“...... With a better agricultural foundation, the mighty Mumaster is bound to rise to the next level. After a lot of advanced ideas, Mike Balabala finally ended his speech with a vision of a bright future.

"Well, Your Excellency's words are not unreasonable, but it is difficult to make a decision for a while, so please allow me to consider it before replying. "Mumast's supreme sword, Sefaril Umdo, listened with interest to the man's nonsense.

"In that case, then I will take my leave, and I believe that you will make the most advantageous choice. ”

"Pete, see off the guests on my behalf, arrange accommodation for our guests at the embassy. ”

After seeing off the unexpected visitors, Sefaril immediately summoned the Chief Shawl and all 16 lords to discuss the town of Sanzang.

"Haven't you decided to use pirate monster adventurers to cannibalize them?"

"Everyone has seen the results of cannibalization during this period of time. The pirates are very profitable, and there is no oil or water there, and there is no movement after being defeated by Koria in two waves; the monsters are okay to deal with the pioneers, but they pose little threat to the Sanzang Town, which has become a climate; as for the adventurers, now that the Sanzang Town seems to be ready to open up recruitment, the rumors of the gold mine may soon dissipate, and they naturally lose interest. Therefore, I think that cannibalization is likely not to work, and other countermeasures are necessary. Sefaril said in a deep voice.

"How about sending troops to exterminate it? It can also lure the snake out of the hole and cut the grass to eradicate the roots. A young lord with black hair and brown eyes asked.

Mumaster's greatest enemy is naturally the Fort of Santil, which seeks to dominate the Moon Sea alone, and there are three major threats that must be eliminated as soon as possible.

Bandits at the mouth of the River Rees in the South. They raided merchant ships and attacked villages, making large areas of land difficult to develop, and if they could be completely wiped out, they could build cities at the mouth of the river, and the benefits of controlling the waterway were incalculable. However, Mumaster's several attempts ended in failure, firstly, most of the bandits were inextricably linked to the nobles in the city, and they could often get the news in advance, and secondly, the bandits had new faces every year.

Northern Lead Peak Dragon Palace. They were far away from the lead mine peaks deep in the galena mountains, two hundred kilometers away from Mumaster, and they should not have much influence on Mumaster, but they were super athletic dragons. Thirty years ago, two red dragons suddenly arrived and demanded that Mumaster pay regular protection money, and although they were repelled after a fierce battle, the city was also greatly damaged. Twenty years ago, the Red Dragon gathered thousands of monsters in order to get revenge on Hubert, probably to prevent Mumaster from sending troops to attack the city, and once again caused great losses to the city. Mumaster's failure to develop the glacier estuary several times is also indispensable to their mastermind. Due to the rugged mountain roads and difficult to march, Mumaster could only send dragon slaying braves, but the red dragons were strong and had many minions, and the results can be imagined.

Wizard of the Iron Tooth Fort of the East. Some of the wizards who wield the powerful powers of darkness seem to use it as a base for regular meetings and even teaching activities, and although they have not initiated attacks so far, the adventure parties that go to explore always return in the form of corpses. Mumaster had sent troops to attack, but the result was nothing more than a large meal for the local gnolls.

"It's not difficult to lure the snake out of the hole, but I'm afraid that it may not be possible to cut the grass and eradicate the roots. "Chief Shawler Sundan Tao Erwan took out a few documents and sent them to everyone, "This report may have just been obtained, it is the latest assessment of the strength of Sanzang Town, they were discovered by our people when they were fighting the Akta bandits ten days ago, and it is speculated based on the situation at that time. ”

This discovery was certainly not an accident. On the other side of the battle with Sanzang Town, Sanzang Town thought it was an evil race passing by, and the Melwater spy thought it was a gang of mountain giants and bandits who were bewitched by themselves and changed their targets, but the chief shawl, Sundan, knew that it was the Akta bandit group, and everyone can imagine the truth.

