After cutting through the mess quickly, Lorist set the bottom line of the truce in a few words and then stepped aside, leaving the rest to the Duke of Kenmes and the others to negotiate slowly. Even if the four northern alliances are the winning side, they cannot actually force the Feisabrun family to sign a surrender treaty that humiliates the country. This is the world of Galintia, not Lorist's previous life. The conditions Lorist put forward are already too much.
Generally speaking, in the continent of Galintia, when two families fight, the defeated party will pay a large amount of property. If there is no money, the territory can be ceded. on interest. Lorist doesn't need the Feisabrun family to lose money. On the contrary, if they monopolize the trade route, the funds in the Feisabrun family's territory will be slowly sucked by the high-priced products of the Snow Salt Merchant Association. This is the long-term way to make money.
Even if the armistice agreement is signed, Lorist will still not relax his vigilance against the Feisabrun family. If you really think that once the armistice agreement is signed, everything will be fine and peace will come, then your brain will be kicked by the donkey. It's just that the signing of the armistice agreement allows the Fisabrun family to retreat a hundred miles and station troops in Makinohara Province. These two points are the most important. The strategic maneuvering space of the Sabron family.
Two days later, the Duke of Kenmes showed Lorist the proposed armistice agreement. Apart from the so-called four northern alliances and the Feisabrun family's war due to misunderstanding at the beginning, like the Feisabrun family The armed forces retreated a hundred miles, and the border guards of the four northern alliances must be notified before taking any action. Similarly, if the garrison troops on the borders of the four northern lands take any action, they should also notify the Feisabrun family's armed forces to avoid misunderstandings.
"However, what's the matter with this clause that requires no regular field regiments to be stationed in the two border areas, but only garrison troops?" Lorist asked.
The Duke of Kenmes quickly explained: "Aridok, the steward of the Feisabrun family, and Napler, the deputy envoy, insisted on the principle of fairness and reciprocity. They said that the Feisabrun family retreated a hundred miles, but our Northland four However, the National Alliance deployed the Rock Legion on the border between the Southern Province and the Eastern Wilderness Province, which made them restless. Therefore, they insisted that only defensive troops should be deployed on the two borders and no offensive regular field legions could be deployed. I thought that since we have ceased fighting, it doesn't matter, so I agreed to their request."
"You're all making trouble for me." Lorist glared at Duke Kenmes with a playful smile, and ordered, "Genorio, I'll make a copy of this armistice agreement and send it to Bodfinger, telling him to start from today." Since then, the Panshi Legion has been renamed the Panshi Garrison Corps, claiming to be a local garrison, and the actual treatment remains the same. By the way, this guy will reimburse the cost of changing the banner."
The Duke of Kenmes shrugged, spread his hands, and muttered, "You are too stingy, you don't even want to pay for a hundred gold dollars..."
Lorist ignored him, and continued to look down. The following were all commercial terms. To put it bluntly, as long as this armistice agreement is signed, the Feisabrun family will be as small as a grain of salt and a piece of paper. As big as a cow and a horse, all transactions must be conducted through the Snow Salt Chamber of Commerce. Just like the value of the goods they purchased this time was only more than 600,000. In previous years, they sold a maximum of about 800,000 Jinfords, but this time they had to bleed heavily. Once the price doubled, it became about 2 million Jinfords. No wonder Kenmes This guy triumphantly declared that both Earl Felim and Earl Shaheen could get a bonus of 300,000 to 40,000 yuan this time...
In terms of business matters, Ken Max is still very reliable. What this guy likes most is being a second-hand dealer. He enjoys doing such transactions with his left hand and his right hand. It's not like Lorist likes to open a production base in the family territory. According to his words, production not only requires investment but also is very risky. If the goods cannot be sold, it is a problem. If the production cost is too high, the price will be high and the competitiveness with other similar products will be lost, and funds will be invested to develop new products from time to time. Or improve the quality, in short, it is a lot of trouble, how can he resell it so easily.
Lorist was a little dissatisfied when he saw the last agreement: "Why, isn't the Feisabrun family willing to hand over the entire Muyeyuan Province?"
"I can't help it. I've exhausted all my saliva. They just want to use the Sochus River as the boundary. The territory to the north belongs to us, and the territory to the south belongs to them. They divide the Muyeyuan Province into two and express that we Occupying more than half of the territory of Muyeyuan Province is enough to ensure the safety of the Northland. I have tried my best, but I can't convince them, so I can only leave this agreement to you to decide." Duke Kenmes made a helpless expression.
