About half an hour later, in the study of the lord's room, Rand and Caterina Lyncat looked at each other.

As the queen mother of the forest cat tribe, Caterina came in person, although it caught Lan off guard, but her reason was very high-sounding: she came to negotiate peace with Lan on behalf of the entire forest cat tribe in 3 cities and more than 20 dependents.

In Caterina's words, the negotiation is to ensure that the intentions reached between the gods and Rand can be broken down into items that can be executed, and then made public when the formal negotiations are held in the future.

At this moment, Rand and the big cat are sitting on both sides of a desk, even if they are said by the Demon Tiger and Honey in turn, Rand's eyes are still full of evil fire, after all, he has been in this world for a long time, from the leader of the barbarian tribe to the spirit of the earth, he has been deceived by a woman who looks like a cat.

"Your god has finished talking to me," Rand said angrily, "what are you talking about when you come here yourself?" Hurry back to your tribe! ”

"Hey, Lante, don't you be so ruthless, you brought the slave family back in the first place, have you forgotten?"

Caterina smiled and jumped onto the table, slumped herself down on the desk, and teased Rant's chin with her big fluffy tail.

"If I were you, I wouldn't be so close to me in the future, once you can speak human words, there will be more unpleasant looks at you in this castle."

"That's okay, those girls can't even eat Honey's vinegar, will they eat a cat's vinegar?" Caterina was very clear about her position, so she simply leaned her face in front of Rand, rubbing her face against Rand's shoulder like a demonic tiger, "Besides, you don't treat the slave family as a human being." ”

"You're right!" Rand got up, grabbed the back of the big cat's neck with his right hand, and put her back on the seat, "Since you represent your own tribe, give me serious negotiations, I can be kind to a cat, and I can negotiate with an opponent, but I won't be kind to an opponent who pretends to be a cat."

"Meow meow~" Caterina who was pressed on the chair was a little crying and laughing, and simply said, "Okay, let's negotiate first, and then talk about the relationship, I haven't seen my son for a long time, and I still want to see my son after talking to you!" ”

Caterina took out a map from a spatial ring, on which the approximate dividing line had been marked, and the remaining human races, elves and barbarians in the various tribes of forest cats and scorched wolves, the specialties and production of various cities, and even the more than twenty waterways of the finless porpoise river tribe were also clearly marked.

"My lord, I came to talk to you about the details today, after all, according to your request, the original members of the Galloping Horse family can choose again according to their wishes, whether to stay in the Hindukr Basin or return to the Galloping Plain, which will definitely cause a large-scale depression in the entire basin."

"Don't worry, I can exchange slaves with you at a ratio of 1:1, and I can set up a training base in each of your two territories, so that the people of the Galloping Horse family can train slaves first."

The slaves that Rand refers to are the follow-up "Southern Specialties" business of Mr. Antler and Mr. White Wolf, and slaves are abundant in all the southern territories of the empire, and all of these slaves rely on the subsidized grain of the Department of Agriculture to survive;

Failure to accept these slaves would result in nearly 100,000 demonless slaves starving;

If Rand takes them into his territory, it will greatly reduce the probability of bloodline activation in the territory.

So in yesterday's negotiations, Rand has reached an agreement with a cat and a wolf to exchange these slaves for the Galloping Horse family in the basin, anyway, what the scorched wolf and the forest cat really need are miners and serfs, and there are too many demon owners in the Galloping Horse family, which will make them feel pressure.

Caterina looked at Rand and said with a smile: "Of course, I very much agree with your plan, or I didn't expect you to be so flexible, tolerant of the large-scale slave trade, and merciful to these slaves. ”

"What then? I don't want to see them starve to death, nor do I want them to disrupt the development plans within the territory, but to let them go to places where they can make better use of their workforce. ”

"Oh, what you just said is really like those emissaries from the royal court," Caterina laughed, "obviously calculating in his heart, but he is high-sounding in his mouth. ”

"Really? I thought only the bureaucrats of the Human Empire were like this! Rand laughed to himself.

"But Lord Rand, although your plan is very good, it is not easy to make nearly 100,000 natural slaves become serfs and miners, it will take months or even years of education and training, and it is impossible for these slaves of yours to arrive in a month, so the whole exchange program, I'm afraid, will take several years to completely end."

Hearing this, Rand probably came out with Katerina's meaning, but still deliberately asked, "What do you want to express?" ”

"What I want to say is that such a huge project, if it weren't for our forest cat and scorched wolf tribe, it would definitely not be able to be executed very well, so if you really want to bring all the 100,000 people in the basin back to the plain, you have to ensure that we and the scorched wolf tribe can be the leaders of the basin for a long time."

Sure enough, these guys colluded with Rand, a human nobleman, to make their tribe the leader of the basin.

Rand smiled and said, "So that's what you're here for, right?" You want to use me, a human lord, to interfere with the competition within your orc tribe? ”

"Hey, don't say it so ugly, the Human Empire calls this 'control', besides, if it's not for our forest cat tribe, where would you find a leader who can be as familiar with you and understand you as I am?"

Caterina was about to run to the table again as she spoke, but was held down by Rand.

"Negotiation is negotiation," Rand didn't have any expression on his face, "I can guarantee your status in the Basin, but it's impossible to send troops to protect you, let alone keep the Demon Tiger there permanently." ”

"Hey~" The big cat was just about to say something, but he listened to Rand continue.

"However, I can give you a trick, you are about to have nearly 100,000 human slaves, can't you change the management method, select your own cronies from among them, and give them better treatment than in the empire, then they ......"

"Ahh See, only the forest cat is the protector of the Terrans of the Basin," the big cat smiled, "but I'm afraid your solution will make us pay more food and potions!" ”

"Not necessarily, it takes a lot of money to train a qualified miner and medicine farmer," Rand took out a list between words, "Their longer life and healthier life means longer working hours, and lower labor costs will only be more beneficial to you." ”

"Oh, my lord, you are such a good lord!" Caterina complimented heartily.

"You're also a master negotiator! Mrs. Caterina. ”