Chapter 272: Light and Darkness

Heinrich was also smiling. However, he was not as scruple, ostentatious and unrestrained as others. He pursed his lips lightly and smiled, looking at Lin Xiang, but his eyes were full of friendship and compassion.

Issuing currencies is not just mechanical printing. This involves a series of complex problems such as gold and silver reserves, material assets, territorial credit limit, etc. In fact, in the surrounding areas of Sosbia, in addition to the skeleton yuan and the red flag yuan, small-scale circulating currencies recognized by various major families, there are also banknotes issued by the two major families Aila Blauke and Freir. Although the Kalazaweisen family, represented by the old man just now, also wanted to print their own banknotes, they could not implement them due to insufficient strength and low grain production in the territory.

Printing money means that you can obtain huge amounts of wealth from trade exchanges. As long as you have the right to issue money, the wealth of territory will increase exponentially in a short period of time. However, if these colorful little things are not recognized by the trading party, they will always be just beautiful and beautiful pieces of waste paper that are actually useless.

Heinrich could fully understand Lin Xiang's feelings——As a lord, nothing can be more touching than having independent financial power. However, at this time, it was simply a delusion to ask all participating families to recognize the value of Long Tengyuan. The so-called negotiations were just superficial disguise, and it only took one month at most. All families in the surrounding areas that secretly completed private alliances will be assigned to form a joint army, and launched a full-scale attack on Long Tengzhen in the name of striking the rebels.

They cannot accept a new force that has no family background and suddenly rises. The Luton family no longer exists. It is good for everyone to share Sosbia together.

The family alliance is an interest group that seems loose but is actually entangled with various complex relationships. The strong radiation spread throughout the earth makes the various materials needed for human survival only produce from a few special and relatively independent areas. The Ella Blauke family controls more than 86% of the cotton within the alliance, and the Folier family territory has two oil fields that can be mined normally. In order to have a considerable voice and currency issuance power in the alliance, Bergson racks his brains and follows the old one surrounded by severe radiation areas.

The road goes east and expands several large sea salt production areas, including Cang Cinema, giving the Luton family a second important trade resource besides iron ore. Due to the limitations of regional, terrain, roads and other factors, it is difficult or impossible for other families to go directly to the eastern coast like Sosbia. Almost all families are jealous of this huge profitable trade transportation route. This ultimately constitutes the main reason why the alliance ignored Bergson's request for help, but watched indifferently and watched the Luton family's power transfer and was swallowed by Lin Xiang with absolute advantage in one bite.

In order to form an alliance, all major families intermarried with each other. Of course, the reason why the alliance did not take the opportunity to send troops or force Bergson to hand over more benefits in high pressure is also its own concerns - sending troops is not a simple matter. Like the old days, wars in the wasteland world also required a large amount of logistics supplies as support. Radiation exceeding the normal value of the human body, coupled with abnormal repetition and no regular climate, makes the crop yields of all families only maintain the basic level.

This consumes one of the few bumper harvests or high yields occasionally, and most of the food is used as commodities to trade with other forces that are more remote, or as capital to attract wilderness refugees and enrich the population within the territory. Therefore, even the power institutions such as the Aila Blauke family, which are larger than Sospian, can only maintain the critical point of balance between economy and material supply. Once a war is decided, it is necessary to first ensure that other forces around the territory are absolutely friendly to themselves.

If it were a few years ago, Heinrich believed that the Ellabrook patriarch would have sent troops to Sosbia without hesitation. However, since the huge religious force of "Sword of God" suddenly appeared in the north, all the balance of the area was broken overnight. The monks in blue uniforms and red crosses with chests occupied the middle of the Ellabrook and the Freir family. The Skeleton Knights from the southeast and northeast of the coast were also squeezed and eroded the territory belonging to several major families. Although the general leader of the Order's Asian headquarters of the Order repeatedly claimed that the army was only aimed at the "Sword of God", the Order did not intend to annex other forces. However, in such a chaotic situation, it was guaranteed that it was as good as farts, and there was no difference at all.

What's more, external pressure is just part of the reason why the failure to send troops in time - every wasteland family has its own secret. Even small families with a population of only tens of thousands under their rule will use their long-standing reserve forces when facing the disaster of destruction.

This kind of thing is not an unfair worry. Heinrich has heard the elders of the clan talk more than once. Decades ago, when major families had just walked out of the underground shelter and were fighting for each other on the empty and desolate earth for light radiation, a small family that was forcibly annexed by adjacent forces, in despair, blatantly detonated a small nuclear bomb hidden from the old era and died with their opponents.

