Chapter 972 The Strange Atmosphere in ASEAN

The misunderstanding was resolved, the golden dragon was a little embarrassed, a pained expression flashed across his face, and with a "swipe", a white stone appeared in the dragon's claw.

"Human, you have removed a harm for the Dragon Clan, and the Dragon Clan will repay you. This is for you." The white stone fluttered into Ouyang Shuo's hands, and the dragon disappeared into the sky with a flick of its tail.

It's really a dragon that sees its tail but doesn't see its head.

Ouyang Shuo took the stone and checked its properties.

[Contract Beast Wishing Stone (1/1)]: Use gold coins to pray, and randomly summon contract beast eggs. Friendly reminder: Desolate beasts start at 1,000 gold coins, spirit beasts start at 10,000 gold coins, sub-divine beasts start at 100,000 gold coins, and divine beasts start at a million gold coins.

If an ordinary player gets this wishing stone, it is nothing more than a piece of cake, let alone a million gold coins, players who can take out 100,000 gold coins are rare.

Falling into Ouyang Shuo's hands, it will be quite different.

There is the Dragon of Destiny, and sub-sacred beasts such as Xiaoqing and Xiaobai. Ouyang Shuo has no shortage of contracted beasts. He subconsciously thinks of a pair of unborn sons and daughters.

It would be a great blessing if the two little ones were guarded by divine beasts when they were born.

Ouyang Shuo only had two million gold coins with him, but he didn't dare to use them now. It would be better to wait until the global auction is over before making a wish.

Thinking of this, Ouyang Shuo put the wishing stone into the storage pouch.

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On November 11, after experiencing that storm, the Royal Fleet arrived in Xingzhou County smoothly. Accompanied by Governor Gu Xiuwen of Xingzhou, Ouyang Shuo visited the Lion City with great interest.

As a former Star King City, Lion City has a solid foundation for urban construction. Under the management of Daxia, it has become a core node of global ocean trade, and there is an endless stream of merchant ships traveling to and from the port.

The interior of the Lion City is also well-developed in commerce and trade, and more than half of the shops are dedicated to ocean trade.

In addition to the bustling business, the fighting on the outer islands of the Lion City has never stopped. The bloody PK between players in China and adventure players in Java is staged every day, and hundreds of PK madmen have been born.

The total number of players in Java reached 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 exactly where Java has the confidence to fight against the Great Xia Dynasty and China.

Not only Java, the ten ASEAN countries have a relatively large player base. Except for the already destroyed Star Kingdom, the total number of players in Annan District is 8 million, Nanzhang 600,000, Chenla 1.2 million, and Siam 500. million, 4.5 million in Pyu, 8 million in Luzon, 2.5 million in Johor, and at least 40,000 players in Ni.

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

One and a half years have passed, and earth-shaking changes have taken place within the ASEAN countries. What disturbs Ouyang Shuo the most is that the nine existing ASEAN countries have all determined regional hegemony.

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

Take Johor as an example. A year ago, in Johor, Perak City and Sabah City were two powerhouses, but now in Johor, only Sandar's Perak City is dominant.

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 [Silver Hand]. [Silver Hand] just saw through Ouyang Shuo's strategic intention to balance ASEAN, so they tried to muddy the water.

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

Among the nine overlords, Uais, the lord of Java, Ruan Tianque, the lord of Annan, and Martin, the lord of Luzon, are the three giants. Of.

Bi Wenlie, the lord of the Chenla Kingdom, Solangun, the lord of the Nanzhang Kingdom, and Abdul, the lord of the Ni Kingdom, basically have no say in ASEAN, and everything depends on the winks of the Big Three.

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

So far, Java, Annan, and Luzon have not established commercial relations with Daxia.

The Java State will not say that this is a feud and there is no room for reconciliation. An Nanguo was severely beaten twice by the Daxia Fleet, because he was "orally dissatisfied", and the resentment in his heart was no less than that of the Java State.

The grievances between Luzon and Daxia include both "world feud" factors and game conflicts of interest. The Daxia Dynasty developed the Xisha Islands, Zhongsha Islands, and Nansha Islands on a large scale, which greatly compressed Luzon's ocean space.

There are two factions within ASEAN, one is the war faction and the other is the moderate faction.

Needless to say, the three giants are all hard-core main fighters, and together with the Nanzhang Kingdom, which also borders Daxia, they form a faction; the remaining five countries maintain business relations with Daxia, and together form a moderate faction.

