Chapter 300 Qilin Harbor

Although the port of Qilin was the only seaport city on the cursed coastline of the former Krissian Empire in the north, it was not large, with a population of about 20,000 and incomplete port facilities. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 After the establishment of the Andinac Kingdom, it inherited the tradition of the former Cresian Empire not paying attention to shipping, although due to the civil war of the empire, the port of Lim was once densely populated by sea ships and flourished for a while, but because His Royal Highness was in charge of the state to implement a policy of paying heavy taxes on the ships that came to trade, the port of Lim gradually became deserted.

When the smuggling merchant ships stopped running to the port of Qilin, all that remained of the port was the seafood market, which was the largest fishing place in the Kingdom of Antinac. The fishermen of the port of Qilin come back every evening to sell their catch to the fishermen for gold, who in turn select the more precious fish and deliver them to the tables of the nobles of the kingdom of Antinunac overnight.

In the past, the fishing teams organized on the island of Hirowas also sent their catches here to trade, and they were oppressed by the fishermen, but the fishing fleet on the island now sometimes does not catch enough fish a day to supply the 60,000 people of the Rock Legion on the island, and even if there is a lot of catch, it is used to make pickled fish or dried fish, and there is no need to go to the seafood market in Qilin Harbor to trade. There is only one ferry service left between the island of Hilovas and the port of Qilin, which runs every three days.

Lorist has always had thoughts about its Limgang, although Hilovas Island is good, but after all, it is an island, and it is okay to be a transit station, but if you want the goods produced by the family to get a sales base that can radiate the mainland, it is not as good as its Limn Harbor. Now in the northeast of the former Krisson Empire, the Snow Salt Chamber of Commerce presided over by Count Kenmax is seizing the market, which has included the entire Iberian Kingdom and half of the Duchy of Madras, and at present, Count Kenmax is ambitiously trying to open a trade route to the four central principalities.

South of Shiloas Island, Lorist wanted to sell the goods produced in the territory to the sphere of influence of the commercial alliance through the Peterson Chamber of Commerce, but he didn't expect a glass war to greatly reduce the sphere of influence of the commercial alliance.

And from the Northland to the island of Hilovas, this area of coastal land is the northern cursed coastline. It is all shallow sea and dark reef area, and there is no port for sea ships to dock at all. So Lorist took a fancy to the port of Qilin. If the Limble could be brought under the family's jurisdiction, Lorist was confident that in just a few years it would develop into a large commercial seaport city, and that the trade routes would be extended to the south of the kingdom of Redlis.

Lorist sent the Governor of Hansk to the imperial capital as an emissary, nominally concerned about His Majesty the King, that is, His Second Highness being trapped in the unfavorable situation of the war in the Kingdom of Redlis, but in fact, he also volunteered to help the kingdom and rescue His Royal Highness and the siege. Of course, there is no free lunch in the world, and if you want the Norton family to send troops, you have to give benefits. Given that the kingdoms of Andinac and Redlis had been at war for a year and a half, and that the rats in the treasury of the kingdom of Andinac had starved to death, Lorist gave the condition that he wanted to gain jurisdiction over the port of Qilin.

Originally, Lorist wanted to make Qilin Port also his family territory, but then he thought that it would be difficult for His Royal Highness to agree to such conditions, so he took a step back and obtained the jurisdiction of Qilin Port. If the imperial capital agrees, the Norton family will send troops to capture Cambona Province and reopen the connection with the Second Highness. It's just that he didn't expect that Marquis Red, who presided over state affairs in the imperial capital, simply rejected Lorist's request, and asked the garrison of Qilin Harbor to strictly guard against the Norton family's forces.

If such an order was given in secret, then there was nothing Lorist could do. Unexpectedly, in order to vent their personal anger, several knights who escorted the Governor of Hansk to return and gave orders to the garrison of the Governor of Qilingang in front of the Governor of Hansk did not let the Norton family go ashore with arms, wanting to humiliate the Norton family, so this gave Lorist a reason to play the question.

The garrison stationed in the port of Qilin was the 3rd Corps of the 1st Reserve Regiment of the Royal Guards of the Kingdom of Antinuc, and its commander, the Golden Knight Fivinmante, once led his troops to the island of Hilowas, nominally to assist the Viscount of Aslan in collecting taxes, but in fact to extort money, but it happened to run into Lorist and was severely cleaned up. Later, although His Royal Highness rescued him, he was also worried that Lorist would not give up, so he transferred the third corps and reorganized a garrison of 2,000 people in Qilingang.

As a local garrison force, the treatment of its Lingang garrison is like a child's mother's child, the establishment of 2,000 people has not been under the establishment, the weapon equipped is a spear and a wooden shield, and there are three pieces of leather armor in total, which are tattered, and can only be equipped by the captain of the garrison and his two deputies. As far as the allocated funds are concerned, the salaries of the garrison are also not paid for a month, and those garrison members wander around the seafood market every day, because there they can only make a little extra money......

