Black Dragon Nia and the President's daughter must have seen this, so after landing on the floating continent, the Black Dragon has been trying to find technology in the library that can help Ishugard change its destiny.
Her failure was enough to reflect the current control of the United Nations over Isgard, and was also enough to contrast the current difficulties of the Kingdom of Eden.
After all, the Kingdom of Eden has no hard resources that will be controlled by the United Nations from the beginning to the end.
"If you insist on saying that their only demand for land resources is 'sea water'." Yang Hao shook his head with a wry smile, "But their current suspended position is enough to extract sea water - even at high altitudes they can extract rain clouds to produce magic power, so in a sense, as the producers of 'artificial magic power', they will not be strangled by us.
On the other hand, the Edain don't need to eat..."
"You mean the fact that their bodies have been replaced with 'machines'?" Theresa shook her head, pulled the quilt over her, and yawned softly.
"Without the need to eat, they would be short of several more 'necessities'... So we can't even trade food?"
"If you insist, there is a possibility of a deal." Fen muttered to himself and followed suit by covering himself with another quilt.
"The Kingdom of Eden is extremely lacking in normal minerals - everything on them is magical..."
"What kind of rich country?"
“So I think that’s a possible direction for this to go—but it’s not really a ‘necessity’.”
The Kingdom of Eden is now like a freelancer who often goes hungry due to changes in life.
You would think he would starve to death, but no. Although he would go hungry from time to time, it was only to the extent that he only had two meals a day instead of three. He would not starve to death.
In this case, there might be some benefits in doing business with him, but it is not at all a "must", right
The United Nations wanted Eden to accept their products... but now it seems that this is impossible.
Yang Hao thought about it and could only sigh and say: It seems that we still have to start with the synthetic doll. In this case, if we can't imitate the Isugard trade treaty, it is better to properly turn it into normal trade between countries than to never have any contact with each other again.
However, if we start with synthetic dolls, women will inevitably realize a problem.
As everyone knows, even if Yang Hao really has no intention of harassing others, the women who are his targets will always stick to him inexplicably.
Just like sweets left outside will always attract bugs... They definitely understand Yang Hao's feelings, but who can understand the bitterness and unhappiness in their hearts
Finn - That's what I originally thought.
But when I looked up, I found that Theresa, the cow, seemed to be taking it for granted.
This inevitably made the little elf feel surprised: Won’t you be jealous of this
And Theresa just nestled in Yang Hao's arms and shrugged her shoulders. She opened her mouth playfully and licked his skin with her tongue. She pointed at Fin helplessly and explained:
"I personally know the difference between 'personal feelings' and 'national interests'. If I really only care about myself, Finn, do you think you have a chance to share a man with me? It's impossible... right? My dear husband—"
"Uh..." Yang Hao wanted to say something but stopped. Before he could open his mouth, the angry elf covered his mouth.
Then Theresa shrugged and explained, "Of course there is a bottom line, so I don't want Yang Hao to be "forced" to do that kind of thing... But if Yang Hao himself feels it is necessary and has communicated, then I won't have too many opinions."
"That sounds nice. So what do you think, Yang Hao?"
Fen smacked her lips and had to put her hand down from in front of Yang Hao's mouth.
After thinking for a while, Yang Hao could only say that this was necessary. After all, this was technology...
If Yang Hao works harder and can sacrifice a little of his own reputation in exchange for the super technology that the United Nations will have to climb for hundreds of years in the future... then all this will be worth it.
"After all, for me, the biggest loss is my reputation."
He lay down, curled himself up between two quilts, then held the two of them in his arms and spoke.
"And to put it bluntly, Elena is also very interested in me and the current Ling people - so I plan to bring Nalujia with me when I go to discuss the garrison arrangements tomorrow. This may help her lower the price a little... Although I don't know if this will happen, who knows?"
This was the only clue left. Just like when a big company wants to apply for business for them, they have to go there in person and accept the cold words from the other party. Yang Hao can only start with Elena, and after helping the Kingdom of Eden deal with the threat of demons, he can see if he can pull it into the Federation of the United Nations...
well!
You can only rely on your own efforts.
The man closed his eyes in a daze. His sage time had passed, and fatigue filled his heart, making him drowsy, but also making him feel the peace and comfort that he had not experienced for a long time.
But it was at this time.
Finn suddenly said that Elena had mentioned a very concerning issue before.
"She said, you are not from this world? Why?"
The little elf sat on Yang Hao's waist, and on the other side, the white-haired nun, who was also aroused by this question, looked at her man with an aggressive look.
The man who had just closed his eyes swallowed hard.
