For Lorist, 1784 in the Universal Calendar was a rare year in which he lived comfortably. The family territory was thriving, and there were no foreign enemies around. In the past, he did not dare to relax for a moment in order to protect the family. Either the whole army is preparing for war, or it is desperately developing the strength of the family to develop the territory, or it is leading the army to defeat the enemies of the family one by one...
Finally, he can live his life in peace and stability in the family territory. Everything in the family territory is on the right track, and the formerly desolate and remote Northland has now become a symbol of prosperity and bustle. The new houses rising from the ground, the bustling market, the newly opened shops and workshops, and the endless green farmland, for the war-torn people, this is a land full of hope and tranquility. Hot land...
Lorist felt that this year was a year of harmony and stability. His Second Highness was busy integrating the eleven provinces in the central region, and instead of adopting a policy of peace and prosperity for the people, he focused on military expansion and preparation for war. All resources were tilted towards armaments, which greatly suppressed the recovery and development of people's livelihood and handicraft industry in the eleven provinces in the central region, and even had to spend more than 400,000 goldfords to place an order for the purchase of daily necessities from the Norton family .
According to the report of Volibear's spies deployed in the central region, after two years of war in the eleven provinces in the central region, only nearly 3.5 million people were left after the population was relocated, and seven provinces were still intact. These seven provinces have reorganized seven legions and two garrison legions, with an army of nearly 350,000, which can be called militarism.
However, this time, the formation of so many legions and the expansion of the 350,000 army Second Highness adopted the method of military settlements. While commanding the army to cultivate and open up wasteland, he also trained the young soldiers who were conscripted to awaken their fighting spirit. It seems that the second highness Your Highness should have learned a lesson and is going to spend a few years to train an elite team, instead of the 300,000 army under his command, but few of them are usable, and the whole army was destroyed in order to support the 300,000 army. The people of the Kingdom of Antinac were poor until the end.
Because of His Highness's vigorous expansion of armaments, Fatty Shi also specially reminded Lorist not to be careless, maybe when His Highness suddenly had a whim and wanted to turn against the Norton family. Lorist laughed and told Fatty Shi that His Majesty the King would not be so irrational. The purpose of his conscripting more than 300,000 troops was for the several provinces that were seized by the business alliance.
Besides, even if the Second Highness wanted to deal with the Northland, how much advantage would his army of more than 300,000 have in front of the Norton family's armed forces? What's more, he doesn't border the Northland now, so if he wants to make a surprise attack, he must first capture the southern province, which will not cause any harm to the Norton family. And as soon as his army entered the southern province, we were ready to make a perfect response.
In addition to the Second Highness who was far away in the eleven provinces in the middle of the country, who was trying his best to prepare for the army, Lorist was also very surprised by the changes in the Fesabrun family. After spending a winter in the North, the Grand Duke Fesabrun reorganized the family's armed forces after returning to the Eastern Wilderness Province. Disbanded the three frontier ranger corps and the garrison corps of Huju Castle, reorganized into two garrison corps of 28,000 people and two frontier ranger corps of 45,000 people, in Jinchuan Province and Donghuang Province Each deployed a garrison corps and a border ranger corps.
In a sense, Grand Duke Feisabrun's reorganization of armaments has the meaning of self-defeating martial arts, reducing the Feisabrun family's armed forces by nearly 20,000 horses. However, this move of his greatly eased the hostility and doubts of the Felim family and the Norton family. After all, the Border Ranger Legion is famous for its surprise attacks and raids, and the reduction of three legions to two also shows that the Feisabrun family has no intention of provoking war.
The Snow Salt Chamber of Commerce of the Duke of Kenmas organized a huge caravan in June with nearly a million goods to the Eastern Wilderness Province, and went deep into the Northeast Prairie under the protection of a frontier ranger regiment of the Fesabrun family. A large city fair was held to directly trade with the grass barbarian tribe, and it took four months to come and do business. After the caravan came back in October, the Duke of Kenmas announced the good news to Lorist with a cracked mouth. The nearly one million goods brought more than two million goldford profits to the Snow Salt Chamber of Commerce. Bring more shipments past the trade...
Lorist felt that it was not surprising that the caravan could make such a huge profit. The Northeast Prairie is so big, and there are countless grassland tribes living on the grassland. Regardless of the fact that the Feisabrun family is known as the overlord of the Northeast Prairie, in fact, the area they occupy and operate is only the southeastern part of the Northeast Prairie, which is at most one-third of the Northeast Prairie. It's just that they have been firmly controlling the trading routes outside the northeast prairie. Without their permission and protection, no caravan can go deep into the northeast prairie and trade with the grassman tribe.
