"Your Highness, the task of the Flying Tiger Legion to escort the immigrants to Yungeshandra Province and the Chaser Legion to help resettle the refugees in the Faliqiu Plain has been completed before February of the new year. After two months of rest, the two legions are ready again Preparations for dispatching troops." Genorio reported to Lorist with a folder, and he was in charge of all the affairs of the Bryn Hills during Lorist's return to the family territory. Except for a very small number of people, Loris It is not known that Te once left Morente City.
"Very well, how is Reddy doing in the Flying Tigers?" Lorist asked. Since Tiger Ross declared that he was going to be promoted to Great Swordsman, he left without a trace and left a mess, Lorist had no choice but to send his first disciple, Reddy, to the Flying Tiger Legion to temporarily take over the post of regiment commander. Because Tiger Ross has a deep influence among the soldiers of the Flying Tiger Legion, there is really no other suitable candidate to take over the position of this legion commander except Reddy.
"Brother did a good job in the Flying Tiger Legion. The three deputy commanders, Mason, Dolles, and Modrak, cooperated very well. The orders were strictly prohibited, and the soldiers also obeyed orders..." Genorio seems to have been to the Flying Tigers before. The Tiger Legion conducted observations.
Lorist nodded: "How is the Liberty Alliance going?"
"The ruling committee thinks our reminder is very correct. The governor of Ledos signed an order for the reorganization of the military system, reducing the city defense corps of the six fortress cities on the Fali Hill Plain to a city defense force of 3,000 people for each city. Battalion, the remaining personnel expanded into a regular field army of 45,000 people, with a light cavalry regiment of 10,000 people. Star Swordsman."
"Uh, why did Lao Jia also come out to do things?" Lorist was stunned for a moment, and then he immediately understood that if the chief executive of the Freedom Alliance, Ledos, wants to stabilize his position, he must firmly grasp the main force of the newly formed alliance. Legion, the reliable and trustworthy man around him who is qualified to be the commander of this legion is Lao Jia.
Although the names of the Freedom Alliance and the Commercial Alliance are different, in fact the Freedom Alliance is no different from the commercial alliance 20 years ago. Competitors are still at the same stage. Only after the test of the market, will the winner stand out in the end, become the talker of a certain industry, and gradually develop into a large monopoly chamber of commerce.
This is the result of the survival of the fittest that will inevitably occur in the development of the market economy. Lorist does not want to prevent and stop it, but he is well aware of the temperament of businessmen. So last year he made a suggestion to Ledos to fix the armed forces of the Freedom Alliance through the formulation of laws, so as to avoid the fate of the city defense forces being disarmed and withdrawn in peacetime like the commercial alliance back then.
Lorist doesn't want his family's armed forces to stay in Morente City and become the patron saint of the Freedom Alliance. People are forgetful. Don't look at the million residents of Morente City who are grateful to the Norton family's armed forces. When the situation settles down The armed forces of the Norton family can easily become the target of some people with serious intentions. After all, the concepts of the two are very different. It is easy for the conqueror and the occupied to have conflicts. When a conflict occurs, it is easy to shake the Norton family. The good impression and reputation in the hearts of the city residents made Lorist consider withdrawing troops back to the family territory after the business alliance was settled, instead of stationing troops in Morente City all the time.
The nature of a businessman is to heal the scars and forget the pain. Lorist also does not hope that after his family's armed withdrawal, there will be no external threats. The businessmen of the Liberty Alliance will probably dislike too much military expenditure and embark on the business of the year. The old way of the alliance's massive disarmament. So Lorist asked the ruling committee to fix the establishment of the Freedom Alliance's armed forces in the name of law. It takes hard work to strike iron. After all, the Norton family's territory is too far away from the Mana Hill Plain. Even if it is shipped back and forth by sea, it will take two months. The Liberty Alliance must have an armed force that can maintain its own security, even if it is defense. Two or three months until reinforcements arrive.
Of course, Lorist asked the Liberty Alliance to form a mobile main army for the sake of Ledos. With the Norton family armed as the platform for Ledos, Ledos, who was the first executive officer of the Liberty Alliance, naturally had a good time. water rises. And after the Norton family's armed withdrawal, as long as Ledos can hold on to the main army, his position will still be safe and sound.
"Yes, Your Highness." Genorio said: "Master Ledos originally wanted to persuade Lord Erdos to leave our family and return to the Freedom Alliance to serve as the head of this legion, but Lord El rejected his request. Later, Lord El Mr. Er personally persuaded his aunt to let his uncle take up the post of this legion commander."
Well, Jia is a henpecked man, and Al knows that, and it's all right to convince Aunt Louise that Jia is fine. But what displeased Lorist was that Ledos actually wanted to poach the corner of his own family and recruit El back, but fortunately his plan failed.
