Chapter 436: The Undercurrent of Golden Bay (I)

Blue sky and white clouds, golden sand.

Ogland leaned lazily against the window, looking out at the rolling waves, and yawned boredly. At present, the Golden Bay is no longer the depression it used to be, and what you see is a thriving scene. The dilapidated and old buildings have been demolished and replaced with new buildings and a dense flow of people. Seeing this scene, Augran couldn't help but recall the scene when he and Fang Zheng came here to explore together.

"It's like a dream.........

While muttering to herself, the eldest lady picked up the juice at hand and took a sip. She still remembered the bones that littered the ground and the charred remains all around. But now these are gone, and the bones of the sailors have been taken away by the priests sent by the Temple, who say they are to be buried in a cemetery on land. The wreckage has been dismantled and new buildings have been built.

"Miss, Miss!!"

At this moment, a maid with a red face ran in a hurry.

"The Grande family also sent someone, guess who came? It's the patriarch of the Grande family! He actually came in person! ”

"Isn't that normal?"

Ogeland closed his eyes and yawned.

"Bruce, Swell, Grande......... All the three major families of the Holy Sect Country are here, do you think it is a good thing for our Platinum Family? ”

"Of course that's a good thing."

Hearing O'Grand's words, the maid couldn't help but blink curiously.

"This means that our Platinum Family is more valued by the Holy Sect Country, doesn't it?"

"Hahh..............."

Hearing the maid's answer, Ogeland let out a long sigh, and then waved his hand in a bored manner.

"Sometimes I really envy you mortals, who don't pretend to have anything in their heads, as long as they are happy in front of them........."

"Woo........."

In the face of O'Gran's answer, the maid looked a little depressed, but she didn't pay too much attention to it, after all, as a platinum star, O'Gran has been like this since she was a child, and they have long been used to being servants.

"Hey........."

O'Grande reluctantly reached out, pressed his forehead, and whispered to himself.

"I didn't expect it to be like this........."

As O'Goland complained, at first, she only focused on the favorable port location of Golden Bay and commercial circulation. However, after returning to the family and reporting the matter to his father, Ogeland found that his father took the matter very seriously, not only personally allocating most of the Platinum family's liquidity for the rebuilding of Golden Bay, but also personally applying to the temple for the ownership of Golden Bay.

When the Templars intervened in the official name and took ownership of the remainder, O'Gran finally understood why.

On the surface, Golden Bay seems to be just a well-located treaty port, but that was during the Age of Discovery. For the current Holy Religion Country, Golden Bay is more than that. And all of this has to start with the grievances of the Holy Religion and the Flame Country.

Because of the unique natural environment and powerful fleet, the Flame Country controls a large area of the sea, and the Holy Cult Country is a continental country, plus they have to fight against the Chaos Monsters that invaded from the land, so when it was first built, there was not much effort in the navy, and at the beginning, the Holy Cult Country only had a few third-class warships to fight piracy and encircle and suppress smuggling in the sea area.

But later, the navy of the Flame Nation gradually developed, and the Holy Cult Nation was one step late, resulting in being choked by the Flame Nation. At present, the Flame Nation controls almost all of the foreign trade routes of the Holy Religion Country, which is of course unacceptable to the Holy Religion Country.

However, due to the geographical location, it was impossible for the Holy Religion to send a fleet deep into the ocean, so the two sides could only stalemate like this.

But now, the recovery of Golden Bay has changed this delicate stalemate.

The Holy Cult has a port where they can go to sea, and in terms of the geographical location of the Golden Bay, as long as the Holy Cult Country completely controls this place, then they can not only protect their own shipping routes, but even prevent the Fire Nation from further encroaching on their own waters.

The reason why the Holy Sect Country didn't make a move on Golden Bay before was really because of the lack of manpower, compared to the situation in the sea area, the Holy Sect Country was still more concerned about the Chaos Border on land, after all, β€”β€”β€” Chaos Monsters couldn't swim.

But now, now that the Golden Bay has been reclaimed, and it has not caused any losses to its side, then of course the Holy Sect Country has to take control of the Golden Bay as the front line against the Fire Country.

Because of this, this time, the Holy Sect Country will not only transfer its first fleet, but even hear that even a certain secret fleet that they have been secretly organizing will also come here to appear. The meaning of this could not be clearer than clear.

Not only that, but what made her even more troublesome was that after that, the Flame Nation and the Wealth Nation also sent separate letters, stating that they would also send fleets to participate in this ceremony. Of course, the reason written in the letters of these two countries is to show friendship and mutual exchange, but it is only necessary to look at the arrival of the fleets of these two countries on the same day as the fleet of the Holy Religion to know what their intentions are.

It's really annoying, I'm a businessman, how can I encounter this kind of thing!

Thinking of this, Ogeland couldn't help but feel like she wanted to hug her head and cry, and what made her even more depressed was that her father actually appointed herself as the agent of Golden Bay!

Doesn't that push her up the fire pit?

Is.........

"Hasn't Founder replied yet? When will he come! ”

Thinking of this, O'Grande couldn't help but feel angry, he had to work his side, dealing with the nobles, dealing with the diplomatic envoys of various countries, and dealing with the trivial affairs of the Golden Bay. But he was good, signed a contract and ran away, before asking him when he would come, he only replied "will arrive on time.........", saying when is the time, do you plan to let the representatives of other countries wait for you alone?

You must know that this ceremony is not only the family forces in the Holy Religion Country, as well as the fleets of the Fire Country and the Wealth Country, but also the diplomatic envoys and representatives of the surrounding small countriesβ€”β€”β€” if it weren't for the fact that Ogeland knew that she was going to preside over the groundbreaking ceremony of a port this time, she would even think that she had participated in a large-scale meeting of some world scale!

As for why these envoys came here, Ogeland naturally knew it, they wanted to see if the Holy Sect Country was capable of safeguarding its maritime rights and interests, and this time the fleet "duel" was prepared for this, the Holy Sect Country wanted to break the Flame Country's monopoly on ocean routes, and the Flame Country must show itself in front of its allies that it still had enough strength to control this ocean, and the Wealth Country, which was in cahoots with the Fire Country, would certainly not let go of this opportunity, after all, The wealth of the Nation of Wealth is largely based on the ocean routes controlled by the Nation of Flames.

Originally, Ogeland was counting on Fang Zheng to come sooner, and then ask him if there was any good way, but this bastard just didn't show up, and he was angry with her!

You know, things have developed so far, it is not just an ordinary groundbreaking ceremony, if the Holy Cult Country can overwhelm the fleets of the Flame Nation and the Wealth Nation, then the Flame Nation's dominance in the ocean will begin to waver. But on the other hand, if the fleets of the Flame Nation and the Wealth Nation still show no less strength than the Holy Religion Country, then the status and prestige of the Holy Religion Country on the continent will also be rifted.

It can be said that this ceremony ......... And even the future of the entire continent is at stake.

However, why am I so unlucky?

"Miss!!"

Just as Oglan was crying in the depths of his heart, suddenly, the door opened, and a servant hurried in.

"Just now we received a report that the vanguard fleet of the Holy Sect Country is about to arrive!"

"I see."

Hearing this, Augran also had a grim expression, then stood up and tidied up his clothes, and then walked out the door.

"Ready, I'm going to the dock to meet the VIP!"