His Majesty the King of Christensen Iberia was holding the letter paper in his hands with bruised veins, and his whole body was trembling with anger.
As the second prince of the former Krissen Empire and the current king of the Iberian Kingdom, he felt that he had been humiliated like never before. He never dreamed that the new head of the Norton family wrote two words in the reply letter to him: fuck off.
For the Norton family, the second prince has spent a lot of time collecting information. When I first sent troops to the Principality of Madras, I heard a rumor that the Norton family in the Northland had a large convoy to help the Second Highness of the Antinac Kingdom win the ruling power, stabilize the kingdom, and assist the Second Highness Captured the fortress of Liechtana in the Principality of Madras and swept Yungeshandra Province.
The second prince laughed at the rumors, is it possible? Although the Norton family is known as the Roaring Bear of the Northland, the young master who wanted to inherit the family business, the golden knight Abelide, died after his death on the battlefield, and the family fell into disrepair, and was newly conferred by him as a commercial family of nobles in the territory The Kenmes family is fighting. Since there is no use value, the second prince will ignore the disputes of the northern land nobles, and even the second prince, the Duke of Lukins in the Northland, even made his own claim and took all the northern land. The jurisdiction of the nobles in the territory was handed over to the Grand Duke of the Northland.
However, after the second prince occupied Kebo City, he got definite information from the refugees abandoned by the convoy in the city. The Norton family did have a large convoy with more than 10,000 carriages, and they also kidnapped nearly 100,000 refugees to go north. It was only after the second prince sent troops to pursue him that he found out that the Norton family's convoy had already crossed the Midoburo River, and the pursuers could only look at the river and sigh.
Next, the second prince was busy plundering the private wealth of the nobles in the Duchy of Madras in the province of Dremke, charged them with the crime of colluding with the kingdom of Antinac and rebelling against the support army of the kingdom of Iberia, and hanged them everywhere. Sweep out those noble private troops who are fighting against each other. Until the defeat of Kebo City, he left the Norton family's northbound convoy behind.
This time I sent troops to the Principality of Madras, in terms of harvest, I made a lot of money. Not only did I write off the huge debt owed by the Grand Duke of Madras, but also I collected a lot of money, food and grass from the nobles of the province of Dremke. The empty treasury has been filled with materials and materials, which can be called a big fortune.
The Battle of Kebo City failed, and the second prince had no choice but to withdraw his troops from the Principality of Madras. After two major defeats in the "Dawn Attack" and "Battle of Kebo", the second prince lost more than 50,000 troops. Although most of them were the private troops of the nobles in the territory under his command, the three frontier regiments supported by the second prince's father-in-law, Grand Duke Fesabrun, also lost more than 20,000 people, which was the most painful thing for the second prince.
In troubled times, military power is paramount, and the second prince is well aware of this truth. The next thing he plans to do is to use this capture to form a directly-administered kingdom army, one is to stabilize his throne, and the other is to lay the foundation for the next dispatch of troops, but the second prince can't think of any territory in the kingdom for a while. Allow yourself to form legions and train troops with peace of mind...
When the Kingdom of Iberia was established, its territory was the five provinces of the former Krissen Empire, of which the Northland Province accounted for half the area of the Kingdom of Iberia, and it was self-contained. Apart from suppressing the Grand Duke of the Northland and preventing him from establishing a principality from the territory of the kingdom, the second prince has always had no good way to bring the Northland under his control.
As for the Donghuang Province and Muyeyuan Province, which are close to the northeast prairie, they are the private land of the second prince’s father-in-law, Grand Duke Fesabrun, and also the foundation of his border defense army. Unless the second prince is crazy, he will not fight here. The idea of two provinces.
Then the rest of the Kingdom of Iberia is the Southern Province and Winston Province where the capital of Windbury is now located. It’s just that the southern province has just been beaten to pieces by Grand Duke Meilein and the Stormtroopers, and if the second prince puts the newly formed Kingdom Legion here for training, it is likely that Grand Duke Meilein will be the first to attack. The second prince doesn’t want to Then let Grand Duke Meilein fight under the king's capital.
When the second prince first founded the country, for the sake of face, he changed the southern province into the three southern counties, and the larger Winston province into the four counties of the capital, and in order to raise military expenses and maintain his luxurious life, he changed the province directly under his own His territory has long been sold at a high price, and now he can't find a place to train soldiers.
When the second prince was full of melancholy and troubled planning for the next step, a search force serving as the vanguard of the army sent him several businessmen. From the mouths of these merchants, the second prince heard the news of the Norton family's northbound convoy again. They defeated the Northland lord coalition led by Duke Lukins, the Grand Duke of the Northland, and won a complete victory. And in order to retaliate against the Grand Duke of the Northland, they also robbed the Grand Duke's territory in the southern part of the Northland, and moved all the citizens in the Grand Duke's territory of the Northland. Now the dragons in the North have no masters and are in a state of loss of control.
