Negotiations in a state of absolute imbalance in conditions will naturally not result in a fair outcome.

It's like this deal between Randy and Edward, and this deal is more of a one-sided squeeze than a transaction.

When the two sides signed the treaty, Edward refused to sign it, Randy and the others were impatient, and directly asked someone to hold him down, holding the dagger and almost chopping off his fingers, Edward screamed and pressed his handprint in the blood water.

The content of the treaty is very simple:

Edward IV was willing to pay a large amount of indemnity and ransom to buy the lives of himself and his twenty-eight nobles and ninety-three knights because of his rampant, brainless, and idiotic invasion of Scotland, and his arrogance as the king of England.

The total amount to be reimbursed is calculated to be up to 67,000 gold coins.

Because he couldn't take out so much money for the time being, Edward IV needed to use the entire Normandy duke as a mortgage to borrow 40,000 gold coins from Randy, and the interest was deducted thirteen times a year according to the fine tradition of usury, which means that Randy actually only had to pay 40,000 gold coins.

And the 40,000 gold coins will also be used as an indemnity, back to Randy's own treasury, Edward IV needs to pay 30,000 gold coins of interest every year, and the interest is also the debt of the donkey rolling interest, and must be settled clearly within ten years, no early repayment, if within ten years, Edward IV can't come up with so much money, then the entire Normandy dukedom will be confiscated by Randy, the above ......

All right! This is already an extremely unfair thing, a terrifying thing that purely requires human life, compared to this, the car slave and the house slave or something are simply weak, Randy can almost imagine that Edward's future life should only be spent with the roots of the turf.

And ten years or anything doesn't need to be cared about at all, Randy clearly understands that such debts will only get more and more, and there are only two final solutions.

One is to repay the debt, the other is to commit suicide, I don't know which one Edward will choose?

In short, even with the 40,000 gold loan given by Randy, Edward still needs to raise a huge ransom of 27,000 gold coins to regain his freedom, which makes Edward feel that his brain is blank, and soon a rider is handed to him.

It was written in great detail where he could get how much money he could get...... Even the fact that he hid a sum of 1,000 gold coins from his wife in his hometown has been investigated.

Exactly 27,000 gold coins!

Edward realized in an instant that this figure had been calculated carefully.

At the same time, it is written at the end of the clause: The mantissa has been rounded off to save it, a trivial matter, no need to thank me. In this way, it almost made Edward have the urge to vomit blood.

Edward IV's affair came to an end for the time being, and Edward IV had to spend some time in a prison in London before Randy could get the money and take full control of the situation in Normandy.

After receiving the tragic experience of Edward IV, Robert II of Scotland retreated, and the 20,000 Scottish army braved the heavy snow under York, and failed to take advantage of the attack several times in a row, so Robert II decided to temporarily retreat and return to the country to stabilize the situation, and sent someone to write a personal letter to Randy, saying that he was bewitched by the villain, and let himself meet Randy's army, and he hoped that Randy could forgive himself.

Randy's answer was very simple, he gave up Northumberland and Cumbria, retreated north of Hadrian's Wall, and the matter was never pursued again.

Of course, this is impossible, Scotland spent hundreds of years attacking Hadrian's Wall, spending countless manpower and material resources, and countless Scottish athletes fighting on the battlefield before finally capturing Hadrian, how could it be easily conceded because of Randy's words?

Robert II denounced Randy for being insatiable and disregarding his alliances, and vowed to fight the shameless Vikings to the end, completely ignoring that he was the first to attack them.

Robert II led the army back and stockpiled food and grass in Newcastle, preparing to defend the area against the attack of Randy's army.

But Randy is not in a hurry to attack Scotland, the mountainous terrain of Scotland is fragmented, it is difficult to deploy the army, it is very difficult to march and supply, and at the same time, the Scottish mountain people are fierce and unruly, and the mountain products are barren and difficult to develop, and the gain is completely disproportional to the pay, and Randy will not want to care about these for a while.

It would be enough to drive it back north of Hadrian's Wall and get the entire region of England, which was Randy's strategy in a short period of time.

After months of war, the people of the British land withered, and Randy was able to ignore it before, but now the opponent who competed with him for Britain was either dead or reduced to a prisoner, and Robert II was so brain-dead, Randy really didn't take him seriously.

Now it's time to manage the housework......

