Red Dragon Emperor

Three days after the end of the Imperial Ceremony.

Orca City, Red Keep, Throne Hall.

Jose was sitting on the throne, with a blank sheet of paper full of handwriting floating in front of him. He had a serious face. It was obvious that the information recorded on the sheet was not good news.

With a thought, the suspended paper ignited spontaneously without fire, turning into ashes and dissipating in the air.

"Well, you trading city-state! Negotiations failed, and you put me behind your back!"

Things have to start from the day of the Imperial Ceremony. On the day of the Imperial Ceremony, the Forsyth Empire demonstrated the empire’s ability to produce medicines on a large scale. There is no doubt that this has epoch-making significance in the history of medicines.

Anyone with a little knowledge can understand that the progress of civilization will bring massive economic benefits.

After the military parade at the Imperial Ceremony ended, representatives of the trading city-state came to the door immediately and expressed their willingness to cooperate. The Forsey Empire would supply the goods, and the trading city-state would distribute the goods, and the proceeds would be split in half.

In the past, when the country was poor and weak, Jose might have agreed.

But now the Fussey Empire is not what it used to be, and it has long been able to transport goods to all parts of the mainland by itself, without depending on anyone's face.

Moreover, the large-scale production of pharmaceuticals is the exclusive secret of the Fussey Empire. The Empire has absolute dominance in this matter. It is a bit taken for granted that the trading city-state wants to take 50% of the profits through distribution.

Unsurprisingly, the two powers fell apart.

Jose didn't take this matter to heart at first, because cheap medicines are easy to sell, but he didn't expect the trading city-state to use national power to lobby, and persuaded many southern countries to order a ban on the purchase of Forsey Empire medicines.

You must know that the south is the wealthiest area in Tidanol, and it is also the main force of pharmaceutical consumption. The annual consumption of pharmaceuticals in southern countries accounts for 70% of the total consumption of pharmaceuticals in the entire continent.

The market shrank by 70% all of a sudden, and even the Forsyth Empire felt a big headache.

Down below, Ye Gou's face was also a bit ugly: "Your Majesty, the trading city-state has gone too far this time, and we must teach them a lesson they will never forget!"

"Okay, what are you going to do?" Jose leaned back and changed into a more comfortable position.

Ergou said without hesitation: "Retaliate, reduce the number of horses, food, magic items and other commodities to the trading city-state, so that they have nothing to sell."

Jose thought for a while,

Shaking his head, he rejected Ergou's proposal: "This is nothing more than killing one thousand enemies and harming oneself by eight hundred."

"Besides, the southern region is rich and civilized. Food, weapons, and horses are not urgently needed. Trading city-states can also find alternatives, but the alternatives are more expensive. If you calculate it comprehensively, you may lose 1,000 yourself and kill 800 enemies. , we have to respond rationally and pay attention to strategy.”

As he said that, Jose projected a map of Tedanore in the air with magic power. The map was divided into two parts, red and blue. Red represented the Forsyth Empire, blue represented the southern region, and the border between red and blue was located in the middle of the continent.

The red dragon glanced at the countries close to the Forsyth Empire. The lands of these human countries are red on the map. This is because the kings of the countries declined the envoys of the trading city-states due to the strong strength of the Forsyth Empire.

The gap between these countries and the Fussey Empire is too great. Even without the use of force, just launching a food embargo in a famine year or funding enemy countries can bring disaster to all countries.

This is the radiation of the sphere of influence brought by strength!

"Since the Kingdom officials do not allow it to be sold, then we will sell it secretly."

On the throne, Jose slowly uttered two words: "Smuggling..."

You Gou suddenly said: "Your Majesty is wise! With such a good opportunity to make money from cheap medicines, those greedy black market merchants would rather risk their heads to do it. In this way, the means of the trading city-state will be self-defeating."

"That's right, but it's not just black market merchants, those greedy nobles, corrupt border guards, we can fight for it."

"The king's ban?"

The corner of Jose's mouth curled up with disdain: "In the face of the tide of the times, even the king's ban is nothing more than a mantis arm."

"Understood, I'll go down and make arrangements," You Gou retreated.

The red dragon stayed alone in the throne hall, sitting on the throne and meditating, thinking about how to deal with the trading city-state.

The king's ban is not what he is most worried about. As mentioned earlier, in the face of the tide of civilization and progress, even the king is just a praying mantis blocking the carriage.

