Don't disturb my farming Chapter 64: Wolf King's Brainwashing Package
Are you a devil~~~~~!
This is what Sal roared in his heart.
Not being humble enough in front of royal family members and exposing other people's secrets in front of others was already a very "fearless" performance for Thrall. He never expected that... there is always someone stronger than the strong, and there is Xiao Yun who would tear off the royal family's face, throw it on the ground, stomp on it, and even spit on it after stomping on it!
...As expected of him, he is the great devil who can make the green dragon bow its head, no, the devil king!
Thrall's eyes glowed green.
Carlisle looked like he was struck by lightning... His eyes met Xiao Yun's gaze blankly, his lips moved, but no sound came out of his throat.
—What is the difference between your country and those plantation workers?
Of course there is a difference, how can those lowly commoners, workers and slaves be compared with the Kingdom of Saint Bridge?!
A voice deep inside Carlisle was roaring at the top of his lungs, urging him to speak out against this barbaric and rude prairie man immediately, but... in his head, another voice was also moaning faintly: He was right! Whether it was the Church or the Federation, in their eyes, how much better was St. Bridges than a plantation worker?
It seemed as if a sound of collapse came from somewhere. A huge crack appeared in Carlisle's worldview, the dignity, pride, and glory of being a royal family, and his spiritual world. This crack was still slowly spreading and growing, and some memories that Carlisle had buried deep in his heart rushed out one after another -
The arrogant looks of the great nobles in the federal cities...
Polite on the surface, but disdainful and mocking underneath the mask...
Only when he entered and left did the powerful royal family who received him appear...
Recruiting him to join the Sky Knights, but the purpose was actually to use the divine power to support him, the third prince, to become a priest...
Carlisle's hands on his knees trembled slightly. In fact, he knew. How could he not know? In the eyes of those powerful countries and high-ranking priests, the Kingdom of Saint Bridge was just a large "plantation". Those noble ladies would even make fun of the backwardness of the six southern countries in front of him ... The humble civilians and weak countries do not deserve sympathy, because weakness itself is the original sin!
Xiao Yun appears to be as calm as an old dog, but he is a little nervous inside... What the hell is wrong with this guy? He just puts some pressure on him, why does he act like his father has died? What the hell, aren't you a prince? Why do you have to be stubborn and show off your political qualities even in difficult situations? !
The corrupt officials who have been caught can still chat and laugh with reporters in prison. The old cadres are very calm. How can you have such a poor psychological quality? !
Carlisle looked panicked for dozens of seconds before he finally recovered...
It is difficult to understand the world you live in. If someone is mentally fragile, he might never recover. But he is still young and energetic. He has not reached the stage of "being crazy at the age of 30 means you have no talent". He still has the courage to challenge and change the world.
Xiao Yun said in his heart, "Oh!" This guy has finally recovered from the heavy blow. That's how it should be. Giving you pressure is to hope that you will grow. Young people should have some ambition and teeth~
"Mr. Ayun has a very thorough understanding of things." Carlisle pulled the corner of his mouth and smiled weakly, "So... Mr. Ayun, what do you think I should do to meet your requirements for a cooperative ally?"
Xiao Yun patted his thigh lightly. This response was so stupid!
When the wise man came to the door and asked, "You are in a precarious situation, but you still don't realize it?", the frightened landlord should have immediately bowed and said, "Sir, why are you teaching me?"
"Our common interests are based on opening up and maintaining trade routes, there is no doubt about that. For this purpose, we should be honest and clearly tell each other how much we can afford, and use it where it counts." Xiao Yun said in a deep voice, "Our tribe can contact other Snow Wolf tribes and provide combat power no less than that borrowed from the Beast King to maintain the circulation channels of your country's goods on the grassland."
Carlisle's heart trembled. The Snow Wolf Clan's fighting power became known throughout the continent after the Beast King borrowed troops from the grassland. This sincerity was genuine!
Carlisle couldn't play it safe anymore, so he nodded and said, "Our royal navy can allocate a fleet of no less than 20 ships for escort. Shipping issues are not a problem, but securing the port after reaching the shore is a problem. If the coastal patrols of the Lamia Merchant Corps gather together, I'm afraid... our trade will be disrupted."
