Two days later, Lorist held a welcome banquet for the Grand Duke Fausta and the Duchess of Windsor. During the banquet, Grand Duke Fausta proposed to Lorist a request to purchase armaments. Lorist agreed after thinking about it, and Fatty Shi was in charge of the specific negotiations. As for how to bargain, this can only be done after the banquet is over, and what kind of agreement can be reached depends on whether Fatty Shi's knife sharpens quickly.
Because Princess Sylvia, Finna Gallie, and Daisy all attended the welcome banquet, the Duchess of Windsor couldn't find a chance to contact Lorist in private, which made her look at Loris with resentful eyes from time to time. special. Lorist pretended that he didn't see anything, and instead discussed with Grand Duke Fausta for a long time. During the three-year war between the Commercial Alliance and the Allied Forces of the Central and South Kingdoms, how the Qigeda Kingdom took advantage of the Commercial Alliance to annex the six countries of.
Grand Duke Fausta also frankly admitted that all of this was planned by him. Under the situation where the business alliance is powerfully oppressing the twenty-five countries in the central and southern parts of the mainland, the Kingdom of Chigeda had no choice but to use the business alliance to annex it. It is all because the Chigeda Kingdom is facing the threat of the invasion of the Romon Empire and the Havistan Khanate, and only when the Chigeda Kingdom itself becomes stronger can it resist the invasion of the two major powers to the central and southern parts of the mainland. For this reason, Only then did they become allies with the Business Alliance. But now because of Lorist's intervention, this alliance has been shattered.
Thanks to Grand Duke Fausta's knowledge of current affairs, his family armed the Firebird Legion and the Norton family to avoid a war conflict. Now that the Fausta family has paid the ransom, the two sides have lifted the state of hostility. The main reason why Rist is willing to sell weapons and standard equipment to them. However, neither Lorist nor Grand Duke Fausta wanted to form an alliance. The distance between the two sides was too far, which was a distance that could not provide effective support.
The banquet ended in a peaceful and pleasant atmosphere, and the host and guest enjoyed themselves. Princess Sylvia and the others have made an appointment with the Duchess of Windsor to visit Morente City in the next two days, looking back at the business miracle road that the Duchess of Windsor created here when she was young. The weak girl who converted established the Mermaid Chamber of Commerce and regained the family territory. Lorist sent Reddy to guard their nostalgic trip.
Three days later, Fatty Shi and Grand Duke Fausta reached an agreement on an extremely large arms deal. The Fausta family will use 10 million Goldfords to purchase more than 100,000 sets of standard equipment from the Norton family within five years to arm the two families of the family. Legion. At the same time, the Norton family also provided them with two battalions of thunderbolt catapults and two battalions of steel crossbows for chariots. These catapults and steel crossbows for chariots will become the defense weapon of the Chigeda Kingdom against the invasion of the two major powers in the south of the mainland.
Lorist's first thought when he got the agreement was that the Fausta family is really rich, and they can get 10 million Jinford. The second question is why Grand Duke Fausta is willing to spend this huge sum of money to buy the armaments and weapons produced by the Norton family. In terms of the quality of the equipment of the Firebird Legion, although they are all fine iron, in those countries in the south-central It is also considered outstanding, otherwise it would not be disarmed by Lorist and used to equip the two city defense corps of the newly formed Morente City.
Fatty Shi answered this question. According to Grand Duke Fausta, in fact, in the past few decades, the Vicia Chamber of Commerce, which was destroyed by the Norton family, once controlled the largest arms transaction in the south-central thirty-four countries. share. For the thirty-four countries in the south-central region, the biggest shortcoming is that they do not have high-quality iron ore resources, only some low-quality small iron ore mines, and the mining rights of the only two medium-sized iron ore mines are in the hands of the Vicia Chamber of Commerce.
This is also the main reason why the Vicia Chamber of Commerce insisted on obtaining the territory of the Chamber of Commerce with large iron ore veins from the former Krissen Empire. In addition to controlling the iron ore mining rights of countries in the central and southern parts of the mainland, the Vicia Chamber of Commerce also strictly guards against leakage of smelting and forging technology. There is a blacksmith in other countries who has made some progress in smelting and forging technology. The chamber of commerce will definitely find ways to incorporate this blacksmith into the chamber of commerce or directly kill the grass. It is precisely because of the commercial and technical monopoly of the Vicia Chamber of Commerce that the countries in the central and southern regions lag behind in refining and forging.
It took more than 4 million Jinford and four years to buy the equipment of the Fusta family armed Firebird Legion from the Vicia Chamber of Commerce at a high price. This is because the Vecia Chamber of Commerce believes that the Fusta family is a staunch ally of the business alliance. The preferential price is only given on the face of the company. The Fausta family has two family armed legions. Now that the Vicia Chamber of Commerce has been destroyed, it goes without saying that it has dealt a blow to the business alliance, but it has also caused the Fausta family to lose their source of arms procurement.
