Tales of the Reincarnated Lord

Chapter 452 Hostage

"His Royal Highness, good news, the Great Sword Master Hugh is back..." Genorio rushed into the study with a piece of gray silk. This is a letter eagle sent from Silovas Island.

Oh, Lorester was overjoyed and stood up: "Take me a look."

In order to break through and be promoted, the Great Sword Master Xiusi, who was on the island of Silova four years ago, entered the mountains of Silovas alone to prepare for painstaking practice. He left a letter saying that he would not come back if he became a second-level great swordsman. Although Lorist was very worried, he immediately sent troops to the four central principalities to fight for two years. After returning, he had no time to go to Silovas Island, and for a while, he completely forgot to find the Great Sword Master. Now that he heard that the Great Sword Master Hughes returned, he was naturally very happy.

The letter was signed and sent by Baron Hickerd, the governor of Hilovas, and the commander of the guard regiment on the island, and the golden knight Pachiko. The letter said that the team on the island heading to the volcanic area to take the fire crystal mine accidentally provoked the demon bird bald eagle and was besieged. Then the Great Sword Master Xius suddenly appeared and killed seven bald eagles and saved everyone.

It is said that the Great Swordsman Xius had been promoted to the second-level Great Swordsman two years ago. In order to stabilize his realm and realize the world, he naturally stayed in the mountains for two more years. This time when he came out of the mountain, he just met the demon bird besieging the mining team, so he helped. In a few days, the Great Sword Master Xius set off to visit Lorist in the north.

In addition to the high-end combat power of the Norton family, there are two great swordsmen, Hughes and Ingerek, in addition to Lorist, and Reddy has also reached the level of a great swordsman. However, in the eyes of Lorist, the old man Injerek was greedy for life and fear of death, and was promoted to a first-level swordsman by mistake. He stays at home for the elderly and does not want to work for the family. Lorester is very disappointed in him. He is not willing to care about Fatty Shi because of his face. Anyway, this old man is a first-class senior in his life. Swordsman, now even Reddy can defeat him easily.

The Great Sword Master Hughes was born as a slave gladiator, and his cultivation base was fought hard in the arena of life and death, and the **** murderous aura was the heaviest among the Great Sword Masters Lorist had ever experienced. Although he is a first-level swordsman, he can compete with a second-class swordsman. Now that he has been promoted to the second-tier great swordsman, he has added a high-end combat power to the Norton family. At least for Reddy, the Great Sword Master Xius is his best opponent at this stage.

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Tagger walked into the study, holding a large stack of letters and documents in his hand: "His Royal Highness, the battle in Central and South Africa has changed dramatically."

"What's the matter?" Lorist asked.

The war between the Ford Business Alliance and the coalition forces of the Central South Kingdom has been going on for more than four years. The past two years have remained the same. The several countries around the Chikeda Chamber of Commerce on the southern golden coastline have been entangled with the coalition forces headed by the Chigeda Kingdom. clear. Instead, the business alliance itself began to stabilize its defenses after annexing three neighboring countries. The borders adjacent to several kingdoms in the central and southern regions turned out to be calm, as if there was no war.

"The southernmost Romon Empire and the Khavitan Khan have reached an armistice agreement. The war between the two powers has been quelled. The Khavitan Khan has suffered a bit and gave up a small part of the original Keliya Kingdom. The territory of the country is given to the Roman Empire, and the two countries are bounded by the Kesarruby River."

Tagger looked at the folder in his hand and continued to report: "The Kingdom of Chigda has annexed seven countries that have been raided by the business alliance army, and the territory has tripled, becoming the size of the Roman Empire. Country. The remaining thirteen countries in the central and southern countries finally woke up and suspected that this was a conspiracy. They had fierce conflicts and civil strife with the Kingdom of Chigda, and the coalition forces of the Central and Southern Kingdoms were dissolved.

