An indifferent smile appeared on Duke's face at this moment, in fact, this kind of power struggle Duke is not incomprehensible, if he has lived in this environment since he was a child, and faces the temptation of inheriting the duke's position, maybe he will have the same mentality as Teucer.

Understanding is understanding, but Teucer has repeatedly tried to put himself to death, this is unbearable! More importantly, his identity as a younger son is almost equal to zero competitiveness for the title of duke, after all, the eldest son is Baker with the title of genius big brother, and if he wants to make a move, he should also target Baker.

"Your Excellency Fasqi, I can give you a batch of equipment in advance as a reward for your exploration of the route. In addition, Storm Castle can also expand the scope of trade with you, in addition to the previously open metal trade, fish and other seafood can also be exchanged for weapons and equipment. ”

Duke's previous nautical agreement with Fasqi included only a small category of metal trading in terms of trade. Duke originally wanted to buy jewelry, magic crystals, and various mineral raw materials from the Sea Tribe, but he didn't expect that the Sea Tribe's iron tools were corroded by the sea, and there were no metal raw materials at all, so this trade was close to empty talk.

Now, with the surge in the number of people in Stormcastle, and in order to make up for the shortcomings in meat, Duke plans to open up the seafood trade with Fasqi, so that in addition to Alpine City, Stormcastle also has an additional supply line of daily necessities, but I don't know how much the Sea Clan produces.

Finally hearing that Duke was relieved and willing to open up the seafood trade, Fasqi's face was irrepressibly surprised. Because it is much easier for the Sea Clan to obtain seafood than in the previous metal trade, they can buy more weapons and equipment from Stormcastle.

"Lord Duke, thank you very much for your support, our Wave Tribe will definitely achieve the final victory!"

"You're welcome, we're on the same front. Duke replied with a smile, though he was skeptical that Fasqi would be able to achieve victory.

Because Fasqi rushed to Storm Fort for help in such a hurry, it showed that the situation of the Wave Tribe was very critical, and the difference in strength between the two sides was very large. Therefore, Duke had better prepare with both hands, let the hydraulic factory of Storm Castle be on higher alert, and expand the patrol line of the cavalry regiment to the coastline, and Duke didn't want to have a second sneak attack on the waterway at the beginning.

After Duke reached an agreement with Fasqi, he quickly prepared five hundred "monkey version" storm armors and thousands of weapons.

These "monkey version" armors, compared with the storm castle armor equipped by the Storm Army, have significantly shrunk in thickness and steel quality, and in the face of the manganese steel weapons equipped by the Storm Army, there is not much defensive advantage, ensuring the absolute leadership of the Storm Army in the equipment of the Sea Clan.

And those weapons are the old equipment that the Storm Army replaced before, and these weapons are no longer of any use to the Storm Army except for the refurnace. But for the Fasqi tribe, these are much better than the previous tatters, and the disadvantage of the sea tribe in weapon forging is indeed quite big.

Sometimes Duke thought that if he relied on the strong physical qualities of the Sea Clan and paired it with weapons and equipment like Storm Castle, it would definitely be a very powerful army on the mainland.

When Fasqi learned that Duke took out five hundred sets of storm armor at once, she was a little overjoyed, and thanked Duke with an excited face: "Your Excellency Duke, this is really beyond my expectations, I didn't expect you to prepare the battle armor for us a long time ago, for your sincerity, our Wave Tribe is grateful!"

In the face of Fasqi's appearance, Duke just politely said a few words, and behaved very atmosphericly. But he thought in his heart that the wool was all out of the sheep, which was on credit for interest, and the sea tribe would be ready to face "usury" at that time.

In fact, these shrunken versions of the Storm Armor were not prepared for the Sea Clan by the Duke Prophet, and his original purpose in producing these armors was to make a profit by selling them.

Because the arms trade is a huge profit at any time, and even the porcelain of this era is not as good as the arms sales. Take the shrunken version of the Storm Castle armor like the Sea Clan, Duke has a price tag of five hundred gold coins, and it will not be ten gold coins if you don't count the actual labor cost. One set can earn four hundred and ninety gold coins, what an exaggerated number.

Of course, Duke set the price of five hundred gold coins for the Sea Clan, which is also the kind that the Sea Clan belongs to the sky-high asking price, in fact, the price of a set of plate armor on the mainland is generally around two hundred gold coins. However, the production process of this kind of plate armor that can be bought may not be as good as the monkey version of the storm armor, because the really high-quality armor on the mainland is not for sale, and it belongs to the kind that has no price.

And the sea tribe doesn't have gold coins to buy, they all use the nautical chart and barter, and it's still on credit, and Duke is not too dark to say......

Although the arms trade is profitable, Duke has always held back and not sold it, except when Stormcastle's finances collapse and there is no choice. The main reason for this is to keep a low profile on the issue of strength, after all, he is currently only a small lord, and if he behaves too exaggeratedly, he will be targeted by all parties, and perhaps the Emperor of the French Empire is no exception.

Although the imperial power in this world is not as exaggerated as China, the territory of Duke Storm Fort is in a sense divided by the French Empire, and if His Majesty the Emperor forcibly recruits or levies taxes, it will have a great negative impact on the development of Storm Fort, and his own affairs in Storm Fort will also be exposed

Duke can scare Andorra as such a prince, because he has a cheap father behind him who can pull the tiger skin and pull the banner, and if he challenges the imperial power, the duke's face will not work. And Duke now vaguely understands that he has become a backstabber and came to Storm Castle as cannon fodder, and Duke Otto may not be unaware.

Since he did not stop or persuade Emperor Fran's order, it means that he is very likely not to turn against Emperor Fran because of himself, but will choose to be loyal to the imperial power. At that time, this banner will be useless, and he will fall into an embattled situation.

So as the saying goes, making a fortune in silence is the way to survive in troubled times. Until the time of last resort or strength to protect his rights and interests, Duke will not sell the Storm Armor.

After the agreement was reached, the Sea Clan soon received equipment along the coastline, and the Naga warriors were well adapted to the plate armor, and they basically had the same body shape as humans except for the snake tail. The fish-man warriors have more headaches, with different body shapes, including royal fish-man guards who are extremely strong, and fish-man raiders who are shorter than humans, and there is no standard at all.

Faced with this situation, Duke had no choice but to let the hydro factory rebuild the plate armor according to their shape. It was during this equipment transfer process that Duke finally met the true leader of the Wave Tribe, the Naga Banshee Aya, who claimed to still inherit the elven magic.