Chapter 561: I'm still busy when I go home

Lorist returned to the Northlands in September, accompanied by Fat Man and the Flying Tigers. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 However, Reddy, the acting captain of the Flying Tigers, did not return, and he stayed in Moriente City to help Schward with the development and construction of the leased territory. Malek stayed because he was responsible, after all, most of the role of the leased territory was for military purposes, and Malek was prepared to wait for all the infrastructure construction to be on track before returning.

Reddy stayed for two reasons, one is the deep brotherhood, Schward stood alone for the first time and became the head of this leased territory, and it is likely that they will not see each other for a few years, so Reddy will stay for two or three more months, and during this time he is ready to hone and hone Schward's swordsmanship. The second is that his uncle Gary Lando is reluctant to let him go back to the Northlands, so that Reddy agrees to return north with El's Guards at the end of the year, and also saves the old man from the sadness of saying goodbye twice.

Princess Celevia, Director Speer, Director Kodan, and other high-ranking family members rushed to Beihai City to greet them, and held a grand welcome ceremony to welcome the triumphant victory of the family's armed forces after several years of fighting. And in the Beihai City Lord's Mansion and the military camp outside the city, a sumptuous feast was prepared for the soldiers of Lorist and the Flying Tiger Legion.

Lorist was originally a little strange, how could Speer be willing to be so extravagant and wasteful? Director Speer, who returned to the family domain at the end of last year, explained to Lorist with a smile on his face, thanks to the revival of the commercial wholesale market in Moriente City, all the industrial and mining farms in the Norton family domain have been engaged in intense production and expansion activities non-stop, and new industrial workshops have emerged one after another, and the family territory has prospered. In the last year alone, the family has increased its income from these thriving industries by no less than three million......

In the past, the family had no money, and Director Speer had to be economical, eager to break a gold coin in half and spend it, and what he was most afraid of was that Lorist would waste the family's money in a big way. But now that the family has money, Director Speer finally realizes the meaning of Lorlist's money investment, and every gold coin invested often earns more wealth.

Therefore, when Princess Celivia brought him to discuss the preparation of a grand welcome ceremony, he received the full support and approval of Director Speer, and when he had money, he should naturally do a big deal, because this reflected the face of the Norton family, as well as the dignity of Lorist, the sword saint of the town country. At the same time, it will also make the Norton family soldiers who have been on the expedition for several years feel the care and consideration of the family for them, and increase their centripetal force and loyalty to the family......

After the excitement passed, Lorist found that Princess Celivia and her four concubines were all living in Beihai City with their children. When I asked, I found out that the construction progress of the palace outside the east gate of Angry Bear City, which had been going on for two and a half years, had been delayed, and it should have been completed half a year ago, but last year, Director Speer was in a happy mood because of the family's wealth, and decided that he could not fall into the family's momentum in the construction of this palace that showed the style of the Norton family, so he allocated a large amount of additional funds to the past. Master Siroba, who was in charge of the construction of the palace, decided to strive for excellence and build the palace into a peerless palace that has been passed down for thousands of years, so the progress of the project began to be delayed.

Well, Lorist remembered that when he was in Moldant City last year, he had reviewed a document submitted by Director Speer for the financial allocation, as if that was what he was talking about. It's just that at that time, all I was thinking about was how to deal with the business alliance, and I also trusted Director Speer, so I left an impression in my mind and wrote a few words on the document to read and do, and sent the document back to Director Speer, which turned out to be the case......

Princess Celivia likes to be pure and doesn't like to stay in the angry bear city like a big construction site. In addition, he liked the sea, so he took his family to Beihai City and occupied the city lord's mansion. Anyway, this city lord's mansion is still empty, so there is no need to use it in vain. In addition, although there is no platinum beach in Niujiao Bay, where Beihai City is located, there are also some small sandy beaches, which are enough for the women of Lorist to play with their children on the beach.

At night, the luxurious and spacious master bedroom of the Beihai City Lord's Mansion, a particularly large bed, the bed was covered with jade, Princess Celivia and the four concubines turned their thoughts into the motivation for hand-to-hand combat with Lorist, and they were entangled in death. Lorist used all his strength to resist the wolf-like attack of the five women, and felt that his body and energy were almost wiped out, and only then did he settle the women one by one......

"Why don't you take the kids to the platinum beach in West Degrad Province for a summer vacation?" said Lorlist, embracing Princess Celevia in her arms and starting to make a family routine.

Princess Celivia still had that kind of satisfaction and high tide on her face, and the whole person became like a lazy kitten curled up in Lorlist's arms, enjoying the sense of security and warmth brought to her by Lorliste's chest. Hearing Lorlist's question, she pressed closer to Lorlist's chest and said slowly, "I don't want to go." We went there two years ago, and we happened to come across the Duke of Kenmeth returning from the plains of Falis with his family arms. Nearly 50,000 Kenmas families have returned armed only about 13,000, and the whole province of West Degrad is filled with grief.