This indeed occupies more than half of the territory of Muyeyuan Province, which is almost equivalent to two-thirds of the area of Muyeyuan Province. It's just that at the beginning of the war, most of this territory has been raided several times by the Chaser Legion. Thousands of miles are uninhabited, and thousands of miles of people are wiped out. This is a very vivid description. After being attacked by the Chaser Legion, the Fourth Frontier Ranger Army of the Fesabrunn family was defeated in a row. The grass barbarian cavalry set up an ambush and defeated the hunting cavalry army before recovering Muyeyuan Province. Now the terms of the agreement are nothing more than restoring the situation to the situation before the defeat of the Chaser Legion.
It seems that this should be the bottom line of the Grand Duke Feisabrun. Anyway, the territory north of the Sochus River in the recovered Muyeyuan Province has been abandoned. It is better to give up as a concession. The sincerity of the armistice agreement. Lorist pondered for a moment before making a decision: "Then let them sign this armistice agreement."
"One more question." Duke Kenmes asked: "How many years are we going to sign this armistice agreement?"
The armistice agreement has a time limit. It is just a guarantee that two hostile families or alliances swear in the name of God of War to avoid conflicts and acts of war as much as possible. There is a time limit. After the expiration, we will decide whether to continue the war or continue to sign an armistice agreement according to the development of the situation. If the two parties enhance their friendship and eliminate the state of hostility, they can sign a peace agreement and no longer regard each other as an enemy. Restoring free commerce and people-to-people exchanges would allow the reduction of frontier garrisons to save armaments.
Lorist smiled: "Let the two envoys take the time limit back to Grand Duke Feisabrun to decide. We will sign for as many years as he wants. Whether it is one year or three years, we don't care. The Feisabrun family thinks how long it takes to recover their vitality can take revenge on us. As long as they dare to do something, we can still teach them a deeper lesson. It can even make them feel more miserable. This is the confidence of our four northern alliances where."
The Duke of Kenmes was excited by Lorist's rhetoric, and he was full of confidence: "Okay, then I will tell them the exact words and let them reply to the Grand Duke Fessabrun. They can sign for as many years as they want. I don't care. It's just that the next time they defeat us, the price of the goods will not be so cheap, at least it will have to double... "
After finishing speaking, the Duke of Kenmes walked towards the door arrogantly, but stopped suddenly when he reached the door, and turned back to Lorist with his face extended: "Well, Locke, let me ask, Baron Schrader wrote The letter told me, is it true that your family will sell a large number of large ocean-going armed merchant ships that are 70% to 80% new?"
Uh... can't you finish the business first and then talk about personal affairs? However, Lorist still nodded: "It's true, the family has streamlined its maritime regiment and deleted a large number of large, medium and small merchant ships and seagoing vessels."
"All the deleted ones are going to be sold at a big sale?"
"No, I will announce this news at the New Year's celebration at the end of this year. At the same time, North Sea City, Niujiao Bay and Hilovas Island will be opened, and these redundant ships will be auctioned off, allowing nobles and merchants to form chambers of commerce to engage in maritime trade and fishing..." Lorist explained.
"Oh, that's right..." The Duke of Kenmes looked a little disappointed: "I originally wanted to buy all your deleted ships and sell them, but I didn't expect you to have such an idea."
"Hehe..." Lorist laughed, "Believe it or not, these ships will become popular by then? What I'm worried about is that there won't be enough auctions, and you still want to make a bargain? That's a bad idea. But I think you can also invest in Among these chambers of commerce, or form a chamber of commerce for maritime trade by yourself.”
"In addition, to set up a chamber of commerce for maritime trade, one is that I am not familiar with this aspect, and the other is that I don't have the feeling of safety and security that I can rely on when I am with you, so I am not going to take this idea. Snow Salt Chamber of Commerce has already That's enough for me, besides, the Snow Salt Chamber of Commerce can also get involved in maritime trade. The order our family placed at your Niujiaowan shipyard is actually my father's plan to form his own family's maritime trading caravan. However, he can't get around us if he wants to buy goods The Snow Salt Chamber of Commerce, I will give him a little discount at the most, if you want to get a big deal, there is no way..." Duke Kenmes looked proud.
Looking at the Duke of Kenmes who was about to earn money from his father, Lorist was also speechless. But I have to admit that this guy is a very smart person and knows the benefits of holding his thighs tightly. The Snow Salt Chamber of Commerce is independently run by the Duke of Kenmas. His shares are half, and the dividends are also half. The other half is 20% each for Earl Felim and Earl Shaheen, and Lorist gets 10%. dry stock. Originally, the three companies each held 30% of the shares, but then Felim and Shaheen felt embarrassed to take it for nothing, and each gave up 10% of the dry shares to Kenmax, and handed over all the Snow Salt Chamber of Commerce to Kenmax. Max is in charge.
