The misunderstanding was cleared, the golden dragon was a little embarrassed, a trace of flesh pain flashed on his face, and with a "brush", a white stone appeared in the dragon's claws.

"Human, you remove a harm for the dragon clan, the dragon clan should have something to repay, this is for you." The white stone fluttered lightly into Ouyang Shuo's hand, and the dragon's tail flicked and disappeared into the sky.

It's really a dragon that doesn't see the head at the end.

Ouyang Shuo took the stone and checked the properties.

[Contract Beast Prayer Stone (1/1)]: Pray with gold coins to randomly summon contract beast eggs. Friendly reminder: From 1,000 gold coins for desolate beasts, from 10,000 gold coins for spirit beasts, from 100,000 gold coins for sub-divine beasts, and from 1,000,000 gold coins for divine beasts.

If an ordinary player gets this prayer stone, it is just a chicken rib, not to mention millions of gold coins, players who can come up with 100,000 gold coins are very rare.

Falling into the hands of Ouyang Shuo, it is naturally very different.

There are dragons of luck, as well as sub-divine beasts such as Xiaoqing and Xiaobai, Ouyang Shuo is not short of contract beasts, he subconsciously thinks of a pair of children who have not yet been born.

If the two little ones were protected by divine beasts when they were born, it would be a great blessing.

Ouyang Shuo only had two million gold coins with him, but he didn't dare to use them now, so it was better to wait for the end of the global auction before praying.

Thinking so, Ouyang Shuo put the prayer stone into the storage bag.

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On November 11, after that turmoil, the royal fleet successfully arrived in Xingzhou County. Accompanied by Gu Xiuwen, the warden of Xingzhou County, Ouyang Shuo visited the Lion City with great interest.

As the former Star King City, the Lion City has a strong foundation for urban construction, and under the management of Great Xia, it has become a core node of global ocean trade, with an endless stream of merchant ships coming and going to the port.

The Lion City is also thriving in commerce, with more than half of the shops dedicated to ocean trade.

In addition to the bustling business and trade, the fighting on the outlying islands of the Lion City has never stopped, and the bloody PK between Chinese players and Javanese adventurers is staged every day, giving birth to hundreds of PK maniacs.

The total number of players in Java is 20 million, ranking fourth in the world after China, Tianzhu and the United States, equivalent to one-fifth of the total number of players in China.

The huge player base is where the confidence of Java against the Great Xia Dynasty and China lies.

Not only Java, but also the ten ASEAN countries have a relatively large player base, except for the extinct Star Kingdom, the total number of players in Annam is 8 million, Nanzhang 600,000, Chenla 1.2 million, Siam 5 million, Pi 4.5 million, Luzon 8 million, Johor 2.5 million, and Mud at least 40,000 players.

The total number of players in the nine ASEAN countries together is nearly 50 million, which is equivalent to half of China.

A year and a half has passed, and earth-shaking changes have taken place within ASEAN countries, and what makes Ouyang Shuo most uneasy is that the existing nine ASEAN countries have all decided to be regional hegemons.

In every country, there is only one last lord left.

Take Johor as an example. A year ago, Johor was still the top two in the country, but now Johor is only the Perak city of Shanda.

Guo Yannan, who is of Chinese descent, was defeated by Shanda, and the territory of Sabah City was merged into Perak City as a whole.

Behind the rapid annexation of the territories of ASEAN countries, there is the shadow of the [Silver Hand], and the [Silver Hand] saw through Ouyang Shuo's strategic intention to balance ASEAN, so he tried to muddy the waters.

Because there are only nine hegemons left in the entire ASEAN, there are many fewer constraints on joint decision-making within ASEAN, and it also makes Great Xia's efforts to cultivate cronies within each country come to naught.

Among the nine overlords, the lord of Java, Uaisi, the lord of Annam, Nguyen Tien Que, and the lord of Luzon, Martin, are the triumvirate, followed by Tilad, the lord of Siam, Mo Aung Yin, the lord of Pi, and Shanda, the lord of Johor.

Bi Wenlie, the lord of the Zhenla country, Solanggong, the lord of the Nanzhang country, and Abdul, the lord of the mud country, basically have no say in ASEAN, and everything depends on the eyes of the three giants.

I don't know if it's a coincidence or what, the Big Three and Great Xia are all hostile relations.

To date, neither Java, Annam, nor Luzon have established commercial relations with Bactria or Bactria .

Not to mention the state of Java, this is a feud and there is no room for reconciliation. Annan was severely beaten twice by the Great Xia fleet, and he was "unconvinced", and the resentment in his heart was no less than that of Java.

The large-scale exploitation of the Xisha Islands, Zhongsha Islands and Nansha Islands by the Bactrian Dynasty greatly reduced the maritime space of the Luzon Kingdom.

ASEAN is faintly divided into two factions, one is the main faction and the other is the moderate.

Needless to say, the Big Three are all hardcore main battle factions, and then they bring in the Southern Palm Kingdom, which also borders Great Xia, to form a faction together; The remaining five kingdoms all maintained commercial relations with Bactria and together formed moderates.

The two factions were originally in a balance of power, but with the unification of the countries, this balance of power is in danger of being broken.

It is also in such a situation, in order to break the situation, Ouyang Shuo took the initiative to sign the "Trans-Pacific Trade Partnership" with the ASEAN lords, so as to open up the initiative of trade dividends with the Mediterranean.

