Chapter 435: Messengers and Conditions

As soon as the Grand Duke of Fisabrun said that the messenger sent by the Grand Duke of Handra had been in the barracks for four days, Lorist stopped. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info and so on, it seems that something is wrong......

Lorist thought for a moment, and looked at Grand Duke Fisabrun with a hesitant face, what does this old guy want to do? The envoy sent by Grand Duke Handra should naturally be sent to see the Second Highness, and leave him in the barracks to recruit himself back, and besides, this should be the military camp Dazhai I am in charge of, what are you doing by hiding that envoy from me? Hiding from the Second Highness, you still want to pull me into the water?

As soon as the Grand Duke of Fisabrun saw Lorliste, he understood that he had misunderstood, and hurriedly stepped forward and explained softly: "The envoy and we know each other, and this time they have come to me on a special trip, just to find out what price they should pay if they want to make peace with His Majesty." I didn't dare to make peace for them without permission, so I came back to you to discuss. In addition, you also know that there are many people in the military camp over there, so I brought people to your side, so as not to be discovered by His Majesty and misunderstood......"

Well, it's not dragging me into the water. And when did we become so close? Even the Archduke Handra sent an envoy to consult with me? But Lorist was also aroused: "I know me?

You old guy has always had all kinds of unclear relationships with the Central Four Duchy, and I think that the Central Four Duchy lost sixty or seventy thousand elite infantry in order to rescue you. I didn't expect you to take refuge in the Second Highness in a blink of an eye, and you also led the two legions of your family to attack the four principalities in the central part of the country ungratefully. Don't you want to think about how the banner of your Fisabrun family appeared in front of the defensive position a few months ago and was scolded by those garrison soldiers......?

Then the Grand Duke of Handra is really true, how can he send an envoy to this cheeky and shameless old fellow to make peace? If he encounters such a thing, he will have to fight to the death...... Lorist was complaining in his heart, but he also understood that such a thing was beyond reproach in the eyes of the nobles, and everyone made such a choice in order to preserve the family. There is no way to do anything like what the Grand Duke of Fisabrun did, and it is not surprising that the matter of turning the face and enmity of a friend today and a vendetta tomorrow is very common among the nobles of the Gelinthia continent.

"The messenger is the Earl of Churchwick, whom you also met at the welcome banquet when I held the joisting of knights, and it seems that you had invited him to the inn of Anna's house, where you were staying. Archduke Fisabrun looked around and whispered.

The gesture was a bit awkward, and it looked like it was almost whispering in Lorlist's ear. Lorist took two steps and pulled a little distance: "Oh, it's him, did he come over and say something?"

"This ......" Archduke Fisabrun hesitated: "It's better for you to talk to him, because of the previous relationship, I was caught in the middle and had some displeasure." ”

"You are self-aware. Loris nodded, "So where is he?"

Earl Churchwick stayed in a remote corner at the back of the barracks, where a few makeshift cabins had been built, which had been used to punish errant soldiers by the Flying Tigers, but had now been cleaned up by Archduke Fisabrun at the benefactor of the Pegasus Legion, who had stayed behind in the camp, and had become a guest room for guests.

Lorist was silent, if the Flying Tiger Legion stayed in the camp, not to mention that Grand Duke Fisabrun brought people here, even he himself had to be notified before he could enter the camp, and now the Flying Tiger Legion went to the Demon Plain, this old man came and went freely in the camp here, as if he was in a no-man's land. However, he also understood that the remaining Captain of the Bonava Legion, who was a knight of the Philim family, had to take into account that the southern provinces of the family domain and the eastern wilderness provinces were connected. Even if he is a member of the four alliances of the Northland, he can't easily offend the Grand Duke of Fisabrun, and besides, this old man is still the grandfather of Lorlist's genuine wife, and he came frequently some time ago, so it is naturally convenient to be able to help.

Count Churchwick stood at the door when Lorist and Archduke Fisabrun entered, and he bowed to Lorist and Archduke Fisabrun. Lorist was keenly aware of the surprise in the earl's eyes when he found out that he had come, and perhaps he thought that Lorist was the one who could call the shots.

After the three of them were seated, the Grand Duke of Fisabrun was unexpectedly silent, and seemed to be a little reluctant to speak. Sure enough, after a long time of talking about Lorlist, Earl Churchwick couldn't hold back, and explained his intention very directly. That is, the Grand Duke of Handra hoped to persuade or influence the intention of the Second Highness through the Grand Duke of Fisabrun and Lorist to stop this useless war and return peace to the four central principalities......

Lorist played with the teacup in his hand, as if the ordinary silver cup contained some interesting secret. It wasn't until Earl Churchwick finished speaking, and waited a little impatiently, that he asked softly, "What's the matter?"

"No!" Earl Churchwick jumped up from his stool as if he had been beaten with chicken blood, and firmly denied: "Your Highness the Grand Duke of the Northlands, all the lords and nobles of our Duchy are wholeheartedly ready to follow His Royal Highness the Grand Duke and resolutely resist your invasion. At present, our principality has formed three legions, plus the city defense corps of the capital Hans City and garrisons in various places, and there are more than 200,000 elite soldiers and strong generals under the command of His Royal Highness the Grand Duke.

