Chapter 387: Mayor Dubof

On January 27, 1779 in the universal calendar of the continent of Gelintya, Lorist returned to the Rock Castle. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

This year, the family did not hold a New Year's celebration, firstly, because Lorist was not in the realm as the head of the Norton family, and secondly, it was a bit inappropriate to hold such a celebration during the war. However, the strategy to destroy the Iberian Kingdom was completed, Winston Province and the Southern Province were included in the sphere of influence of the four Northland Alliance, the Fisabrun family has been trapped in the three steppe provinces, and Lorist has another crown of governor of Windbri on his head, which almost means that Winston Province will also become the direct territory of the Norton family.

It is conceivable that although there is no New Year's celebration this year, tomorrow's New Year's celebration will be even more lively, and another group of nobles will defect to the Norton family. At that time, Lorist would also canonize a large number of territorial nobles and honorary nobles in recognition of their contributions to the family in these two years.

Although the news that the mountain barbarians were coming to attack the family territory at the end of last year did not cause panic among the people in the territory, the heavily guarded rock castle was still shrouded in an atmosphere of tension and slaughter. Lorist returned to the back fort of the central castle, only to find that only Deliana had come out to greet her one-year-old son. Upon inquiry, it was revealed that her two nieces, Aridori, and her sister Fenagari had gone to the new Barony of Dina in the province of Delemke, while Deliana refused to go with her for fear that the weather would freeze her precious son.

The other two newly acquired concubines did not expect Lorist to return in January, and at the end of last year, they each went back to their own families to celebrate the New Year together. Okay, just go, anyway, just have Diliana warm bed at night. However, Lorist still didn't get a good night's sleep, because this baby son was too noisy at night, either to feed or cry because his mother was not around, and Lorist tossed Deliana three or four times in a row, but he didn't close his eyes much all night.

Lorist was about to go to the study to catch up on sleep, and was yawning to the study, when he saw Schward appear in front of him: "Your Highness, Lord Tugger and Mr. Duboeuf have been waiting in the reception room for more than an hour. ”

It's no surprise that Targer arrived so early, but who is Duboff?

As soon as Schward saw Lorlist's confused expression, he knew that he couldn't remember: "Your Highness, Mr. Dubof was the former leader of the Five Swords Mercenary Regiment, and was later appointed by you as the mayor of Liangshan Town. ”

Oh, I remembered that back then, I hired a five-sword mercenary group to garrison the sentry post at the junction of the two mountains of the family territory and the Demon Dragon Mountain Range, as the first line of defense against the invasion of the mountain barbarians descending the mountain, providing timely alerts for the family. But later, he went to the mountain barbarian tribe and learned that the mountain barbarian tribe in the neighboring family territory was in civil strife, and he didn't care about going up and down the mountain to plunder for a while. Therefore, the outpost between the two mountains has been peaceful and of great importance, except for a few small-scale attacks by the barbarians in the two years since it was first established.

Later, the family developed the black mud swamp on this side of the territory, built a defensive wall between Turtle Mountain and Woniugang along the border of the territory, and built the Turtle Mountain Fortress and the Woniugang Fortress, stationed two guard battalions, and the sentry post between the two mountains outside the family territory could be abandoned, and the family terminated the employment agreement with the Five Swords Mercenary Group.

Lorist wanted to include the Five Swords Mercenary Group into the family armed forces after terminating the employment agreement, but the head of the Five Swords Mercenary Group, Dubof, rejected the proposal, saying that he was old and didn't want to continue his life of licking blood from the head of the knife, and the mercenary group was about to be disbanded, and whether to join the Norton family armed or not could allow those members of the mercenary group to choose freely.

However, Mr. Duboeuf was somewhat reluctant to live at the Two Hills Sentry Post, where he had lived for several years. Because of the peace in recent years, the two mountain sentry posts have developed into a small village and town, many mercenaries and adventurers use this as a base to go to the Demon Dragon Mountain Range for exploration, and there are also small merchants who are familiar with the customs of the mountain barbarians to go deep into the mountain barbarian tribe to trade goods, and drive some nimble mountain barbarians to use the specialties of the Demon Dragon Mountain Range to come to this small village and town of the sentry post to barter, making this small village and town a small window connecting the mountain barbarians.

It's just that at that time, Lorist had just returned from the mountain barbarians, and the encounter that could not be spoken to people made the mountain barbarians the biggest taboo in Lorist's heart, and he didn't expect to use this sentry post to infiltrate and influence the mountain barbarians, since the head of Dubov didn't want to leave this sentry post, Lorist also waved his pen and appointed him as the mayor of the newly named Liangshan Town, except for paying a tax to the family every year, the family did not interfere in the two mountain towns, and everything was laissez-faire. For Lorist, this place is outside the family territory anyway, and it doesn't matter if the family has it or not.