The purpose is naturally to consolidate relations with Johor and other territories and strengthen the presence of Bactria in ASEAN.

Of course, the Trans-Pacific Trade Partnership can also be seen as a smoke bomb or bait thrown by Ouyang Shuo, with the intention of paralyzing ASEAN.

Regardless of the reason, smashing ASEAN so that it cannot pose a substantial threat to Bactria ocean trade is one of Ouyang Shuo's medium- and long-term goals.

And to achieve this goal, it is not possible to see a little blood.

But before he really wielded the butcher's knife, Ouyang Shuo couldn't let the ASEAN lords see through his intentions, in that case, the nine overlords were afraid that they would be firmly hugged together in advance.

If this is the case, Ouyang Shuo is really not sure to pry ASEAN.

Not to mention anything else, the player base of only 50 million is not something that the current Great Xia Dynasty can leverage, and the only way is to break them individually, which requires superb diplomatic art.

Prior to Ouyang Shuo's arrival in Sing Chau, the temple had already carried out three rounds of measures with the Trans-Pacific Trade Partnership (TPP) with five countries, namely Johor, Pi, Siam, Chenla and Mud for the Trans-Pacific Trade Partnership Agreement.

It's a pity that the effect of the negotiation is not ideal, so Ouyang Shuo was invited to come out in person.

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Two p.m., Sin Chew Harbor.

In order to show his sincerity, Ouyang Shuo specially greeted the five lords at the port to fulfill the friendship of the landlords.

At the appointed time, the Lord of Siam, Tirad, the Lord of Piao, Mo Aung Yin, the Lord of Johor, and Abdul, Lord of Mud were invited to arrive in the Lion City.

What made Ouyang Shuo frown was that Bi Wenlie, the lord of the Zhenla Kingdom, was not invited to come.

"This is never a good sign!"

Bi Wenlie is not coming, the signal is already very obvious, and the Zhenla Kingdom is afraid that it has fallen to the main battle faction. Ouyang Shuo couldn't be sure if there was a shadow of the [Silver Hand] in this.

In any case, on such an occasion, Bi Wenlie's sudden absence made Ouyang Shuo very faceless, which was equivalent to slapping Ouyang Shuo in the face and the face of the Great Xia Dynasty.

Before the negotiations had even begun, a shadow was cast.

Although he was already angry in his heart, on the surface, Ouyang Shuo was smiling, shaking hands with Shanda and the others one by one, but outsiders couldn't see the slightest difference.

Among the four people, Ouyang Shuo was only one person who really came into contact with Shanda.

Without exception, all four of them were first-class young talents, and all of them were of noble birth, either members of the royal family or heirs to prominent families.

It's no wonder that they were able to quickly dominate the domestic wilderness.

And such an identity has a natural fit with [Silver Hand]. Perhaps in reality, some of their families are not qualified enough to join the Silver Hand, but given the complexity of the game world, the Silver Hand will not stick to the rules and does not mind accepting new members.

This is the terrifying thing about the [Silver Hand], in the face of external threats, these families that have existed for hundreds of years can think of a way to deal with it.

During the greetings, the eyes of Shanda and the others drifted to the west of Xingzhou Harbor intentionally or unintentionally, where the mighty royal fleet was quietly moored on the sea, especially the Yu Huang, which was particularly eye-catching.

Shanda and the others had no expression on their faces, but their eyes froze, and their mood instantly became heavy.

The main warships of the ASEAN countries are either the Lou Ship battleships imported from the Great Xia Dynasty or the sail battleships imported from the West, but they have never seen Z1 warships.

There is no doubt that this is a new generation of warships developed by the Great Xia Dynasty.

What makes ASEAN most feared in Daxia is the powerful navy. Shanda and the others originally thought that after the introduction of the Lou Ship Warship, the combat power of the Territorial Naval Division would be able to get closer to Da Xia.

Who would have thought that Great Xia would actually develop a new type of warship.

It was a big enough blow.

Ouyang Shuo saw it, smiled in his heart, he specially went to the port to greet him this time, and moored the royal fleet in a conspicuous position, not without taking advantage of this to secretly warn Shanda and the others.

"Don't look at the Zhenghuan of the main battle faction, if you really want to fight, Daxia has hole cards."

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Ouyang Shuo led Shanda and others to the Shicheng County Shoufu to start a new round of negotiations.

What made Ouyang Shuo frown was that even with him in person, Shanda and the others still had a very tough attitude, putting forward many unreasonable demands, and there was a faint meaning of "sitting on the ground and starting the price".

Ouyang Shuo smiled coldly, thinking in his heart, "Do you really think that with the [Silver Hand] behind your back, you can have no fear?" It's really a lack of people's hearts. ”

Seeing this, Ouyang Shuo looked around and said with a smile: "Taking this opportunity, this king wants to announce a message. ”

Shanda's heart trembled inexplicably, and he said with a forced smile: "Listen up!" In this confrontation, the confidence of Shanda and others is not as tough as they show.

Ouyang Shuo said: "In order to continuously combat piracy, the Great Xia Dynasty will set up maritime patrol checkpoints in the waters of the Gulf of Aden to conduct routine inspections of incoming and outgoing merchant ships. Those who fail to pass the inspection are not allowed to enter the Mediterranean. ”

“……”

Shanda and the others looked at each other.