The maids who served us at Platinum Beach were also sad, many of their family members had died in battle, and they could hear cries from time to time. And there were only a few of us on the white gold beach, and there was no lively atmosphere like we used to go, only feeling deserted. And we've heard that most of the nobles of the Andinac kingdom took part in this war, and suffered as much damage as the Kenmas family. As you can imagine, not many noble families will visit Platinum Beach in the next few years, so the next year I took advantage of Queen Sissi's incident to go to the city of Moreent to find you, and we are all worried about you......"

Lorist was very moved, and the touched little brother reacted again. He gently kissed Princess Celivia on the forehead: "It's okay, you don't have to worry about it in the future, we have won and won peace." Then I will be by your side, live a good life, and will not go to war again. It's late at night, it's time to sleep, let's hurry up and do it again......"

Princess Celivia chuckled, suddenly came to her senses, touched her hand down, and asked suspiciously: "Are you still in spirit? Didn't you just be half dead?" Hey, it's really hard, you lie down and don't move, I'm going to ...... on it."

The next day, Lorist felt like her whole body was floating, and her legs went limp. Who tossed with five women for most of the night, only slept for three or four hours, and was bitten twice by Good Morning in the morning, it would be like this, even if he was a sword saint, he couldn't stand it. This is a physiological problem, even if Lorist is promoted to Sword Master, he is still a human, not a god. It seems that becoming a Juggernaut doesn't enhance this aspect of the function, and Lorist begins to think about this very serious issue.

However, there should be benefits, like the old man of Grand Duke Fisabrun, the third-level great sword master, he is still in good health and in good health, and the two women of the night emperor have no problem. Maybe you can also ask Duke Kenmeth, although this guy is a silver rank, but he has trained all the silver fighting spirit to the ability of the spear below, and has become a merry duke of the famous kingdom, and is very popular with those prodigal ladies and ladies in the imperial capital......

This was the end of the thought, for Princess Celivia and her four concubines had dressed up and taken the children out to meet Lorliste's father and have breakfast together. Although they had met yesterday, several older children still felt a little unfamiliar, such as Anderbell, a bear child, who had already forgotten his father, whom he hadn't seen for more than a year. The two newborn one-year-olds took Lorist as a novelty toy, crawled around him, and soon sprinkled two bubbles of steaming urine on each of them, like those puppies that divided the territory, and declared that it was their territory, so that Lorist had to take a bath and change into new clothes halfway through breakfast.

Since Princess Celivia and the others were unwilling to return to the construction site-like Raging Bear City, Lorist stayed in Beihai City as good as ever. It just so happened that he was going to reorganize the family fleet in Oxhorn Bay and determine the size and establishment of the family fleet. In the past two years since the decisive battle between Cape Romani and the Armada, the Oxhorn Bay Shipyard has successively designed and tested the construction of more than 10 new warships, and after two years of seaworthiness, Lorist will determine their standard models and fleet establishment according to the performance and role of these new warships.

In fact, Lorist is mainly determined only to have three types of new warships, the first is the lightning strike battleship, which is the main battleship of the Norton family's North Sea Fleet, and it is also the battleship that makes the Norton family's fleet famous all over the world, and the main force to annihilate the invincible armada. However, now that the new Thunderbolt Battleship built at the Cowhorn Bay Shipyard has been improved, stronger, faster, and more stable, Lorist decided to build a new thirty new Thunderbolt Battleships to replace the existing fourteen.

Then there is the medium-sized fast armed battleship named by Lorlist, compared with the old medium-sized armed fast battleships, this kind of destroyer is all equipped with bronze guns, and the hull has become a double-layer hull, even if the eighteen bronze guns installed on the ship are fired together, the hull is unharmed, and the streamlined hull structure can not only withstand the strong winds and waves of the northern seas, but also nearly double the speed.

In the northern seas, such destroyers may not be of great use, and mine-strike warships are sufficient for all kinds of maritime vigilance and patrol duties. But Lorlist's decision to build such destroyers was designed to deal with pirate ships in the southern seas. Thunderbolts are large ships that are not as fast and agile as the small and medium-sized armed warships piloted by pirates, and are not likely to catch up unless they are in a good wind. However, these pirate ships can still hide in shallow reef areas with their geographical familiarity to evade the pursuit of lightning strike ships.

Lorist believed that with these destroyers, he would be able to fight the pirates and pirates who were active in the southern seas. No medium-sized fast armed warship could match a destroyer in terms of agility or speed, and with bronze artillery, it would be difficult for any pirate ship to fly, and the end result would be either sunk or surrendered under a white flag.

There was also a new type of battleship that was named a super-large battleship, which was named a cruiser. This is based on the whaling ship and the Invincible Armada's super-large warship known as the Sepnim Sea Castle combined to build the performance, the whole ship is equipped with seventy-two bronze guns, divided into two layers of fire windows, plus four bronze guns in the bow and stern, it is simply a sea fire-breathing monster, and at the same time, it can also carry five hundred sea stormtroopers on board, whether it is long-range attack or close combat, it is an invincible giant on the sea.

