Chapter 280: Precursor: The Nezumien's Plea for Help
In the blink of an eye, three months passed, and the white wolf spent every day at work, either to build a farm with the goblins, or to transform the runes of time and space, until this day, an uninvited guest broke this cookie-cutter life.
Since the Emirate has always been hiding in the shadows of the underground and there are no other forces around, it is relatively low in popularity among other forces, for them, the Emirate is just a little-known emerging power, although it has controlled a large area of the underground world, but it is still little known.
The White Wolf had thought that he would never need to deal with other powers on behalf of the Emirate in his life, but it was only today that he was sure that this was not true, and at this moment, a nezumi was kneeling in front of him, waiting for the White Wolf to answer his request.
Just three days ago, the soldiers at the border post reported that they felt the ground shake, either an earthquake or a large force passing by, and after confirming that it was not an earthquake, they sent spies to search for the source of the tremor and found a large group of migrating rat people at the junction of the three junctions from the border post.
Seeing the word nezumi mentioned in the report, the image of the creature with thief eyebrows and rat eyes and short stature flashed in the white wolf's mind, he had seen nezumen, and many of those goblin nobles in the past had nezumi slaves. After purging the rulers of the original Three Kingdoms, he had seen these nezumi before.
When fighting against the Gray Mist invaders before, the White Wolf had also seen the nezumi who were also controlled by the Gray Mist, their size was generally smaller than the goblins, and their strength was smaller, but their action speed was more dexterous and agile than the goblins, but it was a pity that under the stupid command of the Wolf of the End, this racial advantage of the nezumi was not fully utilized, and they became consumables in front of the Emirates Front like the Gray Mist Goblins.
In fact, even now, there are a small number of nezumi living in the emirate, and the white wolf's way of dealing with them is to establish autonomous regions, they are no longer slaves of goblins, but still have to accept the rule of the emirate, of which the fourth autonomous region is specially allocated to the nezumi, which is a border area where there are not many goblins inhabited.
For this group of rat people, the white wolf is not worried that they will rebel because their number is not yet a hundred, with the population strength of hundreds of thousands of people in the emirate, it is easy to crush these rat people, but this time there is another group at the border, and the number is unknown, the white wolf must be cautious with this group of guys.
According to the normal reaction, the emirate began to increase troops in the direction of the border where the rat people were found as soon as they learned the news, and the decommissioning work has been carried out more than halfway, and the twenty-four brigades that were left to attack the gray fog invaders are now only twelve, and only four of them have been sent this reinforcement, the rest of the troops have to be stationed in other parts of the border, and some of them have to be responsible for maintaining law and order, if the situation is not too urgent, they will not rush over.
The nezumi tribe also sensed the existence of the emirate, and their reaction surprised the white wolves, who did not flee or attack the emirate, but retreated a distance from the meeting point, and then sent a representative to negotiate with the goblins.
You need to know that the environment of the underground world is very dark and cruel, generally either you kill me or I kill you, this time the rat tribe can actually communicate, this unusual contact method for the underground world made the white wolf a little surprised, all the forces he has encountered now, such as the snake settlement, the gray fog invaders, and the emirate are all starting with a war and ending with a war.
"Our tribe has suffered a great famine, if you don't dislike it, can you provide us with some food? ”
After seeing the white wolf, although the messenger was extremely shocked, he didn't expect that the ruler of the goblin was not a goblin, but he still said the above words, it turned out that they were desperate and came to ask for help.
"Are you really willing to be cattle and horses?" asked the white wolf curiously, he didn't plan to use precious food to feed these refugees for nothing, after all, the famine of the rat tribe was their own business, and the emirate was willing to help them, which was already considered benevolent.
"Of course, of course, we nezumi are the most industrious creatures, as long as you promise us food. When the messenger heard that there was a play in the request for food, he was overjoyed and praised his own race, like a merchant who sells his goods.
"If you are really industrious, how can there be a famine?" The white wolf was not weak at all when he said this, and seemed to have completely forgotten the famine that had happened in his own territory, in the era of low productivity, sometimes, whether you can eat enough on the one hand depends on whether you are industrious, on the other hand, it really depends on the will of God, if the grain fails, even if you work hard, you will starve to death.
