"If this goes back and forth, the empire's own defense forces will either become mere vases, or they will be completely replaced and disappear. Except for some of the personal bodyguards of the imperial nobles themselves, I am afraid there will never be anyone else.

This kind of country has been completely suppressed and resisted. It has essentially lost its own thoughts and is no longer a threat to the Demon King's army."

Ariel breathed out slowly and said: "After this for a long time, I think our Demon King Elf can even go one step further. That is after establishing a psychological suppression advantage over the imperial nobles of the empire.

, and gradually withdraw the troops stationed in those empires."

"As long as the psychological suppression is still there, it is possible to achieve zero garrison and still gain the surrender of those countries. After all, the Demon King's army has already developed its movement speed and combat capabilities, and any country that dares to resist cannot withstand it."

The psychological deterrent of destroying the country in ten days."

Hearing this, Mochi was obviously a little anxious. She thought for a while and said: "President, it sounds like Demon King Igo really has some divinity in him... I don't know how he thought of this.

A method.”

Ariel smiled helplessly and said: "Don't forget, I have failed once. Moreover, I have a long life. I have traveled throughout the Golden Continent countless times and seen many customs and customs. I think

He must have calculated this method in his mind a long time ago. The only thing that can suppress his approach is that he seemed to have hoped to use a positive image like the 'Elf Army' to deal with the countries on the entire Golden Continent, and

I hope to achieve the result of conquering the entire continent without killing too many civilians."

Mochi: "In the end... we beat him back?"

Ariel shrugged and said with a wry smile: "That's right, we beat him so hard that he completely gave up on the gentle method before and completely turned into a 'devil' behavior. Alas, this is what you need to live long.

Well, as long as you live long enough and experience enough things, you will naturally have more ideas and insights. To be honest, in terms of insights, my life of just a few decades is simply impossible to compare.

He has thousands of years of knowledge. At this point, I can’t help but admire him.”

Mochi was obviously anxious: "So... President, President, what should we do? Now, some people in our Night Clan group have begun to talk about this war. Those empires garrisoned by demons, if there is

What if one day Egg asks all those empires to attack our mermaid army? Behind us is the Blue Bay Empire. Although we are fighting for the entire Golden Continent, what if the managers of those empires are really so short-sighted?

, what should we do if we completely fall to the Demon King’s army?”

Regarding this issue, Ariel has been thinking about it recently.

To be honest, this is indeed a difficult problem.

The devil uses powerful force and clearly uses conspiracy to control those countries. Even if no empire openly declares to be an enemy of the mermaid army now, there is no guarantee that it will not do so in the future.

Now, among the hundreds of countries in the entire Blue Bay Empire, a dozen countries closest to the Forbidden Land have been eroded by garrisons, and most of the countries have not yet experienced problems. But this can be regarded as the Demon King's Army

It has not yet achieved its strategic goals, so it has not sent out too strong an attack signal against the Mermaid Army for the time being.

If the Demon King's Army continues to be allowed to erode, and eventually at least half of the countries in the entire Golden Continent are controlled by the Demon King's Army, who can guarantee that the Demon King's Army will not turn its spearhead against the Mermaid Army again at that time?

However, when encountering such a situation, what can the Mermaid Army do to deal with it?

Also use force to suppress?

Just kidding, the Mermaid Army has been constantly causing rebellions among civilians in those countries. Not to say that those countries hate the Mermaid Army, at least they are completely unwelcome. Moreover, the Demon King's Army relies on suppressing the resistance forces within their countries to obtain the right to station troops.

Yes, what does the Mermaid Army rely on? Did they directly choose those countries?

But now the Demon King's army's glorious record of annihilating the country in ten days is right in front of us. If the mermaid army does not destroy other people's countries fast enough, or is even delayed into panic, then it will be a clear statement to the empire on the entire golden continent that mermaids

Although the army can resist the attack of the Demon King's Army for a while, it is completely impossible to achieve the deterrence of the Demon King's Army in terms of overall strength. In this way, the situation may become worse.

Therefore, this has completely cut off the opportunity to use military force to gain breathing space for the development of the Mermaid Army.

So, what exactly should be done in such a situation?

Ariel was thinking, and through these days of thinking, she finally made a decision.

After all, this female leader knew very clearly that she could not carry her shoulders or lift her hands. She had no combat effectiveness at all, let alone the ability to command large-scale battles, and her judgment on the battlefield could not reach the level of an excellent general.

If that's the case, then it's better to shift the battlefield to the area you're best at and use different methods to compete with the Demon King's army. Wouldn't that be enough?

"Doing business."

Suddenly, Ariel said this with a smile.

Such a sentence made Mochi next to her stunned. It seemed that she was unable to turn around, let alone what this sentence meant.

Ariel saw Mochi's wide-eyed expression, smiled, and continued——

"Yes, you heard it right. I plan to do business. After all, what I am best at in my life is doing business. Whether it is managing the mermaid army or being the mayor of a certain city, I still feel that

, what I am best at is doing business.”

Before Mochi could continue to ask questions, Ariel looked at the still-busy market over there and smiled: "Ego is good at using those demons to suppress other countries, using powerful and terrifying forces, threatening lives and maintaining their imperial rule.

To control those countries. If this is the case, then we will use our best business model to communicate with those countries."

"Hasn't the Demon King's army not yet reached the best strategic situation, that is, controlling enough countries that Yi Ge thinks is enough? Before that node arrives, we can completely use our powerful element machine factory to produce a large amount of materials and

Those countries trade."

