Chapter 536: Polemic

"Your Highness, the shipments of various daily necessities and commodities produced in our family domain in October and November have tripled compared to the previous two months. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Perhaps because the winter and rainy seasons are coming, the private boat owners in the southern seas know that this is their last purchase of the year, so the types of goods and goods purchased are also developing towards high-end goods and luxury goods, and the total income of our family in these two months alone has reached more than three million gold fords.

In addition, the 400,000 pieces of winter winter clothes made of monster fur that we shipped were snapped up by the residents of Moriente City in less than half a month, but at the same time, our family was also protested by the United Garment and Tailor Association of Moriente City, who thought that it was a terrible thing for our family to make such a featureless and coarse winter winter winter clothing from precious Warcraft fur, which made them spend more effort to rectify it. Therefore, they asked our clan to directly provide the monster fur next time......"

With a smile on his face and a happy glow, Director Speer now understood what Lorlist's purpose was in insisting on spending huge sums of money to revive Morente's business economy. Not to mention, in the past two years, nearly fifty or sixty percent of the backlog of goods and goods in the family territory has been sold out in the city of Morent in half a year, and the Norton family, as a middleman in the resale trade, has reached nearly five million goldfords.

This is only a commercial gain, but the greater benefit is that the industry and commerce in the family domain, which had been sluggish in the previous two years, were almost at full capacity, encouraged by the huge number of commodity orders brandished by the Norton family, which also led to the prosperity of all industries in the family domain. Director Speer knew very well that the family's income would increase by the end of this year.

Lorist didn't have much to say, he just instructed Director Speer to strictly control the quality of the goods, and not let a rat poop spoil a pot of porridge. At the same time, a strict access system should be implemented for the factories and workshops in the family territory that are rushing to the market to build new ones, so as not to cause the oversupply of a certain industry, form unhealthy competition, and destroy the good situation of the healthy development of the entire industry......

Director Speer respectfully stepped down, and the next one was Admiral Sambarwood of the North Sea Fleet, who had come to say goodbye, and at the end of the year, the North Sea Fleet would escort a convoy of nearly 100 ships to the Kingdom of Chigda to complete the supply agreement signed with the Mermaid Chamber of Commerce. This trip will return in April and May next year with a load of special commodities and raw materials from the southern part of the mainland. For the Norton family, it can be said that it is a business pioneering journey.

Although the southern seas are calm, the hostile Chikted Chamber of Commerce and the pirate gangs still pose a considerable threat to the North Sea Fleet's transport fleet. This time, Sambarwood led 12 lightning warships to escort nearly 100 large ocean-going merchant ships to the Kingdom of Chigeda, and the round trip for more than two months can be regarded as an adventure and experience trip to test the North Sea Fleet's military suppression of the southern seas.

Sambawood was followed by Fat Steward, but Princess Celevia got involved, and she brought two good news to Lorlist, who became a father again, Maria gave birth to a young son in her family domain on October 21, and Anna added a daughter to Lorist in Barony of Dina on October 27, and both mothers and sons are now healthy.

These are indeed two good news, Lorist is now also a large family, and there are already three sons and three daughters recorded in the family register, not counting the second son born to him and Elena, who was adopted by Cousin Chrisia, and the one son and daughter born to him by Miss Aridori, Barony of Dina, because the tsundere Aridori put the two children born to Diner in the Diner family tree. Instead of being like Miss Theresti, both daughters were still on the Norton family rolls, although they bore Nicol's surname. However, Lorist has single-handedly changed the situation of the Norton family's scarcity, which is really gratifying, for which he specially opened two bottles of fine wine and celebrated with Shi Fatzi.

Fat Man came to report on the sale of farmsteads in Thomas City and Gypsys City. Thirty thousand households of nearly 140,000 residents of Morente received in cash or on credit the farms scattered around the two fortified cities, and the proceeds from the sale of one-half of the cash alone gave the Morente City Autonomous Council nearly two million Kingfords, which, together with the Norton family's borrowings, were now truly wealthy.

“...... At present, the faction of the Autonomous Council of the City of Moronte, headed by Ledos, is calling for the strengthening of the armed forces of the soon-to-be-formed Freedom Alliance, and they propose to form four free regiments again, two of which will be distributed in the city of Morente, and the other two will be sent to the Cristo Hills, one will be stationed in Port Albany, and the other will be formed as a light cavalry regiment to be responsible for patrolling and guarding the Cristo Hills......"

