Chapter 533: Agreements and Rumors

Two days later, Lorist hosted a welcome banquet for the Grand Duke of Fausta and the Duchess of Windsor. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 At the info banquet, Archduke Fausta made a request to Lorist to purchase armaments, and Lorist agreed after thinking about it, and the specific negotiation was in charge of Shi Fatzi. As for how to bargain, this can only be done after the banquet, and what kind of agreement is reached depends on whether Shi Fatzi's knife is sharpened quickly.

Because Princess Celivia, Fenna Gary, and Daisy were present at the welcome party, the Duchess of Windsor could not find the opportunity to have private contact with Lorlist, which made her look at Lorist with resentment from time to time. Lorist pretended not to see anything, but discussed with Archduke Fausta for a long time how the Kingdom of Chigeda used the Commercial Alliance to annex the Six Kingdoms during the three years of war between the Commercial Alliance and the Central and Southern Kingdoms.

Grand Duke Fausta also frankly admitted that all this was from his plan, in the situation of the commercial alliance to oppress the twenty-five countries in the central and southern part of the continent, the kingdom of Chigeda had to use the commercial alliance to annex the strategy, this is because the kingdom of Chigeda is facing the threat of invasion of the Romon Empire and the Khanate of Havistan, and only when the kingdom of Chigeda itself is strong can it resist the invasion of the two major powers on the central and southern parts of the continent, because of this reason, it has become an ally with the commercial alliance. But now that alliance has broken down because of Lorlist's sideways.

Due to the knowledge of the times, the Archduke Fausta and the Norton family armed to avoid a war conflict, and now that the Fausta family has paid the ransom, the two sides have lifted the hostilities, which is the main reason why Lorist is willing to sell weapons and equipment to them. However, neither Lorist nor Archduke Fausta had any desire to form an alliance, and the two sides were too far apart to be able to provide effective support.

The banquet ended in a peaceful and pleasant atmosphere, and the guests and hosts enjoyed themselves. Princess Celivia and the Duchess of Windsor made an appointment to visit the city of Moriente two days after tomorrow, and look back on the business miracle road that the Duchess of Windsor had created here when she was young, and how she established the Mermaid Chamber of Commerce from a lonely and weak woman and reclaimed the family territory. Lorist sent Reddy over to escort them on this nostalgic journey.

Three days later, Fat Shi and Archduke Fausta reached an extremely large arms deal, and the Fosta family would use 10 million goldfords to purchase more than 100,000 sets of standard equipment from the Norton family over five years to arm the family's two legions. At the same time, the Norton family also provided them with two battalions of Thunderbolt Catapults and two battalions of Chariot Steel Crossbows, which would become the defense weapons of the Kingdom of Chigda against the invasion of the two great powers in the southern part of the continent.

Lorist's first thought when he got the agreement was that the Fausta family was really rich, and they could get 10 million goldfords. The second question is why Archduke Fausta is willing to spend this huge amount of money to buy armaments and weapons produced by the Norton family, in terms of the quality of the equipment of the Firebird Legion, although it is all fine iron, it is also considered to be the best in those countries in the south-central region, otherwise it would not have been disarmed by Lorist and used to equip the two city defense corps of the newly formed city defense corps of Moriente.

Fat Shi answered this question, according to Archduke Fausta, in fact, in the past few decades, the Vicia Chamber of Commerce, which was destroyed by the Norton family, once controlled the share of the largest arms deal of the thirty-four countries in the south-central region. For the 34 countries in the central and southern regions, the biggest drawback is that they do not have high-quality iron ore resources, only some low-quality small iron ore, and the mining rights of the only two medium-sized iron ores are in the hands of the Vesian Chamber of Commerce.

This is the main reason why the Vesia Chamber of Commerce insists on acquiring a chamber of commerce territory with large iron ore veins from the former Krisson Empire. In addition to controlling the iron mining rights of the countries in the central and southern parts of the continent, the Vicia Chamber of Commerce is also strictly guarding against leakage of smelting and forging technology, and if the blacksmith in other countries has made a certain progress in the refining and forging technology, the Vicia Chamber of Commerce will definitely try to include this blacksmith in the Chamber of Commerce or directly cut the grass and eradicate the roots. It is precisely because of this commercial and technological monopoly of the Vesian Chamber of Commerce that the countries in the central and southern parts of the country are completely backward in terms of refining and forging.

The equipment of the Firebird Legion of the Fausta family was purchased from the Visia Chamber of Commerce at a high price after spending more than four million goldfords in four years, and this was a preferential price given by the Vesta Chamber of Commerce for the sake of the face of the Fausta family as a staunch ally of the business alliance. The Fausta family has a total of two family armed legions, and now the collapse of the Vesia Chamber of Commerce has dealt a blow to the business alliance, but it has also deprived the Fausta family of the source of arms procurement.

