Age of Arcane

Chapter 314 Luke's Game
After being confused by wealth at the beginning, Screaming quickly calmed down.Being trusted by many big sand thieves to manage and invest, this Werewolf has his own judgment on the interests of opening up this business route.

"I have to admit that the governor has found a solution to the problem of the western border of the empire, but when the sand bandits touch the fundamental interests of the nobles in the western border, their tacit understanding with the sand bandits will disappear, and they will definitely spare no effort to destroy us.

We will also have to be pushed by you to the forefront against the nobles of the Westlands.The final result... It should be that we and the nobles of the western region have lost both sides, and then the empire only needs to send a small number of troops to completely solve the two major problems in the western region.

Governor, I still say the same thing, you think things too simply.Now we Sand Pirates are living in poverty, but when the imperial army enters the western border, we will not have any power to choose.The empire should not fatten us up, let us form another kind of Westland nobility. "

Luke thought, if I didn't prepare well enough, this time I was going to be embarrassed.

"Give you a chance to wash your hands and do a decent business. Do you still want to make it bigger and form a military force that makes the empire fearful?"

Screaming said tit-for-tat: "The rules of the western region are like this, and the right to speak is above the knife edge. If we run the western region business route for you, the nobles of the western region will definitely attack us. We can only use the money we earn to expand our strength.

When the strength of Sand Pirates reaches a certain scale, you let us hand over the knife and replace you... Would you like it? "

Luke stood up, he drew the knife he brought, and stuck it on the table next to the westernmost bottle of water elemental essence.

"You should know that I sent the elf Qingkong to the Ancestors Grassland. When she came to Sunshine City from the Ancestors Grassland to participate in the Harvest Festival, she brought with her an army composed of various tribes from the Ancestors Grassland.

At that time, the entire barbarian tribe in the western region will gather under her banner, and you Sand Pirates are still thinking about not handing over your knives?
Don't think that I am here to ask you to be used by me, I am here to show you a way out.Honestly run a logistics company to do business and cooperate with me in doing things. I guarantee that you will have no worries about food and clothing, and enjoy a high-quality life that you have never enjoyed before.

Stop dreaming about unrealistic things, the good times of Sand Pirates are over! "

Facing Luke's threat, Screaming just wanted to get angry when he was frightened by the information Luke revealed.

"You send an elf magician to the grassland of the ancestors, and you want to unify the tribes in the grassland of the ancestors, this is the biggest joke I have heard in my life.

Your Excellency, intimidation will not solve your needs. "

Luke said with a smile: "What I said is true or false, you can find out by sending someone to the grassland of the ancestors to have a look.

You already know what you should know today, Mr. Howl is busy, so I won't bother you.

Come to me when you make up your mind, you know where I live. "

After finishing speaking, Luke pulled out the knife on the table and retracted the scabbard before turning around and leaving.

Mevesman wanted to stop him, but was stopped by screaming again, and said at the same time: "Scorpion, send the governor out, don't let the ignorant guys outside bump into my distinguished guest."

"Yes, Mr. Howl."

Mavesman led Luke and his party out of the study, screaming and took out a paper bird from the drawer: "Go and see what happened in the grassland of the ancestors."

The paper bird flew from the screaming hand and flew westward through the open skylight.

Howling watched the paper bird leave, then put on his glasses and picked up the ledger.But no matter what, he couldn't watch it quietly. The knife mark on the table always distracted him.

Mavesman led the three of Luke through the checkpoints and walked outside.

"My lord, you are the first one to leave here safely after being so rude to Mr. Howling. I hope that you will receive such courtesy from Mr. Howling next time we meet."

"Next time...you, Mr. Howling, will come out to meet me in person." Luke pointed at the cage where the slaves were held nearby: "How much is the mother and child? I bought it!"

Mavesman looked along Luke's pointing.

They are a pair of ordinary human mother and son, except for the thin elven blood on their bodies, there is nothing special about them.

Mavesman asked someone to bring the mother and child, and then said to Luke: "These two slaves are given to you by Mr. Screaming."

"Then thank Mr. Howl for me."

Luke walked past them without saying a word to the mother and child being brought over.

