Chapter 342 Recommendations

Torrential rain outside the window. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

It's the middle of March, and in the Gelinthia continent, March is the rainy season, and the rainy season in the south of the continent will even last for nearly two months. However, the Northland is located in the central part of the Gallinthia continent map, and because the towering Magic Dragon Mountains block the convection of the eastern and western oceanic climates, the rainy season in the Northland is generally only one month or less than twenty days.

Lorist has returned to Rock Castle and handed over the strategy of the Duchy of Madras to Boderfinger. After becoming the Grand Duke of the Northland, as advised by his retainers, he should no longer take the lead in running around, as long as he grasps the strategic direction of the family, and there are many family knights and civil officials to be responsible for the implementation of specific affairs.

Now there are as many as sixteen golden knights in the family, and if it weren't for the fact that there was a second-level great swordsman by the side of the Grand Duke of Madras, Lorist would not have bothered to make this trip. Because of the surprise attack on the province of West Dgrad, Lorist missed the production date of Diliana again. While Lorist was enjoying the glory of the occupiers and the service of two new loves, the young aunt of the Diner family added another young son to the Norton family at Rock Castle.

Lorist stared at the map for a long time, and Fat told Schward to fetch two more candlesticks to make the study look brighter.

"Locke, are you worried about the Principality of Madras's strategy? The Rock Legion has taken the city of Kebo and has cut off the supply of food for the 100,000 or so enemies who confronted us at the riverside ferry camp. From the books seized from the city of Kebo, we found that before the rainy season they had planned to transport a batch of grain and grass to the past, but now that they are gone, and when they survive the rainy season, I believe that the army of the Principality of Madras is almost starving, and there is no way out but to surrender......"

Lorist shook his head: "The overall situation of the Duchy of Madras has been decided, and it can't make any waves. I have ordered the Flying Tiger Legion to move west as soon as the rainy season is over, and make a forced landing of more than 100,000 enemy troops. In fact, you have also read the report of Bodfinger, the cut off the supply of food and grass has already made the enemy find out that the city of Kebo is occupied by us, but the onset of the rainy season has made it impossible for them to counterattack.

We already know that the enemy on that side is 56,000 people of the Sea Mountain Legion, 10,000 each of the garrisons of the city of Vannades and the city of Kebo, as well as 20,000 defenders transferred from the small mountain range of Hinderson and more than 10,000 private troops of the nobles of the Duchy of Madras. It's just that we didn't give him a chance.

Without the supply of food and grass in the city of Kebo, the army of the Principality of Madras will have a hard time in the rainy season. But I estimate that with their surplus grain and grass and the horses and mules in the slaughterhouse, they will still be able to survive the rainy season half hungry. The Flying Tigers were not sent west to fight them for a decisive battle, and I have written to inform Tiger Ross that his main task is to trap the enemy in the camp. Because the end of the rainy season is the harvest period of winter wheat, I will not allow the enemy to go out of the camp to harvest winter wheat to overcome the difficulties of food shortage.

According to our plan, the Flying Tigers besieged the enemy camp, and Henned led his Shahin legion to the small mountain range of Hindsen to besiege the seven castle fortresses, and without the logistical supplies of the city, the remaining 20,000 defenders there would have to surrender for two months at most. The Kenmath family will go to West Degrad Province to change the defense with the Rock Legion, and let the Rock Legion take a boat back to Shiloas Island, waiting for the next move. As for the light cavalry of the Philim family, it was up to them to sweep away the rebellious nobles of the province of Delemk. However, most of the nobles of the Duchy of Madras have fallen into our hands, and I believe that this is a very easy job for Baron Felim. ”

Shi Fatzi opened a folder and looked at it: "Locke, the nobles of the Duchy of Madras captured from the Grand Duchy's Mansion after the Rock Legion occupied Edrith City are thirty-eight, and according to the list of captured titles and canonizations, the total number of nobles in the Duchy is sixty-three. Originally, there should be more than eighty, but a few years ago, the second prince ravaged the province of Demke and exterminated more than twenty families. The nobles of the territory who went to the Grand Duke's Mansion this time were basically not considered cronies of the Grand Duke of Madras. Because the Grand Duke's henchmen either served in the Haishan Legion or served as garrisons outside, we should not be careless at the end of the Duchy of Madras, lest we suffer the backlash of those men before they died.

