Chapter 172 Soul Guidance Device Science no longer exists (modified)
"Your Majesty, now that the black market sales of soul tools from the Sun and Moon Empire have been completely destroyed, it seems that Xu Cheng has come into contact with some secrets in the Star Luo Empire..."
One of the ministers looked confused.
"Well, after all, at that time, I never thought that he could leave the Imperial Capital alive, so I just let him visit the auction. Who would have thought." Xu Jiawei said bitterly and shook his head helplessly.
Ever since Xu Cheng broke through the defense line and returned to the Sun-Moon Empire, he began a large-scale purge of "inside ghosts" and crushed all the clues they could have contacted to the Sun-Moon Empire's black market. In the past, they relied on selling goods from the black market. The cutting-edge technology of the Sun and Moon Empire ensures that it barely falls behind, but now if it is used, it will directly turn black...
"Can we never keep up with our own soul guidance device technology?" Xu Jiawei also asked with a hint of anger.
"Your Majesty, our soul guidance device technology is more than a little better than Shrek..." the minister said helplessly, "But the strength of the soul guidance device mainly depends on the number of high-level soul masters. For example, between us and the other two countries, even if Including Shrek, there is not even a ninth-level soul engineer..."
Xu Jiawei: "..."
He automatically ignored the rest of it, but the first one was far more than Shrek's, which made him extremely happy.
"Ahem, okay." Xu Jiawei's anger disappeared instantly, "In the past, the allocation for the Soul Guidance Department was not small. Now that times are changing and the country is about to survive, let's double the allocation..."
"Thank you, Your Majesty!!!" the minister said excitedly.
He is in charge of the soul guidance device, and he also knows that the research and development of the soul guidance device, each scientific research result, is all made of gold, and he has no money to develop a crap soul guidance device.
However, he did not expect His Majesty to be so generous.
But he was happy, and the finance minister beside him was about to cry.
"Your Highness! The national treasury is now in deficit. In previous years, almost more than 10% of the empire's income was invested in the research and development of soul guidance devices. But now if we want to catch up with the Sun and Moon Empire, what can be accomplished in just a few years or decades? The southern coast of the Moon Empire A typhoon has just hit the region, and the people have suffered heavy losses. They are still waiting for relief food from the empire. In the Astronomical Province, which is close to the Star Forest in the north, a beast plague broke out the year before last. The hole has not been filled yet. I hope Your Majesty will think twice... …”
The Finance Minister is just one word, poor. Anyway, you can’t blame me if trouble occurs.
Xu Jiawei suddenly felt a little dizzy.
What is the income of a country, imperial taxes, state-owned enterprises (Star Auction House, Arena, ordinary soul tool sales shops), land profit (very little, the food grown on the land is enough for civilians, the main economic output value is the flesh and blood of soul beasts) , and the most important Star Dou Forest soul beast industry chain (soul ring, flesh and blood, fur one-stop).
The original empire cycle of Douluo Continent was abnormal.
There are hundreds of millions of people in total, but the economic output is entirely provided by a very small number of soul masters among them. Almost the entire country is used to serve these minority groups. Ordinary civilians... just live. If we talk about the Wuhun Palace period, civilians can still rely on Talent can change one's destiny, and provide a steady supply of blood. In recent years, as the nobles have monopolized the awakening ceremony, the entire country has become more and more dependent on soul masters.
In the past, the cultivation system of soul masters was all about hunting soul beasts, swallowing elixirs, purchasing soul bones, etc. in order to become stronger. This was a natural economic cycle, and it was also the main source of economy for the three countries in the original continent.
But now, under the impact of soul guidance devices, the traditional empire system is obviously unsustainable. What the soul master can do, my soul master can do, and what the soul master cannot do, my soul master can also do! Even cheaper.
In addition, Xu Jiawei's somewhat hasty promotion of soul tools and a series of reforms had seriously violated the rights of the nobles. Although they would not say anything, they secretly acted.
Are you financially weak? Then I can only get in and out.
