Chapter 315: Big Procurement

"Archduke Fisabrun authorized Princess Celevia to purchase 70,000 sets of 103 cavalry equipment and 50,000 sets of mosaic warrior equipment from the Norton family, and at the same time purchased various daily necessities from the Norton family, the list of various daily necessities is as follows....... total amount of 1,270,000 gold fords. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info"

After reading the list in his hand, an old man with a goatee would respectfully present the list of supplies to Schward, who would then hand over the list to Lorlist.

After reading the list of supplies made of parchment for a long time, Lorist looked playfully at Princess Celevia, who was sitting on the left side: "Your Royal Highness Princess, there are still 20,000 sets of 103 cavalry equipment purchased by the Fisabrun family from our family last time, and 20,000 sets will not be delivered until next year, and the agreement can be completed, this is an agreement signed by you yourself, I don't think you will forget it so quickly, right?"

Even if a set of 103 cavalry standard equipment is preferential for your family, after all, one set will require 65 gold merits, 70,000 sets of nearly 4.8 million gold merits, plus a set of 35 gold fudes for inlaid warrior standard equipment, 50,000 sets will also need 1.8 million yuan, plus more than 1.2 million living materials purchases, the total amount will be nearly 8 million gold merits. Your Royal Highness Princess, can you tell me how the Fisabrun family is going to pay the bills?"

Princess Xiliwei's face was like a flower: "Brother Locke, this time all the standard equipment and daily necessities purchased by our family are paid in cash, and we use horseshoe gold to trade. ”

Horseshoe Gold Lorist was stunned, this is the unit of currency between the grass barbarian tribes on the steppe. Generally speaking, bartering was customary among the barbarian tribes, but sometimes they would use gold nuggets in the shape of horseshoe as currency when dealing with large quantities of goods or bringing goods from foreign traders. The normal trading price is a horseshoe worth one hundred goldfords.

Well, even if the Fisabrun family exterminated nearly a hundred grass barbarian tribes on the Northeast Prairie, it would be impossible to capture so many horseshoe gold, which is nearly eight million gold fords. If nearly 100 grass barbarian tribes could have 80,000 horseshoe gold, then the grass barbarian tribes in the northeast prairie would have been killed and extinct.

However, the Fisabrun family, who have been entrenched in the northeastern steppes for decades, have exhausted their own coffers this time, and may be able to scrape together so much horseshoe gold. So the question is why did the Fisabrun family ask for the purchase of so many supplies and armaments at this time, and what was the idea of the old fox of the Grand Duke of Fisabrun?

Lorist touched his chin and thought for a while, then asked Princess Celivia again:

"It is said that the Grand Duke of Fisabrun has reorganized the two legions under his command, and in terms of the establishment of 92,000 people, the standard equipment provided by our family has not delayed the speed of the Fisabrun family's army, and in terms of the quality of the standard equipment produced by our family, I don't believe that it will be consumed so much in the battle with the grass barbarian cavalry, so that the Fisabrun family still needs to buy 70,000 sets of standard equipment, can you tell me the real reason?

Please forgive me for being presumptuous, Your Highness the Princess, it's not that our Norton family is unwilling to make this deal, but that Grand Duke Fisabulun's purchase is clearly expanding its military strength, and your family already has two regular field cavalry regiments, and it is obvious that they are preparing to form another regiment by purchasing 70,000 sets of 103 cavalry equipment. As neighbors in the Northland, we have doubts about the actions of the Fisabrun family. To tell you the truth, we do not want to meet you in battle, and we cannot accede to your request for purchase without knowing where the Grand Duke of Fisabrun is pointing. ”

Princess Celivia giggled: "My grandfather is right, he said that if you don't tell you the real reason for our military expansion, you won't agree to this arms procurement deal." My grandfather asked me to tell you that the Fisabrun family has no will to change the present state and future of the Iberian Kingdom. Ten years from now, my grandfather might still want to put my little brother Horricks on the throne, but since poor Horricks was diagnosed with congenital heart defect by the pharmacist, my grandfather has lost his mind......"

Horikus, this is the orthodox heir of the Iberian Kingdom, as the king of the kingdom, the second prince Iberia in order to send troops to the Duchy of Madras, went to seek the support of his father-in-law, the Grand Duke of Fisabrun, but was locked together by the Grand Duke of his daughter, the queen of the kingdom, and used the rejuvenating medicine to make the queen have a big belly, and then gave birth to the little prince of Horix.

In fact, everyone knows that the marriage of the second prince to the daughter of the Grand Duke of Fisabrun is actually a political marriage, the second prince is notorious in the former Krisson Empire, and the daughter of the Grand Duke of Fisabrun is also a prodigal, famous for her debauchery in the Northeast steppes. After the two got married, the second prince established the Kingdom of Iberia with the support of the Grand Duke of Fisabrun. The marriage of the king and queen is on paper, and the two have their own private lives, and neither of them gets in the way of the other. The queen bore two children for someone else, and the second prince was no less impressive, having three illegitimate children outside.