Lorist understood it all at once. Back then, he hoped to sell the weapons and equipment produced by the family through the Peterson Chamber of Commerce to open up a new source of income for the family. Atlas and price list sent to Peterson Chamber of Commerce. As a result, apart from the Petersen Chamber of Commerce buying a regiment's weapons and equipment at a low and favorable price, that is, the Chicod Chamber of Commerce bought a regiment's standard equipment to make amends, and then no one came to patronize it.
At that time, Lorist had been wondering why the business alliance and those countries in the south-central region were in a state of hostility and war would break out at any time, why the high-quality armaments and weapons produced by the family could not be sold. The arms markets of those countries in the south-central region are controlled by the Vicia Chamber of Commerce. The Peterson Chamber of Commerce will not offend the Vicia Chamber of Commerce for the Norton family. They have not carried out any sales activities at all.
Fatty Shi also understands this very well, so the armament agreement reached with Grand Duke Fausta this time also gave a lot of discounts, and obtained Lorist's consent to sell a batch of thunderbolt catapults and chariot steel crossbows to he. The current situation is obvious. After the Fausta family and the business alliance have torn their faces this time, they must change course and ease the relationship with other central and southern countries, so that they can get other countries when they are attacked by the two major powers in the southern part of the mainland. State reinforcements.
Fatty Shi believed that the arms agreement reached with the Fausta family might open up a business route for the weapons and standard equipment produced by the family in those countries in the central and southern parts of the mainland, and occupy the arms market monopolized by the business alliance. Although the Business Alliance decided to re-support a new Vicia Chamber of Commerce after the Vicia Chamber of Commerce was destroyed, the Norton family can take advantage of this window period to win over the central and southern countries that are hostile to the Commerce Alliance through arms transactions. The Merchant Alliance continued to strike until they were no longer a threat.
Lorist agreed with Fatty Shi's opinion and signed the agreement, which means that the arms purchase agreement reached by the Norton family and the Fausta family has come into effect immediately. But then the Duchess of Windsor sent a message to Lorist through Princess Sylvia to ask for an audience. She found a business opportunity in Morente City and wanted to reach an agreement with the Norton family. Southern and southern sales agreements.
Since it was a business matter, Lorist rejected the Duchess of Windsor's request for an audience, but he sent Fatty Shi to conduct business negotiations with the Duchess of Windsor. He agreed that the Duchess of Windsor reached an agreement on behalf of the Mermaid Chamber of Commerce and the Norton family as an exclusive agent for goods, but only within the territory of the Chigda Kingdom. The markets of the other central-southern countries and the two major powers in the southern part of the mainland are shared by private boat owners who come to Morente City for big purchases.
In the current situation where the North Sea Fleet of the Norton family can only control the southern waters by force, it is not yet able to form several large merchant fleets to implement commodity dumping and monopoly on the coastal countries along the golden coastline of the Sunshine Sea. This will take time. and contacts to develop markets in various countries. Lorist doesn't want to adopt the business monopoly behavior of the business alliance. Although it can bring more benefits to the family, it will have an extremely harmful impact on the commercial recovery of Morente City in the long run.
Having fun alone is worse than having fun with others, and Lorist doesn't mind letting those private boat owners share the benefits. For the markets in the south-central and southern countries of the mainland, these private ship owners are the truly powerful local snakes. They are well-informed and have a wide network of relationships. Only through them can they effectively seize the market share controlled by the business alliance, and at the same time To provide the Norton family with accurate and fast information, and finally to activate the commercial atmosphere of Morente City and expand the commercial investment in the market. From these aspects, although the Norton family paid a part of the benefits, they got other aspects. more benefits.
The Duchess of Windsor's vision is very sharp, and she has indeed honed it now. She sees the huge profits of being the exclusive agent of the goods produced by the Norton family's territory, but what she doesn't understand is that monopolizing this interest will make her Mermaid Chamber of Commerce become a The target of public criticism. Under Fatty Shi's insistence, she could only sign an agreement to act as an exclusive agent in the Qigeda Kingdom market.
Before leaving Morente and embarking on the return voyage with Duke Fausta, the Duchess of Windsor wrote a long letter of trust to the fat man and handed it to Lorist. In the letter, the Duchess of Windsor complained about Lorist's coldness and unfeelingness, and recalled the good time when the two fell in love in Morente City. She said that she would always miss those romantic days, and if time could go back, she would always be by Lorist's side, even if she gave up her family territory. In Princess Sylvia, she saw happiness and satisfaction, and she said that she was very jealous that Princess Sylvia could have Lorist's happiness...
At the end of the letter, the Duchess of Windsor considered the loss caused by the Grand Duke Fausta's dispatch to the Fausta family and the adverse impact within the Chigeda Kingdom, and also complained about Lorist's inhumanity and the Mermaid Chamber of Commerce. developmental constraints. However, she is confident that in the next two or three years, she will complete the accumulation of the Mermaid Chamber of Commerce. At that time, she will open the Mermaid branch to Morente City, and hopes to open it to the Norton family territory...
