Although Lorist wandered outside for more than three months, and hurried back to the Rock Castle until Miss Teresty was about to give birth, but because the guards sent her from time to time to send her love letters and gifts expressing that she wanted her to read her, That's why Miss Teresti easily forgave Lorist's mistake of saying nothing for so long, which made Lorist heave a sigh of relief. Pregnant women can't bear the stimulation...
When Fatty Shi entered the study room, he saw Lorist laughing, and he was very curious: "What's so happy?"
Lorist smiled and raised a letter in his hand: "The news just arrived that the Grand Duke Feisabrun has gone back to the Eastern Wilderness Province. The letter said that the Grand Duke Feisabrun has appointed himself the regent of the Kingdom of Iberia. For more than a month, the minister has not done anything serious except quarreling with the nobles in the Rose Palace every day. Several policies promulgated have been resisted by the nobles. In the end, the great swordsman couldn't stand these tedious things affairs, resigned from the position of Regent, and ran away after leaving a border ranger regiment in the capital, and now the Kingdom of Iberia is headed by the beautiful Queen..."
"This poor old man must not know that this is all your arrangement..." Fatty Shi shook his head: "At the beginning, I heard from the guards who delivered the letter that you did not allow the family's armed forces to loot the nobles and rich people in the capital of Windbury. If you treat the queen so favorably, you will know who you are going to cheat again. Especially the two chariot battalions armed by our family helped the Henned and Philim families wipe out almost half of Winston Province, but did not hang anyone who resisted I am more certain of this idea. Only now do I understand that you want to deal with the Grand Duke Fessabrun."
"No, you're wrong. In fact, I didn't intend to trap anyone. The old man Feisabrun jumped into the pit by himself. I made it very clear that this time the troops were sent out. The target was only the second prince. Fight against the nobles of the entire Iberian Kingdom, and then let them spread the reputation of our Norton family as a robber family to the entire Galimbia... "
Lorist stood up, went to the wine cabinet to choose a small bucket of fruit wine, took two silver cups, poured them out and handed them to Fatty Shi: "Try it, I got it from a vineyard in Winston Province."
Fatty Shi took it, tasted it, and called out: "It tastes good. But Locke, I was confused by you. You don't rob the property of the nobles of the royal capital, but you team up with Henned and Felim The family robbed most of the lords of Winston Province, isn't this contradicting your statement?"
"Hehe..." Lorist laughed: "No contradiction, what you don't understand is what the nobles of the Iberian Kingdom are. When the second prince established the kingdom, he bought and sold titles by conferring territorial nobles. He sold all the land in the Southern Province and Winston Province except the capital, and also conferred dozens of lords in the Northland, so the Iberian Kingdom has the largest number of territorial nobles.
The second prince used the wealth obtained from buying and selling titles to form a kingdom army to attack the Principality of Meilein. Unexpectedly, after two years of fighting, he not only lost the battle, but also turned the southern province of the kingdom into ruins. And those nobles who were entrusted to the southern province realized that the future was not good, so they packed up their belongings and went to the king's capital to stay there, and then argued with the second prince every day, demanding that the second prince be responsible for the ruins of the southern province.
A few years ago, the second prince had no choice but to borrow troops from the Grand Duke of Fisabrun. He had to give an explanation to the nobles who stayed in the royal capital, so he took aim at the Principality of Madras, which seemed easy to bully. The idea is to occupy the province of Dremke in the Principality of Madras, replace all the territories of the nobles in the royal capital, and take the opportunity to make a fortune, and by the way, pay off the huge grain debt owed to the Duke of Madras .
If you look at the map, you can understand that Dremke Province is known as the granary of the former empire, so is the adjacent Winston Province poor in land? The fact is that the second prince did not have the ability to control the lords under the Duke of Madras. After the territory was confiscated, the lords of Winston Province did their own thing. Growing cash crops that are very profitable. Therefore, after the southern province was destroyed, the Iberian Kingdom has been short of food, but the food is in the hands of the lords of Winston Province. In recent years, the price of food in the kingdom has been high. These are the lords of Winston Province. masterpiece.
Because of the high price of grain, the lords of these Winston provinces took advantage of the good weather in the past few years to hoard a large amount of grain in their hands. Less money. Those southern lords staying in the capital are jealous and envious of these bumpkins and upstarts in Winston Province, and there are many conflicts between the two sides. This is also the main reason why the second prince stayed in the north a few years ago and was too lazy to return to the capital. He didn't want to Wrapping up with those nobles.
So this time the news about our three northern families robbing the lord of Winston Province spread to the capital, and the nobles in the capital applauded, thinking that these bumpkins in Winston should have been given a serious look. In fact, in my original intention, these nobles of the Iberian Kingdom should be cleaned up, just like what you did in the Antinac Kingdom, hang these nobles, and the world will be much cleaner .
