Located in the south-central part of the Sassanid Empire, the Halberd City is a hub city for trade between the north and the south, and belongs to the Diocletian family, the great lord of the Sassanid Empire.

It is located in the plains, the red soil is fertile, rich in green wheat, but there is no danger of mountains and rivers, and it is often harassed by the prairie jackals. Originally just a remote town with a guard role, as the Sassang Empire launched the Qingmai War, the armies and supplies of the northern lords gathered here, built fortifications, and by the way, wiped out the nearby gnolls, and then opened the grain market of the southern kingdom. As the country town continued to expand, and its transportation, trade, warehousing, and military roles became more prominent, the Diocletian family simply moved the family's main city here and renamed it Bronze Halberd City.

The Bronze Halberd City is also the largest city in the entire human kingdom, second only to the Holy City of El in terms of prosperity and population, and the King of Blinor in Gombis is a little worse than her, although the political status of the two sides is very different. However, the intricate power relations of Copper Halberd City are not lost to any royal capital at all.

Almost all of the High Lords of Sarsan have planted all sorts of men in the city, and the northernmost Moon Bear family has even married Diocletian into foster care, and Angel Moon Bear Dioclerian, who has the blood of Barcelius and the title of princess of the Sassan royal family, is currently in charge of the city.

The Diocletian family is not guarded by the Golden Knight, they know that the rise of Bronze Halberd City is jointly created by the Great Lord of Sassan, and they never set up obstacles for the powerful lords, and pursue the principle of neutrality, welcoming all families to trade here, but making Bronze Halberd City more and more prosperous.

The trade caravans of the Lords of Strength are restricted, which is a rule practiced by the kingdoms. Even though Diocletian was the master of Bronze Halberd City, they were no exception. Therefore, Copper Halberd City deliberately set aside an enclave of 40 square kilometers for the commercial nobles of the Sassan Empire, the Viscount of Wimbledon.

Since Countess Andrea Wimbledon inherited the family of the Sword Saint Dravien, the Viscount Torik Wimbledon was in an awkward position, lacking neither strength nor the attention of the Grand Lord of Sassan. They knew that they were only nominally commercial aristocrats, responsible for labeling the caravans of the royal family and the high lords, and even then the caravans of the Sassang lords could not leave the empire. Viscount Torik Wimbledon did not participate in any trading activities at all, and rarely traveled to the enclave near Bronze Halberd City, where he built a castle and a manor, which he usually left to an old butler to take care of.

Self-aware people are smart. Wimbledon's enclave estates are small, and although the land is fertile, it is not cost-effective to grow barley. They planted seasonal flowers and plants on the manor, built a dyeing house, and purchased worthless wool from the herdsmen of the prairie, dyed it, woven it into a colorful painting carpet, and then sold it in the copper halberd city for profit.

The wool carpets produced by the Viscount Wimbledon are rich in color, exquisite workmanship, exquisite painting skills, especially the complete sets of colored carpets depict vivid story scenes, which are amazing, so they are sought after by nobles from all over the world. Many aristocrats used the family's illustrious history as a blueprint for their stories to order a carpet set from the Viscount of Wimbledon. They often receive orders that take up to a year before the finished product is delivered.

The Viscount family of Wimbledon used to embroider a nightingale on the back corner of the carpet work, so their carpet was called the nightingale carpet by aristocratic circles.

The castle estate where the nightingale carpet was produced was called the Nightingale Manor.

This orc war did not reach the Bronze Halberd City, and with the victory of the war, the Satsang lords won glory and land, which is definitely a glorious page of the family's history. Viscount Wimbledon received orders for colored carpets, and the artisan painters of Nightingale Manor had to be busy for five years to complete the production tasks assigned by their masters.

While the craftsmen were busy, the housekeeper of the manor received an order from the viscount, and hurriedly arranged for the residents to put down their work and evacuate, and handed over the nightingale manor to the Dioclerian family as a temporary garrison for reinforcements from the Kingdom of Gombis.

At noon that day, twenty knights riding across the dragon beast escorted a luxurious van into the Nightingale Manor.

His Royal Highness Randall, who had black hair and golden eyes, stepped out of the carriage, and several great knights who had been waiting for a long time stepped forward to salute and greet him.

