"You can go in. ”

The soldiers defending the city were allowed to enter the Solitary by a certain number of people to enter the Solitary Castle after verifying the documents provided by the guide sent by Sodra, the mage of Winter Castle, Ron Rees, and outsiders needed to be introduced to enter the Solitary Castle, but they would be given a temporary warrant after entering the city.

A person with a temporary warrant is equivalent to temporary residence, and can appeal to the Lonely Fort Authority in case of trouble, and can seek help from the patrol guards in case of personal danger, while a person without a temporary warrant will be thrown into prison if they are found to be questioned by the patrol guards on the street.

Ron Rees is a middle-aged mage, and his own magic level is about the same as that of a mid-level mage, while Sodra is a high-level mage.

He was sent by Sodra to accompany the two to meet Arya, a descendant of Queen Wolfheart, the current ruler of Lonely Castle.

After arriving at the Archon's mansion in Lonely Castle, the two met Arya shortly after.

Arya is a woman with blond hair, even if she wears a one-piece robe, she can't hide her surprisingly good figure, but her face is as cold as ice, such a woman can easily arouse a man's desire, but because of her identity, she doesn't dare to make any obvious rash moves, but she still can't help but fantasize about something.

However, as seductive as Arya was, no one dared to be rude to her.

According to the historical books that Rand and they got from Thordra, Queen Wolfheart and her husband are both powerful figures in Skyrim Province, not only are they strong, but Lonely Fort is the capital of Skyrim Province, and the Queen Wolfheart family has always controlled this place, even the great lords sent during the Septine Empire can only suppress them, but cannot completely eliminate their influence.

So in a way. The descendants of the Queen of Wolfheart have the status of the Spiritual Alliance Lord in Skyrim Province. They are almost the weather vane of Skyrim Province.

"Two distinguished guests. I asked Master Sodra to invite you both to come on your behalf, so you already know why, right?" said Arya.

"I know, I thought it was an invitation that would benefit both of us, so I rushed right away. Rand replied.

The reason Arya invited Rand and them over was simple, because there was a rebellion in the south, and the wild elves united with the black elves to defeat the Terran rulers and forest elves there. This is not a good start, not to mention that these elves may have undesirable ambitions for other regions. Just allowing them to continue to stay, it will only take a few years, and it will be even more difficult to drive them away in the future, and other regions like the snake people of the Black Swamp and the tiger people of the Ilvi Beast will also have the intention of breaking away from the rule of the Maid Empire, so although the center of the Maid Empire is full of contradictions, and has repeatedly appeased the alien races in the form of compromise before, but now that it has reached this point, it can't help but unify its opinions and prepare to quell the chaos as soon as possible. Drive the wild elves back to the Summer Twilight Islands.

However, this required troops, so the Imperial Capital Province issued an edict to the other provinces. To put it simply, it means that there is money to contribute and power to contribute.

The Terrans on this side of Skyrim Province are mostly Nords, and there are fewer aliens, most of them are Terrans, and although the Nords are descendants of immigrants from the Atmura Continent, also known as the Gumu Continent, when these immigrants came, the aborigines of Skyrim Province were not developed, and the immigrants settled down after defeating the tribes hostile to them, and intermarried with the locals to develop into the current Nords.

The Nords have contributed to the establishment of successive empires on the continent of Tamriel, but the sad thing is that even the Maider Empire, a person of 100% Nord blood, has no special care for his hometown after becoming an emperor, and he bears the name of an emperor's hometown in vain.

Of course, the edict of Skyrim Province is no exception, but the ruling lords of the cities of Skyrim Province are tired of being summoned when they want to use it by the empire, and they don't care about it when they don't want to use it, and the total population of Skyrim Province is less than that of other provinces, and the loss caused by the rise and fall of empires in the past dynasties has caused the population of some cities to have negative growth, especially Wintercastle, where there has been a battle between two legendary mages that caused a flood to flood Winterhold, which is also the appearance of Rand and Solomon when they see that Wintercastle is now a little dilapidated and has not recovered yet。

Therefore, this time, almost all the city lords thought that it was not appropriate to go to war again, but the edict of Cellodil could not be ignored, and if it was ignored, the Heavenly Province would be tantamount to fighting against the Empire.

In the end, in a meeting convened by Arya, a descendant of Queen Wolfheart, the female lord of Lonely Castle, it was decided to bribe some people from the Imperial side to help Skyrim speak.

After spending a lot of money, the patriarch in the center of the empire finally sent a message to them that if the Skyrim Province did not send troops, then they could pay a large number of weapons and weapons to the imperial side as a substitute.

