Warcraft Eternal Tree.

Chapter 353

Another ten days passed.A few days ago, on a small island hundreds of kilometers east of Thebesia Kingdom, the Shadow Kingdom launched a multinational summit.

Those who participated in this summit were all countries whose sea areas were blocked by the Shadow Kingdom.Each country has sent at least one representative, and some large chambers of commerce that transport goods more often by sea also participated in the summit.

At this summit, the Shadow Kingdom showed the dominance of the overlord of the sea.Yorick attended the summit, and at the meeting clearly clarified the reasons why the Shadow Kingdom blocked the multinational sea area—from now on, the eastern and northern seas of Eslaze will be the territory of the Shadow Kingdom beyond the coast. Allow other countries to "infringe".

Naturally, many countries are dissatisfied with this kind of domineering statement, but there is no way, the situation is stronger than others!Although the combined national power of the participating countries is much stronger than that of the Shadow Kingdom, if a few countries on land unite to destroy the Shadow Kingdom, but in the comparison of sea power, all the coastal countries can't add up to the Shadow Kingdom. compared to.

Perhaps only the Canaan Empire can compete with the Shadow Kingdom at sea?Delegates from many countries could not help but have this idea in mind when they participated in the meeting.

Indeed, the reason why the former Shadow Isles organization only ran rampant in the northern and southern waters of Eslazer was indeed because of the existence of the Canaan Empire.

The Canaan Empire is located in the south of the Eslazer Continent and has a long coastline.Unlike ordinary human nations, the Canaan Empire did not despise the development of the navy.This may be because Canaan I came out of a small fishing village at the southern tip of the mainland.

The national power of the empire is naturally not comparable to that of ordinary countries. The southern waters of the Eslazer continent have always been firmly controlled by the Canaan Empire.Perhaps the Canaan Empire would not be as good as the Shadow Kingdom in terms of the number of warships, but the actual combat power and the empire's name made the pirates never provoke the Canaan Empire.

In fact, in the plan to conquer the human world and unify Eslazer, the Canaan Empire is the one that makes Yu Fei the most scruples in the human world.Unlike the other two empires with a long history, the Canaan Empire did not rise for a long time, and the entire country was still in a period of vigorous growth.

Although a long history means a profound foundation, but at the same time, the long-term prosperity of singing and dancing is also the soil of corruption.In Yu Fei's view, only the Holy Lion Empire that he has been in contact with is like the late Qing Dynasty on earth.Although there are no foreign enemies around, there are already many problems within the country.

Among other things, even the title of earl can be purchased, which makes Yu Fei not think of selling officials to buy nobles in ancient China.

But the Canaanite Empire is different. This empire has only been established for about 300 years.In the continent of Eslazer, many kingdoms and even some principalities existed longer than the Canaan Empire.This gave the Canaanite Empire a new and upward force.

Not to mention anything else, but in terms of war, the Canaan Empire has experienced a lot.The other two empires have been established for a long time, and the territory has already entered a balance.It is not that there are no small countries around the country, but these countries are either secretly controlled by them or exist as buffer areas. There are very few wars between the two empires.

However, the Canaan Empire has been continuing to expand its territory northward.Although it usually took more than ten years to occupy a small country, the Canaan Empire was engaged in protracted wars with several kingdoms and more duchies at the same time.

With these deliberately opened up battlefields, the Canaan Empire has been training its own army.The most powerful country recognized by humans in the Eslazer Continent is the Holy Lion Empire, because their predecessor was the Holy Empire that almost unified the Eslazer Continent, and they have an extremely powerful foundation.

In terms of masters, the Holy Lion Empire is an endless stream of legendary epics-think about it, there are several legendary strongmen in a St. Childe family, and there are even epic strongmen.This is unmatched by other countries.

But in terms of the strength of the army, even if the equipment is better, Yu Fei believes that the army of the Holy Lion Empire is not the opponent of the Canaan Empire army that rotates for actual combat training.Personal strength may play a big role in war, but it is obviously not decisive if there is no means strong enough.Yu Fei felt that the biggest obstacle for the night elves to attack the human world might be the Canaan Empire.

