Transcendent Noble

The furnishings in the camp are relatively simple, but the space is quite spacious, and it is not too crowded to entertain 5 guests at the same time. Everyone sat in the position of the host and guest. Viscount Negus retired the attendant, said with a smile: "Victor, I heard that the swiftbirds of Centaur Hills are untamable, fierce, and the meat is tender and delicious. The pioneers of Centaur Hills are early A few years ago, the Swiftbird was hunted and killed. When I became the lord, I found a Swiftbird in my territory. Didn't expect, but you successfully domesticated this giant bird of prey and formed the Swiftbird Hussar. If you are willing to sell the Swiftbird mount to me, the price and conditions can be negotiated."

Viscount Negus is definitely not the first time to see the Swiftbird Qingqi. When he first confronted Victor, he shot himself. Killed several Swiftbirds, if Victor hadn't intervened in time, that squad Swiftbird would have died under his arrow. The two parties kept this matter secret, and apart from Victor and Negus, no third party knew that the two had secretly reached a tacit understanding.

The Swiftbird is now a domesticated fighting bird of prey, and its value has doubled. However, before the Swiftbird's light cavalry formed a scale, Victor and Sylvia did not allow outsiders to get involved. Viscount Negus suddenly made an unremarkable request, I'm afraid it doesn't have any deep meaning.

Victor groaned for a while and shook his head and said: "This matter, I am unable to help Lord."

Negus nodded, his eyes swept across Sophia and Solon, if anything He said: "I also have many things that I can't do, so let's talk about what we can do."

Everyone here is related to Raven Town. The territory of Raven Town about 1,000 square kilometers has no defense depth, but it is sandwiched between the territory of Negus and Solon, which can act as a buffer. Solon and Negus are in different camps. They are considered old rivals. Mutual vigilance is always inevitable. In order to avoid unnecessary conflicts, both parties want to put their eyes on Raven Town and monitor each other's movements.

Victor took advantage of this relationship to build Raven Town into a trading port, allowing the caravans of Negus and Solon to enter and exit freely, thus achieving the purpose of sitting on the ground and dividing the fertilizer. Because of Raven Town, Negus and Solon can communicate with each other, but not connect each other. They gradually tasted the sweetness of trade. Caravans entered and exited Raven Town more frequently, and Raven Town became increasingly prosperous. Victor even has the confidence to draw more lords into Raven Town's trading circle. Unfortunately, the arrival of Barbarian broke the tripartite balance and caused Raven Town's development plan to die.

Barbarian temporarily resides in the mountains on the west side of Raven Town, Paladin is stationed in Raven Town, and the Iron Wall Knight regiment and Glorious Knight regiment are stationed in Viscount Negus and Solon respectively. Trade activities in Raven Town are trapped. Stopped.

However, Victor believes that Raven Town can be saved again. The reason is simple. They all need money.

Developing lords needs to invest a lot of money in infrastructure construction, including reclaiming farmland and pastures, building cottages, roads and castles. The larger the territory, the more investment, and the longer the payback period. The savings of several generations of the Viscount Negus family have been invested in the construction of the territory, but it is still not enough, otherwise he would not reach a secret agreement with Victor on the raw sugar for stone. Solon is even more miserable. His parents’ savings are poor, and Uncle’s legacy has been taken over by Sophia. A Wind Element Great Knight, dignified, has to rely on the royal family's salary to maintain a decent life. How can there be money to build a territory? Solon's economy is highly dependent on the Augustus family. He mortgaged the only medium-sized iron essence mine in the domain to Duke Williams. In exchange for a huge loan, he also invested half of his salary in the construction of the domain, and the family's living expenses suddenly became It was stretched, not even comparable to a normal Knight. Raven Town opened the trade of raw sugar and mountain products. Solon's caravan just relied on reselling supplies, and it paid in every month. Of course, he also hopes that Raven Town's trade can be maintained.

When everyone needs it, the Raven Town trade has a basis for survival.

Needs to return to needs, the overall situation of the kingdom still needs to be considered, the truth of which is unpredictable, but there is no Sophia in it, she suddenly ran over and was a spoiler, Viscount Negus Don't agree on the framework of the conversation in advance, so as not to make each other embarrassed.

No, there is another person in there who is pretending to understand, and that is Lord Tornance.

Although Legendary Paladin has a high status in the church, but its power is small, this adult prefers to participate in affairs between lords. Victor didn't know how Tornance got involved with Nelson, but he was happy to have a good relationship with Tornance. As long as the bald Paladin revealed a little bit of the church's training secrets, it would be very helpful to hire Legion.

