King Roger was a resolute man with a very strong military style, and immediately after the meeting, he sent an envoy to the north to negotiate with Richard, wanting to exchange resources with the Harland family.

Although the lion bird is precious, it may not be impossible to exchange in Richard's heart.

Because of the difficulty in the formation and training of the Lion Cavalry, it is difficult to form combat effectiveness in a short period of time.

Although Richard can rely on the magic contract to force the lion to take to the skies to fight.

However, the lion is also a intelligent creature with a high IQ, as long as it flies into the air and is not controlled by a knight, the lion bird will not have subjective initiative, and when it encounters a harpy, it usually chooses to avoid the battle.

I'm afraid that only near the camp, Richard will cope with it a little.

It often takes five to ten years to domesticate wild lions, train a team of lions and cavalry, and truly form combat effectiveness.

The Grant family holds the power of a kingdom and has a lot of precious resources in their hands, if the royal family is willing to take it out, the bottom line in Richard's heart is to give up half of the lion bird and exchange it with the royal family.

The royal envoy came to the north and first met Richard's father, William.

William had a lot of connections with the Northern Legion, and through the nobles of the royal capital, he had already found out the background of the envoy Morris. Then a messenger was sent and the information was handed over to Richard.

When Hayden received the information, he immediately reported it to Richard and gave him a secret letter written by William.

"The royal envoy to the north is named Maurice Allen, who is the brother-in-law of King Roger and the brother of the Marquis Allen. Because of this relationship, Maurice Allen has a high level of authority and greater autonomy, and does not need to report major and small matters to the royal capital, and many issues in the negotiation process can be decided by himself.

This person is not shallow, although his father has been tempted, but the envoy has not leaked his mouth in Heihe Fort, and the bottom line of the royal family still needs us to negotiate and test. Hayden gave Morris a background briefing and looked at Richard with a blank face, waiting for him to make his final decision.

"What do you think?"

Hayden said decisively: "I think we should exchange some resources with the royal capital, especially the breathing method practiced by the soldiers in the territory, and it is best to complete it this time."

The great nobles of the Grant Kingdom have at least a complete set of breathing methods in their hands. And the breathing method that our family has mastered is still incomplete.

Jennings will be promoted to the fifth rank in a few years, and when he is promoted, will he join the Silver Wolf Legion for the sake of his future? Even if we could restrict his personal liberty and ask him to sign a long-term service contract for twenty or thirty years of service to the territory. But will he have a complaint in his heart? Incomplete breathing is not conducive to our recruitment of excellent talents.

Now it seems that even if the breathing method is not complete, the impact on the territory is not very large, and in another ten or twenty years, this problem will be very troublesome. ”

After listening to Hayden's answer, Richard nodded with satisfaction and said, "You have considered it well, it seems that your work has been tempered in recent years, and your thinking has matured a lot." Intelligence work is often exposed to the dark side, which has a great impact on people's personalities, and this work is not suitable for a long time. You have a plan in mind, and I may have a plan to change people in the next year or two. ”

Although Hayden is Richard's elder brother, the brothers have been Richard's idea since they were young. Although Richard would notify Hayden in advance of Hayden's appointment and ask for his opinion, he would not be swayed by Hayden's opinion.

The relationship between the two of them is now not only between the elder brother and the younger brother, but also between the lord and the territorial officer, and the difference between the top and bottom is very obvious.

Because of the cruel environment, the tradition of northern Xinjiang has always been that the capable are superior and the inferior, and do not pay much attention to the difference between the old and the young.

Hayden adapted to this from an early age and developed the habit of following Richard's orders.

"Who are you going to appoint as the new intelligence officer of the realm?"

"I haven't thought about it yet, but I'm going to split the intelligence system and divide it into three aspects: military intelligence, internal intelligence, and external intelligence. Ruiz, Luciano, and others were promoted, and George was appointed intelligence adjutant. ”

Hearing this, Hayden said with some hesitation: "Richard, my father didn't plan George's future like this, he was going to send George to the royal capital as a civil official. ”

Although William did not publicly say his plans for his son at the family meeting, everyone has understood William's thoughts for so many years.

