Chapter 47 Northbound Strategy

Ever since Fat Man and Yuri become knights of the Norton family and will embark on their journey back north, Lorist suddenly finds that things are out of control and going in an unknown direction.

First of all, when Lorist held a meeting of the family knights to explain to everyone that he was going to organize the delivery of a batch of supplies back to the family, he was ridiculed by Shi Fatzi. As a knight of the family, Shi Fatzi did not give Lorlist, the lord who was about to become the new head of the Norton family, a little face. He took the map of the Northlands and thought that this time he went to the Northlands, Lorist should think about how to clear the Norton family's chronic diseases and bring the Norton family back to life, instead of transporting a batch of supplies to the Norton family to continue their lives.

Shi Fatzi said that a thriving family with development potential should have the ability to innovate itself and adapt to changes in the environment to make its own changes, instead of clinging to the defects and stubbornly clinging to the so-called tradition. It's a pity that Lorlist's move to prepare to deliver supplies this time seems to be more about keeping the Norton family alive than thinking about how to make the Norton family continue to develop.

Lorist blushed a little, and was also a little weak-hearted, because Shi Fatzi said that his original intention was indeed to send a batch of supplies to the family, and then let go and go back to Moriente City to continue to live a happy life. But he didn't dare to say that this was his original plan now, otherwise Shi Fatzi would have to rush over and fight with him. The friends have abandoned their comfortable life in the city of Moriente to accompany them to the fire pit, but who knows that they only plan to walk around the fire pit and come back, this, this is to let them know what they will think......

Shi Fatzi was talking, and he thought that there was only one real reason why the Norton family had fallen to this point, the land was vast and sparsely populated. As long as this problem is solved, nothing can stop the rise of the Norton family.

Like the Winter Warcraft Tide, this is not a problem, the Norton family can hold the current safe area, then if there are enough manpower, the security field can be expanded, as long as the defense facilities are perfect, maybe the Warcraft Tide is just a large number of skins that the family harvests in winter.

Regarding the mountain barbarians, Shi Fatzi said that he had asked Sedercamp and found that a very important situation had been ignored by everyone. That is, the conflict between the Norton family and the mountain barbarians has intensified in the past hundred years, but more often than not, the family has been passively defending, and has never taken the initiative to attack, it is the mountain barbarians who come down the mountain to attack, and then the family sends troops to fight back and drive the mountain barbarians back. If you can completely annihilate the mountain barbarians who come down the mountain once or twice, the family can get a long time of peace, and they will not be entangled with the mountain barbarians all the time. Therefore, to deal with the mountain barbarians, it is necessary to dig out their nests, kill all those who resist, and use the rest as labor to build roads and open mines, anyway, there are things for them to do. Shi Fatzi was murderous.

The third problem faced by the Norton family was the Territory Garrison. Shi Fatzi believes that the cause of this problem is that the population of the territory is insufficient, so that the family and the families of those members of the garrison are too deeply involved, and it is difficult to make up their minds to clean it up for a while. After six years of civil war, the former Krisson Empire withered people's livelihoods and bandits broke out. This time I went to the Northland, just took the opportunity to retract, selected the strong people who had families to organize a family army, and trained the bandits all the way, and when I arrived in the Northland, there was already an elite in my hands, and there was no problem in crushing the garrison, and the displaced people who were gathered were just enough to enrich the population of the territory, which was a lot of gains.

As for the territorial dispute, Shi Fatzi didn't care about it, thinking that it was just a trivial matter and not worth mentioning. When we go back with the soldiers and horses, if the viscount knows each other, he will obediently let out the mine and spit out the illegal gains, otherwise he will take the opportunity to start a lord war, destroy the whole family of the fool, and occupy his territory, and the Norton family does not mind the expansion of their territory.

The only thing that is a little difficult is the Duke Lukins, who is greedy and uses his methods to loot the assets of his nobles, like a bed bug lying on the Norton family to suck blood. Now the Norton family is not strong, and can only endure the pain of constant blood loss. How to deal with the relationship with this duke needs to be decided by Lorlist. The advice provided by Shi Fatzi is that if the soldiers are strong and strong, he will directly slap the Duke to death. If you can't confront it head-on, then you have to endure it for a while.

