Start with Island Lord

"Rosen, I heard that you conquered the Banshee King?"

In the underground magic laboratory of Crescent Castle, instructor Anna suddenly asked.

At this time, it was the fifth afternoon since Rosen returned to the White Sturgeon Island.

At this moment, the tall and strong baron lord was trying to create an ultrasonic magic weapon. Hearing this, his hands trembled slightly, but his face remained calm.

"Teacher, where did you hear this news?"

"The maid told me, and she heard it from the fisherman who delivered fish to the castle. The fisherman said that the banshees were talking about this everywhere."

"They also said that you are not only the Baron of Sturgeon Island, but also the true king of the banshees."

Rosen's palm has regained stability: "It's true, I defeated her, and then she acknowledged my ownership of Hank Island and the Triangle Sea."

"Oh~~~This news is amazing. I heard that the Banshee King is a very powerful water mage. How did you defeat her?"

"Use "Flawless Steel Dragon Body", which is the six-ring spell that you gave me, teacher. Teacher, you also know that I have a special talent for fighting and react quickly."

Anna nodded: "That's true, but you should take fewer risks in the future. After all, you are a lord, not a warrior charging into the battlefield."

She advised earnestly.

Rosen nodded: "Teacher is right, but it's worth it this time."

"In addition to a larger territory and a large number of new people, I also harvested countless pearls and gold."

"Especially the pearls. If you handle them well, you can definitely gather a lot of wealth."

Pearls are very beautiful. They are occasionally used to make potions and forge magical tools, but their main use is as decorations.

Because of their small number and popularity among the people, they are expensive and have become a symbol of strength and wealth.

This kind of thing has the attributes of luxury goods.

For a lord, the essence of creating luxury goods is a trick to get the highest return at the lowest cost.

"No amount of money is worth anything compared to life. But then again, the harvest this time is indeed very huge."

After a pause, Anna glanced at Rosen again: "I also heard that there are a few different ways to conquer?"

Rosen's hand trembled again to an invisible degree: "Teacher, the banshees have their own traditions, and I don't want to force it, so I respect it."

"No wonder it's said everywhere that you are the king of the gun."

Anna didn't think it was a big deal. It was normal for the lord to sacrifice his personal reputation in order to expand the territory.

She was just a little unbelievable and curious.

"I heard that it takes a Sun Warrior one or two hours to conquer an ordinary banshee. How long did it take you to conquer the Banshee King?"

"Three days."

"Tsk~~~"

Anna was amazed, and her heartbeat accelerated uncontrollably. She almost asked Rosen to show his bravery on the spot.

Finally he calmed down: "Are you going to develop a new route to Levender next?"

Rosen nodded: "Yes."

He added: "But this involves huge interests and will destroy countless people's jobs. Once the news of the new route is leaked, it will definitely attract countless powerful enemies."

"So, before opening a new route, you must be fully prepared."

Of course he can use the new route secretly, but this matter will definitely not be kept secret for long. Once the news is leaked, Aaron and Duke Dawn will have to jump up immediately!

All kinds of means will greet him like a storm.

When the storm comes, it will be too late to start thinking about how to deal with it.

Prepare for a rainy day and think about the overall situation, which is what a qualified lord should do.

Anna also has enough knowledge to know the danger of this matter.

Not to mention the distant ones, just say the recent new route, which just bypassed the Dawn City, and several small-scale naval battles broke out in secret.

The game between the major kingdoms in the rear is even more shockingly fierce, and countless lives have sunk into the deep sea forever because of this.

She was even a little scared: "Rosen, there is a real storm ahead!"

Rosen felt a slight tremor in his tone, looked up, and saw that Anna's face was a little pale, knowing that she was scared.

On the sea, no captain can face the storm calmly.

Rosen can't do it either, but he is the captain!

Even if there are huge waves ahead, even if he has many worries in his heart, he must not show it.

If he panics and retreats, there will be no legendary achievements.

So, he put down the work at hand, walked up to her hand, and comforted her warmly.

"Teacher, you have always wanted to know how many rings of my magic power are, right?"

Anna was stunned, not understanding why Rosen would say that, so she turned her head to look at him.

Rosen raised his hand and compared a number: "In terms of magic power cultivation, I stand here, and if I take a small step up, I will reach the extreme of the magic ring."

This number made Anna's eyes widen, and her body couldn't help trembling. She didn't expect it to be so high!

"This last step is extremely difficult to cross, and even I can hardly see the hope of crossing it."

"So I firmly believe that in terms of magic power, no one in this world should stand higher than me, and naturally no one can see farther than me."

Rosen exerted a little force on his hands, lowered his head and stared into her eyes, and said word by word:

"My height allows me to see the future of magic."

"Although magic has no great power for individuals, it does have great power for the country."

"This great power can move mountains, fill the sea, lift cities to the sky, and summon the sun to the world!"

