I will be crowned king

Any change that involves interests cannot be smooth sailing, and the degree of resistance will only vary depending on the magnitude of the change.

The reason why New Continent Company was able to successfully implement the "New Order" was that the previous "Old Order" was completely broken. The defenders of the original order were defeated by the Storm Legion, leaving a power vacuum where no one could preside over the situation. It successfully took advantage of the situation and seized some leadership under the banner of fighting for equal freedom for indigenous people and reforming business models.

Even strictly speaking, Anson didn't change anything. He just advocated giving equal status and identity to the indigenous people who had been "naturalized" in the colonies, turning a group of "social risk factors" into cheap labor; by the way, on this basis Make business activities more standardized, instead of the original chaos of doing things their own way.

In addition, the beast slave trade is still very prosperous, and it is even cheaper because it avoids the layers of exploitation by middlemen, and the quantity is unprecedentedly sufficient; if it were not for the shooting army purchasing beast slaves in large quantities to stabilize the market price, it would be said that There may also be vicious competition among suppliers.

It only cracked down on the middlemen in the animal slave trade and did not harm the interests of everyone else. It was also the key to Anson's entire plan going so smoothly. It also completely opened up the reputation of the New World Company and officially intervened in the economy of the colonies of the Free Confederacy. Activity.

According to the Clovis military system, the commander-in-chief of the garrison generally serves a term of five to eight years. In addition, he is still nominally a "direct subordinate" of the colonial governor, so his term will definitely be longer than that of an ordinary commander. Ten years is not impossible. .

And if the mainland really abandons them as planned, then...

No matter from which perspective, Anson actually has enough time to slowly train the Free Confederacy like boiling a frog in warm water. There is no need to jump left and right on the opponent's bottom line and repeatedly poke the roof and open the windows.

The problem is that it is winter and he cannot get any information about the Old World. Although Louis personally promised that Bernard and his father, Archduke Adeland, would persuade the emperor to give up the idea of ​​retaking the colony, but with an unguaranteed Anson couldn't make the promise to gamble in the last window before the risk came.

Therefore, even if he is not absolutely sure, Anson is still not prepared to waste this precious "development time"; although he has not been able to achieve the ultimate goal, he is already much stronger than expected.

But since there are risks, it means that the results are not controllable, or even completely uncontrollable.

At the end of January, Anson was preparing to convene the Supreme Council of the Free Confederation. At the same time, the subsequent impact of the slave trade finally came - the five colonies of the three North Sea countries formed a joint delegation to visit Beluga Port in the name of "trade exchange" .

Anson's attitude towards the Three Kingdoms colonies in the North Sea that suddenly appeared after remaining silent during the war of independence of the imperial colonies was actually a bit tangled.

Before the war broke out, he hoped that the other party could maintain a united front with him. Together with the two major colonies of Ice Dragon Fjord, he could more or less compete with the six major colonies of the empire, so that he could divide and disintegrate...but they always remained silent.

After the war broke out, Anson turned to hope that the five colonies could maintain non-aggression with him, and at least not join the imperial camp; however, they still completely ignored him - although the same was true for the empire.

By the end of the war, the Kingdom of Naxir, the strongest among the three North Sea kingdoms, fell into civil war. The other two seemed to have little interest in the new world for the time being. These five colonies seemed to have no intention of taking advantage of the chaos and pretended to be themselves. It's as transparent as it is, silently reclaiming wasteland in the eastern part of the New World.

As a result, just when Anson had completely given up hope in uniting the five colonies and had ignored them to some extent, these people actually came to him - and gave him such an excellent intervention in "trade exchanges" reason.

The purpose of the joint delegation was not a secret. Just when they arrived in Gray Snow Town, the local newspaper had already sent the information to the White Whale Port Command: because of the New World Company's interference in the animal slave trade and the war-related The destruction of trade has drastically reduced the number of beast slaves they can buy this year, seriously affecting the progress of colonial reclamation.

