"Descartes Marquis, we meet again," Count Didamans looked at Descartes Marquis with a smile full of meaning.
Descartes Marquis could only smile bitterly in his heart. After greeting Count Didamans, he directly turned to Xu Yi.
"Chairman Xu, I came here on behalf of the Empire with absolute sincerity. If the New Flyer Kingdom of Ruhr has any conditions, we can all sit down and have a good discussion. Even if there is …"
Xu Yi raised his hand to interrupt him, then nodded to Miss Soria who was standing beside him.
Miss Soria took out a document from her bag and handed it directly to Marquis.
"This is the armistice condition proposed by our Chamber of Commerce," Xu Yi glanced at Descartes Marquis, who was staring at the document in a daze, and explained.
Descartes Marquis reached out to take it, but after just a glance, he immediately exclaimed, "This is impossible!"
In the armistice agreement, the Kandla Empire was required to be completely open to the New Flyer. They were not allowed to interfere with any of the New Flyer's economic activities within the Kandla Empire, nor were they allowed to have any jurisdiction over them.
If the Kandla Empire agreed to this condition, it would be equivalent to letting a monster enter the Kandla Empire.
With the New Flyer's current strong commercial ability and development potential, as long as the Kandla Empire did this, Descartes Marquis could completely predict that the New Flyer would be able to control almost all of the magic industry related industries within the Kandla Empire in a short time.
For the current Sines Continent, the magic machine industry was very important to any country.
If the magic industry was controlled by the New Flyer, it was almost equivalent to the Kandla Empire being controlled by the New Flyer.
How could the Kandla Empire agree to such a condition?
However, when Descartes continued to flip through the other conditions, he found that the first condition was somewhat acceptable.
Everything else aside, let's talk about the third condition.
The New Flyer actually requested that the Kandla Empire ban all research related to military magic machines!
God above, all the countries of the Sines Continent were clear that the military magic machines were the key to victory on the battlefield.
If the Kandla Empire gave up on the research of military magic machines, wouldn't that mean that the Kandla Empire would forever be in a passive position on the battlefield, just like how they were suppressed by the New Flyer and the Kingdom of Ruhr?
This also meant that the Kandla Empire would lose all hope of ever turning the situation around in the future. They would completely lose the capital to be an empire!
"Chairman Xu, aren't these conditions a bit too much?"
Because of last time's experience, even if Marquis was trembling in anger from these conditions, he still controlled his tone and didn't directly reprimand him.
"Not to mention our Kandla Empire agreeing to these conditions, I'm afraid no country on the continent would agree to them."
"It's the exact opposite." Xu Yi revealed a faint smile.
"Before you, our company had already signed the same agreement with seventeen countries.
That included the Windsor Kingdom and the Torea Autonomous Region. "
Hearing the words "Windsor Kingdom" and "Torea Autonomous Region", including Descartes and Marquis, the faces of the Kandla Empire's diplomatic group turned red and their faces were filled with anger.
The so called "Windsor Kingdom" and "Torea Autonomous Region" were actually the Kandla Empire's southern province and Torea Province.
After the southern province declared their independence, the governor Duke Windsor announced the establishment of the Windsor Kingdom and he became the first king of the Windsor Kingdom.
Although the Torea Province was merged with the Principality of Constantine, after the Principality of Constantine's parliament passed a resolution, the Torea Province became the Torea Autonomous Region. It was ruled by the Principality of Constantine in name, but it was actually governed by a joint conference of the Torea Province.
Almost all the members of this conference had a deep relationship with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, even being the Frestech Chamber of Commerce's representatives. So everyone knew that this conference was controlled by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.
In other words, there was no problem with the Torea Province being considered a territory under the New Flyer's name.
Xu Yi mentioning the Windsor Kingdom and the Torea Autonomous Region at this time was simply slapping the faces of Marquis Descartes and the other members of the envoy group, so naturally they were in a bad mood.
But even like this, Descartes and Marquis suppressed the anger in his heart and tried to calmly say to Xu Yi, "Chairman Xu, I think that whether it is the emperor or the elders of the Council of Elders, they won't agree to this condition.
I hope that you can seriously consider it and put forward some more realistic conditions so that everyone can discuss it, right? "
Xu Yi blinked, "That means that you won't agree?"
"You can't say it like that, everyone can slowly discuss it." Descartes and Marquis could hear the unkind tone in Xu Yi's voice, so he immediately added this.
"If the New Flyer insists on this condition, then I can't make the decision. I can only report these conditions to the emperor and the Council of Elders and let them discuss it."
Xu Yi looked at Descartes and Marquis with a smile that wasn't a smile, "Alright.
But Descartes and Marquis, I have to remind you that I will only give you a week to consider it. If you exceed this time, I can't guarantee anything. "
Descartes and Marquis looked down at the armistice agreement in his hand. After a moment of silence, he nodded and turned to Count Didamans.
"Count Didamans, I think the Kingdom of Ruhr should have already prepared an armistice agreement, right?"