"At that time, Akta took five mountain giants, nearly thirty ogres, about two hundred goblins of various types, and about twenty ferocious wolves, and stepped into the ambush circle set up by Sanzang Town unprepared. "It's a pity that the battlefield observers didn't find out when the ambush was set up in Sanzang Town, otherwise the situation would have been much better.

"It must be noted that the ambush ring of Sanzang Town is located in the plains, and they have hidden themselves with large-scale illusions. According to the estimation of the follow-up battle situation, the number of tall races such as goblins and jackals exceeds one hundred and less than two hundred, and the number of goblins is difficult to judge, but it should be at least one hundred, all of whom are professionally trained warriors. ”

Chief Mage of Nimes, who performed the illusion, had not expected to be suddenly pulled into a thug, and naturally it was impossible to prepare for it. However, because the scenery around the Sunken Tower, where the teaching site was located, was not good, everyone agreed that it should be beautified after settling down, and this responsibility finally fell to the two chief mages of Nimes and Chief Mage of Ajess, who mastered the eternal illusion of the 6th order illusion.

When Mike went to call someone that day, the two of them had already used up the eternal illusion they remembered early in the morning as before, but Chief Mage of Nimes had a 6th order mana pearl that had the ability to restore spells and use them again. So Mike and the others found a good place to capture the prisoners, and when the mountain giants were about to arrive, the chief mage of Nimes cast a spell and led everyone to help, creating countless ordinary mound illusions of different sizes on the ground, and hiding all the four hundred or so people at once.

"Akta also has some brains, and when he led the bandit group forward, the distance between them was appropriate to prevent a possible attack, but he was still caught by the sudden burst of a large spider web with a diameter of 100 meters. ”

The second-order spider web technique is low-level and practical, and everyone in the dark elf students will use it and prepare it every day, and this joint spell casting has made a great contribution in one fell swoop.

"After that, Sanzang Town pressed on it vigorously, and Aktar and they also resisted to a certain extent, but the opponent was strong and numerous, and there were more than twenty mages to assist in the attack, and most of them were spellcasters who could use at least three or four order spells, and human goblins and kobolds all had them. In this case, it is clear that the resistance of the Aktars is unlikely to be of much significance. ”

"That lich has taught so many mages over the years?" the black-haired, brown-eyed young lord exclaimed.

You think too highly of Master Zevahid, those human spellcasters are basically disguised by dark elves by various means, although they can also be regarded as his students, but they belong to the art caster, and they have this level as soon as they get started, and the kobold warlock has little to do with him, only the goblins who can use second-order spells are his teaching achievements.

"Who knows. But no matter what, it is an indisputable fact that they have this strength. The Chief Shawler sighed, "The significance of large-scale spells on the battlefield is well known to all of you. ”

The crowd was silent. If the cobwebs with a diameter of more than 100 meters fail to be countered at the first time, they can have a decisive impact on the battle situation. What's even more worrying is that the range of the 3rd order fireball technique is similar to that of the 2nd order cobweb, and if it can also be more than 100 meters in diameter......

The chief cloaker sighed secretly, he could use this method without the help of the Fata and without much prior preparation, that group of mages was obviously highly skilled and skillful, and the elite level was probably not under his own cloaked mage group, whether it was a local duel or a battlefield battle, it was extremely difficult. What's even more worrying is that the Dragon Palace Lich is not good at illusions, which is the information that has long been determined, but they can release a large-scale illusion that must be presided over by an illusion master, I am afraid that there is another strong reinforcement.

"There is no reliable information on the population of Sanzang Town, which is said to be 2,000 or 30,000, but judging from the size of their cultivated land, if the inhabitants are all humans, it should be at least 3,000, and this does not include the fish-people of Koria. Now that its inhabitants have a large army of spellcasters, we must no longer regard it as a bandit, and we must determine our attitude towards it. ”

"The side of the couch does not allow others to sleep peacefully, let alone an aggressive evil race, which must be eradicated even at a great cost. It's just that today a man who claims to be the lord of Sanzang Town came and made an interesting proposal, saying that we can jointly develop it in our own name and allow the garrison. Sefaril said.