"Wait, aren't they too anxious Ledos?" asked Lorliste, "Everyone knows that Port Albany is only a ruin now, didn't Tiger Ross just write to complain two days ago that they still have to order the soldiers to help the refugees in Port Elbany build wooden huts for the winter, and rebuild the dock so that the ships carrying supplies can be moored?

"Your Highness, it is precisely because it is a ruin over there that has no defensive value, so Ledos wants to send a free army to garrison it. Shi Fatzi smiled: "I don't know what they have to say, it's very simple, as soon as the rainy season of the New Year is over in April, they will announce the establishment of a free alliance and break away from the control of the business alliance." As long as this news reaches the business alliance, it is likely to be a hornet's nest. It is very likely that the Business Alliance will gather a large army to attack the Plains of Manihill, and they will not allow any Freedom Alliance to separate the city of Moriente from the Plains of Manihill.

The Cristo Hills are of little value to the Business Alliance, as long as the city of Moriente and the Plains of Mana Hill are captured, the Cristo Hills will naturally fall into the winner's pocket. Therefore, compared to the plains of Mana Hill and the city of Morente, the Cristo Hills are the safest place. The idea of the Autonomous Committee was to send the Flying Tiger Legion back and place it on the front line of the Falcan Hill Plain, which was the main purpose of their preparation to replace the Flying Tiger Legion with a new corps with very scummy combat effectiveness. ”

Lorist shook his head: "Tell Ledos that there is no need to expand the armed forces in such a hurry. In fact, after the establishment of the Freedom Alliance, even if the business alliance reacts, it will come at our family, to be exact, at me. As long as I'm here, they're not going to attack a few of the fortified cities on the Plains of Mana Hill. ”

"Your Highness, what do you mean......" Shi Fatzi understood a little.

"Storm Juggernaut. Loris nodded at the table: "Before this old guy recovers from his injury, the business alliance forces dare not act rashly. Only when this old guy comes out of the mountain and involves me will the commercial alliance forces attack the Mana Hill Plains in a big way. I estimate that it won't be until around August next year, the Storm Sword Saint will challenge me, the last time I captured the city of Moriente, this old guy fled too quickly, otherwise it wouldn't be so troublesome now. ”

With the withdrawal of the coalition of nobles of the Kingdom of Antinac, several fortress cities in the Plains of Falis were taken over by the Free Legion, the Norton family armed forces were redeployed, the Rock Legion returned to the family territory, and the Flying Tiger Legion captured the Cristo Hills, Lorist did not believe that the Business Alliance knew nothing about all these changes, and even Lorist suspected that all the circumstances of Morent City, such as the preparation for the formation of the Free Alliance, had been mastered by the Business Alliance. Although the Business Alliance has sent several groups of spies to their deaths in the past, after all, it has deep roots in Moriente City and has been operating for many years, so it is still very easy to pass on information without making small moves.

If the Business League had indeed learned the real situation in the city of Morent and the plan of the Autonomous Council of Lorist and the city of Morent to form a free alliance, it would be worth pondering for now. Lorist thought about it, and the only explanation was that the Business Alliance was waiting for the Storm Sword Saint to return, so that he could neutralize the threat of his new Sword Master, so that the Business Alliance forces could launch an attack without any scruples to recover the Plains of Mana Hill and the City of Morent, and strangle the Freedom Alliance in its infancy.

"I understand, the key to this war is also the duel between His Highness and the Storm Sword Saint. Shi Fatzi said.

"No, my duel with the Tempest Sword Master doesn't matter. "The key lies in the decisive battle between our family forces and the business alliance forces. ”

Lorist explained, "Me and the Tempest Juggernaut have only neutralized the deterrent effect on both sides, and the Business Alliance doesn't have to worry that I will be angry and assassinate the top members of the Business Alliance, because I also have to worry about the Storm Swords Saint carrying out the same activities against our high-ranking personnel." In such a situation, it is easy for the commercial alliance armed forces with superior high-end combat power to seize the initiative on the battlefield, even if the long-range attack weapons equipped by our family's armed forces are sharper, but there is no good way to deal with the personal assault of those great swordsmen and golden swordsmen......"

