9. The Expelled Order of the Stupid 9s (Part 1)
"...Oh, Ms. Elaszhuo is really good. She was holding a good card in her hand, but she was fighting the battle in a mess..."
Kuroshima Hito shrugged his shoulders and drank the black tea in his cup in one go."
According to locals in the Ice Wind Valley, the Luskan rebels were at most 10,000 people, many of whom were gang members, street hooligans, and prisoners raised from prisons.
However, Ms. Elaszhuo, who had tens of thousands of troops, was forced to such a rush by such an uncontrollable guy... As a result, the three general attacks gave up halfway, and the supporters on the capital were violently suppressed by the Southern Army. The entire northern camp was completely disgraced by the ridicule of domestic and foreign public opinion, and the Northern Army still failed to quell the rebellion. It seems that the Northern Army is not as powerful as imagined!"
"...Tsk tsk, Lieutenant General of Black Island, I dare not share this. The troops under the name of the Northern Army are at least ten times that of the Southern Army. Most military factories and shipyards are also in the territory of the Northern Army, and their long-lasting combat capabilities are far better than those of the Southern Army. Ms. Elaszhuo's military power has never been weak. The real problem is that her logistics, supervision and command system all have fatal flaws!"
Feili, who was still burying his head at the reindeer meat steak and "attacked", raised his head and shook the greasy knife and fork in his hand when he heard this, and said seriously: "...War is just the military's business? It is not just that the army needs to mobilize tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of troops to fight like this, but that the entire country is operating, supporting the huge consumption of the war behind it. Every large-scale war is testing the entire country's top-down administrative system, as well as the working ability and efficiency of the bureaucratic group. It is obvious that Yinyue City has done completely unqualified in this regard..."
"..., OK, sir, let's stop at the analysis of the management level of Yinyue Alkaline North Army Base Camp!"
Under the bombardment of these boring nouns, Kuroshima Ren quickly turned into a circle of mosquito-shaped circles, so he had to stop it quickly."
The various shortcomings of the Northern Army Base Camp have not had much to do with us yet. The biggest trouble our army is now facing is how to collect enough supplies and fill the empty warehouse. Otherwise, after up to ten days, the warships will not be able to eat!”
Speaking of this, he couldn't help but turn his eyes."
Of course, you can also let all the officers and soldiers work hard to chew those terrible corned beef and hard biscuits, as well as artificial powder dry food produced with magic.”
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No, don't!!" Feili quickly raised one hand, because she was still chewing venison in her mouth, and muttered in ambiguous accent."
You also know that these stinky brats under my command are
What kind of virtue! If they do this seriously, they will definitely tie me up and hang it on the mast!”
"...Well, "Hmph? Why do I think it's more interesting to record your clothes and tie them to the bow of the ship as a luo-body goddess's bow?" Renee, who was sitting next to her, teased and joked, and then unexpectedly got Feiri's resentful eyes.
"..., don't pay attention to her nonsense, Heijima Jun, let's continue to discuss! Even if there is no logistics station here to allow us to pick up the goods for free, can't we buy money at the market?" Ignoring Renee's disturbance, Feili swallowed the venison in her mouth and continued to say to Heijima Ren, "... Even if we are not affiliated with the organization and have no place to receive funds, the inventory funds should be enough, and we are not short of money!"
1. As the "Conqueror of the Karatu Continent", Marshal Taylor has always been very confident about the filling level of his own small treasury.
In the past two years, his army has first levyed heavily on the Japanese archipelago, which is rich in gold and silver.
He plundered the whole Xianglong Empire's capital, then emptied the tombs of emperors of all dynasties, and even sold all the 400,000 residents of the entire Nanjing city as slaves. In short, he was fighting all the way, plundering wherever he fought, and used all the means of tombing. Although the food was ugly, he also gained a lot. The wealth stored in the Xiangrui vault now is enough to pay the entire army for twenty years. "...The problem is that the local market is empty and it is difficult to buy anything! And the ten towns are all the same!"
Kuroshima Hito shrugged and replied to Feiri.
Due to the Luskan rebellion, the supply of grain and dark food in Bingfeng Valley was also very tight. The residents stocked up flour, bacon and pickled vegetables in the cellar to survive the coming winter. Even if we took out more coins, most people refused to sell them. The buyers of the Legion traveled all over the ten towns in Bingfeng Valley and knocked on doors to buy them. But in total, they only bought more than 7,000 pounds of flour and wheat, plus more than 2,000 pounds of dried fish, pickled vegetables and bacon, which was not enough for the whole army to eat for a day..."
“……, uh, this seems to be something I don’t think about…”
Feili tilted her head and thought about it, and found that in this place where food itself depends on the input from the outside world, it is indeed not enough to have money alone.
Although Bingfeng Valley is already a civilized area, it is located in the cold Arctic tundra, with ice and snow everywhere, and it does not grow much crops. Local residents need to use fur and hard-headed scaly bone carvings every year to exchange food for the outside world to make a living.
Moreover, the "Ten Towns" sounded quite prosperous, but the nine towns built by the lake were actually just simple settlements built on the lake beach in order to declare their own catch points. The scale was probably not even as large as many villages. As for the tenth town in the valley, the capital of the Ice Wind Valley, Bolin,
Sande was just a desolate hill where nine other towns jointly opened a temporary market, exchanging information and goods with Luskan Business and Travel three times a year.