In the end, the Grand Duke of Fisabrun couldn't stand it, and used the method of coercion to lock the king and queen couple in the room, and provided rejuvenating drugs to make the strange couple have a normal married life. But when the heir named Horricks was finally born, neither the second prince nor the queen loved the product of this rejuvenating medicine, and regarded it as nothing, and ignored it. Just thrown in the Fisabrun family, more often it was Princess Celivia who raised Horricks to grow up.

"Well, what has happened to His Royal Highness the little prince of Horricks?" Lorist was amazed.

"Congenital heart defects. Princess Celivia sighed deeply: "My grandfather regrets that it was his fault, and that His Majesty the King and his wife should not have been forced to use rejuvenating drugs, which made Horicus's heart not fully developed. The pharmacist said that it was difficult for Horikus to live past the age of twenty, and that the older he grew up, the heavier the burden on his heart, and that he could not cultivate his fighting qi, and that even reading and writing for a long time was a danger to him. This is a congenital incurable disease, and there is no cure at all. ”

As she spoke, Princess Celivia's eyes were tearful, and she was dripping, after all, Horrix was brought up by her, and being found out about such an illness would be a big blow to her.

"Your Royal Highness Princess, I'm sorry. Lorist apologized.

"It's okay, I'm used to it. Princess Celivia took a silk white handkerchief from the great swordsman of Cindy and wiped her reddish eyes: "Chief Pro, please bring the family map." ”

Pu Luo is the old man with a goatee who reads the list of supplies, and he is also the manager of Princess Xilivia's trip, hearing Princess Xilivia's call, he hurriedly took the map and brought a maid to step forward, and the maid opened the whole map alone.

This is a complete map of the Northeast Prairie, and it is also the most complete and clear map of the Northeast Prairie that Lorist has ever seen, and even every spring in the grassland is marked on the map.

The Northeast Prairie, described in some geography books, originates from the Demon Dragon Mountains, located in the northeast of the human settlement area of the Gelinthia Continent, with gentle terrain, like a large green blanket spread at the foot of the Demon Dragon Mountains. Its area is estimated to be the size of five northern lands, and it is vast. It is said that if you ride a fast horse, it will take you a month to walk from the southern end of the Tohoku prairie to the northern end.

Just like the active mountain barbarian tribes in the Demon Dragon Mountain Range, the biggest scourge on the Northeast Prairie is the grass barbarian tribe. It is said that the grass barbarian tribe is a variant of the mountain barbarian tribe, they changed from the mountain barbarian tribe to the nomadic tribe, living on horseback since childhood, grazing, hunting, and constantly sweeping the human settlements around the northeast steppe, plundering all the materials and manpower they need. These grass barbarians on horses have a specific name, called grass barbarian riding. They are the most elite warriors of the Grass Barbarian tribe in the Northeast Prairie.

Before the establishment of the former Cresson Empire, the Prairie Cavalry had been a problem in the Winston and Southern Provinces. The biggest invasion of the grassland captives was to gather more than 100,000 horsemen, go deep into the Great Plains of Antaro, drink horses and egret lakes, and all the territorial nobles along the way could not resist the soldiers of the grassland captives except for staying in their own castles and gathering people to resist desperately, and could only sit back and watch the grassland captives run rampant and wild. That was the greatest damage that the Grass Barbarian Rider had done to the human settlement, and it was also the last glory of the Grassland Cavalry.

After the establishment of the former Krisson Empire, the founding emperor Cleison I raised his army to conquer the Northeast Prairie, fought with the Grass Barbarian Cavalry for half a year, paid extremely heavy casualties, eliminated nearly 100,000 Grass Barbarian Cavalry, expanded the land for thousands of miles, and placed the Makinohara Province, cutting off the path of the Grass Barbarian Cavalry to invade the human settlements in one fell swoop, separating the Northeast Prairie from other provinces of the empire, and setting up heavy troops to wait in the Makinohara Province, so that the Grass Barbarian Cavalry could no longer cross the thunder pond.

When the Grand Duke of Fisabrun once again expanded the territory for the empire and placed the Eastern Wilderness Province. The grassy barbarian tribes in the northeastern steppes no longer have a good climate. Except for the occasional gathering of 10,000 or 20,000 grass barbarians to raid the Eastern Wilderness Province and the Muyeyuan Province, most of the time they were pressed and beaten on the ground by the two field ranger regiments under the command of the Fisabrun family. Especially during the civil war of the empire, even if the empire was in flames, the barbarian tribes in the northeast steppe could not take the opportunity to attack the interior of the empire, and the rangers of the Fisabrun family were an insurmountable moat in front of them.

Princess Celivia stood up, came to this open map of the Northeast Prairie, stretched out her hand, and proudly declared: "On June 21 this year, 70,000 elite elites of the Fisabrun family attacked the Great and Small Jinchuan, wiped out more than 200,000 people of the Caomanhubet tribe, and captured the Dajinchuan and Xiaojinchuan regions in one fell swoop with more than 18,000 casualties. My grandfather announced the establishment of Gimcheon Province and the inclusion of the Greater and Lesser Gimcheon regions under the jurisdiction of the Fisabrun family......"

