Hatred is indeed a very strong driving force, and the seemingly bullying snake king burst out with amazing activity, and found Dong Hezi the next day: "There are already loyal ministers who secretly support me to go back and restore the country! I can go back in a few days when I am ready." Prepare early. ”

Dong Hezi crooked his mouth and reminded with a smile: "Be careful that people tricked you back, and then chopped off your head with a knife." The other party was confident: "How could I be so stupid? Let the troops loyal to me connect with them first, and then I will go back and use their financial resources to turn the situation around!"

"Wealth?" Dong Hezi, who was drawing, frowned and said, "Those 'loyal ministers' are not your nobles and officials?, are they landlords and old wealth?" And now, those old traitors are issuing decrees to repudiate all my good business revitalization plans, and they are going down the old ways with no future. Hmph! What a stupid and bastard dog king!"

Dong Hezi said: "You should first send reliable henchmen to check the background of those rich businessmen." The five major national groups, armed groups, land resources groups, industrial groups, domestic trade and financial groups, and international trade and financial groups, are more difficult to control than the other. The international trade and financial groups, in particular, are far less loyal than the land resource groups, industrial groups and domestic trade groups. How can they be faithful to you?"

The snake king was a little stunned, because those rich people were engaged in foreign trade, and in fact, his policies were all about expanding foreign trade. He didn't want to believe the fact that "who said that those land resource groups were loyal? This time it was they, the nobles who occupied the land, who rebelled against me!"

Dong Hezi put down the drawings in his hand and said, "I'm talking about 'group'. Not the 'nobility of the control group'. To put it bluntly – you can rely not on the aristocracy, but on the actual labor groups such as agricultural, mining producers, etc. Because their interests depend on a certain territory, and the 'state' is also an organization within a certain territory. The interests of the two basically overlap. The second is the production group of craftsmen, because they are also dependent on a certain territory and they must take into account the interests of this territory. Then there are the domestic trade groups, these merchants, although treacherous and greedy, are still dependent on the territory of the country. Even if they evade taxes, but the monk can't run the temple if he can out, as long as he cleans up ruthlessly, he can always squeeze out something. ”

"But the international trade community is different. Their interests are either at home or abroad. If it can't be done at home, it will run abroad and abandon the monarch and the people. They can easily cut ties with the 'territory' of your country. And foreign financial groups, not to mention, whose interests are 'between countries'. between the various 'geographies'. A territorial country can be abandoned at any time. You can even deliberately harm one region and profit from another, so the reliability is the worst!"

"As for the nobles, officials, and wealthy merchants who control the various groups. They can sell their domestic property at any time, exchange it for money and go abroad, or simply surrender to those savage neodymium arrays and donkeys called invaders, whose interests are more loose with the interests of the 'region' of the country, and are essentially the most unreliable group of people. So I want you to find out which groups are supporting you, whether the 'groups' are supporting you, or whether the 'nobles, officials, and wealthy businessmen' of the control groups are supporting you. Before these things are clarified, I advise you not to rush back. ”

The Snake King pondered for a while with a painful expression, and replied smugly: "The people in charge of the land resource groups are all against me, and those farmers and shepherds are scattered. Handicraftsmen~~~~ There are not many craftsmen in the country at all, and there are not many domestic traders. According to you, I don't have a firm supporter at all~~~~ This~~~ How can this work!!"

Dong Hezi lowered his head and continued to draw his own picture: "So, your dream of recovering the country is basically a castle on the sand." Because the country is the 'region', and the powerful forces that you can use in front of you are not closely related to this 'region', it is better to have you, and without you, people can also go elsewhere to do business and make a fortune. Why should I fight to the death with you? In those days, Byzantium relied on land resource groups and handicraft groups to establish a state, but it mistakenly gave great power to the big landowners and the Venetian international trading group, and even regarded them as allies. As a result, he was in turn pitted to death by these Venetian and Genoese merchants. You're careful, that's what happened. ”

Although he couldn't understand many words, the general meaning of the snake king still knew, and he muttered slightly: "In your opinion, what should we do?" Dong Hezi replied: "Hold your arm! Your real enemy is not those traitors, but the Arcane Federation." The idea of the Arcane Federation is to disrupt your country, destroy the portal area, and block the hub where the southern golden magic will invade. The turmoil in your country is bound to be long-lasting. ”

