Mountain and Forest Kingdom

People from the Wave Kingdom were quickly brought to the main hall.

Lawrence looked at the woman who was brought over and found that besides this woman there were only a few people who looked like knights.

Where is the wizard?

Lawrence has not yet learned to distinguish wizards from ordinary people. He can only distinguish them by their temperament and appearance.

"Where are the others?" Lawrence asked from his seat.

Seravan replied: "Prophet, when we arrested them, we were resisted by the wizards. There was only one living wizard. She knelt on the ground and begged for mercy. The other wizards had turned into corpses."

Lawrence's original idea was indeed to take in people from the Kingdom of Waves, but these people's actions provoked the order of the Kingdom of Stars.

If we cannot compromise on such an important matter, the Kingdom of Waves can only become history.

They may not mean to offend, but they are just too accustomed to looking at things with a pirate or bandit mentality.

Lawrence looked at Sulieman standing aside.

Suleiman is the captain of the sailing and cable team and the surrenderer of the Kingdom of Waves.

"Sulieman, ask this woman what their purpose is and why they want to provoke me!"

Suliman responded quickly, looked at the witch again, and asked Lawrence's question.

The witch knelt on the ground, straightened her body slightly, and faced Lawrence with a pitiful expression.

"Great Prophet, I am Gurney. Please forgive the reckless behavior of my companions. I advised them to respect a powerful wizard like you, but they did not listen to me."

This witch wears gorgeous clothes and has a sexy and hot figure. She looks like a tavern girl or a beautiful woman who looks very casual.

Lawrence noticed that some people nearby were looking at the kneeling woman.

Some weak witches really like to use their appearance to seduce others, use their bodies to attach themselves to more powerful wizards, show off their weak side appropriately, and become resources and trophies for wizards.

Lawrence felt that normal pure-blood wizards would not be so shameless. This witch was probably half-blood, or had a lighter bloodline.

How to deal with this witch who is good at using her beauty to confuse people?

Especially since this witch is a noble of the Kingdom of Waves, and someone who took the initiative to defect to her, she must have negotiated with Suliman and others.

After a brief thought, Lawrence made a quick decision.

"Leave her to the people of the Kingdom of Gran and tell the others that from now on there will be no Kingdom of Waves, only the Kingdom of Stars!"

"The people of the Kingdom of Waves are the people of the Kingdom of Stars. No matter what kingdom they were in before or what language they spoke, they must now have one heart, one mind, and a common thought!"

To cut the knot with a quick knife, Lawrence does not acknowledge the existence of the Kingdom of Waves, and no one needs to follow the rules of the Kingdom of Waves.

Suleiman was not qualified to disobey or raise opinions, and Seravan and the others had no objections to Lawrence's order.

Soon the witch was taken away by a group of people and handed over to a team of envoys led by Prince Gran.

The Kingdom of Gran, who was also a pirate, quickly dealt with the witch, killing her cleanly and completely wiping out the remaining forces of the Kingdom of Waves.

The Kingdom of Waves was destroyed in the hands of the Kingdom of Gran, and Lawrence did not want to take this honor.

The current Kingdom of Stars needs time to develop. As long as it develops for a few more decades, it will have the combat power to truly destroy a kingdom.

Lawrence couldn't wait a few decades, now there was so much to do every day.

Collect medicines and minerals from the Agama Mountains, while recruiting hunters and knights from all over the world to venture into the mountains and explore the map and the location of various resources.

It relies on trade, taxes on merchants, and the goods it produces to accumulate wealth, and then uses this wealth to gather more knights and adventurers.

There are a large number of three- and four-year-old children in the territory, and the number of children is increasing. Children between one and six years old already account for one-third of the total.

In order to better manage these children, Lawrence decided to let some women out of work and no longer be busy farming in the fields.

This group of people are mainly the Durila and Pumixiu people who joined early. Some of them have soldiers in their families, and some are the families of blacksmiths and craftsmen.

As a die-hard follower, Lawrence used a small portion of his rapidly accumulated wealth, asked them to take care of their children at home, take their children to church to pray once a week, and select the brightest children to study in church.

At the same time, these people are still semi-slaves, working voluntarily at least three times a year, waiting for Lawrence's orders at any time.

