"I don't want to welcome him, His Majesty the King is a murderer!" The arrogant Princess Sylvia has passed her 30th birthday and still maintains a pure personality with clear love and hatred. She died of Queen Sissi's sudden illness. brooding.
"Okay, then you don't want to go, Fenna Galley has had a strong reaction to her pregnancy these two days, so you can go and accompany her." Lorist fondled Princess Sylvia's hair and said.
In the past three months, Lorist has not been idle, and successfully made Fenna Galley pregnant, satisfying her desire to become a mother. As for Princess Sylvia's desire to have another child and Daisy's desire to become a mother, Lorist had to continue to work hard.
"Where is His Majesty the King now?" Lorist asked.
"I don't know," Genorio replied, "This time, His Majesty the King came to Morente City in the name of a messenger, and he could not enter the city. Therefore, the six fortress cities in the Fali Hill Plain did not send anyone back. If not Brother Reddy took people out of the city to kill wild dogs just happened to happen, and we may not know that His Majesty the King is here in person. It should be Brother Reddy who accompanied His Majesty the King.”
Three years of bloody battles left the Fali Hill Plain in ruins, and groups of wild dogs eating dead bodies posed a serious threat to the people who were planning to open up wasteland in Thomas City and Gipsy City. Reddy was ordered by Lorist to take people to clear up these red-eyed wild dogs roaming the plains, and has been running around for a few days.
"Okay then, let's ride down the mountain and go along the road to have a look. If we meet, we'll meet him." Lorist said, and then led a team of guards to get on the horse and disembark from Mount Bollinger.
When Lorist saw the Second Highness, he found that he was watching the bustling trading scene in the business district with great interest. Reddy was standing beside him, and more than twenty royal guards followed behind with their horses.
Lorist got off his horse and went up to meet him, and gave a knightly salute: "Your Majesty, why are you here?"
His Royal Highness turned around: "Oh, Locke, my brother, you are here? I never expected that it has only been half a year, and you have managed Morant City so well, it is almost the same as when I came last time You have changed your appearance. No wonder you are known as the kingdom's first master of internal affairs. How about you become the first prime minister of the empire? I entrust the internal affairs of the entire empire to you, and I believe you will not let me Disappointed."
Lorist smiled wryly: "Your Majesty, don't make such jokes. Do you know how much our Norton family invested in Morente City to achieve this scene? Fourteen million Jinford! I was evacuated by me, and the financial manager is angry when he sees me now, and he didn't give me a good look... "
His Royal Highness staggered and almost slipped: "How much? Fourteen million goldfords! Your Norton family is really rich, why don't you lend me ten or twenty million dollars..."
Lorist directly swears: "If you are rich, we are not forced. This time, our Norton family has suffered a lot of trouble. Not only the family fleet was crippled, but even the capture of Morente City was impossible. There is no income, and all kinds of living materials, commodities, and a large amount of food and grass have to be continuously transported from the family territory to this bottomless pit called Morente City. Of the 14 million, the 4 million is As you know, the other 10 million is the ransom paid by the business alliance and the proceeds from the sale of the materials seized by our family armed forces, all of which I invested in the development of Morente City and the Fali Hill Plain."
"I don't understand..." The Second Highness pondered for a while and asked: "Brother Locke, in the plan you originally told me, the purpose of capturing Morente City was to force the Business Alliance to agree to our peace talks and sign an armistice agreement." Restoring peace. But now why does the Norton family want to invest this huge sum of money in the development of Morente City, does it mean that the Norton family wants to occupy Morente City and the Faliqiu Plain for a long time?"
The Second Highness has to ask first, the Norton family dominates the provinces of the Northland and Zhoubian, which is still within his tolerance. After all, no matter how powerful the Norton family is, it is still a member of the nobles of the Antinac Kingdom. Lorist Even becoming the Sword Master of Zhen Guo is also his subordinate, and he is regarded as the master. But if the Norton family occupies the Faliqiu Plain and Morant City and turns them into another family territory of their family in a disguised form, it means that the Lorist and Norton families will break away from the Kingdom of Antinac and become their own. country's possibilities.
"Your Majesty, you think too much." Lorist was very sensitive to realize what the Second Highness had said, spread his hands and said, "When will Your Majesty actually produce that the residents of Morente City will be willing to do something?" An illusion that the king or the lord is docile and the people? Our Norton family is not willing to ask for trouble. There is only one way to permanently occupy the Faliqiu Plain and Morente City, and that is to kill more than one million urban residents here. Only by immigrating here can we keep this land. Our Norton family will not be such a bloody executioner... "
After a pause, Lorist continued, "As for investing the 14 million Goldfords in the development of Morente City, we have no choice but to go back and talk about this, and I will explain it to Your Majesty. Clearly, this is not a place for conversation."
