"No! Your Highness, this is not possible. How can we give such armor and weapons to that person? Wouldn't this increase his strength? I firmly oppose..."

The thing that Grand Duke Camberlet said was a big box. After opening it, it was a set of exquisite black iron armor, a square fine iron shield, a finely forged sword, a sharp dagger and a foot-long long head grabbing flashing with cold light. It can be said that this box contained a complete set of weapons and armor equipment.

When the Marquis of Crilos saw the arms in the box clearly, he expressed his opposition loudly. He knew very well what Grand Duke Combert meant, which was to provide the Second Highness with such standard weapons, armor and equipment to offset the huge amount of money of 1.5 million Jinfu, and also to increase some help for him to gain the trust of the Second Highness. This was related to whether he could get his revenge as he wished...

"No, listen to me first." Grand Duke Combert waved his hand: "This is the purpose of my coming to discuss with you in person, not sending someone over."

Picking up the standard black iron armor in the box, Grand Duke Combert gently stroked his cold breastplate: "In fact, this set of equipment is the latest armor of our Commercial Alliance. It has just been built, thanks to the tungsten iron ore and other metal ores you sent. If our Commercial Alliance armed forces can replace with such equipment, their combat power can be increased by at least 30%. Ordinary longbows and crossbows cannot cause damage to soldiers wearing such armor within a range of 100 meters.

Just like you said, if you hand over such a complete set of arms to His Majesty, it would indeed enhance his military strength. The last time you wrote that His Majesty the Emperor was still thinking about re-establishing the Stormless Legion, hoping to at least reach a balance with the Norton family's armed forces in terms of legion strength, rather than being suppressed by the four major legions of the Norton family at a disadvantage.

Sometimes I really can't understand what this emperor is thinking in his mind? Now is the best peace period for his empire. He does not vigorously develop people's livelihood and recuperate so that his empire can recover sooner. Instead, he focuses on rectifying the armaments and rebuilding the three empire corpses and other useless places. In this case, our business alliance does not mind pushing it back later, so that this emperor can waste more resources and funds on the armaments.

I brought this set of standard weapons and armor equipment to you, just to let you dedicate it to His Majesty the Emperor so that he can support you in maintaining the trade routes with our commercial alliance and obtain more mineral resources from this empire. Now it can be used to offset the huge debt of the one.5 million Jinfu that His Majesty the Emperor pressed on you. You can tell His Majesty that if he can provide enough mineral resources, our Commercial Alliance can create 50,000 sets of such standard weapons and armor equipment for him a year..."

"What, 50,000 sets? Your Highness, you are not joking, how could there be so many?" Marquis Crilos exclaimed. As the logistics officer in charge of the armed legion of the Double-Headed Dragon Chamber of Commerce, he knew very well how much labor it would take to build a set of black iron weapons and armor equipment. This was not an easy and simple thing.

"If the materials are sufficient, it would be easy to build 100,000 sets a year." Grand Duke Combert laughed: "We finally understand how the exquisite standard equipment of the Norton family armed. The great swordsmen we sent discovered those hydraulic machinery in the Northland. After years of research and improvement, our business alliance has created many hydraulic machinery that can be forged and forged, which can replace manual labor to create these black iron standard weapons.

To put it bluntly, breaking these armors and weapons is just a repetitive process. An experienced forging can only create two or three spear heads from morning to night, or two small parts of armor from morning to night. But now with the assistance of these hydraulic machinery, you can create hundreds of nearly a thousand spear heads of the same quality in a day, and the hydraulic mechanical energy of each component of the forged armor can assemble one or two hundred sets of black iron standard armor.

This time I came to discuss with you, and I asked you to present this set of black iron weapon equipment to the Emperor and discuss how to get more mineral resources from him. For example, if you can obtain permission to build an ore refining site, it can reduce the cost of transporting mineral resources and provide us with more production share. After all, transporting metal ingots is more cost-effective than transporting ore.