Naturally, William's domain will be handed over to Richard to inherit, after all, this territory Richard has put a lot of effort into it.

Fort William is now the core territory of the Haaland family, and if this territory is handed over to someone else, Richard will definitely not give up.

Richard was not a good-natured person, and his prestige in the realm was skyrocketing, and if William made a stupid decision, the Haaland family would immediately break out into human tragedy and cannibalism.

Hayden, Wendy and Richard have a very close relationship, and of course they will follow Richard in Haaland's territory.

The sons of Lady Ola, William intends to train them to be merchants, scholars, and officials of the royal capital, so that they can stay away from right and wrong and avoid threatening Richard's succession.

As for Ron, because he is the son of William's first love, and Barron died in battle, the real feelings may be deeper. I'm afraid William wants to get a second fief and let Ron inherit the title and become a hereditary baron.

"George, I have considerations in their development, the intelligence system needs to have members of the Haaland family, and I will talk to my father about this matter alone."

"George is only seventeen years old, and he has little experience, and he may not be able to meet your requirements to supervise and balance intelligence officers."

After listening to Hayden's words, Richard muttered slightly: "Over the years, in my own experience, ability is relatively secondary, and opportunity is more important. You're only nineteen years old when you're in charge of intelligence work, and if you don't have William's blood, you wouldn't be able to do the job at all. But judging from the results later, there is no problem with you in presiding over the intelligence work.

As long as George is given a chance, his ability can be slowly improved, after all, George has received a complete education, he has been practicing the breathing method for two years, and has been promoted to a high-level warrior student, his talent follows our father, and he can be compared with me and the third uncle in the cultivation of the breathing method. ”

"My situation is different from George, when I was in charge of intelligence work, there were not many people in the territory, and the intelligence work was not very troublesome, but now the Haaland family has a population of more than 200,000 people, an area of more than 18,000 square kilometers, and more than ten castles, and the work is complicated, far more complicated and troublesome than at the beginning."

"Maybe you're right, I didn't plan to promote George to a high position all at once. He may first act as your aide-de-camp to assist you in managing your intelligence efforts, which is about two to three years. ”

"Since I talked about intelligence work today, I am going to recommend to you a talent in intelligence, this person is named Vitas."

Before Hayden's words could fall, he was hurriedly interrupted by Richard.

"Who are you talking about, Vitas, isn't this man the intelligence officer of the Cisse family?"

"Do you even remember Vitas?"

"You know, I have a very strong memory, not to mention the fact that we dealt with this guy a few years ago. Back then, Vitas also caused us a lot of trouble, and even Ruiz, the current intelligence backbone of the territory, was a person inserted by Vitas. “

Hearing this, Hayden laughed and said, "Vitas never expected that Ruiz would choose to defect because we cured his appendicitis, no, it should be on the side of justice." ”

"Between us and the Cisse family, it can't be said to be justice."

"The victor is not condemned, and the victor is always just. Because the victor writes history, and the loser can only invent history. “

Hayden's words immediately made Richard burst into laughter and confused Hayden. He really didn't know what was funny about his words, it was just a true testimonial of his own.

Richard laughed and coughed violently, and Hayden's words made his mind go back to more than twenty years ago.

At that time, Richard was still in college on Earth, and he liked to mingle with major military history forums every day. At that time, there were countless fruit fans, and the well-known big V was rampant in various forums.

In his previous life, Richard liked to read miscellaneous books and had some understanding of the history of the Republic of China, and in a quarrel with a fruit fan, he said the same classic quote as Hayden.

This sentence suddenly became a classic quote of the forum.

Richard held back his cough vigorously, put away his memories, and saw Hayden looking at him confused, and explained a few words: "It's nothing, your words reminded me of a funny thing I encountered when I was studying." Could it be that Vitas came to us because he was implicated in the internal struggle of the Cisse family? ”

"Yes, Vitas is a close confidant of the previous Cisse family patriarch Boy, after this Cisse Baron Davy took office, he wanted to hold the Cisse family accountable for the failure, Vitas was used as a scapegoat by Boy, or relied on our strength to escape from the Cisse family's prison."