Until the family established the Volibell Intelligence Investigation Bureau, as the director, Tagel was keenly aware of this small town outside the family territory, and sent personnel to conduct a detailed investigation of the town, and found that the town was well developed and promising under the management of Dubof, the leader of the former five sword mercenary regiments. Moreover, the mayor of Duboff has always believed that the town of Two Mountains belongs to the territory of the Norton family, and has not bred ambitions because the family does not interfere in the town of Two Mountains. Every year, in addition to paying the family's taxes, the surplus funds are used to develop public service facilities and housing construction in Liangshan Town, making Liangshan Town a town with a population of more than 2,000 people, mainly hunting, collecting medicine and trading with the mountain barbarian tribes.

Two years ago, Targar had submitted a report on the town of Two Mountains to Lorlist, believing that the town could be brought under the management of the family and invested in its development, so that it could become a market for large-scale commodity trading with the Barbarian tribes, just like the trading house set up by the Kenmax family in the eastern part of the Northland to trade with the Barbarian tribes, which would not only allow the family to obtain a large number of precious medicinal materials and specialties produced in the Demon Dragon Mountains, but also use this to explore and understand the movements of the Barbarian tribes.

It's just that at that time, Lorist's mind was full of intrigue with the Second Highness and the strategy plan for the Duchy of Malades, coupled with the memory of the unbearable encounter of the mountain barbarian tribe, which made him ignore this report. Very casually approved a kneel when he knew it, and put it in the archives. But no matter how you escape, what should come will still come, and the threat of the mountain barbarian tribe to the family territory has always existed, and now it is finally imminent.

"Get me a basin of ice water to wash my face, and then bring them both to my study. Lorist felt that he should sober himself up and understand how the alarm of the impending invasion of the mountain barbarian tribe against the family had been obtained.

Targer and Duboff were soon taken to the study, where they reported to Lorist that he had raised the alarm.

The incident was first discovered by the mayor of the town of Two Hills, Dubof. Dubov reported that every autumn was the most active period for the various mountain barbarian tribes in the Demon Dragon Mountain Range, and the trade between the two mountain towns and the mountain barbarians was also the largest. When the mayor of Dubof inspected the trading market, he noticed a very strange phenomenon, most of the mountain barbarians who came to Liangshan Town this time were unwilling to bargain with the merchants, and even if they suffered losses, they did not care to complete the transaction, and most of the materials purchased were mainly iron tools and weapons.

This is not right, the mayor of Dubofu immediately became vigilant, it is not for nothing that the Shanman and the merchant trade are at a loss, but in the past few years, the Shanman who came to trade in the two mountain towns are all old oilmen, and their heads are turning faster than the other, and there are more and more merchants who are deceived. But this time these mountain barbarians are such an honest deal. I don't care that I have purchased so many iron tools and weapons, and it feels strange that I don't have all kinds of daily necessities that I used to favorite.

Mayor Dubof secretly found an old man, who had been rescued by Mayor Dubof before. That was the first time Lao Shanman went to Liangshan Town, and he met a group of strong mercenaries, and he took a fancy to a good white *** leopard skin that Lao Shanman took for sale, and he had to exchange it for an inferior long sword, and boasted that this was a divine blade. Lao Shanman touched it with the short dagger he brought, and the blade of the divine soldier was broken in two, and the old Shanman refused to change it, so the group of mercenaries accused Lao Shanman of breaking their divine blade, and rushed up to beat Lao Shanman to vomit blood.

At this time, the mayor of Dubofu happened to pass by, rescued the old Shanman, and punished the group of mercenaries after asking the facts, and since then the old Shanman has become friends with the mayor of Dubof, and has always had dealings, and often brings some rare specialties and medicinal materials to the house of the mayor of Dubof. With such a friendship, Mayor Dubof believed that Lao Shanman would reveal some news to him.

Sure enough, the old mountain barbarian told the mayor of Dubof that last year was the twelfth annual Kupavisen Festival of the mountain barbarian tribe, that is, the festival of the year when the mountain god Kupavisen, the mountain god most worshipped by the mountain barbarian tribe, was born, and all the mountain barbarian tribes held various commemorative celebrations and activities in that year, such as conducting a monthly blood sacrifice, slaughtering a large number of livestock to sacrifice to the mountain god, and all the patriarchs of the mountain barbarian tribes went to the Holy Land of Mount Smol Megen to participate in the Bavis Conference, of course, the participants in the conference were all big mountain barbarian tribes, and the patriarchs were all strong basen in various regions of the Demon Dragon Mountain Range, that is, the meaning of each lord。

The largest mountain barbarian tribe near the Norton family's territory is called the Habi Baba tribe, and the patriarch is Daqiang Basen, which is equivalent to the grand duke of the human state, and there are more than 20 mountain barbarian tribes under his jurisdiction. In the past, the Habi Baba tribe had been competing with another big mountain barbarian tribe for the name of Daqiang Basen, and this time I went to participate in the Baivis conference, and the mountain barbarian tribe finally gave in, and the patriarch of the Habi Baba tribe got his wish. It became a big strong Barson. After the conference came back, Daqiang Basen decided that the next step should be to give the flatlands under the mountain some powerful looks, the following mountain barbarian tribes have received mobilization orders, it is likely that next year the combined army of the mountain barbarian tribes will go down the mountain to plunder, so this year, the mountain barbarians who came to trade the most purchased iron tools, they want to melt these iron tools to cast arrows and weapons.

