Ever since Fatty Shi and Yuri became knights of the Norton family and embarked on the journey back north together, Lorist suddenly found that things were out of control and going further and further in an unknown direction.
First of all, when Lorist convened a family knight meeting to explain to everyone that he was planning to organize a delivery of a batch of supplies back to the family, he was ridiculed by Fatty Shi. As a family knight, Fatty Shi didn't give Lorist, who was about to become the new head of the Norton family, any face at all. He took the map of the Northlands, and thought that when he went to the Northlands this time, what Lorist should consider was how to clear up the Norton family's chronic illness and bring the Norton family back to life, instead of sending a batch of supplies to the Norton family to continue their lives.
Fatty Shi said that a thriving family with development potential should have the ability of self-innovation and be able to adapt to changes in the environment and make its own changes, instead of clinging to the so-called tradition and stubbornness. It's a pity that Lorist's move to deliver supplies this time seems to be more about keeping the Norton family alive, rather than considering how to make the Norton family achieve sustainable development.
Lorist blushed a little, and felt a little guilty, because Fatty Shi had hit on his original intention, and he was indeed going to send a batch of supplies to the family, and then let him go back to Morente City and continue to live a happy life. But now he dare not say that his original plan was like this, otherwise Fatty Shi would have to jump over and fight him desperately. The partners abandoned their comfortable life in Morente City and prepared to accompany him to jump into the fire pit, but who knew that he only planned to stroll around the fire pit before returning. This, this should let them know what they would think...
Fatty Shi is talking eloquently. He believes that there is only one real reason why the Norton family has fallen to this point, which is the vast land and sparse population. As long as this problem is solved, nothing can stop the rise of the Norton family.
Like the tide of monsters in winter, this is not a problem. If the Norton family can hold the current safe area, they can expand the security area if they have enough manpower.
Regarding the mountain barbarians, Fatty Shi said that he had asked Sodkamp and found that a very important situation was ignored by everyone. That is, the conflict between the Norton family and the mountain barbarians has intensified in the past century, but more often the family has been passively defending and has never taken the initiative to attack. rush back. If the mountain barbarians who came down the mountain once or twice can be completely wiped out, the family will be able to obtain a long period of peace, instead of being entangled with the mountain barbarians all the time. Therefore, to deal with the mountain barbarians, we must dig out their old dens, kill all those who resist, and use the rest as labor to build roads and mines. Anyway, there are things for them to do. Fatty Shi was murderous.
The third problem facing the Norton family is the territory defense team. Fatty Shi believes that the cause of this problem lies in the insufficient population of the territory, so that the family is too deeply involved with the families of those members of the garrison, and it is difficult to make up their minds to clean it up for a while. The former Krissen Empire has gone through six years of civil war, the people's livelihood is in decline, and refugees and bandits are everywhere. When I went to the Northland this time, I just took the opportunity to gather together, and selected the strong and strong family members among them to organize a family army, suppress bandits all the way and train soldiers. When I arrived in the Northland, I already had an elite team in my hands, and it would be no problem to crush the garrison team. , and the gathered refugees just happened to enrich the insufficient population of the territory, which is a multi-purpose effort.
As for the territorial dispute, Fatty Shi didn't care, thinking it was a trivial matter, not worth mentioning. When we go back with our soldiers and horses, if the Lord Viscount is sensible, he will obediently give up the mine and spit out the illegal gains. Otherwise, he will take the opportunity to launch a lord war, wipe out that stupid family, and occupy his territory. The Norton family I don't mind expanding my territory.
The only thing that was a bit difficult to deal with was the Duke of Lukins. The Duke was greedy and used various methods to plunder the assets of his nobles, just like a bedbug lying on the Norton family and sucking blood. Now that the Norton family is weak, they can only endure the constant pain of blood loss. How to deal with the relationship with the duke needs to be decided by Lorist. Fatty Shi's suggestion was that if he had a strong army, he would slap the Duke to death. If you can't confront it head-on, then you have to endure it for a while, pretending to be false.
