During the ten days of recuperation in the Bohai Alliance, Qin Xiaobai took the time to search the world's famous game forums and professional player forums to find out players' views on the relationship between "era/system/core technology" of "Empire". Let's see if anyone has a similar idea to him - this system and core technology must match each other in order to upgrade the times.

A total of hundreds of millions of pieces of information were searched, and some information that had little effect was excluded by searching, and only about 10,000 pieces of value were valuable. Qin Xiaobai browsed and searched them quickly, and these posts had unique insights and analysis on the times, systems, and core technologies. However, there is no single piece of information that explicitly mentions the concept of matching. There are only a handful of questionable posts questioning why some technologies are unexplained and can't be studied. These questions are raised by professional gamers who have studied technology very deeply.

Qin Xiaobai knew that when this kind of question appeared, then the answer would not be far away, and there would definitely be other players who would speculate on the connection. Chinese players can figure out the key points, and foreign players can do the same. All players who guess the key points will find a way to make themselves the first to break through the Iron Age.

Qin Xiaobai certainly hopes that he can be the first, or at least the first to enter the Iron Age on a global scale.

Era 4: Iron Age - Imperial system, feudal system/state system, suzerain/Tibetan system, slavery. Core technology: omitted.

Any independent nation, NPC, or simply the player himself, is eligible to become emperor after completing the process of unification internally. This is true for large countries with a territory of tens of thousands of miles, and the same is true for small countries with a territory of hundreds of miles. It's just that the power of the great powers is too strong after the unification is completed, so the difficulty is set higher, and it is divided into more blocks, as little as 5. Most are more than 20. Small countries are relatively weak, and even if they complete reunification, they may not be able to compete with a small part of the big countries, so the difficulty is a little simpler, and it is divided into two parts.

Qin Xiaobai thought for a long time. Players who want to put themselves in the Iron Age. Then there are only two paths to follow.

One. China is unified, one of the nine NPC princes, or simply players themselves claim the emperor and establish an imperial system. Then he broke through the barriers of iron smelting technology and entered the Iron Age. There are two more paths.

1. Unify the nine princes by force. Test Text Watermark 9.

The nine princes and player forces are engaged in annexation wars, annexing each other, and finally deciding a strong emperor. Although the various "construction, training, and production" in the mainland of the game are hundreds of times faster than reality, this process of fighting with force is undoubtedly still very long. It has been so long that it is suffocating, and there is no hope of seeing a truly powerful emperor born in four or five years. Moreover, when the annexation war is completed, the nine vassal states will surely be fought to a pulp, and "probably" will lag behind the other countries - unless all the great powers of the world complete the unification in this way. So it's not a last resort, Qin Xiaobai doesn't want to see this journey.

2. Unification of the nine princes by non-force.

The nine princes and player forces negotiated and merged to complete the peaceful unification and elect a weak emperor. There is no need to go through a long battle of force. Undoubtedly, the process of reunification will be greatly shortened, and China will enter the Iron Age as soon as possible. But there is a trouble - everyone wants to sit on the throne of the emperor, which NPC prince is willing to let other princes become emperors and be his own courtiers? Which player is willing to let other players take the lead. And to be someone else's subordinate? If the problem cannot be resolved through negotiations, then in the end it is necessary to use force to complete the reunification and then become emperor.

This is the normal path into the Iron Age.

Two. The other countries are unified and called emperors. NPC craftsmen acquire iron smelting technology by teaching the earth.

It is extremely difficult for large countries to be unified, while it is relatively less difficult for small countries to be reunified. Let a small country be unified, the king be the emperor, and then let the NPC craftsmen of this small country take over the matter - there is no rule of the game that says that it is not allowed to capture the craftsmen of other countries.

This is the best shortcut to the Iron Age.

Obviously, the above two paths. The second is undoubtedly easier and simpler. The smaller the country, the easier it is to do this.

Qin Xiaobai had some conjecture that if he sent troops to arrest the two monarchs of the world's smallest country, the "Vatican City State", the world's largest and smaller country with a population of only 50,000 people, and forced them to become emperors, then he could enter the Iron Age with a magical degree. Oh, mistakenly, the "Vatican City State" seems to have only two Catholic emperors, not two monarchs, and it seems that it cannot crown itself emperor. Nauru, with a population of about 10,000, is quite suitable, in the southwest of the Pacific Ocean, the sea range is a little too far, and the sailboat is at risk of being blown over by strong winds and waves. Monaco, with a population of 30,000, is still too far away on the edge of France. Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Americas, there are such small countries everywhere, and it seems that the distance can only be considered within Asia.