More than a hundred women returned to their families from the manors and fields. The addition of a large number of foreign labor forces did not delay the farm work in summer and autumn.

Now that food production in the West has increased and food prices have dropped, Lawrence has used force to open the door to other countries, so there is no need to worry about food for the time being.

Feiyu Port and the Sider territory are full of people who farm. These people only need to farm for Lawrence every year and exchange food for industrial supplies.

After a while, the prince of the Kingdom of Glen came to visit Lawrence.

The relationship between the two parties was pretty good, so Lawrence did not need to be overly defensive about these people and negotiated with them at the church in Pumexiu Town.

"Dear Prophet."

Prince Richard, who was in his mid-twenties, had great respect for Lawrence and recognized this powerful and benevolent prophet.

"I have been here for three months. I have seen a lot and learned a lot here. I will return to my kingdom the day after tomorrow. If there is an opportunity in the future, please allow me to visit again."

Lawrence smiled and said: "Of course, I welcome you."

Richard was very happy that Lawrence said this, "Thank you for your generosity. My father, the king of the Kingdom of Glen, wrote this letter. Three coal mining collection sites have been established in my country. The first batch of coal will be delivered this autumn." Send it here."

Lawrence was even more happy, "That's great, I need a lot of things here, and I'm very grateful to all countries for helping us."

Richard asked: "How much coal do you need here every year?"

"The more, the better!" Lawrence said affirmatively: "Please tell King Gran that I will take as much as he can. Don't worry that I won't be able to use it all, and don't worry that I will regret it."

"Please send big ships to transport boatloads of coal. As long as those black stones can be burned, I will buy them all."

Lawrence felt that what he said might not be accurate enough, "I can sign a contract with you to purchase five million tons of coal first!"

Richard looked at Lawrence in astonishment, his brain temporarily unable to imagine how much five million tons of coal was.

"Great Prophet, are you really willing to buy those black stones dug out of the earth?"

"These things are not strong at all, and they are difficult to light when used for burning. They are not as easy to use as wood."

Lawrence smiled and said: "We still have wood here for shipbuilding. You just need to transport the coal dug out of the mountains to me. I will buy it at the price of fifty coppers per ton."

One copper can buy four palm-sized pieces of bread. Its purchasing power is equivalent to five dollars on earth. A ton is two to three hundred.

Coal is cheap in modern society because mining equipment is complete and output is large.

Although there is a lot of coal in this world, there are few people and a lack of mining equipment. It is not easy to collect it just by relying on metal ore hoes.

Relatively speaking, there is not much danger in collecting it. In this era, people were the first to dig coal. Most coal mines were open-pit coal mines, and they could even be dug in the ground.

People in this era don't have the ability or technology to dig deep coal, so they always look for rich ores that can be picked up casually.

Just like the iron ore and copper mine in the mountains, it took a long time to dig underground.

Generally, you don’t dig when you get underground, and you find another place that is easy to dig, since there are more resources anyway.

"Merciful prophet!" Richard was once again shocked by Lawrence's kindness. The money was more than he could earn from farming and selling wool!

Just by transporting those black fragments that can be seen everywhere in big ships, you can earn thousands of copper coins?

"I will convey your words to His Majesty the King. The Kingdom of Gran is willing to maintain a long-term friendship with you!"

Lawrence smiled and said, "Me too."

The Kingdom of Stars and the Kingdom of Gran destroyed the Kingdom of Waves together. Lawrence was responsible for the fight at the beginning, and the Kingdom of Gran was responsible for the subsequent finishing.

The two countries have already established a cooperative relationship militarily, and now that the Kingdom of Waves has been completely destroyed, the two sides have also reached further cooperation in business.

If selling coal was more profitable than selling wool and grain, then the nobles of the Kingdom of Glen would definitely be willing to mine coal and sell it.

Anyway, you can buy cheap food from outside. Now that nine countries have united to form an alliance, there is no need to worry about food problems at all.

Even if other countries refuse to sell, the benevolent Kingdom of Stars will definitely be willing to sell food to the Kingdom of Gran.

Lawrence quickly bid farewell to Richard and thoughtfully sent a shipwright to instruct them on how to build a larger cargo ship. (End of chapter)