Chapter XXXVII
"Enge, old bastard!" After Bolton received the Warhawk message from the Faist family, there was only one thought left in his mind.
Although he didn't know why the team sent by the family to intercept and kill was killed with the people of McGee's team, he would never believe in Momiji Castle's words, and the tradition of fighting to the death would not have appeared in the Joseph family, who had built a business as a family.
"Benjamin, what do you think?"
"The head of the family, I think there must be something strange about this matter......"
Nonsense! Someone else Bolton doesn't understand, Bruno. Joseph, the youngest son of his own sister, can he still not know. It's lazy to do, timid and afraid, if the situation is not right, the first person to run is him! But judging from the news from the Red Leaf City, there was no Bruno among the corpses at all. Joseph.
This Enge is clearly looking for an excuse to take advantage of the Joseph family! Thinking of this, Boton couldn't help but bite his back molars fiercely.
Holding this war book with black and red letters, every word and sentence in it seemed to mock him again, and Bolton angrily slammed the war book on the desk.
Bolton now eagerly took the battle letter, pointed to the nose of Engel's old horseman, and said the iron-blooded general's famous "If you want to fight, then fight!" That's a lot of uplifting.
It's a pity that he didn't dare, the Joseph family relied on business to start and was an honorary nobleman, and the damned Faist family was a military nobleman, how could a businessman who grabbed scales beat a military ruffian with a knife?
Now the Faist family does not count the garrisons stationed in various towns and the militia of villages and towns, and the professional army alone has 5,000 heavy armored infantry (first-order primary), nearly 100 heavy-armored monitor lizard cavalry (second-order intermediate) and 26 family knights (high-level combat power), which is still the result of the loss of ten high-level combat power because of following Ilei to the dark region.
The Joseph family is not the largest slave trader in the Far East, but he is also a second-class trader, and those powerful slave catchers are not under his control at all. In this way, after removing the garrisons stationed in the towns and the militias in the villages and towns, how many troops does the Joseph family have? The answer is 500, and that's still the result of losing to the hands of the Maas Lakers.
The ratio of 10:1 is desperate even in siege warfare, not to mention the plain terrain of Dragon's Back Rock, which will allow the Faist family to maximize their superiority in numbers and cavalry. That's why Bolton scolded Engel's old bastard regardless of his image, and being oppressed by others is the most aggrieved.
"Inform the royal capital dignitary in the Secret Colour Manor, and ask him to help disrupt the prophecy spells of the Faist family. By the way, let him relay our request to let the adults of the Holy Spear City care about the form of the Far East. Bolton seemed to age a few years in an instant. Now that he is asking for help from the forces of the royal capital, the family secretly does not know how much blood will be produced, but he has to do it.
The Faist family has a big business, it doesn't matter how many people die, the Joseph family will have an unstable foundation, and when the time comes, I am afraid that without the help of the hungry wolves in the Far East, the hand of this royal capital will round and pinch itself.
"Okay!" Benjamin let out a sigh of relief, he was really afraid that this uncle's brain would be congested with blood and take the battle letter. Now this result is the best, although in the end it is inevitable to bleed, and it is inevitable that people will be mixed with sand in his family territory, but it is better than the situation where even the dignity of the "Second Family of the Far East" is gone!
Time has passed in a flash, and more than a month has passed since the massacre at Lake Maas. At the end of August, the Far East was already a little chilly compared to the inland Sacred Spear City, but now the Red Leaf City is becoming more and more lively. Because it's about to be the day of the Momiji Tree Auction in Momiji City. The merchant groups in the south and north of the world have already exploded the heat of Red Leaf City, and even because of the great purge a few months ago, after clearing the almost solidified distribution model, even the merchant groups of the Elven Continent have come here.
After the Maas Lake tragedy, the family did send a team to inquire, but it was Elder Hobert, who was known for being a good man. Under Morey's superb acting skills, he could only go back with the information that "everything is normal".
Enge seemed to believe these words, and symbolically issued Morey a special black heavy carriage, which was rewarded by the Faist family for meritorious family members, but in the past few years, it has long lost its former dignity. But it was also a carriage worth 100 gold coins, and Morey accepted it.
But since then, Saganis City has not leaked a single copper coin to pay Momiji Castle and Saber Castle. Although they can always find all kinds of reasons for not paying, as if everything is really just a "coincidence", anyone with a discerning eye understands that it is the family that is forcing Morey to bow his head.
Although the saber iron guards of Saber Fort far surpass their peers in combat power, their military salary is also a top two, plus their own guards in Red Leaf City, oh, now renamed City Guards, this is nearly a thousand mouths, and it is a lot of money for people to eat horses and chew them in a month, not to mention the military salaries that need to be paid with real money.
Saganis City is also accurate, and Red Leaf City will definitely not be able to fill the gap in these military salaries by relying on its own taxes. Morey can't last long even if he is strong, and the family can naturally take over at that time, after all, the world is big, and the food is the biggest.
Although the city of Saganis suppressed Morey so much, it even secretly sent someone to say that if anyone gave Morey a loan, he would not want to get a piece of ore from the Far East and take away a piece of animal skin. The big dealers avoided suspicion, and even the Pomle family secretly withdrew their shares in the Murry mine, although it had long been taken over by the city of Saganis.
But with the support of the wealth of the Church of the Wind Riders, Morey was confident that he would maintain the current situation.
Morey is now the equivalent of a self-respecting little warlord, and as long as the Faist family does not have a legend, he will be safe for a day.
According to Ios's most optimistic estimate, twenty years, twenty years later, a new legendary demon warlock will appear in the Faist family, which is already the best result of the blessing of the ancestor of the Faist family, the Heroic Spirit.
