Chapter 117: Preto's Fore and After
87_87410 made all the way down the Darren River out of Black Sea City, and it took Twilight's party another five days to finally enter the Preto Glade.
Pretolin says it's big and small, and it's big because it's really big because it's really large, but it's small because the large area south of the Darren River in the Plettolin Forest, across the Nopsala Mountains, is a disputed area that belongs to the boundary between the Kingdom of Daris and the Smutoh Federation, while Twilight's fiefdom is only north of the Nopsala Mountains.
However, it is also north of the Nopsala Mountains of the Preto Woodland, which is the most chaotic and conflicting thing to be, and the reason for this is because of the Darren River, which runs through the Prito Woodland, which can quickly travel to and from the four countries of mankind.
The problem of Preto dates back to the reign of Danas III, when the Human Alliance was still in the honeymoon period, and in order not to affect the trust and affection between them, the brilliant Danas III stopped after expanding the kingdom's borders to the north of the Nopsala Mountains, and used the south of the Nopsala Mountains as a buffer zone between the Kingdom of Darius and the Smuto's Federation.
Danas III then conferred the title of Prieto to a young marquis named Love, whom he admired, who was young but capable, and who, with the great reach of the Darren River, soon built Prito Eglavin into a prosperous town.
It can be said that Marquis Love single-handedly built Preto, but as the so-called Lao Tzu hero dog bear, after the death of Marquis Love, his successor, that is, Love's son Baroli Colin is an unscrupulous straw bale, straw bales are not counted, or an arrogant and greedy person, the first thing under his rule is to raise taxes, merchants' taxes, civilian taxes are not let go, and it is even more conniving at his subordinates to wantonly oppress past merchants, in a short period of time Prito can be described as complaining.
And on a dark and windy night, a team of unknown robbers entered the Marquis's Palace, and the Colin family died, and later it was rumored that the leader of this gang of robbers was actually the husband of a woman that Baroli had robbed a few days ago, and it was in response to the old saying 'If you don't die, you won't die!'
Without the rule of the Colin family, the law and order of the Preto was quickly chaotic, and several large gangs soon appeared, which wantonly robbed civilians and plundered merchants, which can be said to be arrogant for a while.
But some small businessmen are just that, they even knock and blackmail large chambers of commerce and business groups, to say that these large chambers of commerce are not with a deep background, and those chambers of commerce can pinch their noses and admit it with the idea that peace is precious, but the behavior of these gangs has made these chambers of commerce unbearable, and finally several chambers of commerce from Darius hired a large number of mercenaries and thugs to clean up the gangs of gangsters entrenched in Preto in one fell swoop.
Subsequently, the chambers of commerce that participated in the encirclement and suppression agreed to jointly use the Darren River and the important town of Eglaven in Pleto, and later it was mentioned that small chambers of commerce and merchants from other countries would be charged for the use of the Darren River.
There is no need to continue to pay taxes, and other merchants can also pay taxes, such a good thing has made these large Darius chambers of commerce taste the sweetness.
But the sweetness of the major chambers of commerce did not last long, because the kingdom of Darius once again sent a noble marquis.
Merchants were already profit-seeking, and it was easy for them to give up their profits, and soon the new Marquis and the merchants of Eglavin clashed, and in one night, the Marquis also died at the hands of a group of robbers.
The marquis of two kingdoms in a row actually died at the hands of robbers, as soon as this incident came out, Danas IV, who had long been crowned a kingdom, was angry at that time, and directly sent an army to clear out the robbers, but in a place as big as Preto, where to find these unwarranted robbers, even if they were found, these robbers turned around and entered the Nopsala Mountains, and if the army continued to chase, it would be out of bounds.
In the end, Danas IV had no choice but to withdraw these garrisons, and once again sent a noble viscount close to the royal family, but this viscount also stumbled at Eglavin everywhere, and was constantly threatened by those greedy merchants, and finally for the sake of his own life, this viscount had to return to the royal city in a haunt.
At this time, everyone knew that it was those big chambers of commerce that were playing ghosts, but even if they knew that it was merchants who were doing ghosts, Danas IV had no evidence, and soon the royal council said that a capable nobleman could be recommended to go to Preto, and he would definitely be able to deal with those elusive robbers.
Is Danas IV stupid? Of course he wasn't stupid, he knew that if he sent the people from the council to Preto, they would definitely wear the same pants as those chambers of commerce, but one of the people he sent died in Preto, and the other was scared back, and at this time, I am afraid that no one would want to go, Danas IV thought about it and stopped sending people as soon as his temper came up.
Until the coronation of Nas V, the Preto Glade was in a state of no lord, and after such a long time, the situation of the Preto Glade changed again.
The reason is that other countries, especially the Smuto's Federation, after seeing that Preto has no lord and is controlled by a group of merchants, their hearts began to be unbalanced, why are they all merchants, you have to collect our taxes.
With this in mind, Simtoo's Chamber of Commerce used the same method as the Darius Chamber of Commerce had used at the beginning, and a large group of bandits crossed the Nopsala Mountains and attacked Eglaven without the Darius Chamber of Commerce being unprepared, breaking the headquarters of these chambers in Eglaven in one fell swoop.
His chamber of commerce was attacked in Preto, and the merchants of Darius immediately cried to Danas V, but Danas V hated that these people were too late to help them.
These chambers of commerce had no choice but to rely on their own strength, and for a time the Prito Woodland was full of smoke, and after a long period of fighting, in the end, Darius, Simto'o, and some of the chambers of commerce that joined later in Simberola were each on the side of Pleto, and the three parties were also relatively restrained, although there were often fights, but it would not affect the operation of the Dalen River, and it was at that time that the Mandala Chamber of Commerce of the Cons family took the opportunity to rise.
And over the years, Danas V has not sent people into the Preto woodland, but without exception, they have all touched the dust, and Danas V really has no good way to deal with this situation, and wants to deal with these chambers of commerce, but there is no evidence, plus the constraints of the parliament, he can only temporarily put the situation of Preto aside, and turn his head and start to rectify the growing power of the local nobles within the kingdom.
Prieto's situation is so complicated, which is why Twilight proposes to come here, and most people are not optimistic, but this does not include the eldest prince Dreyus and New Sain, both of whom are looking forward to Twilight's appearance in Prieto, and the other person who has confidence in Twilight is the ambitious Belinda Conse, who has made a big bet on Twilight.
"General, someone has been spotted in the rear sneaking around spying on us." Rena walks over to Twilight, and shortly after entering the Preto Glade, the Dreadnought scouts discover that someone is spying on the Dreadnought garrison.
"Some jumping clowns, don't worry, let's go straight to Eglaven." Twilight said lightly, of course he knew about Preto's situation, otherwise he wouldn't have brought so many people, knowing that a powerful baron can only have a maximum of a thousand troops.
The procession continued unhurriedly towards the town of Eglaven, and soon a roar came from the front, and the soldiers who had been through the battlefield could hear the sound of horses' hooves, the sound of dense horses' hooves.
Soon, in front of the dreadnought, a team of 2,000 knights on tall horses appeared, and these knights rushed down the avenue towards Twilight and the others without slowing down.
Seeing this, a sneer appeared on the corner of Twilight's mouth and ordered: "Dreadnought archers and dreadnought spearmen are ready, the opposing cavalry will attack when they rush to a hundred meters, and there is no need to leave their hands behind."
As Twilight's order was heard, the old Dreadnought soldier immediately drew his bow and arrow, and the other recruit archers hurriedly drew their bows and arrows.
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