874 Origin of the Silfa Business Alliance
Next, Leah introduced the current war situation to Yun Xiaohan, as well as the situation around the Gloya region. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info
Of course, there are too many introductions to this situation, and if you really let Liya say them one by one, it will take at least a few hours, and it will be too late, so here Liya is just the beginning, in essence, the game has opened a temporary intelligence system to Yun Xiaohan, and Yun Xiaohan can check some of the information that Liya has mastered on the virtual map through the intelligence system.
The information that can be queried is still relatively comprehensive, although most places only have estimated numbers, but as a data controller, Yun Xiaohan can already sketch out a situation map in his mind.
In order to save the defeat and face, the Shang Alliance mobilized a large number of troops again, the first phase of the army reached 50,000, and the follow-up troops still had 100,000, counting the 50,000 lost before, this total is 200,000.
200,000 may not seem like much, but it was a hasty concentration of troops, and most of them came from the Marcette area.
The city of Marset is a player home city of the Merchant Alliance, and as the most frontline area of the Merchant Alliance and the Empire, the Marset region is comparable in size and status to Snow City
Here we need to introduce the government of the Merchant Alliance, although it alludes to Spain, but it is only similar in the terrain and some of the key personnel of the NPC, the Merchant Alliance government in the game is completely different from the imperial government, and it is not a centralized government.
The Sylfa Peninsula, the area now controlled by the Commercial Alliance, was a melee zone in the early days, with a large number of independent lords conquering each other on this land, but because the size and strength of these lords were not far apart, there was no relatively strong super lord like the Empire and the Northern Kingdom, so it was impossible to establish a state.
This frequent mutual conquest caused the various territories to wither and make financial difficulties, and in order to alleviate the economic difficulties and form offensive and defensive alliances, the first commercial alliances appeared.
The main purpose of the establishment of the business alliance in the early days was to unite mutual insurance and mutual trade. Later, the purpose of protecting commerce was gradually added, such as suppressing piracy, combating pillage, and abolishing unreasonable toll taxes.
At first, there were not many cities that joined the business alliance, but because of the economic benefits, more and more cities chose to join, and the purpose of the alliance gradually changed to expand commercial power, monopolize commercial interests, and suppress commercial competition from outside the alliance.
Later, due to the continuous expansion of the military threat of the empire and the northern kingdom, the commercial alliance began to vigorously develop the navy, and evolved from a simple economic alliance to an economic-political-military alliance.
Due to the simultaneous increase in external and internal pressures, it was difficult for the minor lords to continue to sustain, and eventually all the cities in the entire Sylfa Peninsula joined the merchant alliance, and the Sylfa Peninsula reached an alternative unity.
Therefore, the business alliance is not all new business aristocrats, and there are a lot of old-school military aristocrats, of course, the old school here is only relative, and the old-school military aristocrats in the business alliance are also in business, but the focus is different.
Business alliances are parliamentary like the Alpha Council, but because of the strong business atmosphere and the presence of a large number of profit-oriented parliamentarians, the business alliance lacks control over the Alpha Council. Coupled with the serious opposition between the new mercantile aristocracy and the old-school military aristocracy, the administrative efficiency of the commercial alliance was even more inefficient.
Moreover, as a commercial alliance, the commercial alliance does not have as many standing troops as the empire, and they recruit troops more in the form of mercenaries. Therefore, it can be said that the military confrontation between the Shang Alliance and the Empire is a congenital loss.
In fact, due to the long-term border provocation with the empire, the Massett region has been completely dominated by military aristocrats, and a small number of commercial nobles have moved to other regions, so there is a certain gap between the economy and other regions of the merchant alliance, but it also surpasses other regions in terms of military strength.
For a long time, the Council of Merchants has given more economic aid to the Marset region than military aid, and even a group of business aristocrats in the Business Alliance feel that as long as the empire is not allowed to enter, they are not so concerned about the war between the two countries.
That's why the Shang Alliance was so passive and slow to react in the previous series of battles, saying that it was a big war between the two countries, but in fact it was just a local war in a corner.
In fact, just looking at the support from the rear, the first server of the merchant alliance supported more, the first server empire only reinforced 30,000 people to the southern theater of operations (the other servers did not take the Sardinia territory, supported 80,000 people), and the merchant alliance not only provided a lot of free economic aid, but also reinforced 50,000 people.
But then again, the business alliance is not all fools, and the business aristocracy is also very shrewd, and they are well aware of the importance of the Marset region, which is located on the passage between the Sylfa Peninsula and the mainland, which is equivalent to the throat of the Sylfa Peninsula, and the geographical location is extremely important.
Although the Magnetes region is followed by the Pyrenees, and it is not easy to climb this mountain range, once this mountain range is crossed, the hinterland of the merchant alliance is equivalent to being completely opened to the enemy, and once the Marcette region is lost, the Pyrenees mountain range will also become an obstacle to the merchant alliance, and the merchant alliance will lose the possibility of eastward expansion from the land.
Therefore, there are still many smart people within the Business Alliance who propose to increase reinforcements to the Massett area, but no matter whether this reinforcement bill can be passed or not, according to the super efficiency of the Business Alliance Council, it is impossible to be realized in the short term, and this is Yun Xiaohan's opportunity.
Yun Xiaohan found a very important piece of information when he checked the intelligence, due to the defeat in the battle for the Sardinia territory, the fleet directly under the Merchant Alliance Council lost a large number of warships and transport ships, and at this time, the maritime military strength of the Merchant Alliance in the Marcette region and nearby areas was far inferior to that of the Sardinia Territory.
Of course, this kind of disadvantage is only temporary, and the shipbuilding capacity of the merchant alliance is still much stronger than that of the Sardinia Collar, but it takes time to build a ship, and a large number of ships cannot be changed in the short term.
Although there is no shortage of ships in other parts of the Merchant Alliance, on the one hand, they can only reach the Marset region by bypassing most of the peninsula, and on the other hand, other nobles of the Merchant Alliance may not be willing to hand over their ships to the Council, after all, they also need ships to escort and conduct sea trade.
In other words, at this time, the Sardinia Territory had absolute sea dominance, and Yun Xiaohan even doubted whether the Shang Alliance would dare to go to sea to fight the Sardinia Territory's navy.
PS: Although I don't know how many girls I read in this book, it is estimated that there are relatively few, but I still wish you all a happy Women's Day. It's too late for the next chapter.,I went to play with my wife and daughter today.,5-year-old daughter told me that she's already a woman.,And it's going to be a holiday.,I laughed.。