Above the surging dark blue, a giant ship with a displacement of 4,300 tons slashed the waves and headed towards the ancient continent.

Although this is not the first time he has taken Dai Lin's flagship, Li De still looked at it with great envy, thinking about when they could create such a big guy by themselves.

"Don't you really have to be by Losa's side and give him advice?"

Dalin, who was observing on the deck, asked this question, and now he finally understood. Just like Dalaran, the first city-state in history, independent from the Kingdom of Araso, a new human regime is about to rise.

However, slightly different from the past is that in addition to humans, there are citizens from other races within this new regime.

Shortly after Lossa and his friends returned, under the witness of Lossa, Fao and Terenas, Varian promised to appoint Li De as the Grand Duke of Hanhai and had the power to establish a country in his own name.

The reason why it has not been formally enthroned is that Varian is still just a prince and has not succeeded to the throne to become king.

The Grand Duke is the highest honor that the king can give. Of course, the canonization of Li De is actually just a formality, which is nothing more than a recognition of the independent legitimacy of Li De. In fact, this Grand Duke cannot be administered within the Storm Kingdom.

Because it was just the internal affairs of the Storm Kingdom, this incident did not alarm the leaders of other countries. After Dai Lin found out afterwards, he finally realized that Li De and Lossa had formed close political allies behind their backs.

Therefore, Dai Lin asked about it at this moment on the boat.

"Don't worry, how to deal with orc prisoners? Do you believe this or not and will not discuss a result when we come back?"

Dai Lin laughed out loud when he was said. He was the leader of the alliance, so he naturally knew how wasteful this kind of talk was.

Then Li De asked again.

"Is it really okay for you, as the leader of a member state, to leave the market privately at this time and go back to Tanalis with me?"

Originally, Li De planned to go back on the Dinghai, but after hearing this, Dai Lin suggested taking his boat. Li De was a little moved and simply left the Dinghai in Lordaeron Port. However, Li Dezhen did not expect that Dai Lin would actually command the sailing himself.

"It doesn't matter, I have nothing to talk about about this. We are a maritime country, and no matter how outrageous it is, it is impossible to set up a prisoner of war camp in Kurtiras.

To put it bluntly, the final negotiation result is nothing more than how much I paid. Before leaving, I had already hinted at where Terenas' bottom line was. If it was higher than that number, it would be fine."

Li Deyi nodded understandingly. Regarding the issue of resettling prisoners, Terenas had to think more profoundly than Greymann and Thorbain.

The two kings advocated the execution of all prisoners, but Terenas and Antonidas expressed unanimous opposition.

There are too many orc prisoners, nearly 20,000! If only one or two hundred people are killed, they will be executed after trial.

But a reasonable and legal mass killing must be carried out through trials. Terenas is worried that once people get used to killing in calmness, they will inevitably become cruel and indifferent.

Of course, in Li De's opinion, Terenas is able to be far-reaching compared to the other two leaders, but only a little deeper.

From the perspective of the human race, Terenas's consideration makes sense, but he ignores whether it is appropriate to use the human race's moral standards to deal with the orcs.

There are still huge differences between different races, let alone orcs from another world. This outrageous level is no longer described as the sword of the previous dynasty who slashed the original dynasty.

Li De tried to guess the logic behind Terenas's idea: the biggest problem may be that orcs are intelligent life with a human-like appearance. Everyone has two eyes, one nose and one mouth, and they will indeed fall into a logical trap.

If the orcs were to be unnamed, then even if there were many, Terenas would have ordered all the executions without any worries.

"Before leaving, Marshal Losa and I had communicated that the disposal of orc prisoners of war would be a long process. Not killing them for civilizational considerations, but it does not mean that the orcs are just allowed to escape sanctions. They must be judged and penetrated into the soul level."

Dai Lin nodded in a vague way.

"You always have a way. I'm really looking forward to what kind of business you want to talk to me that you can actually tell you the big talk that can transform the world."

"Don't be impatient, please allow me to maintain a sense of mystery in the end."

What Li De is thinking now is whether to disclose the UltraLank plan to Dailin in the future. As long as he wins Dailin's support in advance, the plan will be half successful.

His mysterious look suddenly filled the threshold of Dalin's curiosity. Fortunately, the speed of the Titan Road was fast enough that they successfully arrived in Tanalis a week later.

But before he could relax his curiosity, Dai Lin encountered a naval battle first.

A fleet is attacking Port Hope! The enemy's main battleships are two third-class battleships, even larger than Li De's flagship Dinghai. In addition, there are more than a dozen light frigates, shuttled back and forth across the sea.

The Hanhai Army was fighting back to the death outside the port at this time, but the two sixth-class warships, Fenwei and Fenyuan, were too weak compared to the enemy. Thanks to the protection of Deep Heiro Agrore, they could barely shorten the gap in strength.

