Take Taobao with you to another world

In this era of extremely underdeveloped communication means, it is very difficult to truly grasp the situation of a kingdom, let alone the situation of the world.If they are not in a high position or in a huge organization like the Holy See, most people can only get some information when the crisis comes-like these tribes who are forced to migrate.Not to mention relying on the understanding of the situation to make inferences, or even independently determine the future direction.

Because what Yun Shen said was "involve", not passive voice.

Originally, based on his situation, at most he could get the basic information of some major countries and forces in the world. If he wanted to go further, he would be more familiar with the orc empire they are now attached to. It is not enough for Yunshen to make a judgment based on these alone.He made a five-year plan with such a high goal, and at the same time believed that they would be involved in the war within five years. It was not just his ideals, but more because of the information he got.

Even if you are not a modern person, you will know the value of political intelligence.The most precious thing Yun Shen got in this world is not a place to live, nor is it the thousands of human resources that have already belonged to him, but a reliable source of information. Yun Shen, who is not good at calculating people's hearts, has been able to get to this day safely with flaws everywhere, Fan Tianlan can be said to be his greatest reliance.

Although it has never been announced, Yun Shen has always trusted this troubled young man, and the latter has never failed his trust. It is based on the extremely detailed information provided by Fan Tianlan that Yun Shen is studying the history of the bereaved family. At the same time, he also got a general understanding of the current situation of the survivors who are most critical to him.

If the only 20-year-old Fan Tianlan's life experience from the age of 12 to the present is enough to become a wonderful cross-continental legend, even the gold medal mercenary in the mercenary union may not have experienced so many regions like him, because the former The adventure is for survival or life, but Fan Tianlan has been on a mission since he was 16 years old.

Because he is the "messenger".

The bereaved family was the loser of the Continental War. After Pope Gregory IV promulgated the Edict of Exemption, the allied army of the bereaved family was further divided, and the power became weaker. Facing the advancing imperial alliance army and the mage association, there was no one at that time. The leaders of the survivors who have retreated must leave the future fire for this nation in addition to the tragedy of the First World War.Except for the soldiers and generals who stayed for the final battle, the rest of the survivors who did not want to become slaves and the fifth class gave up all the remaining territories, and tens of 10 people were allocated to retreat to the wild lands that were difficult for the imperial forces to control. Since the ancestors were Coming from another world and accumulating the foundation of the former empire from a more difficult and dangerous situation, the descendants of future generations cannot guard the foundation, lose the country and lose ground, at least they must hold on to the lifeline, dormant for survival, and wait for a comeback in the future.

The Great Retreat was both a preservation and an adventure. Although the Central Empire at that time had been consumed by the war and was close to the brink of economic collapse, its political influence had reached a peak. The areas they could not influence were either in very bad living conditions or were brutally brutalized. The untameable barbarians occupy it. If one-tenth of the population transferred by the survivors are combatants, those barbarians are not so much to be feared, but the long war has consumed too many young and strong male populations, so that the main force of the guards at that time actually It is the camp for healthy women!

Yun Shen didn't have relevant records in his hand, so he couldn't imagine the hardships and hardships at that time. He could only say that it must have been a long march that could be recorded in the annals of history.As a result of this strategic retreat, the survivors were divided into five main branches, four of which were hidden in the southeastern part of the Central Empire, most of which lived in the mountains, and the last branch was in the southwestern part of the empire. The rift valley of "Abyss of Eternal Night" faces the empire.This is also the best-developed branch of all survivors. The territory they control starts from the Abyss of Eternal Night and includes the seventeen largest islands in the South China Sea. The population, including the aborigines, exceeds one million, enough to be called a country.At the same time, they are also very low-key. On the surface, the fire clan who masters the faith is the king, and they are raised by the survivors with fine clothes and jade food. At the same time, they bow their heads to the Central Empire and pay tribute on a regular basis. The bereaved family is just an existence of low status in this barren country, with a population of no more than [-].

After more than 100 years of concealment and recuperation, the survivors were divided into five branches with a total population of only 72, which has grown to more than 300 million. In order to maintain the appearance of weakness, every time the population grows to a certain level, except for the south, the rest of the tribes of the survivors will part of the strong population Separated and let them go to more remote areas to open up territories. When most of the nobles in the Central Empire who knew about the survivors thought that the black-haired aliens had collapsed, the survivors were about to infiltrate the junction of the Caspian Sea and the Far East. , the Markliu cavalry wearing white long scarves active in the desert area is the trace of their existence.

