Chapter 440: Reward Fulfillment

The war is finally over. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 His Royal Highness is very busy, and as the king of the Kingdom of Antinac, he has a lot of affairs to deal with. First of all, he had to arrange the new family domains of the three Grand Dukes of Handla, Foreland and Sabaji. After deliberations, the southwestern provinces became the new family fiefdoms of the Grand Dukes of Handra and Sabaji, while the province of Yungeshandra, which was connected to the province of Delemke, became the family fiefdom of the Grand Duke of Forendo.

The two southwestern provinces, officially known as the province of West Deliga and the province of South Deliga, were called the Deliga region before the establishment of the Crisson Empire, and were later divided into two provinces by Crisson I, the West Driga Province is also known as the Northwest Province, both provinces are adjacent to the province of Cambona, which was forcibly occupied by the Fort Commercial Alliance, and in some administrative documents during the Clicenton Empire, these two provinces are collectively referred to as the two provinces of the southwest, and now they are called the two provinces of the southwest front.

The second highness was defeated in the army, and the whereabouts of the royal city of Fedega are unknown, and the usurping queen Kerry once ceded the two southwestern provinces to the commercial alliance, and the commercial alliance did not directly annex the two provinces, but established a United Duchy of Bullitt as a buffer between the commercial alliance and the Kingdom of Antinac. However, after the Second Highness regained the throne with the help of the Norton family's armed forces, the Flying Tigers destroyed the United Duchy of Bullitt, returning the two southwestern provinces to the kingdom's territory.

The southwestern provinces have been the garrison of the White Lion Legion since the restoration of His Second Highness, and have also been the frontier to defend against attacks by the merchant alliance against the Kingdom of Antinac. However, the two southwestern provinces were the hardest hit areas during the imperial civil war, and there were not one out of ten people, and the people's livelihood was deserted, and more than 500,000 displaced people were once gathered. Although His Royal Highness has worked hard to restore people's livelihood and develop the economy, His Royal Highness's attack on the Kingdom of Ridlis and Queen Kerry's cession of the two provinces have exhausted the last vestiges of vitality in the southwestern provinces. Even though both provinces are plains, they are barren and sparsely populated.

His Royal Highness arranged the two southwestern provinces as the new family territories of the Grand Duke of Handra and the Grand Duke of Sabaji, and also deliberately got rid of the two burdens, not only to make the Handla family and the Sabaji family the southwest barrier of the kingdom, but also to let them restore the economy and land development of the two southwestern provinces. This is also the reason why he allowed each family to bring a legion to the new territory, and with these 45,000 soldiers and their families, the two southwestern provinces will be able to overcome the dilemma of lack of manpower. At the end of the day, it's the people who are the most important resource.

As for the Archduke of Forundo, he became the new Archduke of the province of Yungeshandra. Although the province of Yungeshandra is small and barren, it is a strategic location. From the Northland to the Imperial Capital, the route is the provinces of Delemke, Yungeshandra, Verbasya and the Central Province, where the Imperial Capital is located. The Second Highness canonized the province of Yungeshandra to the Grand Duke of Forendo as a new family territory, and in a bad way, it was equivalent to setting up a gate on the main road from the sphere of influence of the four alliances of the Northland to the imperial capital.

What does this guy mean, and now he's going to be on guard against us?" Lorist pondered, rubbing his chin. After learning about the arrangements of the Second Highness for the new family territory of the three Grand Dukes, Lorist had to admire that the Second Highness was still a bit level as this king. It is no wonder that he would allow the three archdukes who surrendered to each have a family armed legion to take to the new territory, which can not only allow the three archdukes to take away the diehard loyalists of the original family territory and stabilize the hearts of the people in these provinces, but also allow the three archdukes to become his new defensive barrier.

If the Grand Duke of Falkle had not been exiled, Lorist believed that His Royal Highness would have placed him in the province of Limad, which was adjacent to the Southern Province, which was equivalent to closing the door to the four alliances of the Northlands in both directions. It's a pity that people are not as good as heaven, Grand Duke Falkel refused to submit to His Second Highness, and fled to the Commercial Alliance, and in the future, I don't know if the Commercial Alliance will make some trouble for His Second Highness in the name of Grand Duke Fakel.

Everyone is busy, and His Royal Highness is busy receiving new territories under his direct jurisdiction, arranging defense inquiries, warehousing, stabilizing the people's hearts, and carrying out production, and he is so busy all day and night that he can't even see a single figure. The three central archdukes were busy reorganizing their armed legions, gathering the soldiers' families, collecting chariots and horses, and preparing to set off for the new family domain. The Grand Duke of Fisabrun was given the important task of reorganizing those who had been cut down by the three central Grand Dukes, and then handed them over to the commander of the White Lion Legion, Knight Lippied, who would add the best of them to the White Lion Legion, and then reorganize the two garrison legions.

