Lord Harland

The auction was held at the Fort William Opera House and lasted for three days. At the auction, Richard sold thirty-two sets of magic hot air balloons, three thousand alchemical bombs, sixty searing ray guns, and thirty death rays. Gun, six hundred bottles of Tenghui potion, sixteen bottles of Styx potion, ten mage robes, six magic wands, and two hundred pieces of enchanted armor.

Not counting the three most valuable treasures, Richard took out extraordinary resources worth approximately 350,000 gold coins.

This batch of extraordinary resources brought Harland leader 10,000 magic crystals, 60 magic cores of different levels, about three tons of super magic metal, and a dozen various rare magic plants. , filling many gaps in magic materials.

Harland leads the three final treasures at this year's auction. The first is a ninth-level enchanted long sword, which comes from the Duke Otto family of the Kingdom of Sith. In August this year, Richard solved the Yunhai slave-catching group, killed Rick and seized this object from his body.

Although the value of the ninth-level enchanted long sword is not as good as that of the ninth-level crossbow, let alone the ninth-level armor, it is after all an extraordinary treasure second only to legendary items. Even if it is placed in the royal family, it is an important collection. The hand of a heavyweight noble. Many nobles of the earl level may not have ninth-level extraordinary treasures in their hands. In the countries near Grant Kingdom, those who can use the ninth-level enchanted long sword are basically either the royal family or the duke.

Richard has led the Haaland leadership for many years, annihilating many invincible opponents, and only captured three ninth-level enchanted long swords. The other two were one from Pilosa and one from Mark Dean. Legendary knight heavyweight duke.

One of the two ninth-level enchanted long swords was used by Richard himself, and the other was given to Sylph.

Richard originally planned to keep the weapon seized this year in the territory and give it to Sutton, Soros and others. However, the territory suffered a disaster this year, the fiscal revenue was insufficient, and the increase in military expenditures was particularly large, so he put it up for auction. It can promote the reputation of the Harland Commodity Fair, and at the same time, it can fill in the lack of financial revenue and fill some vacancies.

This enchanted sword was eventually traded to the Ryan royal family in exchange for 300 warcraft horses and 30 underage griffons. If converted into gold coins, it would be worth about 130,000.

The Kingdom of Lane has a gryphon cavalry regiment of 300 people. About sixty gryphons are born every year. On average, about twenty gryphons die from old age, illness, and battle. Because the cost of maintaining gryphon cavalry is high, the Kingdom of Lane sells an average of forty young gryphons a year.

Under normal circumstances, the young griffons of the Lion Kingdom will not be sold in nearby kingdoms, such as Stanik, Grant, Delon Kingdom and other neighboring countries. Even if they are exchanged for extraordinary resources, the Lion Kingdom will not agree to sell the griffons. Require.

Their main customers are the Palame Kingdom, the Sith Kingdom, and the Holy Radiance Empire Slave Catching Group. When selling young griffons, castrated male griffons are also chosen.

But now the Kingdom of Grant has also cultivated a gryphon cavalry regiment. The gryphon population in the hands of the two great nobles Grant and Harland is already very large, and it is impossible for the Kingdom of Lane to limit it.

Therefore, the Lion Kingdom could only relax its restrictions and sell griffons to the great nobles of the Grant Kingdom. After all, if the Lion Kingdom does not do this business, the Harland family and the Grant royal family will do it in a few years. By then, the benefits will have to be given to their opponents.

The second final auction item is a high-level Styx potion, which can increase magic power by 30 points. Even the leader of Harland can refine one or two of them a year at most. Many of the backbones of the Mage Association have never refined this product. , you can only use medium Styx potion to make up for it.

This year, the high-level Styx potion refined by Sophia fell into the hands of the East Coast United Kingdom's Mage Academy. In exchange for this potion, the East Coast United Kingdom exchanged four life evolution potions.

Life evolution potions are necessary for sixth-level warriors to break through to seventh level. The price has been relatively stable, about 30,000 gold coins. With these four life evolution potions, even if the probability of advancement is about half, the Harland leader should be able to cultivate two people. A seventh level master.

The final item was the ninth-level enchanted armor. Although the ninth-level armor brought out by Harland had flaws, its value was far greater than that of the ninth-level enchanted long sword, with an estimated value of around 300,000 gold coins.

In the end, Grand Duke Jonathan made the decision on the spot and decided to exchange the family's inherited ninth-level longbow and sixteen thousand magic crystals with the Harland family.

The manufacture of enchanted longbows is also very troublesome. Although the Harland Territory has a large business, it has not yet produced a ninth-level enchanted bow and arrow. The best enchanted bow and arrow in the territory is only a seventh-level one.

After seeing the Jonathan family's enchanted bow and arrow, Richard immediately couldn't take his eyes away and agreed to the Jonathan family's conditions on the spot.

