.11, Sammaster's grand strategy (1)

"... This nation has never conquered a vast territory and established a powerful empire. Although they claimed that their land was filled with honey and milk, they were actually just a barren dry desert with pitifully few products. What's more tragic is that the powerful invaders easily conquered there and forced the nation to give up their homes and wandered around the world - just like the drows who were driven out by surface elves in the Crown War - but the black-skinned drows elves had at least reestablished the country in the dark, but they were rejected everywhere and could never obtain a land for rooting."

"Just when this nation was wandering around, their hometown became the main battlefield for the two major camps to compete repeatedly. Countless countries and nations fought against each other under the banner of each other's false gods for the sake of vague and ethereal faith. The war burned for thousands of years, and finally eliminated the traces left by the old master of this land."

"Because there is no home, this nation can only devote all its energy to accumulating wealth, gradually control huge amounts of money, become excellent investors and usury merchants, and almost monopolize the financial industry. At first, their property was often plundered by jealous poor neighbors by force, and there was no place to accept their accusations. But as time went by and the progress of civilization, more and more countries and monarchs were gradually controlled by them with creditors, and were forced to give up the right to mint coins, paper money issuance rights, treasury bond issuance rights, mining rights, canals, roads...even handed over the treasury to these bankers for management!

"As the saying goes, finance and taxation are the mother of common politics, and the operation of the state machine cannot be separated from money for a moment. If even the money bag is pinned to the hands of outsiders... it is conceivable how much autonomy this country can still have in front of bankers."

"Of course, there are also some heads of state who try to make a profit or are reluctant to borrow money from them. In this regard, after experiencing countless painful lessons of losing money, the bankers also have a complete set of handling procedures: first of all, spread rumors, disrupt market order, and support the opposition in the country, launch a coup or even a civil war, and oust the leaders of these 'rogues' and 'rogues' and 'rogues' and swaggers' and swaggers' and swaggers' in the process and replace them with puppets they secretly funded."

"Then, if the above actions fail, then send a killer to organize the assassination and remind the leaders of the later country - don't learn from your ex, compromise quickly, otherwise it will be a dead end."

"In the end, if even assassination fails, bankers will usually create public opinion and declare that the country has committed a series of heinous crimes such as 'anti-civilization', 'genocide', 'anti-human rights', etc. They will also use debt relief, huge investment, free aid, low-interest loans as bait, instigate other countries to declare war, organize a huge "just" coalition to attack the country, lock up or kill the guy who dares to offend him, divide, entrust, annex, or at least replace the more obedient ruler with this annoying country."

"In that world, there are very few powerful countries that can survive these three tricks. Even if this ruler who dares to fight with banks has great skills or is so lucky that he really survives it. His country will suddenly have some unpleasant titles such as the Axis of Evil, and have been blocked by most countries for decades to promote its economic collapse and people are living in poverty. During this period, he will be repeatedly bombarded by the above three killer moves... The super strong man who has the ability to persevere to the end in this arduous confrontation can really count it with one palm."

"In this way, although in this plane, the battle between the nations is endless, this nation rich in bankers can always stay behind the front and make a fortune and become a real uncrowned emperor. Even if occasionally encounter setbacks on some secondary battlefields, or are forced to shrink by the situation, they still stand tall and above all nations, countries, and monarchs - this makes my thinking suddenly clear!"

Speaking of this, Samust couldn't help but sigh, his expression filled with uncontrollable excitement. "After observing this new strategy of using money as a weapon, I couldn't help but think of another race in the world of Torrell, the Ugros Demon in the lower world. To count it, they actually have many similarities with that nation that is rich in bankers!"

"At the beginning of the ancient times, the three major demons were born in the lower realm at the same time. The chaotic and evil demons of the Tanali occupy the infinite abyss. The orderly and evil demons of the Badz occupy the nine hells. The neutral and evil demons of the Yugros are the most shabby. They only have a plane like the gray wilderness. The number is also the rarest."

"However, for the sake of order and chaos, the demon and the demon started a cruel bloody battle that lasted tens of thousands of years. But the two sides confronted the landlord battlefield. It was connected to the gray wilderness of the abyss and hell! In the continuous burning war, the weak Yugros Demon was unable to resist. He was soon driven out of his homeland and wandered around. To this day, few people knew that the gray wilderness once belonged to Yugros Demon Land."

"Fortunately, although the cruel fate made the Ugross Demon lose his own land forever, it also gave them the vast Styx River as compensation.

The stinky and turbid water of the Styx can turn all creatures into idiots, but it will not cause any harm to the Eagros Demon. By monopolizing the shipping of the Styx Demon, the Eagros Demon gradually accumulated huge wealth. However, he could not establish a country that belonged only to him. He was often robbed by demons and devils. And their nominal highest leader, General Jiaoyan, in the Crawling City, always overestimated his ability to fight against the demons and devils at the same time. He made enemies on all sides... just like me back then.

