Li Tianhao's desire to return to his hometown was finally put on hold for the time being. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 On the one hand, he could not leave his command post without anyone in command of the war situation—although Senas and Misheva could be responsible for the command of land and sea respectively, it was difficult for them to coordinate the supreme command authority. On the other hand, it was because of Saudin's advice to Li Tianhao that he had to stay in this sea area temporarily to make up for his mistakes.

At Saudin's suggestion, Li Tianhao took a series of measures against the Arubania towns that had been attacked by himself.

The first was to make the towns self-governing, and to form a loose alliance of them, with the aim of not ruling them directly, but also freeing them from Arubanian rule. In this way, these town alliances were no longer hostile to Palci, but a neutral zone.

Secondly, after the formation of this alliance, Palci will trade with it, so that these towns can communicate with each other and help each other. Since Palchi was far easier to transport by sea than Arubania was to travel by land, such a move would deepen the town's friendly relations with Palci and at the same time deepen Palci's influence. In order to ensure the benefits of these towns in trade, Li Tianhao also specially listed the minimum exchange prices of various materials, and converted them into Arubanian currency units, so as to prevent the locals from being deceived by unscrupulous merchants in trade.

Thirdly, the establishment of self-government councils in the towns, whose leaders must be elected by the locals themselves, and which included the formation of their own local armed forces to defend their homeland, in which Parci was not to intervene in any way.

In the end, Li Tianhao had only one condition in exchange for all the above measures, and that was to be kind to the local slaves.

In fact, with Li Tianhao's military strength, he could naturally force the abolition of slavery on this land, in fact, he did exactly this in the territory of Arubania occupied by the Narrow Sea coast, but the premise of doing so was that troops must be dispatched to enforce it. Obviously, this land far from Palchi could not act so radically for the time being, and if the slaves were forcibly abolished, it was afraid that it would arouse strong resentment among the locals, which would arouse their hostility towards Palci, so Li Tianhao only proposed to treat slaves well, hoping to soften the gap between slaves and masters and pave the way for future measures.

It's easy to say, but it's very time-consuming and laborious to operate, because these areas are very scattered, and it is not so easy to negotiate and reach a consensus with the locals, thanks to Saudin's use of his communicative skills, which greatly reduces the time it takes, otherwise Li Tianhao would even suspect that his fleet will usher in the New Year at sea.

While completing this series of things, Li Tianhao also dealt with several other things. The first is to let the commander of the Second Fleet, Misheva, lead the fleet to continue to attack the coast, and at the same time let Senas and others lead the Marine troops to strengthen cooperation with it.

The second thing was to receive reports from Palchi that the rear was being harassed by Arubania and that the front was being attacked. In response to these incidents, Li Tianhao's reply was to commend Jimda and Tatar; strengthening the defense of the coast of the Dichier Sea; The defeat of Wod must be taken seriously, it is clear that Arubania has mastered the technology of the crossbow, and Jamo, who is in charge of intelligence, is responsible for this matter, and at the same time must strictly investigate how this secret was leaked, and resolutely prevent the recurrence of similar things; Since Arubania had already begun to use raiding tactics to try to delay Palci's attack on its rear, it showed that this action was what Arubania was really afraid of, and in order to carry out this action, it instructed Wei Song to send at least 10,000 infantry to support it as soon as possible, and at the same time to send 30% of the ships from the Third Fleet to help in the battle.

At this time, Li Tianhao had already made up his mind to annihilate the Arubanian fleet in the Bay of Pass, because he had found an important opportunity from the conversation with Saudin, for which he needed a large number of infantry to implement his next plan, so as to establish absolute superiority over the Arubanian sea.

On the fifth day after dealing with these affairs, Li Tianhao ushered in the person he had been waiting for for a long time, that is, his brother-in-law Elda, who he sent to the Paz Empire to conclude an alliance.

In fact, Elda was belated, because of his long experience of traveling at sea, coupled with his handsome appearance and dexterous tongue, he became a celebrity in the court of Paz while completing the mission of alliance, many court officials, and even King Purnoncar I became loyal listeners of his magical adventures, and even Baibasbahn became interested in the scenery of the countries he described. So Elda didn't really want to return as soon as possible, but it was difficult to get out of being forced to stay in King Pass. Later, thanks to his wife, Li Tianhao's sister Li Tianyu brought a letter saying that she was pregnant and hoped that her husband would return home as soon as possible, so that Elda could get out.

During his stay in Yekbada, Elda, of course, did not observe and inquire about the inside information of the Paz Empire, and at this time he seemed to be a witness and disseminator of the inside story of the Paz court. His arrival is simply a joy for Li Tianhao after a long drought, with Elda, not only the command of the Second Fleet and the coordination with Senas have been settled, even if there are any temporary changes, with Elda's handling ability, it is also easy. In this way, Li Tianhao can finally make time to secretly go home once.

But when Li Tianhao said his true thoughts, Elda expressed his strong dissatisfaction: "As a prince, leaving behind his subordinates and fleet to go home secretly, this is considered a dereliction of duty, and what is even more excessive is that you actually asked your brother-in-law to put down his wife and unborn son to look at the mess for you, don't you think it's a bit too much?" Aren't you afraid that your sister will clean you up? ”

was robbed by Elda like this, Li Tianhao rolled his eyes and retorted: "What is dereliction of duty, if I don't entrust things to you, I will run away, then it is called dereliction of duty, okay?" Besides, if you haven't seen my sister before, how can my sister get pregnant? You scarce your son, and I scarce my nephew! Shouldn't I, as an uncle, go and see it? Let's make a bet that if this word reaches my sister's ears, you can see if my sister will clean me up or clean you up. ”

Elda looked at the brother-in-law and sighed, "Come on, you can go." Who told me to be born to be your subordinate, or your courtier, or your brother-in-law? But let's talk about it, when you come back this time, I'm going to take a long vacation to stay with your sister. ”

Li Tianhao turned his anger into joy and said: "That's right, don't worry, when we finish this battle, Arubania will no longer have the ability to compete with us at sea, even if you go to accompany my sister, I don't need you, the Minister of the Navy." (To be continued.) )