lizard lord

Chapter 214 Meetings and Immigration

The dispute between Prince Oran and that high-ranking nobleman has ended, and it seems to have been suppressed for the time being. Judging from the few words captured by Andrea, the Duke's side finally had the upper hand, and the prince's side apologized. There is no other real loss.

After all, the duke holds the actual fiefdom, and the power in his hands cannot be compared with that of a random prince.

A few more days passed after that, and things went on as usual, with nothing unexpected.

It is true that many goblin tribes went south and crossed the rolling mountains to the vicinity of Insula, but their combat effectiveness and organizational skills were very low. Facing the well-prepared forest patrol troops who were waiting for work, they would collapse at the touch of a touch and had no resistance. A team of ten people can easily expel and disperse a medium-sized goblin settlement with a size of three to five hundred people.

This is probably a strategy of the hobgoblins. After their attack, they will continue to send goblins to harass their opponents, making them tense up all the time.

This is a bit like how humans deal with rats and cockroaches. It is very easy to crush them to death, but once they settle down at home, it may be very troublesome and unbearable in the future.

In terms of adaptability and reproductive ability, goblins can be said to be a very good race. The maturity period is not longer than that of cats and dogs, and their reproductive ability is not weaker than that of pikas. If you don’t pay attention, you can breed a shameful number. Cleaning up requires a lot of work. energy.

Anyway, the hobgoblins can afford a limited number of goblins, and some tribes that cannot afford the supply will be directly driven into the enemy's territory, harassing the enemy if they enter, and relieving the population pressure if they retreat.

So far, Tang Zhao and the others have a lot of animal friends in the forest, the goblin and the unicorn Lorraine coordinate with them, and it is impossible for fish that slip through the net to multiply in the forest. Usually, those forest patrols Daily practice.

Although there is going to be trouble on Oran's side, it seems that the situation will be calm in the short term. Tang Zhao is going to take advantage of this time to conspire with the people on Lu Fude's side first, so as to avoid any further unhappiness.

The forces in Luford City can be roughly divided into the following types: the beholders control a lot of shares in the underground and the docks, and representatives of the Chamber of Commerce also have a lot of say. Of course, the two parties with the most power are Earl Luford and the military nobleman Norton sent by him. In Kasdei, the two parties are not only in the same situation in terms of thinking mode and division of power, but more importantly, there are two different forces behind them.

Seriously speaking, the location of Lufford is quite important—even though the development level in the west of Oran is far inferior to that in the east, which is full of plains, fertile land and close to the sea, it is still the largest city in the west and a transportation hub after all. After controlling here, it can basically control most of the west of Oran, and it can further threaten some big cities in the east.

Tang Zhao now assumes that a civil war of unknown extent will break out in Oran after the death of the king. Under this premise, Luford will definitely be the focus of contention.

The beholder has already asked the messenger to bring him a message. After a while, a secret meeting will be held in Luford City. The main content will be the distribution of business shares and "some recent tensions."

But before the past, Tang Zhao still has some things to deal with - about the elves in the west.

In their words, the land in the western half of the Great Forest was severely damaged by the war, and many elves from small settlements were displaced and came to them to seek refuge, which led to the loss of land and resources on their side. Insufficient, they hope to relocate some refugees to Karak Solma.

This statement must be true, but there are deep-seated considerations in it-the specific Tang Dynasty is not sure, but the general reason is that the cooperation between the two parties is getting deeper and deeper, but there is no inseparable relationship between the two parties. Common interests are nothing more than standing together because of a common enemy, and there may be a possibility of turning their faces in the future, so the elves will make this kind of decision.

As long as the elves have a non-negligible right to speak within Karak Solma, even if Tang Zhao is half-bound with the elves, it will be difficult for anyone to betray the other, even for the elves who are sensitive and like to engage in these things normal decision.

If Tang Zhao was a normal humanoid creature, then political marriages should have been brought up. Now some elves asked them, but Tang Zhao prevaricated on the grounds that he couldn't change form and was not interested.

Strictly speaking, he himself is still an underage, an underdeveloped "child", and it has some comic effect to say it.

In this way, Karak, Solma will welcome about a thousand elf immigrants again. Although most of them must be old, weak, sick and disabled, there will be more or less guarding rangers.

The current total population of the settlement is no more than 1000. With the addition of hundreds of new human immigrants, the sudden increase of more than [-] people is really a burden. Tang Zhao has been helping to deal with these people's affairs recently.
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Not long after, outside a secluded manor on the outskirts of Luford, various teams were stationed in all directions.

The meeting that the beholder said was held as scheduled, and many forces also attached great importance to it—each party brought a team of nearly a hundred people to the manor to gather, and only a few personal guards and participants were allowed to enter the manor within.

Most of the people present were serious human beings. Occasionally there would be one or two dwarves and elves. Tang Zhao's team was an exception, and it was almost enough to gather an alliance of eight tribes.

He was specifically emphasizing his position. He did not come here as an ordinary leader of a chamber of commerce, but as the leader of a neighboring foreign city.

Everyone will inevitably have some strange and scrutinizing eyes, but no one said much. On the one hand, it is obvious to all that Tang Zhao contributed a lot in the last war against the hobgoblins, and on the other hand, it is because he is now an important member.

Even putting aside these things, what Tang Zhao sells are some monopoly products, only the one of this family, and there is no need for others to offend him.

Tang Zhao didn't show his face in public, but hid in Bourne's wide cloak, and followed him and his guards into the manor.

Coming to the most spacious and luxurious council hall in the manor, it is very obvious that the primary and secondary seats are separated - the top seat must be Earl Luford himself, and the secondary seat is Norton, the human military chief, and the representative of Karak Solmar Bourne and the president of the Cyclops Chamber of Commerce, who existed as beholder puppets, and the rest of the small and medium-sized nobles and businessmen sat in even lower positions, divided into three obvious steps.

In fact, Tang Zhao is very clear that the water in this city is even deeper, such as the Sailifu Chamber of Commerce that may have dragons, such as the large and small chambers of commerce supported by princesses and princes, but it’s just not on the surface, even if the beholder Also put on a layer of gloves to do things.

(End of this chapter)