"No! Your Highness, this is not acceptable. How can we give such armor and weapons to that person? Wouldn't this increase his strength? I firmly oppose..."
The thing that the Duke of Camberlet said was a large box. After opening it, there was a set of exquisite black iron armor, a square fine iron shield, a fine forged long sword, a sharp dagger and a ruler-long sword. The long head with a cold light flashing. It can be said that this box contains a complete set of weapons and armor equipment.
The Marquis of Krillos loudly objected when he saw the armaments contained in the box. He knew exactly what the Duke of Camberlet meant, which was to provide the Second Highness with such standard weapons and armor equipment to offset the one and a half million gold points. The huge amount of money will also help him gain the trust of the Second Highness, which is related to whether he can get his wish and get revenge...
"No, listen to me first." Grand Duke Camberlet waved his hand: "This is the purpose of my coming here to discuss with you in person, instead of sending someone over."
Picking up the standard black iron armor in the box, Grand Duke Camberlet gently stroked the cold breastplate: "Actually, this set of equipment is the latest armor of our business alliance. It has just been made, thanks to the tungsten armor you sent. Iron ore and other metal ores. If our business alliance armed forces can be equipped with such equipment, their combat power will be increased by at least 30%. Ordinary longbows and arrows cannot be used against those wearing such equipment within a range of 100 meters. Soldiers in armor deal damage.
As you said, if such a complete set of armaments is handed over to the emperor, it will indeed enhance his military strength. You wrote last time that His Majesty the Emperor is still obsessed with preparing to re-form the Storm Legion, hoping to at least achieve a balance with the Norton family's armed forces in terms of legion strength, instead of being suppressed by the Norton family's four major legions.
Sometimes I really can't understand what is going on in the mind of His Majesty the Emperor? Now is the best period of peace for his empire. He does not vigorously develop people's livelihood and recuperate so that his empire can recover early. Instead, he focuses on reorganizing the armaments and rebuilding the useless places of the three major armies of the empire. Since this is the case, our business alliance doesn't mind pushing forward again, so that His Majesty the Emperor can waste more resources and funds on armaments.
I brought this set of standard weapons and armor equipment here because I want you to dedicate it to His Majesty the Emperor so that he can support you in maintaining the trade routes with our business alliance and obtain more mineral resources from this empire . Now it can be used to offset the huge debt of 1,500,000 Jinford that His Majesty the Emperor placed on you. You can tell His Majesty the emperor that if he can provide enough mineral resources, our business alliance can build 50,000 sets of such standard weapons and armor equipment for him a year... "
"What, 50,000 sets? Your Highness, are you joking? How could there be so many?" Marquis Krillos exclaimed. How much labor is required to set up a set of black iron weapons and armor equipment is not an easy and simple task.
"If there are enough materials, it is very easy to build 100,000 sets a year." Grand Duke Camberlet laughed: "Now we finally understand how the exquisite standard equipment of the Norton family arms came from. Back then we The great sword masters dispatched discovered the hydraulic machines in the north. After years of research and improvement, our business alliance has produced many hydraulic machines that can be forged and pressed, enough to replace manual labor to create these black iron machines. arms.
To put it bluntly, dismantling these armors and weapons is just a repeated process. An experienced blacksmith can only forge two or three long spear heads, or two small parts of armor, from morning till night. But now with the assistance of these hydraulic machines, hundreds of nearly a thousand gun heads of the same quality can be made in a day, and the hydraulic machines that classify and forge the various parts of the armor can assemble one or two hundred sets of black iron armor.
I came here to discuss with you this time, so that you can dedicate this set of black iron weapons and equipment to His Majesty the Emperor, and discuss how to get more mineral resources from him. For example, if you can get permission to build an ore refinery, then you can reduce the cost of transporting mineral resources, and at the same time provide us with more production shares. After all, transporting metal ingots is more cost-effective than transporting ore.
If we plan properly, we can also get two production mineral resources from him, but we only need to give him one set of such black iron-style armaments to offset the debt. You may not know that if the mineral resources produced can be provided free of charge, then our cost of manufacturing such a set of equipment will not exceed seven or eight Gold Fords, which is basically the cost of labor and transportation costs. And such a set of weapons and armor made of black iron can be sold for more than 50 Gold Fords on the market..."
