After the border conflict subsided, the Yate army continued to be stationed for ten days, and it was not until it was determined that the Dean family had no change that the Yate army withdrew the army from the valley and stationed it in the open space of the Beiguan Military Fort. (3) ≠ VIII (3) ≠ VIII (3) ≠ read (3) ≠ book, .↗.o● But instead of demolishing the temporary camp built on the border, Art asked Simon to repair and strengthen the temporary camp and turn it into a military fort for the border knights, where the garrison and conscripted peasants who expanded the border post in the future will be stationed.

In addition to the loss of battle damage and the pacification of soldiers' casualties, Arte had a surplus of 40,000 pfennigh's "war reparations" and five fine war horses, and the most important thing was that Art's caravan would be able to smoothly enter the southern trade and get a piece of the golden river......

On the day of his return to the valley, a letter from the court was delivered to the lord's mansion by the county's messenger, Kuaima.

The letter was signed in the name of the Prime Minister of the Imperial Court, in which he reprimanded Art for initiating a private war and detaining the palace guards, and ordered Art to release the detained palace guards Dean immediately upon receipt of the letter.

Art ignored the letter, which was accompanied by a large stack of letters. In addition to the information sent back by the "Hawkeye" in the Northlands, there was also a private letter from Earl Balwyn himself to Art.

In a private message, Earl Balwyn praised Art for fighting on the southern frontier. Now the struggle between the two forces in the court is very delicate, Earl Balwin is relatively on the weak side, and Art has made the Dean family, which belongs to the camp of Earl Bernard, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, suffer on the southern border, which makes Balwin, who has always been passive, feel a little happy in his heart.

Earl Balwyn revealed that the palace actually had no time to take care of this skirmish on the southern border, and this letter was signed by the court prime minister completely because of the Chancellor's affection, so Art didn't have to pay attention to the prime minister's soft letter at all, and the victorious side should enjoy the results it deserved, and the court had its own Earl Balwyn to deal with, and Earl Balwin also secretly signaled that he had treated Yat as a cronie.

With Earl Balwyn resisting the pressure from the court, Art naturally ignored the order to release Dean immediately, and he added a ransom of 10,000 pfennigs to the old Dean in the name of the Dean family's unkeepingly promises, and asked the old Dean to send the ransom and the war horse to Boulder Town within five days, otherwise he would increase the ransom of 5,000 pfennies every other day......

Art put down the two letters, looked at the large stack of newspapers and other documents on the table, looked up and commanded Felix: "Felix, you ask the man to prepare some delicious food for the county messenger, and then take him to Cooper's to receive the reward of the eight-ponne, and tell the messenger that there will be a reward for delivering the paperwork and letters for me in the future." ∟★八∟★八∟★ Read∟★ Book,.2▲"

Felix turned to go out the door, and Art picked up the intelligence information gathered from all over the place and studied it carefully.

Filtering out the bits and pieces of trivial information, Art learned a few important things from the information sent back by the "Hawkeye".

The first is the situation in Southern Provence and Lombardy. In May, when Aert was vigorously fighting bandits in the county, Provence also carried out a large-scale counterattack campaign against the Lombard army that invaded the country, from Oster under Mount Carmel in the east to La Bousuis in the center and then Valence in the west, all the armies on the front line in central Provence acted at the same time, and in just half a month the front line advanced the battle line to the south for hundreds of miles, recovering five cities and more than 20 castles and fortresses. The city of Aosta in the eastern region was completely exposed to the crisis, and the front moved to the hilly terrain between Aosta and Vilno. The army of the Duchy of Lombardy had been in Provence for two years, and now that the territory that had been conquered with great effort was recaptured, how could it be swallowed, so the Duke of Wittot gathered the southern army and planned to go north again.

Although Provence had achieved a comparative advantage in recent months, the war lasted for several years, and Provence did not have the financial resources accumulated by Lombardy's developed commerce and commerce, nor the fertile and prosperous agriculture of Burgundy......

To the north, the battle between the Count of Burgundy and the Duchy of Swabia gained an advantage due to the intervention of the Duchy of Burgundy. In March of this year, the war in the east was reversed, and the Duchy of Burgundy sent 3,000 elite soldiers to the eastern border to expel the Swabian army that had invaded the Count of Burgundy. In June, after the retreat of the Burgundian dukes, the Duchy of Swabia began to march on the border again, but the border war between the Count of Burgundy and the Duchy of Swabia did not break out on a large scale for the time being, and both sides calmed down.

In July, the court of the Count of Burgundy issued an order to the whole of the kingdom, calling on merchants from all parts of the kingdom to buy food supplies from the north and send them to the south to support Provence in its revolt against Lombardy. At the same time, the court was also preparing to organize an army to be sent to Provence for reinforcements.