First of all, all the Celtic conscription troops were disbanded, although Artoria would be a little unhappy, but the Celts were not professional soldiers, and such a high-intensity continuous battle, it was their own will to go home.

After dismissing nearly 10,000 Celtic soldiers, Randy opened the interface of the Enides system and saw that the population of the territory under his management had increased slightly, and then Randy issued the following three decrees in response to the reputation of the entire United Kingdom:

The first decree is a copy of the infinite recruitment of knights, too many soldiers and civilians died in this war, leaving a large number of ownerless wasteland, Randy took out some of it, and planned to recruit another three hundred knights, and this time the selection is not limited to the Nordic region, including the British mainland and the wandering knights on the European continent can participate, the issuance of the recruitment order will further increase the number of national knights under Randy's command, and the territory of the knights cultivated with advanced farm management methods will also have a good harvest.

The second decree is to encourage the vassals of the mountain and forest people, in the whole of England, Europe, and even the whole world, there are some mountain and wild people who are in the deep mountains and old forests, and do not obey the king's law, and at the same time, because of the war in England, many people who were originally homesteaders left their homes and hid in the mountains and forests, and Randy's decree was issued for these people, and every mountain people who took the initiative to vote were given twenty-five acres of land, granted the status of a free man, and exempted from tax in the first year of planting.

The third decree is to make the meritocracy!

The area ruled by Randy has been torn apart by war for many years, and many nobles have suffered from it and died a lot, fortunately, there are still some nobles in Norway, but England, I'm very sorry, the long battle has cut off the heirs of many nobles, and the remaining nobles didn't show too much support when Randy ruled England, and they didn't send troops to the war, and Randy's attitude towards them was also very unfriendly, like the Norwegians raised pigs in captivity, so they directly ignored their protest against this decree.

The nobles seem to have some secrets, but Randy doesn't care about that, and they dare to kill them if they dare to have any bad intentions.

The law of simple and brutal form!

Randy continues to ignore the protests of the nobles and enacts the decree.

The content of the order is very simple, recruit anyone with special skills, whether it is war, production, management, law, all, some have special skills, such as picking locks and stealing or something, even if it is some indiscriminate things, there will always be a time when they can be used.

Of course, such a decree still didn't recruit any useful talents except for a few Ranger Knights, and there were a few juggling clowns and flute players, but why did Randy want these things? However, it is not good to chill the hearts of these people, so they are regarded as buying horse bones, and after giving these people a decent treatment, they will be put in the city to perform for free, barely increasing the support of the common people.

"Do you really have to wait until after the fall of Eastern Rome to grab talent from there?" After receiving a large number of guys with great strength, running fast, and eating more than ordinary people again, Randy couldn't help but complain helplessly.

"I'm already tired of dealing with all kinds of official business, and I'm afraid I won't be able to bear it if I continue like this."

Recently, under Randy's careful care, Artoria has mostly recovered, and almost everything is normal except for the influence of the Libra ring that has become very unstable.

Randy's explanation for all of this is:

In the past due to the sequelae caused by an unreasonable lifestyle.

In addition, Artoria is very satisfied with her current situation, and can barely score a good score of 75 points for Randy, which mainly comes from Artoria's inexplicable sense of superiority when facing him.

It's as if I wasn't the most wicked and shameless person in the world, and I was as pure as an angel compared to someone.

Every time I think about this, Artoria's mood becomes extraordinarily good.

All right! It's not a good thing to have a bad mentality, but let's put it aside.

Randy's concept of marriage also makes Artoria feel very satisfied, except for the mess after turning off the light and going to bed, Randy is more like a friend than a lover when facing Artoria, although occasionally making some innocuous yellow jokes, saying that he is lying in her arms and begging for comfort or something.

Overall, the newlyweds are satisfied with their marriage.

After Randy further integrated resources, after Edward finally scraped together the ransom money, Randy did not hesitate to invest the money into the governance of the British Territory, renovated the original dilapidated city blocks in London, built a water gate at the mouth of the Thames, forcibly demolished a large number of wooden houses, and rebuilt them into brick and stone structures, while there were many other urban supporting facilities.

In this way, just one London was renovated, and all the 27,000 gold coins were pasted upside down, and a lot of taxes were paid.

