Chapter 424: Exiled Aristocrats (13) Trade Disputes
In 1844, when the expedition fleet of the Middle Schauendo Channel in Boris crossed the long coastal border of Inandina and advanced the eastern boundary to unreached lands, they discovered a civilization that had never been discovered before, an undiscovered country, the Cornigta.
The Cornigtas also have a long history, even older than Blaazon and Urch, having established their own nation in 489 A.D., before the birth of "Navigator" Luhr, and it continues to this day.
The people of Cornigta believe in the mountain god of the Sulasi god lineage, and worship the magnificent and continuous mountains in the west of Cornigta, some people here may wonder, isn't this the same as the mountain worship in Sydney?
In fact, it is different, the worship of the Cornigta Mountains worships the god of mountains, and the mountains here are mountains that stretch for thousands of miles, while the Sydney Alpine Worship worships the god of the peak, and the mountain refers to a single majestic mountain, which is the difference between the worship of the Cornigta and Sydney.
Cornigta was founded for thousands of years, and there was a glorious civilization and a prosperous era, but after the millennium passed, by the time the Bourbons discovered Cornigta, the country had become a declining country.
Today, the territory of Cornigta is only half of its heyday, and the most prosperous area of the origin of Cornigta has been completely lost, and it is no longer in the hands of Cornigta, but in the hands of Godroth in the south.
And due to the defeat of the "War of Revenge" and the "War of Resistance", the country of Cornigta is now impoverished and poor, and is jokingly called "a vassal state that is not a vassal state" by the Celestial Realm. The reason why Konigta did not become a vassal state was not because of how powerful he was, but because there was only him and Godroth in the south in the region of Gonigta before, and Gothroth did not have the need to turn Gonigta into a vassal state.
But this is the case, and now the national control of the Cornigta (the Cornigta name for the supreme leader), from 1814 onwards, has been designated by the Aduk dynasty of Godroth, and the national control of the Cornigta appointed by the Aduk dynasty is usually the next Godroth the Great.
Of course, the sorrow of the Cornigtans was of no value to the Bourbons, and when they found out that this was a new land and a new civilization, the expedition immediately realized that they had picked up a treasure, which was a great business opportunity!
Although the Cornigtas were at a loss to engage in maritime trade with unfamiliar forces, the Bourbons, who had experienced many such incidents, could easily dig through the old paper piles and refer to the past to guide the construction of trade channels this time.
With the rise of the Cornigta trade, which once again broke the existing situation in the Bourbon Sea, Hades was depressed to find that he could not act according to his original plan.
Every new trade will cause a change in the existing situation, and the direct cause of the change is that the forces that can act as intermediaries will become rich because of this trade.
First of all, Cornigta, who could only sigh in the farther south, although Cornigta would be bargained by the Bourbon merchants when he resold the local goods, but Corenigta could make a profit by selling the Bourbon sea trade goods to Godros.
The closest Indoland to Konigta also has extremely convenient conditions, whether it is to drive unskilled maritime merchants to trade, or to open ports along the way to collect entry fees, it is a good deal, so the Indo-Andi and Laidelu Special Zone also enjoy the rare benefits of intermediaries.
Then there are Portloux and Bourbon, which have good relations with the Inandi or Leedlu privileges, and excellent sea-going ships, which, albeit far away, can still sail to Cornigta and get their share of the Konigta trade.
However, Boris was too bad, his center of rule had just moved further west with the relocation of the capital, and it was now impossible to move back, and Boris was too far from Cornigta.
Not to mention that in 1845, when Portloo was still in 1845, he angered the Chinese people by being deceived and untrustworthy when Boris merchants passed through his own port, and in order to harmonize the order of Portloo's port, he issued the "Proclamation of the Removal of the Faithless", in fact, it is more appropriate to call him "Anti-Boris Participation in the Cornigta Trade Ban".
The main content of the "Anti-Boris Participation in the Cornigta Trade Ban" is to issue a port closure order on the way to the Boris merchant ships participating in the Cornigta trade, and the port will not be opened until Portlough is opened. If you can bypass the port of Portloo and return, yes, let you in, but you will need to pay a high entrance fee.
In addition, Portloo also bought off the Lydelu Privileged District, allowing the Lydelu Privileged District to join the ban and impose punitive port entry fees on Boris merchant ships. The merchants of Boris were devastated by the ban, with one exception, and that was the Shoendor Passage.
Foul opened the back door to the ban, announcing that the ban would be lifted for all Boris ships departing from the Shuendo Channel. This not only allowed the Shuendo Passage to participate in the trade with the Conigta, but also allowed the Shoendor Passage to collect a large amount of "camouflage fees" from those merchant ships that pretended to be its own Channel, which can be described as making money at both ends.
In this booming money-making, the idea of some republican uprisings in the Xiuenduo Channel dissipated in this way, and he felt that it was better to maintain the status quo, but Hades was not optimistic about the situation at all: "There are clouds in the divine realm, and children holding gold in the downtown will have a big disaster, so prepare to launch an uprising in advance." β
The catastrophe predicted by Hades did come very quickly, and only a year and a half later, by 1847, the rumors of all Boris were very wrong, from the Fermar dynasty to the lower classes, all of them hated the two ends of the Siendo Channel, and the residents of the Southerndo Channel did not dare to go to the southern channel.