"Good day, Your Highness Randall, congratulations on your arrival in the Sanctuary and the achievement of the title of Fury Wind Sword Saint. ”

"No need to be polite. ”

Victor bowed his head to the big knights present, stretched out his hand to help Charlotte in a pink spider silk dress out of the carriage, looked around at the surrounding scenery, and saw many war horses leisurely eating flowers and grass blades in the flower field, shook his head and smiled: "I have heard that the flowers of the Nightingale Manor are beautiful and varied, and they are rare to see. I didn't expect that the nightingale field would be ruined by the war horses of Cambys. ”

Viscount Alex, who had a beard, rubbed his hands and said with a little embarrassment: "Your Highness, I will order the soldiers to control the war horses......"

Victor looked at his former neighbor and said with a smile: "Old friend, don't bother, we have traveled thousands of miles to the Sassan Empire to fight against the orcs and lay down a large area of land for the Sassan Lord. What is the point of our horses eating some flowers and plants? Viscount Torrick Wimbledon blames the Diocletian family, who wants them to place the Cambis cavalry in Nightingale Manor? Aren't you worried that the soldiers of Cambis will take over the throne and go to the Bronze Halberd City to drink and make trouble?"

The crowd couldn't help but laugh, and Earl Terrandon York said with a smile: "Your Highness, the stewards, craftsmen, and servants of Nightingale Manor have all been evacuated, and the Diocletian family has left only one liaison officer, thirty servants, and more than a hundred cooks. They provided shelter, food, and drink, and hoped that we would restrain the soldiers from leaving Nightingale Manor, and would not send someone of status to receive them. It seems that they are really on the lookout for the reinforcements of the Gangbys. ”

"How can a mere minor noble liaison officer be qualified to visit His Highness? I will arrange for him to live in the back room, so as not to disturb His Highness. Alex was indignant and muttered, "The Diocletian family has been rude to His Highness, but the Countess has come forward to appease him, so we can only stop at Nightingale Manor and wait for His Highness." ”

The countess in his mouth meant Sophia. Princess Angel of Bronze Halberd City is close to Sophia, and the Diocletian family is a member of the Golden Regiment. Sophia naturally had to come forward for the Diocletian family to appease the Gambis reinforcements. For the sake of the Golden-Eyed Countess, although the great knights of the kingdom were unhappy in their hearts, they couldn't say anything.

Victor nodded, raised his hand, and said, "Let's go inside the house and talk." ”

In the main hall of Nightingale Manor, a large colored carpet is hung on the wall, depicting the love story of the Wimbledon Patriarch and the Moon Elf Princess. The elf princess is beautiful and gentle, the Wimbledon knight is handsome and steady, and the process of the two from acquaintance, love to marriage and children is presented in the color carpet.

The Moon Elf Princess must be a beautiful transcendent being...... Gentleness? Gentleness is not necessarily, the truth may be the opposite, among the elves who respect women, there is one female of the moon elves, I am afraid that they are all arrogant and violent tempers. After all, they are not Sun Elves, the fire element belongs to the wind element, which is not enough to dominate the rage, and the stronger their extraordinary talents, the more their personality is affected by the Void Wind element...... The ancestor of Wimbledon married the Moon Elf princess, and life must be difficult. Of course, most of them broke up when they had children, and how could the wedding of the ancient Golden Knight and the Moon Elf princess not be attended by the Chosen One?

Victor's gaze lingered on the exquisite carpet for a moment, and even if he was picky about the content of the painting, he had to admit that it was a rare set of works of art, and nodded, "The Nightingale carpet lives up to its name." Since Viscount Torrick has hung here the tapestry depicting the ancestors of Wimbledon, he must have prepared it for me. When we went back to Gambis, I brought this set with me. ”

Everyone looked at each other, but Viscount Alex gave a thumbs up and laughed: "Your Highness is wise!"

What is left is the ...... that was given to me His Royal Highness Randall said so, and the Gambis reinforcements could sack Nightingale Manor at will.

Actually, it didn't matter, but robbing Lord Sasan's property made the great knights of Gombis sulk in a sneer.

Everyone laughed when they heard that Viscount Alex was greeting His Highness Randall.

Victor sat down on the main seat in the living room, raised his hand to signal everyone to sit down, and asked, "How is the current situation of the Cambis reinforcements?"

Turlandon took a step before Alex could speak, and said, "Except that you can't leave the territory of Nightingale Manor, everything else is fine. We have already begun to prepare to return home, but the Kingdom of Dordor has planned three different routes for us, requiring the reinforcements of Gambis to be withdrawn in batches, up to 1,000 at a time. King Friedrich's envoy said that the Lords of Dordor were running out of food and hoped that we would be able to understand their plight. ”

"There's no way around it. Victor nodded.

