When it comes to timber, four countries in Southeast Asia, namely Annam, Siam, Johor and Java, are rich in timber, among which Siam and Johor have trade with Shanhai City. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Shanhai City has a large shipyard in the Lion City, which has a convenient location.

Yingyu mentioned in the recital that the Department of Commerce has arranged a business and trade delegation to the two countries to negotiate the timber trade in the near future.

If it goes well, it will be able to solve the urgent needs of the shipbuilding industry.

Of course, this is not a long-term solution.

Not to mention the high cost of ocean transportation, neither Siam nor Johor lords can give Shanhai City too much preferential treatment in timber trade, and the procurement cost is not low.

To put it bluntly, they are just the simplest trading partners, not even friends, let alone allies.

There is money to be made, and the lords of the two countries will not be soft.

Historically, Southeast Asian countries were once colonies of Western powers and became raw material bases for them. By widening the price gap between industrial products and raw materials, the Western suzerains achieved the purpose of exploiting colonial labor and grabbing massive raw materials.

The current Shanhai City is obviously unable to do this.

ASEAN in the game is like a powder keg that can explode at any moment. Once the war began, the timber trade would be affected, which in turn would affect the shipbuilding industry in the territory.

Therefore, the safest way is to completely take one of these countries through a national war. The preferred target of Shanhai City is naturally Annanguo, which has a festival.

Between the two, sooner or later there will be a battle.

It's just that before the end of the war in Yunnan, Shanhai City didn't have the energy to launch a national war. ASEAN countries are intertwined, and they must be considered holistically.

Once a national war with Annan is provoked, Shanhai City must be prepared to face the entire ASEAN.

Attacking Annan would be a very difficult and systematic war mission, and it would not be possible to put it on the agenda at all in the three years of Gaia, and it would not be possible to attack until the fourth year of Gaia at the earliest.

Not to mention far away, even the current Yunnan war is not simple.

Whether it is the fornication between the [Yunnan City-State] and the [Yanhuang League], or the recent expansion of the [Southern Hunan City-State], through the internal line planted in the city-state, Ouyang Shuo knows everything about it.

[Yan Huang Meng]'s intervention, Ouyang Shuo was not surprised at all.

Ouyang Shuo also wanted to take this opportunity to have a good break with [Yanhuang League], so that Di Chen and these people knew what it meant to steal chickens and rice.

In any case, the Battle of Yunnan will be more complicated than the Battle of Lingnan.

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Yingyu also mentioned another pillar industry of the territory - the steel industry.

Like shipbuilding, the steel industry is also limited by materials, or energy to be exact. There is no good way to solve the demand for coal in the steel industry in the territory.

Luofeng City is inland, and transportation is weak.

Recently, Ouyang Shuo has shifted his attention from Taiyuan Province to the northern part of Kyoto District and Ludong Province, two of the country's second-level coal-producing areas.

Compared with Taiyuan Province, where Luofengcheng is located, although the coal output of the two places cannot be compared, they have a natural advantage, that is, they are both close to the sea, and they have natural ports in the territory.

The coastline of China is also long, from north to south, dotted with more than a dozen super-large natural ports, including the Marina Port in the north of Kyoto District, the Haijin Port in the south, the Jiaodong Port in Ludong Province, the Haizhou Port and Shencheng Port in the East China Sea Province, the Zhoushan Port in Jiangnan Province, the Quanzhou Port in the Southern Fujian Province and the Jiaozhou Port in Lingnan Province.

In comparison, the North Harbor of Shanhai City is nothing.

The Marina Port in the northern part of Kyoto Ward is located right on the territory of Boulder Castle.

The Shanhai City Commercial Division is already in talks with the Boulder City to establish a stable coal trading channel by sea. The premise is that the city of Boulder should increase the mining of coal resources in the territory.

Coal mining requires not only a lot of manpower, but also equipment and capital investment.

For this purpose, Sihai Qianzhuang provided a special loan, amounting to 500,000 gold coins, for the expansion of coal production capacity in Boite City. The guarantor of the loan is none other than the Shanhai City Finance Bureau.

Before receiving a shipload of coal, the General Administration of Finance made an advance payment of 100,000 gold coins.

Cui Yingyu, who is in charge of the territory industry, has even said that as much coal as is mined in Stubborn Stone City, Shanhai City will buy as much as it wants, and there is no ambiguity.

In this way, a win-win situation between the two territories has been successfully achieved. Shanhai City received much-needed coal, and Boulder City obtained valuable development funds by selling coal.

As the proverb goes: don't put all your eggs in one basket.

In addition to the Stubborn Stone City, Shanhai City also set its sights on Ludong Province. Compared with the Stubborn Stone City, Ludong Province is not only wider in area, but also closer to Shanhai City.

To this day, the entire territory of Ludong Province has been occupied by Western Chu.

Speaking of which, the relationship between Xiang Yu, the overlord of Western Chu, and Ouyang Shuo is really a bit complicated. In the battle of Julu, it was the army of Shanhai City that pushed Xiang Yu into the abyss, which can be described as bitter and bitter.

But an overlord is an overlord, and his insight is extraordinary.

Before Xiang Yu killed himself, he had promised Ouyang Shuo that he owed him a favor.

