Tales of the Reincarnated Lord

Chapter 462: Baron Abbott

Outside the window is densely covered with clouds, the cold wind is piercing through the bones, the sky is fluttering with heavy snow like feathers, the mountains and rivers are covered with thick white fur, and another year of winter has arrived.

Maybe I'm old, even though the fire in the fireplace is very hot, Baron Abbott still feels cold all over. I tightened my leather jacket and drank the fruit wine in the gold cup in one sip, watching the snow-ravaged world outside the window silently, and involuntarily recalling the happy days when the friends of the mercenary group gathered in the tavern to celebrate... …

The good times of the past are gone forever, and there is no such vigorous and vigorous goshawk mercenary group. I remember that the boss was drunk and declared in the tavern that he would build the mercenary group into one of the top ten mercenary groups in the business alliance. Everyone happily vowed to help the boss realize this wish.

I remember that the tavern owner One-eyed Mord was standing behind the wine cabinet and smiling kindly, and the drinkers also screamed and applauded. No one laughed at the young mercenaries for having this beautiful wish. In the city of Morente where mercenaries gathered at the time, almost all the mercenaries hope that their mercenary group can be one of the top ten, which represents the highest honor of the mercenary group...

A mercenary career born to death in the past two decades, after the efforts of the boss, himself, the youngest, and all the elite mercenaries in the regiment, the Goshawk Mercenary Corps has finally made the Goshawk Mercenary Corps rank more than one hundred in the ranking of more than one hundred mercenary regiments in the Commercial Alliance. Kaiwai rose to about twenty. At that time, it was only a short distance from the realization of the original wish, but no one thought that this short distance would become a moat.

All the changes occurred at the moment when the business alliance was preparing to implement the lordship system, and the glass war between the business alliance and the Trimble Kingdom occurred. The boss decided to lead the entire mercenary group to the Trimble Kingdom, looking for a road and bright future for the mercenary group with the sword in his hand...

All the comrades in the mercenary group were so energetic before departure. The Goshawk mercenary group is not an unknown person in the mercenary world. It ranks 21st. The three leaders are all golden mercenaries, and they also own a hundred silver. An elite team of mercenaries. When I first entered the Kingdom of Trimble, I robbed three aristocratic mansions and gained a good harvest. Everyone thought that this trip was the right one, and I also put three noble ladies who usually can only look far away. ...

The nightmare came so suddenly, not ten days before, the boss who led the team out to looting was given to Yijian Xiaoshou by the great sword master who had coveted the reward announcement issued by King Tutlimber VII, and more than forty elite silvers accompanied him. Only three mercenaries fled back, and the Goshawk mercenary group was suddenly interrupted and its vitality was severely injured.

Then there was an infighting. In order to fight for the dominance and inheritance of the mercenary group, he and the youngest had a fight, and his left rib was hit by a sword, but the youngest was also uncomfortable and was interrupted by himself. Leaving the mercenary group with more than forty cronies.

It’s just that I don’t have the majestic strategy of the boss, and it is impossible for the mercenary group to continue to develop. More and more people are leaving. Seeing that the Goshawk mercenary group is almost unable to maintain, fortunately the double-headed dragon I know The deputy director of the Chamber of Commerce pulled himself up and introduced himself to a vice president of the Double-headed Dragon Chamber of Commerce. Then he used the provident fund of the Goshawk Mercenary Corps for many years to bribe the vice-chairman so that he could help him find the baronial title.

The heavy wooden door was pushed open, and a cold wind rushed into the warm room. Baron Abbott awoke from the memory, tightened his leather jacket again, and turned to look at the burly man and the thin middle-aged man who entered the room. . The burly man is Adrian, the chief knight of Baron Abbott, an elite mercenary of the former Goshawk mercenary group with three silver stars. The thin middle-aged man was named Grigor, who was the logistics supervisor of the mercenary group, but now he is the chief supervisor of the baronial realm. The two of them are the right arms of Baron Abbott.

"My lord, I just came back from patrolling the ranch, and the snow outside was thick and it was above my knees. Everything was normal in the ranch, except that an old sheep was frozen to death. I asked someone to take the shepherd who was in charge of it for twenty. Whip..." The Adrian Knight reported.

"You didn't kill anyone, did you?" Baron Abbot asked.

"No." The Adrian Knight shook his head: "Don't worry, my lord, I have a sense of measure. And these cheap bones are not obedient, their lives are very hard, and they will survive this winter."

