Chapter 171 Couriers and Alliances

The Blade Mountains are like a steep city wall that separates the Norton family territory from the sea.`

Lorist stood on the top of the cliff, looking grimly as the waves slapped against the black sharp reefs near the shore that exposed the sea...

"Are there such reefs on the beach of this Blade Mountain?" asked Lorist.

"Yes, sir." Pad Balek said: "The Blade Mountains on this side of our family territory are all like this. The ones that can reach the beach are the three holes I have taken you to see. I can't climb any other place. We used to cook sea water and salt and then go down from those three holes, bring firewood and a big pot, and it takes about ten days to get it done..."

"Sir, I understand what you mean. Do you want to find an outlet from here?" asked Papa Barrek.

Loris nodded.

"Sir, come with me." Papa Barrek took Lorist to walk on the top of the cliff for a long time, and arrived at the other end of the cliff.

"Sir, look..."

A cliff fell down on the steep mountain wall in the distance, falling into the sea, forming a slope. What made Lorist curious was that some remaining wooden stakes could be seen vaguely on the slope...

"Sir, the four major families in Kitano Town also wanted to use the convenience of shipping to contact the outside world. They spent more than a year building a long trest bridge from the slope, deep into the sea, and bypassing the reefs near the sea. At that time, the grandfather was the head of the adults. He ran to Kitano Town to discuss with the four major families and demanded to enjoy half of the shipping rights. However, before the negotiations were completed, a storm destroyed the trest without a trace. The four major families were greatly damaged, and all the capital invested was lost by the storm. All the remaining were the broken wooden stakes..." Palek's father told a family past that Lorist had not known.

"Are there many storms here?" Lorrist asked.

"Not many, but in April and May, large tornados are prone to appear on the sea. There are strong winds and waves at other times, but there are few storms." Paladin Barrek replied.

"Forget it. Let's go. We've been in the Blade Mountains for almost two months, and it's time to go back," said Lorist.

After finishing his vacation and taking over the family's administrative affairs, Fatty Shi really couldn't stand Lorist's attitude of doing something. He had nothing to do. He happened to encounter a problem, so he forced Lorist to organize a group of people to go to the Blade Mountains to explore mineral resources and solve problems several days earlier.

The problem that Fatty Shi encountered was salt. In the past, the family members were only tens of thousands, but they had no salt. Just like what Palek said, bringing firewood and a large pot. You can get enough salt by cooking at the beach for a few days. But now more than 500,000 people are pouring into the Norton family territory. Calculate that one person consumes one pound of salt a year, 500,000 jin of salt is needed, not counting the amount of salt needed for the tanning of fur and marinating of meat.

Fatty Shi received a report from Manager Spel that all the salt stored in the family would be exhausted in July next year, so he took the report to Lorist and asked Lorist to go to the Blade Mountains as soon as possible to find a way to provide large-scale salt. Instead of having sex with Miss Teresty all day long when you have something to do...

For Lorist, this two-month trip to the Blade Mountains was a great harvest. The first thing to be sure was that the deep valley that Balek's father was indeed covered with rubber vines. Although the amount was not as high as the more than one million barrels of rubber vines produced by the Roman Empire a year, it was enough to provide nearly 100,000 barrels of rubber vines juice every year. It was enough to provide nearly 100,000 barrels of rubber vines juice to open a family territory that Lorist prepared to carry out.

The second is Master Sid, who is responsible for mineral resource exploration. He found a Xuan Iron Mountain in the Blade Mountains. The entire mountain is made of Xuan Iron ore, and tungsten gold veins and chromium silver mines have also appeared nearby. He was so happy that he danced and made a big talk: "As long as he studies it for a while, he will definitely be able to create armor that is better than the standard equipment of the White Lion Legion..."

Lorist thought it was strange. It was a coincidence that it was a book. These three types of mineral veins seemed to be arranged artificially, but the world was so big that there were all kinds of strange things. If you couldn't figure it out, you had to put it aside first.

As for the salt problem that Fatty Shi was anxious about, Lorist also had a solution, which was to dry salt. There was no need to cook salt. Originally, Fatty Shi was planning to transfer 3,000 people to cook salt, and spent two months to get two million kilograms of reserves, and then cook it if it was gone...

Lorist had never seen pig runs, but had eaten pork. He had not visited the salt fields in his previous life. He remembered some of the principles and steps of how to dry salt, so he chose a wide valley to design a salt field and handed it over to Palek's father. The main reason is that the infrastructure costs a little more. The manpower is not much, nearly a hundred people are enough, but the monthly salt production is expected to reach more than 100,000 kilograms, which is enough to solve the family's dilemma of salt shortage.

"Yes, the salt fields below should be filled with soil and rocks first, then poured with green mud and smoothed. When the tide rises, open the water inlet of the fence and let the tide flood the salt fields. After two or three days, the concentrated salt water should be put into the deep pond and rinsed with the mountains and rivers that are attracted to it, so that the impurities can settle down, pour the clean salt water on the upper salt fields, and then dry it to make it edible white salt..." Lorist explained to Palek for the last time.

No wonder Balek's father kept asking. Galintya had never heard of salt drying for thousands of years. The most important thing is that it does not require a lot of firewood to boil salt. In the past, how to bring firewood to the beach was always a difficult problem.

The Blade Mountains face the sea with steep cliffs, but there are graceful slopes covered with grass, and there are basically no miscellaneous trees. Some people who came to cook salt have already cut off firewood. When they go down the gentle slope, they face another mountain peak with rugged rocks. People have to go along the cliff bottom of these peaks and then go uphill and downhill to walk the mountain path to leave the Blade Mountains.`

Miss Teresty and her maid Little Winnie were picking wild flowers on the gentle slope, preparing to make a flower crown, and the two jumped like two ungrown children.