Victor glanced sideways at the concentrated attention completely Tornance, and said, "If this is the case, then we will speak in front of Master Tornance. If we don’t even have this point of care, I don’t think you need to talk about it anymore."

Tornance was heartbroken, solemnly nodded, imitating the pope’s tone, and said: "Disputes between lords should be made clear at the negotiating table, and the church will be responsible for mediating you. Contradiction."

Dispute ghost! Obviously it is cooperation...

The three lord exchanged angrily eyes, Solon took the lead in speaking, and pointed the finger at Sophia.

"I have no problem, but I would like to know in what capacity Mrs. Sophia is involved in this conversation? If it is the Marquis Wimbledon, the trade in Raven Town has nothing to do with you. If it is the Viscountess Randal, Your Excellency Randal does Here, it seems that you don’t need to participate."

Sophia smiled and unceremoniously countered: "I am both Marquis Wimbledon and Viscountess Randal, and my guest lives in Raven Town. I To cover half of the expenses of Barbarian and Paladin, I can buy or not buy your goods. The most important thing is that I am rich, so I can sit here. Solon, what do you have? What capacity do you sit here?"

"I have a way, I have the right to exempt the goods transit tax, or increase the goods transit tax."

Solon Wimbledon said sincerely: "Sophia, in fact, I have no personal relationship with you. Gratitude. Who will inherit the title of the Marquis of Wimbledon? If I say it, it doesn’t count, and you don’t. The title is more important, but I can have the trust of His Royal Highness Williams today. I am loyal to His Royal Highness. His Royal Highness allows me to inherit the Marquis title, and I will inherit. He lets me give up and I don’t care. But as a lord, I hope Raven Town can maintain the previous trade policy. Therefore, I am very worried that you will change the status quo if you intervene horizontally." Then he greeted Victor's jaw: "Your Excellency Randal, what do you think?"

Victor nodded said: "Master Negus, do you also hope that Raven Town will continue to maintain an open and free trade policy?"

"Of course." Viscount Negus said with a smile: "Victor, according to the original stone In exchange for the rough sugar agreement, I have already delivered the stones for the construction of Raven Fort, but you still owe me 200,000 pounds of rough sugar." Paused, he said again: "There is one thing I want to make clear in advance. I can only buy the stones. To Viscount Solon, if the York family wants to purchase stone from me, I am helpless. Unless Friedrich Your Majesty nodded does it."

"The stone is not in the trade list, but the blue brick can "Victor turned to Solon and asked: "Grand Duke Williams built a 50-meter high fortress in the Viscount of Solon. I'm afraid you owed a huge sum of money."

Solon said with a bitter smile: "The initial budget is 300,000 Kinsoul."

"It's the same with me." Negu Viscount Si shook his head and said, "Victor, I don't have the money to buy blue bricks. "

The construction plan of the territory belongs to the internal affairs of the lord. According to reason, the king has no right to intervene, but the two first-generation lord Solon and Negus rely heavily on the support of the royal family in economic, political and military affairs. The king asked them to concentrate their efforts to build fortifications first, and they must tighten their belts to complete the task. The king is not a philanthropist, and the construction costs will ultimately be borne by the two lords.

The king’s loan plus The interest is not over for generations. How can they do not want to make money in any way?

Victor slightly smiled, I am very glad that I don’t owe usury.

"I know you don’t have money. , But Glorious Knight and Iron Wall Knight are rich! "Victor indifferently said: "The Barbarian guests will not be able to leave for a while. Knight and their cavalry will have to stay here. Maybe ten years, maybe fifteen years, their relatives and servants will also come over, these noble Knight chiefs Can't live in a simple wood house, right? You build a few magnificent villas and rent them to the wealthy Knights. Others will definitely ask you to rent houses. You can collect their rent for 5 years at a time, and the money is enough to build houses for them. Knights have to buy furniture and daily necessities when they have a house, right? Then build more shops and do some business. In this way, you do not spend a Copper Coin to have a beautiful town, and the rent of the house after five years is pure profit. "

Solon and Negus were very excited, but Sophia looked at Victor with a faint smile. This woman had already thought of this. Victor ignored her and continued: "Randal leads away too much. Far away, it is not cost-effective to ship the blue bricks. But I currently have the right to operate the blue bricks of Centaur Hills. I can ask the nearby Viscount Hanas to produce blue bricks and sell them to you at cost, but I won’t make half a copper sol. "

The Viscount Negus asked in a deep voice, "Your Excellency Randal, what are your conditions?" "

"It's very simple. "

Victor said: "As far as I know, the stones of Viscount Negus are shipped directly to Viscount Solon. I now require that the convoy transporting stone materials must transit in Raven Town. This shouldn't be difficult, right? "

