Tales of the Reincarnated Lord

? Chapter 171 Messenger and Alliance

The Blade's Edge Mountains are like a steep wall separating the Norton family territory from the sea.

Lorist stood on the top of the cliff, watching with a grim look at the waves hitting the black sharp rocks near the shore that exposed the sea...

"Is there such a reef on the shore of the Blade's Edge Mountains?" Lorist asked.

"Yes, my lord." Father Barrick said, "The Blade's Edge Mountains on our family territory are all like this. The only ones that can reach the sea are the three openings I have taken you to see. Can't climb down. We used to boil sea water and boil salt through those three holes, bring firewood and a large pot, and it took about ten days to get it..."

"My lord, I understand what you mean, do you want to find a way to the sea from here?" Father Barley asked.

Lorist nodded.

"My lord, you come with me." Father Barrick took Lorist on the top of the cliff for a long time, to the other end of the cliff.

"My lord, look..."

A cliff on the steep mountain wall in the distance collapsed and fell into the sea, forming a slope. What makes Lorester curious is that some remaining wooden stakes can be vaguely seen on the slope...

"My lord, in the past, the four big families in Kitano Town also wanted to use the convenience of shipping to get in touch with the outside world. They spent more than a year building a long trestle bridge from the slope, going deep into the sea, and bypassing the offshore reefs. . At that time, it was the adult’s grandfather. He ran to Kitano Town to negotiate with the four big families and asked for half of the maritime rights. However, the negotiation did not result, and a storm destroyed the trestle bridge without a trace. The vitality of the large family was greatly injured, all the capital invested was wiped out by the storm, and the rest was the broken stakes..." Father Barrick recounted a family history that Lorist did not know.

"Are there many storms here?" Lorist asked.

"Not many, but in April and May, large tornadoes are prone to appear on the sea. Other times, there are strong winds and waves, but there are few storms." Father Barley replied.

"Forget it. Let's go. We have been in the Blade's Edge Mountains for almost two months, and it's time to go back." Lorist said.

After Fatty Shi finished his vacation and took over the administrative affairs of the family again, he really couldn't understand Lorist's assistant secretary. The working attitude of being a secretary just met a problem, which forced Lorist to organize a group of people to explore the mineral resources and solve the problem in the Blade's Edge Mountains a few days earlier.

The problem that Fatty Shi encountered was salt. In the past, there were no more than 10,000 people in the family. If you don’t have salt, you can get enough salt if you bring firewood and a cauldron as Father Barrick said. It's just that more than half a million people have poured into the Norton family territory. If one person consumes one catty of table salt a year, one needs half a million catties of salt, not counting the amount of salt needed for tanning of fur and marinating meat.

Fatty Shi received a report from Manager Speer that all the salt in the family’s reserves would be exhausted in July next year, so he took the report and went to Lorister, asking Lorist to go to the Blade’s Edge Mountains as soon as possible and find one who could provide it. Method of large quantities of table salt. Instead of having **** with Miss Tristi all day long in the office...

For Lorist, this two-month trip to the Blade's Edge Mountains has been very rewarding. The first thing to be sure is that the deep valley that Barley discovered is indeed full of gum vines, although the number is not as good as Luo. The Mongolian Empire produces more than one million barrels of gum vine juice a year. However, the annual supply of nearly 100,000 barrels of gum cane juice is enough for the project plan for the large-scale development of the family territory that Lorist is preparing to carry out.

Next is Master Sid, who is responsible for the exploration of mineral resources. He discovered a mysterious iron mountain in the Blade's Edge Mountains. The entire mountain is composed of mysterious iron ore. He also discovered tungsten gold veins and chromium silver ore nearby. He danced and uttered a big talk: "As long as he researches for a while, he will definitely be able to produce better armor than the white lion army standard equipment..."

Lorist felt very strange, it was too uncoincidental to be a book, these three mineral veins seemed to be arranged together artificially, but the world was huge. There are no surprises, but I can't figure out the result and have to put it aside.

As for Fatty Shi’s anxious salt problem, Lorester also has a solution, which is to dry salt. No need to boil salt so much trouble. Originally, Fatty Shi planned to mobilize 3,000 people to cook salt, and spend two months to make a reserve of 2 million catties, and then cook it again when they are gone...

Lorester has never seen a pig run but also eaten pork. He has not visited the salt pan in his previous life. I remembered some of the principles and steps of how to dry the salt, so he chose a wide valley and designed a plan for the salt pan. Be in charge of the father Barrick. Mainly because of the large cost of infrastructure. Not much manpower is needed, nearly a hundred people are enough, but the monthly salt production is expected to reach more than 100,000 catties, enough to solve the family's salt shortage dilemma.

"Yes, the salt pans below should be filled with earth and rocks first, and then poured with green clay to smooth them out. When the tide rises, open the inlet of the fence and let the tide flood the salt pans. After two or three days of drying, the thick brine should be used. Go to the deep pool and rinse with the mountain water that was brought in to allow the impurities to settle. Pour the clean salt water on it into the upper salt pan, and then dry it to get edible white salt..." Lorist told Barrie for the last time Papa Ke explained.