"But Your Highness, the Christen Empire is the mortal enemy of our business alliance. If we strengthen his military strength in this way, will it have an adverse impact on the revival of our business alliance? If there is a war, the weapons and armor we provide to them today will cause even greater damage to our business alliance forces!" Marquis Kryrost asked.
"Alas..." Grand Duke Camberlet sighed: "Krillos, you are wrong. The current war is not a mode of fighting each other with long swords, just like the armed war between us and the Norton family. Our business alliance The armed soldiers are by no means inferior to the armed forces of the Norton family in terms of courage and skill, but they did not give us a chance to fight in close quarters, but defeated us from a long distance with various long-range weapons...
We failed in the decisive battle of Bruvia City, and we have lost the Fali Hill Plain and Morente City since then. How many times have I dreamed back at midnight, I returned to that battlefield, and relive that nightmare again. That was not a war, but a one-sided massacre! We made careful arrangements to prevent the Norton family's famous chariot steel crossbows and moving catapults, and finally approached the enemy's line. Just when we paid a lot of sacrifices and were about to use superior forces to defeat them, the Norton family armed forces launched bronze artillery, which made us defeated. The corpses piled up like mountains, blood flowed like rivers, and we fell into the predicament of being slaughtered.
At that time, the warriors who rushed to the front were wearing the black iron armor carefully crafted by the Vicia Chamber of Commerce, just like the one in my hand. But such sophisticated equipment did not bring them good protection, and they were torn apart like leaves and dust in the roar of artillery. So, in your eyes, such sophisticated black iron equipment is not the basis for the resurgence and revival of our business alliance in my eyes... "
The Marquis of Krylos was sad. The decisive battle in Bruvia City and the subsequent attack by the Norton family's armed forces on the business alliance, and the bronze artillery were the keys to the Norton family's armed forces' victory. Although the commercial alliance later adopted the method of building walls with sandbags to temporarily resist the bombardment of the bronze artillery, this still cannot change the plight of the commercial alliance being passively beaten. They can only defend but cannot attack, and they cannot even counterattack. .
"Now our business alliance is also researching long-range weapons, such as the steel crossbow of the chariot and the catapult of the Norton family, and is preparing to obtain the secret of gunpowder from the dwarf kingdom in the Titanini Mountains, and strive to create our own artillery. But all It takes time and a lot of resources to research. So for us, the trade route you have now is very important and must not be lost.
Keriros, I know what you came to the imperial capital for. But now I beg you to suppress that vengeful heart, and for our cause and aspirations, please live in peace with your enemy for a while, and use his trust in you to win an opportunity for the revival and rise of our business alliance. As long as this trade route continues to provide us with raw materials and mineral resources, then we will be able to restore our former glory just around the corner. "
The Grand Duke of Camberlet bowed deeply to the Marquis of Krillos, as if he was expressing his sincerest apology to the Marquis of Krillos for his request. The Marquis of Krillos quickly stood up and held the arms of the Grand Duke Camberlet.
"Your Highness, you don't need to be like this, I know what to do. Actually, although I can meet with that person now, I can't take revenge. He is a great swordsman and the emperor of the empire. It is impossible for me to take revenge now. His. As for the business route, you don't need to tell me, I understand, as long as it helps our business alliance, I am willing to do it.
But what I am worried about is the Norton family. In order to defeat the Ontario Chamber of Commerce, they even doubled the purchase price, making us unprofitable in terms of raw materials and mineral resources. Going on, but our chamber of commerce has been disrupted in all steps and planning arrangements, the more the acquisition, the greater the profit. Otherwise, the 1.5 million Jinford that that person asked for is not in my eyes. "The Marquis of Krillos said very unwillingly.
"It doesn't matter," Archduke Camberlet comforted, "Since the Norton family started a purchase price war, we will fight them to the end. We are not their opponents on the battlefield, so they can beat us in business. Are you a businessman? Now we can use this standard black iron equipment to offset the debts of your chamber of commerce and earn more benefits from that emperor.
A set of such standard black iron equipment including labor, materials and shipping costs will not exceed the cost of 20 gold fords, but we can sell it to the emperor for 40 or 30 gold fords, and we can even ask the emperor to give it to us for free Provide ore raw materials for making equipment, in this regard, our benefits will be great. In the future, you will refine the raw materials first, and refine them into iron ingots like those iron ores. This will not only transport more production shares, but also greatly reduce the cost of transportation.