"Hiss......" The people present couldn't help but exclaim, especially the Count Kenmeth, who rushed to the map with an arrow, and let out a tsk while looking: "You have actually passed through the Lost Forest and the Ghost Crying Cliff, no wonder you can surprise the big and small Jinchuan, and now the Fisabrun family is very ......"

Although the terrain of the Northeast Prairie is gentle, it is not without mountains, rivers and hills. Judging from the map, Donghuang Province and the Great and Small Jinchuan are close at hand, but there is also an endless large forest and continuous hills and cliffs, which can easily make people lose their way when they enter it, and it is difficult to get out when they enter. Whether it is the Rangers of the Fisabrun family or the Grass Barbarians, they regard this lost forest and the Devil's Crying Cliff as a dead end, and they are daunted. Both sides see it as a natural defensive barrier for themselves.

The Greater and Lesser Kaneskawa region, which is famous for the gold mines of the Gelinthia continent. More than 2,000 years ago, it was examined by magicians in the era of magical civilization and recorded in the book Geographical Exploration of Gelintya, which has survived to the present day. However, in the era of magical civilizations, gold was not a valuable mineral for magicians, and its value was far less than that of magical metals. And at the end of the magical civilization and the dark millennium, even if they knew that the Great and Small Jinchuan was rich in gold mines, no one had a way to mine it.

After a thousand years of darkness, the grass barbarian cavalry in the large and small Jinchuan areas was raging, and the grass barbarian tribes around this hilly area also carried out crazy battles and battles, and finally occupied the large and small Jinchuan areas were the top three tribes in the strength of the grass barbarian tribes. As Princess Silivia said, the Hubet tribe is a very powerful grass barbarian tribe, with 30,000 armor, and the cavalry men and women who can fight on horseback add up to more than 150,000 or 600,000 horsemen, women, and children, but they did not expect to be swept away by the elite cavalry of the Fisabrun family......

Lorist now understands where Princess Celivia's confidence to come to make a large purchase of armaments comes from, and it is obvious that this time she said that she paid for the transaction with horseshoe gold, which must have been seized by the Fisabrun family in the Greater and Lesser Jinchuan area. Unexpectedly, the Norton family destroyed the Haneyabada Kingdom, and the Fisabrun family in the northeast steppe was not to be outdone, and the surprise attack occupied the large and small Jinchuan regions, sweeping away more than 200,000 grass barbarians, which is very remarkable.

Count Kenmeth was excited: "Brother Locke, it seems that the Fisabrun family has money, and our Snow Salt Chamber of Commerce can expand the trade with them. Do you know that Jinchuan is rich in gold mines, and the most conservative estimate is that the annual gold sand produced is at least worth 1.5 million gold fords, which is much better than our family's gold mine that has worked hard to produce up to 300,000 gold mines, and our family's small gold mine is facing the danger of drying up, and now the gold sand produced is getting less and less, and the mining cost is getting higher and higher......"

Lorist looked at the map, if the Eastern Wilderness Province was in the middle, Jinchuan Province and Makinohara Province were like two tentacles. The foundation of Makinohara Province has been decided, so it is obvious that the large amount of armament purchased by the Fisabrun family this time is to prepare for the formation of the Ranger Legion in Gimcheon Province. In fact, the hilly terrain of the Greater and Lesser Jinchuan regions is more suitable for humans than for barbarian tribes. As long as castle fortresses are built in the precarious terrain, the large and small Jinchuan regions will be impregnable, and the grass barbarian tribes will no longer be able to touch this rich land of gold mines.

"Congratulations to the Fisabrun family, Your Highness the Princess. Lorist congratulated Princess Selevia: "I agree to this arms deal, and will urge the production department to produce this batch of equipment and deliver it to the Fisabrun family as soon as possible with quality and quantity, as a sign of my admiration for the Grand Duke." On my behalf, I would like to convey my own respect to the Grand Duke of Fisabrun, and I admire that the Grand Duke did not aim his family's elite at the flaming interior, but kept his promise to defend the frontiers of the former empire and open up territory again......

In order to express my respect and condolences to the Fisabrun family and the soldiers who captured the Great and Small Jinchuan, I will donate millions of gold fords worth of living materials to the Fisabrun family, hoping that the Grand Duke can transfer these living materials to the warriors who fought bloodily and the families of the martyrs, so as to express the Norton family's admiration and friendship for them. ”

This is a big donation, donating millions of gold ford's living materials, and even Princess Celivia was shocked: "Thank you, Brother Locke......"

The agreement was successfully signed, and Lorist promised to complete all the transactions for the purchase of armaments and daily necessities within two years, and at the same time donated millions worth of daily necessities. The Fisabrun family was also not ambiguous, with Princess Celivia as the representative to sign this large purchase order worth 8 million gold blessings, and at the same time delivered 20,000 horseshoe gold in advance.

After completing this deal, and getting the promise of Lorist to go to Windbury to participate in the knight tournament in May next year, Princess Celivia was relieved to play, hunt, picnic, dance, sea fishing, and play until the end of November before reluctantly leaving, before leaving, he did not forget to tell Lorist not to forget the knight tournament in May......

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