Bryn Hills, Lorist's study.
"What? You want to support and establish a new chamber of commerce alliance?" The Second Highness finally understood why Lorist invested such a huge amount of money in Morente City. This plan was beyond His Highness's expectations and imagination.
"To be precise, this is the Freedom Alliance that is going to be established. Unlike the Commercial Alliance, the Freedom Alliance is not controlled by various chambers of commerce, but a parliament formed by representatives elected by the city residents of Million Morante City to form the alliance. The highest authority. Although they also uphold the attitude of attaching importance to business development chambers of commerce, they will never allow one chamber of commerce to monopolize the market of a certain livelihood industry like a business alliance. They will promote or encourage three chambers of commerce in each industry to compete. In order to maintain the vitality of development and the benefits of the price of commodities sold in the market..." Lorist explained.
"But what good does this do for your Norton family?" The Second Highness asked back.
Lorist smiled and shook his head: "Your Majesty, don't forget that there is still a commercial alliance eyeing them. They insist on not compromising with our kingdom, refusing to engage in peace talks, and insist on being hostile to us to the end. Fueling their greed, they offered us unacceptable truce terms and threatened to fight our kingdom to the last.
Under such circumstances, I have lost the confidence to negotiate a truce with the Business Alliance and sign a peace agreement. That's why I used the million residents of Morente City to form a new Freedom Alliance, making it a new target and enemy of the Business Alliance. The huge sum of money invested in this 14 million goldford is mainly to allow the Liberty Alliance to have the strength to independently resist the armed forces of the Commercial Alliance. This will allow most of our Norton family armed forces to leave this battlefield, and only need to send one or two legions to assist the Liberty Alliance. The alliance can give the business alliance armed forces a head-on blow.
The free Mana Hill Plain and the free Morente City are the sacred homes of the free people. We, the Norton family, are outsiders. We can't turn our backs on customers and fight against the armed forces of the Commercial Alliance. Defending the sacred homeland is the due duty of every free Mana Hill Plain and the people of Morente City. At most, we can be a volunteer and righteous ally to help them resist the invasion of the Commercial Alliance armed forces.
Why does the business alliance reject our request for peace talks and ignore our sincerity for peace? It's simple, they have money, and they have a huge market in the south-central and southern parts of the mainland, so they think they can delay this war until it drags us down. At that time, they can extend their dirty hands to our kingdom, seize our kingdom's commercial interests, control and monopolize the economic market of various industries in our kingdom, and become blood-sucking worms lying on our kingdom, making our kingdom The wealth created became the nourishment for them to grow the chamber of commerce.
Therefore, this war is not only a life-and-death struggle on the battlefield, but also a life-and-death struggle in business. Fortunately, although our family's fleet was defeated by the Armada of the Merchant Alliance, it cut off the fastest maritime transport route to the southern part of the mainland. Although the Merchant Alliance can still transport goods to the market in the southern part of the mainland by land However, it loses its timeliness and increases the cost of transportation.
The huge amount of money our family invested in Morente City is also aimed at revitalizing the commercial economy of Morente City, and supporting it to compete with the business alliance for the market in the south-central and southern parts of the mainland. As long as we resist the invasion of the Commercial Alliance armed forces on the Mana Hill Plain, and commercially take away the market share occupied by the Commercial Alliance, I believe that in just two or three years, the Commercial Alliance will be weak in follow-up and will no longer pose a threat to our kingdom. "
After hearing Lorist's words, His Royal Highness thought for a while, and then nodded comfortably: "Brother Locke, I am very glad that you are so considerate of the kingdom. The business alliance has indeed become the largest in the kingdom. Threat. If you can eliminate the enemy of the business alliance according to your plan, it will be a great achievement for the kingdom. You and your family will be engraved in the history of the empire, shining with dazzling light. But in carrying out this plan, what can I, as a king, do for you?"
The Second Highness needs to share some of the credit, so as not to become a soy sauce passerby or bystander in the future when you are done. For the self-proclaimed Second Highness, it would be a little embarrassing.
"Of course, we all look forward to His Majesty's helping hand." The reason why Lorist explained it so clearly to His Highness already had an idea in his heart, and now that His Highness came to his door, he would not be polite: "I know the Kingdom In the past few years, people's livelihood has been difficult because of the war. I don't expect to get financial and material support. I only need your majesty to agree to two conditions. The first condition is to ask your majesty to deploy a mobile corps in Malivia province. The province is closest to Bruvik City, the first fortress city on the Mana Hill Plain, so it can support the city of Bruvik at the first time when the business alliance forces attack the Mana Hill Plain."