It’s no wonder that Barley’s father kept asking. Galintia hasn’t heard of salt drying for thousands of years. The most important thing is that you don’t need to spend a lot of firewood for boiling salt. How about cooking salt before? Bringing firewood to the beach has always been a difficult problem.

The Blade's Edge Mountains facing the sea are all steep cliffs, but inside is a gentle **** covered with grass. There are basically no trees. Some people who came to boil the salt have already chopped down to make firewood. It is a rocky mountain peak, and people have to make a few bends along the cliff bottom of these peaks and then go up and down the slopes to leave the Blade's Edge Mountains.

Miss Teresti and her maid little Vinnie were picking wild flowers on a gentle slope, preparing to make a corolla, and they were jumping like two young children.

Since being forced to develop her body by Lorist, Miss Tristi has lost her accustomed restraint and morals, and became interested in men and women, especially when she found that **** has caused her painful menstrual cramps. After a great relief, he began to take the initiative to seduce Lorester, not having **** in the office.

The only thing that annoyed Lorister was that no matter how Miss Tristy had **** with him in the office, she was willing to try new tricks, but no matter what Lorist tried to persuade, Miss Tristi would not agree to marry him. It’s fine to be a lover, but to be a wife without talking...

Miss Tristi didn't want to come this time in Blade's Edge Mountains, but Lorester said. Reading a hundred books is worse than traveling thousands of miles. Your mother used to go deep into the primitive mountains to explore the ruins. It's not like you stay at home and read books all day. So Miss Teresti took a trip to the Blade's Edge Mountains.

Seeing that Loriste's face was not good, Miss Tristi knew that Loriste was disappointed again. This section of Blade's Edge Mountain Range is the Black Mud Swamp, which has come to an end, and Lorist still hasn't found a suitable outlet for the hundreds of miles long Blade's Edge Mountain Range.

Gently kissed Miss Tristi’s face, Lorist said gently: "My dear, we should go back. I really didn’t expect you to stick to this trip to the Blade's Edge Mountains. It’s almost two months. Not small."

Unlike Loriste’s goal of finding an outlet to the sea, Miss Teresti is interested in the flora and fauna of the mountain area, the growth of herbs and the geographical formation of the Blade's Edge Mountains.

With a proud snort, Miss Teresti said, "I'm not a pretty girl. I can do what my mother can do."

While holding Lorist’s arm downhill together, Miss Teresti said: "Rock, to be honest, the investigation and research of the Blade's Edge Mountains in the past two months has made me firm in one idea. That is, the Blade's Edge Mountains will never be possible. It was formed naturally. It seems that a **** used his divine power to build a dam to stop the storm and tsunami in the western part of the Northland. This is really a great miracle..."

Lorist just smiled and didn't answer. His little love book is always full of whimsy after reading too much, so he just listened to it.

...

When I returned to Rock Castle, it was already October 28th. Lorist wanted to go to Fenglin Mountain Villa for two days to see his precious son, but he did not expect that successive messengers were waiting in the camp. Urge Lorist to return to Rock Castle as soon as possible.

The last time Lorist went to the Blade's Edge Mountains to investigate it took more than ten days. During this period of time, several messengers had arrived at the camping grounds outside the mountain. The news they brought was varied, all in one meaning. Many envoys from the nobles of the territory have come to Rock Castle. The two most important ones are the messengers sent by the second prince, and the second is the visit of Viscount Kenmey himself, and has been in Rock Castle for half a month.

Lorist received the Viscount Kenmes for the first time, and the guests who came to Rock Castle were respected by him. On the contrary, Viscount Kenmes suggested that Lorist should see the messenger sent by the second prince first, and his business was not in a hurry. It can be said at the end.

The messenger sent by the second prince was a personable middle-aged nobleman. He claimed to be Viscount Sindson. On the order of the second prince, he sent a letter to Lorist and asked for a letter from Lorist. Nothing else was said.

Lorist opened the letter from the second prince very curiously. The letter was very long, with several pieces of animal skins on it. The first two pieces of paper wrote about the deep fighting friendship between the second prince and the Norton family, and expressed the sorrow and nostalgia for the death of Lorist’s eldest brother in the battle, which is very moving. But on the last letter paper, the greedy heart of the second prince was revealed like a hungry wolf.

The second prince believed that the war between the Norton family and the Grand Duke of the Northland, Duke Luckins, was very regrettable and tragic. It was precisely because of the disputes between the nobles within the kingdom that the kingdom could not gather all its strength before the restoration of Kerry. The great cause of the Mori Empire. At present, the second prince has punished the Duke Luckins who started the war, but he also announced the following penalties for the Norton family who ransacked the Grand Duke:

First, the Norton family must surrender nearly 300,000 Golden Ford's belongings from the private treasury of the Duke of Lukins and hand it over to the second prince as a punishment for the grand duke's looting. The second prince gave up the guilt of Lorester's transfer of more than 200,000 grand princes to the Norton family territory.

