President Peterson finally sent someone to send a reply letter to Lorist before August. The letter explained the changes that had taken place in the major chambers of commerce in the commercial alliance due to the failure of last year's duel in the past six months, and the differences between the major chambers of commerce. Due to the constraints of time, President Peterson was unable to unify the views of the major chambers of commerce. Most importantly, the president of the Double-headed Dragon Chamber of Commerce, Duke Camberlett was seriously injured and bedridden, and he has not improved slightly until now.
President Peterson attributed the delay and unfavorable performance to the defeat of the Business Alliance. He also exaggerated the difficulties he faced during the period. The forces once again showed their claws at the territory of the Commercial Alliance, ready to move. It was not until the Commercial Alliance announced that it would confer the southernmost duchy of Ganglinia to the Storm Sword Saint as the territory of the Storm Sword Saint. The two alliance forces stopped their intention to provoke conflicts. attempt.
Lorist had no choice but to praise the Business Alliance for making another good move. Obviously, he was forced to hand over the Principality of Ganglinia to the Sword Master of the Storm as his reward for challenging Lorist to a sword master duel. The Saints will be out of their control in a blink of an eye, so a canonization came, which will involve the Storm Swordsman and the Business Alliance together, and at the same time stabilize the situation in the newly annexed provinces in the central and southern regions. The prestige of the soldiers has disintegrated the plan of the alliance of the sixteen countries and the two factions in the central and southern regions to take advantage of the fire...
However, Lorist was curious as to why the Storm Juggernaut didn't break away from the commercial alliance to stand on his own as he said at the top of Xiaogu Mountain. After thinking about it, he thought that the commercial alliance must have paid an extra price in exchange for the Storm Juggernaut's silence , without him, the benefits are moving. Even if the Storm Sword Master has become the lord of a country, he will definitely need a lot of resources to build and develop his territory. The business alliance should seize this point so that the Storm Juggernaut has to continue to cooperate with them.
In his letter, Chairman Peterson only had a small amount of space to describe the situation and future plans of the business alliance, but spent several letters on business discussions with Lorist. He also cited an example, thinking that a large number of The products produced in the Norton family territory that appeared in the south-central and southern markets of the mainland have mistakes in pricing. At least two or three times the price is required to obtain the maximum profit, instead of making these exquisite goods a commodity that ordinary people can buy .
Lorist laughed out loud. It is obvious that the products produced by the Norton family territory that appeared in the south-central and southern markets of the mainland through the hands of private ship owners have threatened the market monopolized by the business alliance, and the Peterson Chamber of Commerce must also be a victim. One, the business alliance, whose influence has been greatly reduced due to the defeat in the war, went to the doctor in a hurry because it could not consolidate its market share. Chairman Peterson even asked the Norton family in the name of a veteran businessman to give advice on how to increase their income. Did the Norton family become those greedy aristocratic families
It is easy to raise prices, but it will make the products produced in the Norton family territory lose their market competitiveness. What the Norton family wants is market share. In terms of business, they will implement a strategy of encircling and suppressing business alliances, using the same price for the same type of exquisite products. The shoddy goods produced by the major chambers of commerce that defeated the business alliance dealt a fatal economic blow to the business alliance, completely destroying its hope of a comeback and its delusion of making a comeback. Without market share and commodity competitiveness, Lorist believes that those chambers of commerce in the commercial alliance will soon be reduced to ordinary territorial nobles, and it will be difficult to make any income other than collecting money from the poor citizens. .
Without commercial benefits, is the business alliance still called a business alliance? Those chambers of commerce territories will soon become real noble territories. Since those merchants always want to be on par with nobles, let's become real territorial nobles. Lorist thought that he was doing good deeds, and that he made these merchants reborn and entered the aristocratic circle, which is really a great contribution. As for whether the businessmen in the business alliance are willing or not, Lorist doesn't care at all, anyway, he has plenty of means to force these businessmen to submit.
"It seems that these businessmen are still unwilling to bow their heads and admit defeat honestly." Lorist raised the letter from President Peterson in his hand and said, "I have never understood, isn't it said that businessmen are the most smooth and open-minded? Why is the business alliance These businessmen will not bow their heads to death? Now what is the business alliance's steadfast insistence on the uncompromising position, are they still planning to launch a counterattack? Do they still have this ability?"
Standing in front of Lorist was Tagle, who bowed his head respectfully and reported: "Your Highness, the news from the territory of the Two-Headed Dragon Chamber of Commerce said that the Grand Duke Camberlette has returned from injury and returned to serve as a director, and the chaos in the business alliance has ended. At the end of the day, except for the Chickard Chamber of Commerce, which still ignores the orders of the Commercial Alliance, the rest of the Alliance Chambers of Commerce have stated that they will continue to unite with Grand Duke Camberlet and work together to overcome the most difficult period of the Commercial Alliance... "
Last year, the Business Alliance was defeated in the decisive battle in the city of Bruvia. The luckiest thing was the armed legion of the Chicod Chamber of Commerce. They were not attacked because they were at the back, and their losses were minimal. They retreated early when the situation was not good. , is the only chamber of commerce armed forces that has completely retreated from the commercial alliance.