He hoarded countless gold soul coins, food and other resources in large quantities, causing the entire Star Luo Empire to panic.
"Your Highness, the common people are also your subjects. Now they are living in dire straits..." The Minister of Finance really didn't want to bear this infamy and begged.
"Superficial! It doesn't matter how many times they are hungry. As long as the empire's soul guidance devices can develop and keep pace with the Sun and Moon Empire, there will be plenty of meat to eat!" The minister in charge of soul guidance devices said angrily.
Are you going to rob me of the benefits that he got so easily? No way!
Xu Jiawei was a little angry, and he was naturally aware of the hidden tricks of the Star Luo Empire's hidden families, but he was helpless.
The family is intertwined, the dynasty is an iron-clad family, and the years have changed. No one knows how terrifying the network of influence is, but they are still very united. He had thought about using one family for surgery, but the next day he received letters from several family heads. I gave up the idea only after visiting.
Therefore, the aristocratic family cannot move.
Then we can only...
"That's all, I'll take the blame for the suffering of the people..." Xu Jiawei said helplessly. "Those who are providing disaster relief, please stop all of them. Give them orders and let them deal with it on their own. Can't they eat wild vegetables and so on? Just don't starve to death. Can't they just dig a hole where they live?"
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Everyone looked at each other: "..."
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Star Luo Palace.
"Brother, you are here."
Xu Jiujiu quickly stood up and respectfully performed a court salute to Xu Jiawei.
"Haha, let's see you."
Xu Jiawei glanced at him for a long time with a complicated expression, and sighed softly: "You still can't forget him?"
"Family and country always come before children's personal love, I understand this." Xu Jiujiu pursed his red lips and said softly.
"Alas..."
Xu Jiawei shook his head.
Fortunately, the boy didn't take Xu Jiujiu away with him before he left.
Otherwise, he would really lose his wife and his troops.
I originally thought about getting Jiujiu to marry him, or maybe a honey trap, but I didn't expect that guy to be so slippery, so he turned around and left. Instead, my sister was trapped in it and couldn't extricate herself.
However, Xu Cheng's arrogant strength that easily crushed his peers was exactly the age of the girl Huaichun. When the two met...
Forget it.
"Jiujiu, you are my compatriot sister. In the future, we can only have marriage. There is no love. I once had someone I loved deeply, but she is in Shrek's inner courtyard. We cannot fall in love. Today's queen is just a A tool to stabilize the noble family..." Xu Jiawei said with emotion.
"Yeah." He said silently, looking at the stars outside the window for a long time.
……
"Commander, I want to try..." Orange half-knelt on the ground, staring at Huo Qing with determined eyes.
The latter's expression was hesitant. She naturally knew that when Xu Cheng handed over the oranges to her with confidence, he was basically going to the future military commander. This shows its importance. Therefore, in the past, she only dared to hand over patrol tasks. There were some frictions with full authority. Consider it an experience.
However, the friction between the two countries has become fierce recently, and there was even a tendency to cause a small-scale war. The number of casualties plus ordinary soldiers has been hundreds of thousands. Once the oranges are released, if they are captured by the other side...
"Aunt Qing, I need military exploits." Orange stared at Huo Qing with burning eyes.
The latter stagnated.
Orange's sincere words really moved her.
According to the current form of friction, as long as both countries have no plans to go to war, I am afraid that soon they will withdraw their troops and even order the current battalion to return to Mingdu, and then replace several other battalions to take over the defense, so as to reduce the degree of friction. .
It would be difficult to make meritorious deeds at that time.
At this moment, the momentum of the entire Fire Phoenix Soul Instructor Group has reached its peak, plus the mecha team, they are worrying about having no place to grind their teeth...
"Don't run too far." Huo Qing hesitated for a moment, then acquiesced.
The Xingluo army on the opposite side is also a little arrogant, and it is always good to extinguish their arrogance.
"Thank you, Marshal!" Orange said with a smile.
