Chapter 211: The Lion Prince
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For the orc tribe, in addition to the role of mounts, horses are more of a food reserve, and each tribe has a lot of stocking, as long as the water and grass in the tribe are fertile, most of them have the quality of becoming war horses.
As far as the werewolf tribe is concerned, most of the horses they raise can become war horses, but because they have a mount like a wolf, the number of free-range horses is not large, except for the Golden Horde and the three large tribes, the horses of other tribes may not exceed 10,000.
The price given by Songhai City for the purchase of war horses is five stone grain for a good war horse, 10,000 war horses a year, which can be exchanged for 50,000 stone of grain, this price is placed in the human country, it is definitely extremely cheap.
You must know that the price of war horses has never been lower than a gold coin and a horse, Shaoyang They bought war horses from the winner is actually a friendship price, and a pound of grain generally fluctuates between 1~3 copper coins, even if it is a pound of grain according to 5 copper coins, five stone grain is only 2500 copper coins, 25 silver coins, 0.25 gold coins, not to mention all the transportation is borne by the orcs.
Of course, the price of war horses and grain in the orc tribe is different, this trade is still very attractive to the orcs, 50,000 stone of grain is not much, but in winter, it may be able to keep hundreds of thousands of orcs from starving to death.
"This prince walked around the pasture of your Golden Horde tribe, and the war horses in it are enough to gather 20,000 horses, and if you trouble the patriarch of Gegil, it will be transported to the human city of Sanghe tomorrow, according to the orders of my father, we will not let the nobles suffer, and when we come back, we will leave five thousand stone of grain, and the rest will be supplemented with gold and silver." ”
Webster said generously, at least in its opinion, he was very generous, and the 10,000 war horses as compensation were also borne by their lion clan, which was the responsibility of the orc royal family, of course, it was better to have food or something in the hands of the lion clan.
This is also the reason why the other three large tribes refused to provide a large number of war horses, they were not short of gold and silver, and they could not get food after the war horses, so it was possible to have food for the upcoming winter.
Gegil didn't dare to offend the lion clan now, so he had to prepare 20,000 war horses according to Webster's words, and at the same time arrange a team to escort it to Songhai City.
From the Golden Horde to Songhai City, it is not far away, and it is not close to it, and it cannot be guaranteed that there will not be an accident with a war horse on the road, so it is naturally impossible to prepare only exactly 20,000 horses, and prepare more than 1,000 additional horses, and the team will be accompanied by Vale, who was most familiar with Songhai City.
Webster is the favorite prince of the golden lion king Barnett, and has an inexplicable yearning for the human world, otherwise he would not have won this rare opportunity, you must know that in the past, orcs went to the human kingdom, in addition to war or war, it was the first time to officially travel with a mission of peace. Waller's kind of private behavior does not count.
Regardless of how Gegil later shirked with the three large tribes, a team of 1,000 wolf horsemen led by Webster and Waller drove 20,000 horses in the direction of Songhai City.
When they came to the outside of the Two Realms Pass, they almost didn't scare the Two Realms Pass legion, and the tribes they passed by along the way would send some clansmen to escort them in order to shoot Webster's ass, and then send some cattle and sheep war horses, and now the size of the team is at least twice as large as when they set off, and Burton thought that the werewolves were coming to retaliate, so he was ready to send someone to Songhai City to report the news.
Before he could act, Webster sent an envoy to the Two Realms Pass, which he had learned from books, and if he had done so according to the orc's temperament, the team would have bypassed the Two Realms Pass and continued to move forward.
Thanks to it, otherwise something would definitely happen, and now the legion of the Two Realms Pass is no better than the ordinary human legion, and there are only more than two thousand cavalry left in the last expedition, but the elite of these cavalry, where can the two or three thousand rabble in Webster's team resist.
"You are here to trade war horses with the Third Highness?" Burton couldn't have let the orcs into the pass, and was shocked after hearing the news from the orc messenger on the castle tower.
After Shaoyang came back from the Duchy of Oz, he didn't expect the orcs to act quickly, he was not prepared at all, and the relationship with the Two Realms was only similar to an alliance rather than a subordination, so he naturally wouldn't send someone to tell Burton what happened in the Duchy of Oz.
Burton was both a little happy and apprehensive about the war horse deal.
That's 20,000 war horses, how tempting it is for him to report and ask for war horses and want to restore the cavalry establishment, but he is lost in the sea, with his relationship with Songhai City, it is not impossible to share a small part of it.
Burton couldn't help but snort at the thought of the faces of some people in the Northern Army and the military department, and then thought of the rumor that they not only planned not to recognize the military merits of the last expedition, but also to punish them for the crime of going to war without authorization, and he became a little worried.
"The Third Highness has made a deal with the orcs, and I am afraid that some people will find an excuse to make things difficult. Burton didn't know that this matter had passed the clear road, there was the consent of the human alliance outside, and the support of winning and undefeated inside.
No matter what, he still sent someone to Songhai City to report the news, but it was not to prepare for war, but to inform the Shaoyang orcs of the news, and at the same time wanted to remind him of the seriousness of the transaction with the orcs, and he even had the idea of persuading him to stop trading.
As for the orcs, he Burton sent someone to inform them to wait there, and they were not allowed to enter the territory of the Northern Chu Kingdom without authorization.
"It's a pity not to have those war horses. Burton took the pen and wrote a letter, writing his worries on the letter, thinking that the 20,000 war horses were also reluctant, and he actually had another thought: "It's a big deal to rob them!"
Outside the Two Realms, Webster approached the messenger with what he thought was a formal ceremony, and he had learned from his books that he was to show his majesty when receiving the messenger, so that the soldier was almost stunned by the momentum of the lion men standing on either side, and stammered before running away.
"Your Highness, do we really have to wait here? doesn't Prince Valle know where that Songhai City is? The accompanying lionmen suggested that most of them had the idea that they were waiting here for a waste of time, and that humans did not respect them.
"We are here to trade and not to wage war, so naturally we want to be as good as we want, and as long as it is reasonable, we can do what we are asked to do. Webster didn't care, still recalling the scene of approaching the human messenger (just a small soldier) just now, wondering if there was something he didn't do properly.
Valle and several other werewolves were silent, and along the way it tried to stammer Webster, but Webster and the lionmen didn't look down on it at all, and some of its suggestions for making decisions were completely ignored, making it indignant.