Power and wealth made these families possess huge energy that ordinary people could not imagine in the old era. They mastered and controlled many secrets of human society at that time. Biological viruses, radioactive raw materials, arms factories, nuclear waste, powerful weapons of destruction, food, drinking water, and various essential materials for life that were strictly prohibited by military rulings at that time. These things are also part of the family's wealth. Before we determine whether the opponent has his own and cannot be guarded against the final trump card, any shrewd family leader will slowly and secretly penetrate while maintaining the current fixed state. After all, the scale of war in the wasteland world is much smaller than that of the national war in the old era. The fall of a city may mean that a family will be destroyed. Even if a docile animal like a rabbit, he will fight to the death if he is forced into a desperate situation. Moreover, families that have enjoyed decades of wealth and power are even more unlikely to give up their own interests easily.

Based on various factors, all members of the family alliance agreed to wait and see the rebellion within the Sosbian territory. The powers, including the patriarch Ellabrook and others, agreed that if the "rebels" from Yinyue City could capture the Galgassoni Castle, it means that the Luton family did not have any large-scale weapons of destruction worthy of worrying as their trump card. As for the parasitic and evolutionary soldiers of the war, the parasites and evolutionary soldiers of the Ailbrook and the Freir family, plus the eight small forces in the surrounding area, the huge coalition formed by the merger can completely annihilate the Yinyue "rebels" with only one city.

In short, this so-called trade negotiation is actually a cover-up. It takes time for the family alliance army to assemble, the other party needs to test the virtuality and reality, and the intelligence sent back by the foreign spies needs to be verified. Although he has no good impression of Lin Xiang, the sudden rising upstart, and is not prepared to accept him at all, and becomes a member of the alliance group, the family alliance must do enough superficial efforts.

Trade negotiations are a very good excuse. Experienced family representatives can search for various information that is useful to them from the other party's conversations and other aspects.

Conspiracy needs to be concealed. No matter what the final result is, it requires a process of mutual contact.

The atmosphere in the conference hall was very noisy, and family representatives whispered and talked. The gazes projected from everyone's eyes were full of /naked/naked desire and greed. In their opinion, Lin Xiang, sitting on the head of the long strip table, was a piece of greasy fat. They were thinking about how to cut and divide it so that they could get enough profits from the war that was about to break out.

Ten yuan, five yuan, one yuan, and three "Long Tengyuan" with a round-shaped dragon pattern were neatly placed on the table in front of Lin Xiang. No one was interested in them. In the eyes of family representatives, a rebel leader was eager to launch a new currency without any credit value in less than half a month after he overthrew his original forces. This was simply an unimaginable stupid behavior. In other words, this young man named Lin Xiang had never considered the feelings and possible acceptance of other forces around him. He was impulsive and reckless, and crazy. No one would be willing to use such unrecognized banknotes. Even if it was used to wipe his butt, he felt panicked.

"This guy is the most brainless idiot I've ever seen in my life-----"

The sound comes from an old man with gray hair and dense wrinkles and shriveled skin on his face, depicting "experience" and "wisdom".

"It's okay to be stupid, the problem is that his thinking is very crazy. Perhaps, after taking over the old Sosbian territory, we should build a mental hospital for him. I like this kind of patients with paranoid paranoia. I lock him up with an iron cage, drink brandy, and wear biscuits, and carefully appreciate his rude and roar. I like to raise such a humanoid pet with collection value."

A thin man with long hair tied into a ponytail with a ribbon on the back of his head, speaking pussy, his tone was filled with unconcealed desire, and he stretched out his pink and sticky tongue and licked his lips greedily.

"These guards are very strong. I really don't know where he has recruited so many parasites? Perhaps, we should send someone to talk to them in private. As long as we can afford a high enough price, I believe they should accept our employment."

Next to it, a bald man sitting on a chair was squinting his eyes and carefully observing the parasitic guards standing around the hall. These words immediately aroused the confrontation among the surrounding people.

Since ancient times, the earth has continued history in a dirty environment full of disputes of interest. The rich always have more material amounts than the poor. Most of the representatives of the family here have undergone reinforcement potion transformation. They cannot sense any supernatural aura from the rebel leader named Lin Xiang. Obviously, the soldiers distributed in the hall must have been willing to accept orders from him out of material temptation. It is easy to deal with such an army——the mellow wine, sexy and charming women, and bundles of huge bills. If they smashed them down, they would immediately turn the guns as quickly as possible and become part of their own camp.

