The Council of Elders of the Crocodile Clan also tasted the unique and sharp methods of the Eternal Night Army for the first time.

During the preparation period of the two sides, the Eternal Night Army Leader unleashed a lot of wind against those ordinary crocodile tribes through merchants, not only publicizing the crisis to them, but also publicizing the upcoming friendly negotiations between the two sides' high-level leaders, vaguely pointing out that as long as the Council of Elders is willing to make a little concession of interests, the grain ships of the Eternal Night Army will go down the river, and the number will be so large that most people can fill their stomachs.

These ordinary crocodile people don't have such a long-term interest vision, and even the racial concept is not so strong, they are more concerned about filling their stomachs like this, and when they hear about this kind of good thing, they are naturally full of expectations.

Compared to those crocodile elders, all the ordinary crocodile people in the group who have trade contacts with the Eternal Night Army Leader have a good sense of the Eternal Night Army Leader.

The other party not only brought the daily necessities they urgently needed, giving them hope of survival, but also the asking price was quite fair.

At least in their opinion, it is fair, and most of the products they buy are that they can collect themselves, but they don't use a lot of them.

Occasionally, I can still receive some gifts from the other party, most of which are moldy grains that are about to rot, or meat that is about to rot, but no one will dislike them.

In this environment of public opinion, if the Council of Elders dared to say no to this meeting, especially if it seemed to be an unbelievable reason, at least in the eyes of ordinary crocodile people.

The Eternal Night Leader is a little behind, and the reputation of the Council of Elders is only afraid to plummet, and many Elders will be overthrown by the angry crocodiles, and a new Elder will be re-elected to negotiate with the Eternal Night Leader.

At that time, whether he would step down or not was secondary, and the worse situation of the crocodile people was the main one.

Because at that time, the re-elected elders must have fallen to the Eternal Night Army Leader, and under the same conditions, the concessions made would only be greater.

For the first time, the Council of Elders tasted the pressure of public opinion.

At the same time, he also understood that the Eternal Night Army leader had tried his best to open up trade with the crocodiles, even if it was at a loss, because they wanted to make it bigger.

But it's too late to understand now, they dare to cut off trade with the Eternal Night Army Leader now, and without the Eternal Night Army Leader's move, those angry clansmen, the first one will not let them go.

The first round of the battle between the Eternal Night Army Leader and the Council of Elders was completely victorious.

Such an exchange does not seem to have any real benefits, but the implications are far-reaching.

Negotiation pays attention to a momentum, you retreat and I advance.

This has not officially begun, the Council of Elders has already fallen behind, and when it officially begins, I am afraid that I will be led by the nose.

The Eternal Night Commander will definitely not let go of this powerful weapon easily, and once the situation of the talks between the two sides continues to be disseminated to the crocodiles, it will inevitably bring pressure on them from all sides and affect the decisions they make.

Because some decisions are never a good thing in the long run, but starting from the immediate benefits is definitely full of temptation.

Most of those short-sighted ordinary crocodile people see immediate interests and don't care about what will happen in a few years, or even decades or hundreds of years.

In desperation, the Council of Elders saw that except for the four Grand Elders, who participated in the agreement as representatives, the other elders each returned to their own tribes, appeased their own people, and fought-for-tat, preaching and interpreting their every decision, so as to set the record straight.

The other party easily let go of his hand and let himself go all out.

The enemy clearly harbored evil intentions, but he was recognized by the clansmen.

They tried their best to plan for the future of the race, but they were targeted everywhere, and even earned a lot of infamy.

For the Council of Elders, this is a sadness.

This kind of sorrow is not unique to the crocodile, and the more uncivilized the people, the worse the situation.

This situation is not so easy to happen in the Eternal Night Commanders, not because their universal education has reached this level, but because they have always paid great attention to the guidance of public opinion, and now there are people who are specifically engaged in related affairs.

It is no exaggeration to say that in this regard, the Eternal Night Commander has been at the forefront of the world, and in a short period of time, they are the only ones who can attack others with this move.

The crocodile negotiators were the four Grand Elders, Nitya, Webb, Bishop, and Stephani.

Crane, who tried to intercept Brynn and create a conflict, was nowhere to be found, and according to the spy report of the Eternal Night Leader, after the interception failed, Crane did not return to the Council of Elders, but escaped back to his lair.