This was originally a small chamber of commerce that was built as a joke, but under the painstaking management of Kenmes, it has developed into the largest chamber of commerce in the Northeast region, with an annual trade volume of two to three million goldfords. An important bond of interest connecting the four families of the Northland. For Earl Felim and Earl Shaheen, the two poor families, the annual dividends from the Snow Salt Chamber of Commerce have become a very important source of income for their families. The Duke of Kenmes also earned huge profits from the Snow Salt Chamber of Commerce, and was even able to provide nearly one million gold coins and supplies to assist the Felim family and the Shaheen family when the territory was replaced.
A conversation between Duke Kenmes and his father once reached Lorist's ears through Volibear's intelligence investigators. It was Kenmes' father who asked Kenmes not to give up the family business in order to run the Snow Salt Chamber of Commerce. This guy, Ken Max, immediately took out the account books to shame his father. What this guy meant was that the current business of the Snow Salt Chamber of Commerce is so big that it has already surpassed the family business by several times. To be honest, he is used to the transactions of several million goldfords. , don't show the family's business that is less than one million together.
His father was angry, no matter how small the family business is, it belongs to the Kenmes family, and you have made such a big loss in the business of the Snow Salt Chamber of Commerce. Half of the profits are made for others, and sometimes you eat some for yourself Thanks to Earl Felim and Earl Shaheen, he added points to Earl Felim and Earl Shaheen, and rounded up the dividends to them. Even if he ran the chamber of commerce on his own, he refused to make some fake accounts for profit. It is simply unreasonable to dismiss a large number of relatives...
The Duke of Kenmes laughed. He said that his father was old and couldn't distinguish the situation. The four major families in the Northland had become a powerful alliance. Among the four families, the Kenmes family is actually the weakest in force, not even having as much money as the Norton family. It is good luck that the three companies are willing to support and cooperate. I have worked hard to run the chamber of commerce in order to do my best for the alliance. In fact, if you really want to do business, are there still few insiders? The three companies can definitely hire people to run the chamber of commerce, leaving aside the Kenmes family, so that the dividends can be more.
Since the three of them trust themselves, they will not let them down. Look at the business of your own family, even if it is a big business of one million, in addition to the capital expenses, you have to bow your head to bribe the nobles to gain connections, even if you can earn about 300,000 yuan in profits, it will fall into the hands of the family The amount is less than 100,000 or even less. If you are unlucky, you are either in arrears or in vain. There is nowhere to tell about your suffering.
Take a look at the Snow Salt Chamber of Commerce. With the Norton family, the Felim family and the Shaheen family as their backers, they don’t have to beg their grandparents to sue their grandma in a low voice like their own family does business. Even the Four Northern Alliances Where the power has not yet reached, the nobles of the Snow Salt Chamber of Commerce are respectful and respectful, and they conduct transactions in a well-regulated manner without making any wrong ideas. This kind of business is much more comfortable than family business. No matter how hard it is, Kenmas It is also willing. What's more, Kenmes is very confident. With the expansion of the four forces in the North, the development opportunities of the Snow Salt Chamber of Commerce are far from reaching the bottleneck. Sooner or later, they will be able to develop into one of the seven giants that are not inferior to the Ford Business Alliance. .
Therefore, Kenmes told his father that he put his mind and energy on the operation of the Snow Salt Chamber of Commerce to resolutely maintain the four alliances in the Northland, the longer the better, no matter the huge aid to the Felim family, Or the usual subsidies given to Earl Shaheen are all for this purpose. Only in this way, the position of the Kenmes family in the four alliances of the Northland will become stronger and stronger. With the development of the power of the four alliances in the North, the Kenmes family will gradually integrate into the circle of traditional hereditary nobles and become a member of it without being regarded as a heterogeneous and upstart.
After hearing what the Duke of Kenmes said, his father was silent for a long time before he let out a long sigh. Then a family meeting was held, and the position of head of the Kenmes family was given to the Duke of Kenmes, and he stated that he would only be in charge of the family business in the future, and the Duke of Kenmes would make a decision on all matters in the family. He stopped asking.
This is why Lorist trusts Kenmes so much. In the alliance, only members who are clearly aware of their status and what they should do can maintain and develop the alliance for a long time.
"Okay, don't worry about it." Lorist patted Kenmes on the shoulder: "'Since you are planning to develop the maritime trade of the Snow Salt Chamber of Commerce, let me remind you that you can first purchase a merchant ship for the Chamber of Commerce. The fleet does not need to be too large, so let’s test the waters first. As for the safety of the North Sea, you don’t need to worry at all. Our Norton family’s North Sea Fleet will escort the ships of the Snow Salt Chamber of Commerce, but you need to go to the market yourself. Pioneering. As the saying goes, the biggest and best apples can only be picked one step ahead of others.”
"Understood, I sent two envoys to find Baron Shredder immediately." Duke Kenmes left happily.
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