Chapter 298: Reconciliation

On the 4th of June, Lorist arrived on the island of Hilowas. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

"Greetings to you, Lord Earl Norton. The contemptible man is Seliham of the Chicked Chamber of Commerce, and this time he came to show the Norton family the friendship of the Chikde Chamber of Commerce. Dressed in the new aristocratic dress of the Fort Business Alliance, Thriham respectfully bowed to Lorlist, who was sitting at the top, and then presented the order.

Schward stepped forward to take the gift list and placed it on the small table next to Lorlist. Lorist glanced at the list and saw a long list of gifts, jewelry, fashion, swords and armor, wine and tonics, and four Zino horses, estimated to be worth twenty or thirty thousand gold medals. I thought that I would earn 1,800 gold coins by working hard in Moriente City for a year, and a gift from the Chikde Chamber of Commerce was enough for a silver swordsman to work hard for twenty or thirty years.

"Please be seated," Lorist waved his hand, "As the eldest young master of the Chicke Chamber of Commerce, His Excellency Surriham is coming to Hilowas, I don't know what you are doing?"

Seriham smiled bitterly, "Lord Earl, you should know what I came for. Let's tell you the truth, because my third brother's misdeeds have offended Lord Earl and the Norton family, so that you regard our Chamber of Commerce as enemies. However, because our Chamber of Commerce was affected by the war between the Business Alliance and the Kingdom of Trimber, we were unable to make up for the relationship with your family in time, so the misunderstanding between us deepened and caused our Chamber of Commerce to suffer immeasurable losses......

This time I came to meet the Earl in the hope of dissolving the hostile relations between the two sides and resuming friendly exchanges. And I ask the Lord Count to forgive the members of our northern merchant fleet who have fallen into the hands of your family, and we, the Chikrid Chamber of Commerce, are willing to pay a ransom to ransom them. Your Excellency, please do not refuse my request, for it is very merciful for you to destroy the Kingdom of Haneyabada and liberate more than 400,000 slaves, so please do not embarrass the sailors and sailors who are begging for a living at sea in the fleet for their families......

For them, joining the fleet is just a job, a job to feed their families, and they still have families who are looking forward to their return to be reunited. Lord Earl, if you have any grievances, please let me know, and we at the Chikrid Chamber of Commerce will do our best to compensate them, and my greatest purpose here is to ask you to grant them freedom and let me take them back to their relatives......"

Lorist watched with great interest as the young master of the Chamber of Commerce, who was not a few years older than himself, stood in front of him and talked eloquently, he was very frank and sincere, and it was easy for people to have a good impression of him.

"Sit down, Lord Seriham. Lorist invited the eldest young master of Thriham to sit down again: "I think the eldest young master should understand why I am targeting your Chamber of Commerce, in fact, you also know that our Norton family and your Chamber of Commerce are in a state of war, but neither of us has declared war, and this war was provoked by your Chamber of Commerce first." ”

"Lord Earl, you still call me by my name, I dare not be ashamed of the eldest young master and your Excellency. Seliham arched his hand: "I understand, in addition to redeeming the sailors and crews of the Northern Fleet, I also came this time to dissolve the hostile relationship between us, and the Chicked Chamber of Commerce does not want to have a war with the Norton family......

I believe that Lord Earl also knows that our Chikde Chamber of Commerce used to attack the island of Shilovas in order to obtain the territory of the Chamber of Commerce, but now that our Chamber of Commerce has obtained the Ulubaha Mountain Land as the territory of the Chamber of Commerce, then the main reason for the hostility between our two parties has disappeared, and I have come here to ask Lord Earl to forgive our Chamber of Commerce for offending your family, so that the two of us can live in peace again, and stop letting the blood of innocents be spilled on the sea. ”

"Seliham, you said you didn't want the blood of innocents to be spilled all over the sea, but do you know that the blood of the innocent people of our Norton family on the island of Hilois has stained the entire island of Hilowas?

"Lord Earl, I understand that it was my third brother who leaked the information of your family's territory in the Kingdom of Haneyabada because of his drunkenness and depression, but this is indeed an unintentional mistake. My second brother and I have always opposed the northern strategy led by the third brother, and for our Chamber of Commerce, Hiroas Island is too far away from the southern seas traditionally controlled by our Chamber of Commerce, and it is not suitable for our Chamber of Commerce to be the territory of our Chamber of Commerce except that it is an island.

Besides, we were in the midst of a glass war at the time, so we put our northern strategy on hold indefinitely. This made my third brother depressed and went to sea to relax, so he got drunk and vomited bitterness at the banquet where the Kingdom of Haneyabada welcomed him, and unconsciously confided the reality of the island of Hilowas......

It's not that we are shirking our responsibility, at the end of last year, our Chamber of Commerce's northern fleet did not return, which made us panic, and it was not until March today that we got the news that your family had destroyed the Kingdom of Haneyabada, and our Chamber of Commerce's northern fleet also fell into the hands of your family. My father went out of his way to inquire about my third brother, and my third brother was not at all impressed, but the servant who served him remembered that the third brother was drunk at the banquet and complained that the chamber of commerce did not carry out the northern raids.

