Ante's eyes rolled sharply, his nose was sweating, and he was still a little immature. When he was young, he was all under the wings of Daniel, although he practiced his sword and read books diligently after taking over the position of lord, but in the end, he was still a teenager. Allen's eyes were not stern, and even a little indifferent. But the more this happened, the more he didn't know what the man in front of him was thinking. Without any speculation, he had to follow his intuition and said with a wry smile: "My lord wants to settle accounts with me this time?" ”

Alan smiled: "If I want to settle accounts with you, I'm afraid it won't be my turn." Edward alone can turn your territory upside down, and you can sit here because you made the right choice in the end. And I'm here today in the hope that you will be able to follow the choices you made before. ”

"It won't be long before I'm going north."

Onte's heart moved.

North? The young man was short of breath, and he vaguely guessed Allen's intention to go north. In fact, it is not difficult to guess, with his current momentum, if there is a few more years of development. Stable operation, probably mixed with the status of Iron Gun Hoy. But he didn't want to live a stable life, and chose to go to the north of the empire, which was to make up his mind to make a bigger plan in the imperial capital.

What could be a bigger plot than the Marquis of Strength?

Grand Duke of the Empire!

The ambition is so big!

Ant calmed down and finally confronted the man: "What do you need me to do?" ”

Alan narrowed his eyes, shook his head, and said, "As long as you manage your territory well, it will be the greatest help to me." Young Master Onte, it was only at this time that I dismissed my plan to use a puppet to manage the viscount instead of you. And if you have just heard that I am going north, then you may be able to meet Sir Daniel at this time. ”

"Luckily, as I said before, up to this moment, you made the right choice. Tell me, do you still want revenge? ”

"Before this morning, I had this thought, but now I don't." Ant said calmly, "Because what you just said woke me up. You've seen the mountains and the sea, but I'm still staring at a low mountain. Not to mention the gap in combat power, not to mention the means of operation of the territory. With my vision alone, I've already lost. If I'm still thinking about revenge, I'll probably not even be able to see your back in my life. ”

Alan stretched out his hand and tapped on the table: "Believe it or not, although Viscount Daniel wanted to kill me first, I didn't hate him." With the status of a viscount, to be able to run such a pattern, Lord Daniel is already very remarkable. ”

Onte's eyes were red, and he couldn't tell what it was like.

After a moment of silence in the box, Ant shook his head and changed the subject: "Should you go out of your way to say these things to me?" ”

"Of course not, do I still have to please you little ghost?" Ai Ethics said of course: "I'm going to a mountain city, do you want to go and see it together?" ”

"See what?"

"In my absence, this old thing Rakde got me in a lot of trouble. You have to thank Edward, otherwise Sir Daniel would have had to steal the old boy's hard-earned foundation. I'm actually very simple, people treat me well, and I will always protect him in every way. Whoever wants to hit me, I'll knock out his front teeth. Alan patted the Red King beside him, and said with a smile: "So this time, I'm going to kill Rykede, openly and secretly cultivate a successor in each mountain city, and then let them fight in the nest." It's best to fight for ten years and eight years, so that I don't have to worry about going north. ”

Ant gritted his teeth and said, "If I insisted on revenge before, would the Unicorn Leader be treated like this?" ”

Allen's palm stopped on the Red King, and asked lightly, "What do you say?" ”

Early the next morning, at the border post on the Lyon mountain road.

Before the morning fog had cleared, a caravan came to the border post from the unicorn leader, showed the relevant certificates, and let the soldiers of the outpost release them with a sharp switch. The Lyon Road is a mountain spill that leads from the unicorn and widens around the mountains, before turning into the Shadow Highlands after two days. In a few days' drive, you will reach the mountain town where Count Rykerd is located.

The mountain castle is rich in steel and other materials, and this kind of raw material brings a steady stream of wealth to the mountain castle, and also allows the mountain castle to develop rapidly. Luckett's family has been in business for several generations, sitting on a large mine of raw materials, promoting the development of weapons workshops, so that the weapons and equipment produced in the mountain town flow to all parts of the southern border, which is the cornerstone of the growth of the mountain town. It's just that in the past ten years, it is rumored that the mineral deposits in the mountain city have been exhausted, perhaps this is the motivation for Rykerd's expansion of the territory.

Expanding the territory is not something that can be done by just talking about it, after all, not all the territories now have owners, and the empire has already passed the era of opening up the territory. As long as the empire does not expand for a day, the lords want more lords, so they have to fight honestly. In addition to being in an empty state for a period of time like the Unicorn Leader, who was able to take advantage of the gap, the Yang conspiracy and conspiracy were two-pronged, and the soldiers took the territory bloodlessly. For the rest, you have to be real. guns, wage war to snatch it.

