Chapter 194: The Covenant of the Four Families

Lorist woke up before dawn, and the light of the silver moon shone softly in front of the window.

Stretching his waist, Lorist no longer sleepy, at this moment he felt extremely energetic, and couldn't help but recall the scene where he fought with the black-robed figure, the cold light that divided the entire space and spread throughout the entire field of vision swept in a steady stream, and deep down in his heart there was a feeling of wanting to compete with the black-robed figure again.

Lorist was surprised to find that he no longer had that uneasy and wary feeling towards the Great Sword Master, and seemed to see the Great Sword Master as an opponent of the same level as himself in his heart.

The body feels good, a big sleep, and the tiredness is gone. It is in a state where the old force is gone and the new force is not born.

Lorist rolled over and got out of bed, tied up his horse, first running the family heirloom of red blood fighting spirit, and then running the golden water duel. Over and over again, again and again, until the dantian is full of internal force.

Although the battle with the black-robed figure made Lorist exhaust all his internal strength to win, but this will make Lorist pleasantly surprised to find that the internal force that has been stagnant for a long time has greatly increased, and it seems that he has to often exhaust his internal strength and then recover, so as to help his cultivation. Lorist pondered as he looked inward to see what was going on inside his body.

Familiar footsteps came from outside the door, and Lorist realized that it was already dark.

Reddy pushed open the door and saw Lorist standing in front of the window, and couldn't help but be overjoyed: "My lord, are you awake?"

Loris nodded: "Reddy, get some to eat, this will make me think I can eat a cow......"

"Your Excellency. You've slept for two days and three nights. Of course you're hungry! I'm going to get you something to eat. Reddy turned and ran.

"What? I've slept for two days and three nights?" Lorist was taken aback, but Reddy was running too fast to ask.

Fortunately, Pat next door also got up when he heard the movement, and Pat said that the adults slept so dead that they couldn't wake up, and everyone was a little panicked. Knight Josk said that adults breathe long when they sleep, and they should be too tired to sleep for so long, and it's okay. Just let the adults sleep, and when you sleep enough, you will wake up naturally.

Reddy soon ran back, bringing a few strips of white bread and a pot of Michels, "Sir, you pad your stomach first, I've got everyone in the kitchen up, and I'll get you a good meal right away." ”

"Did anything happen in the two days I was asleep?" Lorist asked, breaking open the leg of a roast chicken and eating it. Lorist is the first to nibble on roast chicken in the morning, but after sleeping for so long, his stomach is really hungry. I don't care about anything.

"Well, yesterday Princess Celivia sent someone to spread the word that she would leave for Makinohara Province in two days. Specify your escort with an adult. Also, Count Kenmath and Baron Saheen have been quarreling for the past two days, and the cause of the incident seems to be because of our snow salt business, Count Kenmath said that Baron Saheen sells snow salt cheaply and will not do business at all, and it also affects their family's snow salt business. Baron Shaheen said that the Kenmax family was profiteers, mixing sand and soil with snow salt, and selling one pound of snow salt for two catties, his heart was too dark. The two had a very unpleasant quarrel, and Baron Philim watched the excitement from the sidelines......" Reddy reported.

"These two fellows ......," Lorist scolded, "I'll clean them up when I'm full." ”

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Baron Saheen Henneld did not have a good time with Count Kenmeth for the past two days, in fact, they all knew the reason why Lorist had let him meet Baron Philim in Gildusk. After driving out the second prince, just like Lorist said, the entire northern land will be decided by the four of them in the future. As long as they become allies, they no longer have to worry about anyone climbing on their heads.

But Hennet did not expect that when he met the Earl of Kenmeth, he was rebuked, because he bought a million catties of snow salt sold to him by Lorlist, and bought it at the price of 10,000 goldfords, and he doubled the sale, earning 10,000 goldfords for himself, and reducing the burden of military expenses, which made him very happy. But who knew that Count Kenmath accused him of being brainless, and he only sold the snow salt that could sell for 30,000 yuan for 20,000, which greatly affected the snow salt business of the Kenmax family.

Henneth didn't give Count Kenmeth face, although he had met a few times before at the Northland nobles' fraternity held by the second prince, but the two did not have much to do with each other, in his eyes, Count Kenmeth was just an incompetent loser among women, and he still tolerated it a little for the sake of Lorlist's face. After all, everyone knows that Earl Kenmax has a very good relationship with the Norton family.

The two of them would quarrel again in front of Lorlist, like two extremely angry roosters with their necks stretched, one scolding each other for being a brainless brute, and the other laughing at each other for being a little white face who only messes with women......

