Chapter 785 Hidden Worries on the Great Route

Every time Gaia's finale is a masterpiece handed down from generation to generation, this time is no exception. The tenth lot was finally unveiled, and it was still a token.

At first glance, it looks somewhat similar to the village building token.

The auctioneer smiled and introduced: "[Satellite City Token], after using it, you can immediately obtain the ownership of the Wangcheng Satellite City where the guild is located. The base price is 800,000 gold coins, and there is no fixed price. Please bid."

"Hiss~~~"

As soon as the auctioneer finished speaking, there was a gasp from the hall.

Gaia's generosity is really extraordinary.

This time, all the guild leaders in the world were red-eyed, making no secret of their greed for this token. The auction price naturally soared all the way, reaching 1.5 million gold coins in less than ten minutes.

The following quotations, the heads of the guilds, are a little cautious.

When the price soared to 1.8 million gold coins, Bloody Romance withdrew directly. It's not that Bloody Romance doesn't have the financial strength, but that he's weighing whether it's worth it or not.

[Blood Fiend Mercenary Group] As the number one mercenary group in China, it has absolute dominance in Xianyang. Even if it is taken by force, it is very sure that it can take down the satellite city.

Therefore, Romance in Blood opted out.

When the price soared to two million gold coins, the dominant guilds like Scarlet Romance withdrew from the competition one by one, but those guilds who were really keeping up were those guilds who were not sure.

This kind of mentality is naturally not difficult to understand.

If Ouyang Shuo hadn't reminded Lin Jing in advance, let [Shangxue Rose Mercenary Corps] start planning and sign the covenant before the system update came out.

At this time, Xie Siyun would probably give it a go.

After a fierce competition, the [Satellite City Token] was finally won by the head of a guild in the United States at a sky-high price of two million gold coins, becoming the final winner.

In this auction, the two veteran teams in China and the United States can be said to be leading the way.

At the end of the drama, Gaia was really impolite, and sent all the players away without saying a word. It was already three o'clock in the afternoon when Ouyang Shuo returned to Shanhai City.

The global auction cost only 3 million gold coins, far lower than Ouyang Shuo's expectation. One of the reasons is that adventure player items accounted for the bulk of this round of auctions.

Six of the ten lots were prepared for adventure players, and of the remaining four lord items, Ouyang Shuo got two of them alone, which is already considered a very remarkable achievement.

Four years into Gaia, Gaia began to pay attention to the adventure players who accounted for more than 99% of the player scale, and continued to inject fresh blood into the adventure mode.

As for the lord player, after four years in Gaia, they will have to rely on themselves.

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Back at the Protectorate's Mansion, Ouyang Shuo first took out the [Teleportation Order].

"System prompt: It is detected that the player Qiyue Wuyi has a special item [Transfer Order], do you want to use it?"

"yes!"

"System prompt: Please select the teleportation array to build the city!"

"Friendship City."

"System prompt: The city is selected, and the teleportation array is being generated..."

"System prompt: Friendship City is detected to be located overseas, so the teleportation array is automatically set as a transnational teleportation array. The relevant settings refer to the rules of the transnational teleportation array. Players are welcome to know."

So far, there is one more city with a teleportation array in the territory.

Friendship City, built in Somalia, Africa, is located between Base Point City and Lion City. It is a key node on the great route, and its strategic location is very important.

Only recently, Friendship City has encountered some troubles.

Gu Xiuwen, the guardian of Friendship City, played a memorial a few days ago, reflecting a slight change in Somalia's domestic attitude towards Friendship City.

The whole situation seems a bit delicate.

The contribution of the ocean-going fleet to Somalia is gradually being forgotten with the passage of time. Between the two, on the contrary, there was a conflict of interests because of ocean-going trade.

In particular, there is a direct conflict of interest between the Port of the Brave in Friendship City and the Port of Berbera in Somalia in the fight for merchant ships to dock and replenish.

In view of the fact that most of the ocean-going merchant ships are sent from China, most merchant ships are willing to dock at Brave Port. Even Western merchant ships are more at ease in Port of the Brave because of the existence of the Mediterranean Fleet.

There are more than 500 merchant ships docking at Brave Port every day, and they are striving towards the goal of 1,000 ships. Under Gu Xiuwen's personal auspices, the second phase of the Port of the Brave project is nearing completion.

After the completion of the second phase of the project, more than 3,000 merchant ships can be docked at most.

In contrast, the port of Berbera is somewhat neglected.

Which port a merchant ship berths at will bring huge profits. In addition to the most intuitive profit of tariffs, tens of thousands of merchants and sailors spend in the city, which can fully support the economy of a city.

Faced with this big cake, it is only natural for Somali players to be upset. When the Somali royal family granted the Friendship City land to Ouyang Shuo, it was just with the intention of building a resort.

