Cursed Mountains and Seas

Chapter 318 Exploiting the Father-in-Law Again: Money Warrior, Set Off!

call--!
The surging power of incense and prayers flew out from all parts of the East Sea Kingdom and entered the royal seal, and a golden sun slowly rose from the city wall.

When there is no generational gap in weaponry, the ability to fight a war depends on organizational strength.

If you can organize 50,000 people and command them effectively to form a cohesive force, they will definitely be more powerful than a scattered 100,000 people.

Historically, there are examples of a few people chasing down a hundred times the number of fleeing soldiers because they lost their ability to organize.

At this time, the Donghai Kingdom was about to take the top spot in terms of organizational capabilities.

The feudal system was transformed into a prefecture-county system, and the unique digital management system of "Xie Li Yin Yang" was used to implement the "Wang Hua Zhao Shi Ling" (Order of the Beginning of Royal Transformation), thus confining everyone to its own legal framework.

The first class consists of those who are loyal to the Five Peaks Banner and have the bestowed surname and given name upon those who have the paternal lineage of the Great Zhao.

The third tier consisted of elites from the Outer Five Banners who had been absorbed into the system; next came first-class good citizens, second-class good citizens, third-class good citizens, newly naturalized citizens, and die-hard elements.
The society is divided into upper and lower classes, and the "Yin-Yang Harmony" system labels everyone. Those within the system are more free and creative, while the lower-class Japanese are subject to a more rigid hierarchy.

Without the middlemen like the big and small powerful families and their patriarchs, everyone reports directly to Wang Cheng, with execution reaching the very bottom of the country, down to a specific family or individual.

The organization is top-notch!
The most telling example of this is the dragon's aura; even the village children know who their true master is.

The willpower of all beings, the spirit of the people, the spirit of officials, the spirit of the army, the spirit of literature, and the spirit of the dragon all surged forth along the "capillaries" formed by each individual.

The royal seal shone brightly, and a golden beam of light shot straight into the sky.

The Twenty-Four Rhythms manifested and intertwined into a net, spitting out a golden point of light that fell into the harbor.

Golden light exploded, and a huge gate, resembling a jade archway, fell from the sky, its lower half embedded in the water and its upper half soaring into the clouds, surrounded by several divine beings who seemed to reach the heavens and the earth.

Then this majestic and imposing gate continued to push outwards, extending twelve nautical miles toward the Seto Inland Sea, where it crashed into the main force of the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons.

It's sizzling!

Many evil spirits emitted blue smoke, and the closer one got to the territory of the East Sea Kingdom, the stronger the burning sensation became.

"Ah ah ah ah ah"

Many of the weaker Yin Ghosts among the initial landing force couldn't help but let out shrill screams.

Clearly, the power of this gate far exceeded that of the Ōtomo clan alone, and even surpassed that of Meizhou Prefecture, which was in the twilight of the dynasty.

The Donghai Kingdom not only incorporated every individual into its centralized ruling system, but also, with the application of water power and thunder and fire control mechanisms, had already taken one foot into industrialization.

With a surge in productivity, the ability to change history and transform the material world has increased dramatically, and the spiritual power and blessings associated with it are naturally incomparable to those of the past.

When an agricultural country attacks an industrial country, the other country remains silent.

"Didn't this young Wang family member just take over the two major domains from the Otomo family? How come he has managed to manage them so quickly that they are as solid as an iron barrel?"
This Donghai Kingdom has a serious problem!

When Amakusa Shiro saw this "Heavenly Lock," which was even more impressive than the Great Zhao Meizhou City, he realized that his arrogance had led him to misjudge the strength of the East Sea Kingdom.

In a flash, it felt as if I had returned to that day when I had "calculated everything but understood nothing," misjudged Qi Hu and Qi Yuanjing's strength, and was ultimately beaten down by Yu Long and Qi Hu together.

And then, I don't know what hit me, but all the bones in my body started to ache.