Morey didn't believe he hadn't been able to find a way to advance in twenty years, not to mention that he had another way to make the Faist family jealous.
"What? You said there would be a small dinner party for the lord today? After the dinner, there will be a small auction of alchemical items in the garden? ”
“...... At the end of the auction, there will be a random lottery to give away the right to cut a small red leaf forest for free? ”
A week before the official sale, a word quietly circulated in the tavern. The owner of Momiji City, the honorable Morey. Baron Faist, after the dinner at his castle, is to hold a small auction.
Such a situation occurred so close to the sales meeting, which couldn't help but make a group of businessmen think about it.
When businessmen from all over the world got the news, they all began to send people around to inquire around and buy banquet invitations. Then the market of invitations soared from 5 gold coins to 50 gold coins, and 100 invitations were quickly sold out, making a profit of 5,000 gold coins, which was really a good deal. This made Morey, who secretly sold invitations, wonder if he would hold a few sessions every month to subsidize his family, but then he thought about it carefully, this was just a move by the newcomer to the Chamber of Commerce to curry favor with himself, and he didn't want to do it.
The castle dinner soon began with a long wait. Magic candles as thick as a baby's arm, hanging on the top of the living room in a circle to illuminate the living room at night as bright as day, and in the staggered manner, the representatives of each chamber of commerce expressed their respect for Baron Morey or their willingness to cooperate with Red Leaf City in various fields.
Morey did not leave out one in the cold, and while being comprehensive, he could also make others not feel left out, so that everyone couldn't help but admire the education of the Faist family. Let's see, even the children of such a family whose future has been ruined have received such a strict etiquette education, and the first family in the Far East deserves its name!
If Morey knew about this, he listened to it and cheated on the blood moon, but such a debut was regarded as evidence of the family history of the Esther family, I don't know how to feel.
The dishes of the dinner are all the same, except for the dishes cooked by the pig and the beast very well, especially delicious, and the guests have no other reflection.
After eating the appetizer, it's about the main event. The representatives of the Chamber of Commerce, who had eaten and drunk well before the dinner, finally survived the dinner and came to the auction link they were most looking forward to.
The auction was ingeniously arranged by Morey in the garden of the city lord's mansion, although I don't know why it was not held directly in the living room, but they still understand the rules of the guest and the local customs.
The moon is bright and the stars are scarce, except for the temporary auction table in the garden, which is well lit, and the rest of the garden is faintly dimly lit, with light gauze and soft music accompanied by the breeze playing out of nowhere, giving people a dreamy hazy feeling, making people feel as if they are in a moonlight dream.
"It's really rare to imagine that in such a remote Far East, there are people who appreciate the soft beauty of nature!" An elven merchant with pointed ears suddenly had a feeling.
"Yes, yes, George, go back and make my garden the same." This is an imperial merchant with ten fingers and a ring, and a round body.
......
After a brief moment of surprise, rationality as a businessman prevailed, and everyone turned their attention back to the auction table.
Morey walked slowly to the auction table, different from the aristocratic costumes of the Chinese nobles at the dinner, the current Morey is wearing a simple black pop tuxedo, with a pair of bright black gem eyes, he looks very capable.
"Thank you for coming to the banquet, the prosperity of Red Leaf City is inseparable from your hard work, and on behalf of the citizens of Red Leaf City, I would like to express my gratitude to you for coming! This time......"
Morey's speech made the eyes of the representatives of the chamber of commerce shine, although some large chambers of commerce are rich and rich, but in the mainstream concept of the mainland aristocracy, these chambers of commerce are just flies that smell fishy, greedy and dirty. Of course, if the aristocracy is in business, that's another story.
There is something very unusual in Morey's words now, although it depends on his actual actions in the future, but they can't help but have some good feelings for Morey. Who doesn't want to hear good words, does they?
“...... The alchemy products are all designed and produced by the Berest Magic Studio, with independent intellectual property rights, and I am confident that it will become a new economic growth bright spot in Red Leaf City. Of course, we will support some of the merchant groups in the early stage......" Before everyone could recover their senses, Morey dropped another bomb.
They don't seem to understand the "new bright spot of economic growth", but they can understand the word "support", which has greatly increased their interest.
Not all nobles started out in commerce like the Joseph family, with large caravans. In many cases, the aristocracy was simply the owner of a manor who owned a large area of land. When they need to exchange the specialties of their realm for wealth, they need a noble caravan dedicated to them.
This is one of the rare win-win phenomena on the mainland, where the nobles do not need to laboriously organize manpower and material resources to sell goods, as long as they count the gold coins at home. And the aristocratic caravan it serves can gradually grow bigger and stronger in the specialty of this nobleman's territory, and it would be better if it was to get involved with the great nobles before the beginning, which would be a great thing to climb to the sky. The chancellors of many countries on the mainland are the heads of the noble caravans who got to know the lord of the country and the micro ends.
Although Morey was only a member of the Faist family, he was even completely absent from the succession sequence due to the disappearance of his father. But Morey now sits on Red Leaf City and Saber Fort, two key points in the Far East, and he needs resources and resources, and he has a large number of soldiers, and he may be able to counterattack and ascend to the position of the head of the family in the future and become the lord of the Far East. Now I heard that he was cut off by the family, doesn't this confirm the phrase "from the end of the day"?
Don't say anything now, as soon as Morey starts shooting, he will buy and buy, and the competition between businessmen is not financial resources in the final analysis? Is there anything more than this that impresses Morey?
Thinking of the representatives of these large chambers of commerce, they couldn't help but look at each other, smiling, and the murderous aura emitted made the temperature of the scene a little lower.
"Hillbilly, fight with me! Look for death! ”
"Fat pig, let it be clear, I've got this piece!"
......