Fatty Shi pulled out the latest map of the former Krissen Empire and pointed it out: "Look, everyone, the former Krissen Empire is now divided into three kingdoms and seven duchies. The Principality of Rulm has joined the Ford Business Alliance. Then comes the Grand Prince’s Kingdom of Ridleys, who occupies seven of the twenty-nine provinces of the original Krissen Empire. It has the largest territory and the strongest strength. Then comes the French The Principality of Kerr, the Principality of Forendo, the Principality of Handra and the Principality of Sabaji, these four principalities occupy the richest central area of the original Krissen Empire, and have also formed an offensive and defensive alliance. There is constant conflict and entanglement."
"The third prince's Antinac Kingdom has the smallest territory, with only three provinces, but the original imperial capital is under his control, and he is also the heir to the empire that the old emperor of the empire preferred, and he is very popular among the nobles and subjects of the empire. If the business alliance hadn't instigated the first prince and the second prince to rebel, he should have been the new emperor of the empire. Due to the suppression of the business alliance, he is now the weakest, even worse than the principality. He should be the Norton family If you have a good relationship, even if the Norton family wants to be loyal, you should be loyal to him, because he represents the royal inheritance of the Krissen Empire."
"Finally, let's take a look at the second prince's Iberian kingdom where the Norton family's territory is located. First, let's talk about the second prince. His reputation has never been very good among the imperial nobles. He is mean and unkind, bullying, greedy and lustful, and likes Secret calculations, the performance of running the country and marching is mediocre. To put it bluntly, the nobles of the Iberian Kingdom are a mess, only nominally subordinate to the second prince. If it weren't for the strong support of the second prince's father-in-law, Duke Fesabrun of the Northeast Prairie, the second prince wouldn't even be able to establish a kingdom."
"The Kingdom of Iberia occupies the northeast of the original Krissen Empire. It consists of five provinces, including the Northland Plateau. There is also the Principality of Madras, which is nominally part of the Kingdom. The current enemy of the Kingdom of Iberia is The Principality of Melain, because it is the third prince's loyal, blocked the second prince's desire to covet the original imperial capital. If the second prince wants to capture the original imperial capital, he must first conquer the Principality of Melain. However, the Duke of Melain is the original The military commander of the empire, all the soldiers and horses under him are the elite of the former imperial defense force, so that the second prince's battle against the Principality of Melain for two consecutive years was in vain, losing troops and generals."
"The second prince has two dukes, seven marquises, nineteen earls, more than forty viscounts, and more than one hundred barons. Among them, more than ninety titles were newly conferred by the second prince. Why are so many nobles conferred? In order to build the country, the second prince profligately conferred officials and sold titles, and there was even a joke that the newly conferred fiefdom of the marquis was not as big as the neighboring baron's fiefdom. One of the two dukes was his father-in-law, the Grand Duke Fessabrun, who was originally a member of the Imperial Frontier Corps. The head of the legion, responsible for dealing with the wild cavalry on the northeast prairie. He supported his son-in-law in the battle of the three kings, and he is the strongest.
"The second duke is Lord Lukins, Grand Duke of the Northland. Look at the map, the Northland Plateau occupies half of the Iberian Kingdom, but the area is small even though the land is large. Looking at the territory of the Norton family, it occupies the northland plateau. One-third of the land is undeveloped wilderness. The territory of Grand Duke Lukins is the most prosperous south of the Northland Plateau, just across the Midobrow River. In fact, the Duke of Lukins has always been ambitious. He wants the entire northern plateau to become the Principality of Lukins. It's just that his military strength is too weak, and he has been coerced by the Duke of Feisabrunn's army, so he has to agree to become part of the Kingdom of Iberis. And he is currently busy thinking about Establish a Northland Legion to compete with the Legion under the Duke of Fessabrun, and become the military force that the Dukedom of Lukins he plans to establish relies on."
"This time the Kingdom of Iberia was established. In order to gain the support of the Duke of Lukins, the second prince agreed to give him the leadership of all the nobles in the territory on the northern plateau. This is why the second prince transferred the leadership of the Norton family to the Duke of Lukins. The reason. However, the second prince also played a trick. He canonized more than 90 nobles in one go, and more than 40 of them were conferred on the vast and sparsely populated Northland Plateau, bordering the Norton family territory. That viscount is one of them."
