The Northern Six Nations Alliance is not the only small and medium-sized country that has been expanding its navy and upgrading its naval warships in recent months.
The two southern kingdoms, the Kingdom of Dana and the Kingdom of Cassi, have successively ordered a number of cruisers and torpedo boats from the Kingdom of Krul and Orissa to strengthen their coastal defense capabilities.
The four countries on the east coast of the Southern Continent also announced a plan to strengthen the strength of the cruise fleet in the thirteenth year of Qian Sheng, and planned to order three cruisers.
The Kingdom of Orr also followed up in time and planned to order four cruisers to replace the old ships in the fleet. However, the battleships were not ordered, because even if the battleships were not ordered, the strength of the Navy of the Kingdom of Orr was still very strong. In the South Among the two continents, the mainland and the Southwest Continent, it is second only to the Orissa Empire Navy and the Garfia Empire Navy.
And they also ordered a hybrid main gun battleship before.
They are the only country outside the eight major powers that has ordered a new generation of hybrid main gun battleships.
Then the Three Kingdoms Alliance on the east coast, several countries in the south, and even the Kingdom of Lieji in the southwest continent all have related naval expansion plans, some are large and some are small, but it is basically difficult to attract the attention of the big powers.
Only the naval expansion plan of the Northern Six-Nation Alliance has attracted the attention of many major powers!
Because the Northern Six Nations Alliance’s naval expansion plan involves in-depth cooperation with the Daheng Empire!
They invited Daheng Navy officers to serve as instructors, sent naval students to study in the Daheng Empire, and ordered capital ships from the Daheng Empire.
That's all, but the outside world got the news.
The Daheng Empire officially reached a maritime mutual defense treaty with the Six Northern Alliance, and both parties jointly sent personnel to form the "West Coast Mutual Defense Command" to coordinate the navies of the two countries to jointly protect the security of the two countries' west coasts.
This is a serious joint command, and this kind of situation usually only occurs among allies.
At this time, the outside world does not know that the Daheng Empire has officially reached some kind of alliance with the Northern Six Nations Alliance.
This guess is not wrong. Since the treaty incident in November, the Daheng Empire has felt deeply threatened within the empire and has therefore begun to take the initiative to improve its strategic situation.
The first is to deal with the Northern Six Nations Alliance. The traditional relationship between this alliance and the Daheng Empire is not good, but there has not been a war for a long time. After the Daheng Empire was unified, the Daheng Empire took the initiative to show goodwill, and the Northern Six Nations Alliance I don’t want to say that I have always been an enemy of the Daheng Empire. The two sides could not improve their relationship in the past because Daheng always wanted to annex them...
Now that Daheng people say they are not interested in annexation, they should all be good neighbors, so it is normal for the relationship between the two parties to heat up rapidly.
From mutual opening up of trade, to arms trade cooperation, to this kind of in-depth military cooperation, the relationship between the two sides has actually heated up rapidly in the past decade or so.
On December 15, the thirteenth year of Qian Sheng's reign, representatives from the two countries formally and secretly signed the West Coast Mutual Defense Treaty, officially ending the century-long confrontation between the two sides in the West Sea Corridor.
In order to sign this mutual defense treaty, whether it was the Daheng Empire or the Six Northern Alliance, they did so with sincerity and each paid a certain price.
The price paid by the Daheng Empire is mainly economic. The empire will provide a huge amount of loans to the six countries to assist the six northern countries in infrastructure construction and many other economic aids, and solemnly promises that it will never Interfere in the internal affairs of the six countries under any circumstances.
The price paid by the Northern Six-Nation Alliance is naturally not small. The biggest price is not mutual defense, but the opening of the market.
The two sides formally signed a tariff reciprocity treaty and fully liberalized the market!
Once the six northern countries completely open their markets to Daheng, it means that they will completely bear the market impact of Daheng's industrial products. Under this impact, they will not even be able to develop their own industrial system in the future.
Of course, many of their specialties, such as minerals, furs and other products, can also enter the Daheng Empire at low tariffs.
As for mutual military defense, to a certain extent, the six northern countries have taken advantage of the Daheng people. With the Daheng people here, which country with shortsightedness dares to invade the coasts of the six northern countries?
As for the interior, only the Daheng people are left.
But when the people of Daheng do not invade them, it means that they will have no foreign enemies in the future and can live a peaceful life with peace of mind.
To take a step back, if the Daheng people don't take any measures that only want land but not people, many people from the six northern countries still don't mind and even hope to become Daheng people.
But Daheng people are not happy!
The xenophobic mentality of the Daheng people has always been very strong. In the early hundreds of years, the Daheng people even adopted the policy of wanting the land but not the people. Now, the Daheng people no longer have the idea of expanding their territory on a large scale. A large number of them
On the one hand, the reason is: it is no longer easy to implement the policy of giving up land but not people these days, but the people of Daheng are still not happy to accept the land and people together!
The millions of arable land and rich natural resources in the Daheng Empire have been fought for by the Daheng people for thousands of years. Now that there are foreign races who want to merge with them and share these rich natural resources with them, the Daheng people will definitely not be happy.
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Under such circumstances, the Daheng people would rather just establish a puppet state, an economic colony or the like, than annex other countries.
Otherwise, if the people of Daheng open their mouth and say that the people of the land will accept it together, and let the people of the Kingdom of Cassi and the Kingdom of Tanah be incorporated into the Daheng Empire, in fact, most of the people in the above two countries will be happy to see it happen.
What a great thing it is to become a Daheng person!
But the Daheng people themselves don’t want to!
Times are constantly changing, and the ideas of the people of Daheng are also changing. The combination of these factors has made the people of Daheng give up the idea of annexing the six northern countries, and instead adopt the method of wooing them.
After more than ten years of accumulation, with the willingness of both parties, the two countries finally reached a true military alliance agreement.
After signing this agreement, the six northern countries will completely lose external threats. They will not have to bear such heavy pressure on military expenditures in the future, and they will have to worry about being exterminated by the Daheng people every day. In addition, there is an obvious
The advantage is that they can integrate into the Daheng Empire's economic circle along with the market opening agreement. Although it has a certain impact on industrial development, the economic stimulation for them is still very obvious.
For the Daheng Empire, it can completely solve the military threat in the north and prevent the six northern countries from being used by other countries. For this reason, the Daheng Empire has not hesitated to provide a large amount of military assistance to the six northern countries, but also to completely eliminate the six northern countries.