It is a pity that doing that will only help the person who takes over the ruling power of the Kingdom of Iberia, just like the Grand Duke Fesabrun, if he is allowed to integrate the four provinces of the Kingdom of Iberia, then his strength will be repeated Several times, we have added an enemy that is difficult to deal with for no reason, so I will not do such a stupid thing.
I deliberately let the armed forces of the Henned and Felim families not harm the lives of those lords during the looting process. It is for this reason that they emptied their granaries and supplies, plundered their floating wealth, and relocated their subjects. Let these Winston provinces and lords and the lords of the southern province who stayed in the capital be in a state of even strength. If I rob the nobles of the royal capital, all the nobles will share the same hatred, and if I let the nobles of the southern provinces of the royal capital go, then they will gloat over what happened to the lords of Winston Province.
For the lords of Winston Province, what they hate the most is that our three families in the Northland moved their subjects away. Without the subjects, they would not be able to gather wealth and grow food, and the Northland has natural dangers, so they have no way to fight back . If you want to get the lords, you have to think of other ideas, but I have moved all the poor people in the capital, and there is no one to recruit these lords, so the only way left is to attack the neighboring Duchy of Madras, Dremke Province idea.
The last time the second prince attacked Dremke Province, all the nobles in the southern province who stayed in the capital were the nobles who contributed money and efforts behind the scenes. The lords of Winston Province provided some food and troops in a perfunctory manner. Now the lords of Winston's idea of playing Dremke Province for their own benefit will definitely be strongly opposed by the nobles of the southern province.
In the past, any proposals made by the nobles in the southern provinces of the royal capital would always be opposed and resisted by the lords of Winston Province. In terms of strength, the nobles in the southern provinces who lost their territories had no choice but to swallow their anger. So now the two sides are similar, and any proposals made by the lords of Winston Province will definitely be opposed by the lords of the southern province. Therefore, after the Archduke Fesabrunn took over the ruling power of the Kingdom of Iberia, he found that the two Under Fang Noble's wrangling, he would accomplish nothing, and the government order would not leave the capital, so he saw the opportunity early, so he simply got away, and ran back to his hometown as soon as he resigned from the post of regent.
If the Grand Duke Fesabrun is determined to clean up a group of nobles who disagree with him, maybe he can barely control the situation in the kingdom and push the kingdom to develop in the direction he wants. It's a pity that the old man didn't know if he didn't have the courage or was too sober. Knowing that doing so would make the Feisabrun family a target of public criticism, he simply gave up and retreated to his lair to enjoy himself.
Our Norton family is too far away from Winston Province, and it is not suitable to extend our hands there without occupying the entire Northland. So I hope that Winston Province will become a chaotic battlefield. Once the Grand Duke of Feisabrun leaves, without the strong suppression from above, the conflict between the lords of the southern provinces and Winston Province will break out, and soon they will They will meet each other in battle, and then we will sit back and watch them fight back and forth. "
Fatty Shi's eyes straightened when he heard this, and he sighed, "Lock, I didn't expect you to change so fast now. After becoming a lord, you think farther and farther. You really have calculated everything..."
Lorist spread his hands: "I can't help it. After I became a lord, I realized that the world of nobles is not hunting, playing, holding dances and banquets all day long, seducing those beautiful ladies and ladies, but worrying about all the affairs of the entire family territory. , responsible for the future of the family, the life of the people and the knights under him, the communication between the nobles is still full of intrigue and copper stink, and those who are not thoughtful and thoughtful will be swallowed by others, all of which are forced of… "
Fatty Shi drank the wine in the silver cup in one gulp, wiped his mouth and said: "Okay, don't complain, you have done a good job, and the family is thriving now. Let's talk about business, I am so urgent What's the matter?"
Lorist pointed to a stack of thick animal skin documents on the desk: "At the end of this month, the nearly 70,000 relocated people we allocated and the more than 40,000 poor people we forcibly relocated from the royal capital Windbury City It will arrive at the family territory, and the hundred thousand or so immigrants will be handed over to you, and they will be resettled to Xing'anyuan, where there are still a few districts that are short of people, and with this group of immigrants, it will be almost the same."
"Accompanied by these immigrants are more than 15,000 prisoners of war from the Border Guard Corps. The Grand Duke Fesabrun will not give up these soldiers under his command. The combined population of Muyeyuan Province and Donghuang Province is less than 50. Wan, if the southern province hadn't been destroyed and a large number of civilians had been exiled to the eastern wasteland province, the Grand Duke Fesabrun would not have kept the frontier army at full strength in the past few years. Now the fifteen thousand we have captured are elite soldiers. It wasn't the 30,000 eliminated soldiers that he lent to the second prince back then, so he would definitely come to redeem them.