Sylph has been promoted to legend, and the enchanted bow in her hand is currently only at level seven. Sylph has been promoted to legend. Using the ninth-level enchanted bow and arrow can maximize the power of this object. In exchange for the ninth-level enchanted bow and arrow, Richard immediately handed the ninth-level enchanted bow and arrow to Sylph.

After the auction, Harland led the staff of the commercial department to count the transaction volume of this year's Commodity Expo. Adding the transaction volume of the auction, the transaction volume of this year's Commodity Expo exceeded 2.8 million gold coins.

The goods Harland sold and exchanged alone amounted to 2.16 million.

For the remaining 740,000 gold coins, the transaction tax alone received 37,000 gold coins. As the Harland Product Expo becomes larger and larger, and its reputation becomes higher and higher, the transaction tax alone is collected every year, haha Randall has been very profitable.

After the commodity expo, Richard mobilized troops from his territory and formed the Fourth Warcraft Cavalry Brigade.

Now the number of Warcraft Cavalry led by Harland is close to 3,000, of which the First Warcraft Cavalry Brigade is fully equipped with a total of 1,000 soldiers.

The Second Warcraft Cavalry Brigade is almost full, with a total of 900 soldiers. The Third Warcraft Cavalry Brigade has more vacancies, with only 600 soldiers.

In addition, during last year's war, Richard organized three squadrons of Warcraft cavalry scattered in different areas, such as Dragon Canyon, Demon Hunting City, Ogre Lair and other strongholds.

The Fourth Warcraft Cavalry Brigade has only five hundred soldiers. After the formation of the Warcraft Cavalry Brigade was completed, Harland's Warcraft Cavalry strength already numbered 3,030.

Among them, the 1st and 4th Warcraft Cavalry Brigades are iron-horned Warcraft Cavalry, and the 2nd and 3rd Warcraft Cavalry Brigades are Flame Horse Warcraft Cavalry. Because the Warcraft horses are of different breeds, the logistics supply is a little troublesome.

After reorganizing the army last year, Harland has established four main legions. Richard, Soros, Jennings, and Wilde are the commanders of the four legions.

This year, Richard and Zhannings will not be in office for a long period of time, and the deputy commander will take charge. In order to ensure the combat effectiveness of the main army, Richard recruited some very senior barons from the vassal nobles, such as Vito, Gruman, Kenyon, Bazel and other barons. These four barons are all high-level professionals. , has more than forty years of combat experience in northern Xinjiang. He also served as captain and deputy commander of the main army. By appointing them as deputy army commanders, they can easily fulfill their duties and assist the army commander in commanding operations.

After hearing that the territory had exchanged a high-level Styx potion for four life evolution potions, Harland led a group of captains with outstanding merits and immediately exchanged their merits.

It takes three great skills to redeem a life evolution potion. For a sixth-level captain, it may take many years to accumulate. For example, after joining the army for 21 years, Sulla only accumulated four great merits and five medium merits, which was less than half of the time he was awarded a title.

Relatively speaking, it is easier to perform meritorious service in Haaland, because there are many battles that beat down drowned dogs. Even so, it is very difficult for the captain to perform three major meritorious services at once.

In the end, only four senior captains, Sulla, Norman, Bradrick, and Claude, successfully redeemed themselves. Norman and Bradlik successfully advanced, but Sura and Claude were unlucky and failed to break through even after taking potions.

Norman is also a member of the Dark family and the nephew of Soros. However, his father is an illegitimate son with a very low status and no inheritance rights. More than 20 years ago, Norman was already a second-level professional in the Soros mercenary group. backbone.

Now Norman is forty-five years old, and he is still commanding operations under his uncle Thoros. This time he was promoted to the seventh level, and his position was simply upgraded one level, becoming the second-ranked deputy commander.

Bradrick's qualifications are also very old. He is one of the first professional officers under Richard's command. He is over fifty years old. Luck is very crucial to his promotion to a high level this time.

In his fifties, he broke through to a high level and his potential was almost exhausted. Although he could not be promoted to legend, he was appointed by Richard as the deputy commander of the third army and became a high-ranking officer in the Harland territory.

In fact, Richard's third uncle Bernie has also been promoted to the eighth level for many years and is suitable to serve as a legion commander. But because Richard acted arbitrarily, he dismissed Tang En and expelled him from the Harland family, deposing the heir. Bernie has a bad impression of Richard and is unwilling to return to the territory and obey Richard's orders.

Now Bernie has served as the second deputy commander of the Wild Lion Legion and is developing in the south like William. The two brothers are not too far apart. Although they are busy with military affairs, they can see each other often.

