Cthulhu Gonfalon

"In the last three months, the gold-buy federal purchase of aristocratic factions has suddenly increased the amount of materials required for several wars." The goblin, who is in charge of the Void City's block trade market, frowned, and a report was sorted out. To the Minister of Commerce Osman Bin Raugu.

Minister Raunou also frowned, took the report and studied it carefully.

After a while, he asked: "The aristocrats have bought a lot of blazing rubber and flashing dust... What are they doing? Are these things expensive in the war?"

"As far as I know, blazing rubber can be used for fire attacks, while flash dust can make the enemy temporarily blind. If used well, it can also break the invisibility - these are low alchemical products, only equivalent The effect of low-level spells is nothing more.” The old goblin Lacanich was once a tribal chief who had fought for many years with the adventurers and was very familiar with these low-level alchemy items.

In a cold winter more than 20 years ago, he looked at the people who had fallen into famine because they were plundered by the powerful monsters. They finally decided to surrender to the nearby Longyan Town and become a group of inhabitants. Because he can master a small amount of lightning magic, he and his people call themselves "the lightning family", and later "lightning" becomes the family name of their family. Among the goblins of the Northwestern Republic, they are considered to be the earlier groups of “civilized culture”.

Now he is an old businessman who is in charge of the Void City block market. This job is actually quite leisurely, because the market is only responsible for providing venues and security, and business transactions are all without asking - but there is one, after the parties have negotiated, they need to submit a deposit with the transaction brief. If the two sides do not object to the business within three months, then the deposit can be returned to 90%, and the remaining 10% is naturally the venue rental fee and the guarantee fee. If the two sides disagree with the business within three months, they can go to the Void City Commercial Litigation Court to start negotiations or even litigation. As necessary, the Void City can even use the legendary Master to ensure the reliability of the business.

The old chief, Lakani Hugh, is also a young man. He does not work too hard, and he does not have the energy to make too complicated calculations, but he can still rely on his own experience of the old rivers and lakes for those data compiled from the transaction briefing. Conduct research and screening to find valuable intelligence.

For example, this time, he found a little weird.

The current tension in the gold coin federation, as long as the eyes are not flawed, anyone can see it. Generally speaking, in this case, both parties will strive to hoard war materials, mainly arrows, nails, metal ingots, standard weapons, and food and medical supplies.

The price of these things is not too low. It is not a big deal for adventurers to buy a small amount, but the military will buy a lot and it will be a considerable number. Therefore, the first thing to fight is the national strength. If you don’t have money, you shouldn’t be arrogant about it. It’s more reliable to admit defeat or escape.

At least the chief of Lakaniyu, or the chief of the former Goblin tribe "Lightning", Mr. Lakani Hugh, has always followed this principle.

Is this principle good or bad? It's hard to say, but at least for the Lightning Horde, it did get good results. Lakani Hugh’s desperate gamble at the beginning of his life, and finally let his own people live a life of stability and prosperity.

In addition to family planning.

This is one of the basic national policies of the Northwestern Republic. Those races that are particularly capable of birth must limit births, while those with low fertility are encouraged to give birth.

The representatives of the former are goblins and rabbits, and the latter are naturally represented by black and white bears, elemental creatures and the like.

However, to limit fertility is easy, it is much harder to encourage fertility. Black and white bears have the urge to reproduce in a short period of two months. In most cases, they are more interested in wine than in the opposite sex; elemental creatures almost never understand what is "reproduction". It is hopeless that they are expected to be able to open branches and scatter leaves.

Fortunately, Xiong Xiong is not the kind of white-left Madonna who has entered the water in his head. He will not invite a group of grandfather to come back from the mountains and rivers in order to expand the domestic minority population. Is it difficult to breed? It’s difficult, they don’t want to be born, can’t they become a sturdy person and force them to be born?

This kind of thing is not suitable for forced means.

"...Lakani Hugh, you think that if you use a lot of low-altitude alchemy items like blazing rubber and flash dust, what effect can it have?" The Ottoman minister pondered for a moment, and some did not ask with certainty, "I think, These things don't seem to be suitable for large-scale use on the battlefield, the cost is too high and the benefits are too low."

"You are right, as long as a group of protective spells can resist the damage of blazing rubber, as for flashing dust, it is almost the same. When I took the little guys in the tribe and wrestled with the adventurers. I haven't been afraid of this kind of means, let alone the powerful army that has become a system." The old elders shook their heads. "I really can't see what they can do. To be honest, I think it is a waste of money."

"But the aristocrats will not be fools."

"I really don't understand, maybe the people in the military department can understand." Lakani Hugh smashed the pot irresponsibly.

The Minister of Commerce pondered for a while and felt that this was the case. He sent the document two copies of the magic message, one to Defense Secretary Leonard and the other to Security Minister East.

What do these two professionals think? Keep him secret. He is still busy!

About half an hour later, Leonard and Easton took the time to meet and discussed the matter.

"This is not normal." Reynolds said, "The blaze is nothing, and the flash is definitely not something that can be used in large quantities during the war. It makes no sense!"

Ester nodded. According to his impression, flash dust is generally used by adventurers. The thieves used it especially, mainly in the sudden battle, which can be used to flash the enemy's eyes and then take the opportunity to escape.

To say that this is used in a formal war... He wants to think about it, and can't think of how it can be used.

Could it be... when the cavalry is hedged, throw a hand first?

Merchants can send new troops without the need for cavalry. They use the heavy bow and the long gun to fight the cavalry directly. There is a kind of mountain. As for what to shoot, how to ride a bow without a bow shot long-range shot, nothing more than to send death to slowly die.

In this world where magic is widely used, there is no machine power advantage for cavalry. What's more... It's not easy to win the middle-ranking warrior on a small battlefield by relying on ordinary horses!

The cavalry of this world, in addition to the commanding soldiers, is a heavily armed canned warrior, dealing with them, and the well-trained army can use the long guns on the ground to form the so-called "dragon gun array".

In fact, the reloaded knights generally don't go to the enemy, even if they want to rush, they must first cover the body with multiple layers of protective magic - so the war becomes a confrontation between protective magic and dispelling magic...

East was frowning and contemplating. Born in the country of the Master, he has a lot of experience in understanding the use of spells. He feels that he should be able to guess how the aristocrats will use the blazing rubber and flashing dust.

But before he could guess, Yu Xiong had already got the answer through his own channel.

The aristocratic group intends to form a harassing fast-moving force specifically to combat the rear of the merchants. These things, such as blazing rubber and glitter dust, are prepared for them.