Shi Fatzi pulled through the latest version of a map of the former Krisson Empire and pointed: "Look, the former Krisson Empire is now divided into three kingdoms and seven principalities, among them, the Duchy of Rum, which is adjacent to the Farichu Plains, has defected to the Fort Business Alliance. Then came the Great Prince's kingdom of Ridlis, which occupied seven of the twenty-nine provinces of the original Clison Empire, the largest and most powerful. Then there are the Duchy of Fakr, the Duchy of Volendor, the Duchy of Handra and the Duchy of Sabaji, which occupy the richest central part of the former Krisson Empire, and have formed an offensive and defensive alliance, which is currently in constant conflict and entanglement with the Kingdom of Redlis. ”

"The third prince's Antinac kingdom has the smallest territory, only three provinces, but the original imperial capital is under his control, and he is also the imperial heir of the old emperor of the empire, and he has a high reputation among the noble subjects of the empire, if it were not for the business alliance behind the instigation of the eldest prince and the second prince to raise troops to rebel, he should have been the new emperor of the empire. Due to the suppression of the business alliance, he is now the weakest, not even as good as the principality. He should be the object of the Norton family's friendship, and even if the Norton family wants to be loyal, they should be loyal to him, because he represents the royal heritage of the Krisson Empire. “

"Finally, let's take a look at the Iberian kingdom of the second prince, where the Norton family's territory is located. Let's talk about the second prince first, his reputation has always been not very good among the imperial nobles, mean and unkind, bullying the soft and afraid of the hard, greedy for money and lustful, like to calculate secretly, and his performance in governing the country and marching is mediocre. To put it mildly, the nobles of the Iberian Kingdom are scattered sand, only nominally subordinate to the second prince, and there are endless cases of disobedience to orders, and there are often territorial wars and infighting. If it weren't for the strong support of the second prince's father-in-law, the Grand Duke of the Northeast Prairie, Duke Fisabrun, the second prince would not even be able to establish a kingdom. ”

"The Kingdom of Iberia occupies the northeastern part of the former Crescent Empire, consisting of five provinces, including the Northland Plateau. There was also the Duchy of Madras, which was nominally part of the kingdom. The current enemy of the Iberian Kingdom is the Duchy of Mellein, because it is the loyal of the third prince and blocks the second prince's covetousness of the original imperial capital. If the second prince wants to capture the original emperor, he must first set foot on the Duchy of Melein. However, the Grand Duke of Melain was the military commander of the former empire, and his soldiers and horses were the elite of the original imperial defense army, so that the second prince went to the Duchy of Melain for two consecutive years in vain, and his troops were lost. ”

"The second prince has two dukes, seven marquises, nineteen counts, more than forty viscounts, and more than one hundred barons. Among them, more than 90 titles were newly canonized by the second prince. The reason why so many nobles were canonized was because the second prince wantonly sold his official title for the sake of the founding of the country, and there was even a joke that the newly sealed marquis fief was not as big as the neighbor's baronial fief. One of the two dukes was his father-in-law, Grand Duke Fisabrun, who was originally the commander of the Imperial Frontier Legion, responsible for dealing with the barbarian cavalry in the northeastern steppe. He supported his son-in-law in the battle for the throne of the Three Kings, and he was the strongest, and the establishment of the Iberian Kingdom can be said to be handled by this duke. ”

"The second duke is Lord Lukins, Grand Duke of the Northlands. If you look at the map, the Northland Plateau occupies half of the area of the Kingdom of Ibilis, but although the land is large, there are few people. If you look at the territory of the Norton family, it occupies one-third of the Northlands, and it is all undeveloped wilderness. The territory of the Grand Duke of Lukins is the most prosperous south of the Northland Plateau, across the Watuo River. In fact, the Duke of Lukins has always been ambitious, and he wants to make the entire Northland Plateau the Duchy of Lukins. It's just that his military strength is too weak, and he has been coerced by the legions of the Duke of Fisabrun, and has to promise to become part of the kingdom of Ibilis. He was currently busy trying to build a Northland Legion to rival the Legion of Duke Fisabrun, and become the military force on which he planned to establish the Duchy of Lukins. ”

