When Tang En and the others came back, Fiona had already brought a group of people over.
Seeing Tang En, Fiona raised her eyebrows, "You are much faster than I expected."
Although Tang En and the others set off on Harley-Davidson motorcycles, Fiona did not expect Tang En and the others to be so fast. They were three or four days shorter than the estimated time.
"We met Angus, and he directly teleported me here."
Tang En explained briefly, and Fiona immediately understood.
"We have brought the people over, half of them are rookies, and half are veterans. They are very experienced, and they can get everything done in a few days. You don't have to worry about the stronghold. As for the meeting with Oscar, do you plan to have an official visit or a private meeting?"
Tang En was stunned, "What's the difference?"
Fiona sighed helplessly, "There's a big difference."
"If it's an official visit, you will represent the Irus Empire. Not only do we need to carefully consider your attire, but we also need to prepare a guard of honor. At the same time, we need to carefully consider your words and actions, because the other party is likely to carefully analyze your words and actions, and analyze your intentions from within."
"If it's a private meeting, you don't need to care too much about these. As long as you ask for a meeting, I believe that with Queen Olina, Oscar will not refuse. But correspondingly, the things decided in a private meeting will not be made public, and will be more secretive."
"Then let's have a private meeting."
Tang En did not want to make it too troublesome. He was not used to that kind of environment.
"Then send someone to send a private request in the name of Queen Olina."
Fiona curled her lips. If it was an official visit, the Datang Chamber of Commerce could take this opportunity to publicize and officially enter Nanilla. Unfortunately, Tang En did not want to, and Fiona would not force him on this kind of thing.
After Fiona arrived, the entire stronghold immediately became lively. Everyone was busy setting up the place, and at the same time, transporting some goods to prepare for the next step of the store business. Nanilla was the capital of commerce. Due to Oscar's policy, the procedures to open a store here were very simple. They could even open the store first and complete the procedures later. Of course, they could not sell any illegal or prohibited goods, such as prohibited military materials or things like hallucinogens.
At the same time, the private request in the name of Olina had been sent to the palace and presented to King Oscar of Ronitante.
"What!? Olina has arrived in Nanilla!? "
Oscar suddenly, he saw the news that his sister had arrived in Nanilla, and suddenly stood up with joy, "Why didn't she come directly to the palace? why did she send a private request?"
"Your Majesty."
The aide next to him whispered, "Princess Olina is now the Queen of the Irus Empire. Her identity is different …"
That's right. Although Olina was the former princess of the Ronitante Kingdom who grew up in Nanilla, she was now the Queen of the Irus Empire and represented the Irus Empire. Of course, she could not casually enter and leave the Ronitante Palace like before.
But Oscar did not think so.
His sister was forced to marry Victor and sacrificed her life. Now that she had finally become the Queen of a country, she came back to find him. Obviously, it was for a greater thing — to merge the Irus Empire and the Ronitante Kingdom!
That's right, Oscar thought so. When the time came, he and his sister would work together and merge the two countries into one. By annexing the small principalities between the two countries, another giant empire could be born. At that time, who would dare to look down on him?
Yes, Oscar knew his sister very well. He believed that when the time came, Olina would definitely let him rule the merged empire.
At this moment, a few guests sitting opposite him in a very awkward posture could not help but speak in Loenese with a very strange accent, "Your Majesty Oscar, about the issue of reinforcements we just mentioned …"
If Tang En were present, he would definitely exclaim, "F * ck!" because the guests sitting opposite Oscar were the Nagas from the Sea of the Abyss!
Although the Nagas were a deep-sea race, they could come to the land. However, compared to the land, they preferred to live at the bottom of the sea.
Oscar shook his head and said in a deep voice, "Sorry, I think I need to emphasize again that the naval power of our Ronitante Kingdom is very weak. I won't let them die in vain."
A slightly smaller female Naga with a bulging secondary sex symbol on her chest, who was obviously in charge, said, "But you once said that there's nothing in this world that can't be traded, and that we can pay a high enough reward to hire you."
"That's when there's a chance of winning. The current situation is that even you can't guarantee that you can defeat them, let alone us."
"But aren't we allies?"
Oscar spread out his hands and said, "Yes, Princess Cericis. We are allies, but that's only limited to trade. Our alliance contract doesn't include any provisions for strategic defense, right?"
