Realm of Power

"The pirates could not count on it, and the Wu family in Longchang was uprooted again. The Mingyue Chamber of Commerce, which relied on the Imperial Bank, and with the infusion of abundant funds, unified the commercial forces of the entire Longchang Port and expelled all Aden merchants from Longchang. , originally set up as a bridgehead to prevent the empire's commercial power from moving south, has now become an embarrassing situation that completely excludes Aden merchants.

The failure of Longchang Port can be said to have cut off the passage to the north for Aden merchants. Although Aden merchants can still choose to bypass Longchang, due to the lack of Longchang Port as a support point for the entire trade route, Aden merchants have to go to the north in order to bypass Longchang Port. The price to be paid for transporting goods to the north of Longchang will undoubtedly increase greatly. The result of this is that the merchants of Aden While the quota was occupied by imperial merchants, the price of its goods was also obviously higher than the price of imperial goods. The final situation was that the imperial goods continued to use Longchang Port as the entrance, and poured into the southern ports of Central and Bibia in large quantities. region, the commercial advantage that Aden merchants had only established for decades was broken by the empire with force... Excerpted from the third volume of "The Road to Expansion of the Imperial Bank"

In June, the summer heat has become more and more beautiful. Wild flowers all over the mountains and plains are like stars covering the earth, and the streets are almost covered with clusters of flowers. Then the season changed, and thick new dark green covered everything people could see. The breeze blew the hot breath, seeping into people's skin through thin clothes, making people's hearts become active. ,

In a gray-white building, a very young Central Asian woman was walking. The footsteps are very regular. She has a slim figure, smooth skin, a long dress, black hair tied behind her head, revealing a piece of fair skin on the back of her neck, a delicate and charming face, charming and slender red phoenix eyes, Gives people a noble but not arrogant feeling, hot In the summer, it was extremely hot, the clouds were changing rapidly, and the children after school were rushing from the streets to their homes as if they were being urged. Li Yuehua came to the end of the corridor in front of her, and two imperial guards saluted her, and Open the door in front of her

"Miss Yuehua, Your Majesty has been waiting for a long time," said a guard captain.

"Thank you." Li Yuehua nodded. After thanking him succinctly, he entered the spacious office. His eyes fell on the bright window in front. The emperor was standing by the window looking out. When he heard the sound, he turned around, dressed in black as always. The imperial uniform with a base color and a gorgeous military uniform decorated with silver on the cuffs set off his young body.

"Your Majesty!" Li Yuehua saluted respectfully,

The emperor's eyes flashed, he pointed to a military report on the table, and said solemnly that this was a report sent by the Empire's South China Sea Squadron. They accidentally encountered Aden pirates off the coast of Longchang. If it was just an ordinary encounter, Forget it, but according to the confessions of the captured Aden pirates, someone from Aden contacted them to attack Longchang Port. It is no wonder that the Longchang Wu family chose to attack the mainland that night. Yangyu, because it can be blamed on the Aden pirates afterwards. Even if Lu Yangyu fails to be killed, it will be enough to cause chaos in the entire Longchang Port and draw everyone's attention to the attack, and no one will think of it. Thousands of Aden pirates have arrived at the sea outside Longchang and can launch an attack on Longchang at any time. If they had not accidentally encountered our fleet, Longchang would have been bleeding like a river by now. "

"Your Majesty, what you mean is that the pirates were contacted by the Wu family?" Li Yuehua picked up the military report, glanced at it, and his pretty face couldn't help but change color slightly. It said that it was not the Wu family who colluded with the pirates, but Ya Ding, the elder of Aden. Glenn, seeing this name, Li Yuehua couldn't help but feel that the battle report in his hand was a little burning.

"If you are asked to mobilize the empire's power in Central Asia, how sure are you of getting rid of this Yagren?'

The emperor's eyes had a hint of coldness. This Yagren made the fat man feel a sense of danger. This time, in order to resist the entry of imperial forces, he did not hesitate to launch a pirate attack. Fortunately, it was unsuccessful, otherwise the entire plan of the empire would be ruined. To put it bluntly, it was just a killing. Even if the Imperial Bank exaggerated its benefits, it would not be as impressive as a massacre by the Aden pirates. Asians are afraid. In the face of absolute force, all words are pale and powerless, and the status of the great elder Yaglen in the hearts of Aden merchants makes the emperor even more afraid. Judging from all aspects of intelligence, , this great elder Yagren is the spiritual leader in the hearts of the Aden people in the Central Bia region. If Yagren can be eliminated, the Aden people in the entire Central Bia region will be without a leader!

