Chapter 457: Lorlist's Calculations

It was late in the night, but Lorist had no sleep, and leaned alone on the chaise longue under the grape shed, letting the silver-white moonlight shine through the lush grape branches and the bunches of fruit sparsely scattered on him......

Why don't you want to send troops?, Lorist asked himself, without him, for the sake of the future of the Norton family. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info Speaking from his heart, Lorist had to admit the talent and strategic vision of His Royal Highness, he saw it very accurately, and the timing was very good. Taking advantage of the fact that the army of the commercial alliance is currently pinned down in the southern part of the continent, it suddenly moves towards the provinces of the former empire that the commercial alliance forcibly occupies.

And before the peaceful armistice agreement between the Kingdom of Qigeda and the Eight-Nation Alliance in Central and South China was signed, the Business Alliance could not transfer its main force and elite legions back from thousands of miles away, so it could only swallow this bitter fruit before its eyes. Under such circumstances, the business alliance can't even fight with His Second Highness, otherwise the situation in Central and South China, which has just stabilized, will restart, and all the results and costs will be reduced to ashes, and the only choice it can have is to negotiate with His Second Highness......

Don't look at the loud voice of the Second Highness wanting to recover all the territories of the former empire, in fact, he is not ready to recover the two provinces of the former Principality of Rum that took the initiative to join the business alliance, in order to make his surprise war not really anger the business alliance, and desperately fight with himself to the end.

As Lorist said, the current business alliance is no longer the weak force that has been pressed and rubbed on the ground by the Krisson Empire for more than a hundred years, but has truly developed into a big and powerful country in the Gelinthia continent. The Kingdom of Antinac has already been damaged in more than ten years of civil strife and fire, inheriting the royal orthodoxy of the former Krisson Empire, but not inheriting the strength of the former empire, and the trend of strength and weakness has long been reversed.

The reason why His Royal Highness wanted to launch this raid war was to take advantage of the fact that the commercial alliance was now ignoring the south and the north, and this was the only good opportunity. Once the business alliance stabilized the situation in the central and southern parts of the continent, the Second Highness would never have a chance to recapture the few provinces that had been forcibly occupied, but would instead face the strong persecution of the business alliance. At that time, he would only be in a state of defense, let alone unify the territory of the former empire.

The former Krisson Empire's first rebellion provoked the three kings to compete for the throne, resulting in the final division of the empire's seven-year civil war, and the provinces of Cambona, Portoorg, and Andlvf of the Kingdom of Redlis that he established were all forcibly occupied by the commercial alliance, especially the province of Portoorg, a large mineral province, which has also become the territory of the Vicia Chamber of Commerce, one of the seven giants of the commercial alliance. The northwest of the former kingdom of Redlis also became the territory of the so-called Duchy of Zthuram, which was clearly a vassal of the commercial alliance and served as a buffer with the Kingdom of Antinac.

In addition to the two provinces of the former Principality of Rum, which took the initiative to join the Commercial Alliance, the Commercial Alliance occupied five provinces and one region of the former Krissian Empire, and if His Royal Highness did not recover these territories, his so-called ambition to revive the former Krissian Empire would not be realized. Therefore, the bottom line of the Second Highness's desire to launch this raid war is to recover the provinces of Cambona, Portoorg, Andlvov and the Northwest Territories.

Chen Bing then forced the merchant alliance to negotiate a peaceful truce with the former Principality of Rum before the border between the two provinces of the former Principality of Rum, and demanded that the merchant alliance return the two provinces of the Principality of Rum on the condition of reopening the trade routes. In this way, the unification of the former Krisson Empire was completed in the hands of His Royal Highness, and he would also restore the royal family and reascend to the throne and become the emperor of the Zhongxing Empire......

Just because the abacus is well played doesn't mean that the results will be wonderful. Acknowledging that the raid war launched by His Highness would catch the business alliance by surprise, Lorist was able to easily achieve the first strategic goal of recovering Cambona, Puerto Org and Ander Lviv, as well as the southwest. However, the idea of forcing the commercial alliance to negotiate peace with the two provinces of the former Duchy of Rum forced the commercial alliance to negotiate with it and return the two provinces was too natural, and even if the Second Highness agreed to the commercial alliance to reopen trade routes in the Kingdom of Antinac, this condition would not make the commercial alliance bow to the Second Highness, and most likely the two countries would fall into a long confrontation war......

