Ante's eyes rolled and his nose was sweating. He was still a little immature. When he was young, he was all under Daniel's protection. Although he had diligently practiced swordsmanship and read books after taking over the position of Lord, his temperament was still that of a youth. Allen's eyes were not stern, and they were even a little indifferent. However, the more this was the case, the more he didn't know what the man in front of him was thinking. Without any speculation, he could only follow his intuition and smiled bitterly, "Is my lord going to settle the score with me this time?"
Allen laughed, "If I want to settle the score with you, I'm afraid it won't be my turn. Edward alone can turn your territory upside down. You're able to sit here because you made the right choice in the end. And I'm here today because I hope you can follow your previous choice. "
"It won't be long before I head north."
Ante's heart skipped a beat.
North? The youth's breathing was rapid. He vaguely guessed Allen's intentions in heading north. Actually, this wasn't hard to guess. With his current momentum, if he had a few more years to develop. He could probably get to the same position as Hoey the Iron Spear. However, he didn't want a stable life and chose to go to the northern border of the empire. He had made up his mind to make a bigger plot in the imperial capital.
What else could be greater than a Marquis of Strength?
Grand Duke of the Empire!
How ambitious!
Ante calmed himself down and finally faced the man, "What do you need me to do?"
Allen narrowed his eyes and shook his head, "As long as you manage your territory well, it will be the greatest help to me. Young Master Ante, it was only at this time that I gave up my plan to use a puppet to manage the viscount's territory instead of you. And if you were ecstatic to hear that I was going north, then you could probably meet Sir Daniel at this time. "
"Fortunately, as I said before, until this moment, your choice has been very correct. Tell me, do you still want revenge? "
"Before this morning, I still had this thought. Now, I don't have it." '"Because what you said just now woke me up," Ante said calmly. You've seen the mountains and the sea, but I'm still staring at a low mountain. Not to mention the difference in combat strength, not to mention the management methods of the territory. Just in terms of vision, I had already lost. If I'm still thinking about revenge, I probably won't even be able to see your back for the rest of my life. "
Allen tapped the table. "Believe it or not, although Viscount Daniel tried to kill me first, I don't hate him. For a Viscount to be able to manage such a situation, Viscount Daniel is already very impressive. "
Ante's eyes turned red, and he couldn't tell what it felt like.
After a moment of silence in the private room, Ante shook his head and changed the topic, "You shouldn't have come to me specifically to say these words, right?"
"Of course not. Do I have to please a little brat like you?" Allen said as a matter of course, "I'm going to Mountain City. Do you want to go with me?"
"What are you looking at?"
"That old thing Rackett gave me a lot of trouble while I was away. You have to thank Edward. Otherwise, Sir Daniel's hard-won foundation would have been stolen by that old man. I'm actually a very simple person. If someone treats me well, I'll always protect them. If anyone wants to hit on me, I'll knock out his front teeth. " Allen patted Gojoseon beside him and said with a smile, "So this time, I'm going to kill Rackett and nurture a successor in Mountain City. Then, I'll let them fight among themselves. It's best to fight for ten or eight years, so that I won't have to worry about going north. "
Ante gritted his teeth and said, "If I had insisted on revenge, would the unicorn leader have received the same treatment?"
Allen stopped his palm on Gojoseon and asked indifferently, "What do you think?"
The next morning, at the border post of Lyon Mountain Road.
Before the morning mist had dissipated, a caravan arrived at the border post from the unicorn territory. After showing the relevant proof, the soldiers at the post quickly switched on and released them. Lyon Mountain Road is a mountain overflow. It leads out of the unicorn and gradually widens around the mountain range. Two days later, it turns into the Absolute Shadow Highlands. In a few more days, they would arrive at Mountain City, where Earl Rackett was located.
Mountain City was rich in steel and other materials. These raw materials brought a steady stream of wealth to Mountain City, allowing it to develop rapidly. Rackett's family had been operating for several generations, owning a large mine of raw materials, promoting the development of weapons workshops, causing the weapons and equipment produced by Mountain City to flow to all parts of the Southern Territory. This was the cornerstone of Mountain City's strength. However, in the past ten years, it was rumored that Mountain City's mineral reserves had been completely exploited. Perhaps this was Rackett's motive for expanding his territory.
Expanding the territory was not something that could be accomplished with just one mouth. After all, every territory already had an owner, and the empire had long since passed the era of expanding the territory. As long as the empire didn't expand for a day, the lords would have to fight honestly if they wanted more lords. Apart from the unicorn leader, who had been in an empty state for a period of time, being able to take advantage of the gap to enter and take down the territory without bloodshed. As for the rest, they had to use real knives and guns to start a war to snatch it.
