New World, Longhua City, Nancheng District.

Ye Ming and Qi Chen seemed to be walking leisurely on the street, but under the leisurely appearance, they were all worried.

Qi Chen was mainly worried about Qi Yue's side, although he learned about Qi Yue's current situation through Ye Ming's various aspects, but driven by curiosity and accumulated thoughts, he still couldn't help but meet the other party.

Of course, not in his own face, but in the identity of Ye Ming's personal bodyguard masked man.

With the increase of age, the other party's body has become more and more mature, compared to the young little girl in his memory, Qi Yue now exudes a unique charm of a mature woman all over her body.

Because he was too excited, he even walked with his hands and feet at that time, but fortunately, Ye Ming had the foresight to set him up as a "dumb" person, otherwise he might have been exposed as soon as he opened his mouth.

And Ye Ming is more worried about the changes in the overall environment of the thirteen neutral zones of "New World", as well as the upcoming internal test.

The changes in the general environment are mainly caused by the imperial side, and it stands to reason that the royal families of the ten major empires will hold regular parliaments every year to discuss the trivial matters of each empire.

For example, the weather in the Frost Empire is too cold and needs various partners to fund a wave of winter supplies, or the lush vegetation in the Dawn Empire has mutated one after another under the drive of the harsh environment, and has even begun to affect the daily life of the free people.

However, this time the Imperial Diet was different from the past, and the Emperor was accompanied by representatives of the military of each empire.

The army in "New World" is different from the real world, because the worldview of the two sides is different, so wars break out in the new world all the time.

The first is to reduce the huge base of the population, and the second is to train the troops, so that the army is always in a state of readiness for war.

Empires and empires fight because of regional disputes, empires and federations fight because of different ideas, and federations and federations also fight because of interests.

The only special zone in this world is the Thirteen Neutral Zones, which serve as a buffer between the Federation and the Empire, although they have a large territory and population base.

However, due to the efforts of both the Empire and the Federation, both sides have adopted a pig breeding plan for the Thirteen Neutral Zones since the collapse of the Longtang Empire hundreds of years ago.

What is a pig breeding program? It is to create a pseudo-peaceful environment, so that the self-confidence of the government and people in the region is unprecedentedly inflated, and the internal division begins to begin, and then the outside world can easily destroy this illusion of peace with a slight push, and the result is the collapse of the edifice.

And because the empire and the federation are too large, even if they want to eat each other raw, they must also exercise restraint on the surface.

Otherwise, once the two sides engage in a full-scale war, no matter which side is forced to the point of desperation, it will have the confidence to drag the world to the funeral.

A similar council to the Empire was five years ago, when the Redwoods Empire, with its strength, sent troops to the neutral zone on its own, despite the opposition of its allies.

As a result, the miscalculation was that although there were many contradictions within the Thirteen Neutral Zones, they immediately formed a group as soon as there was a foreign enemy, and although the casualties were somewhat heavy, the final result was the defeat of the Sequoia Empire.

The defeat of the Sequoia Empire made the Empire and the Federation realize that the fat of the neutral zone seemed to be a bit of a tooth, so this time the Empire changed to a more conservative strategy.

First, the internal contradictions in the neutral zone are intensified by various means, causing them to kill each other, and consume those chaotic civilian forces, and then whoever wins will not be able to resist the steel torrent of the imperial coalition forces.

And now the time is approaching, so the councils of the ten empires are mainly discussing the proportion of troops to the thirteen neutral zones, as well as the division of interests after the war.

Of course, what was announced to the public was the decision of the ten major empires to strengthen cooperation in the economy and people's livelihood, and to make efforts for the happy life of the people of the empire.

But no one would believe this kind of nonsense, not even the freedmen of the empire who were in the meeting, let alone the toiling masses of the neutral zone?

Therefore, under the impetus of well-intentioned people, the gossip that "the Second Great Patriotic War is about to begin" began to spread freely within the 13 neutral zones.

The first thought that came to the minds of the peace-loving people of the neutral zone was, of course, to leave here, and there was serious discrimination against people from the neutral zone on the imperial side, so the first choice for fleeing was of course the federal district, among which the Liberal Federation and the Friendship Federation were more popular.

Of course, the "people" mentioned above refers to the more economically powerful strata, while the toiling masses at the bottom can only use their small savings to sweep daily necessities in major supermarkets to prepare for the coming war.

Modern warfare is not fought in terms of military strength, but in the struggle between politics, economy, and the armed forces.

Although the supreme governing body of the Thirteen Neutral Zones is the Union Council, by the time these gray-haired old men and old ladies reacted, there was already a serious supply and demand crisis in the neutral zone within a day.

The basic daily necessities in the major supermarkets will be snapped up as soon as they hit the shelves, and the luxury stores that were glamorous just yesterday are at the point of being crowded.

And there is also an important economic measure of the pig breeding plan that has also erupted in these two days, and there is the currency settlement policy.

Due to the unique geographical conditions of the Thirteen Neutral Zones, the trade between the Ten Empires and the Six Federations almost cannot bypass the territorial range of the Neutral Zones.

This also causes businessmen on both sides to usually prefer to use the local currency of the neutral zone when settling the currency, so the enterprises in the neutral zone will be more or less involved in transportation or economic aspects, and the currency of the neutral zone is also very hard in the world.

However, in recent times, a large number of neutral zone currencies in the empire and the federation have returned to the mainland, resulting in neutral zone foreign exchange reaching a freezing point in a matter of days.

And that's not all, the next series of changes to the settlement currency will be a real disaster for the neutral zone.

Why did neutral zone currencies stand up in the past? Because the big guys recognize it, and the whole world spends it.

But now that most of the countries in the world do not recognize it, coupled with the emptiness of foreign exchange reserves within the neutral zone, the local currency of the thirteen neutral zones fell directly from the sky to the ground within a few days.

That is to say, now the currency in the neutral zone can only be digested internally, but there are so many internal goods, if it was fine in the past, but now it is the "pre-war" period, so the prices of various goods have risen one after another within a few days.

To put it mildly, the toiling masses in the neutral zone now have as much money in their hands as they do in toilet paper.

If it weren't for Tang Xiaoluo, who had exchanged most of the currency in his hand for federal currency half a month ago under Ye Ming's reminder, then after such an experience, Ye Ming's net worth would have fallen directly from the sky to the ground, and there would be no hope of turning over.

The most ridiculous thing is that the Supreme Council of the Thirteen Neutral Zones has been discussing for so long and has not come up with a single useful decision......