In early June 359 of the year Pandehri, the 'peacekeepers' were stationed in Cliff Rock Bay.

The crags in Rock Bay were built, all the warehouses in the port were requisitioned, and mountains of grain were piled up.

Leon and Amy also got their wish and became the largest grain merchants in the entire Pander continent.

To be honest, many people don't understand why Leon didn't directly use force to conquer Fieldsway and the Crow Realm - with his current strength, he can do it completely.

Moreover, whether it is against Fields or against the Raven Realm, there are very legitimate reasons to send troops.

But neither Leon nor Alina was reluctant to resort to military conquest.

Because there's no need to ......

Even Zakar knew that if he could trade fairly, he would try not to fight, and the exploits and glory obtained by stepping on the bones of the white bones would indeed look dazzling, but the price paid and the rewards received were really far inferior to trade.

There are many ways to conquer, and war, in fact, is the least cost-effective way.

Of course, if you want to use a more cost-effective method, strong military strength is a must, and many methods can only be effective if you want to use a more cost-effective method - some things can be without, but you can't do without.

The 'peacekeeping force' formed by Li Ang was used to suppress military strength.

This force currently had seven corps, with Leon himself as marshal.

Godric commands the First Legion, and the current Clarion Call Grand Master Charles and Knight Commander Raphael are the Adjutant of the Legion - Ralph no longer wants to go to war everywhere, and he is ready to serve until he retires. The members of the First Legion, who were mostly merchants, ranchers, or yeoman farmers, both nobles and commoners, were representatives of the new middle class of the Pande Empire; Under the jurisdiction of the Horn Summoning Ranger Regiment.

Klose commanded the Second Legion, and the adjutant was Sigismund. They are typical meritorious military groups, most of the members are Metenheim and Free Corps members who followed Leon's southern expedition to the north and south, and belong to the army representatives; Under the jurisdiction of the Knights of the Silver Hand.

Eric commanded the Third Legion, and the adjutant was Dalion. This legion was the plebeian representative of the Pander Empire, and its members were mostly farmers, tenants, or craftsmen; Under the jurisdiction of the Griffin Knights.

The leader of the Fourth Legion is the Paladin Roland, and the lieutenant is the Knight of the Dusk, Alista, and the members are all followers of the Goddess Justice or the Goddess of Darkness. They are representatives of the belief in the 'old gods' - Leon did not deliberately prevent any faith, even if he was in the process of establishing a new 'God of Wealth', but he still had to accommodate other faiths, let multiple beliefs coexist, and avoid a monopoly to ensure that the concept of the God of Wealth remained the same. The Knights under the Fourth Legion are naturally the Knights of the New Dawn.

The Fifth Legion was a new Legion that Jocelyn had just reorganized, and the lieutenants were Dumbledore and Antunga. This is a typical 'foreign mercenary legion', which includes the Misty Mountain people brought by Antunga, the members of Dumbledore's re-formed Ebony Gauntlet Order, as well as the previously captured Maritines and a small group of Cato people, who represent the alien people who defected to the Pander Empire, which is a testimony to the eclectic mix of races and ethnicities in the New Pander Empire; Under the jurisdiction of the Knights of the Ebony Gauntlet.

The Sixth Legion is dominated by the Immortal Legion of the Bacchus Empire, with Justes as the commander and General Brutus as the adjutant, under the jurisdiction of the 'Immortal Knights'. In honor of Emperor Marius, the Immortals and the Imperial Guards were defined by Leon as a Knights, and the remnants of the original Shadow Legion were all merged into it. They represent the current aristocratic power of the Bacchus Empire - there is no distinction between Pande and Bacchus now.

The Seventh Legion is the Second Legion of the former Bacchus Empire, the commander of the Legion is the Governor of Creon, the adjutant is the Knight of Loris, and the Knights of the Radiant Cross are under the jurisdiction of the Knights of the Radiant Cross - Creon has been appointed by Alina as the Governor of the West, from the fortress of Eichkoman and Turda, all the way to the fortress of Sava and the fortress of Leila. This legion represents the civilian class of the Bacchus Empire.

The Noldor forces did not join any legions, they were Leon's direct guard, led by Risa Dilan.

The three queens, Amy, Wendy and Alina, no longer go out to fight, they are all busy governing the country, unlike Leon, who is idle, and can also make himself a marshal and go out to waste......

These seven legions, as well as the Noldor Guard, have a total of 23,000 people, representing almost all groups in the entire Pander Empire, and each legion has a subordinate knighthood, which is of course deliberate.

The Knights are a powerful armed force, and they should be subject to a certain amount of restraint. But the various knighthoods are essentially representatives of all kinds of people, and they do all have some good cultures, and they can't be limited too much.

In the same way, the individual legions themselves need some supervision, otherwise it is inevitable that moths or careerists will appear over time.

Therefore, Leon uses the legion to govern the Knights, and at the same time uses the Knights to supervise the peacekeepers, which is also a way to get the best of both worlds.

Of course, there are more than seven corps in the peacekeeping force......