I am not going to let these captives enter the family territory, I will leave it to you to arrange for them to build roads and transportation facilities in Xing'anyuan. It is a pity that these strong laborers will be released like this. If the envoy of Grand Duke Fesabrun comes , it’s up to you to negotiate with him, as long as you think you can delay the freedom of these prisoners of war, it’s also good to let them build more roads for us... "
Fatty Shi laughed loudly: "Locke, you are getting smarter and smarter, and you have to calculate everything like this. If Grand Duke Feisabrun wants to know, he must be outraged. Alright, I know this, so I will hand it over to you." Give it to me. I will ask Grand Duke Feisabrun to pay a large ransom for his fifteen thousand troops."
Lorist rubbed his chin and walked around the study room, pondering and said: "The Grand Duke Fessabrun may not have that much money, his adopted son and confidant, Viscount Christopher, is still in my hands, plus There are more than 15,000 elite soldiers. I doubt that he can afford this huge ransom. So I don’t want property this time, I want cattle and sheep. Donghuang Province and Muyeyuan Province are the largest pastures in the former empire. The cattle produced Sheep accounted for more than half of the market share of the former empire, which was a record previously seen in the commercial survey data of Morente City.
Last time you wiped out all the lords of the Northland. Isn’t the western part of the Northland empty now? We regard it as the pasture of our Norton family. There are more than 15,000 head of cattle for a prisoner of war. I don’t know. Viscount Christopher, the great swordsman, can exchange as many cows as he can. If it is less than 10,000, I don’t want to do it. The cows he exchanged can be grazed in the west and turned into a large pasture in the north. "
Fatty Shi nodded: "Currently, our family's only pasture belongs to Fenglin Villa, and there are only about 2,000 cattle and sheep. Although there are civilians in Fengleyuan who start herding, they are basically sheep, dozens to several A hundred heads, the population size is not large. If we hadn’t harvested a large amount of monster meat during the tide of monsters, the family territory would have suffered from a meat shortage. Your idea is good. Although the western part of the Northland is desolate, it is not dangerous, and it is suitable for establishing a large pasture."
"Then it's decided like this. By the way, our three Northland families also robbed a lot of grain and grass in Winston Province this time, and the distribution to our family is about 60 million catties, as well as some property. I will prepare these grain, grass and property They are all used to develop Xing'an Yuan, and I will leave it to you to be in charge of storage. Also, the Henned and Felim families are not short of food, and are willing to sell the robbed food to our family at the market price. I have already agreed. I'll leave it to you, too," Lorist added.
"Okay, I know it." Fatty Shi stood up and went to the desk to organize all the relevant documents in his hand: "Locke, how many days is Miss Teresty's birth?"
"In a few days, I guess it should be around the 11th or 12th." Lorist said looking out the window.
"Aren't you going to give her an explanation?" Fatty Shi asked.
Lorist shrugged: "What can I do? You know that I have proposed to her several times, but she always said that she had sworn before the god of wisdom, Simin Ryder, that she would never talk about marriage in this lifetime. I hope that after giving birth this time, she can change her mind and agree to marry me... "
"Hey, think about the time when we set off from Morente City to the Northland, five years have passed in a flash. Now you are twenty-nine, and you should start a family as a lord. Miss Tresty is really a good wife of the lord You need to persuade her more." Fatty Shi sighed.
Lorist nodded. Seeing that Fatty Shi was about to leave, he went to open the door to see him off, and then saw Schwader standing outside the door, and laughed: "Fatty, Baron Felim will come to us for the winter at the end of this year." , and will bring his fifteen-year-old baby daughter over..."
Fatty Shi was stunned: "Baron Felim? He's not yet thirty-five, how could he have a fifteen-year-old baby girl? And doesn't he have a wife?"
Lorist laughed: "That's his illegitimate daughter. It is said that her mother was only sixteen when the child was born, and Baron Felim himself was not yet eighteen..."
"Beast!" Fatty Shi scolded with deep hatred, but his tone was full of envy: "Why did he come to us to spend the winter and bring his daughter here?"
Lorist nuzzled at the blushing Schwarden: "I've taken a fancy to this kid, and I'm going to bring his daughter here so that the two of them can meet. If you like it, I'll discuss with Bodfinger about getting them engaged."
Fatty Shi laughed: "Good thing, Schwader, congratulations, you have abducted a wife after walking with the adults, it seems that you will go out more often in the future..."
Schwader couldn't bear the teasing of the two, turned and ran out, Lorist and Fatty Shi burst into laughter...
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