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When Franklin begins to meet Philip, Winston and Sidipater are also talking in the Free City, in the house of the Orc Trade Mission's office in the Free City.

"Sidipat, this time we Wolf have decided to completely give up the fight for the Mithril Mine because we believe in you, if we don't get the face-to-face teleportation magic array in the future, our efforts this time are not proportional to the Yan zhòng. ”

Sidipat, who was rolling a piece of Mithril coin in his hand, looked at Winston lightly.

"You're not honest enough than your brother, Winston. I have relayed Solomon's analysis when he first persuaded me, the current option is the best option for viability, do you think that Wolf's cavalry will be able to take the city quickly? If it is not captured, Franklin will only throw himself into Asturias, and then you will not get anything, and we will not be much better, and we may not only lose the inflow of Mithril, but also lose a reliable trading partner. You know, the Free City has been trading with the Western Beasts for ten years, and we intend to use them as a window into the Terrans. ”

"Including getting the Plane Teleportation Magic Array?"

"Yes, Franklin's reputation has always been good. And as I said just now, it is our best choice to support them now, and by the way, we get another promise, no matter whether we can really get the plane teleportation magic array in the future, we actually haven't suffered, not to mention that I think there may really be a chance to get it from them. ”

"Hmph, they are just a small force in the human race, not even a legend, or even a person close to a legend, although Franklin is not weak, but I think it is a little stronger than you at most, why are you so sure. Winston wondered, and he looked at Sidipat's eyes with mixed eyes.

Among the new generation of warriors of the orcs, he, Sidipat, and Aberdiel of Taggo are regarded as one of the best among them, with the potential to become legendary heroes, but since the last battle in the valley, Sidipater broke through and retreated under Joseph's blow, and both reputation and strength have been evaluated above the other two.

"The strength of the Free City is limited, but it does not mean that the future is equally limited. Yes, Franklin is not as strong as Uncle Joseph and my father, let alone the legendary heroes among our orcs. But the Terrans are different from us, and their status is sometimes not entirely based on combat power, and there are some things that cannot be said. ”

Sidipater hesitated, then clamped the Mithril coin between his two fingers and shook it in front of Winston, "Like, like this." It is said that coins made of Mithril have been accepted by the magicians among them, don't you think that the same Mithril sometimes has a different effect if it is in our hands than in their hands?"

"You're saying that even if we get Mithril, we won't be able to exchange it for a Terran magician teleportation array, and they can?"

"Yes, that's pretty much what it means, it's because of our different identities and races, even if we have more Mithril, it's hard to get what we want from the Terran magicians, but they're different. So when they get it, we have a chance, and that's one of the reasons I've always been willing to let the Rhine trade with the other tribes with the Free City. ”

Winston nodded slightly, agreeing with Sidipat's idea.

"As for this support, and even directly helping them, they agreed to pay with this Mithril coin, each Rhine warrior can get five Mithril coins, double if wounded, and triple if dead. Sidipat's coin was flicked into the air, and the coin tumbled in the air before falling back into his hands. －－－－－－－－－－－－－－

"Lord Franklin, I'm glad to see you, I'm here on behalf of His Majesty Edward, Emperor of Asturias. Philip said to Franklin.

"What did you bring with you?"

"Your Majesty wants the Free City and the Lord of the City to declare your allegiance to him and the royal family. ”

Franklin didn't speak, his fingers tapping lightly on the table.

"Lord Franklin, don't you want to, but you must know that this land has belonged to Asturias since ancient times, but because the brutal orcs have always coveted it, and His Majesty Edward has not sent his own administrative officials to this land for the sake of peace and unwillingness to go to war. That is, you have built a city on the territory of the royal family, which is immoral. Now that His Majesty is magnanimous, and gives you a rare opportunity to pledge allegiance to him and the royal family, you will remain in this land, and you will change from a borrower to an official directly under His Majesty, is there anything you are not satisfied with?" Viscount Philip snapped.

"Sir Philip, before you arrived, the Earl of Mordo, Lord Sheldmont, had made the same request to us. Franklin still didn't speak, and Wang Qinian smiled.

Viscount Philip's gushing voice suddenly stopped, and he suddenly understood why the master had asked him to meet with Sherdmont at the ball.

This is to shop around, the Free City is clearly ready to sell at a price, so it deliberately holds such a ball, so that Count Schedermon and himself know each other's savings, and also know that Modo and Asturias are plotting.

Before coming up, Xue Demund seemed to leave with dissatisfaction, and Philip thought at first that it was because of the competition for a dance partner, but now that he thought that Xue Demund might have understood Franklin's plans before he did, so he left in anger.

"What do you want?" Viscount Philip gave up on his intention of treating Free City as a redneck.

"We are willing to be subjects of Asturias, we are willing to pay taxes to His Majesty and the crown every year, and we are willing to obey the royal family's call to fight when Asturia faces war. However, since all trade in Free City is now settled with Mithril coinage, we can't completely hand over Mithril Ore to the royal family. Wang Qinian said.

"How's that going to work?" said Viscount Philip, changing color.

The greatest value of the Free City to Asturias is the Mithril Mine, followed by the status of a new trading city, because they can trade with the orcs, and the others are of little value.