His "Ghostly Calling," the basket snake tail he captured from the "Gates of Hell" as his trump card, and the national treasure "Paper Talk" that he obtained from a certain Grand Master of Ceremonies at the Guishan Publishing House were all exposed, and his heart began to bleed again.

But the thought of the Franco Expeditionary Force, which had already launched its attack on Pinghu Port from the Tsushima Strait, transformed all the past pain into murderous intent:
"Charge! Break down the gate at any cost!"
Let's teach these Dazhao people a lesson.

Under the command of Nurarihyon, the king of all demons, the vanguard bypassed Tachibana Yukichiyo and rushed towards the castle of Buzen Prefecture.

Meanwhile, a massive number of "Kamikaze Assassins" appeared on the masts of the Japanese pirate fleet. They drank a potion made from the diseased flesh and blood of the devouring physician and leaped into the wind.

Whoosh!Whoosh!Whoosh!
Like a flock of large crows bringing disease and death, they flew swiftly across the sea.

However, due to the restriction imposed by the gate, their flight altitude was limited, and no matter how hard they tried, they could not surpass the city gate of the prefecture.

Xue Qiandai swiftly returned to the city wall, took a military tally shaped like a copper coin from Wang Cheng, raised it high above her head, and roared:
"Temple Army Ghost Soldiers [Golden Coin Warriors], advance!"

A group of well-equipped Japanese temple soldiers, each holding a Yongle Tongbao coin in their mouths, stepped forward and formed ranks on the city wall.

They spoke of breathing in and out wealth through copper coins, and when they formed ranks, they made a clanging sound, like the beading of an abacus in the marketplace, or like the clinking of silver coins, which was mysterious and extraordinary.

Amidst the surging military and financial auras, the secret military manual "Linear Tactics" unites the entire army into one.

"Three-stage firing, open fire!"

Under Yukichiyo's command, each money warrior used the money as a medium to instantly become one with the flintlock pistol in their hand, turning the pistol into an extension of their own body.

boom!boom!boom!boom!
Countless lines of fire intertwined in mid-air, leaving the first wave of ghosts and evil spirits riddled with holes.

Although it couldn't compare to the "Divine Machine Gun Artillery Method" of the Divine Machine Battalion, which could use three-eyed muskets as sniper rifles, it represented a qualitative leap in firepower density and shooting accuracy compared to ordinary musketeers.

As the kamikaze warriors flew closer and closer over the sea, the gunners of the gold-plated artillery and coastal defense positions instantly became one with the artillery's breath.

A massive rain of scorching bullets was hurled towards the horizon two kilometers away. The Kamikaze warriors were torn apart in mid-air, falling one after another into the sea, inevitably corroding the gates of the East Sea Kingdom with their black, poisonous blood.

"what--!"

Of course, these money-wielding warriors have unique skills in operating long-range firepower, but they are obviously not without their shortcomings.

A ferocious demon, the Tengu, used its treasured sword to cut a path through a hail of bullets, flapped its wings, and leaped onto the city wall. With a single strike, it cleaved a money-grubbing warrior in two at the waist.

Although they are called Warriors, close combat is clearly their weakness, which complements the Dragon Whale Warriors.

"Haha, so what are these temple soldiers and ghost soldiers? They're nothing special."

But as soon as the Tengu finished speaking, a Yongle Tongbao coin flew out of the mouth of the fallen Jinqian Lishi and landed in the mouth of another Japanese soldier waiting behind him.

He raised his flintlock pistol and accurately shot out one of the tengu's eyes.

In fact, the natal coins made from "Yongle Tongbao" are the true forms of these coin warriors!
The earliest Temple Army Ghost Soldiers [Five Directions Dragon Scale Soldiers] in Wang Cheng's possession were a cheap method that came with the Overseas Star-Tracing Technique; the formal Temple Army Ghost Soldiers still needed to be trained.

On the other side, Commander Wang Fugui of Zhenhaiwei had already borrowed the magic from his first wife's father-in-law, Lord Yan, and reforged a new force of [Dragon Whale Warriors].

On the other hand, Prince Jinghai, Wang Cheng, who originally had more than 1,500 [Five Peaks Selection] and was not in a hurry, also started refining them this time.

