On December 16, 138 AH, the coalition forces stopped attacking the settlements of the Chaoxin Kingdom. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoOn the 20th of the same month, Gray, who was in Byron City, received a handwritten letter from Meyer.

In the letter, Maier gave a detailed account of the problems encountered by the coalition forces in Chaoxin, and asked Gray for his opinion on the massacre of Chaoxin. After reading the letter, Gray immediately called Changrong, the head of the Supervision Committee. He asked Changrong to contact Tengyuan and Ramogis as quickly as possible, and asked them to send a force of more than 5,000 men to Chaoxin as soon as possible.

Gray wrote letters to Emperor Maier and Emperor Ira, respectively. He asked Maier to withdraw again, but this time the coalition forces should not retreat back to the border, but should be stationed in the territory of Chaoxin. In a letter to Emperor Ira, Gray asked him to support the Kingdom of Byron and the Ilibi League in public opinion, and to spread among the Ira people that the Mingji would harm the New World.

After this, Gray packed his bags, took his retinue, and headed for the kingdom of Elt.

The Kingdom of Elt had recently signed a non-aggression pact with the Kingdom of Byrons, and relations between the two countries were harmonious and stable. On December 30th, Gray arrived in Lotun, the capital of the Kingdom of Elt. He told the king of the kingdom of Elt about the unreasonable declaration of war by the kingdom of Chaoxin to the kingdom of Byrons, which the king had known for a long time, and in order to stabilize the relationship between the two countries, the king angrily condemned the unreasonable declaration of war by the kingdom of Chaoxin.

Gree came to Lotton City not to complain, nor to seek support from the Kingdom of Elt. He had come to be a lobbyist in order to infinitely exaggerate the threat posed by the Mingji people to the new world.

He has a certain understanding of the Mingji people, knows that they themselves have a certain danger, and also knows that most of the rulers of the New World know the danger of the Mingji people, and the king of the Ert Kingdom is one of them.

About a hundred years ago, there was no so-called Elt kingdom, and the territories of the Elts were not all connected. Sandwiched between two larger territories is the Mingji nation. The Elts did not want to be at odds with the Mingji people, so they wanted to exchange resources for two settlements and the land under their control, so that the two territories could be connected.

The lords of these two territories offered quite generous terms and ceded a very fertile piece of land. How can the Mingji people be like stones in a dung pit, smelly and hard. The Mingji people already looked down on the foreigners, and when they saw the Humility of the Elts, they looked down on them even more, did not take their proposals seriously at all, and humiliated the envoys who came to negotiate.

The Artics were outraged by the arrogance of the Mingji people, who declared war on the country on the grounds of diplomatic insults, and wanted to use force to open up the link between the two territories. During the war, the Elts suffered great losses, and in the end, the enraged Elts completely destroyed the country, killing all the Mingji people who could be seen.

In the massacre, the Elts paid more and almost broke out a full-scale ethnic war with the Mingji people. Fortunately, before the Mingji people declared war on the Eltites, the Tairong people accidentally stabbed the hornet's nest, so the Mingji people declared war on the Tairong people first, and the Elts escaped.

Because the Mingji people would cause a large number of massacres in every war, the international reputation of the Mingji people was very poor. When Wei Xu infiltrated Chaoxin before, he lied that he had been treated unfairly among foreigners, and the people of Chaoxin easily believed his words, because Mingji people were really not treated well by foreigners.

Because of this, Gray dared not make any preparations, only packed his bags, and came to the Elt Kingdom as a lobbyist with a few followers. He explained to the king in detail the performance of the Chaoxin army in the war, and what he said was the content of Maier's own letter, and there was no water at all.

Gray said that the Kingdom of Byron and the Kingdom of Chaoxin have no grievances and no conflicts of interest. Chao Xin Kingdom borrowed from the Kingdom of Byron in order to attack the Xiaohu family, but the Kingdom of Byron refused, so they declared war on the Kingdom of Byrons. In a country of other races, this almost outrageous casus belli can hardly be supported by the people. Not to mention fighting to the death, a soldier is already very loyal if he can be obedient on the battlefield.

