With the aftertaste of the luncheon, Locke was invited by Fenna and the captain to the captain's room at the stern of the ship. In fact, if they don't have to look for themselves, Locke will go to them.

Because some of the purposes for which they are here should overlap with themselves!

"Lord Harvey, we wanted it to be a condiment for our lunch. But your generosity means I don't have to turn it on. Holding the black wine bottle with the cork in it, Major General Stozon said so, but the next step was to suddenly unscrew the cork.

"But I still feel that I have to give you a taste of my collection, a specialty wine from our family territory."

"Poof!" The cork of the bottle was opened, and a fragrance soon appeared in the captain's room.

"You know what?" Major General Stozon picked up the two wooden cups on the table and poured them slowly, as if he was afraid that a drop would fall outside. "They're over two hundred years old..."

"Wow!" Locke cooperated with him at the right time, but in fact, he didn't understand the fart, he just felt that the taste was a little big.

"Then I'm going to have a good taste." With an excited expression, Locke rubbed his hands together.

"Your cup, Lady Fenna, it's yours, Lord Harvey." Stosson pushed the two glasses in front of him and Fenna, and he looked at the wine glasses in front of him with some emotion, "The last time I drank wine that was more than 200 years old was when I first joined the Navy, a coming-of-age ceremony from my family. ”

Locke took a small sip, it was quite sweet, and the taste was slightly sour. But when the wine was swallowed into the stomach, a fiery smell of wine suddenly rushed out of the nose down the esophagus like a rushing train!

Locke hurriedly put down the wine glass and covered his nose so as not to make a fool of himself on this occasion. When this energy was gone, he couldn't help but say, "This wine has such a big ..... Stamina? ”

It's just that Locke found that the two people on the other side didn't drink, and they looked at him with a smile.

"Oh, sorry. I forgot to remind you, this is to be blended. Fenna grinned as she took the kettle in the middle of the table and poured it into Locke's cup. Then he said to Locke, "No, it would be much better to add some water." ”

This time, Locke took a careful sip, and sure enough, he found that this time the wine was different. A small stream of heat crept out of the stomach, and it slowly climbed up the wall of the esophagus until it came out of Locke's nose.

The whole time, you're anxiously waiting for them to move forward in your body. However, I am worried that they will go too fast and lose that pleasure. But I think they go slowly, and the pleasure is not intense enough!

It's just as cool as OOXX!

"Good wine!" Locke couldn't help but give a thumbs up, it was indeed good wine!

When the trade routes between the two sides are completely opened, you can consider importing their wines. Every day when it's time to go to bed at night, take a few sips, wouldn't that be beautiful?

"Ha, people who have drunk it say it's good wine." Major General Stozon replied with a smile.

Afterwards, Major General Stosson and Locke began to talk sentence by sentence, and Fenna did not say a word in between. Because Fenna knew that compared to her own affairs, the mission from Kurtilas that Stozon took on was the most important. Only when his mission is completed will the ship be completely his own.

So, the meal was eaten, the wine was drunk, and the two sides were not as rusty as when they first met before.

So, it's time to get down to business!

"Lord Harvey, I myself have a mission with the kingdom of Kul Tiras. This is a mission from our commander-in-chief, Admiral Tanrid. Stoson put away his previous kindness, and he said solemnly, "I think you can understand what the Admiral means to us Kul Tiras. ”

"Understand, he is your king." Locke nodded, and he also said solemnly, "We are very welcome to His Excellency Thanred sending you as an emissary to communicate with us in Lordaeron. ”

"Good!" Stosson nodded, and then he said, "Although we are neighbors across the sea. But we haven't paid a lot of attention to this continent in recent years. Well, that's all in the past. Now, many of our sources have come from the caravans. This includes knowing a few things about you. ”

"If there is anything you want to know, you can ask me directly." Locke said bluntly, "With all due respect, there is no news on this continent that I don't know, not even from any village. Right now! Who do you want to know? Some noble lord? ”

Locke's statement surprised Stosson, who had received more general information from Thanreid. He just knew that Locke was currently the largest real lord of Lordaeron, and the population and land controlled by his men were also the largest. With the largest and largest number of regiments of soldiers.

Now, I'm afraid, I have to add the richest lords.

But what he didn't expect was that Locke's control was much more terrifying than he imagined.

However, this made him a little excited, which meant that his task should be completed soon.

"Good! Then I want to know, Lord Harvey. Who can represent Lordaeron? Stosong looked at Locke intently, "What I say below can only be decided by this kingdom, by those who can make decisions..."

Hehe, Locke laughed a few times. Isn't this matter a lice on the monk's head, obviously!

"You saw it too, General Stozon." Locke no longer pretended, he said bluntly, "The only territory that can develop rapidly after the third war is my Eva." ”

"Although I am not the king, at least I can make any decision in my territory without being hindered by others!"

