On the second week of the Silver Note and the Month of Singing, a three-way peace agreement was signed in Cape Town. This also marked a complete ceasefire in the Harlet Wastelands.
However, calling it a three-way peace agreement was actually a bit of an exaggeration. After all, the war was only limited to the Wasteland Tribes and Cape Town. The war between Dounia City and Cape Town had only started at the first sign of a war.
The Tribes and their old rivals in the Wasteland Tribes didn't have much to talk about. After all, they had been together for so many years and had fought and stopped countless times. However, this ceasefire was much more peaceful. Due to the threat of a third party's interference, this peace agreement would probably last for more than two years.
Why two years? Two years was the shortest amount of time needed for Sydeen to stabilize the situation in the city and the people's hearts. Of course, it was also possible that he would go all out, but the possibility was extremely low.
Forcefully sending out troops while the internal situation was unstable would cause endless trouble. After all, an emperor also needed his subjects. It would be a joke if he couldn't come back after sending out his troops.
This was slightly different from the "paper" ceasefire agreements that could be torn apart at any time in certain regions. This ceasefire agreement was made after the actual ceasefire. After all, the side with the advantage was unable to continue fighting.
Dounia City joined in and signed a bunch of things. However, these weren't empty words like peace and alliance. Instead, they were actual business, communication, talent transfer, immigration, and other important matters.
Rorschach was also part of the diplomatic team that signed the agreement. It wasn't that the Game Church sent him to negotiate … His damned Honesty talent wasn't suitable for diplomatic situations at all.
However, with Rorschach around, the Gods would be able to directly observe the situation. After all, the Holy Cathedral's radius of influence was limited. As long as the Gods' will could reach, the Aishi diplomatic team would be able to give the best suggestions.
Originally, the major Churches had intended to continue their previous style and leave the lower-middle Churches like the Game Church to the side. That would be tantamount to monopolizing all the benefits.
However, the Wasteland Tribe, the third party in charge of the negotiations, emphasized that all powerful churches with more than 5% shares in Dounia must participate. Cough, after a new round of asset restructuring, I won't say that the Game Church now has 6% shares.
The last to arrive was an alliance of eleven churches, representing 82% of Vila Nova Dônia's shares. They also brought along a few representatives from smaller churches. It was a rare occasion for all of them to show up.
It was probably because of the recent incident where he had eaten all the food by himself that the large churches had become much easier to talk to.
It was worth mentioning that after the Night of Blood, the attitude of the Descenders and leaders of the large churches became much better. They probably realized that relying on a few core churches was not enough to control the large ship of Vila Nova Dônia, especially now that Cape Town had exposed its terrifying war potential.
However, this was only within the inner circle. In such negotiations, the representatives of the large churches were very aggressive.
Since they had already confirmed that Cape Town needed time to reorganize its internal affairs and had no time to invade the outside world, how could these people let go of such a good opportunity? Naturally, they would strive to gain benefits on the negotiation table.
First of all, the official permission to freely preach and the right to move about in the outer city was, of course, a two-way street.
However, this was actually a reality. Cape Town originally did not restrict the preaching and free movement of outsiders. However, now that diplomatic relations had been officially established, the relationship between the two sides had changed from one official entity to one between two official entities. These things were best confirmed through official documents.
It was worth mentioning that because there were too many churches and gods in this era, it was too much to just occupy land and not pay taxes like in the past.
Now that the churches and preaching were becoming more and more commercialized and business-like, the local government would also not hesitate to collect faith taxes and poll taxes. The taxes for normal business activities would also not be low.
It was also during this negotiation that they settled on a medium to low tax rate and a calculation method. This was not because the churches were soft-hearted, but because their experience in preaching in other areas had told them that if they did not give the local government enough benefits, then they would only be waiting for endless trouble.
The second important thing was the agreement on trade, economic exchanges, and the movement of people within the framework, which mainly involved the people.
Fortunately, Cape Town was a city-state without much history. It also lacked experience in communicating with other cities, and it was even more impossible for it to have experience in immigration and immigration. This saved Dounia a lot of trouble.
There were no passports or immigration procedures. Entry and exit were handled by the guards. There was even no written record of a permanent residence in the city. Although this was in some ways to attract wastelanders to move in, it also made the internal management very chaotic.
As for immigration, there was only experience of outsiders moving in from the wastelands. Very few people moved out, and many areas even had situations where there were too many people.
As a result, both sides signed the immigration agreement freely, and even allowed people to keep dual residences … at least, that was what was written. As for whether Cape Town intended to establish a permanent residence in the future, only the heavens knew.
It seemed very complicated, but the result was that Dounia could poach people from Cape Town. Of course, this was an obvious trap. How long it would last would depend on how much loss Cape Town would suffer.
But at least the current negotiators of Cape Town were still very confident in their own city. On the contrary, they even proposed a limit on the number of people entering Cape Town. They probably thought that the wastelands tribes and Dounia proposed this negotiation because many people wanted to move to Cape Town.
The agreements on religion, trade, diplomacy, and immigration were all based on free movement and equal exchange. It seemed like no one was losing out, but when the home side gave up on the right to be biased, the weaker side would definitely be at a disadvantage.
It was probably because the negotiators didn't think that they were the weaker side that the negotiations ended up like this.
Cape Town was probably used to being the overlord. They felt that they would have an advantage in trade and commerce, and the Aishi People naturally wouldn't mention it to them.
The agreements among the people were settled. Next was the big show, the peace agreement. The three parties signed a three-year peace agreement, which was one year longer than what the advisors had estimated.
But everyone knew that this agreement, which seemed important and could actually calm the people and cause widespread discussion, was probably just a piece of scrap paper.
When needed, it was incomparably sacred. When fully prepared to start a war, it was even worse than a piece of scrap paper. No one would take it seriously.
The early stages of the Two Cities Agreement, which was destined to be recorded in history, were quite smooth, but they still reached a bottleneck.
That was because there were some things that no one would give up, and it was impossible to give up.
For example, the ownership of several large wastelands lightning ore mines, including Mount Sainte.
At this time, Rorschach, or rather, the Game Church, stood up.
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