"But it is also important to see that the emergence of portals is a general trend in the world, and there will also be portals large and small in other places, which will cause the Arcane Federation to fight against other arcane associations and plutocratic groups, and throughout the world. When they fight fiercely elsewhere, the forces that have been thrown into you will inevitably weaken, and the snake people of your kingdom have been suffering in turmoil for a long time, and you can take advantage of the situation by holding the thighs of some international power, cook raw rice, and then reach some kind of compromise with the Austrian Federation, and maybe there is a possibility of recovering the country. ”

"When will it be? I'll immediately form an alliance with the Arcane Federation, and then restore the country, so that the Golden Demon Pattern will not come!" The Snake King hissed with some excitement: "I will be their bridgehead and their shield! I have already thought of this plan!" Dong Hezi smiled slightly: "This is also a way, but ~~~ with the super unstable dìng urine sex of those international trade and financial predators~~~"

What happened to Senior Colonel Gaddafi, who surrendered to the French Mi Oil Thai Financial Group. Hey~~~

So Dong Hezi lowered his head and painted: "Whatever you want, just pay me protection money." And don't forget - leaving you to fight each other with your traitors is also a good option for the Arcane Federation. ”

"You~~~You~~~" The Snake King was unwilling: "This is too vicious!" Dong Hezi raised his hand to persuade him: "Okay, okay, you are also a politician." Playing chess can't play others, what is vicious and not vicious. How can such a small people's insight and handling of things become a great thing?"

The Snake King squirmed and slid around the cave-like room: "How is it good, how is it good?" Dong Hezi beckoned him to sit down: "If you can't be a king, you can be a rich man." Your country is in chaos, and some of the business is easy to scold. You can also help us contact a few, we will buy and sell arms, help you sell slaves, and then resell some loot or something. ”

"Can you think of something serious!!" The depressed snake king was really angry: "You have also become my bodyguard, you must help me think of some useful ways." Talking useless cool things all day long, and writing and painting here again. What~~~What~~~ What is this?"

He saw that Dong Hezi was drawing a blueprint of a chest-high crossbow. Not only has the position of the bow arm and the string been adjusted to prevent the string from rubbing against the crossbow body to attenuate the force, but there is also something to wind the wheel tension underneath, but it is not as complicated as a normal wheel tensioner. It seems quite simple: "This is the crossbow you designed?"

Dong Hezi replied, "Yes." Combine a rocking stop with a spring. You only need to step on the lever once to wind a few inches, and you can double the step to fill the string. Even a woman can pull hundreds of pounds of strings and shoot powerful crossbow arrows to kill enemies more than 600 feet away~~~~"

"Can you make it useful??" said the Snake King, angry and amused, "You can only pull the bowstring a few inches at a time." It takes a minute or two to fill the bowstring and aim again. By the time you toss for a minute or two, someone will already be running over on a fast horse or a burst of fire and thunder. You're a ghost. ”

He was right, in this magical world, the range of a most ordinary Tier 3 Burst Fire Thunder is 400 feet, about 130 meters, far beyond ordinary bows and arrows! And it is also a range explosion, much stronger than a bow and arrow with poor accuracy! The highest level of Burst Fire Thunder + extended range, the range can reach 800 meters, and the terminal power is still the same. This range is far greater than that of most bed crossbows and ballistas!

Even 'magic marksman, tracking arrows', etc., are driven by arcane forces. For example, if you put a heavy long strip of cast iron on a ballista and fire it with a 'homing arrow', you can track the target like a missile, and shoot it very accurately. It can also destroy sturdy targets such as the Earth Golem. But this is still arcane in nature! Fighting mages with this kind of thing is essentially mages fighting mages, and arcane fighting arcane.

Therefore, bows and crossbows and the like, in this world, are completely defeated by magic! This kind of mechanical crossbow that fires once a minute or two, even if it is labor-saving and powerful, is not as good as a range-extended burst fire thunder, what is the use?

"And what about this?" Dong Hezi took out another sketch, which was to install a large three-bow bed crossbow on top of the head of a stout Beamon tree guard! Turned Beamon Tree Guard into a ballista.

"You are simply ~~~hahaha~~~~" The Snake King couldn't help but laugh continuously: "What can you do with a ballista on your head? Hahahaha~~~ Even if you add 'Immunity to Flame' to the Treant, they still have strong acid, freezing and various ranged attacks. You, although the design is ingenious, but it is full of strange and clever skills!"

