Rednor dragged the Divine Radiant Empire envoy for two days, and let Haraland make a plan in advance, and when the envoy came to the door, Richard had already thought of a way to deal with it, and his heart was no longer nervous, and he regained his calm.

Although Rednor said all the good things, he went against the will of the envoy, and after coming to Fort William, the envoy's face was not very happy.

The Divine Radiance Empire is the most powerful nation in the Dawn Plane, with a glorious history and a long heritage. It is rumored that the royal family of the Divine Radiant Empire is the bloodline descendant of the God of Radiance.

Despite the fact that the Divine Radiance Empire was thousands of miles away, Richard still showed the emissary the respect he deserved, and the welcoming ceremony was particularly solemn.

The Emissary's name is Rosen, a nobleman in the Holy Radiance Empire, and is the second in line to the throne of an earl.

The titles of the Divine Radiance Empire have always been superior, more valuable than the titles of the Middle Continent Kingdom, and generally speaking, the counts of the Divine Radiance Empire have a heavier status than the dukes of the Eastern Kingdoms.

But Rosen's status is not comparable to that of a powerful duke like Richard.

With the strength of the current Harland Lord, it is no less than a kingdom, although Richard did not wear a crown, his actual status is almost the same as that of a king, after all, in the Dawn position, it is to convince people with strength, even if it is placed in the Divine Radiance Empire, it is equivalent to a dukedom, and it is also the top of the food chain.

Richard's status is far more important than Rosen's.

Although there is a big difference in status, Rosen represents the Divine Radiant Empire, so he is basically equal to Richard in terms of etiquette.

After Lawson got down from the magic ship, he looked into the distance, and suddenly saw a long steel dragon outside the Black River Fort, and asked thoughtfully, "Is this the legendary railway?" ”

Seeing that the envoy had just gotten off the ship and asked about the railway, Richard nodded and said, "The envoy guessed correctly, it is indeed the railway." ”

After receiving Richard's affirmative reply, Rosen asked with great interest: "I heard that the railway led by Haaland is a strange magic prop, like a legendary golem, with great power, it can haul hundreds of tons of goods at a time, I don't know why there are no steam engines and locomotives on the railway line?" ”

In order to avoid being in the limelight, Richard notified the railway department in advance and asked the special envoy to return the steam locomotive to the factory for maintenance a few days later. lest the emissary of the Divine Radiance Empire see the locomotive with their own eyes, and then make a request that is not easy to refuse.

"The locomotive is very fragile and has been overhauled at the factory for some time."

Although Richard had secretly expressed his refusal, Rosen shook his head noncommittally and asked reluctantly: "Can you let me take a look at the locomotive manufacturing project, I want to see the magic locomotive with my own eyes." ”

"The locomotive manufacturing plant is a confidential unit and is not suitable for outsiders to visit." Richard waved his hand and decisively rejected Rosen's additional request.

There are many strange magical methods in the Dawn Plane, and Richard doesn't know much about the envoy, so he naturally doesn't want the envoy to visit the secret factory. Despite his abruptness, Richard resolutely rejected the emissary's temptation.

"Could it be that the emissaries of the Divine Radiance Empire also have places that cannot be entered?"

Before Richard could speak, Soros spoke directly: "If Your Excellency has a handwritten letter from Edward VII of the Holy Radiant Empire, for the sake of His Majesty the Emperor's face, of course you can enter the secret unit to visit." However, your weight is not enough, and we cannot accede to your request. ”

"Uncle is drunk, please don't be surprised." As if afraid that Soros would say something nasty, Richard hurriedly interrupted.

In fact, Richard and Soros already had a plan, one singing red face and the other white face. Everything that Richard was embarrassed to say was said through Soros's mouth.

Soros said something, and Rosen, who was suddenly angry, turned pale.

But in Harlan's territory, Rosen has no way to get back face. Soros looked like a powerful professional, and Lawson did not dare to risk throwing gloves at him and duel according to the rules of the nobility.

Rosen has no soldiers or generals under his command, and the only thing he relies on is the tiger skin of the Divine Radiance Empire. Relying on this tiger skin, the fox can fake the tiger and scare these wolf dogs in the Eastern Kingdom.

Although the Divine Radiance Empire is a ferocious tiger, it is too far away from Harland's territory after all.

The two sides are tens of thousands of miles apart, and even if the Divine Radiance Empire goes on an expedition, it can't send too many troops, and I'm afraid it won't be able to defeat Richard, a fierce dog that has grown up. Unless the Divine Radiance Empire can give up its interests in other directions and spend several years coordinating the interests of all parties, it will be able to organize a large-scale expedition to deal with Richard's distant adversary.