What he is really worried about is that the trading city-states have also developed a method of mass-producing medicines during the period of confrontation.

After thinking about it, he thought it was unlikely.

As the most basic idea of ​​assembly line operation in the factory, Jose ordered that the dissemination be prohibited, not to mention the more advanced magic instruments.

The only thing to guard against is that the trade city-state sent spies to spy on the Fussey Empire Pharmacy Factory to steal the skills.

However, as early as the beginning of planning the pharmaceutical factory, Jose put the safety of the factory first, and the security facilities were definitely top-notch in the mainland.

"I hope the trading city-state will not use its brains, otherwise..."

Jose thought about it, and found that he had quite a lot of cards against the trading city-state.

Among the large amount of goods exported by the Fussey Empire, quite a few are the special products of the empire, and some of them have obvious price advantages. These products can be used as a means to fight back against the trading city-states.

In addition, at the military level, in the North-South trade situation, shipping is the main means.

The Fussey Empire has murlocs and water-type dragons.

If the trading city-state really annoyed Jose, then Cassie's murlocs would never mind being a guest pirate and scuttling the merchant ships of the trading city-state.

With the intelligence support of the Forsyth Empire, murlocs and other aquatic species are much more ferocious than pirates.

……………………

In the middle of the continent, on the border of the Kingdom of Gebus.

In the dark night, a caravan composed of ten carriages lit torches and marched in the darkness.

Traveling in the wilderness in the silent night, this is naturally not a normal caravan.

They are smugglers.

"Be careful! The car is full of treasures. If you break it, I will kill you!" The leader of the caravan, One-Eyed Jack, growled viciously in a low voice.

While yelling at his subordinates, Jack carefully scanned the surrounding wilderness, with a faint glint in his one eye.

Night is the time when wilderness creatures are active, and it is not a little more dangerous than daytime. Wilderness natives such as gnolls, and extraordinary beasts represented by prairie green wolves will come out to hunt at night.

Daring to cross the wilderness at night, one-eyed Jack is naturally not an easy character.

He was originally an officer, but was unfortunately captured on the battlefield and became a slave of the enemy country, and was later bought by an evil magician.

In the laboratory of the evil mage, he was tortured, experienced a series of inhumane magic experiments in vivo, and even lost one eye, but it was a blessing in disguise, he obtained a powerful magic resistance that ordinary humans cannot have during the magic experiments and darkvision.

Later, while the magician was out, Jack escaped and joined a bandit team. With the strength of a high-ranking soldier and the military talent brought by his military career, he became the leader of the bandit group and led the bandit group to grow.

Since ancient times, officials and bandits have been one family.

Jack also climbed into the relationship of the fallen nobles, and often helped the nobles deal with some shady activities, and started a lucrative smuggling business with the support of the nobles.

Because of his dark vision, he did late-night smuggling that ordinary smugglers would not dare to do.

This time, the nobles that Jack worked for did not know where to get a batch of potions produced by the Forsy Empire, and shipped them to the Kingdom of Gubus where the sale of Forsy Empire potions was prohibited.

Aww~!

There was a distant howling of wolves in the lonely wilderness, and the robbers who were part-time caravan buddies couldn't help but heighten their vigilance, scanning their surroundings, for fear that a supernatural beast would suddenly appear.

Fighting with extraordinary beasts in the wilderness at night is fatal.

"Boss! These prairie green wolves..."

"What are you afraid of! You bastard!"

Jack directly interrupted his subordinates: "The howling of wolves is far away. Besides, it is not the winter of food shortage. Prairie green wolves will not attack difficult prey. There are so many of us, what are we afraid of?!"

Having said that, Jack still scanned his surroundings vigilantly.

Ever since he was ambushed and taken prisoner, he has deeply understood a truth-be careful when sailing for thousands of years.

Aww~!

This unique wolf howl is not the wolf howl of the prairie blue wolf, but the wolf howl of the wolf man wolf.

Everyone's faces changed, and the sound of howling wolves was very close, which meant that there were wilderness robbers - gnolls nearby.

Sure enough, a group of jackals rushed out from the darkness, roaring ferociously, and surrounded the smuggling caravan, surrounded by green eyes that made one's scalp tingle.

The robbers held their weapons in one hand, and stretched out their other hand behind them, holding a cold potion. This was the night vision potion that One-Eyed Jack bought at a high price, just to prevent accidents.

Facing the jackal man, the reason why the robbers didn't pour the potion directly was because they knew each other.

