Chapter 204: Twisted Pair
You can't use a lightsaber, you can only use a fishing rod. The www.biquge.info kingdom naturally asked the autonomous state to hand over the real culprit at the first time, and at this time, the kingdom was still holding back its temperament and using "normal diplomatic channels to negotiate with the rebels of Sibui Kanchi".
"How can you hand over something that you don't have at all?" Then they received such a reply from the side of the Sibui Kanchi Autonomous State. Perhaps even more unacceptable is that the Sibui Kanchi Autonomous State resolutely mobilized after such a reply, and strengthened the level of fortifications in the key border areas on the basis of requisitioning and issuing people......
Faced with the puffed up body and full of stinging needles, the vicious carnivorous shark could only stare in anger. As the Duke of Monreal thought, the army of the East Bui Kanchi Kingdom did not lead on the border, and there was no sign of attack.
Subsequently, the Sibui Kanchi Autonomous State threw out the condition that "if the East undertakes not to impose any more restrictions on the import of goods through our country, then we are willing to compensate the East for the losses suffered."
This condition is not only to break the original "restriction on the flow of Chinese goods to Xibui Kanchi", but to "lift all restrictions". In other words, Sibui Kanchi intends to oppose the first army on this issue, "retreat into advance", and first soft and then hard in exchange for a compromise in the east. This is also the Duke of Monreal's key way to break the enemy, intending to stop losses here and turn around losses, so that the situation and position of the two countries can be slightly reversed.
It is important to know that it takes a lot of money to maintain the existence and combat readiness of an unprepared army, both in kingdoms and autonomous states. And Sibui Kanchi has already put on a posture of burning jade - either I will use this military money to feed the army and play a protracted war with you "I spend less, you spend more", or you will take a step back and I will give you this money in installments, and there is absolutely no other solution.
The family background of West Bui Kanchi is thinner than that of East Bui Kanchi, but in terms of troop requirements, the defending side needs at least half less troops than the attacking side. A city with a population of 40,000 or 50,000, a thousand regular troops garrisoned, well-equipped with food and grass, and good defense facilities (including but not limited to walls, trenches, trebuchets and supporting ammunition) requires at least the same number of troops to spend weeks to years to besiege and fall.
The hill peace talks of that year naturally also included this consideration. The kingdom army descended the mountain in a mighty way, and then went to besiege the castle? Tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, of agricultural laborers do not work on the land of their hometowns, which means that most of the country's arable land is barren, and then the grain harvest fails; And under the premise of the collapse of the domestic economy, who else will risk the world's condemnation and propose to block the door of the other family?
For the time being, there may not be no one in the East Bui Kanchi Kingdom who has the courage and leapfrog thinking to put forward a constructive "tuntian" idea, that is, "planting other people's fields and blocking other people's homes", so they can only look at the fields and sigh, stop on the hills and wait for the opportunity for peace talks.
As a result, the kingdom army was overwhelmed by the solid walls and retreated. Before the armistice, the army of the Kingdom of East Buikanchi was like this, and now it is still within the borders for fear of the same threat.
Naturally, the top of the Sibuikanchi Autonomous State was aware of these weaknesses of the kingdom. As the saying goes, knowing oneself and knowing that one's opponent will not be defeated in a hundred battles, the autonomous state skillfully uses its own defensive advantages and the shortcomings and difficulties of the other side to create such a dilemma, hoping that the kingdom can choose the lesser of two evils, and choose to accept the reparations in the face of difficulties, and then make concessions on the trade issue.
It is a pity that even the most prudent Duke of Monreal underestimated the determination and dignity of the new king, the King of Moah. Encouraged by the slogan "Go to the capital of the autonomous state to celebrate the winter solstice of the unification of Bui Kanchi", the military horses of East Bui Kanchi crossed the common border of the two Bui Kanchi countries after the submission of the document of the king's envoy "resolutely rejecting your proposal".
The arrival of the goddess of war always comes in groups, and it is rare to see her alone. If there can be a figurative red and green tile to express the state of war and peace in the Bahivita continent, then the Bahivita continent, which was originally in all-green, has become "green and yellow" after the arrival of a large number of Chinese goods, and the threat of war has begun to appear; And a month later, in early June (southern hemisphere winter), the continent is more red and yellow, and less green.
In order to compete for these rare and large numbers of "new interests", businessmen with or without national background have stretched out their tentacles to fight each other. After a short time, the wrestling between the merchants soon became a battle between the state and the state aristocracy - seeing that the means under the table did not work, the means on the table were naturally put on the agenda......