The old mountain man advised the mayor of Dubofu that it was best to avoid it next year, leave the town of Liangshan, and not stand in front of the army of the mountain barbarians to avoid accidents. The army of mountain barbarians who came down this time was at least 100,000 in size. Daqiang Barson heard the report of his Shanban that the Norton family's territory is now developing, and he quickly hit the idea to the Norton family's territory, and I heard that some merchants have been bought by Shanban to become their spies, and they will lead the way for the Shanban army at that time......

After the mayor of Dubof got the news, he reported it to the family, and Tagar personally went to investigate, and found that the news was true, not only did an old Shanman befriend the mayor of Dubof and revealed the news, but also many Shanban who came to trade under the temptation of fine wine and some exquisite luxury goods also revealed the information that the mountain barbarian army was about to descend the mountain and plunder next year.

At the end of November, Lao Shanman came to Liangshan Town for the last time and told the mayor of Dubofu that a group of grass barbarians had come to the Habi Baba tribe, and they came to ask Daqiang Basen to immediately organize a large army to invade the Norton family's territory, and swore that the Norton family's territory was now extremely empty, and there were not many troops in the territory. When Lao Shanman went down the mountain, he didn't know if Daqiang Basen had agreed to this group of barbarian requests, he was just worried that Mayor Dubof would not be able to catch off guard and suffer an unwarranted disaster, so he asked Mayor Dubofu to avoid it first.

However, just as Lorist expected, it was impossible for the mountain barbarian tribe to go down the mountain to plunder when winter was approaching, even if the big strong Barson wanted to agree to the request of the barbarians, it was impossible to do it, and without enough cold clothing, the mountain barbarians could not go back to their nest if they could go down the mountain, and a large area of them might freeze to death without even using knives and guns as soon as the snow fell. Lorist estimates that it will not be until April at the earliest, after the rainy season has passed, the mountain barbarian army will come down.

More than 100,000 mountain barbarian army, Lorist sneered, the current Norton family is not his father's era, hundreds of mountain barbarians can plunder the family's cattle and sheep, and run rampant in the family territory. Today's Norton family is simply a behemoth, the strength is comparable to a kingdom, whether it is armaments or family weapons, I don't know how much more than those primitive equipment of the mountain barbarian army, not to mention 100,000 mountain barbarians, even more than 100,000 is also food delivery.

"Your Highness, I have here a map of the gold mine to dedicate to you. Mayor Duboeuf stood up, carefully took out a tattered piece of vellum from his bosom, and placed it on the table in front of Lorlist.

Tugger was stunned, obviously not expecting this, and it seemed that he didn't know that Mayor Duborough had this map of the gold mines.

"Actually, I didn't find this gold mine, and this gold mine also has an owner. "Two years ago, an old mercenary was hit by a poisoned arrow from the mountain barbarians, and I found him unconscious while hunting, but unfortunately he was poisoned and could not be saved, so he gave me this map on his deathbed. In the past two years, I have carefully searched and found that this gold mine is here, in the depths of the Black Forest, between Woniugang and Rock Castle, in the depths of this black forest, there is a hill and a stream, where the gold mine is located. However, there are now twenty or thirty thousand mountain barbarian tribes in this area.

Your Highness, to be honest, I also have selfish intentions, and I have also thought of monopolizing this gold mine. But I found that I couldn't deal with this mountain barbarian tribe, so I can only dedicate this gold mine map to you. ”

Lorist admired the frankness of the mayor of Dubof, and then he remembered the mountain barbarian cavalry he encountered on the way from Maple Grove Villa to Rock Castle, after the great power of the arrows of Choske, those mountain barbarian cavalry abandoned their comrades who were hit by the arrows and fled into the Black Forest, and later went to check the corpses of those mountain barbarians and found that they all had a small leather bag with golden sand around them, and he suspected that those mountain barbarians might have a gold mine in their hands, and it seems that the gold mine and mountain barbarian tribe that the mayor of Dubof said was very likely to be the mountain barbarian cavalry he encountered back then。

"Thank you, Mayor Dubof, for your contribution to the family, which will not treat its loyal people badly, and we thank you for your efforts. Lorist stood up and thanked him.

"You're welcome. It's been a privilege to work for the Norton family. Mayor Duboff was flattered and hurriedly returned the salute.

"Targer, you take Mayor Dubof to rest in the Rock Castle for a few days, and when the Flying Tiger Legion arrives, we will hold a military meeting to discuss how to deal with the mountain barbarian army, and then we need to trouble Mayor Dubof to introduce us to the situation of the mountain barbarians. Let's do it first. ”

"Yes, Your Highness. Tagger stood up.

"Thank you, Your Highness, I am happy to serve the family. Said Mayor Dubof.

...... (To be continued.) )