Also, the cronies and nobles of the Grand Duke of Madras, although they did not go to the Grand Duke's palace to attend the welcome banquet, their ladies and relatives all went, and they also fell into our hands. The more than a hundred ladies and young masters we captured in the Grand Duke's Mansion were all family members of these nobles. I wonder if we can use this to recruit those nobles to surrender, as long as they surrender with their troops, we can allow them to leave the Duchy of Madras with their families and belongings and go wherever they want, and we will not stop them, and we will not hand them over to His Royal Highness. I think this may break their will to resist......"

Loris nodded: "Okay, you can do this, I will write to Borg and Rose to cooperate with you, so that we can win the victory with the least casualties and the slightest cost, and I hope that everything in the Duchy of Madras will be settled by June." ”

"Locke, if we let go of those cronies and nobles of the Grand Duke of Madras, will there be any objections from the Second Highness?" Although the Second Highness is nominally the former king of Antinac, the knights of the Norton family generally call him His Majesty in person, and still call him the Second Highness in private, and Shi Fatzi is no exception.

"Leave him alone, even if those nobles are traitors who conspire with the Grand Duke of Madras to rebel against the Empire, there is no need for us to sacrifice our family's loyal soldiers for these rebellions. If you want to arrest these nobles, let the Second Highness arrest them himself, and there is no benefit to us, we have no need for this, and we have no obligation to do this. "After more than ten years of lordship, Lorist has become more and more integrated into this world, more and more like a real lord. Causing some chaos to the royal family and the upper lords is something that every nobleman in the Gelinthia Continent likes to see.

Shi Fatzi grinned: "I know, but what about the thirty-eight nobles who were captured?"

"If it is the old territorial nobles of the former Krisson Empire, the viscount and above will be reduced by one rank, and the baron will be reduced, and there will be no way to reduce them, and they will be transferred to Winston Province in the future. If it is the nobles of the territory that the Grand Duke of Madras canonized himself, then we will not recognize their titles and domains, release them, confiscate two-thirds of their property, and return the rest to them, so that they can go wherever they want. Lorist replied.

"Wow, there aren't so many territorial nobles now, I roughly estimated, and there are only about twenty left. Shi Fatzi looked at the list in his hand, and remembered one more thing: "Locke, what if those cronies and nobles of the Grand Duke of Madras still want to keep their titles?"

"This, tell them that the title realm will be reduced by one and become the vassal lords of our Norton family, and we will accept their submission on the grounds that they have performed meritorious service. The Grand Duke of Madras is not incompetent, he must have something to do with it, we might as well give it a try, maybe these people can also add some help to our Norton family. ”

Lorist thought for a while and said, "By the way, the Yuchenko family and the Sabri family don't want to reduce and transfer their seals, just let them become our vassal lords, but their territories still need to be adjusted." ”

Well, the Yuchenko family and the Sabri family are the families of the two new beauties of Lorlist, relying on their daughters to get into Lorlist's bed, these two families not only exempted from punishment, but also smoothly changed the camp of the court, I don't know how many people have died of envy. At the same time, it also shows that the head of the Norton family, the new Grand Duke of Northland, is an emotional and responsible nobleman, just because he did not pull out the ruthless......

Shi Fatzi smiled: "I heard that there was a lot of trouble some time ago?"