"Is there such a thing, exclusive or several?"

"There are also some forces in Centia Melwater, who are already packing up and preparing to come. ”

"Like the Raven Fortress back then?"

"Yes, like the Raven Fortress back then. ”

Located on the outer side of the Dragon's Spine Mountains in the northwestern part of the Moon Sea, the Raven Fortress was built on the basis of ancient forts by the cities of Far Mountain City, Melwater, Mumaster, Sentia, Jerazah, and Santil Fort to defend against frequent invasions by the northern barbarians. At that time, when the major cities of the Moon Sea were still relatively weak, the Moon Sea Coalition forces stationed there were united and repelled the invasion of ogres and orcs again and again.

However, with the development of the times, the strength of each city has been increasing, and the friction between the coalition forces has gradually increased. In 1355, in the year of the Reclamation of the Valley, the powerful Santarin Fort, which relied on each other and the Santarin Society, used various means to eliminate all other forces, and planted the banner of Santarin above the Raven Fortress, monopolizing its control. This event also marked the complete disintegration of the Moon Sea Alliance, and the Moon Sea entered the era of the Quadruple Battle.

Sanzang is certainly not a fortified place - they are the biggest threat, but the reclamation of farmland does have a gravitational pull. The arable land around Yuehai is not too much, but it is not too little, but it is difficult to develop because it is concentrated in the area where Fort Santil and Yuanshan City are repeatedly contested, making the major cities outside Yuanshan City extremely dependent on imports for food.

"We're close to the mouth of the River Rees, and we're very well connected to the mild, grain-rich Dragon Bay, and those vampires have raised their prices by fifty percent under the pretext that pirates are rampant, and the price is even higher for Melwater and Centia on the north shore. If you just spend more money, it's just that, but once you encounter a disaster year, hmph, everyone should know the reason why Melwater went crazy a few times. They've been trying to reach for them before, and now that this opportunity has taken place, I can already imagine their hungry dogs seeing their bones-like expressions. ”

Sefaril nodded, "That's right. However, our worst enemy has always been Fort Santil, and now it is not a bad thing to use this as an opportunity to reunite with Melwater, and we ourselves can get a chance to expand. ”

Ten years ago, Mumaster was about the same size as it is now, and due to piracy and other factors, it has only fluctuated up and down over the years, and the quality may have improved but there has been little growth. In addition, Sefaril has his own reasons: he is the Supreme Sword Sefaril Um Doburn, the first lord of Mumaste, not the undefeated Sword Emperor Sefaril, because it is no longer something that a person of his status should consider. The most important thing for the Most High Sword right now is the upcoming political marriage with the First Princess of Torre, Demoitra Frase, the Governor of the Province of Eltabo. At this juncture, he must not allow Mumaster to wage a war that could cost him a lot.

"It's the closest to us, and we may be able to find an exclusive possession later. "This is a young lord with black hair and brown eyes.

"I'm afraid that they want to lure people into the bait and then turn their faces blatantly. ”

"Yes, the hearts of those who are not of our race will be different, and if they are allowed to continue to develop, the disaster will be worse than that of Santilburg. A gray-haired lord with an angry expression on his face had lost his eldest son when the Red Dragon attacked the city.

"If you really want to go to war, I'm afraid that the losses will be great. ”

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"Okay, let's go back and think about it, and we will have a meeting at this time tomorrow to vote. Sefaril raised his hand to pause the debate, "My personal opinion is that you can try, at least you can get more information, even if there are other actions in the future, you can be more targeted, and maybe you can find an opportunity to get rid of the red dragon and the lich." ”

Our omnipotent traverser and his big apprentice, Brother Monkey, didn't know that their potential investors were discussing how to prepare with both hands, and even if they did, they wouldn't care - after all, it was something that was expected and inevitable, but Brother Monkey still had some questions that needed to be answered by the master.

"I said Mike, during this time, I saw that you had a hammer in the east and a stick in the west, and there was no point at all, what did you want to do?"

"What is a hammer in the east and a stick in the west?"

