Chapter 625, the Conflict Starts with Tariffs

With the Empire and the Honor Alliance reaching a strategic cooperation agreement, the vast void centered on the Empire has ushered in a rare period of peace. The Empire has just annexed the Sculptor Galaxy and has no appetite to continue eating in a short period of time. Due to the constraints of the Honor League, the external policy shifted to 'disintegrate and decompose the Honor League'.

Within the Honor Alliance, due to the agreement of the Offensive and Defensive Alliance, they have also stopped fighting each other. Many river systems that originally had deep hatred for each other have also stopped fighting. They are both members of the Honor Alliance and do not dare to violate the alliance at all. Agreement.

Peace has the benefits of peace. In the entire vast void, trade between river systems has begun to boom. Because no one dares to break the existing situation, even if there are conflicts between them, they can only suppress them, let alone Most of them are economic and trade exchanges.

The empire is located in the center of the entire region, and is the most powerful civilization in the surrounding area. It also has trade weapons such as biological warfare soldiers, so it has gradually become the core and hub of the entire region's economy and trade.

The shortest distance for the caravans of the Honor League to go north and south is through the Empire. And basically every member of the Honor League is desperately trying to purchase advanced biological warfare soldiers from the Empire to strengthen their own strength, especially in the These river system civilizations and forces on the periphery are even more crazy about biological warfare.

Time is passing slowly, and ten thousand years have passed in the blink of an eye!

The entrance of the space-time ocean outflow from the Linyuan River System of the Luoyuan Civilization to the Andromeda Galaxy of the Yanhuang Empire is here. Because it is an important route to the Yanhuang Empire, it is more prosperous than before, and the entire void is full of things. Neatly arranged space ports.

The brightly lit space port is extremely busy. Spaceships are rising and falling, caravans are traveling from north to south, and people of various races from various river system civilizations and forces in the Honor Alliance gather here to bargain with each other for goods. trade.

"Going to the Andromeda Galaxy of the Yanhuang Empire, a total of 1 million spaceships."

Kakaou, a merchant from the Custer Empire with double horns on his head, handed a card to the customs officer of Luoyuan Civilization. He had traveled to and from the Yanhuang Empire more than once, so he was familiar with many things.

The Custer Empire is tens of millions of light-years away from the Yanhuang Empire, and a trip requires more than a dozen river systems for transit, which takes thousands of years.

Of course, anyone who has done interstellar trade knows that the farther you travel in the universe, the higher the profit. Although this transaction takes thousands of years, the profit is also terrifyingly high, tens of thousands times, ten times Ten thousand times, a million times, there is no online at all. If you are lucky, one trip will be enough for your descendants to live for who knows how many generations.

However, doing space trade also requires a lot of capital, especially this kind of long-distance space trade. Only the most powerful businessmen in a river system civilization and power can afford it. The investment is large, and it can be easily done at any time. It is the cargo of hundreds of thousands of large spacecrafts.

Then a small force with only a few thousand or tens of thousands of spaceships can only play in the nearby river system, and simply cannot withstand the torment of such long-distance space trade.

This time, Kakaou is carrying a large amount of goods to be sold to the Yanhuang Empire. Most of the goods are extremely valuable heaven and earth spiritual materials. They can be sold at a good price in the Yanhuang Empire. He will bring Yanhuang with him on the return trip. The empire's biological warfare soldiers can be sold back to the Custer Empire to maximize the profits from this trip.

"If you go to the Yanhuang Empire, you need to pay 70% of the customs duty. I don't know whether you will pay with Yanhuang coins or goods."

The customs staff of Luoyuan Civilization carefully read the information on the card, and then said very coldly.

"What? 70% tariff, did I hear that right?"

When Kakao heard this, he was in disbelief. He thought he had heard it wrong. Tariffs would exist as long as there was trade. Because of the Honor Alliance, the trade exchanges between members are very close, and generally there are no tariffs. It would be too heavy. In the past, the tariff was only about 5%.

"You heard it right, it's 70%. As long as you pay this tariff, you can go to the Yanhuang Empire."

The customs staff of Luoyuan Civilization nodded and said again.

"You are robbing money. The previous tariff was only 5%. Why has it been raised to 70% now?"

Kakao almost jumped up. The 70% tariff is too heavy. Along the way, he passed through more than ten river systems, and every river system had to pay tariffs. In fact, the tariffs are quite heavy. Now I have to pay a 70% tariff all of a sudden. If this tariff is paid, this trip will basically be in vain.