Count Didamans smiled and clapped his hands. A Kingdom of Ruhr official handed an agreement to Descartes and Marquis.
Descartes and Marquis didn't even open the agreement to look at it. After all, he didn't dare to agree to a single condition of the armistice agreement from the New Flyer, so there was no point in discussing the armistice agreement from the Kingdom of Ruhr.
Moreover, everyone knew that the key to the armistice was the New Flyer. If they couldn't deal with the New Flyer, even if they could reach an armistice agreement with the Kingdom of Ruhr, there was no value.
No matter what, he had to bring these two armistice agreements back to the emperor and the Council of Elders for them to look at before they could make a decision.
Although Descartes and Marquis knew that the emperor and the Council of Elders wouldn't agree to such ridiculous conditions, it was still good to delay for another week.
The Empire needed time to prepare for their counterattack, and the longer they delayed, the stronger their counterattack would be.
As long as there was enough time, the Empire would still have a chance to counterattack.
The Candra Empire's envoy stayed in Saint Anthonis City that had been occupied by the Lu Xin army for two days before reluctantly leaving.
According to Descartes and Marquis, after they returned to Wimbledon City, they would immediately report the armistice conditions from the New Flyer and the Kingdom of Ruhr to the emperor and the Council of Elders of the Kandla Empire. Then, they would try to give a clear answer within a week. They hoped that the New Flyer and the Kingdom of Ruhr would stop fighting during this time and calmly wait for good news from the Kandla Empire.
"Hey, Chairman Xu, this Marquis Descartes and Marquis Didamans are really persistent.
With this delay, the buffer time we gave to the Kandla Empire has been forcefully extended by three days. "
Count Dikamans curled his lips as he watched the Kandla Empire's diplomatic group disappear into the distance. He spoke to Xu Yi with a look of disdain.
"Do you believe that in a week, he will definitely come back with two agreements that have been changed beyond recognition and repeat the same thing? In short, he will delay for as long as he can."
"That's not strange." Xu Yi shook his head.
"The Kandla Empire definitely wants to delay for as long as possible. They still have great confidence in the so-called foundation of the Empire and think that they can slowly exhaust us to death.
But they don't know that if this drags on, we will only become stronger and stronger while they will only become weaker and weaker. "
Marquis Dicamens laughed heartily, "Those idiots still refuse to recognize the earth-shattering changes brought about by the magic machine industry. They still think that they can rely on this ancient and backward empire to suppress us in every aspect. How foolish.
They definitely don't think that even though we spent a lot of money fighting this war, we will only earn even more. "
Xu Yi smiled. He thought that not only did the Kandla Empire's nobles, but even many of the New Flyer's higher-ups couldn't understand this logic. They were worried and even panicked about the huge economic pressure that New Flyer's participation in the war would bring to New Flyer.
But in reality, this was not the case at all.
At the start of the war, New Flyer had invested a terrifying amount of funds and resources. In just a year, they had invested a total of more than two hundred million gold coins in various aspects, to the point that the New Flyer's normal operations were almost affected.
But as the war progressed, the New Flyer, the Lampari Kingdom, and the Kingdom of Ruhr cooperated to counterattack the two Empires, and the situation took a huge turn.
The main reason was that the countless victories had caused cracks to appear in the factions of the two Empires.
After realizing that the regular armies of the two Empires and powerful figures like the Archmages were unable to resist the attacks of the New Flyer Alliance, many countries that originally belonged to the two Empires' factions privately expressed the idea of re-cooperating with the New Flyer.
As for those countries that had maintained a neutral attitude before, the close to a hundred countries that made up half of the countries on the Sines Continent gradually changed their attitudes and began to lean towards the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.
After the New Flyer and the Kingdom of Ruhr's alliance took down Saint Anthonis, as many as twenty-four countries sent representatives to contact the New Flyer within three days, expressing their intention to cooperate.
This way, the situation in the Sines was completely different from when the two Empires had crushed the Sines at the start of the war. Instead, the New Flyer Alliance had obtained the support of more than two-thirds of the countries in the Sines.
With this support, the New Flyer's business activities, which had been greatly affected by the war, were close to fully recovering.
Outside of the war, the New Flyer continued to earn large amounts of gold coins with its powerful magic machine manufacturing ability.
Moreover, through their victory on the battlefield, the New Flyer had seized control of large amounts of precious resources within the Kandla Empire. The value of these resources was difficult to estimate.
Therefore, in reality, whether it was the New Flyer or the Kingdom of Ruhr, they had profited greatly from this war.
On the two Empires' side, apart from the two Empires, only the Mana Magic Kingdom and the Kingdom of Drur, who were unable to reconcile with the New Flyer, were still holding on. Naturally, their momentum was not as great as before.
Under such circumstances, Xu Yi naturally had the patience and confidence to leave some space for the Kandla Empire.
If the Kandla Empire was tactful, then he could save a lot of effort.