Chapter 328: The Age of Soldiers
Before becoming Anlu's personal slave, when Gross Anlu was still known as Lul Anwar, he lived a chaotic life, but he was an inconspicuous guide among Boris.
When he was a child, the words he heard most were "We are the children of the soldiers, we live in the era of the soldiers, and we will not encounter the wars that our ancestors encountered again." And when Lul became a private slave, he realized that this was the biggest lie.
Although the nations have been defeated, the shadow of war still hovers in the skies of the city, lingering like a corpse-eating vulture.
"War only brings destruction, as long as everyone enjoys the preciousness of peace, then there will definitely be no war, right?
In fact, even in the period of the army, the shadow of war still exists, and the event that most provokes the heartstrings of every Bourbon is the issue of the "Bourbon and Boris Pokang Agreement".
It is an ancient agreement with a history of 100 years, first signed in 1434 by Lul VIII the "Lost Soil" of Bourbon and Polica I of Bourbon, with the content that when Pokang declared war on Bourbon, it was deemed to have declared war on Bourbon and Boris at the same time, and was valid from 1434 to 1484.
The signing of this treaty reflects Borris's ambivalence that he wants to weaken Bourbon, but he does not want Pocom to take advantage of it. The weaker the Bourbons, the higher the value of this treaty, and it was precisely because of the existence of this treaty that Pocom did not dare to invade Bourbon south when Bourbon was in the year of the twenty-fourth consul.
When Felison XIV unified Bourbon, Boris agreed to continue the treaty, and after the treaty expired in 1484, he renewed the treaty with Bourbon for another 30 years.
However, since 1490, the Bourbon world has already implemented the peace treaty, so this treaty is relatively redundant. Boris is not happy with this treaty, and Bourbon, which has recovered some vitality, is not happy with these treaties, knowing that when the contract is renewed, Bourbon provides Boris with more trade privileges.
The contradictions between the two sides over this treaty began to deteriorate dramatically after 1510, and for a time became the focus of the Bourbon Sea States.
Born in 1500 A.D., Gross Anlu met Leng Yi in 1510 and was valued by Anlu as his personal slave and enjoyed the education of a noble and high-ranking private slave.
After Anlu brought Lul home, he changed his name to Gross - the names Lull, Boris, and Andrei were used after the twenty-fourth consul, and the nobles tried to avoid these once popular names, after all, it was too unlucky, so Lul's name was changed to Gross.
After Gross was brought back, the first thing he did was to receive the education of the noble and high-ranking slaves, and you must know that even the nobles and high-ranking slaves had a better education than the commoners. However, usually the noble and high-ranking slaves are slave children who have been cultivated since childhood, and Gross is ten years old, can he still raise them?
Indeed, the childhood environment had a great impact on people, and Gross was ridiculed by the slaves at the beginning for his "vulgar manners of the common people" and "stupid and sluggish thinking", so he couldn't stand the cold game and gave Gross a study hanging, and Gross soon rose to prominence in his studies and became extremely good.
Just when Gross was beating children in the Enlightenment School of the aristocratic slaves, the Bourbon Sea was surging because the second phase of the "Bourbon, Boris Prevention Pokang Agreement" was about to expire, and the turbulent tide made Gross in the school vaguely feel some haze.
What Boris meant was that it was okay to continue to renew the treaty, but you had to open up more trade privileges to me; Bourbon thought it was nonsense, why should I sign this waste treaty and give you some things after the Madan army had been killed? Moreover, this treaty is not an alliance treaty, but only a targeted treaty, and it is simply unreasonable for me to spend the price.
The negotiators of the two sides uphold this mentality, so the negotiations naturally did not lead to anything, and the treaty was about to be aborted, which made Boris very angry, you must know that many of Boris's trade privileges to Bourbon are hung in this treaty, and the cancellation is undoubtedly a loss for Boris.
However, now is the era of the army, and the peace treaty is guaranteed by the god of the sea, and Boris does not dare to pluck the tiger hair of the god of the sea, so military punishment is not possible, and can only be used by other methods.
In fact, today's Boris is not as arrogant and arrogant as Bourbon at its peak, and if his diplomacy is slightly unsatisfactory, he will launch a "punishment war against the barbarians", Boris is still very friendly to the people of Ingona and Poli, but there is only one exception, that is, Bourbon, for Boris, Bourbon is the meat that has been eaten in the stomach, how can he fly away?
Therefore, after perceiving Bourbon's dishonesty, Boris launched a Cold War punishment against Bourbon, including economic blockade, hiring pirates and other methods, which caused the Bourbon market to be chaotic for a while.
