"In the last three months, the Commonwealth of Gold Coins has purchased several war supplies from the aristocratic party." The goblin Rakanisho Lightning, who was in charge of the bulk trading market in Void City, frowned and handed a report to the Minister of Commerce, Osman Ben Raunegu.
Chief Raunegu also frowned, took the report, and studied it carefully.
After a while, he asked, "The aristocratic party is buying blazing fire glue and glitter powder in large quantities … What are they going to do? Are these things used up a lot in the war? "
"As far as I know, Blazing Fire Glue can be used to attack with fire, and Flash Powder can temporarily blind the enemy. If used well, it can even break the enemy's invisibility. These are all low-level alchemical products, and their effects are only equivalent to low-level spells." The old goblin Rakanisho used to be the chief of a tribe, and had fought with adventurers for many years. He was very familiar with these low-level alchemy products.
On a cold winter more than 20 years ago, he watched his people fall into famine because powerful monsters had robbed their food reserves. He finally decided to surrender to the nearby Dragon-roar Town and became a group of alien residents. Because they could master a small amount of lightning magic, he and his people called themselves the "Lightning Clan." Later, "lightning" became the surname of their clan. Among the goblins in the Republic of Northwest, they were considered a group that was "civilized" earlier.
Now he was an old businessman, in charge of the bulk trading market in Void City. This job was actually quite leisurely, because the market was only responsible for providing the venue and security, and did not interfere with business transactions — however, there was one condition: after the two parties to the transaction had reached an agreement, they needed to submit a deposit along with the transaction brief. If within three months, neither party raised any objections to the transaction, then they could get 90% of the deposit back, and the remaining 10% was naturally the venue rental fee and guarantee fee. If within three months, both parties had objections to the transaction, they could go to the Commercial Court of Void City to negotiate or even file a lawsuit. If necessary, Void City could even use legendary wizards to ensure the reliability of the business.
Old Chieftain Rakanisho was also old and could not do things that were too strenuous, nor did he have the energy to do complicated calculations. However, he could still rely on his experience as a veteran to study and sift through the data sorted out from the trading briefs to find valuable information.
For example, this time, he found something strange.
Anyone who was not blind could see the current tense situation in the Commonwealth of Gold Coins. Normally, under such circumstances, both sides would try their best to stockpile war resources, mainly arrows, armor plates, metal ingots, standard weapons, as well as food and medical supplies.
These items weren't cheap. It wouldn't be a big deal if adventurers bought them in small quantities, but if the military bought them in large quantities, it would be a considerable amount. Therefore, the first thing to fight a war was the strength of the country. Without money … it was better not to think about fighting a war. It was more reliable to admit defeat or run away.
At the very least, Chief Rakanishu, or rather, the former chief of the goblin tribe "Lightning", Mr. Rakanishu, had always adhered to this principle.
Is this principle good or bad? It was hard to say, but at least for the Lightning Tribe, it had indeed obtained a good result. Rakanisho's desperate gamble had finally allowed his people to live a stable and prosperous life that they had always dreamed of.
Except for family planning.
This was one of the basic national policies of the Republic of Northwest. Those races that were especially fertile had to restrict their reproduction, while those with low fertility were encouraged to reproduce.
The former were represented by goblins and rabbit people, while the latter were naturally represented by black and white bearmen and elemental creatures.
However, it was easy to restrict reproduction, but much more difficult to encourage it. The Black and White Bearmen only had the urge to reproduce for half a month a year. Most of the time, they were more interested in wine than the opposite sex. Elemental creatures did not understand what reproduction was at all. It was hopeless to expect them to spread their branches and spread their leaves to multiply.
Fortunately, Sui Xiong was not the kind of Virgin Mary whose brain was filled with water. He would not specially invite a group of masters from thousands of miles away to expand the population of ethnic minorities in the country. Was it difficult for a race to reproduce? Then it was difficult. If they didn't want to reproduce themselves, would Sui Xiong force them to reproduce?
This kind of thing was not suitable for coercion.
"… Chief Rakanishu, what effect do you think there will be if low-level alchemy items such as blazing fire glue and flash powder are used in large quantities?" Minister Osman pondered for a moment and asked with some uncertainty. "I think these things are not suitable for large-scale use on the battlefield. The cost is too high and the benefits are too low."
"You're right. As long as there is a group protection spell, it can resist the damage of blazing fire glue. As for flash powder, it's more or less the same. When I led the little fellows in the tribe to fight with adventurers, I was not afraid of this kind of method, let alone a powerful army. " The old goblin chief shook his head. "I really don't see what use they can be. To be honest, I think it's a waste of money."
"But the aristocratic party is not a fool."
"I really don't understand. Maybe the people in the military department can figure it out." Rakanishu irresponsibly passed the buck.
The minister of commerce pondered for a while and felt that it made sense. He used magic to send two copies of the document, one to Minister of Defense Reynold, and the other to Minister of Security Easter.
As for what these two professionals would think of it? It was none of his business. He was still busy!
About half an hour later, Reynold and Easter took the time to meet and discuss the matter.
"This is not normal," Reynold said. "Blazing fire glue is one thing, but flash powder is definitely not something that can be used in large quantities in war. It's completely meaningless!"
Eastbourne nodded. According to his impression, the Flash Powder was generally used by adventurers. Among them, bandits used it a lot. It was mainly used in sudden battles to dazzle the enemy's eyes and then seize the opportunity to escape.
To use this in an official war … He thought about it, but could not figure out how it could be used.
Could it be … that when the cavalry charged, they threw it first?
But the new army of the merchant party did not use cavalry at all. They directly used heavy crossbows, strong bows, and long spears to fight against cavalry. Forming a formation like a mountain, come over if you have the guts. As for shooting at each other, cavalry bows were not as accurate as infantry bows at long range. It was nothing more than a slow death.
In this world where magic was widely used, there was no such thing as a cavalry's mobility advantage. Besides … it was really not easy to rely on ordinary horses to outrun middle-level warriors on a small battlefield!
The cavalry in this world, in addition to the messengers, were heavily armored knights who were like cans. To deal with them, well-trained troops only needed to use their long spears on the ground to form the so-called "Dragon Spear Formation."
In fact, the heavily armored knights generally would not charge into the enemy's formation. Even if they did, they would first cover themselves with multiple layers of protective magic. So the war became a battle between protective magic and dispelling magic …
Easter frowned and thought to himself. Born in the Country of Wizards, he had a lot of experience in understanding the use of magic. He felt that he should be able to guess how the aristocratic party would use the blazing fire glue and flash powder.
But before he could guess, Sui Xiong had already gotten the answer through his own channels.
The aristocratic party intended to form a rapid-mobility force with a harassing nature to attack the rear of the merchant party. These blazing fire glue, flash powder, and the like were prepared for them.
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