He even gathered all the soldiers of his own clan back, stuck to his own territory, not only drove and killed the merchant ships led by the Eternal Night Army, but also did not allow the personnel of other clans to enter and exit, completely sealed himself off, and almost broke with the Council of Elders.

This is undoubtedly a good thing for the Eternal Night Commander, and this negotiation will be much more beneficial with the biggest-stirring stick.

On the Eternal Night Army's side, Sean himself led the team, followed by Ben Hebrew, Erickson, and Marshall, also four.

Compared to the crocodiles, the candidates on the side of the Eternal Night Army Leader are carefully selected.

Needless to say, Ben Hebrew is not only the boss of the military staff, but also an old fox in the political arena who has been stumbling for many years, completely integrated into the Eternal Night Military Leader, after the vision is pulled up, the means are becoming more and more sleek and spicy, which used to involve internal struggles, and the problem of trust, but now externally, for the benefit of the Andis people, there is no such problem, and no effort is spared.

Erikson is the military representing the Eternal Night Army, the commander of the four legions, and he is the most suitable to choose from.

McGee the Skullcrusher and Andes Tiger Tagore are fierce generals on the battlefield, and they are tied down when they are on this kind of negotiating table, which is completely difficult for them.

Woody is a rational commander, but compared to Erickson's lack of experience in this area, the chief military staff of those four or five years was not in vain.

Needless to say, Marshall represents the finances of the Eternal Night Commander, many things are in his stomach, and some financial matters must be completed with his nod.

"If you want full cooperation, yes, you always have to prove your sincerity, we want the right of free navigation on the Danube. "Erickson was aggressive when he started, and he was a true white-faced man on the side of the Eternal Night Army in this negotiation.

"Impossible, impossible. Like a cat with its tail stepped on, Steffini screamed, "Don't deceive people too much, allowing your merchant ships to be armed is already the limit of our acceptance, and your warships must not go out of the waterway, otherwise it will be a declaration of war on the whole crocodile." ”

The right of freedom of navigation and the right of free trade are not the same concept at all.

The former covers a wider range, including the warships and warships of the Eternal Night Army, the shipbuilding technology of the Eternal Night Army Leader is obvious to all, one-on-one, the crocodile warship can't even beat the opponent's merchant ship, not to mention the larger, more ferocious assault warship, and the monster-like building ship.

The Danube is the core hinterland of the crocodile people, and the Eternal Night Army leads the ships and warships to sail freely, and once they are attacked, they will have no power to fight back, what is the difference between this and the surrender of the tribe?

"How can we ensure the safety of our grain ships without the right of free navigation?" said Erickson, slapping the table angrily, "We have always treated you with friendship, you see, what do you do with us?

"This is just an accident, it is completely a small number of individual behaviors, most of the crocodile people still have good intentions towards your territory, in order to prevent this kind of thing from happening, we will set up a river escort team to escort the merchant ships in your territory. Steffini explained dryly.

Secretly hated Crane's recklessness in his heart, he finished causing trouble, became a shrinking turtle, and asked these people to wipe his ass.

Fortunately, the Council of Elders has already considered the possibility that the Eternal Night Military Leader may be in trouble and seek the military initiative, and has already prepared a solution.

"It's all your family's words, how do we believe it?Grain is different from other goods, who knows if there will be more personal behavior when the time comes?" Erickson bit and did the wicked man to the end.

"The general's idea is a little too radical, and the grain ship is not one or two, nor once or twice, but a long-term deal, if we have no way to fulfill our promises, we cannot guarantee the safety of the grain ship, and it is not too late for your commander to dispatch warships and warships, and we will not use any excuse to stop it when the time comes. Webb stepped in to play the round.

However, his views are the same as Stefani's, and he is trying his best to prevent the Eternal Night Lord's military power from penetrating.

"When the tragedy happens, it will be too late to make amends, and I think it's better to take precautions, otherwise our grain ships will not dare to go deeper. Marshall also stepped in to help Eriksen with support.

"If the grain ships in your territory don't dare to go deeper, we can send someone to pick it up ourselves, right?" said Stephani with some anger.

