In today's grassland, just push dry firewood, and it will burn at a little bit.
Before the prairie fire ignited, the bazaar outside Youyi County quietly prospered.
In recent days, there have always been unidentified herdsmen, bringing a large number of sheep, furs, and even green clam horses to the market, hoping to use these materials to exchange food and ironware with Youyi County.
Food is okay, but ironware is a controlled item. Zhou Haichen, the county magistrate of Youyi County, did not dare to make his own claims, and immediately sent a letter to the base camp, asking the lord for instructions on how to deal with it.
Ouyang Shuo's strategic goal is to completely drag the nomadic tribe into the vortex of war. In this way, they not only reduce their threat to Youyi County, but also profit from it.
Needless to say, these mysterious buyers must have been sent by various tribes, and most of them were medium-sized tribes. They want to exchange food and ironware, thinking with their toes, and they know what they want to do.
Therefore, Ouyang Shuo noted in the official letter that ironware cannot be traded directly, but the restrictions on iron ore were relaxed and iron ore was allowed to circulate freely in the market.
Ouyang Shuo was not worried that after the iron ore flowed into the nomadic tribes, tigers would be infested. The growth of nomadic tribes is far behind the development speed of Shanhai County. When the grassland calms down again, Shanhai County may already have the strength to crush them, and iron ore is nothing.
Last month, when the nine-dash line led the team to draw a map of the territory, another iron mine was discovered 20 kilometers away from the western suburbs of the territory. The Material Reserve Department has arranged for miners to excavate in new mines.
The new iron mine is only ten kilometers away from the Friendship River.
The transportation of iron ore will be carried out by water and land. First use wooden oxen and horses to transport them to the river bank, and then transport them to the wharf of Shanhai County by special boats.
Therefore, there is no shortage of iron ore in Shanhai County today.
Ouyang Shuo also instructed in the official letter that for the transactions of nomadic tribes, grain is sold at twice the market price, which is 20 copper coins per unit; iron ore is sold at three times the market price, which is 300 copper coins per unit.
Ouyang Shuo didn't take advantage of others' danger by doing this.
First of all, there are already signs of fluctuations in food prices, and it is expected that by the end of August, they will start to rise. At this time, according to the price of 10 copper coins per unit, it would be a big loss.
As for iron ore, which itself is a controlled item, it is natural to increase the price. It can't be said that Shanhai County will be a live Lei Feng, and act as a free porter for nomadic tribes.
Confiscating their tariffs is already the best of benevolence.
After receiving Ouyang Shuo's approval, Zhou Haichen was full of energy. Youyi County joined hands with the Material Reserve Department to directly unload the iron ore at the Youyi County wharf and transport it to the market for sale.
On August 10th, Xunlong Town ushered in the attack of rogues.
Ouyang Shuo did not go to watch the battle, but stayed patiently in the territory and dealt with government affairs.
At six o'clock in the afternoon, Ouyang Shuo heard a system announcement.
"System Announcement: Congratulations to Xunlong Dianxue for becoming the tenth lord in China who has been upgraded to a first-level county seat, and will be rewarded with 400 points of merit!"
"System Announcement: Congratulations to Xunlong Dianxue for becoming the tenth lord in China who has been upgraded to a first-level county seat, and will be rewarded with 400 points of merit!"
"System Announcement: Congratulations to Xunlong Dianxue for becoming the tenth lord in China who has been upgraded to a first-level county seat, and will be rewarded with 400 points of merit!"
Originally, such a system announcement could no longer arouse the interest of players. But following this system announcement, there was another system announcement.
"System Announcement: Ten counties have been successfully promoted in China, triggering the campaign system. The second battle - the Battle of Muye will officially start in three days. Please look forward to it. Friendly reminder: The Battle of Muye is an optional campaign scenario task , only territories above the township level are eligible to sign up."
Compared with the first battle of Zhuolu, players are no longer ignorant of the battle. A battle of Zhuolu fully proved that participating in a battle is a gamble, and the weak will prey on the strong.
A strong man like Shanhai Town naturally makes a lot of money. But for ordinary players, the gains outweigh the losses. Not only are their troops small in number, but their quality is not good, and they cannot take the initiative in the war. In the end, they can only be reduced to cannon fodder.
Some lords excitedly led a hundred soldiers into battle, but the whole army was wiped out, and what they gained was only a few hundred points of merit. Input and output are completely disproportionate.
Therefore, as to whether to participate in the battle, it is natural that the benevolent see the benevolent and the wise see the wisdom.
Today, there are more than a thousand territories above the township level in China. In the end, it is unknown how many lords voluntarily participated in the battle.
Of course, for the members of the Shanhai League, there is no question of choice at all.
Xunlong Dianxue just finished receiving everyone's congratulations on the alliance channel, when he received such a system announcement, he was not only taken aback, but jokingly said: "I'll go, is this battle started by me? Things, shouldn't the system give me some rewards?"
"Fart you!" The siege lion was annoyed.
"Haha, little lion, you are blatantly jealous." Xunlong was uncomfortably calm.