As time gradually passed by, the interest of the family representatives gradually shifted to the guards. No one took Lin Xiang, who was sitting in the first place, and they unscrupulously discussed the goods of every soldier. It seemed that they were goods that were freely purchased on the market. In fact, this behavior was not surprising between the mercenaries and the employer.

The expression on Lin Xiang's face has not changed at all. The body transformed by the parasitic virus has a powerful and sensitive auditory sense. He can clearly hear the sounds in every corner of the hall. No matter what the family representatives were talking about, or were quietly planning, Lin Xiang's face was still as hard as ice, and his eyes did not fluctuate at all. It seemed that the luxurious and high-backed chair sitting at the first long strip table was not a living person at all, but a solid and stiff sculpture.

The different encounters between people are indeed full of indescribable mystery. Lin Xiang of the old era was just a soldier with politicized and simple thinking. At that time, in his consciousness space, the most frequent and most profound words appeared in his consciousness space, such as "Soldiers regard obeying orders as their duty", "Personal interests must obey the overall interests", "For the great party, they must be ready to sacrifice their lives at any time and be loyal forever". He also fantasized that in a fierce battle, martyrs like Huang Jiguang and Dong Cunrui, ending their lives in a tragic way that everyone pays attention to, became an eternal classic in the red textbooks of the Republic, became a glory that continues to be thought of in the later generations, and a hard and tenacious foundation stone under the foot of the national historical milestone.

The most effective tool for transforming the thinking of the human brain is environment and time.

The survival tone of the wasteland world is very simple - it is a murder and a murder, and you can never find the third type that can be taken into account both. In the eyes of political workers in the old era, Lin Xiang's changes are definitely a typical example of being corrupted by capitalism. But at least he is still alive because he is still alive. All the residents within the sphere of influence of Yinyue City will not be threatened by hunger, thirst, war, etc. It is precisely because of this quiet and uninterrupted change in him that out of interest, there are more and more people united around him.

There is no doubt that Glifiz is a smart and wise man with careful thinking. When Lin Xiang did not appear or even formed an alliance with him, the fat regional manager had already secretly sought absolute control of Emma City and its surrounding areas. He was like a fat leech parasitized on Sosbia, racking his brains to do everything possible, desperately absorbing the blood and nutrients belonging to the Luton family, making himself thicker, stronger and fatter.

In order to replace the Luton family, Glifiz developed an extremely large infiltration plan that took decades or even hundreds of years to be successful. For this reason, he spent a lot of resources and training, and bribed a large number of spies hidden among civilians. The fat man's eyes were very far-reaching, and the area where spies infiltrated was not limited to the old Sosbian territories. All the family forces adjacent to it, and even institutions far away, had spies hidden secretly lurking in Glifiz's orders. The scope of intelligence collection was not only pure military force, population, grain output, resource types, terrain, and routes. Over the past few decades, the relevant information stored in the dark grid of Glifiz in the office had been filled with the entire wall. If it weren't for Lin Xiang, a young parasite who had strong force, showed good friendliness to himself, and even saved his life, these things would have only belonged to Glifiz alone.

Before conducting this so-called "negotiation", Lin Xiang had carefully analyzed all the information of the family alliance - this is a powerful group that relies entirely on interests to unite. Trade profit is the most critical factor in the existence or destruction of the alliance. If it were not for the concern that each family had unpredictable means of co-destruction, the most powerful Aila Blauke or the Freir family would have long since swallowed up all other forces existing in the surrounding areas.

This kind of concern is not groundless. Take Sosbia as an example. If Lin Xiang had not met Xiao unexpectedly at Cang Cinema and accepted the loyalty of this woman who wanted to rebel against the clan, the remaining Luton clan living in Galgassoni Castle, would have crazily detonated the few kilograms of iridium stored in the secret warehouse. These nuclear energy raw materials with strong radiation elements were enough to turn all creatures within the radius of more than ten kilometers into ashes.

The relevant information fed back from various channels has been piled up on the table in the city lord's office. Lin Xiang has long understood the various actions of the family alliance secretly gathering troops. He is not afraid of war. The comprehensive strength of the "Vulture Mercenary Group" and the Yinyue City Guards is far stronger than that of the family alliance armed. Simple war can only cause unnecessary consumption of materials and money. The simplest and practical way of control is to use Sosbia to support internal rebels to take all or most of the interests into his own pocket.a!~!
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