The two goals put forward by Nameless and Sheep are both favorable requirements for the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Industry of the Zhoushui Alliance.

Nameless proposed to increase the source of taxes. The Zhoushui Alliance does not have its own independent expense system, and all expenses are paid in advance by players. Even including the various fleets, they were all formed by Qin Xiaobai and other alliance industry and business leaders, and they were raised by sending ships and troops. It can be said that these fleets are entirely private fleets, and each fleet has a number of shareholders. Keeping these fleets is no small expense. If you don't have strong financial resources, you can't afford it, and you can't afford a single player. Qin Xiaobai brought together hundreds of brains from the entire alliance, and everyone contributed money and food together, which was enough to support this huge fleet.

If the Zhoushui Alliance has additional income, then all the leaders will greatly reduce the burden.

Sheep propose tax cuts. It is because the player forces in Yingkou and Hulukou both collect heavy taxes from the outside world. As long as it is a foreign goods, they are subject to a tax of up to 10% or even more than 20%. As soon as the tax is high, it will be difficult to sell the things produced by Zhou Shui in Liaodong. This tax must be suppressed.

Qin Xiaobai agreed with these two requests, and said with a smile: "I completely agree with the nameless request." The sheep's request, our goods are sold in Hulukou and Yingkou, and there is no tax, and it may be difficult for the players in Jinzhou and Xiangping to agree, I think it will be a low tax of 2, so that they also have an explanation on their face. ”

Nameless and the sheep agreed.

Including Qin Xiaobai, the speaker of the Zhoushui Alliance, the deputy speaker of the Ministry of Commerce, and the vice speaker of the Ministry of Industry, Yangyang, all reached an agreement on using the army to maintain their own advantages. As for the bloody killing of the deputy speaker of the General Staff, naturally he will not have any opinions, he is ready to fight at any time.

In order to avoid leaking information, the decision was not taken by the Coalition Parliament, but was made directly by the Speaker and the three Deputy Speakers. The four of them agreed. Decisions can be made directly bypassing the parliamentary voting process.

After the decision was made, no military action was taken immediately. Instead, they began to make all kinds of pre-war preparations.

Industry. The Tanggukou base began to low-key large-scale hoarding of raw materials from the three eastern provinces. In the event of a war, both sea and 6 transport are likely to be cut off for various reasons, and raw materials will not be available. Prepare more raw materials to avoid production due to lack of raw materials. A large number of sailing ships from the three major shipping companies in Zhoushui. More frequent travel to various ports, procurement at any expense, increase the volume of transportation.

The second is military preparations.

The Zhoushui Alliance currently has four fleets, two each in Tanggukou and Lushun. It is a fleet of 50 light and heavy mixed ground fighting ships. Then there's the Allied Skeleton Fleet. These are the main combat forces. There are also seven shipyards in the Bohai Alliance, each of which has some fleet of cabin ships, although it is far inferior to the combat effectiveness of the fighting ships. But it is still possible as an auxiliary force on the battlefield.

These fleets were not enough and could not guarantee absolute victory in naval battles. There are many player fleets along the Yellow River, including the naval fleet of the fighting ship class.

Qin Xiaobai has been staying in the shipyard some time ago, just to pay attention to the construction progress of the shipyard's latest main warship, the building ship. At present, a two-masted double-sail three-tooth building ship has been built, 10 zhang high, can carry 1,000 people, and each heavy superstructure is equipped with cabins, women's walls, and battle grids. As the main battleship. The degree is not required too fast. However, there are extremely high requirements for firepower and load, and there is not enough firepower. Unworthy of being called the main battleship.

The firepower of the Sanyalou ship is mainly equipped with three long-range crossbows, as well as the melee Dige Halberd Hook and Sickle.

1. Light crossbow: range 100 steps. The firepower is weak, and the shot is fast.

2. Divine arm crossbow: the range is more than 300 steps, and the power is greater. Shoot ordinary.

3. Ballista: A type of ballista that shoots slowly and is not very accurate. Each crossbow has seven arrows, the middle arrow is slightly larger than the main arrow, and the three arrows on each side are slightly smaller, which can shoot 500 steps, and the middle wall collapses the city and destroys the ship, which is unstoppable.

The manufacture of crossbows has always been one of the important research directions of the Zhoushui Alliance, gradually replacing the use of war bows. Especially in naval warfare, the power of the bow is already difficult to wield, and only the giant crossbow has enough destructive power. The development of the crossbow was very costly, especially the design of the bronze mechanism, which was especially costly.

The cost of developing the newly developed ballista is even more expensive than that of the upstairs ship. The cost of a single ballista is 100,000 copper coins, which is comparable to a light sailing ship.