Randy made a trade-off, thinking that in the interior of England, Nottingham no longer needed to maintain such a high level of defense, so he demolished Nottingham Castle and transformed it into a large town, and the remaining little money was reluctantly built York City, and after spending a lot of money, Randy's liquidity disappeared without a trace, and if he wanted to continue to invest in construction, he had to wait until next month's tax arrived. Or...... War reparations.

Speaking of the problem of the Scots in the north, it has dragged on for another month, and it is time to solve it.

But before that, another thing caught Randy.

After more than a month of recruitment, Randy has completely lost interest in those so-called taxis, and directly left this job to the following government agencies to deal with, he is happy to be idle, playing with his pet wife every day, anyway, there is a bureaucracy in general affairs, and there are Enides in big things, Randy himself only needs to spend a little time to give orders, and only when he encounters major things, or troublesome things that cannot be solved, Randy will personally go out, and these so-called troublesome things are really difficult for him, Can be handled very well.

So, when Randy heard the news from the mayor of London that another talent was coming to defect, it was normal to be a little unhappy.

"Didn't you say that this kind of thing should be handled by you?" Despite saying that, Randy went out with the mayor, saying this to Artoria as he went.

"Wait a minute, don't steal the cards!"

"You and I are the same as you?" Artoria snorted, looking very disdainful, and waited for Randy to walk away and quickly lifted the poker away, looked at it for a while, and then snorted coldly.

"Sure enough, it's not okay to let this guy shuffle the cards." Carefully calculate the two decks of cards you and Randy, and give yourself a set that just restrains Randy, but not too much, and you can't see that it's a cheating card at all, and then you restore everything when you're done.

Bridge or something, both simple and interesting, is the most commonly used entertainment tool between Randy and Artoria, of course, the couple with a bad heart does not like to play well, Randy's cheating is more high-end, with the technique of cutting and shuffling, the whole set of cards is replaced with a card in their favor. And Artoria's means are more common, that is, stealing cards and changing cards or something, so he is often caught by Randy, of course, Artoria will not admit it after being caught.

Randy naturally knew that his wife was not a good person like himself, so he thought in his mouth that if the matter was not important, he would remove the mayor when he came back, and he would spend an extra 12,000 bonds for a better one, and make the mayor sweat.

Soon Randy saw a guy dressed in grass green, wearing a very unlucky green hat, and decorated with a lot of dead grass and leaves, and he didn't say a word from the beginning, just quietly kneeling in front of Randy on one knee, and at the same time holding a wooden box with his hands up.

"Bring it in."

Although he didn't think that a jungle warfare expert wearing such a camouflage uniform could send anything good, Randy had basically guessed that this strong rancid smell and the dry feeling of a large amount of lime would not be anything other than a human head.

However, this kind of thing, although Randy has seen it a lot, still feels disgusting, and the shriveled and disgusting appearance after opening it is not recognizable except for the unusual pair of pointed ears that indicate that he is an elf.

Randy frowned, endured his nausea and looked closely, but still didn't recognize who this person was, so he shook his hand and asked people to put the wooden box back first, and asked, "Who is the elf?" ”

"Your Majesty, that elf is none other than the fugitive you wanted, the former elven mercenary leader Kadis." Kneeling on one knee and dressed in medieval camouflage uniform, said.

"I see!"

Although he had never seen this guy before, during the previous battle with the Celts, the Celtic longbowmen fought like a rain of bows, and he was very impressed, he understood that Cadis was a very good longbowman commander, and he also understood how difficult it was to hunt such a powerful elven longbowman in the Welsh mountains.

"Go and ask the queen to come and find out."

Randy instructed a knight of the guard, then asked the kneeling man, "You're a longbowman too?" ”

"Yes, it's a mixed meal."

"Your name?"

"Robin Hood."

"No wonder!"

Randy nodded, already believing in his heart that it was this guy who killed the elven mercenary leader.

"Has Your Majesty heard of me?" The man who called himself Robin Hood looked a little excited after Randy made such a move.

Randy chuckled, "Of course you've heard that you live in Sherwood Forest now?" And some buddies, right? ”

"Yes!"

"How good are their bows and arrows?"

"A little worse than me, but still as good as the average marksman."

Hearing Robin Hood's answer, Randy smiled, knowing that he had picked up the treasure this time, and at the same time, Enides' system prompt sounded out:

"A team of Sherwood marksmen, and Robin Hood, the owner of Sherwood Forest, want to defect to you, do you accept it?"

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