Realm of Power

The sun was shining brightly, the bricks and tiles on the streets were sprinkled with a light golden color, and long colorful ribbons were fluttering in the wind over the city.

Below is a crowded flow of people. From the direction of the pier outside the Holy Capital, you can see the reflection of the imperial merchant ships coming along the river, the shadows of the sails filling the newly opened canal, and the various flags flying on the masts of the ships, which seem to be in the sky. The stars and the moon will also be eclipsed, and the beauty is like the most unreal picture. This kind of scene cannot be seen in Martinli Ya.

"Master Si Green, why didn't you tell your father about your conspiracy with the empire before you set off? I believe that if you told your father, he would never let you come to the Holy Capital. You also know the situation in the Holy Capital. , although we have the cover of the Empire Azure Chamber of Commerce, as long as a little bit of news gets out, we will immediately "Being eaten alive by the people of the Order," Samtamara sighed with her beautiful face as before. In fact, the moment she heard those words in the conference hall, Samtamara knew that the position of the Young Highness of the Sam clan was far away. Gone, but she has never cared about this, even if the title of Young Highness of the Sam Tribe will become Crown Prince Martin Liya in a year

"I was originally going to tell the clan leader, but the moment His Highness decided to come to the Holy Capital in person, my decision changed, because I didn't know if the clan leader knew that he was conspiring with the empire, would he take this opportunity to kill Yi? The Er clan and the Anxili family have been completely eradicated from Martin Liya. The current Martin Liya really cannot afford such internal strife!"

Si Green looked at the pretty face of His Highness Sam Tamara, with a hint of bitterness in the corner of his mouth, "If it were the Sam clan a few years ago, the clan leader might not think so, but now the Sam clan is the only one without strength in Martin Liya. Although 30,000 of the powerful clans who suffered losses have just returned, there are still 50,000 elite troops left. The family can control the situation at any time, and the biggest reason is of course the lords involved in the conspiracy. The 200,000 troops withdrawn from the Order State are in their hands. As long as there is a conspiracy as a threat, these 200,000 troops will It belongs to the Sam tribe. If the patriarch knew this, what do you think the patriarch would do? "

Sam Tamara's pretty face changed, she looked a little pale, and she fell silent for a moment. Si Green's guess was almost certain. If his father knew about the plot, he would definitely use this power to push the Sam clan into the country. The Throne will definitely ruthlessly uproot the Yier clan and the Ansili family whose power has been greatly damaged. After all, the blood of the barbaric and militant Martin Liya people flows in the body of the Sam clan.

"But why did you tell me?" Samtalama's beautiful face was shocked. This power is really too powerful, powerful enough to determine everything in the current Martinliya Kingdom.

"Maybe it's because His Highness has no intention of annexing the two races. In fact, I suddenly realized this during the meeting. The Emperor is indeed a top figure in the strategic layout, and his grasp of people's hearts is even more difficult to guard against. No wonder His Highness Silver Fox was also manipulated by him. First, he used the remnants of my Martin Liya army to easily deal with the Temple Army, and truly fought against them. Opening the door to the integration of the Order State and the Empire, and then deliberately putting us back, it seems that I have kept my promise. In fact, as long as I report the conspiracy to the clan leader, the country of Martin Liya will be in chaos, and then there will be life and death and the destruction of the country. The Emperor of the Empire can He said that there is no need to fight with soldiers, so let me, Martin Liya, kill them all by myself." Si Green's eyes flashed and he smiled.

"Is there anyone really so scary?" Sam Tamara's pretty face showed a look of disbelief.

"You are lucky that your Highness has never seen that person, because you never know when you have stepped into the other party's trap. I even feel now that the other party captured His Highness Spike but did not kill him. In fact, he was waiting. Martin Liya breaks out in the country, and then we can use the name of assisting His Highness Spike, and then the imperial army can legitimately enter our Martin Liya. At that time, who will have the power to resist the empire's entry into Martin Liya!"

The mediocre but domineering face of the emperor of that day flashed through Siglin's mind. His teeth felt a little aching, and he said viciously, "They say that I, Martin Liya, am capricious, but with this military god emperor, In comparison, it is really far behind. The Temple Army is considered an ally of the empire, and the Order State even regards its own territory as the main battlefield. However, this war has not yet ended. The military god emperor conveniently dug a big hole for his allies. Poor Hu Sa, the great knight commander of the Temple Army, didn’t know how he was trapped until his death. Now the imperial forces have fully penetrated into the Holy City. Didn't His Highness also see this scene? There is a big difference between the holy capital of the Order and the mainland of the empire. Even the hotel we live in was renovated from the residence of Pope Potamia."

