[Sea Crab Harbor, a small three-story building, West's naval office, third floor.] 】

"Marriage? Marriage with Pratt & Whitney? Binghe asked Shengqing in surprise.

Shengqing nodded and said, "Yes, Your Majesty asked me to tell you, don't worry about her, and advise you, you have been away from home for too long, you can go home." ”

"Back to her big-headed ghost" Binghe shook off the newspaper, raised two fingers and said: "Two years, I have been working for two years!" I rebuilt the factory, the docks, and formed the sea defense, and she drove me back with a wave of her hand?! Dare me to play with her? ”

Shengqing said helplessly: "What do you want?" ”

Binghe pointed to the sea: "A result, a result that can prove my two years of hard work!" I need to wait for a verification, I won't go back until I am given my answer, I will see with my own eyes how the pen I made writes the answer. ”

Shengqing: "There will be no war, we will form an alliance with Pratt & Whitney." In this way, the Oka people will not continue to block our seas, and of course, we will also protect the interests of St. Thauk in the sea crab port."

Binghe looked at Shengqing with a sneer: "You think so? Bing Zhong unceremoniously judged: "Which onion are you who also want to be the referee of the great power game?" ”

Shengqing smiled bitterly and shook his head.

Binghe didn't care: "Make a bet, you can't solve the conflict, at most three years will break out of conflict, and within three years, conflict will break out, and you owe my family a promise in Westsea Crab Harbor." ”

Shengqing was just about to shake his head, and Binghe said: "If I lose, four sets of battle uniforms, personally customized for you, and ensure that the equipment is normal within fifty years." ”

Shengqing: "Well, you can't win. ”

Binghe: "If this is your rebuttal, you have a weak heart." ”

Shengqing: "Okay, I promise. But for three weeks, I'm going to watch you. ”

Binghe frowned and said, "If you want to see it, it's true, why are you so serious?" ”

Shengqing: "You can't go north and ruin the engagement ceremony. ”

Binghe looked at the prehistoric giant beast and said, "Why am I so sick? ”

Hearing this, Shengqing was stunned and said, "You and Your Majesty?" ”

Shengqing looked at Binghe's expression and said with a wry smile: "I thought that the relationship between you and His Majesty should be very good." ”

Binghe said as if he understood something: "Hey, hey, hey, you are responsible for what you say." How old am I and how old is she? You have to be a little more reliable. Well, you mean? ”

However, in the end, Binghe's voice was a little weak, and after Binghe realized what the past was, after thinking about it, Binghe sighed faintly, and whispered in his heart: "It turns out that ......, she didn't say it, I don't realize it." ”

A few minutes later.

Binghe tried his best to say to Shengqing on the side: "Verian is a competent monarch, unfortunately, the family I was born in was not loyal to her, now it is going to rain, my mother is going to marry, let her go." But within the contract time, I will do my duty for the promise I made with her! ”

Shengqing: "Promise? What did you promise? ”

Binghe: "Hold West through this." ”

[Pratt & Whitney - the most steely country on the continent].

Hundreds of years of production have allowed this country in the middle of the continent to be covered by a railway network. The Whipps machine may not be the most advanced on the continent. It also does not have the largest population on the continent, nor does it have the largest land area. However, it is the country with the highest proportion of industrial economy in the whole continent.

If the literacy rate of 60 or 70 percent in the city of Oka allows the factory owners of Oka to exploit the workers with impunity, then the literacy rate of 90 percent in the city of Pratt & Whitney keeps the workers under the rule of the aristocracy at all times.

The system established by the aristocracy of Pratt & Whitney provided for the food, clothing, housing and transportation of every Pratt & Whitney person, and the people were divided into seven classes. Different levels enjoy different rations and different treatments. Occupations such as workers, policemen, peasants, and transport corps enjoy specific levels of treatment. However, behind this well-organized system of occupational division of labor, there is a social hierarchy that is unimaginable to modern earthlings: on seven levels, the nobility is still the nobility. Although the descendants of nobles continued to fall to the seventh rank for hundreds of years, the rise of commoner-level families to nobility was almost non-existent.

The people in charge of the factories and the army are always the Pratt & Whitney aristocracy, and the quantitatively cultivated civilians are just prepared parts of the Pratt & Whitney military machine. -- Ten percent of the population is spent on industry, and the rest of the population is in production and training at all times. Frequent wars have left the average life expectancy of the Pratt & Whitney population to only 53 years.

In the capital of Pratt & Whitney, smoke is rising from chimneys, and steam engines are constantly running among the brick walls of the city. As a city with purely political and military functions, Pratt & Whitney has few gardens and pools.

But that doesn't mean that the nobles of Pratt & Whitney won't enjoy life. It is common for aristocrats to build a magnificent holiday castle outside the city. And these resort castles are the interface between the nobility of Pratt & Whitney and the culture of the upper class society on the mainland.

Forty kilometers outside the Pratt & Whitney metropolitan area.

A bastion made of blue-white rock is half-embedded in the hill. And on the central tower of the fortress. Talks between the Oka and Pratt & Whitney high-level leaders are taking place here.

In the lobby at the top of the tower, a map of the continent is printed on the curved ceiling, and a mirror-like marble floor reflects the map on the ceiling.

