The dilemma of the 286th charterer

Fang Xiaoyu said: "You mean you have a lot of gold?" ”

Elena nodded: "Not only that, we have a lot of gemstones, among which the most precious diamond in human society, we have a lot of rough diamonds to make it." ”

"Diamonds?" Fang Xiaoyu suddenly thought of what Xiao Feng said before, and the rough diamond only needed a thousand tons.

Fang Xiaoyu hurriedly asked, "Do you have a lot of diamonds?" ”

Elena thought for a moment and said, "I heard my mother say that our elven clan has about a hundred tons of diamonds, and the dwarves are good at mining deposits, so they should have more diamond reserves. ”

Hearing this, Fang Xiaoyu's eyes lit up, if Xiao Feng could be upgraded to level six, he would be able to develop all kinds of machines in the space age, not other planets, and at that time, all kinds of resources would not be as much as they wanted.

Thinking of this, Fang Xiaoyu couldn't hold back the excitement in his heart anymore, and immediately let Xiao Feng scan, and found a lot of wealth in the mountain city where the elves lived, there were indeed more than 100 tons of rough diamonds, and there were also a lot of other gems such as rubies, and gold was as high as 10,000 tons.

However, the Twin Cities Mansion where the dwarves live is very strange, there are no precious metals found in the underground palace there, only there is a fog-like area in the deepest part of the earth, which cannot even be seen through Xiaofeng's radar scanning, and there are very few precious metals in the dwarf residences of the Savage Continent, most of them are gold.

These things are naturally not in a hurry, and now Fang Xiaoyu has a headache because like all export-oriented economic countries, the global economic crisis has begun to affect the industrial development of the Chinese collar.

Fortunately, the workers of the Chinese Territory are highly paid, so the purchasing power in the territory is still quite strong, and with the living water of domestic consumption, it will not cause the industrial and commercial construction of the Chinese Territory to suffer too much loss. However, the interior of the Lanfang Empire, which had no experience in business operations and no experience in dealing with economic crises, suffered.

Due to the chaos of the civil war, the rule of the country has completely fallen into a state of stagnation, and the country's customs are paralyzed, resulting in foreign goods being dumped directly into the Lanfang Empire through various ports without spending any tariffs, and a large number of cheap goods have greatly affected the domestic handicraft and mechanical processing industries.

Such a bad economic situation, so that the Xia family and the Xiahou family have suffered heavy losses, the Xia family's army because of the lack of funds, the offensive has come to a standstill, fortunately, the cotton production in Loulan County is directly counterpart to the Chinese leader, because Fang Xiaoyu has decided to hoard a large number of strategic materials, let all the cotton spinning enterprises start work at full capacity, without affecting the purchase quantity and price, plus the affordable grain provided by the Chinese collar, the life there is quite stable.

The Xia family's postponement of the attack made Cheng Yuhuan secretly relieved, although the Cheng family had been preparing for many years, and formed a large number of regular troops from the armed forces secretly formed by the people at the first time, but although these troops had been trained for a long time, they had never been on the battlefield, and the results of such an army against the Xia family army full of veterans could be imagined.

In the actual battle, it was often the Cheng family's army that occupied the numerical advantage but retreated, and by the time Xia Yuhui stopped attacking, the entire Hudong County plus the Hongyuan and Baoxing prefectures of Western Sichuan County had been occupied by the Xia family.

"Father, it's not okay to fight like this. We should take advantage of the fact that the Xia family's funds are tight, and eat the Xiahou family while strengthening our defenses. As long as we have a few coastal counties, our sources of funds will be greatly increased, and the troops can threaten the Xia family's territory from the flank, so that they do not dare to attack south with all their might. Cheng Feng expressed his suggestions to Cheng Yuhuan.

Cheng Wei on the side also helped: "Yes, father." Taking the three counties in the East China Sea will be very beneficial to our economy, and when the time comes, we will be able to build a navy, and even take over the imperial navy in its entirety. ”

Cheng Yuhuan reprimanded angrily: "Stupid, what's the use of wanting a navy? Deliver food to the navy of the Chinese Consulate? People's navy even the Saar Empire doesn't dare to provoke easily, what's the use of us having a navy, how can we hold the defensive front when the time comes? If it weren't for the death of Xiahou Huan last time, we would have received those veterans of the Xiahou family's rebels and mixed them into the recruit troops, I am afraid we would not have been able to withstand the attack of the Xia family. ”

Cheng Feng frowned and said, "Actually, the biggest threat now is not the Xia family, but the Fang family's Chinese leader. Once we fight with the Xia family or the Xiahou family at a critical moment, they suddenly send troops, and we will be in trouble, don't forget that we have a grudge against the Fang family, especially Fang Xiaoyu. ”

Cheng Yuhuan squinted his eyes and said, "Maybe we have to use foreign power to contain them." ”

Cheng Wei said angrily: "The last time I went to the Cossack Empire, their emperor was still disdainful of the Chinese Territory, saying as if they could defeat the Chinese Territory in one minute, but as soon as I asked them to send troops to the Chinese Territory, they excused themselves with insufficient armaments." ”

