Chapter 433: Early ventilation
This is the real master of making strange and dangerous situations, running thousands of miles, striking east and west, killing back the horse pistol, etc., all kinds of tactics, don't play too slippery.
After Sean looked at his resume, the biggest feeling was that this guy was like opening a lucky cheat, and many times it was a little bit bad, so it wasn't that he created brilliance, but that he was made dumplings.
However, what he is most talked about is his very different romantic personality from Archduke Cedric, and his romantic affairs are as numerous as his brilliant achievements.
Such a scourge, don't honestly stay in the bloody castle, what are you wandering around?
You wander around, what do you drill into your own territory?
But in his own territory, there are indeed many ulterior secrets.
No matter how tight the blockade of the Eternal Night Army Leader is, it will not be able to do anything against a champion knight, especially since the opponent is also a genius who is proficient in strategy and tactics.
Before they met, Sean had already started to have a headache, how to get this big rat out?
How much information about his own territory did he secretly get?
What should I do with him after I really find him out?
Just thinking about it, Sean's skull began to hurt, and he said with a bitter face: "Your Excellency, is there a way to contact General Arnold?
Archduke Cedric also said with a helpless face: "He violated military discipline in the Broken Blood Castle and escaped privately, let alone contact, if he hears my news, he will only drill deeper and run farther, and I also hope to find him with the help of the baron's hand!"
After a moment's hesitation, Archduke Cedric added, "Arnold is very interested in your success in the Swamp of Despair, especially the black powder, so we suspect that he infiltrated your territory to go for the black powder formula. ”
"Black powder recipe, I'll have someone look it up from that!" Sean breathed a sigh of relief.
Not to mention that the black powder formula is about to rot on the street, the purchase of the black powder formula negotiated between the Eternal Night Army Leader and Sophia is basically finalized, and the other party is doing useless work to steal the black powder formula.
I just don't know which of my arsenals the other party has touched.
It's okay to simply touch the production arsenal, even if it causes a leak, the situation will not be too serious.
If it is an arsenal with a research and development nature, it will be more troublesome, but there are many new black powder weapons in the research and development stage of the Eternal Night Army, the kind that can directly subvert the current war model.
Someone like Arnold isn't the first, nor the last, for the Eternal Night Warlord.
After all, they are now famous, and they have displayed a series of mouth-watering good things in their hands, and others will naturally no longer treat them as poor countrymen.
It is indeed difficult for ordinary sentinels to touch the Eternal Night Commander.
But for those big knight-level and even champion knight-level sentinels, the Eternal Night Army Leader is a little powerless.
The terrain is dangerous for ordinary people, but they are like walking on the ground.
The only thing the Eternal Night Warlord can do is to hide his secret unit even deeper, so that they can't find it as much as possible.
Because quantity is their biggest flaw, for any territory, it is a relatively luxurious thing to select a big knight as a sentinel, let alone a champion knight.
With the exception of Arnold, who doesn't play his cards according to common sense, no force is willing to send a champion knight to spend a lot of time spying on intelligence.
Overall, Archduke Cedric was quite satisfied with Sean's performance, and he didn't deliberately make things difficult after that.
Under Sean's deliberate flattery, there was already a smile on his face when he left.
Not only did the border pass market let Archduke Cedric see a new possibility, but also because Sean was generous enough, he gave a large amount of military supplies to the Broken Blood Castle in a backhand, especially Andes's longbow and black powder, which are specialties of the Eternal Night Army, which are terrifying in large quantities, which is the biggest gain after he came to Valesta.
The next day, before Sean could contact Archduke Cedric, Archduke Cedric sent someone to urge Sean to continue to discuss the matter of the border market.
Sean could only resist the urge to return to the Eternal Night Commander immediately, and get this matter done first.
"This is the case, what do you think about this matter?" Before meeting with Archduke Cedric, Sean had a brief conversation with the five presidents of the Valesta Chamber of Commerce, so that they were a little mentally prepared.
The five Valesta Chamber of Commerce presidents looked at each other and did not reply for a long time, and the scene fell silent for a while.
"What, what do you disagree with about this?" asked Sean, confused.