After being blocked, the dictatorship of Bourbon at that time was also very stubborn and resolutely refused to surrender to Boris. After surviving for a while, Bourbon chose to ask Polly for help, and the long-standing cold relationship between Bourbon and Polly began to normalize.
Compared to the wealthy Boris, Polly was poor to death, but he still had a certain strength, and when Bourbon threw a bone, Polly bit it, ignoring Pokang's surprise at all, and also made Boris miscalculate.
Borris's original calculation was that when he was blocked by himself, Bourbon would definitely not be able to survive with his own strength, and Bourbon had to find foreign aid, and Bourbon could find only two foreign aids, one was the Portloux Autonomous Region (that is, the former Bourbon Diaspora Union), and the other was Polly.
The Bourbon Autonomous Region is still nominally a Bourbon territory, but it only gives Bourbon a symbolic amount of taxes every year, which is supposed to be a flower child, but if you work together with Bourbon, you can still spend it.
But is the Boss of the Borough of Portloo a fool? Of course not, so why would he help Bourbon, so Potlou doesn't need to be careful.
As for Polly, in Boris's opinion, there was no need to be careful.
Since Poly's independence more than 60 years ago, relations between Bourbon and Poly have been quite bad, and the two sides have not sent ambassadors to each other. After the twenty-fourth consul, the citizens of Poli were only allowed to enter and leave Bourbon, and the official Polly was still denied access to Bourbon.
Therefore, in order to defend Bourbon, Polly signed a mutual defense treaty with Bocom as early as 1450 and became one (during the First Edonan War, it was Boli who took the initiative to provoke the war against Edonan, so Pocom had no obligation to participate in the war)
This treaty expired in 1500, and because of the friendly relations between the two countries, Polly and Pokang chose to renew the treaty for another 30 years, only to expire again in 1530.
And if Polly chooses to help Polis, it will inevitably lead to the anger of Polis. Let's not forget that between so many countries, only Pokon and Bourbon border by land, and only Pokon is a country usurped by barbarians, so only the contradictions of these two countries are irreconcilable.
And this kind of action will not only anger Pokang, but also anger Boris, and Boris thinks that he is kind to Poli, although the first Edonan War did not intervene, resulting in Polly and Edonan can only make unconditional peace, but Boris and Polly signed the "Dumo Liao Problem Handling Plan" in 1477, so that Polly can enter Dumoliao, and the relationship between the two sides has been normalized.
With so many reasons, would Polly still go to Bourbon's aid?
So Polly took a bite and offered financial assistance to Bourbon, but Boris, who was unwilling to tear his face, could only scold and retreat, and refused to renew the "Bourbon-Boris Pokang Agreement" in 1514 as a retaliation.
As soon as Boris retreated, it was a retreat of thousands of miles, and Polly, the bastard, was not only not satisfied but also had to take an inch, and took a bite of it, and the "Bourbon-Polly Treaty of Friendship and Commerce" signed in 1515 made the Pollon almost roar, and Polly did not give him face.
Since you made the first year of junior high school, don't blame me for being fifteen, the red-eyed Boris began to find Bokang, and Pokang, who was panicking because of the change of position of his allies, also began to contact Boris.
Pocom and Boris had no friendship before, on the contrary, they had a long-lasting friendship with Polly.
At the time of Pokon's independence, the Northern Passage, the predecessor of Pokon, sent countless personnel and material support, and also sent aristocrats to guide Pokon in carrying out political reforms after Pokon's independence.
When Polly was waging the War of Independence, Pokon was the most supportive force, and when Umora took a large number of volunteers from Pokon back to the Northern Passage, it is no wonder that later generations made up a small poem, "Pokon's volunteers, mercenaries from the Middle-earth Colonial Guard, Edonan's weapons and Boris's transport." ”
But the strong friendship could not withstand the torrent of time, when Polly and Bourbon walked in, Pocom fell into a deep panic, fearing that the two countries would divide themselves between the south and the north, and at this time Pokang and Boris fell into each other's eyes. Although Boris has no friendship with him, and he is quite far away, he doesn't have to worry about his territorial ambitions for him.
Two countries that were relatively strange before, and in this way, the merchants of Boris began to enter Pokang, into this mysterious country.
After two years of contact, the time was almost over, and in 1517 the two sides signed the Treaty of Friendship and Commerce between Boris and Bokang, marking the beginning of cooperation between the two countries.
As a result, the alliance of the four Bourbon countries, in the stunned eyes of the students of Gross, completed a change of alliance, just like Europe in the forties and fifties of the eighteenth century, yesterday's allies are today's enemies.
Does the fact that the world is changing too fast mean that war is approaching? Will war happen again when the war is almost over? This is the concern of Gross's generation.
And in 1520, the second reincarnation of the Heroic Spirits came, marking the beginning of the tide of the times.