Chapter 9: The Behemoth of War

Chu Tian saw that each of them had packages on their backs, and this was the harvest of their trip. It's nothing else, it's a corpse, and everyone's strength before life is at the level of a general.

Chu Tian didn't have to think about it to know what these corpses were for, the war beasts did not cultivate the original qi and demonic qi but fed on flesh and blood, especially the human race and the demon clan who cultivated the original qi and demonic qi, because their flesh and blood contained rich energy, which could help the demonic beasts grow quickly.

These corpses are naturally going to be sent to the war beast camp, and the war beasts inside can have a good meal.

Chu Tian noticed that there were five special cloth bags behind Qu Mo's back, and Chu Ba, who came to greet him, opened it and saw that it was full of gold coins, and the number was tens of thousands, and the specific number had to wait for further verification.

Chu Ba happily chatted with Qu Mo below, and the soldiers were also overjoyed, with these gold coins, the operation of the funds in the valley would be much better, otherwise they would all be spent.

From the time of the reign of the Empire, there were three types of currency: gold, silver, and copper. In the market, one gold coin is equivalent to ten silver coins, and one silver coin is equivalent to ten copper coins.

The daily cost of a first-level soldier is 1,000 copper coins per month, and the value of a first-level weapon used by a first-level soldier is also 1,000 copper coins, but if you want to build a fully armed first-level soldier, it will cost 4,000 copper coins. Of course, for an ordinary person like Chu Tian who had not yet cultivated the original qi, he only needed more than two hundred copper coins per month.

It is enough to see how important these tens of thousands of gold coins are to the current Chu army.

Gold coins not only play an important role as a circulating currency, but they can also exert extraordinary lethality when fighting against demons.

Gold coins contain a large number of metallic elements, and these gold elements are deadly poisons for people in the demon race, once they enter the body, they will be severely burned by them, causing continuous damage, thus losing their combat effectiveness.

Similarly, silver and copper have a certain effect, silver has a strong corrosive effect on the demons, and copper is extremely polluting to the demon qi, once it is polluted by copper, it is difficult for the demon qi to be directly inhaled by the demons, they need to be purified before they can use it with peace of mind, otherwise if there is too much copper in the body, it will seriously delay the action of the demons in the future, and even bring death.

In order to deal with the Terrans, the demons also discovered an element that is extremely lethal to the Terrans - lead. Lead is generally harmful to the human body, but it has super lethality and pollution power for the original gas, and the demons are not affected by it.

Once the lead enters the body, the first thing to do is to give up the use of the original gas, otherwise it will be quickly swallowed up by the lead and pollute the remaining clean original gas, and when the original gas is contaminated and swallowed clean, a layer of lead film will be formed in the place where the original gas gathers, and they will isolate the induction of the original gas inside and outside the body, if the lead film is not removed immediately, it will not be long before the force cultivation will be abolished.

Ironically, this research, which was considered a major discovery by the demons, was carried forward during the Terran civil war and became a permanent weapon element. Of course, this is not used to deal with the demons, but to prevent the human race.

Now there are a lot of lead ore reserves in all countries, which are used to prevent the invasion of enemy countries, which has produced an unexpected effect, that is, the lead ore of the human race is more, and the reserves of the demon race are naturally less, but the gold, silver and copper are not restricted by the demon race in the same way, because there are too many elements underground, and no one can have it alone, so after the initial failed attempt, the demon also gave up this plan.

Although the lead mine is widely distributed, its output is very small, and the annual output is not enough for the needs of the ** team, and the demons are also stretched.

Since the collapse of the empire, the original gold coins have been recycled and re-forged by various countries, but the number of gold deposits in each country is different, most of them are used as gold reserves, and the countries that can issue gold coins are currently only Qin and Qi, but the number of gold coins issued by Qi is much lower than that of Qin, so most of the gold coins currently circulating in the market are made by Qin, and Qin has taken the initiative to grasp the source of currency in various countries.

Although there are certain restrictions on silver and copper coins, each country has the ability to forge independently, so there has not been much change in the domestic silver and copper coins in each country.

And on top of metal money, there is this more scarce hard currency, the rough stone. This is a kind of supreme spiritual ore that only exists in places where the original qi of heaven and earth is abundant, as a circulating goods, one primordial stone is equal to one hundred gold coins, and as a cultivation product, it is more widely used.

The Rough Stone contains a large amount of Pure Origin Qi, which is a backup energy source that can save lives on the battlefield. A Primordial Stone can allow soldiers below the general level to quickly recover all their original energy reserves, low-level generals can recover seventy percent, high-level generals can recover fifty percent, and higher war kings can only recover one percent.

Moreover, in the defense of the fortress, the firepower of one Force cannon is equivalent to ten fortress guns of the same level, and the power after a series of fires is even more terrifying.

Land chariots are a historic change in the development of Terran war weapons, they have a thick outer armor, defensive power comparable to that of a major general, and on the roof of the chariot has a streamlined Force cannon, surrounded by four heavy machine crossbows, after full firepower, the combat effectiveness is no less than the attack power of the lieutenant general, is a war monster across the battlefield.

Since there is a land chariot, the human race has changed the turtle style of sticking to the city in the past and has taken the initiative to attack the demons, and has regained a large number of lost territories one after another, the foundation of the Taiping Empire is built on a huge chariot group, the empire in its heyday has nearly 5,000 chariots, even the demon army must avoid its edge when they meet.

And the only source of power for this war beast is the Rough Stone, without which he will not be able to move an inch.

Since the collapse of the empire, the Taiping chariot that once had great glory has long since disappeared, and now it is replaced by the butcher chariot of the Qin State, although it is not as good as the five thousand at the peak of the empire, but it also has a terrible combat power of two thousand.

In the decisive battle between Qin and Chu that year, General Qu Yu's defection was on the one hand, and on the other hand, the Tianchu chariot of Chu was defeated by the lightning attack of the butcher chariot of the Qin army, and finally the defense line was torn apart and the army was defeated.

It can be seen that the original stone is extremely important to a country and a nation, and if there is not enough rough stone, it will be controlled by others everywhere, and the final result will only be annexed and destroyed.

Of course, there is also a similar hard currency among the demons - magic stones, which is a kind of rough stone that has been demonized by demonic energy, which is the carrier used by the demons to store demonic energy, and it is also the equivalent of its internal circulation, but there are no land chariots among the demons, and what they have is an endless army of demons.

As the crystallization of the wisdom of the human race, the land chariot has always been the top secret of the state, although there has been a case of the demon stealing the blueprints, but the demon getting the drawings is useless, because the real core is his Force array, without the Force array, even if the demon creates a chariot exactly the same, it is just an iron sheet that cannot move.

The inheritance of the chariot force array is a very mysterious process, he is only in the hands of the monarch and successor of the country, it is a way of inheritance, even if the country is destroyed, it cannot be stolen, this is the oath announced when the empire divided the princes, and it has not changed so far.

In the beginning, all the princes mastered were primitive arrays, but after thousands of years of development, each country has developed its own unique Force array, so there are several different models of vehicles.

In the nearly 10,000-year history of the Terran chariot, there have been hundreds of different models of chariots, and for this reason, the historical researchers of the world's chariots have listed a list of ancient and modern chariots, and each of the famous chariots on the list was once famous.

There are a total of ninety-nine rankings on the list, and these ninety-nine rankings represent ninety-nine different Force arrays. Now that the development of the Force Array has reached a peak, this list of chariots has not changed for thousands of years since the promulgation of the Taiping Empire's calendar in 999, and the only thing that has changed is the increasingly advanced chariot manufacturing drawings and manufacturing techniques, but these are just icing on the cake.