"No, how can there be any objections?" the heads of the five chamber presidents shook like rattles at the same time, "We just can't believe it." ”
"That's right, I just can't believe it, we all know that the lord has hands and eyes, but I didn't expect it to be so powerful that he can have a relationship with Archduke Cedric, that is Archduke Cedric, the knight of the kingdom of our Byron Alliance!"
"It's understandable to have a relationship with Archduke Cedric, after all, he is the grandfather of Her Royal Highness Princess Regent, and it is natural for him to be close to the lord, what is really unexpected is that the lord can persuade His Excellency the archduke to open the border trade, Archduke Cedric's old-fashioned and square, just like his military exploits, is as famous as his military exploits, especially in the policy towards the Orcs of Odin, he wants to shoot them all to death, let alone open trade. ”
"That's right, the border trade, but the biggest dream of the entire Byron Union merchants, do you know how much money is made over there? A piece of cloth can be exchanged for a sheep, two catties of salt and a cow, many merchants who can't survive, and finally choose to fight to the death over there, once they succeed in a vote, they can immediately turn over. ”
"What's even better is that the idea of pulling those retired soldiers of the Broken Blood Fort into the mercenaries is even more wonderful, that is the Broken Blood Horse, just this name, scare to death those bandits who dare to fight our ideas, with their escort, is there still a place where we can't go to the Byron Alliance? ”
"It's a retired soldier of the Broken Blood Castle, not a Broken Blood Horse, nor a retired Broken Blood Horse, the Broken Blood Horse is not so cheap, even if they retire, they have countless options, and it is impossible to fall into the ranks of mercenaries. ”
"What's the difference? Can you tell the difference between the Broken Blood Rider and the Broken Blood Fort soldiers? Or can the bandits tell the difference? Hehe, anyone who comes out of the Broken Blood Castle can be called the Broken Blood Horse, the shadow of the famous tree of people, anyway, it's almost the same, as long as it can scare those guys who bully the soft and fear the hard. ”
"It makes sense, since anyone who can pull the banner of the Broken Blood Castle and go out, even if there are no guards, the safety factor will be greatly improved, whether in terms of righteousness or strength, those little thieves should be avoided. ”
"It's best to do a few things that are majestic enough and bloody enough, such as chasing the murderer for thousands of miles, so that the people of the world have a deeper understanding of the means and strength of the broken blood horse, and the next time we do it to our caravan, we have to think about it." ”
"This is a good idea, this kind of thing, we don't have to wait for it to happen, we can find an opportunity to concoct one, these days, what kind of thing, is not done by someone with a heart?"
"Haha, old fellow, you're too shady for this trick, but I like it. ”
"Why didn't we think of this before? If we had thought of this, we would still have to scratch our heads about mercenary candidates?"
"It's not that I thought about it, I can't think of it, the key is that you have this charter? You don't even have a chance to get in front of Archduke Cedric, let alone persuade the other party, start to put the border to the mutual market, and allow the Broken Blood Rider to cooperate with us, if you want me to say, in this world, only the lord can facilitate this matter. ”
"That's right, only Lord Lords in this world have the ability and this idea to make this happen, and Lord Lords should be the lords who value merchants in the world. ”
"It is our greatest honor to have the lord.
After a short period of silence, the five presidents of the Valesta Chamber of Commerce, as if they had fried a pot, their faces were red, and they began to discuss and say everything.
There are those who compliment and praise Sean, and those who drool at the huge business opportunities hidden in the border trade market, and some even look at this matter and have big ideas.
is the only one who does not question the feasibility of this matter, not only because this matter is a match made in heaven no matter how you look at it, but also because Sean is leading the way in the middle.
In their minds, Sean's image has long been high enough to be on par with a big man like Archduke Cedric.
From their discussion, Sean still heard something, pressed his hand, and made a gesture to stop the discussion, "Stop!"
"Shut down, the lord has something to say. President Simon said hurriedly.
After they recovered a little from this frenzy, Sean asked suspiciously, "Listen to you, you know anything about border trade?"
"Border smuggling is more appropriate than border trade. President Simon said with a smile, "The lord has a very thorough understanding of businessmen, and the profit-seeking nature of this industry, I believe that I don't need to tell the lord that there is a little benefit, and there will be people running over there, not to mention that there are huge benefits hidden in border smuggling, even if it is high-risk, there will be people who take risks."
As an ancient industry, border smuggling has always existed, but the risks are too great, and people and money will be lost at every turn.
