"The Grand Duke Fesabrun authorized Princess Sylvia to purchase 70,000 sets of 103 cavalry standard equipment and 50,000 sets of mosaic warrior standard equipment from the Norton family. At the same time, the list of various living materials purchased from the Norton family is as follows ….The total amount is 1,270,000 gold blessings."
After reading the list in his hand, an old man with the appearance of a goatee manager presented the list of supplies to Schward respectfully, and Schward then handed the list to Lorist.
Looking at the list of materials made of parchment for a long time, Lorist looked playfully at Princess Sylvia sitting on the left: "Your Highness, the last time the Feisabrun family bought 100,000 sets from our family. There are still 20,000 sets of 103 cavalry standard equipment that will not be delivered until next year, and the agreement will be completed. This is an agreement you signed with your own hands. I don't think you will forget it so quickly, right
Even if a set of 103 cavalry standard equipment is preferential to your family, after all, one set still costs 65 gold points, and 70,000 sets are nearly 4.8 million gold points, plus 35 gold points for the mosaic warrior standard equipment A set of Fude, 50,000 sets will cost about 1.8 million, plus more than 1.2 million in the purchase of daily necessities, the total amount will be nearly 8 million gold blessings. Your Royal Highness, can you tell me how the Feisabrun family plans to pay the bill? "
Princess Xiliweiya smiled like a flower: "Brother Locke, the standard equipment and daily necessities purchased by our family are all paid in cash this time, and we trade with horseshoe gold."
Horseshoe gold? Lorist was taken aback, this is the currency unit among the grassland tribes on the grassland. Generally speaking, barbarian tribes are accustomed to bartering goods, but sometimes when encountering large-scale transactions or goods brought by foreign merchants, they will also use gold nuggets cast in the shape of horseshoes as currency. The normal transaction price is a piece of horseshoe gold worth one hundred goldfords.
Well, even if the Feisabrun family wiped out nearly a hundred savage tribes on the northeast prairie, it would be impossible to seize so much horseshoe gold, which is nearly eight million gold dollars. If nearly a hundred grassman tribes could have 80,000 horseshoe golds, then the grassman tribes on the northeast prairie would have been wiped out long ago.
However, the Feisabrun family has been entrenched on the northeast prairie for decades, and this time they have emptied out their own treasury, maybe they can gather so much horseshoe gold. So the question is why the Feisabrun family requested to purchase so many supplies and armaments at this time, and what is the old fox, the Grand Duke Feisabrun, thinking
Lorist rubbed his chin and thought for a while, then asked Princess Silvia again:
"It is said that the Grand Duke of Fessabrun has reorganized two legions under his command. With an establishment of 92,000 people, the standard equipment provided by our family did not slow down the speed of the Fessabrun family's army. As far as the quality of standard equipment is concerned, I don't believe that it will consume so much in the battle with the grass barbarian cavalry that the Feisabrun family needs to re-purchase 70,000 sets of standard equipment. Can you tell me the real reason
Please forgive my smugness, Your Royal Highness, it is not that our Norton family is unwilling to make this deal, but that the purchase by Grand Duke Fessabrun is clearly expanding its military strength. Your family already has two regular field cavalry The legion purchased another 70,000 sets of 103 cavalry standard equipment, obviously preparing to form another legion. As neighbors of the Northlands, we have doubts about the actions of the Fessabrun family. To be honest, we don't want to meet you on the battlefield. When we don't know where the Archduke Feisabrun's sword is pointing, we can't agree to your purchase request. "
Princess Sylvia giggled: "My grandfather is right. He said that if you don't tell you the real reason for our military expansion, you will not agree to this arms purchase deal. My grandfather asked me to tell you , the Fesabrun family has no intention to change the status quo and future of the Iberian Kingdom. If ten years later, my grandfather might still want to put my younger brother Horix on the throne, but since poor Horix After Ricks was found out to have a congenital heart defect by the pharmacist, my grandfather lost his mind... "
Horix, this is the orthodox heir of the Kingdom of Iberia. As the king of the kingdom, the second prince Iberia went to seek the support of his father-in-law, the Grand Duke Fesabrun, in order to send troops to the Principality of Madras. Locked him together with his own daughter, the queen of the kingdom, and used drugs to make the queen pregnant, and then gave birth to the little prince Horix.
In fact, everyone knows that the marriage between the second prince and the daughter of the Grand Duke Fessabrun is actually a political marriage. Famous in the Northeast Prairie. After the two got married, the second prince established the Kingdom of Iberia with the support of the Grand Duke Fesabrun. The marriage of the king and queen is on paper, each has its own private life, and no one hinders the other. The queen gave birth to two children for others, and the second prince was not inferior, having three illegitimate children outside.