"The second prince euphemistically said that the canonization of so many nobles in the new territory is to speed up the development of the Northland plateau. In fact, it is to cause trouble for Duke Lukins and seep sand. After the canonization, the new and old nobles in the Northland will Numerous conflicts broke out, several territorial wars took place, and three new nobles and one old nobleman died. Duke Lukins also changed his original strategy of trying to stop the conflict between the old and new nobles in the Northland, and even They also secretly fueled the flames, supported territorial conflicts and territorial wars, consumed the family strength of the nobles of the Northern Territories, and forced them to take refuge in themselves, so now the Northern Lands are in chaos and wars continue, and the nobles of all territories are gathering to protect themselves."
"This is the current situation outside the territory of the Northland family. It is a good time to fish in troubled waters. As long as we are strong, we may be able to unify the Northland plateau. This is why I think it is not advisable for Lord Locke to send a batch of supplies to the Northland. The reason. Transporting a batch of supplies, the huge transport convoy will only make us the coveted target of others, whether it is a lord or a robber, they will want to take a bite from us. And gathering a team of refugees, any lord will worry that our goal is They, as for the robbers, are the targets of our family's military training and extermination. We must kill as little as possible. Among them, the strong and strong backbone will become members of the battalion of dead soldiers and the vanguard of attacking the city. Those who are not backbone will also become Our labor, follow us to open up wasteland in the north." Fatty Shi finished his northward strategy.
Everyone applauded enthusiastically, and Lorist was no exception. Fatty Shi has always had an overall view, which can be seen from when he took the adventure team formed by himself and his partners to do mercenary missions. He would never take on any mission beyond the capabilities of the adventure team. Over the years, the adventure team he led had been injured, but no one died, which proved that his ability to avoid danger and seek good fortune was unrivaled.
It's a pity that Fatty Shi didn't know that Lorist just wanted to transport a batch of supplies to his family to get out of the business. Hereditary title, so consider extremely long-term.
Lorist weakly objected, thinking that Fatty Shi's strategy was good, but the cost of gathering refugees was too high. If 10,000 refugees arrive at the family territory in the north, it will bring more troubles to the family, because the territory has no extra arable land for reclamation, and the northern land is desolate, so the food needed by so many refugees cannot be afforded. etc…
Fatty Shi scoffed at Lorist's words. He thought that Lorist was contradicting himself. In this case, why did Lorist send back so many grains that would be enough to feed the entire family territory for five or six years? Let the family members stay in the castle like a turtle and not go out? It would be better to use this batch of grain to gather the refugees, and then buy supplies along the way. I believe that there will be sufficient grain reserves in the family territory. As long as there is a year or two of grain accumulation, the territory can be greatly developed. Yuri asked: "What if there are too many refugees on the road and those nobles in the territory are unwilling to sell our food?" "What to do, are the swords in our hands vegetarian? If we don't want to sell them, we force them to sell! It's not to capture their territory, as long as we leave their territory. The nobles of these territories will not even gather troops to fight us, because even if they win against us, they will consume their own strength greatly and give other lords a chance to take advantage of it. So their best strategy is to send us food to send us out of their territory as soon as possible." Fatty Shi said.
When the refugees arrived in the territory, there was no arable land? That's not a problem. Fatty Shi said, let these refugees go to mines, build roads, build castles, and hunt monsters. As long as the safe area of the family's territory expands, are they afraid that there will be no wasteland to open up wasteland? Fatty Shi said that many materials can be removed from the list. For example, Lorist listed ten carts of iron ingots on the material list. This thing is heavy and inconvenient to transport. Buying iron ingots is better than finding professionals who can prospect for ore and make iron. Shi The fat man pointed to the map of the family territory and said, I don't believe that such a large area doesn't have the minerals we need.
Fatty Shi asked Lorist how much Jinford he planned to pay for supplies, and Lorist said 10,000 gold coins ruthlessly. Fatty Shi said why did he keep 20,000? Getting ready to have a baby! Everyone on this trip is determined to go to the north with you, my lord, with the determination to go to the north. If you don’t make sufficient preparations, you will hand over all the money, and he will be responsible for preparing for the purchase of materials for the north trip.