However, the Harland Leader and Richard did not violate the interests of the Divine Radiance Empire, nor did they find trouble with the Divine Radiance Empire, and they could not mobilize the people and give up a large number of interests to find trouble with the Divine Radiance Empire because they did not receive the envoys thoughtfully.

Once this tiger skin can't be frightened, Rosen has nothing to do with Haaland's territory. Seeing that Soros was so faceless, Richard spoke out again, and Rosen could only hold back his anger and press it back into his heart.

Although Rosen was very angry in his heart, he quickly controlled his emotions and did not say anything bad.

Rosen had been a regional envoy in the Kingdom of Lane for six or seven years, and had heard a lot of rumors about Richard.

After all, Richard has a history of insulting and abusing the messenger, and the Haaland family has a low reputation in the nearby kingdom, and it is rumored that they have barbarian blood, and Rosen does not dare to really offend Richard and cause trouble for himself.

Richard's courage has long been rumored, once he kills the messenger in a rage, even if the Divine Radiant Empire avenges Rosen in the future, Rosen will not be able to resurrect. As the saying goes, a good man doesn't suffer immediate losses, seeing that Richard and the high-level leaders of the Harland Leader are not afraid of the aura attached to the Divine Radiance Empire, Rosen already knows in his heart that it is difficult for the Harland Leader to agree to his additional conditions.

Because Richard didn't give face, Rosen put on a stinky face along the way, showing an expression that no one should enter.

For a while, the atmosphere became solemn, and the officials next to him did not dare to speak easily.

Although the envoy was unhappy and gave Richard a lot of looks, Haaland still did his best to serve the landlord and did a very thoughtful service. Even a banquet that is not usually held was held at the Duke's Palace, and Haaland was invited to lead the best song and dance troupe to perform.

After the feast, Richard also presented Rosen with a beautiful gift of magic items.

This gift took a lot of thought, including a mage robe, a magic pen, a fourth-order magic core, and a magic dagger, and this gift added up to more than one hundred and sixty magic crystals, which was a very generous gift among the nobles.

You must know that the annual salary of Soros, Jennings and other army commanders is about six hundred gold coins, plus subsidies, bonuses and other miscellaneous incomes, a regiment commander's annual salary income is only about seven or eight hundred gold coins.

However, when it comes to the rank of the legion commander, they are already hereditary nobles, and salary is not their main income.

In addition to the economic benefits of the territory, another important income of the corps commander is the income from commercial dividends.

For example, Jennings, who took a stake in the Odaye flour mill, received two or three thousand gold coins a year in dividends. In addition, Jennings also owns several shops in the most prosperous commercial street in Fort William, with an annual income of about four or five hundred rents, plus the income of five or six thousand gold coins from two baronies, Jennings's annual income is about nine thousand gold coins.

As the territory continued to develop, the income of the two barons' lands continued to increase, and Jennings's net income in a year was roughly equivalent to about sixty or seventy percent of the capitalists such as Odaye and Immorton.

In order to save the cost of raising soldiers, Jennings rewarded 100 acres of land and recruited a soldier, which was equivalent to paying 60,000 acres of land to maintain a standing army of 600 people.

Although Jennings served in the main army, and the aristocratic private army could only be managed by old subordinates and old comrades-in-arms, this aristocratic private army soldier owned a large area of land, and each soldier owned two or three serf households, and could earn twenty gold coins a year from agriculture.

If you have a high economic income, you can eat a lot of meat, which is very helpful for cultivating the breathing method, and in addition, you can have sufficient economic income, and you can also bring your own equipment and buy excellent armor and war horses. The 600 standing army under Jennings is equivalent to 600 landed squires, and although the combat effectiveness is not as good as that of the main army led by Haaland, it is also quite good.

The soldiers under Jennings are equivalent to the otherworldly version of the government soldiers, he sealed out 60,000 acres of land, occupying about two-fifths of the two baronies. It is only after victory that a small reward is issued.

An emerging aristocrat like Jennings only earns less than 10,000 gold coins a year, plus some expenses needed to maintain the territory, and the annual net income is about 8,000 gold coins.

Richard gave a gift, which is equivalent to one-fifth of Jennings's annual income, and sincerity is not insufficient.

After receiving the generous gift from the Haaland family, Rosen's attitude immediately changed greatly, and he thought in his heart: "It seems that the rumors are not reliable, and Richard of the Haaland family is not a barbarian who does not understand etiquette." Since he held a grand welcome banquet for me and gave me precious gifts, it seems that he is not unable to communicate. I don't need to find a way to suppress Lord Haaland. ”

Rosen came to Haaland, and he did come with a mission.

Of course, Lawson's mission is not for the railway and magic crystal charging technology, the main cities of the Divine Radiance Empire have established teleportation arrays, and materials can be transported through the teleportation array, although the cost of teleporting materials is relatively high, and a large amount of magic crystals need to be consumed, but the railway is a thing that the Divine Radiance Empire does not value.

