Antitina nodded to Brando, and walked out with a stack of parchment documents. In a sense, she was still the quiet girl who was cautious and calm as Gujing Wubo when Brando met for the first time, but there was a touch of healthy ruddy on her pale face, and her thin brows were also slightly. Wrinkled, the whole person seems to have grown a lot more than before.
She turned around, raised her eyelashes slightly, swept the other people in the assembly hall with her eyelid light, clenched a fist to her lips and coughed softly: "Since repelling the unreasonable invasion of Earl Dernell—" There was a slight laughter from below, and Antitina raised her head and stared at the bad guys carefully. Unlike Akane, she rolled her eyes when she stared at people, but this silent look in her eyes would make people. Feeling at a loss, "Everything is normal in the three areas of Firland, Port Gris, and Mintai, and all plans and work are being carried out in an orderly manner..." After the venue was quiet, she organized the entire territory and Eruin in an orderly manner. The situation is explained again.
Generally speaking, Firshanling is embarking on a path of healthy development. The most pressing food problem has also been effectively solved because of the food bought from Ampersel. The current food in the Firburg warehouse is enough to support April of the year of the sword, and the rest will depend on the harvest of winter wheat, but It may also be necessary to purchase more grain. When the girl mentioned this issue, she expressed her opinion on the current situation. The northern war is full of clouds, and the price of food is likely to continue to rise in the next few months. Therefore, she suggested that if the territory needs to purchase food, it should be sold as soon as possible. .
The few members of the territory involved in internal affairs—such as Burrow, Roman, Oldham, and Charles, agreed with him, and Brando naturally promised. He wants to go to Amperthel soon, just in time to buy a batch of food, and now the nobles of the north and south gathered in Amperthel, a permanently neutral trading port under the arrangement of the temple, and are preparing for the final negotiations on the future of the kingdom. In the eyes of ordinary people, this is the last hope to keep the civil war from breaking out. Business people are still waiting and watching. Although the price of food fluctuates, there are only a few people hoarding in secret.
However, Brando understands that there is no room for reversal between the North and the South. The negotiations on the surface are to maintain the peace of Eruin, but under the table, the two sides are in fact fighting for the power of the kingdom. The Princess Regent will take this opportunity to meet with Anlek and reach a marriage agreement. From the fact that Brando has not received much news about the north, it is also known that the royal party and the envoys of Anlek have already begun to the north. The envoy of the prince and the prince's eldest son arrived in Ampersel in one step.
Outsiders are not very clear about the tricks, but he knows well after experiencing history that the future Royal Highness Princess and Duke Anlek are likely to be in the mission, but they have not been announced to the outside world. Although Tonigel has no eyeliner in the direction north of Amperisel or even Firth, all information sources and transmissions are almost entirely dependent on the few Amperisel merchant fleets that have established a short-term connection with the firs, but Even if there is no such news, it will not prevent Brando from knowing the truth behind it.
Because this is nothing more than a preview of history.
He still has some time.
At this time Antitina continued to mention agricultural issues, and by the way, spring plowing. Anyone can see that Brando wants to open up a larger situation, but if he intends to increase the scale of Tonigel’s agriculture, Then the following spring ploughing requires a lot of labor. In a normal year, except for the homeless, no one would be willing to migrate to such a remote area. Fortunately, the Black Rose War created a large number of war refugees. Master Bolu has written to ask his students all over the country to organize these. The refugees moved to Tonigel.
The problem between this is mainly the wastage on the road, which sounds almost sad to Brando, but the living life has to be calculated like commodities and goods. This reminded him more than once of the past in the history of the world. Slave trade. But in fact, if the peasants and handicrafts who were driven out of their homes were allowed to stay in the war-torn homes of Vieiro, Carazu, and Golan-Elson, the end result would be nothing more than self-defeating. Only a very small number of people can survive, and there is basically no possibility of survival for the elderly and children.