There was no need for Xiao Yun to point out the fact that the other party had fabricated a fake business group boss. Seeking verbal advantage was a boring thing for boring people to do. After a little contemplation, Xiao Yun said: "We, the Snow Wolf Clan, cannot spare manpower to help you guard the dock. After all, we are also facing pressure from the grassland overlord Tiger Clan. Since our 'capital' is insufficient... then, I think we can consider increasing the number of allies to expand investment."
"This... I'm sorry, at least for now, it's difficult for me to convince other southern countries to participate." Carlisle said a little conflicted.
Xiao Yun saw through at a glance that this guy didn't want to pull in "shareholders" of similar size to himself to share the "equity" right away, especially since Saint Bridge was not the largest among the six southern countries... But there was no need to point this out, because this was also what he was happy to see - suppliers formed an alliance early on and advanced and retreated together, which was very unfriendly to the middlemen!
"In that case, I suggest that your country take advantage of its geographical advantages." Xiao Yun smiled slightly, "When it comes to the overlords of the grassland, everyone thinks of the tiger tribe, but when it comes to this continent in the north..."
"Elves?" Carlisle was startled, breathing a little hurriedly, "Hmm... forest elves? Mr. Ayun has any connection with forest elves?"
Xiao Yun sighed and said, "I would like to, but unfortunately, I know them but they don't know me. However... we have seen forest elves on the southwest coast. Perhaps your country can try to find traces of forest elves along the southwest coast." After a pause, Xiao Yun added, "The forest elves may be interested in your salt."
Carlisle was a little happy at first. Sea salt has low cost and short processing time, so as long as it is transported here, it will be profitable. But he always felt that something was not right. After thinking about it, he realized that Ayun meant to assign the cooperation order with the forest elves to them. In other words, the forest elves' dividends must come from them and have nothing to do with the Snow Wolf Tribe.
"..." Carlisle's eyes immediately felt something was wrong when he looked at Xiao Yun. You are too smart!
Xiao Yun's expression remained unchanged. Even though he was seen through, he remained calm: "Prince Carlisle, what do you think?"
"...We'll try our best." Carlisle looked constipated.
"It doesn't matter if you can't find the elves or fail to reach a cooperation agreement. If you can defend the trading base, then defend it. If you can't, then retreat to the sea and wait for our Snow Wolf warriors to arrive before going ashore to trade. It will just take a little more time."
"As for within the human kingdom, my suggestion is that you'd better make a clear decision to join the Holy See." Xiao Yun threw out a trump card.
Carlisle: “???”
"When I say surrender, I don't mean that you should accept the power of religion in your country. If you do that, your country will be doomed. But if you only pay protection fees to the Holy See on this route, there will be no problem." Xiao Yun counted on his fingers to calculate for Carlisle, "First of all, the power of the Holy See is only within your human kingdom. Its tentacles cannot reach the grassland, which means that you only need the protection of the Holy See before the goods leave the port. In exchange for 10% of your country's profits in trade, the Holy See's blessing on land is a windfall. You are familiar with the Holy See. Find the right person and don't cooperate with those greedy senior priests. There is room for maneuver. At least, if the Federation can't bear it anymore and wants to take action against your hometown, the Holy See will either watch the fun with its hands in its pockets for the sake of the 10% of extra money, or wait until the Federation has destroyed all your troops before running in to fish in troubled waters. This is definitely better than facing two powerful enemies from the beginning."
"..." Carlisle's face turned dark. That's true, but could you please be more tactful?
"Next, try to win over your allies on the southern continent. Needless to say, the six southern countries, once your business grows, you will definitely bring in the other five countries. They are natural geopolitical alliances. The Federation will have to prepare several times more troops to destroy your country if it wants to. It takes time to raise food and soldiers, not to mention the loose alliance of interests like the Federation. It will take years for them to wrestle with each other internally. You should be mentally prepared to face the war and compete with the Federation for time. It is feasible."