As for the Duke of Kenmax, he was busy doing business with the three Central Grand Dukes, and although each of the three Central Grand Dukes had paid a donation of one and a half million gold merit to His Royal Highness, this should be half of the wealth in their hands. Duke Kenmax took advantage of this wealth and persuaded the three central archdukes to purchase all the supplies they needed from the Snow Salt Chamber of Commerce. Whether it is armament or production, as well as grain, grass and daily necessities, the Snow Salt Chamber of Commerce has everything. Dear, we also package direct delivery yo......

Count Philim and Count Shaheen were busy searching for the whereabouts of the Second Highness, and they demanded a reward for their troops. The two counts had been automatically promoted to the rank of duke after this battle, a promise made by the former two highnesses of the four central principalities. However, Duke Philip and Duke Shaheen did not look for the Second Highness for the title, Duke Philip asked for 30,000 young and strong laborers to develop the Southern Province, and Duke Shaheen asked His Royal Highness to give him a province with many resources and minerals as his family territory.

It's just that the whereabouts of the Second Highness have become haunted, and no one can find them. Lorist suddenly found himself the most idle, except for the first few days when the three Grand Dukes in the middle of the city had invited him to a banquet and thanked him for his insistence on refusing to continue the attack, the rest was to listen to the chatter of Duke Philim and Duke Shaheen every day about the fact that they could not find the Second Highness.

Lorist comforted the two of them that they didn't need to look for it, it was impossible for His Royal Highness to hide from you, and now that he was uncertain, he would definitely go to inspect these newly acquired provinces, and he would naturally come back after a while. Having said that, Lorist was also a little impatient. He could pat his ass and go back to the north directly with the Flying Tiger Legion and the two guard brigades, even if he didn't get the three-year tax exemption certificate signed by His Second Highness, he didn't care if he had this piece of paper or not, if His Royal Highness turned his face and didn't admit it, he would be very happy, and he wanted to see if His Second Highness would gather an army to crusade against him, a rebel who refused to pay taxes......

Thinking about the child who had only been born for half a year and Princess Celevia, Lorist had a feeling that he could not fly back to the Northlands. It can be seen that the second highness of the ghost went to inspect what territory at this time, and even let a large group of people stay here in Hans City and wait for him to come back, which is really unreasonable! So the impatient Lorist simply took the family armed to cross the Nibalaku River and return to the Demon Plain, anyway, it is better to come to hunt a few more times to earn some extra money to work.

Seeing that August was about to pass, Lorist finally received an order from the messenger on the Demon Plain, and the Second Highness asked him to go back as soon as possible and not wander around the Demon Plain. So Lorist Shiran took the Flying Tiger Legion and two guard brigades back to Hans City, the capital of Drama Province. When they arrived, they found that the three grand dukes in the middle had already set off with their families, armed with a legion and the families of those soldiers, and some people who had volunteered to follow the three grand dukes to move to new territories.

And Duke Kenmax also obtained the two-year tax exemption certificate of the Snow Salt Chamber of Commerce from the hands of His Royal Highness early, and the Snow Salt Chamber of Commerce contracted the logistics supplies needed for the three central Grand Dukes to move all the way, so he had to immediately go to the allocation and transportation of various materials. In a letter left for Lorlist, it was declared that it was a big business, estimated at nearly a million transactions. If the three Grand Dukes were satisfied, and then the production materials needed for the development of the three new territories could be provided, then the business would become a big deal that could be carried out for a long time......

The Grand Duke of Fisabrun also departed, returning with the 3rd Frontier Ranger Regiment and the Reserve Regiment, as well as the reward given to him by His Royal Highness II, without meeting with Lorist. The only people who remained in Hans were the Dukes of Philim and Shahin, along with their families. In addition, there are two newly reorganized kingdom garrison corps, and as for the White Lion Legion, which has been reorganized and replenished, it left for Majik Province half a month ago after receiving the order of His Royal Highness. They were deployed by His Highness on the border with Anderwolf Province to guard against the invasion of the Merchant Alliance.

Duke Philim and Duke Shahin, who came to greet Lorlist, both had unsightly faces and indignant expressions. Lorist was very puzzled and asked them what was wrong, Duke Philip handed the letter left by Duke Kenmeth to Lorist and hated to tell the truth, he was fooled, the 30,000 young people who were originally promised to the Second Highness were changed to 30,000 by the Second Highness, of which less than 7,000 were young and strong, and the rest were Qingzhuang's family.

The Duke of Philim complained that the same reward, the 50,000 young men received by the Grand Duke of Fisabrun, were all young and strong, and that a total of 170,000 people were moved to the Fisabrun family territory with their families. However, he complained to the Second Highness but was suppressed by the Second Highness, who said that the Grand Duke of Fisabrun had opened up the territory for the kingdom, so it was necessary to increase the population of his territory, so as not to revert to the pasture of the barbarian tribes. The southern province is located in the hinterland of the kingdom, and there is no foreign threat, and the population will naturally increase after twenty or thirty years......

In addition, His Royal Highness compared the Grand Duke of Fisabrun with him. The Second Highness said that the reserve army of the Fisabrun family paid heavy casualties in the war against the four central principalities, sacrificing nearly 10,000 horsemen. But your Pegasus Legion, in addition to being a scout light horse for reconnaissance and vigilance, suffered extremely minor casualties. Therefore, the reward given to you is different from that of the Grand Duke of Fisabrun, and it is also a compensation for their significant contribution to the kingdom.

