Chapter 144: Strategic Shift

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What is the role of population? The first point that many people think of is that the more people there are, the more wealth they can create. Admittedly, this is indeed true, but for the current Baiyun City, the greater the population, the more troops Yang Tian has. Compared with the source of soldiers, the importance of creating wealth is relatively low. Because of Baiyun City's strong manufacturing capacity, Yang Tian basically did not have a situation where there was not enough money to spend.

Of course, this is not to say that Yang Tian does not value the importance of the common people in creating wealth, on the contrary, in Baiyun City's consistent policy, the number of troops has always been strictly controlled. According to the productivity of the people of each occupation, the most reasonable proportion of soldiers is one-tenth of the total population of the territory, and the minimum cannot be less than one-twentieth of the total population. In peacetime, you may think that the ratio of one-tenth of the soldiers is very terrifying, but don't forget, this is a time of war when the princes are fighting for hegemony, there are not enough troops, and everything else is a floating cloud. But the ratio of the total population to the soldiers in Baiyun City is almost one-fortieth now, and only one-quarter of the other forces. This is also one of the factors why Baiyun City has such a strong logistics support.

Now that Baiyun City is threatened by Jingzhou and Xuzhou, Baiyun City can indeed defuse this threat by expanding its army, and even expand its territory again. But after the discussion of Xun Yu and others, they finally gave up this method. There was a factor that Yang Tian was worried that would be attacked by the forces of other princes in the Z region, but the other reason was the continent of the Endless Sea.

According to the news that Gan Ning came back again not long ago, they have already determined one thing. The land they were exploring was just a peninsula, and on the other side of the peninsula was connected to a much larger continent. Now Ganning's fleet is using the power of the dragon turtle. No one can say what the final outcome of the exploration of that continent will be.

However, this also reminded the strategists of Baiyun City and Yang Tian that in the future, there will be no fewer disputes between countries in the world on this continent, if Yang Tian only limits his vision to the country and consumes his army in the country, he will definitely suffer on that continent in the future. And how could Xun Yu and others make such a mistake? That's why they decided to jump out of country Z for the time being. Do your best to develop yourself. Anyway, now that the other forces don't know about the existence of that continent, Yang Tianda can slowly transfer the main forces to that continent, and when Yang Tian transfers his forces back to the country again, he will no longer be bound by any forces. Of course, these are just the plans of Yang Tian, Guo Jia, Xun Yu and others, and whether they can be realized in the end depends on their development in the Endless Sea.

The foundation of the development of that continent on the Endless Sea lies in people. The number of development populations that can be possessed is directly related to the development speed of Baiyun City in the Endless Sea.

However, Yang Tian did not plan to transport the population from the country, after all, the current population of the Baiyun City territory is not enough to develop the domestic land, how can there be a transfer to the outside? The most important thing is to transport the population of the territory of Baiyun City to the endless sea, if by ships. That's too inefficient. Unless Yang Tian is willing to send the Dragon Turtle over to escort it, then the amount of transportation will increase each time. But without the Dragon Tortoise, Ganning's quest to explore the continent would be delayed. In Yang Tian's view, the task of exploring the unknown continent was undoubtedly much more important.

In addition to using ships, another way to transport personnel is to use teleportation arrays. However, teleporting a person from within the country to the Endless Sea is consistent with teleportation across borders. The minimum transmission fee is one tael of gold, which is a hundred times higher than that of domestic interstate transmission.

But now that Yang Tian has decided to be generous in order to develop the Endless Sea as much as possible, isn't it just a tael of gold to teleport a person over? This is not too difficult for Baiyun City. The gold and silver obtained by Yang Tian from destroying the Kyoto City of the Wa Kingdom last time and the savings over the years, the money of Baiyun City has been close to 100 million taels of gold, most of which was obtained by destroying the Wa Kingdom District, but the gold and silver obtained is only equivalent to about one-tenth of what Yang Tian gained from destroying the Kyoto City.

With this part of the money as a backing, Yang Tian's confidence is naturally very sufficient. As for the source of the population, since Yang Tian didn't plan to get it from the territory of Baiyun City, he naturally set his sights on foreign forces. Anyway, it's all cross-border transmission, what is the difference between domestic and foreign?

If it was before, Yang Tian would not dare to think like this, because no matter which country he entered, he would inevitably receive great attention from the other country, and it was basically impossible to make some small moves. But now that he has the Envoy Medal, Yang Tianke has started to think. As long as you slip through the checkpoint quietly, then something unusual happens in the other party's country, and you won't think that it is done by people from other countries.

