There is a saying that if you are too idle, you are too busy. Lorist felt that what he was doing now was too boring. Don't look at the Norton family's armed forces occupying the territory of the four provinces of the Commercial Alliance in the past two months, and disturbing the changes in the Galintia continent. The restoration of the four countries and the signing of mutual assistance and friendship agreements with 16 countries in the central and southern regions, The independence of the Chickard Kingdom and the Mayflower Chamber of Commerce broke away from the business alliance and became an independent kingdom. This series of major events that can be engraved in the history of Galintia has nothing to do with Lorist. Anyway, he feels that he is too idle. Moldy.
On the contrary, Fatty Shi, Malek, Reddy, El, Schwader and other high-level family members are all very busy. Just as Fatty Shi said, there is no time to close their eyes and sleep soundly. Sleep for four or five hours at most, and when you open your eyes, you have to concentrate on negotiating agreements, mediating disputes, dividing interests, and signing agreements with the special envoys sent by the sixteen countries in the central and southern regions with a smile on your face. Among other things, I vomited several times a day just drinking. Those special envoys from south-central countries are not good at other things, and they are all good at drinking and bragging. Only after drinking them to their heart's content will they not be so entangled in some details and sign the agreement readily.
Even Malek, known as the man in the iron mask, was drunk and vomited four or five times. It is conceivable that receiving those envoys from the south-central countries is not so easy and pleasant. It's just that all of this has nothing to do with Lorist. It can be said that the status of a Juggernaut makes Lorist hang high, as if he is out of this world. If it is just a Duke of the Northland, there are many special envoys from the Duke of the Territory. Lorist must personally receive him, otherwise he will be rude. But Lorist was still a sword master, and it turned out that the special envoys of the Duke had to respectfully greet Lorist and give gifts, and those with low status were not eligible for an audience.
Ledos, the chief executive of the Liberty Alliance who was also so busy smiling so hard that his entire face froze, envied Lorist's leisure, but there was no way around it. The aristocratic circle paid attention to equality of status, Unless the king came in person, it was possible for Lorist to receive him for a while. Just like what Fatty Shi said, a Juggernaut has to look like a Juggernaut, and you have to put on airs, because this is not your business alone, but you represent the dignity and face of the Norton family, representing the entire Norton family Everyone, as well as the family members of the Norton family and countless ancestors who have served the family for nearly three hundred years...
Therefore, even if Lorist has nothing to do at night and lies on the roof to count the stars, he still has to put up the Juggernaut's airs, and occasionally meets one or two nobles who come to see him, and he can accept gifts and let them leave after saying a few words. The matter can be handed over to Fatty Shi and the others. As for the boring situation, Fatty Shi and the others have nothing to do, but according to the customs of the aristocratic circle, if they are bored, they either drink or play with women. So Fatty Shi and the others selected many beauties to send to Lorist, including gifts from the noble envoys.
Lorist has no interest. If he was still working as a mercenary in Morente City, Lorist must be overjoyed to have so many beauties around him. So many beauties can be picked by himself. It is simply a man's paradise. There are several screens with bare flesh. But now that Lorist is over forty years old, his whole personality has begun to settle down, and he is no longer as impulsive as he was when he was young. Isn't that what women are, the more the more troublesome. He already had a beautiful wife and four concubines in his family, two lovers outside, and a large group of children. Lorist didn't bother to provoke these beauties anymore.
Of course, it's not that Lorist is hypocritical and prudish, the main reason is that although the beauties sent over are all beauties, they are still a bit inferior to Lorist's lovely wife and concubines and two lovers. Not to mention Princess Silvia's elf-like beauty, Anna's gentleness, Finnagalli's cuteness, Aristoli's heroic spirit, Theresti's intellectuality, even the two backgrounds of Daisy and Maria The concubine of a small noble family is also very beautiful.
So Lorist's vision is naturally a bit high. Among the beauties sent here, there are no outstanding beauties or even peerless beauties who can overwhelm the country. Those who can make Lorist's eyes shine brightly, just like the nobles in the south-central countries. Among the gifts sent by the special envoy were some beauties, but most of them were dancers who were used as playthings for dancing and entertainment. Lorist was too lazy to gather a few of them. This was also the best way to avoid turmoil at home after returning to the family territory.
After signing the "Agreement of 21 Countries in the Central and Southern Gallintia Continent", Lorist returned to the Breen Villa in Morente City ahead of the family armed forces. Before leaving, he betrothed all the beauties sent to the unmarried meritorious soldiers in the family's armed forces, which naturally won the loyalty and cheers of the family soldiers again. As for those beauties, well, no one would consider their feelings. After all, they were either captives armed by the Norton family or gifts from nobles from other countries. It was their greatest luck to marry a good husband.
Before returning to Bryn Hills, Lorist found Tagle in front of him.