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"So what I'm going to talk about today is the basic structure of the core formation of the soul guide. Regarding the range, rate of fire, and switch of the soul guide formation, I have explained all the lines a few days ago. If you don't understand, you can Come to me..." As he said that, Xu Cheng glanced at the sleepy Zhang Lexuan sitting at the back.
The corner of his mouth twitched.
He slowly walked to his side and patted his neck.
But on the fair neck, a striking blue mark was revealed.
"Hiss..."
Xu Cheng suddenly remembered the madness last night, lifted up his collar to block the deep mark, coughed twice awkwardly, and avoided Zhang Lexuan's suddenly awakened and resentful eyes.
It seemed to be saying: It's not you who caused it... Several people listened very carefully and actively asked questions about the basic structure of the soul guide, especially the theoretical knowledge, and Xu Cheng also answered everything he knew.
"Teacher... what do you think the future development trend of soul guides should be?" Wang Dong asked with enthusiasm before the end of get out of class.
Although she was temporarily unable to access the soul guide, after studying with Xu Cheng for a few days, she also developed a strong interest in this huge technological building.
"I don't know." Xu Cheng smiled lightly.
"Maybe it's artificial intelligence technology, or it's the banning of soul masters. Ordinary people can also control high-level soul tools, or fly to the stars and the sea. I'm also exploring and revising my thoughts."
"Then you spare no effort to teach us knowledge, so aren't you afraid of becoming an enemy when you return to Shrek Academy?" Mo Xuan couldn't help but ask.
"Haha..." Xu Cheng laughed.
It was a smile that truly came from the heart, which made Mo Xuan a little confused.
He looked at Mo Xuan: "Not everyone is qualified to be our enemy. Just like the knowledge stored in Shrek's Poseidon Pavilion was accumulated by the genius ancestors who have spent thousands of years, and the soul guides of the Sun and Moon Empire who have spent thousands of years Development is definitely not something that Shrek can catch up with in a few days. You must know that He said that since Xu Jiawei took office, the Star Luo Empire has allocated a large sum of money to develop soul guidance devices, and its emphasis on the development of soul guidance devices is dozens of times that of Shrek. But now they are as good as the sun and the moon in the development of soul guidance devices. The level of the empire more than five thousand years ago..."
He did not exaggerate. The figure of five thousand years was actually very conservative.
It is also the tens of thousands of years of accumulation of the Sun and Moon Empire that allows him to hit wherever he wants, and by investing gold soul coins and resources, they can instantly build them for him, such as mechas, missiles, etc...
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Mo Xuan was silent.
What he saw now was just the tip of the iceberg revealed by the Sun and Moon Empire.
Before coming, I might have been a little worried about whether the Sun and Moon Empire would cause some obstacles, but I didn’t expect that Xu Cheng would directly teach him everything he had, without any personal possessions...
Because when it comes to soul guides, they don't regard themselves and others as competitors at all.
"Okay, Wang Dong comes to my office."
In the quiet and eerie atmosphere, Xu Cheng clapped his hands and said, "Nothing's wrong."
Turn around and leave the classroom.
"Senior sister, it is indeed extremely difficult for the academy to develop soul tools. According to what I have inquired about these days, rare metals alone, as long as the Sun and Moon Empire prohibit them, are equivalent to blocking our upper limit, because Many of the high-end soul tools require rare metal structures, and it will take at least hundreds of years to develop Shrek's soul guidance system with just a few of us... Senior Sister?"
Mo Xuan waved his hand and looked at Zhang Lexuan in a daze.
"It's okay..."
Zhang Lexuan said calmly.
"Hey, Senior Sister, are you injured on your neck?" Xiao Xiao exclaimed.
"Yes, there is a bruise." Wang Dong also said in surprise.
After all, with the strength of the senior sister, how could she be injured, especially in a "safe zone" like the Royal Academy of the Sun and Moon Empire?
"Sister, if you are bullied, we will go to Teacher Xu Cheng. As the prince of the Sun and Moon Empire, he will definitely not sit idly by and do nothing." Mo Xuan said angrily.