This is really a big pie that fell from the sky. The second prince made a decisive decision and sent troops to the Hengdelifu Cable Bridge. Sure enough, he occupied two strategic fortresses without any effort, and then occupied Gildusk City, the capital of the Grand Duke. The government saw Duke Lukins who was unconscious due to vomiting blood.
The second prince waved his hand, and the Duke of Lukins left the Northland in the name that Windbury, the capital of the kingdom, was more suitable for recuperation. Whether he could return to the Northland in his lifetime was the answer tacitly understood by everyone.
After taking over the mess left by the Grand Duke of the Northland, the second prince discovered how thoroughly the so-called Southern Grand Duke's Territory, the essence of the Northland, had been destroyed. He couldn't find a usable blacksmith, servant, or Not to mention those villages outside the city that were burned to the ground.
At this moment, the second prince received another report that when a brigade of 2,500 soldiers from the Border Guard Corps joined nearly 3,000 noble private troops to rob the seemingly intact town of Evanson, they were attacked by nearby soldiers. The attack by the remnants of the Northland Army in Yinghualing Manor caused heavy damage and killed more than 2,000 people.
Unreasonable, the second prince immediately mobilized his army to go out. Unexpectedly, there were more than 10,000 people from the so-called Northland Legion, all of them were riding horses, and they were all in iron armor. The first were two golden knights, one was the self-proclaimed Baron Shaheen , one of the former Golden Knights of the Grand Duke of the North, Henned Knight, and the second one, the Tabek Golden Knight. As the five famous knights of the Golden Family under the Grand Duke of the Northland, they are no strangers to the second prince, and they can even be called old acquaintances.
Looking at the chaotic array of his subordinates, and looking at the murderous aura on the opposite side, the second prince knew that if he fought, he would never get anything good. So he rode out alone and tried to persuade him with good words. Only then did he know that Knight Henned had inherited his father's land and the title of baron. Now the Grand Duke's Cherry Blossom Ridge Manor Castle and Evanson Town are already the Shaheen family's territory. Even Tabek has become Henned's family knight.
The second prince had no choice but to apologize for his ignorance and offending the Shaheen family's territory, and explained that because of Duke Lukins' illness, he has now taken over the dukedom, and sincerely invited Knight Henned to join him. great cause.
Knight Henned, who has become the Baron of Shaheen, gave the second prince a lot of face. He accepted the second prince's apology and said that those who do not know are not guilty. It's just that as a vassal family of the Grand Duke of the Northland, it is difficult for him to agree to the invitation of the second prince without the approval of the Grand Duke. After all, the Duke of Lukins was so kind to him that he entrusted the Northland Army to him when he was in danger. Not only did he inherit the title of baron, but he also made the Tabek knight his family knight. Loyalty is just around the corner. But if the Lord Duke personally tells him to join him under the second prince's command, then he promises not to say anything, and will serve the second prince until his death...
First he suffered a bad loss, and then he encountered a soft nail. The second prince withdrew his army and returned to the city depressed. The only harvest was when he curiously asked Knight Henned, where did the armor of his soldiers come from? Knight Hennard told him that it was exchanged from the Norton family.
So the second prince spent a lot of energy inquiring about and collecting information about the Norton family. When a steady stream of true and false gossip and rumors gathered in front of the second prince, he finally sorted out a relatively reliable one. news intelligence.
It turns out that the current head of the Norton family is the second young master who was exiled by the family for ten years. He left the family at the age of fourteen and learned a good unarmed skill outside. The Golden Knight Tabek folded with his men and made Tabek lie in bed for a year.
Proud and arrogant, he took the initiative to provoke a war with the Kenmes family just after taking over the family territory, set fire to the Red River Valley Manor Castle of the Viscount Kenmes, and built a rock castle in the Morgan Hills. He refused the extortion from the Grand Duke of the Northland, annihilated the 4,000 troops sent by the Grand Duke of the Northland to conquer the Norton family, and sent troops to attack, and hanged Baron Farad, who had been whipping and leading the horse for the second prince, on the charge of hurting the messenger of the Norton family...
It is said that the second young master of the Norton family made a fortune during his exile. After receiving the news that the family asked him to return to inherit the title and the family territory, he organized a convoy all the way north. The most famous one is a golden archer who returned to the family territory with the second young master first. While he was in Rock Castle, the Northland lord coalition forces organized by Duke Lukins were unable to attack for a long time, and finally waited until the Norton family went north. The arrival of the caravan led to a crushing defeat.
After learning about the general information about the Norton family, the second prince only understood three points. First, the Norton family is very rich. The wealth they robbed from the Grand Duke alone exceeded one million gold dollars, not to mention the paper northward. The convoy, nearly 20,000 carriages, is said to be loaded with countless armors. Henned said that the armors exchanged for the 10,000 people under his command is less than one-tenth of the total number of armors of the Norton family.
