Caesar spent a week with his family, spending almost all day and night with Luna, until Luna could not stand it anymore and pushed him away. Only then did this guy really start to deal with the affairs of the Empire.
He became quite busy in the following time. In the fifty years of Airadia, many things had changed, and a lot of information in the Black Dragon's memory needed to be updated.
The first thing Caesar learned was that the situation in the central part of the continent was still turbulent fifty years later. When the Trade Confederation announced its allegiance to the Northern Court, in order to curb the expansion of the unusual creatures, the Unfallen Empire immediately began to act. They gave up on the Trade Confederation and turned to support the neighboring countries in Hejian County, providing a large amount of economic, military, and magical technical assistance.
Under the support of the Unfallen Empire, these small countries that were originally insignificant on the map rapidly grew in strength, and soon, they had a decisive voice in their region.
The rise of the countries in Hejian County posed a great threat to the Trade Confederation. In order to protect the Court's rule in the south and prevent the people from turning away, the Lord's Council decided to launch a counterattack against the conspiracy of the Unfallen Empire. Under the leadership of Hogg, the Northern Court also launched a number of assistance programs in the central part of the continent, helping the ruined cities to rebuild after the war, trying to restore the prosperity of the trading city-states.
In the twenty years after the Black Emperor fell into a deep sleep, no place had a more intense economic war than the central part of the continent. The Northern Court and the Unfallen Empire competed with each other in economic development and governance. While supporting their respective vassal countries, they also intensified the conflict between the trading city-states and the countries in Hejian County, forcing them to be hostile to each other and erupt into war.
This economic war lasted until the end of 1711, and as the voices of discontent in the country rose day by day, the lords of the Court suddenly realized the problem, and they finally stepped into the trap of the Unfallen Empire.
On the surface, the Unfallen Empire wanted to fight an economic war with the north, but secretly, they wanted to drag the north down by supporting a puppet economic competition.
Indeed, after receiving the support of the Northern King's Court, the trading city-states had indeed developed rapidly, and they were not at a disadvantage in the conflicts with the countries of Hejian County. However, such reckless assistance was essentially sucking the blood of the Empire's mainland.
Since the end of the second era, the Empire on which the sun never sets had always been the center of the world. It was the only overlord of Airadia. Thousands of years of accumulation had allowed this immortal country to control more than 60% of the continent's resources. It was not difficult for it to support a few puppet countries, and it would not be hurt in the short term.
The Northlands, on the other hand, was different. It was a country that was forcefully united by the Black Emperor. It relied on power and iron law to maintain the unity and operation of the empire. It was only until Caesar's reforms and industrial construction that the internal conflicts of the country were alleviated. Later, it caught up with the rapid development of the Great Voyage and the New World. It was only after emptying Vilost that it was able to rise rapidly. In some aspects, it had the qualifications to compete with the Empire on which the sun never sets.
However, this did not include the economic foundation. If they competed with the Empire on this model, the Blackwing Empire would bear tremendous pressure. The living standards of the people would decline, internal conflicts would come back, and the superior treatment of the system would disappear.
This was obviously not the result that the Lords of the Royal Court wanted to see, so they decided to change.
After two collective votes in the Lord's Council, the Northern King's Court sent the empire's third expeditionary corps to the trading city-states. The main ship "Breath of the Holy Dragon" led the empire's fourth and fifth naval combat groups to leave the territorial waters and enter the port of the "City on Water" Nisdu.
The Blackwing Empire announced to the public that they would conduct unlimited military training in the borders of Myrnen, Kohor, and Hejian Strait. During this period, all unidentified personnel and ships would be killed and sunk without hesitation.
In this way, the Royal Court cut off the supply line of the Empire on land and sea to Hejian County.
This announcement surprised everyone who was paying attention to the current situation. Although everyone knew that the relationship between the Northern and Southern Empires was like fire and water, before this, the two empires still tacitly left some leeway. They only controlled their puppets to fight each other and did not have any direct friction.
Sending an expeditionary force and fleet meant that the Northern Empire had personally stepped in.
Looking back now, the series of measures taken by the Royal Court at that time were undoubtedly crazy. Once The Rising Sun City's reaction was too extreme and caused bloodshed, it was possible to cause the war that affected the entire Airadia to break out in advance.
However, at that time, it happened that Caesar extinguished the Divine Fire and caused a catastrophe. All the Lords of the Royal Court believed that their emperor was about to wake up. Coupled with the divine reaction of Princess Odín, the Royal Court was full of confidence and dared to show a tough stance to the outside world.
Fortunately, the crisis did not escalate in the end. The Empire on land did not light the fuse. They gave up the blocked supply line and took another way —
Floating City.
When a mirage-like dream city appeared in the dome of Hejian County, everyone shouted loudly and excitedly, as if they had seen a miracle.
The Empire on land sent copper, iron, food, and other materials from the air to Hejian County on a large scale. At the same time, they also declared their strength to the Northern King's Court in this way and counterattacked the fleet they sent into Hejian Strait.
At the same time, they also blocked a series of magic items such as magic stones and communication crystals that were in short supply in the Trade Federation.
The blockade lasted for two years and finally ended with the withdrawal of the Northern King's Court from the Trade Federation in 1713. Their king had not yet awakened, and even the sharpest claws and teeth had to be dormant and patient.
Caesar flipped through the historical records. There were more than one such case in the records, and various crises occurred from time to time in the following years. The Royal Court also had two head-on conflicts with the Empire on land. There were two local wars in Kohor and the Peavos Islands (Hejian County), and both sides had wins and losses.
For fifty years, the South had been testing the bottom line of the Imperial Court. Once Black Wings showed a weak posture, The Rising Sun City, together with its minions, would immediately pounce on them. And when the Empire could not bear it and did not hesitate to go to war, these guys would immediately stop and settle down for a period of time.
This pattern of getting along with each other continued until three years ago.
In 1738 of the Third Era, The Empire's attitude suddenly became tough and even eager to try. They were no longer satisfied with verbal cannons and ordinary provocations, but chose to go one step further and march on the Trade Federation!
When the news of the surprise attack spread back to the mainland, the people and the higher-ups of the Empire were filled with righteous indignation. The "Twilight Lord" Odín, who ascended the throne, immediately declared that he would declare war on The Rising Sun City. It was Garen who urgently returned from the New World after hearing the news. He rationally analyzed the sudden abnormal change in the attitude of the Empire and speculated that the other party might have obtained some kind of key power. It also showed that although Her Royal Highness was now a Demigod, she lacked experience and the ability to coordinate the overall situation, and could not independently maintain a large-scale war.
In the end, the "Poison Fire Prince" persuaded Odín and the Royal Court Lord with great difficulty, and let the Empire take a defensive position, accumulating strength and waiting for the Black Emperor to wake up.
In just three years, the Black Wings Empire lost a large amount of central land. The military bases and transmission nodes in various places were also cleaned up, and even four city-states were lost. In the end, they could only rely on their powerful naval forces to defend the Hejian Strait, and only then could they resist the offensive of the Empire.
For this reason, Odín attracted a lot of criticism. Even within the Black Wing Clan, there were many voices of dissatisfaction with him. Nero told Odín more than once that this guy was a "spineless dragon".
Caesar silently read the historical records, wagged his tail, and did not make any comments. He only asked, "Is the war still going on now?
Where are our troops? "