Civilization: Beyond Two Worlds

Eighteen hundred.

Ten thousand.

This number swept the entire conference hall like a technique of silence.

Even the Goethes present showed disbelief, with an expression of "you really dare to speak".

For a moment, the scene was deadly silent.

Kant looked as if nothing had happened, took a piece of white paper in front of Hong San, and wrote and drew with a pen.

Eighteen million gold coins.

The coins of various countries are different in weight and color, so it is required to use the Sovereign gold coins issued by the Dusk Moon Dynasty in the era of the King of Light as the compensation unit. Zigzag, wear-resistant, and can also prevent wool from smashing. Once launched, with the ever-expanding trade influence of the elves, it is popular in the mainland at a very fast speed.

A considerable part of the money that Kant borrowed from the Goode family treasure room was this kind of elven gold coin.

When the number was finalized earlier, he deliberately asked someone to ask for a gold sovereign coin and weighed it. It weighed about six grams, 18 million, or 108 million grams.

That's 100,800 kilograms.

That is 108 tons of gold.

What is the national gold reserve of the People's Republic of China?

about two thousand tons.

one-twentieth.

Even if only half of the compensation was required to be paid in gold, that would be an extraordinary fifty-four tons.

Fifty-four tons of gold, with a big discount at the super jumping price, and selling it at 400 yuan per gram, then it's more than 20 billion ****, pure profit.

Aside from the illusory and heavy cost of moving forward at the time anchor, what Kant paid was just an asphalt road and a road of used cars.

This is simply robbery.

- The premise is that you can really grab it.

But in fact, this is an idiot's dream. Opening the sky is a part of the negotiation, and then the defender sits on the ground to pay back the money. The two sides continue to see and bargain, and finally finalize a number that both parties agree.

Or, talk about collapse.

But this is not the point of the question. The point is that all the Goethes here know how to negotiate, but they still feel that the compensation amount is too... exaggerated.

Exaggerated?

exaggerate.

Kant calculated a series of numbers on the paper, and then glanced at Hong San.

The elves are world hegemons, with vast territories and colonies, as well as a large population under their rule. Such land and wealth need force to be ensured. The annual military expenditure of the Evening Moon Dynasty is an astronomical figure for other countries. The specific amount is State secrets are not impossible to know.

At least Hong San's master, through ten years of continuous observation, speculation, collection and calculation, has roughly calculated the financial revenue and military expenditure of the Muyue Dynasty in the past ten years.

The average annual total military expenditure is about 60 million gold coins.

Kant, the giant dragon, opened his mouth wide and swallowed a third of it with one mouth.

180,000 gold coins, enough for the Royal Navy to order ten superior battleships, enough for the Royal Army to build five full-scale new magic warbands, and even enough for the Royal Air Force to sign another Dragon Wing!

— Of course, the third option is the least cost-effective deal.

Order battleships from shipyards and build army chapters, and the huge amount of gold coins spent will enter the huge economic system of the Dusk Moon Dynasty, which will stimulate employment, promote a series of peripheral consumption and economic growth, and a large part of them will continue to flow back in the opposite direction. Among the government's fiscal revenue, the gold coins given to the giant dragon are purely inaccessible, and are deeply hated by economists, finance ministers and bank presidents.

One of the economic principles of Fengxing Continent is that signing contracts and hiring dragons to fight will inevitably lead to deflation, and any monarch with an online IQ should not do such stupid things.

With the continuous development of economics and the continuous rise of the national strength of various countries, the life of the dragon family has become more and more difficult. The monarchs of the various countries have tacitly cooperated to lower the price for a job. If they robbed, they would be caught and hacked to death, cramped and skinned. The former was exploited miserably, the latter If he died in a daze, he couldn't even ask for justice. If Longya came forward for this, he would acquiesce in supporting the dragon clan's looting and attack on the civilized world, and the giant dragon clan should come to an end.

This is the inevitability of the development of the times. When the machine called the state expands into a behemoth that covers the sky, nothing under the sky can stop it.

Although the country of dragons is a country of dragons, it is far from being a country. In an era when magic was not yet prosperous and the earth was in turmoil, giant dragons soared in the sky and ruled the earth. All creatures, but now, the age of dragons has passed.

Although the dragon race is still powerful, it is only a race that has more military cooperation with elves.

As the world's largest power, the arrogant elves will never bow down to the giant dragon, and even despise these outdated guys, even more so with the giant dragon, not to mention the greedy human beings like the giant dragon.

Elendil suddenly stood up, and then all the elves also stood up.