Lorist wondered how the Marquis of Red, who was in the imperial capital, had so much confidence that the garrison of his Lynn Harbor would pose a threat to the Norton family's armed forces, and effectively prevent the Norton family's armed soldiers from coming ashore.

At this moment, Lorist was already standing on the dock of Qilin Harbor, behind him, a thousand guards were disembarking and forming a team, and nearly a hundred soldiers of the Qilin Harbor garrison were giggling and watching, their eyes were only envious of the excellent standard equipment on these guards, and no one did not take it upon themselves to prevent the Norton family from going ashore continuously.

Soon however, eggs were struck at stones, and two knights in half-armored armor rushed out of a tavern on the docks, screaming and demanding that the guards who had come ashore immediately board and leave the docks of the harbor.

As soon as Lorist raised his head, several guards came over and pulled the two drunks down and beat them directly on the dock, and soon the two guys began to cry and call their mother.

"Let them confess why they stopped Earl Norton's journey, whether it was an attempt to assassinate or a conspiracy, and let them write their confessions, put their fingerprints, and throw me into the prison of Qilin Harbor. Now follow me to the City Lord's Mansion, I want to see the order from the Imperial Capital. Lorist said.

As a nobleman, it is justified to travel with an escort, although Lorist brought a guard brigade of 1,000 people and a corps of 15,000 people, it can only be said that the Norton family is wealthy, and the Earl is greedy for life and death, for fear of being harmed, and he brought more family armed guards, and it cannot be said that he has any mistakes that violate the rules. As long as he doesn't harass the place and buys or supplies himself, that's a reasonable thing to do.

That's what Lorist did. As for the order from the imperial capital, it was a pure joke not to let the Norton family go ashore with a single soldier. The Norton family did not raise troops to rebel, so why didn't you let him bring an escort when Earl Norton traveled? Do you want to harm him? It doesn't make sense with reason and reason, even if the lawsuit is fought in front of His Royal Highness Lorlist, he will win.

As the city guard of Qilin Harbor, Baron Funston has always been very satisfied with his position, and it is in vain that he paid a lot of money to buy off the people around His Royal Highness to get this position. As a nobleman, Baron Finston has always thought that it is a fool's thing to only get money from his own fiefdom, how big is the baron's fiefdom?

After only five years as the city guard of Qilin Harbor, Baron Finston had already recouped the capital he had spent. Revenues have exceeded investments several times. Now he is thinking about forming a small fleet of seven medium-sized armed sea ships, buying some luxury goods and fashionable clothes urgently needed by the nobles of the Kingdom of Andinac from the city of Morente, on the one hand, befriending those powerful people with status, and on the other hand, using the matter of organizing the fleet to unite the nobles and wealthy merchants of Qilin Harbor, and everyone who has money to earn, give them a little shares, so that they can better control Qilin Harbor without their own funds, which is really a good thing to kill two birds with one stone.

However, Baron Finston was also troubled, and two days ago, an order came to the imperial capital inexplicably, requiring the port of Limin to strengthen the garrison and guard against the Norton family on the island of Hilowas.

Baron Finston thinks that those in power in the imperial capital must have mad rabies, and seeing who bites whom, His Majesty the King is trapped in the kingdom of Redlis, and the frontline situation is very bad, and he wants to persecute the Norton family. Thinking that some time ago, the Norton family had just sent an envoy to the imperial capital, and Baron Funston was very sure that it must be the envoy of the Norton family who offended the powerful people in the imperial capital, and either the gift was not delivered or there was some conflict.

Baron Finston was tempted to throw the order into the wastebasket, but after thinking about it, he put it away. Because the imperial capital not only came with this order, but also sent six knights, who not only wanted to take over the garrison of Lingang, but also expanded the garrison of Lingang into three brigades of 3,000 men.

Baron Finston decided to go with the six knights, anyway, he wanted money or not, equipment or not, and the little salary allocated to the garrison every month, but to see what the knights from the imperial capital could toss. Besides, the Norton family is easy to bully? His confidant family went to the city of Moriente some time ago and brought him a newspaper with sensational news that Norton had sent an armed attack on the kingdom of Haneyabada, which not only destroyed this slave country, but also cut down all the 170,000 citizens of the kingdom of Haneyabada and built a huge pyramid with human heads.

Baron Finston immediately believed that this news was not a fabrication but a fact, as the city guard of Qilin Harbor, he also received an order from His Majesty the King secretly sent guards to him, that is, to monitor the movements of Shiloas Island and the Norton family, and report any abnormal situation to the imperial capital, until the second year of the first year of last year, after His Royal Highness set out on the expedition, the news was cut off. However, Baron Finston did not forget his duty, and the sailors and captains of the ferries who came and went every three days were his close friends, and the information on the island of Hilowas, which had been reported to him, was accumulated and presented when His Majesty returned from the expedition.