The Business Alliance announced a peace agreement with the Kingdom of Qigeda, recognizing that the seven new national territories occupied by the Kingdom of Qigeda are owned by them, as well as a series of terms such as exchange of business routes and united against foreign enemies. In addition, the business alliance seems to have passed an interest-free loan of 15 million Golden Ford to the Kingdom of Chigda to develop the people's livelihood in its newly occupied territory. Because our intelligence personnel could not penetrate the inside of the two parties, we did not get the exact information...

The remaining thirteen kingdoms in the central and southern regions are now split into two parts. The five countries adjacent to the business alliance have announced the establishment of the Merencek Kingdom League and are preparing to send envoys to the business alliance to discuss the truce. It is estimated that they think they have been unable to fight against the business alliance and can only unite to protect themselves, and they do not want the war to continue.

The eight countries in the south, led by the Jekano Kingdom, established an alliance and coalition against the Chigdha Kingdom and resolutely opposed the Chigdah Kingdom’s annexation of seven countries. They elected the prince of the Jakano Kingdom, Yorksham, as the commander of the coalition forces, and attacked the Kingdom of Chigda with 140,000 troops. The Kingdom of Chigda, with Grand Duke Faustas as the commander, fought fiercely with the coalition forces in the original Kingdom of Odmar. The two sides fought twice, winning each other.

It is worth noting that the Knights of Remmud of our family are currently following the alliance commander Prince Yorksham. In addition, the business alliance did not send troops to assist the Qigeda Kingdom in accordance with the agreement reached after the battle between the Qigeda Kingdom and the Eight-South Central Alliance Army. Instead, it sent envoys to mediate, hoping that the two sides could stop the war and restore peace in the central and southern regions. ..."

Lorist laughed out loud with a "pouch", which is really a big joke. No one can imagine such a weird change in the Central South war situation, which is simply stunned. Originally, the twenty-four countries of Central and South Africa united to fight against the business alliance. Unexpectedly, one more Kingdom of Qigeda played the role of anti-skeletal boy. Chigudawai and the business alliance secretly colluded with the business alliance and annexed seven countries in one go.

The remaining Central and Southern countries finally understood but they were divided into two factions. One faction decided that they could not surrender and started to negotiate peace with the business alliance. The other faction became angry and turned against the Qigeda Kingdom. They disregarded the great enemy of the Commercial Alliance that they had to clean up the Qigeda Kingdom first. But at this time, the commercial alliance, which was originally an enemy, came out to pretend to be the two parties. Mediation, a compassionate request to restore peace...

This is really ridiculous. No one would have imagined that the outcome of the four-year battle between the Commercial Alliance and the Central South Kingdom’s coalition forces would be like this. In the end, the annual loss was so big that I had to sit down and discuss.

Laughing for a while, Lorist stood in front of the map of the Gailint subcontinent hung on the wall, and followed the document prompts brought by Tagore to outline the changes in the situation in the central and southern parts of the map. Lorist had to marvel at the huge territory of the Qigeda Kingdom. This was indeed an extremely delicate, long-term strategic layout, and it took as long as four years.

"His Royal Highness, what's the matter?" Seeing Lorist standing silent in front of the map for a long time, Tagle asked curiously.

Lorist shook his head, and came back to his senses: "Have you seen it? As you said before, the war between the Commercial Alliance and the Central South Kingdom's coalition forces is a big conspiracy, and now the ending of this conspiracy has been revealed. Chige The Kingdom of Darth has also become a big country in the Asian continent of Gailint. This person with far-reaching plans can really be called a genius and resourceful man..."

"But your Royal Highness..." Tagger said unconvincedly: "Don't you think the Qigeda Kingdom was too hasty to annex the Seven Kingdoms, the forced annexation aroused the suspicion of the remaining Central South Kingdoms, and then Conflicts and wars broke out. This seems to be very contradictory to the foresight at the beginning. The Qigeda Kingdom can use the strategy of boiling frogs in warm water, and slowly digest the results, so that it will not cause the current consequences. "

"No, you are wrong." Lorist said: "There is a premise as you said, that is, if the war between the Romon Empire and the Harvey Stan Khanate continues, the Chigda Kingdom can adopt Huairou The strategy slowly brought the Zhoubian Seven Kingdoms into its jurisdiction, resulting in a de facto occupation. But the Romon Empire and the Harvey Stan Khanate have ceased war, and once they recover, there is a great possibility that they will be directed at Central South Countries.

