Empires Start with Lords

Rose stated his plan, and Mander asked with some fear, "Are you really going to fight the eldest prince? He is not something ordinary lords can provoke."

Ross smiled indifferently: "I heard that the eldest prince is good at fighting horses, why not let the eldest prince compete with us?"

When Mander heard this, he asked, "Are you going to compete with the eldest prince in horse fighting? Would you? The eldest prince is a famous horse-fighting powerhouse!"

The horse-fighting powerhouse is so terrifying, driving...

Ross said secretly: "Since the eldest prince is good at fighting horses, there is no reason to refuse..."

Ross decided to write a letter by exposing what the eldest prince did and send it to the palace of the eldest prince. As Ross's elder brother, the eldest prince will definitely reply.

The current eldest prince is named Taylor, who is domineering and is good at fighting force.

That night, Ross prepared the letter, and the next morning let the person in charge of the letter deliver it on horseback.

It is expected that the eldest prince will receive such a letter in eight days.

In fact, Ross deliberately lied to Mander during the day. The reason why the eldest prince would not quit is because he didn't want to kill himself all the time.

Early in the morning, when the sky was white with fish belly, Ross got up and started the team.

He decided to lead a group of soldiers to Saidu, the administrative city of East Ayr Province.

I've been there once, and I'm naturally familiar with the road.

On the way, Ross carefully looked at the geographical outline near Saidu. If he wanted to build such a city, at least he had a reference.

Saidu is located in the northernmost part of East Ayr Province and is the largest city in East Ayr Province, similar to the provincial capital of the 21st century.

The population is about 180,000, which is a large city-level population in the entire continent.

However, legend has it that the capital of the Huaxia Empire has a population of over one million.

In a world where productivity is so scarce, how powerful a country can be to gather so many people in one city at the same time.

Ross thought of this and was a little surprised.

However, although the same imperial capital is also expensive as the capital of a country, it only has a population of about 400,000.

It seems that national strength still has a greater impact on the prosperity of a city.

Ross aims to further increase production and the size of the army, and then develop commerce to a greater extent. Although the current commerce is already very large, it is far from what Ross expected. His goal is to gather all the four cities of the territory into one. Metropolis.

A metropolis second only to the imperial capital.

At least, the competition is bigger.

At that time, Saidu can only be regarded as a small city in front of Ross.

Of course, this starts with the manufacture of the first steam engine, and the wheels of history need to keep rolling.

After arriving in Saidu, the same Ross just carried a dozen holy knights with him and placed the remaining troops in the open space outside the city.

When he first came to Saidu, Ross was surprised by the prosperous but uncrowded roads and shops.

Now, Ross feels that as long as the city scale can reach a certain internal circulation, it can be like this.

The main purpose of coming here today was to discuss business. Ross came directly to the City Lord's Mansion and looked at the huge fortress in front of him, which looked like a small town. It seemed that there were not only fountains but also built-in gardens in it.

After receiving permission, Ross greeted the lord politely: "Hello, it's an honor to meet you, Mr. Webb."

Webb is a middle-aged aristocratic man in his forties.

I saw that he was holding up a tea cup, and took a light sip from the lid with his left hand. The steaming tea didn't scald the guy. Instead, he complained, "This tea doesn't scald your mouth at all."

Seeing this, Ross smiled and said, "Master Webb always likes to drink hot tea?"

"Well, occasionally drinking a drink can always make people feel the beauty of fire."

Hearing these remarks, Ross suddenly remembered a religion. He seemed to admire flame very much. He believed that flame was brought to the world by the goddess of fire. Everyone must worship the goddess of fire so that they could live in a stable and happy life.

"Could it be that Lord Webb also admires the goddess of fire?"

Ross said tentatively.

"Haha, you saw that."

Webb smiled, looked at Ross with admiration, and asked, "Second prince... What's the matter with you coming to me?"

Webb saw Ross wearing the royal badge, and immediately guessed his identity.

However, even meeting the Second Prince is no big deal to Webb.

After all, the palace has spread now, and the rumors about the second prince have even been divided into different versions.

Some people say that the second prince was disliked by the king, so he was exiled to the west to fend for himself.

Some people also said that the second prince was beaten to death by a group of orcs on his way to the territory.

"Since I can see you here, it means that you are not as **** as those guys in the rumors said. Come on, what is your business with me?"

Although Ross was curious about who was scolding him behind his back in the palace, he still smiled and said, "It's very simple, I came to you for business."

"Doing business?"

Webb frowned slightly, and the goodwill he had just saved was also exhausted. UU reading www.uukanshu. com He thought that Ross wanted to do business with him on the basis of his identity as a prince.

As far as the identity of the second prince is concerned, almost no one in the palace admits it, and everyone including Webb's attitude towards Ross is nothing but an abandoned son.

Even to meet, Webb didn't even feel the need to get up.

"Yes, I think you will be very interested."

Ross glanced at Webb's impatient eyes, smiled, and said, "In fact, if it wasn't for the private support of the royal family, I'm afraid your game would have been surpassed by Philadelphia long ago."

"If it wasn't for the royal family sending a large number of caravans to trade and secretly suppressing Philadelphia, I'm afraid your trade volume would have been left far behind by Philadelphia as early as last year. If Philadelphia has come this far, I'm afraid someone secretly helped. …”

Hearing this, Webb looked at Ross with some annoyance, and shouted: "Since you already know, why are you here! I don't need to do business with you, and with the support of the royal family, it's impossible for Philadelphia to surpass me."

Ross smiled: "Then I'll show you something good."

Saying that, Ross threw out a bag of black soil and threw it in front of him.

"What is this?" Webb wondered.

"Black soil."

"!"

Webb picked up a pile of dirt in surprise, put his nose up to smell it, it matched the black dirt in his memory, and then looked at Ross and asked, "Where did this come from?!"

"All these black soils come from Philadelphia. Do you still think that Philadelphia is no threat to you?"

Ross said with a smile.

In fact, all these black soils were dug by Ross from his own territory. The purpose was to trick Webb into believing that someone in East Ayr City could threaten him, so that Webb could cooperate with him in trade.