However, the Chaoxin army was able to fight to the death and not retreat, and even more shamelessly bit back, saying that the Kingdom of Byron was the invader. Such a race can be said to be indistinguishable from good and evil, and has no conscience at all. The border of the Kingdom of Elt is much longer than that of the Kingdom of Byrons, and on the other side of the border there are several Mingji countries. In case these Mingji countries declare war on the Kingdom of Byron in order to rescue the Kingdom of Chaoxin, and they also have to borrow from the Kingdom of Elt, what should the king of the Kingdom of Elt do?

Let's borrow it, everyone knows the temper of the Mingji people, in case the hostile forces take the opportunity to stumble, the Mingji army is likely to carry out massacres on the spot, and then the war will be unavoidable. Don't borrow the way, the example of the Kingdom of Byron is right in front of you, and you still have to fight in the end.

Since both horizontal and vertical are to be fought, the Elt Kingdom must prepare for war in advance, so as not to be caught off guard by the Mingji people. Gray said that he had not come to ask for help, but had only come as an emissary from a neighboring country to remind the king to be prepared. Gray did not shy away from saying that because the coalition forces had suffered too many losses in the territory of the DPRK and were struggling, they might have to "deal with the Chaoxin issue by extreme means."

After this, it is likely that the Mingji people will directly wage a total ethnic war against the Ilibians, and declare war on the kingdoms of Byron and Tairong. The Ilibians were weak in siege, but strong in field and defense. The people of Mingji can't gnaw on the hard bone of the Ilibi Alliance, and most of them will come to trouble the Kingdom of Byron and the Kingdom of Tairong.

At present, the Kingdom of Byron and the Kingdom of Tairong only border one Mingji country, which means that other Mingji countries cannot defeat the Kingdom of Byrons. In case there is a Mingji country to learn from the example of the Xin Kingdom and borrow from the Elt Kingdom, the Elt Kingdom will be in trouble.

Gray's words shook the king, and Gray struck while the iron was hot and continued.

"The people of Mingji have a lack of spare time and take pleasure in war. They don't care who their opponents are, as long as they can fight, they are satisfied, and the misfortune of our country is the most obvious example. The coalition forces of our country and the Republic of Bujin annihilated 50,000 soldiers of the DPRK Xin State in the first battle, after which the coalition forces retreated to their own country and waited for the DPRK Xin to send envoys to negotiate the terms of the armistice. Our side has made the greatest concessions, but the DPRK has to move forward with the war. In order to protect the civilians from the slaughter of the Mingji people, we had to march again and delay the pace of the Mingji people by constantly attacking. If your country is drawn into war, the same fate awaits you. ”

"There is a joke among the people that the first strike is strong, and then the first strike suffers. How brutal the people of Mingji are, even a three-year-old child knows that if they are given the opportunity to kill the mainland, it will definitely cause the death and injury of innocent citizens. But if His Majesty the King deploys heavy troops to defend the border and gives the Mingji people the pretext to declare war, it can be said that it is neither advance nor retreat. The existence of this Mingji person is like gangrene growing on the back, if you don't dig it, you will die, if you dig it, you will die, only by finding a way to treat it, so that it will disappear completely, so that people can have a glimmer of life. ”

Gray reported his name when he visited, in the new world, Gray? The name Byron can not only be a stepping stone, but also add weight to words. If it weren't for that, Gray wouldn't have come to the Elt Kingdom to be a lobbyist.

The king listened to Gray's words and nodded his head twice in agreement.

"Mistress Gray means ......"

"Your Majesty, as I just said, the contemptible man only came to remind his neighbors on the orders of the monarch, and he has no other intentions."

"Uh...... Sorry, I misunderstood. The king smiled awkwardly, "This...... Master Gray seems to have studied gangrene, I don't know much about gangrene, how can I cure this disease? ”

The king's ability to understand Gray's words shows that he knows something about gangrene. He said that he didn't know much about gangrene, but he just wanted to follow Gray's words and wanted to know how to solve the problem of Mingjiren.

In fact, he knew that Gray had been alarmist from beginning to end, and it was not the first time that the Mingji people had broken out into war with foreigners, and the Elt Kingdom had not suffered a single disaster so far. But as the saying goes, if you are not afraid of ten thousand, you are afraid of what if. Chao Xinguo's excuse for declaring war this time can be described as "unusual", because declaring war without using the word is the first time in the new world.