Solon frowned: "I don't understand your intentions, but I can send a convoy to Raven Town to load and unload stones, but you have to make sure that you don't use those stones. "

"I promise. "Victor nodded and said: "In fact, Raven Town will not build fortifications except for the Raven Fort. "

"Wait! "

Tornance stared at him, and asked intermittently: "Your Excellency Randal, it seems you still haven't made any money?" "

"Victor did not make money from it, but the residents of Raven Town did. "The Sophia interface explained: "Your Excellency Negus's convoy transported the stones to the Viscount Solon, and then transported the blue bricks back. There was no need to transit through Raven Town. Now, Solon's convoy transports the blue bricks to Raven Town, and then returns the stones of Lord Negus. Loading and unloading of stones and bricks requires hiring workers, the crew members need to purchase food, the stewards need to drink and have fun, and carry some goods by the way, so the residents of Raven Town have income, and Victor also makes money. "

Sophia turned her pretty face, took Victor's hand, and asked with a smile, "My dear, is that right?" "

Victor nodded, asked: "Dear madam, what do you want?" "

"I have heard of your deeds in Wild Willow City. Sylvia told me that you built Wild Willow City into a prosperous business leader. "Sophia said with a smile: "Although I have not been to Wild Willow City, I have been to Raven Town. I can see that Raven Town can become the second Wild Willow City, even surpassing Wild Willow City. "

"As long as I participate! "

Sophia said with blazing eyes: "Glorious Knight and Iron Wall Knight are rich, but you don't have any merchandise to sell to them, but I do. If you purchase goods on your own, you need to pay the transit tax to other lords, but I don’t use it. I own the franchise of purple cane wine, and my caravan can also bring all kinds of goods, exquisite pottery, expensive silk, cheap food, high-quality leather, rare medicine ingredients and spices... You can not only meet the needs of the Knights, but also sell these goods to other lords to make a profit. "

"I have no opinion. "

Solon's jaw head agreed, but Viscount Negus was silent. Everyone stared at him. After a while, he opened the mouth and said: "Master Sophia, I want to know What are you going to do later? "

"Dodo Kingdom protects the interests of the Wimbledon Chamber of Commerce and restores everything to its original condition! "

Negus smiled bitterly and shook the head and said: "Do you think I can call the shots?" "

"You can't be the lord, Friedrich Your Majesty can! "

Sophia said solemnly: "Don't tell me, you want to resume trade with Raven Town, there is no King Dodo's instructions behind it. Friedrich Your Majesty intends to make friends with guests from Mount Arreit through trade. Although I can't stop Raven Town from trading with you, I can let your plans fall through. "

Sophia shook her slender and white index finger and said, "I promise Barbarian will not see any Dodian. You can also try to enter Barbarian's camp and see what happens? "

"Then you won't see it! "

Viscount Negus said indifferently: "Master Sophia, why do you have to be hostile to our Dodo kingdom?" "

"It turns out that I am a vendor who is hostile to the Kingdom of Dodo, and deliberately didn't sell the goods to them? "Sophia laughs with anger.

"Your caravan is unimpeded in the Kingdom of Dodo. The lord of Dodo does not charge you a transit tax; your caravan is not harassed by bandits or thieves in the Kingdom of Dodo. The lord of Dodo has exercised the obligation of protection; your goods are unsalable, and the lord of Dodo is willing to pay for the purchase. "

Viscount Negus shook his head and said: "Sophia, you dislike Lord Dodo's bid is too low and you are unwilling to sell the goods. Our Dodo Kingdom from start to finish did not violate the trade agreement reached with the Wimbledon Chamber of Commerce. This is an undisputed fact! "

Sophia was silent for a moment and asked: "What kind of conditions does the Southwind Chamber of Commerce offer to allow you to support them like this?" "

"No comment. "

Negus turned and explained to Victor: "My family has been far from the center of the kingdom. I am only the Viscount Lord now, and I am not qualified to understand why. However, I think the Borui Kingdom can convince Friedrich Your Majesty and Dodo's lord, and it must also be able to convince Sasan Empire. "

"Your Excellency Randal, I'm sorry. I can't help you with your wife's affairs. "

Victor waved his hand said with a smile: "This does not affect our cooperation. "Said Sophia again: "My dear, you want to participate in the Raven Town trade, and we are also very welcome. "

"Why not? "Sophia raised her eyebrows, said in a tranquil voice: "I won't give up easily, but also not a stingy person." "

"Then please Mr. Tornance to witness our agreement. "

Tornance stood up, touched his big bald head, with a confused expression on his face, he seemed to understand, and as if he didn’t understand anything, he looked at the bewildered Nelson , I felt relieved.

There was another one I didn’t understand.