"Your Majesty, this is basically impossible!"

Li Yuehua hesitated for a moment and said, "I have also heard about this great elder of Aden who has been in Central Asia for more than ten years. One of the great elders of the Red Dragon Palace in Aden has a status similar to that of a prime minister even in Aden. general status, in Known as the Red Dragon Palace of Aden's national religion, Yagren is ranked second among the four great elders, second only to the chief elder who is responsible for guarding the Red Dragon Palace. In Aden, he has the title of the patron saint of merchants. In Aden, a country with strict hierarchy, few people are willing to become businessmen. The big shot who had spoken a few words came to Central and South-Bia sixteen years ago, and with one person's power, he twisted the merchants of Aden who were originally like scattered sand into one force, defeated businessmen from other countries one after another, and brought the entire Central and Belgian The Ya market has become the largest wealth in the Kingdom of Aden. Almost all of these people are from Aden, and every one of them is extremely loyal. It is too difficult for our people to get close, and the whereabouts of the great elder Yagren are mysterious. And with the cover of local Aden businessmen, it would be difficult to assassinate him."

"Yes, this kind of old fox would have died countless times if he died easily."

The fat man sighed, looked at the wild flowers outside the window, and said in a solemn voice, "This time, I borrowed the Lu family's hand to completely control Longchang Port. I thought that the people of Aden were just a piece of loose sand. Under the impact of the Imperial Bank, they must be The whole line collapsed, but with Great Elder Yaglen here, I'm afraid it won't be that easy. Although Although the empire has abundant funds, the resources and connections the Aden people have built over the past hundred years of doing business in Central Asia cannot be underestimated. The empire’s second tranche of funds must be allocated immediately, and the Aden people must not have any Without the slightest reaction time, they were expelled from the Six Cities Port at the first opportunity."

"Yes, I understand." Li Yuehua nodded. In order to seize the Liucheng Port, the emperor invested one million imperial gold in the early stage. The so-called follow-up was a full three million imperial gold. Such a huge amount of money poured into the Liucheng Port. , unless Aden can gather enough funds, they will all be hit. They were defeated for thousands of miles, but thinking that the Aden people were supported by figures like Elder Yaglen, Li Yuehua could already predict that this time the six-city Hong Kong businessmen fighting would not just be as simple as a river of blood, but he didn't know that the Aden people The forced dog jumped over the wall, fearing that he could do anything!

Just as Li Yuehua was asked to leave, the guard at the door reported to the special envoy of King Yelu to see him.

"Let him in"

The fat man rubbed his temples with a headache, and there was a look of helplessness on the corner of his mouth. The special envoys of the Yelu Royal Court have come three times. The reason is the one million loan given by the Imperial Bank to the Yelu Royal Court. "Your Majesty, I am here to disturb you while you are busy." , I am really worried, but the Imperial Bank’s delay in disbursing the loan has caused a lot of discussion in the royal court.

Sure enough, the special envoy had a sad face as soon as he entered the door. This name is also named Zarguo. He is slightly shorter but relatively broad. He has the strong appearance of a past prairie warrior, but for some reason, his hair grows on both sides of his ears. White, there are also some white hairs mixed in the eyebrows. For someone who is over thirty years old, it gives people an impression that is not appropriate.

"That money will be transferred to you soon."

The fat man's eyes paused on his face, and he sighed helplessly. Yelu Royal Court is now a vassal of the empire. In order to help the Yelu family restore the imperial capital, the Imperial Bank agreed to loan Yelu Royal Court one million, but this money , has always been stuck in the hands of Princess Mingyue. Princess Mingyue deliberately stagnated on the main line of the river, nominally helping the Central and Asian refugees stranded there, but in fact she was avoiding this matter.

After all, the hatred between the Yelu family and the Zhongbia royal family is not easy to dissolve. After all, it was Yeluguda who massacred hundreds of thousands of Zhongbia people in the Battle of Linhang, causing more than a million refugees to starve to death in the winter. Frozen to death, tens of millions of Central and Asian refugees who returned south on the other side of the river were all captured by the Yelu family during the war.

Princess Mingyue deliberately hid in the big river, which resulted in the delay in disbursing the money.

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Zarguo raised his head with excitement and hesitated for a moment before saying, "This time, I have been entrusted by His Highness Qi Yeguang, and there is one more thing I have come here to present to Your Majesty."