The second point is that the armed forces of the Norton family are very strong, estimated to be 40,000 to 50,000 people, and their weapons and equipment are more complete and advanced than the second prince's Iberian king's army and the border guards. At present, the second prince can only befriend the Norton family in the Northland instead of offending the Norton family.
The third point, which is the point that the second prince finds most ridiculous, is that the new head of the Norton family, the second young master is a short-sighted, unambitious, turtle-like guard dog. As long as anyone has the current financial and military strength of the Norton family as capital, as long as they have a little bit of ambition, then the Northland has already become a delicious meal on their plate. Instead of defeating the Grand Duke of the Northland and robbing the Grand Duke's collar like the new head of the Norton family, he took the loot and withdrew his head back to the family territory.
Looking at the map of the Norton family territory in the Northland, and the Rock Castle in the Morgan Hills that separates the family territory from the outside world, the second prince thought it was really funny. It has become a turtle in the north, and although the territory is large, it is extremely desolate. It seems that the Norton family moved so many people from the Grand Duke's territory to prepare for seclusion and develop the territory.
From the point of view of the second prince, he has to thank the new head of the unambitious Norton family. If he hadn't given the Grand Duke of the Northland a bottom line, the second prince would not have taken over the Grand Duke's leadership so smoothly. The second prince doesn't care about the loss of the subjects. In the seven counties he ruled in the Iberia Kingdom, there are many landless farmers and war-torn refugees. The second prince has ordered his nobles to escort these people to the Grand Duke of the Northland. Come, there is ready-made farmland here for them to cultivate. As long as the second prince is more patient, when these farmers and refugees have harvested and settled down, the Grand Duke of the Northland will become a treasure land that can continuously provide him with manpower and material resources.
Occupying the Grand Duchy not only eliminated the biggest trouble that Duke Lukins wanted to separate from the Iberian Kingdom to become a principality, but also provided the second prince with a place to train troops and collect wealth. The second prince is full of ambition. He wants to take control of the entire Northland, tie all the nobles of the Northland to the chariot under his command, and shed blood and sweat for his cause of world hegemony...
And the second prince has plenty of time now, he doesn't fight for the day and night, everything takes his time. As for the Norton family that he still can't afford to offend, the second prince does not intend to let it go. You must know that the former Grand Duke of the Northland was also a dog guarding the house, but he was still played by the second prince. The second prince was very excited. Since the new head of the Norton family is also a family dog, he has a lot of experience to deal with him. Compared with the Grand Duke of the Northland, it is obviously easier to deal with the fledgling little guy.
The second prince's letter to Norton's new head was well thought out, and even the three conditions were a temptation. The first condition requires handing over the property of 300,000 goldfords in the private treasury of the Grand Duke of the Northland. The purpose is very simple, that is, to make the Norton family feel that his act of robbing the Grand Duke of the Northland has become a legal and recognized act of revenge. . He robbed millions of dollars, but the second prince only wanted a small 300,000 of it, which would make the Norton family feel that they had taken advantage of it. As long as they handed over 300,000, they would be able to move without being held accountable. I believe that the Norton family will be very happy to send 300,000 gold dollars to the second prince...
The second requirement is to ask the new lord of the Norton family to swear allegiance in front of the second prince and elevate the title of the Norton family. This is both a temptation and a trap. The prince has plenty of means to manipulate him. What's the use of having more golden knights under him? One of the reasons why the Duke of Lukins did not dare to become an independent principality in the Northland is that his five golden knights were repeatedly suppressed by the two great sword masters beside the second prince. helpless...
The third request was for the Norton family to send out two corps to pacify the Northland for the second prince. This was actually another test of the Norton family's ambitions. After all, the second prince would not feel at ease sleeping with such a powerful army huddled in the family territory. If you agree to this request, it means that the Norton family is sincerely submitting to the second prince, and then you can consider how to cut flesh and blood from the Norton family and have a big meal...
From commemorating the young master of the Norton family who fought bravely and died for him to making three requests, the second prince felt that the letter he wrote was well-founded and touching, and he dreamed that the new head of the Norton family would bow down to him in his dreams. In front of me, I let myself take what I want from the Norton family, the population, military strength, weapons and equipment, materials and property, etc. are endless, rolling in...
The second prince laughed out loud in his dreams...
But what happened to this reply? There are only two words on the paper - roll thick.
The phrase chug does not exist in the Gallint sublingual vocabulary, and no one ever associates the word chu with it. This is not to get out, or to get out, but when these two words are combined, the second prince realizes that there is a lot of malice in it, with contempt and ridicule, as if he was slapped in the face twice...
The second prince slowly folded the reply letter in his hand. As a superior person, the city government still has the ability to remain calm. After sending Viscount Hindelson to deliver the letter, the second prince gritted his teeth while holding the reply letter. As long as he is given time, let him If he finds a chance, then he will definitely make the Norton family beyond redemption. At that time, he will definitely let the new boy in charge swallow this reply alive. No one has ever insulted the second prince who has been in a high position since he was a child. He will firmly remember these two words...