Chapter seven hundred and eighty-fifth predictable doomsday
At the Suyu Sect's mountain gate, Tang Shuwen was inspecting the sect. In the secret realm, hundreds of monks were working. They pulled out the low-level elixirs, then tidied up the spiritual fields, and changed the spiritual fields into the mode of planting spiritual rice.
There is still no shortage of spiritual fields in Suyu Sect. In the secret realm alone, they have three. Two of them were saved over the years, and one was taken from the Thorn God. There are many spiritual fields.
There are millions of acres of spiritual fields in the secret realm, but what they lack is manpower.
Seeing the arrival of Tang Shuwen and others, a steward hurriedly came to report and told Tang Shuwen about the work arrangements. Now they have begun to gather people from various places to work in the secret realm, and in the spiritual fields outside, they have begun to recruit casual cultivators.
Planting.
There are countless secrets in the mountain gate, and they cannot let casual cultivators in at all, so they can only constantly mobilize people and horses, and even many people and horses guarding some places have been mobilized back, leaving some places empty of power.
“Are there enough manpower in the secret realm?”
"Back to my ancestors, it's not enough. A monk who opens and condenses pulses can only cultivate fifty acres of spiritual land at most. No more than that can be taken care of. The monks of Zifu can take care of eighty acres, and Daogang can take care of one hundred acres.
But neither Zifu nor Daogang monks are willing to farm."
The steward answered honestly that Zifu and Daogang were considered the backbone of the sect. The efficiency of farming was extremely low, and they also had a chain of contempt. They would rather refine the alchemy weapon array or fight in battle.
I don’t want to come to the secret land to farm.
"How much is the gap?"
"Going back to our ancestors, the secret realm here has 800,000 acres of spiritual fields for growing spiritual rice, 100,000 acres of spiritual fields for elixirs, and 30,000 acres of high-level spiritual fields. A total of 6,000 monks are needed, and I only have 3,000 on hand.
, among which the high-level spiritual field has the largest gap, and the spiritual cultivation field is too few."
“So much difference”
"Yes, many high-level spiritual cultivators in the sect are ancestors, and I have no right to transfer them."
The steward replied, after all, it is still a question of effectiveness. The effectiveness of high-level spirit planters is far less than that of the array master with the least profit in the alchemy weapon array, so few people will study it. Basically, those who have the ability are
A high-level monk, with only one aura in charge, how can he be mobilized?
"I understand, I will give you a batch of new disciples of the sect."
Tang Shuwen nodded with a heavy face. The new disciples of the sect were all newcomers who had been in the field for a year or two. They were unable to go to the battlefield, so they had to be transferred.
After a hurried inspection, Tang Shuwen left the secret realm and went to inspect some spiritual mountains outside the mountain gate. Tang Shuwen found that there were very few monks in the sect here, less than 30% at most, and the rest were recruited casual cultivators. Fortunately,
These casual cultivators have low cultivation levels, otherwise these spiritual mountains would be very dangerous.
Tang Shuwen inspected all the way and found that the number of people in the sect was very small. The original Suyu Sect only had about 200,000 troops. This was the result of an expansion before the war. The majority of the Suyu Sect were vassal forces.
These are the relatively reliable manpower of Suyu Sect. Most of these manpower have been mobilized to various front lines to fight, and the rest have to be stationed in various important places. As a result, manpower has become the shortcoming of Suyu Sect.
This shortcoming is also the shortcoming of Xianmeng.
After the inspection, Tang Shuwen immediately summoned the heads of the other sects of the Immortal League to discuss the matter, including those from the Shenmu Sect. Although the ancestor of the Shenmu Sect showed signs of making peace with Lin Xiao, Tang Shuwen did not dare to make it public, as this would be very harmful.
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Angry, besides, Shenmu Sect and Mu Wanqiu are not of the same mind. Shenmu Sect has not made any new moves, which means they have no strength. Those who escaped from Wenxian Sect were all defeated and arrested by Lin Xiao, unlike Ziyun.
Observe, most of them have gone home.
"Have you all read the strategy Lin Xiao wrote to Lu Leiyuan?"
"I've seen it, this is a conspiracy. As Lin Xiao said, after counting our bulk materials, there will be problems. With the previous savings, there is no problem now, but it can last for up to half a year. After half a year, there will be a shortage. In the end,
The first thing that is in short supply is spiritual rice. I never thought that the huge Immortal Alliance would be stumped by the small spiritual rice."
"I didn't expect that the spiritual rice reserves of each sect are very small now. It is estimated that they will not last for half a year. The spiritual rice grown by many forces is not enough to eat. They all grow elixirs or other valuable things.
In exchange for resources, they used to be imported from all over the world, but now with the war, spiritual rice from all over the world can no longer come in."
"Yes, I have a sect spiritual field under Qixing Pavilion, which is all used to grow spiritual hemp and make talisman paper. There is no spiritual rice at all. Now that the news has spread, they have also begun to rush to buy spiritual rice, causing the price to rise immediately.
,Tang Patriarch, I suspect this is a trap, a conspiracy."
"No need to doubt it, it's just a conspiracy. This is Lin Xiao's intention. He is fighting an economic war with us."
"Economic war, what does this mean?"
"Lin Xiao told me a long time ago. I didn't understand it before, but I understand it now. War is about people. No, it's about money. Resources are needed to set up a camp. The magic weapons and talismans used by monks to go to war.