"This land has belonged to Asturias since ancient times, and any wealth in this land should also belong to the royal family, and you can only save as a trustee authorized by the royal family, and you actually want to take the wealth away from the royal family?"

Viscount Philip was aggressive, but in fact he made a small concession, which of course betrayed not the interests of the royal family, but the interests of Duke Aldrich.

Originally, Duke Aldrich hoped that after the royal family took back the land of Free City, the management of the Mithril Mine would be handed over to him, so that he could justifiably get some benefits from it.

Now Viscount Philip made a small concession at the expense of the Archduke, but not of the royal family.

Changing the custodian has little impact on the royal family, not to mention that as a custodian, Free City has his innate advantages.

Of course, the royal family will not be completely relieved, and will hold the control in their hands, and will send a force to the Free City to defend with Franklin and them, and also supervise the excavation and smelting of the Mithril mine.

Viscount Philip also did this out of his own interests, at the ball he had already seen Count Shearmont, even the orcs appeared, how to achieve the goal quickly, the attitude of the Free City is quite crucial, so although Duke Aldrich had hinted to him before coming that the promised benefits are not comparable, because if the matter fails, Philip will not have any benefits.

But if he succeeds, it is possible that he will change from Viscount Philip to Count Philip.

"I can convince Your Majesty to give you the title of Earl. After taking advantage of the power of Asturias, Philip threw out an olive branch, but the title of this count was only an empty promise from him.

Before his arrival, the Marquis of Reginal, the foreign secretary, proposed a plan to give the lowest title of baron, plus a few official knightly places to Franklin's men, which was too far from the earl.

Franklin smiled and said gently, "Sir Philip, since the city has adopted the Mithril mint as the only currency with unlimited repayment ability, the current Qiē transactions are all based on the Mithril mint. Due to the limited minting capacity now, in fact, the city has owed the merchants a lot of Mithril coinage has not been paid, but it is only temporarily replaced by bank coupons, promising to continue to use the later minting to redeem bank coupons, and transactions based on Mithril coinage are still constantly generated, so this behavior will continue to occur. If the Mithril Mine were to be handed over to the royal family entirely, the city's trade would collapse, and the merchants would not agree to it if they didn't get the money. ”

"What are you afraid of those mud-legged men?" said Viscount Philip angrily, "you can sue them to pay their debts with gold or silver,

The Mithril coinage system was abolished and the gold and silver currency was reinstated. ”

"It's not good, they're going to be yelling all over the place. Chris sneered.

Philip's face turned cold, this is indeed a loss of reputation, but he thinks it is acceptable, a loss of reputation in exchange for control of the Mithril Mine, Philip thinks that Edward will definitely be willing.

"If that's all there is, we can do as Sir wants, but the orcs won't agree. Wang Qinian sighed.

"Orcs?"

"Yes. The orcs have always traded with us, but as the trade volume grew, they also accepted Mithril coinage. So now we also owe a large amount of money to the orcs, and since the amount of coinage cannot keep up for a while, we have issued a large number of bank notes, agreeing to exchange the equivalent of Mithril coinage indefinitely, and pay for it through the future minting of guò, for which we will pay an additional ten percent interest. The reason why the merchants and orcs believed and accepted the Mithril coinage and bank notes was because they believed that there was a Mithril mine behind the Free City, which could be paid for by the increase in the later coinage, so they were not in a hurry to cash all the bank notes at once, but stayed in their hands to exchange them slowly, and used the bank notes in the transaction to offset their accounts, so our bank notes are now equivalent to a large amount of debt and interest, and the objects of the debt are some merchants and orcs. Now, if you do what Sir wants, the orcs will not accept payment in gold and silver currency. ”

Philip was completely stunned, never expecting this kind of life.

"There is also the Wizards' Guild, we also used Mithril coins to purchase some items from them, hired magicians, and also promised to pay in Mithril coins, due to the amount of coinage, some of the purchases on the Wizards' Guild also accepted bank notes, if they were to pay in gold and silver currency, they would not agree. ”

"Then what do you want to do? You can't all be subjects of Asturias and give away the Mithril Mine to someone else!" Viscount Philip clenched his fists, almost holding Dethrius at bay.

"Of course not, Lord Viscount, perhaps. Wang Qinian saw that the time had come, so he threw out his real plan.

"The Mithril Mine can't be given to the royal family entirely, it will bankrupt Free City, it will not be able to pay the trade arrears to the orcs, it will lead to war, and the Mage's Guild will never agree to it. However, the Free City will convert all taxes due to the royal family into Mithril coinage, which will be minted and handed over to the royal family in the form of coinage, and the rest of the Mithril output will be used to maintain the Mithril standard. ”

"You, you are plotting to seize His Majesty's property!" said Viscount Philip angrily.

Although Wang Qinian said it well, Viscount Philip had already heard the true essence of this plan, which was that the Free City and the royal family would share the Mithril Mine, and the part that belonged to the royal family would be handed over as a tax in the form of Mithril coinage.

"That's enough, Lord Viscount, we don't have just one choice. Franklin interrupted Viscount Philip's accusation, "The Free City was built from the wilderness over decades by me, and I don't want to see it die, and I'll do my best to defend it." ”