"..." The siege lion made a series of speechless expressions.
"Alright, I can finally earn merit points." Mulanyue was the happiest, as she was worrying about merit points.
"Wuyi, which side are you going to choose this time?" Bai Hua asked.
The Battle of Muye, also known as "King Wu's Crusade against Zhou", was a decisive battle between the coalition forces of King Wu of Zhou and the army of the Shang Dynasty in Muye. Because Emperor Xin conquered Li in the northwest first, and then pacified the barbarians in the southeast. Although he won the victory, he was aggressive and aggravated social and class conflicts. In the end, he defeated the Communist Party and the Shang Dynasty fell.
This is the history book's characterization of the Battle of Muye.
However, Ouyang Shuo reviewed the information during this period, and in his opinion, this battle was overly beautified by later generations of Confucianism. The destruction of Shang and the killing of Shang kings in the Western Zhou Dynasty were undoubtedly the most typical crimes of rebellion and regicide at that time. , there is no justice at all.
The "Battle of Muye" was far less bloody and tragic than what was described by later generations. It was a war in which Zhou people relied on their lofty morality and "soldiers without bloodshed". Not even the slightest glorious image.
The reason why such descriptions appear in later generations is largely due to the dominance of Confucianism in ideology and culture. And what Confucius, the originator of Confucianism, advocated was precisely the system and thought of "ritual and music" established in the Western Zhou Dynasty. Therefore, the Western Zhou Dynasty must be packaged and established as the embodiment of justice and benevolence in Confucian classics.
Therefore, it is impossible for them to allow a true record of the bloody, brutal, burning, killing, and looting that occurred in the "War of Muye", a war in which Zhou people "walked for heaven".
This is consistent with their motivation to obliterate King Zhou's historical achievements and demonize him.
Regardless of the truth of history, in the end how. Out of consideration for his own interests, Ouyang Shuo announced his choice of camp on the alliance channel: "I choose the Shang Dynasty camp."
"Huh?" Mulanyue was surprised.
Bai Hua asked directly: "Wuyi, do you want to change the ending of history?"
"Not bad!" Ouyang Shuo said bluntly.
In the first battle of Zhuolu, Lord Chunshen and Zhan Lang used bloody facts to tell the lords and players how difficult it is to change the outcome of the battle.
At this time, Ouyang Shuo made an unexpected decision, which made people puzzled.
"Wuyi, are you sure?" Feng Prisonhuang asked.
Ouyang Shuo naturally didn't dare to promise, "None of us know the specific battle scene and how Gaia deduced it. Therefore, I really don't know for sure. I can only say that I have done some preparatory work. Will it work?" Whether it will work or not is still unknown."
What Ouyang Shuo said was indeed the truth.
In his previous life, he did not participate in the Battle of Muye, and the information he could understand was very limited.
"Preparation?" Bai Hua keenly sensed the unusualness in Ouyang Shuo's words, and said in surprise, "Wu Yi, you mean that you knew about this battle in advance?"
Ouyang Shuo shook his head amusedly, "Of course I don't know, I'm not a god. Through the battle of the deer, it is not difficult to find that the battle chosen by Gaia should be the most important or representative battle of a dynasty. Think about it, after the Three Emperors and Five Emperors, there was Xia, Shang and Zhou. During this period, is there any battle that is more representative than the Battle of Muye? Therefore, I guessed before that it is very likely that Gaia will choose this A battle. It’s just because I’m not sure yet, so I didn’t tell everyone.”
Ouyang Shuo's words are half true and half false. That is to point out the principle of Gaia's choice of battle, and conceal the fact that he learned the truth in advance because of his rebirth.
Only then did Bai Hua feel relieved, and said with a smile: "Wu Yi, I trust your judgment and choose the Shang Dynasty camp."
"I'll listen to Brother Wuyi." Mulanyue has a dark belly, so of course she would not give up Ouyang Shuo, her big backer. In the last battle of Zhuolu, without Ouyang Shuo, she would not have been able to achieve such a beautiful result.
Ouyang Shuo shook his head amusedly, "I'm still saying that the alliance doesn't force everyone to choose a side. It's just a rule that everyone must keep the side I choose strictly confidential. I don't want Mr. Chun Shen and the others, because of my existence, to Choose the opposite camp in one mind."
Everyone smiled at Ouyang Shuo's words. Don't think about it, as long as you choose to be in the same camp as Ouyang Shuo, then the identity of the representative of the other person will not go to the second one. Of course, this is not what Chun Shenjun wants to see.
"I still think it's more reliable to follow Wuyi." Feng Prisonhuang followed suit.
"Follow the eldest brother, there is meat to eat." The siege lion is called shrewd, concise and to the point.
In the end, only Xunlong acupuncture points remained. This guy, in the last battle of Zhuolu, he thought he was smart and blinded a strong general like Qin Qiong. Compared with Bai Hua, his performance was a lot worse.
Having suffered a lot, Xunlong Dianzhu finally learned to be smart, and obediently said: "Listen to elder brother."