"In fact, I am the only one who can reach a certain agreement with you. Because the other lords have no idea about the navy, except for our Ivar. ”

"In addition, they don't have the strength to negotiate with you, if you know about the domestic situation in our Lordaeron, you will know that they are not qualified!"

Locke knew this, and Maslan had told him some of what he had heard. It is said that Kurtilas came to Iva because it was related to the navy.

It's not that I'm talking big, which lord of Lordaeron has that will have his own economic strength? Not to mention that they have no idea about the Navy at all. But not in Iva, which has a long coastline and most of its tax revenue today comes from maritime trade. Therefore, having a large fleet to protect merchant ships on the open sea trade routes is already a must-do.

We must do this while there are still few pirates. Otherwise, after a while, maybe the pirates of this planet will slowly gather here and fight against the merchant ships that come and go. If Iva is not able to respond, the disappointed merchant will not choose to transit through Iva and Iva will have a significant reduction in taxes from sea transportation, and Iva will eventually return to the time when it was previously planned.

Locke's words made Stosson fall into deep thought, he thought for a moment and looked at Locke uncertainly and said, "The matter that we are about to discuss between us may be a major matter between countries. If you don't have the support of other lords, I'm afraid it will be very difficult to do it alone..."

"I'm still saying that you can only work with me," Locke said, "because I have a good foundation to work with you." Because of the location in the field between us, because of the prosperity of Ivar, it can bring me a steady stream of gold. ”

Locke would not have promised anything to foreigners when he was not king. Even if it were possible, he wouldn't say it, which are two different things after all. In other words, even if he and Stosson reach any agreement, it will take a long time for a professional negotiation team to argue, which is a necessary process, and it cannot be decided by two people in three or two sentences.

"Alright then," said Stoson with a smile not avoiding Fenna, who was listening with her ears pricked up, "I heard that Lord Harvey is interested in building a naval force?" It was a real coincidence that our dockyards in the Kul Tiras Navy were empty, and we were happy to get to work on them to help our friends build a fleet to protect the increasingly busy commercial waterways. ”

"In fact," said Stozon with a smile, "we have already defeated an ambush by the Naga pirates at sea when we came to Iva. Lord Harvey, do you know what that means? ”

Locke was silent, he couldn't say this kind of thing, after all, he was not familiar with the sea.

"This proves that it's not just human pirates. The robbers of the sea have their sights on your territory, Ivah. "This also confirms from the side that Port Iva has spread across the planet." More ships will come here in the future. Of course, there will be more, more dangerous pirates coming here. ”

"If Iva's transports alone can be used as warships to defend against pirate invasions..."Stoson smiled and shook his head, "What Iva needs is a huge navy..."

Locke nodded, seeing the hidden dangers of Eva's future. These old navies also naturally saw the real problems that Iva faced.

But then Locke also laughed, Iva does not have a navy, but you are not here purely to help friends.

Upon learning that Kurtiras's warship was visiting Eva Harbor, Locke asked Norris to quickly transport the information he had collected from Kurtilas into birds.

Perhaps Locke didn't understand why Kurtilas's warship was there at first. At first, he thought the ship was Fenna's inheritance. But the news that Maslan had given himself, and combined with the help of what Stosson had said, Locke understood!

There's really something wrong inside Kul Tiras!

Locke remembers clearly, on the information about Kul Tiras. It is not uncommon to see shipbuilders and other Kurtilas civilians protesting at the town halls of various places under the leadership of some mysterious people.

Eventually, the protesting crowd would swarm each time outside the city of the Broadmoor family, the rulers of Pelares.

They shouted slogans of "Eat, Live". Together with some officers and generals in the navy, he asked the Proudmore family to build new warships and other ships to support the large number of shipwrights. It is important to know that as long as the shipwrights have jobs and can get a salary, then the other industries of Kul Tiras, which rely on shipbuilding as the backbone of the industry, can be revitalized.

And the requirements of the generals of the Navy are different from ordinary people. How powerful was the expeditionary fleet of 500 warships, large and small! But now you can't even make up 100 decent third-class battleships! This is something that the admirals cannot tolerate!

The decline of the navy also led to the ravages of piracy. The pirates gathered south of the capital city of Berallas have openly gathered in a place called Liberty Town, plotting and attacking all the ships that pass by! This was unimaginable when the Navy was strong in the past!

Right now... The navy of Kurtilas could only make short cruises around the capital, as well as on the main shipping lanes. The once incomparably powerful naval power of Kurtilas is now only an empty shell ....

It was in this case that Stozon sent Iva to the envoy. Even if Locke didn't think much about it, he knew that there must be something inside that he didn't know.