Lorist once persuaded His Royal Highness that the high-end combat power of the Commercial Alliance exceeded that of the Principality of Antinac by several times, and it was impossible for the Commercial Alliance not to threaten the Kingdom of Antinac without sending the Storm Sword Saint when the battlefield situation was backward. It's just that His Royal Highness thinks that even the Storm Sword Saint can't blatantly come to assassinate him, the king, and he is in the midst of hundreds of thousands of troops, so his safety can be guaranteed. Even if the Storm Sword Saint comes, he can be trapped by a large army. He didn't believe it, could a sword saint still be able to stop his hundreds of thousands of troops?

Duke Kenmeth is willing to send troops because His Royal Highness promised to make the Snow Salt Chamber of Commerce the royal family after completing the great cause of imperial unification, which will be the first chamber of commerce of the new Krisson Empire, and the royal family will guarantee it, and it has great preferential treatment and rights in various business aspects such as taxation and opening shops and real estate, so Duke Kenmeth was moved.

Duke Philip was willing to send troops, and His Royal Highness also gave him very good preferential conditions, including immigration, financial assistance, tax relief, etc. But the most important thing is that Duke Philim was originally a knight, and defeating the enemy on the battlefield and plundering wealth was a legitimate way for him to get rich, and he was born a warrior who loved war.

Duke Shaheen was a resemblance to Duke Philim, both knightly by birth, and for them, war was the most convenient way to plunder wealth. Moreover, although Duke Shaheen became a duke, he only had one county in the province of Delemk, and he desperately hoped that he could monopolize a province as a family territory like the other three families in the Northlands, instead of nesting in the province of Delemke, which was under the jurisdiction of the Norton family, which made him feel like he was under a fence.

His Royal Highness gave Duke Shaheen an oath that as long as Duke Shaheen dispatched his family's armed army to help His Royal Highness complete the unification of the empire, then His Royal Highness would canonize Crimea, a major province of mineral resources in the Kingdom of Antinac, as a hereditary family domain. This is one of Duke Shaheen's favorite provinces, and he asked for this province when he went out to conquer the four central principalities, but was rejected by His Royal Highness on the grounds that he had done nothing in the war. Now that His Second Highness was tempted and assured by the oath, Duke Shaheen forgot his resentment against His Second Highness and his oath that he was no longer willing to serve him, and obediently boarded the thief ship.

Perhaps His Royal Highness wanted to let the three of the four alliances of the Northland get on board before letting them persuade Lorist to be in the same boat, but Lorist refused them mercilessly. The Norton family has nothing to ask for now, and the next step is to establish a principality. And if you do that, you will ensure that the Second Highness will turn around and deal with the Norton family first. It was not that Lorist was afraid of the hundreds of thousands of troops of the Second Highness, but that he was unwilling to bear the name of rebellion, which ruined the reputation of the Norton family for nearly three hundred years.

Archduke Forrendo, who had visited the previous evening, told Lorist that he had also promised to send troops. Quite simply, His Royal Highness said that if the empire was unified, then he could let the Volendo family return to their original family territory, the province of Perorina, which was an irresistible temptation for the Grand Duke of Volendo, where for more than two hundred years the Forrendo family had grown and rested, built a summer palace, and even the family cemetery was on the outskirts of its capital, Pedro City......

Archduke Volendor promised to send troops to help His Second Highness, a decision that disrupted the plans of the Norton and Volendor families to jointly develop the province of Yunge Shangdra. At the same time, the early investment of the Norton family and the Volendor family was useless. Because if the Forendo family returns to the original family territory, then Yungeshandra Province will be taken back under the direct jurisdiction of the Second Highness, and continuing to invest in the development funds will be to make wedding dresses for others, so that the Second Highness will take advantage of it in vain.

Archduke Forrendo apologized and proposed to shelve the development plan first, because he didn't know whether the outcome of the raid war would be good or bad, and in order to return to the original family territory, he also desperately invested all the family weapons this time. However, if he does not succeed, he will still return to Yungeshandra Province and pay a higher price to ask the Norton family to restart the investment and development plan......

Lorist understands Archduke Volendo's desire to return to his family's domain, and agrees to put his plans for the province of Yungeshandra on hold until the war is over. Archduke Forrendo expressed his deep gratitude, and at the same time told Lorist that His Royal Highness persuaded Archduke Hansk to send troops on the same terms as him, promising to return him to the province of Deruma after the unification of the empire, and Archduke Hansk agreed.