Lorist looked at Baron Felim, who was watching the excitement with relish, and almost applauded. Lorist sighed, and had to come forward to solve these two troubles himself.

"You two, can't you make people feel more at ease? Speaking of which, you two are still relatives......" Lorist watched the two of you taunt each other one by one, and his anger rose more and more, and he said yes.

"What do you say? I am related to him? How do I not know......" Hennet pointed to Count Kenmeth in astonishment.

The Earl of Kenmeth took the case: "Who said we are relatives, is this possible, we have never had contact with his family. Locke, you can't talk nonsense......"

"Alas......" Lorist sighed and looked at Earl Kenmeth, "Didn't you say last time that if your cousin hadn't disappeared, you would have sent her to me as a concubine?"

"Well, yes, what's the matter?" Count Kenmax never thought that Lorist would bring up a private conversation between the two of them, and for a moment he didn't understand what it meant, so he could only nod stupidly in reply.

Earl Kenmeth once spoke to Lorist about the hardships of his family's rise into the aristocracy, and the price he had paid to transform his merchant family into a territorial nobility, and he spoke of his cousin with great pity, and that his father had given his twenty-one-year-old cousin, Olivia, to Duke Lukins as his mistress in order to gain a foothold in the Northlands. It wasn't until two years ago that his cousin disappeared during the Norton family's armed raid of the Grand Duke.

At first, it was suspected that he had been taken captive by the Norton family. But with Lorist's permission, he sent someone to find him. Especially after checking all the newly registered family registers, I had to admit that the cousin of the Earl of Kenmax was indeed missing. The Earl of Kenmax said that his father was too short-sighted to curry favor with the most beautiful flowers in the family to curry favor with the Grand Duke of the Northlands, hoping to become the upper echelon of power in the Northlands. As a result, Lorist turned out to be born, and all his father's plans fell through.

If his father could see a little farther, he would have endured for a while, and then let his cousin marry Lorlist, and then there would be nothing to worry about. The Earl of Kenmath lamented what had happened to his cousin. If she hadn't disappeared, even if she had been the mistress of the Grand Duke of the Northland, she could also be given to Lorist as a concubine to make the relationship between the two families even further.

Concubines, generally some nobles have a relationship with a maid who has taken care of their lives for a long time and have feelings, and they can't marry her as a wife, so they promote her to a concubine and stay by their side. Although the children born are also considered illegitimate children, there is a high probability that they will be officially registered as family children and enjoy the treatment of direct children.

Count Kenmeth also swore that his cousin was the prettiest woman he had ever seen besides Princess Celevia. He has always been regarded as a treasure by his father, and his love is like a treasure. His father had said that. His cousin can be a marriage bond that insures the family. It's just that when he came to the Northland, he was unfortunately seen by Duke Lukins, and he was born in the appearance of his cousin, and both soft and hard forced their family to submit.

When the Kenmax family first came to the Northlands, their foothold was unstable, and it was a critical moment for the family to become a territorial nobleman, so his father couldn't resist the pressure and had to sacrifice his cousin to Duke Lukins. Count Kenmax said that if his cousin had not disappeared, it would be a good fate to be a concubine for Lorlist, and a compensation for his cousin by their family.

"Nu, you ask that guy if his favorite concubine who just gave birth to a big fat son last year is called Olivia, and that guy also officially recorded this precious son in the family tree and became his family heir......" Lorist was referring to Henned, who also wrote a letter last year asking Lorist to become the godfather of his precious son.

"What, this little white face is Olivia's cousin?" Henned's mouth opened in surprise.

"You don't care about her body, don't you care about her background, someone else has slept with you for more than two years, and even gave birth to a son, but you don't even understand her family history?" said Lorlister angrily.

"This, this, Olivia never talked about her background, only that she was born into a merchant family, and was coerced by the duke to become his mistress. It's a common thing, and I don't care about it......" Henneard replied embarrassedly.

Speaking of which, this guy is also a lover, since he and Reddy conspired to kidnap Duke Lukins's favorite mistress, and took away the four surviving beauties of Kitano Town from the Norton family, he announced that these five women would all become his concubines, and he also swore that he would never marry a wife in this life, and the children born to the five women would become his family heirs.

It's a pity that the first three were daughters, until the duke's mistress gave birth to a precious son to him, which made him very happy, and happily celebrated that he had a successor in his family, and made Lorist the godfather of this precious son.

Later, Lorist heard Count Kenneth talk about his cousin, and when he thought of the conspiracy between Henneth and Reddy, he learned that the mistress of the duke who gave birth to Hennerd's precious son was none other than Earl Kenmeth's cousin. Originally, I wanted to find a private opportunity to tell Earl Kenmeth that the two had to find out the relationship between the two when they met the cockfight.

