Chapter 779: A word wakes up the dreamer

The three transport cabinets that Chen Jian asked Zeda and the others to escort to Yinfeng Castle were not anything else, but three movable magic sigil devices similar to those owned by the First Fleet that were necessary at the exit when using one-way magic portals.

At the beginning, the progress of the Entagre Army's military operations in Diya was slow, and Orison, after thinking about it, was inspired by the First Fleet's mobile portal device and had a bold idea.

Orison didn't know how to use magic, but that didn't prevent him from thinking a little about the use of magic, and the big-eared monster who had been following Jian Chen the longest time with Pete the half-elf and Bruce the Troll Troll of Thor had always been very wild-eyed.

He felt that even if the magic mark could be set up on the battleship, then if the device on the battleship that could accept the magic mark was moved to the 6th place, it must also be able to be used on the 6th ground.

The size of the battleship is huge, and it is inconvenient to move to 6 ground, but if you just move one device on it, it must not be inconvenient, right? With the service of many dragons in the Big 6, and the many ingenious craftsmen, the transportation capacity of the Entagri Empire in the 6 lands has always been outstanding.

And if such a device can manage to move to Deya, then wouldn't it be possible to use a one-way portal to connect the Deya region to the mainland of the Ntagri Empire? At that time, there will be no need for the Entagri army to open any safe corridors in Deya, as long as an army escorts Tren to the Castle of the Winds through the magic portal, and then the magic portal will pick up those academic necromancers and the Big-Eared Monster of the Diya school, and that's it.

As soon as the academic necromancer and the Dya Big-Eared Monster leave, the Entagri army can take the full initiative in Diya, and then the Entagri army can calmly withdraw from the Dia region and end this war that doesn't actually make much sense to the Entagri Empire as soon as possible.

With this in mind, Orison gave a detailed report of his idea to Jian Chen.

His report definitely had the effect of waking up the dreamer.

Because his idea is not complicated, and it is completely feasible, but sometimes, some things are often like this, although the truth is very simple, but if no one reminds them, no one will be able to think of it.

It's the same as the authorities and the bystanders, Orison doesn't know magic, but he can think about the application of magic from another angle.

After reading Orison's report, Jian Chen would shout that habitual thinking kills people.

Then under the instruction of Jian Chen, the work of researching a new type of movable magic imprint device began immediately, which is really a very meaningful research, because after this research is successful, Tren, the national treasure-level figure of the Entagri Empire, no longer needs to set up the coordinate imprint of the one-way magic portal everywhere before he can use this magic as before, as long as he gives an order, there will naturally be a large number of people to help him send the pre-set magic imprint to the designated place, what he needs to do, It's just a one-way magic portal that opens at the right time.

This is not only convenient, allowing the Ntagrean army to have more choices in strategy and tactics due to the improvement of mobility, but also allows Tren's personal safety to be more guaranteed, without the need to personally take risks.

The results of the research work were soon indicated, the relevant experiments were successful, and then the first batch of three movable magic sigil devices were immediately created - which is also a matter of course, because the mobile portal technology of the Entagri Empire is now quite perfect, and on this basis, it is really a piece of cake for the Entagri Empire to move the movable magic sigil devices on the battleship to 6 grounds.

However, when it came to how to send the magic mark to Diya's Yin Wind Castle, Jian Chen had put some thought into it.

It is undoubtedly the safest to use a large army to escort it, but the manpower, material and financial resources required to send a large army into Diya are undoubtedly quite an astonishing figure, and the current Entagri Empire is such a situation where a penny is difficult to defeat a hero.

Not to mention anything else, the food problem alone is enough to make Chen Jian scratch his scalp, because after he carefully calculated, with the current grain in his hands, he has to feed the increasingly large Ntagrui army, settle the refugees in the Tulaone Forest, and then help those populous Diya big-eared monsters, and then support until this year's autumn harvest, which is really a bit reluctant.

This is still a calculation in the absence of a large-scale battle, if there is a large-scale war, the consumption of food will be faster, and at that time, the Entagri Empire will really face a serious food crisis.

For this matter, Chen Jian convened the ministers to discuss, but he didn't find any good solution, and one guy also proposed a way to put the cart before the horse, such as forcibly requisitioning private grain, which almost made Chen Jian angry.

However, Chen Jian is also helpless, he has a lot of generals who can fight well, but there are few people who can deal with civil affairs and understand his intentions, and there are few people who can comprehend the essence of the new system like Moryl, and there are even fewer people who can help him come up with ideas in these aspects, so every time he encounters problems in this regard, Chen Jian has to worry about it personally, for which he also set up a school to train officials, but the cultivation of qualified talents is obviously not something that can be done in a day or two, and this situation is afraid that it will continue for a long time.