Under such circumstances, the Chigda Kingdom must seize the time to integrate the power of the seven countries and reorganize its armaments to resist the invasion from the Romon Empire or the Harvey Khan. That's why it forcibly annexed the Seven Kingdoms. The business alliance obviously has a deep connection with the Qigeda Kingdom, and their greatest help is not to send troops to help. Because even if they sent troops to help the Qigeda Kingdom, if the Central and Southern Eight-Power Allied Forces resisted to the death, the war would be prolonged for a long time, and the military power of the Qigeda Kingdom would be wasted for nothing.

Because of this, the business alliance will come out to act as a mediator and let the two parties cease the war. This is also the most advantageous choice for business alliances. The first is to support the Qigeda Kingdom, so that after annexing the seven countries, its strength greatly increases, and it has the ability to stand alone against the two powers in the south. Rather than forming a coalition army led by the Kingdom of Chigda to resist the invasion of powerful countries like the original several countries. Know that a fist is always more powerful than five separated fingers...

The second advantage is that if the mediation is successful, the eight kingdoms of the eight-nation alliance of Central and South Africa will definitely treat the Qigeda Kingdom as a deadly enemy, and the hostile relationship with the commercial alliance will be eased or eliminated. After all, the enemy is not as hateful as a traitor. While supporting the Qigeda Kingdom, the Commercial Alliance also erected an enemy for it, enabling the two parties to contain each other, preventing the Qigeda Kingdom from becoming a potential enemy of the Commercial Alliance when it became stronger.

This war between the commercial alliance and the coalition forces of the Central South Kingdom seems to have benefited the most from the Qiguda Kingdom, annexing the seven countries around it, making itself a major country on the continent of Gailintia. In fact, the business alliance is the most profitable fisherman. It not only once again annexed three countries, but also forcefully forced those countries in Central and South Africa to open up trade routes and achieved their pre-war goals. The kingdoms in the central and southern regions have become losers and split into several factions. After the contradictions arise, they can no longer be united as before. "

Lorist finally "tsk" uttered: "It's not a fuel-efficient lamp, no one is a fool. Tagger, increase the monitoring and intelligence collection of the business alliance and the Chigda Kingdom, and see if you can find out who It’s the one who laid out..."

"Yes, Your Highness." Tagore answered attentively.

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Genorio took an invitation with gold lace and walked into the study: "His Royal Highness, the Duke of Kenmax has sent someone to send the invitation, inviting you to participate in the event at the Platinum Beach in West Degrad Province on August 15. Summer banquet."

Lorist remembered that the guy Kenmes had told him to build a luxurious palace-style manor near the platinum beach, turning the platinum beach into a summer resort for the nobles. It seemed that the manor over there was already built. Dafa please post. This face still has to be given. It is only June, and there are still more than two months. I have nothing to go and relax, and let Princess Silvia and the four concubines take the children to play.

Lorist nodded: "Okay, write him back and say I will take my family there."

"Yes, your lord, but will you go by boat then?" Genorio asked. There are two roads to Sidgrad Province, the territory of the Kenmes family, one is through Dremke Province, which is by land. Another one is to take a boat from Beihai City straight to Baijin Beach.

Lorist shook his head: "Let's go overland, and take a trip to Baron Dina."

In July last year, the female knight Aridori gave birth to a son for Lorist, and named him Dina Triac, and wrote to Lorist saying that she wanted to raise Triac into the Dina family. The greatest knight of the future. Lorist had nothing to do with his lover Aridori, but he could only silently bless his **** son in his heart, hoping that he could grow up healthy under the clutches of his mother...just on the way, you can go to see Ya Mother and son Ridoli.

