"In the past three months, the aristocratic group has suddenly increased significantly in the supply of several types of wars." Rakanishu, the goblin who is in charge of the bulk trading market in Void City, frowned and handed a compiled report to the Minister of Commerce Ottoman bin Raunagu.

Minister Raunaigu also frowned, took the report, and studied it carefully.

After a while, he asked: "The nobles bought a large amount of fire glue and flash dust... What are they doing? Are these things consumed a lot in the war?"

"As far as I know, fire glue can be used to conduct fire attacks, while flash dust can temporarily blind the enemy. If used well, it can also break the invisibility - these are all low-level alchemy products, which are only equivalent to the effect of low-level spells." The old goblin Rakanisheu was once the chief of a tribe. He had fought wits and courage with adventurers for many years and was very familiar with these low-level alchemy items.

On a cold winter more than 20 years ago, he watched the tribesmen who were trapped in famine because they were plundered by powerful monsters and finally decided to surrender to the nearby Longhuo Town and became a group of alien residents. Because he could master the magic of lightning, he and his tribe called themselves the "Lightning Clan", and later "Lightning" became the surname of their tribe. Among the goblins in the Northwest Republic, they were considered the earliest group of "civilized and civilized".

Now he is an elderly businessman, in charge of the bulk trading market of Void City. This job is actually quite idle, because the market is only responsible for providing venues and security, and business transactions are not neglected - however, one thing is that after the transaction is negotiated, the two parties need to submit a deposit according to the transaction briefing. If neither party raises objections to the business within three months, then they can get the deposit back 90%, and the remaining 10% is naturally the site rental fee and guarantee fee. If both parties have objections to the business within three months, they can go to the Void City Commercial Litigation Court to negotiate or even litigate. Depending on the situation, Void City can even use legendary wizards to ensure the reliability of the business.

The old chief Lakanishu is also old and cannot do too hard things and does not have the energy to do too complicated calculations. However, he can still use his old experience to organize data from transaction briefings for research and screening, and find valuable information from it.

For example, this time, he discovered a little weirdness.

The current tension in the Gold Coin Federation can be seen by anyone as long as you are not blind. Generally speaking, in this case, both sides will strive to hoard war materials, mainly arrows, armor pieces, metal ingots, standard weapons, as well as food and medical supplies.

These things are not low, and it is not a big deal for adventurers to buy in small quantities, but the military purchases in large quantities will be a considerable number. Therefore, the first thing to do when fighting is national strength. If you don’t have money... don’t think about the war, it’s more reliable to admit defeat or escape.

At least Chief Lakanisheu, or the former chief of the Goblin tribe "Lightning", Mr. Lakanisheu, has always followed this principle.

Is this principle good or bad? It is hard to say, but at least for the Lightning Tribe, it did get good results. Rakanishu's desperate bet in the first place eventually allowed his tribe members to live the stable and prosperous life they had always dreamed of.

In addition to having to plan for family planning.

This is one of several basic national policies of the Northwest Republic. Those particularly capable races must limit fertility, while those with low fertility are encouraged to have children.

The former represents goblins and rabbits, while the latter represents naturally such as black and white bears, elemental creatures, etc.

However, it is easy to restrict fertility, but it is much harder to encourage fertility. Black and white bears only have the urge to reproduce in just half a month a year. In most cases, they are much more interested in wine than in the opposite sex. Elemental organisms almost completely do not understand what "reproduction" is, and there is no hope for them to be able to scatter and reproduce the population.

Fortunately, Sui Xiong is not the kind of Virgin Mary who has a water in her head. She will not specially invite a group of old men from thousands of mountains and rivers to expand the ethnic minority population in China. Is there any difficulty in reproduction of races? Then it is difficult. They don’t want to have children themselves. Could it be that Sui Xiong still force them to have children?

Such things are not suitable for compulsive means.

"...Master Lakanishew, what effect do you think if you use alchemy items such as fire glue and flash dust in large quantities?" Minister Ottoman pondered for a moment, and asked with some uncertainty, "I think these things do not seem to be suitable for large-scale use on the battlefield. The cost is too high and the profit is too low."

"You are right. As long as a group of protective spells, they can resist the damage of fire glue. As for flash dust, the same is true. When I took the little guys in the tribe to fight wits and courage with the adventurers, I was never afraid of such a method, let alone those powerful armies that were established." The old goblin chief shook his head, "I really can't see what they can do. To be honest, I think it's just a waste of money."

"But the nobles are not fools, right?"

"I really don't understand. Maybe the people from the military department can figure it out." Rakanishu turned the blame irresponsibly.

The Minister of Commerce thought about it for a while and felt that this was the reason, so he sent two copies of the document by magic, one to Defense Minister Renard and the other to Security Minister East.

As for what these two professionals will think? It’s up to him. He is still busy!

About half an hour later, Renard and East took the time to meet and discuss the matter.

"This is not normal," said Reinard. "It's fine to burn the fire glue, but flash dust is definitely not something that can be used in large quantities in wars, and it's meaningless!"

Isti Head, according to his impression, flash dust is generally used by adventurers, among which thieves use it very much, mainly in sudden battles, which can be used to flash the enemy's eyes and then take the opportunity to escape.

If he wanted to use this in a formal war... he thought about it but couldn't figure out how to use it.

Could it be... when the cavalry hedges, throw one first?

But the merchants sent new troops to no longer use cavalry. They directly used heavy crossbows and strong bows and long spears to fight against cavalry. They formed a formation like a mountain, and they had a sense of being there. As for shooting at the opposite end, the cavalry did not shoot far and accurate without shooting at the stairs. It was nothing more than turning the death to death slowly.

In this world where magic is widely used, there is no cavalry's maneuver advantage. What's more, it's not easy to outperform the mid-level warrior on a small battlefield with an ordinary good horse!

In addition to the commanders, the cavalry in this world are fully armed with heavy-armed knights like cans. To deal with them, a well-trained army can just use long spears to form the so-called "dragon spear formation" on the ground.

In fact, the heavy-armed knights generally do not attack the enemy formation. Even if they want to, they will definitely cover multiple layers of protective magic on their bodies first - so the war has become a confrontation between protective magic and repeal magic...

East frowned and pondered secretly. He was born in the Kingdom of Mages, and he still had a lot of experience in the use of magic. He felt that he should be able to guess how the nobles would use the fire glue and flash dust.

But before he could guess it, Sui Xiong had already got the answer through his own channels.

The nobles planned to form a fast mobile force with a harassment nature to specifically attack the rear of the merchants. These fire glue, flashing dust and other things were prepared for them.
Chapter completed!