Even now that he controls the Shadow Kingdom with a powerful navy, Yu Fei still feels that the Canaan Empire is a threat.

But all of this has nothing to do with the summit held by the Shadow Kingdom. Although the Canaan Empire's navy is not weak, it has never extended its tentacles to the waters controlled by the Shadow Island organization.Even if the Shadow Island organization has now become the Shadow Kingdom, it will be no exception.

At that time, the Canaan Empire will have other ways to deal with it.

The camera pans back to the summit of the Shadowlands.After domineeringly declaring that the coastal countries had invaded the territory of the Shadow Kingdom by going to sea, Yorick directly pointed out the true purpose of the Shadow Kingdom.

Since it is the territory of the Shadow Kingdom, then the fleets of other countries have to pay tolls if they want to pass by?This is the same as on land. Caravans from one country also have to pay certain taxes and fees when passing through another country.

It's just that the sea area is vast. In the past, no force would declare that all sea areas belonged to them, so there was no such thing as sea tax.Even the original Shadow Isles organization is only a part of the powerful pirate group that divides the control routes and some chambers of commerce will collect protection fees after they reach an agreement.

To put it bluntly, the current Shadow Kingdom is going to put the previous form of collecting protection fees on the table and turn it into a sea tax.As long as the sea tax is paid, the ships can sail and trade within the routes designated by the Shadow Kingdom.

According to the length of the route and the number of states passing through the Shadow Kingdom, there will also be a clear division of the amount of sea tax.From now on, the Shadow Kingdom will no longer carry out the looting activities of the Shadow Island organization period, as long as the fleet passing by the Kingdom pays the fee.

Even, some chambers of commerce that have cooperated before are allowed to trade with the states of the Shadow Kingdom.The world of Eslazer is rather strange, the resources in the sea are not as abundant as those on land.However, some marine products are not available on land, and these items are also commodities that the chambers of commerce on land yearn for.

This system called crossing the sea tax, which is actually a protection fee, immediately caused an uproar among the representatives of the countries participating in the meeting once Yorick proposed it.

The sea area has always been a place where coastal countries pass freely. Although there are pirates and merchant ships are at risk of being robbed, there are also escort fleets.Caravans and shipping fleets of many nations can carry far more goods than can be transported on land at little cost at all.

It is precisely because more goods can be transported by sea, and there is no need to pay taxes and fees for passing through multiple countries, that the fleets in coastal areas are prevalent.Now the newly established Shadow Kingdom actually started to collect tolls, which made many country representatives unacceptable.

However, after making a fuss, these representatives finally fell silent.What if you can't accept it?The Shadow Kingdom has big fists, and they have the power to formulate sea fees. If you don’t want to pay, you can—then don’t even think about shipping by sea.

Those chambers of commerce that have previously cooperated with the Shadow Isles organization did not riot when Yorick announced the sea fee system. Obviously, they had known about this in advance through their partners in the Shadow Kingdom.

When the atmosphere gradually calmed down, these chambers of commerce that had accepted the sea fee system first expressed their agreement to the system and were willing to spend money to buy peace.

Anyway, I also paid tolls before, but now I just changed my name. Paying sea tolls to a kingdom sounds much better than paying protection fees to pirates, right?Moreover, after paying the sea crossing fee, the safety is more secure, and you can travel unimpeded in the selected route, unlike before, you have to worry about the attacks of some unruly pirates.

With the representatives of the chamber of commerce who were well-informed in advance, all non-state representatives participating in the meeting quickly agreed with the sea fee system.The representatives of those countries expressed the need to ask for instructions, and returned to their respective countries to report the news after the meeting.

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In addition to the normal update at 5 pm, there will be a new chapter at [-] pm tonight.The reason for the addition will be explained in the chapter.

(End of this chapter)