Intricately carved mahogany furniture, richly patterned blankets, and a three-metre-high bookcase against the wall. Let the person who walks into this tower have a sense of seriousness when he enters the temple.

The messenger of the Oka people stood at his desk, and the crystal developer was also turned on at the desk.

On the other side of the developer was the office of Grand Duke Okarin, and next to Grand Duke Lin Yin stood the attendants of the Pratt & Whitney family.

Phuttus and Lin Yin sent envoys to each other while maintaining the video of the projector, of course, on the developer of this black-and-white television technology, but the two Grand Dukes only greeted each other politely at the beginning, and the next negotiation was that the envoys of both sides were talking.

During the meeting, the envoys of both sides can emphasize their own claims during the negotiation process according to the gestures of their own Grand Dukes.

The envoy of the Lin Yin family: "Our sea fleet has been preliminarily assembled at the military base on Sute Island, please ask if you have completed your preparations." The messenger sent information on the military movements of the Oka navy.

Pratt & Whitney Emissary: "The six mobile corps in the south have been deployed in place, and they will be able to do so when the time comes." The emissary also handed over a map of Pratt & Whit's current military deployment.

Lin Yin's envoy: "May I ask what you will do with the Gangluan family when the time comes?" ”

Pratt & Whitney Emissary: "As both Hemans, Pratt & Whitney will give the Gangluan family their due status." Vilian, the fortress of the Steelhill family, will receive the highest courtesy from Pratt & Whitney. ”

Duke Lin Yin knocked on the table, and after the waiter of Oka understood, he nodded to the developer to Grand Duke Lin Yin,

Then he turned to the Grand Duke of Pratt & Whitney beside him and said, "I have no disagreement with the status of the Gangluan family, but the marriage under the crown of Verian cannot be so casual. His Majesty is very concerned that Her Majesty Willy may be dissatisfied with this incident, and hopes that Crowning Willy will temporarily stay in the Palace of St. Joan, and the Floating Ice Family will personally explain the abruptness of this incident to her. ”

[The topic of the two sides has entered a point of contradiction]

The inheritance of the upper profession of the fortress belongs to the key on the continent. No country will ignore a superior lineage and lose it from its control. The battles on the mainland for thousands of years can be seen as wars between high-ranking families. The nature of the war is the same as that of the Chinese Spring and Autumn period when the group of relatives fought.

And how precious is the inheritance of the fortress?

Two thousand seven hundred years ago, artillery was not as powerful as it is today, and the fortress was more deterrent. The women of the Hela people with a fortress heritage, who married into the Heman Empire, demanded a bride price as the defense line of the twenty military fortresses on the Eastern Front. This is now the western defense line of Hela.

This line of defense was easy to defend and difficult to attack, and after the collapse of the Heman Empire, the Archduke of Oakley's eastward expansion ran into this line of defense. It hasn't been possible to break through for hundreds of years. The so-called 'priceless' allusion also exists on the Western Continent.

Now, although the fortress does not have the glory of the past, it is by no means given to others casually.

Both Oka and Pratt & Whitney agreed on the division of land, territory, and port, but on the issue of the Steelhill family, they disagreed.

The War Department of the Oka people believed that allowing Pratt & Whitney to gain central supremacy and Oakley to strike a balance would be beneficial to the Oka Empire's military policy on the mainland. But if Pratt & Whitney were to incorporate the Gangluan family, the balance of power on land would be completely disrupted.

With the communication meeting in the office lobby going on.

Grand Duke Pratt & Whitney's face became more and more angry, and Duke Lin Yin showed no sign of giving in. The two sides are at a stalemate.

After many discussions between the envoys of the two sides were difficult to reach a consensus.

Pratt & Whitney said in a big voice: "The Oka Navy is stationed in the port south of West, and St. Sauc will not be without reaction. ”

The Grand Duke's speech at this time was faintly threatening: if the Oka people always want to take advantage. Then in the fierce conflict between Oka and Saint Sauk that is about to take place in the Mediterranean, Pratt & Whitney will stand on the sidelines and will not cooperate with Oka.

Of course, it can be seen from this sentence that the future plan of the two countries is to prepare for a complete partition of West.

When Lord Duke Pratt & Whitney spoke.

The emissaries of both sides stopped talking, and now it was time for the heavyweights to clash

On the projection, Duke Lin Yin Kusa thought for a while and responded: "The mechanical controller of Sea Crab Harbor can be taken over by your family. "The subtext is: You can eat this sweet jujube with Gun Flame Binghe, but you had better give up the watermelon of the Gangluan family.

In this carving, Binghe, a genius mechanic, is also on the plate of the partition. The Oka people have arranged some undercover agents around Binghe, just to grasp Binghe's movements, once Binghe tries to leave the vortex of West, the Oka people will immediately activate the interception plan.

Grand Duke Pratt & Whitney shook his head and said, "I don't like children who are too lively. "At this time, in the upper class society of the Western Continent, Binghe's wind comments are lively if they are good, and wild and uneducated.

The Grand Duke Pratt & Whitney was unwilling to concede to the Oka on the issue of Veryanne, so he belittled the Gunfire Kernel.