Just as Saint Roland V had predicted, by the time the two sides had finished negotiating the deal, it was already basically autumn.
And as for Great Zhou's delivery, they would have to wait until next year.
It wasn't that they were deliberately dragging things out.
Great Zhou had made it perfectly clear to them that there were other customers ahead of them who had already joined the queue. The Holy Roland Empire had arrived last, paid its deposit latest, and naturally ended up at the very back.
The Holy Roland Empire had no choice but to accept this and wait.
During this process, Fisher's batch of goods was also delivered without incident.
Considering what he had done before, Fisher, out of caution, directly arranged for five thousand troops to escort the shipment.
It wasn't that Fisher had only five thousand troops at his disposal. Rather, according to the United Nations treaty established earlier, any troop mobilization exceeding five thousand within the United Nations required an application. They had to wait for the various factions within the United Nations to vote, and only after the vote passed could the troops be mobilized.
Just hearing about this process was enough to know how troublesome it was.
Combined with the transportation and communications efficiency of this era, if you submitted an application at the beginning of the year, you would have to wait until at least midyear for the meeting. Even worse, holding the meeting didn't guarantee that your application would pass.
How outrageous was this requirement? When everyone had gathered to establish the rules back then, could they really not have thought of that?
Of course they had.
The very purpose of this rule was to prevent the various nations from resorting to arms.
At the same time, it truly suited