Chapter 588: A Bird Named Bethekah

"No, Your Highness, this is not good, how can we give such armor and weapons to that person, wouldn't this increase his strength even more......?"

The thing that the Grand Duke Cumberlet spoke of was a large chest, which when opened was a beautiful set of black iron armor, as well as a square-shaped iron shield, a well-forged sword, a sharp dagger, and a ruler-long head that shimmered with cold light. It can be said that this box contains a complete set of weapons and armor equipment.

As soon as the Marquis of Crilos saw the armaments in the box, he loudly objected, he knew very well what Archduke Cumberlet meant, that is, to provide such standard weapons and armor equipment for His Second Highness to offset the huge amount of money of 1.5 million Jinford, and also to add some help for him to gain the trust of His Second Highness, which was related to whether he could get his revenge as he wished......

"No, you listen to me first. Archduke Cumberlet waved his hand: "This is the purpose of my personal consultation with you, not to send someone over." ”

Picking up the standard black iron armor in the box, Grand Duke Cumberlet gently stroked the cold breastplate: "Actually, this set of equipment is the latest armor of our business alliance, and it has just been created, thanks to the tungsten iron ore and other metal ores you sent." If our business alliance armament can be replaced with such equipment, its combat power can be increased by at least thirty percent, and ordinary longbow and crossbow arrows will not be able to cause damage to soldiers wearing such armor within a range of 100 meters.

As you said, if such a complete set of armaments were to be handed over to His Majesty the Emperor, it would indeed increase his military strength. The last time you wrote to you, you said that His Majesty the Emperor was still thinking about re-forming the Tempest Legion, hoping to at least balance the strength of the Legion with the Norton family's armament, rather than being suppressed by the Norton family's four major legions.

Sometimes I really don't understand what is going on in the mind of His Majesty the Emperor? Now is the best time for his empire to be at peace, and instead of vigorously developing the people's livelihood and recuperating so that his empire can recover sooner, he is still focusing on the useless areas of reorganizing armaments and rebuilding the three major armies of the empire. In that case, our business alliance does not mind pushing it to the back so that His Majesty the Emperor will waste more resources and funds on armaments.

I have brought this set of weapons and armor with you so that you can present it to His Majesty the Emperor, so that he can support you in maintaining the trade routes with our commercial alliance and obtaining more mineral resources from this empire. Now is the right time to offset the huge debt of one and a half million gold fords that His Majesty the Emperor has pressed on you. You can tell His Majesty the Emperor that if he can provide enough mineral resources, our Business Alliance can build him 50,000 sets of these weapons and armor in a year......"

"What, fifty thousand sets, Your Highness, you're not kidding, how could there be so many?" Marquis Crilos exclaimed, as the former head of logistics for the Armed Legion of the Two-Headed Dragon Chamber of Commerce, he knew very well how much labor it would take to create a set of black iron weapons and armor, which was not an easy and simple task.

"If there are enough materials, building 100,000 sets a year is an easy job. Archduke Cumberlet laughed, "We now finally understand how the Norton family came to be armed with those beautiful equipment. After years of research and improvement, our business alliance has created a lot of hydraulic machinery that can be forged and forged, which is enough to replace manual labor to build these black iron armaments.

To put it bluntly, disassembling these armors and weapons is just a repetitive process. An experienced blacksmith can only craft two or three spear heads in a day, or two small parts of armor, from morning to night. But now, with the assistance of these hydraulic machines, hundreds or nearly a thousand guns of the same quality can be created in a day, and the hydraulic machinery that sorts and forges the various parts of the armor can assemble one or two hundred sets of black iron armor.

I have come to discuss with you this time, just to ask you to dedicate this set of black iron weapons and equipment to His Majesty the Emperor, and discuss how to get more mineral resources from him. For example, if you can get permission to build an ore refinery, then you can reduce the cost of transporting mineral resources, and at the same time give us more of our share of production, after all, it is more cost-effective to transport metal ingots than ore.

If we had planned it properly, we could have obtained two copies of the Mineral Resources from him, but we would have to give him only one set of these black iron armaments. You may not know that if the mineral resources produced can be provided for free, then the cost of making such a set of equipment will not exceed seven or eight kingfords, which is basically the cost of labor and transportation costs. And such a set of black iron weapons and armor equipment, most of the prices sold on the market are more than fifty goldfords......"

