"Your Highness, in October and November, the shipments of various daily necessities and commodities produced in our family territory tripled compared to the previous two months. Perhaps it is because winter and the rainy season are coming, private boat owners in the southern waters know this This is their last purchase this year, so the types of goods and commodities purchased are also developing towards high-end products and luxury goods. In the past two months alone, our family's total income has reached more than three million goldfords.
In addition, the 400,000 pieces of winter clothing made of Warcraft fur that we transported were sold out by the residents of Morente City in less than half a month. Clothing and Tailoring Association's protest, they think that our family's use of precious monster furs to make such featureless and rough winter clothes is simply wasteful and wasteful, which makes them spend even more effort on rectification. So, they asked our family to directly provide the fur of the monster next time... "
Director Speer had a smile on his face, brimming with happiness. Now he finally understood the purpose of Lorist's insistence on investing huge sums of money to revive Morante's business economy. Among other things, in the past two years, nearly 50% to 60% of the overstocked goods and goods in the family territory have been sold out in Morente City within half a year. Nearly five million goldford.
This is only a gain from commercial trade, but the greater benefit is that it has boosted the industry and commerce of the family territory that had been sluggish in the past two years. Encouraged by the huge number of commodity orders brandished by the Norton family, all workshops are almost in a state of The state of full capacity has also driven the prosperity of all industries in the family territory. Director Speer knew very well that by the end of this year, the family's various incomes would increase a lot.
Lorist had nothing to say, he just asked Director Speer to strictly control the quality of the goods, and don't let a single rat droppings spoil a pot of porridge. At the same time, a strict access system is implemented for the new factories and workshops in the family territory due to the improvement of the market, so as to avoid the oversupply of a certain industry, resulting in unhealthy competition and destroying the good situation of the healthy development of the entire industry...
Director Speer stepped down respectfully, and the next one was Admiral Sam Barwood of the North Sea Fleet. He came to say goodbye. signed supply agreement. This trip will return in April and May next year with a full load of special products and raw materials from the southern part of the mainland. It can be said to be a business pioneering trip for the Norton family.
Although the southern waters are calm, the hostile Chickard Chamber of Commerce and those pirate gangs still pose a considerable threat to the North Sea Fleet's transport fleet. This time, Sambawood led twelve Thunderbolt warships to escort nearly a hundred large ocean-going merchant ships to the Kingdom of Chigda. It took more than two months to go back and forth. up.
After Sembawood was Fatty Shi, but Princess Sylvia messed in. She brought two pieces of good news to Lorist. Lorist became a father again. A young son was born in the territory, and Anna gave Lorist a daughter in Barony Dina on October 27. Currently, both mother and child pairs are healthy.
This is indeed two pieces of good news. Lorist is now a big family. There are already three sons and three daughters recorded in the family register. This is not counting the birth of him and Irina who were adopted by cousin Chrisia The second son of the baron of Dina and Miss Aristoli gave him a son and a daughter, because the arrogant Aristotle gave the surname of Dina to the two children she gave birth to. Into the Dina family tree. Instead of being like Miss Teresty, although both daughters bear the surname Nicole, they are still recorded in the Norton family register. However, Lorist also single-handedly changed the situation of the sparsely populated Norton family, which is really gratifying. For this reason, he specially opened two bottles of fine wine to celebrate with Fatty Shi.
Fatty Shi is here to report on the sale of farms in Thomas City and Gipsy City. Nearly 140,000 Morente residents of 30,000 households obtained the farms scattered around the two fortress cities in cash or credit. The Self-Government Committee of Lent City has received nearly two million goldfords. Coupled with the loan from the Norton family, the Self-Government Committee is really rich and powerful now.