They never expected that Ouyang Shuo would be so ruthless that he gave up all the land outside the city and directly built a giant city. Today, the construction of Friendship City is nearing completion.

With the support of huge funds, the construction of Friendship City is more majestic than any lord city in Somalia. In this way, it makes the nearby Berbera port look desperate.

Gu Xiuwen reflected in the memorial that Somalia is shrinking its supplies to Friendship City. The prices of food, vegetables and other materials are also constantly rising.

Friendship City itself does not produce these materials, and the industries in the city are mainly processing and service industries. Once Somalia cuts off the supply of agricultural and sideline products to Friendship City, the residents of Friendship City will starve.

Ouyang Shuo got the news that Honglu Temple and the Department of Commerce have sent a joint mission to Somalia to lobby and negotiate for a peaceful resolution of the matter.

At the same time, Ouyang Shuo also informed the Black Snake Guard's intelligence office in Somalia to conduct appropriate activities within Somalia, trying to destroy its internal unity and win over allies for Friendship City.

Providing agricultural and sideline products to Friendship City is actually a good deal for the Somali lord.

Behind the collective boycott of the Somali lords, there must be someone in series. The mission of the Black Snake Guard is to find this person behind the scenes, and if possible, strike him.

Du Ruhui once suggested to Ouyang Shuo whether to formulate a military plan to attack Somalia.

Ouyang Shuo thought for a while, but still refused, not because he was soft-hearted, but because the timing was not yet ripe. The Great Shipping Route has not been opened for a few months, and Ouyang Shuo does not want to ignite the flames of war during this period and affect the territory's ocean trade.

Shanhai City can't leave a bad image of a warmonger in the world, at least not now. If you really want to attack Somalia, you have to find a suitable time.

When it is impossible to start a war, opening up the teleportation array of Friendship City has become a very effective means, so that Friendship City can get the support of Shanhai City at any time, so that it will not be difficult to support.

There was another reason why Ouyang Shuo was in a hurry to activate the teleportation array in Friendship City.

According to the response of the naval battalion stationed in Friendship City, the Somali pirates who have been active in the Gulf of Aden recently seem to be on the verge of resurgence.

Farah, who transformed himself into a pirate leader, gradually came into the sight of the navy battalion.

Farah probably hated Ouyang Shuo to the bone.

Ouyang Shuo got the report and was very vigilant. He immediately instructed Admiral Alvaro of the Mediterranean Fleet to arrange a naval formation to carry out daily patrols in the Gulf of Aden.

Maintaining the safety of the Gulf of Aden is in the interests of Shanhai City.

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Speaking of the Mediterranean Fleet, the base city where the fleet is located has not been worrying recently.

At any rate, Friendship City has a logistics supply base in Somalia, but Spain behind the base point city has a deep hatred with Shanhai City, and will not trade with Shanhai City.

All the materials in Friendship City are supplied by France, which is farther away.

According to Alvaro's report, Spain has come out of that naval disaster, and the new Spanish Armada has been formed and is ready to intervene in the Mediterranean again.

The short route from Key Point to France passes through the coast of Spain.

As long as Spain has a little evil intentions, it can cut off the supplies of Base Point City and starve the Mediterranean Fleet. As a result, the Mediterranean Fleet is in jeopardy.

Fortunately, when Shanhai City was promoted to a third-level county city, Ouyang Shuo activated the teleportation array in Basic Point City. With the powerful city of Atlantis covering it, there will be no moths in Spain for the time being.

What the future holds is unknown.

How can it be that simple to maintain a sea lane. Which country in history was not a global hegemon when maintaining such trade routes? !

However, Shanhai City still has a long way to go before becoming a global hegemon. Opening up the sea route so early will naturally require a greater price and more unconventional means.

Fortunately, this is a game, anything is possible.

Alvaro formally proposed that it is best to find a more stable rear and logistics supply base for the Mediterranean Fleet before Spain makes any major moves.

Alvaro did not dare to consider the European countries north of the Mediterranean Sea. His suggestion was to find an attack target in the African countries south of the Mediterranean Sea.

The preferred target is Morocco, which is opposite to Spain.

Morocco is located at the northwestern tip of Africa, bordering Algeria in the east, the Sahara Desert in the south, the vast Atlantic Ocean in the west, and facing Spain across the Strait of Gibraltar in the north.

The central and northern parts of the territory are the steep Atlas Mountains, the eastern and southern parts are the upper plateau and the pre-Sahara plateau, and only the northwest coastal area is a narrow, long, low-warm plain.

Historically, Morocco was once occupied by France, Spain and other countries.

Ouyang Shuo agreed with Alvaro's proposal very much. The Strait of Gibraltar is related to the sea lifeline of Shanhai City, and there must be no risk at all.

A few days ago, Ouyang Shuo had ordered the General Administration of Military Affairs to study this issue together with the Nanyang Navy Command.