For this, my third brother was slapped by my father in two big mouths and ordered to go to the mountains of Ulubaha to reclaim the wilderness. My father said that just because my third brother inadvertently caused losses to your family, all the ships of our northern fleet that fell on your family were given to your family, and we just need to bring back the crew.

Lord Earl, in fact, whether or not my third brother leaked the information about the territory of Shilois Island, in fact, no one can deny that the slave owners of the Haneyabada Kingdom are attacking the idea of more than 200,000 displaced people in the two southwestern provinces of the Andinak Kingdom, and your family has recruited 50,000 or 60,000 displaced people to the island for development and construction, which will sooner or later attract the attention of those slave traders and slave catchers。 ”

"You're very good at talking......" Lorist looked at the round-faced Sereham and shook his head: "It's been a year since the incident, and we can't find out whether the third young master of your Chikde Chamber of Commerce at that time was intentional or unintentional." Slave traders and slave hunters from the kingdom of Haneyabada attacked the island of Hilovas and turned it into hell. And our Norton family returned blood for blood, and also sent troops to destroy this evil kingdom, and cut off the heads of all the citizens of this kingdom to build a Jingguan, thinking that those who came after would quit......

The northern fleet that captured your Chikde Chamber of Commerce is because our Norton family and your Chikde Chamber of Commerce are in a state of hostility, and it is the third young master of your Chamber of Commerce who has always been hostile to our family, and also covets our family's Shiloas Island and wants to turn it into the territory of your Chamber of Commerce and realize your so-called northern strategy. The second aspect is that the northern fleet of your Chamber of Commerce coincided with the meeting, and arrived at the port of Nubit just after we occupied the Hanea Bada Islands, and even if they knew each other, they laid down their arms and surrendered, and did not put up unnecessary resistance, so I am only going to make them serve three years of hard labor.

We are not unreasonable, we do not bully the weak, we love peace, and we are not afraid of war. I agree with you Cheek Chamber of Commerce who want to end the hostility and war between us, but you must show us the sincerity of your apology. You are the one who started the war, but it is not up to you to end it. I'm curious to know now what price your Chikrid Chamber of Commerce is prepared to pay for this?"

Sericamp sighed and stood up, at the beginning of March this year, more than a dozen requisitioned medium-sized ships released by the Norton family arrived at the Tibetan Golden Bay, and nearly a thousand freed slaves disembarked from the ship, and they brought a sensational news: the kingdom of Haneyabada was destroyed by the Norton family, and the young earl of the Norton family ordered the heads of all the people in the kingdom from the commoners to the nobles, and built a huge pyramid of human heads in the port of Nubit with 170,000 heads......

The news caused a sensation throughout the commercial alliance and began to spread in all directions as more and more requisitioned ships and freed slaves arrived. All of a sudden, the Norton family's reputation soared, not all of them, of course, but for their ferocity and cruelty.

In the history of warfare on the continent of Gelinthia, the massacre of cities and prisoners is not uncommon, but there has never been a case of slaughtering a kingdom, and the massacre of the Norton family this time can be described as appalling and brutal. Not even the scholars and experts who wrote the history of the continental war and the reporters of the major newspapers in the city of Morent dared to go to the Hanea Bada Islands to get a glimpse of it, for fear that they would be beheaded and put on the pyramid of human heads by the unblinking Norton family......

However, as an old student of Dawn Academy broke out that the head of the Norton family, Earl Norton, was the legendary Black Iron Rock of the former academy, and after the silver was invincible, reporters from all walks of life flocked to the city, stirring up the old dean Levins day and night, and finally the old fox had an idea and wrote a letter of introduction to all the reporters who came to harass him, swearing that as long as there was this letter of introduction, the Norton family would not be embarrassed, which made those reporters think about going to the Hanea Bada Islands to see the famous pyramid of human heads.

So those reporters organized a group to find a few requisitioned sea ships and went to the kingdom of Haneyabada, back and forth for a month and a half, and just returned in May, they wrote a large number of correspondence, and the newspapers were full of how the Norton family made enemies with the kingdom of Haneabada, sent troops to fight, how to land, and how to capture the royal city. These journalists, scholars, and experts walked around the Haneabada Islands, and were warmly welcomed and cared for by the current Governor of the Islands, Hicked, who also said some good things for the Norton family.

It was only in the end that all the newspapers published a sketch of the giant pyramid of human heads, describing the formation and structure of the pyramid from all angles, and of course the text praised the touching deeds of Governor Hicked in front of the Earl's tent for seven hours and finally made the Earl relax and pardon more than 12,000 young women, which proved the iron-hearted and brutal character of the Earl of Norton from another angle.

All these newspapers were sent to Lorist by Lenmed, a knight and secret agent of the Norton family who opened a pediatric and gynecological clinic in the city of Moldant, and Lorist did not take these newspapers to heart, he expected such a reputation when he gave the order, and sometimes the more brutal he was, the more shocking and fearful the enemy would be, and Lorist wondered if there would be any enemies who would have the courage and confidence to face the armed forces of the Norton family in the future......