This is the helplessness created by war, and it is also the reality that the world must accept. Brando, as half of the modern people, can only express silence when he receives this knowledge. He has never paid attention to these backgrounds in the game in the past. It seems that Vaughan has only those magnificent myths, but the NPCs interpret the cruelty of the living world, but no one cares about it.
"... There is a problem that these refugees are more or less taken in by the local nobles, but the nobles only need a strong labor force and fertile women, and most of the rest are elderly and children..."
At this point, Antitina stopped and looked back at Brando with her black eyes as if she could speak. There was a deep sadness in the girl’s eyes. When she talked about these homeless people, she felt the same. If it weren’t for Brando, she would also be the bottom part of the world’s weak and powerful people; but on the other hand, Anti Tina also had difficult contradictions in her heart.
"It's okay. The old man has experience that young people can't match. As for children, Tonigel needs children. Children are the future of the territory. They have experienced the suffering of war, and they will know how to cherish the hard-won peace of life. Tonigel You can contain them." Brando took a quiet breath.
He is now a lord, and there are many people standing behind him. This represents a judgment problem that he needs to mature, but maturity does not mean that he must be as dirty as the nobles in this world; Brando always believes that even if one day civilization The world of mankind is turned into a barren, but the noble and beautiful culture that mankind has shaped in the shining history of thousands of years will not be weathered with it. On the contrary, mankind will be the first to emerge from the wild, relying on the light of human nature. .
This is just his opinion, but Brando looked at other people with respectful eyes on the court. There was an unspeakable complexity on the girl's face in Antitina. She hoped that Brando could calmly reject her, but she was destined to be disappointed in that case. But he made her feel at ease again-although she knew it was a naive and impulsive decision, it was full of inspiring power.
At that moment, she felt as if she saw a young knight in the endless darkness holding a shining banner and advancing against the current. The indomitability almost melted her heart. How much she hoped for that moment. Help that young man go one step further, so that this gentle light can exist for a while before the dawn of Eruin.
"Old people don't all have experience. Besides, I don't need so many old people..." the aristocratic girl murmured herself, and then smiled gently unconsciously.
"I haven't seen such an idiot, forget it, let me help you to the end..." Among all the people below, Master Bailu shook his head in the crowd, but his eyes were tolerant and relieved. It was only after he experienced life in exile that he realized how far Eruin's bottom had fallen. Who can save Eruin? The blood he experienced when he was a royal party has cooled down. He is no longer sure whether the royal party can help Eruin, and the support for the princess is better to say that it originated from one. Kind of inertia about one's own past.
It wasn't until he saw Brando making a decision today that he felt that perhaps this young man had something in his body that the nobles of Eruin lacked now. Suddenly he made up his mind to write to his more proud students and some old friends, asking them to come to Tonigel and see everything here.
After talking about the refugee problem, Antitina mentioned the development of the territory a little bit. In fact, there is nothing to say. The main thing about the White Mane Guard is that the manpower is far from enough, and the armor and weapon workshops are not enough to start work for an entire army. The'majestic city' built by the old dwarf Oldham is still on paper. According to his words, he runs around every day like a rabbit digging holes to build fortresses and tunnels on several mountains. It's a hell.
The stable operation of the Schafflund silver mine is the main source of funds for the territory. And Brando’s future financial growth point is mainly in the Black Forest. With the help of the druids, he can easily develop the borders of the Black Forest. The most important thing now is the rich crystal mine he found. , Although the output is not too high, but the monthly income is also faintly catching up with the silver mine.
Other specialties such as alchemy materials, wood, fur, and some rare objects are small heads. Only Tamar praised him once for these. By the way, Tamar's alchemy level has now increased by one level, reaching level 12. This is Brando's conclusion from the quality of the dragon blood potions he helped refine.
Finally, it is mainly the expansion of the Port of Gris. The small fishing port has now been expanded with two berths for large ships, and the trestle bridge has been newly built. It is no longer the calm and small port in the past. Its main task in the future is to maintain the increasingly prosperous business activities. It took a lot of manpower to renovate the port. However, Roman did not recruit people, but hired workers to complete the project, not only did not want other lords to do the same. The complaints were filled, but they won unanimous reputation.
