The closed Songjiang City made Daliang unable to know what Abigail did, and players in the dungeon could not enter the circle of the black elves and could not get more information.

Daliang had to put the out-of-control Songjiang City aside for the time being and concentrate on promoting the alliance between Shangjiang and the Three Dragons.

Joyce is now the crown prince of Shangjiang City, and will hold an ascension ceremony in the near future and officially become the owner of the city. Therefore, Joyce is qualified to represent Shangjiang City and discuss alliances with the three 15th-level dragon clans.

Princess Zi Ling is the main envoy of this dragon clan, and the purple dragon clan is the main force of this dragon clan alliance. Her opinions will determine whether Shangjiang can get together with them.

As a quasi-ally of the Three Dragons, Daliang was also a trusted official of Crown Prince Joyce. During this inspection, he accompanied the Dragons to travel throughout the entire Shangjiang area.

Visit the Pudong Commercial Port and watch the covered merchant ships. Then, with the loading and unloading goods, the Jiading City Market was also visited, and the Marquis of Stanley and the cargo ships shuttled through the Yangtze River.

Daliang took them to the Jiangcheng workshop and watched the production of war equipment and artillery; warships built in the Pudong fleet and ships.

Next is the Elf Plantation, the Academy-school Alchemy Factory...

The entire city-state showed the prosperity of Shangjiang and its strong economic and military strength to the Dragon Clan delegation through various means.

Finally, the Dragon Clan delegation, Daliang and Joyce gathered at the Shangjiang Palace to have the final negotiation.

Princess Purple Spirit in a blue and white magic robe is elegant and noble, and at the same time, she has a natural sense of superiority in front of the lower races in the main world.

Representatives from all sides sat around a round table, and Princess Zi Ling said first: "Thanks to Earl Daliang for accompanying us to visit Shangjiang City State these days.

As you described, Shangjiang City can be regarded as one of the most prosperous and powerful main cities in the main world. The noisy street market is impossible to see in the magic forest. We also see the wealth and military power that Shangjiang City has. What you have can indeed make up for our shortcomings in many aspects and enhance the strength of the alliance.

Here I want to confirm how much money and troops you can provide to us if we agree to join the alliance."

Joyce felt Zi Ling's contempt for Shangjiangcheng. She believed that in the alliance, Shangjiangcheng was the protected party, and as the leader of the alliance, Zilong should charge a protection fee for Shangjiangcheng.

Of course, this status is not something Joyce is willing to get.

But before Joyce could speak, Daliang said from the side: "Princess Purple Dragon, this is investigating allies, not vassals. If you only look at the size of the land, the actual controlled area of ​​Shangjiang is larger than the Magic Forest, Crystal Mineral Veins and Sulphur Caves combined.

Resources and funds are not comparable to the assets of the three dragon clans.

Another thing that is truly valuable is the human resources that Shangjiang has. I believe everyone has seen that the cities in Shangjiang are repairing roads. We can gather a road construction army composed of hundreds of thousands of workers in a very short time, so we can build the defense system of magic forests and crystal mineral veins in the shortest time.

Shangjiang is not as good as the Three Dragons in individual combat power, but in other aspects it is really too much.

We need dragons to protect our city, and you also need us to protect your homes.

This is a mutually beneficial thing, so I hope that in this negotiation, Princess Zi Ling can regard Shangjiang as an equal force with the Zilong clan, which is also the basis for our comprehensive cooperation in the future."

Daliang saved Princess Zi Ling, and was the master of the twin brother of the Poison Dragon. Therefore, his words were really important in the Three Dragon Alliance, not to mention that what they said was still reasonable.

The three dragon tribes really have nothing but powerful individual force. The territory is small, and although they have resources, they do not have enough labor to mine, and their economy is basically zero.

It’s really because you don’t have money, you don’t have people, and you don’t have resources.

I have a pride in my body, but I can't eat it as a meal.

Besides, Shangjiang is not weak, at least one Supreme angel lives in the palace. Other main world cities may be richer and more powerful than Shangjiang City, but without the protection of the 16th-level heroes, at the beginning of the war, those wealth belonged to others.

Therefore, just one sacred Bella is enough to attract the attention of the three dragon clans to Shangjiang, and the advantages that Shangjiang City has.

There is basically no suspense in the alliance.

Since we will be in the same camp in the future, the relationship must not be too stiff.

After Daliang made a smooth move, Princess Zi Ling also realized that her posture was a bit too high and that she could not bring any benefit to the superiority that must give in to survival. She turned to her and said, "I'm really sorry, Your Highness Joyce, I'm indeed a little too self-centered. Purple Dragon, Crystal Dragon and Poison Dragon all intend to invite Shangjiang to join our alliance, but because the Magic Forest and Crystal Minerals are under this great pressure, we urgently hope that Shangjiang City can help us build a defense system first.

I know this requires a lot of funds and materials, but we can't come up with these things, so I want to know that Shangjiang City cannot support our construction first. We can also give us the rewards we can achieve according to Shangjiang's request."

This is the atmosphere that alliance negotiations should have.

Joyce had already learned from Daliang what the three dragon clans urgently needed and made sufficient preparations for this meeting. She took out a construction plan and handed it over to Princess Zi Ling, and then said: "Shangjiang City is ready to take out 100 million gold coins as the first construction fund for the Magic Forest and Crystal Mineral Veins. It is mainly used to build basic resource collection points, first to make wood and stone self-sufficient, and each build a level 14 main defense fortress.

We are also responsible for a series of defensive buildings including castles, guardrails, towers, turrets, magic towers, and other defense buildings.

Then we will expand the main defensive fortress and radiate outward to build a defense system to control the fortress and control the stronghold line to create an overall defensive network.

For the entire project, we expect to invest 1 billion gold coins in the early stage to initially complete the construction of this defense network, and we will make additions in the later stage based on actual conditions.

In order for this defense system to be quickly built and played a role, Shangjiang will send 100,000 workers and 200,000 troops to the Magic Forest.

We will advance the military expenditure of this army in the early stage, but in the future, we will need the Magic Forest and Crystal Minerals to bear the maintenance costs of your respective garrisons."

Princess Zi Ling said: "But we have no money to support the army."

Daliang smiled and said, "You can make money without money. In addition, the Purple Dragon Clan's research on becoming a god also requires a lot of money and materials, and Shangjiang is not able to bear the long-term financial and non-return expenditure.
Chapter completed!