Duke Philim could only consider himself unlucky. The Duke of Shaheen was a different matter, and His Royal Highness gave him two choices, one was to choose one of the two provinces of Limad and Meishan as his family domain. The second is when the kingdom will recover the provinces that have been forcibly occupied by the commercial alliance, and then give the province of Portoorg, where the royal city of Federiga is located, to the Duke of Shahin as a family domain.

The Duke of Shaheen did not want either choice, and the province of Limad specialised in stone and wood, and its production of gold and stone and red maple has always been the high-end material in the building materials market. But now there is no one to get these things. Meishan Province is also a large province of mineral resources, but it is more about quantity than quality, for example, the two silver mines and one copper mine it has are small veins, which have been mined for twenty or thirty years, and the other three iron ores are of poor quality and are included in the scope of inferior mines.

Duke Shaheen did not want to choose between Limad Province and Meishan Province, the most important factor was that these two provinces were devastated by the coalition of territorial nobles at the beginning of the war, and they were rarely populated. Of course, the four Northland alliances led by Lorist are not without benefits. But what he didn't expect was that His Royal Highness would give one of these two provinces to Duke Shaheen as a family domain, which made Lorist feel like he was slapping himself in the face.

Whether it is Meishan Province or Limad Province, no matter which province Duke Shaheen gets as his family domain, he will spend a lot of money to re-recruit displaced people for development and construction, and he will not be able to recover at all in twenty or thirty years. And the second choice given by His Royal Highness made Duke Shaheen even more angry, and the province of Puerto Org was now one of the seven giants of the Business Alliance, the territory of the Vesia Chamber of Commerce. It is true that the province of Portoorg, where the royal city of Federiga is located, is indeed a major province of mineral resources in the former Krisson Empire, but the question is when will His Royal Highness go to recover it?

Duke Shaheen's first worry was that this time was far away, and he was afraid that he would not see the day when Portoorg Province would become a family domain until he died, and secondly, he was worried that once he agreed to make Portoorg Province his family domain, His Royal Highness would probably tie the Shaheen family to his chariot in the name of recovering the lost territory, and even sow discord between the Shaheen family and the other three families in the four Northland alliances......

Don't look at Duke Shaheen's performance in the four families of the Northland, he is just a brave man, greedy for money and brainless, and his family background is also the most ordinary. But he is not stupid, he knows very well in his heart what the current status of the Shahin family depends on, without the care of the three families of Lorlist, the Kenmax family, and the Duke of Philim, then he is nothing, maybe he will be drowned if he can't even make waves in this troubled world.

It is better to take refuge in the Second Highness than to keep by Lorlist's side, after all, Lorist is more benevolent and righteous than the Second Highness, at least Lorist will not forget himself when he eats meat, unlike His Royal Highness, not to mention meat and bones, being able to drink two mouthfuls of soup is considered the luck of those who follow him. The Second Highness is a person who will offer you as a guest when he can use you, and he will not even look at you when he doesn't need you, which Duke Shaheen can see very clearly.

Therefore, Duke Shaheen rejected the proposal of His Royal Highness II and asked to obtain the Crimea Province of the former Duchy of Fakel as his family domain. The province of Crimea is also a province of large mineral resources, rich in rock salt, gold and silver, copper, white lead and black iron, as well as a dozen other kinds of minerals, which will add more than one million gold merits to the pockets of the former Grand Duke of Fakel every year. Duke Shaheen has long taken a fancy to this province.

His Royal Highness did not hesitate to reject Duke Shaheen's request, believing that Duke Shaheen was not qualified to make such a request, and neither his contribution to the kingdom nor his exploits in the conquest were enough for him to canonize the province of Crimea as a family domain of the Shaheen. During the Crisson Empire, the province of Crimea, as a province of mineral resources, has always been under the direct jurisdiction of the royal family. That is, during the civil war of the empire, the royal whip was beyond the reach of the royal whip, and had no choice but to entrust it to the Grand Duke of Falkel, and as a result, it was annexed by the Falkel family and became a province of the Principality of Falkel.

His Royal Highness said coldly to Duke Shaheen that if he could not choose one of Meishan Province and Limad Province, and refused to accept the promise of recovering Portoorg Province in the future and then canonizing it as the territory of the Shaheen family, then he would be sorry, he would think that Duke Shaheen had automatically given up the reward for this expedition to the four central principalities, and as for Crimea, it was better to save money and not be delusional.

Duke Shaheen left in a rage.

"Henned, so you're doing it for nothing this time?" Lorist asked.

Duke Shaheen shrugged his shoulders and made a very indignant expression: "It should be so, I can only consider myself unlucky, and I will never trust him again." ”

Lorist patted him on the shoulder: "Bear with me, you don't have anything to lose this time anyway, and you have also made a lot of money when you clean up those territorial nobles of the Duchy of Volendo." The only pity is that we didn't negotiate the specific conditions with him before sending the troops, forget it, I'll go meet him first and see what he has to say. ”

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