Chapter 214 Arrangement

Although Lorist wandered around for more than three months, and did not hurry back to the Rock Castle until Miss Triste was close to giving birth, Miss Terliste easily forgave Lorist for the mistake of not speaking for so long, because the guards sent her from time to time to send her love letters and gifts expressing their desire to miss her......

When Shi Fatzi entered the study, he saw Lorist laughing, and he was very curious: "What is so happy?"

Lorist smiled and raised a letter in his hand: "The news just arrived, Grand Duke Fisabrun ran back to the Eastern Wilderness Province. The letter said that since he had been regent of the Iberian Kingdom for more than a month, the Grand Duke of Fisabrun had done nothing serious except to quarrel with the nobles in the Rose Palace every day, and that several policies promulgated by the nobles had been openly and covertly resisted. In the end, the great swordsman could not stand these tedious affairs, resigned from the post of regent, and ran away after leaving a regiment of border rangers in the royal capital, and now the kingdom of Iberia is headed by Her Majesty the beautiful queen......"

"This poor old man must not know that this is all your arrangement," Shi Fatzi shook his head......: "At the beginning, I heard from the guards who delivered the letter that you did not allow the family to loot those nobles and rich people in the royal capital of Windbri, and you were so preferential to the queen that you knew who you were going to trap." In particular, the two chariot battalions of our family's armed chariot assisted the Henneld and Philim families in sweeping through most of Winston without hanging a single rebellious lord. Only now do I understand that you want to deal with the Grand Duke of Fisabrun. ”

"No, you're wrong. In fact, I didn't think about who to trap, the old man of Fisabrun jumped into the pit by himself. I made it very clear that this time I sent troops, it was only aimed at the second prince alone, and I didn't want to go against the nobles of the entire Iberian Kingdom. Then let them spread the reputation of our Norton family as a family of robbers throughout Guelimpia......"

Lorist stood up, went to the wine cabinet and selected a small barrel of fruit wine, took two silver glasses, poured them and handed them to Fat Shi: "Taste, from a vineyard in Winston Province." ”

Shi Fatzi took it and tasted it, and exclaimed: "It tastes good." Locke, though. I'm confused by you, you don't rob the property of the nobles of the royal capital, and you gang up with Henneid and the Philim family to rob most of the lords of Winston Province, isn't this contradicting your statement?"

"Hehe......" Lorist laughed: "No contradiction, what you don't know is what the nobles of the Iberian Kingdom are." When the second prince established the kingdom, he bought and sold titles in the way of canonizing the nobles of the territory, sold all the lands in the southern provinces and Winston provinces except for the royal capital, and also canonized dozens of lords to the north, so the number of territorial nobles in the Iberian Kingdom was the largest.

The second prince used the wealth obtained from the sale of titles to form a royal army to attack the Duchy of Melein. Unexpectedly, after two years of fighting, not only did they suffer defeat, but also turned the southern provinces of the kingdom into ruins. And the nobles of the territory who were canonized to the southern province realized that the prospect was not good, so they had already packed up their belongings and ran to the royal capital to stay, and then argued with the second prince every day, demanding that the second prince be responsible for the southern province becoming a ruin.

A few years ago, the second prince borrowed troops from the Grand Duke of Fisabrun, and he had to give an explanation to the nobles of the territory who stayed in the royal capital, so he aimed at the Duchy of Madras, which seemed to be easy to bully, and the idea was to occupy the province of Delemke in the Duchy of Madras. Replace the territories of those nobles in the royal capital, and take the opportunity to make a profit. By the way, he relied on the huge grain debt owed to the Grand Duke of Madras.

If you look at the map, you can understand that the province of Damke is known as the granary of the former empire, so the land of the neighboring province of Winston is very poor? The fact is that the second prince did not have the ability of the Grand Duke of Madras to control the lords of his subordinates, and after the territory was canonized, the lords of Winston Province did their own thing, and they abandoned the hard and unprofitable industry of growing grain, and opened orchards and wineries one after another, and planted very profitable cash crops. So after the southern province was beaten to ruins. The Iberian Kingdom has always been short of food, but the food is in the hands of the lords of Winston, and the high price of food in the kingdom in recent years is the work of these lords of Winston.

Because of the high price of grain, these lords of Winston Province took advantage of the good weather in the past few years and hoarded a large amount of grain in their hands. While controlling and preventing foreign grain merchants from entering the kingdom, he maintained the price of grain in the kingdom and made a lot of money. Those southern lords stayed in the royal capital was jealous, envious and hated these native buns and nouveau riche in Winston Province, and the two sides were full of contradictions, which was also the main reason why the second prince stayed in the north a few years ago and was too lazy to return to the royal capital, he didn't want to have anything to do with those nobles.

