"Sit down, is it raining a lot outside?" Lorist sat comfortably on the armchair and said to Fatty Shi who walked into the study. After a busy winter, all the refugees were finally forcibly relocated to temporary resettlement sites, and returned to Bear City, the capital of the southern part of the Northland, before the rainy season came. After being entangled with Princess Sylvia for several days like a newlywed, Lorist finally remembered that it was time for him to get down to business...
"What do you think? What I hate the most is the rainy season. This kind of continuous rainy day, even if I don't get wet in the rain, my body still feels wet and moldy. When I think about how to endure it for twenty days, I have a feeling It feels like going crazy." Fatty Shi complained as he walked to the blazing fireplace, as if he wanted to dry his body dry.
After Fatty Shi sat on the sofa feeling warm all over his body and ordered Genorio to bring him a bottle of fruit wine, he thought of Schwader, and asked Lorist: "Hey, how is Schwader doing now? It's not bad to practice."
Lorist nodded: "Well, Reddy has already gone to Rock Castle to see him, and he will be able to leave the customs in half a year. Before Bodfinger returned to the border of the southern province, he told me that Schwader would let him Immediately marry the precious daughter of Earl Felim. Seeing that there is only one Duchy of Handra left in the four central duchies, once the strategy is completed, Earl Felim will become the Grand Duke of the Southern Province. After Earl Lim is promoted to Duke, he will look down on his small baronial family background, which will cause changes in Schwader's marriage."
"Hehe, has Bodfinger lost his mind when he's old? There's nothing to worry about." Fatty Shi criticized immorally behind his back: "Even if Earl Felim is promoted to Duke, he still has to rely on our Norton family. Without the support and material assistance we gave him, would he be able to develop his family territory and defend the southern province? If the Rock Legion is really withdrawn, I guarantee that he will sleep with one eye open. Is the truce signed by the family a guarantee of peace? Once the Rangers of the Frontiers come to the city, he will be finished."
Fatty Shi is telling the truth, and the facts are indeed true. Even if Earl Felim was promoted to Duke after the fall of the four central duchies, he still has to follow the lead of the Norton family. The Fessabruns were swallowed whole.
"However, it's time for Schward to start a family. Katerina is a good girl, and she is a good match with Schward. The relationship between the two is very good. After Schward is released this time, I decided to let them start a family first." Luo Rist said. Taking out the fruit wine that Genorio brought, he took a sip and asked, "Are those new immigrants still okay?"
This time, there are 230,000 refugees who were forcibly relocated from the Principality of Faker to the Northland, and the total number of immigrants from the Principality of Sabaji has exceeded 400,000, which means that the entire Northland is now The number has exceeded two million.
"Fortunately, there were no accidents or riots. Even the last batch of captives in the hills and mountains of Petrona was very peaceful and didn't cause us any trouble." Fatty Shi saw that Lorist was busy with business. Find relevant documents from the folders you carry with you.
Mentioning the group of mountain captives in the hills and mountains of Petrona, Lorist let out a "hum" from his nose in displeasure: "These mountain captives must be strictly guarded. Their temperament is really rebellious." Shun. Did you know that when we finally surrounded the hot spring valley and made them desperate, we still dared to take up arms and continue to resist, causing us casualties of more than a thousand family soldiers. I had to call in Malek's steel The crossbowmen used long-range shooting to wipe out most of their youth before letting them lay down their weapons and surrender to us.
Just like the Mountain Legion of the Principality of Forondo, it was obviously surrounded by us, and even their regiment commander, the Golden Knight named Mountain Minnocher, died under Bodfinger's sword, but these mountain soldiers still Relying on the cover of the camp wall, they refused to surrender, and finally had to set fire to drive them out of the camp and kill them. Just like this, a mountain army of more than 30,000 people killed more than 18,000 people in a desperate situation, and the 10,000 Yu Shanmin soldiers captured by us were all wounded. So I have decreed that the soldiers of this mountain regiment and those captives of the mountains will have a hard labor period of eight years, and they will be free after eight years... "
"Eight years? Well, Your Highness, aren't you going to conscript these captive mountain people into the family's armed forces? It stands to reason that mountain people with such a personality are good candidates for conscription?" Fatty Shi was a little surprised.