He drew inspiration from the plug-in of the Five Directions Dragon Scale Soldiers and highly approved of this plug-and-play Temple Army Ghost Soldiers.

So he chose to borrow the law from another father-in-law of his second wife's family.

Although my master's health is not good, he is still a living ghost of the third rank, and he also has a treasure of the Golden Toad lineage, the Treasure Basin.

Legend has it that when Shen Wansan, the ancestor of the Shen family and the God of Wealth, was cutting grass, he dug out an iron basin from the ground and used it to feed pigs, which grew extremely fast.

When my wife was washing her hands and face in this basin, she dropped a silver ring into it, and the more she tried to retrieve it, the more she found.

The effect is simple yet powerful: "By investing gold and silver, one can absorb the Qi of the Nine Heavens' One-Life-Given Water Toad, causing the gold and silver to multiply infinitely!"

This is also a characteristic of the Money Warrior.

With the help of Thunder Listening, which allows him to communicate with anything, and the Yachiru-ryu Demon Spear of Steel Rock Ninja, he obtains the special skill [Gun Resonance], instantly transforming into a weapons expert who is skilled in manipulating all types of firearms.

Furthermore, the money associated with one's birth year also has the function of saving and increasing wealth.

The more people it kills, the more its master dies, the stronger the power it can recover. Once it reaches the limit of the temple army's ghost soldiers, it will split and multiply on its own.

Without Wang Cheng having to go to great lengths to set up altars and train troops, the number of money-grubbing warriors will continue to increase.

Moreover, as the king of a vassal state, Wang Cheng was not subject to the restriction that the Great Zhao generals could only raise a maximum of eight hundred temple soldiers; he could raise as many as he could refine.

Essentially, they are using an endless stream of Japanese people to refine treasures!
In addition, they used a special technique called "Azure Cicada Mother Coin" on these coins, so that even if they were lost on the battlefield, they would fly back to them.

With a manpower of 12 million on the entire Yingzhou Island, Wang Cheng was not afraid of any losses.

"What I learned was the Temple Army Demon Soldiers [Kamikaze Death Soldiers] created by Amakusa Shiro. He didn't care about the lives of the Japanese, and coincidentally, neither did I."

You're ruthless, but I'm even more ruthless.

This time, let's see who's more ruthless, your Japanese or mine! And who has more Japanese than us!

Besides, Wang Cheng's hand is not limited to just the [Money Warrior] card.

As Nurarihyon led the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons away from Amakusa Shiro and deeper into the territorial waters covered by the gate, they watched as the Nurarihyon led the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons away from Amakusa Shiro.

Behind it, the Lucky Boy suddenly opened the piggy bank inside its belly, releasing two figures.

The golden-robed boy [Brother Kong Fang] shouted to the slippery ghost:
“You won’t even call me brother.”

The slippery demon immediately stopped in his tracks, instinctively clasped his hands in a fist salute, and respectfully said to him:

"Brother, please accept my humble respect."

Another bookworm spirit, disguised as a lady in green, holding the original manuscript of "The Loyal and Righteous Water Margin," pierced its kidney with a paper cutter.

Using its own [illusion and reality] spiritual response and the world in the book, it forcibly locked onto its illusory nature, so even if there were shadow clones, it would no longer be able to transfer the damage.

Finally, the red-clad boy transformed into his true form, the Kirito, and bit off the Nurarihyon's head in one bite.

With the blessing of the Xuanwu Gate plaque, He was immediately crowned the new "King of a Hundred Ghosts" and took over the leadership of the Night Parade of a Hundred Ghosts.

Wave your hand vigorously:
"Little bastards, come with me, the blood food is working over here!"

The main force of the "Hyakki Yagyō" (Night Parade of One Hundred Demons) made a sharp 180-degree turn, amidst the disgusted expressions of Amakusa Shiro and other Kirishita Japanese pirates, who seemed to have eaten excrement. They surged towards the Japanese pirate fleet.

(End of this chapter)