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President Peterson finally sent someone to send a reply letter to Lorist before the arrival of August, explaining that the major chambers of commerce of the business alliance have changed after the failure of the duel last year for most of the past six months, as well as the involvement between the major chambers of commerce, resulting in President Peterson not being able to unify the views of the major chambers of commerce, and most importantly, the president of the two-headed dragon chamber of commerce, Grand Duke Cumberlet, was seriously injured and bedridden, and only now has it improved slightly. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

President Peterson blamed the defeat of the Commercial Alliance, and exaggerated the difficulties faced, such as because of this defeat, the remaining alliance forces of the sixteen countries in the central and southern parts of the continent once again showed their claws on the territory of the Commercial Alliance, and were ready to move, until the Business Alliance announced that the former Principality of Gonlinia, the southernmost part of the territory, would be canonized to the Storm Sword Saint as a territory, and the two allied forces stopped their attempts to provoke conflict.

Lorist had to praise the Business Alliance for making a good move again, obviously he was forced to hand over the Principality of California to the Storm Sword Saint as a reward for him to challenge Lorist for the Sword Saint duel, seeing that the Storm Sword Saint was about to break out of their control in a blink of an eye, so he came to a canonization, and at the same time stabilized the situation in the newly annexed provinces in the central and southern regions, and used the prestige of the Storm Sword Saint to bloodlessly disintegrate the plan of the two allied forces of the sixteen countries in the central and southern parts of the country to take advantage of the fire......

However, Lorist was curious about why the Storm Sword Master didn't break away from the business alliance and stand on his own as he said at the top of Xiaogu Mountain, and after thinking about it, he thought that the business alliance must have paid an extra price in exchange for the silence of the Storm Sword Master. Even if the Tempest Blademaster has become the lord of a country, he will definitely need a lot of resources to build and develop his territory. The Business Alliance should have seized on this point so that the Tempest Blademaster had to continue working with them.

In his letter, President Peterson spared little space describing the situation and future plans of the Business Alliance, but spent several pages of paper discussing Lorist with a commercial discussion, and he also gave the example of the fact that the goods produced in the Norton family domain, which are now in large numbers in the markets of the south-central and southern continents, have been mispriced, and at least two or three times the price must be doubled to get the most bang for their buck, rather than making these beautiful goods a commodity that can be purchased by the common people.

Lorist laughed, it was obvious that the goods produced by the Norton family's territory that appeared in the south-central and southern markets of the continent through the hands of private ship owners had threatened the market monopolized by the business alliance, and the Peterson Chamber of Commerce must also be one of the victims, because the business alliance whose influence had been greatly reduced because of the defeat could not consolidate its market share, and it was even asked that President Peterson instructed the Norton family in the name of an old merchant how to increase their profits, did he really regard the Norton family as those greedy aristocratic families？

It is easy to raise prices, but it will make the goods produced in the Norton family's territory lose their market competitiveness, and the Norton family wants market share, and implement the strategy of encirclement and suppression of the business alliance in terms of commerce, and use the same kind of exquisite goods at the same price to defeat the shoddy goods produced by the major chambers of commerce of the business alliance, giving the business alliance a fatal blow economically, and completely destroying its hope of a comeback and the delusion of a comeback. Without market share and the competitiveness of his goods, Lorist believed that the chambers of commerce would soon be reduced to ordinary territorial aristocrats, and that there would be little more to gain than to scavenge money from poor lords.

Without commercial gains, is the business alliance still called a business alliance, and those chamber of commerce territories will soon become real aristocratic territories. Since those merchants always want to be on par with the nobles, let's become real territorial nobles. Lorist thought that he was doing good deeds, and it was really a great achievement to let these merchants get reborn into the aristocratic circle. As for whether these merchants of the business alliance are willing or not, Lorist doesn't care at all, anyway, he has the means to force these merchants to comply.

"It seems that these businessmen are still unwilling to honestly bow their heads and admit defeat. Lorist raised the letter from President Peterson in his hand and said, "I have never understood, isn't it said that the merchants are the most tactful and open-minded? Why do these merchants of the business alliance not bow their heads to death? What basis do the business alliances have for their uncompromising stance to hold on to the death, and are they still ready to carry out a counteroffensive? Do they still have the ability to do so?"

Standing in front of Lorist was Tagger, who bowed his head very respectfully: "Your Highness, the news from the territory of the Two-Headed Dragon Chamber of Commerce says that the Grand Duke of Cumberlet has recovered from injury and returned to the council, and the chaos of the business alliance has come to an end, except for the Chicked Chamber of Commerce, which is still ignoring the orders of the business alliance, the rest of the alliance chambers of commerce have said that they will continue to unite around the Grand Duke of Cumberlet and work together to overcome the most difficult period of the business alliance......"

