Chapter 442: Return to the Northland

His Royal Highness personally arrived at the Norton family's armed camp with a large group of administrative officials, and he didn't believe that Lorist really had the fur of the monster worth more than a million goldfords, and he hoped that Lorist was talking big. It's a pity that he was disappointed after www.biquge.info valuation of the fur experts he brought, the Warcraft furs stored in the camp were worth more than 1,467,000 goldfords, and the 1,200,000 goldfords offered to him by Lorist were indeed a discounted price of conscience.

Lorist happily watched His Royal Highness pay with a bitter face, today is really a sunny day, and his luck is really good, he was able to sell this batch of ordinary furs that are difficult to sell for a large price. For the Norton family, Warcraft fur has become the most stored item in the family, and it is also the most difficult to dispose of.

There is no cotton on the continent of Gelinthia, so there is no cotton cloth, and there is no quilt and cotton jacket to protect against the cold. The main fabrics and fabrics are silk, fine linen, linen and hearse. For the Gelinthian people who are accustomed to nesting in winter, the best clothes to protect against the cold are nothing more than sweaters and leather, and the best leather is a coat made of monster fur, leather pants, leather hats, leather boots and other warm and cold-proof clothing, which is not only lightweight, flexible and elastic, but most importantly, can block the wind.

When Lorist returned to the family territory to lead the family forces against the wave of monsters that swept through the family territory every winter, the family's warehouse was filled with all kinds of monster skins. In terms of value alone, the price of these monster furs is high and the value is huge, but the problem is that they can't be realized. The reason why every soldier of the Norton family armed has a cold-proof warm suit made of Warcraft fur is also out of helplessness, and it will break if it can't be sold and stored in the warehouse. Besides, when you need the fur of the monster, send the family to the barbarian plain with the family arms, and you will have everything in one go.

It wasn't until Lorist opened up the sea route from the Northland to the Isle of Hilois that the Norton family got on the line with the Peterson Chamber of Commerce, one of the seven giants of the Business Alliance, and then they got the unbelievable news that the large amount of Warcraft skins stored in the Northland was not available for sale!

How is that possible? Lorist clearly remembers a mercenary adventure he was dragged by Shi Fat to complete when he was twenty years old, and that mission was to go to an underground cave, because it was extremely cold, Lorist had to go to the ready-to-wear store in advance and buy a leather vest made of magic sheepskin at a high price to protect against the cold. In Lorist's imagination, the furs of these monsters stored by his family should be the best-sellers, and the skins of several monsters that he hunted when he was doing mercenary missions were sold for a good price.

However, after the steward in charge of the fur business at the Petersen Chamber of Commerce explained the reason, Lorist was speechless. This is really an absurd reason, so many Warcraft furs can't be sold mainly because no one can afford to buy them. The Petersen Chamber of Commerce is the largest furrier in the Fort Business Alliance, controlling almost all of the fur market in the entire business alliance. The reasons they give, while ridiculous, are undeniable facts.

Warcraft fur is better than artificially bred cow and sheepskin, but the civilian class of the business alliance basically uses cow and sheepskin to protect against the cold, and the price of Warcraft fur is two or three times higher than that of cow and sheepskin. The Peterson Chamber of Commerce can allow mercenaries to enter the market for sporadic Monster furs and receive a lot of money, which also raises the price of Monster furs.

However, the Peterson Chamber of Commerce will never allow the tens of millions of monster skins hunted by the Norton family to flood into the business alliance's leather market, and even disrupt the order of the entire low-end leather market, which is dominated by cattle and sheepskins. At the same time, he also warned Lorist that the value of Warcraft fur has always been two or three times higher than that of cattle and sheepskin, and the main users in the business alliance are basically free mercenaries. As for the commoners and citizens, they generally still use cow and sheep skins to make winter clothes, and they are reluctant to spend two or three times the price to buy monster furs, so it's better to stay at home and burn the stove for the winter.

It's not that the Peterson Chamber of Commerce doesn't do Warcraft fur business, it's just that what they need are those more precious Warcraft furs, which are suitable for the high-end and luxury markets, and earn rich people's gold coins, and the profits in this regard can be described as huge profits. The fur agreement they signed with the Norton family was only worth four or five hundred thousand gold fords, but they purchased the furs of rare monsters. They don't need the fur of these monsters, such as the Demon Wolf, the Demon Bull, the Demon Sheep, but the Norton family has the most fur for these monsters.