Shi Fatzi understood what Lorist meant, if the Norton family's armed forces also adopted the defensive operation of the deep ditch barrier when the Commercial Alliance attacked the Mana Hill Plain on a large scale, then they could resist the attack of the large army, but they could not defend against the surprise attack and night attack of the small team composed of the Great Swordsman and the Golden Swordsman sent by the Commercial Alliance. This is a unique combat method of high-end combat power brought to the commercial alliance by the glass war back then, and in addition to the commercial alliance, other countries cannot follow suit at all, because they can't make up so much high-end combat power.

"I knew we wouldn't let the Business Alliance redeem those Great Swordsmen and Golden Swordsmen. Shi Fatzi said distressedly. The Norton family is now less than twenty golden knights, in addition to the original sixteen golden knights, only Parker and Pete have been promoted in the past two years, plus a female knight Chrisya who has returned to the family. There is also a princess Celevia, although she is also a two-star golden fighting rank, but no one will agree to let her, the head mother of the family, wear armor and go to the battlefield immediately. As for the Great Swordsman, Reddy and the Great Swordsman of Xius are diehards of the family, Shi Fatzi's father-in-law Ingjelek is a soy sauce player, and the Swordsman of Cindy is a bystander.

"This is Targer's report on the armed forces of the Business Alliance. Lorist took out a thick blue folder from the drawer of his desk and threw it on the table: "The business alliance was not idle while we were busy, they also eased relations with those countries in the central and southern parts of the continent while they were fighting hard, signed several agreements that suffered losses, and repeated the old talk of preaching the threat of the unification of the north to the countries in the central and southern parts of the continent, and dressed themselves up as the last line of defense against the invasion of the northern barbarians. In the eyes of the business alliance, we are barbarians from the north, no wonder they refuse to make peace with us even if they die to the death......"

Shi Fatzi laughed: "Does it work?"

"I don't know if it will have an effect, but after the business alliance signed an agreement with those kingdoms in the central and southern continent, the trade route to the southern part of the continent has been opened to them. At the same time, the Business Alliance was allowed to recruit mercenaries from those countries to strengthen their armed forces. Lorist flipped through the blue folder, pointed to one of the pages, and said, "It is said that the Merchant Alliance has assigned the annexed former Duchy of Kamert, near the Titagini Mountains, to the reconstituted Vician Chamber of Commerce as a territory. The Duchy of Kamot owns a small iron ore mine in the south-central part of the continent, and it is highly forested. According to the secret investigation of the spies, there is evidence that the Vesia Chamber of Commerce has re-established a production base in a certain valley, they have used the same hydraulic machinery as our family to refine armaments and weapons, and they have also purchased a lot of iron ore ingots from the dwarven kingdom......"

"These despicable and shameless merchants, their water conservancy machinery was stolen from our family territory!" Shi Fat scolded angrily.

Back then, Lorist and the Storm Sword Master were both defeated, and the Business Alliance sent many great swordsmen to assassinate Lorlist. They didn't find Lorlist's whereabouts, but they turned the Norton family territory upside down. Master Sid's Xuaniron Refining and Production Base was no exception, and many design drawings of weapons and equipment were swept away. As for those hydraulic forging machinery, as long as you see and describe it, naturally there are smart people who can quickly understand the benefits of these hydraulic machinery to the forging industry, and they can be imitated as long as they put a little effort into it.

"The Business Alliance is so anxious to support the reorganization of the Vicia Chamber of Commerce, I suspect that their purpose is to rearmament. It can be seen that when the merchant alliance forces launch an attack, it will be a great battle with us, and this great battle will be related to who can become the victor who owns the plains of Mana Hill and the city of Morente. If the business alliance loses, it means that the free alliance has gained a firm foothold and will never have to worry about the threat of the business alliance in the future. And if we lose, then all the hard work we have spent on the city of Moriente, and the huge investment we have invested here, will be in vain, and we will have to retreat to the Northland in disgrace. ”

"Your Highness, are you sure about this war?" asked Shi Fatzi.

"I don't know. Lorist smiled dumbly: "How can we be 100% sure of the war? All we can do is try to win as much as possible." However, I believe that our Norton family armament will not fail, and we are not without countermeasures compared to the high-end combat force assault tactics of the commercial alliance armament. When it comes time for the decisive battle, the business alliance will be taken by surprise. ”

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