Chapter 67 This paper doll is too intelligent! 67
Except for the third round where everyone rolled a single die, the dice rolls in the following rounds were all normal, and 'Qin' also gave up the idea that the dice had been rolled.
She's been quite lucky, having occupied many cities and possessing the most territory among all the players. However, the one who has taken the most steps isn't her, but Zhao Ji. She's truly lucky, having acquired a lot of useful cards.
The richest player was Ying Zheng, who played the "Wei" chess piece. It's surprising that this guy has a talent for business.
Han Ji and her son's luck in the game is average; they don't seem to have any particular advantage yet, and their overall development can only be described as mediocre.
While Han Ji was debating whether to use the function card in her hand to seize the city occupied by Zhao Ji, Zhao Ji herself had already spoken up and urged her: "Since you have the function card, you should definitely use it. It's just a game, and I won't blame you."
Qin nodded: "Winning or losing a game doesn't mean anything. Do whatever is advantageous to you, and don't go easy on me."
This last sentence is for everyone to hear: she just got let off the hook several times, and the fun of the game is almost gone!
Upon hearing this, Han Ji blushed slightly, while the others remained expressionless, demonstrating their remarkable ability to remain calm and collected.
Han Ji, without hesitation, played a function card and occupied the city that originally belonged to Zhao Ji.
Qin realized that Han Ji was definitely suffering from decision paralysis; her indecisive look was exactly like that of other patients.
Because of the previous special statement, the atmosphere became tense in the following rounds. Zhao Ji frowned as she looked at the function card in her hand, thinking about how to save the domestic economy and prevent being kicked out of the game due to the deficit of the national treasury.
She decided to raise taxes!
As a result, bad luck in the next round of penalty dice caused a riot among the common people, resulting in the loss of a relatively prosperous city.
Zhao Ji gasped in shock; this game was just too difficult!
On Han Ji's side, things were developing steadily and peacefully. Her territory was stable, her economy was stable, and the number of commoners in her country was stable. Everything was stable.
Meanwhile, the Qin state, due to its vast territory and insufficient officials, suffers from poor domestic management and has to go through a penalty dice every three rounds, putting it in a difficult situation.
She sighed, "I should have incorporated the school system when I was making the game. I shouldn't have been afraid of the trouble..."
She was completely overwhelmed by the lack of domestic officials and was obsessed with territorial expansion.
Every time I see a city, I think, "It's all hers, it's all hers!"
But the Qin player, engrossed in the game, forgot that there were no Ying Zheng or Taishu Jiu working for her in the game, nor was there Ji Yu developing weapons for her.
Another day of reminiscing about the many good (and hardworking) people.
'Qin': The spirit of the state sighs. (jpg)
Fortunately, she still has money; she can throw money around. If one pile of money isn't enough, she'll just throw in another!
The Qin state played its function card, poaching talent from other countries. As a result, Ying Zheng and his allies each had to pass a penalty dice to determine whether their domestic talents would be poached.
Cheng Jiao, still dazed, said, "Mother, things are fine as they are now."
He was already overwhelmed by this level of difficulty!
He also saw in the rulebook that once there were no more unclaimed cities, a conquest mode would be launched, where players would compete for the Nine Cauldrons that would randomly appear in various locations on the map.
It's gotten even more complicated!
He hasn't even figured out this part yet, and if they add the school gameplay for training officials, he'll be even more confused.
He glanced up at his older brother beside him, who looked calm and unhurried, truly befitting his elder brother.
Cheng Jiao immediately decided to learn how to win this game!
In a moment of distraction, he didn't notice that he had been randomly poached as the prime minister of the country.
The prime minister of Chu packed his bags and went to Qin to serve as a local official. Such an absurd thing could only happen in a game. In reality, who would want to give up the position of prime minister of one country to become a local official in another country?
This is no longer a promotion in name only; it's a severe demotion.
In this round of punishment, Zhao Ji and Han Ji escaped unscathed, Ying Zheng had all the officials in a city removed, and Cheng Jiao lost his prime minister.
Qin made a profit; it was practically a risk-free deal. However, she also had to go through a penalty dice roll to determine whether any of the talents she recruited were spies from enemy countries.
Qin wanted to clasp his hands together and pray for divine protection, but then he remembered his identity and thought to himself: It's not too much to ask me to bless myself, is it?
She rolled the dice, and the number changed to one. Great, there's only one spy among these people, so there's not much of a problem.
Now all she needs to do is roll the penalty die once per round, and wait for the spy to make his move so she can catch him.
Fortunately, the game isn't entirely realistic. Players from the country that sent the spy don't know they've sent one, and of course, they can't control what the spy does. The truth is only revealed when the penalty dice are applied.
Before the truth was revealed, they continued to play according to the normal procedure. Ying Zheng frowned as he looked at the city that had lost its officials and fallen into chaos. He immediately chose to use the function card in the next round and transferred officials from all over Wei to the city. At least he managed to save the city and prevent the territory from shrinking.
After losing his prime minister, Cheng Jiao thought for a while and decided to choose someone from the royal family to replace him. There were also guest ministers in the country, but he was a little distrustful of them. Mainly due to metaphysics, he always felt that people from his own country were less likely to betray him. He was sure that the prime minister was poached last time because that prime minister was not from Chu.
Cheng Jiao felt he had discovered the truth and confidently selected a Chu person from the royal family to fill the position of prime minister.
After one round, all the countries stabilized their domestic situations. Qin, which had just used the function card to poach talent and could not use it a second time, was scheming and thinking about what other means in the rules could be used to steal some talent from other countries.
In the following rounds, everyone showed off their skills, which was almost a free-for-all of function cards. Although some of the function cards seemed ridiculous, it was still a lot of fun.
