Red Dragon Emperor

Three days after the Imperial Ceremony ended.

Orca City, Red Keep, Throne Hall.

Jose was sitting on the throne, with a white paper filled with writing suspended in front of him. His face was serious, and it was obvious that what was recorded on the paper was not good news.

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

"What a trading city-state! If the negotiation fails, you are actually doing it behind my back!"

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

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, representatives of the trading city-states came to the door immediately and expressed their willingness to cooperate. The Fusai Empire would supply the goods and the trading city-states would distribute them, with the profits split in half.

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

But now the Fusai Empire is not what it used to be. It has already been able to transport goods to all parts of the continent by itself, without having to look at anyone's face.

Moreover, the large-scale production of potions is the exclusive secret of the Fusei Empire. The empire has absolute dominance in this matter. It is too natural for the trading city-state to take 50% of the profits through distribution.

Not surprisingly, the two major forces broke down.

Jose didn't take this matter to heart at first, because he could easily sell the cheap medicine. However, he didn't expect that the trading city-state used national power to lobby and persuaded many southern countries to ban the purchase of Fusei Empire medicine.

You must know that the south is the richest region in Tedanor and the main force in pharmaceutical consumption. The southern countries consume 70% of the total pharmaceutical consumption in the continent every year.

The market suddenly shrank by 70%, and even the Fusai Empire felt a huge headache.

Below, Yougou's face also looked a little ugly: "Your Majesty, the trading city-state has gone too far this time, and they must be taught an unforgettable lesson!"

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

Yougou said without hesitation: "Carry out revenge and reduce the quantity of horses, grain, magic items and other commodities provided to the trading city-states, leaving them with nothing to sell."

Jose thought for a while, shook his head, and rejected Hegou's proposal: "This will only kill a thousand enemies and damage yourself by eight hundred."

"Besides, the southern region is rich and civilized. Food, weapons, and horses are not urgently needed. The trading city-states can also find alternatives, but the alternatives are more expensive. After all, we may lose one thousand to ourselves and kill eight hundred enemies. , we have to deal with it rationally and pay attention to strategy."

As he spoke, Jose used magic power to project a map of Tydanor in the air. The map was divided into red and blue parts. Red represented the Forsey Empire, blue represented the southern region, and the boundary between red and blue was in the middle of the continent.

The red dragon glanced at the countries close to the Fusai Empire. The territories of these human countries were red on the map. This was because the kings of the countries declined the trade city-state envoys due to the powerful strength of the Fusai Empire.

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

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

"Since the kingdom official does not allow the sale, then we will sell it secretly."

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

Yougou suddenly realized: "Your Majesty is wise! Cheap medicine is such a good opportunity to make money, and those greedy black marketeers are willing to risk beheading to do it. In this way, the trading city-state's methods will be self-defeating."

"That's right, but it's not just the black marketeers. We can fight for those greedy nobles and corrupt border guards."

"King's ban?"

The corners of Jose's lips curled up with a touch of disdain: "In the face of the tide of the times, even the king's ban is just a mantis."

"I understand, I'll go down and make arrangements right away," Yougou retreated.

The red dragon stayed alone in the throne room, 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 before, in the face of the tide of civilization and progress, even the king is just a mantis blocking the carriage.

What he is really worried about is that the trading city-states have also developed methods for large-scale mass production of pharmaceuticals during these times of confrontation.

After thinking about it, he felt that it was unlikely.

As the most basic idea of ​​assembly line operation in the factory, Jose ordered that it be prohibited to spread, let alone more advanced magic instruments.

The only thing to guard against is that the trading city-state sends spies to spy on the Fusai Empire's pharmaceutical factory to steal their 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 absolutely among the best in mainland China.

"I hope the trading city-states won't use their brains, otherwise..."

Jose thought about it and found that he had quite a few cards against the trading city-states.

Among the large number of goods exported by the Fusai Empire, a considerable part are the empire's specialties, and some 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, sea transportation is the main means in the North-South trade situation.

The Fusai Empire has fishmen and water dragons.

If the trading city-state really annoyed Jose, then Cassie's fishmen would not mind playing a role as pirates and scuttling the merchant ships of the trading city-state.

With the intelligence support of the Fusai Empire, aquatic species such as fishmen are much more ferocious than pirates.

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The middle of the continent, the border of the Gebus Kingdom.

In the dark night, a caravan consisting of ten carriages lit torches and moved forward in the darkness.

Moving forward 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 them, I will kill you!" The leader of the caravan, One-Eyed Jack, growled viciously in a low voice.

While scolding his men, Jack carefully scanned the surrounding wilderness, with a faint glint in his single eye.

Night is when wilderness creatures are active, and it is not a little bit more dangerous than during the day. Wilderness natives such as jackals and extraordinary beasts such as prairie green wolves will come out to hunt at night.

Dare to travel through the wilderness at night, One-Eyed Jack is certainly not a simple person.

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

In the evil mage's laboratory, he was tortured, underwent a series of inhumane living magic experiments, and even lost one eye. However, it was a blessing in disguise. In the magic experiments, he obtained powerful magic resistance that ordinary humans cannot have. and dark vision.

Later, while the magician was away, Jack escaped and joined a bandit team. With the powerful strength of a high-level warrior and the military talents brought by his military career, he became the leader of the bandit group and led the bandit group to grow and develop.

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

Jack also got involved with the fallen nobles, often helping them handle some shady activities, and with the support of the nobles, he started a lucrative smuggling business.