From this point of view, Samust's old face was a little slightly for a moment. He always fought endlessly, but gained nothing. He could not use victory to gain the support of his compatriots - this gave me the opportunity to intervene.

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"What's even better is that the entire lower realm is outside the sphere of influence of various gods, and those annoying church organizations cannot react to me at all. The three giants of the Abyss and the Lord of the Nine Prisons are only concerned about how to rule their own race, and basically ignore the Yugros Demon who is a mess. No matter what extraordinary big moves I make, as long as the scope of influence is limited to Yugros Demon, at least in the initial stage, they will not encounter too serious interference."

"So, after returning from the Astral Realm, I set a new goal for myself: in addition to restoring the Dragon Witch Cult, I also need to win over and unite the Yugros Demon as much as possible, gain leadership status of this race, and then use various financial means to cooperate with super-evil force to control the economic operation of the lower realm. Then I have to gradually penetrate into the main material plane, and appropriately use the military power of the Dragon Witch Cult to finally complete the behind-the-scenes manipulation of the entire Torrell World!"

Sammaster was very excited to speak out his strategic plan in one breath, then reached out and picked up the still steaming tea cup, and took a sip, "What do you think of my plan, Ecklinn? It should be more hidden and feasible than just instructing the Dragon Witch Cult to conquer the city!"

"...Indeed, compared with your previous vigorous actions, such a strategy obviously lacks a bit of heroism, but it can also effectively reduce the creation of enemies and is less likely to attract joint attacks from all forces."

The secretary nodded slightly and praised Sammast's remarks, but then changed his mind, "But... I am frank, the Styx Bank Group has indeed done a very successful job in monopolizing the financial industry in the lower world. But in the material world, you still have quite strong competitors... Well, it is much stronger than the Styx Bank Group. What's more serious is that they seem to be implementing similar plans as you!"

"...Well, you are right. The revolution has not been successful yet, and comrades still need to work hard... The peers are enemies!"

He was suddenly splashed with cold water on his face. Even with Samust's cultivation, he was somewhat embarrassed for a moment. After a moment of silence, the old man muttered, sounding a little confused and his grammar seemed quite strange.

"Well, I've worked hard in the lower world over the years, only the first step. When I arrived at the main material plane, there must be more difficult enemies to deal with - first of all, the goddess of Wojin who wore a long robe all day long, and Marshal Zhao Gongming from the Far East Karatu Continent... The one behind is a little easier to deal with. As for the lady in front... Alas, she entered this industry almost a thousand years earlier than me, and she is also a god who is above me. Just image construction can surpass me a lot of points..."

"Also, in my personal opinion, it seems more important to increase allies appropriately than to reduce enemies."

Ignoring the old man's unclear words, Ecklinn added, "As far as I know, all the forces you have now seem to be the only one in the lower realm of the Styx Bank Group and the Dragon Witch Cult in the main material plane. I don't know much about the situation of the Dragon Witch Cult, but I think it's impossible to compete with the Naserier Empire behind the Goddess of Gold. The financial resources of the Styx Bank Group seem to be one level lower than the savings of the Goddess of Gold. What's more, the other party is a god after all!"

He shook his head slightly, "Indeed, you are already a demigod Lich, and the most powerful demigod Lich. You can defeat a god in a duel with various favorable conditions. However, you still cannot give believers divine skills and organize your own church. It is even more impossible to launch a god war and destroy your opponent's kingdom of gods - once defeating gods does not mean that you are really stronger than gods. How many times did the "Immortal Bird" Tkumse in the Mazka continent cut over the elves gods? Now, aren't it still forced to break the country by the elves army?"

"...These principles you said are very correct. However, I have actually planned to find allies, but I have always lacked appropriate communication channels."

After pondering for a while, Samust suddenly raised his head and looked at the clerk with his bright eyes, his face full of a cunning fox-like smile.

"That's why I've made you a newcomer my personal secretary and disclosed so many things to you, the Akelinn Mage from Harua, the southern country. Well, or should I change the title, the youngest high-level harpist in the contemporary era (high Lynn!"

In an instant, the conference room was shrouded in an awkward silence.

ps: I just looked at the voting statistics about my age, and the results made Lao Lao Wang so sad. Why do I think I am in my thirties? I am just twenty-four, which is a little smaller than the gate of Bode.

I had no choice but to take the pseudonym of Lao Lao Wang. Because my surname was Wang, I wanted to register a "Xiao Wang" at first, but I was told that someone had already used it, and then changed to "Xiao Xiao Wang". It still couldn't work. Next, it was "Big King" and "Lao Wang". There were people who registered, so I had to fill in the "Xiao Wang" and finally passed.
Chapter completed!