Chapter three hundred and seventy-ninth asking price
"Everyone, follow the command and get on the boat in accordance with the order. We are the people led by the Yongye Army and are here to take you home."
It was only at this time that the leader of the Yongye Army officially explained the situation to these Crocodile Tribe civilians.
"Leader of the Yongye Army? He is really the leader of the Yongye Army."
"We are saved, we are really saved."
"Go home, we are going home, we are really going home."
These crocodile tribe civilians, who were dominated by hunger, reacted one after another at this time, looked at each other, and burst into wild joy.
"Isn't this reflection arc too long? Only now do you realize the difference between us and those Kingsley soldiers?"
"When your legs and feet become weak from hunger and you see the fragrant Yuanqi porridge, your IQ will also become negative. You might even be worse than them!"
"No joking, there are still countless people watching us, complete the task as soon as possible, who knows if Akmesser will change his mind."
"As you command, sir."
As the leaders of the Yongye Army led the Crocodile Tribe civilians to retreat, there were countless green eyes looking at them with the same hunger on both sides.
In addition to the elite troops dispatched by Akmeser to monitor the actions of the Eternal Night Army Leader, there were also hungry soldiers who were attracted by the aroma of vitality porridge.
If Akmesser's elite army hadn't been blocking the front, it would have caused a commotion.
Akmeiser watched the whole process expressionlessly, and his heart was filled with emotions.
Seeing the big from the small, the planning and organization of the Yong Ye military leaders have been integrated into their bones. It seems that everything is arranged in an orderly manner. If they are against such a force, if they have a little loophole, they will
The opponent will take advantage of you.
The failure of the Kingsley family's expedition to the East seemed to be full of chance, and they suffered at the expense of their pig teammates.
In fact, it is full of inevitable factors.
Compared with the civilians of the Crocodile Tribe, the leader of the Yongye Army was not so gentle in his treatment of the mercenaries who came over as partners. He directly asked the Kingsley family to help drive them to the shore and ship them to the north of the Bazhu River.
Shore, temporarily imprisoned.
After completing this transaction, the negotiations between the Yongye Army Leader and the Kingsley Family truly got on the right track.
"We can release all the soldiers trapped on the east coast by His Excellency the Grand Duke, but His Excellency the Grand Duke needs to agree to a few conditions." Sean made the conditions directly.
"Speaking."
"Article 1. All armies of the Kingsley family will be withdrawn twenty kilometers west of the Criminal Alliance. All cities in the Criminal Alliance will be handed over to the Yongye Army."
"second?"
"Article 2. The Kingsley soldiers in Brother Port will disarm and disarm on the spot, and the weapons and equipment will be handed over to the Yongye Army Leader for disposal. The Yongye Army Leader will be responsible for transporting the personnel back to the Carter Army Leader."
"third?"
"Article 3: The Kingsley family will provide 80 million royal gold coins in war compensation as a starting fund for the Crocodile people to rebuild their homeland."
"What about fourth?"
"That's all."
"That's all?" Archduke Buck looked at Sean with a sarcastic look on his face and said, "I thought His Excellency the Baron would let me give up my position as the Archduke of Carthusian Army."
Sean said righteously: "I am not that greedy. We will never occupy even half an inch of the Kingsley family's original land."
"Not such a greedy person?" Archduke Buck sneered even more, "I have never seen anyone more greedy than His Excellency the Baron."
Sean's face has long been trained to be thicker than the city wall, and he will not be affected by Archduke Buck's attitude at all, "So the Archduke has objections to our conditions?"
"There are more than just objections? The objections are serious." Grand Duke Buck calmed down his personal emotions and said solemnly, "Let us talk about it one by one."
"First, let our troops withdraw to the 20 kilometers west of the Criminal Alliance. This is contradictory to what you just said, not to occupy half an inch of the Kingsley family's original land. The so-called Criminal Alliance is nothing more than
A group of bandits and bandits who ruled the mountains as kings. Those towns were actually established by the knights canonized by the Kingsley family. They were originally the inherent lands of the Kingsley family."
"Wait?" Sean made a pause gesture and interrupted Grand Duke Buck: "It is true that these towns were originally established by the knights canonized by the Kingsley family, but they were all swamps of despair invaded by pioneer knights.
Land, if according to the theory of His Excellency the Grand Duke, if the pioneer knights canonized by our Eternal Night Army build a town in the Carthus Army, this town will become the existing land of the Eternal Night Army. If this is the case, the entire
Isn’t the alliance in chaos?”
"Your metaphor is not appropriate. It is true that the knights who founded these towns were pioneer knights, but they occupied the unclaimed land. At that time, the Swamp of Despair did not belong to the Byron Alliance, and the Evernight Army had not yet been established."
Archduke Buck answered clearly and logically.