"In the past, that was the past. Now the tariffs have been adjusted. If you don't pay the tariffs, you may not be able to go to the Yanhuang Empire."

Luo Yuan Wenming's customs staff said coldly, in fact, he was a little confused about the sudden increase in tariffs, but the orders from his superiors must be resolutely implemented.

"Hmph~ I will report this matter to our Custer Empire. I believe that the Honor Alliance will give us a fair explanation."

Kakao snorted very dissatisfied, took back his card, and prepared to contact the Custer Empire to ask the empire behind him to support him.

"Whatever you want, our Luoyuan civilization will still be afraid of your Custer Empire?"

The customs staff of Luoyuan Civilization looked indifferent. Luoyuan Civilization is a powerful civilization that occupies more than ten river systems and is not inferior to the Caster Empire.

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In a virtual conference room, the figures of representatives of various members of the Honor Alliance kept flashing, and the figure of the Caster Empire Emperor Manniu was also among them, but at this time his face was very unhappy. He scanned the virtual conference room and soon found the leader of Luoyuan Civilization, Buck.

"Sir Buck, I don't know why you Luoyuan suddenly increased taxes on our Caster Empire's caravans heading to the Yanhuang Empire. What do you mean by a 70% tariff?"

Manniu has the temper of the Minotaur race, and he is also the emperor of a powerful civilization. His temper is not very good. Now he directly pointed at Buck's little head and asked.

In fact, it was not only Kakao's caravan that encountered the problem of a sudden increase in tariffs, but other caravans also encountered the same situation. As long as the caravans heading to the Yanhuang Empire were taxed.

"Your Majesty, don't flatter yourself. Our Luoyuan civilization is not targeting your Caster Empire. We treat every member fairly. For all caravans heading to the Yanhuang Empire, no matter which river civilization they come from, we will uniformly collect 70% tariffs."

Faced with Manniu's questioning, Buck still looked calm. The strength of Luoyuan civilization is very strong. How could it be afraid of the Caster Empire, not to mention the treaty restrictions of the Honor Alliance.

"Yes, why did you suddenly increase taxes on our caravans, and it's so heavy?"

"You must give us an explanation today."

"Our caravans were also taxed, but it was the Bart Empire."

"The Obadiah River System also increased taxes on us, also 70%!"

The representatives of other river civilizations and forces around him began to clamor when they heard it. Not only did the Luoyuan civilization increase the tariff to 70%, but all the river civilizations and forces bordering the Yanhuang Empire also increased the tariff by 70%, as if these civilizations had agreed with each other.

This cosmic trade can only be safely returned through the space-time ocean currents. Although it can also be reached through the dark abyss, the risks are too great, the losses are too serious, and there is no supply and rest, which is obviously unrealistic.

Luoyuan Civilization, Bart Empire, Yubi River System, Obadiah River System and other river system civilizations and forces adjacent to the empire raised tariffs, and the trade route to the Yanhuang Empire was immediately blocked.

"What? Other directions have also raised tariffs?"

Manniu realized that things were not as simple as they seemed, and asked the others. Soon, everyone chatted with each other for a while, and everyone knew that the tariffs on various routes to the Yanhuang Empire had been raised.

"What do you mean? The tariffs we levied on your caravan have never been raised. You have raised the tariffs privately to such an extent, which has seriously affected our cosmic trade."

Manniu said to Buck and others.

"That's right, what do you mean? Why did you raise the tariff to 70% all of a sudden? If you don't give us an explanation today, we will impose the same tariff on your caravan."

"You have to think clearly. This not only damages our interests, but also the interests of the Yanhuang Empire."

The leaders of civilizations also shouted. At this time, in the virtual conference room, the people of the Honor Alliance began to divide into three parts. One part was led by the Barbarian Bull of the Caster Empire, who were seriously dissatisfied with the increase in tariffs. Another part was led by Buck, the leader of the Luoyuan civilization. These were the leaders of the river civilizations adjacent to the Yanhuang Empire; another part was indifferent, and these were the leaders of the river civilizations in the middle area.

"If you want to increase tariffs, then increase them. We don't care. Anyway, if you don't pay the tariffs we set, don't even think about going to the Yanhuang Empire from our territory."

Buck said with a sneer, looking like a dead pig that is not afraid of boiling water, and he didn't care about the various threats at all.

In fact, the increase in tariffs was also advocated and proposed by Buck, the leader of Luoyuan civilization. Other river civilizations and forces adjacent to the Yanhuang Empire also responded positively. There is no other way. Luoyuan civilization, Bart Empire and other civilizations are also jealous.

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