In the eyes of the nobles and the high-ranking officials of the family, the lives of the commoners were not a valuable thing, and these cattle and sheep lords had no role other than to provide them with labor, and the Duke of Parra did not speak, as if acquiescing to the opinion of the young officer.

The officer who had proposed earlier nodded his head when he saw this, but he was still a little worried.

In recent years, in order to restore the strength of the family, the Duke has acted too hastily, and the serfs in the territory have been required to work around the clock, mining and planting, and some farmers have less than six hours of rest a day.

These unrest without weapons and leaders were quickly quelled by the family, and it took batch after batch of heads to chop off the chaos in the cradle.

But the flames of revolt have planted seeds in the hearts of the common people, and who could have predicted when such seeds would bear fruit?

......

Rand walked into the parlor, and at a glance saw the messenger of the Peruvian family with an anxious face and fidgeting, and heard footsteps coming from the door, and when he saw that it was Rand, he got up and trotted over: "My lord, you are finally here." ”

Anxious, flustered, this is the message Rand got from his face, the middle-aged man acting as a messenger in front of him is not a stranger, Rand has seen him a few times, it should be Laneruth's deputy or butler or something, he is a very steady and indifferent character in memory, but now it seems that he has written the word panic on his face.

Rand chuckled in his heart, this is not a good sign, could it be that something happened to Lanilus's family?

"Please take a seat, if I'm not mistaken, your name is Rutherf, right," Rand approached the other and smelled a strong smell of fishy sweat, it seemed that he hadn't changed his clothes for a long time, what could make such a steady middle-aged man so out of shape, "Do you have anything important?"

Rutherf swallowed his saliva and said, "My lord, the Peruvian family has been jointly sanctioned by several merchant clans, and Lord Lanilus's merchant ship has been hijacked halfway, and we are in trouble!"

"Is there such a thing?" Rand felt a big headache, just as the family was about to declare war with other families, even his own partner had an accident, which was really head-wrenching, "What the hell is going on? Tell me what happened." ”

Rutseph was anxious, but his logical thinking ability did not interfere at all, and he told Rand what had happened, and when he said that several merchants who had sanctioned Peruvian families were ready to forcibly extract ten percent of the profits, Rand couldn't help but raise his eyebrows.

The businessmen's counterattack is really fast enough!

When he set up a toll booth, he had long thought that this kind of thing would happen, and he had the Capet family behind him, so he didn't need to fear the retaliation of those merchants, but the Peruvian family he cooperated with was different, they were both southern merchants, and it was still very easy if several families united to target one of them.

This matter was not well thought out in advance, and the monopoly of the northern market was obviously a bit hasty, and the Peruvian family was not strong enough to dominate the southern islands, and if it faced a few merchant clans alone, it was likely to be dealt a very serious blow.

"Other than that, what other conditions did they propose?" Rand rubbed his eyebrows.

"Demand that the ban on their family's merchant ships be lifted, and that all losses suffered during this period be compensated," Lutherf thought for a moment, and added, "They have detained Lord Lanilus, and are constantly making new demands. ”

Rand took a deep breath, the other party obviously intends to defeat the Peruvian family at one time, even if they temporarily agree to the other party's request, they will put forward more and more excessive conditions, the purpose is to hollow out the Peruvian family and bring it down, anyway, your heir is in my hands, if you refuse to agree, we will tear up the ticket and start a war.

"What is the opinion of your clan?" Rand asked with a blank expression, "to go to war or to negotiate?"

"The other side has always refused to accept our terms, and several negotiations have had to be suspended, and I suspect that they have no sincerity in negotiating at all. Luthef thought for a moment and considered his words: "If the war starts, the Peruvian family is not the opponent of several merchant families, and the detention of Lord Lanilus will greatly affect the family's battle plan, so we have to choose the safest method." ”

"If possible, we want to infiltrate Blu-ray City and rescue Lord Lanilus," Rutherf observed Rand's expression, "so that we don't have to be afraid to go to war." ”

Having said that, if Rand doesn't understand what the Peruvian family means, then he doesn't deserve to be a lord, the Peruvian family is hundreds of kilometers away, their army can't come to Blu-ray City in a short time, and there must be several merchant armies guarding the upper reaches of the Serra River, restricting the Peruvian family's movement at all times.

If you want to rescue Lanilus, you can only find another way and lead the troops from the air.

But Rand tapped his fingers on the armrest of the chair, silently contemplating the whole thing.

In this day and age, it is obviously not a wise choice to mobilize troops to fight in cities hundreds of miles away, and even if Lanilus is rescued, the Peruvian family will definitely not be able to resist the joint efforts of several major merchant clans, and will only jump from one cage to another.

Ranillus did show great initiative and sincerity in his cooperation with the air ferry leader, not to mention anything else, just taking the war horse as an example, the Peruvian family made Rand quite moved, not only selling them at a low price, but also giving away a large number of cavalry equipment.

Although the other party's behavior is suspected of currying favor with the Capet family, after all, the facts are there, and he has obtained real benefits.

For such a caring partner, if he took the initiative to abandon him in a difficult situation, Rand was a little unbearable.

However, the current situation of the air crossing is not too good, there are less than a thousand soldiers under Lanter's command, and most of them are new soldiers, and they have not completely completed the transformation from infantry to cavalry, although they showed unexpected combat power in the last winter, but defending the city and besieging the city, facing the beasts and facing the human soldiers with the same intelligence, are completely different things.

The cavalry had been trained for too little time to fight, and Rand had to reinstate them as infantrymen, but even so, his strength was still somewhat thin.

And he is more worried that once Lanilus escapes, several merchant families will frantically retaliate against the Peruvian family.