"When those countries have a sense of security, they will definitely hope to have a better life. Not just ordinary civilians, I believe that even the emperor will never want to be a miserable person who can only live a hahaha life.

Emperor. As long as you are a human being, you will definitely hope that your life will be more comfortable and better."

"Then, we can take advantage of the current vague strategic stage of the Demon King's Army to quickly trade with those controlled countries. Then, export our goods to them in large quantities, so that those empires can enjoy high-quality and low-priced products and a high standard of living.

Improve it to a higher level.”

Mochi thought for a while and asked: "Is this... enough?"

Ariel shook her head: "Of course it's not enough. Just exporting high-quality and cheap items is almost equivalent to us giving them things for free. If the Demon King's army really wants them to attack us, they will hesitate at most, but they will never resist."

"For this reason, what I envision is a certain degree of currency swaps with those countries."

Mochi was stunned: "Currency swap?"

Ariel: "Yes, currency exchange. For example, the recently eroded Magic Vine Empire uses a kind of Vine Coin made of hard ancient vines. The output is small, but the anti-counterfeiting ability is high, and once

It is not easy to be burned or damaged after special processing. The disadvantage is that it cannot adjust its monetary policy in time. After all, that kind of hard ancient vine cannot be produced in time when you want it. It needs to be cultivated, harvested and dried.

A series of actions such as cutting can be used to produce it. This is why they suddenly attacked the Cold Valley Empire, because a large area of ​​the Cold Valley Empire happened to be very suitable for the production of this kind of ancient vine. It can be said that this war is also

A fight for the economy."

"Now, if we hope to conduct a certain degree of currency exchange with the Demon Vine Empire, and are willing to sell goods to them at a very high-quality price, and from now on, we will determine that we can only use mermaid coins and ancient vines to buy and sell goods between each other.

If it is carried out using coins, what will be the consequences?”

"Suppose we have exchanged currency worth 10 million, and we have 10 million ancient vine coins from the Demon Vine Empire, and the Demon Vine Empire has 10 million mermaid coins. They can use this mermaid currency to

Buy our products, and are very happy to conduct such trade with us. But if one day, Yi Ge orders the Demon Vine Empire to attack our mermaid army, then in the worst case, our mermaid army will be completely wiped out, then

As a result, the Demonic Vine Empire immediately had 10,000,000 ancient vine coins that could no longer be traded and became useless paper. And the 10,000,000 ancient vine coins owned by our mermaid army would be destroyed immediately because we were about to collapse.

If it goes away, it will be equivalent to a direct loss of 10 million for the Demonic Vine Empire."

"Disobeying the orders of the Demon King's Army will indeed lead to death. But if the cost of helping your Demon King's Army attack another country is that you will directly collapse, then you need to carefully consider whether those royal relatives are still willing to be pawns.

Think about it."

"I do not deny that people generally think that life is more important than money. But we must also know that for many people, losing their status, losing money, and losing power is sometimes more terrifying than taking their lives. At that time,

, it’s time for them to activate their own human wisdom. Do they want to attack us with the idea of ​​dying together with us? Or are they willing to abandon the dark side and join the bright side to fight against the Demon King’s army with us? Or even use Zhezhong’s wisdom to be neutral? Then let’s see.

It's their own. At least by that time, our pressure will definitely not overflow, and everything will still be under control."

Although Mochi didn't know much about this kind of thing, regarding what Ariel said now, she instinctively felt that the president must have a certain belief before he decided to do this.

At that moment, she nodded vigorously and said, "President, I believe you."

Seeing Mochi, a girl who looked to be only ten years old as a human being, looking at her with such trust, Ariel couldn't help but smile and felt a little warm in her heart.

Then, she chuckled and said: "Although I say that, it is not that simple to put it into practice. I sound like it is very easy to say, but it is not easy to establish trade routes with those countries.

It’s an easy thing. There are too many key points involved in this. For example, the transportation route, the tariff issues of the countries passing along the way, the internal productivity of our mermaid army, and even after exchanging so much money from other countries

How do we spend money? Every problem here requires a lot of energy to study and solve. Many things seem simple when you think about it, but it is much more difficult to actually do it."

Mochi nodded and said, "However, we won't stop doing it because of difficulties, right?"

Ariel smiled again: "That's true. We always need to do things, and we need to do many, many things. But in the final analysis, we do these things in the hope that we can develop quickly. Only when our development speed becomes faster, change

Only when we become stronger can we get rid of the threat of the Demon King's army, and even be able to push the Demon King's army back to his forbidden land."

Having said this, Ariel couldn't help but chuckle, turned to look at Mochi, and said with a smile——

"Actually, to be honest, I'm quite envious of the Demon King's Army. That kind of method that can suppress all resistance from other countries simply by using force feels really comfortable to use. At least Igo doesn't have to think like me all day long.

How can we unite with other countries, open up trade routes, study trade routes and other things."

Seeing Ariel's half-joking statement, Mochi lowered his head and thought for a moment, then said: "However, the president's approach can allow many weak people to survive. It is not like the Demon King's army.

, rely on squeezing the imperial aristocrats of the empire, and those imperial aristocrats will in turn exploit those ordinary little people."

Ariel reached out and gently rubbed Mochi's head.

She smiled happily today and was happy that her thoughts could spread in the hearts of people around her.

She could not predict the final outcome of this war, but she believed that the mermaid army would win in the end. After all, the people standing next to her were not nobles who only thought about themselves, but just like her, they were born in a lowly position.

,The most common ordinary people who were completely looked down upon by others before this...

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After the lively opening ceremony, the entire comprehensive competition officially kicked off on the second day.
To be continued...