pearls is not too much. It takes about 150 to make up the raw materials for a test tube of "fresh potion". And a test tube of "fresh potion" is enough for an arcane apprentice for a week, which can increase the recovery speed of mental power meditation by 10%.
So it is not a huge profit to exchange a large enamel porcelain plate for a pearl. This is just the hard-earned money for purchasing raw materials. The profit here corresponds to the industrialized potion production technology.
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Carret met his two cousins in a warehouse with boxes of pearls.
Oh, these two princesses were led into this warehouse. Seeing Carret open this harvest frankly, they were slightly startled. On the one hand, they were shocked by the rumor that the northern territory harvested a huge amount of sea treasures in the battle of Xinghui Peninsula. Of course, on the other hand, Carret's words are a side reminder that the king should be aware of the power of the northern industrial territory and not make strategic misjudgments.
Oh,
Of course, there is no need to avoid it. The trade between the northern human industry and the sea tribe cannot be hidden in the future. Wei Keng never thought of hiding "things that are destined to be normalized".
Carret appeared here and announced that some new trade could be discussed. It was also a gift to communicate feelings.
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Carrett wore a crown that he had salvaged from somewhere, held a magic scepter inlaid with bright gems, and had a bunch of night-light pearls around his neck. He was not polite, but he was sincerely happy to meet his two sisters.
Carrett: "You came at the right time. I'm going to give you something. I don't want to choose carefully, you can choose it yourself."
The two princesses couldn't help but laugh when they saw Carrett's appearance.
Carrett wanted to be unrestrained, but she didn't know that the crown on her head was a princess crown, and she looked pretty with the achievement of "human immortal". The pearls wrapped around her didn't have any wild temperament, but instead had some boyish and girlish looks under the background of the jewels.
At this time, Carrett reached out and pulled them to the corner of the warehouse, where three more advanced boxes were stacked, and stuffed a large conch in each of their hands, about the size of a soup bowl.
Then he opened the box, and the thick ocean energy (quantum information) came towards them as the box opened.
There are fist-sized pearls on top, which are different from the big pearls that were just prepared to be used as "raw materials for juice drinks".
Each pearl contains a swimming golden fish, and its magic information is hundreds of times that of the former, and the information is extremely advanced.
There are also deep-sea gems,
and ambergris in a blue crystal box. Even the conchs that were casually carried by the two princesses are magic containers with very exquisite patterns.
These three boxes are the most precious items given by the sea tribe after Carret's battle.
These three boxes of things cannot be given to the empire. I have already given too much to the king of Egg. As a mature politician, I will never invest if I don't get a return.
But for these two princesses, my cousin can do some public relations.
There are no extra people in this room now. As long as they pick up the conch, the things inside are theirs, but if they give a box to the empire, they can't get anything.
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These two princesses were originally very upright. They came here this time to ask Carret to respect the public interests of the empire. Don't reduce the supply of potions. But now these treasures are indeed tempting to ladies, and someone's gift-giving art is really hard to refuse.
The two princesses were pulled to the treasure chest, holding conchs in their hands. It was not good to pretend or not to pretend.
The ladies were reserved,
Carret simply took the initiative and was very enthusiastic. He took two chopsticks and began to pick up gems, pearls, and mermaid teardrop stones and put them into their bowls.
Wei Keng: "In the ancient times, bribes must be elegant. Well, of course this is not called bribery. This is a gift from my cousin to my sister."
As for the next one, it's soft to eat people and short to take people. ——The main world has a whole set of knowledge to test the bottom line of bureaucrats.
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On the system side, Bai Linglu seemed to have seen Wei Keng like this for the first time, and couldn't help but spit: "Learn good things and bad things."