Anna was shaken: "Is this possible?"

Summoning the sun to the world, this... this is too terrible.

Rosen said firmly: "Teacher, believe me, it can be done!"

"The current continental kingdom is far from touching the upper limit of the power of magic."

"As long as we take the lead and get the power of magic first, we can break through the storm and even make ourselves a storm in the eyes of others!"

Anna's uneasy mind was greatly comforted. She sighed: "In ancient times, you should be called a prophet. No, you should be called a 'holy king'."

Rosen picked up the ultrasonic magic weapon again and smiled: "I'm just an island baron."

After a pause, he said: "Teacher, don't tell Selena these in advance, at least don't tell them before the baby is born."

Selena has been resting her baby recently, not worrying about anything, and only doing the most basic magic practice every day, and she has grown up round and plump.

Anna nodded gently: "I understand."

At the same time, Rosen remotely controlled Puppet No. 2 and secretly summoned his chief intelligence officer Stonard in the government study.

"How is your mana improvement recently?"

"The Soul Gem is very useful and has helped me reach the intermediate level."

"Very good, but it's not enough. I have to keep working hard."

"Yes, Lord."

"Okay, let's get back to the topic now."

'Rosen' leaned back in his chair and looked at the intelligence officer who grew up with him in front of him: "I plan to implement a 'Pearl Storm' plan."

Stonard immediately took out his notes, but was interrupted by Rosen's wave: "There's not much content, remember it in your mind."

When Stonard was ready, he whispered: "I will create a large number of exquisite pearl magic tools, and then Then smuggle these magic tools to various places on the giant island of Weilan, and sell them as quickly as possible and at the highest price. "

Stonard's eyebrows jumped: "Lord, this is difficult. The northern counties are easy to sell, but the southern counties are not easy to sell."

Rosen nodded: "I understand."

"So, the lightning intelligence network I asked you to build before can be used."

"I want you to find a way to quietly contact the wealthy businessmen in each county, preferably those newly emerging civilian wealthy businessmen who are courageous and dare to take risks."

This group of wealthy businessmen is the emerging bourgeoisie of society, and they are the most capable group of people in this era.

At the same time, they are also a new social force that the noble lords are gradually unable to control.

"If it's a southern county, find a way to get them to prepare cash in advance. If it's a northern county, it can be cash or materials."

"Once the pearl ornaments arrive, settle in cash and collect the money as quickly as possible."

Stonard listened carefully and asked, "Lord, once there are more pearl ornaments on the market, the price will drop."

Rosen smiled: "It will indeed drop, but there is a lag in the market's price reaction."

"As long as we are fast enough, we can sell the most goods at the best price."

The market's price reaction speed depends on the speed of information transmission, and the main way of information transmission in this era is still word of mouth, or fast horse pigeon messaging.

The lag in market reaction will be very serious.

Now, Rosen uses telegraph communications to build an intelligence network, and then uses the intelligence network to build a secret sales network for pearl products, so that he can make a wave of excess profits before the market reacts.

Laltris's pearls are of excellent average quality and large quantity, so this wave of excess profits will be very amazing.

At the same time, pearls are good but not very useful. The main component is calcium carbonate, but the exchange is real money.

The more he sells, the more he earns!

Stonard is a smart man. After thinking carefully, his eyes suddenly lit up: "I know what to do, Lord."

"Very good, you go to make preliminary preparations, I will start preparing pearl jewelry right away."

After Stonard left, Rosen looked at a document on the table again.

The document was written with a string of statistics.

'Currently, the territory, the three major islands plus the triangular sea area, the total land area is 5,500 square kilometers, and the sea area is 41,000 square kilometers. '

'Most of the fields on the islands are mountainous. It is estimated that more than 1.5 million acres will be opened. Potatoes are mainly grown, with bird droppings as fertilizer and volcanic ash from Saint Ann Island as an auxiliary. If the potato yield per mu is 2,000 kilograms, the annual output can exceed 3 million tons. '

'In the triangular sea area, let's not talk about other materials, just talk about food. ”

‘With a sustainable strategy for gentle development, it is estimated that 2 million tons of seafood will be harvested each year, including at least 1 million tons of various marine fish.’

Of course, it is not possible now, it is just potential.

But once it is successfully developed, based on the annual consumption of 300 kilograms for adults, it will be enough to feed more than 30 million people!

It can even cover the food consumption of the entire Weilan.

This is the development potential of the territory.

Then there is the current population of the territory.

‘There are 135,000 human subjects, including 29,000 former white sturgeon islanders, 37,000 forest elves, 22,000 refugees from the Principality of Bohemia, 36,000 mountain people from Northern Weilan, and 11,000 banshees.’

“Among them, there are a full 80,000 people with basic mana.”

‘There are 370,000 fishmen subjects. Among them, there are 340,000 ordinary fishmen, 30,000 high-level spellcasting fishmen, and 700 fishmen queens.’

