As he was talking, Chun Bai Ping suddenly had an idea, but he said to Mozo with a flawless tone, "I am doing this for your own good."
"Well, partner, we have been working together for such a long time, so let me tell you something. As the old wolf lord who has come back from the dead, since you are going to the Sacred Tree Forest, you'd better be careful. After all, your country is next to the elves."
"They might capture you and exchange you for the Golden Army with your queen! So why don't you say something more? Safety is a blessing! No matter how much money you have, what will happen if you don't have safety? Don't you agree?"
Mozo agreed deeply:
"Yes, you are right. Now, I will tell you about those languages!"
Indeed, given his dangerous identity, this is indeed not very safe!
As he said this, he picked up the pure white scale and placed it on his forehead, thus exchanging Chinese, French and English with the pure white scale.
After doing all this, Mozo and Chunbai Libra both ended the transaction with deep satisfaction.
In Mozo's bag, Pure White Balance was so happy that he thought he had finally tricked Mozo. He was so happy that he even forgot to ask Mozo to change his bag to a better one.
In Mozo's heart, he couldn't help but comment that judging from the current performance of Pure White Libra, it should soon be able to surpass Green Angel and become a new good comrade!
Next time I’ll see if I can find a high-end bag for it in the Sacred Tree Forest.
In short, both parties left the market very quickly after completing the transaction.
After putting away the pure white balance, Mozo looked at the sky outside the window and thought.
Before he left, the elves had reported unusual movements. And now he has been out for such a long time.
Has the other party already started to take action
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The eastern part of the Northern Commercial Alliance. This area is close to the elves who do not trade with humans.
Therefore, the lords and dukes in the east could only sell the precious minerals in their own countries to their colleagues in the east.
This naturally leads to crazy exploitation by the other party.
The eastern lords, unable to resist such exploitation due to geographical reasons, could only impose the cost of exploitation on their own subjects.
Or rather, it was imposed on his own slaves.
After all, it is much harder to make yourself suffer than to make others suffer. What's more, they are noble lords who hold real power and extraordinary talents.
Because of the deformed industrial chain and the unprecedented expansion of aristocratic power, an extremely deformed social spectacle was born in the eastern part of the Northern Commercial Alliance.
There are no lower and middle classes here who exist as freemen, lawyers, farmers and other professions. There are only wealthy aristocratic slave owners and the poor slaves who have been exploited by them and sold for hundreds or even thousands of generations.
Yes, many years ago, the lower classes who had lost everything due to resistance, exploitation, etc., could only continue to sell their descendants as slaves in order to continue to survive in the hands of the extraordinary nobles.
And after countless generations of accumulation, some of the slaves here are still slaves even after tens of thousands of generations!
Thousands, hundreds, or dozens of generations did not seem to make much difference to the noble slave owners. However, in the eastern aristocratic circles, they developed a very disgusting entertainment - "adding generations" for their slaves.
Of course, benevolent nobles would not force slaves to continue selling their offspring. They would only achieve this through "legal" means because it would be more interesting.
Therefore, nobles often used their slaves' contracts with them to renew for many generations as a means of comparison.
No noble cares whether the slaves can be free or live, they only care about how many generations this group of people can last for them.
Even if it's just a number that doesn't seem to mean much.
The best entertainment for people is always people.
This is horrible and unsolvable.
But today everything seems to be different.
The Principality of Kormi is the principality closest to the Sacred Tree Forest in the Northern Commercial Alliance.
Even their capital is right next to the Sacred Tree Forest. Although their country only has this one city, they are indeed a legally independent country.
On the city wall of the Principality of Kormi, bored soldiers leaned against the parapets and chatted idly.
All they talked about was which slave area they should go to for fun after changing shifts.
If the drinks hadn't been so expensive, they would have gotten drunk on the city wall.
As for the defense mission? Forget it, who would come to fight them
Is this the long-eared guy who has been hiding in the forest since the Sun King died?! Hahahaha!
164 The Elf Who Destroyed the Nation (3k)
The officers in charge of this section of the city wall were much better off than the soldiers below. They could even have a few bottles of muddy wine to drink.
There are basically no farmlands or crops in the eastern territories, and all materials are completely dependent on imports and exports, so wine has become a precious commodity.
The nobles did eat and drink as much as they pleased every day, but the people below them were only slightly better than slaves.
The officers drank muddy wine while sucking on stones dipped in soy sauce or vinegar.
There's no way. There's no food grown in this place. There are abandoned mines and dilapidated alchemical blast furnaces everywhere.
If you want to farm, there is no idle labor. The labor force is either soldiers who maintain the rule of the nobles or slaves who work for them in the mines.
Second, there is no suitable land, and the alchemy system without any planning has completely destroyed the local soil. This kind of land is simply not suitable for planting.
The nobles may have the ability to change the status quo, but instead of spending that money and effort, they might as well whip their slaves a few more times and let them dig more ore to sell for food.
Therefore, even junior officers could only use these stones dipped in seasoning as snacks.
In fact, they were already considered good, because even if the soldiers got some wine, they could only suck on rusty nails as a snack.
