Knight Lord: Start with Daily Intelligence

The negotiation went so smoothly that Su Li couldn't believe it, so he asked, "Are you no longer traveling to various places?"

Hartz Kline nodded and said, "The Black Mountains are the end of our family's journey. Our family chose the Border Prince Territory for this trip because we wanted to find a suitable homeland to settle in at the end of our journey. The pioneering lords here have a great need for caravans, and there are also many projects suitable for our construction teams. Perhaps we can get along well."

Hartz Kline grinned, looking very happy. Halflings are always like this; they are used to calling humans 'big ones' and find great comfort in close relationships.

Looking at the halfling's grinning and happy appearance, Su Li couldn't help but smile knowingly. The gods in this world are very distinctive in their creations. They gave elves long ears and elegance, dwarves big beards and stubbornness, and halflings grins and optimism.

So they can always get along well with humans, are the favorite servants of human nobles, and also have a natural merchant temperament.

Within the Border Prince Territory, disputes are constant, and lords are constantly at war, conquering each other. However, all lords maintain a tacit principle: never attack caravans, so as not to cut off trade routes and trap the pioneering lords in remote territories. Halflings, if they fly the flag of a caravan, will receive extra care because their commercial reputation is quite good, and many lords prefer to deal with them rather than cunning human merchants.

After the relationship eased, Su Li gained more information about this Balantang Bourne family. There are a total of 56 halflings in their family, including 23 men and women in their prime, who can serve as manor guards with bows and arrows.

Their combat power is certainly not as good as knights. Halflings' talent is mainly reflected in business, and their combat power is only equivalent to armed servants.

According to the agreement with Hartz Kline, the halflings usually provide 12 halfling archers to train and patrol in Su Li's troops.

If the territory is invaded, or Su Li summons his vassals to launch a war of conquest against other forces, the halflings must provide at least one elite-level soldier and two squads of soldiers to follow Su Li in battle. Of course, they can also send more people to earn military glory. If they establish meritorious service, then Su Li may consider increasing the area of their territory.

These terms are not difficult for the Balantang Bourne family to accept, because their ogre partners really have three ogre bull warriors, which are larger and stronger monster infantry than ordinary ogres. Behind their heavy iron abdominal armor are tons of muscle and fat, capable of charging into the enemy formation and savagely waving giant clubs, wreaking havoc. To deal with this kind of giant monster, at least one elite knight is needed.

The negotiation on the vassal military obligations went very smoothly, but the negotiation on the economic aspects made even the optimistic and cheerful halfling unable to smile!

Hartz Kline grinned, but he wasn't smiling, but rather twitching: "Oh, respected lord, I suspect that Lady Hyacinth has abandoned her protection of us and given all the divine grace to you. How can you be stuck on the condition of eight hundred gold coins? It's like scraping every gold crown from our family."

The gold crown is the official name for gold coins, the regular currency issued by the empire. Halflings, goblins, and some human devotees who believe in the god of commerce believe that there is weak divine power on it, so they only recognize this official currency and do not recognize the gold coins that lords mine and mint themselves.

Therefore, every gold crown is a treasure that halflings cannot easily part with. Su Li directly priced 8 kilometers of territory at 800 gold crowns, not giving Hartz Kline any chance to bargain.

But this price happens to be the bottom line that the Balantang Bourne family can accept, which makes every halfling grin but unable to smile.

To empty their gold coins all at once and force them to become vassals of Heissen Territory, it feels like the Balantang Bourne family sold themselves and helped this lord count the money?

They lost money and people, and they have to help Lord Su Li develop the territory, help Lord Su Li with engineering, and even help Lord Su Li fight, and all they get is 8 kilometers of 'territory'! This area is really a veritable community, and a community with only wilderness.

Every halfling has a bitter face. Isn't the halfling the most beloved race of Lady Hyacinth? Could it be that this young master Su Li is?

He is too good at doing business!

Su Li's goodwill towards Hyacinth, the god worshipped by the halflings, is much higher than that towards the Goddess of Dawn.

This god is the god of childbirth, fertility, and love worshipped by the halflings, and there are also rumors that she is the ancestral god of the halflings, who will give the halflings divine revelations every once in a while, guiding them to more fertile land, to breed more offspring, and to acquire more wealth.

This kind of god who feeds wealth into the mouths of believers is much more attractive in Su Li's eyes than the Goddess of Dawn who encourages believers to be self-reliant.

Hearing the halflings say that he has received the protection of Lady Hyacinth, Su Li is very happy, smiling and turning around to instill the teachings of the Goddess of Dawn into them: "Don't worry, although you are now penniless, you have a bright future. Heissen Territory is being developed and developed, and there are plenty of projects and opportunities for you. As long as you can start the construction team with the ogres, as long as you organize a caravan, will you lack wealth?"

Hartz Kline was successfully lured by Su Li's pie. Although halflings are not very clean in their hands and feet, their diligence is widely recognized.

If there are a lot of opportunities, then they will soon be happy and actively devote themselves to work, enjoying the joy of earning gold crowns.

Subsequently, Hartz Kline led her family members to settle down downstream of the Brienne River. They chose their territory on the riverbank about two hundred imperial miles from the confluence of the rivers.

She plans to build a beautiful garden here, and then watch the barges on the canal pass by every day, and set up watchtowers and sluices to help Heissen Territory serve as a guard for the core area.

Although this is the downstream of the Brienne River, for merchant ships, barges, and river trolls coming from the direction of Malébourg, this is the upstream of entering Heissen Territory.

Hartz Kline and her manor guards and river guards will defend here and provide warning for Heissen Territory.

And her eldest son, Harit, led 12 halfling archers to join the armed servant troops of Heissen Territory, fighting alongside humans to defend this homeland.

Her nephew, Harilai, has a better business sense, leading two teams of ogre construction teams into the direct jurisdiction of Heissen Territory.