"Wishful thinking!" the elf wise man snapped, "This is greedy and shameless blackmail!"

"Don't say that, this is a negotiation." Kant sat on the chair, "You are not satisfied, if you want more, you can bargain."

Erendil said coldly: "You have no sincerity, this negotiation cannot go on at all!"

Kant smiled restrained: "Don't you want to talk? So, do you want to call? The next time you come, this offer will more than double, so think carefully before you speak."

The elf wise man was furious, put his hands on the table, and said sharply: "His Royal Highness Kant, please don't think that if we are forgiving and generous, you can extort blackmail arbitrarily!"

Hong San on the side said lightly: "If that's the case, why are you elves coming?"

He looked at Elendil: "The elves have been destroyed by six legions, and the bones of at least 60,000 soldiers are exposed to the wind and the sun every day, which is a complete shame. It is obviously a world hegemony, and it is like a broken bamboo on the Goethe battlefield, but it has to run in a low voice. Come and pay for the corpse, why don't you guys come and grab it?"

The murderous intent in Erendil's tone burst out: "The reason why we send messengers instead of troops is our courtesy and respect for the strong. Do you think we can't do it?"

Hong San looked at him and said solemnly, "I thought you couldn't do it."

"What should we do?" He calmly said without waiting for the other party to speak, "His Royal Highness's power of destruction can be used three times. Do you want to send a battle group to carry out harassment raids and force His Highness Kant to take action? It is the sacrifice of three battle groups, and it is very cost-effective to be able to fight three times."

With eyes like lightning, the Aurora people looked at the elf: "Or do you want to destroy Goethe in one go, and then calmly use the means you are best at?"

At the same time, Kant was also paying attention to Tagris' expression changes.

But neither he nor Hong San saw the reaction they wanted.

Then Hong San shook his head and sneered: "It's a good strategy, very elf-like, but if you think so, I think you've got one thing wrong, and that is the meaning of strategic deterrence."

Kant naturally took over the words: "The so-called strategic deterrence is that when I want to hit you, I can hit you whenever I want, and I can hit you wherever I want, and I can hit you until you hurt and you cry. "

"Why do you come here and admit to compromising? It's because you can't afford the risk."

"Send a small corps to harass and raid and **** corpses?"

He stood up slowly, looked at the elves present, and said calmly: "If you come, I will run. You can do whatever you want here. I will go where I should go."

"The base camp of the expeditionary force, the transit hub for material and cargo, the city of shipbuilding industry, the economic center city, the financial center, the industrial belt, the most densely populated metropolitan area, the royal capital, where do you like it?"

"You are well-defended, so what about one year, three years, five years, ten years?"

"Do you elves no longer plan to hold a national parade? Will the Armada no longer be in port for supplies? Will the Royal Navy no longer conduct a ship parade? Is the city not going to expand any more? After Goethe's death Don't you fight? Aren't you afraid that I will suddenly cause trouble for you?"

"I tell you, don't expect me to think for a second about kindness, integrity, mercy, kindness, I can guarantee that I will smash all your big toys and wonders to shreds, and from now on you don't think about it anymore. Don’t even think about the emergence of mega-city belts, I don’t know where it hurts the most, but the empire must know, do you think they will give me bombing advice?”

His eyes were cold, even fierce and tyrannical, staring at Elendil proudly: "Go? You walk out of this door today, we don't have to talk about it, you go and kill the Goethe, I will let you Muyue There will never be peace in the dynasty, let's see who can do it fast and who can kill hard, who will admit first and who is the grandson, how about that?"

Clear analysis, clear thinking.

Erendil gritted his teeth, but was speechless.

Because the concept of strategic deterrence has never appeared in another world, even an extremely wise man can hardly understand its meaning for a while...

But the other world has been studied for decades and remains relatively peaceful in this mutual deterrence.

When Kant said this, he spit on the ground and sneered: "It seems that I am still too kind, after destroying those five legions, I should immediately overturn your expeditionary army center, and then you will still come, but But not the arrogant and disgusting face that can't figure out the situation today."

"—Damn, even the inexperienced businessmen and gangsters know that the way of negotiation is to ask for a price and pay back the money. If I ask you a price, you will turn your face and leave, just like how insulted you have been. It doesn't suit your heart. Just turn your face, do you want to send it back to you for free and post some money to be satisfied?"

Erendil lived for hundreds of years. When was a human being so unbridled and maddened, he was indignant, but he had no choice but to turn his head angrily.

With a loud bang, Kant slammed his fist on the table and said sharply, "Look at me!"

Fierce, flamboyant, crazy, ruthless, tyrannical.

