"Your Excellency is so occupied by the military that it's normal to have no time to think about these issues. Sean turned his head and patted his ass, "Commerce and trade are based on the stalemate and equal dialogue between the two sides, if it weren't for the fact that the Eastern and Western Odin Empires have been suppressed by His Excellency the Grand Duke over the years, this kind of proposal just now is equivalent to nothing, and rashly opening the border and mutual market will only bring disaster to themselves." ”

This sycophant is definitely of a high level, not only covering the other party's face, but also praising the other party's proudest achievements over the years.

Since entering the door, Archduke Cedric, who has been tightening his face, has softened his facial lines a lot at the moment, nodded and said: "This is indeed the reason, the Odin orcs are a race of natural power, if they are not subdued, they will not obediently trade with you, after all, what can be grabbed, why bother trading?" That is, in recent years, the balance between the two Odin empires has been broken, in order to compete for the grassland, the two sides are fighting to the death, and there is not so much energy to pay attention to us, otherwise we would not have so many leisurely days, let alone this kind of thinking. ”

Archduke Cedric paced back and forth for two steps, and then said, "Now is the perfect opportunity to try to open up some of the border gates and trade with the small and medium-sized tribes that had a hard time in those days, don't you think?"

The last sentence of Archduke Cedric was not to ask Sean, but to Princess Regent Sophia.

This matter is not supported by his niece, but there is no way to implement it, because the Broken Blood Fortress lacks the support of basic commodities, and when the time comes, it will be impossible to take a part of the commodities from Sophia as the initial trade start-up capital.

Princess Regent nodded without hesitation and said: "I agree with this matter, we have been in a stalemate with the Odin orcs for so many years, it's time to change the mode of war, but if it comes to business, the two of us are tied together, and we are not Baron Sean's opponents, since you started it, tell me, do you have any good ideas?"

"I don't have any mature ideas for the time being, I can only think of where to say, you can consider what is useful, and ignore what is useless. Sean explained in advance.

"One moment impassioned, the other mother-in-law, just now you were about to point your nose and scold me, I didn't treat you well, can I still eat you because you said the wrong thing?" Archduke Cedric glared at Sean, obviously he preferred Sean's previous style of saying something.

"It's me who thinks about it too much. Sean laughed and said quickly, "There are only two ways to trade with the Odin orcs, one is to enter the Odin steppe with goods and conduct traveling business, this method we are using, the advantages and disadvantages are very obvious."

The danger factor is too high, and the entire caravan disappears into the vast prairie at every turn, and it takes a long time, and a caravan goes around in a circle, at least half a year, or more than a year or two, and the benefits will shrink a lot, and the advantage is that you can carry intelligence officers in and out to understand the situation of the Odin steppe and those tribes.

The second way is to choose a fixed location on the border between the two sides, set up a trade market, and use a large number of scarce materials on the steppe to attract those Odin orc tribes to take the initiative to send them to the door, the benefits of this greatly reduce the risk index, even if there are insatiable tribes who want to attack the trade market, they also have enough geographical and personnel advantages, maybe they can take the opportunity to eat each other.

The disadvantage is that you can only passively wait for the other party to send it to the door, which takes a long time, especially in the early stage, it is not easy to open the market, and those Odin orc tribes are worried that this is a trap and dare not try it easily.

My suggestion is to take a two-pronged approach, while establishing a border trade market, while sending a caravan to go deep into the Odin steppe to trade, it does not need to go too deep, the main purpose is to promote the border trade market, attract those Odin orc tribes to send them to the door, and after establishing stable trade relations, you can sit back and enjoy the results, when the time comes, not only will a large number of Odin orc tribes come, but the merchants on the side of the Byron Alliance will also take the initiative to rush over there after seeing the benefits. ”

"The method you just mentioned, if it is put in normal times, it is indeed a good method, but now it is not easy to use, so that the caravans that have emerged in the Odin steppe in recent years are all led by your Eternal Night Army?"

"That's right. Sean nodded generously in acknowledgement.

There must be the eyes and ears of Archduke Cedric on the Odin steppe, and the momentum that the Eternal Night Leader has made here in the past two years is not small, and it is impossible to hide it from him, and there is no need to hide it.

"I advise you to withdraw them from the prairie as soon as possible, for in the next few years there will be great chaos here, and if you are not careful, you will never recover. Archduke Cedric warned.

Sean's eyes froze, and he said with a solemn expression: "The West Odin Empire is preparing to launch a full-scale war against the East Odin Empire?"

