Chapter 722: Quietly Tense Hengke Relationship

In the report, as a senior Dahengtong, Deacenson described in detail the thousand-year expansion history of Daheng people, the traditional cultural habits of Daheng people, and analyzed the thinking mode and behavior mode of Daheng people.

In the end, it was concluded that the people of Daheng were warlike and extremely greedy from ancient times, and once they had a strong and advanced industrial system, they were able to develop a huge army and naval fleet, and then try to gain more profits.

And whose interests are these?

It's from the Kingdom of Krull!

The fact that the Great Heng people will try to gain more global benefits in the future also means that they will compete for benefits from the rice bowl of the Krull Kingdom.

Based on the major conflict of interests between the two countries in the future, it is very likely that the Daheng people will make arrangements in advance, that is, once the Daheng Empire forms an alliance with the Walia Empire and the Kekel Empire.

If this happens, the Krull Kingdom will be in an embarrassing situation of being attacked on both sides.

At that time, the foreign trade routes of the Kingdom Island will be completely cut off, which will be no less than a catastrophe for the Krull Kingdom!

In the end, he boldly suggested in the report that in any case, it was necessary to avoid a military alliance between the Great Heng and the Valia Empire and the Kekel Empire.

Once it is discovered that the Great Heng is allied with the Valia Empire or the Kekel Empire, he should not hesitate, quickly and decisively strike first, and use the kingdom's naval superiority to kill one of them first, so as to avoid the kingdom falling into a two-front unfavorable situation against the enemy.

And it is better sooner rather than later, otherwise, when the Great Heng Empire takes advantage of its huge population resources and industrial scale to expand the size of its fleet to an extremely large scale, it will be impossible for the kingdom to strike first.

This report was written by Deacson, who was familiar with and knew Daheng, and Deacenson himself was also the most important foreign policy maker in the Krull Kingdom, and had a huge influence within the kingdom.

Therefore, this report is also very important to the Kingdom.

And then......

Then the Kingdom of Krull began to refuse to export high-end equipment to the Empire!

And this is only the public situation, what ordinary people don't know is that the fleet deployed by the Navy of the Krull Kingdom in the Southern Continent has quickly withdrawn from the waters around the Orr Kingdom and stationed at the Krull Kingdom's base on the east coast of the Endless Strait.

At the same time, some of the warships stationed on the southwest continent were also successively transferred to the base on the east coast of the Endless Strait.

This Krull Kingdom has gathered a large number of warships in the most important naval base of Colin in the Central and Southern Continents.

At the same time, the navy of the Krull Kingdom has also quietly increased the construction of several island ports in the west, what is this used for? It is clear that it is to deal with the Empire.

The abnormal movement of the navy of the Krull Kingdom has made the imperial navy very nervous!

Before Ding Quankun's visit, the navy had already raised the alert level, maintained each ship in advance, and even suspended the delivery of a number of foreign trade warships.

It's to prevent these Krull people from playing sneak attacks!

Although from various intellectual point of view, the Krull people should not carry out a sneak attack on the navy of the Great Heng Empire, and the Great Heng Empire is not a small country like the Orr Kingdom that has nothing but gold.

The Great Heng Empire is a traditional power, even when it was still divided, few countries had the courage to send an army to carry out armed intervention, and now after unification, the strength of the Great Heng Empire is even stronger.

In the army of the world, the Great Heng Empire said that it was the second, and no one dared to say that it was the first.

The global navy, after several years of accumulation, the Daheng Imperial Navy can also be proud to say that the strength of the Daheng Imperial Navy is now second only to the three traditional naval powers of Krull, Valuya, and Kekel, ranking fourth in the world.

Moreover, the warships of the Daheng Empire's navy are basically cutting-edge warships built after reunification, not to mention that many countries know that the Daheng Empire has built a series of new high-freeboard warships in the past two years.

Not long after the Jingzhou-class battleship was put into service, the intelligence of the class ship has actually appeared on the desks of the navies of various countries, just by a glance, you can know that this battleship belongs to the design of the high dry side plus open battery, and this design is also a widely recognized design of various countries after the Battle of Ian in the Orr War, most of the new battleships that have been built in various countries in the past two years are this model, of course, there are a few that belong to the high dry side plus turret design, but the center of gravity is very unstable, and it is not liked by the naval powers.

With a displacement of 14,500 tons on the high freeboard, the main gun on it is known at a glance that it belongs to about 35 times the main gun of 300 millimeters.

The Jingzhou-class battleships plus the Fengyang-class armored cruisers have been put into service successively, and there are many capital ships of this type in slipway Shanghai, plus the Endless Sea-class capital ships and Chongke-class armored cruisers built and put into service by the Daheng Imperial Navy before, which makes the countries judge the strength of the Daheng Imperial Navy to a higher level.

The Great Heng Empire has the world's first army, at least the top four in the world, and even in terms of cutting-edge warships, it is not much worse than the Kekel and Valya empires, the largest local population, and the scale of industry.

Add to that the traditional foreign expansion and warlike tradition of the Great Heng Empire!

Such a Great Heng Empire would not easily break out a war with any country.