"Work hard to deal with the elves and build a good internal framework for your team this year. Work hard to deal with the five southern countries within three years. Next, you must turn your attention to the inland countries in the human kingdom that have not joined the alliance and have not fallen to the point of religious power. Your merchant ships can carry goods for these countries and sell them to the grasslands and even the neighboring orc empire. Even if you don't bring them in as allies, you must be intimate and friendly on the surface..."
The backward system of land power division meant that the infrastructure level was extremely poor and the transportation and troop deployment capabilities were as poor as those of the SHI. In addition, there were more than 30 countries on the continent and power was not concentrated. To launch a war to destroy a small country, the preparation period would have to be calculated in years.
The account Xiao Yun settled with Carlisle was to race against time to prepare for the attack by the Federation whose cake had been snatched away, to strengthen his own group, and to win over allies for a major war… On Earth, the Chinese had relied on hiding themselves and forming alliances with third world countries, and had managed to gain thirty years of peaceful development under the noses of the Americans (and had used the Korean War and the Vietnam War to prove how stubborn they were). No matter how bad the situation of St. Bridget was, it would not be as bad as China in the last century. If they could manage to hold on for another ten years and develop for another ten years, then St. Bridget would no longer be a "plantation" that the Federation or the Vatican could swallow up with a wave of their hands.
Carlisle didn't think anything of it at first, but the more he listened, the wider his eyes widened and rounder they became, his chin couldn't help but drop, his eyeballs began to become bloodshot, his hands were so excited that he didn't know where to put them, and his body began to tremble slightly... He had indeed received the top royal education in the human kingdom, but his vision and pattern could not escape the limitations of civilization. The account that Xiao Yun settled for him opened the door to a new world before his eyes - bread can be eaten with sandwiches!
Well... any Chinese who has received compulsory education can come up with a theoretically mature and operational "rebellion program". Those who have experienced the baptism of the information age, even college students, can explain to you the evolution of the world structure that sounds plausible - let alone various texts about the struggle for hegemony through time travel through the Three Kingdoms, there are countless books on the deduction of World War II, and everyone is good at talking about war on paper!
"...In the final analysis, the Federation was born to fight against the religious power of the Church. Before the Federation came into being, those great powers that we cannot even look at now were just the six southern countries that merged into one. Suppose the six southern countries were a unified country. If you want to launch a war to destroy a small country like Saint Bridge, how long will it take you to prepare food and grass, and how many nobles will you need to support you? Multiply this time by 2, and that is the most conservative estimate of the fastest time for the Federation's troops to set foot on your country's territory."
"Instead of playing around with your fleet and sailing out to sea, fearing for the slaps from others, it is better to prepare for a full-scale war from the beginning, race against time with the enemy, and develop a new force with itself as the core that is not weaker than the Federation and does not have to fear the Church." Xiao Yunyun smiled calmly and with great style, "You can settle accounts, and so can others. Everyone likes to eat soft persimmons. If you turn into a stone, who would be willing to touch you with eggs?"
Carlisle nodded repeatedly with a look of admiration on his face: "Mr. Ayun...you, I...I really don't know how to thank you--"
"It's too early to say thank you now." Xiao Yun raised his hand to stop him. "If you want to implement the development plan I suggested, there are two key points that you'd better solve within this year. You must continue to prepare and strengthen in the future . First, you need to be strong yourself. You need a team that values Saint Bridge as much as you do to follow you and unite closely under the banner of guarding, protecting, developing and strengthening Saint Bridge. This team needs to have its own purification ability and be able to eliminate those who can't do practical things and promote those who can do practical things at any time. This process cannot be hindered by blood relationship, closeness, status, or identity. Otherwise, your team will inevitably be destroyed before it grows up."
Carlisle pondered for a long moment and nodded carefully.
"Second, you must be prepared for war - even a short-lived peace cannot be obtained by cowardice or kneeling, it can only be won through fighting. If you cannot prove your courage and determination to develop with blood, then you don't even deserve at least ten years of peaceful development." Xiao Yun said word by word.
"I understand." Carlisle felt the blood in his body boiling and nodded solemnly.
Thrilling Sal: "..."
Provoking a war and making the provoked royal family shed tears of gratitude, this is simply... No, it's worthy of being a devil! The King of Demons!