"It seems that you really have a lot of information about the Odin orcs in your hands. Archduke Cedric took the initiative to sell good, "The West Odin Empire has been preparing for this for many years, and now it is the most chaotic time within the East Odin Empire, if it were me, I would not let go of this great opportunity." ”

"Thank you for the information of Your Excellency the Grand Duke, we will adjust our deployment on the Odin steppe as soon as possible. Sean said sincerely, although such a big military operation of the Western Odin Empire cannot be hidden from the eyes of people with a heart, it is just a matter of getting the news sooner or later, but if you can get the news one minute earlier, you can make contingency arrangements one minute earlier, and reduce the loss by one more point, and this is the news he is waiting for here.

"I should warn you for both public and private reasons. Archduke Cedric waved his hand and said, "Besides, I still have a request for you, and then tell me, if this condition is substituted for entry, how should this border trade be carried out?"

"There are two sides to everything, and the general situation is no exception, the two major Odin empires in the east and west are at war, the main force should be large tribes, those small and medium-sized tribes are the rats in the cracks, the days will be more difficult, a little careless, they will become cannon fodder, in order to survive, they will try their best to avoid the main battlefield, they only have two choices.

Either try to go north, or go south, the north is a frozen wasteland, it is more difficult for them to survive there, it is estimated that there will be more tribes going south by then, so many tribes are crowded in a small area, all kinds of living materials will be more scarce, if the border is opened at this time, it will be easier to open up the situation, if it is me, I will definitely try, anyway, there will be no loss, right?" Sean asked with a smile.

Deeper things, Sean didn't guess without permission, he needed to know, and when the time came, Sophia would naturally tell herself that there was no need to play tricks in front of an old fox.

"Good, good, good!" Archduke Cedric patted Sean on the shoulder with satisfaction.

I just don't know if he's saying that Sean's idea for the Broken Blood Castle is good, or if it's his nephew and son-in-law.

Sean wiped a cold sweat in his heart, after such a whole thing, the attitude of Archduke Cedric at the beginning of the interrogation of prisoners naturally could not continue, which was regarded as letting him pass the test in confusion.

"If Your Excellency really wants to open up border trade, I have one more point of help. Sean began to cautiously bare his fangs.

"Which one?" asked Archduke Cedric.

Sean's proposal did tickle him, and the purpose of his trip was twofold.

One is the future marriage between the Lancelot royal family and the Strait family.

The other is the issue of military spending for the Blood Fortress, and at the same time raising more military rations to prepare for the turbulent situation on the Odin steppe.

At the military meeting of the Broken Blood Fortress, Archduke Cedric spoke with great pride, as if he had personally gone out, and those lords and nobles obediently bowed their heads one by one, and handed over the military supplies they needed.

Only Archduke Cedric himself knew exactly how difficult it was.

This is different from the battlefield, where the enemy is in the clear, and he only needs to swing his knife to cut it.

Those lords and nobles were afraid of themselves and did not dare to force themselves with him, but it was not easy to reach out and take something out of their pockets.

None of these lords and nobles were simple, they had already honed a set of ways to deal with him, and the first time they saw him, most of them were hugging their heads and crying.

is not crying poor, or complaining to Cedric about the past year, how many disasters have been in his territory, whether it is floods or droughts, nothing is still plague, and he can't open the pot, let alone support the broken blood fortress.

In order to act realistically, some of them used rancid meals and moldy bread at the banquet for the Grand Duke Cedric.

When Archduke Cedric left, he dryly squeezed out the pitiful military supplies and food, and stuffed a bunch of worthless tears of guilt by the way.

Archduke Cedric knew that the other party was acting, but there was nothing he could do, he couldn't lead his troops to break through the other party's warehouse to verify whether there was food in it, right?

No matter how domineering Archduke Cedric is, there is no way to do so.

Because if you do this, your nature will completely change, and you will be treated as enemies by those lords and nobles in the future.

However, the way of sending Hanako made Archduke Cedric disgusted.

If there were any other possibilities, he would never have dealt with these bastards.

Now Sean puts a whole new possibility in front of him, how not interested.

"I formed a chamber of commerce in Valesta, which is full of pure merchants, but due to local security, they can't travel long distances, so we want to organize a mercenary certification body to regularize mercenaries......"

Sean roughly described the idea of a mercenary proposed to the presidents of the Valesta Chamber of Commerce to Archduke Cedric and Princess Regent Sophia.

Clearly, Sean had the idea on the retired soldiers of the Broken Blood Castle.

The five presidents of the Valesta Chamber of Commerce unanimously agreed with Sean's mercenary idea, believing that it was very operable.