"Your Highness, His Majesty the King has returned to the imperial capital." Tager reported.
In November last year, His Highness the Second Highness married again in the Fisabrun family territory. It is said that the Grand Duke of Feisabrun recruited all the beauties of the family to let the Second Highness choose. There must be a suitable one. The old man probably thinks so . As long as he can be favored by the Second Highness, the old man, Grand Duke Fesabrun, will adopt her as an adopted daughter and marry her to the Second Highness, striving to be a good family.
Although His Royal Highness got married again in November, and Lorist also returned to the Northland, he was mainly by the side of Princess Sylvia and Daisy to let them give birth smoothly, so he didn't bother to attend any wedding. So he concealed the news of his return, and sent Bodfinger and Director Kedan to give gifts on behalf of himself and the Norton family, and participated in the second wedding of His Royal Highness.
"His Majesty the King issued a decree before he arrived at the imperial capital, and removed the post of acting city guard of the Wixus Knights, and handed it over to the captain of the Royal Guards, Knight Riperide. Now the Wixus Knights Has been idled." Tagle continued to report: "Your Highness, there is still news, but it has not been accurately determined. It is said that the new queen is pregnant, and it should be about three or four months now... "
"It seems that His Majesty the King worked hard enough to make the new queen pregnant so quickly. If a boy is born, I think the illegitimate son of the Wixas Knight will be in trouble. The best fate is to be sent far away Be a little lord far away." Lorist laughed.
The Wixus knight wanted to die by himself. After being rejected by Baron Camorra, he really wanted to use the royal family's armed forces to attack Qilingang, and wanted to capture Baron Camorra to the imperial capital. It's just that what he sent out for the first time was a centurion of royal guards, which should be the most reliable force he has mastered. It's just that the luck of these royal guards is not very good. They thought it was an easy search trip, and they could make a fortune from the emerging Qilingang market, and they didn't think there was any chance A nobleman would have the audacity to offend these royal guards, because behind them stood the **** Vexus knights.
These royal knights have forgotten the Norton family and Lorist, the sword master. Maybe they are used to showing off in the imperial capital. Another thing is that most of them are friends of the Wixus knights. They got a job in the royal guard because of their friendship. , neither had access to the facts known to the high-level nobles, nor told them the prestige of the Norton family. In the eyes of some caring people, in fact, this Royal Guard Centurion was just trying to test the pawns of the Norton family.
So it is conceivable what happened to the royal guard centurion. They were surrounded and disarmed by the city defense corps of Qilingang, and then suffered a severe beating. No one paid any attention to the **** Wixas orders they yelled. Instead, they stripped them naked, tied their hands behind their backs, confiscated their horses and mounts, and escorted them back with their buttocks naked. imperial capital. As a result, these bare-bottomed royal guards caused a sensation as soon as they entered the city. The incident of a group of hundreds of people running naked* was really attractive. So countless spectators gathered on both sides of the road, commenting on the object hanging from the crotch of these royal guards, causing psychological damage to these royal guards that cannot be cured for life...
It's unreasonable for the Wixus knight to be furious! The Norton family did not pay attention to him, the future king of the Antinac kingdom, and humiliated the royal guards who represented the dignity of the royal family. This is a provocation to the Antinac royal family. It is also the greatest shame that this **** has suffered! Even Patriarch Norton, the Grand Duke of the Northland or the newly promoted Juggernaut must give an explanation to the Antinac royal family, and the Wixus knights can't wait to denounce him in front of Lorist.
I don't know where I heard that the so-called Juggernaut must respect the king and obey the king's words. The Wixus knights didn't take the Norton family to heart at all. Since the royal guards are not strong enough, let's see what happens with the Royal Guards. It's just that there was no movement from the Royal Guards after the order was issued, and the order was like a stone sinking into the sea, without even an echo.
The Wicksas knight was so angry, he rode his horse directly to the residence of the Royal Guards, and asked the commander of the legion, Knight Lippired, to immediately lead the legion to Qilin Port, and kill all the members of the Norton family who humiliated the royal guards. They were all captured and brought back to the imperial capital and dealt with by him. Riperide Knight ignored him, and instead advised him in a soft voice to calm down. Naturally, the Second Highness will come back to deal with all this, and the Wixas Knight should just do a good job as the acting city guard.
The Wixas knight became even more angry. He publicly accused Lippired of disobeying his **** order, did he want to betray? The words were so extreme that Lippired was forced to take out the secret order given to him by the Second Highness. The meaning of the secret order was very simple, that is to let Lippired observe every move of the Wixus knights in the imperial capital, and even It can also forcibly stop the wrong actions of the Wixus Knights at critical moments.
The Wixus knight was immediately dumbfounded, he didn't expect the Second Highness to bury this hand. But it seems that this secret order should be true. Knight Lippired has followed His Royal Highness for nearly 20 years. All the nobles in the imperial capital know that he is a loyal loyalist of the Second Highness. This is why he was appointed as the Royal Guards in the Imperial Capital. The main reason for the legion commander is that His Highness the Second Highness trusts him very much.