The problem is that the retreat of the armed army of the Chicod Chamber of Commerce did not choose another key place to clean up the mess for the defeated business alliance armed forces, but retreated to the military grain storage warehouse in Maweforin Province, directly robbed a large amount of grain and grass, and headed to the south The territory of their own Chamber of Commerce was evacuated, and it is said that on the way back, they suddenly attacked the territory of the newly formed Vicia Chamber of Commerce, hijacking a large number of craftsmen and refined iron. For this reason, many chambers of commerce in the business alliance demanded to punish the betrayed Chicod chamber of commerce. Although the two sides did not conflict, they have been arguing all the time...
"Hehe, the Chicod Chamber of Commerce is very smart. Seeing that the broken ship of the Business Alliance is about to sink, it goes ashore first, and makes a lot of money. Judging from the current situation, the Business Alliance has no way to punish the Chicod Chamber of Commerce. , it is estimated that in the end, I can only swallow my anger, so as not to be seen as a joke. I believe that with the example of the Chickard Chamber of Commerce, the rest of the Chamber of Commerce will start to have other ideas." Lorist commented.
"Your Highness, you are right. Except for the Ford Chamber of Commerce, the Liward Chamber of Commerce, and the Vecia Chamber of Commerce, the three big chambers of commerce that have lost their chambers of commerce and the more than 20 second- and third-rate chambers of commerce that have also lost their chambers of commerce still firmly support it. Grand Duke Camberlet, in addition to maintaining the business alliance, the Mayflower Chamber of Commerce and seven other second-rate chambers of commerce have privately formed another alliance. It was ousted.
According to the reports of our intelligence investigators, apart from the Chicod Chamber of Commerce, which almost raised the flag of rebellion, the Peterson Chamber of Commerce has been wandering around, swinging from side to side, and seems to have no position of its own, but in fact he has obtained a lot from both parties. Benefit. His Highness released President Peterson, hoping that he could contribute to the truce between the three parties. But President Peterson just tested the Duke of Camberlet's opinion for a little while, and then put our proposal behind him, and did not lobby or advise other chambers of commerce... "
Well, Lorist had to admit that he misjudged the person again, and pinned his hope of peace talks on Chairman Peterson. After pondering for a while, Lorist asked, "Apart from these internal disputes, is there any other movement in the business alliance?"
"Yes, after the Grand Duke Camberlet came back, he once again mobilized nearly 100,000 troops from various chambers of commerce, and divided them into ten regiments to be deployed in Gidelink Province, Mawefulin Province, Sangan Woba Province, and Hausmoke Province. , Clinchus province, the borders of the five provinces that our family had swept into white ground, re-formed a defensive front and stabilized the situation in the remaining twenty-three provinces of the business alliance. It's just strange that looking at these ten Where the Corps is deployed, the Business Alliance seems to have given up on these five provinces that are located around the Mana Hill Plain..." Tager said.
Looking at the map, Lorist nodded: "The Grand Duke of Camberlet is very wise. These five provinces are now useless. If the Business Alliance wants to recapture these five provinces, because it is related to the safety of the Mana Hill Plain, we It will definitely not let them get what they want, and these five provinces have become blank places. The armed forces of the business alliance need to prepare a large amount of military supplies and logistics supplies, as well as a large amount of transportation materials and manpower to enter these five provinces. If not, it can easily bring down the economy of the entire business alliance.
So he simply gave up these five provinces and turned them into a buffer zone with us. If we want to attack the commercial alliance, we also have to cross a province, and we also need a lot of military supplies and logistics. Even the armed forces of the commercial alliance can carry out raids and guerrilla attacks on our rear through the blank areas of the provinces. The initiative is in their hands. That's why I said that it is very wise for Grand Duke Camberlette to give up these five provinces. "
"So that's it." Tagle nodded and said, "Your Highness, there are two other pieces of news. In addition to forming these ten corps to complete the layout of the defensive front, the Grand Duke Camberlet is also planning to convene a business alliance council to discuss the transfer of the Ford Chamber of Commerce. , the Liward Chamber of Commerce, the Vicia Chamber of Commerce and those second- and third-rate chambers of commerce that lost their territories were re-canonized to the southern part of the mainland.
However, those provinces in the southern part of the mainland were annexed by the business alliance a few years ago and have not been well governed. The chamber of commerce does not want to go to the south, and coupled with the traitorous Chicod chamber of commerce in the south, even the three major chambers of commerce, Ford, Liward, and Vicia, are hesitant.
