Chapter 16: The City Lord Invites

Arthur began to work on interracial trade as soon as he returned from the Orlando Mountains, and the first trade he agreed with Leon was a month later.

Naturally, all the business operations were handed over to Moral, who finally waited for his opportunity to show his skills in business.

It was an interracial trade, not a trivial matter given to him by his father, and the vast wealth that came with the interracial trade could even allow him to quickly surpass his father in wealth.

Arthur also gave Moral such a chance. Cross-ethnic trade involves a huge flow of goods and requires strict secrecy, so naturally it cannot be operated by mercenary groups. Arthur and Morar negotiated a plan to set up a separate branch in Huaores in the name of the Morar family's business, and to cover up trade with the orcs under the normal business of the comptoir. Morar was solely responsible for the operation of the comptoir, for which Arthur promised Moral a 30% share of the profits.

The magic of money is endless, and Moral threw himself into the operation of the trading house, quickly selecting shops and warehouses in the city, and began to purchase and trade goods in large quantities. Moreover, Morar also has an advantage that no one else can match, his family has the exclusive right to sell salt in the kingdom, and salt is as precious as gold in the orc wasteland, and he uses his family channels to directly transfer a large amount of salt to Huaorez City.

When Moral began to do all this, only a few mercenaries from the mercenary group helped him, but soon these mercenaries were too busy, and the secrets involved in the race trade could not be recruited from the outside.

When Morar went to Arthur for this, Arthur was prepared for it. Three days later, the firm, named after Moral himself, had twenty more associates. At the same time, the Blue Enchantress Mercenary Group also has thirty new mercenaries with the strength of a third-level martial artist.

These people are all from Arthur's territory, the town of Nuel, and the move that Arthur planted three years ago has finally come to work.

With Arthur's previous promotion to earl, the number of earl's guards trained by Jose has now reached 500 people, and there are fifty or sixty people who have reached the strength of third-level warriors, and Jose carefully selected thirty of them to send Arthur. And the mayor of Fat Town, Larkin, has also been promoted to the mayor of Collolan City, and the twenty people sent to the Morar Comptoir were selected by Larkin from the staff of the city hall.

These people are all from Arthur's territory, and their families are also in the territory, so they are naturally 100% loyal to their lord, Lord Earl Jiayong.

While Morar was busy preparing for the trading house and the first transaction, Arthur unexpectedly received an invitation from the City Lord's Mansion.

Arthur had never dealt with the lord of City Huaorez, but that didn't stop him from knowing the famous old Walls.

When Arthur first arrived in Huaorez City eleven years ago, the city lord was Wales, and he had not been given an "old" word at that time, and he had been in the position of city lord for almost twenty years.

Old Walls was not a proper lord of the city, and had rarely managed the city's affairs since taking office, but he was not a bad man either, and he was so famous because he spent most of his energy on wine. Most of the jokes involving him among the mercenaries are that the City Lord's Mansion often sends out entrusted tasks to find aphrodisiacs and delicacies in the mountains, and the mercenaries discuss the appearance of the City Lord's concubines in the bar.

Many people privately talked about the fact that Old Wall was completely lucky to stay in the position of city lord for so long, and there has been no major friction and war between humans and beasts on the southwest border of the kingdom over the years, and the peace of the border is the greatest achievement for the kingdom.

Although the sudden invitation from the City Lord's Mansion was strange, it was an invitation that Arthur could not refuse. The headquarters of the mercenary group is located in the city of Huaorez, and the face of the city lord must be given no matter what.

In the evening of the next day, Arthur rarely changed into a noble dress, and pulled Moral, who had taken a break from his busy schedule, to ride to the city lord's mansion for a banquet.

The reason why Arthur insisted on pulling Moral was because Morar was obviously much better than himself in dealing with people and relationships, and he was also responsible for dealing with the authorities in the future.

When Arthur and Morar got out of the car in front of the City Lord's Mansion, the old butler of the City Lord's Mansion was already waiting in front of the door and personally led the two to the banquet hall.

Arthur was stunned as soon as he entered the door, and there were already two people in the banquet hall, but it was Kirkel, the leader of the Bloodpiercing Regiment, and Valeo of the Wolf Fox Mercenary Regiment.

"Why is the blood piercing and the wild wolf and fox also there, what does old Wall want to do, reconcile a few mercenary groups from it?" Arthur was completely confused.

Not only was Arthur confused, but Kirkle and Valeo didn't expect to meet Arthur here. Kirkel snorted coldly and turned his head directly.

On the surface, the "Wild Wolf Fox" did not conflict with the "Blue Enchantress", but Valeo, the old fox, smiled and took the initiative to greet Arthur, "Captain Arthur, what a hero out of a young man! After you won the bet with Tristi, I expected that you would be extraordinary in the future, and your future achievements would be above us old guys!"

Valeo was holding Arthur in his eyes, but he uncovered a blood-piercing scar, which was clearly adding fuel to the fire in front of him.

Kirkel glared at Valeo fiercely, and forced himself not to attack on the spot, and the atmosphere in the banquet hall became extremely awkward.

At this moment, there was a light cough outside the door, and the city lord Old Wall walked in. Old Wales was now over sixty years old, with a thin build, with two very neat mustaches, and although he was addicted to wine, he was very mentally strong.

Old Walls was followed by a stocky middle-aged man, dressed in civilian military clothes, with a gloomy face as if he was about to step into the battlefield rather than go to a banquet. Arthur had also seen this person a long time ago, and it was the commander of the city defense army, the eighth-level war school martial artist Kunto.

The city lord and the head of the city defense army invited the heads of the three largest mercenary groups in the city to dinner, and the matter itself was strange.

Old Walls smiled and beckoned the three captains and Morar to take their seats. At the wine table, he first thanked the three mercenary groups for their contributions to Huaolez City over the years, and chatted with Kirkel and Valeo about interesting things in the city during the banquet, and kept praising Arthur for his youth and promising, and even shed two tears when talking about Keynes.

If it weren't for the fact that the head of Kuntuo, who was accompanying the wine next to him, had been calm and silent, everyone present would have thought that this was a warm reception from the city lord.

Kirkel and Valeo were both old and sophisticated, and the lord of the city did not take the initiative to mention it, and neither of them broke it, but only pretended not to know and drank and laughed with old Wals.

Arthur didn't have the patience to accompany them to continue to socialize, and couldn't help asking: "Lord City, if you invite our three mercenary groups to come this time, please make it clear, and our blue enchantress will do our best within the scope of our ability." ”

Old Wall seemed to be waiting for this sentence, and immediately showed a trace of embarrassment, rubbed his hands and said: "I can't hide it, there has indeed been a major incident in the city recently that is related to the safety of the whole city, and the commanders of the regiment need to help. ”