The only problem with Brando's reputation in the territory now is that his reputation is not right, and the residents of the territory are more or less worried that war will occur. But in other respects, most people have recognized this wise and benevolent lord-at least many times more merciful than Grudin.
On the other hand, in fact, all the employees’ expenditures were finally recovered through food recycling. Roman deliberately left a small part of it in the private sector. According to her words, it is: only small money will be left in the hands of hardworking people to give birth to more. For small money, Roman only needs to earn it back at that time-as if the money was originally in her pocket.
But the wealth of the territory is the wealth of Brando, and Brando doesn't mind how she tossed casually.
"... The current situation in the territory is almost like this, because the north is in desperation, and the Count of De Nell is in danger of being involved in the war with the Grand Duke Vieiro, and may not be able to look back against us for a while. The situation is unstable today, but Tonigel can just win a respite."
Antitina stopped when she said this, raising her eyes slightly to look at Brando. Now Tonigel can be said to be thriving, everything is on the right track, everyone on the field can't help but give birth to some hope in their hearts when they hear it. They originally followed Brando and most of them were desperate. They did not expect this step today, but they did not expect that this miraculous young man would really lead them step by step through the thorns and thorns to make a way to survive. Then again, in Jean Denet Who would have thought that this young man could bring the covenant with druids, tree elves, and centaur from the Black Forest when the Great Army was crushing
Everything that has happened in the past few months, to everyone present at this moment, is a miracle like a dream.
But this miracle actually happened, and it was right now.
Then, they seem to have created an established fact. Occupying this territory and becoming a true lord, everyone may have the identity of a retainer, no longer a wandering mercenary, adventurer, ranger, wanderer or whatever.
Brando nodded slightly to Antitina.
"Just half a month ago, each of us did our best, sweat, and even shed blood and sacrifices to make this new territory emerge from the shadow of a war. Maybe you think we can finally take a breath and take a breath. The nobles have no time to be cloned and enjoy a peaceful day."
Everyone nodded subconsciously.
"But what I want to tell you is that it's the opposite." Brando shook his head: "Next, I am going to Ampersel and his party. I can't foresee what will happen to this line, but I can be sure that, wait for me. Come back here again. Tonigel will be involved in a real war."
"Compared with the wars you have seen before, this war is nothing like pediatrics. This war will involve the two largest factions in the entire kingdom and several princes, countless powerful The real power lords fight for this. The most outstanding knights you have ever seen are just cannon fodder on the battlefield. Every enemy you have to face can crush you like an ant."
"And these powerful enemies are likely to unite together and kill us. And what Tonigel will embark on next will be an unimaginable difficulty, thorny, surrounded by powerful enemies, and even the entire Eluin cannot tolerate it. path of."
As soon as Brando finished speaking, there was a dead silence in the meeting place surrounded by ten ancient banyan trees, and the needles could be heard. Everyone looked at Brando standing high on the platform, but couldn't make a sound.
"My lord... why?" someone finally asked.
Brando thought for a moment: "Because I am going to prevent a real princess with a noble bloodline and the most legal heir to the kingdom from falling into a trap. For this reason, Tonigel may offend all her enemies, and Those princes and nobles who cannot get what they want at the negotiating table will also unite, and the war will spread to the entire Eruin. We have almost no allies and can only rely on our own strength to save this crumbling kingdom."
Everyone was dumbfounded, only Antitina, who really understood the truth, simplified Brando's words in her heart-I'm going to grab the marriage. The noble girl couldn't help but curled her lips. She suddenly thought of something, lowered her head and looked at a pendant on her chest—this pendant was still a relic left to her by her father.
"But what do those nobles have to do with us? They never gave us any benefits. Why should we work hard for them?" The original gray wolf mercenary group couldn't help but ask, among all the people present, these Those who have been deceived by Macaro are the least trusting of nobles.