But even so, the two ships Fenwei and Fenyuan were injured to a certain extent, and three of the eight frigates were sunk.

A warship stationed in Port Hope also joined the battle, but Zandala's ship can only exert its combat effectiveness when it forms a scale, and the battle close to each other makes the opponent's four frigates extremely embarrassed.

Nogfog has already gone to the battlefield in person. If the other party is forced into the port, the fleet that has completely lost the space to maneuver will be wiped out!

"What's going on?!"

Unexpectedly, I encountered a naval battle as soon as I came. Is Kalimdo's welcome custom so individual?

"My fleet is under attack! Please help me!"

Li De asked Dai Lin for help eagerly. He had just been away for three months and had the power to attack the door! He wanted to see who was so hateful and would take the initiative to provoke him!

"Of course! My friend has no choice but to do so!"

Dai Lin did not forget Li De's kindness to save Derek. As for the little unhappiness that had passed, the Proudmore family would repay all their kindness.

With a command, the top sailing battleship quickly entered the field to participate in the battle.

Such a giant crowded into the battlefield, and both sides of the war seemed a little panicked. But soon the Hanhai Army discovered that the ship had flags and words were circulated. At the same time, Nogfog also saw Li De on the deck from the telescope.

"The Protector is back! The gold coins are on it! It's the Protector! The young men! Fight back with all their might!"

Nogfog shouted excitedly, no one knew better than him about the power of the top battleship. With such strong aid, it would not be a problem to completely eliminate the enemy!

The wood used by top battleships is the thickest century-old oak, which is not only strong but also particularly tough after processing. The small-caliber cannons of the sixth-class ships cannot even cause damage when hit on the ship, but will be bounced back by the opponent.

Realizing that this top warship was the enemy, the fleet that invaded the Port of Hope suddenly seemed a little helpless. He stopped at the sea and hesitated for a while before he decided to turn the bow and evacuate.

However, under the huge main gun of the flying Prodmore, the third-class battleship could only bow down and surrender. It only took one shot to break the main mast of a battleship. The ship lost its power on the spot and threw its anchor at the sea.

Unfortunately, the Hanhai Army had a short time to form an army, and the navy had severely lacked combat experience and did not quickly complete the encirclement, causing another third-class battleship to run away. As for the dozen frigates, several of them also ran away.

The remaining few ships were completely small sampans in front of the top warships. They knew they were not qualified to resist, so they all surrendered with white flags.

Although he won this battle and captured many ship enemies, Li De's face was so bad that he hadn't come back in time, the consequences would have been unimaginable!

After boarding the deck of the Fenwei, Li De immediately found Nogferge, but before he could ask questions, the Goblin Minister cursed with the beads.

"Damn goblin! Dirty little man!"

This wave of scolding myself made Li De's anger relieved half of his anger on the spot, but when he looked at Nogferg's face turned crooked, he really didn't have the nerve to laugh.

"Those guys are dissatisfied with our textile impact on their market, so they want to maliciously raise the price of raw materials! But who has made us still hold the card of ore raw materials in our hands.

The angry bastards joined forces in private and sent a fleet to attack our port!

Damn! Even in order to confuse me, they pretended nothing happened half a month ago and came to participate in the flash plain car race! Bah! Despicable and shameless!"

Only then did Li De realize that it was the emerging technology that had touched the interests of traditional chaebols. No wonder goblin wealthy people organized a fleet to come to the door.

But Li De was a little curious. In just two or three months, how Norgferge had done it, and he actually forced the traditional industry to be like this.

Thinking of this, Li Deyu Guang noticed that there were seven or eight troll priests, men and women, who were helped aside to rest like drunkenness.

"What's wrong with them."

After hearing Li De's question, Nogferge immediately praised him.

"These are heroes of this naval battle! The other party actually sent three third-class warships. Thanks to their joint efforts to summon the projection of Groolloa, they took the initiative to destroy a main battleship. Otherwise, we might not be able to support you!"

If the other party can send a fleet worth more than 100,000 gold coins, the damage will definitely not be a small amount. Li De himself is looking forward to what they have developed.

"Do you know who the exact enemy is?"

Nogferge answered with a clear answer.

"It's clear that it's the guys from Rusty Water Crazy Bounty that have been around for a long time, but they've been out of hand with us."

Suddenly Li De realized something was wrong. Nogferge, the Finance Minister, has been on the battlefield, why haven’t he seen Hagad so far?

"What is Hagad doing?"

Nogfog shook his long ears and said something that almost made Li De's chin fall.

"Minister Hagad is dealing with enemies invading from the ground. This time, the operation against us was planned by venture capital companies and Rustwater chaebols."

Li De smiled. If there is an enemy coming to attack you, it may be because you are weak. But if someone wants to join forces to deal with you, it just means you are very strong.

It seems that in the past three months, Norgferge and the others have done a great job.

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Chapter completed!