Baron Abbott was silent for a moment and nodded: "You have done a good job. Appropriate punishment is necessary, otherwise these lowly slaves will be lazy. But you must understand that these lowly slaves are all bought by us. If it is too cruel, it will be a waste of our gold coins. And I heard that the war is about to end, and our business alliance will no longer be able to take captives from the Central South countries. These lowly slaves will become more valuable in the future."

"I see, sir." Adrian Knight said.

Over four years of war between the commercial alliance and the Central South Kingdom coalition forces, the victorious commercial alliance captured nearly 100,000 prisoners while plundering the Central South kingdoms. If you want to feed so many captives, you need a lot of food and consume a lot of defensive power and funds. So a savvy member of the Chamber of Commerce proposed to sell these prisoners and was approved by the council. This decision was very much appreciated and welcomed by the lords who lacked manpower in their territories.

It's just that the business alliance has always been called democracy and freedom, and it is by no means a hateful slavery country. So what they sold was the servitude of these captives. The civilians who were taken captive had three years of hard work, and the soldiers who were prisoners of war had five years of hard work. Theoretically, these prisoners who were bought by the lords would automatically be free as long as they had finished their labor period, but in reality, no one would pay attention to the rights and interests of these auctioned prisoners.

On the contrary, the council of the business alliance talked about it, thinking that this move not only saved the cost of keeping prisoners but also raised a lot of war funds through auctioning these prisoners, and at the same time provided sufficient labor for those territories lacking human resources. It is one of the most effective policies of the business alliance.

Anderwolf Province is also considered to be a new territory occupied by the Business Alliance. After annexing Anderwolf Province, the Business Alliance canonized more than 80 new territorial nobles in Andrów Province. Baron Abbott is one of them. It's just that when the Second Highness of Andrwoff destroyed the Kingdom of Ridleys, he and the noble coalition army fought and searched for each other. There were ten rooms and nine empty spaces, which had long been broken.

After Baron Abbott came to his canonized territory in Anderwolf seven years ago, he had gathered fewer than a thousand people, and they were all old and weak. After several years of unscrupulous gatherings and gatherings, and a dozen or so times with the nearby lords, the population of the people in the territory of Baron Abbott finally exceeded 10,000, which is second to none in the territory of Zhoubian. However, most of them were old and weak. For this reason, Baron Abbott bought more than three hundred young and strong prisoners from the auction of the business alliance, and became the main labor force in the territory.

"My lord, I also visited the manor just now, and it's safe and sound." Chief Grigel reported his duties to Baron Abbott.

Baron Abbott nodded in satisfaction: "You are all doing well, come, sit down and have a glass of wine and warm yourself up. Adrian, there is a calf leg hanging over there. Go and bring us. Grilled meat."

In private, Baron Abbott still has no pretensions, and does not pay attention to superiors and inferiority. Although he is named a baron, his temper is still like the bold mercenary deputy head of the year. As a result, he was often criticized by the nobles of the territory, secretly nicknamed him the mercenary lord, mocking him as a lowly mercenary origin.

He took a roasted meat handed over by Knight Adrian, dipped it on a plate with salt, and then stuffed it into his mouth to chew. Chief Grigor promptly handed over the newly poured golden cup full of ale, and Baron Abbott took a sip and drank it and let out a long sigh: "Be refreshed."

Putting down the gold cup, Baron Abbott said: "Next year we must build a castle."

Being ridiculed by the lords all over as a mercenary lord, Baron Abbott didn't mind, but it was embarrassing that Baron Abbott had not built a decent castle in his territory for the past seven years. Everyone knows that living in a castle as a lord is a matter of course, rather than living in a wooden house built of logs, even the manor is just surrounded by branches.

"My lord, next year our family armed forces will not have to guard the border. We will have manpower, but do we have the funds to build the castle?" the Adrian Knight asked.

Four years ago, King Ogsero I of the Antinac Kingdom went to the Central Four Duchy and reached the Principality of Handela in only a year. The courier of the Grand Duke Handela rushed to Vasia one after another. In the Chamber of Commerce Realm’s Federica Royal City, the aristocrats of the entire Androff Province were shocked overnight, for fear that it would be their turn after the demise of the Principality of Handra. Some nobles asked to spare no effort to support Grand Duke Handra, and some nobles packed their belongings. Pack your bags and prepare to run back to Morient if attacked.

At a critical moment, a vice president of the Vysian Chamber of Commerce came to Androff Province to inspect and gave the nobles a peace of mind. The vice-chairman reminded all the nobles of the territory, don’t forget that the business alliance is now the largest and powerful country in the Gailint subcontinent. Although it is now at war with the Central-Southern Kingdom’s coalition forces, the military is tense and does not take into account the situation in the north. It is not without the power of the first battle, don't forget that the Commercial Alliance has just won a Storm Sword Saint Town State. As long as the king of the Antinac Kingdom has a brain, he will certainly not dare to offend the majesty of the business alliance.