"... At present, the faction headed by Ledos in the Morente City Autonomous Committee requests to strengthen the armed forces of the upcoming Freedom Alliance. They suggest that four Freedom Corps be formed again, two Freedom Corps are distributed in Morente City, and the other Two were sent to the Cristo Hills, one was stationed at the Port of Albany, and the other was prepared to form a light cavalry regiment to be responsible for patrolling and guarding the Cristo Hills... "
"Wait, are Ledos and the others a little too impatient?" Lorist asked, "Everyone knows that Albany Port is just a ruin. Didn't Tiger Ross just write a letter to complain that they are still in ruins?" Do you have to order soldiers to help the refugees in Port Albany build winter huts and rebuild the pier so that ships carrying supplies can berth? It is a ruin without even a city wall, do you need to send a corps to garrison it? "
"Your Highness, it is because there are ruins over there and there is no defensive value, so Ledos wants to send a free corps to garrison." Fatty Shi smiled: "I don't know what they are thinking, it's very simple As soon as the new year's rainy season is over in April, they will announce the establishment of the Freedom Alliance and break away from the control of the Commercial Alliance. As long as this news reaches the Commercial Alliance, it is likely to be a hornet's nest. The Commercial Alliance is very likely to gather an army to attack On the Mana Hill Plain, they would never allow a free alliance to separate Morent City and the Mana Hill Plain.
The Krystal Hills are of no attack value to the Business Alliance. As long as Morant City and the Mana Hill Plain are captured, the Krystal Hills will naturally fall into the winner's pocket. Therefore, compared to Mana Hill Plain and Morente City, Christo Hill is the safest place. The idea of the Self-Government Committee was to dispatch the Flying Tiger Legion back and place it on the front line of the Mana Hill Plain. This was their main purpose of replacing the Flying Tiger Legion with a new corps with poor combat effectiveness. "
Lorist shook his head: "Tell Ledos, there is no need to expand the armed forces in such a hurry. In fact, even if the commercial alliance reacts after the establishment of the Freedom Alliance, it will attack our family. To be precise, it should be against our family." Follow me. As long as I am here, they will not attack the few fortified cities on the plains of Mana Hill."
"Your Highness, what do you mean..." Fatty Shi understood a little.
"Storm Sword Master." Loris pointed to the desktop: "Until this old guy recovers from his injury, the commercial alliance's armed forces dare not act rashly. Only after this old guy comes out of the mountain and drags me, the commercial alliance's armed forces will aggressively attack Mana Mound Plain. I estimate that around August next year, the Storm Sword Master will challenge me. The old guy escaped too fast when he captured Morente City last time, otherwise it would not be such a trouble now."
With the withdrawal of the noble coalition forces of the Antinac Kingdom, several fortresses in the Mana Hill Plain were taken over by the Free Corps. He couldn't believe that the Commercial Alliance knew nothing about all these changes, and even Lorist suspected that all the situation in Morente City, such as the preparation for the establishment of the Freedom Alliance, had already been grasped by the Commercial Alliance. Although the business alliance sent several groups of spies to die in the past, after all, it has a deep foundation in Morente City and has been in business for many years. It is very easy to pass on information without making small moves.
If the Commercial Alliance has indeed learned about the real situation in Morente City and the plans of Lorist and the Morente City Autonomous Committee to form a Freedom Alliance, then it is worth pondering if they still do nothing now. After much deliberation, Lorist found that the only explanation was that the Merchant Alliance was waiting for the return of the Storm Juggernaut, so that he could neutralize the threat of his newly promoted Juggernaut, so that the Armed Forces of the Merchant Alliance could attack and recover the Mana Hill Plain without any scruples. And Morente City, strangled the Liberty Alliance in its infancy.
"I understand. The key to this battle lies in the duel between His Highness and the Storm Sword Master." Fatty Shi said.
"No, the duel between me and the Storm Juggernaut is not important." Lorist said, "The key lies in the decisive battle between our family's armed forces and the commercial alliance's armed forces."
Lorist explained: "Storm Juggernaut and I are only offsetting the deterrent effect on both sides. The business alliance doesn't have to worry that I will become angry and assassinate the top management of the business alliance, because I also have to worry about the storm Juggernaut's attack on our high-level personnel. The same activities. Under such circumstances, it is easy for the commercial alliance armed forces with high-end combat power to take the initiative on the battlefield. A personal assault by a soldier, but there is no good way..."
