Chapter 554: Count Midales

Grand Duke Peterson was a little anxious, and the decision he had to make now was a matter of life and death for the Peterson Chamber of Commerce. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info He never thought he would be forced to such a point, and he was a junior teacher at Dawn Academy who had dealt with him before. Because this little teacher of Dawn Academy has now become the Grand Duke of the Northland, the new Sword Saint. Although there had been friendly exchanges in the past, Archduke Peterson embodied more of an approachable demeanor to courteous Corporal, but who would have thought that this former college teacher would now become a big man that Archduke Peterson needs to look up to......

Look at the letter that the little teacher of Dawn Academy just sent to him, there is only a short line on the letter: The next one is you.

The sweat on the forehead of Grand Duke Peterson was down, it was a letter written by the Sword Master to himself, and a short sentence expressed many meanings. Grand Duke Peterson knew very well that he would either break away from the business alliance and establish an independent state, like the Mayflower Chamber of Commerce in the Cheeked Chamber of Commerce, or he would soon face the forces of the Norton family. Even though the territory of the Peterson Chamber of Commerce is now full of castle fortresses, countless trenches have been dug, and countless defensive positions have been arranged. But Archduke Peterson still had no certainty in his heart. The Norton family is invincible, and their reputation for invincibility is not boastful, and just one cannon makes people feel helpless and headaches.

Archduke Peterson regretted in his heart, if he had been more active and harder after he had been released last year, and perhaps Lorist would not have written this letter to himself. It is precisely because the Business Alliance still insisted on the main battle and refused to admit defeat after the decisive defeat in the city of Bluvia, so Lorist sent troops in June this year, occupied four provinces in one go, severed the connection between the northern and southern provinces of the Business Alliance, and forced the Mayflower Chamber of Commerce to go south and break away from the Business Alliance to establish an independent state.

Lorist wrote such a sentence to Archduke Peterson, which also means that the Peterson Chamber of Commerce must make a choice, and it depends on which path Archduke Peterson will take whether to live or die. If he refused, he would continue to be tied to the Two-Headed Dragon Chamber of Commerce would mean becoming an enemy of Lorist and the Norton family, and the Grand Duke Peterson had no confidence that he would be able to resist the attack of the Norton family's armed forces on the territory of the Chamber of Commerce, and the Peterson Chamber of Commerce would soon face annihilation.

But if you want to break away from the business alliance and establish an independent country like the Chicked Chamber of Commerce and the Mayflower Chamber of Commerce, don't forget that the territory of the Peterson Chamber of Commerce and the territory of the Two-Headed Dragon Chamber of Commerce are close at hand. Archduke Peterson dares to guarantee that the president of the Two-Headed Dragon Chamber of Commerce, the supreme consul of the Business Alliance, Archduke Cumberlet, will definitely vent his anger on the Peterson Chamber of Commerce, then his own Chamber of Commerce territory will clearly become a buffer zone between the Freedom Alliance and the Business Alliance......

It's really unwilling, when did the Peterson Chamber of Commerce become a pawn at the mercy of others in the eyes of others...... But there is no way to do it, the Norton family forces withdrew from Tenarigue Province and Serunica Province in November, and handed over the defense task of these two provinces to the garrison troops sent by the newly arrived Central and South Kingdom, and then withdrew most of the troops to the Maweforin Province around the Faliqiu Plain, although this province has belonged to the newly restored Grand Duchy of Kabasi, but because of the blessing of the Norton family forces, this province is still a blank land, but the Norton family forces gathered here to cause great pressure and threat to the Peterson Chamber of Commerce.

Mawiforin Province was originally the territory of the Kingdom of Trimber, and after the Merchant Union annexed the Kingdom of Trimber, it divided the country's fifteen counties into five provinces, in addition to the province of Mawiforin, there are also the provinces of Gerodana, Chalbuco, Cuvadello and Rioriga. Among them, the province of Charbuco has become the territory of the Petersen Chamber of Commerce, and the territory of the Double-Headed Dragon Chamber of Commerce is in the province of Rioriga, because there is a huge quartz mountain, which is the best raw material base for the production of glass, and the Two-Headed Dragon Chamber of Commerce has taken a fancy to occupy the past.