If we plan properly, we can get two mineral resources from him, but we only need to give him a set of black iron-based arms payments. You may not know that if the mineral resources produced can be provided for free, the cost of making such a set of equipment shall not exceed seven or eight gold-fords, which is basically a cost of labor and transportation costs. And such a set of black iron-based weapons and armor equipment, most of the prices for sale on the market are above fifty gold-fords…”

"But Your Highness, the Crison Empire is the mortal enemy of our business alliance. If we strengthen his military strength in this way, will it have an adverse impact on the revival of our business alliance in the future? If there is another war between us in a few years, the weapons and armor we provide them today will cause greater harm to our business alliance armed forces!" Marquis Criloster asked back.

"Ah..." Grand Duke Camberlet sighed: "Crilos, you are wrong. The current war is not a pattern of fighting each other by robbing sharp swords, just like the war between us and the Norton family. The soldiers of our commercial alliance armed forces are not inferior to the Norton family armed forces in terms of courage and skills, but they did not give us the opportunity to fight in close combat, but used various long-range weapons to defeat us at a long distance...

In the decisive battle in Bruvia, we failed, and we lost the Mana Hill Plain and Moriente. I returned to that battlefield many times in the middle of the night, and relived the nightmare again. It was not a war, but a one-sided massacre! We made careful arrangements to prevent the chariots and crossbows that were famous for the Norton family armed forces and the moving catapults, and finally approached the enemy's front. Just as we made a lot of sacrifices and were about to defeat them with our superior forces, the Norton family armed forces launched bronze artillery, which made us defeat the land, with corpses piled up like mountains and blood flowing into a river, and we were trapped in the dilemma of being massacred.

At that time, the warriors who rushed to the front were wearing black iron armor carefully created by the Vicia Chamber of Commerce, just like the one in my hand. But such exquisite equipment did not bring them good protection, and it was like leaves and dust in the roar of artillery. So, in your eyes, such exquisite black iron equipment is not the reliance of our business alliance..."

Marquis Crilos was depressed, the decisive battle in Bruvia City and the subsequent attacks launched by the Norton family armed forces against the Commercial Alliance, and the bronze artillery were the keys to the Norton family armed forces' victory. Although the Commercial Alliance later adopted the method of sand and earth bags to temporarily resist the bombardment of the bronze artillery, this still could not change the dilemma of being passively beaten. They could only defend but could not attack, and they could not even counterattack.

"Now our business alliance is also studying long-range weapons, such as chariot steel crossbows and Norton family catapults, and is preparing to obtain gunpowder secrets from the Dwarf Kingdom of the Titanini Mountains, and strive to create our own artillery. But it all takes time and a lot of resources to study. So for us, the trade route you master now is crucial and cannot be lost.

Crilos, I know why you went to the imperial capital. But now I ask you to suppress your revenge, for our cause and wish, please live in peace with your enemies for a while, and use his trust in you to win the opportunity of revival and rise of our business alliance. As long as this trade route continues to provide us with raw materials and mineral resources, then we will be ready to restore our former glory."

Grand Duke Comberet bowed deeply to Marquis Crilos, as if expressing his sincerest apology to Marquis Crilos for his request. Marquis Crilos quickly stood up and held Grand Duke Comberet's arms.

"Your Highness, you don't have to do this. I know what to do. Actually, although I can meet that person now, I can't take revenge. He is a great sword master and an imperial emperor. At present, I have no chance of revenge on him. As for the business route, you need not say I understand that I am willing to do anything that helps our business alliance.

But what I am worried about is the Norton family. In order to defeat the Ontario Chamber of Commerce, they actually doubled the acquisition price, making us unprofitable in raw materials and mineral resources. They have hurt people and have been hurt. Their family can persist, but our Chamber of Commerce has been disrupted with all the steps and plans. The more they acquire, the greater the loss. Otherwise, the one-and-fund that man asked for, the one-and-a-half-million gold for me would not be in my eyes." Marquis Crilos said unwillingly.

"It's okay," Combert said comfortingly: "Since the Nortons have launched a purchase price war, we will fight with them to the end. On the battlefield, we are not their opponents, so can they beat us real merchants in business? Now we can use such standard black iron equipment to offset the debts of your chamber of commerce and earn more benefits from that Emperor.

A set of such a standard black iron equipment, including manual materials and freight costs, will not exceed the cost of twenty Jinfude, but we can sell it to the emperor for the price of forty or thirty Jinfude, and we can even ask the emperor to provide us with free ore raw materials for making equipment. In this regard, we will have great benefits. You will first refine the raw materials in the future, just like those iron ores, and first refine them into iron ingots, which can not only transport more production share, but also greatly reduce the cost of transportation.