…
Meanwhile, in the makeshift guest room of the Purple Palace in Constantinople.
Black Dragonia was also reporting to her friends far away in Isgard about the various strange things she had encountered during this period - especially the two events about the floating continent and the Kingdom of Eden, which became the top priority of this report.
The president's daughter, who was sitting opposite the mirror, listened carefully to Black Dragon's words. After a moment, she sighed in distress and could only assign another difficult task to her old friend:
"Nia, I know you must be very dissatisfied with me... But I still want to say - please do whatever it takes... You must find a way to obtain the Eden people's "artificial magic reactor" technology, or get permission from the United Nations, okay?"
Black Dragon rolled his eyes at this: "My dear Margarita, it's okay if you ask me for help once or twice, but this time I really can't hold on by myself - can't you find time to come over?"
To be honest, Black Dragon also feels very tired now.
To put it in a more popular way, she was in a state where she didn't know whether she was lacking love, or a mating ritual like a beast to vent her inner dissatisfaction, or maybe she just wanted to go home, or even find a time to rape Emperor Yang Hao to vent her dissatisfaction with her motherland being harmed by him.
All in all, she was really tired.
In front of him was his motherland's diplomatic undertaking, and behind him was the colonial army that had been causing him trouble, and the support fleet that he didn't know when it would arrive, and then there were all kinds of emergencies on the Elucia continent that didn't give him a chance to breathe...
Nia really felt tired.
Even those adult dragons who can do O for two years at a time - after two full years, they should pull out their stuff and have a good rest, right
How can we force people to extend their working hours like this
Thinking of this, she sighed heavily: she was just complaining, and she would still go to work later.
But surprisingly, Margarita, who was standing opposite the mirror, also sighed heavily:
"Do you think I don't want to come and help you?" The president's daughter smiled bitterly, "But something happened in Isugard that prevented me from doing anything... You know the time when I burned down the villages of those unruly people in the mountains?"
"Oh? That thing?"
After thinking for a while, Nia recalled that it seemed that the president's daughter had used extreme means to kill and burn to ashes all the people in an entire mine who had trafficked women and committed crimes such as rape, deception, and murder.
What's going on? Hasn't this happened a long time ago? Why would someone bring this up now
Nia was extremely confused, and the President's wife just said: It was just some small situations that forced her to stay away, and it was not a big deal overall.
"If I have to use a metaphor, the most that can happen is that some 'liberal' people will rebel - I will handle it, and the people are on my side. As long as they are not as stupid as Roman's barbarians, then this will not be a problem."
"Okay. Since you said that, I'll assume that it's okay for you - I'll do my best. So if anything happens to you, you must tell me clearly."
"Well. Then you go and rest first. I have to continue working here."
After the Black Dragon on the other side hung up the phone, the President's daughter, who had originally looked relaxed, was now sitting on her single sofa with a wry smile.
It's not as easy as she said - in a sense, it's a very tricky thing...
"Liberals"... Sigh, as long as a country's economy develops to a certain level, there will be countless unscrupulous businessmen who exploit legal loopholes to make the most of their profits? "
Miss President sighed, "They are using things that happened more than a decade ago or even decades ago to smear me... It would be fine if they just smeared me, but they are trying to stir up racial conflicts to profit from it
Did they sleep through their compulsory education? But come to think of it, maybe they are not cut out for compulsory education… "
The "liberals" are a gradually rising force in Isgard. If the current Republican Party is in a sense the royalist faction that supports Margarita to become the "eternal president" of Isgard, then the "liberals" are more like a group of businessmen and speculators who have no national pride, or in other words... the "bourgeoisie".
They have an extremely fanatical obsession with wealth, especially after confirming the trade contract with the United Nations. They have been buying up goods used by the public to trade with the United Nations at low prices, collecting the country's currency, and there are even many people who have decided to go to the Elucia continent to take a gamble at the risk of their lives and spend all their money.
At first, Miss President thought it was just the craze of ordinary businessmen.
After all, historically, businessmen can bring about their own destruction, and there is no need to waste too many resources and energy on them - at least that was true for the president's daughter at the time.
But now…
"I admit that I underestimated the ability of these "liberals"... I never thought that in order to make money, they would even destroy the stability of the country."
Miss President sighed tiredly.
In order to make money, the "liberals" have done too many things that the President's daughter cannot sit idly by or postpone.
If they made public what the President's daughter did back then, the President's daughter could still regard it as a joke.
Then the fact that these bastards deliberately provoked conflicts between races and tried to sell goods at high prices for their own profit through "racial war" has completely exceeded the bottom line of what Ishgard can tolerate.