And the role of the merchants is quietly changing at this time. The Sibui Kanchi merchants, who arrived in the Duchy of Rohrluli by sea line, even revealed to the "clerks" of the Bilunar Church in private that "if the Chinese can sell products of a higher level of weapons than all the countries on the continent now, then we must buy them on a large scale."
Such a shift is not surprising at all. Of course, the clerk did not know that the superior of his superior had learned at a seminar a week earlier that "the Kingdom of Dongbui Kanchi is using the civilian products sold to improve the level of military equipment".
Synthetic fiber cables, which seem harmless to humans and animals, should be used as an important item in the transportation industry and construction industry. However, under the plan presided over by Tulumbo, it replaced the twine rope on the original trebuchet and increased the range of the trebuchet;
The portable oil lamp with cover, which improves the light dispersion and portability, has made a qualitative leap in the lighting conditions of the field headquarters of the army. A handful of steel sewing needles and matching high-strength synthetic threads were used to sew leather armor, and both the thickness and fineness of the needles and the strength of the threads were admired by the armor craftsmen of the kingdom, making the shortcomings of hard leather difficult to process in the past a thing of the past.
The most important load of goods seized from the merchant's wagon, the sets of carbon tools, became the new toys of the army's blacksmith shop. The skyrocketing efficiency made the regular army's ordnance several times sharper and more durable for the previous product, and in turn it gained a great advantage against the Sibui Kanchi Autonomous State......
Such an improvement actually came quite abruptly. In the original plan to infiltrate the trade of the countries of the Bahivita continent, there was indeed a stage of trade in weapons and weapons raw materials - when the armaments of the countries were exhausted, brokers commissioned by the Chinese side would bring new solutions. Once this solution is adopted, such as the immovable iron mountain, the majestic floating city-like giant ship will take the blunt sword produced by the Elta No. 1 Iron and Steel Products Factory, the bamboo spear throwing gun, fence post, scaffolding, composite bow tire of the Sino-Egyptian joint venture Panda Group, the shield blank and fortification standard components of the New World Wood Industry, the bandages, first aid kits, and alcohol of the Royal Paiñe Pharmaceutical (named after the princess, so it is crowned as royal), and the tendon strings of Qingzhen Animal Husbandry. Hardened leather and other materials and resources directly or indirectly related to the war were continuously delivered at the contract price, and the ferry ships sailing on the giant ships and shore wharves paid with one hand and delivered the goods with the other.
The sooner the country becomes a beneficiary of this plan, the more it will be able to gain an advantage in war, and this is a matter of course and justification. Conversely, the sooner countries are included in the arms trade, the sooner they will be "hollowed out" and pay a large sum of money in addition to the high costs of maintaining the existence of their armies.
War is a book of profits, but who can survive the day when the benefits are taken away? The Chinese side, as an agent of the Elta Industries Group, will sell anything within the scope of the permitted export to any party that can afford it, and the cost of war between the two sides will only increase indefinitely, and no one can really gain much of a war advantage with the arms trade in Elta......
The biggest beneficiaries of this project, known as the "Ladder", are neither the countries of the Bahsivita continent nor China, but the economy of the Elta Empire and the people of Elta. In order for Elta to become a good export market and a source of basic industrial products for China, it must first fatten itself.
Elta's industry is hungry for more orders! Hungry for more customers! In front of you is the almost empty market for Bahivita civilian goods, and in the back there are lords, dukes, and kings who are hungry for more weapons and ordnance, and they are the best customers that are hard to miss.
Upgrading production capacity to meet the requirements of Chinese customers, and increasing production to balance China's exports, all require resources and monetary investment in the upgrading of industrial models and scales. It is true that the domestic demand of the Elta Empire can support this pillar, but Han Xin's more troops the better, and it is even better to have more simple and crude needs to support Elta's industry.
Only now, a single beneficiary has suddenly emerged. As soon as the goods of the people's livelihood were combined with the industrial theorists of the former Red Dragon Regiment, Sibui Kanchi was inexplicably defeated and lost almost all the land in the frontline area except for the strongholds, and could only retreat to the strongholds to fight a defensive battle.
In this abrupt turn of events, the merchant sent by Sibuikanchi to buy "Chinese goods" soon received a message from the rear in the Duchy of Rohrluli, asking him to immediately sign a contract with Chinese in the Duchy of Rohrluli for the order of weapons, ordnance, and strategic materials...... The Sibui Kanchi Autonomous State is already in jeopardy, and the country's top brass is even considering ceding territory in exchange for reinforcements from its neighbors across the Strait.
But what they didn't know was that, at the suggestion of Tulumbo, the emissaries of the East Buikanchi Kingdom were also doing the same in the Duchy of Rohrluli......