Chapter 536: The Sea of Bourbon after the War (6) Changes of Bourbon Island

The "Bourbon Sea War" officially ended in 2126, and the impact of this war was comparable to that of the collapse of the Bourbon Empire, and it caused great changes to the Bourbon Sea States.

The two great powers of the past, Boris and Portlou, were weakened in this war, and although they were not completely obsolete like Bourbon, they were no longer able to establish absolute authority over their surroundings, and after the weakening of the two empires, some old, new states began to take the stage to seize the imperial authority of the vacuum.

If we want to draw a geographical scope for the rest of the 21st century after the end of the "Bourbon Maritime War", it is undoubtedly the three areas of Bourbon Island, that is, the Edonan Peninsula, the Northern Melami region, and the Southern Merami region.

When the "Bourbon Sea War" had just ended, Polly on the island of Bourbon became the strongest country for the first time, but this strongest was only the strongest after Boris weakened, and Polly was not as strong as Boris before the war, and it could not cope with the alliance between Pokang and Bourbon.

The leaders of Bourbon and Pokon also saw this, so in 2148 they concluded a mutual defense treaty, nominally to prevent the invasion of third countries, but in fact to prevent Polly from declaring war on the two countries.

As for why it was concluded in 2148, because it was in the post-war recovery period, the two countries were convinced that Poli could not declare war again so quickly.

In addition, the conclusion of a mutual defense treaty is something that both countries want to do, but whoever brings up this kind of thing first will have the upper hand in the subsequent negotiations, so the two countries have been dragging their feet, betting that the other side will be afraid first. In the end, it was not until King Pokang was the first to lose his breath that the Mutual Defense Treaty was concluded in 2148.

After the two countries signed the mutual defense treaty, although Polly was very angry, but there was no way, Polly did not have the courage to declare war on the two countries at the same time and defeat, he could only hope that the sea god could bring a miracle to Polly, so that Polly could get the opportunity to declare war on only one country.

Maybe the god of the sea heard Polly's prayer and actually gave Polly a chance. In 2176 A.D., the ancient Bourbon rebellion broke out in the old channel under the rule of Pokang, and the rebel command was quite effective, defeating the counterinsurgency of Pokang several times, and when Pokang finally paid attention to it, the rebels had "recovered" the old capital of Willis.

After recovering "Willis", the ancient Bourbon rebels initially asked Bourbon for help, after all, in their opinion, Bourbon was closer to them, but the rebels only got silence and some support from Bourbon, and in desperation, the rebels turned to Bourbon for help, but received an enthusiastic response from Bourbon.

So in 2178, when the mutual defense treaty between Pokang and Bourbon had just expired, and the two countries were still discussing the renewal of the treaty, Polly took advantage of this short opportunity to suddenly put forward extremely harsh demands on Pokang, asking Bokang to grant absolute autonomy to the nobles led by these rebels in the old waterway, and issued a threat of war.

Faced with such harsh conditions, the unacceptable Pokang naturally refused, so Polly immediately declared war on Pocom, and the "Fifth Bourbon Island War" broke out.

Bourbon's attitude in the "Fifth Bourbon War" was extremely ambiguous, because Bourbon was concerned about the request to renew the mutual defense treaty with Bokang, and he was only willing to sign a cooperative operation treaty with Bokang with an unclear position against Boli.

During the war, Pokon hoped that Bourbon would go north to help him defend against Polly, but Bourbon claimed that he wanted to "reclaim" the southern passage and pin down Polly's army in the south.

The war soon spread to the Edonan Peninsula, and the first country to be involved was Pomosi, who, at Pocom's invitation, decided to declare war on Poli.

In order to join the war, Pomothy also found an embarrassing reason, Pomothy issued a severe war threat to Polly in the year 2182 of the Great Calendar, claiming that Polly should be responsible for the centuries-old invasion of Pomosi, and that Pomothy should be provided with war reparations. To which Polly says I'll you, and Pomothy responds by declaring war.

When Polly had just won the war of independence against Bourbon, the country was exhausted, but Focodo I insisted on an immediate invasion of the Middle-earth Grove Colony, the predecessor of Pomosi, on the grounds that if the region became independent, the country would bring untold disaster to Polly.

The prophecy of Focodo I was fulfilled at this moment, but Polly couldn't sit still, could he? If Pocom could invite Pomothy to join the war, Polly could naturally invite Boris to join the war, so the two countries that had not shared the world in the past came together again after six hundred years and became a camp.