Cheng Yuhuan said: "You don't see that all countries in the Western Continent are desperately expanding their armaments, I think that now the energy of the Cossack Empire is on the Yaman Empire, and there is no time to take care of the Eastern Continent, we still need to find another ally." ”

Cheng Feng said: "Does my father have any candidates?" ”

Cheng Yuhuan said: "What do you think of the Wa Kingdom? ”

"Wa Guo? The dwarfs? Cheng Wei was surprised: "They have been beaten twice by the Chinese collar, even if we invite them, do they dare to find the bad luck of the Chinese collar?" ”

Cheng Yuhuan said: "If there is any other choice, will I contact those dwarves?" You see, now the ASEAN has almost all the countries around the Eastern Ocean, and the Japanese have become an isolated island, if they don't fight to the death, I'm afraid they won't even have the opportunity to fight with the Chinese leaders in the future, not to mention that now the Boston Empire and the Japanese are very close, it is a big empire, and it has enough strength to help the Japanese country. ”

Cheng Wei pouted and said: "I think it's better to forget it, the Boston Empire is nothing great, they can't even beat the Saint Martin Empire, and they still fight the Chinese Collar?" What a joke. ”

Cheng Feng said: "Big brother, you can't say that, if it wasn't for the Chinese Leader to get in the way last time, I'm afraid that the St. Martin Empire has been destroyed, and the Boston Empire is still very powerful, especially in industry, much stronger than the Chinese Leader." ”

Cheng Yuhuan thought for a while and said: "Okay, let's pull the Boston Empire into the water through the Wa Kingdom, and now one more ally will give us more strength." ”

"Ha Luha, that's great, God help me. Kato-kun, look at it, the Cheng family, the second largest family in the Lanfang Empire, actually invited us to attack the Chinese Territory together, and once we succeeded, they will allocate most of the territory of the Chinese Territory to us, which is really good. Yamamoto Gonbei, the commander-in-chief of the Japanese Navy, waved the letter in his hand excitedly.

The Minister of Military Orders on the side, Yuzaburo Kato, said: "Don't be too excited, Yamamoto-kun, let's think about why the Cheng family will give us such generous conditions." It's not that they have been beaten by the Xia family and want us to contain the Chinese leader. The Cheng family does not have a navy, and it is separated by thousands of mountains and rivers from the Chinese territory, what kind of joint operations, can't they fly over? It's not that we are thankless and help them contain the Chinese collar, but in the end we will not only get no benefit, but also offend the Chinese collar. ”

Yamamoto Gonbei shook his head and said, "No, their letter said that the Xia family's economy has been severely affected by foreign goods, and funds have begun to be tight, and they are no longer able to go south." Now they are ready to destroy the Xiahou family, open up the land connection with the Chinese Territory, and then we will jointly attack the Chinese Territory, their current request is only for us to make some fake moves, so that the Chinese Territory cannot be separated from other things, so that they can take the opportunity to annex the Xiahou Family. ”

Yuzaburo Kato said: "I still think we should be cautious, we have just recovered a little bit over the years, and the empire can no longer afford to fail." ”

Yamamoto Quan said: "Don't worry, this time we are just feinting, even if they fail, it will not hurt us a single hair, if they really attack the Xiahou family, we can ignore the Chinese leader, let the Chinese leader free up his hand to fight against the Cheng family, we can take the opportunity to destroy the Ezo people, and then it will be the Cheng family to attract firepower for us." ”

"Ha Luha, Yamamoto-kun is really clever, Kato admires, so let's put it forward at tomorrow's Big Five meeting." Yuzaburo Kato smiled and nodded, in his opinion, there is such a clever plan that does not suffer at both ends, it is really foolproof.

Half a month later, the Japanese navy began to launch military exercises on the high seas. After receiving this news, Liu Junguo immediately became vigilant, and the Chinese Eastern Ocean Fleet began to be on standby twenty-four hours a day, and all the troops near the coast were also mobilized and put into battle at any time, and at this time, the Cheng family's offensive quietly began.

After a great deal of preparations, the Cheng army, which had been assembled in the border area, suddenly crossed the border area, and the attack force composed of eight corps and nearly 400,000 people attacked northward, occupying the entire territory of Siyang Province within ten days, and the front line approached Zhenjiang Province.

The army of the Xiahou family was reorganized on top of the previous remnants of the defeated generals, and the training has not yet been completed, and the current combat effectiveness is very poor.

Although the Cheng family's army was also from the civilian army, they had undergone long-term training and were filled with a large number of veterans of the garrison and the Praetorian Guard, and their combat effectiveness was much higher than that of the Xiahou family's army.

Therefore, Xiahou Feng, whose troops were already overstretched, had nothing to do except lead the troops to resist and divide the troops to defend to the death.

Unexpectedly, at this time, Fang Xiaoyu suddenly released news, claiming that the Xiahou family used the land of the three counties of Donghai as collateral to borrow from the Bank of China, so now the land of the three counties is the collateral of the Bank of China.

Fang Xiaoyu demanded in his personal name that the Cheng family's army return to his station, otherwise the armed forces of the China Consortium would severely punish those who infringed on the interests of the Consortium.