The head of the Legion of Lippired also knew what the second highness expected of the Wixus knights, so after showing the secret order, he still persuaded the Wixus knights not to be fooled by the slander of those villains, the second highness Now that he agreed to hand over Qilin Port to the Norton family for development, he naturally knew that the Wixus knights, as the acting city guards of the imperial capital, had better not join in casually, as long as they earnestly fulfilled the orders of the Second Highness and Lorist. Signed the grain trade agreement, so as not to spoil the plan arranged by His Royal Highness.
The Wixus knight returned angrily, and there was no possibility of using force against the Norton family and Qilingang. The unwilling Wixus knight angrily refused to implement the grain trade agreement. The excuse was that the purchase price of the Norton family was too low. . And Baron Camorra didn't care, since you voluntarily refused to give up this source of income, then I'm not impolite, so there was an endless stream of grain ships from the Northland to Morente City. Wan Jinford's income has become an additional income for the Norton family.
In June, the treasury of the Antinac Kingdom was impoverished, but the granary was piled up like a mountain. But the problem is that the salaries and benefits of the kingdom's armed soldiers and civil and military officials can no longer be paid. They can't send a few bags of food to each person. The Second Highness was not an expert in commanding the development of people's livelihood. Although food production has resumed, the business in the kingdom has not yet resumed. Almost all transactions are controlled by the Snow Salt Chamber of Commerce of the Duke of Kenmes.
However, the Kingdom did not mint its own gold coins, and used gold coins. The bloody battle on the Mana Hill Plain for more than three years can be said to have consumed most of the Kingdom's gold and silver reserves, and the Second Highness lacked a large amount of funds to restore the Kingdom. After all, taxes are mostly replaced by real goods and food, and there are fewer and fewer gold and silver coins in the market.
Under such circumstances, the grain trade agreement reached between His Royal Highness and Lorist can be said to be an important pillar to save the kingdom's economy. As long as there is no war, there is no need for the kingdom to store so much grain and various materials. The grain produced by the kingdom can be exchanged for more than two million gold dollars, which can be used to pay the salaries of civil and military officials and the kingdom's armed forces, and nearly a hundred Millions of gold coins were invested in mining and other industries to restore people's livelihood and economy. Within four to five years, the kingdom's economy would be restored to its original level.
It is a pity that the plan of the Second Highness was artificially interrupted because of the greed of the Wixus knights. After the honeysuckle in the treasury ran out, the Wixus knights were also anxious, and quickly sent people to Qilingang to express their willingness to continue to implement the food supply. trading. However, Baron Camorra refused. According to the agreement, the transaction should be completed before June, and now it expires in August. Who can sell the food for the transaction? So don't think about it this year, but you can continue to implement the agreement next year...
The desperate Wixus knight had no choice but to adopt the suggestion of his subordinates. First, he delayed the payment of salary for three months and could use food instead. The land tithes paid by the nobles of the kingdom are no exception. They do not collect food and real objects, but only gold, silver and copper coins. After the tax payment is completed in the second half of the year, there will be gold coins in the treasury, and then salaries and various welfare subsidies can be reissued. The third suggestion is to expand the mining of gold and silver mines, increase the gold and silver reserves of the treasury, and then try to let the kingdom mint gold and silver coins to replace Jinford.
In fact, the first of these three suggestions is a bit reliable, and the second is nonsense. Compared with most aristocratic families who have gold and silver coins in reserve, the change of land tithes to cash has been criticized but still passable. But for those farmers, it was a disaster. The rest of the harvest, which was originally used to pay taxes with grain, was still enough to feed and clothe the whole family. But now instead of collecting grain and cash, farmers are forced to sell grain first and then pay taxes. As a result, grain is getting cheaper and worthless. Some farmers even sell all their harvests and cannot pay taxes. Some peasant rebellions began to break out.
As for the third suggestion, it is purely taking off your pants and farting. The kingdom should mint gold and silver coins by itself, but it is not up to the Wixus knights to make the decision. And the Second Highness didn't make this idea because there were not enough gold and silver reserves in the treasury. The men of the Wixus Knights came up with this idea on the one hand because they knew that the Wixus Knights were very happy, and on the other hand, they took this opportunity to enrich their own pockets. It's ****, Second Highness won't do anything to him...
At the end of September, the messengers of the Second Highness arrived, and the Second Highness and the new queen were already on their way back to the imperial capital. Along with this news, the Second Highness also came with a decree to remove the Wixas knights from the imperial capital as the acting city guard. At the same time, another secret order was handed over to Knight Lippired, arresting all the party members and subordinates of the Wixus Knights, and waiting for the return of the Second Highness. The imperial capital will deal with it again.
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