The empire had always turned a blind eye to the internal strife of the lords. As long as it didn't violate the rules of the game, the empire rarely interfered. The territory of the Bailey Empire was completely based on fighting, and this tradition seemed to have continued. The previous emperors had taken a laissez-faire attitude towards this, and it was true that the empire was bleeding. However, it was precisely because of this that the empire had been established for five hundred years, and its national strength had only risen and not fallen. Even though the combat strength of the Southern Region was inferior to that of the Northern Capital, it was still difficult for the outsiders to open a gap in the Southern Region. It could be seen that this strategy of nurturing the country through war was not completely impossible.
Moreover, Earl Rackett wanted to expand in Mountain City. He had previously planned to swallow the unicorn territory and Ark Harbor, and then he would turn around and eat Allen's viscount territory. He didn't expect that the old count would be too greedy, and his appetite would be too big, but he would die. First, he stopped the army that was secretly transferred to the unicorn territory for Edward's arrangement, and then gave Vera and the others a beating of Gills as if they were closing the door and releasing the dog, causing Rackett's plan to fail.
If he wanted to go out now, there was no other way but to start a real war. Therefore, for the past half a year, Rackett had remained motionless on the surface, but secretly conscripted troops to buy food. Mountain City was rich in copper and iron ore, but food had to be bought from other territories. Among them, a few places in Allen's territory were large producers of grain. Originally, Rackett thought that the other party probably wouldn't be so generous to sell the food to him, but he still sent someone to take a detour to collect the food. Unexpectedly, Edward opened his door wide. Not only was he willing to sell grain, he also allowed the caravans to transport grain to Mountain City to sell it. Of course, Edward had collected enough tariffs and grain, and the grain sold to Mountain City was 30% higher than the market price.
This was clearly to take advantage of Rackett. If you want to buy food, I'll give it to you. Just buy it at a high price. Fortunately, Rackett was able to swallow his anger. The count was careful. If you don't buy food from Edward and buy it from somewhere else. Not to mention the journey, the cost was half as high as it was. In this way, Edward was kind enough to raise the price by only 30%. As a result, Rackett acted like a cowardly turtle and pretended not to know, allowing the Chamber of Commerce in the city to continue to buy it.
Right now, this caravan heading to Mountain City was going to transport a batch of grain to Mountain City for sale. The first thing the caravan did was to stabilize the market price. Although the tariff on going to Mountain City was higher, the difference in price was enough to make up for Guan Rui, and it was 20% higher than the price elsewhere. Even though it was only a difference of 20%, it was still a very shocking amount if one were to calculate it on a large scale.
In the past half a year, the army in Mountain City had been expanding. Currently, an infantry regiment of more than 2,000 men had been established, and the Blood Wolf Knight Regiment had also reached 500 men. The amount of food used in the army every day was astonishing, not to mention the consumption of the ordinary citizens of Mountain City. Therefore, the current Mountain City was a large grain collector.
If there were caravans, there would naturally be guards.
The guards of this caravan were the Thousand Birds Mercenary Group. This mercenary group was not large, and there were only about fifty people old and young. However, Qianniao was also a veteran mercenary group in the same industry. Their mission failure rate was around 10%, and they had a good reputation in the industry. Some short-distance caravans were happy to hire Qianniao as guards, especially in the past few months, when the caravans headed to Mountain City frequently, Qianniao had already gone to Mountain City three or four times.
Qianniao was no stranger to the road from Mount Lyon to the Absolute Shadow Highlands and then into Mountain City. This time, Guild Leader Wozzi personally took action. Originally, the Guild Leader himself rarely took action on such a guard mission. But this time, there was a lively girl of fifteen or sixteen years old in the mercenary group, so Wozzi had no choice but to come by himself. Who told that girl to be his daughter? Wozzi was afraid that his daughter would suffer on the way, so he set off with the team.
The young girl, Fei Lin, was at the age of innocence and romance. Under her father's guidance, she also had the strength of Level 12. His attainments in swordsmanship were so-so. It wasn't a problem for him to deal with ordinary bandits and experts, but he lacked actual combat experience. This time, Walker brought her out, and he also had the intention of letting her learn more and hone her skills.
Fei Lin did not refuse. This lively and active girl would always ride her own little white horse back and forth between the caravan and the caravan. Sometimes he chatted and played with the mercenary warriors, and sometimes he played with the people of the caravan. With her around, the journey was much more lively.
Walker was already over forty years old, and his strength at Level 18 was neither high nor low among his peers. However, his achievements in this life were like this. Walker knew his abilities very well, so the Thousand Birds Mercenary Group had never expanded. A small and medium-sized team of about fifty people could accept some caravan guard missions without being too ostentatious. Although they didn't earn as much as the large mercenary groups at Ark Harbor, Wozzi was very satisfied.
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