Chapter 780: The Provocation of His Royal Highness II

Well, where is this? Lorlist, who had just woken up, looked in a daze at the cream-colored birch siding, on which the curved primary wood grain formed a strange pattern, and on the support of the gilded brass bed, the soft white veil rippled in the wind. The morning breeze blew into the room from www.biquge.info open floor-to-ceiling windows, bringing with it the crisp and pleasant crashing sound of the string of amethyst wind chimes hanging from the windows. Looking at the crystal candles hanging from the white ceiling and the carved decoration in the shape of the demon bear in the corner of the wall, Lorist finally came to his senses, oh, this is the Bear King's Palace, this is my new home, and now I am in Maria's bedroom.

This can't be blamed on Lorist, although he has lived in the Bear King's palace for three or four months, but most of the time he sleeps in Princess Celevia's large bedroom, or in his own lounge on the other side of the study, last night it was the turn of the concubine Maria to sleep with him, Lorist did not call Maria to his lounge on a whim, but came to Maria's residence by himself and slept in her bedroom, so he couldn't figure out where he was when he woke up in the morning.

"Honey, are you awake......" Maria, who looked lazy, opened her hazy eyes, her naked body was close to Lorlist, and a right hand skillfully touched Lorlist's lower abdomen, and soon grabbed the handle of the morning * erection, and began to play with it, and then the whole person drilled into the light quilt made of velvet, until she buried her head under Lorlist's step...

Actually, I don't want to exercise in the morning...... Lorist wanted to say something like that, but his body's reaction was honest, even though he had tossed with Maria twice last night, but now little Lorist was as hard as iron under Maria's tongue...... Looks like I'll have to find a chance to catch up on some sleep in the study in the morning...... Lorist wailed inwardly as she pulled Maria up and let herself deep into her body......

It's just that Lorist didn't expect that there would be so many things to deal with in the morning......

"Your Highness, according to the report submitted by Lord Tagger, His Majesty the Emperor has once again lowered the reserve for the qualifications of the nobles of the Title. Now it only costs 3,500 gold to get the title of an Imperial Honorary Baron, and the title of an Imperial Honorary Viscount is only 5,000, but the price of the Imperial Honorary Earl is still the same as before, 8,000 gold coins. ”

Shi Fatzi looked at the document in his hand with a serious expression: "In the second half of last year, His Majesty the Royal Family canonized more than 130 honorary nobles, and their income was no less than 500,000 gold merits. It is worth noting that most of the wealthy people who contributed to the purchase of the title of nobility were from our family domain, and they were all beneficiaries of the commercial transactions with the city of Moriente, and after they became wealthy, they wanted to further integrate into high society, so they paid for the status of the nobility of the empire......"

Lorist spread his hands: "This is no way, we can't stop them from obtaining the status of nobles, after all, the imperial nobles are ......much more atmospheric than the nobles of our family."

It's just that Shi Fatzi's answer made Lorist laugh: "No, Your Highness, after they obtained the status of the Imperial Honored Noble, they returned to our family territory to spend money to transform the Imperial Honored Nobles into our family's Honored Nobles. Because in our family, it costs about 8,000 gold to obtain the honorary nobility of a baron, and it only costs more than 2,000 fees to convert the imperial honorary nobles into the honorary nobles of our family. In this way, one in and one out, they saved two or three thousand gold mergers......"

"Profiteers, you have to save ...... money," Lorist muttered in admiration.

Among the nobles of the various kingdoms and large territories of the continent of Gelinthia, it was normal to sell the titles of the nobles of the title. For the wealthy, obtaining the status of a noble title helps to protect their net worth, and at the same time, they also make their status superior to others and integrate into the upper class and aristocratic circles. If they're lucky, they might even get a fief to make their family a true realm noble. Like the Kenmax family is a very inspirational version of reality.

Only by mixing into this circle first can you have the opportunity to see the superior lord and get the opportunity to serve him, and with the opportunity to serve, you can make meritorious contributions and be appreciated by the superior lord, and it is not a dream to become a real territorial nobleman for a long time. Therefore, there are not a few rich people in the Norton family's territory who want to change their identities because they are rich, and what makes Shi Fatzi unwilling is that they go to buy the title of the imperial noble, isn't this giving the money to the second highness to spend?

However, Lorist is very satisfied with the fact that these people who have obtained the status of imperial honorary nobles return to their family territory to transform the imperial honorary nobles into the honorary nobles of the family, which shows that everyone is optimistic about the development and future of the Norton family, and thinks that the honorary nobles canonized by the Norton family are more secure, which shows that everyone's minds are very clear, and no one bets on the Second Highness.

