In addition to being able to slow down the development of the Kingdom of Krul, it can also directly gain a lot of benefits from the war.
Even the Orissa Empire intentionally or unintentionally supported the war between the two countries, because they were closer and the benefits they gained from the war would not be much less than those of the Daheng Empire.
In order to maintain the war, the Kingdom of Krul not only produces and transports a large amount of materials locally, but also purchases a large amount of materials from neighboring countries in order to save costs. Among them, the Daheng Empire and the Orissa Empire have gained the greatest benefits.
Not only these two countries, but also the surrounding countries, even if there is no industry, the Kingdom of Lieji, which is only one strait away from the Kingdom of Aur, relies on the Kingdom of Krul for a large number of agricultural and livestock products and other ordinary products. The order for supplies has received a lot of benefits.
In this case, everyone hopes that the Orr War will continue!
But it is a pity for all countries in the world that this war is showing signs of ending at the beginning of the Tenth Year of Qian Sheng.
Although during the war, the navy of the Kingdom of Krul continued to blockade the coastline of the Kingdom of Orr. In October last year, its army finally captured the Kalan Highlands and entered the mainland of the Kingdom of Orr.
However, the troops of the Kingdom of Orr did not collapse. Instead, they continued to rely on the complex mountainous terrain in the country to carry out resistance. As a result, the number of military casualties of the Kingdom of Krul has been rising steadily in the past six months.
At the same time, because the Kingdom of Krul has spent too much money on this war, they have issued a large amount of national debt, which has caused great financial pressure, and the people are extremely dissatisfied with the rapidly rising war taxes.
Moreover, the Orians would not give in easily. They were a country that had been invaded more than a dozen times in the past century. Its citizens were already used to resisting invasion, otherwise they would not have adopted a military service system in which all citizens were soldiers.
The Krul people pessimistically predict that if they continue to fight, the cost will probably double again, and the casualties may be hundreds of thousands.
At the same time, although the Orr Kingdom will not surrender, it also knows that if it continues to fight, it will be half disabled even if it is not dead. After all, the casualties of their troops are greater, and since the war entered their homeland, their ordinary people and domestic production have been affected. Great impression, so they also sent a signal of goodwill to the Kingdom of Krul through a third party.
These situations have affected the internal situation of the Krul Kingdom.
On December 26, the ninth year of Qian Sheng, the Minister of Military Affairs of the Kingdom of Krul, the king's chief military adviser, and Duke Cory, who single-handedly instigated the Orr War, announced his resignation under tremendous pressure from both inside and outside!
This person's resignation also means the complete collapse of the war faction within the Kingdom of Krul, and the peace faction has the upper hand in the kingdom's political arena!
After January of the Tenth Year of Qian Sheng, basically the diplomats from all the major countries in Blue Star knew that the Orr War might not be able to continue, because the foreign minister of the Kingdom of Krul had already gone to the capital of the Daheng Empire, and at the same time the Orr War Crown Prince Holibart of the Er Kingdom also openly went to Daheng Capital to prepare for the Jingzhou talks.
The reason why the two countries chose the capital of the Daheng Empire for negotiation is not only the request of the Orr Kingdom, but also has something to do with the Daheng Empire itself!
Well, the third party that helps the Orr Kingdom convey goodwill to the Krul Kingdom is the Daheng Empire!
After all, the Orr Kingdom has spent hundreds of millions on the Daheng Empire over the years. For the sake of so much money, the Daheng Empire has to admit that the Orr Kingdom is half of its younger brother.
Therefore, the Daheng Empire itself does not want to see the Kingdom of Orr completely crippled by the Kingdom of Krul!
If the Orr Kingdom really continues to fight, even if they have gold, they will never be able to stop the Krul Kingdom, the world's largest industrial country.
The only difference is how many years it can last, two years? Three years? Four years?
Defeat is inevitable!
But the Krul Kingdom doesn't want to continue fighting. They can win if they really want to fight, but the price they have to pay is too high.
So much money has been spent now. If we continue to fight, five billion constant dollars may not be enough. Even with so much money, the Kingdom of Krul will feel huge pressure.
After all, for the Kingdom of Krul, this is not a life-and-death battle for survival. At best, it is just a war to invade small countries and seize gold and oil. This is a war for profit.
The Kingdom of Krul has fought many such wars in the past few decades, but the scale was generally limited and the cost was also limited.
But this time the Orr War cost far more than they expected.
When the benefits are limited and the costs are too high, they will naturally be unhappy.
At this time, the Orr Kingdom asked the Daheng Empire to help mediate. At the same time, they themselves used gold to clear the way for other countries to strive for a more favorable international diplomatic and public opinion environment.
Finally, under the mediation of the Daheng Empire, both the Orr Kingdom and the Krul Kingdom were interested in a truce. The two sides decided to conduct truce negotiations in the capital of the Daheng Empire. At the same time, the Varia Empire, the Kokel Empire, and the Garfield
The Sub-Empire and Orissa Empire will also have heavyweight diplomats participating, but they will only be observers, and it is basically impossible to give advice on the negotiations.
