Utopia

"Is this the first complete rifle seized by our principality?"

"Yes, Lord Regent."

"Our soldiers have sacrificed too much for this. If we had a black market or something like that, wouldn't it be better to buy directly from there?"

"Lord Regent, the black market is too expensive."

Listening to the words of a certain minister, the regent of the Elimu Principality, Brave Wayne, looked confused.

"Too expensive?"

"In recent years, everyone in our principality and other princes has heard of the existence of the black market. As a result, when everyone goes to the black market, they make various purchases. So like this kobold rifle, the price of one , equal to four times his weight in gold.”

"hiss……"

What underground black market?

At this price, it’s almost the same as an underground slaughterhouse!

"Regent, we in the principality really can't afford it. The things on the black market are... well, they are too expensive for us."

"Can't you catch a black market profiteer and torture him?"

"This... we can't beat it."

"What? Can't beat it?"

"Regent, even if the acolytes of the church appear in person, all profiteers appearing in the black market have their own escort team, and even the profiteers themselves are first-class martial arts masters. Moreover, Regent, you have heard of our southeast, there are The Negan Kingdom is formed by an elf group. Some of their members are from Negan and have weapons and equipment from the Negan Kingdom.”

"Negan..."

"The most terrifying thing is that the Golson Kingdom once sent people to assassinate the tauren guards hired by these profiteers. As a result, the next day, the assassin's body was nailed to a cross alive. No one knew what the cross was. It was time to be put in the middle of the road.”

"Return to the tauren?"

When he heard the term tauren, Wayne had a look of panic on his face. For no other reason, according to what he learned from Lysaline, these tauren are all burly men. Just using cold weapons can scare the soldiers of the Galson Kingdom to pieces, let alone It is said that the Minotaur really has the ability to kill the soldiers of the Kingdom of Golson with blood like machetes.

And as a member of the Negan Kingdom, the Minotaur has hot weapons in addition to cold weapons.

As long as the tauren armed with machine guns appear on the battlefield, it will be an inhuman and bloody massacre.

"So Regent, we really don't dare to mess around. We can only rely on the efforts and sacrifices of the soldiers to seize weapons and equipment from the bodies of the kobolds."

"In addition to the rifle, do you have bullets, grenades, and bayonets?"

"Yes. But Regent, this bullet...it's not the same as the lead bullets used by the southern princes."

"Integral bullet..."

After all, Wayne is also a brave man from another world. He is someone who knows some special terms from the outside world.

Therefore, as the regent, he has not allowed the Principality of Elimu to purchase front-loading smoothbore matchlock guns that have been used many times on the battlefield by the southern princes.

If he really wanted to purchase something, he would actually prefer something like a flintlock gun without having to worry about the match being extinguished easily.

Of course, the best option is to imitate the rifle seized in his hand and the bullets that cost his life the most.

It's a pity that the industrial foundation is very poor. From top to bottom, the Principality of Elimu does not know how to develop industry. It is a country with assembly line modular production and a limited number of blacksmiths.

For this reason, Wayne himself racked his brains to see if he could talk to the Ascetic Church.

After all, kobolds don't understand their language, so asking them is a waste of effort.

However, compared to the helplessness of the brave Wayne, Quan Dunming, who returned victorious six days later, brought 5,000 people from the Zweina Kingdom to carry out slave wholesale activities in the border towns of the Guangwu Empire.

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"Major Dunming, you've made a lot of money this time."

"It's not up to me to decide how much we earn. Who made these natives so backward? If they weren't still worth some money, I would have just drawn my sword and killed them."

"No, don't do this. Slaves are so useful these days. Our empire can't bear the death of even one."

"Because you slave traders are afraid of losing your jobs?"

"This...Major, you don't have to say it to everyone...uh..."

"So I have a question? These indigenous slaves were all transported to the north, and the north...has no slaves?"

"Yes. But very few. At the same time, the indigenous people in the north are cannibals. Our empire has troops who have been to the north and tried to catch them. However, the effect is not good. Even if the cannibals lag behind the princes of the Kahn Empire in the south, they are basically They can only fight with sticks and stones, but they have a strong will to resist and will never retreat unless 80% of them are killed."

"Eighty percent? Then it's better to just bombard them and get it over with. Huh? Wait? How did they manage to not retreat when they were less than 80%?"

"We wonder if they generally suffer from some kind of mental illness because of eating the same kind of food."

As the white-haired kobold slave trader said, the Guangwu Empire, which also encountered cannibals, initially wanted to enslave these guys.

As a result, the brutality of the cannibals really surprised the soldiers of the Guangwu Empire, so the Guangwu Empire and the Orchid Republic had the same idea, and simply killed them all.

"Disease...hum."

"This is why people in our industry would rather go to the south to receive goods than go to the north to suffer. Moreover, slaves from the south will not easily escape in the north."

"There are too many unknowns in the wilderness of the north, right? Just like the Orchid Republic."

"Major, you and I are both from the original royal city, and I'm not afraid to say it. The Orchid Republic will sooner or later be a serious problem for us."

"You...well, how do we not know? But you see, your men just divide slaves and don't have the heart to think about things in the north, so thinking too much about it is meaningless. What's more, they have quite a few Steel battleships, even if we are the same as them, most of the infantry mainly use swivel rifles, but they have more heavy weapons and we have fewer heavy weapons than them, they will definitely crush us."

After being in the army for a long time, Quan Dunming did not feel proud that his daughter married into the palace and that he was the father-in-law of the country. Rather, he was aware of the tremendous pressure being felt by the Orchids to the north who were armed with Friendly swivel rifles.

The number of steel battleships in this Orchid Republic is as high as 5 [To be honest, I have been using it recently, and it is available on Android and Apple. 】Multiple ships, and without exception all are operated by very experienced sailors. If a war really breaks out... all the coastal cities in the Guangwu Empire will be in bad luck.

In particular, they don't know why, but the popular 55mm caliber heavy artillery in the Old World has been used recently.