Woman... With a wry smile, Lorist put the letter from the Duchess of Windsor on the candle and burned it. If there is regret medicine to buy in this world, I believe women will become the biggest customers of this great medicine. In Lorist's heart, his first love was that elf-like girl dancing under the silver moonlight, not the elegant, beautiful and charming Duchess of Windsor. Time is the biggest behind-the-scenes driving force that erases all good memories.
As a large number of private ships from the southern waters arrived at Gold Hidden Bay, the commercial atmosphere of Morente City became active as Lorist expected. The taverns, brothels and other service facilities serving these private ship owners and sailors and crew members opened nearly 20 new service facilities within half a month, which added a considerable amount of tax revenue to the Morente City Autonomous Committee. More city dwellers are joining the wave of commerce.
Shi Huade at Cape Romani also sent a letter. After more than three months of hard work and the hard work of 100,000 captives, they finally used a large number of abandoned warships and ships full of earth and rocks to destroy the reef. The reef area was filled up, and except for a large lagoon in the middle for warships to park, the rest of the reef area has been connected into a solid land base. The next thing Shihuade has to do is to build a tall fortress castle on this land base, making it an important attack base for the North Sea Fleet of the Norton family to control the southern waters.
Along with the letter came a list of construction materials. Judging from the scale, it was obvious that Schward wanted to build a castle fortress that would last forever. Lorist is very happy to let Schwarder fulfill this wish, not to mention that this purchase list of building materials can improve the commercial atmosphere of Morente City and stimulate more city residents to devote themselves to the suppliers of these building materials to go. With a swipe of his pen, Lorist erased the original name of Romani Castle and renamed it Fort Schwader. This is an affirmation and reward for Schwarder's efforts.
Three months passed quickly, and the front line of the Fali Hill Plain was still peaceful. Although the Business Alliance did not reach any truce agreement with the Norton family, no conflict broke out on the front line. In addition to the news that the armed forces of the commercial alliance are still recruiting troops and making every effort to govern, the armed forces of the Norton family and the armed forces of the commercial alliance have strangely formed a kind of peace in confrontation.
The armed forces of the Commercial Alliance adopted the defensive strategy of deep ditch barriers in several provinces around the Mawei Forint Province and the Faliqiu Plain. The Norton family armed forces also adopted a firm plan in the six fortress cities of the Mana Hill Plain. The Chaser Legion patrolled and guarded the Mana Hill Plain, and had no intention of attacking the defensive positions set up by the Business Alliance in several provinces. In this way, the two sides used defense against defense, and no one was willing to take the initiative to attack.
Lorist didn't have the time to think about what the business alliance was up to. Two months ago, the business alliance hyped up the Norton family's bloody atrocities in the city of Morent in the south-central countries two months ago. They accused the Norton armed forces of killing nearly a million people. The residents of Morente City, formerly the first commercial city of Galintia, are now shrouded in blood and blood, and reduced to ghosts. All of a sudden, this sensational news spread throughout the Galintia continent, and the Norton family became famous all over the world.
In Morente City, all the newspapers belonged to various chambers of commerce. After the Norton family armed forces captured Morente City and the Faliqiu Plain, these newspapers were closed like the shops of those chambers of commerce. It was the residents of the inner city who entered the prisoner-of-war camp until they were redeemed by the Business Alliance. Many newspaper staff still remember the hospitality they received in the prisoner-of-war camp and resented the way the Norton family contrived to squeeze the last gold coin from them. So after returning to their respective chambers of commerce, they began to use the rich experience of the newspaper members to wantonly fabricate the massacres committed by the Norton family, and from time to time fabricate the escape experiences of those who survived the slaughter...
The ridiculous thing is that the residents of Morente City don't know that they have become bones and carrion all over the wild in the commercial alliance's propaganda. Instead, the news was brought to Morente City by those private boat owners in the southern sea area. Before Lorist and the Norton family could react, the lies of the massacres fabricated by the business alliance had already been exposed by those private ship owners. More and more goods from Morente City have become evidence to prove that the business alliance is lying, and Grand Duke Fausta personally came out to explain the current situation of Morente City, and praised the Norton family for making Morente City a reality. A vibrant city with unlimited development prospects.
The commercial alliance's lie about the Norton family's massacre of the city was self-defeating, and it had no other effect except to increase the resentment against Lorist and the Norton family's armed forces. Now the Lorist and Norton family executives are busy instructing the Morente City Autonomous Committee to form a guard team to be responsible for the maintenance and handling of the entire city's order and security issues, and to discuss the request made by the Autonomous Committee to conquer the Cristo Hills. At this moment, Lorist received unexpected news that the Second Highness had come down, and he came to Morente City in light clothes.
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