The second news is that the Grand Duke Camberlet sent many special envoys to the sixteen countries in the central and southern parts of the mainland, as well as the Kingdom of Chigda, to publicize the threat that our Antinak Kingdom poses to the countries in the central and southern countries, trying to persuade countries to ban our family The goods produced in the territory entered the country, and a covenant was signed to prevent our family from getting support from other countries in the central and southern regions when our family attacked the commercial alliance with an armed force, recreating the situation of jointly fighting the invasion of the former Krissen Empire... "
Lorist laughed loudly: "Is the business alliance still dreaming? When did they join forces to fight against the former Krissen Empire? Don't you know that the business alliance is now the biggest threat to the south-central continent? In the past, the south-central thirty Six countries, how many are left now, including the Commercial Alliance and the Kingdom of Chigeda, there are only 18 countries, and 18 other countries have been annexed by the Commercial Alliance, how can he still have the face to lobby those countries to unite? What about against our kingdom
Don't worry, the plan of the commercial alliance is impossible to succeed at all. Our family supported the establishment of the Freedom Alliance, which shows that we have no interest in the territory in the south-central region. Proof that our family has no ambitions to occupy the south-central territory. As for the products produced in our family territory, whether they are prohibited or not will have no effect on us, because we only wholesale in Morente City, and it is not our business where to sell them. The actions of the business alliance can only prove that they are in chaos. up. "
"But we still have to teach the business alliance a lesson." Lorist touched his chin and said, "This year our family is very busy with armed forces, so we don't have time to pay attention to them. Maybe next year we will have to mop up the business alliance. By the way, Tagle , you go and check, the five provinces around the Faliqiu Plain are originally the territory of some country, and here, here, which countries have been annexed by the three provinces of the Business Alliance, and by the way, check whether these countries have any heirs and descendants of the royal family survive."
"Yes, Your Highness." Tagle replied.
"By the way, didn't Sembawood impose a sea ban on the Chickard Chamber of Commerce? I heard that if the Chickard Chamber of Commerce wants to eat seafood now, you have to go to other places to buy it. You go and give Sembawood an order Let him write a letter to the Chickard Chamber of Commerce, saying that if the Chickard Chamber of Commerce is willing to break away from the business alliance and establish itself as a kingdom, our family can accommodatingly revoke the sea ban on its territory and allow their merchant ships to go to sea for trade and Fishing. If the business alliance threatens them with the Storm Juggernaut, just say that I am personally willing to guarantee them that the Storm Juggernaut will not take any action against them..." Lorist added another fire to the business alliance.
At the end of August, Lorist quietly boarded a Thunderbolt warship with only a few guards, and was personally accompanied by North Sea Fleet Admiral Samba Wood, and returned to the family territory without anyone knowing. Beside Princess Sylvia and concubine Daisy, taking care of their birth.
On October 11, Princess Sylvia gave birth to a fat boy again, and three days later, Daisy also gave birth to a boy. Lorist stayed by their side until April of the following year, when they set off for Morente again.
Attached is the list of Lorist's children:
Mother, former maid Irina (died of sudden illness)
The eldest son, Norton Lescott, (deceased) was executed by Lorist for rebellion and tyranny.
The second son, Norton Wilward, was adopted by Lorist's cousin, the golden female knight Chrisia, after his mother died of a sudden illness.
Mother, Nico Tresti, the dean of Nico Academy, Lorist's lover.
Eldest daughter, Nicole Oligas.
Second daughter, Nicole, Fresia.
Mother, Dina Aridoli, the female knight of the Dina family, acting head of the family, and Lorist's lover.
Eldest son, Dina Triek
Youngest daughter, Dina Yili.
Mother, Princess Sylvia, the mistress of the Norton family, and Lorist's first wife.
Eldest son, Norton, Anderbell.
Youngest son, Norton, Jed Beans, (to commemorate the heroic sacrifice of the Artillery Battalion Deputy Commander Paul Beans)
Mother, Diliana, young aunt of Aristoli and Finnagalli, concubine of Lorist.
Eldest son, Norton Schroebel.
Daughter, Norton Villian
Mother, Dina Fennergalli, sister of Aridoli, concubine of Lorist.
Daughter, Norton DeLoria.
His mother, Maria, the eldest daughter of a certain minor nobleman, was taken by Lorist as a concubine.
Son, Norton Makino Pete (to commemorate Pete, the deputy commander of the Chasseur Cavalry Corps who died bravely in battle)
Her mother, Daisy, Maria's best friend and the second daughter of a certain nobleman, was also forcibly taken by Lorist as a concubine.
Son, Norton Rollinos (in memory of the two old students of Dawn College who died following Lorist)