In the midst of these disturbances, the Chikde Chamber of Commerce has been silent, silently watching the evolution of the situation, at the end of last year, the northern fleet did not return as scheduled, which made the Chamber of Commerce feel a little bad, and sent several ships to search for it one after another, but there was no return. In fact, these search ships, flying the flag of the Chikde Chamber of Commerce, encountered the Flying Fish and the Storm patrolling the Dawn in the Hanea Bada Islands, and were captured three and sunk two, so that none of them could return to report the news......

The Chikd Chamber of Commerce had originally planned to send back the armed fleet from the southern seas after the spring to search for the whereabouts of the northern fleet, but they did not expect the arrival of those requisitioned ships and free slaves in March to make them understand what was going on.

The only thing that made the Chikrid Chamber of Commerce fortunate was that the personnel of the Northern Fleet had suffered little loss, they had fallen into a trap and were forced to surrender, and were later said to have been transported to the island of Hilowass to serve hard labor. Now no one in the Chamber of Commerce dares to mention any northern strategies, even the third young master of the first chrysalis, Murray Buck, is silent, he has known that the Norton family has such strength, and he does not dare to advocate the capture of Shiloas Island if he is killed. The Kingdom of Haneyabada is a kingdom, not to mention anything else, there are fourteen great sword masters alone, but they were still bulldozed by the Norton family effortlessly, and the entire kingdom of 170,000 people was cut off and built into a pyramid of human heads, this news has always made the third young master's heart cold.

When the president of the Chikde Chamber of Commerce knew that it was his precious third son, Murraybak, who leaked the news of Hilois Island to recruit displaced people for development and construction behind his back, and lured the slave owners of the Haneyabada Kingdom to jointly attack Hilois Island, he gave Murraybuck two slaps, and then ordered him to go to the territory of the Ulubaha Chamber of Commerce and not leave. After that, the high-level of the Chamber of Commerce was convened to discuss how to end the hostility with the Norton family, redeem the personnel of the northern fleet, and find a way to befriend the Norton family, which led to the trip of the eldest young master Sereham to the island of Hilowas......

"Lord Lord Norton, we, the Cheeked Chamber of Commerce, are willing to pay two hundred thousand goldfords to redeem all the members of our Chamber of Commerce's Northern Fleet as an apology to the Norton family. In addition, we are willing to purchase 56,000 sets of standard equipment from the Norton family, numbered Jingtie 107, according to the price you have set for 89 goldfords, no discount, to complete the transaction in three years, and pay the payment in person each time, what do you think?"

Seriham sighed in his heart, if it hadn't been for the fact that the treasury of the former Grand Duke of Ulubaha had been found in the Duchy of Ulubaha and six million gold fords had been seized, the Chikrid Chamber of Commerce would have felt exhausted even if it had obtained the territory. Not to mention anything else, the more than 60 sea ships of the northern fleet alone are worth nearly one million gold fords, as well as the spices and the money for the purchase of grain and other goods and commodities carried on board, which are equivalent to the loss of more than 1.5 million gold coins by the Norton family, and now they have to pay a lot of money to redeem the personnel. If you knew today, why bother......

Lorist tapped his fingers on the small table next to him in deep thought......

"Have you seen the artwork of the Peterson Chamber of Commerce?" asked Lorlist.

"Yes, Lord Earl, we also know that these standard equipment are produced by your family, and they are better and better than those produced by the Vesian Chamber of Commerce in terms of style and defensive capabilities. We have acquired the former Duchy of Ulubaha as a domain of the Chamber of Commerce, and we are going to reorganize the two mercenary legions of the Principality into a regular garrison of 48,000 men to defend against enemies on land, so we are willing to hand over this armament business to your family as a sign of goodwill from our Chamber of Commerce. ”

"In addition, Lord Earl, our Chamber of Commerce is also willing to give up the maritime spice trade route of the Shaisia Kingdom and transfer it to the Norton family, and in the future, if our Chamber of Commerce needs spices, we will come to Shiloas Island to buy them from your family. By the way, there is this, this is what my third brother relied on when he was preparing to implement the northern strategy, with this pontoon dock, I believe that the Northland Curse Coast will no longer be an obstacle to the landing of ships. ”

Surham pulled out a document and handed it over. Schward took it and examined it a little before handing it to Lorlist.

Lorist opened it and saw that it was a pair of floating tanks that formed a long movable dock across the shallow sea and the reef area, and it was really like Thriham said, with this, the Northland Cursed Coast would indeed not become an obstacle for merchant ships to dock, even on days with strong wind and waves, these movable pontoons could be gathered to the shore to avoid the wind and waves, and even these pontoons could be fixed on the reef and then filled with soil to form a fixed dock......

Lorist finally smiled: "Okay, I agree to reconcile with the Chikde Chamber of Commerce, lift the state of hostilities and war, and from today the two sides will be peaceful." ”

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