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On April 13, two pieces of good news came from the Lushunkou military base.

One is that the commander of the Lushunkou base is not guilty, and signed a territory division agreement with the sword king of the Qingdao Big Bird Fleet, and for the first time clearly limited the scope of activities of the Qingdao fleet to the area south of Ershanzi Island on the Shandong Peninsula, and is not allowed to set foot in the Bohai Bay. The Qingdao Fleet is a maritime fleet in the Yellow Sea after the Zhoushui Fleet, and kicking the Qingdao Fleet out of the Bohai Sea Circle will undoubtedly be beneficial to the Zhoushui Fleet's control of the Bohai Sea. The establishment of this agreement also prevented the Zhoushui fleet and the Qingdao fleet from falling into a dead choke prematurely -- the main goal of the Zhoushui alliance was to take Liaodong, not to defeat the Qingdao fleet. The Qingdao fleet can't beat the Zhoushui fleet, but it can still go to the southern coastal exhibition. From this point of view, there is nothing wrong with the agreement.

Another piece of good news was the successful transformation of the Skeleton Pirate Fleet, stationed on Blackfish Island in Weihai, and becoming a bodyguard fleet on the Shandong Peninsula, living on merchant escort fees. Blackfish Island is an ideal place to establish a naval base, and we have decided to build a large naval port on the island. In addition, the Zhoushui Alliance also sold 40 light fighting ships on credit to our own business, and the number of our fleet quickly increased to as many as 50 light fighting ships. The strength of this fleet is enough to occupy Blackfish Island on my own behalf. The Zhoushui Alliance also signed an offensive and defensive alliance agreement with us, becoming a formal alliance.

Lushunkou and Blackfish Island, these two military bases on the Liaodong Peninsula and the Shandong Peninsula respectively, are like two huge iron tongs of crabs, successfully holding the Bohai Sea in a circle and guarding the internal line of the Bohai Sea.

Any fleet that wants to enter or leave the Bohai Sea must first pass under the nose of these two naval bases. If it's an alien fleet. It was directly blocked by these two iron tongs. If you don't pull out these two iron tongs first, you don't dare to go to the Tanggukou base, the core force territory where the Zhoushui Alliance is currently the fastest-expanding. Because this is equivalent to the back road being cut off, it is likely that there will be no return.

With the spread of these two good news to Tanggukou, the strategic concept of the Bohai Rim of the Zhoushui Alliance has begun to take shape. Of course, it is only the beginning of the beginning, and it is still far from the goal that Qin Xiaobai wants to achieve.

Qin Xiaobai wants to achieve the local goal, which is economic rather than military. Three naval bases, a huge fleet group does not bring wealth, it only consumes it. Only to obtain economic income. in order to support the expenses of these military bases and fleets.

His goal is to master the basic resources of the three eastern provinces for a long time, such as minerals, timber, herbs, and grain. This is a difficult task. There are more than 20 NPC walled cities in the three eastern provinces, and there are even some players who have built their own walled cities, each of which has an independent force, led by several players, and it is almost an impossible task to conquer them one by one.

How to master the three eastern provinces has always been the biggest problem facing the Zhoushui Alliance. These NPC cities in the three eastern provinces are like a herd of bison, fat and strong. If you can catch them, of course, you will make yourself rich. But if you don't get hit by the sharp horns, I'm afraid that I will be seriously injured by vomiting blood from the collision.

The General Staff Headquarters has drawn up dozens of completely different plans, including "coercion by force, economic coercion, diplomatic alliances," and many other aspects to infiltrate and win over the various walled cities in the three eastern provinces, but the results of these plans are not ideal. Each walled city in Liaodong has its own territory of influence. It is not easy to accept the pull of the Zhoushui Alliance.

The Zhoushui Alliance Parliament held several meetings in April to discuss and consult the three eastern provinces, but was unable to establish a feasible plan.

The forces of the Zhoushui Alliance. It only stays at the points of "Qinhuangdao and Lushunkou" on the coastal area of the Bohai Sea, and cannot penetrate into the inner 6 areas of eastern Liaodong. Once it penetrates into Liaodong Inner 6, it will directly face the strong military pressure of the three Liaoning walled cities of Jinzhou, Panjin, and Xiangping. It can't be shaken at all, not to mention that the only treaty port between the Zhoushui Alliance and Liaodong in the direction of Jilin and Heilongjiang is Yingkou, which is the territory of the Xiangping Walled City. Almost all raw materials from eastern Liaoning and northeast China have to leave the country from Yingkou port and be transported to all parts of the country.

