Chapter 49: The Grand Duke's Treasure (2)

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On the night of early spring in April, the night wind is cold and infiltrating

The Samars sat in the hall with a roaring bonfire

The sparks of the campfire brought out long sparks in the night breeze that blew by, making a crisp crackling sound

Du Yu, who was sitting on the main seat, supported his fat face with his right hand, leaned on the back of the chair very uncultivated, and asked the three subordinates below who were as helpless as himself with a depressed face.

"Is there really no way?"

Hearing the fat man's inquiry, several subordinates drooped their heads one by one, and even Caesar Demon, who had always had the most ghost ideas, had a helpless expression

The fat man sighed regretfully, and couldn't help but be annoyed in his heart

"I'm afraid I'm being tricked by the old scoundrel of Grand Duke Jones this time, this grand duke's title is simply the moon in the water, flowers in the fog, people can't see and touch"

The words of the old bachelor during the day were vividly in his ears, which not only made the fat man's restless heart beat excitedly, but also triggered the problem that the fat man had been pressing to solve for many days

That is when the fat man finds that his finances have entered a dead end, a big problem that may shake his foundation

As soon as he hurried back to the Samore Fortress, the fat man immediately asked the guards to inform the three regimental commanders below to rush to the castle hall to hold an emergency military meeting,

The commander of the 6th Heavy Infantry Regiment was the financial officer Statunko, the commander of the 8th Heavy Infantry Regiment was Crowissat, and the commander of the 1st Hussar Regiment was Caesar Solon

The first additional light cavalry regiment was a new type of light cavalry regiment formed by the fat man with 2,000 Kugit horses exchanged with the Kujits, and the commander was the former guard captain Caesar Solon

This newly formed hussar regiment was a fat man's baby bump, not only recruited from the Salsuns who were skilled horseback among the northern refugees, but also equipped with the best weapons of any army

The newly built light cavalry not only has a uniform and exquisite lock scale armor, but also adds thick steel plates to the important parts of the body, which is much higher in defense than the ordinary kingdom light cavalry wearing thick leather armor, but is much lighter in weight than the heavy cavalry.

In his hand is a three-meter-long cavalry spear, with a new single-edged thick-backed combat knife that is good for chopping and slashing on his waist, and ten short javelin slots are also configured on the weapon racks on both sides of the war horse's cross, which is completely a mobile light weapons arsenal

This made the light cavalry regiment with strengthened defense have very good mobility and impact power, and even Caesar Sauron, who was originally good at commanding cavalry battles, was also amazed by the configuration

The most proud thing for the fat man is that this light cavalry who poured his heart and soul into his heart and soul is a light hand crossbow, which is an epoch-making equipment, so that this new light cavalry is also a strong force in the face of the heavy cavalry of the Kujits

This new type of one-handed crossbow arrow is simple to operate, high shooting accuracy, and reasonable crossbow body design allows cavalry to rely on one foot on the horse to support the crossbow string, and the quiver is carried on the back of each cavalryman, which can be used as a thickened back armor and can be taken by the arrow

Although the range of the one-handed crossbow is not as good as that of the heavy infantry equipped with the foot heavy crossbow, it can also penetrate the cavalry buckle armor 150 steps away, and can even penetrate the steel full-body armor of the heavy cavalry within 50 meters

The most worrying thing for the fat man is that people want to eat, horses want to eat grass, and more than 20,000 people eat every day and don't do anything, which makes the fat man's heart ache.

In particular, the consumption of the newly formed light cavalry regiment exceeded even a heavy infantry regiment of 3,000 people

Sitting and eating empty, you can't live like this if you have money and food

The fat man thought to himself

To get rich, we must not only reduce expenditure, but more importantly, we must expand our financial resources.