In this tense atmosphere, the rumors of the tax increase on the Xiuendo Channel were revealed, and the news from the Kadosh Palace was to raise a very high tax this time, so high that all the money earned by the Xiuendo Channel in the past few years would be spit out. And there is also gossip that the Kadosh Palace is preparing to make a big change of blood for the officials of the Xiuendo Channel and replace them with their people.
"those decrepit boys! Why do you have to pay taxes if you make money with your ability! If those decrepit boys in the Kadosh Palace dare to do this, we will revolt!" In front of Hades, who had disappeared for a long time since the rise of the Cornigta trade, reappeared in front of Hades when the news was wrong, and asked Hades to help his brothers.
Hades nodded unhurriedly: "We are all supporters of the republic, and in order to restore the disappeared republic, we are naturally on the same front." β
Sure enough, in 1847, the Castle of Cadoch unanimously approved a proposal by the current Sea King, Lure XVII, the grandson of Cadosh I, to raise the tax on the Shuendo Channel. This tax increase is even more frustrating than rumored, almost equivalent to siphoning out all the money that Xiuendo Channel has earned in the past few years.
It took a day for the Shundor Channel to respondβI didn't hear it, but of course the republicans didn't want to make it big enough to break the war and collect money happily, so they paid tribute to the Kadosh Palace according to the normal tax rate of previous years. Paying tribute is on the one hand, and on the other hand, the Shuendo Channel has also begun to urgently mobilize in preparation for the upcoming conflict.
Faced with the delusion that the Xiuendo Channel wanted to calm things down, Hades scoffed: "The Cardoshi Palace is here for the windfall profits of the Xiuendo Channel, and it is undoubtedly the stupidest decision to avoid this point and solve the matter." β
As Hades had anticipated, in 1848 the Great Calendar, Luhr XVII "temporarily dismissed" all the current high-ranking officials of the Shuendor Channel, citing the lack of tax on the Shuendor Channel, and sent the "inspector" to "investigate the arrears of taxes on the Shuendor Channel." β
Oh, and by the way, the retinue that escorted the "inspectors" to investigate included the most elite legions and the most elite fleets of Boris.
This is not here to investigate at all, but to send the nobles of the Shuendo Passage into the River Styx!
Therefore, in 1848, the republicans of the Shoendo Passage staged an "uprising", and the "leader of the uprising" was Meate, who "seized" the power of the entire Shoendor Passage within 2 days, and the reason for the "uprising" was to declare "to restore the good old days of the old republican era and put an end to the tyranny of Fermar", which the Celestial Realm called the "Second War Against Monarchy" (in fact, the third, but the second was called the Sixth Edonan War).
After "seizing" the power of the Quanshuendo Channel, Mees invited the 68-year-old leader of the exiled aristocracy, Hades, who enjoyed great prestige among the entire exiled aristocracy, to be the nominal leader of the entire rebel army, to show that he was not a local self-government force intent on rebellion.
"A bunch of timid, indifferent rats, hum," Hades mocked the nobles who had invited him to the Passage of Shondor, in a sarcastic tone during his conversation with his son.
"A group of people in their fifties and sixties, who have no responsibility at all, actually pushed out a little hairy boy who was less than forty years old to be the leader, and surrendered in two days? What do they want to do? Don't they think that after the defeat, they can push out Meate as a scapegoat, and then continue to be a nobleman, so as not to go into exile?"
At the end, Hades made a comment: "Before you think about winning, you should think about defeat first, this is indeed the responsibility of the generals, but the divine realm said this sentence to be cautious for the generals, not to find a way back for the rats before the start of the fight, since they have rebelled, they still want to be able to coexist peacefully with the Ferma Dynasty if they fail?"
Coincidentally, on the Bourbon Island, Boris, who was red in the trade of Cornigta, attacked the channel of Xiuendo, and on the side of Cornigta, Goldros, who was in the red trade, also attacked in Cornigta.
In 1489, when Goldroth arrogantly demanded that Cornigta handle the trade and not raise the price when transshipping the trade, this request was rejected by Corderoth, so Goldroth launched the "War of Punishment".
This is a term that Goldroth learned from the Bourbon Sea culture, which means that the eldest brother cleans up the disobedient younger brother, and it is said that the current Godroth the Great is very satisfied with this term.
As soon as the Conigta was beaten, the trade of the Cornigta, which had been booming in recent years, was cut off instantly, and it could only be transported through smuggling.
So Meese respectfully cried and asked Hades, the exiled nobleman Hades, the nominal leader of the statue that he had disdained before, "What can I do about it?"
"If there is a civil war in Boris, Edonan will be in turmoil, and when Edonan is in turmoil, it will be the opportunity for me to wait. β
Mies was overjoyed: "It is worthy of His Excellency Hades! As long as Edonan is in turmoil, we will wait for the channel of Xiuendo, no, and we will wait for Boris's great cause of republic, and it will be just around the corner!"