Prince Carlisle Harvey Ferdinand stood in front of the door to the new world that Xiao Yun had opened for him and stepped in without hesitation... In the evening, the Snow Wolf Tribe treated them to a "big dinner". The top chef Dahe served out the ultimate braised pork. Everyone was eating excitedly, but Carlisle didn't notice anything - all he could think about was the Wolf King's teachings, and he was obsessed with the yearning for a better future.
Hmm… The main ingredients for making braised pork are pork belly and soy sauce. The pork belly is wild boar meat that has been castrated and raised for several months, and the soy sauce was brewed last autumn:
Soak fresh soybeans until they swell without wrinkles on the surface, rinse them several times with clean water, dry them, and steam them in a steamer for two hours. Turn off the heat and cool them down to a temperature that can be touched by hand (about 40 degrees); take yeast (you can buy soy sauce essence nowadays) and mix it evenly with flour, then mix the mixed flour with the soybeans, making sure that the soybeans are covered with flour.
Put the mixed soybeans into a clean container, cover it with a clean cloth, and place it in a mobile room with a relatively good temperature (30-35 degrees) to ferment. Check the beans every twelve hours. If the beans turn white, turn them over once. If the room temperature is not high enough, extend the turning time.
If the temperature is right, the surface of the soybeans will be covered with yellow-green mycelium in about two days. Put the beans in the sun for three days, put them in a jar, add five pounds of warm (50-60 degrees) salt water with a salt content of about 15%, then seal it, move the jar to the sun to ferment the beans, and stir it once a day with a wooden stick; after seven days, add ten pounds of warm salt water with a salt content of about 15%, stir it once every three days, seal the jar after half a month, and put it in the sun (move it indoors if it snows), and open the lid after four months, when spring comes, squeeze out the residue with a cloth, and you can get soy sauce.
Hmm… add salt water to filter the soy sauce residue, and you can filter out soy sauce three times. The filtered dark brown liquid is processed in the same way as the previously squeezed liquid. Boil it on fire to sterilize it, and skim off the foam on the surface, which is also soy sauce…
Xiao Yun waited for half a year to have a meal of braised pork in this fucking foreign world... He picked up the delicious piece of meat and chewed it, feeling the familiar taste. No matter whether it was the unanimous praise of the tribesmen or the flattery of a few humans, it sounded like floating clouds in Xiao Yun's ears. It was not easy for me to eat this meal of meat. The flattery of you guys means nothing!
After dinner, Xiao Yun arranged for the four humans to stay in an empty house, and for the lady Yumi (who asked Dahe to stay with her overnight but was ruthlessly rejected) to stay in a room by herself. Then he called a meeting of the tribal leaders and warriors.
Under the watchful eyes of the two clan leaders, the old goblin dwarf Baru, eighteen warriors (including Qingyan and Qiu), and Lan Guodashui and Qingcao, Xiao Yun explained the purpose of this group of human visitors, including the brainwashing package he would later sell to His Royal Highness Prince Carlisle one-on-one...
Those who didn't understand looked confused and shocked, while those who understood, such as Grass Roots, Red Leaves, etc., looked at Xiao Yun with horror...
"Ah Yun, you... this... is it..." The grass-roots chief was dry-mouthed and terrified. She really felt that the way she got up this morning was wrong. How could the world change completely after just one day of raising earthworms? !
"It's not easy for us grassland tribes to survive on the grassland. The humans living on the southern continent are actually similar to us." Xiao Yun said, "A country is a larger tribe. There are disputes, plunders, and conflicts between tribes, and the same is true for human countries. Saint Bridge is like a weak tribe that knows how to plant and can grow valuable economic crops. Their output will be plundered by powerful tribes, making it difficult for them to survive, so they hope to change their situation and become stronger."
"As for our tribe, although it is bigger and has more people than before, we have to admit that our tribe is still small... If one day a powerful tiger tribe finds out that we grow so much food and build such good houses, then we will suffer the same fate as the Kingdom of Saint Bridge. Our crops will be taken away by them, our warm houses will be occupied by them, our warriors will be killed by them, and our people will become their slaves."
"Hiss—" Uniform gasps came out from between the teeth of everyone present. The timid old goblin monk and the gray dwarf Baru wanted to hug each other and tremble.