In addition, there are the 200,000 allied troops brought by the three Grand Dukes, and our strength has reached more than 400,000, which has long exceeded your 300,000 army. Should you invade our territory, the Grand Duke can always recruit 200,000 young men from the nearly a million people of the principality to form a new legion to fight the invaders. It's just that His Royal Highness the Grand Duke has benevolence in his heart, and at the same time he also remembers the old feelings of the Clisson Empire, so he strictly ordered the front line to only defend and not fight back, just because he didn't want to hurt the friendship with the Clisson royal family......"

Lorist put down the cup in his hand and began to applaud: "Well said, Lord Earl Churchwick, please continue." ”

What to continue...... Earl Churchwick looked at Lorist inexplicably, not understanding what he meant by continuing, but seeing Lorlist's deaf look, he had to turn his eyes to the Archduke of Fisabrun on the side.

Grand Duke Fisab wanted to laugh, but he could only hold back his cough twice and rounded up: "That, Grand Duke Norton, do you think that when our forces are slightly inferior to theirs, you can really rely on Your Majesty's strategy to conquer the Duchy of Handla?"

The old fox, who was pretending again, asked me to come out and pretend to be red-faced. Lorist smiled, but still said clearly: "Lord Churchwick, the three provinces of the Duchy of Handra have nearly one million people, and I think it is very difficult to support more than 400,000 troops......

Earl Churchwick's face flushed, but his mouth still refused to admit defeat: "No, it's not difficult at all. In the past few years, our principality has had good weather and good harvests, and grain and grass have been piled up in granaries everywhere, enough for 400,000 troops to eat for four or five years. And the business alliance has also given us a lot of support. Ever since they heard that you had attacked the Four Central Duchyes, there has been a steady stream of military supplies that have been delivered free of charge.

They hope that the armies of our four central principalities will teach your majesty a profound lesson, so that he will recognize the reality and not be so ambitious to fight the idea of unifying the former empire. It's just that our Grand Duke's heart is too soft and unwilling to meet you in battle, so let me ask what the two Highnesses mean. If His Majesty Augoseiro's request is not excessive, it is better to stop the war and restore peace to the four central principalities as soon as possible......"

Hehe, it's still blowing. The aristocracy is hypocrisy, if you really say that, will your Grand Duke still send you over? Lorist pursed his lips disdainfully, and deliberately pretended to be very embarrassed: "Lord Earl Churchwick, I believe you are telling the truth. However, you should know the temper of our Majesty, he has always hated the betrayal of the four Grand Dukes back then, and he thinks that if it were not for the refusal of the four Grand Dukes to return to the embrace of the Empire, then the great cause of his unification of the former Imperial territory would have been revealed.

Therefore, it's not that we won't help you, but Your Majesty has already decided that this time we must destroy the four principalities in the central region. If the four Grand Dukes were aware of current affairs, I personally think that it would be better to bind themselves to Your Majesty as soon as possible to ask for their guilt, and I believe that Your Majesty will never harm the lives of the four Grand Dukes. ”

"This is absolutely impossible!" Earl Churchwick blushed with excitement: "We still have 400,000 troops in hand, and we will never be able to capture them with our hands tied!"

Lorist slapped his thigh: "That's great, since you refuse to surrender and understand our Majesty's stubbornness, then simply pull the 400,000 troops over, and we will set up a good battle for a decisive battle, as long as we defeat us, it will naturally make our Majesty stop, and everyone can live a peaceful life for a few years." ”

Earl Churchwick's face turned white in an instant, and he himself knew that he had probably blown his head. The current situation on his side is more than enough to defend and weak to attack, especially Lorist is on the side of the Second Highness, and the combat power of the Norton family in the North is not unseen, and his recklessness in front of Lorist has played a counterproductive role.

"Hehe, hehe," Earl Churchwick laughed dryly, and quickly turned the conversation around: "That, His Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Norton, I, I have come to seek peace on the orders of our Grand Duke, not to let the two of us have a decisive battle or anything." Our Grand Duke really wants to end this war, so I asked you to ask your opinion to see if there is any way to end this senseless war......"

"Really?" Lorist was noncommittal, "Then tell me, what conditions did you make public?"

"This, our Grand Duke said, if the two Highnesses can persuade His Majesty Augesello to restore the pre-war situation of the Central Four Duchyes, then the four Grand Dukes are willing to offer two million gold merits to the Second Highness, and at the same time are willing to cancel the title of the Four Duchy and return to His Majesty's command, and are also willing to pay a sum of one million to the royal family every year......"

Hehe, Lorist was, and he still expects His Royal Highness to agree to such conditions? and let us persuade His Royal Highness, no wonder the old guy stayed next and pretended to be dumb and didn't make a sound. If this war hadn't happened, maybe His Royal Highness would have considered such conditions, and now that the three principalities have been destroyed, and such conditions have been mentioned, has Grand Duke Handla's head been kicked by a donkey?