The storage of monster fur is also very particular, otherwise it will be bitten by insects and rats, and it will be easy to deteriorate or become a pile of rotten skin if it is left for a period of time. This is also one of the reasons why Lorist had to let people make those stored monster skins into cold and warm clothing for the family's armed forces, and the materials that can't be sold are a pile of garbage if they are stored, so it might as well come in handy as soon as possible.

Lorist led the Flying Tiger Legion to hunt in the Demon Plains, and the most hunted were the Demon Plains Wolves and some herbivorous Demon Beasts. However, although the furs of these demonic beasts are valuable, they cannot be sold, just like the furs of the large number of demonic bulls and demons that the Norton family has stored in the family territory, there is no market.

Lorist remembers very well that he once wanted to sell the large number of ordinary Warcraft skins stored by the family at the price of the kind of raised cattle and sheepskins, thinking that such a cheap would always open up the leather market of the business alliance. Unexpectedly, he was also rejected by the leather goods manager of the Peterson Chamber of Commerce.

The steward said solemnly that if these ordinary Warcraft skins are sold for the price of cattle and sheepskins, the price of cattle and sheepskins will plummet, and even if the prices of these Warcraft skins and furs are sold out, the price of cattle and sheep skins will not be able to rise......

Like the refugees who migrated at the end of last year, the Norton family is not afraid of the cold, wind and snow. In fact, the reason is very simple, each refugee was given one or several pieces of warm clothing made of monster fur, which was still allocated to them for free, plus convenient and fast snow climbing plows and sled trucks, which were transportation tools and rest stops along the way with sufficient supplies of logistics supplies, which could complete the migration of hundreds of thousands of people in one winter.

If Lorist claims that the monster furs stored and used by the Norton family are the first in the entire Gerinthia continent, both in terms of country and family, I believe no one can deny it. A few years ago, the family armed several legions to go to the Barbarian Plains for training, and by the way, they brought back nearly 100,000 corpses of demonic beasts, so that some of the empty warehouses were stuffed with the furs of demonic beasts.

The furs of those wild wolves and demon sheep brought back from the Demon Plains this time are like chicken ribs for Lorist, and it is useless to throw them away, no matter how they are on the market, the price is very high, but the quantity is large but they can't be sold, and there is no market for them even if they want to sell them. If it were in a peaceful and prosperous world, people's living standards improved, and there were gold coins in their pockets, maybe these monster skins would be in short supply. But now is a troubled time, everywhere is full of smoke and people are struggling to make a living, and no civilians will spend money to buy themselves high-priced warm clothes made of monster fur.

Magical beasts like the mire giant crocodile, its skin is the best material for making leather armor, it has always been hard to find, along with the fur of some more precious magical beasts, Lorist has taken the first step back to the family territory, and then considered what to do with the fur of those wild wolf demon sheep. I didn't expect His Royal Highness to ask for all, how could this not make Lorist overjoyed? In these years, Kaizi is as difficult to find as a local tyrant.

This is the reason why Lorist not only discounted, but also was willing to give the skins of dozens of precious demonic beasts to His Second Highness. So much so that the Second Highness saw that he was happy and tentatively put forward a request to buy a few Thunderbolt catapults, but Lorist agreed to sell a Thunderbolt Catapult Battalion and 500 catapults configured by the Flying Tiger Legion to the Second Highness at a price of one hundred and fifty goldfords. Even Lorist saw that His Royal Highness was rich now, and offered to sell him 2,500 steel crossbow chariots of a chariot corps, but His Royal Highness refused.

In the eyes of His Royal Highness, the Norton family's catapult is the supreme offensive weapon, even in defense, it is more convenient and flexible than those stupid giant lever trebuchets, at least a few rounds of stones can be thrown to change positions, instead of staying still like those lever trebuchets and becoming the target of long-range attacks.

As for the Norton family's chariot steel crossbow, to be honest, His Royal Highness was really a little excited at that moment. But with the development of those shield cars, the power of the steel crossbow has been greatly reduced. Now who will not arrange shield vehicles to defend against the attack of ballista vehicles before arranging troops, whether it is offensive or defense, shield vehicles have become an indispensable troop configuration, and more and more solid and huge, effectively improving the protection of soldiers and facilities.

Therefore, the Second Highness rejected Lorlist's proposal, he had a huge amount of money of nearly six million goldford in his hand, but this money was useful in his heart, and he couldn't wait to rearm and expand the regular armed army of the kingdom. Although the family forces of the four alliances of the Northland and the four central principalities were not defeated in the conquest of the four central principalities, with the help of Lorist, he was still very satisfied with the eleven provinces of the four central principalities at a slight cost.