Ouyang Shuo suddenly realized that it was time to enable this favor.

Thinking of this, Ouyang Shuo immediately took up the pen and sent a letter to Zhang Yi, the secretary of Honglu Temple, asking Zhang Yi to arrange an envoy group to secretly envoy to Western Chu. It is not only to contact feelings, but also to open coal trade negotiations.

Ouyang Shuo was so solemn, and his purpose was naturally not limited to coal. He also hopes to use this as an opportunity to dissolve the gap between the two forces, and preferably establish a more intimate relationship.

For example, alliances.

[Yan Huang League] made some small moves all day long, which made Ouyang Shuo annoyed, it was time to find some "fun" for them, so as not to participate in the war in southern Xinjiang if they had nothing to do.

Ouyang Shuo has heard that the Western Chu regime has a strong military strength, swept through the eastern province of Lu, and annexed the Zhang Chu regime, as if it had become a hegemon in the Central Plains.

However, Xichu is not without weaknesses.

The biggest weakness of the Western Chu regime was the withering of people's livelihood and the weak economy within its borders. Xiang Yu, the overlord of Western Chu, intended to expand again, but due to financial resources, he had to give up halfway.

In this way, Ouyang Shuo naturally didn't mind giving a boost.

Ouyang Shuo believed that Xiang Yu would be very interested in the kindness of Shanhai City.

Western Chu remains strong in the Central Plains, and to the north it can threaten the Kyoto District of Emperor Chen, and to the south it can balance the East China Sea Province of the Wolf Warrior, which is really an important existence.

There is such a regime, look at how Emperor Chen and the wolf warriors are still bouncing around.

In addition to the Western Chu regime, Ouyang Shuo also instructed Honglu Temple, with the cooperation of Shanhaiwei, to have more contact with the family territory in southern Anhui Province.

Maintaining a chaotic southern Anhui province is most in line with the interests of Shanhai City. The same principle applies to the intricate provinces of the Central Plains.

There is no doubt that with the rise of Honglu Temple, Shanhai City will rely more on diplomatic means to achieve its interests, balance the enemy, and make allies.

Sun Tzu said: The first army is to fight, the second is to fight, the last is to attack the city, the last is to attack the city.

It is foreseeable that the road of "cutting and communicating" in Shanhai City will play an increasingly important role in the future.

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After Ouyang Shuo finished writing the secret letter to Zhang Yi, it was late at night, and everything was silent.

The old and high recitals on the case have all been reviewed, and at the end of each recital there is Ouyang Shuo's handwritten Zhu approval. Early the next morning, these pieces will be sent back to the southern Xinjiang capital through the post station.

Ouyang Shuo put down his pen, leaned back with his hands, twisted his neck, and stretched a beautiful lazy waist. Suddenly, there was a crackling sound in his body, which showed that he had been sitting for too long.

Although it was hard, Ouyang Shuo also felt very fulfilling. Seeing the territory under his guidance, step by step towards strength, this sense of accomplishment is nothing compared.

Leaving the study and returning to the bedroom, Ouyang Shuo began to practice as usual.

With the breakthrough of the "Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon" to the eleventh layer, the golden true yuan in Ouyang Shuo's body was like a rushing river, surging and rattling, which showed the majesty of the true yuan.

The position of the dantian in the abdomen has expanded into a golden spring, and the golden true yuan is like spring water, churning up and down in the position of the spring, and the golden transpiration is spectacular.

After the last adventure on Dragon Island, the meridians in the body have become extremely tough, and under the continuous washing of the golden true yuan, they even faintly hang on the golden color.

Even the bones in his body began to be dyed gold.

According to the "Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon", once the meridians of the whole body turn golden, it is a sign of the perfection of the eleventh layer of cultivation. When he cultivated to the twelfth level of the Great Perfection realm, his bones would become golden all over his body.

Helplessly, it has been more than five months since the "Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon" broke through to the eleventh layer. Ouyang Shuo practiced day and night, but his progress was still slow.

At the current progress, if you want to break through to the eleventh floor, you don't know when you will have to wait.

Even so, Ouyang Shuo did not have a trace of impatience, and practiced step by step every day. He believes that the accumulation of little by little will eventually come to fruition.

Cultivation is the cultivation of the mind.

It is necessary not only to endure loneliness, but also to be calm and suffering.

Since practicing the "Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon", the first ten floors have been smooth sailing, either with the help of genius treasures, or with adventures, and they have easily broken through.

At this point, it's time to sharpen it.

Therefore, Ouyang Shuo was not in a hurry at all.

For Ouyang Shuo, daily practice is a kind of enjoyment in itself.

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Early the next morning, Ouyang Shuo began to pack up and prepare to rush to the next county seat.

Just then, the guards came to report.

"Your Majesty, there is a strange woman outside the hospital who asks to see her, saying that she has something to report."

"Inhuman woman?" Ouyang Shuo frowned.

According to the rules of the wilderness, after the fall of a territory, players living in the territory will be teleported to the royal city. Therefore, Ouyang Shuo rarely saw players along the way.

Not to mention that there will be players who will come to him on their own initiative.

When it comes to Ouyang Shuo's position, there are not many players who can talk to him directly.

Ouyang Shuo asked, "What's that woman's name?" ”