The Fourth Lingshi Financial Crisis

Chapter 606 Arctic State Trade

After a long silence, Qu Jing slowly opened his mouth and said: "Our relationship with Haiyuan Island has never been good, so we are not sure why they are suddenly willing to reconcile with us, but we speculate that this should be Shenhuozong using some kind of special means, Forcing Haiyuan Island to submit, just like Shenhuozong borrowed the power of Haiya Chamber of Commerce to put pressure on us..."

Having said that, looking at Qu Jing's hesitation, he clearly had some guesses and didn't have the nerve to say them out, and Yang Lu didn't let the other party go, and immediately asked: "Have you guys already had any guesses?"

Qu Jing hesitated for a moment, and finally chose to confess: "We suspect that this time it is not Haiyuan Island who wants to take the initiative to negotiate with us, but the Arctic Cold Palace is putting pressure on them behind the scenes, so that they have to talk to us."

"Can the Arctic Cold Palace affect the attitude of Haiyuan Island?"

"The Arctic Cold Palace is the strongest cultivation force in the Arctic State after all, and Haiyuan Island is relatively close to the Arctic Cold Palace... Besides, no one has heard of the special friendship between the Shenhuo Sect and Haiyuan Island before. This time, Li Feiyu, the representative sent by Tian Daxiao to the Arctic State to coordinate negotiations, stayed longer in the Arctic Cold Palace than in Haiyuan Island. Then he thought that Tian Beixi, Tian Daxiao's direct disciple, was also Yin Huaiyuan's name disciple……"

"Are you suspecting that the Arctic Cold Palace has long been in collusion with the Shenhuo Sect?"

Qu Jing said with a serious expression: "That's right! Not only that, but some of our senior Han lightsaber faction have even speculated that the Arctic Cold Palace may have been secretly controlled by Shenhuozong through some means! Over the years, Yin Huaiyuan has always If you choose to retreat and fail, maybe Tian Daxiao is behind the scenes!"

Hearing Qu Jing's bold conjecture, Yang Lu was also shocked.

You must know that the Arctic Cold Palace is known as the eighth sect in Kyushu. There are more than 60 Jindanqi elders and a Yuanying sixth-level ancestor in the sect. Liuyunzong ranked second in the Arctic State and Yuejianshan ranked third were even stronger together.

It is also recognized as the uncrowned king of the Arctic states!
If Shenhuozong secretly controls the Arctic Cold Palace, it will definitely have a profound impact on the political structure of the entire Kyushu cultivation world!

So Yang Lu couldn't believe it: "But how did Tian Daxiao control the Arctic Cold Palace? It is said that Yin Huaiyuan of the Arctic Cold Palace is a generation of heroes, and he can even wrestle with the heads of the seven major sects in Kyushu. How could he be willing to be defeated?" Tian Daxiao controls?"

Qu Jing said with a strange look: "I didn't really believe this kind of statement before, but do you know why Tian Daxiao insisted on promoting the trade agreement between our Han lightsaber faction and Haiyuan Island this time?"

Yang Lu shook his head, expressing that he did not know.

So Qu Jing continued: "Actually, this trade agreement was not signed by the two of us. In the agreement, Shenhuozong participated as a third party. The real purpose of Shenhuozong is to establish the so-called "Northeast Ocean Free Trade Zone". Realize complete free trade between the Arctic State and the Fire Cloud State. Not only that, this trade agreement also requires the Arctic State to implement the same economic policies as the Fire Cloud State, and the cultivation sects of the two states must not interfere with the free trade and capital flow between the two states. Any form of control, and the Arctic Hangong and Yue Jianshan have made it clear early on that they are willing to join this trade agreement..."

After listening to Qu Jing's introduction, Yang Lu called him a good guy.

This thing is simply a suture monster of the North American Free Trade Area and the European Union!