"Territory construction, there are already several, and some of them are pretty good, but I don't think you seem to be paying much attention, but the various maps are turning over quite diligently, is it possible that where are you going to get a new one?"

"This one. Mike thought for a moment, raised his hand and put a few anti-detection spells such as misleading techniques and shielding techniques, and then spoke, "The matter of the new territory is still in the conceptual stage, so let's leave it alone. The ruins and abandoned towers are isolated and lack resources, so they don't have any development value at the moment, right? ”

"That's right, but the family and Sanzang Town are pretty good. ”

"The family is in ruins, but the status is transcendent, the trade is smooth, and the talent is abundant, so it's really nothing for us, just give money, and casual interference may cause a backlash because of racial issues, right? ”

"Well, that's not wrong when you say that......"

"Then there is only Sanzang Town left. In your opinion, can we establish a solid ruling power for the ruling class with the goblin race?"

"Unlikely. If we're goblins, there's nothing wrong with that, but since you and Semena are humans and dragons, we'll have to do something else. ”

"I think so too. However, there are too few gnolls and weak dogheads to rely on, so for the foreseeable future, goblin breeds are our only option. ”

"Hmm...... Goku pondered for a moment and nodded, "That's true." ”

"In this case, the usual option is the colonial model. Forming armed forces with ethnic minorities while suppressing the fighting potential of the major ethnic groups and guaranteeing the legitimacy of rule with military superiority. The problem with this method is that we simply don't have enough strength and numbers of our kind to do this - in fact, only the dark elves are barely qualified among our people, but the problem is that they are already ruled by us in colonial mode, and if we use them to rule over the goblins in large numbers, the end result will most likely be that they will lead the goblins to provoke a rebellion. Therefore, colonial mode is not a good choice. ”

"Aren't you really a dark elf?" Goku remembered his earlier inference that Mike was a reincarnated dark elf.

"Huh, how could you think that?" Mike was stunned.

"Hmm, I saw that you liked the female Zhuoer a lot, so I asked casually. ”

"Cut, I think you like beef......"

"Alright, okay, let's get down to business. ”

"Hmph. Then there is only another way to try, which is the fusion model. Domination is based on two or more dominant races with a relative balance of power, with the appropriate addition of secondary races as lubrication, while giving all races nominal equality. "The two-party system and the multi-party system are understood by the people of the earth.

"If you want multi-racial balance, Sanzang Town does not have the conditions at present, even if the second and third strongest gnolls and kobolds combined, they are still quite far from the goblin race. And in the foreseeable future, we don't have the strength to bring in other races on a large scale, so you plan to open up the conditions to attract external forces, especially human forces, to settle in? Hmm, you said that the secondary races should be added appropriately as lubrication...... The oppression of the weaker races may indeed objectively be able to divert the contradictions between the stronger races. Could it be that this is what you brought in the kobolds to consume bear goblins in the first place?"

"The main purpose is certainly not this, but idleness is also idleness. "Anyway, the blood of the kobold can only be counted as dog blood at most, and it doesn't matter if you sprinkle it.

"Then, as the ruler of Sanzang Town, you should avoid intervening in the conflicts between various ethnic groups and forces as much as possible, so as to maintain a neutral image and avoid excessive intensification of contradictions?"

That's pretty much what it means. "Let your subordinates do it, even if you make a situation that is not easy to clean up, you can investigate and deal with the crime, temporary workers, everyone understands, but if you poke out any building by yourself, it will be difficult to do. What's more, as an omnipotent traverser and a high-end master, improving his strength and enjoying life is the first priority, how can he have so much spare time to do it himself.

"But in this case, the actual control will be relatively weak, right, are you really not worried about being overpowered by external forces?"

"Wukong, in your opinion, what is the development space of Sanzang Town, and how fast is my personal strength improving?"

"Well, exchange rights and interests for time, and gradually recover them when the strength is strong...... I seem to understand a little, but let me think about it first, I can't turn a corner......"

"If you have time, think about it slowly, it's rare to come here like this, how can you do it if you don't go around. ”

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