"This time the Iberian Kingdom was established, in order to obtain the support of Duke Lukins, the second prince promised to give him all the nobles of the territory on the Northland Plateau, which is why the second prince transferred the Norton family to Duke Lukins. However, the second prince also played a trick, he canonized more than 90 nobles in one go, of which more than 40 nobles were sealed on the vast and sparsely populated Northland Plateau, and the Viscount who bordered the territory of the Norton family was one of them. ”

"The second prince said in the name that the canonization of so many new territory nobles in the Northland was to speed up the development of the Northland Plateau, but in fact, it was to cause trouble for the Duke of Lukins and seep sand. After the canonization, countless conflicts broke out between the old and new nobles in the Northland, and there were several territorial wars, and three new nobles and one old nobleman were already killed. And Duke Lukins also changed the original strategy of trying his best to stop the conflict between the old and new nobles in the Northland, and even secretly added fuel to the fire, supporting the territorial conflict and territorial war, consuming the family strength of the nobles in the Northland, forcing them to take refuge in themselves, so now the Northland is in chaos, the smoke is continuous, and the nobles of each territory are gathering people to protect themselves. ”

"This is the current situation outside the Northland family's territory, and it is a good time to fish in troubled waters, as long as we are strong, we may be able to dominate the Northland Plateau. That's why I don't think it's advisable for Lord Locke to ship a shipment of supplies to the Northlands. Transporting a batch of supplies, a huge convoy of transports will only make us a coveted target for others, whether lords or robbers, who will want to take a bite from us. As for the robbers, they are the objects of our army's training and extermination, and we must try to kill as few casualties as possible, and the strong backbone of them will become members of the battalion of dead soldiers, the vanguard of the siege. Those who are not the backbone will also become our laborers, and follow us to the northland to open up wasteland. Shi Fatzi finished his strategy for going north.

Everyone applauded, and Lorist was no exception. Shi Fatzi has always had a sense of the big picture, which can be seen from the time when he used to take the adventure team formed by himself and his friends to do mercenary missions. He would never take on any task beyond the ability of the adventure team, and over the years, the adventure team he led had the experience of being injured, but no one died, as evidenced by his ability to avoid evil and seek good fortune.

It's a pity that Shi Fatzi didn't know that Lorist only wanted to transport a batch of materials to the family and his own plans to get out of the matter, this time Shi Fatzi was stimulated by his father, and gritted his teeth and prepared to take root in the North to earn a hereditary title for himself, so he thought about it extremely long-term.

Lorist weakly objected, believing that Shi Fatzi's strategy was very good, but the cost of gathering the displaced people was too great. If 10,000 displaced people arrive in the family territory in the north, it will bring more trouble to the family, because the territory has no extra arable land to cultivate, and the northern land is desolate, so the food needed by so many displaced people cannot afford it, etc......

Shi Fatzi scoffed at Lorlist's words, he thought that Lorist was contradicting himself, in this case, why did Lorist still transport so many people who were enough for the whole family territory to eat five or six years of grain back? Let the family members stay in the castle as shrinking turtles and not go out? Then it is better to use this batch of grain to gather the homeless, and then buy supplies all the way, I believe that there will be enough grain accumulation in the family territory, as long as there is a grain accumulation of one or two years, the territory can be greatly developed. Yuri asked: "What if there are more homeless people on the road, and those nobles are not willing to sell our grain?" "What should we do, are we vegetarians with swords in our hands? If we don't want to sell, we force them to sell! We are just a team of outcasts, not conquering their territory, as long as we leave their territory." These nobles will not even gather their armies to fight us, because even if they defeat us, it will greatly deplete their own strength and give other lords an opportunity to take advantage of. So their best strategy is to send us food to get us out of their territory as soon as possible. Shi Fatzi said.

When the displaced people arrive in the territory and have no arable land, that's not a problem. Shi Fatzi said, let these homeless people go to mines, build roads, build castles, hunt monsters, as long as the safe territory of the family territory expands, are you afraid that there will be no wasteland to open up wasteland? Shi Fatzi said that many materials can be removed from the list, such as Lorist listed on the list of ten truckloads of iron ingots, this thing is heavy and inconvenient to transport, it is better to buy iron ingots than to find a professional who can prospect for mining and smelting iron, Shi Fatzi pointed to the map of the family territory and said, I don't believe that such a large area does not have the minerals we need.