Second, as the new head of the Norton family, Lorester must rush to the city of Gildusk before the end of November to swear allegiance to the second prince who currently resides in the Grand Duchy. The second prince will consider promoting Norton by then. The title of the family is a reward.

Third, the Norton family must also provide the second prince with two full-strength corps to assist the second prince in calming down the North, and under the second prince’s command, launch another attack on the Principality of Madras before the second prince. Rejuvenate the great cause to make due contributions.

There are three conditions in total, and Lorist laughed. I have to admit that the second prince is more sinister and cunning than that **** grand prince, these three conditions are very loose, and it does not hurt the foundation of the Norton family. But Lorist believes that once the second prince's request is accepted, these three conditions will become three nooses around the neck of the Norton family. Drag the Norton family step by step into the abyss.

Lorist did not have any interest in fighting with the second prince. After his eldest brother died on the battlefield for the second prince, the second prince ignored the Norton family and sat and watched as the new territory nobles, the Kenmes family and the Norton family, had a territorial dispute. Refusing to mediate. Rumors about the disposition of the second prince have long been well-known. Believe that the second prince might as well believe that the sow will climb the tree...

Now Lorist is concerned about the development and construction of his own family territory, and has no interest in the occupation of the Northland and the so-called restoration of the kingdom of Christen. He picked up a blank piece of animal skin paper, wrote a simple two-word reply, and then thought about it and printed a new family crest representing the earl's title on the reply. Then fold up the reply, put it in an envelope and seal it. Give it to Viscount Sindson.

Viscount Sindson received the reply and said goodbye immediately. He had been waiting in Rock Castle for more than ten days, and he wished to return soon.

The envoys of the seven or eight lord nobles whom Lorist met next were represented by the envoys sent by Baron Felim of the Pegasus family. They all came to Rock Castle for the same purpose. They wanted to buy good products from Lorist. The weapons and equipment, such as iron armor and garrison crossbow...

To these messengers' requests, Lorist answered one word: sell. If you don't have money, you can use grain, grass, and materials to trade, the more the better, and then send them all to discuss the price with Shi Fatty.

Finally, Lorist invited Viscount Kenmes over again. He was curious how so many nobles in the territory would come to buy weapons and equipment from the Norton family...

The first sentence Viscount Kenmes told Lorist was: The troubled times in the North have come.

Then Viscount Kenmes told the current situation in the Northland of Lorist. Ever since he escorted Duke Luckins back to the Grand Duke, the Grand Duke of the North has been sick. And because the Henneide Knights had mastered the family members of the soldiers of the Northland Legion, they kept seduce the soldiers of the Northland Legion who were still stationed at the Fortress of Frederick and the Hendriford Cable Bridge. As a result, there were another three thousand. Many people rushed to the Henned Knights, and there were less than a thousand soldiers remaining to defend the two fortresses. It was a drop in the bucket. Even the second prince’s soldiers broke up when the second prince’s troops easily occupied the two. Strategically important.

The second prince was defeated when he withdrew from the Principality of Madras and returned to the capital. He heard the news from the merchants who had returned from the North. He was very sensitive to the opportunity and sent the only one to keep. The formed frontier defense regiment went to the north, and as expected, it easily occupied the two fortress checkpoints that were previously regarded as the sky. So the second prince did not return to the capital, and went straight to the north, occupied the Grand Ducal Mansion, and ordered the people to send Grand Duke Lukins to the capital to recuperate ~ www.wuxiaspot.com~ and then the second prince kept giving orders. Begin to search for the Northland nobles, and finally annoyed the Henned Knight who was entrenched in the Sakura Manor Castle. There was a very small armed conflict between the Northland Legion and the Second Prince’s men. The Second Prince lost more than two thousand people. , Suffered another big defeat.

This is why the nobles in the northern regions sent people to Rock Castle to buy weapons and equipment. The Norton family drove away the sitting tiger, Duke Luckins, and the second prince, a hungry wolf, came to the North. For those ambitious territorial nobles, this is actually a good time to strengthen the family.

The purpose of Viscount Kenmez came to meet with Lorist was simple. He wanted to form an alliance with the Norton family and informed Lorist. The family spent more than five months and spent countless gold coins. In the eastern part of the Northland, another chain bridge was built to connect the two sides of the strait. In the future, materials to and from the Northland will not need to pass through the Hendryfore Bridge in the hands of the second prince.

This is good news for Lorist, at least in the case of the Blade's Edge Mountains that cannot find an outlet to the sea, it is also a good thing to have an extra channel to connect to the outside world. Lorist said that he had to discuss with the knights under him, and then give Viscount Kenmes an answer.

……(To be continued.)