Shrill was initially bewitched by wealth, but quickly calmed down. Being trusted by many big sand thieves to manage and invest, this werewolf has his own judgment on the interests and disadvantages of this trade route.

"I have to admit that the Governor has found a solution to the problem of the western border of the empire, but when the sand pirates touch the fundamental interests of the nobles of the western border, their tacit understanding with the sand pirates will be wiped out, and they will definitely spare no effort to eliminate us.

We will also have to be pushed by you to the front lines against the nobles of the West. The end result...... It should be that we have lost both sides with the nobles of the West, and then the Empire only needs to send a small number of troops to completely solve the two big troubles in the West.

My lord, I still say that, you think things too simply. Now we are living in a poor life, and when the Imperial army enters the West, we have no choice. The Empire should not fatten us up, let's form another kind of Western aristocracy. ”

Luke thought to himself, if I hadn't prepared enough, I'd be in trouble this time.

"To give you a chance to wash your money and do serious business, do you still want to grow big and form a military force that the empire fears?"

Screaming-for-tat said: "The rules of the Western Realm are like this, and the right to speak is above the knife edge." If we run the Western Trade Route for you, the nobles of the Western Realm will definitely attack us, and we can only use the money we earn to expand our strength.

When the strength of the Sand Pirate reaches a certain size, you let us hand over the sword in exchange for you...... Would you like to? ”

Luke stood up, drawing the knife he had brought and sticking it into the table, next to the westernmost bottle of water elemental essence.

"You should know that I sent the elf Clear Sky to the Ancestral Grassland, and when she came to Riyao City from the Ancestral Grassland to participate in the harvest festival, she brought an army composed of the Ancestral Grassland tribes.

At that time, the entire barbarian tribe of the Western Frontier will gather under her banner, and you sand thieves still want to hand over the sword?

Don't think that I'm here to ask you to be used by me, I'm here to show you a way out. Honestly run a logistics company to do business and cooperate with me to do things, I guarantee that you have no worries about food and clothing, and enjoy the quality of life that you have never enjoyed.

Stop dreaming of unrealistic things, the good times of sand pirates are over! ”

In the face of Luke's threat, Scream just wanted to get angry, but was frightened by the information revealed by Luke.

"You sent an elven magician to the Ancestral Grassland, just to unify the tribes of the Ancestral Grassland, this is the biggest joke I have ever heard in my life.

Your Excellency the Doge, intimidation will not solve your needs. ”

Luke smiled: "What I said is true or false, you can send someone to the ancestral grassland to see."

You already know what you should know today, Mr. Scream is busy, so I won't bother.

Come back to me when you make your decision, you know where I live. ”

With that, Luke pulled the knife out of the table and retracted its scabbard, then turned and left.

Mephesman tried to stop him, but was stopped again by a shrill wave of his hand, and at the same time said, "Scorpion, send the Governor out, and don't let the ignorant guys outside run into my honored guest." ”

"Yes, Mr. Scream."

Mauffsman led Luke and the others out of the study, and howled out a paper bird from the drawer: "Go and see what happened to the Ancestors Grassland." ”

The paper bird flew out of its howling hands and flew through the open skylight toward the west.

After Scream watched the paper bird leave, he put on his glasses and picked up the account book. But no matter what, he couldn't look at it quietly, and the knife mark on the table always made him can't help but be distracted.

Mauffsman took the three of Luke through the levels and walked outside.

"Your Excellency, you are the first to be so rude to Mr. Scream and be able to get out of here safely. I hope that the next time we meet, you will still be treated with such courtesy by Mr. Scream. ”

"Next time...... You, Mr. Scream, will come out to meet me personally. Luke pointed to the nearby cage where the slaves were kept, "How much is the mother and son?" I bought it! ”

Mauffsman followed Luke's direction.

It is an ordinary human mother and son, except for the thin elven blood on their bodies, there is nothing special about it.

Maevesman asked the mother and son to be brought in, and then said to Luke, "These two slaves are given to you by Mr. Scream." ”

"Then thank Mr. Scream on my behalf."

Luke didn't say anything to the mother and son who had been brought over, and walked past them.