Shi Fatzi asked Lorist how much Jinford he was originally going to buy supplies, and Lorist ruthlessly said 10,000 gold coins. Shi Fatzi said why do you still have 20,000 yuan left? Prepare to release the cubs! Everyone is on this trip with the determination to go and never return with the adults, you go to the north to work hard, how to do it if you don't make full preparations, the money is handed over, and he is responsible for preparing the materials for the northward journey.

Day, the dead fat man calculated his brother's money really clearly. Two days ago, the share and previous savings that Eljust gave were in the hands of Shi Fatzi, and Lorist found that he had little left around him, and he couldn't help but sigh, how could he go back to Morent City like this.

Shi Fatzi has mastered the financial power, and is discussing with everyone with great interest what to prepare, and what materials to buy, mainly three categories, weapons and equipment, food and clothing, and transportation vehicles. There is no urgency, the most important thing is to have a reliable armed force at hand. If you hire all of them, Shi Fatzi thinks it's unreliable, he knows the problems of those mercenaries he hires, and it's okay to fight a tailwind, and if he suffers a little more casualties, he will run out.

"Here. Bodfinger pointed to a black dot on the map, and Lorist saw that it was a harbor city with the words Port Nubit written on it.

Bodfinger said: "This is the kingdom of Hanea Bada, the archipelago country, and this country does not prohibit the slave trade. So the port of Nubit was the largest seaport for the slave trade in Gerinthia. We can go to this place and buy a group of slaves and form a family army. ”

Shi Fatzi said: "I know this place, I haven't been there, and I don't know the market, I only heard that this place is lawless and extremely chaotic." ”

Bodfinger said: "My last mercenary mission was to pick up a group of slaves from this place, and I went there once, and it was really chaotic. But I met a few acquaintances, all of whom were comrades from the former Legion. Now they're working as bodyguards in this harbor, and I'd like to get in touch with them to find out what the market is. But it's better to wait a few days, I'll be able to move up to the Golden Rank soon, and it's better to go there when I become a Golden Swordsman. “

There is no difficulty in the promotion of the fourth rank of bronze, black, iron, silver, and gold of the vindictive spirit. As long as Bodfinger mastered the route of the bloodline circulation on the high-level Douqi secret book given to him by Lorlist, until he was able to run freely, he would be a golden swordsman.

Shi Fatzi nodded and said, "Okay, I'll go with you then, and the adults themselves will be responsible for it." “

Bodfinger asked a question: "Knight Schredder, I know you've never been to the North, but how do you know so much about the Northlands?"

Shi Fatzi said: "It's very simple, the people sent by the Fude Business Alliance to the former Krisson Empire to mediate the conflicts of the three princes and negotiate with various kingdoms and principalities have returned. I visited one of the members through connections, and I paid a good price for a diary of what he had seen and heard on the trip, and after careful research, I learned about the situation in the Northland. “

Bodfinger bowed his head and saluted, "Knight Schreid, you have a heart. ”

Shi Fatzi nodded in return: "You're welcome, for the sake of the family, this is as it should be." ”

Yuri made a suggestion at this time, he thought that there were many unambitious old students in the Dawn Academy, and there were also many in the Sword Fighting Society, should I go to the Northland to ask if I wanted to go together, so that it would be convenient for us to control the newly established family armed forces by recruiting a group of old students who knew the roots?

Fat Man praised the suggestion as good, and he put Telman and Yuri in charge. The requirements are good character and silver strength, which can tell them that this trip is dangerous. If you want to come back to the Northland, you will be paid twenty gold fords. If you wish to join the Norton family, you will be accepted by Lord Locke as a family knight, but this will not be until you reach the Northlands.

Fat Shi also asked Telman and Yuri to find out if there were any professionals who wanted to follow Master Locke to the Northland, such as pharmacists, iron and steelmakers, as long as they had a skill. Shi Fatzi said that the development of the family territory is inseparable from these people.

Bodfinger nodded appreciatively.

This is the end of the family knight meeting on the northbound strategy, Bodfinger continues to practice, Telman and Yuri go to complete the things that Shi Fat Man explained, Shi Fat Man is even busier, he has to bargain with those profiteers to prepare the supplies for the north. So everyone saluted Lorist and said goodbye, and walked away cleanly.

Lorist sat alone in the study, and after a long time, he finally understood that it was over, and this time he really wanted to go back to be a lord......