Since yesterday's meeting, Kant has remained extremely aggressive and aggressive.

This is also part of deterrence.

Weapons enough to be called strategic deterrence, if in the hands of a cowardly man, would not be awe-inspiring or even meaningless to the enemy.

Only by acting crazy, cruel and cold-blooded can these elves truly feel fear and fear. I believe that this human lunatic has the ability and determination to launch pervasive revenge against the elves, and will never stop because of cruelty, nor Mind how many souls die because of it.

That's what deterrence means.

Therefore, Luo Ji was able to protect the earth for 62 years, so that the Trisolarans would not dare to act rashly, and when the sword of judgment was handed over to a virgin bitch, destruction came in the blink of an eye.

Because Luo Ji really dared to end both worlds without blinking.

Kant wanted the elves to think so too.

To make the elves think that even if the expedition army conquers the whole of Goethe in an instant, pulls all the Goethes including Tina to Kant, puts a knife to the neck, and kills them one by one, Kant will leave without hesitation through the space ability. , do not even look at it, then sneak into the elves, wait for one year, five years, ten years, and then give them the biggest surprise when the elves are defenseless.

The meeting room was eerily silent.

The elves who stood up were furious and trembling, but no one dared to leave.

Because no one can take this responsibility.

In the dead silence, Tagris said slowly: "His Royal Highness Kant, I have been listening to your speech. What you emphasize is that you are asking for the sky to pay back the money, and 18 million gold coins are too many, rather than bargaining on the number. , I'm more interested in, do you have a better proposal?"

Because Kant emphasized his strategic deterrence capability.

This means that even if the compensation amount is negotiated and the war between the two sides continues, the elves will definitely face the same deterrence... a threat that makes no sense at all.

Kant slowly restrained his emotions and became gentle, quiet and peaceful again. Such emotional control ability is a plus, because people are more afraid of guys who are usually quiet and suddenly crazy.

He said: "Yes, I can return all the corpses to you for free, yes, free, not a penny, the condition is that you leave now, then reorganize the delegation, go to King Goethe for peace talks, and stop the military Action, return all occupied lands, and sign a ten-year peace treaty."

"You can ask the messengers of all countries and tribes to notarize."

"You have ten years to calculate me, assassinate me, and develop a defense system to deal with my attack methods. I will promise to the world that as long as Goethe is not invaded, I will not actively use this power."

"It's settled, the corpses will be exchanged for you, and no money will be charged."

Kant said lightly: "How is it?"

The elves looked at each other in dismay, and suddenly felt that this proposal... was quite good.

Elendil glanced at Tagris, Duke Tiling's expression was solemn, and he said calmly: "Thank you for your proposal, Your Highness, since you said it, listen to my proposal, how about it?"

Kant raised his hand and said, "Please."

The Duke looked at Kant and said in a calm tone: "We will return all the occupied lands, and pay for the post-war reconstruction and compensation for losses, and provide an interest-free loan of no less than 30 million gold coins to open up the cultural and military affairs of the two countries. , All-round communication of magic guides, no longer block the Goethe waters, share all sea and land business routes with Goethe, and help restore the connection between Goethe and Aurora, and support Aurora's resistance activities with more active and favorable conditions..."

There was a commotion among the humans, but no one spoke.

Kant looked at each other: "If you have any conditions, let's talk about it?"

"The conditions are simple."

Tagris said decisively: "Goethe joins the Dusk Moon Dynasty as a highly autonomous vassal state. We give all Auroras the same treatment as elven citizens, and allow the Teldaril family to continue to rule, but only if you combine with Princess Tina. , and inherit this country by your blood."

"All the communication between the Evening Moon Dynasty and Goethe is based on you. We will invite you to join the Evening Moon Council and the Austrian Law Council. The titles of the two vice-speakers are vacant. We will invite you to join the Royal Army and become the Evening Moon Military Circle. The first human giant, and gave you a chapter quota of three Phoenix Banner Corps and five Dragon Banner Corps, and the power of personnel control belongs to you."

"We will communicate on your behalf, make you marry the Queen of the Southern Dynasty of Aurora, help you build a navy, and provide all the help you can to return to Aurora and expel the barbarians, so that you can become a hero of the motherland and control it logically. The largest empire in the East..."

Duke Tiling looked at Kant and said calmly, "His Royal Highness, what are the conditions?"

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PS1: Alas, I went back to my hometown during the Mid-Autumn Festival, and I only came back at night... that's all, good night and good night.

PS2: By the way, Happy Mid-Autumn Festival...