Chapter 43: Liwei
King Trutz looked at the letter in his hand, his face was still slightly calm at first, but when he saw the back, a smile slowly appeared.
When he had finished reading all the letters, he folded them, and the expression on his face had regained his usual calmness, and his eyes revealed a strong confidence.
"Did President Hsu say anything else to you?" asked King Trutz as he stood in front of him.
Newman immediately bowed down and responded, "Before leaving the Duchy of Stantin, President Xu privately approached me and asked me to bring you a message. ”
Say. ”
President Hsu said that although this time it seems that the Ruerson Kingdom is in crisis, it is actually a good opportunity. Again, this is also an opportunity for the new flying chamber of commerce. ”
"That's all?"
"Well, that's all. ”
King Trutz fell silent, thought for a while, looked at the letter in his hand, pondered for a moment, seemed to think of something, and smiled slightly.
"Very well, it seems that President Xu is much more ambitious than I thought, and that's good. ”
Newman looked up at King Trutz in surprise, thinking that perhaps it was precisely because Xu Yi and His Majesty the King were both very ambitious people that they would reach such a consensus on this matter.
After the outbreak of the conflict with the Candela Empire this time, the entire Ruerson Kingdom was almost in a panic, and everyone was panicked, fearing that the Candela Empire would launch the most severe revenge on the Ruerson Kingdom because of this incident, and even directly destroy the entire Ruerson Kingdom.
In this case, the first thing King Trutz did was not to think about how to undo the repercussions. Seek to gain the understanding of the Candela Empire. On the contrary, a series of mobilization actions were actively carried out in the kingdom of Ruerson. It seems to be ready for a formal war with the Candela Empire.
Because of these actions of King Trutz, many noble lords in the Ruerson Kingdom became even more panicked, and for a time there was an undercurrent in the kingdom, and countless noble ministers expressed to King Trutz through various channels that they hoped to reach a reconciliation with the Candela Empire, and did not want to really go to war with the Candela Empire.
However, King Trutz did not care about this at all, and continued to prepare for war.
If it were placed in other small countries, I am afraid that the whole country would be in complete chaos at this moment, but in the Kingdom of Ruersun. The royal family represented by King Trutz has always had absolute control over the entire Ruerson Kingdom, and the other nobles have no influence on the general trend of the kingdom at all.
Now that King Trutz is resolute, other nobles in the kingdom have nothing to do, and some nobles even secretly transfer their families out of the Ruerson kingdom to avoid trouble.
King Trutz was well aware of what was happening in the kingdom, but as if he hadn't seen it at all, he didn't care about it at all, but focused most of his attention on preparing for war, and half of his attention was on the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
At the very beginning, when the border guards of the Ruerson Kingdom clashed with the border guards of the Candela Empire because of smuggling merchants, King Trutz immediately proposed a series of preferential conditions to the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. In order to obtain the support of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce in the field of military magic machinery.
Now that the real conflict between the two sides broke out, King Trutz sent Newman, who was most familiar with the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, to the Duchy of Stantin for the first time. On his behalf, he held contact talks with the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
It should be said that the results of this meeting with the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce were very unsatisfactory.
Although for Newman's arrival, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce still entertained as usual, but when Newman could clearly feel that the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce and the high-level executives he contacted this time seemed a little perfunctory, whenever he talked about specific cooperation between the two sides, whether it was CEO Kennard or other high-level members of the Chamber of Commerce, they would often talk about other things, change the topic, and just refuse to talk deeply.
And when Newman wanted to discuss the matter of continuing to buy a large number of military magic machinery, Kennard and other high-level officials of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce came out, and the attitude of Xiàn could be described as cold.
After spending a week in the Duchy of Stantin, Newman fully understood the attitude of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
Obviously, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has scruples about the possibility of a war between the Ruerson Kingdom and the Candela Empire this time, and is not willing to intervene in it, and is even more unwilling to offend the Candela Empire by supporting the Ruerson Kingdom.
This result was not too surprising to Newman, and it had already been deduced from discussions within the Kingdom of Ruersun before he came to the Duchy of Staten.
After all, compared to the behemoth of the Candela Empire, the Ruerson Kingdom is too insignificant.
Even if Newman were to be put in the current position of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce, he would have the same attitude as the New Flying Chamber of Commerce was experiencing now.
However, just when Newman was about to leave the Duchy of Stanting in disappointment, Xu Yi, the president of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, who had never been on the road, suddenly appeared in front of Newman.
Xu Yi didn't say much to Newman in private, but just handed him a letter addressed to King Trutz, and asked him to bring a message to King Trutz.
However, just because of this letter and a sentence, King Trutz, who had a gloomy face because of the attitude of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, immediately regained his strong self-confidence.
This makes Newman very strange.