The kestrel walked over and quickly shoved a money bag into her mother's hand: "I forgot my mother, but I see from you what my mother is like." That's all I can help, and I hope you can be happy. ”

Then the kestrel said to the boy, "Take care of your mother. ”

"I will, thank you!"

"Goodbye!" The kestrel quickly catches up with Luke and Fast Legs, who are walking away.

The mother and son stared blankly at the departing kestrels, not knowing where they should go or how to survive in this strange place.

"Hey, I can provide you with a place to live and work, do you want to follow me."

Mauffsman said to the mother and son, her eyes fixed on the money bag in her mother's hand.

The mother first hugged the money bag vigilantly, but immediately handed the money bag out: "These are yours, please let us go." ”

Who thought that Mephesman did not take the money bag, she smoked a cigarette and said: "You have met a nobleman, I dare not offend him." It's safer to stay here and work than for you to trespass. If that noble man suddenly thinks of you, and you are developed, do not forget the help I have given you. ”

The boy asked, "Who is he?" ”

"I can't tell you his name yet, anyway...... He's a big guy who can change the entire West.

Come with me, I'll find you a place to live, take a shower and change your clothes. ”

The mother put away the purse, pulled the boy tightly, and followed Mephesman towards the gloomy residential area.

On the other side, inside the Sunshine Manor, Count Ould received the news that the Governor of Meteorite had suddenly disappeared.

He was furious and reprimanded the people who were being stalked were idiots, and it was like losing the face of Sunshine City to be able to lose an outsider in his own city.

But when he heard that the eldest princess Agatha was sweeping the goods in the Sunshine City Bazaar, and it was at a large premium, he realized that the eldest princess must have a deep meaning in doing this.

Then I heard that the meteorite had raised the price of halfling wine to a gold coupon and a barrel, and was about to buy it aggressively, and I immediately felt a chill in the back of my neck.

It's really ruthless!

This is directly pressing the nobles of the Western Realm on the guillotine one by one!

Count Ould was able to run the harvest festival to such a scale, of course, he knew what the extremely low prices in the west meant to the nobles of the west. They controlled the trade routes between the empire and the west, and sucked the wealth of the entire west by selling high and buying low to maintain their own territorial armies.

If the prices of goods in the entire western frontier rise significantly, the soldiers who rely on the army's salary to support their families will inevitably be unable to bear the rising cost of living.

If the army is shaken, it will directly shake the foundation of the lords' rule.

The first thing Count Ould thought of was to kill Meteor and Agatha and nip this crisis in the bud.

But that was the eldest princess and the governor of Angry Waves City, killing them at this time, he would inevitably be forced to bury them for them.

But...... Just let them continue to raise the price of the city?

The harvest festival is just around the corner!

At that time, almost the entire barbarians in the western realm would bring their season's output out of Sunyao City to sell, and then purchase the materials they needed. The nobles of the Western Frontier would also send caravans to sell the cheap supplies purchased from the empire at a high price, making a lot of money.

This is a feast for the nobles of the Western Realm, but this time the nobles of the Western Realm may be frightened out of their bodies by the price of the harvest festival.

Can't kill, can't stop, Count Ould sweated all over.

He knew that the Governor of Meteorite was powerful, and he also received a reminder from Erguya, but he never expected that just now when he and Meteorite entered the city, he was polite and harmonious, and this guy turned around and stabbed himself in the back.

The knife was also pierced in the trachea.

Count Ould thought about the countermeasures, thinking about how to deal with the meteorite's move.

Soon after, the attendants came to report that the Governor of the Falling Star had returned with Her Royal Highness the Eldest Princess. Along with them, there were dozens of truckloads of goods. Now the city is full of voices praising the eldest princess, and they are looking forward to the eldest princess coming to their stall tomorrow.

"Go and ask the Governor of Meteor to come to me!"

Now the Count of Ould lives in a small building on the shores of the central lake, and although the furnishings and decorations are not as modern and avant-garde as the city of the Angry Waves, they are comparable to the harmonious combination of tradition and modernity of the city of St. Lun.

Tea drinking, which had just emerged, also became one of Count Ould's hobbies.

Earl Ould invited Luke to have tea with him, and he said while making tea in a decent tea set: "The taste of tea has a great deal to do with the quality of the water. The water I use to make tea is to send someone to the relics of the tree master of the ancestral grassland world to receive the spring water from the spring of Shuxin Lake.