Compared with the high-level officers under the royal family, the quality of the high-level professionals led by Harland is slightly worse. After all, the Harland family has only been prosperous for a short period of time. It has not been able to cultivate a large number of high-level professionals for more than 20 years. Now that it has such a scale, a group of talents can be used, and it has benefited from the rapid development of the territory.

This is not only due to Harland's leadership in opening up extraordinary resources, but also because Richard has a keen eye for people and has given them many opportunities to train these talents.

Not long after the commodity expo ended, envoys from the Sith Kingdom also entered the Harland Territory.

Ever since the large magic ship of the Yunhai Slave Catching Group disappeared, the Sith Kingdom suspected that the leader of Harland had defeated the slave catching group and seized the magic ship. Because the two countries are far apart, communication is very difficult, and it took three months to go back and forth.

The envoys from the Sith Kingdom came to the Harland Territory, mainly to discuss with Richard the redemption of people and the release of the magic ship.

Magic ships are very precious alchemy props. A large magic ship sells for more than 500,000 gold coins. Most of the time, it is still priceless and needs to be ordered through the Holy Radiance Empire channels. The Sith Kingdom has been involved in the trade of capturing elves for hundreds of years, but has only accumulated three large magic ships and more than 20 small and medium-sized magic ships. The loss of one large magic ship will cause the Sith Kingdom to suffer for a long time.

The envoy of the Sith Kingdom is named Parson, who is also a member of the Duke Otto family. This person is also a close relative of Rick and is Rick's grandnephew by blood.

After receiving Parson's request for a visit, Richard quickly met with him.

"I'm not familiar with the envoy. I don't think we need to be polite to each other. If you have anything to say, just say it directly."

Upon hearing what Richard said, Parson thought to himself: "I heard that the people of the Harland family are very barbaric. It seems there is some reason. There is no diplomatic rhetoric and no singing and dancing banquets in the transactions between the two countries. It's obvious at first glance. People who lack noble etiquette.

Last time, I heard that Edmund, the special envoy of the United Kingdom on the East Coast, had his tongue cut out and his eyes gouged out by Duke Harland because he said the wrong thing. I must learn a lesson. When speaking, you must take care of this barbarian's emotions, and you must not be caught and lose your life. "

Parson organized his words and said: "Three months ago, one of our magic ships was stranded near the Duke's territory due to a storm. We hope that the Duke can help find this stranded magic ship based on the friendly relations between the two countries. We are willing to Provide the Duke with a sum of money to pay for the ship."

Richard raised his wine glass and smiled at the entourage beside him: "Look at this special envoy, he speaks so nicely. You all should learn from it. Diplomacy is like this. His face is thicker than the skin of an ogre. On the surface, He is very personable, but his heart is dirty and his hands are ruthless.”

Facing Richard's verbal sarcasm, Parson still kept a smile on his face, as if he didn't understand and was completely unmoved.

"We haven't seen any stranded magic ships. Viscount Parson has found the wrong person."

Seeing that Richard rejected his proposal, Parson pointed to the direction and said, "Our magic ship is parked outside Black River Castle. Why would your Excellency the Duke deny it?"

"That ship invaded the Harland Territory and wanted to capture the noble citizens of our territory. Now it is the spoils of our territory. How much money can you give in exchange for it?"

The magic ship manufacturing technology has almost been mastered by the Harland Masters Association. The value of this ship to the Harland Territory is just that, whether it is light or important, it is not important.

If the Sith Kingdom wants to trade back, it's not impossible as long as it can afford the price.

"We are willing to spend 300,000 gold coins."

“What use are the gold coins of the Sith Kingdom to us?

Could I still use the Sith Kingdom gold coins to buy supplies on the spot, then hire a caravan, set up a supply station, and cross a distance of more than 2,000 kilometers to enter the Harland Territory?

Besides, the price of 300,000 gold coins is too low. If you really want to redeem this ship, you will need at least 50 tons of blood steel, 5 tons of orichalcum, 500 kilograms of mithril, 30 kilograms of fine gold, plus Thirty thousand standard magic crystals. "

Richard was very impatient when he heard Parson's conditions. After all, the gold coins of the Sith Kingdom cannot be used in the Grant Kingdom. If you go to the multinational chamber of commerce, you will definitely be peeled off and take away 20 to 30% of the profits.

Therefore, it is impossible for Richard to agree to exchange gold coins. At least he must use magic crystals common to the Dawn Plane. Of course, Richard would be very happy if he took out the super magic metal.

Because of the refining of the legendary golem, Leader Harland consumed all the super-magic metals stored in the territory, especially orichalcum, mithril, and gold essence. The treasury has been completely wiped out. He finally got some back from the commodity fair trade. Now After catching up with the Sith Kingdom to redeem the magic ship, Richard of course asked the lion to open his mouth and make up for the shortfall.