Sending a large army into Diya will not only consume unnecessary food during the march, but also may stimulate the forces fighting in Diya at this time, breaking the current situation of confrontation between the Entagre army and the Bracada army and the Elven King** without going to war.

Because once a full-scale war starts, even if the Entagri army has a magic portal available, it is impossible to retreat from Diya safely and quickly in a short period of time, and no one can guarantee that after the Entagri Empire retreats, the combined forces of the Bracada Kingdom and the Elven Kingdom will not attack the Tulaone Forest by Diya because they refuse to stop.

Once the war expands further, the Entagri Empire will be a bit dangerous.

Anyway, although this possibility is not high, it is not completely impossible, once Diya's war breaks out, the food problem of the Entagri Empire will of course be easier for the enemy to detect, in case someone in the Bracada Kingdom or the Elf Kingdom can notice the current predicament of the Entagri Empire and decide to take advantage of it, who can guarantee that the Bracada Army and the Elf King** will not make any moves?

Therefore, Chen Jian thought that using the army to escort the movable magic imprint device into Diya was really the next step.

In this way, it seems that the best option is to use the elite small army to quietly escort the movable magic sigil into Diya, and once successful, the Entagri army can complete the magic portal passage between the two places without realizing it, and then take the academic necromancer and the Deya big-eared monster from the Yin Wind Castle to the Entagri Empire before the enemy can react.

However, of course, the risk of doing so is also very great, Chen Jian has no way to ensure that the small army will not be detected by the enemy, and such actions are often easy to make the enemy suspicious, once there is a loss, one is not good, not only the small force will be completely wiped out, but the unique mobile portal technology of the Entagri army will also be leaked.

Of course, this situation is not what Chen Jian is happy to see.

While he was hesitating, the reformation of the Holy Alliance gave him a great opportunity.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, in the name of increasing the number of troops Diya, he sent Zeda to lead a force that was not too many, but not too small, under the pretext of reinforcing the Orison Department, but secretly carried three movable magic imprint devices into Diya - the reason why all three were transported was because Chen Jian was worried that these magic imprints would be damaged during the transportation process, and the three of them could be sent over together to have a backup in case of emergency, otherwise if there was really an accident, Zeda and the others would be useless.

It's just that Chen Jian never expected that he had calculated thousands of calculations and guarded against everything, but this time the operation still went wrong, and Zeda and the others were sniped by the joint sniper of the Bracada Army and the Elf King, who were suspicious for some reason.

What made him even more helpless was that although Zeda had made such and such a response, and even planned to cross the Chen Cang secretly from the world, the enemy's arrangement was strict and abnormal, and in the end, the situation gradually unfolded in the direction he least wanted to see.

"I knew it would be like this, so I didn't make so many mysteries, and I sent an army directly into Diya at the beginning, which was really smart but was mistaken by cleverness."

Looking at Wozzak's application to use the last resort, Jian Chen was annoyed.

Because the so-called last resort is actually to ensure the safety of the movable magic mark in a critical situation, directly let Tren, who has been on standby, open a one-way magic portal, and send an Entagri army from Negan to Deya with those movable magic marks, and continue to escort those magic marks to the Yin Wind Castle.

Once such a means is used, the safety of the magic mark is of course no longer a problem, but correspondingly, after such a big circle, things are back to square one, and the situation is even worse.

The reason why I say this is because if Jian Chen sent a large army into Diya at the beginning, although the situation may also evolve into a full-scale war between the Entagri army and the Bracada army and the Elf King** in Diya, but after all, it is only a possibility, and it may not really be like this, but now, as soon as the Entagrui army enters Diya through the magic portal, it is about to start a war with the Bracada army and the Elf King**, and according to this situation, The Bracada Kingdom and the Elven Kingdom, who have realized something, are afraid that they will not stop easily, and they will not sit idly by and watch the Entagri Empire calmly withdraw from Diya, and the outbreak of a larger-scale war seems to be inevitable.

This kind of situation of being afraid of anything bias makes Chen Jiantou as big as a fight.

"If only there was a way to get food"

Throwing Wozzak's report on the table, Jian Chen pinched his brow vigorously and muttered such a sentence.

If there was enough food, he wouldn't have to worry so much about Diya's war, now he was not afraid of a head-on war with the Bracada army or the elven king**, the Entagri army had enough combat power to deal with such a local war.

If he had enough food, he would be able to raise more troops, and the troop problems caused by the long border would be alleviated in a relatively short period of time, freeing up more troops to deal with all kinds of unexpected events, and the next confrontation with the Holy Alliance would not be lost because of the problem of troops.