It is the root system of the World Tree that extracts groundwater, which is then purified and spewed out of the center of the tree, and is the source of many rivers in the western realm. Because of the importance of the source, it is protected by the most difficult of the steppe elves, the fierce war song, and this water is not something that anyone can drink. ”

Count Ould poured Luke a cup of tea, and his words made it clear that his energy in the Westlands could easily obtain even the hardest to obtain water.

Luke took a sip of tea, and sure enough, the tea brewed by the World Tree Source was different, and his mental and physical strength were replenished.

You can let the clear sky pour more and take it back to drink.

"The water is good water, but the quality of the tea is a little low. I'll have some good tea from Angry Waves City for the Earl to taste. ”

Count Ould put down the teapot and said, "The city of Angry Waves is connected to the world, and the Governor must have drunk all kinds of good tea, and of course, there are also the world's top red wines.

I've heard that the Doge is interested in the Halfling wines of the West, and is planning to purchase them on a large scale and ship them to the City of the Furious Waves to make high-end red wines for sale. ”

Luke knew what Count Ould had invited him to do, and he pretended to be confused: "The sun is strong in the west, so that the grapes produced have a much higher sugar content than other places. The winemaking techniques and environment of the halflings here make the wines of a unique high quality.

Even with the high cost of sourcing and transporting from the West to the City of Furious Waves, the halfling wine can still bring me a hundredfold return on profit.

I don't know if Lord Earl is interested in the halfling wine business, I can invest in a red wine factory in Sunshine City......"

Hearing that the halfling wine passing through the hands of the Angry Waves City could achieve a hundredfold rate of return on profits, the Earl of Ould almost agreed on the spot to build a red wine factory in the city of Sunshine.

But he soon realizes that he has been circumnavigated by a meteor.

"Of course I welcome the establishment of a red winery. But the Governor bought halfling wine for a barrel and a gold coupon, giving too much. These greedy halflings will surely keep raising prices when they see you so generous! ”

Luke smiled and drank tea: "I can make so much money, do I care about the price increase?" As long as the quality of their wine remains the same, two gold coupons and three gold coupons for one barrel...... I'll give it all.

Halflings earn more to be able to actively make wine, otherwise a village will only make four barrels of wine for sale in one season, which is too little! If they could multiply their production several times, wouldn't I make even more? ”

That's the truth, but the nobles of the West need the halfling wine to return to the constant price of a barrel of one gold coin.

So Count Ould stopped playing dumb riddles with Luke.

He said directly: "Your Excellency, if you disturb the prices of the Western Territory like this, you are touching the most fundamental interests of the nobles of the Western Territory. You and Her Royal Highness the eldest princess have a mission entrusted to you by the empire, and the nobles of the Western Realm are also watching the attitude of the empire.

Hostility and pressure will not allow you to take anything away from the West, but may allow the Tedgar Hills to repeat itself in the West. ”

Luke picked up the teapot and poured himself tea.

"In the past, the Western Frontier was too far away and too desolate for the empire, and the investment and return were not proportional, so there was a good life for the nobles of the Western Frontier.

It's just that this kind of good life makes you swell more and more, so much so that you put yourself in a lofty pavilion with no support, and feel that you have the capital to fight the empire. But I just casually played a card, and I forced you to intimidate me, which shows how weak the strength of the nobles in the West is. ”

Count Ould didn't expect to raise the price of the harvest festival, and it was just a card in the hand of the falling star, so what were the other cards?

He dares to say that, does it mean that other cards have been played!

Earl Ould nervously asked Luke, "You just disappeared, where did you go?" I'm warning you...... Push the nobles of the Western Realm to a dead end, and you and the eldest princess can't go back. ”

Luke continued to drink tea nonchalantly: "Less threat me, more think about the path of the Ould family." It is very, very rare to have a commercial city of this magnitude in the West. If the Empire's railroad could be built into the west, Sunlight City would definitely have an even more important location.

Smart people can see the situation clearly, not cling to the rules of their ancestors.

Good tea, good water!

I don't think the World Tree Source Earl has in reserve enough to use during the Harvest Festival, so since the Earl has a very good relationship with the fierce war song of the ancestors, I will send someone to ask for the World Tree Source again. ”

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