Lorist shook his head: "These mountain people are particularly rebellious, and they have always been loyal to the Principality of Forendo, and they are proud of being the children of the Forendo family. The Forendo family has treated the mountain people for more than a hundred years. The policy is to win people's hearts. You don't know that for more than a hundred years, the mountain people have only paid one kind of tax, which is the blood tax, and they have served as soldiers for the Forendo family. Divide the area where the mountain people live and let them develop freely. Therefore, the loyalty of these mountain people to the Forendo family is engraved in their bones. They are not like soldiers who serve as soldiers in other families or forces to earn a living. It's hard to switch allegiances..."
Fatty Shi nodded. Now that he knew the reason, he didn't plan to bother with these tens of thousands of mountain people captives. After eight years of hard labor, these mountain people should know what is good and bad, and they will naturally be arranged to integrate into the family territory. He took out a document and said to Lorist, "Your Highness, the resettlement plan for the newly relocated refugees has come out, do you want to have a look?"
Holding a glass of wine, Lorist said, "You can say whatever you want, and I'll just sign and implement the plan if it's about the same."
"Okay." Fatty Shi cleared his throat, looked at the document and read: "The refugees who migrated to Windbury King City this time are a total of 2,871 households, with a total number of 98,230 Sixteen people, most of them are handicraftsmen and small businessmen. We have arranged houses and compound facing the street for them to open shops and handicraft workshops. When they settle down, the economy of Windbury King City will be improved in the second half of this year. A big breakout development is expected to start next year when Windbury will reemerge as the North East's livestock trading and leather goods processing centre.
A total of more than 360,000 refugees have migrated to the Northland. They are not going to be resettled in the three newly developed and built south of the Northland, but in the eastern part of the Northland to be resettled in the newly built Xingchangyuan and Kang Taiyuan. As for Pingfengyuan, Pinganyuan and Pingkangyuan, which have been completed in the southern part of the Northland, because they are located in Zhoubian, the capital, Nuxiong City, the family decided to choose some loyal families from Fengleyuan, Xing'anyuan and Hongheyuan. After immigrating, the remaining half will be allocated to the soldiers who are about to be discharged in three years to start families in these three plains.
In addition, one hundred refugee families with a total of more than 13,000 people were assigned to each of the vassal territories under the family control to develop the economy and village construction of the vassal family territories. That's it for the basic distribution scheme. After the rainy season, we will transport these new immigrants to the assigned place to allocate land and housing for them, and strive to complete the resettlement before August. Your Highness, do you see anything else that needs to be revised? "
Lorist thought for a while and said, "That's it. This plan is very good and doesn't need to be revised. Just bring it here and I'll sign it for the people below to implement it."
While Lorist was signing, Fatty Shi took out another document: "Your Highness, this is the report submitted by Master Sid at the end of last year. The report said that he had successfully trial-produced a new cavalry individual with spring steel. Using the steel crossbow greatly reduces the cost. According to the report, the cost of a steel crossbow currently only needs seven Gold Fords plus eight silver coins. I approved a special fund of three thousand Gold Fords for him and requested He has reduced the cost of the steel crossbow to less than five goldfords and has mass-produced it…”
Lorist was very happy: "The standard long-range weapon of the Chasseur Cavalry Legion finally has a clue to solve it. But do you understand the range, power, firing speed and frequency of the crossbow?"
Fatty Shi sweated profusely: "Your Highness, I don't know, I'm just thinking about the cost... The price of a strong crossbow is between two gold fords and three gold fords. I think the range and power of the crossbow should at least exceed that of the strong crossbow. double, so that it can reach the power of the longbow. Then it is acceptable to double the cost... "
Lorist praised Master Rishid's report: "It's not written on it, it seems that Master Sid wants to keep it secret. How about it, you send a letter to Josk and ask him to select a hundred loyal soldiers from the Chasseur Legion." The reliable elite light cavalry went to Master Sid after the rainy season to conduct an actual combat test on the crossbow, so as to facilitate the finalization of the crossbow. After all, it is a weapon for actual combat, and these light cavalry are the ones who have the most say. In addition, there is no need to be demanding on the price, so as not to affect the quality."
"Okay, I see." Fatty Shi replied.
Immediately afterwards, the two talked about a few more things, and when they heard a knock on the door, Genorio came in to report: "Your Highness, Mr. Tagle is here."