In the eyes of the great nobles of the Divine Radiance Empire, the use of the magic energy steam engine to pull the train by the Harland Leader also consumes a large amount of magic crystals, which is not essentially different from the magic teleportation array. In fact, the vast majority of the railways operated by Haraland are steam locomotives, which consume only coal and use industrial technology.

The difference between industrial technology and magical technology has not yet been clarified by the Divine Radiance Empire.

The Divine Radiance Empire does not attach great importance to railway technology, while the Haaland Collar has the magic crystal charging technology and has not exposed it to the public. The rumors that occasionally came to light were only the suspicions of the hostile nobles of the three nearby countries, and the envoy of Rosen did not know about it, let alone find out the details.

Rosen came to Haraland's main mission to bring the crown to Richard's head, split the kingdom of Grant, and restore the balance of the region. His intention has already been guessed by Jennings, Soros and others.

The reason why the Divine Radiance Empire showed some impatience was mainly because the expansion rate of the Grant Kingdom in the last ten years was too terrifying.

Within ten years, the Grant Kingdom defeated the orcs in the north, and defeated the alliance of the East Coast and Delong in the south, and even the nearby powerhouse Ryan Kingdom, joined forces with the East Coast and Delong Kingdoms, and the Grant Kingdom was also unable to win.

With the addition of the Duke of Haaland, the Grant Kingdom now has 2.6 million square kilometers of land and a population of 54 million, almost the overlord of the northeastern region of the Central Continent.

If the Grant Kingdom annexes the three kingdoms of Lane, East Coast, and Delong, and then takes the Northern Prairie and Silver Wolf Mountain Ranges, it will form a powerful kingdom with an area of 7 million square kilometers, a population of more than 100 million, and a large number of magic wells.

At that time, even if other kingdoms in the southeast region join forces, it is estimated that it will be difficult to be the opponent of the Grant Kingdom.

Once the Grant Kingdom is allowed to eat the eastern countries, the power will soon change qualitatively, and when the time comes, there will be a powerful opponent in the eastern part of the continent in the Dawn Plane to challenge the Divine Radiance Empire.

The Divine Radiance Empire has implemented a policy of regional balance for three thousand years, and of course does not want to see a great power rise that threatens its own interests.

The growth of the Magic Kingdom in the southwest region has caused the Divine Radiance Empire to share a lot of energy and suffer a lot. The situation in the east, the Divine Radiance Empire is naturally unwilling to develop to this point.

Therefore, as long as there are signs, the Divine Radiance Empire will intervene and take precautions. Separating the Haaland family from the Kingdom of Grant is the top priority of Envoy Rosen's current mission.

Haaland's army is strong, but the population is insufficient, the land is vast and sparsely populated, and it takes a long time to develop, and the Kingdom of Grant has lost the elite soldiers of Harland's lord Richard, and its national strength is also greatly damaged, and it is not the opponent of the East Coast, Delon, and Lane alliance.

Once the Duke of Haaland becomes independent from the Kingdom of Grant, the threat of the Kingdom of Grant will be much lessened, and the situation in the region will be restored to balance.

The most critical step now is to contain Richard's power and prevent him from having the energy to support the Grant royal family and intervene in the southern region.

Achieving this goal is the most important task of Special Envoy Rosen.

After Envoy Rosen received the expensive gift, his attitude immediately improved a lot, he found Richard, and said directly: "The Duke is a vassal of King Roger, and in terms of aristocratic etiquette, the Harland family has served the Grant royal family for generations.

The Duke's power is so strong that he can gain a foothold in this area on his own. The descendants of the duke no longer need the protection of the Grant family. Today's Grant royal family has become a shackle and shackle for the development of the Haaland family.

If the Haaland family wants to continue to develop, I am afraid that it will have to bear the reputation of killing the lord, and once it has such a reputation, it will hardly be able to gain a foothold among the nobility.

I think the situation has developed now that the Duke needs to break this shackle.

I heard that the Duke has a close relationship with the Church of Dawn, and it should be easy to get the canonization of the Goddess of Dawn. As long as the Duke is willing to serve the humans of the Dawn Plane, the Emperor of the Holy Radiance Empire, the Holy Sith Emperor, will be willing to forge a crown for you and recognize the status of the Haaland royal family.

At that time, the Harland family will become the frontier vassals of the Emperor Saint-Sisse, undertaking the task of pioneering, the empire is thousands of miles away, and the Harland family does not need to fulfill the obligations of vassals, and the descendants of Duke Richard will be completely independent politically.

We can also write this in the canonization contract, and the duke can completely let go of all his worries. The only obstacle now is whether the Duke is willing to contribute to the humanity of the Dawn Plane, and whether he is willing to serve Emperor Edward? ”

(End of chapter)