"The reason is very simple. In fact, we are able to gain a foothold here because of the recognition of the princess. In name, we have regained this territory from Madara. Whether you want it or not, if you lose this morality The foothold, then wait until the group of nobles in the north decide the winner, take a breath, and look back, then we are their next goal."
"Therefore, we can only join one side and defeat the other. Although hope is slim, we have no choice." Brando replied.
There was another silence in the assembly.
But suddenly there was a voice exclaimed: "Martha is here, Lord Lord! Then, if we help Princess Griffin defeat her brother and help her ascend to the throne, then don't we have to help? Lord’s merit? At that time, with Lord Lord’s merit, it is only natural to be named a duke!"
Brando looked back, only to find that Caglisi said with an impetuous look: "Lord Lord, if you are a duke, we retainers must at least have the status of a baron! Ha, look at my old man then. How dad teaches me, I can be regarded as higher than his status."
Caglisi had a vulgar face when he said this, and Melia beside him straightened his sleeve with red face, so embarrassed that he wanted to find a place to sew it down. She had never seen such a vulgar noble, and she didn't know how Sir Mintai educated this guy.
But Brando smiled secretly. Of course he could see that this astute young man was giving himself a nursery, but at least from this point, it could be seen that Kaglisi was supporting him.
Cagliice's words really caused a commotion, why not? In the face of interests, most people see the interests first rather than the risks behind them. What's more, they have to take a fight anyway. Since there is such a generous reward, the risks that need to be taken seem to be a little trivial.
Indeed, if they helped the princess win the throne, then Kaglisi's conjecture is completely possible. Everyone knows that the princess is helpless now, and it is easy to add flowers to the cake, and giving charcoal in the snow is very precious. What happened to the first batch of families that followed the emperor Eke back then
Anlek, Sifah, Vieiro, which one is not the real power prince
Thinking of this, everyone's hearts are activated.
Brando saw the look of these people and knew that there should be no problem. He knew that those closest to him would definitely follow him, and then the November War veterans of the Red Bronze Dragon Mercenary Corps would certainly not object. They were originally potential royal party supporters, he Mainly to appease the remaining mercenaries, the mercenaries have no faith, he must let them know that they are fighting for themselves, otherwise there will be trouble in the future.
He nodded and replied: "That's the case, so I hope you are prepared, the rewards will be very generous, but only those who win in the end can get paid. These principles do not need me to say I think you should also understand."
"Of course, Lord Lord!"
"We understand."
"Lord Lord, don't worry. With your wiseness, the princess is lucky to have your support!" This is a packaged statement, and it seems that some people are already full of confidence. Brando certainly knows that most of these guys are shooting horses, but in any case, at least they have mobilized the enthusiasm of these guys.
Sometimes the hearts of subordinates fluctuate and it is impossible to foresee the worst result, but once you know that the worst result is nothing more than this, then when the real war breaks out, Tonigel will definitely be able to join the war in the most perfect state. Brando couldn't help but touched his chin. To be honest, he was not very sure about the next war.
It's not that he is not confident enough, but that the enemy is too strong. He didn’t tell the truth. If the plan doesn’t go well, he might have to forcibly destroy the marriage of Princess Griffin and Anlek, but no matter which kind it is, it may cause Anlek to be angry and throw to the other side. The best result is to remain neutral, and once the worst result appears, it means that Tonigel almost has to face the pressure of the entire Eruin.
Eluin’s strength is not strong, but that was after comparing Madara and Cruz, and with the strength of the entire Eluin’s six or seven princes to face a small Tonigel, that’s the difference between adults and children. The strength comparison between the two is almost the same. At that time, his only ally was the pitiful help from the princess's side.
In fact, Brando does not have a complete response method for the time being, but the time left for him is not enough for him to prepare well. He will never allow history to repeat itself, and the trip to Amperel is already imperative. At this time, he saw Charles coming up, and he understood that the other party was going to tell him that the ship to Amperthel was ready.
It only takes a week to go from Tonigel to Amperexel.