The actual battle of the Storm Musket also strengthened Duke's confidence in completely changing the current structure of the Storm Army, and in the future, the Storm Army will no longer be the current trend of developing a cold-weapon army, and firearms will be in the first place. However, these things can only be implemented when they return to Storm Castle, and Duke can only think about it at present.

On the tenth day of the Storm Army's march, the journey back to Storm Fort had already gone generally, and at this time, the Storm Fort Firm in the Imperial Capital quickly came with a very bad news, that is, the flagship store of the Imperial Capital Storm Merchant Bank, there have been a lot of guards checking recently, and it has even affected the normal business.

For the situation of the Storm Firm, Duke had actually expected that once the Storm Castle and the Fran Empire were completely broken, it was a question whether the Storm Castle Firm in the Imperial Capital could be opened, after all, the Imperial Capital was the territory of the Emperor Fran, and it was completely outside of Duke's control.

But the only fortunate thing is that at the most critical moment when Duke was about to confess, Duke Otto took all the blame, so even the Marquis of Barton and Henry VII understood that Duke did it, and they couldn't deal with it, and the two sides had not yet reached the point of turning their faces publicly, after all, it was not only Duke and Storm Castle involved, but Duke Otto and the Duchy of Berry in the big hands.

At the same time, the operation of the flagship store of the Storm Firm in the imperial capital has also brought huge tax benefits to Henry VII in a sense, you must know that the monthly transaction volume of the Storm Firm has exceeded 200,000 gold coins, which is a tax of up to 20,000 gold coins. In this era when commerce was not developed, the monthly tax of 20,000 gold coins could not be refused even by Emperor Fran.

And Duke also bought off the empire early, such as Prince Harry and other imperial gentlemen, although these guys have no ability themselves, but their family's strength is still good, and they can always help Duke say something in the court. Moreover, during the period when the Storm Trading House was in business in the Imperial Capital, any excellent goods of the Storm Fort were first given to the major nobles of the Imperial Capital, and even given to them for free to try.

These novel and sophisticated products also made many imperial nobles have an inexplicable good impression of the Storm Trading Company, and in a sense, it can be regarded as a platform for the Storm Trading Company and open up the market.

But this is not the most important thing, Duke's biggest means is to open storm trading houses in major territories that he discussed with Prince Harry before, with the opening of these storm trading houses, other territory lords can also do business with storm trading houses, and even many times the storm carriage helps these lords transport goods, it can be said that now the storm trading houses have been tightly tied to the entire French Empire, and Henry VII wants to move the storm trading houses in the imperial capital, which will involve too many interest chains, and he also needs to consider carefully.

And taking a step back, even if the flagship store of the Storm Comptoir in the imperial capital is gone, Duke is not without a way to do business in the French Empire. After all, the countries of Europa in the Middle Ages were not like the centralized power of ancient China, and any lord and territory had their own autonomy, and it was a big deal to give up one-third of the empire's market.

At the same time, Duke also made up his mind that after going back, taking advantage of the accumulation of the number of storm carriages, he will open a special storm cart shop and set up a storm station, he wants to make the goods and logistics conditions of the storm castle imperceptibly control the entire French Empire, and the moment he really wants to turn his face, Henry VII will find a terrifying storm force!

After almost twenty days of marching, Duke finally arrived in the territory of the Kingdom of Andorra, and even saw the tall walls of Andorra City from afar. Only this time it was different from before, not far outside the city, there was also an Andorran army that was vigilantly watching Duke's storm army.

Faced with this situation, Duke's Storm Army also maintained a tense state of combat readiness, carefully passing through the outside of Andorra.

For this situation, Duke also knew what the Prince of Andorra wanted to do, he was purely giving himself a warning and showing the current military strength of Andorra, so that he could be honest in his own territory. With the absorption of 50,000 troops, the ambition of the Prince of Andorra has swelled rapidly, if it were not for Duke's development of tens of thousands of troops, maybe the Storm Castle would have been attacked by the Andorran army, for the Storm Army, the Prince of Andorra has already coveted.

When passing through Alpine City, Duke also noticed that Alpine City was slightly different, the previous territorial flag of Alpine City was gone, and it became the flag of the Prince of Andorra, which means that Alpine City has been completely annexed by the Prince of Andorra.

Looking at the state of Alpine City, Duke couldn't help but feel a sigh, Alpine City and himself were old enemies, but he didn't expect that he would lose his territory so soon. In fact, seriously speaking, Alpine City has become like this, and there is a credit to Duke. If it weren't for the Storm Army that destroyed the Alpine Army, the Prince of Andorra would not have annexed Alpine City so easily.

Theoretically speaking, Alpine City, a territory that was personally divided by the Emperor of France, and has been passed down for several generations, is directly loyal to Emperor Henry VII of France. Such a move by the Prince of Andorra is an overstepping of his authority and a great disrespect to the emperor. But the reality is that whoever has the biggest fist speaks, and in this small mountain city, Henry VII will not meet his son in battle, so he can only choose to acquiesce.

It's just that the ambition of the Prince of Andorra is far more than that, it seems that Duke's previous judgment of the Prince of Andorra was correct, this white fat man is not a fuel-efficient lamp. Henry VII's compromise, that is, appeasement of him, will eventually become a great danger.

After another forty kilometers of marching through Alpine City, Duke finally came within the confines of his territory. And the first thing that came into his eyes was the storm new city built on the outermost periphery.

Storm New City has always been built according to modern urban standards, and most of them are floor houses, so as to maximize the use of area. Of course, these floors cannot be compared with the hundreds of meters tall buildings in later generations, but the height of three or four floors is quite amazing in this world.

When Duke left, Storm New City was undergoing a new round of expansion, as nearly 100,000 new immigrants arrived. Now that Duke has taken a look, Storm New City is even more exaggerated than he imagined, in the past half a year, Storm New City has almost doubled in size, and it can be said that it has become a super city on the continent of Europa, and the population density may only be comparable to the imperial capitals of various countries.

Seeing such a majestic city born in his own hands, Duke was quite proud in his heart!