In ordinary times, Houhai Kingdom relied on its own powerful navy to block the dangers coming to the ocean, and would occasionally take the initiative to attack to clear out some pirate legions and marine beasts that were extremely threatening.

However, in recent years, with the turmoil in people's livelihoods in neighboring countries, a large number of ordinary poor people have either become refugees or become pirates, which has greatly strengthened the power of pirates, and the number of pirates has also increased sharply in recent years.

If the number of pirate groups around Houhai Country was ten, then it would be two hundred now.

The sharp increase to the pirate team has led to the increasing threat facing Houhai Kingdom. The Houhai Kingdom's navy has not had any rest time in recent years. Today, we will encircle and suppress the pirates here, and tomorrow we will rescue merchant ships or islanders surrounded by pirates. The day after tomorrow we have to escort the spirit stone transport ship back to the land and the location of the spirit stone mine...

The continuous operation has made the Navy of Houhai Kingdom exhausted now. If this continues, it would be 100% problem.

It’s okay if there are other problems, at most they will lose a little. However, if there is danger in the ocean and the spirit stone mines on the islands, it will really endanger the foundation of Houhai Kingdom.

The biggest reason why Houhai Kingdom can continue to exist under the threat of many powerful countries around it is not because of the seabed and the spirit stone mines on the island.

Every year, the seventh floor of the spirit stones that Houhai Kingdom only opened from these spirit stone mines was paid out as protection fees, and half of the other three floors were also spent in the surrounding countries to purchase some military supplies, daily necessities, luxury goods, etc. In the end, the remaining one floor is about five.

Therefore, although there are a large number of spirit stone mines in Houhai Kingdom, they do not have much left behind. Therefore, neighboring countries are jealous, but they are not so jealous that they send troops to capture Houhai Kingdom.

Of course, these countries do not fight against the Houhai Kingdom's ideology. In addition to the support of powerful countries behind Houhai Kingdom, the biggest reason is that the nine-story spirit stone mines of Houhai Kingdom are all located on the seabed and on the surrounding islands.

If these spirit stone mines were located in the inland, these countries would have long captured the Houhai Kingdom.

However, these spirit stone mines are now located on the seabed and on the island, which makes it extremely difficult to mine. If you don’t have special personnel to mine, you will not be able to mine spirit stones at all.

Even if spirit stones are mined, there are quite a few problems here, such as transportation routes, protection of spirit stone mines, and protection of transport ships.

The wild beasts have a very sensitive sense of smell of spirit stones. They can "sniff" the smell of spirit stones hundreds of miles away. In addition, the number of aquatic wild beasts in the ocean is much larger than that on land. Therefore, every spirit stone mined will face the threat of countless wild beasts.

If you want to mine spirit stone mines safely, you must first solve the threat of these aquatic wild beasts, which is obviously an extremely difficult thing.

For example, Houhai Kingdom has developed some countermeasures after nearly a thousand years and spent countless blood and lessons.

However, even so, the number of warriors that died in Houhai Kingdom due to the attacks of these marine beasts every year is not less than 10,000.

This is a 10,000 warrior, not more than 10,000 soldiers. The huge losses here are conceivable.

This is also the main reason why Houhai Kingdom clearly has so many spirit stone mines, but the number and quality of domestic warriors are not as powerful as those of neighboring countries. The number of warriors lost by Houhai Kingdom every year is really too large.

Also, when transporting spirit stones, you will inevitably face the threat of countless pirates.

The location of the Houhai Kingdom spirit stone mine is not a secret for those pirates, and even when the spirit stones are transported can't be hidden from those pirates.

Therefore, as long as the spirit stone transport ship began to transport, the countless pirates, like a pack of wolves, gathered together to attack.

Perhaps in such thirty or forty attacks, there will be only one or two attacks, and the others will fail.

However, even if there are only one or two successes, it is enough for those pirates, because each success brings millions or even tens of millions of spiritual stones.

For millions of spirit stones, those pirates can do everything and are willing to give everything for it.

Therefore, every transportation of spirit stones is a big battle, which also leads to the death of tens of thousands of soldiers every year.

With more than 10,000 warriors and the losses of tens of thousands of soldiers, the number of spirit stones they obtained is not much. On the contrary, they have to be very worried about it. In this case, it is better to let Houhai Kingdom face all this. Anyway, the number of spirit stones they obtained will not be reduced. Even if it is less than what they mined, it is not much less. Therefore, these countries have not sent troops to capture Houhai Kingdom until now.

