"This is the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade that I signed with Katwan, and Condon signed it. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo”

As soon as Pacy's words fell, Rakshasa's body shook suddenly, snatched the brown deerskin book and flipped through it, while Jing Ling on the side was also watching carefully.

This book is not thick, it is not thin, it is about fifty pages. The white paper is made using the most advanced papermaking process available today, and it is said that artisans mix the pulp with the juice of poisontail grass to prevent mosquitoes, rats and ants from biting it, and if it is properly preserved, the paper can even last for thousands of years.

Of course, books made of such expensive paper are extremely valuable, and Jing Ling knew for a moment that this was an agreement on trade between the two countries, and the regulations in it were very equal, and there was no overlord treaty requiring Heidi to pay tribute without compensation, but Rakshasa was very excited to see it.

When he closed the book, the five big red lacquer characters stimulated his eyes again.

GATT!!

In just five words, it can make the small dynasty of the Eastern Soil burst out of its oppressed potential, as long as it can get equal trade opportunities, the Black Land can even become one of the great powers, and no longer be bullied by the Turks and Nolans.

"Hahahaha, Blackland is finally free from Condon's enslavement!!" Rakshasa looked up and laughed, the laughter was free, but there was a little madness.

Free trade can be said to be the key to the survival of a country, a good trading system can allow a country to flourish, but the country of Black Land is very special.

Forty years ago, Albertan's founding king, Cathwan's grandfather, Ivan the Great, planned a hunting plan, when Luo Tianqi was only a leader supported by thousands of slaves, and the rebel army he formed was simply vulnerable in the eyes of Nolan's regular army, and the Nolans even delayed sending troops to annihilate them.

The reason is that this rebel army led by Luo Tianqi has no threat to them at all, at most it can only be regarded as a poor bandit who occupies a mountain.

But it was such a ragtag army, and in the end it became a sharp blade that Ivan the Great inserted into the northern realm of Nolan.

When the Nolans found out that Albertan's military had launched all means to help the rebel army of Luo Tianqi, their five northern cities had completely fallen, and a pheasant banner was hung on the city wall, announcing the official establishment of Albertan's vassal kingdom of the Black Lands.

The Nolans quickly rallied to the Blacklands army, which they called the Ringing Horses, but after several defeats, the Norlands finally realized that the Blacklands' army was not a ragtag army, but a hundred-battle army with a large number of Albertan's elite soldiers.

In the end, Luo Tianqi led the army to match all the way, and brutally defeated the twenty-seven cities in the north of the Black Land, thus starting a forty-year geopolitical conflict in the east.

And there are three reasons why Ivan the Great helped Luo Tianqi establish the Black Land Kingdom.

First: Establish a buffer zone between Nolan and Albertan, so that the Black Ground will be Albertan's first barrier against Nolan's attack from the East.

Second: Although the Cook Khanate and the Nolan Peninsula founded by the nomadic Turks were sandwiched between the Blacklands, Blackland was also a sharp blade planted by Albertan beside them, and when Cook or Nolan declared war on Albertan, no one knew when Blackland would suddenly show its blade and stab the enemies who provoked his big brother.

Thirdly, Albertan's Far East is a barren land, and although the men are brave and warlike, war does not bring wealth, but destroys the trade routes that multiply it. A well-equipped army cannot be built without sufficient revenues, and the country's development will be stagnant. Therefore, after the establishment of the Black Land, it was able to trade with the Far East of Albertan, and the adjacent Tandong County was the biggest beneficiary, and the long-term prosperity of trade could not only make the economy of the two countries go to a higher level, but also tighten the relationship between the two countries and curb the pace of enemy aggression.

This is why the kingdom of the Blackland was born, but after the death of Ivan the Great, everything changed......

At first, Condon was forced by the authority of Ivan the Great to officially use the Blackland as a resource supplier to his territory Tandon County, and although the rest of the Blackland's materials were not enough to fill Albertan's import needs, Albertan's counties were also able to benefit from trade with the Blackland.

However, as soon as Ivan the Great died, Condon revealed his ambitions, began to threaten the Black Land by military means, and demanded that the second ruler of the Black Land, King Pac, sign various hegemonic treaties, among which the tariff treaty was the tariff treaty that defined the relationship between Tandon County and the master and servant of the Black Land's resources.

The treaty stipulated that, in order to make trade between the two countries more prosperous, Blackland could not collect customs duties on any of Albertan's exports. And because of the surplus of production materials in the Black Lands, in order to prevent unscrupulous merchants from dumping goods on Albertin, resulting in the price of Albertan, the Albertan Customs Post has the right to macro-control and impose tariffs on imported goods in the Black Lands.

To put it simply, you can't collect my taxes on what I sell you, and you produce too much of your things, so I have to collect your taxes so that my country doesn't become a dumping ground for your goods, so that your merchants don't dare to dump too many goods on our country.

It stands to reason that the merchants of the Blacklands are not fools, so do I have to sell my goods to you Albertan?

So for a while, the trade routes of the Blacklands to other countries were always full of corpses, because the merchants of the Blacklands tried to sell their goods to other countries. And those mountain bandits and pirates who usually hide in the ravines and straits don't know what stimulants they have taken, as long as the caravans in the Black Land pass through their sphere of influence, they will definitely be looted and burned by them.

The crazy mountain bandits and pirates made the merchants of the Black Land afraid to open up new trade routes, and in the end they could only go north to Tandong County to do business.

Although doing business with Tandong County will cost you a large piece of meat, it is better than being killed by those bloodthirsty mountain bandits and pirates, and as for why those mountain bandits and pirates suddenly attacked the merchants of the Black Land, I am afraid that the victims themselves know very well.

But now Nolan is about to provoke a war with Albertan, and once the Blacklands are destroyed, Condon's territory of Tandon County will bear the brunt of the Nolan's second target.

Apparently Condon didn't want Tandon County to get bogged down in war, and Katwan didn't want the Far East of the empire to catch fire.

So when Katwan ordered military aid to the Black Lands, Condon and the rest of the empire's magnates applauded.

The shrewd Katwan also took the opportunity to ask Condon to abolish the unequal treaty he had previously threatened to sign with Pac, and under the current crisis of the great enemy, Condon had no choice but to reluctantly sign the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade so that the Black Land could get a chance at free trade.