Chapter 153 The history of the fortune of King Harbor
As the saying goes, "It is indecent to come back without reciprocating." The shameless behavior of the visitors from King's Harbor made Xue Hua feel deeply angry.
What was even more incredible to him was that the reason why Ron and others targeted Rogge Camp was just because Rogge Camp refused them to dump fragrant fruits into the camp a few years ago?
Xue Hua had stayed in Rogge Camp for quite some time, so of course he knew that almost everything in Rogge Camp was self-sufficient.
Three holy wells irrigate the large-scale farmland behind the camp, and a kind of fragrant fruit seedling grown in the mountains is enough to supply the demand for fragrant fruits in the entire camp.
In Xue Hua's impression, the fragrant fruits grown in the mountains are not as sweet as ordinary fragrant fruits, but they have a clear and slightly bitter taste. The taste is more like the coffee Xue Hua drank in his previous life. He and Roger Mercenary
Both sisters preferred alpine pimento to the temperate pimento grown in King's Harbor.
This habit has not changed until now.
King's Harbor is world-famous for its high-yield and high-quality fragrant fruit trade. Before the invasion of demons, King's Harbor was not an independent kingdom but just a city in Westmar. The city's surrounding terrain is flat and the climate is mild, which is very suitable for large cities.
Planting fragrant fruits on a large scale.
In addition, the sea trade in Port King is very developed, so the fragrant fruits here are also exported to all over the world by ship.
Because the pimento here has a sweet taste and is easier to cook, it is widely loved by people all over the world.
As a result, King's Harbor began to become wealthy rapidly, and the huge daily trade volume caused large quantities of gold coins to fall into the pockets of the lords and nobles here.
But because King's Port was only a city in the Kingdom of Westmarch at that time, 50% of their income needed to be paid to the Kingdom of Westmarch as taxes.
Frankly speaking, this tax amount is quite high, but as a price for paying such a high tax, the royal family of Westermar also gave Kingport complete trade autonomy.
They can decide on their own trade partners without asking the Westmarch royal family for their wishes. This right is a considerable advantage for a commercial city.
However, businessmen are all profit-seeking and are never satisfied.
The combination of nobles + businessmen maximizes this greed.
Ever since the fragrant fruit trade brought tens of thousands of gold coins to these nobles and merchants every day, the local lords and other noble merchants have been plotting to separate King's Port from the rule of Westmarch.
Before the invasion of demons, they had never found a chance. As a traditionally powerful kingdom of knights, Westmar was not someone to be trifled with.
But after the demonic invasion began, the lords of King's Harbor finally saw an opportunity to break away from the rule of Westmarch.
Especially after Tristram was completely captured by demons, the Knights Templar of Westmarch, who were busy extinguishing the fires of demon invasion burning across the country, no longer had time to find trouble in King's Port.
So King Port immediately declared its independence, and also dispatched troops to include the neighboring city of Dunkre into its territory.
The betrayal of King's Port made the Westmarch royal family very angry, but in an era when the demonic invasion became more and more intense, the Westmarch royal family had no way to pay attention to King's Port's treachery.
Therefore, they could only choose to turn a blind eye for the time being and decided to focus on solving the demonic invasion in the country first.
However, what they did not expect was that their neglect of the independence of King's Port was actually interpreted as "laissez-faire" by other city-states in Westmarch.
As a result, many ambitious city-state lords also began to declare independence, and Westmar, the former huge overlord of the Western Territory, fell into a state of fragmentation and disintegration.
Fortunately, Branwell, the training ground of the Templars, the city-state where the Holy Declaration was signed, and known as the "City of Knights", has always adhered to the ancient dogma. The lords in the city rebelled when all the leaders
Despite the circumstances, it continued to support the crumbling Kingdom of Westermar under huge pressure.
With the great help of the knights, Westmar finally managed to survive the demonic invasion, but at this time, the entire Westmar territory had shrunk to less than half of its original size.
The domestic economy is in extreme devastation, and the entire kingdom is in a state of dire need.
Therefore, although the king of Westmarch at the time hated King's Port who was the first to rebel, and even privately changed the name of King's Port on the map to "Traitor's Port", he still had no good way to deal with King's Port.
And just when Westmar was in urgent need of material assistance to restore the domestic economic system, a dramatic scene occurred.
The envoy from King's Port appeared outside the city of Westmarch with large quantities of supplies and asked to meet the king of Westmarch.
Although the King of Westmarch was very reluctant, he finally agreed to the request for a meeting with the King's Port envoys under the persuasion of the Lord Knight of Branwell.
The two parties closed the door and talked for a whole day and night in the palace study. When the door was opened again, the proud face of the King's Port envoy was the first to appear in front of everyone.
What appeared behind him was His Majesty the King of Westmarch, but the expression on his face at that time was completely opposite to that of the King's Harbor envoy. He looked completely lost and pale.
Three days after the talks between the two parties, King's Port began to deliver a large amount of various supplies to Westmarch City, and the Kingdom of Westmarch never mentioned the matter of returning King's Port and Dunkre to its territory.
Seeing this, Xue Hua gently closed the "Record of the Kingdoms of the Western Boundary" in his hand, and a cold smile slowly appeared at the corner of his mouth.
Using economic means to make a big difference with a small amount?
Do you think you can buy anything with money?
You are not allowed to sell fragrant fruits, so you take such vicious revenge?
If it weren't for Xue Hua's insect swarm, the Rogs would have suffered heavy losses this time!
The lives of your men are lives, but the lives of the Rogs are not lives, right?
If your conspiracy really succeeds, how will he explain it to the two little girls?
Xue Hua handed the book back to Kane in front of him, then stood up and stretched out his waist under his worried gaze.
"Xue... I know that you have a deep relationship with Rogge Camp. In fact, I am the same, but in the final analysis, the professionals in King's Port are not wrong. They are just following orders, so..."
Kane finally couldn't help but plead to Xue Hua. In fact, he was not a bad person like the Virgin White Lotus, but he knew that with the power Xue Hua currently had in his hands, once he really got angry, even if
Taking into account the Holy Covenant Treaty, he could not directly do anything to the people of King's Port, but he only needed to make a slight change in battlefield tactics, which was enough to send the entire King's Port troops into a place of no return.
You know, even if the human reinforcements have arrived, the insect swarm, which has an absolute advantage in numbers and is still increasing, is still the absolute main force attacking Cui Fank, and Kane, who has seen Zagara's tactical command ability, has never doubted it. Xue Hua's men have the ability to completely kill the King's Harbor troops, so now he can only try to calm down the anger in Xue Hua's heart, hoping that he will not do too much when the time comes.
"Don't worry, old man. I can still tell what's right and what's wrong. Unless those guys continue to mess with me in the future, I will only let them return without success this time. Besides, this kind of thing will never happen again." The Demon Fortress Council is too lazy to take care of it, but why should I take care of it so much?"
With a faint sneer on his face, Xue Hua walked slowly outside the house, saying words of comfort to Kane.
But in fact, what he was thinking was completely different, and it was not as "gentle" as he said.
"Hmph! No success? If I don't make you cry this time, I will change your last name to Margery!"