Kestrel walked over and quickly stuffed a money bag into her mother's hand: "I forgot my mother, but I saw what my mother was like from you. The only thing I can help is this, I hope you can be happy. "

Then the kestrel said to the boy, "Take care of your mother."

"I will, thanks!"

"Goodbye!" Kestrel quickly caught up with Luke and Quickleg who had gone away.

The mother and son stared blankly at the leaving Kestrel, not knowing where they should go and how to survive in this strange place.

"Hey, I can provide you with a residence and a job. Do you want to follow me?"

Mavesman said to the mother and son, eyes fixed on the money bag in the mother's hand.

The mother hugged the purse vigilantly, but immediately handed it out: "These are yours, please let us go."

Who would have thought that Mevsman did not take the money bag, she smoked and said, "You have met a nobleman, I dare not offend him. It is safer to stay here and work than you to rush in. If that nobleman suddenly thinks of you , you have developed, don’t forget the help I gave you.”

The boy asked at this time: "Who is he?"

"I can't tell you his name yet, anyway...he is a big man who can change the entire western region.

Come with me, I will find you a place to live, take a shower and change your clothes. "

The mother put away the purse, held the boy tightly, and followed Mavesman to the dark residential area.

On the other side, in Sunshine Manor, Earl Ould received the news that Governor Meteor suddenly disappeared.

He was furious and reprimanded the people who followed him as idiots. To be able to lose an outsider in his own city was to embarrass Sunshine City.

But when he heard that the Eldest Princess Agatha was shopping in the Sunshine City Market, and at a huge premium, he realized that the Eldest Princess must have a deep meaning in doing so.

Then I heard that Meteorite raised the price of halfling wine to one gold coupon per bucket, and was about to buy it in a big way, and I immediately felt a chill on the back of my neck.

Really cruel!

This is directly pressing the nobles of the western region on the guillotine one by one!
Earl Ould was able to manage the harvest festival to such a large scale, of course he knew what the extremely low prices in the western region meant to the nobles in the western region.They took advantage of the commercial routes between the empire and the western border, and absorbed the wealth of the entire western border by selling high and buying low to maintain their territorial army.

If the price of goods in the entire Western Territory rises sharply, the soldiers who rely on the leader's salary to support their families will certainly not be able to bear the rising cost of living.

If the army is shaken, it will directly shake the ruling foundation of the lords.

Earl Ould's first thought was to kill Meteor and Agatha, and nip this crisis in the bud.

But those were the eldest princess and the governor of Raging Waves City. If he killed them at this time, he would be forced to be buried with them.

But... just let them continue to raise prices in Sunshine City?

The Harvest Festival is coming soon!

At that time, almost all the barbarians in the western region would bring their season's output to Sunshine City to sell, and then purchase the supplies they needed.The aristocrats in the western region would also send caravans to sell the cheap materials purchased from the empire at high prices, earning a fortune.

This is a feast for the nobles of the western region, but this time the nobles of the western region may be scared out of their souls by the prices at the harvest festival.

Unable to kill, unable to stop, Earl Ould was sweating anxiously.

He knew that Governor Meteor is powerful, and he had received Erguya's reminder, but he never expected that just now when he and Meteor entered the city in a polite and harmonious way, this guy turned around and stabbed himself in the back.

The knife also stuck in the trachea.

Earl Ould was thinking about countermeasures, thinking about how to deal with the deadly move of the meteor.

Not long after, the attendant came to report that Governor Meteorite had returned with His Royal Highness the Eldest Princess.They came back with dozens of carts of goods.Right now, there are voices praising the Eldest Princess everywhere in Sunshine City, and they all look forward to the Eldest Princess visiting their stall tomorrow.

"Go and invite Governor Meteor to come to me!"

Now Earl Ould lives in a small building by the central lake. Although the furnishings and decoration inside are not as modern and avant-garde as Raging City, they are comparable to the harmonious combination of tradition and trendiness in St. Lun City.

Tea drinking, which has just emerged, has also become one of Earl Ould's hobbies.

Earl Ould invited Luke to taste tea together. While making tea with a decent tea set, he said: "The taste of tea has a lot to do with the quality of the water. The water I use to make tea is pie Special personnel went to the ruins of the world tree master in the grassland of the ancestors to receive the spring water from the spring in Shuxin Lake.