"Goddess Mekelly seems to have been upgraded. Dong Hezi said slowly: "Because recently, she was able to give the priests several new magic skills-the second-order magic 'Wing Flying', which can make bows and arrows float in the air and counteract the effects of gravity and air, and the other one, the 'Bird of Prey' with a little tracking function added on top of this. Although you can't make a 90-degree bend like an arcane tracking arrow, you can still deflect more than 30 degrees. ”

The corners of the snake king's mouth suddenly froze with laughter: "The servants of the goddess of the forest want to meddle in the affairs of our country?" It's a deal!'Raptor' is a third-order that allows a crossbow to be fired in a few minutes to have a certain tracking ability. And this large three-bow bed crossbow I designed is equipped with pulleys and other small things, and the range can reach 900 meters, that is, 2,800 feet, which is farther than the highest level of extended-range burst fire thunder!

The Serpent King pondered: In this way, the "Bow Crossbow + Bird of Prey Flying Shot" will overwhelm the long-range plastic energy spell in terms of range and accuracy. Carrying this thing on the head of Beamon Tree Guard, which mage dares to approach?!! this is a great threat to mages, arcane warriors and other professions! Arcane tracking arrows are of the 4th or 5th order, which is less expensive than the 3rd level 'Raptor Flying Shot'. If I can get something like this, it will be very beneficial to me.

"And this improvised crossbow. "Dong Hezi took out another sketch, but the 'crossbow' on it did not look like a crossbow at all, but like a 'long cross' plus levers, pulleys, steel wires and springs on both sides to form a lever pulley combination structure. But I don't know how powerful it is.

Dong Hezi said: "The power is not great, but after adding the second-order 'Wing Flying', it is not afraid of gravity and air obstruction, and it shoots straight and far, with an effective range of more than 600 feet." When the snake king shook his head: "It's a bit chicken, it's not accurate to aim at a distance, it's not powerful enough when it's close, and it's hard to penetrate the armor." A Tier 1 Mage or Arcane Elite puts on Mage Armor and Force Field Shield, completely ignoring it. ”

Again, there are too many things in this magical world to defend against ordinary arrows, so melee combat and ranged magic are the most common. However, Dong Hezi has his own way, because magic can also enhance people's strength: "The arrow shooter uses the 'power of the ox' and a kind of 'brute arm and bear waist' spell, and if it is really not possible, add a 'giant technique', which can increase the strength by 7 or 8 times in total, and can open a strong bow and heavy crossbow, shoot heavy arrows, and break heavy armor! Civilians don't need great hand-to-hand martial arts, just a lot of strength, discipline, and tactical training to threaten the samurai, wizards, and hired arcane soldiers. ”

Hearing this, the Snake King's eyes flickered: in the past, even if a strong civilian was added with an enhancement spell, he could not defeat the long-trained arcane soldiers, samurai, and battle wizards. But things may change now. He asked in a low voice, "What the hell do you want to do?"

Dong Hezi leaned over and whispered, "You send someone to determine whether those 'supporters' have malicious intentions, and then pretend to cooperate with them, waiting for the opportunity to get their money out." Then together we buy arms for all parties. We ship, you make connections, and form a 'Green Water Mercenary Company' or something. Get rich first in these troubled times. Wait for the situation to change, and then use the money to restore the country for you. ”

"It's called Fuguo, but it's really a cheating money??! the eyes of the snake king are not good-looking: "How can I do such a thing? If this is going to get out, how can I gain a foothold? How can I win the trust of others?" But seeing Dong Hezi sneered: "When you were the king, you were no longer able to gain a foothold, you could no longer win the trust of others, and the people in the palace betrayed you." What are you talking about winning the trust of people now? Doing extraordinary things in extraordinary times! Besides, are those international trade and financial groups that support you good people? Don't be funny. ”

The Serpent King pondered for a night, and the next day agreed to this seemingly shameless plan. He also worked with Dong Hezi to contact the people of the Mother God Church in the Mae Kaili Forest. Unexpectedly, the other party had already applied spells such as 'Raptor Flying Shot' to the Treant Guard: "Let the Treant Guardian hold a modified ballista and shoot cast iron javelins." Kills heavily protected arcane soldiers and battlemages. Although it can't break through the high-level mage's 'Elastic Orb, Force Wall Technique', it is much better than before. In the past, our Treant Guardians could only resist when they saw mid- to low-level ranged spellcasters. Now I can clean them up. If you pay for it, we can gather a dozen priests to join the battle with their Beamon Tree Guards, who can shoot spears and shooters from afar, and can break through walls and embankments with axes at close range. Charging into battle with a shield and attacking the city, it's no problem!"

Brute force can't compare to long-range plastic energy, but now brute force is starting to turn over. (To be continued......)