There was no doubt that Luo Ming had a big win this time, but unfortunately, for the sake of secrecy, this big victory could not be publicized too much.

Most of the people he said were just "a tribal tribe trying to rebel", and most uninformed people would only think that it was just a tribe in the mountains, and not many people would think that he had actually made a breakthrough on the other side of the mountain.

Although some of the mountain people were involved in the construction of the road, Luo Ming carefully controlled them, and did not let the group settle down the mountain, but stayed in the mountain to cultivate the mountain fields or fish and hunt. This ensures that the message does not spread much.

Such a simple measure, not to mention the 21st century on earth, may not have much effect even in the 19th century, but it is enough today.

From that tribe, the army brought back ninety-three slaves, as well as more than five hundred sheep and seventy-three horses, and some of the horses that had been wounded or killed in the battle were also temporarily rescued by Lockin's army, and a batch of horse jerky was made and brought back—fortunately, the weather was not too hot and had not rotted and deteriorated.

This is a lot of income, and for these slaves, naturally there is no need to give them anything good to eat. Although horses are precious, sheep can be slaughtered and milked, and those horse jerky can still be eaten as long as they are stewed softly, which effectively alleviates the food problem.

It made Luo Ming want to do a few more votes...... However, he dismissed this idea for the time being.

Fighting nomads with infantry is not always caught, and they may be caught in the air, and they may even be bitten back.

If the luck is a little worse, it may even cause the nomadic tribes on that grassland to share the same hatred, and in the face of the threat of Luo Ming, the great enemy, they will start to huddle together to keep warm, form an alliance, and even a huge nomadic tribe may appear, establish an official system, and become a nomadic country......

The war power of the tribe and the country is not at the same level at all, and when the time comes, Luo Ming will put himself into the pit, and if he does not spend great efforts to deal with such a strong enemy, he will not be able to cross the grassland to reach the Silk Tea Road.

Moreover, this can be regarded as a kind of dry water and fishing-Luo Ming also hopes to one day obtain a group of equestrian talents from the grassland.

It is not without him that there are people who are skilled in equestrianism, such as a knight who defected to him, and some horsemen, etc., but this kind of people is not a majority, and it is quite useful in skirmishes, and it is more difficult to form a cavalry team on a large scale.

Continuing to rob from the steppe could not be done for the time being, but Luo Ming could at least reach the Silk Tea Road, this time he changed the composition of the caravan, increased the number of caravans, and let the caravan carry a few more carts and two carriages, all of which had been modified to quickly form a miniature car battalion.

In short, ordinary grassland tribes can't gnaw down - if the entire tribe is pressed up, it will actually still be attacked, but many people will die, and the lives of the tribe are not cheap, so it doesn't feel worth it, and they will retreat.

Lockin sent a large caravan to the northwest and a smaller caravan to the southeast—a carriage and ten men, nine of whom were guards, and the remaining one was a knight who had submitted to Lockin.

This small caravan carried a small batch of gifts for Princess Victoria, or the Duchy's royal family.

Last time, Luo Ming entrusted Charlotte to bring a batch of soap to the royal capital, some of which were gifts for the royal family, about half a month later, Charlotte replied that although the people who used it felt good, many people could not accept this new thing for a while, and it may not be able to open up much sales for the time being.

So, Luo Ming thought of perfume.

In the history of the earth, perfume actually appeared in the rudiments of B.C., and in this world it is similar, perfume has long been invented and widely accepted among the aristocracy.

Relying on his knowledge of basic chemistry that had not yet been completely forgotten, and with Aya's help (she also knew several traditional perfume recipes), it took him some time to succeed in refining the perfume process.

Distillation, extraction, and blending with the high concentration of alcohol distilled in Lorming's territory greatly increases the efficiency of perfume production and improves the permanence of perfumes.

Luo Ming gave a batch of perfume as a gift and sent it to the royal capital of Brandon as a gift to Princess Victoria.

Women will always like this kind of gift, even strong women are no exception, Luo Ming accompanied the gift with a letter, while slightly touting the princess's beauty, while complaining, begging her to allocate some food support.

Princess Victoria had learned from Charlotte that Lomin was now short of food, and she had no doubt about it. For the sake of this batch of perfumes, she approved Luo Ming's request and decided to allocate a batch of food to him for emergency.

Of course, this is definitely not gratuitous, she is not a stupid Bai Tian who can be easily fooled, and now she doesn't realize Luo Ming's true strength, and it's just because the intelligence is biased.

In her reply, she asked Luo Ming directly for another batch of perfume in exchange for that batch of food.

Although Luo Ming estimated that the princess would not be able to put down her body and become a second-class dealer, even if she just gave those perfumes as gifts, she could get a lot of benefits - the princess gave you such a good gift, shouldn't you be grateful and give enough in return?

In this way, the princess only paid Luo Ming some grain, and received a large number of gifts in return, and also gained the gratitude of many nobles.

However, Luo Ming did not suffer a loss - this batch of perfume from the princess's hands is actually equivalent to a live advertisement for his perfume industry, you must know that the perfume bottle was customized by Luo Ming, and the words "Made in Schönbrunn" are written on the outer wall.

And he soon received that batch of grain. It was not slowly transported from Brandon, but was immediately delivered to the door by the Earl of Conlehill, the county guard.

It turned out that the princess directly relied on spell communication and conveyed a very simple password to the earl, telling him to convert a batch of taxes and money in kind that was originally scheduled to be handed over to the central government into grain and send it directly to Luo Ming's door, so that it was done.

The knight who escorted the grain to the door also secretly handed Luo Ming a letter.

He opened the letter, and when he glanced at it, his face became strange.

A thousand words, all of them made a sentence: "I originally thought that your earl was a tyrant, but who knew that he was also a corrupt villain, and he actually said such vulgar words?"