"Is there anything else?" Lorist snorted dissatisfied.
Genorio nodded, and opened a new page in the folder: "Your Highness, the Young Master Seliham of the Chickard Chamber of Commerce is here. He has been waiting in Morente City for nearly three months. At the end of last year Admiral Sambawood of the North Sea Fleet followed your instructions and sent a letter to the territory of the Chickard Chamber of Commerce. Soon after the New Year, the Chickard Chamber of Commerce dispatched Young Master Thurliham to bring more than a dozen servants to risk their lives. Fengxue arrived in Morente City on a merchant ship of the North Sea Fleet, and they have been waiting for your return until now."
"Oh..." It seems that the Chickard Chamber of Commerce responded positively to the proposal to break away from the business alliance and become an independent kingdom as he expected, and Lorist expressed his satisfaction: "Has there been any progress in Seliham in the past three months?" Anxious, what activities does he usually do?"
"Your Highness, I arranged for them to stay in the villa at the foot of the mountain." Genorio replied, "According to the reports from the guards, Young Master Seliham doesn't seem to be very anxious, and he hasn't done anything out of the ordinary. However, he is very interested in the current city of Morente, and takes people to the market every day."
"And then? What does he usually do in the market?" Lorist asked.
"This..." Genorio hesitated: "Your Highness, I don't know exactly what I did. I need to ask Mr. Tagle about this. He arranged for a manpower to conduct a comprehensive monitoring of Master Seliham and his party. But I heard from the guards who followed them that what the young master Seliham is most interested in is not the commodities and goods produced in our family territory, but the various raw materials produced in the kingdoms of Qilinport. He took the trouble to inquire The price, the place of origin, behave like a very sophisticated businessman.”
"Okay, I'll go ask Tagle." Lorist said, "You send someone to tell Seliham to come see me at nine o'clock tomorrow morning."
"Yes, Your Highness." Genorio agreed: "Baron Camorra sent a report from Qilin Port, and the plan to build Qilin Port into a large bazaar radiating the southwestern part of the Kingdom has been roughly completed. Baron Funston, the guardian of the port city, has been very cooperative with our family. He said that he is an old acquaintance of His Highness, and he has always appreciated His Highness’s plan for the development of Qilin Port. Now he is looking forward to this day. Regards to Baron Camorra If you are a guest, you will respond to your request, and even took the initiative to entrust our family with the task of expanding the city defense corps."
"Baron Funston?" Lorist laughed. This is a nobleman who knows the times well. Back then, he treated himself in the same way when he occupied Qilingang. Now it's Baron Camorra's turn: "Well, tell Kamo Baron La, for such nobles who are willing to cooperate with our family, you might as well give them some money-making business. As long as it is not too much, we can turn a blind eye. By the way, His Majesty the King did not say that he would send a regiment to station in the forest Hong Kong? How did it become the Expansion City Defense Corps?"
"Your Highness, have you forgotten the report of Lord Tagle last time? His Majesty the King does not have so many troops in his hands. After three years of bloody battles on the Faliqiu Plain, His Majesty the King returned to the Imperial Capital to reorganize the kingdom's armed forces. The White Lions are deployed outside the province of Marivia, and there is also the Royal Guards stationed in the imperial capital.
The remaining troops are no longer enough to form a complete army. His Majesty the King scattered them to various provinces, intending to form a corps in each province to maintain the stability and order of these provinces, but the current situation is that many provinces are dying due to years of wars affecting people's livelihood and are unable to support such a corps. A corps was formed, and the focus of His Majesty the King's national inspection this time is also to solve this problem.
So His Majesty the King ordered Qilingang to expand a city defense corps by itself, and planned to send a group of royal knights to lead the city defense corps after he returned to the imperial capital after the formation of the city defense corps was completed. Therefore, Baron Funston, the guard of Lingang City, was very dissatisfied with this expansion order. He was very dissatisfied with the fact that he had paid for the formation of the city defense corps but had no command power, so he simply handed it over to our family. Baron Camorra thinks this is a good opportunity to control the city defense corps of Qilingang. As for the royal knights sent by His Majesty the King in the future, they can be taken away..."
Lorist patted his forehead. He really forgot about this report. Two years ago, His Highness the Second Royal Highness commanded less than 300,000 Antinac noble coalition troops, of which only 120,000 to 30,000 were directly under the kingdom's armed forces. Thinking back to when the army came to the Mana Hill Plain, the kingdom’s armed forces commanded by the Second Highness had nearly 300,000 troops, and this was not counting the armed forces of those noble families. It is conceivable that the three-year bloody battle on the Faliqiu Plain caused heavy casualties to the kingdom's armed forces...