In addition, the Norton family set up a large market for the collective trade in Qilin Port to acquire raw materials and mineral resources produced in the imperial aristocratic territories, and also sell the goods produced in their own family territories. Since you set up a acquisition site in Liushuichuan and fought a purchase price war with them, you might as well go further and develop the acquisition site in Liushuichuan into a market to operate.

Although our business alliance is not as good as before, we still have some confidence. Now with the continuous supply of raw materials and mineral resources, the production technicians of various chambers of commerce in our business alliance have a place to use their skills and will soon produce more high-quality goods to compete for the market occupied by the Norton family. Perhaps in some aspects we cannot compete with the goods produced by the Norton family, but the forging of gold and silverware, fruit wine, stone carvings, and artworks are our strengths. As long as we open up sales in the empire, it can become a good growth point for profits."

Grand Duke Comberet is worthy of being the president of the Double-Headed Dragon Chamber of Commerce. In the blink of an eye, he gave Marquis Crilos a few good business ideas. The Marquis Crilos became more and more excited: "Yes, I just thought about providing you with supplies, but I forgot to buy a large amount of goods from you and sold it. It would be a good idea to turn Liushuichuan into a prosperous market. I am sure that the nobles of the empire will like those high-end luxury goods with great artistic tastes from the central and southern regions, because this will make them feel that they have a noble status, artistic temperament and cultivation..."

Grand Duke Camberlet and Marquis Crylos laughed, and the war ended and peace came. The imperial nobles no longer boasted about their own bravery, but also began to pay attention to their own artistic cultivation. This was the case with the nobles of various kingdoms in the central and southern parts of the mainland. Suddenly, some strange-shaped artistic carvings and oil paintings with indistinguishable colors and lines became popular, and were popular in the aristocratic circles of those kingdoms and were hailed as fashion. The two believed that if the technicians of the Commercial Alliance imitated some such works of art and put them into the empire, they would definitely be welcomed by the imperial nobles.

"Well, Your Highness, I will follow your instructions to dedicate this exquisite set of black iron equipment to that man, and obtain sufficient compensation and benefits for our business alliance from him." Marquis Crilos sighed with a long sigh: "I am really unwilling to give such good weapons and armor to our enemies..."

Grand Duke Camberlet smiled softly: "Crilos, do you know that in the mountains and forests of our province of Rio Riga, there is a bird called Berliga. The peculiarity of this bird is that they do not hatch eggs by themselves. When they feel like they want to lay eggs, they go around to find other nests, and then steal the eggs laid by other birds, put their eggs in and pretend to be, and let other birds help them hatch the eggs...

What we are going to do now is similar to this Bird of Berliga. If our business alliance has these excellent weapons and armor, then our reorganization of the business alliance will easily attract the attention of countries in the central and southern regions, and once again form a boycott and blockade of our business alliance, which will undermine the fragile peace we have finally reached and will cause our efforts to enter the markets of various countries in the central and southern regions to be severely defeated.

Let the imperial emperor, who was full of minds of reorganizing his arms get these weapons and armor, then he would definitely reorganize a new legion. The more we provide, the more legions he formed. Perhaps this way he could feel safe in front of the Norton family and feel that he had the strength to challenge the sword saint of the country-stopping Duke Norton.

But what this imperial emperor did not understand was that in this peaceful period when wars were extinguished across the mainland, his vigorous formation of a legion and reorganization of arms would only arouse doubts from all over the country and become a target of vigilance and attention from other countries. This would be more suitable for our business alliance to deal with in secret, and perhaps it could re-establish an alliance against the Crison Empire more than a hundred years ago.

And what you have to do is to try to gain the trust of His Majesty the Emperor and strive to push his illegitimate son to the throne of the heir to the throne. It would be wonderful if we could obtain the command rights to form a new legion. We will send you a large number of people and arrange them to this legion to control the legion. In this way, we can re-provoke the war in this empire through the struggle for the throne. Just like what our fathers did back then.”

Marquis Crilos nodded excitedly: "I understand, Your Highness, I will act as you tell me."

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