Tagle came here this time to send Lorist a summary of intelligence about the battle between the Ford Business Alliance and the Central South Kingdom coalition forces. Regarding the southern war, most of them were sent by the eagle, and the information was extremely brief. Now back to Angry Bear City, I ordered Tager to send all the newspapers and information from Morente City.
Tagle approached the study room with a pile of newspapers that were half the height of a person. These were basically seven or eight kinds of newspapers issued in Morente City throughout last year. After putting down the pile of newspapers, Tagle handed Lorist a folder: "Your Highness, here are the summaries and intelligence summary of these newspapers."
Lorist took the folder and jumped up in shock as soon as he opened his eyes: "What, the Storm Swordsman from the extinct Kylia Kingdom entered the city of Morente?"
Fatty Shi was taken aback by Lorist's actions: "What did you say?"
Tager smiled wryly: "Your Highness, I have already reported this matter to you on Xinying Communication..."
Lorist said embarrassingly: "Sorry, Tagle, I was only concerned about the intelligence of the four central duchies at that time, and I didn't pay attention to these."
Tagle searched among the newspaper piles and found more than a dozen newspapers: "Your Highness, the detailed reports about the Storm Sword Master of the Kylia Kingdom accepting the invitation of the Ford Business Alliance to go to Morente City are all here. Several newspapers. However, this Storm Swordsman is relatively low-key, and he was interviewed at the banquet held by the Business Alliance on the first day of his arrival. Follow-up reports. So this incident has not caused any disturbances except for the commotion of more than half a month, but the morale of the commercial alliance troops on the front line has increased a lot because of the support of a sword master... "
Fatty Shi was already flipping through the dozens of newspapers, but soon he became a little frustrated: "The newspapers only published the life and legend of the Storm Sword Master, but they didn't know how the Kylia Kingdom perished, why the Storm Sword Master He didn’t mention anything about his departure and his acceptance of the invitation from the Commercial Alliance, and he didn’t even mention how much the Commercial Alliance paid to allow the Storm Swordsman to settle in Morente City, what kind of bullshit report.”
Lorist pondered for a while. The entry of the Storm Swordsman into Morente City meant that the Ford Business Alliance had a country-defending swordsman, who was determined to recover from the Business Alliance the few lost in the territory of the former Krissen Empire. For the Second Highness of the province, this almost raised the difficulty of clearing the game from the difficulty level to the hell level. I believe that His Royal Highness will not look very good when he hears the news. However, for the Norton family, the impact of this news is not too great, after all, they are too far apart.
However, what price did the business alliance pay to hire this Storm Sword Saint Lorist is very interested: "You said, if the Second Highness wants to hire this Storm Sword Saint, what price would he be willing to pay?"
What's the matter with Second Highness? Both Fatty Shi and Tagle were in a daze. But since Lorist asked the question, the two of them still tried their best to answer it carefully.
Tager said: "At least one hundred thousand Jinfu will be enshrined a year, and in addition, we must choose a place to build a dojo for him to inherit swordsmanship..."
Fatty Shi shook his head and said: "Not only that, your conditions are no different from those of the Sword Master of Stormwind when he was in Kailia Kingdom. If the Second Highness wants to recruit this Sword Master, he has to give him a province as a family territory and seal him as a territory Duke."
Lorist laughed: "It shouldn't be much different, but it's really not good news for our King that the Commercial Alliance can recruit this Storm Sword Master. On the lips, I really want to see his face after hearing the news. Even if the four central duchies are destroyed, he will still face the pressure of a giant-like business alliance. I don’t think that in the next few years Before how to deal with this Storm Sword Saint, our Majesty the King will calm down a bit and will not continue to toss about.
After the rainy season, I will bring the Flying Tiger Legion back to the front lines of the four principalities in the central region. Although there is only one Principality of Handra left, it has concentrated the armed forces of the four principalities. Coupled with the constraints of the terrain, this The battle is not easy to fight, and it may take a year. The things in the family will get rid of you. Tagle, pay attention to collecting more information about the business alliance and the coalition forces of the Central South Kingdom. If there are any major events or changes, please pass them on to me immediately. "
"Understood, Your Highness." Tagle replied with a bow.
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