However, the Ntagri Empire did not have so much food, so he had to face a difficult choice at this moment.

And there is not much time left for him to think, and the situation that Wozzak and the others are facing at this time is really a bit bad.

He was in trouble, but Temp, who was still by his side and did not leave, spoke.

"Worried about food again?"

She asked Jian Chen in a soft voice, and Jian Chen nodded gloomily and handed the report from Wozak on the table to the other party.

Temple looked at the report and roughly understood what was going on.

"Actually, I've been worrying about this matter for a while, and I've been thinking about it in the past few days, is our food really so small?"

Putting the report down, Temple continued: "Anyway, Negan is quite staggering above and below ground, and we had another rare bumper year last year, and we have done so much to encourage production, no matter what, it shouldn't be as bad as you think, right?" It is true that there is not much grain in the national treasury, but is there no grain in the local area? ”

Chen Jian smiled bitterly: "The grain stocks in various places have almost been requisitioned by the army, when will there be any grain stocks?" You see, we're using the grain produced in Negan to supply the needs of the entire empire, the refugees received by the Tetaria swamps, the forest races received by the forests of Tulaone, and the combined population ......"

Speaking of this, Jian Chen didn't continue to speak, just shook his head.

Temple was also shaking his head: "No, when I say the place, I don't mean the grain storage points we set up in various places, but the people."

Chen Jian, who was holding the teacup to his mouth, couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this: "Folk? ”

"Yes, it's the people," Temple nodded, "I remember hearing my father say before that when the situation is tense, the people of Hammondale will always try their best to reserve food, because as long as the war breaks out, it doesn't matter if you don't have any money in your hand, if you don't have a little food in your hand, then you can only starve to death, in the war years, food is more precious than gold coins, you also know the situation in Hammondale, there is not much land to cultivate, and the grain is basically transported from other regions by caravans to sell, Hammondale also had some big businessmen who specialized in the grain business. ”

"Recently, seeing how upset you have been about the food problem, I was thinking, after so many years of war in Negan, the people should also have the habit of stockpiling food, right? If there really is, then although Negan is now under the rule of the Ntagri Empire, but after all, Negan's war has lasted for so many years, presumably Negan people still have a considerable psychological shadow, such a bumper harvest last year, Negan people should also be prepared for danger in times of peace to store more food for themselves, right? And even though the national treasury is tight now, it doesn't seem that there is any problem with food among the people, right? Otherwise, how could the tavern opened by old Kobe have such plenty of food to make wine and sell it on sale? Besides, when you were leviing the grain tax, you didn't use a high tax rate in order to fulfill your original promise and appease people, right? ”

Putting down the cup, Jian Chen thought about it, and felt that Tempe's words seemed to make some sense, but he was still a little puzzled: "But our action to buy food from the people has not achieved any results?" I offered them a very good price, but even then, the food they could buy was very limited."

Temple laughed: "Of course, if it were you, if you didn't really need money, would you take out the food for emergency and sell it?" The food circulating in the market may be bought out by us because of this, but this part of the food, as Negan has always been, I'm afraid that everyone won't take it out easily just for money, right? ”

Jian Chen was stunned again.

Temple's words continued: "In order to confirm this idea, I also consulted privately with some of the squires and guards who were born in Negan and had fields in their homes, and from them I confirmed that my idea was correct, that most of the Negans had a habit of stockpiling food, and that the cave people were the most important, and that some of them had many Negan lords in the past during wars when they had food problems. If we have a way to collect this grain for the use of the country, although it cannot fundamentally solve the food problem, it must be alleviated to a certain extent, right? In this way, maybe you don't have to worry so much about the war in Diya."

Speaking of this, Temple sighed: "Of course, these are just my personal thoughts, whether it can be done or not, and what the real situation is, I don't have a bottom in my heart, I just think that this may be a direction that you can use for reference, so I can't help but say it, I hope it can help you, after all, I always feel uncomfortable when I see you frowning every day." ”

Chen Jian's spirit was lifted at this time.

Because now, if everything that Temple says comes true, then with Negan's population, the amount of food he can harvest may be far greater than he could have imagined.

"Don't be presumptuous, your opinion has helped me a lot" He stood up happily, wanting to hug Tempe, but thinking that Temple didn't like this in front of people, he changed to holding the other party's hand, "If it weren't for your reminder, I might have been drilling the horns of the bull, and I would have tried to do it, just wait and see the result"

Saying that, Jian Chen's heart suddenly moved.

He suddenly thought that if the food problem was alleviated, then he might be able to change his mind in dealing with the war in Diya.