Chapter 1314 – Second Emperor Dynasty
As Ouyang Shuo had expected, the Ashoka Dynasty gladly accepted the olive branch.
After the negotiations, the two sides finally decided that the Ashoka Dynasty would pay a 30 million gold ransom for the one million war prisoners.
One had to say that the Ashoka Dynasty was really rich.
To an extent, the agreement had reduced the nervous atmosphere between the two. The Ashoka Dynasty even suggested to open up trade at the border between the two.
It seemed that the war had been a huge test on the resource capabilities of the Ashoka Dynasty.
Although Ouyang Shuo did not reject the suggestion, he did not show much interest either. After all, transportation from the mid plains to the Xikang Province border cost a lot, and the Ashoka Dynasty would not be able to afford the price.
The symbolic meaning of the trade was more important than its practical use.
Of course, Great Xia could use the trading teams to easily infiltrate the Ashoka Dynasty.
In the next month, under the organization of the Privy Court, the one million war prisoners were sent back in an orderly and secretive matter, officially completing the trade.
After the Ashoka Dynasty took back the war prisoners, it would at least take a month for them to regain their fighting strength. Hence, these war prisoners would not be able to solve their burning problem.
For these two months, the Ashoka Dynasty had to hold on.
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In the blink of an eye, it was already the 10th month.
After two months of intense fighting, the global battlefield finally welcomed a new change.
The first to break the deadlock was the North America battlefield.
Although they had purchased firearms and hired Mercenary troops from Great Xia, the crazy assaults of the Dawson Dynasty forced the Maple Dynasty back in defeat.
As the war continued, the Dawson Dynasty threw in a million troops onto the Maple Dynasty battlefield.
To destroy the Maple Dynasty, the Dawson Dynasty even reduced their defensive lines in Africa. They placed everything into this battleto wipe out this threat.
If not, the Dawson Dynasty would be unable to breakout.
Jack was anxious. Even without mentioning the bad situation that the Dawson Dynasty was facing, the European situation was really bad for Silver Hand.
As the flag bearer of Silver Hand, the Dawson Dynasty had to put in some work for the European battlefield.
However, before he could do that, he had to stop at nothing to totally destroy the Maple Dynasty. Only then would they not fighting on too many fronts.
10th month, 10th day, under the ferocious assaults of the Dawson Dynasty, the Maple Dynasty's capital Quebec City finally fell. This event basically announced the fall of the Maple Dynasty.
Before this, Canada region's imperial city Ottawa had already been conquered by the Dawson Dynasty.
At the final juncture, the 1st Mercenary legion covered the royal family of the Maple Dynasty and helped the core officials onto the warships of the Atlantic Squadron. They successfully fled from the Maple Dynasty.
They would disembark at Columbia Province then teleport to the imperial city, where they would accept shelter from Great Xia. They would be the first player dynasty to do so.
Of course, sheltering was just an indirect term. Be it the Maple Dynasty or Ouyang Shuo, neither would not speak about rebuilding the Maple Dynasty.
That was not practical.
After taking down the Maple Dynasty, the Dawson Dynasty had completed their unification North America.
10th month, 11th day, the day after the Dawson Dynasty took down the Maple Dynasty, a System Notification sounded out across the world, raising the spirits of the Silver Hand camp.
"World Notification: Congratulations America Region Lord Jack for successfully upgrading to Emperor Dynasty, becoming the second in the world to do so. Awarding player with two AI instantiating opportunities, six million gold, and a mysterious gift as a reward!"
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A year and 10 months after Great Xia upgraded to Emperor Dynasty, a second Emperor Dynasty finally appeared, confirming the status and influence of the Dawson Dynasty in the world.
The one with the most thoughts about this was actually Ouyang Shuo.
Along with the Dawson Dynasty becoming an Emperor Dynasty, Ouyang Shuo realized that with the three conditions of becoming an imperial dynasty, the Dawson Dynasty had a chance of reaching it first.
Requirement 1: Unify the America region.
This requirement was met long ago when the Dawson Dynasty was just a king dynasty.
Requirement 2: Obtain the Overlord position in North America.
The Dawson Dynasty had unified North America; naturally, they had also met this requirement.
Requirement 3: Obtain the recognition of dynasties in the world.
As the flag of Silver Hand, they had a natural edge in terms of their influence in the world compare to Great Xia. Consequently, it was easier for them to achieve global recognition.
This obviously made Ouyang Shuo feel nervous.
The current Great Xia Emperor Dynasty had not even completed the second requirement.
The Dawson Dynasty which had stabilized its back garden would definitely start to be act high-profile. They would start to challenge Great Xia and expand their influence in the world.
Ouyang Shuo's judgment quickly turned to reality.
10th month, 15th day, the Dawson Dynasty which had just upgraded to Emperor Dynasty immediately declared war against the Mayan Dynasty. It even boasted that it would take back the Panama Canal sooner or later and would have a fight with Great Xia.
The America situation welcomed a new change.
Since the Dawson Dynasty had broken away from fighting on two fronts, the Mayan Dynasty that had a bad geographical position, a lack of resources, and were short on people would foreseeably face a huge challenge.
Due to that, Ouyang Shuo did not hesitate and ordered the 1st Mercenary legion to proceed there to fight against the aggressive the Dawson Dynasty.
The Mayan Dynasty that was in danger needed such an injection of life.
Both sides clicked instantly.
Ouyang Shuo's strategy was to try his best to stall the Dawson Dynasty so that this opponent did not have the ability to interfere with the European battlefield. The longer they could stall, the better it would be for Great Xia.
In the end, Ouyang Shuo did not fear the Dawson Dynasty at all.
A Maple Dynasty could stall the Dawson Dynasty for close to a year, causing them many problems. If this happened once more on the Mayan Battlefield, Ouyang Shuo would like to see what they could take out to challenge Great Xia.
Deep down, Ouyang Shuo did not view the Dawson Dynasty as an opponent on equal footing.
Across the entire world, probably only Silver Hand as an organization could compete against Great Xia. Even Azure Badge was a thing of the past and was not on the same level.
Losing the Maple Dynasty was a huge blow to Azure Badge's global arrangement.
If the Mayan Dynasty fell into the hands of the Dawson Dynasty, Azure Badge would only have the Ottoman Dynasty, Bantu Dynasty, and Gupta Dynasty left on the global landscape.
That would make things difficult.
As such, Azure Badge had to take a more proactive approach. Apart from the Mayan Battlefield, they had to work together with Great Xia to defend their final piece of land in the Americas while starting waves in Africa.
10th month, 16th day, the day after the Dawson Dynasty declared war on the Mayan Dynasty, the Bantu Dynasty changed its strategy and went up north to attack the Dawson Dynasty's Central Africa territory.
The Africa continent that had just enjoyed a short period of peace was embroiled in the flames of war once more.