Douluo's ice devil Yuhao

Chapter 569 Sun and Moon's Dumping Tactics
When Huo Yuhao thought of this, he couldn't help but smile.

"Huh? What are you laughing at?" Jing Hongchen asked puzzledly.

“I just suddenly thought of some interesting angles.” Huo Yuhao asked, “Master Hongchen, who do you think will benefit more from this trade? The Sun Moon Empire, or Tianhun and Xingluo?”

Jing Hongchen didn’t understand why Huo Yuhao suddenly asked this, so he waved his hand to signal the official who was reporting, “You can go back first.”

The other party responded, bowed, and left the cabinet.

While Jing Hongchen was thinking, Huo Yuhao added, “Master Hongchen, it is best to analyze this issue from a long-term perspective.”

Jing Hongchen paused briefly and frowned, "Sun and Moon did make a lot of money from this, but in order not to dampen the enthusiasm of the people, you deliberately lowered the tax rate to a very low level, so the revenue to the treasury is actually not that high."

"The export of soul guides has squeezed out the soul guide market in Sun and Moon. Now the prices of soul guides and rare metals in Mingdu have also risen a lot."

"However, low-level soul guides do not require particularly precious rare metals, so the impact on Mingde Hall is not significant."

"Like you said, after Tianhun and Xingluo calm down, the price of soul guides will return to normal. Overall, they should benefit more."

Jing Hongchen carefully analyzed the economic accounts and came to this conclusion. Having been in charge of Mingde Hall for decades, he was very keen on this.

Huo Yuhao nodded, Jing Hongchen’s analysis was correct.

But he still smiled and said, "Master Hongchen, your analysis is good, but there is one thing I want to remind you of. Benefits are not just about money and material things."

“Hmm? Huo Yuhao, what do you mean…?” Jing Hongchen frowned even more tightly.

Huo Yuhao said: “The fact that Mingdou City’s trade is so prosperous shows that the soul guides of the Sun Moon Empire are very popular. Have you ever thought about why this phenomenon occurs, Master Hongchen?”

Jing Hongchen smiled and said, "Of course, Sun and Moon's soul mentor is stronger."

Huo Yuhao continued, “Yes, although we were enemies before, the strength and level of Sun and Moon Soul Master are recognized by other countries.”

"In the past, they just didn't have the channels. Now that the channels are opened, they still prefer the soul guides made by Sun and Moon to those made by soul guides in their own countries."

Jing Hongchen nodded.

"Master Hongchen, if I plan to conquer other countries again, do you think we should terminate this trade immediately?"

Jing Hongchen said without hesitation: "Of course."

Huo Yuhao stretched out his right hand and shook it: "No, I will order the trade to continue and expand its scale."

Jing Hongchen was stunned and looked at him in confusion: "Why? How can you continue to aid the enemy?"

Huo Yuhao said, “It’s a very simple truth, Master Hongchen. If there is a good thing that can be bought with just money, would you still go to the trouble to make it yourself?”

Jing Hongchen was about to refute but seemed to have guessed Huo Yuhao's intention, so he kept his mouth half open and said nothing.

"Of course, if you have enough time and energy, you can make something like this yourself. But if the price of buying it directly is so low that it is not worth mentioning, will you still make it yourself?"

Jing Hongchen was so shrewd that a gleam flashed in his eyes, and it seemed that he had understood Huo Yuhao's intention.

Huo Yuhao continued with emotion, “The same is true for soul guides. Since you can easily buy soul guides of better quality, why would you spend so much energy developing your own?”

Jing Hongchen couldn't help but exclaim in his heart, "Brilliant!" This conspiracy really saw through people's hearts.

Massive amounts of low-level soul guides continued to flow into Tianhun and Xingluo, becoming a part of their daily lives, making them accustomed to it. At the same time, they gradually lost the motivation to develop soul guides on their own.

This is a devastating blow to its soul guide technology.

Not only that, false peace can also make Tianhun and Xingluo relax their vigilance, and the Sun-Moon Empire can secretly plot to further widen the gap in technology between the two sides, and then take advantage of their unpreparedness to annex them in one fell swoop. Sun-Moon is the leader in soul guides, and there are too many ways to tamper with the exported soul guides, anyway, it is difficult for other countries to see it.

By then, those soul guides used for defense might fail at the same time.

Jing Hongchen thought for a moment and asked again, "But aren't you worried that it might have the opposite effect and arouse their interest in studying soul guides?"

"At this time, it is up to you, the soul mentors of the Sun-Moon Empire, to mobilize public opinion."

Huo Yuhao didn’t think this was a problem that required much fuss.

"As long as you level nine soul masters often go to other countries to exchange ideas and show your attitude, tell them that soul masters are only strong at low levels, and will be beaten by soul masters at high levels."

"Promoting it a few more times will be enough to discourage their enthusiasm for learning soul guides."

"Also, every time during the Youth Spirit Master Competition, they kept things secret and were eager to bring out any advanced technology, just to defeat Shrek and to fight for the first place."

Jing Hongchen said seriously: "This concerns the glory of our Sun and Moon, how can I not go all out?"

Huo Yuhao was puzzled as to why Jing Hongchen cared so much about the glory of this crappy competition.

"In short, showing weakness appropriately is enough to make other countries ignore the true strength of the Sun-Moon Empire."

Huo Yuhao sneered.

"Other countries seem to have won trade, but invisibly lost the most important security guarantee."

"If the Sun-Moon Empire had done this twenty years ago, they might have unified the continent by now."

Twenty years, the time of a generation, is enough to change a lot of things.

Jing Hongchen carefully pondered Huo Yuhao's plan, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that it was bold yet feasible.

Huo Yuhao looked at Jing Hongchen, who had an excited expression, and sighed inwardly.

It is difficult to resist the dumping of advanced industrial countries on backward agricultural countries. If the Sun-Moon Empire is more determined, it can take the opportunity to use more money to bribe the ministers and officials of the Three Douluo Kingdoms. They don't need to commit treason. As long as they use their influence to slightly influence the policies, the Three Douluo Kingdoms will not be able to sense the crisis.

Anyway, in Huo Yuhao's opinion, the Sun-Moon Empire has the best conditions, but it has not been able to successfully unify the continent in four thousand years, and the Xu family is more or less just occupying a position without doing any work.

He looked at Yan Hongchen again, who sorted out the context and nodded approvingly.

There was one thing that Huo Yuhao did not tell Jing Hongchen. If the Sun Moon Royal Family really did this, although the technological gap between the Sun Moon Empire and the Three Kingdoms of Xing Luo would continue to widen, it might not be a good thing for Jing Hongchen himself and the Hongchen family.

The developed trade has allowed a huge amount of gold soul coins to flow into the Sun and Moon Empire, and the commercial forces represented by Mingde Hall will control huge wealth.

Often, money can persuade the strong. The strong also need money.

This power hidden in money is a huge blow to the imperial power. It is very likely that the Sun and Moon royal family will not allow the Hongchen family to continue to control Mingdetang, but will look for an opportunity to take it back.

Only Huo Yuhao, the pseudo-emperor, would choose to support such an emerging class force. Although this force still has its own limitations and problems, facing the corrupt and arrogant Sun and Moon royal family, they already represent progress.

Huo Yuhao will not use war to unify the continent, he has a more gentle way.

He stood up slowly and said to Jing Hongchen, "Master Hongchen, Mingdou Academy will start school in a few days, and I have to rush over too."

"it is good."

Jing Hongchen nodded, and Huo Yuhao's figure disappeared in the room.