The five colonies of the three North Sea countries can hardly receive much assistance from the mother country, and they are even occasionally drained of blood in return, plus various criminals, and are the penal colony for the unlucky losers in the political struggle.

The Empire extracts tax revenue from the colonies, and Clovis regards them as a supplier of raw materials. Neither of them has a very friendly attitude towards the colonies, but compared with the three North Sea countries that are unsustainably fishing for water, they can definitely be called models of benevolent governance.

Lacking sufficient and easily exploitable resources, they could only choose farming; and because they received little assistance, the difficulty of reclamation in these five colonies was even higher than that of the Clovis colony, and the loss of labor force was more than twice that of ordinary colonies— -It is not difficult to imagine how dependent they are on the animal slave trade.

"Dear Commander-in-Chief of the Legion, our request is actually very simple, that is to restore the supply of beast slaves to us from the merchants in Beluga Port in the past."

The person who spoke was the leader of the joint delegation and the speaker of the Strawtown Autonomous Council; an old man with a big blush on his face as if he was drunk. He timidly clutched his worn-out bowler hat. His sparse silver hair and eyes looked through two gaps. He spied on the young officer sitting opposite him:

"This is not an excessive request, and we do not expect to receive any assistance, but if our delegation cannot bring at least a thousand beast slaves back before the spring, all five colonies will delay important tasks. Spring plowing.”

"Children will starve to death, seriously ill old people will starve to death, young, able-bodied laborers... will starve to death."

"The remaining people will become hungry, homeless, thieves and robbers, throwing corpses along the roads. Thousands of them will appear in the prosperous territory under your rule, bringing great benefits to your rule. These are completely unnecessary little inconveniences.”

"And all these tragic, terrible things that will cause you trouble will not happen if you just show your kindness and resume the trade between us in previous years!"

The old man's voice was intermittent, with various sounds of throat sobbing mixed in. His tone and posture were extremely humble, and even had a hint of sympathy.

But at the same time, his unabashed threat was also heard by everyone present.

There was silence in the Beluga Harbor Parliament Hall, and everyone's eyes were focused on Anson Bach, the actual ruler of Ice Dragon Fjord, sitting in the speaker's seat.

In the brief silence, Anson, who looked calm, slowly said:

"Can."

"I can guarantee that you will get what you want, but not in the past or in the way you thought."

As soon as the words fell, the old man, who had not had time to express his joy, immediately frowned, showing an extremely distressed expression.

"What do you mean it's not the way we think it is?!"

Before the old man could speak, another man standing next to him stepped forward suddenly and glared at Anson with an angry expression: "Do you know how difficult it is for us to live this winter..."

"Oles!"

The old man stopped the middle-aged man who was about to move forward. Kong Wu's strong body was locked tightly by the old man's dead branch-like arms, unable to move like an iron chain: "Don't be so excited, things will work out." It’s discussed!”

He turned his head and looked at Anson with an apologetic expression: "I'm extremely sorry, Commander-in-Chief, Oles was just a little too excited. He didn't mean any disrespect to you or the adults present."

"I know." Anson nodded slightly, still looking as usual:

"It is precisely because I understand your difficulties that I do not agree to resume the animal slave trade in the past way - not only is it unfair to the indigenous people, but the layers of exploitation in the middle will also raise the price, making you have to pay more than Beluga Port pays several times more to get a precious labor force.”

"It doesn't matter to us, it really doesn't matter!" The old man shook his head like a bell, and his voice suddenly became smoother: "It has been like this for more than ten years, decades, and we have long been used to it."

"But I have something to say, and all upright Ice Dragon Fjord people, and even all immigrants in the New World, should have something to say!"

Anson suddenly raised his voice and looked righteously at the old man who was smiling apologetically and Oles who was hugging the old man with a look of astonishment on his side: "We can't enjoy our own happy and beautiful life while watching those who are with us. The same fellow colonists are suffering from hunger and cold, and their lives are worse than death!"