"Understood, when is your Highness going to leave?" Genorio asked.

Lorist heard a rush of footsteps before he answered. Sward rushed into the study: "His Royal Highness, something has happened. The Earl Lowell's family was held hostage by a team of mercenaries..."

Lord Lowell? Who is this? Lorist is very inexplicable.

Fortunately, Shuad saw Lorister confused and explained what happened in a few words.

This Earl Lowell was not a member of the Norton family, but a businessman from the Imperial Capital, who spent money to buy the title of Earl from the Second Highness. Later, it was discovered that in the imperial capital, he moved to the Northland without earning much money, and spent nearly 10,000 Kingford to transfer the status of Earl of the Antinac Kingdom to the name of the Norton family, and became the honorary Earl of the Norton family. From this point of view, the Earl Lowell's vision is still very good. He knows that leaning on the big tree of the Norton family is good for the shade, so that he can do business more smoothly.

Earl Lowell moved to the Northland five years ago. He bought a homestead in the second district of the Noble District and built a medium-sized manor as a residence for his family. At the same time, he co-invested in several production workshops for daily necessities in Northland, and he also opened a West German Chamber of Commerce, dealing in leather goods, beverages and daily necessities.

Two years ago, the Grand Duke of Fesabrunn and the Snow Salt Chamber of Commerce gave the Norton family a huge purchase order. The production workshops jointly established by Earl Lowell and others were also considered to be a big piece of cake, and his pockets were full. . So Earl Lowell and several of his partners began to vigorously expand the scale of production, opened more than ten new production workshops of the same type, and spent a lot of money to dig out a large number of skilled workers and technicians from other workshops to prepare In this year, they won the largest share of the cake of daily necessities in the two purchase orders.

It’s just that they didn’t expect that in January this year, Lorist announced the purchase order of the Fesabrunn family and the Snow Salt Chamber of Commerce. Not only was the total amount less than half of last year, but also the amount of daily necessities was only very small this year because of the largest purchase in the previous two years. a part of. Now Earl Lowell and his partners were dumbfounded. Not only them, but also many businessmen like them were complaining.

As Lorist said, the Northland market is also limited to a few provinces in the surrounding area. Either there is no market in other places, or there is a market in that place, it can't consume so many commodities. Too many products produced that cannot be sold will also bring about a very serious economic crisis.

Production workshops can be closed, workers, technicians can be dismissed, but the money invested has become a backlog of commodities and no local sales can be found. For most merchants in the North, they are faced with a very difficult choice, or increase the price of these commodities. The general selling is to return a little cost, or it is to keep these goods and sell them slowly for decades...

At this time Fatty Shi began to rectify all the factories and mines in the Northland, and closed down a large number of workshops and production units that produced similar products in many industries~www.wuxiaspot.com~ accepted the unemployed workers and re-arranged their jobs. Effectively Stabilized the economic order within the family. After all, this immature economic crisis did not have a big impact on the lives of the people at the bottom of the family, except for the heavy losses of those investment merchants.

Earl Lowell chose to stock up these commodities. He thought he had a chamber of commerce that could slowly sell these commodities. But misfortune did not come singly. The mercenaries he hired went deep into the Black Mud and prepared to hunt Ironback Crocodile. The captain of the mercenary asked Earl Lowell to give them compensation and subsidies for their casualties, but at this time Earl Lowell took the hand. There was not much money, and he refused the request of the mercenary captain. The two sides had a dispute. In a rage, the mercenary captain took a few mercenaries and took the Earl Lowell's family as hostages and asked them to pay for the ransom...

"His Royal Highness, Lord Owwicks has already surrounded Earl Lowell's manor with the guard camp, and Lord Shred has also rushed over. However, the mercenary team insisted that Earl Lowell pay the ransom and demanded ours. People left, saying that it's nothing to do with our Norton family..." Sward reported.

Lorist silently grabbed the sword, and Genorio quickly took a coat and put it on him.

"Let's go and see." Lorist said.

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