In fact, the four archdukes in the middle, in addition to the Sabaji family is a latecomer, the Volendor family, the Hansk family and the Falkel family are the first batch of territorial nobles who were canonized to the central part by the former emperor Cleison I, the founding emperor of the empire, and their families have made countless contributions to the empire in more than two hundred years, before they were gradually promoted from a small nobleman to the grand duke, so the attraction of the original family territory to them is self-evident, and the second highness just tossed back and forth to let the two grand dukes be willing to work for him, which has to make Lorist praise the second highness for thoughtfulness。

As for Grand Duke Sabaji, his family was transferred to the central part of the country by Christen VI, and he didn't have much nostalgia for the original family territory, and he knew what the province of Zixes had been ruined by the four coalition forces of the Northland and the Fisabrun family, and he didn't want to go back to clean up the mess. Therefore, His Royal Highness's promise to him was to canonize the province of Portoorg to him as a new family domain, and Grand Duke Sabaji, who was trapped in the two barren provinces in the southwestern provinces like Grand Duke Hansk, immediately made peace with His Second Highness, and also agreed to send the family armed army to participate in this war.

At present, except for the Fisabrun family, the conditions for sending troops to participate in the war are unknown, and all the nobles of other territories have agreed to participate in this war. Lorist calculated, if the six Grand Dukes all dispatched a family armed legion, the total number of men and horses was nearly 2.78 million, plus the 500,000 horses under the command of His Second Highness, it was already nearly 800,000. If you add the soldiers and horses dispatched by the Fisabrun family and the private army of those territorial nobles, it may exceed one million......

No wonder His Second Highness is so sure that he will force the Business Alliance to hold talks with him, Chen Bing is a million and the border, and the Business Alliance may really be intimidated by His Second Highness and agree to all his requests. However, if the business alliance chooses to confront the Second Highness, then the grain, grass and logistics materials accumulated by the Second Highness in the past three years can only guarantee the expenses of a million army for two years at most. If a peaceful truce cannot be reached within two years, the mighty wave of His Royal Highness can only end in failure.

This is a magnificent era, and the raid war that His Royal Highness is about to launch against the Commercial Alliance will surely shock the entire Gallinthia continent like thunder. It's a shame that the Norton family can't get involved. This is not Lorlist's personal unfavorable prediction of the outcome of the war, but he is sure that once the strategic goal of the Second Highness of the commercial alliance is achieved, and after the signing of a peaceful armistice agreement to unify the former Krisson Empire, then the minions that have shrunk back to the outside world will soon turn their attention to the Norton family for the long-term peace and stability of the empire, and he will not give up if he does not compress the power of the Norton family to an acceptable level.

From the family's point of view, Lorist didn't want His Highness to succeed in this war, because it represented the beginning of a head-on confrontation between the Norton family and His Highness. But from a personal point of view, no matter how much he complains about the temperament of the Second Highness, not for the Ming Lord and the like, he still has to admire the Second Highness's perseverance and obsession with the unification of the former empire.

Where there is a will, it can be done, and one hundred and two Qin Passes will eventually belong to Chu. Hard-working people, the sky is not bearable, and three thousand Yuejia can swallow Wu. These two poetic couplets were used by my grandfather to teach them when I was a child in my previous life, and these juniors should be diligent and studious, and make progress every day. But now that Lorist thinks about it, this is simply the best portrayal of His Second Highness. Look at his ups and downs, but still determined, only thinking about the unification of the former empire to fulfill his wishes.

It's really a headache to have an opponent like the Second Highness, especially as the upper lord of the Norton family, he is very good at learning lessons, and now he has skillfully grasped the measure of treating the Norton family, every time you are uncomfortable but you can't have a seizure. On the surface, he is very generous and tolerant of himself, but in fact, the two of them are very aware of each other's taboos and precautions.

Like this time, Lorist simply refused to send troops, and His Royal Highness said that he didn't care at all, but immediately promised the Grand Duke of Volendor to let him return to the original family territory, which directly made the plan of the Norton family and the Volendor family jointly develop the territory come to naught. In fact, Lorist understands very well that this is a dismount, and it is not practical to let the Grand Duke of Volundo send troops to lure him by returning to his original family territory, but His Royal Highness has used it, and you have nothing to say.

For the Norton family, participating in this war is indeed harmful, because the Norton family's power and prestige as a subordinate lord have reached their peak, and it is impossible for the Second Highness to come up with conditions to enhance the strength of the Norton family to induce Lorist to agree to participate in the war. And Lorist could not have caused the Norton family to suffer losses for the sake of the so-called unification of the empire. But Lorist knows very well the character of the Second Highness who does not give up until he reaches his goal, and he cannot let the most powerful Norton family forces stay aside to watch the show, but now he can't think of what means and methods the Second Highness will use.

With a bit of a headache at the thought, Lorist rolled over and got ready to take a stroll in the garden. There was a slight sound of wind, and Lorist stopped: "Who?

Genorio, who followed behind, drew his sword and blocked in front of Lorlist, assuming the posture of a guard.

A figure flashed in the shadow of the rockery in front of him: "It's me." ”

The voice turned out to be Grand Duke Fisabrun.

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