Just as the Daheng Empire's marines and army troops continued to land on Dongji Island and launched an attack on Whale Harbor, the situation of the great battle on Dongji Island gradually spread throughout the countries and caused a huge response.
This was especially true within the Kingdom of Krul. First, their senior officials were shocked, and when the news was gradually spread to the people, the people in their country were immediately frightened and angry.
Those are thirty-three battleships and battlecruisers. In addition, there are a number of large cruisers, old battleships, armored cruisers, old cruisers, light cruisers, destroyers, etc.
All added up, they lost more than 200 warships in this naval battle, and many of the remaining warships were damaged and needed repairs.
The West Sea Fleet, composed of multiple task forces, was a bit exaggerated to say that the whole army was annihilated, but it was definitely broken.
This was an unprecedented defeat in the history of the Kingdom of Krul.
For a time, public opinions in their country were agitated, and all kinds of comments came out. Some said that they would gather all the battleships to fight the Hengmanzi again, and others said that they could not fight anymore and were going to be finished. They should surrender quickly.
Others say that we need to prepare for a homeland defense war, abandon other battlefields, and mobilize troops to organize a homeland defense war.
In short, there are all kinds of opinions, and this kind of differences in opinions is not only among the people, but also among their upper echelons.
On the other hand, things were different on the Daheng Empire side. After the news of the victory in the Great Battle of Dongji Island spread back to the country, it instantly aroused an enthusiastic response from the people in the country.
\bMany people's faces were filled with joyful expressions.
Most of them are just happy for the victory, but there are a few people, especially those in the business community, who are not only happy about the victory itself, but also about the benefits behind the victory.
These upper-level people in the business world, as well as those in the military and political circles, all know very well why the empire has been engaged in a naval competition with the Kingdom of Krul for more than ten years, and why it has declared war on the Kingdom of Krul at this juncture and launched a war.
Such a big battle on Dongji Island.
This has nothing to do with ethnic hatred. In fact, there is no enmity between the Daheng people and the Krul people!
There is only one reason, and that is for the market!
The global market to be precise!
The Kingdom of Krul, which was previously the world's leader, used the military and economic advantages they had established over the past hundred years to plunder various economic interests around the world.
After the unification of the Daheng Empire, the Daheng Empire began to rapidly develop industry and commerce, and the business community actively expanded overseas. As a latecomer, it encountered many challenges.
The markets of some countries are simply not accessible to the merchants of the Daheng Empire if they want to. Either there are political factors, there are economic conflicts, or they simply cannot compete with the products of other countries.
In this regard, what has the Daheng Empire done in the past two decades? While they strive to improve their industrial technology and product quality, they shout the slogan of free trade, and occasionally engage in naval and gun diplomacy, or
Use arms trade, political exchange and many other means to gain access to the market.
This process was not smooth and led to conflicts and even wars many times.
In the twelfth year of Qian Sheng's reign, in order to compete for the market of the Southwest Continent and to compete for the share of cheap textiles in the international market, the Daheng Empire and the Galfia Empire were at odds with each other. In the end, the two sides fought a local battlefield.
The Daheng Empire won a local war on the ground by severely damaging the main fleet of the Garfia Empire's navy, which made the Garfia Empire succumb. From then on, a large number of Daheng Empire's products began to enter the southwest continent and occupied an important position in the international market.
Most of the share of cheap textiles.
Subsequently, due to the oil trade, countries such as the Daheng Empire and the Kingdom of Krul have been engaged in military confrontation in the Republic of Kean for a long time. Until the Kingdom Island of the Kingdom of Krul discovered a large amount of oil, and many oil fields were also discovered in the Western Continent.
After the strategic role of the Kenn Oilfield declined, the two sides slowly ended the military confrontation over oil in the southwest continent.
In the following years, in order to consolidate the market in the central continent and its own local defense needs, the Daheng Empire successively integrated the six northwest kingdoms, the Kingdom of Dana, and the Kingdom of Cassi.
During this process, there was a fight with the Orissa Empire for the Kingdom of Tanner, and a fight with the forces behind the Kingdom of Krul in the Kingdom of Cassi.
Along with the war, the Daheng Empire completely controlled other countries in the central continent, and extended its military power to the Endless Straits, and increased its efforts to penetrate the four countries on the east coast, the Three Kingdoms Alliance on the west coast and other countries in the southern continent, and further supported the countries in the south.
The mainland's military ally is the Orr Kingdom.
The tiny Kingdom of Jean Orr has a standing army of hundreds of thousands equipped with advanced weapons and a sizable navy.
A few years ago, through a secret agreement with the Kingdom of Krul, the Daheng Empire launched a war against the Orissa Empire.
On the surface, this war is to control the Endless Strait, but in fact it is more than that, it is also to control the market of the entire southern continent.
When the Heng'ao War ended, the Orissa Empire was divided up. Apart from controlling a few areas along the coast of the Endless Strait and large islands, the Daheng Empire did not actually gain a large territory, nor did it even receive much compensation.
Just in terms of the territory obtained and the compensation, its value is simply not comparable to the huge war expenditures of the Daheng Empire.
But in fact the Daheng Empire made a lot of money!
Through the early war, and after the war through military and economic means such as garrisoning and military ports, establishing military alliances, and establishing economic alliances, the Daheng Empire completely turned the southern continent into its own backyard.
\bA large number of industrial products from the Daheng Empire poured into the southern continent and occupied the local market. The financial capital of the Daheng Empire poured into the local area and controlled the local financial system. A large number of various industrial raw materials, fruits, rubber, etc. came from the southern continent.
Agricultural products are also sent to the Daheng Empire ship after ship.
The benefits brought by this far exceed the previous military expenditure.
Through a series of wars in the southern continent, the Daheng Empire tasted huge benefits!
The next step is to naturally want to gain more markets, pull down the world leader Krul Kingdom, and become the world leader himself.
In the end, it led to the outbreak of the Andorian naval battle last year, and finally led to the current declaration of war between the two countries and the outbreak of the East Pole Island naval battle.
All of this is inseparable from the word profit.
To be more precise, it is economic benefits.
The purpose of the Daheng Empire in launching this war is clear, which is to replace the Kingdom of Krul and become the center of the world economic system, obtain more markets for industrial products, and obtain more sources of industrial raw materials.
\bNow that the victory of the Great Battle of Dongji Island has allowed the business people in the Daheng Empire to see the dawn of plundering the economic benefits of the global market!
Therefore, when the Daheng Empire took advantage of the victory in the Great Battle of Dongji Island to launch a new issue of national bonds, all of them were sold out in less than half a month, raising a total of 15 billion yuan for the empire.