Chapter 0212: The War Is Coming to an End (Third Update)

[It's the middle of the month, let's have a few monthly passes!] 怑

Negotiations are in full swing, and of course, Fielding's image as a double agent is not to be exposed. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

Therefore, Zhu Wu and Xiao Rang will also quarrel with them for a little bit of petty profit, and at the same time, the minutes of the negotiation have also reached Link's hands, and he will only read them casually at most and ignore them.

It lasted three days, and finally, the draft of the negotiations appeared.

First, with immediate effect, the state of war between the Principality of Bellas and the Principality of Bellas shall be lifted, and the two sides shall not engage in any war on the basis of the principle of voluntariness and trustworthiness;

Second, in view of the very heavy losses suffered by the Principality of Hope in the war, the Principality of Bellas will provide three million humanitarian aid funds to the Principality of Hope in order for the Hope to regain its glory and at the same time, the Principality of Hope will gain the status of a large city of the Principality of Bellas;

Third, as a member of the Empire of Light, the Hope Leader will also send 10,000 troops to participate in the Battle of the Undead, and at the same time, in recognition of Baron Link's steadfast will, when the Hope Legion arrives in Belas City, it will be canonized by the Pope of Light and become a glorious viscount;

Fourthly, the war was only an internal dispute, so the question of the prisoners had to be negotiated, and when the ransom money arrived, the Hope Leader must not detain any of the Coalition Soldiers, but must release them all, during which time the Hope Leader must ensure the safety of all the soldiers, and there must be no mistreatment of the prisoners, and the nobility should also enjoy the protection of the Nobility Convention;

Fifth, after this Agreement has been signed by both parties, it shall come into force immediately, and when an oath is made in the name of the Lord of Light, all persons must abide by the Agreement.

After Link reviewed it, he handed it to Bai Sheng and asked him to stamp it with the family crest of the Link family, speaking of which this badge was still a badge temporarily refined by Gongsun Sheng, and there should be a more formal family badge in the future.

As for the oath, who would take that thing seriously, even if there really were gods in this world!

After that, Link and Fielding had friendly negotiations, especially discussing the ransom of Aldington and Morinen, and in the end, the two reached a private agreement, Aldington and Morinen would all be released, but the Temple of Light and the Duchy of Bellas must each pay a ransom of 500,000 gold coins.

This point, Fielding also gritted his teeth and admitted, anyway, if the commander of the Knights of Light and the marshal of the Duchy fleet were captured and not saved, it was completely impossible, as for the other captured generals, there would be envoys sent by their respective city lords to discuss.

So, Fielding returned to the coalition camp exhausted, only waiting for the Grand Duke of Bellas to sign the agreement, with Archbishop Allen of the Temple of Light as a witness, and this time the negotiations would be a successful conclusion.

For a time, Fielding became a veritable king of the black cauldron, but he was willing. It must be known that in order for Fielding to tell all the details of the Duchy of Bellas in this negotiation, Charlotte promised the patriarch of the Green family that the sales share of blood wine would be 20% owned by the Green family.

The current blood wine is already a veritable famous wine in the Duchy of Bellas, and the selling price of any bottle is more than eight hundred gold coins, and at the same time, the brewing master Zhu Fu has greatly increased his output after adopting the winemaking equipment left by the goblin clan, which also means that the Green family's share of only two percent will harvest more than one million gold coins every year.

If it were to be sold to other places, such as the Three Kingdoms or even the Dark Alliance, then the harvest of five million gold coins would be more than enough.

So, what fear does Fielding have? Anyway, he was not an official of the Duchy in the first place, and even if he would be reprimanded by the Grand Duke of Bellas, Patriarch Green promised to triple the size of Fielding's Baronial Manor, and at the same time, Viscount Ted's family would marry him.

Under the two phases, Fielding was even expected to become a viscount before the age of thirty, and the guilt in his heart about betraying the faith of the Duchy of Bellas and the Temple of Light disappeared completely.

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The coalition forces were ready to go, and when the agreement signed by the Archduke of Bellas and notarized by Archbishop Allen arrived, the remnants of the coalition army set off.

At the same time, the Allied warships abandoned all the damaged warships, and Commodore Aaron, like a frightened rat, urged all the Allied sailors to board the intact battleships, passed through the mouth of the Red River unharmed, and sailed straight to the port of Stuart.

Of course, it wasn't that he didn't understand the value of those warships, but in the private agreement, those warships belonged to the Hope Territory, and if it weren't for that, a single Princess Lucy would have been able to offset the compensation of the three million gold coins.

As a result, the mighty coalition fleet changed from 20 troop carriers, 12 fast warships, 12 river warships, and 8 ironclad cruisers to a shrunken version of 10 troop carriers, 3 fast warships, 4 river warships, and 2 ironclad cruisers.

As for the 10,000 sailors, it has become 3,000.

Such a tragic ending made Brigadier Aaron already cry without tears, but fortunately he saved the 'Princess Lucy' and the flagship of Port Stuart, otherwise he was afraid that it would be time to go to prison when he returned to Port Stuart.

Some people are happy and some are sad!

Some of the envoys sent by the other city lords had already formed an offensive and defensive alliance in their private contact with Charlotte, so they took away the prisoners who wanted to be held at a small price, and even returned all the armor and horses.

Even, the captured soldiers of Viscount Ted and Viscount Thomas, who suffered the most losses, only spent 300,000 gold coins.

The other envoys, such as the envoys of the port of Stuart, etc., stared at the ransom list without tears, among which the minor nobles, knights, barons, and elite soldiers all had their own prices, and in the end, after careful calculation, this time the war was really a big loss.

However, the conscription order of the Pope of Light has been issued to any city, if all the city lords do not want to take out their own family private soldiers, then they must take out the ransom of all these soldiers and take them away, which is more important is naturally self-evident, therefore, Xiao Rang has been smiling and happy these days.

In the end, the war losses and gains of this war were also counted by Duchenne, let's talk about the war losses first.

The Hope Legion lost more than 3,000 soldiers, but the second-order and third-order troops suffered very few losses, of course, even so, the Hope Legion was broken;

The material reserves of the Hope Leader have bottomed out, even if the grain is planted by Zhang Qing, it is only enough for a month, not to mention meat and other items, just look at the bleak market of the Hope Leader, you can know how miserable the people of the Hope Leader are now;

During the war, more than 1,300 soldiers, civilians, and merchants were arrested in vain attempts to escape from the Hope Territory, and now these people are toiling in the mines, lumberyards, and quarries in order to obtain forgiveness, but Link has no intention of forgiving them;

After the Knights of Light entered the Hope Territory, hundreds of farmers were killed, hundreds of acres of crops were destroyed, and the entire Hope Territory was almost reduced to ruins.

In short, in a short period of time, Hope Leader does not want to fight again, for this reason, Xiao Rang even suggested a truce for half a year, but the agreement reached between Hope Leader and the Duchy of Bellas has already indicated that it will be necessary to fight in two days!

For a while, Xiao Rang was sad again......

(To be continued.) )