Day, the fat man counted brother's money really clearly. Two days ago, the share that El just gave and the previous savings were in the hands of Fatty Shi. Lorist realized that he had very little left by his side, so he couldn't help but lament, how could he go back to Morente City and enjoy himself like this.
Fatty Shi has the financial power, and he is discussing with everyone what to prepare and what to buy, mainly three categories, weapons and equipment, food and clothing, and transportation vehicles. These are not urgent, the most important thing is to have a reliable armed force at hand. Fatty Shi thought it unreliable to hire them all. He was well aware of the shortcomings of the hired mercenaries. It was okay to fight with the wind, but if there were a little more casualties, they would all run away.
"Here." Bodfinger pointed to a black dot on the map. Lorist saw that it was a seaport city, and Nubit Port was written on it.
Bodfinger said: "This is the Kingdom of Haneyabad, an archipelago country, and this country does not prohibit the slave trade. Therefore, Nubit Port is the largest slave trading seaport in Galintia. We can go to this place to buy a group of slaves and form a A family armed."
Fatty Shi said: "I know this place. I have never been there, and I don't know the market. I only heard that this place is lawless and extremely chaotic."
Bodfinger said: "My last mercenary mission was to pick up a group of slaves in this place. I went there once, and it was really chaotic. But I met a few acquaintances, all of whom were comrades-in-arms of the former legion. Now they are here There are people working as bodyguards in the harbor, and I want to contact them to inquire about the market. But it’s better to wait a few days, I will be promoted to the gold rank soon, and it will be better to go there when I become a golden swordsman.”
Fighting Bronze, Black Iron, Silver, Gold, and Gold are not difficult to advance to the fourth rank. As long as Bodfinger proficiently masters the running route of the blood circulation in the high-level battle qi cheat book Lorist gave him, until it runs smoothly, he will be a golden swordsman.
Fatty Shi nodded and said, "Okay, then I will go with you, and the adults will be in charge here."
Baldfinger asked a question: "Knight Shredder, I know you have never been to the north, but how do you know so much about the situation in the Northland?"
Fatty Shi said: "It's very simple. The person sent by the Ford Business Alliance to the former Krissen Empire to mediate the conflict between the three princes and negotiate with the various kingdoms and duchies has returned. I visited one of the members through the relationship and spent a lot of money. I bought the diary of what he saw and heard during this trip at a high price, and after careful study, I knew the situation in the Northland."
Baldfinger bowed his head and said, "Knight Shredder, you have a heart."
Fatty Shi nodded back, "You're welcome, for the sake of the family, this should be done."
Yuri made a suggestion at this time. He thought that there were many frustrated old students in Chenxi Academy, and there were also many in the swordsmanship club. Should I go to the Northland and ask in the academy if anyone wants to go together? Is it convenient for us to control the newly established family armed forces by batching veteran students who know the basics
Fatty Shi praised this good suggestion, and he let Terman and Yuri take charge of this matter. The requirements are good character and silver strength, and you can tell them that this trip is dangerous. If you want to come back to the Northland, each person will be paid 20 gold merits. If you are willing to join the Norton family, Lord Locke will accept you as a family knight, but this will be after arriving in the Northland.
Fatty Shi also asked Terman and Yuri to find out if there are any professionals who want to follow Lord Locke to develop in the Northland, such as pharmacists, iron and steel smiths, as long as they have a skill. Fatty Shi said that the development of the family territory cannot be separated from these people.
Baldfinger nodded appreciatively.
The family knight meeting on the northbound strategy ended here, Bodfinger continued to practice, Terman and Yuri went to complete the things that Fatty Shi had told him, Fatty Shi was even more busy, he was going to bargain with those profiteers, and prepare for the northbound journey supplies. So everyone saluted and said goodbye to Lorist, and left immediately.
Lorist sat alone in the study, stunned for a long time, and finally realized that it was over, this time he really wanted to go back to be the lord...