"I..." Zhang Lexuan's earlobes were tinged with red.
What should she say.
The person who "bullyed" her is the teacher Xu Cheng you call?
He also bullied her all night, causing her not to have a good rest?
"It's okay, I'm just "discussing" with the students from Mingde Hall." Zhang Lexuan pretended to be calm and covered the bruises with her collar, "Okay, Wang Dong, go quickly, Xu Cheng... the teacher asked you to go there Office.”
"Oh..." Wang Dong was stunned for a moment, then came to his senses and walked out of the classroom.
In the corridor.
Wang Dong felt a little excited.
Ever since Xu Cheng promised to lift the ban that had tortured her for a long time in the Star Forest, she has been waiting for this day, and now...
Sure enough, as soon as I arrived at the office.
Xu Cheng showed a smile: "Although the previous soul fragment has been broken, the ban will probably torture you enough. Leave it to me from now on. Remember, no matter what you see in the future, don't make a sound..."
"Yeah!" Wang Dong stared at Xu Cheng with wide eyes.
Xu Cheng's face slowly became serious, his eyes narrowed, and his blood-colored pupils suddenly appeared. The second form of the martial soul avatar suddenly appeared. The room was instantly flooded by the blood pouring from Xu Cheng's body, and fell into a crimson ocean. The volume It also became vast.
"Yilao."
Xu Cheng called softly.
I saw a flash of darkness in the sea of spirit, the door slowly opened, and the shadow of Electrolux also appeared.
"Is this the little girl?" Electrolux nodded slightly and pointed his thin fingers at Wang Dong.
A mysterious figure holding a triangular fork and exuding a light blue aura suddenly appeared behind him.
Wang Dong looked at this scene in shock.
Electrolux frowned, "It's a bit difficult."
Xu Cheng was shocked, "Yilao, even you..."
"The person who cast this forbidden curse is very powerful and has a very high status. If I were here, I would be able to untie it quietly without disturbing the people behind him. But now I am just a fragment of my soul. I want to Untying it... will definitely alarm the person behind it," Electrolux said thoughtfully.
"The most important thing is, according to my observation, the man is still alive. If he is alerted, I am afraid there will be consequences..."
Xu Cheng pondered for a moment.
Bomb defusal is risky.
But the risk is not great.
What Yi Lao didn't know was that he had already met a certain God King when he was in the Star Dou Forest.
If Tang San had the ability to interfere with the Douluo plane, how could he send an incarnation down and make himself so miserable?
Coupled with the reaction of the God of Destruction before, he was almost certain that in today's God Realm, Tang San's family was no longer dominant. Even if it was really demolished, if the Tang Shenwang discovered it, he would probably be incompetent and furious... …
"Destroy it, Yi Lao, I know it well." Xu Cheng smiled and touched Wang Dong's hair, "This girl has been tortured for too long, and she is not willing to become someone's tool. I will bear all the consequences. That’s it.”
ah? ? ?
Wang Dong raised his head and looked at Xu Cheng blankly.
It feels like my underwear is being seen through.
But she was quite moved. When facing the gods, just saying "I will bear all the consequences" made Xu Cheng's position in her heart suddenly rise.
She had gone back to Haotian Sect before and asked her eldest father.
But instead of facing her, the eldest father asked angrily what happened to the soul fragments in the auspicious beast. This made her quite sad, and for the first time, she had a clear understanding of the world.
The people closest to her didn't care about her life or death, but a former "enemy" now waved his hand to block all counterattacks and revenge...
"Ah hahaha, what a boy!" Electrolux smiled boldly.
"Okay, I've nailed this bomb today! God can't stop it even if it comes, I said so!"
As he spoke, he patted his palm lightly, and his fingers dexterously traced several complicated lines, slowly forming a formation that enveloped Wang Dong's entire body.
"Buzz!"
The formation rotates.
The light blue shadow behind Wang Dong suddenly screamed.
(End of chapter)