However, Boris, who had already moved into the Edonan Peninsula, was no longer interested in his homeland at this time, at least until Edonan was unified, and it was better to go to Poli than to regain his distant homeland. So Boris, who did not want to get involved in the war with Bourbon and Pokang, also found a reason to be embarrassed.

Boris claimed that his garrison was the former Middle-earth Colonial Garrison, and that before the establishment of the Middle-earth Forest Colonial Garrison in 1323, the local area was also under the jurisdiction of the Middle-earth Colonial Garrison, so Boris had the right to claim the territory of Pomosi, and Pomothy should belong to Boris's rule.

Pomothy said to you, don't find such a strange reason to declare war, so the two countries entered a state of war in 2184.

Boris went to war with Pomosi, which gave South Poutu the opportunity to make trouble, and soon the Edonans of Cadoxu (a region ruled by the South Poutu) rebelled, and then Edonan claimed that Cadoxu was trying to invade Boris, and that he wanted to share the worries of the suzerainty and prevent the evil Cadoxu Crown from harming Boris.

What the hell is going on in this matter, Boris is mentally clear, so he just said "Boris does not recognize any territorial changes in South Poutu", and then ignored South Poutu, let the two crowns continue the civil war, and prepared to wait until the right time to clean up these two disloyal little brothers.

In 2191, Bourbon, who had invaded the southern shipping lanes but was repeatedly repelled by the defenders, finally gave up his claim to regain his homeland and decided to fight north. The reason for facing north is ready-made, and before the war, Pokon had invited Bourbon to march north, because the war had just begun, and Pokon had strong control over the area.

But now it was different, and the Bourbon invaded so quickly that before Pokang could react, the Bourbon swallowed up many territories. Pokang had no choice, did not dare or want to defend himself against the enemy on both sides, so he could only acquiesce to Bourbon's control of parts of the south.

After that, Bourbon and Polly also began to tacitly understand, Bourbon withdrew his troops from the Southern Passage, Polly also withdrew part of his army, and the two countries invariably placed the main battlefield in Pokang, repeating the past war, and the Pokang nobles were horrified to see the plans of the two countries, but there was no solution.

No matter how sinister Bourbon's intentions were, at least he was really at war with Polly, and what if Bourbon was pushed out, and Bourbon was angry and attacked him with Polly?

On the other side of the Edonan Peninsula, Boris also has a new perspective on the war, and they finally realize their weakness, and understand that they cannot conquer Pomosi with their current self (in fact, it is not all the cause of weakness, but mainly the internal factions and checks and balances).

So Boris wisely made a non-aggression pact with Pomothy in 2298, and then transferred his army to more interesting operations, such as suppressing his two disloyal younger brothers.

The "Fifth Bourbon War" finally ended in 2210 with the Second Peace of Boris, and almost all countries except the weeping Pokang and the beaten South Boutu gained something.

Don't look at the fact that Pomothy did not gain any territory in the peace treaty, but Pomothy's navy was trained because of this war, and it was also favored by Bourbon, who sold his naval technology to Pomothy very cheaply as part of the peace treaty.

(Very cheap, referring to the price at which Bourbon sold naval technology to Boemy in 2153.) And the so-called Bourbon naval technology is actually the naval technology of Boris before the war, and the Bourbon navy has long been ruined in its weakening)

Boris beat the disobedient younger brother in this war, and some voices in the territory of the "annexation of South Poutu" also fought. Boris had not annexed South Poutu because Boris had just arrived, and as Boris gained a foothold in the region, the call for such an offer grew louder, and this invasion was a rehearsal of future conquests.

Pokang was the country that suffered the most losses in this war, and it can be said that the First World War was beaten back to the prototype. There have been many discussions in later generations about the reasons why Pokang lost so badly, and the biggest ones are two:

The first is that the overexpansion leads to indigestion, and the inability of the main ethnic group to suppress the unrecognized ethnic groups leads to the widespread Belting Party, especially during the Bourbon invasion, which is also the fact that Bourbon came here later than Polly, but received more support;

Therefore, in the Second Peace of Boris, Pokon ceded (or returned?) Muradwei to Bourbon, and the worst thing was to cede his place of origin (Pokonwei) to Bourbon (because only this guard borders Poli).

In addition, the two remaining provinces of Pokon, the Fentina Passage and the Old Passage, did not escape the clutches, the Old Passage became Bourbon's sphere of influence, and the Fintina Passage became Poli's sphere of influence, and Pocom became a country of one servant and two masters, which was even worse than being a vassal state of Boris before the "Bourbon Sea War".