In this orc war, the lords of the kingdom of Dodor used up all their strength to eat, they sent troops, money and materials, and even the supplies of 22,000 Gambis reinforcements along the way to the north were also provided by the lords of Dodor. After more than two years of war, the production activities of the Kingdom of Duoduo have dropped to the lowest point, and the three-year reserve of grain should be about to bottom out, and it is true that it cannot afford the food for the return journey of the Gambis cavalry, so it is only divided into batches to meet the grain and grass required by the Gambis cavalry.

Although the Sassan Empire promised to replenish the food consumption of the Kingdom of Dordor and to allocate another batch of green barley to cover the armaments provided by Dord, it seemed impossible now.

The Knights of Radiance and Lord Sassan ceded the 5 Prairie Holy Cities to the Kingdom of Duoduo, and it was kind not to ask the Duoduo people for money.

The lord does not have a good old man, and the Sassan Empire gave half of the Wharton prairie to the Kingdom of Duoduo, how could it not open his mouth to the Lion of the Lord of Duoduo?

Victor tapped on the armrest of his high-backed chair and asked, "How's the situation on the Eastern Front?"

He was referring to the junction of the Sidon Khanate with the Goblin Kingdom.

Viscount Alex replied, "What we know, combined with the Church's report, can be believed that the Goblin Kingdom on the Eastern Front has died in name only. The Two-Headed Goblin Lord was squeezed further east by the rebellious orc tribes, and if it weren't for the centaur army holding back several orc tribes, it would have been finished...... Centaurs are not having a good time, as their male warriors are limited in number, and many females have just given birth to cubs, attracting many gnolls and ogres to attack in turn. The centaurs are now too busy to move east, let alone threaten the human legions west of the eastern front. ”

Count Trlandon coughed and said, "The Church is organizing the Satsan Empire, the lords of Neville to build fortifications on the Eastern Front. Naville produces materials, and Sasan produces manpower and food...... Even the carriages of the Wimbledon Chamber of Commerce and the Southwind Chamber of Commerce were temporarily requisitioned by the church. ”

To preserve the gains of Neville and Sassan, they had to intensify the construction of fortifications on the Eastern Front. The Sassang Empire allocated manpower and grain from the hinterland and transported it all the way to the Eastern Front, where people ate and chewed along the way, and the amount of grain and grass consumed was uncountable. No matter how much food they have in reserve, they will be overstretched and unable to provide food supplies to the Gambis reinforcements for the return journey.

On the other hand, the adult men of the Sassan Empire have all gone to the east to enclose the land, and the Diocletian family is no exception. The garrison of Copper Halberd City is empty, and it can only maintain basic law and order, how dare it let tens of thousands of Gambis cavalry enter the city for recreation. Princess Angel asked Sophia to arrange for the soldiers of Gambis to be stationed at Nightingale Manor.

Victor didn't care about this, and instead said, "Even if the Neville Kingdom is geographically close to the Eastern Front, it may not be easy for them to move the building materials. ”

"Your Highness said yes. Turlandon nodded, "It is said that the architects of Neville and Sassan are building huge brick kilns on the eastern front, ready to produce green bricks and iron bricks to fill the gap in building materials. ”

The Earl of Terrandon York was one of the few people who knew about rock bricks. Victor and he glanced at each other, both understanding.

It is possible to build a house of blue brick for habitation, but it is very difficult to build fortifications, and iron brick is very strong, but the cost is too high and the production is limited. But in times like these, it's much stronger to have bricks than to have no bricks!

Neville and Sassang mobilized the strength of the whole country to build fortifications on the eastern front, and they were sure to preserve the fruits of victory. Domestic food production and ore mining can only be put aside for a while, and the resulting impact will affect the entire human country, the most direct manifestation of which is the tight supply of food and minerals, and even cause difficulties to the livelihood of the people at the bottom.

At this time, the centaur hill takes out the rock bricks, and its weight will be magnified several times, which brings incomparable voice.

The Orc War is over, and Victor and Sylvia's plan for rock bricks is gaining momentum!

Victor looked around and asked lightly, "Is there anything else?"

Tellandon stood up and saluted, and asked, "Your Highness, I take the liberty of asking you, when do you plan to return to the Centaur Hill?"

"...... not sure. Victor held the armrest and said with a playful smile, "I may have to stay in the Sassan Empire for a while, although they want me to leave sooner, but I want to see the grain belonging to Gombis transported back to the kingdom one by one...... You don't have to worry about me, the families still evacuate in batches according to the original plan. ”

The Sassan Empire migrated hundreds of thousands of displaced people to Gambis, and provided them with food for three years. This is a promise made by the Church and the Sassan Empire to Gambis, hundreds of thousands of displaced people have been transferred, but the food promised by the Sassan Empire has not yet been delivered. This is no small matter, and without food security, it would be quite difficult for Gambis to digest hundreds of thousands of people.