In order to avoid the dominance of the Xiangping Walled City, it monopolized the way of raw materials leaving the country in the Northeast from 6 places. The Zhoushui Alliance deliberately discussed with the leaders of the players in the Jinzhou Walled City, and opened up another treaty port in Huludao, which was more than sixty miles away from Jinzhou. Build a large number of ferry crossings. The Zhoushui Alliance could trade directly with the Jinzhou Walled City in Huludao. So. There are two ports of entry that can transport raw materials from the three eastern provinces.

The cargo sailboats needed by Jinzhou players are also provided by the Zhoushui Alliance.

Tanggukou Walled City. Central City, Zhoushui Alliance Executive Yuan.

Nameless took a statistical report, hurriedly found Qin Xiaobai and Sheep with an anxious expression, and said, "Boss Xiaobai, Sheep, this is the latest sailing statistics that came out last week." In the two treaty ports of Huludao and Yingkou, the number of sailing departures was 337 and 929 respectively, an increase of about 50% and 27% over the previous week. Among them, 73% and 57% were driving towards Tanggukou, a sharp drop of 20% percentage points from last week. ”

Qin Xiaobai took it, smiled, handed it to the sheep, and said, "What do you want to say?" ”

Nameless said urgently: "You know very well what I want to say. More than half of the sailing ships that left Yingkou were sailing to other places, and they continuously transported raw materials from the three eastern provinces to the Yellow River and along the coast of Qi, rather than to our Tanggukou base. I expect that this proportion will continue to decline by more than 10% next week. There are fewer and fewer sailboats coming to our Tanggukou. ”

Qin Xiaobai said helplessly: "But you must know that our family's production capacity is limited, and we can't digest the raw materials of the entire three eastern provinces at all." They want to sell the surplus raw materials in the Northeast to other places, so we can't tell them not to sell them, right? ”

After reading the statistical report, the sheep frowned and said, "Big brother, this situation is a bit dangerous. If this situation lasts for only one month, our production competitiveness will be seriously weakened. The strength of the walled cities along the Yellow River and the northeast walled cities will continue to grow. The economic power is far superior to ours. If one or two large shipyard industry overlords emerge in the hinterland of the Yellow River and are able to produce high-class warships, then it will directly shake our position in the Bohai Sea. ”

Qin Xiaobai pondered for a while, and said: "The three eastern provinces and the lower reaches of the Yellow River, these two territories are extremely complex areas, with raw material bases on one side and highly populated areas on the other, with production capacity. Regardless of which site we intervene in, it is a serious challenge. If the current situation is to be changed, then one of them must be used to open a breakthrough. For the past half month, we have been using peaceful means to persuade our opponents to cooperate with us, but the results have not been significant. This time, we must use force to achieve a breakthrough. ”

He smiled at Nameless and the sheep.

Nameless and the sheep glanced at each other with the same determined expressions.

"Boss, let's break through from the three eastern provinces first. It is far easier to attack the three eastern provinces than to attack the Yellow River. ”

"If you want to do it, you have to do it as soon as possible. We can't delay, the more we delay, the worse it is for us! ”

As the head of the industrial department and the head of the commercial department of the Zhoushui Alliance, the two of them have always disagreed with the use of force to solve the alliance's exhibition problem, because whether it is to raise an army or use an army, it is too expensive to consume financial resources. They advocate the use of economic means to solve the problem of competitors, so that the cost is relatively less.

But the current situation is no longer an economic means to solve. The cargo sailing ships in Yingkou and Huludao, carrying raw materials, are heading towards the Yellow River in large quantities every moment, where there is a large demand. The more sailboats went, the more invisible pressure it put on the industrial and commercial sectors of the Zhoushui Alliance.

This enormous pressure cannot be solved by the Ministry of Industry and Commerce of the Zhoushui Alliance alone, which forced them to take the initiative to mention the use of force to solve the problem. As the saying goes, raising soldiers for a thousand days is a time to use soldiers. The Zhoushui Alliance maintains a large naval fleet in order to come in handy at critical moments of need.

Qin Xiaobai nodded and pondered carefully for a while. "The three eastern provinces can not be taken by the 6th Army, but can only be fought with the navy and naval battles. We take Yingkou and Huludao as the breakthrough points, what kind of goals do we want to achieve by the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Commerce? ”

Nameless immediately said: "The requirements of the Ministry of Commerce are very simple, taxes!" Every sailboat that leaves Yingkou and Hulukou must pay a certain amount of taxes to our alliance, at least 10% and 5%. Only in this way can we ensure that the advantages of our Zhoushui Alliance will not be weakened, and ensure that the three eastern provinces export resources to the outside world, and a part of the profits will flow into our pockets! This part of the tax is directly at the disposal of the Zhoushui Alliance, and is used for various expenses, including the maintenance expenses of each fleet. ”

Sheep also said: "The requirements of the Ministry of Industry are also simple, the products we produce are sold freely in Yingkou and Hulukou, and the tax is greatly reduced, or no tax is levied at all." ”