"Will Vitas deceive us into trusting us by harming his own flesh?"

Intelligence work has always been done in an all-encompassing manner.

Hayden's own feeling was to believe Vitas, but Richard's words made him fall into a long silence.

This is because to do intelligence work, you need to have a heart that doubts everything, and you must always look at problems objectively.

"Maybe, maybe it's possible."

It was a long time before Hayden answered Richard's question with some certainty.

"Although Vitas is a talent, it is not cultivated by us, this person can be used, but not reused. He could be put in charge of a part of the external intelligence and be based at Fort William.

How to use this person and grasp the scale is your business. ”

The two talked for a long time, involving all aspects of the territory, and after eating together at noon, Richard sent Hayden away.

A few days later, the royal envoy came to the territory, and Richard did not dare to slack off, and very politely entertained Maurice Allen.

Morris took his retinue and went around Haaland's territory for a few days.

Although Richard was reluctant to let him investigate the reality of the territory, Morris's special status made Richard unable to restrict the freedom of others, let alone drive away the king's envoys.

However, Richard still forbade him to visit factories and mines, schools, research institutes, mage towers, hospitals and other places involving secrecy, even if Morris was a little dissatisfied, but Richard would not easily change his determination.

After a few days of rotation in Haaland's territory, he secretly estimated the strength of Haaland's territory. Morris was also a little secretly frightened by the speed of development of Haaland's territory.

According to Morris's observations, the strength of the Haaland family is now comparable to that of a weaker county.

It often takes several generations for a family to become an earl. The promotion of the Grant family from baron to earl also took four generations and more than one hundred and sixty years. Then through the struggle of the eleventh count, he became the duke of the Venus Kingdom, and finally the sixth duke seized the opportunity to overthrow the rule of the Venus Kingdom.

From baron to king, it took the Grant family a thousand years.

In just over ten years, the Haaland family has been able to develop to this point, and Richard's ability must be far beyond ordinary people.

There are also some such people in the history of the Dawn Plane, which are often recorded in history books and are legendary figures.

Richard's performance surpassed that of the ancestors of the Grant family. Morris is also a little jealous of such a person, and he is not willing to offend the people of the Haaland family and make trouble for himself.

In the past few days, Morris has also seen the lion bird with his own eyes, and obtaining the lion bird is his main task, he found Richard and said straight to the point: "Viscount Richard, can I take the liberty of asking, how many lion birds have you caught?" ”

Richard made a pot of elf black tea and poured a cup for Maurice.

Morris did not put on the royal capital aristocratic shelf, and thanked him very politely.

"There are nineteen lions in total, of which thirteen are already adults and six are sub-adults."

Hearing Richard's answer, Morris nodded and thought secretly: "Nineteen lions are already a complete population, as long as you are willing to spend a certain amount of time and continue to invest resources, relying on this group of lions can breed an army of lions." ”

"Viscount Richard, you must have guessed my intention, these nineteen lions, do you have any plans to trade with the royal capital?"

Richard took a sip of tea, moistened his throat and said, "How is Wang Du going to trade?" ”

"Normally, the price of a lion is around 5,000 gold coins, but a group of lion birds will be much more expensive. I'll give you the bottom here, the royal family is ready to double the premium, which can be exchanged for various resources such as breathing methods, Radiant Elixirs, gold coins, magic crystals, enchanted equipment, and magical knowledge. ”

Listening to Morris's conditions, Richard secretly calculated: "The conditions given by the royal capital are quite fair, if you give up ten lions, you can exchange resources for about 100,000 gold coins." However, the price of a complete set of breathing methods is equivalent to 100,000 gold coins, and ten lions can only exchange for one set of breathing methods, which is too much of a loss. ”

The military merit system of the Grant Kingdom, a miraculous skill can be exchanged for a barony, and the complete breathing method can be exchanged, which adds up to about one miraculous skill. The breathing method exchanged in the army also had to sign a royal contract, and it could not be taught to others in the first generation, which limited the speed of the breathing method.

Ordinary barons and nobles basically do not have a complete breathing method, and it is very rare to be able to exchange it for the tenth layer and cultivate to the seventh order.

(End of chapter)