Yuan Fang shook his head and said: "In fact, most people only see our superficial strength, in fact, our Dongsheng Empire is still very weak, and the advent of the Air Force has pushed us to the forefront, if one is not good, it is likely to lose the whole game." ”

Yuqing frowned and said, "Won't it?" We have a strong air force, which country is our opponent? Who dares to come to our Dongsheng Empire to find it uncomfortable? That's death. ”

Yuan Fang said with a wry smile: "Whether an empire is really strong depends not only on its military strength, but also on whether it has a strong economic foundation, population resources, and the improvement of people's livelihood. Let's put it this way, with the military strength of our Dongsheng Empire now, with the cooperation of the air force and ground forces, there is absolutely no problem in facing one country or even two countries to protect themselves, but have you thought about it? What if there were more countries on our side? For example, five, or even one, or even all the countries of our continent, if they unite our Dongsheng Empire, will we still have a chance of winning? With our economic strength and population, even if we do our best, men, women, and children are all soldiers, we can't fight against so many enemies, so what we need most now is development, economic development, reserve materials, multiply the population, and promote agriculture and industry, until the people have no worries about food and clothing, the empire has enough food and military reserves, and has enough reserve soldiers, then it was the most powerful time for the Dongsheng Empire, and at that time we were really not afraid of anyone, and now, it is still far away. Therefore, what we need most now is one or several allies on our side besides time, and I think the current Wen'an Empire or Prime Minister Liu Cheng is a good opportunity. Just now you also heard the conditions given by Prime Minister Liu Cheng, not only willing to start business cooperation with us, but also give us enough preferential conditions, not to mention anything else, just say that the tax halving can make us earn more silver, these are still superficial benefits, invisible benefits are more, his words mean that we agree to open a shop in the Wen'an Empire, in other words, it is to give us huge benefits, and the most exciting thing for me is the offensive and defensive alliance. Now we are only friendly with Dugu Zhen of the Empire, but even if he ascends to the throne, I am afraid that the current state of the Empire will not help us, on the contrary, we have to support them, but the Wen'an Empire is different, their economic strength is very strong, commercial trade is prosperous, it is said that they have trade with many countries, and their own military strength should not be underestimated, compared to the strongest period of the Yuanhe Empire, it is not inferior, if there is such an ally to support, Our Dongsheng Empire can not only use their power to rapidly develop the economy, but also cooperate with each other to strive for more time and space for development, and we only have to pay for help in the form of mercenaries, although it is a bit self-deceptive to say so, but I definitely outweigh the disadvantages, it is worth a try. ”

Yuqing was silent for a long time and said: "Brother-in-law, I understand what you said, but how can you guarantee that this Prime Minister Liu will keep his promise after ascending the throne?" If more countries put pressure together, will they still be able to stick to their promises and stand on our side? ”

Yuan Fang shrugged: "Who can say for sure this kind of thing, if he is a righteous person, he will keep his promise, if he is a good emperor, he should consider the people of his country." ”

Yuqing glanced at Yuan Fang: "What you said is the same as not saying, it's not uncertain." ”

Yuan Fang grinned: "I'm just talking, if you can't do it, you have to listen to Yang Xing, this kid is now mature and has his own opinions, let's listen to what he has to say first." Yuqing nodded, she and Yuan Fang said that no matter how much it was, it was useless, and in the end Yang Xing had to take the idea, so Yuqing wrote it, Yuan Fang dictated, recorded the things here in the form of letters, and sent people back to the imperial capital of Dongsheng overnight.

The diplomats also lived in this post house, and after receiving Yuan Fang's orders, they did not dare to slack off, and one of them personally took to the air in a small boat and rushed back to the imperial capital overnight to deliver the letter.

The Wen'an Empire is located in the northeast of the Dongsheng Empire, the straight-line distance is not farther than the Yuanhe Empire, and it takes three to four days to take a small boat, during this time, Yuan Fang and Yuqing visited the cultural scenery of the capital of the Wen'an Empire accompanied by the reception staff of the Wen'an Empire, and saw a lot of exotic customs and prosperous commerce.

It can be said that I don't know if I don't know, I was startled when I saw it, compared with the commercial development of the Wen'an Empire, the Dongsheng Empire was a rural workshop that did not enter the stream, visited several representative commercial areas, and looked at the merchants from the surrounding countries and even thousands of miles away from Nanda Road by boat, and then looked at the carriages full of goods on the street, Yuan Fang envied not to want.

Among them, what made Yuan Fang's eyes red the most was a small village more than 20 miles east of the imperial capital, this village is not an ordinary village, there is no one here to farm, all of them are composed of merchants, and most of them are exotic merchants from Nanda Road, they bring all kinds of specialties of Nanda Road here to sell and sell, and purchase the specialties and technologies here to bring back to Nanda Road, indirectly promoting the exchange and development of materials and technologies between the two continents, not to mention the massive amount of silver earned every day. It's just that so many novel gadgets are enough to make Yuan Fang greedy.

Yuan Fang did not restrain his style because he asked for others, and he was still extremely shameless in exploiting the silver in the pockets of the hostess, and when he saw something of interest when he was shopping, he took it and left, and there was no psychological pressure at all, anyway, someone was checking out later.

Of course, Yuan Fang has not forgotten the Yuqing around them, as long as they like it, they will buy it all, and they will buy more, Yuan Fang doesn't want to be said to favor one over the other, and they have to bring a copy to Yu Jingqiu when they buy things, by the way, now there are more Russell Su and Luo Siping, and Yuan Fang also took this opportunity to fill his pockets and bring some gifts to those friends at home.

Yuan Fang and his entourage made a big purchase, the emperor of the Wen'an Empire turned a deaf ear, and Prime Minister Liu Cheng was not bad for that little money, with a big stroke of the pen, just buy it casually, and Yuan Fang is still very measured, the things he bought are some gadgets, although the quantity is large, it doesn't cost much silver, as a commercially developed Wen'an Empire, these are not even as good as a dime, it is just pocket money.

Five days passed in a blink of an eye, Yuan Fang bought a lot of things, he didn't do anything serious, he couldn't talk about it, after all, there was Yuqing following, even if Yuan Fang wanted to go, he had to weigh whether he could afford the consequences.