In recent months, the alliance of six countries has not been the only small and medium-sized country that has expanded its navy and upgraded its naval warships.

In the two southern countries, the Kingdom of Denor and the Kingdom of Cassie have successively ordered a number of cruisers and torpedo boats from the Kingdom of Krull and Olisa to strengthen their coastal defense.

In the thirteenth year of the reign of the Emperor, the four countries on the east coast of the southern continent announced a plan to strengthen the strength of the cruiser fleet, and planned to order three cruisers.

The Orr Kingdom also followed up in time and planned to order four cruisers to replace the old ships in the fleet, but the capital ships were not ordered, because even if the capital ships were not ordered, the strength of the Orr Kingdom's navy was also very strong, and in the two continents of the Southern Continent and the Southwest Continent, it was second only to the Olisa Imperial Navy and the Gafia Imperial Navy.

And they also previously ordered a battleship with mixed main guns.

They are the only country outside of the eight powers that has ordered a new generation of mixed main gun battleships.

Then the East Coast Triple Alliance, several countries in the south, and even the Kingdom of Liej in the southwest continent and other countries have relevant naval expansion plans, some large and some small, but it is basically difficult to attract the attention of the big countries.

Only the naval expansion plan of the Northern Six Nations Alliance has attracted the attention of many major powers!

Because in the naval expansion plan of the Six Northern Alliances, it is an in-depth cooperation with the Great Heng Empire!

They invited officers from the Daheng Navy to serve as instructors, and at the same time sent naval students to study in the Daheng Empire and order capital ships from the Daheng Empire.

That's all there is to it, but the outside world has gotten the news.

The Great Heng Empire formally reached a maritime mutual defense treaty with the alliance of six northern countries, and the two sides jointly sent personnel to form the 'West Coast Joint Defense Command' to coordinate the navies of the two countries to jointly protect the security of the west coast of the two countries.

This is a serious joint command, and this situation can only be seen among allies.

The outside world didn't know at this time that the Great Heng Empire had officially reached some kind of alliance with the Northern Six Nations Alliance.

And this speculation is not wrong, since the treaty incident in November, the Great Heng Empire has felt deeply threatened, so it has begun to take the initiative to improve the strategic situation.

The first is to deal with the Northern Six Nations Alliance, this alliance and the traditional relationship between the Great Heng Empire is not good, but it has not been a war for a long time, after the unification of the Great Heng Empire, the Great Heng Empire took the initiative to release goodwill, and the Northern Six Nations Alliance is not willing to say that it has always been an enemy of the Great Heng Empire, and the two sides could not improve relations before, that is because the Great Heng has been thinking about annexing them......

Now that the people of Daheng have said that they will not play annexation, everyone should be good neighbors, so it is normal for the relationship between the two sides to warm up rapidly.

From mutual openness to commerce and trade, to arms trade cooperation, to this kind of in-depth military cooperation, in fact, the relationship between the two sides has warmed up rapidly over the past decade or so.

On 15 December of the 13th year of the reign of Qiansheng, the representatives of the two countries formally and secretly signed the West Coast Mutual Defense Treaty, officially ending the century-long confrontation between the two sides in the West Sea Corridor.

In order to sign this mutual defense treaty, whether it was the Great Heng Empire or the Northern Six Nations Alliance, they were all sincere, and they all paid a certain price.

The price paid by the Great Heng Empire is mainly the economic price, and the Empire will provide a huge amount of loans to the six countries to assist the six northern countries in carrying out a lot of economic assistance such as infrastructure construction, and solemnly promise that it will never interfere in the internal affairs of the six countries in any situation in the future.

And the price paid by the alliance of the six countries in the north is naturally not small, and the biggest price is not the common defense, but the opening of the market.

The two sides officially signed a tariff reciprocity treaty and fully opened the market!

Once the six northern countries completely open up the market to Daheng, it means that they will completely bear the market impact of Daheng's industrial products, and under this impact, it is even impossible for them to develop their own industrial system in the future.

Of course, many of their specialties, such as minerals, furs and other products, can also enter the Great Heng Empire with low tariffs.

As for the military common defense, to a certain extent, the six northern countries still take advantage of the Daheng people, there are Daheng people, and there is a country that is not long-sighted and dares to invade the coast of the six northern countries?

As for the inland, only the Great Heng people remain.

But when the people of Daheng do not invade them, it means that they will have no foreign enemies in the future, and they can live a small life with peace of mind.

Taking a step back, if the people of Daheng don't take any measures to avoid people, in fact, many people from the six northern countries still don't mind, and even hope to become Daheng people.

But the people of Daheng are not happy!

The xenophobic mentality of the people of Daheng has always been very strong, hundreds of years ago, the people of Daheng even adopted the policy of not wanting people to land, and now, the people of Daheng have no idea of expanding the territory on a large scale, one of the reasons is: this year is not very good to engage in the policy of not wanting people to land, but the land is accepted with people, and the people of Daheng are not happy!

Millions of arable land and rich natural resources in the Daheng Empire have been fought for by the Daheng people for thousands of years, and now there are foreign races saying that they will merge and share these rich natural resources with them, and the Daheng people will definitely not be happy!

In this case, the people of Daheng would rather only engage in a puppet state, economic colony or the like, than annex other countries.

Otherwise, if the people of Daheng let go and say that the land will be accepted by the people, and the people of the Kashi Kingdom and the Kingdom of Tanor will also be incorporated into the Daheng Empire, in fact, most of the people in the above two countries will be happy to see it.

What a good thing it is to become a great Heng person!

But Daheng people themselves don't want to!

The times are constantly changing, and the ideas of the Daheng people are also constantly changing, and these are taken together, which is to make the Daheng people give up the idea of annexing the six northern countries and change to the way of wooing.

And after more than 10 years of accumulation, with the willingness of both sides, the two countries finally reached a military alliance agreement in the true sense of the word.

After signing this agreement, for the six northern countries, they will completely lose the external threat, and they will not have to bear such heavy military pressure in the future, and they will be exterminated by the Daheng people every day, in addition, there is an obvious advantage that they can be integrated into the economic circle of the Daheng Empire with the market opening agreement, although it has a certain impact on industrial development, but the economic stimulation for them is still very obvious.

For the Daheng Empire, it is to be able to completely solve the military threat in the north and avoid the six northern countries from being used by other countries, so the Daheng Empire does not hesitate to give a large amount of military assistance to the six northern countries, and also completely tie the six northern countries to the chariot of the Daheng Empire.