However, letting these profiteers take advantage of them in vain Lorist was uncomfortable, and after thinking about it, he ordered: "In this way, in the future, according to the price of the imperial honored nobles, the corresponding increase will be converted into the amount of handling fees for our family's honored nobles, which is about one or two percent higher than the total price." So that no one will continue to do it. If it is not cheap, even if Your Majesty adjusts the qualification reserve of the imperial title nobles to a lower level, there will not be many people in our family territory to buy it. ”

Shi Fatzi nodded, this is a good way, since the cost is high, no one will toss around like this anymore, it is better to buy the status of a nobleman directly from the family.

"Your Highness, because there are many more honored nobles in the family domain, many honorary nobles have jointly written to ask the family to expand the noble district, so that they can also have the opportunity to buy land in the new noble special area to build a manor castle. After conducting on-site surveys and discussions, the Administration Department decided that it was possible to divide the open space between the Bear Palace and the Noble Special District to divide the three noble special districts again, and combine them with the original five noble special districts. This is a preliminary planning plan, and of course, in the planning plan, there is still a 300-meter open space between the noble area and the Bear King's Palace as a warning area......"

Shi Fatzi handed over a planning document to Lorlist, who read it and signed it, agreeing to the request to set up three more aristocratic special districts.

In addition, the Executive Office is preparing to carry out a comprehensive real estate renovation plan for Honghawon and Hung Yen won this year and next year, and the Family Finance Department has approved the investment of 5 million development funds, which will take five years to achieve a total income of about 37 million Jinford. This is the general plan for the renovation, and I would like to ask Your Highness to sign it here. Shi Fatzi handed over another document.

The family benefited greatly from the real estate development and renovation project in the seven towns of Fengle Yuan, although there were many twists and turns, but the problems were finally solved, and it took six years to complete all the reconstruction and development projects intermittently. It can be said that all the residents of Fengleyuan lived in the houses they bought. And the family's income is around 13 million goldfords. This caused the family's treasurer, Viscount Speer, to turn his attention to the more than three million lords of the Northlands......

For this reason, Director Speer specially wrote a letter suggesting that all the lords of the Northland should live in the houses they bought themselves within ten years, clearly trying to loot the private property of all the lords. It doesn't matter if you don't have money, the family can lend you money to let you live in a good house, and then slowly pay it back for ten or twenty years......

Two years ago, Lorist was still thinking about how to deal with the business alliance in Moriente City, and after seeing this letter from Speer, he was secretly amazed by his sensitivity and ruthlessness, which was to turn most of the people of the Northland into house slaves and work for the family. Lorist also knew in his heart that in the past ten years, the family has invested no less than 50 million yuan in the Northland, whether it is the salary and benefits paid to the family's armed soldiers, or the living materials provided for those forced immigrants, free housing, and farming fields, building towns and developing mining resources, behind which is a huge amount of investment that is staggering.

The wealth of the Northland lies not in the millions of goldfords in the Norton family's annual taxes, but in the industrial and mining farms that spread throughout the family's domain, as well as the small individual economy that flourished everywhere, such as snack bars, grocery stores, barbers, tailors, and other service industries, the increasing demand for daily necessities and materials, and the opportunities to work as long as you work hard. Over the years, more than three million people in the Northland have not hidden a few dozen or even dozens or even hundreds of golden fortunes in every household, just in case of emergency......

Now Director Speer's idea is that these ordinary families have hidden goldfords, if they can use the real estate renovation and development project to loot these gold treasures, it can be imagined that it must be an astronomical amount, and Director Speer's eyes are already red. However, Lorist put an end to this plan considering that the family was still at war with the business alliance and that the family's territory needed to maintain stability.

Last year, Speer revisited the old story, and Lorist decided to carry out real estate renovation and development projects in Honghewon and Heonganyuan this year, considering that these two places were the first development sites of the family domain, and after the development of Fengle Won, the people living in various towns in the two places were also relatively wealthy......

After signing, Lorist handed the document back to Shi Fatzi and asked, "By the way, has there been any change in the situation regarding the new construction of the province and the recruitment of the people?"

