Chapter 57: The Plans of the Traversers
As we march towards the interior of Thrace, there are fewer and fewer things to say along the way.
In the eyes of the panda, the country of Thrace is much stronger than Tara Khan in terms of social stability and people's happiness index, and it can even be said that there is a world of difference.
For example, in the villages they passed, most of the villagers had a stable life, with smiles on their faces, and there was no resentment in the village. What's more, he often saw gray-haired old men in their sixties and seventies, sitting in front of their huts basking in the sun.
According to the impression of pandas, it depends on how well people live in an area, and it is good to look at their average life expectancy. A high life expectancy, even if there are thousands of problems, is better than a low life expectancy. Or to put it bluntly, the average life expectancy is high and there are problems, that is called white jade slightly flawed, and the average life expectancy is low and there are bright spots, and it is most likely that the reporters who have collected money are washing the floor.
Of course, such as the legendary country where the legend is always singing and dancing, hundreds of millions of low-caste untouchables, not to mention statistics, do not even have an identity card, they can only drink Ganges water when they are hungry and sick, and they are thrown into the Ganges when they die...... Then the data really doesn't tell the story.
"No wonder Thrace was able to sweep half of the Western Continent, this country does have strong roots!" he sighed in the chat channel.
He was not the only traverser who made a similar exclamation, many of them were active in Thrace, and their feelings were almost similar to him.
The traversers have tacitly assumed that they are the masters of the Tara Khanate, and they are full of a sense of ownership, and Thrace is currently their biggest imaginary enemy, so at least half of those who travel have come to Thrace.
They came to observe the enemy.
As their knowledge of Thrace grew, so did the pressure on their hearts.
Can such a powerful country really resist with just one Tara Khan Territory?
No one is sure.
"If only you could give us a few more years. "Someone said.
What if they were given a few more years?
Of course, the traversers continue to escalate, to the point where they can fight against thousands of troops and horses by their own force alone, and directly beat the Thracian invading army back.
In this case, the research team suddenly said that if it was just to buy some time, maybe they would have a way.
"What's the solution?" everyone asked.
The leader of the scientific research team, Han Feng, didn't sell it, and gave you a detailed explanation:
The main food crop in most of Thrace is a rice-like plant that does not require much water, and is called "rice", or it can be considered a type of upland rice. The yield of this crop is not very high, anyway, it is much lower than the impression of rice in the impression of a few travelers who have been exposed to farm work. Generally speaking, if the wind and rain are good, the harvest will be enough to eat for two years in a year, and if there is a little wind and rain, it will only hover between one year and one and a half years of food.
The plan was to cultivate a bacterium that would prevent rice from setting ears on a large scale, and then spread it to Thrace with the help of birds. This artificially created bacterium does not live long and lacks the ability to mutate, and is generally quite weak. However, as long as the timing is right, a wave of infections can reduce grain production in some parts of Thrace.
Faced with the situation in Thrace, of course, it was necessary to mobilize food reserves from elsewhere for disaster relief. Without grain reserves, it is natural that there will be no war, and it will be able to delay for some time.
"How long can it be delayed?" they asked.
Hanfeng said that he hadn't calculated it carefully, but ...... It's okay to drag it out for at least a year.
"Can't it be delayed for a few more years?" asked Anthony, the impostor, the impostor.
Han Feng said helplessly that this move was actually a calculating and unintentional, and he was just caught off guard by Thrace. People are not stupid, they will react as soon as they hit the trick, and then start to investigate. In order to avoid being tracked down, they had to destroy all clues immediately after doing so, and then use some special methods to escape. It should be fine to do this once, but the second time or the third time, the fool knows what the problem is......
"Unless you want to face the Thracian army that is furious and vengeful, you can only do it once. He emphasized.
No one wanted to face the Thracian army that came in anger, so they could only express regret.
Of course, there are also some traversers who fear that this practice will seriously harm civilians and is not what good people should do. He said that according to calculations, even in areas with relatively serious disasters, there will not really be a complete harvest, and unless the disaster relief is not timely, it is unlikely that people will starve to death.
"But it would bankrupt the farmers. Someone who has studied ancient history said, "Many peasants are saddled with debts, and if there is a serious reduction in production, they will not be able to hint at paying the debt, and they will inevitably go bankrupt...... The peasants are bankrupt, it's miserable!"
In this regard, Han Feng could only say: "I can't care about it so much, if you have compassion, think of a good way to get the best of both worlds." ”
Of course, I can't think of a good way to get the best of both worlds, so those compassionate traversers have no choice but to sigh helplessly.
After sighing, they couldn't help but scold Richard, the king of Thrace, if it weren't for this bastard who wanted to make a contribution, wanted to sweep the world, and wanted to be the king of the whole world, where did he get so much!
Then, more than one person decided to set out to assassinate Richard.
"This thing is the chief of all evils, and as long as he dies, there will be no need to fight. Assassination Team Leader Xingzhao said.
"Assassination won't solve the problem. Wumian persuaded, "You see that from the end of the Warring States Period to the Qin Dynasty, so many people assassinated Qin Shi Huang, and they didn't find a solution. ”
"That's because they didn't kill Qin Shi Huang!" Jian Thirteen immediately supported his sister, "If Qin Wuyang hadn't dropped the chain back then, the matter would have been solved long ago!"
"Even if Qin Shi Huang dies, the Qin State will also destroy the Yan State. ”
"At least without Qin Shi Huang, the pace of Qin's unification of the six countries will slow down. "All we are looking for is this, to slow down the pace of Thracian aggression." ”
"Have you ever thought about something?" said the panda suddenly, "the assassination of King Richard, the reformists and the conservatives in Thrace, who are already fighting each other at present, are afraid that if they really start a fire, it may lead to a civil war in Thrace." At that time, we will not have to worry about Thracians, but for the Thracians, it will be even worse. ”
Sword Thirteen suddenly became dumbfounded, and Xingzhao and the others had nothing to say.
Reduced food production or civil war, which is worse?
It's a self-explanatory thing.
In the end, Xingzhao's plan to "assassinate the tyrant Richard" designed by them was stillborn before it could be implemented. After much discussion, the travelers decided to support the plan of the cold wind and use the reduced grain production to delay the Thracian invasion.
Although this is not enough, at least for them, there is only one way they can think of it......