"Do you think that our Majesty can agree to such conditions? If the Grand Duke of Handra was not sincere, he should not have sent you here. Otherwise, I will send you to our majesty, and how about you talk to him about these conditions yourself?" said Lorlist, angrily.

Earl Churchwick's face turned pale for a while, in fact, he himself felt that these conditions were ridiculous, but he had no choice but to discuss these conditions by the four Grand Dukes staying together, and it was not up to the Grand Duke Handla. Now the internal situation of the principality is very bad, and the relationship between the four archdukes is not so harmonious. Grand Duke Forendo is the most disciplined and able to restrain his subordinates, and Grand Duke Sabaji's troops are at least, and he can't jump up if he wants to. The most annoying thing is the Grand Duke of Faker, arrogant and unassuming, who clearly lives in the principality, but never takes the Grand Duke of Handra seriously.

In particular, those nobles and knights under the Grand Duke of Falkel behaved like robbers and bandits, they dared to loot villages and towns in the territory of the principality and kidnap women, and they also brazenly declared that they abandoned the country and left home to defend the Duchy of Handla, what does it matter to play with you women.

Grand Duke Handra was furious, and sent his knights to arrest the noble knights of the Duchy of Farkel, and also considered the relationship of the alliance, so he handed them over to the Grand Duke of Falkel. But I didn't expect Grand Duke Falkel to turn his head and release all these people, and said with a lot of rhetoric that it's a big deal to kill a few untouchables and play with a few women, it's a big deal to wait for the recovery of the Principality of Fakel, you can also go to my place to have a good time......

Encountering such a bastard Grand Duke is also considered a bad luck for Grand Duke Handla, especially since such a bastard is still an ally on his side. Although the current war situation in the Duchy of Handla was more than enough to form only two legions, the Grand Duke still formed three legions because the third newly formed Black Dragon Legion was to monitor the other Blood Spear Legion of the Grand Duke of Fakel stationed in the territory of the Duchy, so as not to corrupt the villages and towns around the Legion.

Earl Churchwick is very aware of the current situation of the Duchy of Handla, 400,000 troops are not blown, and it is blown out that it may supply 400,000 horses and horses to eat grain and grass for four or five years, even if the grain of the Principality in the past few years is a bumper harvest, but the consumption of 400,000 horses is so huge, and the latest statistics are that the grain and grass accumulated by the Principality is only enough to supply 400,000 horses for half a year. Even if we count the autumn grain harvest in October and the winter wheat harvest next spring, we should be able to hold on for an extra month or two. Just before this food crisis, the Grand Duke of Falkel demanded that his legions be provided with plenty of meat and fine food......

It's not that the four Grand Dukes in the middle of the country haven't thought of asking for help from the Business Alliance, but how did the steward of the Visia Chamber of Commerce, which is closest to the Principality of Handla, answer? He can't help it, he can only sympathize with the four central principalities being attacked by His Royal Highness, but at present, the business alliance is concerned about the war with the alliance with the Central South Kingdom, and there is no way to give support to the four central principalities. However, the Vesia Chamber of Commerce had dealt with the four central principalities before, and they also had a friendship, and they were willing to sell a batch of armaments and other armaments to the four grand dukes at a discount.

said that it was a discount, but the price was thirty percent higher than usual, and the quality of the goods was still very poor, and the steward also replied seriously, no way, there are wars everywhere, and armaments and materials are sought-after goods, and it is already the best efforts of the Visia Chamber of Commerce to provide this batch of armaments to the four Grand Dukes. Angry that the Grand Duke Handra questioned on the spot, the Vesia Chamber of Commerce was not worried that His Royal Highness would point his troops at the province of Portoorg, the territory of the Chamber of Commerce, after destroying the four principalities in the central region?

The steward replied proudly, the Vesia Chamber of Commerce was not worried about such a thing, you must know that behind them was the Fort Business Alliance, the largest country in the current Gallinthia continent......

It was because they could not find the support of the business alliance that the four central archdukes wanted to sue for peace with the Second Highness, but the first condition they negotiated was to restore the pre-war situation, that is, to restore the three destroyed principalities. Thinking about this condition, it is impossible for the Second Highness to agree, can the swallowed meat be spit out again? As for the two million gold fords, the dedication is even more trivial, as long as the two million gold fords are broken, the two million gold fords will not be able to escape.

"If, if the two Highnesses can persuade His Majesty Ogseiro to accede to our request, the four Grand Dukes will offer another amount of money, and half a million gold mergers each......" Earl Churchwick was still doing his best.

Lorist was furious, the labor and management have almost earned two million gold fords in the Demon Plains hunting now, are you using these 500,000 to humiliate me?

"Lord Earl Churchwick, since you are an emissary, I may tolerate your rudeness, but I will not allow you to humiliate us. You can go, tell the four Grand Dukes, let them wash their necks, I don't think I'll get my sword dirty." ”

"You ......," Earl Churchwick glared at Lorlist.

Lorist ignored him: "Someone, send off!"

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