As for the slaves, haha, they would occasionally have meat to eat, but it was the meat of the other slaves who had died.
The noble slave owners would not waste their slaves, even if they were dead.
Due to the high-intensity exploitation and mining, quite a few slaves died every day.
As for what to do after all of them die, there is no need to worry at all, because this group of slaves can easily multiply like cockroaches. Even if all of them are gone, new slaves can be lured to the east or south by offering the reason of recruiting servants or soldiers with high salaries.
This trick has been tried and tested.
Because the local lords who knew the East well would turn a blind eye to such things for the sake of their own wallets. Some conscienceless people would even openly support them. Only a very small number of nobles would refuse their so-called recruitment.
After all, a considerable part of the wealth of other places is built on eating away at their eastern counterparts.
It’s just that their eating manners are a little more elegant. After all, they don’t directly eat the people under their command, but go through an extra procedure of eastern nobles.
As to whether there is any difference, it is hard to say.
After an officer finished sucking the stones in his hand, he looked at the chili sauce in front of his colleague with a bit of envy.
This guy is so rich that he actually eats chili sauce with wine.
However, in order to maintain his dignity, which he probably didn't have, the officer forcibly shifted his gaze and looked at the slave area in the distance and said:
"Our place is too peaceful. It would be great if we could be assigned to the slave area. I heard that the slaves there often cause trouble. If they do, hey, we can get a reward!"
As he spoke, he patted the sword at his waist.
This made the other officers nod their heads. They were all unrelated, so they could only stay on this empty city wall every day.
If you want to get rewards by making meritorious contributions, forget it.
Fortunately, the nobles never attacked the army, otherwise they would have to worry that they would suddenly become slaves one day.
But speaking of rewards, another officer sucked on a stone dipped in vinegar and said to his colleagues in a low voice:
"But I heard that the elves in the forest are very valuable! If we can catch one, hey, we will never have to worry about food and drink!"
This made the rest of the officers laugh.
"Come on, this is a big forest. Where can you catch a female elf?"
"The male ones are more valuable!"
"What the hell?"
This time they were really shocked. How come the male ones are more valuable
The officer who said this said with an expression that showed he understood everything:
"Because not only do the ladies like this tune, but even the gentlemen who are tired of playing with beautiful women like it too!"
Hearing this, the officers were all amazed.
Then there was a burst of heat:
"If this is true, why don't we pick a group of brothers to go in and give it a try?"
This proposal made them very excited, but someone immediately said with concern:
"Not really. I heard the elves are good at archery."
This made the other officers look down upon him:
"If you were really that powerful, would you be able to stay in that forest forever?"
As he spoke, an officer took out his treasured old-fashioned musket:
"Besides, who the hell still plays with bows and arrows now? This is the era of this!"
The officer patted his musket which had been obsolete for who knows how many years.
However, as they were talking, an officer suddenly said strangely:
"By the way, why is the sky cloudy?"
The others looked in the direction and saw, hey, it was true, it was sunny just now, how come it suddenly became cloudy outside
"Is it going to rain heavily?"
After an officer said this based on his experience, he saw one of the soldiers outside suddenly pointing at the sky and gesticulating with horror.
“Ah! Ah!!”
He seemed to want to say something, but as he was speaking he unexpectedly flipped over and jumped off the city wall.
This made the other soldiers and even the officers in the room stand up suddenly.
This is on a city wall that is dozens of meters high!
Why did this person suddenly commit suicide
But soon something even more terrifying happened to the officers, because more and more soldiers looked back at the sky and then jumped down from the city wall without caring about their lives.
The officers panicked and rushed out to see what was going on.
The officer holding the old-fashioned musket looked up at the sky in disbelief as he walked out of the door with his musket in his hand.
He wanted to see what had caused this situation!
The next moment, he and all the officers were stunned.
Above the Sacred Tree Forest, countless emerald green warships filled the entire sky, and the elves' huge fleet was coming like doomsday, covering the sky and the sun!
It was an unstoppable momentum and pressure.
Faced with this scene that was so horrifying that it could be called a miracle, except for a few soldiers who jumped out of the city wall due to excessive fear at the beginning, the rest of the soldiers, officers and even the extraordinary people who rushed over were all there.
They all stood there in a daze, staring at this extremely terrifying, extremely spectacular, and extremely magnificent scene in disbelief!
The elves left the Sacred Tree Forest
This thought had just occurred to them for a short while when an even more surprising scene came into view.
A golden light suddenly flashed in front of those huge emerald green warships.
It is extremely charming, dazzling and deadly!
Because that was a fleet salvo bombardment!
Huge golden lights shot out from the bows of the warships, and then bombarded the capital of the Principality of Kormi like a divine punishment.
No matter whether it was the tall city walls, the low houses, or the mansions carefully built by the noble lords, they all melted easily in the face of such attacks like spring snow encountering the scorching sun.
After just a dozen seconds, the huge city was completely reduced to a pile of ruins!
From the city walls to the houses, everything!
It is obvious that the Principality of Kormi has completely become history!
This is the first time that a member state of the Northern Commercial Alliance has been destroyed since its establishment.
It was also the first time that they encountered a threat from the Sacred Tree Forest.