Since the province of Mawefolin was swept away by the Norton family forces, the business alliance entrusted the province of Gerodana to the Peterson Chamber of Commerce as a jurisdiction, because if the Norton family forces invaded again, the province of Gerodana would be followed by the territory of the Peterson Chamber of Commerce, and the Grand Duke of Cumberlet hoped that the Peterson Chamber of Commerce could take on the defense in this direction. Now that the Norton family is armed in the province of Mawiforin, even fools know who their next target will be......

Archduke Peterson is really undecided, if he does not break away from the business alliance, the Norton family will definitely attack after the New Year. The problem now is that the business alliance has no power to fight back, and can only rely on stubborn defense to delay the war until the Norton family forces are exhausted. As for the heavy casualties and sacrifices paid for such a stubborn defense, it is no longer a matter of concern, as long as such heavy casualties can be used to make the Norton family forces feel the determination of the Commercial Alliance to resist, so that they are unwilling to attack the remaining seven provinces of the Commercial Alliance, that will be the biggest victory.

It's just that Archduke Peterson is very skeptical that this rigid strategy developed by the business alliance will work, after all, his own chamber of commerce is the first to bear the brunt. Since dealing with the Norton family, Archduke Peterson has seen first-hand how the business alliance forces have suffered many times at the hands of the Norton family forces. To put it mildly, it was the Norton family that defeated and crushed the entire commercial alliance, so that the business alliance would be in the current situation.

Perhaps this stubborn strategy of the business alliance can work, and the seven provinces still have a population of nearly 4.5 million, which is a huge manpower advantage, even if ten fight one, it is enough to consume the Norton family's armed more than 100,000 horses. However, Archduke Peterson also knew in his heart that when that time came, the provinces of Gerodana and Charbuco would also be finished.

Especially in the province of Chalbuco, as the territory of the Chamber of Commerce, the Peterson Chamber of Commerce has invested almost all the funds accumulated by the Chamber of Commerce in the past ten years for development and construction, if it refuses to break away from the business alliance, then the attack of the Norton family's armed forces will not be polite, even if it can hold these two provinces, it will be ruined, and the efforts of the Peterson Chamber of Commerce in the past ten years will be in vain, and I am afraid that the Peterson Chamber of Commerce will have no chance to recover at that time.

The most contradictory thing about Archduke Peterson is that he refuses to break away from the business alliance Peterson Chamber of Commerce for fear that it will not end well. But if you break away from the business alliance and build an independent country, you won't get much benefit, why does the business alliance grit its teeth and insist on refusing to negotiate peace? Without him, as long as the peace talks, the business alliance will lose too much benefit, first, those chambers of commerce that have lost the territory of the chamber of commerce are unwilling to give up, such as the Fude Chamber of Commerce, the Liward Chamber of Commerce, the Visia Chamber of Commerce, etc., and the second is that the territory lost by the business alliance has become a foregone conclusion, and it will never come back. The third is that the Freedom Alliance that the Norton family helped to establish has become a thorn in the eyes of the Business Alliance, which is an unending rival, and the Business Alliance cannot bear the shame of making peace with the Freedom Alliance.

If the Peterson Chamber of Commerce betrays the business alliance and declares an independent state, then the anger of the business alliance will definitely pour out on the head of the Peterson Chamber of Commerce, the territory of the two sides is adjacent, and the Archduke of Cumberlet can't deal with Lorist, but it is more than enough to clean up one Archduke Peterson. Grand Duke Peterson was unsure that the Norton forces would come to their aid. But even if Lorist is willing to send troops to support, the territory of the Peterson Chamber of Commerce that has become a battlefield will still be finished, and the performance of the business alliance has been fully exerted in the war with the alliance forces of the Central and Southern Kingdoms, and they will definitely not be polite to the territory of the betrayer.