But we half-breeds, the previous predicament, the lord is clear, when there is no way to live, can only choose to fight before death, set foot on the border smuggling, most of them are such people, so we are not very proficient in border smuggling, but we still know a little bit about it, and there is a bit of a way. ”
For Sean, President Simon has no need to hide it, and tells the truth.
Sean was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help laughing: "Your troubled past has become the foundation for you to forge a brilliant future, and now that you know something about border trade, things will be simpler." ”
Sean knocked on the table and took the initiative to reveal his bottom to them, "Archduke Cedric's side can basically be sure that they don't have professionals in this area, so the trade must rely on you to import and export goods, and open up the situation with the Odin orcs, if you can get in touch with the original border smuggling and drag them into the game, it would be great, this is a huge cake, as long as we can ensure that we have the earnings, and it is the one who earns the most, when necessary, it doesn't hurt to share it with others." ”
President Simon nodded, " This is also please rest assured that the lord is not so narrow-minded, the lord has taught us the benefits of huddle for warmth with practical actions, not only will not let the market share shrink, but can get involved in the field and market that can not be set foot in before, in the border trade, we are laymen for the time being, to have a group of insiders to lead the way, we can take a lot of detours, this matter will be handed over to us to deal with, as long as the wind is released, there is no need for us to go to them, they will take the initiative to find the door. ”
"This is not in a hurry for the time being, when we have negotiated the conditions with Archduke Cedric, it is not too late to let the wind out, although we don't mind sharing this cake, but the initiative must be in our own hands, we can't let a group of outsiders lead the way, this must be mastered." Sean admonished.
"Understood. The five presidents of the Chamber of Commerce showed a smile of understanding, there is no equal interest in this world, only eating meat and drinking soup, they are eating meat, but also giving others a little soup to drink, it has been benevolent and righteous, is it possible that they still want to eat meat on an equal footing?
"On the side of Archduke Cedric, you also have to be prepared for heavy bleeding, the reason why Archduke Cedric can nod and open the border trade is because they are having a hard time now, and they want to seek more military spending in this way to relieve their own financial pressure, if there is no way to make the piece that belongs to them move enough, he may change his mind at any time. "Although he only had one night of contact with Archduke Cedric, it was enough for Sean to pull a lot out of him.
Archduke Cedric is a very pure man, and he has regarded it as his own responsibility and that of the Stritch family to garrison the Broken Blood Fortress, prevent the Odin orcs from sitting on the throne, and cause trouble to the Byron Alliance.
For the sake of this responsibility, he will stop at nothing and by any means.
Last night, Archduke Cedric seemed to be completely moved by his own words, but in fact, the reason for this was the internal reasons of the Broken Blood Castle.
If the Byron Alliance was still the pure offensive and defensive alliance it was at the beginning, in order to survive, the other Grand Dukes would supply most of their output to the Broken Blood Fortress for free, regularly and quantitatively.
Sean dared to propose the opening of the mutual market in front of Archduke Cedric, even if he was not broken by the other party on the spot, he would be regarded as a traitor and directly divided into the ranks of breaking off diplomatic relations, and he would directly incarnate as the biggest obstacle for Sean to marry the princess regent.
But now, Archduke Cedric has to compromise in the face of the cruel reality, he sees the garrison of Broken Blood as his own responsibility, but most of the lords and noble families also regard it as the responsibility of the Streich family and the Lancelot royal family, and they have nothing to do with it.
In the face of this inferior root of human nature, no matter how powerful Archduke Cedric is, he can do nothing but find another way.
If the border market wants to really do it, and do it for a long time, it must meet the basic needs of Archduke Cedric, let him taste the sweetness from it, and he will spare no effort to support this policy, otherwise it will be a matter of the other party's words, or wait until the other party is proficient, and directly kick them out.
President Simon laughed and said, " Even if the lord doesn't say this, we also know how to do it, don't hide it from the lord, even if there is no border market, our chamber of commerce has also prepared a batch of materials, ready to be transported to the broken blood castle free of charge, do your part, the lord has said before, how great the ability, how great the responsibility, this sentence we agree with, and never dare to forget, we used to be powerless, now we have a little bit of power, naturally can do a little bit, only to maintain the stability of the border, business can flourish. ”