Chapter 326 The Importance of Steel

So when three more days passed...

Dong He: "Aren't these bastards from the Nigan Empire just some prostitutes? They, they are too much. What right do they have to say anything about our affairs? Can't they take care of their children and take care of their own housework at home?"

Obviously, after Dong He saw the caravan from the south again, he couldn't help but curse these dark elves who were walking with their heads held high.

But in the next moment, Dong He was quickly glared at by one of the white-skinned female dark elves with black hair and orange eyes. He suddenly felt itchy all over his body.

Yes.

Since these eight members of the dark elf caravan dared to come and negotiate with Wan Xi's liberation force, it means that their strength is definitely not something Dong He can easily imagine.

Therefore, although Dong He disliked these female intelligent races who neglected their families and abandoned their obligations and responsibilities, he would rather grit his teeth and endure the torture of thousands of ants gnawing at his bones, and resolutely not use his special abilities to resist.

After all, these pointy-eared members of the Dark Elf clan can use magic, so he can't just expose his trump card like this.

But...

Why can't Donghe control his mouth?

The answer is simple. Donghe is a traditional male citizen of the Gaomu Kingdom.

In the thoughts he has been exposed since childhood, women should be humble and stay at home to do housework, and never care about things outside.

However, the Nigan Empire, which implements the eldest daughter inheritance system, hopes that the Wanxi Liberation Force will be obedient and not continue to use biological and chemical weapons for combat casually, so as not to cause a larger range of environmental pollution. At the same time, the Nigan Empire is willing to provide more high-quality gun barrels and gun barrel manufacturing technology with good performance.

To put it bluntly, this is obviously the style of sending away beggars.

If you really want to cooperate, what about the gift?

There is no gift at all. What does this mean? After all, the Wanxi Liberation Force can make gun barrels, and there are finished products for medium-caliber gun barrels. Is it necessary to be given charity like this?

What does it mean?

This is the cruel reality.

In the past, the Takagi Kingdom was a vassal state of the Negan Empire. The king of the Takagi Kingdom had to offer his treasured crown to the Queen of the Negan Empire because of the defeat. So to this day, the Queen of the Negan Empire not only still wears the crown that originally belonged to the Takagi royal family, but also has a reason to punish the Takagi Kingdom for its disloyalty.

For this reason, the Takagi royal family, who turned to the name of the Akitsu Empire and took the initiative to act as its henchmen, was more worried than anyone else that the powerful neighbor in the south would give them a "lesson". Therefore, in terms of culture, the Takagi Kingdom has long been full of thoughts that belittle women and even openly discriminate against them.

For no other reason, the military is likely to be defeated, so the Takagi Kingdom can only use such a lowly way to discredit the Negan Empire.

Even in fact, the only land neighbor of the Negan Empire is itself. Located at the southernmost tip of the Neoland continent and surrounded by the sea on three sides, the Negan Empire is definitely a representative of a country that is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

In addition, the air force and navy of the Negan Empire are well-known, which is not as strong as it should be. Therefore, the Takagi Kingdom does not build roads and bridges in the southern border areas. One of the major reasons is to prevent the army of the Negan Empire from following up and carrying out the Northern Expedition.

The result...

Yes.

This is also an important reason why the resistance organizations in the southern border areas of the Takagi Kingdom flourished for a while, and even the Wanxi Liberation Organization, which can "separate" from the central royal regime, appeared.

Poor infrastructure conditions can not only effectively hinder the invasion and occupation of foreign forces, but also greatly facilitate someone to directly occupy the mountain and openly challenge the authority of the country. At the same time, this will make the ruling power of the central royal power decline significantly as the distance increases.

What's more, the nobles of the Takagi Kingdom completely monopolize educational resources, and the civilians who occupy the vast majority of the population are basically illiterate.

Therefore, this can only be described as "just what the Negan Empire wants".

How can such a country become a strong country? How can it be highly regarded by itself? How can it get rid of the days of relying on others?

But for Dong He, such a reason is like playing the lute to a cow.

As the members of the Dark Elf caravan gradually left, Dong He slightly activated his spiritual power and swept away the itch on his body.

I have to say that Dong He is really careful now.

Especially now that the Dark Elf can actually understand the language he speaks.

This is not a good thing worth laughing about.

Although it is said that the intelligent races in the world basically speak their own languages, and most of the languages ​​and characters are not interoperable. But there is still a profession in this world - translation, a special profession that specializes in converting languages ​​and characters to enable everyone to understand each other's behavior.

Therefore, Dong He was very fortunate to meet members of the Dark Elf who knew his own language, and was even more "honored" to realize what it means to say that disaster comes from the mouth.

The moral concept of the Takagi Kingdom cannot be directly applied to the Nigan Empire, especially under the premise that the national strength of the Nigan Empire is much stronger than that of the Takagi Kingdom.

However, compared to Dong He's reckless words that attracted the other party's revenge, Nagamasa looked at the documents on the table with a serious face.

Although the Negan Empire said it was an exchange of interests, this exchange of interests was quite tempting for Wanxi to liberate his power.

It is true that Wanxi Liberation Force can make guns and cannons, but thanks to the "good history" background of the Gaomu royal family, which strictly controls even blacksmiths and makes families in many places often need to share a kitchen knife, Nagamasa now really needs high-quality steel forging technology.

Things like armor plates, gun barrels, gun bayonets, mechanical wheels, etc. all need to be supported by high-performance steel. Otherwise, there is no way to implement Wanxi Liberation Force.

And after the "reminder" of the pig-headed man of the Akitsu Empire, Nagamasa now realizes that steel production is often one of the criteria for measuring a military power.

For example, the pig-headed man's thermal light knife is also a melee weapon with a certain amount of steel as the core skeleton.

At the same time, what makes him even more embarrassed is that not only the pig-headed man, but also the dark elves have a lot of iron tools with them.

The simplest one is a kettle with a handle lid.

There is no need to ask about this thing. The lid is unscrewed and it becomes a cup. As for what the cup can do, it depends on what ideas the user has.

Take the pig-headed man as an example. In addition to drinking water with a cup, the pig-headed man will also use the cup to calculate how much rice he should eat for a meal, and then pour the rice into the lunch box, and then use the cup to calculate how much water he needs for steaming.

Although the steel cup is easy to burn, the pig-headed man will wear gloves. In addition, the military kettle is not a household kettle, and metal things are always safer.

Then there is the lunch box...

Alas!

Wanxi Liberation Force has relied on dry food bags until now, or returned to the canteen at a fixed time to solve the problem of eating.

Dry food bags wrapped in oil paper...

This is already the best choice for Wanxi Liberation Force.

Change to the caravan members of the Negan Empire who carry bags and usually use their own metal lunch boxes to cook food for meals and water... The gap is reflected in this way.

Quality is fully reflected through such small details.

These guys who come to do business are very vigilant about the surrounding plants and trees, and they are quite wary of Wanxi Liberation Force in their hearts.

Even food and drink will not be obtained in the control area of ​​Wanxi Liberation Force to prevent him, Changzheng or his men from poisoning.

Perhaps this is the result of using too many biological weapons, and cultivating a group of experts who are always on guard against being poisoned?

Regarding this, Changzheng thought about it and still rejected the advice of the Negan Empire.

Even if the temptation is very strong, Wanxi Liberation Force should do it by itself if it can, and try not to be pointed by the other party.

Otherwise, Wanxi Liberation Force will easily fall into a passive situation.

Or he should communicate more with the Good Organization to see what kind of surprises the Good Organization has? Anyway, the Good Organization is not like the Negan Empire, which often attaches some conditions that it can't bear...