In the end, Grand Duke Feisabrun couldn't stand it anymore, and used coercive methods to lock the king and queen couple in the room, and provided stimulating drugs to make this wonderful couple have a normal married life. But when the heir named Horix was finally born, neither the second prince nor the queen loved the product of this pleasure-enhancing drug, and they regarded it as nothing and ignored it. It was just thrown in the Feisabrun family, and more often it was Princess Silvia who raised Horix.
"Huh? What did the little prince Horix get?" Lorist was surprised.
"Congenital heart defect." Princess Sylvia sighed deeply: "My grandfather regretted it, saying that it was his fault, and that His Majesty the King and his wife should not be forced to use buoyant drugs. Si's heart is not fully developed. The pharmacist said that it is difficult for Horix to live past the age of twenty. The older he grows, the heavier the burden on his heart will be. It is a danger. It is a congenital and incurable disease, and there is no way to cure it."
As she spoke, Princess Sylvia had tears in her eyes, she was about to shed tears. After all, Horix was brought up by her, and being found out with such a disease was a big blow to her.
"Your Highness, I'm sorry." Lorist expressed his apology.
"It's okay, I'm used to it." Princess Sylvia took a white silk handkerchief from Sandy Great Swordsman and wiped her reddish eyes: "Mr. Pro, please bring the family map."
Pro is the goatee-bearded old man who was reading the list of supplies, and he was also the manager of Princess Sylvia's trip. Hearing Princess Sylvia's call, he hurriedly brought a map and brought a maid to come forward, and the maid One person opened the whole map at the same time.
This is a complete map of the northeast prairie, and it is also the most complete and clear map of the northeast prairie that Lorist has seen so far. Even every spring on the prairie is marked on the map.
The northeast prairie is described in some geography books as starting from the Demon Dragon Mountain Range, located in the northeast of the human settlements of the Galintia Continent. Its area is estimated to be about the size of five northern lands, and it is vast. It is said that if you ride a fast horse, it will take a month to walk from the southern end of the Northeast Prairie to the northern end.
Just like the barbarian tribes that are active in the Demon Dragon Mountains, the grass barbarian tribes are the biggest scourge on the northeast prairie. It is said that the Caoman tribe is a variant of the Shanman tribe. They have transformed from a Shanman tribe into a nomadic tribe. They have lived on horseback since they were young, grazing, hunting, and sweeping the human settlements around the northeast prairie all the time, plundering everything. The materials and manpower they need. These grass-mans riding on horses have a specific name, called grass-man Luqi. They are the most elite fighters of the Caoman tribe on the northeast prairie.
Before the establishment of the former Christen Empire, the grassland cavalry had always been the confidant of Winston Province and the Southern Province. The biggest invasion of grassland cavalry was to gather more than 100,000 cavalry to go deep into the Great Plains of Ontario and drink horses at Egret Lake. All the nobles along the way could not resist the grassland cavalry except for staying in their own castles and gathering crowds to fight to the death. The soldiers of the cavalry can only sit back and watch the unscrupulous rampage of the cavalry in the grassland. That was the biggest damage the grassland barbarians caused to human settlements, and it was also the last glory of the grassland barbarians.
After the establishment of the former Cresson Empire, the founding emperor, Cresson I, raised his troops to conquer the northeast prairie and fought against the cavaliers for half a year. He suffered extremely heavy casualties, wiped out nearly 100,000 cavalry, and expanded the land. Thousands of miles away, the Muyeyuan Province was set up, cutting off the path of the Caomanlu cavalry invading human settlements in one fell swoop, separating the Northeast Prairie from other provinces of the empire, and setting up heavy troops in Muyeyuan Province, so that the grassman cavalry could no longer attack. There is no way to go beyond the thunder pool.
When the Grand Duke Feisabrun once again expanded the empire for thousands of miles, after setting up the Eastern Wilderness Province. The grassman tribes on the northeast prairie are no longer able to achieve much. Except for the occasional collection of 10,000 to 20,000 barbarian cavalrymen who plundered Donghuang Province and Muyeyuan Province, most of the time they were held down and beaten on the ground by two field ranger regiments under the command of the Feisabrun family. Especially during the civil war of the empire, even though the empire was raging with flames, the barbarian tribes on the northeast prairie could not take the opportunity to attack the interior of the empire. The rangers of the Fesabrun family were an insurmountable moat in front of them.
Princess Sylvia stood up, came to the open map of the northeast prairie, pointed at it, and proudly declared: "On June 21 this year, the 70,000 elites of the Feisabrun family made a surprise attack. Dajinchuan and Xiaojinchuan wiped out more than 200,000 people from the grassman Hubeite tribe, and captured the Dajinchuan and Xiaojinchuan areas with more than 18,000 casualties. My grandfather announced that Jinchuan Province will be established here, and the Dajinchuan and Dajinchuan areas will be included in the Under the jurisdiction of House Fesabrun..."