His Majesty's attitude changed drastically, and it was obvious that Xu Yi had expressed his support for the Ruerson Kingdom in his letter.
But since Xu Yi supports the Ruerson Kingdom, why did those high-level officials of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce show a rejective attitude when they see Xu Yi?
Could it be that they, the high-level executives of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, and Xu Yi, the president, are not of the same idea?
But if this is the case, doesn't it mean that Xu Yi's control of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has a strict problem, so that those high-level officials of the Chamber of Commerce openly contradict Xu Yi?
But in this way, the problem is even more severe, because even if Xu Yi made any promises to His Majesty in the letter, I am afraid that the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce may not really do it.
What is the point of Xu Yi asking him to bring back this letter and this sentence?
However, King Trutz seemed to have not thought of these problems at all, after reading the letter and knowing what Xu Yi said. and become spiritual. Also full of self-confidence. It's amazing.
The only explanation is that the letter that Xu Yi asked Newman to bring back said something that Newman did not understand, so that His Majesty the King regained confidence in the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
"Newman. King Trutz interrupted Newman's musings with a sudden snort.
"Ah, Your Majesty, do you have any orders?"
"In a few days, a delegation from the Chamber of Commerce of the Lampari Kingdom may come over, and you will be in charge of receiving them, so be sure to entertain them well. Got it?"
Newman was stunned again.
Why did you suddenly talk about the delegation of the Chamber of Commerce of the Kingdom of Lampari?
And how come I've never heard of it before?
His eyes fell on the letter in King Trutz's hand, and Newman's heart moved.
Could it be that this is also what Xu Yi said in this letter?
But what does this have to do with the support of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce that His Majesty needs from the King?
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The autumn sun shines on the endless sea, and although it does not seem to steam the entire surface of the sea as it does in the middle of summer, it still makes the entire surface of the sea shimmer so dazzling that it is almost impossible to look at it directly.
Standing on the foreboard deck of a frigate in the middle of the fleet, Russell squinted slightly and looked at the far end of the horizon, and through the report of the captain of the frigate next to him, he determined that if calculated according to the position on the parallel land, he had crossed the border between the Candela Empire and the Kingdom of Ruersun at this time, and officially entered the waters of the Kingdom of Ruersun.
In fact, the concept of the so-called sea area. It didn't exist in Russell's mind at all.
What sea is not the sea, where the Imperial Navy can reach. That's the territory of the Empire!
However, since the advent of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce Convoy, the concept has gradually begun to spread through the constant ocean voyages of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce Convoy and the New Flying Chamber of Commerce Transport Fleet.
According to the concept of sea area proposed by the New Flying Chamber of Commerce Escort Fleet, the coastline covered by the territory of each country extends twenty kilometers into the sea, which is the official sea area of each country, which is equivalent to territory.
Entering the waters of other countries is tantamount to invading territory.
So if you calculate according to this concept, in fact, the Third Fleet of the Candela Imperial Navy, which Russell is now leading, has already invaded the exclusive sea area of the Ruerson Kingdom at this time, which is equivalent to invading the territory of the Ruerson Kingdom.
But...... So what?
This time, Russell led the only three frigates in the Imperial Navy and as many as fifty Thunder-class warships in the Third Fleet, and the original purpose was to invade the Kingdom of Ruerson.
According to the strategy formulated by the Imperial Military Department, the fleet led by Russell will go ashore in the south of the Ruerson Kingdom, launch an attack all the way to the north, and finally make peace with the capital of the Ruerson Kingdom, Kuraka City, and the Imperial Land Front, and then sweep the Ruerson Kingdom, a small country with great audacity, into the dust of history in one fell swoop.
No one in the empire will have any doubts about this plan, because in the eyes of everyone, the small country of the Ruerson Kingdom has no ability to compete with the empire at all, and the only option they can choose to minimize their losses is not to make any resistance, surrender obediently, and become a vassal of the empire from now on.
But since the conflict between the two countries, this damned little country has shown no signs of relenting, and even their king has been actively preparing for war.
This greatly stimulated the self-esteem of the generals of the Imperial War Department.
This inconspicuous small country still dares to resist!
It just so happened that the Imperial army hadn't really experienced a battle for almost twenty years, so this time the military department simply took this as an opportunity to train its troops, not only sending as many as five legions in one go, more than 50,000 elites, but also sending the Imperial Navy as a response.
What he did, of course, was to solve this arrogant little country in one fell swoop with a thunderbolt, and once again establish the supreme majesty of the empire on this continent!
However, when Russell's gaze fell into the distance, there was always a trace of uneasiness in his heart.
This time, can the plan of the military department really be achieved so smoothly?
At this moment, he saw more than a dozen high-speed steel ships suddenly appear on the sea level in the distance. (To be continued......)