It's a world where there are two, and there are two and there are three—not just this world, but many worlds.

What is "there are two if there is one, and there are three if there are two"?

Let's take a simple example. There was a village where there had never been a burglary, and one day a thief came to the village and stole a family's belongings. After that, the village learned about the concept of "stealing". After knowing this concept, people's first thought is to beware of thieves so as not to be victimized again. This is understandable, but it perpetuates the concept of "stealing".

Originally, there were no thieves in this village, but that doesn't mean that the village is full of good-hearted people. A family of three is still different, let alone a village? Once an eligible person encounters the opportunity for theft, he may become a thief if he already knows the concept of "stealing", and in this way, a second theft will occur in the village. In the same way, as long as the concept of "stealing" remains, there may be a third, fourth, or fifth theft in the village.

And those who steal once have a high probability of stealing a second, third, or fourth time, so that the concept of "stealing" will become deeper and deeper in the minds of the villagers, until they are accustomed to theft and do not think that it is a serious crime. At that time, "stealing" will no longer be a concept, it will become a part of the life of the villagers, they will get used to the presence of thieves, and take all kinds of precautions that should not exist for granted.

Property that could have been kept at home had to be hidden in a safe place, which was time-consuming and laborious, but people didn't think there was anything wrong with it; The money bag, which could have been hung at will, had to be hidden in the bosom, and it was a waste of energy to be on the lookout for pickpockets, but people did not think there was anything wrong with it; Doors and windows that could have been opened at night had to be fitted with strong anti-theft measures, wasting resources and manpower, but people didn't see anything wrong with that. More and more people are engaged in the theft industry, at first they are trembling, then they are accustomed to it, and finally they become brazen, and if they can't steal, they will rob openly, so that the concept of "robbery" appears, and then "there are two if there is one, and there are three if there are two".

Human self-control is generally weak, so this development is almost irreversible without the intervention of external forces. As the so-called embankment of a thousand miles collapses in an anthill, collapse often begins at an inconspicuous point, it slowly accumulates, until quantitative change produces qualitative change, and collapse occurs.

Therefore, smart people like to solve problems at the source and strive to solve problems before they happen, rather than trying to solve problems after they occur. Since there are two and there are two, and there are two and three, as long as there is a "one", find a way to eliminate this "one", and then there will be no two and three? Without two and three, there are no bigger numbers.

For the Elt Kingdom, is this declaration of war by Chaoxin Kingdom considered "one"? Maybe it is, maybe it isn't, it's more likely that it's not. But even if the probability of "yes" is only one percent, the king does not dare to bet. The international reputation of the Mingji people is there, and their reputation is more stinking than that of the robbers, and no one knows their pulse.

This time, the Chaoxin Kingdom can use the ridiculous reason that its neighbors do not use the excuse of the Byrons Kingdom to declare war, who dares to guarantee that other Mingji countries will not declare war on the Elt Kingdom on the same grounds? Chao Xinguo has proved with practical actions that the Mingji people can do anything to fight the war, so who dares to believe them?

So in the end, the king chose to side with the Kingdom of Byron and fight with them against the Mingji. Gray's phrase "strike first is strong, then suffer" entered the king's heart, and the parable of gangrene gave birth to the idea of completely eradicating the Mingji people from the world.

In the end, Gray did not tell the king what to do with gangrene, because he knew that the king already had an idea. In fact, it is not difficult to eliminate the Mingji people, the Mingji people are already infamous, as long as they can find an opportunity to unite the major races, the Mingji people will inevitably be exterminated.

But how easy is it to do that? The king was not an idealist, so he did not intend to carry it out. He is the king of the Elts, and he is only responsible to the Elts. It is in the interest of the Elts to eradicate the Mingji people, but he will not take the lead in this matter. Now war between the Ilibi and the Mingji was inevitable, and since the war had not yet begun, no one knew which side would prevail. Once a third-party force joins and becomes the enemy of the Mingji people, the situation will become two clans fighting one clan, and the balance of victory will tilt in favor of the enemies of the Mingji people.

When the time comes, the kingdom of Elt can join the war and destroy the Mingji people with the help of the enemy's enemies - as long as the king makes such a decision, Gray's purpose will be achieved.