Because Sea Cliff City itself is one of the trade centers of Kyushu's comprehension world, although Yang Lu seldom deals with Arctic state merchants, he also knows that Arctic state trade is the most important part of Eastern Ocean trade, not even one of them!

As we all know, the Arctic State is vast and sparsely populated, and its total population may be only one-tenth of the other continents. However, the number of high-level monks in the Arctic State is almost only slightly inferior to that of the southern continents. People, the most important reason behind it is that the Arctic State has the most abundant cultivation resources in Kyushu.

It is precisely because the Arctic State is rich in all kinds of cultivation resources, and at the same time it is extremely short of living materials. The entire Arctic State continent is very dependent on foreign trade. It needs to export a large amount of cultivation resources every year, and at the same time import a large amount of mundane commodities such as grain and textiles. The amount is even larger than that of Zhongzhou, and even accounts for [-]% of the total trade volume of the Eastern Ocean.

It is said that 2000 years ago, Kyushu’s ocean trade was not as developed as it is today, and it was difficult for major chambers of commerce to transport sufficient quantities of daily necessities to the Arctic State. Without large-scale trade as a supplement, even if the Arctic State had more cultivation resources, importing Without enough food and firewood, the population of mortals will never increase.

Therefore, the population of the Arctic states 2000 years ago was only one-fifth of today's.

And not enough mortal population means that this continent cannot provide enough heavenly merits and cultivation seedlings. No matter how many precious ores and medicinal materials it has, the cultivation forces rooted in the Arctic state will not be able to develop.

Therefore, the Six Extreme Northern Schools back then were far from being as prestigious as they are today. Not to mention the ancestors of the Nascent Soul Stage, the entire Arctic State could not even find a few masters of the Golden Core Stage. They were all from the Seven Great Schools The situation of the overseas colonies and puppets is very similar to today's Antarctic state cultivation world with two or three big cats and kittens.

It may be because the population of the ancient Arctic state is too small, so the Arctic state and Antarctic state have become the only two continents in the Kyushu cultivation world that are not protected by ancient magic barriers. It seems that even the immortals in ancient times believed that this The extremely cold area is a barren land with little development value.

However, the rapid development of ocean trade in Kyushu has completely changed the fate of the Arctic state.

In particular, Dongfang Jiu, the second-generation head of No. 20 of the Infinite Sword Sect, who is highly skilled in mathematics, creatively researched the astronomical navigation fairy array that uses the starry sky for positioning, so that the mortal fleet no longer needs a cultivator to personally control the escaping light to act. After being a navigator, you can directly cross the vast Eastern Ocean, and the cost of sailing in the Kyushu cultivation world has been greatly reduced.

The low shipping costs not only led to a blowout development of maritime trade in the realm of comprehension, but also made the sale of comprehension resources in the Arctic State in exchange for daily necessities a profitable business. A large number of thousand-ton ocean-going sailing ships with various civilian fairy arrays were loaded , can continuously transport food from the adjacent continent to the Arctic state.

The import of a large number of overseas living materials has caused the population growth of the Arctic State to far exceed the natural limit. The cultivators of the Arctic State have gained valuable population and merit, and the cultivators of other states have also obtained the rich cultivation resources of the Arctic State. It can be said that the Arctic State Trade revitalizes the economy of the entire Eastern Ocean, allowing all parties to the transaction to get what they need.

Due to cost considerations, most of the daily necessities exported to the Arctic State will choose to ship from the ports in Beimo State, Huoyun State, and northern Zhongzhou. Sea Cliff City is located on the southeast coast of Zhongzhou, and it is actually not that close to the Arctic State. , so there are not many ocean-going merchant ships that directly send daily necessities from Sea Cliff City to the Arctic State.

This is why Yang Lu seldom deals with businessmen from Arctic State.

But even so, when there is a food shortage in the Arctic State, the grain exported from Luoxia City will be shipped directly from Haiya City to the Arctic State. This shows how huge the freight volume of the Arctic State route is.

(End of this chapter)