The island of Hilois was attacked by pirates, the island was like hell, and the ferry to the island of Hilowas was also affected, but fortunately, the captain saw that the three sailors were dying before they escaped on the ferry. It was held strictly for more than a month, and it was not until the Norton family's armed fleet came to the shore to purchase baggage supplies that the people of Qilin Harbor knew that the pirates had retreated, and the rest had been annihilated by the Norton family, and the island of Hilowas had been recovered.

Later, the Norton family armed forces gathered a large number of soldiers and ships on the island of Hilois, and Baron Findston learned that the Norton family armed forces had such a strong force, and then these soldiers and sea ships suddenly disappeared, and two months later these sea ships returned and brought a lot of supplies, although the captains and sailors on the ferry were ordered not to go to the island, but still judged how large those supplies were, and the number of personnel was nearly 10,000.

Now reading the newspaper Baron Finston understands that the Norton family really sent troops to destroy the kingdom of Hanea Bada, otherwise where would so many captures come from. No wonder His Majesty was so jealous of the Norton family's armed forces that he ordered himself to monitor their movements. Baron Finston remembered a rumor from the past, it is said that the Earl of Norton and His Majesty the King loved the Earl of Aslan, and the Earl of Aslan sent nearly 10,000 people to besiege the Earl of Norton with His Majesty the King, but he was defeated and took his own life, and His Majesty the King was angry and exterminated the Earl of Aslan, but there was nothing he could do about the Earl of Norton.

Therefore, when Baron Finston heard the report that the Earl of Norton had come to the city lord's mansion, he was very keenly aware of Lorlist's purpose, and not only warmly welcomed Lorist to his study, but also took the initiative to take out the order and handed it to Lorlist, and hated the irony and criticized the brain-dead and ignorant of the nobles in power in the imperial capital.

Lorist fiddled with the order in his hand, smiled and said, "Since the imperial capital has ordered the expansion of the garrison in its Limgang, and its Limgang is currently unable to support it, then the Norton family is willing to contribute to the kingdom and support the formation of its Limin Harbor garrison, Lord Baron, what do you think of this?"

"Great!" said Baron Finston, overjoyed: "Your Excellency's loyalty to the country, regardless of gains and losses, is really admirable, and I will entrust the garrison of Qilingang to your lordship." ”

"Wouldn't it matter if I brought the Harbor of Chilin garrison to Hilois for three months of training?" asked Lorlist.

"Of course it doesn't matter, since everything is entrusted to the adult, of course it will be done according to the adult's wishes. I have heard that the Norton family's armed forces are unmatched, and it is just time to use the hands of adults to reorganize this garrison. The dissatisfied adults said that the current Qilingang garrison is really a little decent, and bullying civilian hawkers is a good hand, and when they see blood in battle, they become pus. Adults want to train them, and if they want to fight or kill, they should just be at will, and they should take care of these bastards. You know, I received more than 20 complaints against the garrison in one day, and I ran around all day to wipe their butts......"

Seeing Baron Finston's grateful look, Lorist laughed: "In fact, there is no mystery in improving combat effectiveness through training, full salary, good food and clothing, and then provide good equipment for the soldiers, train their combat ability, so that they no longer think of themselves as cannon fodder to death, and at the same time educate them to strictly abide by military discipline and attach importance to the glory of soldiers, then the combat power will naturally increase." In this way, during the period when the garrison of its forest port went to Hilois Island for training, I first asked my family to take over the city defense of its forest port, and it happened that I brought a corps with me on this trip, so let them garrison its forest for three months. Do you think that's good, Lord Baron?"

Baron Finston slandered in his stomach, which nobleman goes out with a legion, is it an armed parade, it is really more money to eat and support, and a corps of more than 10,000 people will cost a lot of gold coins a day. Here he smiled: "It's really good, I'm worried about what to do with the garrison going to the defense of Naqilin Harbor on Hiloas Island, and I'm relieved to have the adult's corps here." It's just that Lord Earl, the people of Lingang are tired, and I'm afraid that I can't afford the supply of your family's corps, can I station fewer soldiers and horses?"

Lorist smiled and shook his head: "Lord Baron, it doesn't matter, you only need to provide food and grass supplies for the garrison of three thousand people, and the rest will be borne by our Norton family." In fact, we have another purpose for stationing a corps here, and I heard that there are many displaced people in the kingdom now, and we are ready to accept the displaced people to go to the northland to plead for famine, which can be regarded as relieving some burdens for the kingdom. ”

Baron Finstone's face was reverent: "The Earl is really benevolent, and he is willing to collect those fleeing exiles to give them a way to live, and he is really a pillar of the kingdom." Okay, I will issue an order from the city lord to let your family take over the garrison of Lingang and invite your family's armed forces to come and garrison it. ”

Loris nodded, since Baron Finston knew him so well, he would not be embarrassed: "Lord Baron, if there is anything in the future, you can ask our Norton family for help, we will do our best." That's my Norton Lorist promise. ”

"Thank you......" Baron Finston was genuinely overjoyed this time.

On 3 July, the port of Limin was taken over by the Norton family's armed Rock Legion.

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