Last year, the Business Alliance was defeated in the decisive battle in the city of Bluvia, and the most fortunate thing was that the armed legions of the Chikde Chamber of Commerce, because they were at the back of the line, were not attacked much, and the losses were minimal, and they retreated early when they saw that the situation was not good, and they were the only Chamber of Commerce armed forces in the business alliance that retreated with all their troops.

The problem is that the armed legion of the Chikde Chamber of Commerce retreated with all its troops, not to choose another key place to clean up the mess for the defeated business alliance forces, but to retreat to the military grain reserve warehouse in Maweiforin Province, and directly looted a large amount of grain and grass before evacuating to its own chamber of commerce territory in the south, and it is said that on the way back, it also suddenly attacked the newly formed territory of the Vicia Chamber of Commerce, and hijacked a large number of craftsmen and refined iron. For this reason, many chambers of commerce in the business alliance have demanded that the betrayal of the Chikde Chamber of Commerce be punished, and although the two sides have not clashed, they have been fighting verbally......

"Hehe, the Chikde Chamber of Commerce is very smart, seeing that the broken ship of the business alliance is about to sink, he went ashore first, and casually made a big catch. Judging from the current situation, the business alliance has no way to punish the Chikde Chamber of Commerce, and it is estimated that in the end, it can only swallow its anger so as not to be seen as a joke. I believe that with the example of the Chikde Chamber of Commerce, the rest of the chambers of commerce will also start to have other thoughts. Lorist commented.

"Your Highness, you are right, in addition to the Fude Chamber of Commerce, the Liward Chamber of Commerce, and the Visia Chamber of Commerce, the three large chambers of commerce that have lost their territory of the Chamber of Commerce, and the more than twenty second- and third-rate chambers of commerce that have also lost their territory of the Chamber of Commerce, they also resolutely support the Grand Duke of Cumberlet and maintain the business alliance, the Mayflower Chamber of Commerce and the other seven second-rate chambers of commerce have privately formed another alliance, and they blame the defeat of the business alliance on the Grand Duke of Cumberlet, questioning its ability to govern, and intending to oust him from power.

According to our intelligence investigators, with the exception of the Chikde Chamber of Commerce, which was close to raising the flag of rebellion, the Peterson Chamber of Commerce has been wandering from side to side, seemingly without a position of his own, but in fact he has gained a lot of benefits from both sides. His Highness released President Peterson, hoping that he would do something to reach an armistice between the three parties. But President Peterson, after a slight test of Archduke Cumberlet's opinion, put our proposal aside, and did not lobby or advise the other chambers of commerce......"

Well, Lorist had to admit that he had seen the wrong person again, pinning his hopes for peace talks on President Peterson. After a long pause, Lorist asked, "Apart from these internal disputes, is there any other movement in the business alliance?"

"Yes, after the return of the Grand Duke of Comberlet, he once again transferred nearly 100,000 horses from the armed forces of various chambers of commerce, and divided them into ten corps and deployed them in the borders of the five provinces that were cleared into white land by our family's armed forces, such as Gidlink, Maweiforin, Sanganwoba, Hausmok, and Klingtius, and reformed a defensive front to stabilize the situation in the remaining twenty-three provinces of the Commercial Alliance, but the strange thing is that looking at the location of these ten corps, the Commercial Alliance seems to have abandoned these five provinces located around the Falchund Plain......," Tugger said.

Looking at the map, Lorist nodded: "Archduke Cumberlet is very wise, these five provinces have become chicken ribs at present. If the commercial alliance wants to recapture these five provinces, because it is related to the safety of the Mana Hill Plain, we will definitely not let them do it, and these five provinces have become blank spaces, and the commercial alliance needs to prepare a large amount of armaments, materials and logistics baggage, as well as a large amount of transportation, material and manpower, if it is fought for a long time, it can easily drag down the economy of the entire commercial alliance.

So he simply gave up these five provinces and turned them into a buffer zone with us. If we were to attack the commercial alliance, we would also have to cross a province, and we would also need a large amount of armaments, supplies, and logistical baggage, and even the commercial alliance forces would be able to carry out surprise attacks and guerrilla attacks on our rear through the empty areas of the provinces, and take the initiative of the battlefield in their hands. That's why I say that it is very wise for the Archduke of Cumberlet to abandon these five provinces. ”

"I see. Targar nodded and said, "Your Highness, there are two more news. In addition to forming these ten corps to complete the arrangement of the defensive front, the Grand Duke of Cumberlet is also preparing to convene a council of business alliances to discuss the re-canonization of the territories of the Forde Chamber of Commerce, the Liward Chamber of Commerce, the Visia Chamber of Commerce, and those second- and third-rate chambers of commerce that have lost their territories to the south of the continent.

However, those provinces in the south of the continent were annexed by the business alliance a few years ago, and they were not well governed, and they were also brutally oppressed and forced by the business alliance, and the people fled seriously, and the sense of resistance was very strong, so many chambers of commerce did not want to go to the south, plus the Chikde Chamber of Commerce in the south was like a betrayal, and even the three major chambers of commerce of Fude, Live, and Visia were hesitating.