The second was the struggle within the court. According to the information provided by Sir William, the religious guard of the Bishop of Orlov, the Marquis of Ivrea, the ruler of the Count of Burgundy, was getting weaker and weaker, and the court physician was unable to recover from the marquis's illness......

Just when the country was stirred up by this rumor, in a remote mountainous area in the southwest of the Duchy of Burgundy, the Count of Longxia Flanders Hugue was secretly entertaining a group of former relatives and vassals in his own territory.

Yate put down his Chinese book, stroked his forehead with his right hand and carefully analyzed the current situation, trying to find the best path for himself in the complex situation.

Nowadays, the whole Nanlu Cave is in turmoil, and crises and opportunities coexist in the troubled times, and only those who are good at seizing opportunities can rise rapidly. Now that his strength is still very weak, if he wants to rise in troubled times, he needs to grasp all possible opportunities.

The struggle in the palace is not yet Art's turn to worry about, he is now just a small chess piece, the direction of the whole chess game is not something he can control, all he can do is to make himself a chess piece that the powerful are unwilling to give up easily.

After thinking about it for a long time, Art had some preliminary ideas, and he asked Felix to summon several of his henchmen's subordinates to the lord's hall to discuss the next stage of arrangement.

The battle had just ended, and the whole valley was recuperating, so all the stewards and officers were still gathered in the valley, and in a short time the lord's hall was full of people.

Seeing that everyone had arrived, Art stopped talking to Cooper in a low voice, "Everyone, have you recovered after more than ten days?" ”

There was a heartfelt laugh from the crowd.

"Okay, I have to get to work before I slow down. I've called you here today to discuss what we're going to do next. ”

"After a war on the border, we not only obtained a huge ransom and a few fine war horses, but more importantly, we successfully opened up the trade route of the southern goods trade, once we got involved in the southern goods trade, we will continue to make money to raise troops and expand our strength."

Art looked at the caravan steward Salt and said: "Salt, once the Northland Trade Guild accepts us as a member, you will immediately start entering the Northland South Goods Market with the caravan, you will establish a stable southern goods sales channel in the Northland within half a year, if you think the conditions are suitable, you can fix a number of southern goods sales shops in several important cities in the Northland, and when the time is ripe in the future, we can also set up our own southern goods shops to directly handle the goods carried by the caravan."

"My lord, will the Dean family really let the guilds of the Northlands accept us? Will they make it difficult for us at every turn? Salter raised concerns.

Accent nodded and said, "Your worries are not unnecessary, the Dean family will not be willing to let us get involved in the southern goods trade." But at present, they will not make a big move, they can decide the life and death of our caravan in the north, and we can also choke their throat in the south! After this border battle, they have already tasted how hard our fists are, and I believe that they will not fight with us easily anymore, because we dare to fight more than them. ”

"Your Excellency has a point."

Art looked around at the crowd and said loudly: "I intend to refer to our caravan, shops, and this trade route as the European Merchant Company, which is subordinate to the civil administration and temporarily supervised by Salter. Bishop Orlof and Earl Balwyn will also get a piece of the pie, and I will use the profits of the comptoir to secure a refuge for us. ”

"Salter, you guys will go down and discuss how to establish and expand the European Merchant House. In addition, after the caravan stabilizes the southern goods market in the Northland, I will slowly turn to the south, and now that the war in the South Land is not only withering, it is a great opportunity for us to enter, I plan to establish a southern caravan within half a year, which is responsible for purchasing southern freight from the South Continent and hoarding it in the border outpost area, and then the caravan from the North will transport the goods from the border to the North for sale. The Dean family cut my caravan in half, and I found a way to go south and make up the remaining half. ”

"Yes, my lord, I'll start working on this."

"Don't worry, you first stabilize our footsteps in the north and then consider the affairs of the south, not to mention that we don't have the qualifications and conditions to get involved in the south trade now."

"Yes, sir."

After arranging the caravan, Art turned to the stewards of the civil administration and said: "Everyone, now that we have gained a place in the south of the country, and have achieved temporary peace, I believe that in the coming period, our valley knight territory, as well as Boulder Town and the border outpost area, will not be invaded by foreign enemies, this time is an excellent time to develop and grow, so you must do your best to make these places prosperous......

Just when Yat explained to the civil affairs stewards that he would continue to recruit displaced people, open up the wasteland to grow grain, build the Beiguan Military Fort, build houses, and make weapons and armor, the Sentinel Cavalry responsible for patrolling and training in the valley Wàiwéi sent people back to the valley wooden fort.

"My lord, Brother Ron is back, and with him is an exotic warrior!"

Art stood up suddenly, and said in surprise: "Go, go and welcome the return of our warriors."

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Chapter 163: The Warrior Returns