Wang Dong didn't spell it all out.
But Zong Rulin and the others understood the meaning behind his words perfectly clearly.
Compared with the other major powers eyeing the New Song Kingdom covetously,
the Black Stone Kingdom was the smallest.
Yet with the Sky Peng Horizontal, a Death Starship, standing guard, the Black Stone Kingdom's chances of success in the struggle over the New Song Kingdom, this enormous prize, were not small at all!
And judging from the confidence in Wang Dong's words, what did he mean by "ensuring a sufficient advantage in both hard and soft power"?
Clearly, aside from the Sky Peng Horizontal, the Black Stone Kingdom was also confident it could suppress the New Song Kingdom in other areas!
For a small borderland nation like the Black Stone Kingdom, which had risen from humble beginnings and grown rapidly, this was truly hard to believe.
However, the Sky Peng Horizontal stood right before them, as real as could be. Zong Rulin and the others had no choice but to believe it.
Then Wang Dong clearly laid out the Black Stone Kingdom's attitude toward the ordinary citizens of the New Song Kingdom after its plans succeeded.
They would be treated equally!
Considering the Black Stone Kingdom's method of expansion, swallowing up much larger powers, and the several similar operations it had carried out before,
this promise was undoubtedly quite credible.
Compared with the heavy oppression and exploitation that ordinary citizens of the New Song Kingdom would most likely suffer under other powers—whose entrenched vested interests tended to impose colonial rule on newly occupied territory—
it was clear that the Black Stone Kingdom was an almost perfect "953 successor"!
At this point, Zong Rulin had to admit that the resolve he had originally settled on seemed to be wavering.
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