The arrival of Viscount Sim in person was originally a very important event, but Richard was completely dazed by the matter of Io and Quicksand in the past few days, so that he ignored such an important signal. Bayi Chinese Network e^ can be remembered by watching genius in only 3 seconds

But on the other hand, Richard really didn't take Sim to heart. After severely inflicting a blow on the army of the Duke of Lasbourg, unless the Duke is determined to eradicate Richard and raise up his army, Richard has proved with reality that he cannot do anything with that level of force.

If the Duke really sent out a large army regardless of a qiē, then Richard wouldn't mind going around in circles with him for months in the Bloodstained Lands. And he was equally confident that the Duke's enemies would be glad to see an opportunity.

However, at this time, Richard nodded to Sim as if he had a tacit understanding, and then swept his gaze to the rest of the noble representatives, and said, "Anyone else who wants to join the coalition army, or has a better way to build a better army, or simply quits, can say." ”

With the example of Viscount Sim, several representatives of the nobility hesitated to join the coalition, and soon, Richard realized that he would have a thousand knights and more than 5,000 infantry. And that's not even counting his own troops. This situation, to be honest, was much more than Richard expected, and he really didn't expect the influence and appeal of Viscount Sim among the nobles. Maybe Sim himself is nothing, but he has a large family behind him. When people think about everything Sim says, the first thing they have to think about is who he represents.

A middle-aged nobleman coughed and asked, "Your Excellency Richard, if we don't join the coalition, I don't know what the consequences will be?"

Richard shrugged his shoulders and said, "There are no consequences." It's just that the family that doesn't join the coalition will have the same trouble in the bloodstained land in the future as before. ”

The middle-aged nobleman looked vigilant and asked, "Trouble? What trouble? After your plan succeeds, didn't you say that you will open a safe passage in the bloodstained land?"

Richard said, "That passage is indeed safe, but only for the families who join the coalition. ~”

"What do you mean?" the middle-aged nobleman's eyes sharpened. Behind him is a powerful earl, who has always been respected and flattered in the social circle of the nobility.

"A bloodstained land can be safe and dangerous. Richard patiently commented, though his light smile was dangerous: "The caravans of the Red Cossacks, for example, have been in trouble one after another recently. For them, the Bloodstained Lands were too dangerous.

The middle-aged arist's face became very ugly, he snorted, and sat down slowly.

Richard's meaning is very clear, that is, he doesn't want to join the coalition, but in the future, the power of this family only needs to enter the bloodstained land to be attacked. It didn't matter where the attack came from, it was only a matter of minutes before a pioneer knight like Richard could rise up in the Bloodstained Lands and his army would become bandits.

Nor is this a rule-breaker to the point where it cannot be considered a threat. Because since it is not aligned, Richard has no obligation to them. Rights and obligations are always only corresponding.

Knowing the rules of the game, the nobles present began to express their intention to join the coalition one after another. Richard soon had fifteen hundred knights at his disposal, and the infantry numbered as many as 10,000!

The Crossing Line plan needed elite troops with sufficient mobility capabilities, not a large and mediocre army.

Watching the representatives of the nobility gradually become more active, Richard was not happy at all. He glared fiercely at Viscount Sim, but the white, more rounded Viscount immediately replied with a smile that even had some flattery, which made Richard laugh and cry.

Richard's original plan was indeed to open the passage to the bloodstained land. But it doesn't need so many troops, and it doesn't need so much family support. In fact, without the support of any nobles, with the strength and alliance base that Richard now has, as well as the existence of the brood, he can ** open the way to the Dwarven Empire, but it will take a little longer. And in the later stage when the benefits began to gradually appear, it was necessary to guard against threats from the rear, after all, on the surface, Richard was currently a small lord of the Sequoia Kingdom.

The reason why he wanted to convene all the nobles involved to discuss it was actually for the future, and after this meeting, Richard was tantamount to declaring the legitimacy of freely expanding the bloodstained lands, and laying the groundwork for his future monopoly of the trade routes in the bloodstained lands.

Such a big piece of cake, Richard actually wanted to swallow it alone.

But I didn't expect a Viscount Sim to suddenly appear! The Unicorn Viscount's attitude towards Richard not only changed completely, but also completely destroyed Richard's original plan in such a bizarre way.

Now, coalition forces are not an option.

Richard thought quickly, his wisdom and talent were in full swing, and he pondered the current situation.