‘Ordinary murlocs are the best laborers, and high-level spellcasting murlocs can become good marine combat mages after a little training. ’

“There are still not enough people. With the current situation on the island, it’s no problem to have another few hundred thousand.”

“We have to continue to immigrate.”

“The Azure Blessing must also be developed and improved so that the people can live not only on the island, but also in the sea.”

The next is military strength.

“160 murloc nemesis ships in the navy, 5 modified warships, a total of 3,200 naval soldiers, 1,400 battle spirit soldiers, and 1,800 combat mages.”

“Add 3,000 elite murloc diving soldiers and 20,000 patrol murloc soldiers.”

Looking at this report, Rosen secretly said: “With the murlocs, the patrol of the sea area around the island is already sufficient, and there is no need to worry about being attacked.”

“But the murlocs are not smart, and their combat power is very limited. The war still depends on the human navy.”

“The navy has many people and few ships, insufficient long-distance navigation capabilities, short weapon range, and poor head-on confrontation capabilities.”

Speedboats are very fast and can gallop on the sea like wolves, but they can only deal with the weak.

When encountering a regular naval warship, it is difficult to bite the opponent.

Others push the defense to the limit, regardless of the consequences, and can break through the sea defense line built by the speedboat.

"On land, a large number of coastal defense weapons must be added to build a solid fortress to avoid being beached."

"In the navy, the role of shield ships is missing."

In short, the current island navy can fight guerrilla warfare, but lacks the ability to fight a head-on decisive battle.

After reading the new situation in his territory, Rosen continued to read down.

It was the statistical information of various countries newly collected by the Intelligence Bureau.

If you don't plan for the overall situation, you are not qualified to plan for a region!

If you want to open a new route and benefit from it, instead of dying suddenly, you must consider the overall impact.

In particular, you must know the strength of your opponent.

"15 counties in the south of Weilan, Aaron's puppet, with a population of 19 million and a land area of ​​360,000 square kilometers."

"The Dawn Storm Fleet has 8 thousand-ton warships, and each county has an average of 1 thousand-ton warship. There are 23 warships over a thousand tons in total."

"Aaron, with a population of 110 million and a land area of ​​1.03 million square kilometers."

"The Lion Fleet, with 153 warships over a thousand tons, including 45 2,000-ton lion battleships, and the construction of the 4,000-ton lion heart battleship has begun."

"Aaron's royal power is concentrated, the nobles are weak, and the rise of the new class is really a terrible behemoth."

Look at Kao again.

'Population 130 million, land 900,000 square kilometers, Black Rose Fleet, 69 warships over a thousand tons.'

'Although the fleet is a little worse, Kao's army is extremely powerful, and the Red Moon Knights are the first in the alliance in terms of combat power, and are located in the northeast of Aaron. '

'Kao and Aaron have always been at odds, and there are many frictions on the border. It's a pity that the king is old and no longer ambitious. '

Otherwise, Kao would be a great ally to contain Aaron.

Let's look at Levender.

'With a population of 90 million and a land area of ​​1.1 million square kilometers, the Golden Fleet has 130 warships of more than 1,000 tons, including 30 2,000-ton golden warships. '

'The fleet strength is not much different from Aaron, but Levender lives in the East Golden Cape, and its main maritime trade targets are the Glorious Empire and its vassal states, and there is no major conflict with members of the alliance. '

In addition to the three kingdoms, the Natural Alliance has six principalities.

Weilan is one, and the other five are located in the Wit Continent.

Weilan is the largest principality in terms of area, and it is overseas, which is a bit out of place.

The other five do not have any extra thoughts, and they are all vassals of the three kingdoms.

After reading the document, Rosen concluded: "If the new route is opened, Levender will welcome it, Kao's attitude is relatively neutral, and Aaron and Weilan Southern County are the biggest enemies."

But although Aaron is strong, he has many opponents.

The biggest opponent is the Glorious Empire, which is located in the southwest of the Wit Continent!

It is a huge behemoth covering an area of ​​more than 5 million square kilometers and a population of over 500 million.

It is a terrifying existence that overwhelms the entire Natural Alliance with the power of one country.

"Although Aaron's Lion Fleet is powerful, more than half of it is fighting against the Glorious Empire's navy in the Storm Ocean. The fleet deployed in the Gilded Strait also needs to deter Kao and suppress Weilan."

"So, in the short term, the opponent I really need to face is Duke Weilan and the 15 Southern Counties!"

In other words, if the news of the new route spreads, the worst-case scenario is that there will be a Southern United Fleet composed of 23 thousand-ton warships, all the way north to attack him.

After looking at the entire game map, Rosen sighed.

'I am now a little stronger than before, but I am still just a small fish trying to survive in the cracks of big fish. '

"The first step to improve my navy is to use Weilan's Southern United Fleet as an imaginary enemy."