"But Your Highness, the Crisson Empire is the mortal enemy of our Business Alliance, and if we strengthen its military strength like this, will it have an adverse impact on the revival of our Business Alliance in the future? If there is another war between us in a few years, then the weapons and armor we provide them today will bring even more damage to our Business Alliance forces!" asked the Marquis of Criloster rhetorically.

"Alas......" Archduke Cumberlet sighed, "Crilos, you are wrong. The current war is not a model of fighting each other with long swords, just like the war between us and the Norton family, the soldiers of our business alliance are in no way inferior to the Norton family in terms of courage and skill, but they did not give us the opportunity to fight in close combat, but used various long-range weapons to defeat us from a long distance......

In the decisive battle of the city of Bluvia, we lost, and since then we have lost the plains of Mana Hill and the city of Morente. How many times in the middle of the night, I went back to that battlefield and relived that nightmare again. It wasn't war, it was a one-sided slaughter! We made careful arrangements to defend against the Norton family's famous chariots, steel crossbows, and moving catapults, and finally approached the enemy's line. Just as we were sacrificing a great deal of sacrifice and preparing to defeat them with superior forces, the Nortons armed themselves with bronze cannons, leaving us in a state of defeat, a mountain of corpses, rivers of blood, and a massacre.

At that time, the warriors who rushed to the front were wearing the black iron armor carefully crafted by the Vicia Chamber of Commerce, just like this one in my hand. But such sophisticated equipment did not give them good protection, and they were torn apart like leaves and dust in the roar of artillery. Therefore, in your eyes, such a sophisticated black iron equipment is not the basis for the re-emergence and revival of our business alliance in my eyes......"

The Marquis of Crelos, the Armageddon of Bruvia and the subsequent attack of the Norton family on the commercial alliance, the bronze artillery are all key to the victory of the Norton family's forces. Although the commercial alliance later adopted the method of sand bag wall to temporarily resist the bombardment of the bronze artillery, this still could not change the predicament of the commercial alliance being passively beaten, they could only defend but could not attack, and even could not counterattack.

"Now our Business Alliance is also working on ranged weapons, such as the Chariot Steel Crossbow and the Norton Family's Catapult, and is preparing to obtain the secrets of gunpowder from the Dwarven kingdoms of the Titanini Mountains in an effort to create our own artillery. But all this takes time and spends a lot of resources to study. So for us, the trade route that you have now is very important and must not be lost.

Crilos, I know why you came to the Imperial Capital. But now I beg you to hold back that vengeful heart, and for the sake of our cause and wishes, please make peace with your enemy for a while, and use his trust in you to win the opportunity for the revival and rise of our business alliance. As long as this trade route continues to provide us with raw materials, materials and mineral resources, then we will be able to restore our former glory. ”

Archduke Cumberlet bowed deeply to the Marquis de Crilos, as if to express his sincerest apologies to the Marquis de Crilos for his request. The Marquis of Crelos hurriedly stood up and grabbed the arms of the Grand Duke of Cumberlet.

"Your Highness, you don't have to, I know what to do. In fact, although I can meet with that person now, I can't get revenge. He is a great sword master and an emperor, and there is no way for me to take revenge on him at the moment. As for the business routes, you don't need to say that I understand that I am willing to do anything that will help our business alliance.

However, what I am worried about is the Norton family, in order to bring down the Antitario Chamber of Commerce, they actually doubled the purchase price, making us unprofitable in terms of raw materials and mineral resources, hurting people, their family can hold on to the big business, while our Chamber of Commerce has been disrupted with all the steps and plans, and the more acquisitions, the greater the loss. Otherwise, the one and a half million goldford that man asked for would not be in my eyes. The Marquis of Crilos said unwillingly.

"It's okay," Archduke Cumberlet comforted, "since the Nortons have started a purchase price war, then we will fight them to the end." We are no match for them on the battlefield, so can they outcompete us real merchants in business?Now we can use this standard black iron equipment to offset the debts of your Chamber of Commerce and earn more from His Majesty the Emperor.

A set of such standard black iron equipment, including manual materials plus freight, will not exceed the cost of twenty gold fords, but we can sell it to His Majesty the Emperor for forty or thirty gold merits, and we can even ask that emperor to provide us with ore raw materials for building equipment for free, and we will make a great profit in this regard. You will refine the raw materials first, just like those iron ores, and refine them into iron ingots, which will not only transport more of the production share, but also greatly reduce the cost of transportation.