The second news is that the Archduke of Cumberlet has sent many envoys to the sixteen countries in the south-central part of the continent, as well as the Kingdom of Chigda, to trumpet the threat posed by our Antinac Kingdom to the countries of the south-central region, trying to persuade the countries to prohibit the entry of goods produced in our family territory, and to conclude an alliance in case our family can get the support of other countries in the central and southern regions when the army attacks the business alliance, and reproduce the situation of the joint resistance against the invasion of the former Cresson Empire......"

Lorist laughed: "Is the business alliance still dreaming? I don't know if the business alliance is now the biggest threat to the central and southern parts of the continent? How many of the thirty-six countries in the central and southern parts of the past are left, plus the business alliance and the Kingdom of Qigeda, there are only eighteen countries, and eighteen countries have been annexed by the business alliance, how can he still have the face to lobby those countries to unite against our kingdom?

Rest assured, the scheme of the business alliance will not succeed at all, and the fact that our family has established the Freedom Alliance shows that we have no interest in the territory of the central and southern regions, and the fact that the five provinces that have been swept away by our family's armed forces around the Faliqiu Plains proves that our family has no ambition to occupy the territory of the central and southern regions. As for the goods produced in our family's domain, it is of no use to us whether we prohibit them or not, for we only wholesale in the city of Morente, and it is none of our business where we sell them, and the actions of the business alliance only prove that they are in disarray. ”

"But we still have to teach the business alliance a lesson," Lorist said, touching his chin, "Our family forces are very busy this year, and we don't have time to pay attention to them, maybe we will have to go on a sweep next year." By the way, Tagger, you go and find out what kind of country the five provinces around the Falcan Plain were originally the territories of what country, and here, here, which countries were annexed by the three provinces of the Commercial Alliance, and by the way, find out if there are still heirs and descendants of the royal family in these countries. ”

"Yes, Your Highness. Tugger replied.

"By the way, didn't Sambarwood give the Chikde Chamber of Commerce territory a no-sea order? I heard that the Chikde Chamber of Commerce territory now has to go somewhere else to buy seafood if you want to eat seafood. You go and give an order to Sambarwood, and ask him to write a letter to the Chikde Chamber of Commerce, saying that if the Chikrid Chamber of Commerce is willing to break away from the business alliance and establish itself as a kingdom, our family can accommodatively lift the sea ban on their territory and allow their merchant ships to go to sea for trade and fishing. If the Business Alliance threatens them with the Tempest Juggernaut, I personally want to guarantee them that the Tempest Juggernaut will not do anything against them......" Lorist added another fire to the Business Alliance.

At the end of August, Lorist quietly boarded a Thunderbolt with only a few guards, and returned to the family territory in the personal company of Admiral Sambarwood of the North Sea Fleet, this time to stay with Princess Celivia and her concubine Daisy, and take care of their births.

On October 11, Princess Celivia gave birth to a big fat boy again, and three days later, Daisy also gave birth to a boy. Lorist stayed with them until April of the following year, when she returned to the city of Moriente.

Attached is a list of Lorist's children:

Mother, former maid Irina (died of a violent illness)

The eldest son, Norton Leskett (deceased), was executed by order of Lorist for rebellion and tyranny.

The second son, Norton Wild, was adopted by Lorlist's cousin, the Golden Knight Christia, after his mother died of a violent illness.

Mother, Nicol Theresti, Dean of Nicol College, Llorist's lover.

The eldest daughter, Nicol Origas.

Second daughter, Nicol, Frethea.

Mother, Dina Arridoli, the knightess of the Diner family, acting head of the house, and Llorist's lover.

The eldest son, Dina Triec

The youngest daughter, Dina Eli.

Mother, Princess Celivia, the mother of the Norton family, and the wife of Lorist.

The eldest son, Norton, Underbell.

Youngest son, Norton, Jed Binns, (Deputy Commander Paul Binns in memory of the heroic sacrifice of the artillery battalion)

Mother, the young aunt of Diliana, Aridolly and Fena Gary, the concubine of Lorist.

The eldest son, Norton Schrobel.

The youngest daughter, Norton Verion

Mother, Dina Fenagali, Aridori's sister and Lorlist's concubine.

Daughter, Norton DeLoria.

The mother, Maria, the eldest daughter of a minor nobleman, was taken over by Lorist as a concubine.

Son, Norton Makino Pete (in memory of the heroic death of the Chaser Legion's Deputy Commander Pete)

Mother, Daisy, Maria's best friend, the second daughter of a small nobleman, was also forcibly occupied by Lorist as a concubine.

Son, Norton Lorinos (in memory of two veterans of Dawn Academy who died with Lorlist)