Lorist immediately understood that he also hoped to sell the weapons and equipment produced by the family through the Peterson Chamber of Commerce to open up a new source of wealth for the family, and he also ordered someone to carefully produce a set of exquisite standard equipment atlas and price list to send to the Peterson Chamber of Commerce. As a result, except for the Peterson Chamber of Commerce to buy the weapons and armaments of a regiment at a low and favorable price, that is, the Chikde Chamber of Commerce bought the standard equipment of a regiment in order to make amends, and then no one came to patronize it.

At that time, Lorist had been wondering, obviously the business alliance and those countries in the central and southern parts of the country were in a state of hostility, and war would break out at any time, why these high-quality armaments and weapons produced by the family could not be sold, and now he understood that the business alliance and the arms market of those countries in the central and southern parts of the country were controlled by the Vicia Chamber of Commerce at that time, and the Peterson Chamber of Commerce would not offend the Vicia Chamber of Commerce for the Norton family, and they did not carry out any sales activities at all.

Shi Fatzi also understood this, so the arms agreement reached with Archduke Fausta also gave a lot of concessions, and with the consent of Lorist, he also sold a batch of Thunderbolt catapults and chariot steel crossbows to him. The current situation is obvious, and the Fausta family and the business alliance must change their ways after tearing their faces this time, and ease their relations with other countries in the central and southern regions, so that they can get reinforcements from other countries in the event of an invasion by the two major powers in the southern part of the continent.

Shi Fatzi believed that the arms agreement reached with the Fosta family might open a trade route for the weapons and equipment produced by the family in those countries in the central and southern parts of the continent, and squeeze out the arms market monopolized by the commercial alliance. Although the Business Alliance decided to re-establish a new Vethia Chamber of Commerce after the destruction of the Vicia Chamber of Commerce, the Norton family could take advantage of this gap to win over the south-central countries hostile to the Business Alliance through arms deals, and continue to attack the Business Alliance in all aspects until they are no longer a threat.

Lorist agreed with Fat and signed the agreement, which meant that the arms purchase agreement between the Norton and Fosta families had entered into force immediately. However, the Duchess of Windsor sent a message to Lorist through Princess Celivia to request an audience, and she saw a business opportunity in the city of Morrent, and wanted to reach an agreement with the Norton family for the mermaid chamber to exclusively represent the sales of all goods produced in the Norton family's territory in the south-central and southern part of the continent.

Since it was a business matter, Lorist refused the Duchess of Windsor's request to be presented, but he sent Fat Man to negotiate business with the Duchess of Windsor. He agreed that the Duchess of Windsor would enter into an agreement with the Norton family on behalf of the Mermaid Chamber of Commerce to represent the goods as the exclusive agent, but only within the Kingdom of Chigda. The markets of the other two major powers in the south-central and southern parts of the continent are shared by private boat owners who come to the city of Morent to make big purchases.

At present, the Norton family's North Sea Fleet can only exercise military control over the southern seas, and it is not yet capable of forming several large merchant fleets to dump and monopolize commodities on the coastal countries along the golden coastline of the Sunshine Sea, which requires time and connections to develop the markets of various countries. Lorist did not want to adopt the kind of commercial monopoly of the business alliance, which, although it would bring more benefits to the family, would have an extremely detrimental effect on the commercial recovery of Moriente City in the long run.

It's better to be alone than to be happy, and Lorist doesn't mind letting the private owners share in the profits. For the markets of those countries in the south-central and southern parts of the continent, these private boat owners are the real powerful local snakes, they are well-informed, the network is all over the world, only through them can effectively force the market share controlled by the business alliance, and at the same time provide accurate and fast information for the Norton family, and finally can activate the business atmosphere of Moriente City, expand the business investment in the market, in these aspects, although the Norton family has paid part of the benefits, but in other ways has received more benefits.

The Duchess of Windsor has a sharp eye, she has indeed honed it now, she sees the huge benefits of being the exclusive agent of goods produced in the Norton family's domain, but what she does not understand is that the exclusive interest will make her mermaid guild the target of public criticism. At Shi Fatzi's insistence, she could only sign an agreement to exclusively represent the market of the Kingdom of Chigda.

Before leaving the city of Moriente and embarking on the return voyage with the Grand Duke of Fausta, the Duchess of Windsor wrote a long letter to Lorlist. In the letter, the Duchess of Windsor complained about Lorlist's coldness and desperation, and recalled the good times when the two fell in love in the city of Morent. She said that she would always miss that romantic time, and if she could turn back the clock, she would always be by Lorlist's side, even if she gave up her family territory. In Princess Celevia, she saw happiness and contentment, and she said that she was very jealous that Princess Celevia could have Lorist's happiness......