Cericis frowned slightly and could not help but say, "If we can't resist their attack, we will fall into a long period of war. We won't be able to continue providing those deep-sea pearls, minerals, corals, and so on."
Cericis was forcing him to abdicate. Now, the Nagas' situation was very troublesome, so much so that they had no choice but to seek reinforcements.
The corner of Oscar's eyes twitched as he pretended to be relaxed and said, "It's alright. The pearl market is already saturated, so it's not a problem to postpone the transaction. Of course, we won't be able to continue transporting the food and equipment to you."
This cunning human!
Cericis was furious, but she had no words to refute him.
Logically speaking, as a race of marine creatures, they should not have encountered the problem of food shortage in the sea where resources were abundant. The vast and boundless sea contained very rich biological resources. There was an uncountable number of marine fish, edible seaweed, and so on. It could completely feed the entire Naga Kingdom.
However, the problem now was that the Nutao Fishmen, who were once allies, had suddenly become enemies. A large number of Nagas had already thrown themselves into the stalemate of the battlefield. There were very few Nagas who could be used to gather and graze fish, and their output was completely insufficient to meet the needs of their people. Therefore, they needed to engage in trade with the humans, using those useless black pearls, corals, and hard-to-process deep-sea ores to exchange for food and finished equipment.
The Nagas did not have the forging skills of the Nutao Fishmen, and they were not adept at processing the ores into excellent equipment. Therefore, they could only sell those ores to the humans on the surface and exchange them for usable equipment at a discount. Often, the ores that could be used to forge ten sets of equipment could only be exchanged for one set of usable equipment. With this in and out, the Nagas suffered a huge loss, while the merchants of the Ronitan Kingdom who had obtained the business license made a lot of money.
With the request for help not successful, Cericis and her party could only leave the palace gloomily.
After Cericis left, the aide said softly, "Your Majesty, stopping trade with the Nagas is not beneficial to us. Now, the Ronitan Kingdom still needs the Nagas' specialties to maintain its trade lead."
"I know, they will not cut off trade with us, because they need the food we provide more."
Oscar narrowed his eyes and sneered. "Everyone knows that war is a battle of manpower and resources. Now that the Nagas can no longer spare any extra manpower to gather food, it means that they will be more dependent on our food supply. Later on, the order will be issued. From today onwards, the price of food trading with the Nagas will be increased by five points."
The aide was shocked. "Your Majesty, if the price increase is so high, what if they become angry out of humiliation …"
"Don't worry, they won't care about such a small increase."
Oscar smiled sinisterly. "The Sea of Abyss is so big, and it's rich in resources? The Nagas have lived there for so many years, and their wealth is much more than we imagined. Trust me, the more danger they are in, the more they need us. If we lend them a hand at the last critical moment, they will completely rely on our Ronitante Kingdom. When that happens, This King will be able to obtain a batch of elite navy that doesn't require any training. "
The aide immediately came to a realization. No wonder His Majesty was unwilling to send troops even if it meant falling out with Princess Cericis. It turned out that he had this idea in mind!
Indeed, compared to the current trade, directly swallowing the other party's entire race would bring more benefits. It was equivalent to obtaining a batch of powerful warriors and mages once and for all, as well as farmers who could gather resources in the deep sea.
This time, the aide was convinced. "As expected of Your Majesty, your foresight is far-sighted."
"Are you the aide, or am I the aide?"
Oscar was in a good mood after being flattered. He smiled and said, "Help me postpone tomorrow's arrangements. If Cericis comes again, tell her that I'm very busy. I have to meet with Olina tomorrow. We haven't seen each other for many years. This time, we have to have a good talk."
"Understood, Your Majesty."
The aide thought for a moment and said softly, "About that Regent Tang En …"
"Tang En? Don't worry about him. He should be a shield that my sister found to block those guys with ulterior motives. "
Oscar pursed his lips and said, "Didn't you see that he only obtained the title of marquis at the last moment? It's to shut those people up. "
"But there are rumors that he captured Girard and crushed the conspiracy of the Dark Serpent …"
"This is to create momentum. That's why my sister is really capable. In order to shut those people up, she created a hero."
Oscar sighed and then said with a gloomy face, "Hey, even if he's a shield, I want to see if this Tang En is worthy of standing next to my sister."
The aide opened his mouth. The news he received did not say that, but seeing Oscar's deep sis-con and selective listening, he wisely chose to shut his mouth.
Sis-Con is an illness that needs to be treated.
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