Since she was forced to open her body by Lorist, Miss Teresty has lost her usual reserve and integrity and has become interested in men and women. Especially after she has had a great relief for her dysmenorrhea, which has always been distressed, she has begun to take the initiative to hook up and cause Lorist to be happy about having sex in the office.

The only thing that bothers Lorist was that no matter how Miss Teresty had sex with him in the office, she was willing to try new tricks, but no matter how Lorist persuaded her, Miss Teresty refused to agree to marry him. You can be a lover, but you can be a wife without a talk...

1. The Norton family must hand over nearly 300,000 Jinfude's property plundered from Duke Lukins' private treasure house and handed it over to the second prince as a punishment for the robbery of the Grand Duke. The second prince gave up the charge of Lorist's guilt for moving more than 200,000 Grand Dukes' territories to the Norton family territory.

2. As the new member of the Norton family, Lorist must arrive at the city of Gildusque, the Grand Duke, before the end of November, to swear allegiance to the second prince who is currently living in the Grand Duke's Mansion. At that time, the second prince will consider promoting the Norton family's title to show rewards.

3. The Norton family must also provide the Second Prince with two fully organized corps to assist the Second Prince in pacifying the Northland, and once again attack the Principality of Madras under the Second Prince's command by July next year, making due contributions to the great cause of revival of the Crison Empire.

There were three conditions in total, and Lorist laughed. He had to admit that the second prince was more sinister and cunning than the bullshit. These three conditions were very relaxed and did not hurt the Norton family. But Lorist believed that once he agreed to the second prince's request to submit, these three conditions would become three nooses around the Norton family's neck. He dragged the Norton family into the abyss step by step.

Lorist was not interested in vain with the second prince. After his elder brother died in the battlefield for the second prince, the second prince ignored the Norton family and sat on the territorial dispute between the Kenmaith family and the Norton family, but refused to mediate. The rumors about the second prince have long been well known. I believe that the second prince is better to believe that the sows will be on the tree...

Now Lorist is concerned about the development and construction of his family territory, and has no interest in occupying the northern land and the so-called revival of the Crison Kingdom. He picked up a blank piece of animal scrub paper, wrote two simple words to reply, and then thought about it and printed a new family badge representing the Count's title on the reply letter. Then he folded the reply letter, put it in an envelope and sealed it. He then handed it over to Viscount Sinderson.

Viscount Shinderson took the reply and said goodbye immediately. He had been waiting in Rock Castle for more than ten days and was eager to go back early.

Next, the seven or eight lords and nobles whom Lorists met were represented by the envoys sent by Baron Felim, the Pegasus family. Their purpose of coming to Rock Castle was the same, which was to buy good weapons and equipment from Lorist, such as iron armor and city guard crossbows...

To the request of these messengers, Lorist replied in one word: If you don’t have money, you can trade with food and supplies. The more you have, the better. Then he beat them all to discuss price issues with Fatty Shi.

Finally, Lorist invited Viscount Kenmas to come over. He was curious why so many territorial nobles would come to buy weapons and equipment from the Norton family...

Viscount Kenmas told Lorist the first thing he said was: The troubled times in the North have come.

Immediately afterwards, Viscount Kenmas told the current situation in Lorist. Since he escorted Duke Lukins back to the Grand Duke, the Grand Duke of the Northern Duke became sick. Because of his mastery of the former Northern Legion soldiers, Knight Henneed kept seducing soldiers from the Northern Legion who were still stationed in the Fresder Fortress Castle and the Henter Foso Bridge. As a result, more than 3,000 people ran to join Knight Henneed. Less than 1,000 soldiers left to defend these two fortress levels was a drop in the bucket, and even when the Second Prince's soldiers were in a hurry, the Second Prince's troops easily occupied these two strategic areas.

When the Second Prince was defeated, he heard the news from the merchants who returned from the northern part of the capital when he withdrew from the Principal of Madras. He was very sensitive to the opportunity, so he sent his only border guards who were still in charge to the northern part of the country. Sure enough, he easily occupied the two fortresses that were regarded as natural barriers. So the Second Prince did not return to the royal capital and went directly to the northern part of the land, occupied the Grand Duke's Mansion, and ordered people to send Grand Duke Lukins to the royal capital to recuperate.

Immediately afterwards, the second prince kept giving orders and began to plunder the nobles of the North, which angered the Knight Henneed, who was entrenched in the Sakura Manor Castle. He led the Northern Army and the Second Prince's men to a very small armed conflict. The second prince lost more than 2,000 people and suffered another big defeat.

This is why the nobles of the territorial areas in the north sent people to Rock Castle to buy weapons and equipment. The Norton family drove away Duke Lukins, the land tiger, and the second prince, the hungry wolf, came to the north again. For those ambitious territorial areas, this is actually a good time to strengthen the strength of the big family.

Viscount Kenmas came to meet Lorist for a simple purpose. He wanted to form an alliance with the Norton family and inform Lorist of Lorist that after spending more than five months, their family spent countless gold coins, finally built an iron chain bridge connecting the two sides of the strait in the eastern part of the north. In the future, the materials to and from the north do not need to pass through the Hendrifos Bridge, which is in the hands of the second prince.

This is good news for Lorist. At least if the Blade Mountains cannot find an outlet, it is also a good thing to have an extra channel to connect to the outside world. Lorist said he had to discuss it with his knights and then give Viscount Kenmas a reply.

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