In addition, the purpose of the Norton family's establishment of a large market in their forest port was not only to purchase raw materials and mineral resources produced in the imperial aristocratic domains, but also to sell the goods produced in their own family domains. Since you have set up an acquisition site in the Liushui River and started a purchase price war with them, you might as well go one step further and develop the acquisition site on the Liushui River side into a market to operate.

Although our business alliance is not as good as it used to be, after all, there is still some confidence. Now with the abundant supply of raw materials and minerals from this trade route, the production technicians of the various chambers of commerce of our business alliance will be able to produce more high-quality goods to compete for the market occupied by the Norton family. We may not be able to compete with the Norton family in some ways, but the forging of gold and silverware, fruit wine, stone carving, and art are our strengths, and as long as we open up sales channels in the empire, it can be a good source of income. ”

Archduke Cumberlet is worthy of being the president of the Two-Headed Dragon Chamber of Commerce, and in the blink of an eye, he has come up with several good business ideas for the Marquis of Crelos. The more Marquis Crelos listened, the more excited he became: "Yes, I only thought about providing you with supplies, but I forgot to buy a large amount of goods from you and sell them. It would be a good idea to turn the river into a bustling market, and I'm sure the nobles of the empire would be very fond of the high-end luxury goods from the south-central region with great artistic taste, because it would make them feel noble, artistic, and cultivated......"

The Archduke of Cumberlet and the Marquis of Crylos clapped their hands and laughed, and the war ended and peace came. The nobles of the empire no longer boasted of their martial prowess, but also began to pay attention to their own artistic accomplishments. At that time, the nobles of the kingdoms in the central and southern parts of the continent were like this, and suddenly some art carvings with strange shapes and oil paintings with colorful lines that were indistinguishable were suddenly popular, which swept the aristocratic circles of those kingdoms and were known as fashionable. The two believed that if the craftsmen of the Business Alliance copied some of these works of art and put them on the Empire, they would also be welcomed by the nobles of the Empire.

"Well, Your Highness, I will follow your instructions and dedicate this beautiful set of black iron equipment to that person, and obtain sufficient compensation and benefits from him for our business alliance. The Marquis of Crilos sighed: "It's really unacceptable for me to dedicate such good weapons and armor to our enemies......"

Archduke Comberlet laughed softly: "Krilos, do you know that in the mountains and forests of our province of Rioriga, there lives a bird called Bethricha, and the peculiarity of this bird is that it does not hatch its own eggs. When they feel that they are going to lay eggs, they go around looking for other birds' nests, and then steal the eggs laid by other birds, put their own eggs in and impersonate them, and let other birds help them hatch their eggs......

What we are going to do now is about the same as this bird of Beth-Kah. If our business alliance has these sophisticated weapons and armor, then our rearmament of the business alliance can easily attract the attention of the countries of the central and southern regions, and once again form a boycott and blockade of our business alliance, which will destroy the fragile peace that we have so hard to achieve, and will seriously frustrate our efforts to enter the markets of the countries in the central and southern regions again.

Let the Emperor who is full of thoughts about rearmament get these weapons and armor, then he will definitely re-form a new legion, the more we provide, the more legions he will build, maybe then he can feel safe in front of the Norton family, and feel that he has the strength to fight with the Grand Duke of Norton, the Sword Saint of the Town.

It's just that what the emperor doesn't understand is that in this peaceful period when the war is extinguished in various parts of the continent, his vigorous formation of legions and rearmament will only arouse the suspicions of all countries around him, and become the target of vigilance and attention of other countries, which is more suitable for our business alliance to maneuver in secret, and maybe he can re-establish the alliance against the Krisson Empire more than a hundred years ago.

And what you have to do is to try to gain the trust of His Majesty the Emperor, and try to put his prodigal illegitimate son on the throne as the heir to the throne. It would be wonderful to be able to get command of a new legion. We will send you a large number of men, and then arrange them to be in this legion, and effectively control this legion. In this way, in the future, we can also use the struggle for the throne to provoke war in this empire again. Just like our fathers did. ”

Marquis Crelos nodded excitedly: "I understand, Your Highness, I will do what you ask." ”

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