Only this level is not enough to fight against the central empire. The power of the bereaved family is distributed like stars. In the past 100 years, each branch has developed and moved continuously. Contact became very difficult. In order to accurately grasp the specific distribution of the scattered forces of the survivors, the shadow mercenary group, under the leadership of two generations of heads, spent 12 years traveling all over the fringes of the Central Empire, and finally the Li Yunling group Long completed a secret map.This secret map is kept in the Shenguang Forest together with other bequests of the bereaved family. The messenger's responsibility is not only to send this map and its replicas to the contemporary leaders of each branch of the bereaved family, but also to undertake the task of connecting these Responsibility for decentralizing forces—to connect dots into lines, so that these lines can develop into planes in the future.

The reason why Fan Tianlan became the messenger was not because he was chosen in the first place.Although he also came from the bereaved family, he inherited this responsibility-the mercenary group he was in at the time accidentally discovered a bereaved family messenger walking alone, and then those mercenaries who had just suffered setbacks in a war were like They found a channel to vent, and the tenacity of the messenger intensified their desire for tyranny. When Fan Tianlan, who had just returned from the mission, rescued the person, the messenger was already on the verge of death. Fan Tianlan could not save the person's life, but accepted The last wish of the other party was fulfilled, and the mission of the messenger continued.

Among all the messengers, Fan Tianlan is one of the very few who have been in contact with every branch of the bereaved clan. Starting from the Shenguang Forest, it took him nearly three years to complete this matter. It was a dangerous and long journey, not to mention He still had to maintain his status as a mercenary on the way. Fan Tianlan didn't mention the ups and downs, but only briefly explained to Yun Shen the incident of being poisoned in the past. What he really explained in detail was what he knew during the process. See the case of the Central Empire and the Survivors.

And Yun Shen's judgments from these intelligences are, first, that the Central Empire is indeed in decline, and second, that the remnants of the survivors are inevitable.

There is no doubt about the ambition of the bereaved family to restore the country. Yun Shen just saw the attitude of the bereaved family members when Knight Tita came some time ago, and he knew how strong the bereaved family hidden in the deep mountains and swamps on the border of the central empire was. hate.Their strength is rising, and although the Central Empire has not yet shown a clear decline, the actions of the survivors have become increasingly active in the past few years, but the reaction of the empire is only from the fact that the mercenary union issued a long-term hunting mission. They not only It is because vigilance has dropped, and the military strength is also stretched.

Although they are still very strong, compared with a hundred years ago, 50 years ago, or even ten years ago, their decline can no longer be concealed.

Even with Fengrao Mountain, which has been excavated for 50 years and has not yet developed half of its astonishing gold reserves, the Central Empire still has a financial crisis. Top-down government orders have been filtered through civil servants and nobles, and only orders to increase taxes can be obtained. It was implemented, but the tax collected was far from the estimated amount. Even when the military supplies of the Rann Knights were blocked, the royal family and nobles of the imperial capital still lived their extravagant lives. “Kingdom of Rot,” ten years later the lack of progress has only gotten worse.

In the local area, more than one aristocratic lord has private armed forces that exceed the legal requirements. The scale of battles for territory or family enmity can reach more than [-] people. For some small countries outside the empire, it can be called a national war that determines life and death. , is nothing new to this country.After the first emperor Fatales, who intended to strengthen the centralization of power, disappeared, and the successor who slaughtered his blood but inherited his political ideals was also annihilated. opportunity.

Poor soldier Dou Wu is the most obvious problem in the Central Empire.After the disastrous victory in the Continental War, the Central Empire took quite a long time to recuperate. The blood oath backlash caused the throne to hang for 40 years. However, some of the ten regents who acted as political agents were quite talented. The Central Empire survived that period of weakness and instability.But after this huge empire recovered, it was like a hungry lion just waking up, it yearned for blood and flesh to fill itself.

During the recuperation period of the Central Empire, some short-sighted small countries took the opportunity to encroach on its interests, and the price they paid for it since then has exceeded the imagination of the rulers of those countries.In the three royal capitals, no matter nobles, soldiers or commoners, a total of more than 190 million lives were buried in fire and blood together with the three royal families.After the Battle of the Rift and the Continental War, due to various reasons, the Central Empire could no longer gather a lineup of high-level mages who could cast forbidden spells. The main forces to complete the task of massacring the city were the Knights of Tita and the Knights of Lane, the latter of which Due to their outstanding performance, they are nicknamed the Bloody Knights.The Emperor's Knights guarded the imperial capital of Calamidi, and the Rann Knights became the exposed minions of the empire to attack everywhere. Due to the small number of the Tita Knights, their strength advantage was mainly concentrated on the mages and dragoons, except for large-scale battles. As a key control field, it is more often used to check and balance the power of the great nobles in the country.

