Chapter 707: Daheng Mediation
In addition to being able to slow down the development of the Krull Kingdom, it can also directly gain a lot of benefits from the war.
Even the Olisa Empire consciously or unintentionally supported the two countries in the war, because they were closer to each other, and the benefits they gained in the war would not be much less than that of the Great Heng Empire.
In order to maintain the war, in addition to producing and transporting a large number of materials locally, in order to save costs, the Krull Kingdom will also purchase a large number of materials from neighboring countries nearby, among which the Great Heng Empire and the Orissa Empire have obtained the greatest benefits.
Not only these two countries, but also in the surrounding countries, even if there is no industry, but because the Liej Kingdom, which is only separated by a strait from the Orr Kingdom, has relied on a large number of orders for agricultural and livestock products and other ordinary materials from the Krull Kingdom to obtain a large number of benefits.
In this case, everyone wants the war in Orr to continue!
However, to the pity of all countries in the world, this war was showing signs of ending at the beginning of the 10th year of the Qiansheng Dynasty.
Although the navy of the Kingdom of Krull continued to blockade the coastline of the Kingdom of Orr during the war, in October last year, its army units finally took the Kalan Heights and invaded the mainland of the Kingdom of Orr.
However, the troops of the Orr Kingdom did not collapse, but continued to rely on the complex mountainous terrain of the country to resist steadily, so that in the past six months, the number of casualties of the army of the Kingdom of Krull has been rising.
At the same time, because the Krull Kingdom has spent too much money for this war, they have issued a large number of national bonds, which has led to greater financial pressure, and the people are also extremely dissatisfied with the rapidly rising war tax.
And the Orrs will not give in easily, it is a country that has been invaded more than a dozen times in a hundred years, and its citizens are accustomed to resisting aggression, otherwise they would not have adopted a military service system with all the people in the army.
The Krull people are very pessimistic in predicting that if the fighting continues, the cost will probably have to be doubled several times, and the casualties will probably be hundreds of thousands.
At the same time, although the Orr Kingdom will not give in, they also know that if they continue to fight, they will be half-crippled if they continue to fight, after all, the casualties of their troops are greater, and since the war entered their homeland, their ordinary people and domestic production have been greatly impressed, so they have also sent a signal of goodwill to the Krull Kingdom through a third party.
These circumstances have affected the situation within the Krull Kingdom.
On December 26, the ninth year of the reign of Qiansheng, the Minister of War of the Kingdom of Krull, the chief military adviser to the king, and the Duke of Corry, who single-handedly provoked the Orr War, announced his resignation under huge pressure from inside and outside!
This person's resignation also means the complete collapse of the main battle faction within the Krull Kingdom, and the main peace faction occupies the upper hand in the kingdom's political arena!
After the first month of the tenth year of the Qiansheng Dynasty, basically the diplomats of the major powers of the Blue Star knew that the Orr War would not be able to continue, because the foreign minister of the Krull Kingdom had already gone to the capital division of the Daheng Empire, and at the same time, the crown prince of the Orr Kingdom Hollibat also openly went to the Daheng Jingshi and prepared to participate in the Jingzhou talks.
The reason why the two countries chose the location of the negotiation in the capital division of the Daheng Empire is not only the requirements of the Orr Kingdom, but also related to the Daheng Empire itself!
What, the third party who helped the Orr Kingdom pass goodwill to the Krull Kingdom was the Great Heng Empire!
No matter what, the money that the Orr Kingdom has spent in the Daheng Empire over the years is also hundreds of millions, and for the sake of so much money, the Daheng Empire has to admit that the Orr Kingdom is half of its own little brother.
Therefore, the Great Heng Empire itself does not want to see the Orr Kingdom completely crippled by the Krull Kingdom!
If this Orr Kingdom really continues to fight, even if they have gold, it will never be possible to stop the Krull Kingdom, the world's first industrial country.
The only difference is that it can last for a few years, two years? Three years? Four years?
Defeat is inevitable!
But the Krull Kingdom doesn't want to continue fighting, they can win if they really want to fight, but the price they need to pay is too great.
Now that so much money has been spent, I am afraid that five billion Hengyuan will not be enough to continue fighting, and so much money will be spared, and the Krull Kingdom will also feel a huge pressure.
After all, for the Krull Kingdom, this is not a life-and-death battle for survival, at best, it is just a war to invade a small country and seize gold and oil, it is a war for profit.
This kind of war has been fought many times in the past few decades in the Krull Kingdom, but the scale is generally limited, and the cost is limited.
But this time, the cost of the Orr war far exceeded their estimates.
When the benefits are limited and the costs are too great, they are naturally unhappy.
At this time, the Orr Kingdom asked the Great Heng Empire to help mediate, and at the same time, they themselves used gold to open the way for other countries to strive for a more favorable international diplomatic public opinion environment.