The smallest in Asia are Brunei and Singapore, but they are all islands in the South Seas, and they are still a little far away. If he had gone by sea, he would have to pass through the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea, the South China Sea, and other places, and the Qi, Chu, and Wu fleets in these three places were as strong as clouds, and it was not so easy to transport troops over.

The closest to the Yan Kingdom are only the two small countries of Mongolia and Korea. Mongolia In the depths of the Mongolian steppe, there are hundreds of thousands of Mongolian cavalry, which is not easy to deal with. The cavalry of the Zhoushui Alliance was too small, and the chance of success was only 1 in 10,000 if they ran thousands of miles away to capture the Mongolian king. And North Korea is on the edge of the Yan Kingdom, and it can be passed by 6 routes and sea routes. And the sea route is more convenient, taking a boat directly to Pyongyang and Seoul.

With the help of the hand of Joseon to complete the Iron Age yourself?

Qin Xiaobai lingered for a long time.

From a technical point of view, it is not very difficult to reunify North and South Korea, as long as they are allowed to engage in a large-scale war. After the end of the war, either North Korea unified South Korea or South Korea unified North Korea.

However, Qin Xiaobai did not want to see the explosion of this annexation war. He has the responsibility and obligation to maintain peace on the Korean Peninsula and let North Korea and South Korea live in peace, and the friendship between the two countries will last forever.

It is not possible for North Korea and South Korea to achieve the reunification of the Korean Peninsula through barbaric warfare.

Then there is another way, which is to directly send troops to raid Pyongyang and Seoul, arrest the king of Korea and the king of South Korea in the two walled palaces, and force one of them to be the emperor and the other as a minister, and establish an imperial system.

Purely theoretically and logically, as long as the monarchs of the two regimes "agree" to be called ministers and emperors, then they will achieve the imperial system in terms of "name" and achieve unity. Regardless of whether the two are actually merged or not.

Afterwards, when the NPC craftsmen broke through the limitations of iron-smelting technology, they deposed the emperor again, restored the monarchy of the two families, and let them return to Pyongyang and Seoul to settle down and restore the original order.

Everything was perfect.

He acquired the technology of iron smelting and entered the Iron Age. North and South Korea are still peaceful, and their friendship is eternal.

Qin Xiaobai thought for a long time. Truth be told, all of the above was hypothetical, and he couldn't be sure that the whole process would achieve his book's goal of obtaining iron-smelting technology. But if he didn't test it, he would never know if this hypothesis would work.

Do what you think.

He didn't want to wait, the longer he waited, the more players he would be associated with, and it was likely that players from other countries would be the first to enter the Iron Age.

Qin Xiaobai immediately found the bloody slaughter of the General Staff and asked him to immediately collect military intelligence on the Northern Dynasty and South Korea, analyze how likely it is to capture the two NPC monarchs, and come up with a feasible plan.

After hearing this, Bloodkill almost jumped up without being shocked. What are you kidding, Yan Guo still has a lot of troubles to deal with, why did the boss suddenly think of catching the king of Korea and the king of Han thousands of miles away? What good can it do to catch them? However, he didn't dare say anything.

Bloodkill immediately organized hundreds of players from the intelligence department to collect the military power of North and South Korea from online game forums. Many players like to post on the official website to show off, where they can find a lot of military intelligence and draw a lot of useful things from various clues.

In addition, hundreds of players in the staff office are also racking their brains about how to use the easiest way to catch the king of Joseon and the king of Han in the fastest time. Although they don't know what the boss wants to do and what purpose he wants to catch these two NPCs, they still have a lot of fun catching these two NPCs and the monarch of the Korean Peninsula.

It is difficult to conquer and unify the Korean Peninsula by force, and the army used is huge, at least a million dollars. However, using lightning raids to capture two NPC monarchs is relatively low, and the key is to surprise and surprise soldiers. If done properly, it can even achieve the effect of a large number of soldiers.

The staff officers immediately came up with a large list of methods, and selected the simplest one among them -- to lay heavy bait and trap in the name of selling weapons.

This decoy will definitely work, for the simple reason that North and South Korea are at war, and there are Japanese player forces that are massing heavily on Tsushima Island, and they are constantly trying to invade South Korea and seize South Korea's territory. On the official forum, Korean players and Japanese players have already quarreled.

If a large number of elite weapons can be exported to North and South Korea, it is impossible for both the DPRK and South Korea not to be attracted by this heavy lure.