There are three new types of ships, one is a new whaling ship. In order to fight the Armada last time, Lorist requisitioned all the family's whaling fleet, and after the decisive battle of Cape Romani, all sixteen whaling ships were scrapped and sunk on rocks and earth in the reef area of Cape Romani, which became the cornerstone of the fortress of Schward Castle at Sea.

The new whaling ships were larger and stronger, making them more suitable for ocean-going voyages in pursuit of whale herds. For Lorlist, this is Gelinthea, not the Earth, and he is not an environmentalist. The sea area of this other world is extremely vast, the number of whales is very large, the whale is a treasure, nearly 100 whales caught every year can make the family have more than 100,000 gold fords, a whale almost has more than 1,000 gold fords, this is a profiteering industry, the Norton family will not give up.

The next two new types of ships were passenger ships, the size of cruisers, more comfortable and faster, which had opened up routes from Beihai City to Platinum Beach, to Herois Island, to Qilin Harbor, to Ametlin Harbor, and finally to Moont City in Tibetan Golden Bay. Four passenger ships of this new type are to be built, one of which will sail from Beihai City and the other will return from Zangjin Bay every month, for a total of 278 days, and the four passenger ships will rotate with each other.

This is the route of the northern seas, as for the route of the southern seas has not yet been decided, Lorist feels that the passenger ship routes in the southern seas are not as good as contracting to those private sea owners, the Norton family out of passenger ships, those private sea owners out of relations and money, partnerships, with those private sea owners behind the southern aristocracy as a guarantee and reliance, I believe that this sea passenger route in the southern sea will become a hen that lays golden eggs.

The last new type of vessel is an improved version of the large ocean-going merchant ship, a large ocean-going cargo ship that specializes in transporting goods, carrying nearly twice as much cargo as the old large ocean-going merchant ships, and is faster and sails more smoothly. At the same time, it can also be used as a logistics transport ship to effectively supply and supply the North Sea Fleet on a long voyage to support the North Sea Fleet's expeditions. Twenty-four large ocean-going fast cargo ships of this new type are planned to be built to transport goods from the Northland to the city of Morente, as well as for the transportation of raw materials.

To Lorlist's embarrassment, due to secrecy, none of these new ships and ships could be built in a shipyard elsewhere, but only at the Hornhorn Bay shipyard. The Norton family's armed forces are now famous all over the world, and both the naval fleet and the Marine Corps have become the target of snooping. It is only in the family territory that the secret agents sent by all parties can be effectively isolated and arrested.

The Hornhorn Bay Shipyard has expanded to nearly half of the territory of Hornhorn Bay, with more than 10,000 workers and technicians of all kinds, and can be said to be the largest family business of the Norton family. But after all, shipbuilding is a technical job, and it is not necessary to speed up the construction by rushing to work. According to the calculations, they can only build a maximum of more than 20 new ships per year, which is already their best efforts.

But at present, the shipbuilding plan on paper has reached more than 120 ships, and the production plan of the Oxhorn Bay shipyard has been fully arranged in the next six or seven years, and Lorist has been preparing to expand the shipbuilding workshop on Hilowas, and arrange the construction of those new passenger ships, cargo ships and whaling ships there, so that these warships on paper can finally become a reality in four years.

In addition to the arrangement of the construction period. Lorist also consulted with Speer's supervisor on the appropriation and supervision of shipbuilding costs. In the city of Moronte, the cost of building a large ocean-going merchant ship at seven shipyards around the Golden Bay was about six or seven thousand goldfords, but the Norton family built a medium-sized destroyer was far more than that. Not to mention anything else, the construction of the double-shell of the battleship alone reached 15,000 goldfords, plus the training of bronze artillery and crew sailors, and the total cost by the time the destroyer was officially put into service, it would be as high as about 40,000 or 50,000.

Fortunately, the Norton family already owned the Schward Sea Castle Fortress at the Romani Cape, which could legally levy tolls and escort fees on ships on the Golden Sea Road, and the annual income was not less than one million goldfords, which was enough to make the expanded family fleet self-sufficient, and even the surplus money was handed over to the family every year. In addition, the ships of the Chamber of Commerce captured by the surrender of the Invincible Flota of the Commercial Alliance and the capture of the Zangjin Bay were auctioned off in the city of Morent after the liquidation of nearly two hundred ships, and more than one million gold fords were collected. In this way, the family only needs to allocate about 5 million gold fords to complete the shipbuilding plan, and it is not a one-time allocation, but an annual allocation of more than one million according to the schedule, which does not cause much burden on the family finances.

After more than a month of busyness, Lorist finally set the tone for the reorganization and expansion of the family fleet, and completed the arrangement of the construction and production plan of new warships and ships. The next focus will be on the New Year's celebration to be held at the end of the year, where the Norton family will be promoted to the titles of a large number of vassal nobles, and a number of meritorious soldiers will also be promoted to become the new realm nobles.

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