The president's daughter decided that it would be better to cut the Gordian knot now, rather than wait until they grew into a "giant enterprise" that affected every aspect of Isgard.
"A short pain is better than a long pain."
She was ready - while Nia was working hard, the president was also ready for Ishugard to "suppress the rebellion."
She has completely blocked the way for the liberals in parliament. Now the only way left for this group of money-hungry businessmen is to "rebel."
But their rebellion will only cause some disturbances at best. As long as they are not so stupid as to hurt their own base like the Romans did when they rebel, thus causing damage to the entire Ishgard, then everything will make sense...
well.
Miss President sighed at last.
Only at times like this would she think that it was really too hard for one person to support a country.
Although Nia is her friend, there are always things that friends cannot share with each other.
"I really hope that when I go home in the future, someone will hug me and say "thank you for your hard work"... ah."
I have worked so hard, but I still can't find a suitable person to start a family and relieve my fatigue.
Somehow, the name of His Majesty the Regent suddenly flashed through the President's eyes.
She felt that His Majesty the Regent might be someone who could understand her.
What a pity—he’s married.
"well… "
What a pity...
…
April 8th, early morning time.
After getting up and washing up, Yang Hao and his wives went to have breakfast. While enjoying breakfast, Yang Hao doted on little Anna and told her to study hard. Then, Yang Hao, the poor man, brought enough guards as arranged last time, and also brought Nalujia with him to go directly to the floating continent to discuss future matters with Elena.
But before heading to the floating continent, Yang Hao confirmed with the commanders what the next strategic layout for fighting against the demons would be.
"We mainly rely on the Gappa 1405 heavy machine gun and the machine gun Golem as the core to build our defense position. We need a lot of barbed wire to determine the depth of the front line defense. More importantly, we need enough howitzer Golem to provide us with long-range fire support."
"Yes, my idea is similar to that of the elves - howitzer golems are more important than heavy machine guns and machine gun golems. Because only they can provide firepower projection support to several lines of defense while being fixed in one place... But their main goal is just to deal with ordinary demon larvae."
"So we will need a large number of hunters and elven mages to fight against the high-level individuals in the demon army... If possible, we also hope that Your Majesty can dispatch most of the ordinary golems to serve as meat shields and line-of-sight troops at the front of the position..."
The two commanders, Bayerjans and Caparia, chattered about their opinions and demands, and drew on the map for Yang Hao the defense line they planned to build.
After studying it for a while, Yang Hao determined that the defense depth of this road with eight lines of defense at a depth of less than two kilometers should be very suitable for a head-on confrontation with the demons. He then raised a good question:
"What if the demons choose to fight us first? I mean, what should we do if they choose to leave the floating continent?"
His question stunned the commanders.
Afterwards, the Bayerjans said that according to the habits of demons, they would not attack targets outside the area before ensuring the safety of the "matrix".
"Just like a family dog won't leave the yard without making sure its owner is safe - demons won't leave their lair without making sure their 'matrix' is safe.
Of course, this is not without surprises - so one of our plans is to have the Hippogriff Knights hover around the area surrounding the Demon Matrix for reconnaissance, and considering that the Demon Matrix is located close to the north of the floating continent, their backs are facing the ocean..."
"Even if the demons want to attack the land, they will probably have to completely occupy the center of the floating continent before considering it. But the surface of the floating continent, for example, the city of Constantinople is more than a hundred meters high...
Except for the powerful Titan Demon, most demons would die in the fall at the last moment if they fell from this height without any buffer... "
"In addition, even if the demons break through our plan, we have set up traps and ambushes in several places where the demons are most likely to land..."
"The elves' conscripts also came over. The large-caliber rifles in their hands can indeed..."
The commanders chattered non-stop. After Yang Hao judged that they were ready, he was satisfied and planned to hand over the arrangement of the next strategic deployment to these two talents.
After all, he can't do everything himself, right? Now that there are talented people under him, and these people know how to prepare for "unexpected" things - why not delegate power to them
So Yang Hao patted their shoulders, signaling them to immediately make plans according to his ideas. After watching their backs disappear in the elven wizard's teleportation, he said to Finn and Naruga beside him with satisfaction:
"It seems that I don't have to worry about the country collapsing after my death... Eh? Why are you looking at me like that?"
"Nothing, I just think it's a bit foolish of you to think you won't live long." Finn's mouth twitched, "Just have some confidence in your longevity, okay?"
"But I'm only human, you know? And I can't guarantee that I won't die in an accident... like my brother did. So I have to be prepared, right?"