That was the last rising period of the Central Empire. These three countries added not only territory to the empire, but also the ruined royal inheritance and an astonishing number of prisoners of war and slaves supplemented the nutrition of the empire. The excavation of Fengrao Mountain also began at that time, but maybe It was this battle that shocked the surrounding countries so profoundly that they became the vassal states of the empire without any resistance. Their submissive submission not only reduced the income of the empire, but also made them only look for more distant targets, and then had two stupid Eastern Expedition——

Across the Siberian Strait to reclaim land and wealth from cowardly traitors.

Yun Shen didn't know how to evaluate this somewhat familiar history. There were many similarities between these two Crusades and the Crusades that brought together a large number of peasants and looters. Religion also played an important role in it, although the real leading force was still The regular army led by the ambitious new nobles, but the target and reason of their conquest... The Rift War has ended for more than 100 years. The comrades who fought side by side betrayed their faith and turned against each other. They have fought vigorously for decades, and they are unbearable. Most of the people who fled across the strait to the Far Eastern border were the original civilians of the Central Empire. Their real crime was obviously not cowardice and betrayal, but that they had mastered the trading hubs of the two halves of the continent on both sides of the Caspian Sea.

In the first Eastern Expedition, the Imperial Legion plundered the cities of Haiya and Bodor, but encountered an ambush by the Great Alchemist when they returned home. 120 and 79 of the five warships sank, and the Grand Duke also died with the flagship. In the deep sea, the wealth transported back to China could not offset the losses caused.

The second Eastern Expedition was launched 15 years later. This time they were facing the young king of the Far East. The spectacle of one person forming a forbidden curse will never be forgotten by any survivor of this battle, even if Astaros later took over. It's over, and the imperial legion of the Eastern Expedition has also completely failed, unable to test whether this frighteningly powerful Dharma-Familiar still has the strength to fight again.

The setbacks caused by the two Eastern Expeditions to the Central Empire were more serious than they had expected. They were forced to sign the first peace treaty with a non-victorious party. The army and the economy suffered heavy losses. The political situation in the imperial capital was unstable, and the place was also very unstable. , the emperor at that time had only been in power for less than four years, and his body had not yet shown any signs of defeat. He spent several years to stabilize the situation, but died suddenly on the throne before he saw results. Ascended to the throne and reigned for ten years, the emperor was mediocre and only wanted to be successful, but no matter the country or the individual, the downhill was much faster than the uphill.

Three years ago, the peasants in the central provinces couldn't bear the 30% tax (only 100% of the harvest was left, and the remaining [-]% was turned over to the lord and tax officials), and uprisings broke out that swept across the three provinces.In the beginning, these farmers who were despised by the nobles as being deep in their legs were full of blood and bravery, and had no fighting power that could be considered a threat. It was thought that they would only need [-] days to completely suppress them, but now it has been three years However, these insurgents, who were originally just mobs, still exist firmly.From an unorganized and five-disciplined mob to an elite that can now confront the imperial army, it even has a certain degree of appeal after calling itself the Freedom Alliance Army. This situation is absolutely abnormal, but the reason for the investigation is the Central Empire. Only the ministers and nobles need to consider the issue.For the survivors who have endured for more than [-] years, the existence of the Freedom Confederate Army provides them with a rare opportunity.According to the information Fan Tianlan received from a certain young leader of the five main clans of the bereaved clan, they will decide on the only leader within a year at the most, and at the same time start laying the groundwork. Once the power of the five main clans is successfully integrated, the revival of the bereaved clan The trend is no longer unstoppable.

Because the Lann Knights of the Central Empire are fighting against the great northern country Lucia for a region that produces high-quality magic stones, the head of the Tita Knights this time has withdrawn from the fierce battle for the throne due to identity and physical reasons. The members were transferred to the enclave of Barak, and the remaining imperial army could not even suppress a new peasant rebel army. They even built a Deborah line of defense to block the Freedom Alliance. This is enough to prove their weakness.

Although Yun Shen didn't have a particularly sensitive intuition, he also felt that this situation was not normal, and it seemed too early to be optimistic.