"If you insist on doing this, you can't do it, but you know the condition of the Reaper Waterway, the number of ships that can be accommodated at any one time is limited, and if a large number of small boats come in and out, it is easy to cause traffic jams, and we need a port with a large enough throughput, and I think this is the most suitable place. Marshall unfurled a military map with the Danube in its entirety, pointing to a point twenty kilometers downstream of the Grim Reaper's waterway.

Erikson aggressively asked, "You won't even refuse this, that would be insincere." ”

The three Great Elders of the Crocodile Clan exchanged glances, and the midfielder stopped, "Let's discuss." ”

Compared to the clash of words and swords, the Supreme Commander of the Eternal Night Army and the First Elder of the Crocodile Clan, Nidia, was happy.

Nitya glanced at the military map in Marshall's hand and said thoughtfully, "This port is your real purpose, right?"

"Nothing can be hidden from the eyes of the Great Elder. Sean said bluntly, "With the growth of trade volume, the Reaper Waterway will become the biggest bottleneck, both sides need trade ports, our side is no problem, but the Great Elder is a little troublesome, if we suddenly propose to build a port, I am afraid that many people will not even think about it, and directly veto it, so we can only make this decision." ”

Sean is now considered to have achieved a lot of cultivation, avoiding the important and trivial, only mentioning the commercial value of this port, and not mentioning the military value.

"Cunning little one. Nitya pretended not to know.

Because she knew that the crocodile people had no way to refuse, the grain was different from other goods, not to mention the weight, the value was also there, if there was no escort force, the other party would definitely not transport it into their territory on a large scale.

If the conversion method is adopted, a large port is required as a distribution center for loading and unloading, which is a must.

Whether the crocodile people want it or not, they must pinch their noses and admit it.

There will be no second outcome of the negotiations on their side, this is a conspiracy of others, and it will be up to them to see how much control of the port they can fight for, which is also not optimistic.

"Great Elder, come, try this, and see if it suits your appetite. Sean quickly filled the teacup in front of Nitya, and the slightly yellowed tea contrasted with the porcelain-white ceramic teacup, and a unique fragrance came to his face.

"This is ......" Nitya picked up and sniffed it in front of her nose, took a small sip, and a unique natural fragrance permeated between her mouth and tongue, making her can't help but close her eyes and taste it, revealing a hint of surprise and said, "This is Catalpa?"

"That's right, it's Catalpa. Sean replied with a smile, "But after frying and drying, it is no longer a simple catalpa leaf, we have given it a special name tea, I don't know if the Great Elder is in tune?"

"No, it's not just the smell of catalpa, it's also the smell of magic! you fried it with magic?" Nydia widened her eyes and looked at Sean in disbelief, the surprise in her heart was far beyond knowing that this kind of thing was catalpa that she had drunk all her life.

After all, it's just a different way of processing it to make it taste more unique and smoother.

But the meaning of integrating magic energy into it is completely different.

Spell energy has two sides, when it goes berserk, it is devastating, and when it is docile, it has a unique warmth, and the warlock's lifespan is longer than that of ordinary people, because of it.

It is no exaggeration to say that if ordinary people can drink this tea all year round, it will prolong their life.

Because it is integrated with the power of fire attribute spells, Nitya is particularly sensitive, and within a few seconds of the tea falling into her stomach, a warm breath spreads, which is very comfortable, because her spell power is also a water attribute, and her body is cold.

"Sure enough, I can't hide it from the Great Elder. Sean picked his thumb and said, "That's right, this pot of tea just brewed was fried by me with a fire, it's just an attempt, if the Great Elder likes it, I have time to make more and give it to the Great Elder." ”

"Then thank you in advance, it is not a fluke that you can develop and grow in the mountains, we have been guarding the treasure for hundreds of years, and we still need you to discover the magic of it. Nitya is also an old fox who has achieved cultivation, and she instantly understood the reason why Sean deliberately entertained her with this.

What was inconspicuous in the hands of their crocodiles will be given different values in the hands of the Eternal Night Leader.

Nitya put down the teacup, looked at the young man in front of her seriously, and said, "What is the general's ultimate goal?"

This question stunned Sean because it was too broad, and it could refer to both what Sean's personal goals were and what the Eternal Night Leader wanted to do to the crocodiles.

There is also the question of what kind of mentality and purpose Nitya asks this question.

That's something to think about.

Because he had asked the same question to one person—Dicklon, the leader of the slave rebellion.