The empire has always turned a blind eye to the civil wars of the lords. As long as it doesn't violate the rules of the game, the empire rarely cares. The Bylegon Empire relied entirely on the creation of territory, and this tradition seems to have continued. The successive emperors all had a laissez-faire attitude towards this, and the bloodshed within the empire was not fake. But because of this, the empire has been established for 500 years, and the national strength has only risen and not fallen. Even though the combat strength of the southern border is not as good as that of the northern capital, it is difficult for the alien race to open a gap from the southern border, which shows that this strategy of supporting the country by war is not completely unfeasible.

Besides, the Earl of Rected in the mountain city wanted to expand, and he had the idea of annexing the Unicorn Territory and the Ark Harbor, and finally turned his spear and ate Allen's Viscountdom. I never thought that the old earl was too greedy, and his appetite was too open, but he would kill himself. First, he stopped the army that was secretly transferred to the Unicorn Territory for Edward's arrangement, and then beat Gilles to Vera and the others by closing the door and letting the dogs go, which made Ryked's calculation fail.

Nowadays, if you want to go out, there is no other way than to start a real war. So in the past six months, Lucked has been standing still on the surface, but secretly he has been constantly recruiting soldiers to buy food. The mountain town was rich in copper and iron ore, but grain had to be bought from other territories. Among them, several places in Allen's territory are large grain producers. Originally, Luckard thought that the other party might not be so generous to sell the grain to him, but he still sent someone to take a detour to collect the grain. Unexpectedly, Edward's door was wide open, and not only was he willing to sell grain, but also allowed caravans to carry grain to the mountain town to peddle. Of course, Edward had collected enough tariffs and grains, and the grain sold to Shancheng was thirty percent higher than the market price.

This is obviously to take advantage of Rykede, if you want to buy food, I will give it, and I will buy it at a big price. It was also thanks to Rykerd that he could swallow this breath, and the Count was careful with his calculations. If you don't buy food from Edward, you buy it from somewhere else. Not to mention the journey, the cost is half as high. In this way, Edward only raised 30% to be kind, so Rykerd was a turtle with a shrunken head, and he didn't know it, so that the chamber of commerce in the city continued to buy it.

Now this caravan to the mountain city is to transport a batch of grain to the mountain city to sell, and the market price of the caravan to transport grain is first stable. Although the tariff to go to the mountain city is a little higher, the difference in the price of the sale is enough to make up for Guan Rui, and it is more than half a percent higher than the price of selling to other places. Don't look at the difference of only 20%, this amount is very amazing.

In the past six months, the army of Shancheng has continued to expand, and an infantry regiment of more than 2,000 people has been established, and the Blood Wolf Knights have also reached as many as 500 people. The amount of food used up every day in this army is very staggering, not counting the consumption of ordinary people in the mountain city. Therefore, the current mountain city is a big food sucker.

If there is a caravan, there will naturally be guards.

The escort of this caravan is the Chidori mercenary group, which is not large, and there are about fifty people of all ages, young and old. However, Chidori is also a mercenary group with old qualifications among its peers, and their mission failure rate is maintained at about 10%, and they have a good reputation in the industry. Some short-distance caravans are willing to hire Chidori as escorts, especially in the past few months, there have been frequent caravans to the mountain city, and when the mercenary group of Chidori has been to the mountain city three or four times.

The road from the Lyon Mountain Road to the Shadow Heights, and then into the mountain city, Chidori is no stranger. This time, the regiment commander Wozy personally went out, and the regiment commander himself rarely dispatched himself for such an escort mission. But this time there was a lively girl of fifteen or sixteen years old in the mercenary group, and Wozy had to come by himself. Whoever let the girl be his daughter, Wozy was not afraid that his daughter would suffer on the road, so he set off with the team.

The girl Fei Lin is at the age of innocence and romance, and she also has the strength of the twelfth level under the training of her father. The swordsmanship is so-so, and there is no problem in dealing with ordinary bandits and strongmen, but there is a lack of actual combat experience. Bringing her out this time, Woke also has the intention of letting her see her and sharpen her more.

Ferrin didn't refuse, and the lively girl would always ride her own little white horse back and forth in front of the caravan. Sometimes he chatted and played with the soldiers of the mercenary group, and sometimes he mingled with the people of the caravan. With her, the journey was a lot more lively.

Woch is over forty years old, and his eighteenth-level strength is not high or low among his peers. It's just that that's what he has achieved in this life. Wolf is well aware of his abilities, so the mercenary group of Chidori has not expanded. A small and medium-sized team of about fifty people can accept some caravan escort tasks without being too ostentatious, although it is not as profitable as the large mercenary groups in Ark Harbor, but Woqi is very content.

He had already planned that when Feline was older, he would marry her to Darang, the son of the deputy head of the regiment. That young man who is only a double ten is already a fifteenth level strength, and he can probably take over the mercenary group in the future. It's just that Darren is young and old, and his temperament is too deep, and the energetic Ferrin always gets along with him, which makes Voch a little headache.