Chapter 265: Sowing Discord
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Duke Lu Dongxi heard Cook ask. Immediately replied excitedly: "How many you want!"
Cook looked at Duke Lu Dongxi in disbelief, you must know that the fine iron weapons built by the dwarves are produced at least hundreds of thousands of pieces every year, but only one-tenth of them can be sold, and most of them are controlled by the dwarf kingdom The number of foreign trade, so the weapons built by the dwarves are so expensive.
Of course, this has a lot to do with the forging level of the dwarves themselves, and the dwarves use high-temperature magma to make it, and humans only use charcoal, and even charcoal, that is, coal smelting, is very rare, and it is all smelted with charcoal.
Coal smelting is not as good as charcoal, but if coal is burned into coke, then it is another story, but there are no human blacksmiths who know this, which makes the weapons made by the dwarves expensive and popular.
As for saying that humans have no talent for forging, Cook sneered at this, on the earth, the alloy smelted by humans is probably something that dwarves have not seen, and the metals used in spaceships, aircraft carriers, and cannons can be made by any dwarf, and they can't be made by hand.
"Lord Duke Lu Dongxi, are you sure you want as many as you want?" asked Cook again.
"Is there anything wrong?" Duke Lu Dongxi immediately asked suspiciously when he heard Cook's tone.
Cook explained to Duke Lu Dongxi, "The equipment made by the dwarves is divided into three levels, light equipment, daggers, one-handed swords, leather armor inlaid with iron armor, helmets, etc., generally a set of fifteen hundred gold coins. Medium-sized equipment, two-handed swords, one-handed swords, metal small round shields, as well as chain mail clothes, boots, generally a set of 3,500 to 4,000 gold coins, and finally heavy equipment, fine iron tower shields, axe guns, two-handed giant axes, metal shields, plate armor equipment, generally a set of 13,000 gold coins, since I have trade contacts with the dwarves, there are 30,000 sets of light equipment, 20,000 sets of medium equipment, and 5,000 sets of heavy equipment in all warehouses, so Duke Lu Dongxi wants them all?"
"Uh, no, no, no!" Duke Lu Dongxi stammered, not to mention anything else, just 13,000 gold coins for a set of heavy equipment, 5,000 sets is how much, and 20,000 sets of medium-sized equipment, a set of 4,000 gold coins, how much is this? Duke Lu Dongxi felt that what he just said seemed too arrogant.
"Hehe, in fact, heavy equipment can only be used by heavy infantry or heavy cavalry, the minimum set of equipment is nearly 1,500 kilograms, as far as I know, the Ceylon Empire does not seem to have heavy infantry or heavy cavalry, so I recommend that His Excellency the Duke choose light equipment, even so, equipped with 12,000 people, if the training is good, it is enough to sweep a large area. Cook said with a smile, sparing Duke Lu Dongxi's embarrassment.
"Ten thousand, twenty thousand, I still have to think about this. "Duke Lu Dongxi hesitated, 10,000 sets cost fifteen million gold coins, and Duke Lu Dongxi has a clear family.
"Okay!" Cook replied, in fact, the light equipment that Cook said was to prepare to erect a smelting furnace in the rabbit tribe to test it, and there are many low-level demonic beasts in the orc empire and the Natal Mountains, and the orcs have a hobby of domesticating low-level demonic beasts, and low-level demonic beast skins are definitely not valuable, but if they are inlaid with iron armor, then the defense power will go up a notch, but this qiē is what Cook thinks in his mind, as for smelting things, it is estimated that there will be a period of time.
Duke Lu Dongxi looked at Cook, and then said: "Actually, if we had known that it was Your Excellency Cook, we would not have stopped anything, but would have secretly supported Your Excellency." ”
Cook was stunned for a moment, then asked with a smile, "Why is that?"
"Because we have seen through the actions of the royal family, the fate of the Red Maple Leaf Prince will be our fate after the end, if you want to say that the nobles of the entire empire admire the family the most in their hearts, then there is only the Red Maple Leaf Prince family, but what the royal family has done in the past ten years has made us feel cold at all...... Duke Lu Dongxi said extremely sadly.
"Okay, stop acting, you guys aren't watching the excitement from the side, but your Ceylon Empire's royal family is still changing quite quickly, and you will change one in hundreds of years, I'm not interested in any of this, anyway, you'd better not mess with me." Cook scoffed at Duke Rudon's claims.
"This, this, in fact, the most important thing is that since the Muni War, the troops drawn from our territory have been controlled by the royal family, although they were just civilians before that, but after coming out of the sea of corpses and blood, they are elite troops. The royal family is in control of such hundreds of thousands of troops, which is a threat to all our nobles, and it is precisely because the royal family controls these troops that he cannot be tough. Duke Lu Dongxi explained embarrassedly.
When Cook heard Duke Lu Dongxi say this, he immediately understood: "This Ceylon emperor is so calculating, a battle of the Duchy of Muni not only decomposed the turmoil brought about by the drought in the empire itself, but also weakened the population of the major nobles, and left hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers, and took the opportunity to master these soldiers, so as to achieve the goal of threatening the rest with elite soldiers, and also robbed the entire Duchy of Muni." ”
"It's just that we didn't see this at the beginning, and in the end we didn't lose any benefits at all, but made the royal family too powerful. Duke Lu Dongxi said angrily.
