In this way, Xiao Yifeng and Ni Zeen reached an initial consensus, but only preliminary. Xiao Yifeng also left something to be said, that is, he needed to negotiate with other high-level officials to let Ni Zeen stay in the imperial capital for a few days.
If all goes well, a formal written document can be signed in a few days.
In this way, Ni Zeen began to wait, and then, what should have been a few days of waiting turned into days and days. In the blink of an eye, a week has passed, but there is still no definite news.
Ni Zeen's repeated urgings yielded no results, so he secretly contacted the spies lurking within the imperial government.
This agent did not penetrate into the upper echelons, but he still found some clues, that is, there was a recent visit from the fish people, and even old Wei Chi also showed up.
Sure enough, the alliance between the two empires was not easy, and the interest groups involved were far beyond imagination.
Seeing that the day when the Zerg officially invaded was getting closer and closer, Ni Zeen was extremely anxious. Finally, he couldn't bear it anymore and planned to take the initiative to force Xiao Yifeng.
So Ni Zeen visited Xiao Yifeng again, but this time he wanted to say goodbye.
If Xiao Yifeng retains him, it means that he is leaning towards alliance. If you don't retain it, it's not a waste of time. But according to Ni Zeen's guess, Xiao Yifeng's probability of retaining him should be greater.
However, the fact is that Xiao Yifeng did not hold back, but sent him off with a smile.
Ni Zeen was furious in his heart. He was very unwilling and finally said: "We had a good discussion before, but I still suggest you not to be brainwashed by the fish people."
As soon as he finished speaking, the smile on Xiao Yifeng's face immediately solidified. Slowly, the enthusiasm disappeared, and the smile became colder and colder.
"This king will not be brainwashed by anyone. I am not Lao Po Kong."
"Hopefully, I look forward to our next meeting." Ni Zeen bowed one last time and left the office.
On the plane back, Ni Zeen was uneasy. He felt that Xiao Yifeng was even more complicated and difficult to predict than Lao Pokong. Although the alliance failed, I at least hope that Xiao Yifeng will not add insult to injury, otherwise Yan Guo will face a situation that is getting worse.
When the plane was flying at low altitude over the Pacific Ocean, Ni Zeen saw a huge sea whale spraying water. The amount of water sprayed to a height of 10,000 meters and then fell in all directions, as if it was pouring rain. The scene was even spectacular.
Ni Zeen's assistant couldn't help but exclaimed: "It can actually spray water to a height of 10,000 meters."
"There's nothing surprising. This giant whale is the famous mobile battleship of the fishmen, known as the Kun Emperor. I heard that it holds an entire city in its belly."
"It's so scary. The fish-men have become a race that cannot be underestimated."
"Yes, to a certain extent, the fish-men and the dark tribe are similar. They can both transform ordinary people, but the transformation methods are different. The dark tribe only needs to bite them to assimilate, but the fish-men need to capture ordinary people and convert them into It is submerged in a special murloc pool."
"I didn't expect you to know such a thing?"
"The regent told me that there was once an elite team that infiltrated into the Emperor Kun and took a lot of information. However, the elite team was intercepted while escaping and almost the whole army was wiped out. However, one of the cameras was thrown into the Emperor Kun in time. excretion channel, the camera was finally discharged smoothly and sank to the bottom of the sea. The camera has a locator, so
We eventually found the camera. Fortunately, the special camera was waterproof, so a lot of confidential video data was preserved. One of the videos recorded the process of ordinary people transforming into fish-men. "
"Wow, I really want to take a look."
"That's a confidential document, even I can't read it."
"Okay, I'm just talking." The assistant smiled.
On the other side, at the top of Emperor Kun's skin, were standing several fishmen, and they were talking about the plane that was getting away.
"If the world continues to be at peace, Yanguo's science and technology will continue to make breakthroughs and continue to advance rapidly."
"That's right, we can't delay it any longer. Technology is our shortcoming. The longer we delay, the more disadvantaged we will be."
"Xiao Yifeng's attitude has already moved towards ours. If nothing happens, Yan Kingdom will disappear from the map within a year."
"hope so."
After Ni Zeen returned to China, Su Kouye personally summoned him. When he knew Xiao Yifeng's attitude, his expression became particularly solemn.
"It seems that Xiao Yifeng doesn't care about the mere trade benefits."
"Xiao Yifeng wants to make war fortune. His ambition is greater than I imagined." Ni Zeen sighed.
"It's to be expected. After all, if he had no ambition, he wouldn't kidnap Lao Po Kong. Now that things have happened, he can only find another way."
On the other side, Po Kong and Jiang Wei began to mobilize their troops and had unknowingly controlled the main road of Yunlan City. Any Kedoin who passed through would need to be interrogated and investigated. As long as weapons, ores, armor and other resources are found, they will be confiscated.
The civilians and businessmen of Keduoin complained a lot, but they did not dare to resist openly. They could only report the matter to the city lord, hoping that the city lord would uphold justice for them.
For this reason, the Lord of Yunlan City specially invited the Governor of Northern Province to come to Yunlan City as a guest.