That is the root system left by the world tree to extract groundwater, and then spray it from the tree core after purification. It is the source of many rivers in the west.Also because of the importance of the source, it is protected by the fiercest battle song among the grassland elves, and no one can drink this water. "

Earl Ould poured a cup of tea for Luke, expressing his energy in the western region in his words, even the most difficult to obtain water can be easily obtained.

Luke took a sip of tea, and sure enough, the tea brewed by the source of the world tree is different, and his mental and physical strength have been replenished.

You can let the clear sky drink more and take it home to drink.

"The water is good water, but the quality of the tea is a bit low. I will ask Raging Waves City to send some good tea, and the Earl can taste it."

Earl Ould put down the teapot and said: "Raging Waves City connects the world, the governor must have drunk all kinds of good tea, and of course the world's top red wine.

I heard that the Governor is very interested in halfling wine from the western region, and is planning to purchase it on a large scale, and transport it to Raging Waves City to make high-end red wine for sale. "

Luke knew what Earl Ould wanted to do when he invited himself here. He pretended to be confused and said: "The sunshine in the western region is strong, so the grapes produced have far higher sugar content than other places. The halfling winemaking technology here and The environment makes the wines produced have a unique high quality.

Even if it is purchased from the western region and transported to Raging Waves City, plus the high cost of reprocessing, halfling wine can still bring me a hundred times the return on profit.

I wonder if the Earl is interested in the halfling wine business, I can invest in a winery in Sunshine City..."

Hearing that halfling wine can achieve a hundredfold return on profit through the hands of Raging Waves City, Earl Ould almost agreed on the spot to build a winery in Sunshine City.

But he soon realized that he was orbited by the meteorite.

"Building a red winery, of course I welcome it. But the governor bought halfling wine at the price of one barrel and one gold coupon, which is really too much. Seeing your generosity, these greedy halflings will definitely keep increasing the price!"

Luke smiled and drank tea: "I can earn so much money, do I still care about price increases? As long as the quality of their wine remains the same, I can afford two gold coupons or three gold coupons per barrel... I can afford it.

The more halflings earn, the more they can actively brew wine. Otherwise, a village can only produce four barrels of wine for sale in a season, which is too little!If they can double the output several times, wouldn't I earn more? "

The truth is this, but the nobles of the western region need halfling wine to return to a constant price of one gold coin per barrel.

So Earl Ould stopped playing charades with Luke.

He said directly: "My lord governor, by disturbing the price of goods in the western region, you are touching the most fundamental interests of the nobles in the western region. You and Her Royal Highness the eldest princess have a mission entrusted to you by the empire, and the nobles in the western region are also looking at the attitude of the empire.

Hostility and pressure won't take anything away from the West, but it could lead to a repeat of what happened in the Tedgar Hills in the West. "

Luke picked up the teapot and poured himself tea.

"In the past, the western region was too far away and desolate for the empire, and the investment and return were not proportional, so the nobles of the western region had a good life.

It's just that this kind of good life makes you more and more inflated, so that you put your position on a castle in the air without support, and feel that you have the capital to clamor with the empire.But I played a card casually and forced you to threaten me, which shows how weak the nobles of the western region are. "

Earl Ould didn't expect to raise the price of the harvest festival. It was just a card in Meteor's hand, so what are the other cards?
If he dares to say that, does it mean that other cards have already been played!

Earl Ould asked Luke nervously: "You just disappeared, where did you go? I warn you...you and the eldest princess will not be able to return if you drive the nobles of the western region to a dead end."

Luke continued to drink tea nonchalantly: "Stop threatening me, and think more about the future of the Ould family. It is very, very rare to have such a large-scale commercial city in the western region. If the empire's railway can be built into the western region, Sunshine City will definitely have more important position.

Smart people can see the situation clearly, instead of clinging to the rules of their ancestors.

The tea is good and the water is good!
I think the source of the World Tree reserved by the Earl is not enough for use during the Harvest Festival. Since the Earl has a very good relationship with the ferocious battle song of the ancestors grassland, I should send someone to ask for the source of the World Tree. "

(End of this chapter)