In fact, there are also advantages to forming a coalition army, Richard can have a large number of more troops in his hands, and the plan to open up the bloodstained land will inevitably be much faster. On the other hand, if you think about it far-reaching, Richard is an alien invader, and any nobleman who has in-depth cooperation with him will inevitably be suspected of cooperating with the invader in the future.

Humans will compromise, but for the gods this is a matter of principle, and there is no room for the slightest concession!

So Richard and others have an extra group of natural allies, but they are still vague and ignorant.

After another afternoon of heated discussions, the longitudinal line plan finally took shape.

A total of six nobles withdrew from the plan, while the rest were willing to join the coalition and hand over command to Richard. The final size of the coalition army was 2,000 knights and 8,000 infantry. The total number of logistics troops organized by the various families amounted to 30,000.

The size of Richard's own army was nearly 3,000 men. However, in this time, Richard was only prepared to dispatch 1,500 men.

Once the plan is successful and the channel is opened, Richard will have a 25% interest. On the surface, the proportion of revenue did not match the strength of Richard's troops, but Viscount Chim was strongly supportive, and talked about the soul of the coalition army as the supreme commander.

Chim's enthusiastic support for Richard was seen by the other nobles as a sign of the attitude of the Highland unicorn family. Because the relationship between these two supposedly hostile lords looked too strange, the nobles at the meeting couldn't help but think of the Duke of Glasburg and the Duke of Blue Wolf standing behind the two sides, so they couldn't help but speculate repeatedly, and the opposition was not so powerful, and this distribution plan was finally determined.

Then came the nobles' favorite banquet, but everyone had no intention of attending, instead choosing to send the news back as soon as possible.

In the dead of night, Richard was alone in the war room, looking at the map of the Bloodstained Lands and began to calculate the success or failure of the plan.

If the plan is successful, the total income will reach the scale of tens of millions of gold coins, but the corresponding investment will also be huge. The military expenses and death benefits for the entire coalition army will amount to a staggering two million gold coins.

If the longitudinal line plan does not succeed, then military spending will rise sharply while the benefits will be zero. That's where the stakes lie.

The longitudinal line was an operation that Richard had originally planned to take a year to complete, relying on the huge benefits of traveling to and from Norland, as well as a steady stream of high-level fighters from the brood.

If the plan succeeds, Richard will not only gain a priceless trade route, but will also become one of the core powers of the Bloodstained Lands.

However, Richard's other purpose was to lay nails that were bound to be pulled out along the route of the longitudinal line.

His route was not chosen at random, and the places that were bound to be uprooted either had minerals that had not yet been fully exploited in Faro, such as the Micrite of the Earth Rift Canyon, such as the Fire Crystal Streak of the Black Flame Mountain, or they could obtain a large number of items with divine properties. Such as the Canovinson camp made up of more than a dozen large and small tribes, the ruins of Jubwal, the site of the legendary troll capital, and so on.

Minerals still need to be divided among the nobles, and those items with divinity, such as sacrificial statues and the like, are all great supplements that the brood needs. The brood stuck on the fifth order can no longer be promoted by mana crystals and eating alone, and its re-promotion requires the support of divinity. And these items, in the eyes of the nobles, even the priests of the temple, are waste that should be burned.

One by one, the trouble is how a priest like Quicksand can stand in front of the nobles. However, the Faro plane is very vast, and there are many gods, and how many true gods there are, that is the news that only gods with medium or higher divine power can know.

Over the course of thousands of years, there have been successive falls of gods and the birth of new gods. If we look at the history of the entire plane, then there is no mortal who knows how many true gods have been born in history. It is precisely because the divine system and the priesthood are the greatest secret that the talents of the gods, which record many elements of the divine power of the true gods, are so important that they are forbidden by the gods.

The true god may fall, or it may close the kingdom of God and fall into a temporary slumber, or it may even be reborn into a mortal with divine blood, hoping to rekindle the divine fire. Therefore, many new gods that have been born in the history of Faro are actually the resurrection of old gods.

The kingdom of God is so complex that it is impossible for a mortal clergy to grasp. Therefore, when two strange clerics encounter each other, the first thing they do is to test each other's divine skill level and divine power characteristics. This is a way to identify factions, such as the two ministers of the priesthood of deception and lie, which are likely to clash. And the gods of order and chaos are naturally opposites. However, as long as the gods are not naturally opposed or conflicting with the priesthood, the clergy under their command generally do not take conflict lightly. t