"What we are discussing here is not a historical issue, but the sovereignty issue of the Crocodile tribe in the Swamp of Despair. Your Excellency just said that those pioneer knights occupied the unclaimed land, but that is only in the eyes of the Kingsley family. This
There is no truly unclaimed land in the world. Their original owners were the Crocodile Tribe. The Yongye Army has merged with the Crocodile Tribe and has the right to take over all relevant rights and interests of the Crocodile Tribe. If the history is really traced, the Kingsley family may not have an advantage.
Right? According to historical records, the Kingsley family is just a viscount family in the Ancient Andis Empire, and its territory is only a hundred kilometers in radius."
Grand Duke Bal's face darkened, and he couldn't help but said angrily: "You are sophistry. Let's talk about the current situation. What are you talking about about the Guandis Empire?"
Sean spread his hands and said innocently: "The Grand Duke was talking about historical issues just now, so I'm just going to analyze it from a historical perspective."
"What a mess." Grand Duke Buck slammed the table angrily and left the table.
"Half an hour's intermission." Princess Regent Sofilia came forward as a witness to the negotiation.
Seeing Grand Duke Buck walking away, Sophia Liya and Sean whispered: "I didn't expect the Baron's appetite to be so big. Are you not afraid of scaring away our Grand Duke?"
"The believers can't escape the church. As long as his army is still guarding the east bank, this big fish can't escape the hook. Do you really believe that His Excellency the Grand Duke has the courage to kill the fish and break the net?" Holding the ten pieces of the Kingsley family in his hand
Sean, with an army of tens of thousands, sat firmly on the Diaoyutai and killed Archduke Buck.
The conditions he proposed would certainly hurt Archduke Buck to his core, but they were better than being divided up by a pack of wolves.
"It is true that he does not have the courage to fight to the death, but it will be difficult for him to accept it if they are injured, especially the second point. If all his elite troops disarm and disarm, only hundreds of thousands of citizens will come back.
, wanting to re-arm cannot be completed in a year and a half, what is the difference between not being rescued? I'm afraid it will be difficult for the Kingsley family to agree." Sophia Liya said from a relatively neutral perspective.
"It's just a matter of sitting there and raising the price." Sean said with a smile, "Take your time, time is on my side anyway."
"It's best if you have an idea in mind. Remember my bottom line." The Princess Regent emphasized again.
Archduke Buck turned back within half an hour and said expressionlessly: "Let us continue."
An old politician like him would never lose control of his emotions just because he couldn't reach an agreement. He just used the topic to express himself and left the meeting to conduct explanations and consultations with his own think tank team and come up with countermeasures.
Sean raised the price on the spot, so of course he had to pay back the money on the spot.
This is destined to be a long tug-of-war. The two sides are going back and forth around the three clauses proposed by the Yongye Army leader, trying to obtain the best interests for themselves from various angles. This is by no means a matter between Sean and Archduke Buck, but
It is a confrontation between two think tank teams.
What affects the final result is not only on-site negotiation factors, but also various off-site factors.
In the preliminary agreement, the 5,000 Kingsley family soldiers who returned to the Carter Army with the help of the Yongye Army leader began to show off their power. With the cooperation of Archduke Buck, he squeezed out 3,000 elite soldiers and 20,000 mining slave soldiers like toothpaste.
The Kingsley family waged an undeclared war against those forces who took advantage of the situation.
With a tough attitude, they chopped off the claws that were reaching out to them. The first one to bear the brunt was Adolf, the military prince family who was a slave to the Lancelot royal family. The five thousand private soldiers of the nobles who entered the disputed territory without permission were ignored by the Kingsley family.
Killing without mercy, not even leaving time for explanation or buffering.
This was not over yet. The Kingsley family's partial army took the opportunity to march in and took back the other two territories that were in dispute with the Adolf family and whose ownership was temporarily in the hands of the Adolf family. The methods were equally brutal and ruthless.
noodle.
On the one hand, the Kingsley family is killing the chicken to show the monkeys, using this to warn those nobles and nobles who want to take advantage of the situation. It is true that the Kingsley family is now in an unprecedented weak state, but as a grand ducal family, they
The foundation he possesses is far beyond what they can match. If a little bit of strength slips through his fingers, he can crush them to death.
Moreover, they have now started the negotiation process with the Yong Ye military leader. Once their army is recovered, they will settle the score later.
Furthermore, the negotiations with the Yongye Army Leader have taken up too much of their energy, and they have no more energy to entangle with them. They must first use force to suppress them to prevent the situation from deteriorating further and indirectly affecting their negotiations with the Yongye Army Leader.
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For the Kingsley family, rescuing their hundreds of thousands of troops is now a top priority, and everything must be compromised for this matter.
Only by rescuing them can the Kingsley family have a future.