"Oh? What's the matter?" The young master standing by the window looked over his shoulder and looked back.

"The cold people from the north of the grassland have gone south and have occupied half of the northern grassland. Now, not only the Royal Court of Yelu, but also people from various ministries in the north have proposed that they should fight back to the northern grassland." Zarguo looked solemn and explained to the emperor in particular. Let’s take a look at what are the cold people in the north of the grassland, and the relationship between the grassland tribes and In the relationship between the cold people in the Northern Grassland, the Royal Court has been defeated one after another. It is said that just ten days ago, even the most abundant Yanmu Pasture was lost. If it continues to sit idly by, I am afraid that the entire Northern Grassland will become the land of the cold people. , so His Highness Qi Yeguang specially asked his subordinates to submit a petition, asking your Majesty to agree to Yelu Royal Court's participation in this battle! "

"Since the survival of the northern grassland homeland is involved, it is reasonable for the Yelu family to participate in the war. I agree."

The fat man was silent for a few seconds and said that he had also heard about the cold people going south to the northern grasslands. The northern royal court did not perform well, and he did not know that it was because most of the powerful grassland tribes chose to go south, causing the northern grasslands to go south. The strength of the grassland was greatly damaged because the new king of the Northern Royal Court was too poor in fighting. Anyway, the Northern Royal Court was overwhelmed by the cold people. After retreating again and again, one-half of the land had been occupied by the cold people. In the just-ended battle at Yanmu Grassland, the Royal Court suffered heavy losses. More than 30,000 Royal Court cavalry were killed in the Yanmu Grassland. More than 20,000, even the Northern King Khan was seriously injured. He had to risk his life to break out of the encirclement by his subordinates, so that he could not be caught and embarrassed by the cold people.

In fact, according to the number and equipment of the cold people, they do not have such combat power.

According to intelligence, the total number of Coldlanders migrating south this time is between five and six hundred thousand, and the number of warriors is only about a hundred thousand. Although the North King's combat power has been damaged, it still has tens of thousands of elite cavalry. It is difficult to say that it is difficult to annihilate all the people from the cold land, but it will definitely not be the rout situation we are facing. The real reason is because the people from the cold land went south, just like a pact broke into the vain and powerful North Grassland, and defeated the king of the grassland. The power that Ting had been deliberately building was suddenly shattered.

The people of the cold area are already tough, and they went south with the intention of surviving. When fighting, they were naturally not afraid of death. Although they were infantry, they refused to retreat in the face of the impact of the prairie cavalry. After several battles, they had already let The grassland side is a little timid. The several defeats of the Prairie Royal Court have also made it clear to other ministries that were originally suppressed by the Royal Court. It turns out that the Royal Court has already lived up to its name. It is strong on the outside and capable on the inside. In this case, who is still willing to work hard for the Royal Court?

Facing the attack of the cold people, they naturally hide and run whenever they can. This is the habit of the nomads on the grassland. The grassland is so big and there is no fixed gathering place. It is really difficult to just stay away from the enemy's attack. It's not a shame, but a strategy to preserve the tribe. The tribes began to waver and rely only on one person. Wang Ting, of course, couldn't hold it anymore. Wang Ting, even the mainland of the grassland, was no longer able to intimidate, let alone the big clans that had moved south and had always been obsessed with the northern grassland. It's no wonder that all the forces in the grassland were ready to move. The northern royal court was obviously It’s no longer possible. At this time, whoever returns to the prairie will definitely be able to replace Wang Ting.

All the ministries still focus on profit, and everyone wants to take a bite of the fat. As for the ancestral homeland, that's just saying it. If anyone really takes it seriously, it's a joke! But for the empire, it would be a good thing if the ministries can really take back the northern grassland. Although the northern royal court no longer dares to fight the empire, it is still considered the overlord in the northern grassland. Because the big clans have moved south, almost There is no threat to the opponent. If it is allowed to develop, it will be restored to the previous level in a few years. It would be better to let all the ministries go to the northern grassland to fight.

"Your Majesty, this is an urgent report from the Admiralty." At this moment, a Guards officer came in from outside and tried his best to show off his body in front of the fat man.

"Admiralty?" The fat man's face was stunned. He received the emergency report and looked over. His eyebrows were knitted together. The Aden people's revenge was indeed very fast. The Aden navy, which had been unable to retreat, suddenly appeared in Zhongbi. In the waters of southern Asia, and the numbers are staggering, the Navy Ministry believes that this time, the Aden navy may be out in full force and pounce directly in the direction of Central Asia.