After all, Ju'an City is not a big city, and it is very close to the Xiang family's control area, in their opinion, if the Xiang family wants to seize this place, it will be very easy.

A year later, the Chu State did not ask about the surrender of the Xiang family, and they felt that the Xiang family was already on the same front with them.

In their opinion, the Xiang family's request for the city can be regarded as a way of allegiance, of course, the Xiang family did not admit it openly, maybe it was because they couldn't wipe off their face, or in other words, his Xiang family was originally the force of the Chu State, and there was no need to swear allegiance.

Qi originally wanted to start a war in this year, but because of some things, it was delayed.

Because Qi had some conflicts with the Habsburgs at sea, this was mainly because the Qi navy robbed the Habsburg cargo ships.

The Habsburg Dynasty was caught in a war with the Holy Roman Empire, and this war, when Qi Xiaobai succeeded to the throne, learned from the maritime merchants that it was fighting, and it has not yet ended.

Although the war was a war between two countries, it could actually be said to be a civil war, and the Holy Roman Empire was originally ruled by the Habsburgs, and later when they ran for emperor, the Habsburgs lost.

The Holy Roman Empire was a united empire, with large and small principalities, and kingdoms were formed, and the emperor was to elect a person from these principalities and kingdoms to be the emperor and rule over the entire empire.

The Habsburg family has produced ten emperors in a row, and it was supposed to produce the eleventh emperor, but the other families were afraid that the empire would become the empire of the Habsburg family, so in this eleventh election, they used means to be held by other families.

But how could the Habsburgs give up? They occupied the center of the Iberian Peninsula and the Holy Roman Empire, and could not have willingly relinquished the throne as emperor.

Since the normal means were not obtained, then the illegal means were used, and they provoked this civil war.

The Habsburgs ruled the empire for a hundred years, and the background was very powerful, and they also occupied the inner core of the Iberian Peninsula and the Europa continent, and their power was very large, but the forces against them were not small, with more than 30 member kingdoms, plus the support of the Scannavian dynasty.

This civil war has been raging for thirty years, and it is still in the midst of its fiercest situation.

Of course, it was also Europe and Rome that were mired in civil war, and Qi became the new maritime hegemon in these years.

The United British Empire, the Holy Roman Empire, and the French Empire once controlled the sea, but the British Empire was caught in a war with the French Empire, which had been fought for a hundred years and had not yet ended, and the sea could be said to be almost discarded.

When the United British Empire abandoned the sea, the Holy Roman Empire, with the advantage of the Iberian Peninsula, occupied the sea, but within a few decades, he was also mired in a land civil war, which made the Qi Kingdom slowly grow.

Although the Qi State fought a civil war in the Kyushu Continent and fought a war of unification, the Qi State was pressing the other party to fight, rather than a situation of equal strength, and the advantages of maritime trade were transformed into the power of the Qi State, making the Qi State unprecedentedly strong, and in addition giving merchants a lot of freedom, allowing them to form a navy freely, and in addition to the Qi State also formed an official navy itself.

In this short period of time, the Qi State not only dominated the Kyushu Continent, but also controlled the entire world's trade chain, and the only one who could fight with the Qi State at sea was the Southern Asia Island Alliance.

Of course, the Qi State was dragged down because of this great alliance of Asian islands.

A few months ago, a foreign envoy came, this is a member of the Holy Roman Empire, they sent a letter to Qi Xiaobai and some jewels, telling Qi Xiaobai about the Habsburg trade routes and trade chains, as well as collaborators from all over the world.

Of course, when they did this, they also gave up the entire world's maritime trade to the Qi State, but they had to do it, although the Habs Dynasty lost control of the sea, but after all, the navy did not completely disappear, and it was still relying on the sea trade to earn a certain economy and transform it into combat power.

What about them? The once holy Roman navy was controlled by the Habsburgs, and their navy was simply no match for the Habsburg navy.

The sea can be said to be completely at a disadvantage, but seeing that the Habsburgs have been doing maritime trade, a large amount of capital has entered the dynasty, transformed into combat power, and in addition to the precarious front, they have made the most traitorous move.

That is to tell the competitor of the sea, the Qi State, that the Habsburg Dynasty's trade routes still have merchants or something, and to win the support of the Qi Navy.

The Holy Roman Empire and the Habsburgs can be said to be the same ancestry, essentially belonging to the same country, and it can be said that it is normal for them to have the Habsburg maritime route, which is a secret, but they leaked this secret.

Even after the war, their maritime supremacy was completely destroyed, but for the sake of the big situation, for the sake of the holy Roman Empire, they felt that it was necessary and worthwhile.

As for the future, that's the future, and I can't keep it now, so what are we talking about in the future?

Seeing this huge benefit, the state of Qi of course chose to accept it, so they chose to unite with the holy Roman Empire, attacked the ships of the Habs, robbed them of their goods, seized their markets, and launched snipers at his trade points.

Originally, because of the civil war, coupled with the strength of the Qi State, the Habsburg Dynasty gave up many strongholds, but stubbornly defended several important strongholds, but after the Qi State obtained the specific location and military deployment of these strongholds, it directly sent the navy to attack it, preparing to completely wipe out the heaps on the ocean.

Because of the civil war, the Habsburg Dynasty greatly reduced its navy, and without a navy, cargo ships were simply armed to prevent pirates.

This kind of ship is okay to deal with pirates, but it basically makes no sense to face the regular army of Qi country.

According to the normal process, this matter, Qi Guo should be able to control the situation easily, and he can also get a rich return of benefits, Qi Xiaobai thought so.

However, the Asia Island Alliance came forward, and the only force that could collide with Qi at sea joined, which made Qi have to abandon its plan to enter Qin Chu.

As for the involvement of the Asian Island Alliance, it is mainly the member states of this alliance, many of which were once vassal states of the Habsburgs, and although they are now independent, they have trade relations with the Habsburgs.

With the addition of the United Kingdom of Britain, seeing that Qi wants to control the hegemony of the seas, and after the Hundred Years War, they still want to rely on revival, so they choose to help the Habsburgs, although they cannot directly participate in the war, but they also have some say in the Asian Island Alliance.