It looks like a dead end to the left and right!, Archduke Peterson sighed. At this moment there was a knock at the door, and an attendant came in and announced: "Your Highness, Lord Count Miledas is here." ”

"Oh, please. ”

The Miledas family should be regarded as a famous family in the business alliance, and the main business of their family chamber of commerce is to open a large hotel, and they are also one of the few lords and anti-war factions in the business alliance, because the war together means a big fortune for the Miledas Chamber of Commerce. Just like the Dausleg Hotel in Moriente City, it was so prosperous and full of guests in the past, but after the business alliance became hostile to those countries in the central and southern regions, the Dausleg Hotel was full of people, and finally it became a warehouse and a raw material processing plant. For a chamber of commerce like the Miledas family, which ran a single industry, war was the thing they hated the most.

Count Miledas angrily entered the study: "Cheek, why don't you object to the proposal of the Grand Duke of Cumberlet to merge the Chamber's territory this time? This is obviously the old fellow's ill intentions, sitting back and enjoying the results, and sharing the consequences and costs of the defeat on our heads! Are you willing to share the Chamber's territory you have worked so hard to develop with those vampires?"

Check was the nickname of Archduke Peterson, and he and Count Miledas had grown up together as close friends, and the two families had some twists and turns.

"Hey, why are you still so grumpy. Archduke Peterson reluctantly persuaded: "Mead, in fact, Archduke Cumberlet's proposal to merge the territory of the Chamber of Commerce is also for the sake of our war with the Norton family. Now that the business alliance only has the territory of seven provinces left, the situation is grim, so the Grand Duke of Comberlet is ready to abolish the fiefs of all the territorial nobles in the seven provinces first, and unify them for the allocation and utilization of resources, which is also to better defeat the Norton family forces and prepare for the final counterattack......"

"Liege, the last counterattack?" Count Miledas scoffed, sneering and exposing the cruel truth: "Do we still have the strength to fight back? The territory is getting smaller and smaller, from thirty-six provinces to seven provinces are still stubborn, the southern provinces have been lost, the Chikde Chamber of Commerce and the Mayflower Chamber of Commerce have also betrayed and separated, the newly established ten garrison corps and two field regiments have also been swept away, and now they are all shrunk in the territory as turtles and are ashamed to say anything about counterattack, can you still be tough?"

Grand Duke Peterson smiled bitterly: "Mead, people have to have some hope, they know that they are empty words, but they can always leave some thoughts in their hearts." Besides, I have an armed corps of the Chamber of Commerce in my hands, and two garrison corps are being formed, so as long as we get through this most difficult period, we are not without the possibility of a counteroffensive. As Archduke Cumberlet said, hold on, and the night will be longer and the dawn will come. We have persevered for one hundred and sixty-seven years, witnessing the separation and collapse of that terrible northern empire with our efforts and sacrifices. Now that we are persevering, we may not be able to reborn the glorious ...... of establishing a business alliance again."

"Do you believe these nonsense of that old fellow of Cumberlet?" Count Miledas sneered mercilessly: "The title of the number one power in the Gelinthia continent has been memorized for two or three years, and the number one strong army in the central and southern parts of the country has been beaten to ashes, and the old guy has only one mouth left to succeed now! It is the support and commercial trade of all the countries in the south-central part of the continent, and the dedication of the people of the Plains of Falis and the city of Morent who did not hesitate to sacrifice their lives for freedom!

What do we have left now? The countries in the south-central continent have torn up the trade agreements they signed with us, and have re-sent coalition forces to block our borders and trade routes, and the Norton family has armed troops in the province of Mawefulim, in fact, they don't need to attack at all, a blockade alone can collapse us. We still have seven provinces to hold, and if we hold on, we will be self-sufficient. But let me ask you a question, where are you going to get enough salt?"

"Uh......" Archduke Peterson said, I really didn't expect that now the territory of the business alliance is not near the sea, salt was a neglected material in the business alliance in the past, and those who have money eat it are all high-grade rock salt purchased from outside, and various chambers of commerce have sales. If you don't have money, take a bucket to hide the golden bay and boil it in the seawater, although it is a little bitter, you can't eat it. Seriously, salt is the only necessity in the business alliance that is not monopolized by a chamber of commerce.