The next thing to do is to let the kingdom have a strong force, to ensure that the four alliances of the Northlands, the Fisabrun family and the three central archdukes who have just surrendered, will not have any dissenting ambitions, and spend two or three years to use the strong army of the kingdom to join the commercial alliance to force them to return the provinces they have forcibly occupied. Now His Royal Highness is not afraid of more money, but thinks that Jinfu is still too little, and it would be better if he could take down all the four Grand Dukes in the middle instead of subjugating them, then maybe he could get more without paying any price......

The king had no jokes, and was forced to buy all the Warcraft furs in his barracks, which made His Royal Highness regret his negligence and gaffes in his heart, what should he do if he bought so many Warcraft furs. Fortunately, one of his tax collectors thought that Lorist's words were very reasonable, and it was indeed a good business to ship them back to the imperial capital to buy low and sell high, the only drawback was that it could take years to sell the excess monster furs, and if they were lucky, they might be able to earn back a lot of money in addition to the amount of monster furs needed by the blizzard raiding corps. This finally gave His Second Highness some comfort.

It had already cost one million and two hundred thousand gold to purchase these demonic beast furs, and the Second Highness began to calculate the gold coins in his hand. Lorlist's promise to sell the Thunderbolt Catapult was already an unexpected surprise. He once instructed the skilled craftsmen of the kingdom to try to make a cottage catapult, but the biggest difficulty was that special spring steel sheet, which could not be imitated by the Norton family without making this steel sheet with the same performance, so that His Royal Highness spent a lot of money but got nothing, so he could only scold those craftsmen for being stupid and waste.

The Second Highness's refusal to buy a chariot steel crossbow made Lorist very regretful. In fact, he is also in line with the principle of waste utilization, ready to let His Royal Highness be the receiver. Whether it is a catapult or a chariot steel crossbow, it will all be scrapped when you go back this time. There is a term called fatigue. This doesn't just mean humans and animals, as well as the spring and steel crossbow arms that come standard on catapults and chariot crossbows.

This expedition to the four principalities in the central part of the country, the Flying Tiger Legion fought very rarely, but the chariot steel crossbow and catapult equipped by the corps were very busy, and when attacking the trench and earth wall defense positions of the Duchy of Volendo, the catapult and the chariot steel crossbow have never stopped long-range attacks, whether it is attacking or covering, the catapult and the chariot steel crossbow play a very important role.

A good catapult is best thrown at a distance of up to four or five hundred meters, but now because of the fatigue of the spring steel sheet, the farthest distance is only about three hundred and twenty or thirty meters. And the chariot steel crossbow performed a little better, the demon yuan hunted the monsters, the chariot steel crossbow was mighty, and most of the monsters died under the long-range attack of the chariot steel crossbow. However, because of the frequent firing, the fatigue of the steel plate crossbow arm has increased greatly, and the current range has dropped from more than 300 meters to about 2340 meters.

Lorist estimates that after another two or three hundred fires, these chariot steel crossbows can be scrapped. Since His Royal Highness wants to buy catapults, he might as well try to sell these chariot steel crossbows that are to be scrapped. It's a pity that His Royal Highness thought of the shield car, and finally rejected Lorlist's proposal.

On September 10, 1783 in the universal calendar of the Gelinthia continent, Lorist was relaxed, carrying more than one million gold dollars in his arms, leading the Flying Tiger Legion and the guard brigade, accompanied by the Duke of Philim and the Duke of Shaheen and their families, embarked on the journey back to the Northland.

In this war against the four central principalities, Lorist believes that although His Royal Highness has obtained eleven provinces, he is not the ultimate winner. Just as he declared that the four Grand Dukes in the Central Region were rebellious, the final result was that three Grand Dukes surrendered and one Grand Duke defected. And His Royal Highness had to admit that the three grand dukes in the middle were not rebellious, and the two parties had a war conflict due to a misunderstanding.

What outweighed the loss was that with the help of Earl Churchwick's dictation, the truth about the four Grand Dukes and the Second Highness in the middle of the year had been spread, and the harsh and fierce character of the Second Highness began to be understood by more nobles.

The occupation of the Central Four Duchyes did not improve the prestige of the Second Highness, but the reputation became more unbearable after he admitted that he misunderstood that the four Central Dukes were rebellious and at the same time forcibly occupied eleven provinces of the Central Four Duchies, and even some of the territorial nobles of the former Central Four Duchyes would rather be deprived of their titles and territories than go to seek refuge in the three transferred Grand Dukes, rather than serve the Second Highness, the king of the Antinac Kingdom.

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