Even the Daheng Empire, the main mediator, would find it difficult to intervene in the detailed negotiations.
It’s not that I don’t want to, it’s that I can’t!
Because the other party in the negotiation is the Kingdom of Krul, they are too lazy to pay attention to other countries. If they dare to interfere, they will send the navy to the door in a minute...
The Daheng Empire acted as the main mediator this time, not to gain any meaning from participating in the negotiations. On the one hand, it was to help the Orr Kingdom, its semi-little brother, and on the other hand, it was to take the opportunity to increase its international influence.
At the same time, it is also to show the new era style of the Lin Dynasty of the Daheng Empire to all countries in the world, and to let all countries in the world know that we Daheng people are not just reckless men who only know how to fight with guns. We are also peace-loving and like to do things.
Business.
Therefore, the Daheng Empire also took the opportunity to organize a so-called industrial expo, in which many domestic companies participated and presented their proud products in an attempt to promote themselves to businessmen around the world in order to obtain more international trade orders.
In order to ensure that no problems would arise on such a major international occasion, the Daheng Empire also made adequate preparations and carried out a major overhaul of the city's appearance in advance. In order to ensure the safety of the two countries' missions, Daheng Empire made preparations in advance.
Security measures.
So when Dickenson, the Foreign Minister of the Kingdom of Krul, arrived at Daheng Capital on a high-speed large passenger ship, what he saw was that it was clean and tidy, and the people were polite!
This is not Dickenson’s first visit to the Daheng Empire. He came to the Daheng Empire more than 20 years ago as the counselor of the Kingdom of Krul in Daheng, and has been to the capital, Luo Hai City and many other cities.
I have worked and lived in Daheng for more than five years.
When the Daheng Empire was first unified, Dickenson served as the special envoy of the king of the Kingdom of Krul and participated in the ceremony of establishing the capital of the Lin Dynasty.
The capital establishment ceremony at that time was, to some extent, intended to make up for Lin Ziran's enthronement ceremony which was too hasty and too crude.
This can be regarded as the tradition of the emperors of the Daheng people. Generally speaking, the real enthronement ceremony is very hasty and urgent. This is not only the case for the founding emperor's enthronement, but also for ordinary emperors.
Generally, when the previous emperor has just passed away, an enthronement ceremony will be held as soon as the news is received to confirm his title.
After all, in Daheng's history, there were many situations in which Daheng held its enthronement ceremony slowly, and was eventually snatched away from the throne, or caused civil war. The latecomers have basically learned the lesson, and everything in the enthronement ceremony is as fast as possible.
Lin Ziran himself was one. On the day after the frontline troops learned that Emperor Yongchang had passed away, they rushed back day and night and informed Lin Ziran of the news immediately. After Lin Ziran learned the news, he held an enthronement ceremony that day.
However, because the enthronement ceremony was too simple, a capital-fixing ceremony was added later, just like the previous dynasties.
If an ordinary emperor succeeds to the throne, a sacrificial ceremony will often be added.
Dickenson had come to attend the Lin Dynasty's capital establishment ceremony, so he had met Lin Ziran and a large number of the founding dignitaries of the Daheng Empire.
Then, in the name of visiting the consulates of the Kingdom of Krul in many cities in the Daheng Empire, he briefly visited several important cities in the Daheng Empire and browsed the newly unified Daheng Empire like a quick tour.
At that time, the Daheng Empire he saw was full of traces of war damage. Although the capital city at that time had been cleaned up and even deliberately whitewashed, the ruins of buildings damaged by war artillery fire could still be seen frequently. In the southern suburbs,
The factory area is even more of a mess.
Other places were similar and suffered great war damage.
But now, before he gets off the boat, standing on the deck, he can see a large number of ships passing by in Jinghe River. At the same time, there are a large number of merchant ships moored at the docks along the Jinghe River on both sides!
The southern dock along the river near the north side is also a military dock. There are more than ten warships of various types moored there, including many cruisers of several thousand tons.
Dickenson naturally knew that this was just an inland military port and could not have too many large warships. Many of the Daheng people's large warships were moored at Quping Naval Base.
However, it is a military restricted area that prohibits ordinary people from entering and exiting. Let alone entering the port to see it, even if you wander outside the port, you will be expelled.
In addition, the Daheng Empire's warship manufacturing industry in recent years has been mainly concentrated at Quping Naval Base, where a large-scale naval shipyard has been built. Many emerging warships are almost all built at Quping Naval Base.
It also further strengthens the navy's confidentiality.
But a small thing can make a big difference. Just from the large number of warships in this inland military port, it can be seen that the Daheng people's navy has developed extremely rapidly in recent years.
No wonder some generals of the Kingdom’s Navy believe that the Daheng Empire will become one of the Kingdom’s most important opponents in the future!