The Fourth Lingshi Financial Crisis

Chapter 216 Negotiations
Without the help of black powder, it would be difficult for the Sea Cliff Fleet to continue to expand its victories.

Of course, the so-called victory does not refer to capturing Tian Beixi alive, but refers to continuing to blackmail the remaining outlying island lords.

Just like Han Fulai and Yang Lu never regarded the lords of the outlying islands as their allies, the coalition forces of the outlying islands never regarded the Haiya Fleet as their own, otherwise they would not have waited for the Haiya Fleet to win the battle before they came late Come help out.

Although the allied forces on the outlying islands were very anxious in the battle just now, now that the foreign aggression in Huoyun State has been eliminated, the Sea Cliff Fleet has become the most unstable factor in the outlying island area. They all got angry.

They do have a solid foundation.

If the Allied Forces from Outlying Islands hadn't rushed to the battlefield in time to block Tian Beixi's retreat, the Guhong Island army led by Tian Beixi might not have lost to the Haiya Fleet with a three-fold superiority in numbers.

As for the Sea Cliff Fleet, due to the lack of continuous logistical supplies, after the war, both the ammunition supplies and the physical strength of the soldiers have been greatly reduced, and it is difficult to launch a second large-scale military operation.

More importantly, the Sea Cliff Fleet did not display any supernatural power that is difficult for ordinary people to match, and Han Fulai was still in the battle just now, regardless of the alliance between the two sides, he brazenly opened fire on the command center of the coalition forces on the outlying islands, scaring the high-level coalition forces into a cold sweat , so the contradiction between the two sides naturally became acute.

In fact, after the army of Guhong Island was defeated, there have been many local conflicts between the Outlying Islands Alliance Army and the Sea Cliff Fleet.

Since the main force of the Sea Cliff Fleet was blocking the Strait of Outlying Islands, and there were only a small number of landing troops to clean up the battlefield, the Allied Forces on the Outlying Islands took advantage of the situation to snatch prisoners from the Sea Cliff Fleet, and even demanded to take over the prisoners who had been detained by the soldiers of the Sea Cliff Fleet.

These prisoners of war are all potential contract slave seedlings, and they are invaluable. Of course, the Sea Cliff Fleet is not willing to give up easily.However, due to the large number of coalition troops on the outlying islands, the soldiers of the Sea Cliff Fleet did not take advantage of it.

In order to prevent the outbreak of large-scale conflicts between the two sides and to eliminate misunderstandings between the two sides, Han Fulai and the high-level coalition forces on the outlying islands decided to conduct a face-to-face negotiation.

Not long after Yang Lu checked the gunpowder inventory and returned to the Ruicheng, Han Fulai took the initiative to approach Yang Lu and invited him to go to the base camp of the coalition forces on outlying islands.

Although Yang Lu's combat effectiveness is far inferior to Lin Muhu's, compared to Lin Muhu, the Han family and the Qingning Chamber of Commerce are considered a community of interests, and Yang Lu is still more reliable than Lin Muhu at critical moments!
Yang Lu knew that he and Han Fulai were in a relationship of both prosperity and loss, so he had to drink a few large cups of low-quality spiritual tea urgently, and then visited the lords of outlying islands with him.

In this face-to-face meeting, the two sides are also afraid that both sides will fight the wolf. The Sea Cliff Fleet is worried that the Outlying Islands Allied Forces will turn against each other.

In order to welcome Han Fulai and Yang Lu, the great lord Huang Xuan set up an army formation in the camp early on. Hundreds of the great lord's personal guards who were born on the island and were fully armed surrounded the core of the high-level coalition forces on the outlying islands. Outlying island troops with different names and banners are stationed on the outskirts, which means that the table will be thrown if the negotiation fails.

It's no wonder that the lords of the outlying islands are cautious. After all, no matter how weak Yang Lu is, he is still a cultivator. If the outlying islands don't put out seven or eight hundred elite soldiers, they will not be able to form a deterrent balance with Yang Lu.It is precisely because both negotiating parties have the ability to eliminate each other, the high-level leaders of both parties have the basis to sit down and negotiate.

After ordering his guards to stand by outside, Han Fulai and Yang Lu entered the heavily guarded outlying island camp alone.

