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Seeing Bo Jinchen's suspicious gaze, Wu Feng nodded and took a sip of rice wine, and said calmly: "Yes, I want Cheng Dayou to open a passage in the southwest, and it is more appropriate for us to control this raised headland between the Middle East continents, I don't want the direction of our future development to be controlled by others." Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Bo Jinchen's mind immediately sketched out the geography of the protruding headland region of the Middle East and the continent.

To the west of East Samoa is the Nan'an city-state, which is not a traditional city, but a town association formed by the union of a number of towns, but the council of the town alliance is located in Nan'an town, this region has a particularly developed handicraft economy, but it has always remained politically neutral, even when the peninsula alliance was at its peak.

The northern part of the Nan'an city-state near the end of the southern end of the Hengduan Mountains is a gentle slope of the Duchy of Soketu that belongs to the Duchy of Soketu, which has a close connection with the original Duchy of Bali, the land area of this Duchy is a narrow strip, along the southern end of the Hengduan Mountains from the Eastern Continent to the Middle Continent, because there is no access to the sea, and most of the land belongs to the mountains and slopes, the economy is quite backward, its Grand Duke Clark and Grand Duke Mutu should be cousins, originally belonged to the members of the Peninsula Alliance, and later declared neutrality after the collapse of the Eastern Peninsula Alliance, reading outside the Western Peninsula Alliance, the Western Frontier Army controlled the entire Eastern Peninsula Alliance because of the need to reach an armistice agreement with the Western Peninsula Alliance as soon as possible, did not advance to the west, and the Western Peninsula Alliance also acquiesced in the fact that the Principality of Soktu withdrew from the Western Peninsula Alliance because this Principality of Soketu did not have much practical value.

To the west of the Nan'an city-state is the Western Samoa city-republic corresponding to East Samoa, it should be said that East Samoa, Nan'an city-state, and Western Samoa belong to the same clan in terms of race, ethnicity and religious beliefs, but the historical origin has formed the current unbalanced economic development situation. Although Yangzhu has long been prestigious, although it has not joined the Peninsula Alliance in the name of maintaining neutrality, it is in fact recognized as a supernumerary member of the Alliance, and maintains quite close ties with the Peninsula Alliance in all economic and political aspects.

The most important force in this region is probably Sikkim Island located in the south of the Sikkim Strait, Sikkim Island and several small islands around Sikkim Island are collectively known as the Sikkim City Republic, which is the most economically developed and active economy in the entire peninsula region, and is also the richest and most powerful city republic, the southern and western seas of Sikkim Island are famous fishing grounds and pearl fields in the Great South Sea and the Latin Ocean, and the pearl continent is famous for its blue eye pearls, and the shipbuilding industry, shipping industry, entrepot trade, financial industry, salt industry, handicraft industry, and fishing industry are quite developed.

The power of the city-republic is controlled by the industrial and commercial forces, the parliament of the republic is almost monopolized by the large industrial and commercial class, and anything that violates the interests of the industrial and commercial community is regarded as an infringement on the republic, and the economic power of the city-republic is the best in the entire peninsula, most of which are distributed in the port area with Sikkim as the center.

The port of Sikkim on the island of Sikkim is the key point of the Sikkim Strait, and the port of Western Samoa is far away, controlling the passage of the Sikkim Strait, and passing ships passing through here must be inspected and taxed by a joint checkpoint located on the island of Sikkim in the middle of the Sikkim Strait, and a detachment of the naval fleet of the Republic of Sikkim City is stationed here to maintain absolute control over the strait.

The north of Sikkim Island, although the island is not big, but it is just stuck at the confluence of the Latin Ocean and the Great South Ocean south of Sikkim Island, any ships that want to bypass the Sikkim Strait and enter and exit the Latin Ocean and the Great South Sea are stationed on this island within the control of the Sikkim Navy, the Dajia Military Port on the island is also the most important military port of the Sikkim City Republic, the Sikkim City Republic Navy Fleet is also one of the most powerful naval fleets in the entire peninsula region, with a naval ship formation including thirteen large warships, and also formed a small but quite capable army force, plus has a strong mercenary force as an auxiliary forceIt can be called an important military force that can influence the situation in the entire peninsula region.

However, since its establishment, the city republic of Sikkim has always pursued the policy of self-reliance and neutrality, maintained the absolute independence of the entire city republic, developed ocean trade externally, and encouraged the development of industrial and commercial finance industry internally, not only as the industrial and commercial center of the entire peninsula region, but also as the most important financial center in the entire peninsula region and even in the southern part of the Central Continent, dozens of large multinational commercial banks have set up headquarters here, and they have financial assets and circulation systems and influence throughout the entire Central Continent and the southern part of the Eastern Continent.