Before 'Qin' could even carry out his wicked plan, he was punished by the dice and deemed the country's only spy to have instigated a rebellion...
Why do I say this? Because the rulebook states that talents recruited from other countries cannot hold official positions in their home country that are three levels lower than those in their former home country. The one who rebelled this time was the prime minister recruited from the state of Chu. Although Qin did not appoint him as the prime minister of Qin, according to the rules, his rank was still high enough, making him a high-ranking local official.
It was him, the former prime minister of Chu, who gave up his position and traveled thousands of miles to Qin to work as a spy. Even as a local official, he did not forget his original intention and launched a local coup.
When this judgment event appeared as text floating above the chessboard, the surroundings were completely silent. Even Cheng Jiao himself gave a dramatic performance of pupil dilation.
He had no idea that the prime minister's betrayal was actually an undercover operation! He also despised the prime minister who came from Wei as a guest minister and became the prime minister of Chu.
Cheng Jiao felt so guilty that he would wake up in the middle of the night.
'Qin': "...This is too...loyal..."
She didn't know what words to use to describe this former prime minister of Chu, because the disadvantages caused by the turmoil were not as great as the impact of the spy being the former prime minister of Chu.
Although she was the one who added this spy gameplay and created the judgment system, she still has to say that it's a bit too abstract.
As Qin laughed, everyone except Cheng Jiao laughed as well. Zhao Ji teased, "Cheng Jiao's prime minister is too clever; he's not like a thin piece of paper at all."
Someone nodded in agreement. Yes, it's a good thing she herself is an android, so she doesn't have to worry about the little piece of paper she made suddenly evolving and the whole set fast-forwarding into an android crisis.
Cheng Jiao scratched his head sheepishly. He hadn't realized it himself. In reality, how could a prime minister personally act as a spy? Ultimately, such a thing only happens in games.
Ying Zheng largely agreed, but seeing that the former prime minister of Chu was originally from Wei, he asked Qin, "Mother, do you think this prime minister of Chu might have been sent to Chu by me, but I don't know?"
Qin understood Ying Zheng's meaning, but she only thought about it for a moment before rejecting it. It seems that she didn't include such an abstract judgment when she made this game: "Absolutely impossible. The judgment of spies is from one country to another. There will never be a situation where a spy is a double agent."
Ying Zheng nodded with regret, indicating that he understood. He then watched as Qin sent troops to suppress the city and exterminated the troublemaking former prime minister of Chu.
However, before he could finish playing this game of Warring States Monopoly, it was already afternoon, and Ying Zheng took his leave, saying that he still had government affairs to attend to.
In reality, he left to work overtime, while Cheng Jiao said he wanted to seek further advice from Meng Shangqing and also left.
When the time came to a pause, the expert Ying Zheng had already pulled far ahead and won the first cauldron.
What might be difficult for others is as easy as going to work for him. 'Qin' is also quite realistic when it comes to making games, which makes it even easier for him to play.
As the founding state of the game, Qin was familiar with the rules of the game, knew the affairs of the state, and had a keen sense of national spirit. Except for being a little too impulsive and expanding too fast at the beginning, which led to a disadvantage, Qin developed smoothly and obtained its first cauldron.
However, due to previous bad luck and a problem with the penalty dice, the turmoil caused by the former prime minister of Chu made her situation somewhat unstable.
But she believes that luck is conserved; if you're unlucky in the first half of the game, you can't be unlucky for the whole game, right?
The image of the chessboard was preserved by 'Qin' and left on this table, just waiting for everyone to have time to continue the game.
In the end, only three elderly people remained in the palace (the country). But it wasn't without its advantages. Without the younger generation, they didn't have to maintain the airs of elders. As for the country, they didn't have to maintain any so-called face.
The two shifted to a more comfortable position and chatted casually, their conversation revolving around Cheng Jiao.
Han Ji was also worried about Cheng Jiao's upcoming military campaign as a general, but she would not actually stop her son because of her own concerns.
She was such an indecisive and timid person that she needed someone to be by her side to give her advice at all times. In the past, it was King Zhuangxiang, and later it was Zhao Ji.
That's right, it wasn't her son Chengjiao, but Zhao Ji, who had already become the Empress Dowager!
Zhao Ji and Han Ji had known each other for a long time and understood each other's personalities well. Since she couldn't comfort them, she changed the subject.
They talked about the scenery that Qin had shown them last time, and Han Ji followed Zhao Ji's recollection, her words full of praise.
Qin received two different compliments, which is why she loves to come to Ganquan Palace even when she has nothing else to do. Who doesn't want to hear nice things?
However, upon reflection, aside from her own country, no one dared to say anything unpleasant to her, let alone foreigners, who couldn't even see her.
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Soon the next grand court assembly arrived. At this assembly, Ying Zheng readily agreed to Cheng Jiao leading the troops. However, due to his suspicion of Prince Dan of Yan, he changed the target of the attack and chose the Yan state, which had been behaving itself for several years.
Although the country being attacked had changed, Zhu Qing'ai noticed that Fan Yuqi was still with Cheng Jiao. This was not hard to understand; accompanying the Qin prince on his expedition meant that if they won, the credit would definitely go to Prince Cheng Jiao, but if they lost, he would become the scapegoat. It was normal that this was an unpopular task.
After analyzing the situation, Zhu Qing'ai concluded that it wasn't a big deal. Historically, Fan Yuqi betrayed the Qin-Zhao war because he was afraid of punishment upon returning home, while Cheng Jiao might have defected because he was afraid of being implicated...
This time, the target of the attack was Yan, and they brought several of the latest cannons. How could Feilong lose when they were charging in head-on?
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Author's Note: After hearing that there's no double agent trope...
Ying Zheng: Regretful (jpg)
Qin: What are you regretting?!
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