Fortunately, the Kingsley family's lack of food is not a matter of one or two days, and the sense of distress in this regard has always been relatively strong, so all the lords and nobles have the good habit of stockpiling food, especially after realizing the change in the Desperate Swamp, Archduke Buck eats as much food as possible.

Even from now on, if you can't buy a grain of grain, it won't be a problem to support it for two or three years, after all, the Carthusian military leader itself still produces more or less, but the consumption is greater than the supply.

The only good news is that the Black family in the Flower Language Plateau did not sit on the ground and raise the price, it is still the old rule, you can have as much food as you want, but you can find a way to ship it out by yourself.

It is not difficult to guess the mind of the Black family, and the unique geographical environment is both a natural danger and a prison for them.

The Kingsley family's greatest pursuit at the moment is to obtain a piece of grain land.

The Black family's quest was to get their food out and convert it into practical value and political influence over the Byron Union.

The purposes of the two sides not only do not conflict, but even complement each other, and they naturally hit it off.

But the road is still the same road, it will not change with their wishes, and transportation is still a big problem.

Fortunately, they found another transport route.

The Plateau of Flowers, the Carthusian Lord, and the Swamp of Despair are triangulation.

The place where the Huayu Plateau meets the Carthusian military territory is directly blocked by the rolling mountains of the Huayu Plateau, and it is very difficult for people to pass, let alone transport a large amount of grain.

The only way to transport large quantities of grain was to the southeast of the Huayu Plateau, and after coming down from the plateau, walk along the Swamp of Despair for a while before turning into the Carthusian Army.

Now that most of the desperate swamp west of the Danube River has fallen into their hands, including this grain transportation line, they can directly mobilize their army and go to the Huayu Plateau to get food, which will save nearly half of the journey and reduce food loss.

Not long ago, Grand Duke Buck had just received the news that the first batch of grain had been successfully handed over, and although the quantity was not large, it was a good start.

It won't be long before there will be a steady stream of low-priced grain delivered to the Kingsley family.

At the same time, it also interrupted the past monopoly of the Kingsley family on the grain in the Plains of Asia Minor, and there was no way to ask for the sky-high price as before, and without the Kingsley family's large amount of food, the grain in their hands was waiting to rot in their hands.

When that time comes, supply and demand will reverse, and it will not be them who will exchange gold for food, but those greedy lords and nobles who will beg the Kingsley family to buy food.

"A bunch of greedy people. Archduke Buck slammed a letter to the ground.

"What is it that makes Your Majesty so angry?" asked Senior Channing, the chief strategist of the Kingsley family.

"Who else can there be, those damn pirates, who negotiated the price and paid the deposit, and now I'm writing to tell me that the raw materials for making ships are scarce, and the price needs to be increased by 30% compared to the original. "It's good not to mention it, but as soon as I said it, Grand Duke Barker's anger bubbled out.

If you want to take the Swamp of Despair, ships are indispensable.

Before Akmether's army marched into the Swamp of Despair, Grand Duke Buck had already begun to prepare.

When it comes to shipbuilding, it belongs to the Witch Society and the exiled family Cummins, who sits on the Twin Peninsulas.

The former is because of the unique geography, boats are better than horses, and it is natural to vigorously develop boats.

The latter was isolated because of his starting place, the Miracle Peninsula, and was broken by the army led by the White Tiger Chagan Bari of the Odin Empire, which became the fuse for the split of the Odin Empire, and now under the control of the Western Odin Empire, after being exiled at sea, he had to vigorously develop shipbuilding.

When he chose to buy a ship, Grand Duke Buck hesitated for a long time between the two.

Witches are notoriously difficult to get along, they are a group of beautiful snakes, and once they are in a relationship, it is difficult to get rid of them.

Archduke Buck was not worried about the further deterioration of relations with the Holy See, which had never been good anyway.

After all, their military leaders practice out-and-out slavery, and they don't like the Holy See's propaganda that all beings are equal in front of the gods, and this dangerous thinking will make those miners more difficult to manage.

The brainwashing of the Witch Concord in this regard is no worse than that of the Holy See.

Grand Duke Buck didn't want an uncontrollable force to rise in his territory.

And the reputation of the Cummins family has deteriorated in recent years, perhaps because they have been in exile for too long, and their bones reveal a sense of insecurity.

Grand Duke Buck hesitated for a while, but finally chose the Cummins family, mercenary has the advantage of mercenary, that is, as long as the money given is enough, they can buy anything they want from them, and the last thing the Kingsley family lacks is money.