But when it comes to implementation, it is full of difficulties, not because of the formulation of rules, but because the existing mercenary industry is too mixed, and they do not have their own team, and when they really do it, they lack confidence.

Among them, the most important thing is to punish the team, which is the core focus.

If there is not enough force to ensure that they can hold those mercenaries with bad intentions accountable, it will be difficult for the so-called mercenary system to stand up.

So, so far, the plan remains on paper.

If they can't think of a way to open up the situation in the future, they will have to turn to the Eternal Night Commander to find a way in this regard.

This is the last move, after all, the Eternal Night Army Leader is now overstretched in his own strength, and he is not willing to spend too much energy on it.

The visit of Archduke Cedric gave Sean an an opportunity.

The retired soldiers of the Broken Blood Castle, aren't they natural mercenary candidates?

Although their combat effectiveness has greatly decreased due to their disability and age, the foundation is there, as long as the disability is not too serious, it is still no problem to deal with those petty thieves and ordinary bandits.

On top of that, their qualities are more secure than those of mercenaries of unknown origin.

Sean spared no effort to encourage Archduke Cedric to open the border market, which naturally has its own interests.

The Eternal Night Leader couldn't go around in such a big circle and go there to get money, but the Valesta Chamber of Commerce could.

If they can take the opportunity to open this line, the Valesta Chamber of Commerce can really stand upright, even if there is no Eternal Night Leader as a support, no one dares to touch them.

Because then their interests will be tied to the Broken Blood Keep.

"Good, good, good!" said Archduke Cedric three good words in a row.

The ruler is long, and the inch is short.

Archduke Cedric is definitely a good hand at war, but he is an out-and-out layman when it comes to economy and commerce.

Just now, Sean talked about the border trade, which really made him see a huge business opportunity, but he really let him start it, but he didn't have a good idea, such as what are the most surgent materials in the Odin orcs? where these materials come from? How to transport these materials? How much does it cost? How to price them, etc.?

Not to mention that it is good to think about it, whether he can take it into account is a question.

The retired soldiers of the Broken Blood Fort are basically in this situation.

Doing business is also a skill, if no one leads the door, you want to hit the east and west, there is not enough capital to squander, it is difficult to touch the doorway.

As mentioned earlier, the Valesta Chamber of Commerce was able to snowball because the Eternal Night Warlords made the most of the descendants of the Anse enemies.

They themselves are in business, but they are limited by their ability and size, and when they are at the bottom, they are engaged in the least profitable trade.

But that's also a kind of trade, and it's the most testing one, because they can't afford to lose, and it's harder to make money, and they have to calculate their homes.

When the Eternal Night Army Leader provides them with channels and goods, they will naturally be able to take advantage of the situation and grow at a terrifying speed.

Without them, the Eternal Night Army Leader would simply rely on some laymen who had no business experience, and even with their intelligence and commodity support, it would still be a question whether they could develop to this level.

The retired soldiers of the Broken Blood Fort are out-and-out laymen.

But when it comes to the mercenaries who wield guns and rollers, Archduke Cedric is in charge, that is, a group of undisciplined soldiers, and it is easiest to organize them into a military method and manage them.

If there is the Valesta Chamber of Commerce as a commercial support, and the retired soldiers of the Broken Blood Fortress as a military support, the border market is no longer an empty talk.

After doing this, Sean was completely confident in his heart, and said to Cedric's Grand Duke: "It seems that the Grand Duke lacks business talents in his hands, so let's do it another day, I will introduce several presidents of the Valesta Chamber of Commerce to His Excellency the Grand Duke, and I believe that they have their own unique views on the border market." ”

"It couldn't be better. Archduke Cedric nodded repeatedly, "This matter, I will discuss it in detail after I go back and study it carefully, I have come to this trip, and there is one more thing I need to explain to you in advance, my youngest son Arnold may have infiltrated your territory, I hope that after you find him, you can teach him a lesson, but don't hurt his life." ”

"General Arnold has gone to the Eternal Night Army?" The sudden news almost made Sean flash, and countless alpacas rushed through his heart.

Although Arnold Streich is not as famous as his father, Archduke Cedric, as a commander and three generals of the Broken Blood Fortress, he is also famous and surnamed, and legend has it that he enters and exits the Odin steppe like no one.

In recent decades, more than half of the many brilliant records created by the Broken Blood Rider with fewer victories and more are from him, and he is the idol of Kelman, the chief of staff of the three main chiefs of staff of the Eternal Night Army.