Equipment requires resources, monks require resources for food, clothing, housing and transportation, warships require resources for war, everything requires resources. Where do the resources come from? They are bought with money. Xuanjing is our money. Have you ever thought about it? We don’t even have the number of Xuanjings now.
Not much anymore”
Tang Shuwen sighed and said that he had been with Lin Xiao for a long time and learned many theories from Lin Xiao. He didn't understand them before and didn't take them seriously. But after the war broke out, he found that many of Lin Xiao's theories were extremely advanced.
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The strategy Lin Xiao wrote to Lu Leiyuan was very clear. The depth of the strategy and the number of people were what the Immortal Alliance lacked. The Kunlun family of the Five Continents Alliance could control the three families of Nanzhou, Xizhou and Beizhou, which provided them with a great strategy.
The depth also allows them to have enough men and horses to fight and produce, but the Immortal Alliance does not.
"The expenditure on Xuanjing seems to be very small. The Xuanjing mines in Central Continent have been almost mined. Each of our sects does not have many subordinates. In the past, we used some high-level, strategic resources to exploit monks from various continents, and let them
"Provide, now that the war has started, the exchanges between the two sides have stopped, and Xuanjing has not been imported in large quantities. It is simply not enough to rely on the mines of each of our sects."
"Doesn't it mean that we lack everything except high-level resources?"
"That's pretty much it."
"What can I do?"
The major officials started to panic. In the past, they used resources such as high-level alchemy arrays to make money with high added value. A batch of sixth-level elixirs could earn hundreds of thousands or millions of mysterious crystals. If they controlled the quantity, they could still make money.
You can earn more, but now customers have become enemies. Whoever buys from you will be exploited by you. They have no shortage of high-end resources, but the gap in low-end resources is too big.
"So this is the content of the discussion with you today. After you go back, you must make statistics on what is missing and how much is missing. We, the Immortal Alliance, must make overall plans and speed up production. It's not that we don't have territory, the territory controlled by each sect's mountain sect
, the secret realm is full of spiritual fields, but what we lack is manpower.
So the solution we can take is to change the cage for birds, gather our own people, reliable ones, into the mountain gate, and plant them in the secret realm, and recruit casual cultivators to plant the sites outside. The Five Continents Alliance will not attack on a large scale in the future.
, what we fight for is consumption.
Another way out for us is Dongzhou. Dongzhou controls hundreds of thousands of miles of territory, and there are still tens of millions of monks who have not been mobilized. We don't need them anymore. If we need supplies, a Seven Soul Pill is worth tens of millions of Xuanjing.
, let them exchange for spiritual rice and a low-level alchemy weapon array. If it is spiritual rice, it can be exchanged for hundreds of millions of kilograms, which is enough for us to last until next year. As long as our production keeps up, we will not collapse.
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"It would be such a loss to exchange the Seven Soul Pills for spiritual rice."
"The loss is also due to our own people. Dongzhou must be stable. If they turn to the other side again, we are completely stable. In addition, we must be careful of Lin Xiao. This person definitely knows how to fight economic warfare. What else will he do?
I don’t know the tricks yet, but I guess they are driving up the prices and then smuggling these tricks.”
Tang Shuwen replied that he had convened relevant people to form a think tank to make suggestions on these issues. They predicted that Lin Xiao would probably spread some news, cause panic, drive up prices, and then smuggle some extremely low-value spiritual rice to make money.
Take profits and bleed blood for the Immortal Alliance.
"Tang Ancestor, Lin Xiao is such a big threat, why not find a way to assassinate him?"
"I'm already making arrangements, but killing Lin Xiao won't have much effect. As long as the Five Continents Alliance continues to implement this strategy, we won't be able to bear it."
"Tang Patriarch, why not work together to defeat the army of the Five Continents Alliance? We cannot let tens of millions of monks waste time on the front line."
"Yes, let's fight quickly."
“Instead of sitting around and waiting for death, it’s better to give it a try”
"Everyone, how can we fight desperately now? Our Immortal Alliance only has more than 20 million monks, and the five million in Dongzhou are not much. What's more, if the Immortal Sect has that kind of foundation, Kunlun and Penglai don't have it.
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"Tang Patriarch, do you mean that we are doomed to fail?"
"Tang Patriarch, what do you want to do?"
Tang Shuwen's words made everyone extremely frightened. This kind of foreseeable doomsday made them extremely pessimistic and desperate. With various comparisons of power and resources, they were all at an absolute disadvantage. If they continued, a dead end awaited them.
No one wants to die.
"Don't be impatient. It's not that we have no chance of winning. We just hope it is smaller. But I can assure you that the worst case scenario is that we will escape unscathed."
"What guarantee do you have?"
"Yes, Patriarch Tang, you are hiding now, what are you hiding?"
"Monster clan"
"Monster clan?"
"That's right, it's the Monster Clan. When Ziyun Temple and Shenmu Sect were defeated, Lu Leiyuan sent me a message and told me that he wanted to negotiate peace, but I didn't agree. After thinking about it carefully, it should be the Monster Clan.
There is something strange happening in the clan. I sent people to check it out. It is indeed the case. Taking the East China Sea as an example, Penglai just relaxed for decades, and the East China Sea Monster Clan came back. It can be imagined that the Monster Clan still does not give up on our human race.
If they want to completely defeat us, this war is their chance. If the demon tribe moves, do you think Nanzhou will go back, will Kunlun still support Xizhou, and will they still have the strength to deal with us again?"
Tang Shuwen replied, although they were weak now, they did not have no chance. Lu Leiyuan also saw this situation and was worried, otherwise they would have fought over long ago.