At the end of the letter, the Duchess of Windsor believes that the Archduke Fausta's dispatch has caused losses to the Fausta family and the adverse effects on the Kingdom of Chigda, and also complains about Lorist's unkindness and restrictions on the development of the Mermaid Chamber of Commerce. However, she is confident that she will complete the accumulation of the Mermaid Chamber of Commerce in the next two or three years, and at that time she will open the Mermaid branch to Moriente City, and hopes to open it to the Norton family territory as well......

Woman...... With a wry smile, Lorist set the letter from the Duchess of Windsor on the candle and set it on fire. If there is a regret medicine to buy in this world, I believe that women will become the biggest customers of this great medicine. In Lorist's heart, his first love was the elven girl dancing in the silver moonlight, not the graceful, beautiful and rich Duchess of Windsor. Time is the biggest driving force behind all good memories.

With the arrival of a large number of private seafarers from the southern seas in the Bay of Zangjin, the business atmosphere in the city of Moreent was as lively as Lorist had expected. Nearly twenty new taverns, brothels and other service facilities serving these private shipowners and sailors alone opened in half a month, adding a lot of tax revenue to the Autonomous Council of the City of Morente. More and more city dwellers are jumping on the wave of commerce.

After more than three months of fighting and the efforts of 100,000 captives, they finally used a large number of abandoned warships and ships laden with earth and rocks to fill in the reef area, except for a large lagoon in the middle for warships to moor, the rest of the reef area has been connected to form a solid land base. The next thing Schward had to do was to build a tall fortress castle on this land base, making it an important sortie base for the Norton family's North Sea Fleet to control the southern seas.

The letter was accompanied by a list of building materials, and it was clear from the scale that Schward was going to build a castle fortress that would last for centuries. Lorist was happy to let Schward do just that, and the list of building materials would take the business climate to the next level and encourage more city dwellers to become suppliers of these building materials. With a stroke of his pen, Lorist erased the original name of Romané Castle and renamed it Schward Fortress. This is an affirmation and reward for Schward's efforts.

Three months passed quickly, and the front line of the Falis Plain was still quiet. Although the Business Alliance did not reach any truce with the Norton family, there was no conflict on the front lines. In addition to the news that the Business Alliance forces are still recruiting troops, the Norton family forces and the Business Alliance forces have strangely formed a kind of peace in the confrontation.

The Merchant Alliance's forces in the province of Mawiflin and several provinces around the Falcan Hill Plain adopted a defensive strategy of deep ditch ramparts. The Norton clan also adopted a plan of holding on to the six fortress cities in the Falis Plain, with the Huntsman Legion patrolling and guarding the Falcan Plain, with no intention of attacking the defensive positions arranged by the Commercial Alliance in several provinces. In this way, both sides fought defense against defense, and neither of them was willing to take the initiative to attack.

Lorist didn't have the heart to think about what the business alliance was doing, two months ago the business alliance hyped up the bloody massacre of the Norton family in the cities of Morent City in those countries in the south-central region, and they accused the Norton army of killing nearly a million residents of the city of Moronte, and the former first commercial city of the Gelinthia continent Moriente City is now shrouded in bloody storm and reduced to a ghost. All of a sudden, the sensational news spread throughout the Gallinthia continent, and the Norton family became famous all over the world.

In the city of Moreent, all the newspapers belonged to the various chambers of commerce, and after the Norton family took over the city of Morent and the plains of Falli, these newspapers were closed down like the shops of the chambers, and all the newspaper members were sent to prisoner of war camps because they were residents of the inner city, until they were ransomed by the merchant league. Many newspaper workers had vivid memories of the hospitality they received in the POW camps, and hated the Nortons' tricks of squeezing the last gold coin out of them. Therefore, after returning to their respective chamber of commerce territory, they began to use the rich experience of the newspaper members to fabricate the massacre of the Norton family's armed forces, and from time to time fabricate some escape stories of those who survived under the butcher's knife......

Ironically, the inhabitants of Moriente City did not know that they had become bones and rotting corpses all over the field in the propaganda of the Business Alliance, and the news was brought to Moriente City by the private shipowners of the Southern Seas. Before Lorist and the Norton family could react, the business alliance's lie about the massacre had already been exposed by the private shipowners. More and more goods from the city of Morent became evidence of the business alliance's lies, and the Grand Duke of Fausta himself came out to explain the current state of the city, praising the Nortons for making the city a vibrant city with unlimited development prospects.

The Business Alliance's lies about the Norton Armed Massacre of the City have had no effect other than to increase the resentment of Lorist and the Norton Armed Forces. Now the high-ranking members of the Lorist and Norton families are busy guiding the Autonomous Council of Morent to form a garrison responsible for the maintenance and handling of the entire city's order and law and order issues, and discussing the Autonomous Committee's request to conquer the Cristo Hills. At this moment, Lorist received unexpected news that the Second Highness had come down, and he came to the city of Moriente with a light suit.

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