The answer, while still unpleasant, is barely acceptable.

However, the Imperial side demanded that the full amount of equipment be paid within three months, because the battle to recover Morrowind would break out in three months.

Skyrim Province will not be able to produce the required equipment from the lords' own manufacturing workshops in three months, and it will take about a year or so according to their productivity, but if they do, they will have to send troops.

After consulting with the lords, Arya has urgently summoned the workshop craftsmen and blacksmiths in various cities to gather together for casting, and has asked people to go to the Falling Hammer Province to temporarily recruit some mountain dwarf craftsmen to help with the crafting, but even then it is estimated that there is still a gap of half.

Sodra remembered Rand's visit at this time, during the visit, he didn't care too much about Rand because he had a good conversation with Solomon, the other party wanted to trade in the country, he just saw that he had a pleasant exchange with the scholar and mage, and the other party was very interested in visiting him and giving him a generous gift before he agreed.

But when dealing with the edict of Sailordir, he suddenly thought of Rand and them, since they didn't have time to make their own products, they could still buy a large number of them.

If you want to buy out in the original commercial system of the Maid Empire, it is not easy now, because other provinces have also received edicts, and the troops are also armed, at this time, even the craftsmen are in demand, and they must be called, so Arya They can only recruit dwarven craftsmen to supplement, if you have a choice, Arya does not like the mountain dwarves to come to Skyrim Province, because these guys like to drink, drunk is not to make trouble, or to defecate everywhere, and also like to sing at night, but the singing is so bad that people hide their ears, in short, except for a casting skill, there is really no merit, but unconscious, like to boast about themselves。

Sodra ordered Rand to bring back the prospecting lamp and axe that Rand had offered, and judged that his solution should work, so Arya summoned the two again, and she wanted to talk about a large purchase order on behalf of the city lords of Skyrim Province.

"We are willing to serve Miss Arya and the other lords, as well as the people of Skyrim Province, and we can take care of this business. Rand said.

"Very good. Arya finally thawed a smile on her frosty face when she heard Rand's assurance.

She called the clerk and asked the clerk Rand to provide the required quantity, and asked them to send all the goods to Skyrim Province within two and a half months, and then within half a month, Skyrim Province would be handed over to Celeordir's side.

"If you can do this well, I and the other City Lords of Skyrim Province will allow you to do business in Skyrim Province without hindrance, and you will be reduced by five percent regardless of taxes. Arya said.

For ordinary merchants, this is definitely overjoyed, the reduction in taxes and fees alone is a pure increase in net profit of five percent, and more importantly, it means that the merchants who are outsiders have established themselves in Skyrim Province.

However, Rand was only on a mission, as he was not interested in the family business in the first place.

"But there must be no problems. Arya re-emphasized.

After negotiating business with Rand, Arya turned to Solomon and said, "Mr. Agravin, I am meeting with you today, in addition to negotiating the purchase of goods, Archmage Sodra also specially recommended you to me, saying that you are a knowledgeable mage scholar, and you came to Skyrim Province to travel, right?"

"Yes, Lady Arya. Solomon smiled, "Don't you know what I can do for the Wolfheart?"

"Well, I'd like to ask you to stay in Fox Castle for a while, maybe I have some questions for you. Arya said.

"That's right. Solomon nodded, "No problem, but I promised others that my travels here would be given to Rand and them on a regular basis in the form of a diary, and then sent back to my hometown." ”

"Diary?" Arya frowned slightly, but then nodded, "That means you'll be going back to Winterhold every once in a while, right?"

Winterhold is in the northeast of Skyrim Province, while Lonely Fort is in the northwest, and if the diary is to be passed to Rand on a regular basis to bring them back, Arya understands that Solomon needs to be away for a few days a month.

She pondered for a moment and was about to agree, but Solomon said, "But there is no need to be so troublesome, we can establish a special magic communication between Lonely Castle and Winterhold, so that the problem can be solved, anyway, this thing will also be useful for Rand and their business activities in the future." ”

Rand nodded slightly, this has almost become a common thing in Asturias, in the Azure Continent, especially before the emergence of the Arcane Skynet, long-distance information transmission is based on this magic array plus the "fax" form of fixed lines, and the rapid development of finance is also based on this, otherwise it will not develop so fast, and the later Skynet base station is also based on this to add node transmission.

"Is there a way to do this?" said Arya, surprised.

"Yes, please allow us to build such a special line. Rand thought about it, at least to facilitate his communication with Solomon, and the caravan could be used in the future. (To be continued.) )