Duke entered Alpine City and kept looking around, in fact, in fact, in addition to being more prosperous than Storm Castle, Alpine City is not qualitatively different from Storm Castle in terms of the height of the fortress and the area of the city wall.

After all, Storm Castle, as a frontier town to defend against monsters, was built on the scale of a large city, not an ordinary small fortress. It was only later that with the failure of Henry IV of the French Empire to challenge the authority of the Pope, the entire French Empire began to decline, and the city defense projects gradually fell behind, and finally to the point of abandoning Storm Castle.

However, the castle of Alpine City is much more luxurious than Storm Castle, after all, this is the foundation of the Fili family here for more than a hundred years, and it is difficult to be luxurious after being built from generation to generation. It's not like Storm Castle, every lord can't wait to leave, who will be in the mood and financial resources to decorate the castle and make wedding dresses for others?

In the banquet hall of Alpine Castle, Duke Fili was already sitting on the main seat and preparing to receive Duke, although Duke's title was one level lower than him, but his father Otto was a duke, and he was also the imperial military god who controlled the heavy army, so this face still had to be given.

His second son, Ott, also sat on the first seat below, and the eldest brother of Ott had already obtained the title of baron and obtained a small fief, and he did not have any titles, just like the previous son of Duke. It's just that Ott doesn't think of himself as a straw bag like Duke, he thinks that he just hasn't come yet, otherwise he will definitely be able to make a big deal.

In fact, Ott is indeed a lot stronger than the previous Duke, although he is a gentleman, but he can also be regarded as the right-hand man of Count Filip, and he still has a little contribution.

Entering the banquet hall, Duke first saw Count Philip sitting on the main seat, he was about forty years old, white and chubby, with a fat smile on his face, very much like a rich man, completely different from his cheap father Otto's resolute and capable temperament.

"Hello, Count Philip. ”

Duke saluted Count Filip first, and there was no way for anyone to crush people to death with a knighthood. When Count Filip heard this, he also replied with a smile: "Viscount Duke must have worked hard all the way here, it just so happens to be dinner time, let's sit down and taste the delicious food of our mountain city first." ”

Negotiating, what should be talked about is also to be discussed, Duke has been a lord for a while, and he won't shout and kill as soon as he comes up, so he also sits on the seat with a smile, eating and drinking happily, anyway, this is all about money.

After a few drinks with each other, Duke and Filip put down their glasses almost in unison, and everyone knew it was time to get down to business.

Count Fili first asked rhetorically, "I don't know Viscount Duke, what happened to our Alpine City this time?"

"It's really a bit of a thing, recently our Storm Castle and the Cyris Empire have opened up a porcelain trade route, and a very large amount of Ceris porcelain has been transported to Alpine City. However, Alpine City has repeatedly lowered the price of Storm Castle's porcelain, which has reached a point where it is unacceptable to us, so Count Philip, I think it should be raised a little. ”

"Is there such a thing? Ott, you're in charge of Alpine City's commerce, what the hell is going on?"

As an old fox, Count Philip pretended not to know, and began to ask his son.

Seeing Count Filip's action, Duke felt disdain in his heart. Acting, I'll see how long you want to act.

"Returning to my father, there is such a thing, but due to the poor quality and large quantity of porcelain in Storm Castle, the selling price is very low outside, and even our Alpine City still has a loss, so we can only reduce the purchase price. ”

Hearing Ott's answer, Count Filip nodded and looked at Duke and said, "Viscount Duke, you also heard just now, it is true that the porcelain of Storm Castle is not easy to sell, so the price we gave is already very high. Otherwise, since Viscount Duke and you are here, how about I raise the purchase price and stabilize it at 1 gold coin?"

Duke's face was sneering at the moment, these two father and son sang well, it's a pity not to be an actor, this is to compete with me for the title of actor.

"Count Fili, as far as I know, as long as it is transported to Andorra City, it can still be sold for 10 gold coins, and other territories of the French Empire can be sold for 20 gold coins, let alone other empires. Even if the transportation cost is deducted, this is a huge profit compared to the purchase price of your 1 gold coin, I think the win-win situation in business is the basis of cooperation. ”

"No, no, no, Viscount Duke, you were the price a long time ago, and now it's only two gold coins at most to transport to Andorra, and we really don't make any money from the losses on the way out, plus the transportation costs and taxes. So Viscount Duke, the price of 1 gold coin is already the greatest sincerity of our Alpine City, otherwise you can try to sell it yourself. ”

When he said this, Duke knew that the other party was simply at his own level, the transportation of heavy goods such as porcelain was slow, and it would take at least ten days and half a month to go back and forth around Alpine City, even if it was the nearest Andorra City, and it would take at least ten days and half a month to go back and forth, and it would also require guards and so on.

Moreover, Duke has no sales channels in Andorra City, and the retail and wholesale sales speed is not the same level, and it is really necessary to wait until it is slowly sold, which is estimated to be a month over, even if it brings enough gold coins and daylily, it will be cold.

Stormfort currently has no way to wait a month, and the demand for gold is huge every day.

But now that the situation is stronger than people, Duke can only exhale deeply and calm his emotions and say: "Count Fili, 5 gold coins is my bottom line, and you also have enough huge profits, how about everyone take a step back from each other!"

In the face of Duke's weakness, Ott jumped out and replied in place of Count Filip: "Viscount Duke, 1 gold coin is really our greatest sincerity, if it weren't for Duke Otto's face, there would only be 7 silver coins." ”

Ott is one of the typical high-handed, low-eyed, arrogant gentlemen who thinks he is much better than Duke's straw bale, but Duke is made a viscount and becomes a lord. He doesn't have any titles, so he can only be powerful in Alpine City.

So he was very unhappy to see Duke, and even had a kind of envy, jealousy and hatred, and now that he saw Duke deflated, he felt a kind of dark refreshment in his heart. What if Duke Otto became a viscount and lord? It's not like being taken casually by yourself, and giving you a price of 1 gold will be regarded as a charity for you.

But he never wanted to fight, Duke was not the kind of person who would suffer: "What kind of thing are you, and you are qualified to interject in my conversation with Lord Earl?"