In the past, Houhai Kingdom could persist, but in recent decades, the appropriate amount of pirate legions around Houhai Kingdom has increased sharply, and it has not been driven by the weakening so far, but there are more and more signs.

The current naval combat power of Houhai Kingdom can no longer persist, so Houhai Kingdom is preparing to expand its naval strength. If it wants to expand its navy, it must first have a war flying boat. Only then will Houhai Kingdom come here to buy a war flying boat.

The Hou Tang, the mortal enemy of Houhai Kingdom, knew this very well. They didn't care about the threats of the pirates faced by Houhai Kingdom, and they even wanted Houhai Kingdom to be swallowed up by those pirates, because in this way, they could take advantage of the opportunity.

Therefore, at the auction of the war flying boats, the third princess of the Hou Tang Kingdom tried every means to make trouble for the Houhai Kingdom and continuously increase the price of the war flying boats, because she knew that no matter how high the price was, the Houhai Kingdom would have to buy it.

Of course, the third princess was just making trouble. When she reached a certain price, she would let go.

One is that she has bought a war flying boat, completed the mission, and bought it at a sky-high price, not only will she not be rewarded by the emperor, but she will even be severely scolded. Perhaps she will no longer be responsible for the auction house in the future. This is definitely the last thing the third princess wants to see.

Therefore, in order to avoid Houhaiguo giving up bidding directly because the price is too high, the third princess generally will not raise the price too much, so as not to shoot herself in the foot.

Seeing that one of the most threatening competitors withdrew, Prince Li of Houhai Kingdom couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief in his heart.

In this bidding, Prince Li knew very well what the third princess of the Later Tang Kingdom thought. He knew that she was just here to make trouble for him. Once the price reached a certain level, the third princess would give up. Therefore, for Prince Li, the biggest threat was actually the strong barbarian.

Now, the barbarian strongman has launched this bidding, and this war flying boat will be above the ninth floor.

However, even so, Prince Li was not relaxed. His brows were always frowning, because the third princess was really too difficult to deal with. He didn't know what price he would get in the end, so the third princess would let go.

Prince Li actually wanted to let go, so as to give this ignorant third princess of the Later Tang Kingdom a good look. However, when she thought of the current domestic situation, especially the increasing threats of pirates, Prince Li finally calmed down. He knew that he had to be fooled this time.

Since the matter has been decided, Prince Li no longer hides it. He immediately whispered to the second prince who followed him here: "Hai'er, if the third princess bids for the price later, you will directly bid for 210,000 spirit stones. Now we only have this one left, and you know the situation in the country. Therefore, we must take down this war flying boat. We must not make any wrong decisions because of a moment of anger.

You know the hatred between the guys from the Later Tang Kingdom and us. They want us to be destroyed by pirates. Therefore, even if the third princess provokes you again, you don’t care. It should be noted that the most important task for us to come here this time is to buy the war flying boat. Do you understand?"

In order to avoid the second prince making mistakes, Prince Li kept emphasizing.

"Yes, uncle, I understand that this top-level war flying boat belongs to our Zhou royal family, and no one can take it away!"

The second prince Zhou Chenhai responded in a deep voice, his tone was heavy, and he was extremely confident!

At this time, the third princess smiled and raised the sign in her hand and shouted loudly: "2010000 Spirit Stone!"

Seeing the third princess raise the bidding sign in his hand, the second prince Zhou Chenhai first glanced at the third princess with hatred, and then he immediately raised the bidding sign in his hand and shouted loudly: "We bid 2100,000 spirit stones, you can follow again!"

With a "boom...", the atmosphere in the auction hall was detonated again, and countless discussions sounded, warm and lasting.

What followed was also awesomeness throughout the audience!

"It's amazing. I didn't expect that I'm going to break through the price of 2100,000 spirit stones now. I'm really here today!!"

"The bidding price of a war flying boat actually exceeded 2 million, but it is not enough. Now it has hit 2100,000 spirit stones directly. This..., this..., this is a crazy day!"

"It seems that Hou Tang State has indeed forced Hou Hai State to suffer, which has led to the price increase so high now. Hehe, today's auction is really exciting!"

"I believe that the price is not the final price for the future grudge between the Tang Kingdom and Houhai Kingdom. The third princess's heart is very dark!"
Chapter completed!