Lorist touched his nose a little embarrassed, and returned to Rock Castle from Edrith City, and he brought back his two new lovers as a matter of course. As a result, Miss Dina was angry, my two sisters didn't even care about their reputations, they followed you, and let your young aunt give birth to a son for you, but you used the excuse to attack the Duchy of Madras not only missed your aunt's birth date, but also brought back two beautiful booty, it was too deceitful, the old lady fought with you, you ruthless bastard!

"How to settle it?" Shi Fatzi is very interested, although Miss Diner loves to be jealous and petty, but she has a good impression among the retainers and knights, one is that she herself has become a silver female knight after hard work, and the other is that she and Lorist have conflicts and tantrums are in private, and they are more knowledgeable, even when they tossed their sister to the throne, they first asked the opinions of several important retainers of the Norton family, and then immediately gave up this plan when they saw that it was inviolable, instead of continuing to entangle with Lorlist.

"Nothing, I promised her to transfer the Diner family's territory from the Kingdom of Antinac to the province of Delemk, and at the same time accept them as our vassals. Lorist smiled bitterly and said, "And I promised to go out and take their sisters with me in the future, and she said that I would never be allowed to go out and bring back a few beautiful women." ”

"Haha......" Fat Shi laughed.

Lorist went to the wine cabinet and took a bottle of fruit wine, and poured a glass for Shi Fatzi after opening it.

"By the way, my lord, the Knight of Malek has sent a report asking for punishment, asking for responsibility for the riots and massacres that took place in Edrith City. Shi Fatzi picked up a blue folder he carried with him and took out a brown paper document: "This is yesterday afternoon, you can take a look." ”

Lorist took the document and glanced at it, and then made a gesture that surprised Fat Shi, he put the document on the candle flame and lit it, watching the flame rise and burn.

"Locke, what are you doing? This is to keep the bottom......" Shi Fat was stunned.

Lorist shook his head: "This document does not need to be left behind, and all the reports on the riots of the people in Edrith City are not left on paper. In addition, I will send a commendation order to the knight of Marek and ask him to report the list of meritorious personnel. He handled this riot correctly, very decisively and crisply. I had already told them that the city of Adrise was the lair of the Grand Duke of Madras for forty years, and that the 100,000 inhabitants of the city were all related to the Madras family. We only have 10,000 men stationed in the garrison, and if it weren't for the ruthless and decisive handling of the Malek Knights, I dare to conclude that the provincial capital of West Degrad would have immediately launched a great resistance as soon as we were driven out of the city.

In the entire province of West Degrad, except for one city of Edrise, the Madras family did not canonize any of the principality nobles there, but established nearly forty pastoral farms, gathering a population of nearly 200,000. The families of the Seamount Legionnaires lived here, so this is the reason why the Seamount Legion was the most elite family armed under the Grand Duke of Madras, because the Grand Duke of Madras almost kidnapped their families, and if they did not fight well, they would be affected by their families, which forced them to fight to the death to win.

According to the roster of soldiers of the Seamount Legion seized from the Grand Duke's Palace, I asked the Voliber Intelligence Investigation Bureau in Tagger to collect letters and items from the families of the soldiers, and send them to the Seamount Legion after the rainy season to break up the soldiers' resistance. The instigators of the Edrith City riot were clearly aware of this and provoked the people to riot, in order to stop our actions so that the Sea Seamount Legion could continue to fight us in the province of Demke, and wait for time to see a change in the situation.

Hehe, it's a pity that they are delusional, the overall situation has been determined by a few conspiracies in the face of strong strength can not be on the table at all, they did not expect that the West Degrad Province will be the replacement territory that we ceded to the Kenmeth family, after the reshuffle of the great migration, no matter what conspiracies and tricks there is no soil for its survival, when the time comes, who will be dumbfounded. ”

According to the agreement with the Kenmath family to exchange territories, the total population of the Kenmaz family in the eastern part of the Northland is now nearly 340,000, which is the result of the Kenmaz family's efforts to slowly collect the displaced people in the past ten years. The Kenmath family will take 250,000 of them to West Degrad Province, while the Norton family will be responsible for vacating the original inhabitants of West Ddegrad Province so that the people who have migrated from the Kenmas family can immediately have good fields and homes.