"Hiss..." The people present couldn't help exclaiming, especially Earl Kenmes, who rushed to the map and clicked his tongue while looking at it: "You have passed through the Lost Forest and the Weeping Ghost Cliff, no wonder you can surprise the map. Big and small Jinchuan, this time the Feisabrun family has made a big fuss... "
Although the northeast prairie is flat, it is not without mountains, rivers and hills. From the map, Donghuang Province and Dajinchuan are close at hand, but there is an endless forest and continuous hills and cliffs in it. It is easy to get lost if you enter it by mistake, and it is difficult to get out. Whether it's the rangers of the Feisabrun family or the grass barbarian cavalry, they all regard this lost forest and ghost crying cliff as a dead end, and they are daunting. Both parties regard this place as their own natural defense barrier.
The Big and Small Jinchuan area, which is known as the gold mining area of the Galintia continent. In the era of magic civilization more than 2,000 years ago, magicians investigated it and recorded it in the book Geographical Exploration of Galintia, which has been handed down to the present. However, in the era of magic civilization, gold is not a valuable mineral for magicians, and its value is far inferior to those of magic metals. At the end of the magic civilization and the dark millennium, even if they knew that the big and small Jinchuan were rich in gold mines, no one had the means to mine them.
After a millennium of darkness, the grass barbarian cavalry in the big and small Jinchuan area was rampant, and the grass barbarian tribes around this hilly area also fought and fought frantically. In the end, the grass barbarian tribes ranked among the top three tribes in the big and small Jinchuan area. The Hubert tribe mentioned by Princess Sylvia is a very powerful grass barbarian tribe, with 30,000 armors, and the cavalry men, women, and children who can fight on horseback add up to no less than 150,000 to 60,000 horsemen, but none Thinking of being wiped out by the elite cavalry of the Feisabrun family...
Now Lorist understands where Princess Sylvia's confidence comes from for the large-scale purchase of armaments. Obviously, the horseshoe gold she said this time is paying for the transaction, and the horseshoe gold must be the Feisabrun family Seized in the Jinchuan area. Unexpectedly, the Norton family destroyed the Kingdom of Haneyabada, and the Feisabrun family on the northeast prairie was not to be outdone. The surprise attack occupied the Jinchuan area and wiped out more than 200,000 barbarians. It is amazing.
Earl Kenmax was very excited: "Brother Locke, it seems that the Feisabrun family is rich, and our Snow Salt Chamber of Commerce can expand its business with them. Did you know that Jinchuan is rich in gold mines, and the most conservative estimate is that they produce gold mines every year. The gold sand is worth at least 1,500,000 jinford, which is much better than our family’s labor-intensive gold mine that produced a maximum of 300,000 gold, and our family’s small gold mine is facing the danger of being exhausted, and now the gold sand produced is getting less and less , the cost of mining is getting higher and higher... "
Lorist looked at the map. If Donghuang Province is in the middle, Jinchuan Province and Muyeyuan Province are like two tentacles. The foundation of Makinohara Province has been established, so the large amount of armaments purchased by the Feisabrun family this time is obviously for the formation of the Ranger Legion of Jinchuan Province. In fact, the hilly terrain in the Dajinchuan area is more suitable for human beings rather than grass barbarian tribes. As long as castles and fortresses are built in dangerous areas, the big and small Jinchuan areas will be impenetrable, and the Caoman tribe will no longer be able to get their hands on this land rich in gold mines.
"Congratulations to the Feisabrun family, Your Royal Highness." Lorist congratulated Princess Silvia: "I agree with this arms deal, and I will urge the production department to deliver this batch of standard equipment as soon as possible with high quality and quantity." Produced and handed over to the Fisabrun family to express my admiration for the Grand Duke. Please convey my respect to the Grand Duke Fisabrun on my behalf. At the same time, I admire the Grand Duke for not aiming the elite of the family at the war-torn interior , but to abide by his promise, guard the frontiers for the former empire, and open up territory again...
In order to show my respect and condolences to the Feisabrun family and the soldiers who captured Jinchuan, I will donate living materials worth one million gold to the Feisabrun family. To those warriors who fought bloody battles and the families of martyrs who died, to express the admiration and friendship of the Norton family to them. "
This is a big donation, donating millions of goldford's daily necessities, even Princess Sylvia was shocked: "Thank you, Brother Locke..."
The agreement was successfully signed, and Lorist promised to complete all the purchases of armaments and living supplies within two years, and at the same time donate millions of living supplies. The Feisabrun family was also unambiguous. Princess Sylvia signed the purchase order worth eight million gold blessings on behalf of Princess Sylvia, and at the same time delivered 20,000 gold horseshoes in advance.
After completing this transaction and getting Lorist's promise to go to Windbury to participate in the knight's tournament in May next year, Princess Sylvia can rest assured to play, hunt, picnic, dance, etc. in the Norton family territory. Sea fishing, played until the end of November and was reluctant to leave. Before leaving, I did not forget to remind Lorist to never forget the knight tournament in May...
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