The Sarsanians do not pay their debts, but they try to delay the delivery of grain. The Raging Wind Sword Saint stayed in the Sassan Empire and personally supervised this matter in the vital interests of the Gambis Kingdom.

The High Knights expressed their support for Victor's decision. Count Terrandon said as a matter of course: "Since Your Highness is the last to leave, then I will lead the cavalry of the Centaur Hill to escort Your Highness." ”

Hearing this, Count Alex also stood up, he walked to the center of the hall, bowed half-kneeling to Victor, and said sincerely: "Your Highness, please allow me to lead 100 dragon knights to serve as your highness's honor guard. ”

Victor looked at Alex deeply, uncommittal to his request, and the atmosphere in the living room grew calm.

He and Alex don't have much contact with each other, but they have known each other for a long time. The Alex family is known for their upright style and are the staunchest followers of His Highness Golon. They were known for their prestige among the Praetorian Guards of the royal capital, and the aristocratic circles of Blinor City often mocked the knights of the Alex family for having muscles in their heads.

During Victor's inauguration as Lord of the Centaur Hills, Viscount Alex was a baronial lord at the time. He once invited Victor, Bruce, and Edwin, who were passing through his realm, to his castle for a feast. Together, they exterminated a gang of gnolloll bandits, and it was at that time that Victor awakened the moon elves' talent for popularity, and since then they have embarked on the path of transcendence.

Alex wanted to make a specimen of the ferocious gnoll's head for Victor. Victor still remembers this incident vividly.

Rough, strong, upright, heroic, poor...... This was the intuitive impression Baron Alex made on Victor at that time.

Today, His Royal Highness Randall has a new understanding of Viscount Alex.

Back then, Baron Alex was a veteran knight, how could he not be able to deal with a gang of gnolls because the number of soldiers was too small?

Alex, like the Minor Baron of Wimbledon, was the pioneer lord of the Centaur Hills and was tasked with dividing the territory of the House of York.

The difference between the two sides is that the little baron doesn't know anything, but Alex befriends the Bruce Knight of the House of York and asks Bruce to help deal with the Gnoll bandits. In terms of strength, bloodline, and title, he is above Bruce, but Bruce is the knight of the family that Sylvia values. Alex approached Bruce in the same way that he worked together against the Gnoll bandits, and his skills can be described as brilliant. The purpose was, of course, to gain a foothold in the Centaur Hills, and Alex had foreseen the inevitable failure of the Queen's plan to divide the Yorkist family's territory, and he left a way out for his own frontier.

Beneath the rough exterior is careful, such a Viscount Alex may be an insider of the rock brick plan.

The rock brick project is about to start, and Sylvia is in charge of communicating with the Kite Castle, and Victor has not yet received a letter about how the talks are going. He was sure that the plan to exchange the bricks for the free coinage required the close cooperation of the Kite Fort and the Centaur Hills.

In addition, Alex half-kneels to Victor, who is not his lord. However, Princess Roland Auguste unfortunately fell to rescue His Royal Highness Randall, and the Swordmaster of the Furious Wind officially declared that he would protect the bloodline of the Augustian family and the legitimacy of the royal family, and he was half of the guardian of the Auguste family.

Victor did this because he was afraid that Sylvia would attack the August family in the future, and he wanted to block this possibility in advance.

Viscount Alex's public half-kneeling to Victor is a declaration on behalf of the Auguste family to confirm and recognize the Fury Swordmaster.

His Royal Highness Randall's thigh must be hugged, and the fall of Princess Roland August will not be mentioned again.

The attitude of the Auguste family made Victor unhappy, and even a little resentful.

The supremacy of the family's interests may be the reason why Roland escaped from the Kite Castle...... If she didn't run away from politics and abide by the rules of politics, Sylvia wouldn't kill her.

Victor secretly felt sad, closed his eyes, and said softly, "A hundred dragon knights are too many...... It is enough to leave 20 people. ”

"As you wish, Venerable Highness Randall. Alex exclaimed. His voice echoed in the living room, but the atmosphere suddenly became relaxed.

"If nothing else, step aside...... I had a hard time traveling and needed a few days off. ”

"Yes. Several of the big knights present retired.

Victor opened his eyes, looked at Gillian, who had been silent, and sighed, "Miss Chebman, please stay." ”