Global duel: my copy is invincible

Page 197Just when everyone was wondering, some candidates had already started a confrontation!

With the roar of the artillery, Chen Ming realized that the sites of the candidates were actually not far from each other.

The scouts released outside gradually found out the situation around the city, and a topographic map appeared in front of Chen Ming.

Chen Ming’s situation is not very good, his city is located on a plain, there is no danger to defend this place, and among the mountains in the east, there is a city that is eye-catching!

Chen Ming can be sure that the opponent has already discovered his city, and the opponent will launch an attack at any time!

Although Chen Ming can choose to strike first, but the opponent is located in the mountains, easy to defend but difficult to attack!

In addition, there is a river flowing through Chen Ming’s city!

And upstream of that river, there is also a city!

If that city chooses to poison the river, it can easily destroy Chen Ming’s city!

Chen Ming’s situation seems to be very dangerous, but in fact, Chen Ming will not encounter any danger for the time being!

Today, he has reached a delicate balance with the other two cities!

Once the upstream city makes a move, the city in the mountain will never be indifferent, and the city in the mountain will definitely take the opportunity to take down the two cities!

The reverse is also the case. If the city in the mountain attacks Chen Ming, the city upstream will definitely be unable to hold back. He will definitely take advantage of the weak defense of the city in the mountain to attack...

Chapter 269 Do You Know What The Most Powerful Weapon Is?

Chen Ming’s situation is very dangerous.

But not terribly bad.

In order to prevent poisoning attacks on the upstream city.

Chen Ming issued an order to dig a large number of wells, and drinking water from the river was not allowed!

According to the location information provided by Chen Ming, Su Xian’er chose to lead the subjects to migrate and seek refuge with Chen Ming!

Su Xian’er ruled the nomadic peoples. Although the vast grasslands were rich in water and grass, they were not guarded by any city walls!

If this continues, Su Xian’er will definitely be wiped out by others, so she chooses to relocate with all members, not leaving a single thread for the enemy!

The time flow in this place is very fast, and only half an hour has passed in reality.

But in this competition, several years have passed!

It took Su Xianer three years!

Finally successfully arrived at the city where Chen Ming belongs!

All kinds of horses and sheep poured into Chen Ming’s city!

Chen Ming issued an order for all households in the city to come and collect their horses and sheep.

”Your territory is developing very well!” Su Xian’er was very curious when seeing the families happily collecting horses and sheep, ”How many people are there in total in your territory?”

Chen Ming glanced at the data, ”Currently there are 5 people!”

This statistic shocked Su Xian’er!

”I asked about other people’s data. Most of them only have 3 or [-] people. Didn’t you say that your population is very small?”

”That’s right!” Chen Ming explained with a smile, ”Out of the 5 people, more than 3 are all newborns born in the past few years!”

”Huh?” Su Xian’er was startled again, ”Why are there so many newborns? Raising newborns will lead to a reduction in the labor force. Once the labor force is insufficient, the food production will not be high, and this will affect every aspect of the entire territory. !”

Chen Ming smiled and nodded, Su Xian’er said very well!

This competition is set very realistically in such details!

Su Xian’er became curious again, ”By the way, how many troops do you have, and what weapons are your troops equipped with?”

Facing the question, Chen Ming pointed to the situation on the city wall, ”The army you see is all the military power in my territory!”

”No way?” Su Xian’er gasped, ”What the hell are you doing? How can you not expand the army?”

Chen Ming nodded, ”In the beginning, I couldn’t expand the army, after all, the population is too small!”

”If I forcibly expand the army and turn peasants into soldiers, the food harvest will fail.”

”Because soldiers don’t do production, if we increase our efforts to develop armaments!”

”Then, the situation in the entire territory will become worse and worse!”

”At that time, the huge army will suck the blood of the whole city!”

Chen Ming’s explanation made many netizens realize suddenly!

”Chen Ming’s path is absolutely correct!”

”Some candidates were worried about being attacked, so they developed their military power violently at the beginning!”

”Later, because of the lack of food supply, many people starved to death and created many refugees!”

”That’s right, in fact, the military must also be developed, and the economy must also be developed. It must be a two-pronged approach and advance at both ends!”

”However, Chen Ming doesn’t pay much attention to military affairs. He is not attacked now. It’s really lucky!”

”By the way, Chen Ming’s city was already very fat. He has a large population and food reserves. Now, with Su Xian’er’s joining, he has acquired a large number of horses and sheep. The people in the two nearby cities, I will definitely not be able to hold back!”

”Next, there will definitely be a war!”

As netizens predicted.

The mountain city to the east and the city upstream all want to swallow this fat piece of Chen Ming!

Now, it’s too late for Chen Ming to start conscription training and research and development of weapons!

”What should we do next?” Facing such a situation, Su Xian’er was a little anxious.

”It’s okay.” Chen Ming was very confident, ”The three kingdoms are the most stable situation!”

”That’s what you said!” Su Xian’er frowned, ”According to the scout’s investigation, the mountain city and the upstream city secretly sent envoys, and they have contacted each other. It is possible that they reached some kind of agreement!”

”Maybe, they will join forces to carve you up!”

”En!” Chen Ming nodded.

In such a situation, he naturally guessed it.

”After your subjects joined, I now have a total of 8 people, half of whom are children and half of them are adults.”