Po Kong had been to many places in Yunlan City. The huge Yunlan City could not contain Po Kong, so he readily accepted the invitation.
At the banquet, City Lord Zoe personally poured wine for Po Kong and said in greeting: "I thought the Governor would shirk, but I didn't expect to keep the appointment so soon."
"Well, we have seized a lot of your equipment and resources recently. I think you will definitely come to me, so there is no need to shirk it. Besides, I have been to Yunlan City many times and it is very safe."
"Haha, it's safe, of course it's safe. When you come here, you feel like you're at your own home."
“Zoe, Zoe, when did you become so fond of flattering?”
"What flattery is meant, it's all from the bottom of my heart."
"Haha, it feels good. I feel so good hearing it. Come on, drink."
"Come."
Why would the once proud Zoe be willing to please Po Kong? Mainly because a lot of things have happened in Yunlan City in the past few years.
A few years ago, there were more than 500,000 troops stationed in Yunlan City. After the battle with ghosts and gods, the number dropped sharply to about 400,000. Of course, in addition to some who were summoned by the queen, at least 50,000 people moved underground and formed a secret alliance with the ant tribe and even the ghost tribe.
This is not the point. The point is that in the next few years, as the European regime gradually stabilized, the Zerg Queen Mikasa recalled Yunlan City's troops many times. The troops in Yunlan City were reduced every month, and Zoe had to be forced to obey. certainly,
Zoe also tried to resist this process. He deliberately delayed it and even made excuses many times to reduce the number of recalled troops.
On several occasions, Zoe even used the excuse of building a city wall to directly refuse the queen's orders and refused to send a single soldier.
Of course, Mikasa would not condone Zoe's self-respecting behavior, so she threatened Zoe many times. If she did not obey her orders, Mikasa would let the Zerg navy land in Yanhuang and launch a war against Yunlan City.
Of course, this kind of threat does not scare Zoe. Zoe knows that logging into Yanhuang without permission will be regarded as an invasion of Yan Kingdom, and Su Kouye will definitely not agree.
It is true that Su Kouye would not agree, but he would not be stupid enough to anger the Zerg Queen in order to protect Zoe. Therefore, Yan Guo intervened and finally made Mikasa and Zoe take a step back. That is to force Zoe to continue to obey Mikasa, but they can use the excuse of building a city wall to appropriately reduce the number of troops called away.
After several years, Yunlan City now only has 100,000 troops left. One hundred thousand people is Zoe's bottom line. If she wants to maintain the operation and development of Yunlan City, one hundred thousand people cannot continue to decrease. So even if the knife is put to her neck, Zoe will not let her troops decrease anymore. Zoe's behavior can be regarded as an act of open treason, but he has always promoted that he will always be a Zerg. The reason why he disobeyed orders was because of the development needs of Yunlan City. Everything he did was for the Zerg. Among the native Europeans, some even supported Zoe’s behavior.
Naturally, Mikasa couldn't accept Zoe's sophistry. She threatened war many times, and even threatened Dole. But Zoe still disobeyed orders and was even ready to sacrifice Dole.
Mikasa originally wanted to sanction Zoe, but she once again made a request to Yan Guo. Either Yan Guo would help sanction Zoe, or it would give up the Bohai Bay and allow the Zerg navy to land.
Zoe has an army of 100,000, and has made great achievements in building the Great Wall. She even turns over a certain amount of resources every month to bribe Yanguo officials, so Su Kouye really doesn't want to deal with Zoe unless he has to. After all, if there is a real fight, there must be a lot of sacrifices, and the gains outweigh the losses.
Of course, there is another way for Su Kouye to go, which is to give up the Bohai Bay and let the Zerg army deal with Zoe by himself. But as the most powerful country in Yan and Huang, how could it possibly do such a thing that humiliates the country and loses its power? Of course, face is not the most important thing. The most important thing is to allow the Zerg to land, which in itself is extremely dangerous. The Zerg are not good at sea battles, but they are very strong on land. If millions or even tens of millions of Zerg troops arrive on land, they will cause huge hidden dangers to Yanguo's national defense and security.
For this reason, Zukoye tried various means to mediate and even gave Mikasa a lot of gifts, just to put the matter aside. Of course, Su Kouye also prepared for the worst. If the Queen did not give up, he would have to choose the first option. Yan Guo would personally eliminate Zoe. Although there would be a lot of losses, at least he would be able to obtain the resources of Yunlan City and return the favor. It can deepen the friendship between Yan Kingdom and Insect Kingdom.
But miraculously, Sukouye's mediation was very effective. After accepting the gift, Mikasa gradually relented, gradually shelved the matter, and even stopped caring about Zoe's affairs.
At that stage, Su Kouye was still busy with the power struggle in Yanguo Wangcheng, so he did not study the matter in depth.
Only today did Zuko truly understand why Mikasa let go.
Because the five-year war is coming, no matter what Zoe's attitude is, the Zerg plan to officially invade Yanhuang, and then they can take care of it together with Zoe.
(End of chapter)