So this time, the news of our three families in the Northland robbing the lords of Winston Province reached the royal capital, and the nobles of those royal capitals applauded one after another, thinking that they should have given these Winston Province native buns a good look a long time ago. In fact, with my original intention, I should give these nobles of the Iberian Kingdom a great purge, just like you did in the Kingdom of Antinac, hang these nobles, and the world will be much cleaner.

It's a pity that if he does that, it will only be a great help to the people who have taken over the ruling power of the Iberian Kingdom, just like the Grand Duke of Fisabrun, if he is allowed to integrate the four provinces of the Iberian Kingdom, then his strength will be several times greater, and we will add a difficult enemy to the Northland, so I will not do such a stupid thing.

It is for this reason that the armies of the Henneid and Philim families did not harm the lives of the lords in the process of sacking, and for this reason to empty their granaries and supplies, plunder their floating wealth, and relocate their subjects, so that these Winston provinces and lords and the lords of the southern provinces who stayed in the royal capital were evenly matched. If I rob the nobles of the royal capital, all the nobles will be the same enemy, and if I spare the nobles of the southern provinces of the royal capital, then they will gloat over what has happened to the lords of Winston.

For the lords of Winston Province, what they hate most is that our three families in the Northland have relocated their people, without whom they will not be able to gather wealth and grow food, and the Northland has natural dangers, and they have no way to fight back. If you want to get the lords, you have to think of other ideas, but if I move all the poor people of the royal capital, there will be no one to recruit these lords. Then the only way left is to fight the idea of the neighboring province of Delemke, the principality of Madras.

The last time the second prince attacked Demke Province, the people who contributed money and efforts behind the scenes were the nobles of the southern provinces who stayed in the royal capital, and the lords of Winston Province all provided some food and grass perfunctorily and sent some troops. Now the lords of Winston will definitely meet with strong opposition from the nobles of the southern provinces if they fight for their own benefit.

In the past, the nobles of the southern provinces of the royal capital would always be opposed and resisted by the lords of Winston Province, and the nobles of the southern provinces who had lost their territory in terms of strength had no choice but to swallow their anger. Now that both sides are about the same, whatever proposal made by the lords of Winston Province will definitely be opposed by the lords of the southern provinces. Therefore, after the Grand Duke of Fisabrun took over the ruling power of the Iberian Kingdom, he found that under the quarrel between the nobles of the two sides, he would only achieve nothing, and the decree would not leave the royal capital.

If the Grand Duke of Fisabrun had been ruthless enough to clean up a group of nobles who had rebelled against him, perhaps he would have been able to reluctantly control the situation in the kingdom and push it in the direction he wanted. It's a pity that the old man doesn't know if he doesn't have the courage or is too sober, knowing that doing so will make the Fisabrun family the target of public criticism, so he simply gives up. Retract back into the nest and be at ease.

Our Norton family is too far away from Winston to reach there without occupying all of the Northlands. So I hope that Winston Province will become a chaotic battlefield, and that as soon as the Grand Duke of Fisabrun is gone, and there is no strong suppression from above, the conflict between the lords of the Southern Province and the Province of Winston will erupt, and soon they will meet each other, and then we will sit back and watch them kill each other. ”

Shi Fatzi's eyes straightened when he heard this, and he sighed: "Locke." I didn't expect you to become so fast now, and after becoming a lord, you are thinking farther and farther. You've really calculated everything......"

Lorist spread his hands: "I can't help it, after becoming a lord, I learned that the world of nobles is not hunting, playing, holding dance banquets, and seducing those beautiful ladies and young ladies all day long, but has to worry about all the affairs of the entire family territory." Responsible for the future of the family, the lives of the lords and the knights under them, the exchanges between the nobles are still full of deceit and copper stench, and the thoughtful ones will be swallowed by people, and they are all forced......"

Fat Shi drank the wine in the silver cup in one gulp. wiped his mouth and said, "Okay, don't complain, you've done a good job, and the family is thriving now." Let's get down to business, what's the matter with me coming in such a hurry?"

Lorist pointed to a thick stack of animal skin papers on the desk: "At the end of this month, the nearly 70,000 relocated lords we have allocated and the more than 40,000 poor people we have forcibly relocated from the royal capital Windbri City will arrive in the family territory, and these 100,000 immigrants will be handed over to you, and they will be resettled in Xing'an Yuan, where there are still a few districts where there is a shortage of people, and with this batch of immigrants, it will be almost the same." ”

"Along with these immigrants are more than 15,000 prisoners of war of the Frontier Legion, Grand Duke Fisabrun will not give up these soldiers under his command, the combined population of the two provinces of Makinohara Province and Eastern Wilderness Province is less than 500,000, if it were not for the southern province being beaten into ruins and a large number of civilians scattered to the Eastern Wilderness Province, Grand Duke Fisabulun would not have maintained the full strength of the Frontier Corps in the past few years. The 15,000 soldiers we have captured now are elite soldiers, not the 30,000 eliminated soldiers he lent to the second prince back then, so he will definitely come to redeem them.