It's just that after the past, you can't directly attack the opponent's city, so it will be easy to pass on the news, and the best way is to go to the opponent's country to build a village, and then slowly develop into a small city. When the teleportation array is completed, everything will be settled. It's just that there is one thing that Yang Tian has not yet decided, that is, what conditions must be met before foreign teleportation arrays can be used.

According to the rules of the war, a country cannot use the teleportation array until it captures the opponent's three cities. But now Yang Tian is planning to send his own people to build a city, and the situation is a little different, so it is possible that after this city is completed, the teleportation array will be able to be used, or it is possible to build three cities, and the teleportation array will still not be usable. The rules in this can only be known after they have been practiced.

Yang Tian is also ruthless now, even if after he builds the city by himself, the teleportation array cannot be used, so it is a big deal to work harder, personally go over and occupy a few cities of the other party, and then destroy the city, so that the conditions for teleportation will be achieved. This is not a system vulnerability, but a reasonable use of system rules. However, this method has a fatal flaw, that is, once you start attacking the opponent's city, it will trigger a national war, and then the opponent will know that your army has entered their country, although it may not be possible to know how they came to be, but it is inevitable to be vigilant. Therefore, Yang Tian did not intend to use this method as a last resort.

And so it was decided. However, this is only a long-term plan, and the things that should be done in front of you still have to be done, such as taking Shouchun City as much as possible. It's just that now Wang Kai is still sending people to find the traces of the prison army that may be in Shouchun City, but more than a day has passed, and there is still no news. Yang Tian didn't have much hope for this. Since it has not been found now, Chen Wen must have taken precautions in advance considering the possible methods taken by Baiyun City's side.

Therefore, the millions of Baiyun City troops were all stationed outside Shouchun City, and they did not make any moves. According to Jia Xu's previous construction, the only task of the Baiyun City army now is to trap Shouchun City, just waiting for the army in the city to surrender on its own.

There won't be any major changes on Shouchun City's side, so there is no need for Yang Tian to worry about it. So after he finished discussing with Xun Yu and others, he put another matter on the agenda. That is to go to the Ice and Fire Realm to kill the tiger demon beast, and explore the ruined city.

In fact, Yang Tian had planned to do this for a long time, but because there had been various delays, he delayed it for so long. The value of the Ice and Fire Peerless Domain Yang Tian knew better than anyone else, regardless of the cheats with real characters and soul attribute equipment that broke out inside, the huge number of high-level pets in it alone was enough to greatly improve the strength of Baiyun City. If Baiyun City can build a long-term stronghold inside, it will bring immeasurable benefits. On the other hand, killing the Giant Tiger Demon Beast was also something that Yang Tian had to complete, because he was still thinking about lifting the system seal within a year! The devil knows how big a mess he caused by destroying Kyoto Castle? If you don't improve your strength early, I'm afraid you will only be abused by then.

After Yang Tian told Xun Yu and the others about his decision, everyone did not raise any objections, after all, this matter really needed to be completed. Yang Tian's strength was there, and he had more life-saving skills, even if he couldn't defeat the giant tiger demon beast in the end, there would still be no problem in escaping.

Subsequently, Yang Tian made arrangements for all the things in Baiyun City again, and then sent a message to Carl, asking him to call Norn, Tong Yuan, Lone Leaf Mountain and others to go together. As for Yang Tian himself, there is nothing to prepare, just bring some more high-quality crossbow arrows, since he got the ground-level crossbow of the Demon God's Wrath, Yang Tian has already let people create high-grade crossbow arrows, and now there are no less than 10,000 platinum-level crossbow arrows stored in the warehouse of Baiyun City. After all, although the wrath of the demon god is good, if it does not have a powerful crossbow arrow, it will not be effective.

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When Yang Tian reappeared in the safe zone of the Ice and Fire Realm, it was already the next morning. Compared with the last time he went to the Ice and Fire Peerless Domain, the lineup this time has not changed much, except for the four masters who came from the Wind and Cloud Sect, Yang Tian brought Huang Zhong and Zhao Yun with him. After all, this time he was going to kill the giant tiger demon beast, and that guy's strength was still unknown, and Yang Tian really didn't have the bottom if he didn't bring enough masters. Besides, if the battle of Yangzhou has come to an end, even if Huang Zhong and Zhao Yun are missing, it is not a big deal. And when it comes to single attack ability, Huang Zhong is definitely the first among the generals in the entire Baiyun City, and Zhao Yun's several equipment and skills are also perverted, and if they are used at a critical time, they can also save a life.

After the group of seven people appeared in the safe zone, they did not stop here, Karl directly summoned his own skeleton dragon, and then everyone jumped on the back of the skeleton dragon. The skeletal dragon flickered its wings violently and flew off into the distance. (To be continued)