Passing through the dense military formation of the coalition forces on the outlying islands, Yang Lu finally met the high-level coalition forces, as well as Huang Xuan, the chief executive of the outlying islands who was appointed by the Wuliangjian faction, but actually did not listen to the command of the Wuliangjian faction.

These senior leaders of the coalition forces on the outlying islands, together with Xu Tong, the lord of Yanbo Island, and Shi Yi, the lord of Guhong Island, who were absent for some reason, ruled nearly [-]% of the territory and population of the outlying islands. An outlying island version of a miniature United Nations General Assembly.

Although Han Fulai has visited the outlying islands on behalf of the Haiya Chamber of Commerce many times, the outlying islands are frequently warped, and the big king's banners on the tops of the islands are also changing. The former lord of Guhong Island that Shi Yi jointly overthrew is the most typical case.

Therefore, there are not many evergreens in the political arena of outlying islands like Xu Tong who are good at adapting to the wind, and now there are only a few lords of outlying islands who can recognize Han Fulai.

However, Han Fulai is worthy of being an experienced businessman. After a few words, he drew in the relationship between the two parties, and quickly found out the backgrounds of these outlying island lords through pleasantries, and even made insinuations about their respective allies.

Similar to Xu Tong and Shi Yi, these great lords all have their own allies in the cultivation world as foreign aid.

According to Han Fulai, the situation on the outlying islands is not completely dominated by these lords of the outlying islands. The cultivation forces behind them also have a strong influence. Not only the seven major sects of Kyushu have their own spokespersons for their interests on the outlying islands, such as Huaishan in Nanman Prefecture The ocean-going trade leaders in Hong Kong and Arctic State Haiyuan Island, which are no less powerful than the Sea Cliff System, also have their own outlying island partners.

This is also why the powers of the various lords of the outlying islands are intertwined, but it is always difficult to achieve unity, because no cultivation force wants to see a unified outlying islands!
These foreign comprehension forces don't even want to see their allies unify the outlying islands. When the comprehension forces cannot directly enter the outlying islands, only the divided outlying islands can facilitate foreign forces to exert influence on them.

It is precisely because the lord of the outlying islands and the overseas cultivation forces have their own ulterior motives, the alliance of interests formed by the two parties is naturally extremely fragile.

As the first external mercenary army to directly land on the outlying islands in the past few thousand years, the identity of the Haiya Fleet was already very sensitive. After the destruction of the common enemy Tian Beixi, it became the target of public criticism.Coupled with the absence of Xu Tong, an ally of the Haiya faction, no one from the outlying island coalition forces spoke to the Haiya fleet.

Although the two sides were polite on the surface, they were full of gunpowder in terms of key topics. After the fierce confrontation between the two sides, Han Fulai failed to get the slightest concession from the other side.

Not only did the great lords of the allied forces on the outlying islands categorically reject Han Fulai's proposal to return the captives, but they also urged Han Fulai to abide by the previous agreement between the two parties and lead the Haiya fleet to leave the outlying islands as soon as possible.There are even threats from the lords of the outlying islands. If the Sea Cliff Fleet refuses to leave, they will take necessary measures to safeguard the sovereignty of the outlying islands.

The total number of prisoners of war on Guhong Island was nearly 2, and less than 3000 were snatched onto the ship by the Haiya Department. Most of the remaining prisoners of war were picked by the coalition forces on the outlying islands.

Facing the tough threat from the outlying island coalition forces, Han Fulai almost didn't hold back on the spot: We came all the way to help you win the battle, but in the end we didn't even have the right to distribute the spoils, it's just too deceitful!
But he didn't think about it. If he hadn't disregarded the rules and robbed the small lords in the northwest of the outlying islands, and then brazenly fired at the high-level coalition forces on the outlying islands, the lords of the outlying islands wouldn't be so aggressive.

But the situation is stronger than the people.

After all, Han Fulai didn't have the confidence to go to war with the coalition forces on the outlying islands, so he lost the momentum first.

Just when Han Fulai was about to give up, Yang Lu who was following him suddenly stood up and proposed to the gorgeously dressed lords of outlying islands: "Lords, maybe we can take a step back! These prisoners of Guhong Island, we The two sides can split half and half, and the Sea Cliff Fleet promises to withdraw from the outlying island area immediately after loading the prisoners of war."

(End of this chapter)