The Kingsley family's thunderous methods did scare many people. Many forces who originally wanted to take advantage of the situation couldn't help but weigh their own resources and whether they could withstand the Kingsley family's thunderous attack.
A skinny camel is bigger than a horse.
The Kingsley family has been standing for so many years, but it still has some foundation and will not collapse easily.
There are also unwilling forces who are secretly trying to obstruct the talks between the Yongye Army Leader and the Kingsley Family, hoping that the Yongye Army Leader will completely suppress the Kingsley Family Eastern Expedition Army to death on the east bank of the Donau River so that they can follow them to drink soup.
It's just that most of these forces have limited capabilities, and their influence is naturally limited.
However, with the entry of two major forces, the situation has become more complicated.
These two major forces are none other than the Holy Ether Church and the Conclave of Witches.
These two international forces have shown a strong and active state in the past ten years, especially the emphasis on secular rights has been increasing day by day.
This is directly related to the change of power within the Saint Ether Church.
In order to compete for the succession of the next pope, the cardinals are trying every means to expand their influence.
It is difficult to achieve eye-catching and explosive results by just preaching normally.
Therefore, these cardinals came up with a shortcut, which was to cooperate with the lords and nobles, and with the cooperation of these lords, they used inducements and even coercion to convert the people below, which was naturally much faster than normal preaching.
It’s also more eye-catching.
As for the secret society of witches, they have a deep enmity with the Saint Ether Holy See. Whatever the Holy See wants to do, they will definitely try their best to stop it, especially this kind of expansion.
The greater the power of the Holy See, the smaller their living space becomes.
This time the Holy See set its sights on the leader of the Carter Army.
Since the Carthusian Army and the Manyu Army have never completely outlawed slavery, their rulers are not interested in the Holy See, which advocates equality for all living beings and the liberation of souls, and have always resisted their full entry.
Among them, the leader of the Carter Army, who owns a large number of mining slaves, is the largest. After so many years of operation, the proportion of mining slaves here has reached an astonishing figure.
Even with the Kingsley family's tight defense, riots, riots, and defections by the mining slaves are still happening one after another. If the Holy See is allowed to move in on a large scale and publicize their tactics, the entire Carter Army will probably turn into a pot of gruel.
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In the past, when the Kingsley family was strong, they were monolithic from top to bottom.
Now that the Kingsley family is in an unprecedented state of weakness, anything is possible.
Archduke Buck, who had previously been indifferent to the Holy See, suddenly became a devout believer, and the cardinal of the Holy See became his guest.
In particular, one of the strong competitions for the next pope, the carriage of Cardinal Enoch, the general director of the Diocese of Valesta, frequently appeared in front of Archduke Buck's residence in the royal capital.
"What we just talked about, please leave it to your Excellency, the Bishop." Archduke Buck took Cardinal Enoch's hand sincerely and said, "After the matter is completed, I will not only be willing to spend the rest of my life serving the Lord of Truth.
God, in the next ten years, I will build at least a hundred churches in the territory, all named after Nott."
Nott was the surname of Cardinal Inoko before he joined the Holy See.
"Your Majesty is determined. You can build a church and name it after Nott. It will save people's attention. Your Majesty has this intention. It is enough."
Cardinal Inoko's wrinkled face smiled like a blooming chrysanthemum, "Your Majesty has entrusted you with the matter, so don't worry, this is Byron, a place with rules, and we cannot let these wild forces run wild."
Come on, Her Royal Highness Princess Sophia is young and is easily deceived by evil, which is normal. We have an obligation to help her correct it. For the benefit of all Byron, some personal interests must be given up."
"Byron has been able to stand for so many years only because of selfless people like the Bishop." Archduke Buck expressed his sincere appreciation. "It is my biggest regret that I failed to discover this before."
"It's not too late to discover now." Cardinal Enoko said with a reserved look, "It won't be long before your Majesty will discover that the glory of the true God is more powerful than you imagined. Not only will the things you worry about not be
If it happens, it will make those people sincerely dedicate themselves and make the territory more stable and prosperous."
"I'll wait and see." Archduke Buck's face showed just the right amount of anticipation, "I'm waiting for the good news from Your Excellency the Bishop."
"Stay." Cardinal Enoch boarded his quaint carriage.
It wasn't until they had traveled quite a distance that Enoch couldn't help but laugh loudly, and the solemnity and solemnity that belonged to the cardinal was completely lost.
"Nott's Cathedral, haha... Hundreds of Nott's cathedrals do sound very interesting. It seems that Buck, the old fox, is in a really bad situation, and he doesn't even want to lose his last dignity."
"But for me, it is a great thing. Hey, if you can take down the leader of the Carter Army, I will see what you can argue with me about. My dear Bishop St. George, cheers to the glory of the true God."
Cardinal Enoch proudly poured himself a glass of wine as clear as crystal, and raised his glass alone in the direction of Saint Eden.