Chapter 408: The Third Reckoning (Part I) The Balance of Power in Portlou
At this time, in the silver room, the third phase of liquidation is underway, and this is the third time that the liquidation has been done, so Leng Yi is also beginning to become familiar.
Of the 16 camps of the 32 Heroes in the third period, Boris lost two consecutive highest-scoring honors, and Portlou finally went from second, tied for first place, to undisputed first.
Prior to the reincarnation of the Immortals, there were two wars in Portlou, the Third Indoctrination War (1613-1621), in which Ulch won a great victory and turned Usica into a dog, and the Subak War (1632-1639), which had to be abandoned in a hurry to intervene in Ulch.
Although not both wars were won, Portloo succeeded in turning the balance of power in the Dragon's favor, laying the groundwork for the war launched by the Heroic Spirit in the third phase.
The concept of "balance of power" first came from the distant era of Bourbon hegemony. In the era of Bourbon, for Ingena, Bourbon supported the western secession and Bourbon diaspora to counterbalance, and for Maisica, Bourbon reduced Meilamie to its own indoctrination, secured the coastal land, and established numerous concessions along the coast of Maisica.
After doing so, the Bourbons flew into obscurity, and when the Ingona and Maisca disobeyed slightly, the Bourbon launched a "war of punishment" to clean them up. The reason why Ingona and Maisca still exist is not because the Bourbons are incapable of destroying them, but because the Bourbons aim to make money through commerce and not to annex territories.
After the weakening of Bourbon, Boris, who was the largest inheritor of the Bourbon inheritance, inherited Bourbon's concept of "balance of power", and they tried to create an orderly balance of power in which Ingona, India, Western Secession, Portlou, and Maisca coexisted, and no one could annex anyone, so that no one could pose a threat to Boris, and Boris could trade like Bourbon.
Guided by the concept of "balance of power", Boris took the lead in forming various dazzling mutual defense treaties to ensure that the five countries (including forces) could coexist on the west bank of Tenglong.
After maintaining the "balance of power", Boris turned his attention back to Bourbon Island and the Edonan Peninsula, and as a result, as soon as the balance of power was relaxed in those years, the "balance of power" began to be unstable, and the five countries on the west coast began to jump again.
Boris believes that the reason why the five countries in the West Bank jumped so much is because Portloo is too powerful and full of desire for expansion, as long as Portloo is broken up and split, it will not only solve the hidden danger of a strong country, but also maintain the "balance of power".
So the "Bourbon War" broke out in the era of Gross's life, and the results are also told in "Dawn of the Warlock", although Boris solved Bourbon, but he failed to solve Portolou, and Portlou jumped down like this, and also solved Ingona.
Then came the Epos incident in 1622, Boris was issued the "Epos Ban", which forbade sending troops to the Tenglong Continent for a long time, which made Boris's influence in the Tenglong Continent plummet to zero, after all, in this era, only those who can send troops have the right to speak.
Boris couldn't interfere with the Tenglong Continent, and the "balance of power of the dragon" was naturally impossible to talk about, so Portloo took over the baton from Boris and began to carry out Portlu's "Balance of Power".
Bourbon and Boris are both Bourbon Island countries, and their "balance of power" is naturally only satisfied with maintaining the stability of the Tenglong Continent, and as a country of the Tenglong Continent, the "Balance of Power" he wants to create is to stabilize the border while allowing Portlou to expand.
After all, Potloo is a country located in the middle of the Tenglong Continent, and if you don't pay attention to it, you may be attacked by the north and the south, but the relationship between Potlot and the north and the south is not good, and later Maishika is like this.
Therefore, in order to prevent being attacked by the north and the south, the "balance of power" adopted by Portlou was to stabilize the north and expand the south. After all, the north is the core area of Incona, and the Bourbons rarely set foot in that land, while the southern Maisica land is dotted with Bourbon concessions, so it is not confusing.
Therefore, for the Ingona region, Bourbon united with the Indo-Andy and western secession to carve up the Ingona, and did not hesitate to cede its own border guard to form the autonomous Leedlu Privileged Zone 2 with the Indo-Andian core (that is, the original western secession), and adjusted this area through the "Subak War".
Through these efforts, Portlou succeeded in creating the Ingona region where the Leedlu privileged area was divided and confronted by the Indo-Andi region, pitting the two forces against each other, thus requiring Portlou's assurances to ensure the security of his northern region and allowing Portlou to move his army to the south.
There was only one neighbor to the south of Portlou, Maisica, and the time was fast approaching.
In 1633, the Second War of the Three Lords broke out in Ulch, which gave Potlou an opportunity, but Potloo waited for Maisica's death.
It should be noted that after the end of the troubled times in 1401, Urch was jointly ruled by the three major airspace lords of Joshua, Sorge and Alina, and this triolioch was bound to be unstable, so the two heroes of Ulch's camp, Bhatti of the Joshua family and Deqiang of the Sorge family, made unremitting efforts to end the co-rule of the three lords.
They first squeezed out the Arina family through the Arina War from 1499 to 1515, and then promoted the Zeidir family as a replacement, but in fact, the Zeidir family was just a puppet, and the real power was vested in Joshua and Sorg.