At first, the contact with the Cummins family was very smooth, not to mention the purchase of ships, even the purchase of shipbuilders, all agreed to it, and it was refreshing not to want it.

But when it came time to start trading, Grand Duke Buck slowly discovered that it wasn't the case.

Not to mention that the Cummins family took money from the Kingsley family for various reasons, and the construction period was delayed again and again, and more than half a year has passed, and Archduke Buck has not seen a sampan.

The Cummins were extremely perfunctory in response to Archduke Barker's urging, and this time he sent a tough messenger, and if they did not hand over the first ships as soon as possible, the Kingsleys would withdraw their deposit.

As a result, the robbers of the Cummins family showed no intentions, not only did they not prepare to return the money of the Kingsley family, but also sat on the ground to raise the price, no wonder Buck slapped the table angrily, the deposit invested in the early stage was small, and the overall plan of the Kingsley family was large.

"What the other party wants is not more gold coins. Scholar Channing said meaningfully.

"Aren't you asking for more gold?" said Grand Duke Barker's heart thumped, and a sense of foreboding welled up.

"It's been more than a hundred years since the Cummins family lost the Miracle Peninsula, but in terms of wealth, the coastal trade that has equalized the western coastline with the Witch Society for so many years is much more than our Kingsley, and what they really want is a new territory, a territory that will allow their family to re-establish themselves. Scholar Channing didn't sell it, and threw out his guess bluntly, "They are going to use this to blackmail us, and they want to get a piece of the pie in the swamp of despair......"

Before Scholar Channing finished speaking, Grand Duke Buck smashed the crystal wine glass that had just arrived in his hand again, and roared angrily: "Wishful thinking, just with them, they also want to get involved in the swamp of despair!"

However, Archduke Buck was well aware that there was nothing wrong with Scholar Channing's speculation, but that he had ignored the true interests of the Cummins, and that their demand for a new territory was no less than that of the Kingsley family for a piece of grain.

But looking at the entire Ashan, unless the Byron alliance reshuffles its power, the Cummins family has no chance at all.

However, under the pressure of the common enemy of Odin, the Byron Alliance, over the years, there have been small riots, but no big riots.

There are no eggs under the nest.

This truth is understood by those grand ducal families.

In the event of serious internal turmoil within them, giving Odin orcs the opportunity to move south, the entire human race will become their flock.

Once involved in the swamp of despair, Grand Duke Buck's emotions tend to get out of control, perhaps because he cares too much about it.

Although I have long been aware of this and are trying to control it, when things come to an end, I will always be unable to hold back.

Taking a deep breath and calming down his state of mind, Grand Duke Buck said with a cold face: "That group of robbers, if you want to get a piece of the pie, it is absolutely impossible, it seems that they can't count on it, find a way to contact the witches' secret meeting to see what price they offer, but this kind of thing, you can't rely on outsiders, you have to rely on yourself, we have our own shipyard, how are we preparing?"

Scholar Channing's eyebrows were twisted into a ball, and he sighed for a long time: "All kinds of industries, whether they are high or low, each has its own strengths, we really don't have much research in shipbuilding, there are a lot of carpenters in the territory, but there are less than a hundred who know how to build ships, most of the previous ones were small fishing boats, real shipbuilders, even if they are rich, they can't be smashed, they are all controlled by those big families, although the Cummins family promised to hire shipbuilders for us before, we haven't seen a single figure until now." ”

"Besides, there are very few tall and solid trees suitable for building large ships in our military territory, so shipyards have been opened, but most of them are fishing boats. ”

Now the Carthusian army is leading the same path as the Eternal Night Army, wanting to poach craftsmen from other families and start their own shipyard.

It's a pity that they are cramming for a while, and the Cummins family and the witch secret meeting have been prepared for a long time, and they will not be given a chance to poach people at all.

If you start from scratch, the manpower and material resources spent, as you can imagine, the effect is not ideal.

"It's better than nothing. Grand Duke Buck didn't know the difficulty, and comforted himself, "According to the news from Akmaiser, the warships of the crocodile people are not big, and they are not a loss, not to mention, we want warships mainly as a means of transportation, and foot combat is what we are best at. ”

'I'm afraid I won't be able to help myself when the time comes!'