After an army of more than 20,000 people escorted a huge amount of grain into Crag Bay, the 'New Van Skerry Alliance' entrenched here immediately collapsed.

'Solid Shield' Hakang was not strong at all this time, and directly abandoned the city and fled.

Haravan, the 'iron guts' of Anson Stronghold, was not very timid, and he also ran away overnight.

Only the new lord of Misty Castle, Fat the Fat, was wiser - he chose to surrender to Leon.

This is indeed more intelligent, because surrendering to Leon can at least save his life.

Haakon and Haravin, who were on the ship and ran away, were intercepted by King Vidis and Gondor the Doomseeker respectively.

Haakon eventually died at the mouth of the sea near Raven City.

And Harravin was intercepted by Gondor and Count Aydin in the area of Iron Oak on the West Coast.

After several fierce battles, the rebel 'New Van Skerry Alliance' was wiped out, and Fieldsway's fleet suffered unprecedented losses, with more than half of the navy gone.

The losses were heavy, but King Vidis was pleased, because Leon did keep his promise and agreed to exchange the sea ship for a large amount of grain.

For Vidis, the only way to get enough ships was to take out the rebels and rid Fields of the unruly pirates.

There are enough ships to trade Leon for enough food.

With enough food, Vidis' position and even his life can be saved......

Although Vidis himself knew that trading the sea ship to Leon was tantamount to sticking his head under Leon's knife.

But now that the poor and weak Fieldsway has no other way, the peacekeepers have driven into Craggy Bay, and if they don't do business with Leon, they will definitely be beaten - you can't go hungry and fight with that 'peacekeeping force', right?

A strong army of more than 20,000 people, what to fight?

Not only could they not fight, but they also had to send someone to join - this was also a prerequisite for Leon to agree to trade grain.

On behalf of Fieldsway to join the peacekeeping force, it is the main force of the original Fields Wills Navy led by Earl 'Red Sword' Edin, that is, Vidis's own old team, and the Valkyrie sisters in Mist Cage City.

These units were reorganized by Leon into the Eighth Legion, and a little sand was mixed into it—Gondor and his son Innar were appointed adjutants of the Eighth Legion, and Boudis became the Legion's 'tactical director'.

Gondor was friends with Vidis and Aydin, and he and his son served as lieutenants, and Vidis and Aydin certainly wouldn't have an opinion.

However, Gondor is currently a native of the Lion Kingdom, having been a vassal of Amy since attacking the Old Knights of Dawn, and had been stationed in Haringosburg.

Inna, on the other hand, was entirely Leon's man, and the Heroic Warrior only listened to his commands.

The father and son served as adjutant in the Eighth Legion, in which Bao Daisi hooked up with the Valkyrie Sisters, and the money and food for the troops were also provided by Leon, and the Eighth Legion could actually be regarded as Leon's troops - the old team of Earl Aydin and Vidis were actually hostage.

The ships that Vidis had traded for Leon also fell into the hands of Gondor, and were converted by the Metenheim and John Shipyards - and the ironclad that Leon had promised to give Gondor was about to be fulfilled.

The Ironclad was indeed a good fit for Gondor's style of combat, as the Doomseeker was best known for his savage rampage at sea.

Vidis had more than sixty large sea-going vessels for the exchange of grain, with a net deadweight of more than sixty million pounds, which was all the ships he had that met Leon's requirements.

In this era, the displacement is generally not calculated, and the net load is the maximum loading weight of the ship, that is, the cargo capacity after subtracting personnel, fresh water, necessary consumables and the weight of the ship itself when it is fully loaded.

Vidis ships come from a variety of sources and sizes, and if measured by displacement, they should have a full load displacement of between three hundred and eight hundred tons - more than three hundred tons would be considered a large ship in this era.

Leon offered Vidis in exchange that the actual net load capacity of the ship would be equal to the weight of the grain that could be exchanged.

That is to say, how much grain can be transported by the ship at one time in actual operation, how much grain can be exchanged by the ship.

But Leon only accepted ships with a carrying capacity of more than half a million pounds - almost equivalent to a displacement of three hundred tons.

The quid pro quo was certainly very generous, and it was an extremely cost-effective way for Vidis to be able to haul away 60 million pounds of grain at once, saving enough money to keep the famine-stricken Fieldsway alive until the next harvest.

However, the manufacture of sea ships is very troublesome and the cycle is particularly long, so when it comes to actual value, Li Ang has taken a big advantage.

And, Leon was sure that in the next harvest season, Fieldsway would have to find himself to buy grain—the grain Leon brought could not be used as growing grain, because it was all flour and corn flour......

Leon was a kind businessman, and he was exempted from Fieldsway for processing, which saved King Vidis a lot of trouble - such a large amount, it was really not easy to grind it, and all the mills in the entire Neopander Empire were mobilized, and they worked overtime for more than half a month, and finally they were able to grind 60 million pounds of grain into powder......

But what will Vidis do in the winter half a year later?

Farming?