In the past, the Feisabrun family bought a large number of living materials and commodities from the Northland and Snow Salt Chamber of Commerce. In fact, they just turned around and doubled or tripled the price before selling these commodities to the grassman tribe. The huge profits in the middle were all Let them swallow it. This is also one of the reasons why Lorist attacked the Feisabrun family back then. What he wanted was to control the foreign business routes of the Feisabrun family. It is also to get a share of the profits from the transaction with the grass barbarian tribe.
This time the Duke of Kenmes organized a caravan from the Snow Salt Chamber of Commerce to go to the territory of the Fesabrun family. Lorist reminded him to go through the transaction records with the Fessabrun family. I thought that the goods and living materials needed by the grassman tribe should not be the same as those purchased by the Feisabrun family back then. It is not so rare for those goods to be sold to the grassman tribe by the Feisabrun family. If you can't afford the price, it's best to bring those daily necessities and commodities that the Feisabrun family has never purchased.
The Duke of Kenmes listened to Lorist's opinion with an open mind, and carefully checked the types of commodities and living supplies purchased by the Feisabrun family back then, and found two good business opportunities. One is that the daily necessities and commodities purchased by the Feisabrun family are all durable, can withstand falls and are very practical, and most of them are cheap. Second, there are only three kinds of consumables purchased by the Feisabrun family, snow salt, tea bricks and linen.
The idea of the Duke of Kenmes is very simple. He believes that the grass barbarian tribe should have different status classifications, and it is impossible for the grass barbarian nobles to use the same living items as ordinary grass barbarians. So he asked the caravan to bring a lot of luxury goods and spirits. Sure enough, these commodities were very popular in the trade fair, and the prices turned up like a tumble, making the person in charge of the chamber of commerce laugh from ear to ear. .
Unlike the Duke of Kenmes, who only wanted to organize a caravan to do business, Lorist turned his attention to Muyeyuan Province. Makinohara Province is a neighboring province of the Northland. The chain bridge built by the Kenmes family in the east of the Northland connects the two provinces, and also makes the Northland an extra channel to the outside world.
At present, Muyeyuan Province is occupied by the Norton family and the Feisabrun family with the Sochus River as the boundary. The Norton family occupies two-thirds, and the Feisabrun family occupies one-third. However, when Feisabrun reorganized the family's armed forces, he had already withdrawn the Fourth Frontier Ranger Regiment in Makinohara Province, and there was no Feisabrun family left in the south of the Sochus River except for the garrison of several settlement towns. armed forces exist.
Lorist's idea of opening Muyeyuan Province is also for the purpose of trading with the Caoman tribe. If Muyeyuan Province is also under the jurisdiction of the Norton family, Lorist is confident that it will become a window for trading with the Caoman tribe on the northeast prairie. The big market, this is not a year allowed by the Grand Duke of Fesabrun to allow the Snow Salt Chamber of Commerce to organize a caravan to conduct a transaction, but a market that is open all year round. If you think about it, you can understand how much commercial interest this contains.
It's just that before the ownership of Muyeyuan Province is determined, Lorist cannot realize his planning vision. In name, Muyeyuan Province is the territory under the jurisdiction of the Feisabrun family. This is not the order of the Second Highness, nor the will of the second prince, the Iberian king, but the pre-empire era of Christen VII because of the Duke of Feisabrun. For the expansion of the empire, it opened up the honor bestowed by the Eastern Wasteland Province. Christen VII granted the newly opened Eastern Wasteland Province to Grand Duke Feisabrun as hereditary family territory, and at the same time granted Muyeyuan Province to him as a jurisdictional territory.
This is also the reason why the Feisabrun family can own three provinces as family territories, but the Second Highness has no objection. Because Muyeyuan Province and Donghuang Province are both canonized by Christen VII, and Jinchuan Province is a newly opened province by Grand Duke Feisabrun, there is no problem in belonging to the jurisdiction of Grand Duke Feisabrun.
This is where Lorist's embarrassment lies. If he wants to seek Muyeyuan Province from the Feisabrun family, even if the Duke of Feisabrun is willing, the Second Highness will disagree. He will never let the Norton family increase. A governing province. If Grand Duke Fesabrun gave up his jurisdiction over Muyeyuan Province, then Lorist would not be able to get it. His Highness would take back Muyeyuan Province as a territory directly under the royal family.
