Duke's sentence vase naturally angered Princess Gina again, and this also put behind her questions and curiosity about "scientific events".

After all, she is different from Gandalf, an old fox, and at this age, even if she has far more experience as a princess than her peers, it is impossible for her to understand the completely different concept of science, and naturally she cannot delve too deeply.

But fortunately, although Princess Gina is arrogant and willful, she can be regarded as above board, and she will not do this kind of thing to the Holy See behind her back, which is the main reason why Duke is willing to confess to Jina.

Another point is that the imperial power and the divine power in this world are actually not harmonious, but the divine power is too strong, and the imperial power has to be subordinate. As the royal heir, and even a possible future empress, even if Ji Na has accepted the worldview of the Holy See since she was a child, it is impossible to stand on the side of the Holy See unprincipledly, because the supremacy pursued by the imperial power is naturally opposed to the suppression of theocracy.

For example, a very famous incident occurred on the earth, that is, Napoleon took the crown directly from the pope, crowned himself himself, and humiliated the pope in public to let the world see the majesty of imperial power. So as long as she has received a royal education, Gina will subconsciously be wary of the Holy See, even now she herself has not noticed this.

Gandalf's affairs were overshadowed for a while, and Duke began to face another headache. That is, although the Storm Castle was defended, the losses this time were also very heavy, the casualties of the main border knights were almost half, and the casualties of the city lord's guard also reached one-third. As for the royal knights, they are not under the jurisdiction of Duke, so there are no statistics.

This level of casualties almost means that the military force of Stormcastle has been destroyed, and the same casualty ratio also makes Duke feel very dissatisfied. It seems that there were more than a thousand armed forces in Storm Castle before, but it turned out that only knights could really go to battle, even the city lord's guard was very reluctant.

As for the knight's retinue or something, it was even more of a pure populace's servant, and it was completely useless except for the sparse shooting of bows and arrows, and it was not even cannon fodder.

Thousands of years of ancient Chinese art of war had taught Duke that there were not many soldiers, and that these knights, who had not received any military training, not only had little combat effectiveness on the battlefield, but would disrupt their own formation because of panic. That's why Duke chose to let the knights' followers organize the evacuation of the people instead of defending on the city walls, because they were really useless!

Military reform was imminent, and the medieval lord conscription system was completely unsuitable for the development of the times, and Duke was bound to develop a professional military system. However, if you want to be a professional soldier, then the most basic point is to take a leave of absence and let them concentrate on military training.

Now it's back to the old problem, that is, Storm Castle has no money, and all taxes and mineral income can support the conscription of knights and city lords' guards is already the limit, and it is too difficult to make a thousand knights' retinue take off production to become professional soldiers, which is where Duke's headache lies.

"I don't know how Abner porcelain is selling, it should be almost there, right?"

Duke muttered that on the day the porcelain was fired, Abner personally transported the porcelain to the mountain city closest to Stormcastle to sell it.

Located on the other side of Mont Saint-Michel, Alpine Citadel is the largest city in the vicinity of Stormcastle and the second largest city in the Andorran Princely Kingdom, where Stormcastle is located, after the royal capital.

The purpose of the fort was to serve as a shield for Alpine City, which is commonly known as a gun block. With the Storm Castle and Mont Saint-Michel as a natural defensive line, Alpine City has developed smoothly and has developed very well and is the central city of several small territories around.

Storm Castle is only about 100 kilometers away from Alpine City in a straight line, but it has to pass through Mont Saint-Michel, which causes the speed to drop significantly. There are no highways in this world, and you can only rely on horse-drawn carriages to cross mountains and mountains, so this distance of more than 100 kilometers, Abner's convoy walked for more than a day to arrive.

As soon as Abner arrived in Takayama Castle, he immediately went to the shop that used to sell pottery, because the sale of pottery and porcelain in Takayama Castle was monopolized by the castle lord's family, so it was the same everywhere.

"Abner, don't you hide in the castle in such a cold winter, aren't you afraid of being captured by monsters?"

As soon as Charlie, the shopkeeper of the pottery shop, saw Abner, he jokingly told him that the two of them had been trading for decades and knew each other very well.

"If you are taken away by the Ice Demon, I will not be captured. Alright Charlie, I've got a batch of good stuff for you to show you this time. Abner replied, and beckoned the apprentices to pull the carriage into the courtyard.

Charlie had no interest in Abner's words: "I've been looking at your broken pottery for decades, and there's nothing else to look at." ”

Hearing this, Abner replied with a smug smile on his face: "What I showed you this time is not porcelain, but porcelain!"

"What, porcelain?"

"That's right, Ceris porcelain from the Far East!"

Charlie's face was full of surprise when he heard Abner's confirmation, and then walked briskly to the carriage. When he lifted the cushioning and reinforced straw and saw the white porcelain plate, his face couldn't believe that Abner had really sent a cart full of porcelain from afar!

"The porcelain of the Cyris Empire, how can it appear in Storm Castle, it's the Sea of Death!"

"Nothing is impossible, the porcelain has already arrived here, a full three hundred crystal clear porcelain plates!"

"I want it all, you make a price!" Charlie immediately saw a business opportunity, these three hundred porcelain plates can definitely bring huge profits.

"Twenty gold coins a piece, no counteroffer!"

Abner directly quoted the price, which is also the price set by Duke before, after all, a large blue and white porcelain in this world can be auctioned at a sky-high price of tens of thousands of gold coins in the imperial capital and the Holy See, although his porcelain plate is only coarse porcelain, but twenty gold coins is not too much, you must know that the real Ceris Empire porcelain, the minimum is fifty gold coins.

"No problem, but this amount is too much, and I must report it to Lord Ott. ”

Abner nodded after hearing this, and didn't care, after all, ordinary ceramics are only a few copper coins, this is a transaction of up to six thousand gold coins, and it is normal for Charlie to be unable to call the shots as a shopkeeper.

Soon a small worker in the pottery shop went to the castle to report that Ott was the second son of Count Philip, the lord of Takayama Castle, and was in charge of the commerce of Takayama Castle. As a hereditary family for hundreds of years, the entire Alpine City is basically firmly controlled by the Fili family.

After waiting for about half an hour, I saw a young man dressed in gorgeous costumes walking over with a dozen entourage. Before he entered the pottery shop, he heard him shout flamboyantly: "I heard that there is porcelain sent from Storm Castle, let me see what kind of goods it is!"