Hongxia Terrace is an important military fortress of the Southern Fire Empire, bordering the Xi Jin Empire. It is also the bridgehead for the Southern Fire Empire to fight against the Xi Jin Empire.
Because the fire attribute itself has some restraint on metal, the Southern Fire Empire also has a considerable strategic advantage over the Western Jin Empire. Therefore, this fortress often initiates battles.
It is one of the very important military fortresses. The Xijin Empire has always wanted to clear out the military fortresses on the Hongxia Terrace, but it has never been successful. Affected by attribute restraint, if you want to capture this fortress, you need to send several times more troops.
troops.
As for the Northern Water Empire, which asks the North to restrain the Southern Fire Empire, it will also have to pay a considerable price, because the water attribute can also restrain the metal to a certain extent. Metal produces water, although it will not encounter direct damage in the battle.
They are restrained, but the attacks they release can be absorbed and immune to the opponent to a certain extent. They are also at a considerable disadvantage strategically. If they choose to attack the northern players, the result will definitely be a lion's mouth.
It is precisely because the Xijin Empire is at such a huge strategic disadvantage that Lieyan uses this place as a breakthrough.
On the Hongxia Terrace, in front of the military fortress, a heroic red-haired female warrior wearing battle armor appeared here. She put her hands on her hips and shouted at the gate of the fortress, asking if there was a magician inside.
The military has always welcomed extraordinary people. Extraordinary people can greatly enhance the combat effectiveness of the army. In a world like this between Xiaomi and ordinary people, extraordinary people are the main force in the war.
The more powerful the extraordinary beings are, the more they are welcomed. There may be certain struggles within the army, but in the process of war with the outside world, the stronger the strength of one's own side, the better.
Although Lie Yan's attitude was not very good, the six crowns of yin and yang released from his head still made the military chief here invite him in politely. After all, the chief here was only at the seventh level, and was not as powerful as Lie Yan.
How much stronger.
"Girl, are you sure you want to join the army? It's hard for me to do that if you don't even tell me your place of origin." Wang Zhenghe said helplessly. Although his army needs strong men to join it, this origin
The unknown people still made him a little confused. If something happened, he would have no way to explain it to his superiors.
"What's the inconvenience? It's difficult for you to do, isn't it? Is it still difficult to do this?" As he spoke, black flames were released from one of Lieyan's hands.
The black flame is the expression of the ultimate fire. In this world, the original Ding fire is blue and the Bing fire is red. When they are each compressed a hundred times and become the ultimate attribute, the Ding fire will become black and the Cing fire will become black.
Fire will turn golden.
Did you see that when you reach the ninth level, you will release this black ultimate flame? Wang Zhenghe is also a child, and he knows very well what this means. You can use the power of the ultimate attribute without reaching the ninth level. Only the apostles of Tiangan can do it.
There can be at most ten such people on a continent. If you miss them, you may be at an advantage to others. These are absolute top geniuses, and they will definitely become the strongest people on the continent in the future.
"Well... although I personally want to believe you, your method of not revealing your identity at all is still a bit troublesome in terms of procedures. However, I should be able to think of a way so that you can stay in the military first."
When Wang Zhenghe was thinking about how to operate Lieyan, he saw Lieyan said impatiently: "If this is not enough, what about this?"
While speaking, he opened the palm of his other hand, and in his other palm, a golden flame jumped out.
"Bing... Bingwu Yuanyang Holy Fire!" King Zhenghe is more familiar with this golden flame than the black flame. This is the ultimate form of Bing Fire that he has cultivated himself. Bingwu Yuanyang Holy Fire is completely different from the black flame just now.
exist at the same level.
"How is it possible? How could you be born with two ultimate flames? Could it be..."
"Yes, I have a balanced constitution of yin and yang. It is said that I am a waste body that can never be cultivated. However, I still successfully completed the cultivation and cultivated the flames of both attributes at the same time. This is always enough."
"That's enough, that's enough! Don't worry, you can join the army and I will take care of all the other troubles." Seeing Lie Yan's talent, Wang Zhenghe did not hesitate and chose to accept it.
There is no need to think about it. If a being with such a talent joins his army, no matter how big the trouble is, he must find a way to contain him. He must not let Lieyan escape to others.
From the other party's reaction, Lie Yan could roughly tell how outstanding his talent was among humans, and he probably had a plan for the next step.
"Next, the Xijin Empire will have a military exercise. It is the eightieth birthday of their emperor. This military exercise will secretly mobilize the military strength of the southern defense line. At that time, your defense line will be empty. It is your most important
Good offensive opportunity.”
As Lie Yan's plug-in system, Lan Nuo also provided her with information at the right time.
Lieyan didn't show any change in his expression, he just typed a reply on the space system: "How do you know these things?"
"You should know that most people in the world have installed my space system, and I can actually see what they do. You have also seen that when I use the space system,
, will ask the user for permission to use the camera and microphone. In short, it requires their visual permission and auditory permission. Therefore, in theory, as long as I open the permission to share their vision and hearing in the background, I can see what they have
See what they hear and hear what they hear.
Some of these people who use the space system are always in high positions and important positions. And what they see and hear becomes important intelligence. For me, I want to obtain intelligence from various countries.
It’s not difficult. With this level of assistance, even if the soldiers you lead are a bunch of trash, they can still win every battle."
Lie Yan is quite satisfied with her partner. Although she feels that her partner is somewhat unruly and may have mental pollution after being with him for a long time, but in terms of formality, the other party is still quite good at it.