Both are robbers, but they are in the same area, and they can't kill each other, so they can only make peace, reach an agreement, and make a fortune together.

One-eyed Jack didn't hesitate at all, jumped off the roof of the car, walked towards the gnoll team without fear, and shouted: "Tony! Come out!"

In the darkness, an extraordinarily strong wolf man came out riding a wolf. The wolf let out a threatening low growl, staring greedily at the human in front of him, and his saliva flowed out from between the interlaced canine teeth.

One-eyed Jack ignored the wolves, and loudly questioned the leader of the gnolls behind the wolves: "Why did you stop my convoy! Didn't you get paid for this month! Don't you want to cheat?!"

On the back of the wolf, the strong Gnoll glanced at the human in front of him, and then looked at the convoy behind the human. The carriage was covered with a black cloth, so he couldn't see what was on it.

The Gnoll's voice was hoarse and unique: "Your car is loaded with potions from the Forsey Empire."

One-eyed Jack's face changed, he didn't understand where the wolf man got the information, and he stiffened his neck and said: "Whatever hit the car is none of your business! Let your people get out of the way! You are still full after a full meal!" Can you tell the difference, huh?!"

The leader of the wolf man ignored the old man's threat, and stretched out a hand with five fingers spread apart: "A piece of news, fifty gold coins."

A hint of doubt flashed in the eyes of One-eyed Jack. He didn't feel the murderous aura from the Wolf Man, and judging from the Wolf Man's posture, he didn't look like he was looking for trouble.

"What news! Worth fifty gold coins?!"

"Your goods, your life," the jackal was still cold.

Fifty gold coins are quite a lot, enough to sell a house in the surrounding small towns, but compared with the tens of thousands of goods in the car, fifty gold coins are not worth mentioning.

Jack's tone softened a bit: "You tell me the news first, and I'll judge whether it's worth fifty gold coins based on the content of the news. At this moment, you're still afraid that I won't be able to cheat!"

In the dark night, and it was his own territory, the jackal man was not afraid that humans would stir up troubles, so he said, "At the mountain pass on the edge of the wilderness, the enemy of your backer's family is blocking you."

Jack's face changed: "What you said is true?!"

"You are questioning the sense of smell of the wolf man!"

The leader of the gnolls - Tony said coolly: "I can smell the smell of the Woodson family even ten miles away!"

"How could they know that we are shipping today?!" One-eyed Jack's eyes were uncertain.

"Traitors, you missed a tell, leaked information, or whatever, but that's none of my business."

The Jackal stretched out a hand and made a gesture of asking: "Give me the money!"

I had to admit that the news was indeed worth fifty gold coins. Jack returned to the car and took out the money bag, counted fifty gold coins, and threw it to the Jackal.

Catching the flying money bag, the Jackal leader weighed it in and accepted it with satisfaction.

When One-Eyed Jack was wondering what to do next, the Jackal said again: "Make another deal, I can take you to avoid the enemy, or fifty gold coins."

Jack thought about it and decided to trust the Jackal once.

After the previous cooperation, coupled with the current tip-off, the two parties have common interests and have a basis of mutual trust.

One-eyed Jack cursed while counting the gold coins: "You win! You greedy villain!"

The jackal laughed sarcastically, "It's the first time I've been called a villain by a robber."

...

Led by the Gnoll, One-Eyed Jack and his party bypassed the ambush circle of the Woodson family and crossed the border of the Kingdom of Gubbs through secret passages.

In the wilderness, the jackals watched the caravan disappear into the boundless mountains, and the wind blew their manes back.

One-eyed Jack and his party disappeared completely. The leader of the gnolls, Tony, turned around and turned to the side. Facing a seemingly ordinary gnoll behind him, he respectfully said, "Master Messenger, the mission is completed."

"You did very well."

The boss disguised as an ordinary wolf man nodded proudly: "The empire will remember your dedication, and as long as you have a chance in the future, you will get your wish."

The smile on the face of the leader of the gnolls grew wider.

Joining the Fossey Empire is the dream of most monster races in the entire continent, and Tony is no exception.

He originally wanted to lead the tribe to venture beyond several kingdoms and head to the land of dreams in the north, but an imperial envoy came to his door...

"Let's go! Boys! Teach the Woodson family a lesson! Let them taste the power of the wolf man!" The leader of the wolf man waved his whip and led the tribe to gallop in the dark.