Then came the "First War of the Three Lords" from 1571 to 1584, in which the Joshua family faced the Sorg family, two of the Heroic Spirits originally negotiated with one side to release the water, but they got away with it, and were called on by the Zeidir family to intervene in the war in the name of peace and won the victory, from the background board family to one of the real three families.
Later, Ulch participated in the "Third Religious War" in collaboration with Potlou to attack Maisica, and after the victory, the Zeidir family gained great prestige, so they tried to fulfill the unfulfilled wish of Bhatti and Deqiang in the past, ending the co-rule of the three lords of Ulch, and concentrating power in the hands of the Zeidir family.
Therefore, in 1633, the "Second War of the Three Lords" broke out in Urch, this time it was Joshua and Solg who jointly attacked Zeyidir.
By 1637, the civil war had turned into an international war, and the declining Joshua family had brought in wolves and asked for help from Maisica, who launched an invasion of Ulchi. Then, in 1640, Potlou claimed to be on the side of the Zeidir family, but in reality he was only fighting Maisica.
Therefore, Bhatti and Deqiang III were confused when they were reincarnated in 1640, and their country was in the midst of a civil war as soon as they were reincarnated. You must know that in order to let the Heroic Spirits do their best to lead their country forward, the reincarnation of the Heroic Spirits was chosen when they had just died in the previous life, and by 1633, they could no longer adjust to reincarnation.
What does this mean? It means that the family of one of these two heroic spirits has become a family of traitors who lure wolves into the house.
The Second War of the Three Lords ended in 1644, and the Sorghes, who had surrendered in time, barely maintained the dignity of the nobility after being stripped of their power, while the Joshua family, who had led the wolf into the house, had to go into exile in Messica.
Through this war, the Zeidir family established the Zeidir dynasty in 1648, ending the 247-year trioligarchy rule in Urchi.
Then the two heroic spirits of the Ulqi camp were abolished in this life, and although the Solge family where Deqiang was located could stay in Ulqi, they were monitored and excluded, and they could not be used as Chinese medicine jars at all.
Bhatti's Joshua family was even more miserable, and when he was 4 years old, he followed the family into exile to Maisica, and when the "Anti-Delos War", "Oligarchic War", and "Second Oligarchic War" broke out in Maisica, no one cared about them anymore. Not to mention that Ulch began to interfere with Maischka in turn, and the Joshua family was also considered to be the culprit.
In the end, the Joshua family, who could not stay in Maisica, could not return to Ulch, and had to go into exile under the leadership of Bhatti to Portlou to eat.
Potlou was quite patient, and even though he had the upper hand, he still waited quietly for Maisica to fight inside, and waited until the "Second Oligarchic War", when they were about to win, that Potlou and Ulch went over to pick the fruit.
In the process, there was a civil war (1687-1699) in the northern Indolu, which led to the "Mosini War" due to centralization, and the Lydelu privileged area was ready to invade the Indo-Andy territory, and it was also Portlu who forcibly contained the Lydelu privileged area.
Although Portlou said that he was to abide by the contract with Inand, in fact, Portlou was only worried that the Lydroo privileged area would be too strong, which would lead to the destruction of the balance of power in Ingona.
The outcome of the "Second Oligarchic War" has already been mentioned in the chapter "Exhaustion of Forces", where a desperate Maischka tries to woo Braiazon, but is refused.
The reason for Braason's refusal was that he felt that Maisica, who had fought so many civil wars, had no possibility of victory at all, so he opened his eyes and told nonsense, saying that he had fought the restructuring war for so many years (it had ended 17 years), and now the people were poor and the country was tired and not suitable to participate in the war.
So after this war, Maishika was left with only a little territory in the vast land and woods, and the rest of the original land was pocketed by Potlou and Ulchxiao.
Among them, Portloo's profit is undoubtedly much greater than that of Urch, because the plains that Potlou has obtained are all former Myrami religious areas, which have a local ruling base and can quickly resume production. However, the newly annexed lands of Ulchi are all strange and new, and I don't know how long it will take to run in.
Let's set our sights on the southernmost point of the western coast of the Tenglong Continent, Brayasong. The Heroic Spirits of Brayathon are divided into the New Voyage Faction and the Mountain Faction, with the Mountain Faction being a new faction that only joined in the second phase, but they have been quite successful.
In the second phase, the Mountain Faction defeated the Blayasson, who had been freed by the New Voyagers (the only faction of the Blaazon in the first phase), and established the Trenos Dynasty.
In the third phase, Brayazon began to centralize the power and reform, and all the autonomous internal countries were "reformed by the internal state establishment" and became areas directly subordinate to the mountain faction. This restructuring began in 1651 from Nasumi II and eventually evolved into the "War of Restructuring" in 1658.
Due to the longevity of Nasumi II, he did not make it to the end of the war, and the spirits of the Mountain faction carried on Nasumi's legacy, and in 1576 they won the "Reform War" and completed the "Establishment of the Inner Kingdom". After that, there was no self-governing inner state in Braazon, except for the "new seafaring inner state" that defected in time.
Therefore, in the third issue, if the west coast of the Tenglong Continent is used as the evaluation range, Potlou is the biggest winner, Maisca is the biggest loser, Urchi, Brayason, and Inandi have all gained, and the Lydr Privileged Area and the New Maritime Interior have maintained their independent status.