Money is not saved, money is earned

The fat man was anxious to find a way to the north, not only concerned about the crown of the Grand Duke that was as bright as the full moon, but also without the idea of finding a trade route connecting the north and the south

Now a large number of supplies from the south are hoarded in Samor, and the weapons alone are piled up in two large warehouses, and other materials are piled up

New things are being made, but old things are not sold

The fat man found that he had inadvertently fallen into an economic crisis,

What is a crisis? The biggest crisis is that we cannot sell our products but we produce them alone

These valuable things are placed here, and rust and mold will not turn into money, but will slowly turn into a pile of scrap copper and rotten iron

Especially in the rainy season just past, the wet weather and continuous heavy rain made the bowstrings in the warehouse soften, and in various ways, all kinds of weapons and equipment accumulated in the warehouse could only go into the iron-making furnace again and turn into a puddle of molten iron

What to do? These problems plague the fat man with a headache

Most of the south is a bunch of impoverished little lords, each living a stable life, who wants so many weapons for what

It is even more difficult to sell to the Kujits,

If these weapons and equipment were to be sold to the Kujits, it would not be long before the words "Made in Samor" appeared on the arrowheads nailed to the Chrysdo Gate in Kyoto

"Can't we really find a way to the northern border, and there are Kugit people squatting on the snow-capped mountains west of Wekya?

Seeing that his subordinates were silent one by one, the fat man's face became more and more ugly

Seeing the redder and redder face of his lord, especially the eyes that looked at him, there was a spark of anger,

Poor Caesar Sauron had to bite the bullet

"My lord, if you want to find a way to the north, it is not impossible, but we need the help of a man! Only with his help can it be possible to find a way to the north under the noses of the Kujits!"

When the fat man heard that someone could open the passage to the north, his mood immediately improved, and he saw Caesar Sauron's appearance of wanting to speak and stopping, and said hurriedly

"When has this been, what are you still hiding, do you really have to wait until we are completely in a desperate situation to say it?"

Seeing the fat man's anger, Caesar Sauron replied with an embarrassed face

"Don't worry, it's not that your subordinates won't say it, but that doing so may affect your precious reputation,

I heard that among the prisoners who were exchanged from the Kugit this time was a little baron named Staridov, who was an important figure in the Herta Chamber of Commerce, the largest smuggling organization in the north, although he was only an insignificant small fish among the Kujits, he was very famous among the northern nobles and in Kyoto

Baron Staridov was a first-class expert in evading seizures, smuggling goods, and secretly opening up trade routes, and his subordinates had heard of him many times before, and it was said that he often moved between Kyoto and the great nobles of the north, and that many things that were inconvenient for the adults to be handled by the adults were entrusted to this person, specializing in black work

Since the Lord wants to open the north-south passage under the noses of the Kujits, he must first find this person, and if he can get the help of his Northern Hertha Chamber of Commerce, it will be easy to secretly open a secret passage to smuggle to the North!"

Caesar Sauron looked at the expression on the fat man's face, and found that there was no big reaction on the fat man's face, so he secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart and continued

"It's just that this person likes to smuggle slaves the most, and he is notorious in the north, known as the black-hearted wolf in the north, if the adult cooperates with him, spreading it may have a bad impact on the adult's current reputation!"

"Qingyu, this can't be eaten or worn, who cares about this!"

The fat man laughed after listening to Caesar Zoro's words, how could he forget this big acquaintance, he had the intention of cooperating with him when he was in the Falcon Territory before, but when he encountered the invasion of the Kugits, this matter was delayed

It seems that people really have to talk about "fate".

The fat man stood up and waved at his subordinates

"Let's disperse today, early tomorrow morning, Caesar Sauron, you will lead 2,000 light cavalry with me to Zhivading City, this black-hearted wolf in the north still owes me 200,000 gold Luke, just this time I will find him to carefully calculate this debt!"

Seeing the fat man leave the hall with a happy face, Caesar Sauron, who then stepped out of the hall, shook his head suspiciously

"How did I think of helping this dead fat man think about his reputation, could it be that I recognized what this dead fat man did?

Judging from what the fat man is doing now, he doesn't dare to say that he will become a good king, at least a rare lord who is sympathetic to the people! Maybe he doesn't want to destroy the fat man's image as a benevolent lord in the hearts of the people!"

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