”Because of the horses and sheep, various industries in the city began to flourish.”

”Next, it’s time to develop the textile industry.”

”In addition, there is also a need to reward horses for matching breeds...”

”Hey, hey...” Su Xian’er’s head was full of black lines, ”I’m talking about military affairs with you, why do you always want to develop the economy?”

”No matter how well your economy develops, if you don’t have strong military strength, you will still die in the end!”

Chen Ming smiled and nodded, ”You have to know, whether it’s an ancient war or a modern war, fighting a war costs money. Without a certain economic foundation, it’s impossible to continue fighting!”

”What’s more, do you know what the most powerful weapon is? It’s not a firearm, but an economic weapon!”

”You know, although each candidate’s territory seems to be independent.”

”But in reality, people are able to communicate in private.”

Su Xian’er frowned, she really hadn’t noticed this, ”Then, how do you use economic weapons in this environment?”

Chen Ming smiled and told Su Xianer such a story, ”Qi State and Lu State are neighbors. In order to annex Lu State, Guan Zhong did such a thing.”

”At that time, there was a very valuable cloth called Lu Jin in the state of Lu. Guan Zhong ordered everyone in the state of Qi to buy clothes made by Lu Jin as much as possible!”

”Accompanied by such an order, the price of Lu Zong has risen rapidly. Since it is profitable to make Lu Zong, the people of the State of Lu will stop farming, and all the people will devote themselves to the production of Lu Zong.”

”One day, the state of Qi ordered to ban the Lu onyx produced by the state of Lu.”

”Suddenly, the people of the Lu Kingdom don’t have any food except a large amount of Lu Jin!”

”Facing Qi’s invasion, Lu has no power to resist!”

Chen Ming’s explanation made Su Xian’er suddenly realize.

It also made netizens understand that Chen Ming wanted to engage in economic warfare!

At the beginning, netizens were very worried about Chen Ming’s actions of not training troops and not developing weapons.

Now that they learned of Chen Ming’s actions, netizens no longer worried about Chen Ming, and they were all full of expectations for Chen Ming’s upcoming economic war!

Chen Ming was sure that the mountain city to the east and the city upstream of the river would definitely attack him!

In order not to be killed, Chen Ming formulated a series of policies targeting those two cities.

For example, Chen Ming raised the purchase price of seafood, but prohibited local residents from fishing!

Chen Ming did not allow local residents to slaughter cattle and poultry, and raised the purchase price of mountain products.

Not only that, he lowered the export price of grain and daily necessities...

Chapter 270 They are finished, they lost

See the policy issued by Chen Ming.

Netizens are looking forward to and worrying!

”By the way, will Chen Ming’s little tricks be discovered by the candidates in those two cities?”

”Maybe they won’t find out. They are all developing their armaments and have enough tax revenue to support their military development. They will never care about other things!”

”Hahaha, I think it doesn’t matter even if Chen Ming’s little tricks are discovered!”

”Look, the mountain city and the upstream city are developing their military power crazily. Military development is very expensive. The common people need to pay various taxes, and their burden is very heavy!”

”Now, Chen Ming provides the people of the two cities with an opportunity to earn extra money!”

”If the examinees in the mountain city and upstream city find out about Chen Ming’s tricks and stop them, the common people will definitely complain!”

”Didn’t you see that this competition is extremely real, and the people in each territory are flesh and blood!”

”Some candidates, because they are too harsh to oppress the people, have been turned up by the people and pushed down!”

”What, did such a thing happen?”

”I’ve been paying attention to Chen Ming’s live broadcast, I didn’t pay attention to other candidates!”

”There’s actually a setting for rebellion, it’s really 666!”

There are more than 1000 candidates participating in the No. [-] Scholar Competition.

At present, there are indeed several candidates who frantically squeezed the residents of the territory in order to develop their military strength, and thus were thrown out of power by the people!

Such a realistic setting made netizens call it fun!

In the championship competition.

Accompanied by various policies issued by Chen Ming.

He obviously found that there were a lot fewer fish and shrimp in the river.

Needless to say, this must be the crazy fishing behavior of the people in the upstream city.

In the market, there are also many wild beasts in the mountains, as well as goods such as mushrooms.

At the same time, a lot of grain in the granary of every household was also sold.

In the past few years, Chen Ming has implemented the policy of recuperation, encouraging farming, reducing and exempting taxes, and the granaries of every household have been full!

Now, with the grain sold, every household has money to buy river and mountain products, and every household can live a good life that can afford meat!

The two candidates who dominate the mountain city and the upstream city, in order to prevent other people’s attacks, and to be able to attack other people, they are all vigorously developing their military power!

Conscription has already led to a decrease in the farming population. In order to feed the many soldiers who are not engaged in production, the people need to pay high taxes!

In the past, they could only grow food in exchange for money, but now, the people are surprised to find that the fish and shrimps in the river and the wild animals in the mountains can be sold for a good price!

Not only that, but they can also buy food from other cities at extremely low prices!

The common people simply calculated an account, and by fishing and catching wild animals, they can easily exchange for a large amount of food!

They don’t need to work hard in the fields, they only need to catch fish and wild animals, and they can live a good life!

The two candidates who dominate the mountain city and the upstream city are focusing on the development of military technology, and they have not noticed the changes in the people!