Bang!

Lothar slammed Hans's iron-gloved palm onto the table, and the force was so great that even the table board cracked instantly.

Hans exclaimed, "Your Excellency. ”

The two wrestled their wrists, and the result was a complete victory for Lothar!

"You kid."

Lothar smiled, now his basic attributes have finally caught up, without the blessing of the Blood Waterfall, he is not far from Hans, basically at the same level.

If it is consumed, the outcome is unknown.

Hans still released the water.

He said with a serious face: "My lord, I really didn't release water this time." ”

Lothar rolled her eyes and said in her heart, the properties on the system panel are all here, I can see it clearly.

Veneto, who was silently wiping the weapon in his hand, muttered in a low voice, this dog's leg really lost the face of our wolf clan.

At this time, Lothar suddenly felt a heat in her chest, took out her coat of arms, and Anna's charming voice came from the opposite side: "I heard that you fought a good battle, have you considered selling me the materials on that Karelian fire dragon?" ”

"Nonsense, don't sell it to you, I don't have the rest of the channels."

"Okay, then I'll take time out to go to Jerusalem in two days."

Lothar let out an "um" and asked, "How are you guys fighting in Sicily?" ”

Anna was obviously in a good mood, and said with a smile: "Your emperor has made great efforts this time, and the army sent has besieged Napoli and contained a large number of enemy troops, and we took the opportunity to land in Sicily, and the progress is quite smooth. ”

Lothar thought to herself, too, if you want to turn your face, it will have to be time to share the spoils, and now the two sides should still be in the honeymoon period.

The two exchanged a few more words before hanging up the communication.

"Okay, another sum of money is coming, and the military expenses of the army are settled."

He paused slightly, and then said: "Curs, I will trouble you in the next period, I want a topographic map of all important locations in the Sinai Peninsula, the distribution of the defenders of the enemy's fortresses, and the division of local power factions in Egypt. ”

Taking the initiative is very different from passive defense.

Especially in a place like the Sinai Peninsula, where water is extremely scarce, it is very important to gather intelligence in advance and plan the route of the march.

Coors bowed slightly: "I will instruct the 'Dark Shadow' to start investigating immediately." ”

"I'm not going to eat in the camp for dinner tonight, I'll have to meet with the Knights and discuss some loans."

At this time, there were a large number of usury bans on the European continent, but they could not prevent the usury industry from flourishing in places like the Apennine Peninsula, where trade was developed, and some usury even reached a terrifying annual interest rate of more than 40 percent.

If the big nobles borrowed money for the sake of war, the interest rate could even soar to one hundred percent!

Because the collateral borrowed by these nobles was often their own estates and estates, or even land under the control of the enemy—once defeated, the lenders did not have the ability to collect debts from the sword-wielding enemy.

If you win, you have to be careful that the big nobles turn their faces and don't recognize people, and solve the creditor with their backhand, this kind of thing has not happened.

The risk is high, and the interest rate will naturally be high.

The Order is also a religious organization, and it is impossible to be as ugly as those merchants.

Interest rates are not expected to be too high.

After all, "money is the death of the soul and the bridge to hell", and the Grand Master Gerald and Roger are both decent and not like Jewish businessmen.

To be honest, Lothar is also very interested in the banking industry that the Knights hold in their hands, but Lothar does not have the unique conditions for these two.

On the one hand, the Knights have thousands of manors scattered across the continent, which means that the Knights' branches can easily reach all corners of the continent; On the other hand, the Order also has the credibility of the Church.

In addition, the main business of the Knights is not to lend money to merchants, but to those pilgrims, and the Knights, who have strong power in the Holy Land, naturally become a giant in the banking industry, which is a two-way choice.

After all, in this age of rampant banditry, it was obvious that it was safer to carry a bag of gold coins and hide a voucher exchanged at the Knights' branch to set off on a pilgrimage.

In the evening, Lothar met with the two Grand Master in the Knights Templar's camp.

"Good night, Grand Master Gerald, Grand Master Roger."

Lothar stepped into the tent and saluted the two Knights' Captains, seemingly unaware of Gerald's offense to him.

Both of them also stood up and drew crosses on their chests: "God bless you, Marquis of Lothar." ”

"Two Grand Masters, I must have already talked to you about my visit."

Roger couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Lord Lothar, the head of the Holy Treasury under your command is really a talent. ”

Thinking of the Curles, who was more difficult than vampires and Jews, Roger and Gerald couldn't help but have a headache.

Lothar smiled and said: "Indeed, I also think that his statement that he wants you to donate 100,000 Souledes for free is too much, although the conquest of Egypt and the emancipation of Christians is the most sacred cause in the world, but the operation of the knights in all aspects also needs money to support, so how about this number be reduced to 50,000?" ”

The two Grand Masters looked at each other and couldn't help but roll their eyes.

Shameless together, the two of you are in the same vein.

Gerald coughed lightly: "Lord Marquis, it is our well-deserved obligation to donate money for the holy crusade cause, but the Holy Treasury of the Jerusalem Branch does not have so much money for the time being. ”

"How many?"

Lothar's eyes are shining, and she really has a lot of love!

Gerald was silent for a moment, then gestured: "Thirty thousand gold coins, but I hope to take the head of that demon dragon and put it in the temple of the Knights' headquarters as a holy relic for people to see." ”

Lothar immediately looked bitter: "I'm afraid this won't work, the purple-clothed princess of the empire, my dear friend, Her Royal Highness Anna Ducasse has agreed with me to exchange 200,000 gold coins for the remains of this demon dragon. ”

"The two of you don't know, this dragon is a unique high-level fire dragon in the Karelia region, up and down, even a scale is a great treasure, dragon blood, dragon meat is also a valuable potion material, two of you, imagine if the dragon scales of this fire dragon are made into scale armor, how amazing the defense will be?"

The two Grand Masters were a little dazed by Lothar's fools.

"That's true."

The body of this giant dragon is so big, those scales can at least make hundreds of sets of scale armor, hundreds of invulnerable iron horsemen, even if Saladin attacks again, they will have to be beaten to the head, right?

Plus those potion materials such as dragon blood and dragon meat, dragon tendon and dragon bones.

200,000, it seems to be worth it!

To tell the truth, Lothar is bullying these two people who don't know how to do it, and the tyrannical dragon is also an upper-average dragon species, and a heart that condenses the essence of the whole body is exchanged for five thousand gold coins plus a set of magic books, which is still in Anna's hands.

If you don't have a channel, you can only use it as an ornament that can be used as a warmer in winter, and you have to worry that one day, you will be swallowed by the tyrannical dragon that suddenly bursts out of the shell inside.

As for the dragon's blood of the Karelian fire dragon, it is actually abolished.

It's the same with dragon meat.

Once this thing cools, it will solidify as quickly as lava and turn into stone, and the dragon blood that Lothar absorbs can be regarded as waste.

As for using the dragon scales of the Karelian fire dragon to create dragon scale armor, the process is a big problem, even if it is a "god craftsman" like Marles, he can process a few sets at most in a month, and there is no play at all if he wants to become an army.

Dragon bones, dragon horns, etc. are good magic materials, but they are not worth 200,000 gold coins at all, and the whole dragon is sold to Anna, and it will be 50,000 gold coins to go to heaven if it is survived, which is still Anna's conscience.