"Weakness is the original sin. This principle is universal in the human kingdom and on the grassland. If we want to avoid being bullied and plundered, whether it is a human country or our tribe, we must become strong." Xiao Yun said calmly, "So, if humans in a similar situation want to cooperate with a weak tribe like ours, we naturally have no reason to refuse. We will not live in each other's territory, there is no place for conflict of interest, and our desire to pursue self-reliance and development is the same."
There is nothing wrong with what he said. Even if it is a substitution of concepts, there is nothing wrong with it. Anyway, the grassroots clan leaders did not think there was anything wrong and nodded repeatedly.
"If Saint Bridge wants to be strong, they must win over many allies, so they need shipping and trade, and use interests to bind partners in the same camp and advance and retreat together. As for us, our tribe is similar to them. We need to unite the scattered snow wolf tribes, gather all the weak tribes that are not tolerated by the original tribe, exiled, or too weak to survive on the grassland alone, twist them into a rope, jointly develop the land under our feet, grow more food to feed everyone, and unite into a force stronger than the tiger tribe - only in this way can we get rid of the original sin of weakness, not only be able to grow food, but also protect the food and homes that belong to us."
The snow wolves' blood boiled, the two cats' hearts were pounding, tears appeared in the goblin's big eyes, and the gray dwarf Baru straightened his chest.
"When all the snow wolves, goblins, and gray dwarves unite together, and when all the cat tribes who are willing to grow food to feed their people stand with us, we will have more people than the overbearing tiger tribe and some warlike cat tribes. Then what do we have to fear on the grassland?" Xiao Yun showed a yearning expression, with an unstoppable smile on his face. "There will definitely be more people who love peace and are willing to use their own labor to create a better life than those who are predatory. After all, plundering also has costs, people will die, and the returns are not stable. But farming is different. If you work hard, you will get something in return, and not so many people will die."
Infected by him, everyone smiled from the bottom of their hearts, and no matter those who understood or only had a vague understanding, they all nodded.
"Yes, we have so many people that we don't have to worry about anything." Hongye said excitedly, "In the past, we couldn't live in a tribe, but now we can. Farming produces much more food than relying solely on grazing and hunting. We can eat our fill all year round and don't have to worry about going hungry at all."
"Yes!" Countless people immediately agreed with Hongye. Compared with being able to eat enough, the hard work of farming is nothing.
After Qingyan's excitement, he felt something was wrong. He exchanged glances with Qiu and found that Qiu was also frowning. So when everyone's excitement died down, the two cats asked, "We have planted crops and eaten wheat cakes and vegetables. Of course, we know that farming can feed more people, but how can we convince those who have never eaten wheat cakes?"
"That's a good question. This is why we want to cooperate with this group of humans from Saint Bridge." Xiao Yun gave Qingyan and Qiu a thumbs up. "Their manpower is only enough to transport goods to the coastline, and they don't have the strength to go deep into the grassland. We can use our cattle and sheep to buy their goods at a lower price, and then transport them to various tribes to sell... Of course, we can't spare so many people by ourselves, but we can go to various tribes to invite their warriors to transport goods with us, just like we asked Maomao and others to help last year. These warriors from different tribes will bring back the food we grow, then, won't the scattered tribes know that we have enough food and know the benefits of farming?"
The grass-roots tribes sent Yu and others to feed them for half a year before they believed that the Fire Tribe did have a lot of food. It was very difficult to convince the grassland people with just words. If you just go to a distant tribe and ask to borrow people to work, they may not be willing to let their tribe go so far away... The grassland tribes all know the model of caravan transportation. It is obviously much easier to use this roundabout method than to borrow people shamelessly.
The most important thing is... through this method, the "supernatural powers" of the tribe can be spread imperceptibly. When other tribes are willing to come and merge, Xiao Yun can directly take the initiative, and there will be no embarrassing situation where the more people there are, the more people have the say. A group of warriors will get used to running around, and their "upper-level presence" in the tribe will be reduced, and slowly a tribal power distribution model will be formed in which capable and wise people keep their words... Well, there is no need to explain this specifically.