Si Green's voice paused, his eyes lingering on Samtalama's face for a moment. In fact, he also knew that what he said would only arouse the young highness's greater interest in the emperor. , because the entire Sam tribe knows that the series of business measures taken by His Highness in Tula were actually copied from the Imperial China's business model, compared to the strong business atmosphere of the empire, the ferocious and brutal Martin Liya Prairie can definitely be called a commercial desert. Looking at the prosperity of the Holy City in front of you, who would have dared to imagine that just two months ago, there were hundreds of thousands of troops here. It is a battlefield of life and death, and the central business district of the Holy City has more than 30,000 people at its peak.

This has to be an eye-opener for Si Green. It is not that Si Green has never seen scenes of tens of thousands of people gathering. The biggest annual lion hunting festival in Martinliya Prairie is not inferior to the Holy Spirit Festival in terms of scale. The city scene, but in terms of liveliness, it is far less than one-tenth of the Holy City. The lion is on the horse The Dingliya Prairie is regarded as a symbol of bravery, and as a coming-of-age ceremony for a Martinliya noble, a group of three people work together to hunt a lion, and among the lions, the male lion is naturally the best. The annual lion hunt On festivals, thirty to forty thousand people will gather in wild camps. In addition to the family members who come to help,

There were about one or two thousand young men, dressed in brave costumes, riding majestic war horses, carrying spears with polished white sandwood poles, and drove out of the camp in groups like proud peacocks. In fact, few aristocratic young men can actually hunt lions alone. There are often a large number of people in front of and behind them. Servants wearing all kinds of weapons, although the Martinliya nobles advocated bravery, they were stupid enough to let their heirs fight with lions, and the number of lions on the Martinliya prairie has increased since the great drought thirty years ago. has dropped sharply to one-third of its original size, and it is no longer possible to find lions near residential areas.

The girls are dressed up like blooming flowers, showing off their youth and beauty in front of these young men. Every year, there are always news about family marriages. The Lion Hunting Festival is more like a display platform. Big families are introducing their own people and accepting new members, but among these people , the most eye-catching one is undoubtedly the Young Highnesses of the three major clans. Unfortunately, Silver Fox is already in his thirties and has stopped participating in such celebrations. Spike has participated once or twice. For the major families who have turned the Lion Hunting Festival celebration into a sit-down Talking about the division of power is extremely disappointing, and no more will come later. Only Sam Tamara, one of the three young princes, is left.

It is the season for young girls like flowers, and it is also in line with the standards pursued by young people of all ethnic groups in the Lion Hunting Festival. However, Sam Tamara, who was established as the Young Highness of the Sam tribe at the age of four, is the youngest among the three major tribes. The least one who has made public appearances has never appeared once. As time went by, rumors spread that Her Highness the Young Highness of the Sam Tribe was actually an ugly girl.

Those who know Sam Tamara are more aware of the absurdity of this rumor. Although Sam Tamara is not a peerless beauty, she can definitely be regarded as a beauty. The reason why this young highness has never participated in celebrations is It's because this young highness doesn't look down on these Martinliya nobles at all. During the season of celebrations, this young highness is probably not in Martinliya.

Rebellious, or a more suitable comment for this young highness.

Ever since she was ten years old, Sam Tamara has been a troublesome little witch. No one knows why this young highness, who comes from the most noble family of the Sam tribe, is so yearning for business culture. Of course, there are also some in private. There are rumors that this young highness’s strong interest in business is all inherited from his late mother’s bloodline.

The patriarch of this generation of the Sam tribe had fourteen wives, but for unknown reasons, most of the women had accidental miscarriages after becoming pregnant. Only one woman persisted until the eighth month to give birth to a premature baby, and that was Sam. The mother of Tamara, a Mu ethnic group, is a woman from the Medici family who comes from Fort Locke, a commercial city in Central Europe.

The woman who became the head of the Sam tribe was entirely the result of a political marriage. The unexpected Medici family wanted to establish a commercial point in central Barro, southern Europe, while the Sam tribe wanted to use the Medici family to After obtaining some technologies from Nordic Barrow, the alliance between the two parties only lasted for three years. It finally broke up due to changes in conditions, so the leader of the Sam clan himself didn't care much about the life and death of this woman, but he didn't expect that this woman actually gave birth to a daughter for him. After fourteen consecutive children were accidentally miscarried, Under such circumstances, this unexpected daughter became the unexpected hope of the Sam tribe leader.