A capital building ship battleship can be equipped with a total of six ballista guns, fixed on the spacious ship deck, which can rotate left and right to fire in different directions, covering attacks. Six ballistae were enough to destroy a light fighting ship in an instant, shattering the hull to pieces.

In addition, the building ship is also equipped with 300 light crossbows, 100 divine arm crossbows, and 500 halberd hook sickles, and the entire building ship is armed to the teeth. The three styles of crossbows, short-range crossbows, medium-range crossbows, and long-range crossbows, cooperate with each other to achieve the advantage of firepower suppression on the ocean battlefield. This kind of powerful firepower is called the real main warship, the hegemon of rivers, lakes and seas in the era of cold weapons. Wherever you go, you sweep.

At present, all light and heavy fighting ships still use a single giant crossbow with a range of about 100 steps, which is weak.

The Zhoushui Shipyard is stepping up the production of Sanyalou ships. In order to gain control of the Bohai Sea, it is necessary to have several such main warships, together with a large number of light fighting ships, in order to control the situation. The equipment factory in Tanggukou has been stepping up the production of ballistas day and night to equip the main warships with this terrifying lethal long-range weapon. The economic and military preparations were carried out in a low-key and unattractive manner.

The bloody massacre of the General Staff was also carried out in a small area by the General Staff, which secretly planned a military action plan. In order to ensure that the confidentiality is not leaked, the players involved in the planning are strictly selected.

Large quantities of military supplies - food, water, crossbow arrows, ordnance - stockpiled in place, NPC soldiers are on standby at various naval bases, eating and drinking well, and morale is kept at the highest level.

The two fleets at Tanggukou, the second fleet at Lushunkou, the skeleton fleet at Weihai, and the fleets from the seven shipyards of the Bohai Alliance were all notified to reserve war materials and prepare for a tough battle. But who to fight, there is no notice.

After three days, the preparations and redeployment were largely completed. The stockpiling of raw materials, the naval fleet, logistical supply support, the tactical planning of the General Staff, and many other aspects are basically ready.

Qin Xiaobai didn't plan to wait any longer, making more preparations would just be a waste of time, and it would increase the risk of military action exposure.

On April 17, the Zhoushui Alliance officially sent a team of envoys to Yingkou, the largest treaty port in eastern Liaodong, and submitted an official statement to Yingkou's leader "Anyang", that is, a confidant of the leader of Xiangping Walled City in the past and present life:

"Zhoushui Alliance and Xiangping joint cooperation agreement proposal. 1. The Zhoushui fleet has always been responsible for the safety of shipping in the Bohai Sea free of charge, and the merchant ships have benefited greatly from this. At present, our alliance requires that a 15% tax be levied on each merchant ship when it leaves Yingkou as an escort fee. 2. Zhoushui Alliance looks forward to business cooperation with Yingkou, and hopes that Yingkou will reduce the tax on foreign goods from 10% to 0%.

This statement was handed over to the person in charge of Yingkou, and Anyang, the leader of Yingkou, disdained it. "What bullshit statement? How high is the tax charged by my Yingkou, and what does it matter to you Zhoushui? You still want to ask me for money? If you have the ability, you will send troops to collect it! ”

In order to resist the invasion of the Panjin and Jinzhou walled armies, the total number of troops of the 6th Army in Yingkou was 40,000 or 50,000, and Anyang was not afraid of the Zhoushui Alliance to send troops to attack Yingkou. He didn't even want to say a word of nonsense, and directly drove the Zhoushui Alliance's mission away.

The envoys of the Zhoushui Alliance were not angry either, which was to be expected.

What Anyang definitely did not expect was that following the mission was a fleet of 20 light fighting ships. The fleet anchored at Qinhuangdao for a halfway replenishment, so it did not arrive at Yingkou with the mission. The mission had just been driven away, and the fleet of 20 fighting ships then arrived at Yingkou, where they did something that alarmed all players in Liaodong - blockading the camp

Yingkou is the "first shortcut" sea route to the three eastern provinces, and the raw materials of the three eastern provinces "Liaoning, Jilin and Heilongjiang" are continuously transported here. Every day, a large number of sailing ships from "Jihe, Yellow River, Shandong" and other places go here to carry goods, load them on ships, and sell them to various places.

The Zhou Shui fleet directly blocked the entire Yingkou from the sea, forcibly drove away all the sailing ships on the sea, and the trade of the entire Yingkou suddenly stopped. The goods cannot be transported, and a large number of goods are hoarded in Yingkou - the goods are not hoarded in Yingkou, but also need to lease warehouse costs, raw materials can not be delivered to the buyer in time, pay all kinds of liquidated damages, and tens of thousands of businessmen and players in Yingkou immediately fell into a panic.