But!

The navy of the Krull Kingdom played sneak attack, that was a tradition, in case their radical faction thought that they could paralyze the navy of the Great Heng Empire in one fell swoop through a sneak attack, they would really be able to play sneak attack.

Therefore, the necessary precautions are indispensable.

Don't be careful, maybe people will really come to attack tomorrow.

The restriction on the export of high-tech equipment from the Krull Kingdom, coupled with naval changes, made the high-level of the Great Heng Empire have to be cautious.

And the high level of tension on the side of the Great Heng Empire, and even the direct cancellation of the navy's vacation, and the reaction with a look of preparing for war also made the high-level of the Krull Kingdom a little nervous.

The top brass on both sides are well aware that if the situation continues to be tense, there is no guarantee that there will be no misfire, but if it is exposed and arouses public opinion, it is impossible to do good.

But the problem is that the top leaders of both countries don't really want to go to war at such a time, and that's not in the interests of both countries.

The Krull Kingdom has just been tossing and turning in the Orr War for two years, spending a lot of military spending, and at the same time, many problems have been exposed in the war, and the Krull Kingdom is improving its equipment and tactics according to the experience of the Orr War, which has not yet taken shape.

Now the number of high-freeboard capital ships in the navy of the Krull Kingdom is not as large as that of the Daheng Imperial Navy, and their high-freeboard battleship plan was launched a year later than the Daheng Imperial Navy, and a large number of new warships are still on the slipway.

Now it is really a naval showdown, even though they have a large number of low-freeboard warships, but the result is still full of unknown risks.

On the side of the Daheng Empire, domestic development is still dominated by economic development, and the current international business interests and geopolitical interests are far from the point where war is needed.

The Great Heng Empire needs to continue to develop its economy while completing the third phase of the Navy's development plan.

The high-level leaders of both sides did not have the heart to fight, so there was a secret communication between the two sides, which led to high-level industrial and commercial negotiations between the two countries, and this was the trip of Ding Quankun and his party to Needham.

At the beginning of August of the 10th year of the Qiansheng Dynasty, the delegation headed by Ding Quankun held talks with the Krull Kingdom for several days, and the two sides fully exchanged views on bilateral trade between the two countries and international trade between the two countries, and reached consensus in most fields.

However, the Daheng Empire once again put forward a request for the import of high-end technology and equipment, and the Krull Kingdom refused on the grounds that the Daheng Empire had repeatedly destroyed the patent right and imitated the unique patented products of the Krull Kingdom enterprises, unless the Daheng Empire no longer imitated and produced many patented products, or paid high patent fees, otherwise, it is normal business behavior for enterprises to choose to refuse to export in order to protect their own interests.

As for the tariff issue, the two sides actually did not reach any practical agreement, because the Krull Kingdom hoped that the Daheng Empire would release the high import tariffs on many products, but this was also related to the protection of its own industry, and the Daheng Empire naturally could not agree.

Therefore, the Daheng Empire should not expect to be able to import high-end equipment to the Krull Kingdom, and of course, the Krull Kingdom should not expect the Daheng Empire to open up the market for mid-range mechanical products.

However, in other areas, the Great Heng Empire still reached a lot of agreements with the Krull Kingdom.

In terms of food supply and oil supply, the Krull Kingdom and the Daheng Empire signed an almost exclusive priority agreement, and the Empire's grain and oil products exports will be given priority to the Krull Kingdom at the same price.

In addition, the two sides have reached cooperation in other areas.

On the whole, the trade negotiations were more symbolic than practical.

The two sides used this commercial and trade negotiation to express to the outside world the attitude of friendship and cooperation between the two countries, so as not to misunderstand the tension between the two countries.

Although it is true that the relations between the two countries have begun to be tense, otherwise there would not have been this negotiation, but the high-level officials of the two sides only need to know, and ordinary people in the outside world do not need to know.

After the meeting, Ding Quankun was also invited to visit a number of places in the Krull Kingdom to visit their enterprise factories, and the Krull people's factories opened the eyes of the technical experts in the delegation of the Daheng Empire.

Especially when I visited the Needham Iron and Steel Plant in the Krull Kingdom, I even asked for an extension of the visit time many times, and I looked at almost every corner of the factory that was allowed to go in, and even if I saw it, I often caught the technicians of other factories and asked questions, and then I admired the developed industry and advanced technology of the Krull Kingdom.

All kinds of compliments kept talking, which made Ding Quankun and other high-ranking officials of the empire show an embarrassed look, and pretended to reprimand those experts many times, saying things like being decent and not losing the face of the empire, and deliberately let the Krull people hear it.

When those Kruer people heard this, they often smiled knowingly, but behind them they were disdainful of the delegations in the Great Heng Empire.

"A bunch of dirt buns!"

But after visiting the steel plant, a group of technical experts from the delegation of the Great Heng Empire stayed in the room.

A group of people took out their notebooks and kept discussing, comparing, and recording something!

A middle-aged man in the Ministry of Defense Industry said: "Their nickel steel production line is very different from ours, the efficiency is at least more than 30% higher than ours, and the cost is lower. ”