Chapter 585: Fifty Years (1)
Caesar spent a week with his loved ones, sticking to Luna almost all day and night, until finally Luna was too tired to take him away, and the guy really got to work on the affairs of the Empire.
The next time he became quite busy, fifty years of Eladia changes, and a lot of information in the black dragon's memory needs to be updated.
Caesar's first understanding was that the situation in the middle of the continent was still turbulent and changing fifty years later, and when the Trade Federation declared its submission to the Northern Crown, in order to curb the expansion of the aliens, the Empire of Buluo immediately began to act - they abandoned the Trade Federation and instead supported the neighboring states of the Riverlands, providing a large amount of economic, military, and magical technical assistance.
Under the support of the Buluo Empire, these small states that were originally inconspicuous on the map quickly expanded in power, and soon had a decisive voice in their regions.
In order to maintain the rule of the royal court in the south and prevent the people from falling away, the Council of Lords decided to fight back against the conspiracy of the Immortal Empire.
In the twenty years since the Black Emperor fell into a slumber, there was no place where the economic war was more intense than in the central part of the country, and the northern royal court and the Buluo Empire wrestled with each other in terms of economic development and governance capabilities, and while supporting their respective vassal states, they also intensified the contradictions between the trading city-states and the states of the river, forcing them to fight against each other.
The economic war continued until the end of 1711, when the lords of the royal court suddenly realized the problem as voices of discontent grew at home, and they eventually fell into the trap of the Empire.
On the surface, the Empire wants to fight an economic war with the Northland, but secretly, it wants to drag the Northland down by fostering puppet economic competition.
Indeed, after receiving the support of the northern royal court, the trading city-states did develop rapidly, and did not fall behind in the conflict with the countries of the river, but such reckless assistance was in essence sucking the blood of the empire itself.
Since the end of the Second Age, the Sun Never Sets Empire has always been the center surrounded by the world, the only overlord of Eladia, and the accumulation of thousands of years has allowed this immortal country to control more than sixty percent of the resources of the continent, and it is not difficult for it to support a few puppet countries, and it will not break its muscles and bones in a short time.
The Northlands are different, it is a country that was forcibly pinched together by the Black Emperor with strength, relying on power and iron law to maintain the unity and operation of the empire, until Caesar implemented institutional reform and industrial construction, so that the internal contradictions of the country were eased, and later caught up with the express train of the Great Voyage and the development of the New World, and only after the evacuation of Veloster was able to rise rapidly, in some respects has the qualification to compete with the empire on which the sun never sets.
However, this does not include the economic heritage, and if the sun does not set according to this model, the Black Wing Empire itself will be under tremendous pressure, the people's living standards will decline, internal contradictions will return, and the superior institutional treatment will also disappear.
This was clearly not what the royal lords wanted to see, so they decided to change.
After two collective votes of the Council of Lords, the Northern Court sent the Third Expeditionary Corps of the Empire to the trading city-state, and the Fourth and Fifth Maritime Combat Groups of the Empire led by the main ship "Holy Dragon's Breath" left the territorial waters and sailed into the port of Nice, the "City on the Water".
The Blackwing Empire has announced that it will conduct indefinite military training in the boundaries of Minn, Kohor, and the Transriver Strait, during which all unidentified personnel and ships will be killed and sunk without hesitation.
In this way, the royal court cut off the land and sea supply lines of the Immortal Empire to the Hejian Land in disguise.
This announcement surprised all those who paid attention to the current situation, although everyone knew that the relationship between the North and the South Empire was like water and fire, but before that, the two empires still had a tacit understanding of leaving room for each other, only manipulating their respective puppets to bite each other, and there was no direct friction.
Sending expeditionary forces and fleets meant that the Northern Empire was personally doomed.
Looking back now, the series of measures taken by the royal court at that time were undoubtedly insane, and once the sun never sets and the excessive reaction caused bloodshed, it may have prompted the war that affected the whole of Eladia to break out early.
However, at that time, Caesar's extinguishing of the divine fire caused a catastrophe, and all the royal court lords believed that their emperor was about to awaken, coupled with the divine reaction of Princess Odin, the royal court was full of confidence and dared to show a tough posture to the outside world.
Fortunately, in the end, the crisis did not escalate, and the empire did not light the fuse, they abandoned the blocked sea and land supply lines and adopted another way-
Hanging City.
When a mirage-like dream city appeared in the dome of the riverland, everyone shouted loudly and was inexplicably excited, as if they had seen a miracle.
The Sun Never Sets Empire sent copper, iron, food, and other supplies to the Riverlands from the air, and in this way it also asserted its power to the northern royal court and counterattacked them by sending a naval fleet into the Riverlands.
At the same time, they also reversed the blockade of a series of magical items such as magic energy stones and communication crystals, which were in short supply in the Trade Federation.
The saber-rattling blockade lasted for two years, culminating in the withdrawal of the northern courts from the Trade Confederation in 1713, and their king had not yet awakened, and even the sharpest minions had to be dormant and patient.
Caesar looked through the historical records, and there were more than one such incident, and various crises occurred in the years that followed, including two head-on conflicts between the royal court and the Immortal Empire, and two local wars in the Cohor and Pivos Islands (the Interriver Sea), in which both sides won and lost.
For fifty years, the south has been testing the bottom line of the royal court, once the black wing shows a weak posture, the sun does not set and its minions will immediately pounce on it, and when the empire can no longer bear to fight, these guys will immediately die down and settle down for a while.
This back-and-forth pattern lasted until three years ago.
In the year 1738 of the Third Age, the attitude of the Empire on which the sun never sets suddenly became tough and even eager, and they were no longer satisfied with verbal cannons and ordinary provocations, but chose to go one step further and march towards the Trade Federation!
When the news of the surprise attack was transmitted back to the homeland, the people and high-level officials of the empire were full of righteous indignation, and the "Lord of Twilight" Odin who ascended to the throne immediately said that he wanted to declare war on the sun, and it was Garon who urgently returned from the New World after learning the news, and rationally analyzed the anomaly of the sudden change in the attitude of the Empire, and speculated that the other party may have obtained some kind of key power, and showed that although Her Royal Highness the princess is now a demigod, she lacks experience and the ability to coordinate the overall situation, and cannot independently maintain a large-scale war.
In the end, the "Prince of Poisonous Fire" finally persuaded Odin and the lord of the royal court to let the empire take a defensive position against the public opinion, and accumulate strength to wait for the Black Emperor to wake up.
In just three years, the Black Wing Empire has lost a large amount of central land, and the military bases and teleportation nodes in various places have also been cleaned up, and even four city-states have been lost.
For this reason, Garon has attracted a lot of criticism, and even within the Blackwing Clan, there are many voices of dissatisfaction with him, and Nero has told Odin more than once that this guy is a "soft-boned dragon".
Caesar silently read the historical record, wagged his tail, and did not make any evaluation, but asked: "Now the war continues?" Where are our troops? ”