Cthulhu Gonfalon Chapter 198:

"In the past three months, the gold coin federation bought several war supplies by the nobles." Rakanisiu Lightning, the goblin in charge of the Void City bulk trading market, frowned and sorted out a copy. The report was handed over to the Minister of Commerce Osman bin Raunagu.

Minister Raunegou also frowned, accepted the report, and studied it carefully.

After a while, he asked: "The nobles bought a lot of flaming glue and flash dust... What are they going to do? Are these things very expensive in war?"

"As far as I know, blazing glue can be used for fire attacks, while flash dust can temporarily blind the enemy, and if used well, it can also break invisibility-these are all low-level alchemy products. It is only equivalent to the effect of a low-level spell." The old goblin Rakanishu was once the chief of a tribe, who had fought with adventurers for many years and was very familiar with these low-level alchemy items.

In a cold winter more than 20 years ago, he looked at the tribesmen who had fallen into famine because they were plundered by powerful monsters to store food, and finally decided to surrender to the nearby Longhou Town and became a group of alien residents. Because they could master a handful of lightning magical powers, he and his people called themselves the "Lightning Clan", and later "Lightning" became their surname. Among the goblins of the Northwestern Republic, they are considered to be an earlier group of "civilized".

He is now an elderly old businessman, in charge of the bulk trading market in Void City. This job is actually quite leisurely, because the market is only responsible for providing venues and security, and there is no question about business dealings-but there is one thing, after the two parties have negotiated, they need to submit a deposit along with the transaction briefing. If within three months, both parties have not raised objections to the deal, then 90% of the deposit can be returned, and the remaining 10% will naturally be the venue rental fee and the guarantee fee. If within three months, both parties have objections to the business, they can go to the Void City Commercial Litigation Court to initiate negotiations and even litigation. If necessary, Void City can even use Legendary Mage to ensure the reliability of business.

The old chief, Lakanishiu, is also getting older. He can’t do too much hard work and doesn’t have the energy to do too complicated calculations, but he can still use his experience in the old world to sort out those from the trading briefing. Research and filter out data to find valuable information.

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

The current tension in the Gold Coin Federation can be seen by anyone as long as the eyes are not blind. Generally speaking, in this case, both sides will work hard to stock up war materials, mainly arrows, armor pieces, metal ingots, standard weapons, as well as food and medical supplies.

The price of these items is not low, and it is not a big deal for adventurers to buy a small amount, but the military buys in large quantities, it will be a considerable number. Therefore, the first thing to fight is national strength. If you don't have money... don't worry about the war. It's more reliable to admit defeat or run away.

At least Chief Rakanishu, or the former chief of the "Lightning" of the goblin tribe, Mr. Rakanishu has always followed this principle.

Is this principle good or bad? It's hard to say, but at least for the Lightning Tribe, it did get good results. Rakanisiu's desperate gambling in desperation at the outset finally allowed his people to live a stable and prosperous life they dreamed of.

Except for family planning.

This is one of the basic national policies of the Northwestern Republic. Those races that are particularly fertile must restrict fertility, and those races with low fertility are encouraged to have children.

The former are represented by goblins and bunny people, while the latter are naturally represented by black and white bear people, elemental creatures and the like.

However, it is easy to restrict fertility, but it is much harder to encourage fertility. Black-and-white bears only have the urge to breed offspring in just half a month a year. In most cases, they are more interested in wine than the opposite sex; elemental creatures almost completely don’t understand what “reproduction” is. , Expecting them to be able to spread the branches and leaves to multiply the population, there is no hope.

Fortunately, Sui Xiong is not the kind of Madame Bai Zuo with his head in the water. In order to expand the domestic minority population, Sui Xiong will not specially invite a group of uncles back from beyond the mountains. Having difficulty in racial reproduction? Then it's difficult. They don't want to give birth. Is it possible that Sui Xiong is still forcing them to give birth?

This kind of thing is not suitable for coercion.

"... Director Rakanishu, do you think that if you use a lot of alchemy items such as flaming glue and flash dust, what effect will it have?" Minister Osman pondered for a moment, and some asked with uncertainty, "I I feel that these things do not 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 protection spells can resist the damage of the fire glue, as for the flash dust, it is almost the same. Back then, I brought the little guys in the tribe to fight against the adventurers. When I was courageous, I was never afraid of this method, let alone those powerful and organized troops." The old chief goblin shook his head, "I really don't see what they can do. Honestly, I think it's a waste of money. ."

"But the aristocratic faction will never be a fool, right."

"I really don't understand, maybe people in the military department can figure it out." Rakanisiu dumped the pot irresponsibly.

The Secretary of Commerce pondered for a while and felt that it was the same reason, so he passed the document in two copies by magic, one to the Secretary of Defense Leonard, and the other to the Secretary of Security East.

As for these two professionals, what do they think? It's nothing to do with him. He is still busy!

About half an hour later, Leonard and East met and discussed the matter.

"This thing is not normal." Leonard said, "It's nothing more than blazing glue, flash dust is definitely not something that can be used in large quantities in war, it is meaningless!"

East nodded. According to his impression, the flash dust is generally used by adventurers. Among them, thieves use it a lot. It can be used to flash the eyes of the enemy in sudden battles, and then take the opportunity escape.

Speaking of using this in a formal war... He thought about it, but couldn't figure out how to use it.

Could it be... the cavalry throws a handful when they are in a hedge?

But the merchants don’t need cavalry at all to send new troops. They directly use heavy crossbows, strong bows and long spears against the cavalry. The formation is like a mountain, there is a kind of come. As for shooting things, riding a bow can't shoot long distances accurately. It just turns death to death slowly.

In this world where magic is widely used, there is no advantage in the mobility of cavalry. What's more... It's really not easy to rely on an ordinary good horse to beat an intermediate warrior on a small battlefield!

The cavalry in this world~IndoMTL.com~ In addition to the messenger, they are heavily armed knights like cans. To deal with them, a well-trained army only needs to use a long spear to form a so-called "dragon spear formation" on the ground. That's it.

In fact, the reloaded knights generally don’t rush into the enemy’s formation. Even if they want to rush, they must first cover their bodies with multiple layers of protection magic—then the war becomes a confrontation between protection magic and dispelling magic. ...

Ester frowned, secretly thinking. Born in the country of wizards, he is still very knowledgeable about the use of spells. He feels that he should be able to guess how the nobles will use those blazing glue and flash dust.

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

The aristocratic faction intends to form a harassing rapid mobile force to attack the rear of the merchant faction. These blazing glue, flashing dust and the like are prepared for them.

　　

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