Dark Sand: My Players Are All Actors
Chapter 305 - 220 The Intersection of Two Lines_5

Chapter 305: Chapter 220 The Intersection of Two Lines_5

Hai Ping realized while playing as Yu Jiaxuan that if he really only relied on the emperor’s allocation to establish the Flying Tiger Army, the best he could muster would be a weak team, which could never hope to defeat the Jin soldiers.

Therefore, Hai Ping began trying to secure funds from various sources, as the expenses for the Flying Tiger Army were particularly immense.

This, in turn, led to all kinds of impeachment efforts.

Some said that Yu Jiaxuan’s expenditure on the Flying Tiger Army was so substantial that it affected the daily expenses of other armies; others claimed that the lavish preparations of the Flying Tiger Army not only wasted resources and burdened the people, but could also potentially alarm Jin Country and cause border frictions, even precipitating war.

To the players, these accusations naturally seemed baseless, but the emperor was truly convinced and sent an envoy with an imperial edict, ordering the immediate halt of the Flying Tiger Army’s activities.

Hai Ping was dumbfounded, but with the imperial edict before him, he dared not disobey, and so the efforts to continue the establishment of the Flying Tiger Army came to a halt.

Yu Jiaxuan’s storyline stalled there.

On the other hand, Wang Wenchuan’s civil line triggered even more controversy.

Yu Jiaxuan’s storyline had relatively singular solutions, whether it was raiding camps or eliminating bandits; in the end, it was all about solving problems with outstanding military talent, with solutions that were more or less similar.

But Wang Wenchuan’s reform storyline saw players’ solutions being vastly diverse.

Some players even turned it into a simulation game of economic management, seizing this historical snippet to crazily test their economic theories.

But the outcomes were mostly a variety of failures...

It would be more accurate to say that players were wildly exhibiting different economic reform strategies rather than the local officials in this historical instance performing anything substantially beneficial.

Players found that no matter how hard they tried to refine the details, no matter how perfect the new policy schemes they conceived, the eventual execution could be described using the name of the instance itself.

Better left unsaid.

The actions of these local officials were truly beyond words.

Some players, out of frustration, simply gave up pretending and blatantly extorted money, caring only about winning the Battle of Niu Zhu ten years later, but this led to widespread uprisings, and they were promptly impeached and deposed by the conservative party, resulting in a swift game restart.

After several trials, many players reluctantly discovered that copying Wang Wenchuan’s standard answer turned out to be the safest choice.

Strictly following Wang Wenchuan’s methods would at least keep the reforms stable for five years.

Of course, after five years, he would still be removed from office due to drought and Zhang Renxia’s map of refugees.

Subsequently, some players tried playing as Zhang Renxia, persuading him not to present the map of refugees or directly as Wang Wenchuan to suppress Zhang Renxia, or to persuade him earnestly and patiently...

Although the final outcome was still far from optimistic, players had more or less figured out a way to pass this stage and had ascertained the relationship between Yu Jiaxuan’s and Wang Wenchuan’s storylines.

The two storylines influenced each other.

Wang Wenchuan’s reforms might fill the state treasury but could also create a large number of refugees at the local level, leading to a proliferation of bandit problems.

Yu Jiaxuan’s training of the Flying Tiger Army relied upon state financial appropriations; the better the nation’s economic situation, the more military funding the Flying Tiger Army could obtain. But if Yu Jiaxuan could not promptly address these bandit issues, the conservative party would have even more opportunities to impeach Wang Wenchuan and cause the new reforms to fail earlier.

Key to players’ success was finding a way to increase tax revenue through new laws while creating as few refugees as possible, and how to stabilise local bandit troubles and establish the Flying Tiger Army without court support.

In an ideal state, players would use Wang Wenchuan’s reforms to accumulate a large amount of military funding for the Qi Dynasty, and then, in the role of Yu Jiaxuan, train the Flying Tiger Army. Combining the two, there would be hope to win the Battle of Niu Zhu.

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