“In this strange world of ice and snow, we colonists, who are far away from home and have no one to rely on, must remain united so that we will not be easily defeated by cold, disease, and all the difficulties in colonial pioneering. We must help each other. Help each other!”

"So dear delegation members, I - Ice Dragon Fjord will provide you with all the help you need, but it will not be in the way of restoring past trade, because if that was really beneficial, you would not be like today. Such a difficult sight.”

Anson said righteously: "I will immediately order the beast slave market in Beluga Port to prepare at least a thousand strong beast slaves, and guarantee to sell them to you at a price slightly lower than the market price; at the same time, we are currently stationed at The shooting army outside the city will also send troops to escort the carriages carrying these beast slaves to your colony safely."

"But these alone are not enough to improve your situation, so the New World Company and the Beluga Port Chamber of Commerce will also send people to set up bank branches and shops locally and sign a formal trade agreement with you."

"I can assure you that once the agreement is signed and comes into effect, you will not only get the Ice Dragon Fjord, but the eight colonies, including the Free Confederation, will have unimpeded access to trade freely without any censure!"

After a brief tangle, Anson decided to take advantage of this opportunity to directly intervene in the affairs of these five colonies.

This is not just because they are located east of Gray Snow Town, directly threatening the inland hinterland of Ice Dragon Fjord; once the empire chooses to attack from this direction and breaks through the blockade of the Royal Navy - if there is really a blockade - it will Able to land safely and establish a stable counterattack base.

Compared with an army that has just landed and is not yet firmly established, it is much more difficult to destroy an invader that already has a stable stronghold; even if Anson is confident of defeating the opponent, he does not dare to leave no soldiers behind in White Whale Port , fully supported the Free Confederacy.

The imperial army doesn't need to defeat itself at all. As long as it can nail the Storm Legion in Moby Dick Harbor and besiege Sail City at the same time, the remaining two or three infantry regiments can sweep away most of the Confederacy, and the war will basically be over.

But this is only one of the reasons. The more important thing is that this is an excellent reason for the Free Confederacy to convene the Supreme Council in Beluga Harbor!

Compared with Ice Dragon Fjord, the current Free Confederation is actually the one that hopes to establish relations with the colonies of the three North Sea countries, or any "friendly countries"; for a new regime, no matter how it is born, whether it can get Recognition from others is always a crucial matter.

Internally, even the most basic normal trade cannot be carried out; externally, whether it is to win allies or avoid meaningless conflicts, it must be able to get the minimum recognition.

Most importantly, they really, really need more allies right now.

No one is sure whether the Empire will come back, and if so, how many troops it will have; but in any case, the more allies, the better.

Although the other party is also a colony, and its situation is far more miserable than that of the Free Confederacy; but if we can provide help through one action, it can not only show the unity of the Free Confederacy to the outside world, win more recognition, and strengthen the centripetal force within the Confederacy; it can also This can be used to penetrate the influence of the Confederacy into these five colonies and bind them into a community of interests.

At this point, when the empire counterattacks, it will not only face the hostility of the Free Confederation and Ice Dragon Fjord, but all the thirteen colonies in the entire New World; if such information can be sent to the emperor's desk, This should put a little more pressure on him when he decides to counterattack, right?

Anson stood up slowly with a thought in his heart, his eyes flashing with determination: "Although you are not from the same suzerainty as us, there are huge differences in beliefs, ideas and even every aspect of life."

"But this still does not change the fact that we are all colonists who believe in the Ring of Order, facing a new and hostile new world; of course we can go our own way and do our own thing; but if we really want To gain a foothold on this land, we must unite!”

“Therefore, in my capacity as the Commander-in-Chief of the Colonial Corps, I, Army Brigadier General Anson Bach, officially declare that Ice Dragon Fjord will fully assist the five colonies that are about to experience large-scale famine, and will provide the same most preferential trade treatment as the Free Confederacy! "

"As long as you are a believer in the Circle of Order and a colonizer, we will never let you go!"