"I promise you this request." The Second Highness is very satisfied. In this way, after defeating the business alliance, he, the king, is no longer a passer-by. After all, there is a legion under his command participating in the battle. It can even be said that the war is in The victory was won under his command: "Then what is the second condition?"
"I want Qilin Gang." Lorist said.
"Qilingang..." The Second Highness was taken aback for a moment, and immediately responded vigilantly and asked: "What do you want Qilingang to do?"
The Second Highness had to be nervous, Qilin Port was not far from the imperial capital, and if he rode a horse, he could raid under the city walls of the imperial capital in three days. The Norton family already owns Hilowas Island as the territory directly under the family's jurisdiction. If Qilin Port is obtained again, the sea route from Northland to Hilovas Island and then to Qilin Port will become a smooth road for the Norton family to arm. The soldiers approached the city.
"Your Majesty, you are thinking too much." Lorist knew that his thoughts were wrong when he saw the vigilant look of the Second Highness. "We don't want Qilingang as a family territory, but just want to get its management right."
"What is the management right?" The Second Highness began to be a little curious.
"It's very simple. Qilingang is still your territory, but we have the final say on how to develop Qilingang. For example, if you have a shop, you entrust this shop to us to do business. Regardless of our business Whether you lose money or make money, you have a fixed income."
His Royal Highness walked to the wall where the map was hung, and stared at the location of Qilin Gang for a long time: "I don't think Qilin Gang is like a shop, tell me about your plan, Brother Locke, how do you plan to manage Qilin Gang?" port?"
"In my mind, I hope that Qilin Port can become the largest distribution market for goods and goods in the kingdom and a transshipment station for long-distance transportation. Its geographical location is very superior, surrounded by the central province where the imperial capital is located, the northwest region and the southwest Two provinces. When it develops, its influence can completely include more than a dozen provinces in the southwestern part of the kingdom. The development of Qilin Port also gives the Freedom Alliance to be established an additional sea trade route, and the kingdom can also use its forest port It is a win-win path for both parties that Hong Kong and the Liberty Alliance can communicate with each other to conduct various transactions.”
The Second Highness stood in front of the map and pondered for a long time, and finally turned to Lorist and said, "I also have two conditions. One is that the armed forces of the Norton family are not allowed to land in Qilin Port. I will send a corps to garrison Qilin Port and order them to be responsible Assist you in completing the development of Qilingang and maintaining order. The second condition is that I don’t need fixed rents and taxes. I only ask that after the development of Qilingang, you and I will share half of the income here. Brother Locke, you agree to these two If there are two conditions, I will entrust Qilin Port to your family to manage."
Lorist smiled wryly, but still nodded: "Deal, my lord."
After talking about the deal, the two fell silent, and Lorist took the fruit wine and poured another glass for His Highness, "By the way, Your Majesty, I received a message two months ago that you were going to visit all the provinces of the Kingdom, why did you suddenly come to here?"
His Highness finished a golden cup of fruit wine in one gulp, and signaled Lorist to pour him another cup: "Actually, I actually wanted to explain to you the scandal that happened in the imperial capital. I believe you should have heard of it."
Lorist pushed a bottle of fruit wine to the Second Highness: "As a subject, I can't talk about your Majesty's family affairs. Your Majesty has been fighting abroad all year round, and has neglected the Queen. But after such a scandal, His Majesty and Grand Duke Fessabrun are not immune. I’m too impatient. The Wixus knight who is befriending the queen is the son of His Majesty. After all, the child conceived by the queen is also of royal blood, so why can’t we deal with the queen’s crimes after the child is born?”
Lorist asked this question on behalf of Princess Silvia, the queen is guilty at all, but the child is innocent, besides, it is almost eight months old, this is one dead body and two dead.
His Royal Highness directly picked up the wine bottle and poured it into his mouth. After drinking more than half of the bottle, he showed a helpless smile: "Brother Locke, we can't let this child be born! Because Queen Sissy, except for the child Wixas, She also has two lovers, and no one knows who this child is. For the sake of the purity of the Krissen royal family, we have to let her return to the kingdom of God of War with the child. Perhaps only the gods know what is in her stomach. Whose child is it..."
Well, the news revealed from the mouth of the Second Highness gave Lorist directly to Lei Meng, this, this Queen Sissy is committing suicide, Lorist was speechless for a long time before carefully asking: "Then you and What agreement did Archduke Feisabrun reach?"
"Grand Duke Feisabrun apologized to me, and then personally sent Queen Sissi on the road. I will continue to inspect the entire territory of the empire and arrive at the territory of the Feisabrun family in the second half of next year. Grand Duke Feisabrun will choose a suitable woman in the family And take her as a righteous daughter, and then marry her to me to become the new queen..." His Royal Highness said so.
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