It’s all the old fox’s fault. It would be great if the Feisabrun family was still hostile to the four northern alliances, or if my family’s armed forces occupied the entire Muyeyuan Province before the truce and peace talks... Lorist would sometimes Thinking about it this way, if the entire Muyeyuan Province is occupied, the Grand Duke Fesabrunn can be forced to cede it to the Norton family during the truce, so even if the Second Highness has objections and wants to take it back, there is no way, because it is the winner of the noble war. The compensation obtained can be regarded as spoils of war, and the Second Highness would not be able to intervene even if he wanted to.
Now the Grand Duke of Fesabrun has expressed goodwill to the four families of the Northlands, and has also reduced the border rangers. This is good news for the four alliances of the Northlands. The Fessabrun family can be removed from the enemy column name. In particular, he is also the grandfather of Princess Silvia, and has become a relative with Lorist. Just like what was said in the previous life? Too familiar, but because of sympathy, it's hard to make a move. Lorist thinks that this is the most vivid example of this sentence.
There was no way to fight the idea of the Grand Duke Fesabrun, so Lorist could only focus on cultivating and teaching the three apprentices. After obtaining Lorist's consent, Reddy happily pulled Genorio over and tied him in the big round iron circle and started wandering around. It took more than three months for Genorio to have artificial dynamic vision. .
Genorio, who was slumped on the ground like a slug, suffered even more this time. Baron Farea, who originally wanted Lorist to accept his two sixteen-year-old twin brothers as apprentices, immediately dismissed the idea. I decided to bring my two sons with me and teach them in person. Although it is an honor to be Lorist as a teacher, Reddy told Baron Farea that as His Highness's apprentice, he must suffer this crime. The twin brothers looked at Genorio who was retching on the ground and flinched. , which made Reddy express great regret.
Norrist spends his days cultivating on his own, accompanying Princess Sylvia and four concubines, teasing his precious son Anderbell, who is crawling all over the floor, teaching three apprentices, and dealing with accumulated official duties every other day Days passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye, it was the end of the year again, and Fatty Shi began to organize a grand New Year celebration banquet again.
For Lorist, he had a mediocre life this year, and the only thing worth mentioning was that he pregnant the female knight Aristorian who came to visit his sister Fennagalli. Aridoli, who returned to the Barony of Dina, wrote a letter to Lorist after she found out that she was pregnant. In the letter, she scolded Lorist and announced that she was going to give birth to this child. This surname finally required Lorist to promise to leave a baronial land for the child in his womb to inherit when he grew up, which made Lorist dumbfounded.
For many family knights and civil officials of the Norton family, 1784 in the general calendar was not the peaceful year that Lorist thought. The family experienced a cleansing that swept across the entire family territory. All the family knights and civil officials related to Fenglin Villa were either sent to the Haneyabad Islands to serve or were transferred away from Bear City and the Northland. , to take an insignificant post in Dremke or Winston.
When Lorist took Princess Sylvia, mother and son, four concubines, and the son born to Diliana to the Bailugang family cemetery outside Maplewood Villa to pay homage to Norton's ancestors, to Fenglin who had been waiting for a long time Mrs. Yilinna and the two young masters in the villa simply taught a few words and ignored them. After finishing the sacrifice, they went directly to Nicole Academy without going to Fenglin Villa for a rest. From then on, Fenglin Villa was virtually excluded from the family's management system, and became a place that was isolated in the family territory and avoided.
Before the end of the year, the Duke of Kenmes came to the Northland. While attending the New Year's celebration, he brought a new guest, the new lord of Yungeshandela Province, Duke Flanders. In name, they came to the Northland to participate in the New Year's celebration of the Norton family, but in fact, the Duke of Flanders came to seek help from Lorist.
The Duke of Volendo, who was moved to Yungesandra Province, found that his new territory was very barren. After settling down the people and family armed forces who followed him to the new territory, he came up with the idea of looking for mineral resources and mining to develop the territory. . At the same time, in order to have enough grain reserves, I want to develop the part of the Bailu River swamp in Yungeshandra Province as a new farmland.
However, the Duke of Florida only has less than a million goldfords in his hands, and this amount of money is not enough to develop new territories. So the Grand Duke of Volont visited the Kenmes family in the neighboring West Degrad Province, hoping to borrow three million goldford...
The Duke of Kenmes was very straightforward. He said that he could borrow money as long as Lorist agreed, but he didn't have that much money, he could only borrow half of it at most. The Norton family had money, and the Duke of Flanders could ask Lorist for help. Moreover, what Lorist likes most is the development of the territory, he will definitely not let you down, etc., so the Grand Duke of Volunteer followed the Duke of Kenmes to the Northland.
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