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

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

The purpose, of course, is to consolidate relations with Johor and other territories, and strengthen Daxia's presence in ASEAN.

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

Regardless of the considerations, one of Ouyang Shuo's medium and long-term goals is to smash ASEAN into pieces so that it cannot pose a substantial threat to Great Xia's ocean trade.

But to achieve this goal, blood is not enough.

But before he actually swung the butcher's knife, Ouyang Shuo couldn't let the lords of the ASEAN see through his plan. In that case, the nine overlords would probably hug each other tightly in advance.

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

Among other things, a player base of only 50 million is not something that the current Great Xia Dynasty can leverage. The only way is to defeat them one by one, which requires the cooperation of superb diplomatic skills.

Before Ouyang Shuo arrived in Xingzhou County, Honglu Temple cooperated with the Commercial Department to carry out three rounds of measures with the five countries of Johor, Pyu, Siam, Chenla and Ni on the "Trans-Pacific Trade Partnership Agreement".

It's a pity that the result of the negotiation was not satisfactory, so Ouyang Shuo was invited to do it himself.

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At two o'clock in the afternoon, Xingzhou Port.

In order to show his sincerity, Ouyang Shuo specially greeted the five lords at the port to show his friendship as a landlord.

At the appointed time, Siam lord Tillard, Pyu lord Mo Angyin, Johor lord Shanda and Ni lord Abdul were invited to arrive in Lion City.

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

"This is by no means a good sign!"

If Bi Wenlie didn't come, the signal was already very clear that the Chenla Kingdom might have turned to the war faction. Ouyang Shuo couldn't be sure if there was any trace of [Silver Hand].

No matter what, on such an occasion, Bi Wenlie's sudden absence made Ouyang Shuo very embarrassed. It was tantamount to slapping Ouyang Shuo in the face and Daxia Dynasty in the face.

Before the negotiation started, it cast a shadow.

Although his heart was full of anger, on the surface Ouyang Shuo was smiling all over his face, shaking hands with Shanda and others one by one, outsiders could not see the slightest difference.

Among the four, Ouyang Shuo had only real contact with Shan Da.

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

No wonder they were able to quickly dominate the domestic wilderness.

And this identity has a natural fit with [Silver Hand]. Perhaps in reality, some of their families are not qualified to join [Silver Hand], but in view of the complex situation in the game world, [Silver Hand] will not stick to the rules and do not mind recruiting new members.

This is the frightening thing about [Silver Hand]. In the face of external threats, these aristocratic families that have survived for hundreds of years can think of contingency methods.

While exchanging greetings, Shanda and the others' gaze drifted intentionally or unintentionally to the west of Xingzhou Port, where the mighty Royal Fleet was moored quietly on the sea surface, especially the Yuhuang, which was particularly eye-catching.

Shanda and the others had no expression on their faces, but their eyes were fixed, and their mood suddenly became heavy.

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

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

It is the powerful navy that makes ASEAN fear the most in Daxia. Shanda and the others originally thought that after the introduction of the warships, the territorial navy would be able to get closer to Da Xia.

Unexpectedly, Da Xia developed a new type of warship.

This blow is indeed big enough.

Seeing Ouyang Shuo, he smiled in his heart, he specially went to the port to greet them, and parked the Royal Fleet in a conspicuous place, maybe he used this as a secret warning to Shanda and others.

"Don't look at Zheng Huan, who is jumping around in the main battle faction. If we really want to fight, Da Xia has plenty of cards."

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Ouyang Shuo led Shanda and others to Shicheng County Governor's Mansion to start a new round of negotiations.

What made Ouyang Shuo frown was that even with him personally in charge, Shanda and the others still had a very tough attitude, making many unreasonable demands, with a hint of "sit down and raise the price".

Ouyang Shuo smiled coldly, thinking in his heart, "Do you really think that with the backing of the [Silver Hand], you can be confident? It's really not enough."

Seeing this, Ouyang Shuo looked around and said with a smile, "Take this opportunity, the king wants to announce something."

Shanda's heart trembled inexplicably, and he said with a forced smile: "All ears!" In this confrontation, Shanda and the others were not as tough as they showed.

Ouyang Shuo said: "In order to continue to fight against pirates, the Great Xia Dynasty will set up sea cruise checkpoints in the Gulf of Aden to conduct routine inspections on merchant ships. Those who fail the inspections will not be allowed to enter the Mediterranean Sea."

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Shanda and the others looked at each other.