Tamara, in the Sam language, means windfall.

Or maybe it was really God's will. Unlike other Martinliya children who loved swords and horses, the daughter born to this Medici family woman showed an astonishing business talent from a very young age. She knew how to use her own hands from an early age. They exchanged things for other people's things. At the age of twelve, he established a so-called smuggling group in his own fiefdom and began to tinker with smuggling goods.

In the country of Martinliya, this is absolutely incomprehensible. How could the noble Young Highness of the Sam clan be connected with the despicable leader of the smuggling group? Even the leader of the Sam clan himself thought that his daughter, It was definitely a bread tree with a crooked neck. It was hopeless. Until Sam Tamara used his own fief Tula as a test. Regarding this experiment, the Sam tribe had a childish attitude at first.

But no one thought that the important channel for Tula City's foreign trade turned out to be the imperial area. Sam Tamara registered a chamber of commerce, the Blue Chamber of Commerce, in the empire, and then used the convenience of the Young Highness of the Sam tribe to arbitrarily sell Martin. The items in the Liya area are sold to the Empire area, and then they use the identity of the Blue Chamber of Commerce to transport the items in the Empire back to Martin Liya. The profits can reach five to six times, or even more than ten times.

For other imperial chambers of commerce, the Martinliya area is a thorny jungle, completely inaccessible to the business world, but for Sam Tamara, it is an easy journey.

The west is originally the territory of the Sam tribe and the Anxili family. Naturally, other Sam tribe lords take great care of the goods of His Highness, Young Highness of the Sam tribe, and His Highness also gives considerable rewards as a thank you for these cares. Even the lord of the Anxili family is actually very excited about the empire's dazzling products. With such convenient conditions, naturally he doesn't mind getting a share of the pie.

In fact, the reason why Martinliya Kingdom is closed to business is not just the disaster many years ago, but also because of the unique geographical environment of Martinliya Kingdom. It is an inland kingdom with no outlet to the sea, and its external relations are even more tense. In order to To protect themselves, they even refused to build roads. The surrounding countries also adopted a closed policy towards Martin Liya, which was like a huge cage. No one wanted Martin Liya, a savage, to come out and talk about horses. There is a basis for the Dingliya people to be savages. They may have been caravans in front of them, but once they fell out, they turned into bandits who robbed homes and homes. Not only did they buy and sell by force, but they not only refused to give money when they passed the road, but also smashed and smashed people at the pass along the way many times. At tax collection stations, they even cut off the heads of tax collectors to make urine, and they have no credibility at all in business agreements. The agreement that may have just been signed is simply treated as waste paper because they are not satisfied with it. It has already been spread. It’s a joke among countries

In this case, who would dare to make a deal with the Martin Liya people? If they don't sell anything, they will attack you, or they will simply lead troops to rob it!

In the end, all the countries simply increased the prices of the goods sold to the Martinliya people tenfold. As time passed, the Martinliya people themselves felt that commercial trade was a trap! There is no mention of trade anymore, but as the empire opened up the inland sea, especially after the Civil War, the northern coastline of Barro in southern Europe was forcefully opened up by the empire, and a large number of imperial goods poured into the south. The Martin Liya people also expressed their concern for the empire. All kinds of good-quality and cheap items to tempt you

But for the Martinliya people, the price is still unaffordable. Because there is no port, the caravan can only travel overland. These goods must pass through the Order State or the Kingdom of Harvey, and these two areas are The prohibited trade areas used to be the bridgehead against imperial commercial penetration. For imperial goods, All the taxes levied are severe and heavy. Now that the Martin Liya people want to pass and seize this opportunity, why not peel off a layer of skin and go through the layers of exploitation of the two kingdoms to wait for the empire's high-quality and cheap goods? When shipped back to Martin Liya, not only is there no price advantage, but the price is several times higher than in other areas.

In this case, the advantages of Samtamara's fiefdom Tula were immediately revealed.

Because it has its own unique trading route and is close to the western border of the kingdom, Tula's goods did not go in the direction of the Order Kingdom and the Harvey Kingdom, but chose to go north through the Carrizu Jungle, which is rumored to be impossible to pass. Entering the Feijie coast controlled by the empire, and then heading north along the coast to Lisbonto, the commercial center of the empire. This not only greatly reduces the transportation cost, but also shortens the time to a month and a round trip.

