Kaia Kingdom, Royal Palace Annex.
Crown Prince Okushan sought out Kaiyadun.
Okushan formulated a "drive the tiger to swallow the wolf" strategy and compiled the entire plan into a written document, which he presented to Kaiyadun.
After reading Okushan's plan, Kaiyadun couldn't help but frown.
Okushan's plan was for Kaiyadun and Liu Kai Xuan to join forces and undertake an unprecedented commercial cooperation!
The Kaia Kingdom possessed abundant oil and gas resources, with the Kaixuan Oilfield being just one of them.
However, the majority of high-quality oil and gas fields were controlled by aristocratic forces.
The royal family received no benefits from these oil and gas fields.
The aristocratic forces, with their backward extraction technology, had low production yields despite high costs.
If the royal family were to step in and consolidate these resources,
and then utilize Liu Kai Xuan's advanced technology for efficient development and utilization, it would undoubtedly yield immense profits.
In that case, resource production would significantly increase, and the royal family would undoubtedly become immensely wealthy.
However, acquiring the oilfields from the aristocratic forces would not be a simple matter of words.
Such actions would infringe upon their core interests, and these individuals would undoubtedly fight back desperately!
Therefore, Okushan's intention was for Kaiyadun to compel Liu Kai Xuan to seize the mines from the aristocratic forces.
As long as Kaiyadun granted Liu Kai Xuan this "authorization," any action taken by Liu Kai Xuan would be considered legitimate.
Moreover, with Liu Kai Xuan's strength, he could indeed accomplish this.
Kaiyadun pondered and replied, "Okushan!"
"Have you considered that Liu Kai Xuan's current influence is already somewhat out of control!"
"If we were to grant him further authorization to expand his influence within the empire!"
"It would only cause Liu Kai Xuan's power to grow stronger and stronger!"
"By then, it will become extremely difficult for us to restrain him!"
Okushan nodded and agreed, "Father's concerns are very valid!"
"Liu Kai Xuan's influence is indeed growing rapidly!"
"Even our empire's royal family finds it extremely difficult to control him!"
"From a rational perspective, we should indeed prevent Liu Kai Xuan from becoming any stronger!"
"Unfortunately, achieving this is extremely difficult!"
"Therefore, my current strategy is: we should find ways to enhance our own strength!"
"As Liu Kai Xuan's power continues to grow, if our strength remains stagnant, the gap between us and Liu Kai Xuan will only widen!"
"If our strength can also continuously improve!"
"At least... the gap between us and Liu Kai Xuan won't be so absurd!"
"Father, what do you think?"
"Hmm, that makes sense!"
Kaiyadun nodded and smiled, "Okushan, I didn't expect you to have such strategic vision!"
"Very good, very impressive!"
"However..."
Kaiyadun asked, "You just said we also need to improve our strength, how should we do that?"
Okushan explained, "I've discovered that the core reason why Liu Kai Xuan's army can conquer everywhere with ease!"
"Is because of those high-speed flying drones!"
"We can also approach Liu Kai Xuan and purchase a batch of drone armaments!"
"If possible, we could even negotiate to buy the production line directly from him!"
"Excellent, this is a brilliant idea!"
Okushan's words immediately brightened Kaiyadun's eyes!
Liu Kai Xuan's formidable combat power was fundamentally rooted in those swarms of flying drones.
Dealing with high-speed flying drones from the sky presented a rather awkward military challenge.
Attacking drones in the sky with ordinary assault rifles was highly inefficient.
Furthermore, drones were fast-moving targets, and the accuracy of ordinary firearms was lamentably low.
One would need ground-based anti-aircraft systems to effectively engage drones in the air.
However, anti-aircraft firepower was costly and designed for large fighter jets.
Using anti-aircraft systems to engage drones was akin to using a high-powered cannon to swat a fly.
To counter a single drone sortie, the defending side often had to expend ten times or more the cost.
Against swarms of drones, anti-aircraft systems would be overwhelmed.
Thus, Okushan had suffered greatly at Liu Kai Xuan's hands, and Ming Kai had also been severely disadvantaged by the drones.
As the saying goes, if you can't beat them, join them.
Since your drones are so powerful and beyond my current capabilities to counter, why not equip myself with a fleet of drones?
If he could acquire the production line, Kaiyadun's strength would also be infinitely enhanced.
Therefore, Okushan's "drive the tiger to swallow the wolf" strategy was precisely to Kaiyadun's liking.
Kaiyadun himself would not have to pay any price; he merely needed to write Liu Kai Xuan a "blank check."
Ultimately, the aristocratic forces would bear the brunt of the losses.
Kaiyadun had no concern for their well-being.
These individuals were not aligned with Kaiyadun in the first place.
For Kaiyadun to enhance his own influence, he absolutely needed to bolster his military strength.
Everything else was mere talk.
Kaiyadun adopted Okushan's suggestion and personally dispatched a coordination team to communicate with Liu Kai Xuan on this matter.
As a result, the outcome of the negotiations took a dramatic turn.
Kaiyadun's negotiation team proposed: Liu Kai Xuan would dispatch troops to reclaim the oilfield resources controlled by the nobles!
After these resources were returned to the royal family, Kaiyadun was willing to split the profits generated by the oilfields with Liu Kai Xuan.
However, Liu Kai Xuan's stance was: the matter of mineral resources acquisition would be handled by Kaiyadun.
Of course, Liu Kai Xuan would not accept Kaiyadun's benefits for nothing.
Liu Kai Xuan was willing to provide Kaiyadun with 100 drones free of charge to assist Kaiyadun in combating warlord forces within the Kaia Kingdom.
Concurrently, the two parties would sign an arms trade agreement!
Henceforth, if Kaiyadun required military equipment, he could purchase it in large quantities from Liu Kai Xuan.
Liu Kai Xuan was no fool; it was better for Kaiyadun to handle such a self-incriminating task!
After the negotiation team relayed this information back to Kaiyadun, he couldn't help but frown deeply.
The fact that Liu Kai Xuan was willing to proactively provide Kaiyadun with weapons and equipment was something Kaiyadun had not anticipated.
However, asking Kaiyadun to confront the aristocratic forces of the Kaia Kingdom was a very thorny issue.
The influential figures among the aristocratic forces were not fools either!
Upon sensing danger, they would immediately unite and present a united front against any external threat!