I am not going to let these captives enter the family territory, so I will leave it to you to arrange for them to build road transportation and other facilities in Hung Yen Yuan, and it is a pity that these strong laborers are released in this way, and if the envoy of the Grand Duke of Fisabrun comes, it will be up to you to negotiate with him, and it is good for you to delay the freedom of these prisoners of war as long as you want, and let them build us more roads......

Shi Fatzi laughed with a "flutter": "Locke, you are becoming more and more shrewd, so you have to calculate, if the Grand Duke of Fisabrun wants to know, he must be angry." Okay, I know this, so leave it to me. I will ask the Grand Duke of Fisabrun to pay a large ransom for his fifteen thousand men. ”

Lorist touched his chin and walked around the study, thinking: "The Grand Duke of Fisabrun may not have so much money, his adopted son, the confidant Viscount Christopher, is still in my hands, plus more than 15,000 elite soldiers, I suspect that he cannot afford this huge ransom." So I don't want possessions this time, I want cattle and sheep. The Eastern Wilderness Province and the Makinobara Province were the largest pastures in the former Empire, and the cattle and sheep produced accounted for more than half of the market share of the former Empire, which is still recorded in the commercial survey materials of the city of Morente.

Last time you swept away the lords of the Northlands, isn't the western part of the Northlands empty, we will treat it as the ranch of our Norton family, and there are more than 15,000 cattle exchanged for a prisoner of war, I don't know how many cattle can be exchanged for Viscount Christopher, the great swordsman, less than 10,000, I don't do it, the cattle in exchange will graze in the west, and turn it into a large ranch in the Northland. ”

Shi Fatzi nodded: "At present, the only pasture in our family still belongs to Fenglin Villa, and there are only about two thousand cattle and sheep. Although there are also civilians who have started grazing in Fengle Yuan, they are basically sheep herds, dozens to hundreds, and the population size is not large. If it weren't for the fact that we harvested a large amount of demonic beast meat during the Warcraft tide, the family territory would have been in a meat shortage long ago. That's a good idea, the western Northlands are desolate but not dangerous, and it's just the right place to build a ranch. ”

"Then it's decided, by the way, this time our three families in the north also robbed a lot of grain and grass in Winston Province, and about 60 million catties were distributed to our family, as well as some property. I plan to use all this grain, grass and property to develop the Xing'an Plain, and I will hand it over to you to be responsible for storage. In addition, the two families of Henneid and Philim are not short of food, and they are willing to sell the looted grain to our family at the market price. Lorist added.

"Okay, I've got it. Fat Shi stood up and went to the desk to sort out all the relevant documents and held them in his hand: "Locke, Miss Theresti will be born in a few days?"

"In a few days, I guess it should be around eleven or twelve. Lorist said, looking out the window.

"You're not going to give her an explanation?" asked Shi Fatzi.

Lorist shrugged, "What can I do? You know I've proposed to her a few times, but she always says that she swore in front of Simin Ryder, the god of wisdom, that she would never talk about marriage in this life. I hope that after giving birth this time, she will change her mind and agree to marry me......"

"Well, think about the time we set out from the city of Morent to the Northlands, and five years have passed. Now that you're twenty-nine, it's time for you to start a family as a lord. Miss Theresti is a good candidate for the Lord's Lady, and you need to persuade her more. Fat Shi sighed.

Lorist nodded yes, and when he saw that Shi Fat Man was leaving, he went over to open the door to see him off, and then saw Schward standing outside the door, and laughed: "Fat man, Baron Philim will come to us for the winter at the end of this year, and will bring his fifteen-year-old baby daughter over......"

Shi Fatzi said: "Baron Philim, he is not yet thirty-five, how can he have a fifteen-year-old baby daughter? And he doesn't have a wife?"

Lorist laughed: "That's his illegitimate daughter, it is said that her mother was only sixteen when she gave birth to this child, and Baron Philim himself was less than eighteen ......"

"Beasts!" Shi Fatzi scolded in disgust, but his tone was full of envy: "Why did he come to us for the winter and bring his daughter over?"

Lorist said at the blushing Schwardnunu: "I have taken a fancy to this kid, and I am going to bring his daughter over for the two to meet, and if I like it, I will discuss with Bodfinger about their engagement." ”

Shi Fatzi laughed: "It's a good thing, Schward, congratulations, I kidnapped a wife after such a trip with the adults, it seems that you will have to go out for a walk more in the future......"

Schward couldn't stand the ridicule of the two and turned around and ran out, and Lorist and Fat laughed......

...... (To be continued.) )