"If that's the case, I'm afraid this engagement ceremony won't be so simple. Cook said playfully, in fact, Cook is just sowing discord, but what Cook doesn't know is that it is because of his words that he has led to decades of civil strife in the Ceylon Empire.
When Duke Lu Dongxi heard Cook say this, he asked in disbelief: "Impossible, that's the entire aristocracy?"
Cook rolled his eyes, and then asked, "Do you nobles have any children in the imperial capital?" Cook asked nonsense, no matter which empire, the imperial capital is the most prosperous place, and it is also a place where the children of the major nobles exchange and study.
"Yes!" said Duke Lu Dongxi.
"Wouldn't it be normal for you, the Duke, to become 'sick' and your son succeed you?" asked Cook angrily.
"It's normal!" Duke Lu Dongxi faintly felt that something was wrong.
"At this time, your son who was blackmailed by the royal family succeeded to the dukedom, but your son will never return to the territory, you say this, that is, the royal family will accuse your son to indirectly take back your territory, of course, this may be a few years later, your son disappeared for no reason or fell ill, and there is no heir, or simply, find a royal child to have offspring with your son, and then the title of duke ....... "Cook brought these things at his fingertips, knowing that the earth is actually a history of war, and there are all kinds of tricks.
Duke Lu Dongxi was silent, and when Cook saw Duke Lu Dongxi like this, he immediately added a fire: "I just don't take what I do to you, but put you under house arrest, and then let you do whatever you want, do you dare not obey orders? And this engagement ceremony, does the royal family say that it is best for your whole family to come?"
"Is it true, isn't the royal family forcing us to rebel?" Duke Lu Dongxi trembled, because the royal family said that the whole family was going to go, which happened to be a sentence said by His Majesty the Emperor of Ceylon, but it was just a joke at the time.
"Cut, look at the current emperor, he did not hesitate to lose more than two hundred strong civilians, in exchange for what, the entire Muni Principality was looted, you must know that the Muni Principality is one of the richest principalities in the Roland Empire, needless to say, you also know that the emperor used hundreds of thousands of troops to transport supplies back overnight, for half a month, how many things do you think it should be? Why is the royal family able to control hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers, it is the wealth from this robbery, if you are put under house arrest again, and rob again, this time your emperor of the Ceylon Empire will make a lot of money. "Cook said this to the Emperor of Ceylon enough to slander the Emperor.
If Cook said this, Duke Lu Dongxi would still be a little suspicious, but Duke Lu Dongxi was already suspicious of the emperor, so in Duke Lu Dongxi's opinion, the biggest benefit of the Muni War was the emperor's majesty, and his own people were simply used by the emperor. Lu Dongxi muttered, "Very likely?"
"Actually, there are some things I shouldn't say, you think the Silver Lily Family is really going to buy so many weapons......? Cook didn't say anything halfway through the sentence, sometimes it's best to leave some room for reverie, and the person will automatically connect some irrelevant clues and then .......
"Damn, I said where did this Silver Lily family get the confidence to dare to argue with Lao Tzu, so that's the case, stop, stop!" Duke Lu Dongxi's face changed a few times, and he shouted loudly.
The carriage stopped immediately, and then Duke Lu Dongxi rushed out at once, and Norwen got out of the car and looked at Cook suspiciously, Cook spread his hands, and within a few minutes, Duke Lu Dongxi got into the carriage and gritted his teeth and said: "I have already ordered my family to go back, if nothing happens this time, I will not make the royal family feel better!"
"Hey, hey!" Cook only smiled and muttered to himself, "Then let's do something to you!"
Cook knew that it was impossible for Duke Lu Dongxi to conceal these news, Cook was right, after Duke Lu Dongxi's eldest son received his father's order, he immediately sent a confidant messenger to inform several close nobles under his father's orders.
Cook couldn't have imagined that just the next morning, some nobles in the north of the imperial capital received a message from the demonic beast and made some decisions, one of the nobles got the message when he was just about to close the gate of the imperial capital, and he actually pretended to be sick and was directly taken back to the territory by his subordinates.
"Duke Lu Dongxi, I have a deal I want to make with Your Excellency?" Seeing that he was about to arrive in the imperial capital, Cook asked with a smile.
"Your Excellency Cook, may I speak?" Duke Lu Dongxi said with a smile, and now Duke Lu Dongxi is still very glad that Cook woke himself up, and he no longer hates Cook.
"I need some information, the residence of the Seventh Prince, the relationship between people and people, and the relationship between Prince Red Maple Leaf, of course, as a friend, I still have to take out some things as a thank you gift. Cook pulled out a pet space bag, and inside was a fifth-level demonic beast.
"What is this?" Duke Lu Dongxi picked up the small bag in confusion, and his eyes widened the next moment.
Cook felt that a pet space bag and a fifth-level demonic beast could get the support of a duke, as well as intelligence sources, it was already very cost-effective, Duke Lu Dongxi was shocked, Duke Lu Dongxi himself is a fourth-level warrior, of course, he knows the value of these two things very well, so Cook's conditions Duke Lu Dongxi agreed without thinking about it, and Cook even lived in Duke Lu Dongxi's manor in the imperial capital.
"The Seventh Prince!!I'm looking forward to meeting you!" Cook looked at the brightly lit streets of Ceylon City, and playfully made a stack of texts, which was the information that Cook needed from Duke Lu Dongxi.