Due to his dark vision, he engaged in late-night smuggling that ordinary smugglers would not dare to do.

This time, the nobleman Jack worked for didn't know where he got a batch of medicines produced by the Fusai Empire and shipped them to the Kingdom of Gebus, which banned the sale of medicines from the Fusai Empire.

Ouch~!

The distant howling of wolves could be heard in the lonely wilderness. The bandits who were part-time caravan partners could not help but be more vigilant and scan their surroundings for fear that an extraordinary beast would suddenly pop out.

Fighting against extraordinary beasts in the wilderness at night can be fatal.

"Boss! These prairie blue wolves..."

"What are you afraid of! Coward!"

Jack directly interrupted his men: "The howling of wolves is very far away, and it is not winter when food is scarce. 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 cautiously.

Ever since he was ambushed and captured, he had a profound understanding of the truth - be careful when sailing a thousand-year-old ship.

Ouch~!

This unique wolf howl is not the howl of the prairie blue wolf, but the wolf howl of the jackal and warg.

Everyone's expressions changed. The sound of the wolf howling was very close, which meant that there were wilderness bandits - jackals nearby.

Sure enough, a group of jackals jumped out of the darkness, let out a ferocious roar, and surrounded the smuggling caravan. The green eyes surrounding them made people feel scalp numb.

The robbers held weapons in one hand and reached behind their backs with the other hand, holding a stick of cold potion. This was the night vision potion that One-Eyed Jack spent a lot of money to buy to prevent accidents.

Facing the jackals, the reason why the bandits did not directly drink the potion was because they knew each other.

If they are both robbers and hang out in the same area, and they can't kill each other, they can only value peace, reach an agreement, and make a fortune together.

One-eyed Jack jumped off the roof of the car without any hesitation, walked towards the Jackal team without fear, and shouted: "Tony! Come out!"

In the darkness, an extraordinarily strong gnoll came out riding a warg. The warg roared menacingly, staring greedily at the human in front of him, saliva flowing out from between its interlaced canine teeth.

One-eyed Jack ignored the warg and loudly asked the jackal leader behind the warg: "Why did you stop my convoy! Didn't I give you this month's share of the money! Do you want to take advantage of the evil?!"

On the back of the warg, the strong jackal glanced at the human in front of him, and then looked at the motorcade behind the human. The carriage was covered with black cloth, and it was impossible to see what was on the vehicle.

The Jackal's voice was hoarse and unique: "The medicine in your car is from the Fusei Empire."

One-Eyed Jack's expression changed. He didn't understand where the jackal got the information from. He stiffened his neck and said, "It's none of your business what the car hit! Get your people out of the way! After a good meal and a good meal, you are still the same." You can tell the difference, huh?!"

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

A flash of doubt flashed in One-Eyed Jack's eyes. He didn't feel murderous intent in the Jackal, and judging from the Jackal's posture, it 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 is a lot, enough to sell a house in a nearby town, but compared with the tens of thousands of goods in the car, fifty gold coins is nothing.

Jack's tone softened: "You tell me the news first, and I will judge whether it is worth fifty gold coins based on the content of the news. At this time, you are still afraid that I will cheat!"

In the dark night, and it was his own territory, the jackals were not afraid that humans could stir up trouble, and said: "At the mountain pass on the edge of the wilderness, the sworn enemies of your backing family are blocking you."

Jack's expression changed: "Are you telling the truth?!"

"You're questioning the Gnoll's sense of smell!"

Tony, the leader of the Jackals, said coolly: "I can smell the stench of the Woodson family from ten miles away!"

"How could they know we were delivering goods today?!" One-eyed Jack's eyes were uncertain.

"Traitor, you leaked something, leaked information, or something else, but it's none of my business."

The jackal stretched out a hand and made a requesting gesture: "Give me money!"

He had to admit that this news was indeed worth fifty gold coins. Jack returned and took out his money bag from the car, counted fifty gold coins, put them in the bag and threw it to the jackal.

Catching the flying purse, the jackal leader weighed it and accepted it with satisfaction.

While One-Eyed Jack was wondering what to do next, the Jackal spoke again: "Let's make another deal. I can take you to avoid the enemy for fifty gold coins."

Jack thought for a while and decided to trust the Gnoll for once.

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

While counting the gold coins, One-Eyed Jack cursed: "You win! You greedy villain!"

The jackal laughed sarcastically: "This is the first time I have been called a villain by a bandit."

…

Under the leadership of the Jackal, One-Eyed Jack and his party bypassed the ambush circle of the Woodson family and crossed the border of the Gebus Kingdom through a secret passage.

In the wilderness, the jackals and their group watched the caravan disappear into the vast mountains, the wind blowing the manes on their backs.

One-Eyed Jack and his party completely disappeared. The leader of the jackals, Tony, turned aside and faced a seemingly ordinary jackal behind him. He respectfully said: "Sir Messenger, the mission is accomplished."

"You did very well."

The boss disguised as an ordinary jackal nodded proudly: "The empire will remember your dedication. As long as there is a chance in the future, you will get your wish."

The smile on the face of the jackal leader became even brighter.

Joining the Fusei Empire is the dream of most monster races on the continent, and Tony is no exception.

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

"Let's go! Sons! Teach the Woodson family a lesson! Let them taste the power of the jackals!" The leader of the jackals waved his whip and led the tribe to gallop through the darkness.

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