Since its establishment, the Peninsula Alliance has always hoped that Sikkim could join the Peninsula Alliance and become the political, economic, and military leader of the Peninsula Alliance, but the Assembly of the Sikkim City Republic has vetoed the bill on joining the Peninsula Alliance three times, believing that maintaining the three-stand policy that it has been implementing is more conducive to the growth of its own national strength and more in line with the interests of Sikkim, and the reason why the city-state of Nam An has not joined the Peninsula Alliance has been affected by the Sikkim policy to a large extent. But in fact, although Sikkim did not join the Peninsula Alliance, it did have great influence on its surrounding areas, especially the peninsula region, especially to the Nan'an city-state and Western Samoa, which followed Sikkim's policy of neutrality and non-alignment, but became another force outside the peninsular alliance, and the current Principality of Soktu also tried its best to strengthen its ties with the Nan'an city-state and Western Samoa, and these three places had a faint tendency to become Sikkim's vassal powers.

Taking a deep breath, Bo Jinchen tried to sort out his somewhat chaotic thoughts, His Royal Highness King Qin really wanted to make a breakthrough in the southwest, once he wanted to expand westward, the primary target was either Nan'an or Suoketu, and Suoktu's surname might be bigger.

But now, stimulated by the fall of the Eastern Peninsula Alliance into an imperial territory, Sikkim has gradually sensed that this threat from the east may endanger Sikkim's special position in this region, and has begun to consciously make policy adjustments.

It is said that the road widening and reconstruction project from Soktu City, the capital of the Principality of Soktu, to the Port of Western Samoa is guaranteed by the Republic of Sikkim City, and the three commercial banks of Sikkim provide loans to support the construction, once the transformation of this strategic road is completed, it will connect the Principality of Soktu and the Port of Western Samoa to a large extent, so that a large number of products of the Principality of Soketu can be easily transported, and the economy of the Principality of Soketu can also usher in an era of take-offMore importantly, this road can connect the Principality of Soktu with Western Samoa, the city-state of Nam An and even Sikkim at once, and it is also of great strategic importance from a military point of view.

On the other hand, the Republic of Sikkim City is also in frequent contact with the Western Peninsula Alliance countries, and the political dignitaries and celebrities of the two sides frequently visit each other.

Bo Jinchen didn't know if these two reasons stimulated His Royal Highness the King of Qin, once the neutral force led by Sikkim formed an alliance with the Western Peninsula Alliance, and the Western Peninsula Alliance was still allied with the two major powers in the southern part of the Central Continent, the West Oran Kingdom and the Delan Kingdom, once this huge alliance was formed, it would undoubtedly be a huge deterrent for the empire to expand its sphere of influence along the southwest direction to the Western Continent.

"Jinchen believes that Your Highness's idea must have your own intentions, but the city-state of Nan'an and the principality of Soktu are now very close to the Republic of Sikkim City, and any action we make in the southwest is afraid that it will attract the joint resistance of their third force under the guise of neutrality, and may even attract the interference of the Western Peninsula Alliance in the west, I wonder if Your Highness has considered this issue?" The power of Sikkim should not be underestimated, and as far as Jinchen knows, although our military operations in the East Peninsula region were going quite smoothly at that time, there was an objective reason for this, that is, the main military forces in the East Peninsula region. Most of the mercenaries have already gone to the Western Peninsula Alliance area, and under this special circumstance, we have been able to achieve such results by using the strategy of quick victory, but now our most important advantage no longer exists, and the Republic of Sikkim City is not only not weak in naval strength, but also the combat effectiveness of its army is also the best in the entire peninsula region, compared with the military powers of the Central Continent, such as Pasha, West Oran, and Yudlan, except for a slightly smaller scale, they can be called first-class in the south, and their main auxiliary forces - The number of mercenaries is as high as 50,000, plus their regular army, Sikkim alone has 100,000 troops, although it is separated from the mainland by a strait of Sikkim, but with Sikkim's domestic shipping capacity, the long-distance transportation and delivery capacity of the army is quite strong, if we are to take military action here, we cannot but take these factors into account. ”

Bo Jinchen's words made Wu Feng quite satisfied, it seems that he has found the right person to discuss this matter today, although he has put forward so many objective difficulties for himself, but being able to put forward these objectively existing unfavorable factors can make himself carefully consider the pros and cons, many problems can be thought of in advance than when the matter is about to be noticed that I don't know how much easier to deal with, at least now I can analyze and sort out these unfavorable conditions one by one, and see how to resolve them.

(To be continued)