Now it was the turn of Count Kenmath and Henned, who were embarrassed, and they couldn't speak for a long time.

Finally, Count Kenmeth held back a sentence: "That, that Olivia is okay?"

Hennerd hurriedly said, "It's okay, it's okay, she's a good mother......"

As soon as the words fell, he remembered that he had kidnapped Olivia and gave birth to a child, and now his family came to the door, and he felt embarrassed, so he lowered his head and pretended to be an ostrich......

Lorist was laughing to death, but had to help them out. Stretched out his hand and knocked on the table and said, "Okay, you can talk about it when you go back." Let me first talk about the purpose of our four families gathering here, now that the second prince has run away, his whereabouts are unknown, and the northern land has basically fallen under the control of our four families, and no one will be on our heads in the future, and I am not ready to let anyone climb on our heads again. So I'll let everyone discuss, our four alliances, and we will have the final say in the Northland, and if one is in trouble, three will help, do you agree or not?"

No one disagrees, which is a good thing, and everyone wants to do it. Baron Philim smiled exaggeratedly: "It feels good to suddenly feel that the sky is clear, no one is in charge, and it feels so good." ”

"Then the four of us will each determine the scope of our own territory, so as not to have disputes over trivial matters such as territorial boundaries in the future. The Northland is very large, and there is a lot of open space, so if you want to develop it, you can only develop it. However, I have a request, you can occupy more land if you want, but you must develop and build more territory, if you only occupy land and do not develop it, I will not recognize the ownership of these territories, I hope you will remember this. 'Lorist is very strong at the moment.

Henned, Earl Kenmeth and Baron Philim thought for a while and agreed with Lorlist's statement, just occupying land, no one, no money, no materials, a fart, and offending the Norton family, which is obviously a fool's thing.

"Also, I have a proposal. "The dispute between Earl Kenmax and Henneid over the sale of snow salt made me think that the four of us needed a bond of interest," Lorist said. I decided to set up a snow salt chamber of commerce to be responsible for the sale of snow salt. Our Norton family provides snow salt to the Chamber of Commerce at the price of 10,000 gold fords and 1 million catties of snow salt, and then let the Chamber of Commerce sell it, are you willing to participate?"

"And how will the profits be distributed?" asked Earl Kenmeth.

"The three of you, one has 30 percent of the shares, each of which contributes 10,000 gold fords as share capital, and then sends people to manage and sell them, and I take 10 percent of the dry shares, and I don't send people to manage them. If you all agree, I suggest that the Kenmath family preside over the snow salt trade in this chamber of commerce, and that the two of you have a few accountants to supervise it at all times. The profits in the future will be divided according to the proportion I said. Lorist said.

"I do. Baron Philim was the first to say.

It was pie in the sky, and of course Baron Philim agreed, and he couldn't help but hug Lorist and kiss him a few times as a token of gratitude.

"I do, too. Henneid said. Anyway, he only brought it to the snow salt business, in order to get more money to benefit the family armed forces. And Count Kenmax was right, he was really not the material for business.

Now only Count Kenmax was left thinking. To be honest, Lorlist's suggestion did the most damage to his family, his family can earn 30,000 or 40,000 gold fords in the snow salt business, if he joins this chamber of commerce, he will definitely not earn much alone, and he will also share seventy percent of the profits to three people, how do you see how it is not cost-effective.

However, when Count Kenmest looked up and saw Lorlist's smiling eyes, he suddenly understood Lorlist's intentions, and used the profits of Snow Salt to link the four families into a close alliance of interests, so if his family had something to do, the other three families would sincerely help the Kenmest family. In this way, the tens of thousands of Kingford profits from buying and selling snow salt are not worth anything compared to three true allies.

"I'm going to help you make a lot of money. Earl Kenmax swore frankly.

"That's it, just write an agreement according to what we just discussed, and everyone can sign it. "Lorist decided to shoot the case.

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In just a few words, the Four Northland Alliances were established. Later historians praised it, believing that it was these four alliances that brought great opportunities for development and lasting peace to the Northland, making it a blessed place for countless civilians to yearn for and relocate their families in the wars that broke out in the future.

Especially these four families, in the thousand-year-long time, still remember the covenant signed by the ancestors of the four families in the north, none of them betrayed and repented, no matter when they were in trouble, the three families helped each other, and even the families that encountered several life and death situations were reversed with the help of the other three, so that the family name could continue to be passed on. So much so that in later generations, the covenant of the four families became a legend of virtue of keeping promises, and it was widely spread.

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