Therefore, even after hundreds of years of reproduction and development, this harsh land with howling cold winds still cannot accommodate too many people to take root. To this day, excluding those barbarian tribes who hunted on the Arctic wasteland, the entire Ice Wind Valley has a population of only more than 20,000. In the smallest towns, the permanent residents are even less than 1,000. For example, this mijiu town has only more than 800 people.
However, Marshal Ferry Taylor's Aerial Battleship, more than 20,000 people were transported in one go...
In a small place with a population of only more than 20,000, the food cannot be self-sufficient and is facing huge pressure to spend the winter. However, it suddenly squeezed in more than 20,000 mouths. The degree of embarrassment can be imagined. In this era when the logistics system is not yet developed, it is almost certain to be eaten alive.
What's worse is that the Luskan rebellion broke out this year, and the summer trade route was blocked by the fire of war just after it was opened. The number of various foods imported from the caravans had already been greatly reduced. Next, the Bingfeng Valley had a seven-month long winter that was isolated from the world, and everyone needed to find ways to survive. How could the local residents dare to sell the life-saving food easily?
It would be a bit too brainless and tragic to die of death when you hold a box of coins in the sky and starve to death in the snow and snow...
In fact, even the fat boss of this "Fire Dragon" tavern seemed not happy with the sudden surge in customer traffic, although these soldiers from the Far East could pay at the price and were still abide by the rules. He originally stocked up in the cellar and planned to sell various soju, beer, cider and wine for a winter. It was almost out of business: the trade route was cut off and some of the high-end ingredients they bought before were consumed by the surge in diners at an astonishing speed, resulting in the continuous shortening of the menu items hanging on the wall. Now it can only be mentioned.
It serves some game barbecue locally in Bingfeng Valley, or cooks soup with fresh fish caught in the lake, and even such dishes cannot be served for a long time: because all kinds of essential cooking spices, spicy sauces, salt and other condiments are left but there is nowhere to buy them, and even brown sugar and tea are free to bask in the sun. The children are also playing in groups in the town, kicking a dirty ball over, and bursting out laughing from time to time. Everyone's face is red, looking strong and healthy.
Further away, on the rippling Lake of Denisha, hardworking fishermen from various towns operated rough boats with thousands of years of style, sang loud and long ancient fishing songs, and flexibly cast nets to catch fish. But some boring idle people specially rowed their boats to the Xiangrui, which was moored at the center of the lake, and watched the unparalleled giant ship in admiration. Some people also asked for some fur and fish bone crafts to carry some furs and fish bone crafts, shouting to the sailors, soldiers and military families on the Xiangrui, selling them this year, the business route was blocked, and the number of caravans entering the Ice Wind Valley was greatly reduced, and many of the hard-headed and scaly bone carvings in stock could not be sold. If they could be sold to the people on the Xiangrui, they could make up for some losses.
From this perspective, the sudden arrival of the Xiangrui floating battleship seems to have a certain promotion effect on the economy and livelihood of the Bingfeng Valley. At least it has greatly stimulated consumption. Unfortunately, under the current special environment of war and movement, the growth of consumption and the inflow of money may not necessarily be a good thing. In a place with blocked external traffic, many things are not necessarily something that can be bought even if you have money...
Therefore, the local powerful people who actually control the Bingfeng Valley could no longer sit still in a few days. Feili had just finished a few bites of caramel pudding. Before she could take out her wallet to pay the bill, she saw an extremely conspicuous small figure. She stretched out three pairs of crystal clear and gorgeous ice wings, and flew across the sparkling lake surface in the air, aiming directly at the "Fire Dragon" tavern, facing the wide window on the lake surface, whistling down!
Then it seemed that due to a subtle deviation in the calculation of dive angle, the little guy who hit in like a cannonball did not fly into the "Fire Dragon" tavern, but was hooked by the window frame to the tip of his spread wings. As a result, he lost his balance the moment before landing. Suddenly, his head hit the ground first with a "thump" sound, and then rolled softly on the rock floor in the center of the tavern lobby.
"...Woooooo, it hurts! Why didn't this hateful tavern owner make this window bigger? It made people look like this and I won't freeze the broken house and smash it into four pieces!!!"
She complained and covered her head and sat up from the floor. She had mosquito-shaped coils in her eyes, and two crystal tears were hanging on her eyelashes.
Feili turned her head curiously, looked at the rash Luoli's appearance, and then couldn't help but slap.
Yes, Luo Li's body, three-headed body, natural stupidity, light blue hair, blue and white dress, plus three pairs of crystal clear ice wings behind her. "Isn't this a standard stupid?
Moreover, this stupid 9 seems to be coming to find him...
"...Well, "Hmph, but this episode hurts so that I can't beat me. I'm the strongest! Now, let's do the serious business first!"
This stupid 9 yelled on the ground for a long time, but no one paid attention to him. So he felt bored, so he took out a hexagonal snow-shaped invitation from his arms, held it in his hand and shaking it and shouted "
Chapter completed!