To put it mildly, the Kenmaz family moved people from eastern Northland to West Grad province, and the original inhabitants of West Grad province moved to eastern Northland. According to Shi Fatzi, this is a poor toss on both sides. However, for the Kenmax family, it is better to bring their own lords to move over to a magpie's nest dove, otherwise a single lord will not be able to toss and comfort in the past few years.

"Locke, the Seamount Legion, and the soldiers of the garrison corps will also go to the eastern region of the Northland for three years of hard labor once they surrender?"

Lorist thought for a while and replied: "How to develop the eastern part of the Northland still has to wait, the first thing to move in West Dgrad Province is the families of those Haishan legion soldiers and the families of those garrison soldiers, so that they can adapt to the environment of the Northland first." Then there are the Artisans and their families, who are the easiest to integrate into our family, and because there is no one more important to them than our Norton family, they are given preferential treatment, allowing our family's workshops to prioritize the personnel they need from among these artisans.

As for the Legion of the Seamounts and the soldiers who were stationed in the province of Dramk after their surrender, I hope to build a straight road from Vandenas to Corbo and to the Northland within two years. I really don't understand what the former Krisson Empire did, if you build a straight road, it will only take five days to get from Vandenas City to the Northland, and you have to triple the distance of that road crookedly, making the five-day journey more than fifteen days......"

Lorist's complaint made Fat Shi laugh: "Locke, you don't know how much effort it took to build this avenue for the Krisson Empire back then. First, they were resisted by the territorial nobles, because the construction of a straight road would pass through the territories of many territorial nobles, and their request for road tolls was rejected by the empire, so they also opposed letting the avenue pass through their territory, and in the end they had no choice but to build this road along the edge of the territory, which is all recorded.

The second point is that the construction of this road has fed the stomachs of many nobles, and the road construction in the province of Demke is famous in the history of the empire for its high cost and time, and it took a total of seven years to complete, which is equivalent to the construction of the same seven roads in other provinces. I remember that there was a newspaper that sang a hymn to this road, saying that this twisting road was specially built in order to fully transport the production of various noble territories to the granary city of Kebo, the granary of the empire. ”

Lorist also laughed a few times: "I don't care about what happened back then, but I will never allow such a situation to occur in the sphere of influence under our jurisdiction. Anyway, all the territories of Demke Province will be re-canonized, and the surrender of the Principality of Madras is expected to be more than 100,000, just let them build roads, how much time can be saved by a straight road, not to mention that militarily it can also allow us to dispatch people as soon as possible. Within two years, I needed the straight to be completed. ”

"Your Highness. "Fat Shi stood up, since Lorist became the Grand Duke of the Northlands, he was also called His Royal Highness by his retainers and knights, and only a few people still called Lorist an Lord. Fat Man like Shi privately calls Locke by this title, but when talking about official business, he still calls Lorist His Highness.

"The bad news is that there will be another big overrun on the family budget this year. In addition to helping the Kenmaz and Shaheen families with the exchange of territories, we will also be responsible for the development and construction of the Shaheen family's original territories in the eastern part of the Northland and the southwestern part of the Northland, as well as the relocation of residents of West Degrad Province to the eastern part of the Northland. And our next military operation is the Flying Tiger Legion's conquest of the usurper Queen Kerry of the Kingdom of Antinac.

Now you're going to build this straight road in the province of Drymke, and our family's budget is already overrun by six million goldfords, and it seems to me that building the straight is more important than the war. Therefore, Your Highness, for the sake of the balance and security of the family's finances, I propose to temporarily stop the war against the Kingdom of Antinac, and in order to restore the Second Highness to the throne, we will overspend our family by nearly one million gold fords, which I personally think is a very, very unwise act. ”

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