Scholar Channing muttered in his heart, but he didn't say it, Archduke Buck didn't understand such a truth, but there was no better way at the moment, and it would be troublesome to say it, and comforted: "Let's take a multi-pronged approach, what the Cummins family can fight for is still to fight for it, are they really ready to have a little face? ”

"That's all it takes, then it's up to the Lau University to plan. Grand Duke Buck said helplessly.

"By the way, there is one more thing that Your Majesty needs to reconsider. Scholar Channing hesitated for a moment and spoke.

"What is it that makes the scholar so embarrassed?" asked Archduke Barker, puzzled.

Scholar Channing was also an old man who had served the Kingsley family for many years, and it was the first time he had seen the other party show such an embarrassed expression.

"Matters concerning Viscount Philip's messenger. Scholar Channing said truthfully,

"That guy didn't give up, and found a way to find a way to find a scholar?" Archduke Buck's brow jumped, and a hint of displeasure flashed across his face.

A week earlier, the Viscount Philip's envoy had repeatedly asked for an audience, but Archduke had turned him away.

Grand Duke Buck is also an old fox who has been cultivating for many years, and he knows what the other party's purpose is with his knees.

It's nothing more than that the Manyu military leader is in a stalemate, and that Viscount Philip wants to find foreign aid to break the situation.

As his neighbor, even if it is not the focus of their strategy, Grand Duke Buck still knows a little about the situation there.

In particular, the four-party meeting convened by the princess regent is the biggest joke of the Byron alliance now.

Let's see who this so-called Quartet is.

A viscount who is the first in line to the throne of the Manyu military leader, but does not sit in the inheritance position.

One was the Wild Countess who was canonized by the Wild Grand Duke who was not properly enthroned and did not even hold the canonization ceremony.

A wild force in the mountains of the poorer countryside, before this, many people have not even heard of their names, it is said that they were also canonized by the princess regent as a guardian knight, a baron of the kingdom, after the news was transmitted back to the royal capital Valesta, there was a big storm.

Princess Regent Sophia spent a lot of effort to suppress it, but it still fell into the hands of those royal family veterans, those treacherous and cunning old foxes, the reason why they didn't have a seizure was because such a handle was not enough to shake the status of the regent princess, once the time was ripe, this would become a weapon for them to attack the regent princess.

Anyway, the princess regent is getting more and more mixed up, and she really loses the face of the royal family.

What's even more ridiculous is that this four-party meeting ended in the end, and Viscount Philip completely became a rat in the cracks, and he was angry at both ends.

Eighty percent of the time was that the agreement was not reached, and Viscount Philip became a victim of the other three.

Viscount Philip's situation can be described as extremely bad, if he wants to break the game, he must rely on external forces, but looking around, there are really few who can help him.

The Holy See and the Witches' Council, who like to do things in other people's territory, have long been in line, and they have already fallen out with Princess Regent Sophielia.

The Strachage family of the Broken Blood Fort is even more impossible.

Not to mention their centuries-old tradition of not participating in the power struggles of the other Dukes of the Byron League, but their political stance, they have always worn the same pants as the Lancelot royal family, especially with the princess regent, and the Streich family is now ruled by her grandfather.

The only person who could be a foreign aid to Viscount Philip was Archduke Buck, the contemporary ruler of the Kingsley family.

If it weren't for the big cake of the Swamp of Despair, Grand Duke Buck would be happy to get involved, after all, the current Manyu military leader is no longer the previous Manyu military leader.

With the inflow of the Jacob River, the climate here is gradually becoming more suitable for farming, and a large number of desert Gobi is gradually being restored to fertile land, which can be expected to become fertile again.

If he supported an agent here, it was definitely what the Kingsley family had dreamed of before.

The problem is that they now have better options, and they have fewer competitors than the Rotten Swamp-like Manyu Commander.

So, when Viscount Philip's attendant came to the door, Archduke Buck simply came and disappeared.

The attitude he expressed was obvious enough, and the other party actually stalked him vigorously, and found his chief strategist to intercede, which naturally made him a little unhappy.

Not only did he not know how to advance or retreat, but also because Scholar Channing actually chose to intercede for the other party, how much benefit did he take from the other party?

"Your Majesty is angry, if the other party is just for the matter of Viscount Philip, I will definitely not nod and intercede. "Scholar Channing has followed Grand Duke Buck for many years, how he didn't know the other party's temperament, and before the other party had a complete attack, he said quickly, "But he also brought news about the Swamp of Despair, but he had to pay attention to it, otherwise we wouldn't know how to eat a loss." ”