Relying on the huge smuggling trade and profit gap, Tula City quickly transformed from an ordinary medium-sized city on the western route of Martin City to a quarterly tax revenue exceeding 3.5 million in just two years, accounting for the entire Martin City. It is a super commercial town with 51% of the total tax revenue in the western part of the country. In other words, the tax revenue of a Tula fiefdom is higher than that of the entire Martin force. The total of 647 fiefdoms and fiefdoms in the seventeen provinces of Western Ya is one percent more. The name of Golden Tula has also spread like wildfire, and those who have benefited the most from it are undoubtedly the Sam people. With the support of Tula's fiscal and tax revenue, the Blue Chamber of Commerce also continuously transferred back some of the empire's advanced technologies, and the status of the Sam clan quickly rose among the three major clans.

Although they are still at the bottom among the three major tribes, the other two tribes no longer dare to look down on the Sam tribe, and are already in a position of being treated vaguely with the other two tribes, because the Sam tribe now not only controls the military industry that is not inferior to that of the Nordic Barrow It has craftsmen's skills, and it also controls the only commercial channel for trade with the outside world. It is rich and powerful, and the weapons and equipment of the army are directly supplied to them. The front lines of the mainland are close together. Not to mention the large number, the Sam tribe's own army of 50,000 is the first among the three major tribes to realize the elite force of the whole family wearing armor. You must know that the Martin Liya people advocate cavalry raids and have never paid much attention to armor protection. , coupled with the blockade of neighboring countries and the shortage of iron ore resources, over time, armor has become the standard for measuring elites.

But even the Yier tribe's own army, which is good at fighting, is only half armored, and the Anxili family has a mixture of cavalry and infantry. The cavalry is basically light armor, while the infantry is still in leather armor. This is also the Anxili commanded by Silver Fox. One of the reasons why the elites of the family suffered huge losses in the Battle of Southern Kalisu. The Battle of Southern Kalisu has proved that the powerful Martin Liya people are actually placed in the land infantry. In terms of level, the weapons and equipment are second-rate, and the combat power is between first- and second-rate. However, the Sam army is already at the first-rate level in the mainland. The force value has been greatly improved, and the wealth value has also leapt forward. The right to speak in Martinliya has been substantially improved. Even the El tribe on the throne must now follow the advice of the Sam tribe on certain matters.

This is definitely a pleasant surprise for the Sam tribe, which has been at the bottom for decades and has even been pushed out of the top three tribes over the years.

The basis of this accident is Samtamara. As the young highness of the Sam tribe, he has been given high hopes to guide the future of the Sam tribe since he was a child. Many people think that Samtamala is too young and willful and has not experienced hardships. , is not stable enough, and is a woman, I am afraid it will be difficult to shoulder the heavy responsibility of revitalizing the Sam tribe, especially Under the traditional concept of Martin Liya focusing on force, there has always been considerable controversy over the Sam tribe's naming of a woman as a young highness. The establishment of the Tula Commercial Center has made these doubts disappear. Although She is a woman, but at least she can bring wealth to the Sam tribe. This has also become a talking point within the Sam tribe in recent years.

However, the empire's offensive on the western front broke this good situation. The Karisu people burned Tula to ashes in a fire, and the news that the patriarch's new wife was pregnant and about to give birth caused Tamara's status to be shaken again. At this moment Sam Tamara personally went to the Holy Capital of the Order State. To a certain extent, she was already deviating further and further away from the position of His Highness the Young Highness of the Sam Tribe. However, Samtamara's tolerance for the coexistence of the three major clans also gave hope to Si Green, who was at a loss. If possible, Si Green wanted to take a gamble. He also wanted to see the invincible double-edged sword of the imperial conspiracy. Whether Mtamara can grasp it or not, in front of the huge group conspiring in the empire, the position of His Highness the Young Highness of the Sam Tribe is already useless.

If Samtamara was really ambitious, she would return to the country immediately. However, Samtamara did not choose to return. Instead, she continued to negotiate with the empire to release the prisoners. On the seventh day after arriving in the Holy Capital, Si Green’s expression He excitedly opened the door to the room and reported to Samtalama who was looking through a business report, "Agreed, the empire agreed to our request and agreed to release all Martinliya prisoners of war during the Battle of the Holy Capital, but There is one condition, that is, we must exchange it with land!”