The purpose of the white wolf's words was to bargain, and since the messenger on the opposite side planned to exchange labor for food, he naturally had to belittle the quality of the labor on the other side.
"This ..... Famine... Isn't it the norm in the underground world?" The nezumi emissary looked at the white wolf with uncertain eyes, and after listening to the white wolf's words, it seemed as if there had never been a famine here, which made the nezumi emissary's worldview collapse a little.
"It doesn't matter, I just want to know how far you can go for food, what you can bring to our emirate, if the gains you bring are less than the food we lost, then I'm sorry, we can't accept your request, after all, our food doesn't fall from the sky. ”
The white wolf recalled his support for the emirate's agriculture in the past few months, and felt that it was not easy to do things, so many mushroom breeding sites could not be built casually, although there was a template for the rune circle, it still took a lot of effort to make a petri dish, and the template often needed to be replaced because of wear and tear, so the foxes had not been idle, but they were just constantly making templates and distributing them to the production teams in various places.
The white wolf's daily task, in addition to upgrading the space-time array, the rest is to supervise, command, and personally participate in the construction of the mushroom cultivation base, to now, ten percent of the emirate's territory has become mushroom cultivation fields, with the help of the foxes' automated rune technology, the management of these farmlands only needs five percent of the emirate's population, and these farmlands will not last long, with the speed of goblin breeding, the number of people that food can support will be saturated in another year, and the white wolf will at least turn half of the emirate's territory into arable land, so that in the next fifty years, if there are no natural disasters**, with the level of agriculture in the Emirate at that time, it is perfectly possible to feed all the goblins born now, as well as in the years to come.
"Well, let me ask first, how many of you came?" asked the white wolf.
"It's... I haven't counted, but a lot of people came, many, many people. ”
"In this case, I will allow you to enter our territory first, and by the way, I will help you count the number of people, as long as you are willing to lay down your arms and accept our rule, you will have food, do you understand?"
"In addition, I don't need you to be cattle and horses, as long as you obey my orders, actively participate in production and construction, and don't make any trouble, I can accept you. ”
The white wolf made his own demands.
"As long as.... These?" the rat man listened to the white wolf's request, but hesitated a little, this is not because of how high his requirements are, but too low, in the underground world, if the weak beg for the help of the strong, then no matter what the price is paid, it is not too much, personal freedom, a stable life can be used to sell, what they want is very simple, that is, to live.
The White Wolf's request was too lenient, which made the Nezumi Messenger wonder if he had some other ideas.
"If you don't agree, you won't have anything to eat. Faced with the hesitation of the nezumi messenger, the white wolf's answer was straightforward.
"Yes! Of course we agree!" the messenger did not hesitate any longer, and although the conditions offered by the white wolf were suspicious, he could only agree.
The next step is the placement of the inbound nezumi, the white wolf is not a racist, in fact, even if he is, he will not have any preference for goblins, because he is a wolf, not a goblin, but even so, these inbound people must be properly managed, and the white wolf does not intend to trust them until these nezumi prove their loyalty.
There are already many goblins who owe allegiance to the White Wolf, and as well, he must be responsible to the Goblins, and if the nezumi mess up the Emirate, it will be a dereliction of duty for the White Wolf.
"Let everyone who enters the country go to the Fourth Nezumi Autonomous Region, and at the same time deploy a brigade there to isolate the Nezumi and Goblins. The white wolf said to the black wolf.
"Which of you would like to take on this mission?" the black wolf asked, turning his head and asking the goblin captains.
"The Seventh Brigade is willing to take on this task! Our troops are at the forefront. As soon as the black wolf's words fell, the Goblin Captain immediately responded.
"Then it's up to your brigade to do it, remember, if anyone is not honest, throw them out of the country, and between survival and trouble, the nezumi can only choose one or the other. The White Wolf agreed to the request of the captain of the seventh team, but as he spoke, his eyes were on the nezumi messenger, and if he had been smart, he could have realized that this was a warning to the nezu.
"Please rest assured, I will definitely tell the chiefs of the rat tribes when I go back, let them restrain their own people, and there will be no trouble!" the messenger assured.
"Then do it as soon as possible, the sooner you act, the fewer people will starve. The white wolf replied. Read the latest chapters, stay tuned