Chapter 112: Temptation

The visitor was a typical Sambian merchant, with a short and fat figure with a big belly, a fashionable fur shirt and a wolfskin cloak, and a soft hat on his head with short brown hair, which looked quite funny, Link looked at the round face of the messenger and asked with some surprise, "Did the Red Regiment send you?

Link wanted to ask this guy about the situation in the south, but he didn't dare to fully trust this guy, with the end of the war, the few spies sent by the Ghost People to Cormier had also withdrawn, and Link couldn't get any information from Revaran, only some contradictory information from the occasional captured businessman, this powerless situation made Link very uneasy.

The messenger bent down and bowed to Link quite exaggeratedly, the hat on his head almost fell off, Link looked at the messenger's oiled hair, greasy and tangled, very eyesore, but Link didn't care about the disgust, and was directly attracted by what the messenger said: "Honorable lord, I am here on behalf of the Twenty-two Sambian Regiment. ”

Link was stunned when he heard this, the twenty-two people of the Sambia Kingdom are the highest authority in Sambia, similar to the Imperial Council of Cormier composed of various cabinet ministers, the twenty-two members of Sambia are composed of the twenty-two most powerful businessmen in Sambia, almost all of them are big businessmen and big chaebols, Link really can't understand what these people are looking for him.

"Is there anything wrong?" Link asked, rather cautiously.

"The Grand Commander and the Twenty-Two Regiment salute you. The messenger said and saluted again.

Hearing this, Link became more and more cautious, the Grand Commander of Sambia is the head of the Twenty-Two Regiment, which is equivalent to the status of the steel regent, Link now thinks that he is also a gang leader, that is, he can be ranked among the Cormier nobles in the future, but he will definitely be regarded as an outlier from the barbarian background, Link really doesn't understand what the supreme leader of the Sambians has to do with him.

"Have you heard about the South? Do you know why the Regent of Steel has been delaying his journey north?"

Link could only shake his head.

"We instigated many Cormier exiled nobles to secretly return to the southern territory, they returned to the territory with the funds and mercenaries funded by the Twenty-two Regiment, the Flame Dagger organization assassinated the local garrison captain and administrator, and at the same time the merchants of Sambia strengthened the trade blockade, the pirates of the pirate archipelago and the navy of the Kingdom of Sambia secretly attacked the Cormier royal navy parked at the anchorage, and the vampires from Simon City wreaked havoc throughout Susar City, and now the whole south is in chaos. The messenger said triumphantly.

Link looked at the envoy coldly and said coldly, "Didn't the Twenty-Two Regiment make an agreement with the Steel Regent? Why did you do this?

The messenger shrugged: "An agreement was indeed reached, the steel regent agreed to a series of privileges of the Sambian merchants, sold a large number of mines, forest farms, trade routes in Cormier, and also agreed to the opening of handicraft workshops in Cormier by the Sambians in exchange for the support of the Twenty-Two Regiment, lifting the trade blockade of the Sambian merchants, helping the steel regent to deal with the opposition nobles, and stabilizing the situation in Cormier." ”

"Isn't that a good condition for you?" Link asked.

"It's just too favorable, so the Twenty-Two Men think that the Steel Regent will definitely not abide by this agreement all the time, and after Cormier breathes a sigh of relief, he will definitely take revenge on the Kingdom of Sambia. The messenger said earnestly.

"Then you helped the northern nobles?The Iron Regent was defeated?" Link asked a little nervously, he didn't take the orcs to loot in the north, if the northern nobles returned with a big victory, I am afraid that they would directly kill the rocks to take revenge on themselves, and the other ghost princes would definitely be happy to see Ryvaran's power damaged, and they would try their best to prevent Ryvaran from helping him personally, the situation must be quite bad.

"That's not true, the steel regent has almost killed the nobles in the north at the banquet, the few opposition nobles are dead, and the remaining opposition in the south is also silent, if we hadn't carried out assassinations in the local area and sent those exiled nobles back, the steel regent would really be able to unify Cormier. The messenger replied.

"What the hell are you trying to do, the core of the opposition is dead, you've betrayed the Iron Regent, and you're still planning to invade Cormier?" Link asked warily.

Hearing Link's words, the envoy laughed: "It is impossible for the regular army of Sambia to invade Cormier, at most it is to send some mercenary groups, it can't withstand the big deal, we have other plans." ”

Link heard this, his heart moved, the Sambian Kingdom has developed commerce, and in recent years, it is almost comparable to the Feren Anbi Empire, if it weren't for the Anbi Empire discovering the New World and plundering the wealth of the New World back to China, I am afraid that the Sambian Kingdom has become the trade overlord of the south of Faerun, even now, the Sambian merchants are all over the coast of the Falling Star Sea, and even as far as the desperate Eastern Regions, there are Sambian merchants, and the developed commerce and handicrafts have made the Sambians very rich, but the rich Sambians have lost their former bravery。

The Sambians and the Cormirs belong to the same nation, the Jongdas tribe, all from the ancient trading empire Jongdas Empire, thousands of years ago, the Jongdas Empire began to cut down forests and slaughter the elves living in it in order to develop, and the surviving elven mages cast terrifying elven high magic on the Jongdas Empire, directly destroyed the empire with a tsunami, and the submerged area formed the Vihong Sea in the south of today's Faerun, and some immigrants moved to the newly formed coastline to form today's Jongdas Kingdom, and the survivors of the empire crossed the Falling Star Sea to the north, forming today's Cormir and Sambia。

Despite coming from the same ethnic group, there have been sporadic conflicts on the border between Cormier and Sambia, and there have been many major wars in history, both sides are also brave and warlike Jondas, Sambia has always had the upper hand with a larger population, in the past hundred years, with the development of commerce, Sambia has become richer and richer, but Sambia's regular army has become more and more powerless, ordinary Sambians can also get a good life with the help of commerce, few people are willing to take the risk of becoming soldiers, even if they are soldiers, they are not willing to contribute too much, Sambia has to rely on mercenary groups to barely compete with the Cormier Purple Dragon Legion。

Although because of the good treatment and perfect mechanism, Sambia attracted mercenaries and adventurers from all over the Feron to look for opportunities, but the regular army of Sambia has always been known for its weakness, and the Twenty-two Regiment is not willing to go to war for commercial reasons, and the east of Sambia is the famous Valley Ten Towns, and the Kingdom of Sambia, with a population of millions, has been threatened by the Bow Valley with a population of tens of thousands, and has to pay a contribution of hundreds of thousands of gold coins every year to maintain the trade road, and the weakness of the Sambian army can be imagined.

"And what do you want to do?" Link asked curiously.

The messenger smiled slightly: "Nurture your commune forces to occupy northern Cormier." ”