At the same time, Lan Nuo has also come to the Xijin Empire. While inquiring about intelligence, he is also gaining a deeper understanding of the country's strength.
From a geographical point of view, the Xijin Empire is almost the worst among the five empires. Among the three bordering countries, two have a very strong ability to restrain themselves. If not, they may overturn. This will lead to
The Xijin Empire was quite martial.
This is also the reason why the emperor has to conduct military exercises on his birthday. Such frequent drills are actually good for the army as a whole, but if such secret military maneuvers are discovered, it will obviously cause a big problem.
When Lan Nuo was investigating the military strength, he was also investigating the people's livelihood and productivity of the empire. The Xijin Empire's geographical location was so unfavorable that it was restrained by neighboring empires. It was so serious that it could survive and even become one of the five most powerful empires.
One, there must be something unique about him.
This is also true. Lan Nuo found that the people of this empire were obviously richer than the people of other empires. This made Lan Nuo feel a little confused. Obviously their empire was not much more productive than other empires, so why were their people so rich?
They are motivated to work and their life is much richer than that of the people in other empires.
This requires Lanno to conduct a more comprehensive investigation of the country, investigating the data of various industries within the country, as well as the income of the people.
As the investigation deepened, Lan Nuo also gradually discovered the problem. This country would inexplicably have more currency. Although this is a fantasy world, the currency is not spiritual stones and the like. Traditional precious metals are still used as currency.
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Among them, gold coins are the most expensive, followed by silver coins, and copper coins are the smallest denomination. This is not a problem originally, but the problem lies in this empire, which has a large group of beings who can control metals.
Not only can they conjure metal out of thin air, they can also easily search for real metals buried underground and dig out and extract them.
On the one hand, this has indeed greatly improved the productivity of the Xijin Empire and greatly increased their metal output. On the other hand, it has also made them the only empire with the ability to issue excess currency.
If other countries want to get gold and silver coins, they need to spend a lot of money to dig them out. After they are dug out, they have to be refined and cast. In many cases, the cost of casting a coin is even higher than the value of the coin itself.
, so that they are often reluctant to mint coins.
What situation has this led to? That is, coins will always be damaged and lost during use. With less and less money circulating in the market, deflation will gradually occur and there will be no money available.
The Xijin Empire is just the opposite. Their officials are secretly minting coins. For these guys who control metals, minting coins is simply too simple. The rulers of the country are also quite rational and have a deep understanding of money.
If this kind of thing is printed indiscriminately, its value will be greatly reduced and its credibility will collapse. Therefore, although more currency is issued every year, the amount of currency issued is not large, and it is probably about the same as the amount of currency issued.
Other empires lost and damaged similar amounts of currency every year.
In this way, your own country will indeed experience a certain degree of inflation, but the pressure of inflation is passed on to the five empires, and then the pressure on their own country is not that great. It is virtually equivalent to taking the pressure from the other four empires.
Although the amount of money stolen from the empire was not large, it was enough to maintain a foothold for a country in a disadvantaged position.
"Tsk! We need to inform Lie Yan of this information quickly and come up with a way to deal with it. Otherwise, when the Xi Jin Empire is about to fail, it will be crazy to issue excessive amounts of currency, and then buy weapons from other countries and hire strong people. It will be a lot of fun.
, maybe it will be continent-wide inflation.”
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"Inflation? What is that? Is it the same kind of puffed food you mentioned before?" Lie Yan reacted rather cutely to the information shared by Lan Nuo.
Lan Nuo: "..."
It's understandable that the underground world doesn't even have money, let alone economics, so there's no need to expect Lie Yan to figure out what inflation is.
"In short, when you are formulating a strategy, you must try your best to avoid the crazy printing of money when the Xijin Empire is in a hurry. You may think that printing money like crazy is not a big problem now, but you will know in the future. If it really lets
If they do this, the entire Bright Five Elements Continent will be in chaos."
Lan Nuo briefly explained the situation of his investigation to Lie Yan, and explained the consequences of crazy money printing, and then continued to conduct social investigations in the Xijin Empire.
If it is simply that being richer can motivate the residents of the country to be more motivated to work, it will not be enough to completely make up for the strategic disadvantage of the Xijin Empire.
After all, their foreign wars fail most of the time. In this case, it is certainly impossible to say that they have no other foundation to maintain their own operation.
Lan Nuo did not spend much effort to investigate the huge advantages of this empire over the other four empires.
The advantages of their attributes, metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, each have their own advantages, but at the end of the feudal era, when the feudal era has developed to its peak stage, the biggest advantage is metal.
Or because they are good at extracting and smelting metals, this country never lacks metal tools and can often export metal tools.
Compared with agricultural products, this product can be regarded as an industrial product. The added value of the product is obviously higher. It can earn more benefits from exports and can also increase domestic productivity.
More importantly, metal is the most important material in refining weapons. The Xijin Empire is the most powerful country in the manufacturing and smelting of artifacts, much more powerful than the Southern Fire Empire with its powerful flames.
Their country can be said to be rich in all kinds of artifacts. Because of this, the combat effectiveness of extraordinary people is higher than that of other strong people of the same level. This is reflected in their equipment advantages.
In this regard, Lan Nuo must target and make use of it at the same time. The number of artifacts produced on the Dark Five Elements Continent is much greater than that on the Light Five Elements Continent. Under the unified management there, fire and metal artifacts
Strong people will participate in the training and forging of artifacts.
Therefore, in order to bridge the gap between the two continents, while targeting this advantage of the Xijin Empire, we should not cause too much damage to their artifact casting industry, and preserve their productivity as much as possible.