"Baron Camorra has done a good job. I can rest assured that he is handling the affairs. By the way, did he say any difficulties he encountered?" Lorist asked.
Genorio looked at the file folder and said: "Your Highness, Baron Camorra said that our family's plan to build a large market in Qilingang has been welcomed by many nobles in the kingdom's territory, and they have shipped the products of the family's territory to At the same time, there are chambers of commerce and merchants in Morente City who hire ships to go to Qilin Port for purchase. Judging from the current situation, the development prospect of the large market in Qilin Port is very optimistic.
However, what puzzled Baron Camorra was that the grain sales trade that had been reached with His Majesty the King was inexplicably suspended. It is said that this was an order from the acting city guard of the Imperial Capital, the Wixas Knights. Now almost everyone knows that he is The illegitimate son of His Majesty the King is also the heir to the kingdom that His Majesty is optimistic about, so his orders have been fully implemented. "
"Huh?" Lorist was also a little puzzled. The year before last, His Royal Highness the Second Highness came to Morente City without permission, and after reaching an agreement with himself on the development and construction of Qilin Port, he asked himself to think of a way for the kingdom's financial revenue, which was on the brink of extinction. Finally, I came up with an idea, which is to entrust the grain produced by the kingdom to the Norton family and sell it in Morente City. The amount of grain trade last year was as high as two million goldfords, which enabled the Second Highness to pay the salaries of civil and military officials and the kingdom's armed forces, and maintain the dignity of the royal family, while the Norton family only earned a transportation fee and 10% of the handling fee.
"Baron Camorra specially sent a messenger to inquire about the Wixus knights, and the reply was that the Wixus knights declared that the food reserves are related to the safety of the kingdom, so we must be cautious and vigilant about the large grain trade. , to approve the sales target of food, and resolutely prevent food from being used as a boost to fund the development of potential enemies..." Genorio continued to report.
"After the messenger came back, the Wixas knight also sent someone to see Baron Camorra. He said that the grain trade could continue, but it had to be traded in Qilingang, and the amount of grain sold was less than last year. The price was doubled, but the price was doubled. Baron Camorra refused his request, and the man sent by the Wixus knight threatened that if he did not agree to his request, the Wixus knight would dispatch the Royal Guards Come to Qilin Port, Baron Camorra will have to trade even if he doesn't want to, and the price will increase... "
"What are you talking about? Is that Wixus knight with a **** in his head? Or is someone instigating this ignorant guy behind his back to attack our Norton family? Order Camorra to suspend the execution of the agreement with His Majesty the King Grain trade, we have a lot of grain in the north. Give shameless things!" Lorist was angry, and it was obvious that someone was playing with Qilin Gang's idea, and wanted to get in the way, and deliberately pushed out that stupid Wick Sass knights lead the charge.
It's really greedy, and I don't even think about what kind of person the Second Highness is. Have you forgotten the cruelty of bloodbath in the imperial capital? Originally, His Highness the Second Highness wanted to borrow some money from the Norton family to spend the year before last. Lorist knew very well that if he borrowed the money, he would lose the meat buns and beat the dogs forever, so he used the food supply for Morente City as a source of income. Give it up to the Second Highness, now someone not only blocked the Second Highness's financial source, but also wanted to play Qi Lingang's idea. Hehe, Lorist sneered, he didn't mind watching the bustle of the imperial capital, since someone was going to be in trouble anyway.
As for the Vixus knight, Lorist didn't take it seriously. The Second Highness had high hopes for this illegitimate son, hoping to train him to be a suitable heir to the kingdom, so he appointed him as the imperial capital when he was touring the whole territory of the kingdom. Shou, it may be that he has the intention to exercise his ability. However, judging from the current situation, the Second Highness might be greatly disappointed. This Wixus knight would be so easy to be fooled by others. It seems that he is also a person who is greedy for money and lustful without a sense of the big picture and has a clear mind. Lorist made up his mind, anyway, the next time he sees the Second Highness, he might as well persuade him to work harder on the new queen, to see if he can produce a qualified heir to the kingdom.
"Genorio, use the eagle message to send everything that happened in Qilin Port back to the family territory, and then ask the family territory to send a messenger to deliver the letter to His Majesty the King as soon as possible. At the same time, let Baron Camorra take precautions Get ready, if there is any movement from the imperial capital, you will immediately retreat to Hilovas Island. The most important thing is to ensure his own safety. It's a pity that we have something to do here, otherwise I would like to meet that Vexus knight... "Lorist said bitterly.
"Yes, Your Highness." Genorio replied, "Lord Shredder and Lord Tagle have arrived at the villa and are waiting for His Highness to summon you."
"Let them all come in and help us prepare lunch."
"Yes, Your Highness."
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