The tour of the vice president finally calmed down the aristocrats of Andrów Province. The follow-up development was as expected by the vice president. After the surrender of Grand Duke Handra, the army of the Andinac Kingdom did not continue to attack, but instead Stopped at the border of Andrwów Province. Immediately afterwards, the famous white lion army of the kingdom was transferred and put on the posture of steady defense and counterattack on the border. All the territorial nobles now let go of their nervous and uneasy hearts.

It’s just the next thing that embarrassed all the nobles in the Androff province. In order to prevent the invasion of the Antinac Kingdom, the nobles organized a coalition army of more than 10,000 people, ready to be in Andina. The army of the Kingdom of Croatia attacked Andwolf to save time to resist, but also to buy time for the evacuation of the nobles. But now the army of the Antinac Kingdom has not launched an offensive, but put on a defensive posture, then should this coalition be disbanded?

Faced with the life and death of a powerful enemy, for the sake of wealth and life, I think that everyone can help each other in the same boat. But now that there is no foreign enemy threat, is there still a need for this coalition? It is important to know that supporting the existence of a standing army of nearly 10,000 people. This military expenditure is a very painful expenditure for these territorial nobles in Andrwoff Province.

However, the border must be guarded, in case the army of the Antinac Kingdom suddenly launches an attack. The territorial nobles of Andrwoff Province came up with an extremely talented idea. Lots were drawn, and whoever was drawn would have soldiers to take on the task of guarding the border. Every three years, the number of soldiers required was based on the population of the territory. Ten draws one, that is, twenty leaders will have one soldier. As for the cost, it is shared by everyone. It is much cheaper to maintain a border garrison of 3,000 than a standing army of 10,000.

So Baron Abbott won the lottery honorably. Although he had always suspected that someone was involved in a ghost, he couldn't find the evidence. He had to swallow the dumb loss, and drew five hundred young men from his territory, led by the Adrian Knights. After three years of wind blowing on the border, the lack of labor in the territory not only failed to develop and even built his own castle, he had to buy the prisoners back.

Baron Abbott smiled relaxedly: "You don’t know that Ogsero I of the Antinac Kingdom has assembled a large army to start a war with the commercial alliance, but he is not launching an attack from us, but adjusting the army. Going to the southwestern provinces, I guess it should be closer to Morient City..."

"No wonder the White Lion Army deployed in Magik Province was also launched. The border was replaced by a 10,000-strong army. I don't know if it was newly formed. The defense was very strict. Our scouts were all driven back in the past. , And a few more dead and wounded......" Adrian Knight said.

"So our place is safe and sound. Next year we can watch the business alliance and the Antinac Kingdom fight in the province of Campona. It is winter and it is snowy, so we don't have to worry about being attacked by the enemy. Next year, as soon as there is a fight in Campona Province~www.readwn.com~, we will take this opportunity to clean up those guys who have been around. I have always suspected that Viscount Wims has done something wrong and let us win that one. The unfortunate lottery wasted three years in vain.

When the spring starts, we will use the water source to provoke disputes. Anyway, Wimes can only talk and twist his head with the old guy. He has only a defensive team of two hundred people and three Silver Knights. It is not our opponent at all. Although the business alliance forbids cannibalism between the lords, we did not move his family, and ransacked his three thousand towns and his broken castle. When the parliament sends someone to come over and wrestle with them, maybe the business alliance will only pay attention to the war with the Antinac kingdom, and will not take care of our trivial matters..."

"If we don’t have enough funds to build the castle, we will take this opportunity to search from the lords all over the world. Ha ha, the wind hasn’t blown for three years on the border. I’m very grateful to Adrian. The family’s garrison team has been trained into a powerful armed force.” Baron Abbott said his deliberate decision.

The general manager Gregor was very happy: "It's time to clean up that old guy. The last time I met on the road and laughed at us as lowly mercenaries, didn't their chamber of commerce also started by selling linen? It's much more expensive than us..."

Baron Abbott laughed, and suddenly stopped, and listened carefully: "There seems to be movement outside?"

Indeed, there seemed to be some noise in the wind.

Knight Adrian stood up: "Let me see what's going on..."

As soon as the voice fell, there was a "bang" sound. Several soldiers in white cloaks and brown leather jackets rushed into the warm room. The swords and spears in their hands shone pale and cold under the light of the fire. : "Don't move, raise your hand, surrender your weapon, kneel and spare your life!"

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