"Don't take it lightly because you have rock salt reserves in your chamber of commerce warehouse, I think this old guy is much more vigilant than you, and his proposal to merge the chamber of commerce territory this time is likely to be the idea of attacking this batch of rock salt in your chamber of commerce's material warehouse. Because everyone knows that your Chamber of Commerce armed the Rock Salt Warehouse in the Ayago Kingdom back then, didn't they laugh at your Chamber of Commerce at that time and didn't even let go of those worthless rock salts? This amount of rock salt is enough for hundreds of thousands of people in your Chamber of Commerce territory to eat for more than ten years, who would have thought that now your rock salt would become a scarce material for the Business Alliance......

Grand Duke Peterson was a little stunned, he also knew about moving the rock salt warehouse back then, but the Waiago Kingdom was rich in rock salt, except for rock salt, there was nothing valuable, the convoy of the Peterson Chamber of Commerce had to return to the territory after transporting grain and grass materials, and most of the vehicles were empty, so the steward ordered the rock salt in the warehouse to be transported back, which was indeed ridiculed by other chambers of commerce for a while, but I didn't expect that now these rock salts would be worth a hundred times.

"I don't understand why you agreed to the old fellow's proposal to merge the realms, aren't you worried that all the investments in the chamber of commerce's realms will be in vain?" said Count Miledas angrily.

Since the loss of the southern provinces of the Commercial Alliance and the Chikde Chamber of Commerce, the Mayflower Chamber of Commerce has successively separated from the Commercial Alliance and established an independent state, coupled with the signing of mutual assistance agreements between the countries of the Central and Southern Central and the Free Alliance to garrison the provinces of Serunica and Tenarigue, which is equivalent to tearing up the trade agreement signed with the Commercial Alliance, and re-sealing the borders and trade routes. The morale of the chambers of commerce of the business alliance has plummeted, and there is no longer hope of victory. At this time, Archduke Cumberlet put forward a proposal to cancel the territory of the Chamber of Commerce, and prepared to unify the territory of these seven provinces into the jurisdiction of the Commercial Alliance, so as to concentrate all kinds of materials to deal with the invasion of the Norton family's armed forces, and prepare to persist in a long war of resistance, and the Commercial Alliance will never bow its head and admit defeat!

For those chambers of commerce that have lost their territory in the Chamber of Commerce, Archduke Comberlet's proposal is in their hands, so they firmly support it. But for those chambers of commerce that had their territories in the seven provinces, the proposal was detrimental to their interests, but the Grand Duke of Comberlet, having decided to compensate the chambers of commerce for the merger of the territories of the chambers, had reluctantly passed the proposal. Archduke Peterson also voted in favor.

But there are also some chambers of commerce that are firmly opposed to this proposal, and the Miledas Chamber of Commerce is the most staunch opponent. The loss of the inn's business had a great impact on the Miledas family, and they could only devote their energy to the development of the territory of the Chamber of Commerce, and finally let the territory have some income, and the business alliance was about to merge, how could this not make Count Miledas furious......

"Look at the map, the Norton family is about to march into the city, and they can't keep the territory of the Chamber of Commerce anyway, so I don't care if the territory is merged, it's better to get compensation than to be ruined by the war......" Archduke Peterson confided his distress.

"Compensation?" Count Miledas snorted coldly: "Do you still believe the words of that old fellow of Cumberlet? Didn't you listen to what he said, this time the compensation can only be given at most twenty percent first, and the rest can only be fully allocated after the victory of this war." Because the immediate task is to defend against the invasion of the Norton family......"

"Are you sick in the brain or caught in the door!Can this war be won? A hundred years or two hundred years?Is it possible to win?" Count Miledas slapped the map on the table angrily, and then Lorlist's letter to Archduke Peterson was swept up by the palm wind: "Hey, what is this? Next is you, what do you mean, who wrote it...... Lorist ...... Blood Sword Saint ......"

"I'm already too busy to take care of myself, and I'm about to get into trouble......," Archduke Peterson reluctantly said about his contact with the Norton family and Lorliste, "Look, this is a letter from the Blood Sword Saint to me......"

Count Miledas laughed, "God-given opportunity, this is great, we can break away from the business alliance!"

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