In addition, the purpose of the Norton family's large bazaar in Qilin Port is not only to purchase raw materials and mineral resources produced by the imperial aristocratic territories, but also to sell the commodities produced by their own family territories. Since you have set up a purchase site in Liushuichuan and started a purchase price war with them, you might as well go a step further and develop the purchase site on Liushuichuan into a market to operate.
Although our business alliance is not as good as it used to be, we still have some confidence after all. Now with the raw materials and mineral resources continuously provided by this business route, the production technicians of the various chambers of commerce in our business alliance will be able to use their skills, and will soon be able to produce more high-quality goods to compete for the occupation of the Norton family. market. Perhaps in some respects we cannot compete with the products produced by the Norton family, but the forging of gold and silverware, fruit wine, stone carvings, and artworks are our strengths. As long as we open up sales in the empire, it will be a good income growth point. "
Grand Duke Camberlet deserves to be the president in charge of the Two-headed Dragon Chamber of Commerce, and in the blink of an eye, he gave Marquis Kryros several good business ideas. The Marquis Krillos became more and more excited as he listened: "Yes, I only considered providing you with supplies, but I forgot to buy a lot of goods from you and sell them back. It would be a good idea to turn Liushuichuan into a bustling market. I am sure that the nobles of the empire will like the high-end luxury goods with great artistic taste from the central and southern regions, because it will make them feel that they are noble, artistic and self-cultivated... "
The Grand Duke of Camberlet and the Marquis of Krillos clapped their hands and laughed, the war ended and peace came. The nobles of the empire no longer boasted of their own bravery, but also began to pay attention to their own artistic accomplishment. This was the case with the nobles of the kingdoms in the central and southern parts of the mainland. Suddenly, some weird art sculptures and oil paintings with colorful and chaotic lines that made it impossible to distinguish became popular for no reason. They swept the noble circles of those kingdoms and were called fashion. The two believed that if the technicians of the business alliance imitated some of these works of art and put them in the empire, they would definitely be welcomed by the nobles of the empire.
"Okay, Your Highness, I will follow your instructions and dedicate this set of exquisite standard black iron equipment to that person, and get enough compensation and benefits from him for our business alliance." Marquis Krillos said I have to sigh: "Just dedicating such good weapons and armor to our enemies, I really don't want to be reconciled..."
Grand Duke Camberlet smiled softly: "Krillos, do you know that in the mountains and forests of our province of Rioriga, there is a bird called Beliga, and the peculiarity of this bird is that they They can't incubate eggs by themselves. When they feel that they are going to lay eggs, they will look for other birds' nests, then steal the eggs laid by other birds, put their own eggs in it, and let other birds help them lay eggs Hatch out...
What we're going to do now is pretty much the same as this bird of Beliga. If our business alliance possesses these excellent weapons and armor, then we will easily attract the attention of the central and southern countries when we re-arm the business alliance, and once again form a boycott and blockade of our business alliance, which will destroy our hard-won achievement. The fragile peace of the United States will seriously set back our efforts to regain access to the markets of the various countries in the South Central.
Let the imperial emperor who is thinking about rearmament get these weapons and armor, then he will definitely form a new legion, the more we provide, the more legions he will form, maybe in this way he can He felt safe in front of the Norton family, and felt that he had the strength to challenge Duke Norton, the sword master of the country.
It's just that what the emperor of the empire doesn't understand is that in this peaceful time when all the wars are extinguished on the mainland, his vigorous efforts to form legions and rearmament will only arouse doubts from all over the world, and become the target of vigilance and attention of other countries. This is more suitable for us The business alliance is circling in secret, and it may be possible to re-establish the alliance against the Krissen Empire more than a hundred years ago.
And what you have to do, Keriros, is to try your best to gain the trust of the emperor, and try to push his prodigal illegitimate son to the throne of the heir to the throne. It would be wonderful to gain the command rights to form a new legion. We will send you a large number of manpower, and then arrange them into this legion, and effectively control this legion. In this way, in the future, we can use the battle for the throne to provoke wars in this empire again. Just like our parents did back then. "
Marquis Krillos nodded excitedly: "I understand, Your Highness, I will follow your orders."
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