He didn't have that much to eat, and it was already June.

In addition, the people on the west coast are not good at farming, and about half of the population lives in seaside towns, and the land along the coast is really not suitable for growing food......

In addition, Leon will 'help Vidis' bring Fieldsway's food prices back to a low price similar to that of Long River City—providing so much food at once is just to bring the price down quickly."

Keeping food prices down is good governance and the only way to save Fieldsway's economy as a whole, and Vidis knows it.

But this kind of good governance means that unless it is planted on a large scale like the one around Lion City, there is a high probability that ordinary farmers will lose money when growing food alone—Fields Miles can't buy surplus grain directly from farmers at a parity like Leon, and their taxes and rules are really hard to describe, and the lords are all pirates and smugglers......

In other words, it is really not certain whether you can fill your stomach when you farm in Fieldsway, and your income will inevitably not be able to catch up with other industries anyway, unless you have a large area of farm.

In addition, in the past few months, the Fields have been migrating to the Lion Realm in large numbers, especially the farmers in the eastern part of the Fieldsway......

Therefore, in half a year, Vidis will definitely have to trade with Leon, otherwise most of the Fields will all go to the territory of the New Pander Empire to beg for a living.

However, Leon only needs a big ship and seafood......

If nothing else, the city will soon be transformed into a large shipyard and aquaculture base...... And the ultimate boss of these industries may be Leslie - or Leon.

After all, Leslie had already bought almost all of the properties in Mist Cage City.

Vidis' best way out is probably to become a second-tier dealer in reselling grain, a Fields agent of Griffin Grains and Oils......

His best friends and his elite family are all in the hands of Li Ang, what can Vidis do?

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In mid-June, Gregory, the king of the Raven Kingdom, and Ursula, the queen of the Falcon Kingdom, signed a truce in Cragy Bay, and the Raven Realm was fairly divided into two.

The troops of these two countries were also quickly reorganized into two corps.

The Ninth Legion is the army of the Raven Kingdom, the commander is the Duke Adarian, the lord of the Fallen Bay, the Duke Alexis is the lieutenant of the legion, and the legion is under the Dragon Knights - Leon deliberately arranged this, Adarian supports Gregory, and Alexis supports Ursula......

The Tenth Legion is the Falcon Kingdom's troops, led by Wren, the leader of the Falcon Knights, and the deputy commander is Duke Andelmar, the lord of Dawn Furnace City, and the Legion is under the Falcon Knights—it is still deliberately arranged, Wren is Ursula's hardcore, and Under Armour is a diehard Gregory......

In fact, even the territory of the Raven Realm was deliberately divided by Leon - the Dragon Knights are loyal to Gregory, and their base is in Changge Harbor, but Changge Harbor currently belongs to Ursula's 'Falcon Kingdom', and Under Armour, the Lord of Dawn Furnace, is loyal to Gregory, but Dawn Furnace City is currently part of Ursula's Falcon Kingdom......

Of course, Raven City belongs to the Raven Kingdom, but at present, Raven City is actually occupied by Ursula's number one horse, Rennes......

Makes the Lord of Falling Bay Adarian a neutral faction, and the two are not in harmony, but his territory is designated as the Raven Kingdom, and his territory is larger than that of King Gregory......

It seems that Leon is very fair to divide the Raven Realm into two halves, with the siblings taking half each, but in fact, this is not the case at all.

After the two siblings were divided into two kingdoms according to Leon's distribution method, it was actually difficult for them to command their high lords - and they had to fight with their men.

It's not easy to get your subordinates to exchange the ownership of the territory, there are too many entanglements of interests, who doesn't have any property in their own territory?

In this kind of situation where you have me and I have you, Ursula and Gregory really don't know how to deal with it.

However, Leon told them to stop fighting immediately, and they had no choice but to cease fighting......

Leon told them to send troops to join the peacekeepers, and they could only send them - and then Leon got all the people involved in territorial entanglements into the peacekeepers, and it would be difficult for Gregory and Ursula to think of a way to deal with it......

Why did Leon do this?

Why else, Leon is not a good man, he is a businessman...... No handling fee is allowed to mediate disputes?

Both the Raven Kingdom and the Falcon Kingdom are now in the same awkward situation - several lords who have joined the peacekeeping force have more military power than the king, but they themselves are not in the territory, and the territory may be held hostage by the king.

This is the first line of checks and balances;

At the same time, the commanders of the two legions will be limited by the adjutants, which forms a second counterbalance;

Coupled with the fact that these lords all have territorial disputes with each other, this is the third line of checks and balances......

They are destined to run around in the peacekeeping force, and it is difficult to discuss a solution to the problem with their own king, and the troops that are completely loyal to Leon or his wife account for more than seventy percent of the peacekeeping force - that is, if they enter the peacekeeping force, they can only listen to Leon......

So, it's hard to say who has the final say in the Raven Realm......

After a while, these big lords who have joined the peacekeeping force should be able to react, and the only person who can protect their interests seems to be neither Gregory nor Ursula......