In the end, under the mediation of the Great Heng Empire, when both the Orr Kingdom and the Krull Kingdom intended a truce, the two sides decided to conduct armistice negotiations in the capital division of the Daheng Empire, and at the same time, the Walya Empire, the Kekel Empire, the Gafia Empire, and the Orissa Empire will also have heavyweight diplomats involved, but that is only an observer, and it is basically impossible to point fingers at the negotiations.
Even the Great Heng Empire, the main mediator, would find it difficult to interfere in the detailed negotiations.
It's not that I don't want to, but I can't!
Because the other side of the negotiation is the Krull Kingdom, people are too lazy to deal with other countries, if they dare to interfere, they will send a navy to the door in minutes......
The Daheng Empire served as the main mediator this time, not to participate in the negotiations to gain any meaning, on the one hand, to help the half-younger brother of the Orr Kingdom, and on the other hand, to take the opportunity to increase its international influence.
At the same time, it is also to show the new era style of the Lin Dynasty of the Daheng Empire to the world, and to let the countries of the world know that we Daheng people are not reckless men who can only fight with guns, but also love peace and like to do business.
Therefore, the Daheng Empire also took the opportunity to hold a so-called industrial fair, in which many domestic enterprises participated, and took out their proud products to promote themselves to businessmen all over the world in order to obtain more international trade orders.
In order to ensure that there are no problems in such a major international occasion, the Daheng Empire has also made sufficient preparations, carried out a major renovation of the city's appearance in advance, and in order to ensure the safety of the two countries' missions, security measures have been taken in advance.
So when the foreign minister of the Krull Kingdom, Deackenson, arrived at Daheng Jingshi on a high-speed large passenger ship, what he saw was clean and tidy, and the people were polite!
It is not the first time for Deacon to come to the Daheng Empire, he came to the Daheng Empire more than 20 years ago as the counselor of the Krull Kingdom in Daheng, and has been to Jingshi and Luohai City and other cities, and has worked and lived in Daheng for more than five years.
When the Daheng Empire was just unified, Deacenson participated in the Dingdu Ceremony of the Lin Dynasty as the king's envoy of the Krull Kingdom.
At that time, the Dingdu ceremony, to a certain extent, was also to make up for Lin Ziran's enthronement ceremony, which was too hurried and too simple.
This is also the tradition of the emperors of the Daheng people, generally speaking, the real enthronement ceremony is very hurried, urgent, not only the enthronement of the founding emperor, but also the enthronement of ordinary emperors.
Generally, as soon as the previous emperor died, he would hold an enthronement ceremony as soon as he got the news to determine his status.
After all, in history, Daheng thought that the enthronement ceremony was held slowly, and in the end the throne was robbed, or there were many cases of civil war, and the latecomers basically learned to be smart, and the enthronement ceremony was all done quickly.
Lin Ziran himself is, on the day after learning that the Son of Yongchang Tianzi died, the front-line troops hurried back day and night, and informed Lin Ziran of the news as soon as possible, and after Lin Ziran learned the news, the enthronement ceremony was held on the same day.
However, because the enthronement ceremony was too simple, the back was also the same as the previous dynasties, and a Dingdu ceremony was added.
If an ordinary emperor succeeds to the throne, he will often make up a sacrificial ceremony.
Deackenson had participated in the Lin Dynasty's capital ceremony back then, so he had seen Lin Ziran, and he had also seen a large number of founding magnates of the Daheng Empire.
Subsequently, in the name of condolences to the consulates of the Krull Kingdom in many cities in the Daheng Empire, he briefly visited several important cities of the Daheng Empire, and browsed the newly unified Daheng Empire like a horse.
At that time, the Daheng Empire he saw was full of traces of war damage, and although the Jingshi City District had been cleaned up and even deliberately whitewashed, the ruins of buildings damaged by the artillery fire of the war could still be seen frequently, and the factory area in the southern suburbs was even more in disarray.
Elsewhere it was similar, devastated by the war.
But now, before he got off the ship, he could see a large number of ships coming and going in the Jing River from the deck, and at the same time, there were a large number of merchant ships moored on the wharves along the river on both sides of the Jing River!
Near the north side, along the river in the south, there is also a military wharf, where more than a dozen warships of various types are moored, including cruisers of several thousand tons.
Deackenson naturally knew that this was just an inland military port, and it was impossible to have too many large warships, and many of the large warships of the Daheng people were moored at the Quping Naval Base.
However, it is a military forbidden area that prohibits ordinary people from entering and leaving, let alone entering the port to see, even if you hang outside the port, you will be expelled.
In addition, in recent years, the warship manufacturing industry of the Daheng Empire has mainly concentrated on the Quping Naval Base, where a large-scale naval shipyard has been built, and many new warships are almost built in the Quping Naval Base, which also further strengthens the secrecy of the navy.
However, from the small to the big, just from the large number of warships in this inland military port, it can be seen that the navy of the Great Heng people has developed extremely rapidly in recent years.
No wonder some of the generals of the kingdom's navy believe that the Great Heng Empire will become one of the most important opponents of the kingdom in the future!