Shi Fatzi replied: "Your Highness, because of the policy of private ownership of land, we have received nearly 100,000 applications, and we are currently conducting a preliminary review, and it will take at least half a month to reach a conclusion." It is estimated that the first batch of suitable subjects is about twenty or thirty thousand, and the number of people with mercenary qualifications and retired soldier experience we require is only three or four thousand, and the rest have only been trained in the local garrison for a few days. ”

"Punshan Province is different from other territories, we don't need to develop the whole thing right away, everything is slow. Lorist rested his feet on his desk and slumped himself comfortably in his chair: "It is easy for immigrants without force to be in danger when they go there." After all, it was too close to the Demon Dragon Mountain Range and the Barbarian Plains. At present, the Rock Legion has surveyed the terrain in the Panshan Province to select dangerous places to build a defensive front, while the Flying Tiger Legion has already swept away the demonic beasts in the barbarian plain. I expect it will take at least four or five years for Punshan Province to settle down. The current recruits are just to gain a foothold in Punshan Province and build a few towns first, so we don't need to rush it. ”

"I understand. Shi Fatzi thought for a while and said, "However, Your Highness, there is a situation at present, many nobles with honorable titles have written or sent people to inquire about the policy of private land ownership in this Panshan Province announced by our family, and I suspect that their idea is to acquire or purchase a large amount of land in Panshan Province and thus transform themselves into territorial nobles......"

"Hehe, they think ......beautifully," Lorist said with a sneer, "Tell them that the one hundred acres of private land that each vassal in the province of Punshan gets is the maximum limit, and the allocated places are randomly selected." Even if it's a mercenary team, the land they allocate is not connected. In addition, the land in Punshan Province is not for sale, and the land allocated to the people will only occupy half of the area of Punson Province at most, and the other half will become the canonization domain of the meritorious person. ”

There are a lot of things going on today, and even after Fat Shi left, Lorist didn't find a chance to be lazy, because Malek and Tugger came.

"Your Highness, this is the latest news from the imperial capital, His Majesty the Emperor has placed the garrison of the Tempest Legion in Meishan Province, and it is said that he is preparing to deal with the increasingly rampant bandits and horse bandits in the eleven central provinces. There are also rumors that His Majesty is preparing to send the White Lion Legion back to be deployed in the province of Verbasya......" said Tagger.

Lorist immediately jumped up: "What does that idiot want to do, are you going to declare war on our family and the four alliances of the Northlands?"

Both Malek and Tugger understood who Lorist was referring to, but they both pretended not to hear.

On the map, the province of Verbasia is the neighboring province of Yungeshandra, and there is an egret lake between the two provinces, which is connected by only one mountain road on land. When the northbound convoy arrived in Verbasya Province that year, the Grand Duke of Madras closed the land passage and arranged the Iron Guard Corps in the Liechtana fortress and castle on the border to wait for him, forcing Shi Fatzi, who commanded the northbound convoy, to be cornered, and almost ready to adopt the poisonous plan of the Second Highness to drive 100,000 displaced people to storm the Liechtana fortress and open a northbound passage for the northbound convoy with a sea of corpses and blood......

Fortunately, Lorist rushed back from the family domain, led a convoy to cross the Egret Lake at night, and then offered a plan to cut off the water so that His Highness could capture the fortress of Liechdana and be able to sweep through the province of Yungeshandra. Now His Royal Highness is preparing to transfer the White Lion Legion back to the province of Verbasya, which is clearly aimed at the province of Yungeshandra, which is under the jurisdiction of the Norton family. You must know that the White Lion Legion is responsible for the foreign expedition of the Krisson Empire, and it is located in the province of Verbasia, what does this mean, and treat the Norton family territory as an enemy country?

In addition to the fact that Duke Shahin's family territory has been moved to the central region of Kerrybia, the deployment of the Tempest Legion in Meishan Province is equivalent to the White Lion Legion in Verbasya Province, cutting off the land access to the three territories of the Norton family, the Kenmax family and the Philim family. No wonder Lorist angrily scolded His Royal Highness for being a fool, which was clearly a provocation to the four alliances of the Northlands.

"Jean El led the Iron Guard into the province of Yungeshandra, rebuilt the fortress of Liechdana, included the land passage into the defensive position, and set up a fort on the bread post as a sign of strict defense. At the same time, a shipyard was set up on the shore of Egret Lake, gunboats were built to patrol the lake, so that the sails on the opposite shore were not allowed to be launched, and the relevant shipbuilders transferred them from the Niujiaowan shipyard. Our family has invested nearly 10 million in the development of Yungeshandra Province, and seeing that the project is about to be completed, the fool gave us this hand, obviously not wanting us to have a good time. ”

Lorist quickly responded: "Let the Chasseur go to Duke Shahin's territory, just say that he received an invitation from Duke Shaheen to go to his family territory to garrison, so that he and the Pegasus Legion of the Philim family in the southern province will be sandwiched between the Tempest Legion, I want to see how His Royal Highness gets the Tempest Legion out......"

"Yes, Your Highness. Malek said.

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