Fatty Shi understood what Lorist said. If the Norton family's armed forces also adopted the defense of deep trenches and barriers when the commercial alliance aggressively attacked the Mana Hill Plain, they could withstand the attack of the large army, but they could not defend against the commercial forces. Squads composed of great swordsmen and gold swordsmen dispatched by the alliance make surprise and night raids. This is a unique high-end fighting method that was brought to the commercial alliance by the glass war back then, and apart from the commercial alliance, other countries simply cannot follow suit because they cannot gather so many high-end combat capabilities.
"If we had known, we wouldn't have let the business alliance redeem those great swordsmen and gold swordsmen." Fatty Shi said distressedly. The Norton family has less than 20 golden knights so far. Apart from the original 16 golden knights, only Parker and Vasimma have been promoted in the past two years, plus one female knight Chrisya who returned to the family. There is also Princess Sylvia, although she is also a two-star golden star, but no one will allow her, the mistress of the family, to put on armor and ride on the battlefield. As for the Great Sword Masters, Reddy and Hughes Great Sword Masters are loyal family members, Fatty Shi's grandfather Injerek is a soy saucer, and Sandy Great Sword Master is a bystander.
"This is the report on the armed forces of the Commercial Alliance submitted by Tagle." Lorist took out a thick blue folder from the desk drawer and threw it on the table: "When we were busy, the Commercial Alliance did not While they were idle, they also eased relations with those countries in the central and southern parts of the mainland, signed several agreements that suffered losses, and talked about the threat of the unification of the north to the countries in the central and southern parts of the mainland. The last line of defense for the northern barbarians to invade. We dare to believe that we are barbarians from the north in the eyes of the business alliance. No wonder they refused to negotiate with us even to the death... "
Fatty Shi laughed: "Is it effective?"
"I don't know if it has any effect, but after the commercial alliance signed an agreement with the kingdoms in the central and southern parts of the mainland, the commercial routes leading to the southern part of the mainland have been opened to them. At the same time, the commercial alliance has also been allowed to recruit mercenaries from those countries to strengthen them Armed force." Lorist opened the blue folder, pointed to one of the pages and said: "It is said that the Commercial Alliance assigned the annexed Principality of Camert near the Titanic Mountains to the reorganization The Vicia Chamber of Commerce is the territory. The Principality of Camert owns a small iron mine in the south-central part of the mainland, and the mountains are high and densely forested. According to the spies, there is evidence that the Vicia Chamber of Commerce has re-established a production base in a certain valley. They adopted The same water conservancy machinery as our family is used to refine armaments and weapons, and I also bought a lot of iron ore ingots from the dwarf kingdom... "
"These despicable and shameless businessmen stole their water conservancy machinery from our family territory!" Fatty Shi scolded angrily.
Back then, both Lorist and Storm Swordsman suffered losses, and the business alliance sent many great sword masters to assassinate Lorist. They didn't find Lorist's whereabouts, but turned the Norton family's territory upside down. Master Sid's black iron refining production base was no exception, and many design drawings of weapons and equipment were taken away. As for those hydraulic forging machines, as long as they see them and go back and describe them, naturally smart people will soon understand the benefits of these hydraulic machines for the forging industry, and they can imitate them with a little effort.
"The business alliance is so eager to support and re-establish the Vicia Chamber of Commerce. I guess their purpose is to rearm their armaments. It can be seen that when the business alliance's armed forces launch an attack, it will be a decisive battle with us. This decisive battle is related to Who can become the winner of the Fali Hill Plain and Morant City. If the Commercial Alliance loses, it means that the Freedom Alliance has gained a firm foothold, and there will be no need to worry about the threat of the Commercial Alliance in the future. If we lose, then we The painstaking efforts spent in Morente City and the huge investment here will all be wiped out, and we can only withdraw to the Northland in disgrace."
"Your Highness, are you sure about this war?" Fatty Shi asked.
"I don't know." Lorist laughed dumbfounded: "How can we be 100% sure about war? All we can do is try our best to win. But I believe that our Norton family's armed forces will not fail." Yes, compared to the high-end assault tactics armed with commercial alliances, we are not without countermeasures. When the decisive battle comes, the commercial alliances will be surprised."
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