"His Excellency, the military has taken up too much energy, and it is normal that he has no time to think about these issues." Sean turned around and flattered, "Business and trade are based on the stalemate and equal dialogue between the two sides. If it hadn't been for these years, Dong Sioding
The empire has always been suppressed by His Excellency the Grand Duke, and the proposal just now is like saying nothing, and rashly opening borders and mutual trade will only bring disaster to ourselves."
This flattery was definitely of a high standard. Not only did it save the other party's face, it also praised the other party's most proud achievements over the years.
Grand Duke Cedric, who had been stern since he entered the door, now had a much softer facial line. He nodded and said: "This is indeed the reason. The Odin orcs are a naturally authoritarian race. If they are not subdued, they will be
I won't make a deal with you obediently. After all, why bother to trade when you can grab something? In recent years, the balance between the two Odin empires has been broken. In order to compete for the grassland, both sides fought life and death. Not so
Pay more attention to us, otherwise we wouldn’t have so many free days, let alone this kind of thinking.”
Archduke Cedric took a few steps back and forth, and then said: "Now is an excellent opportunity to try to open some of the borders and trade with small and medium-sized tribes that are having a harder time. What do you think?"
Archduke Cedric's last question was not to Sean, but to the regent Princess Sophia.
Without the support of his niece, there is no way to implement this matter, because the Broken Mouth Blood Castle lacks basic commodity support. At that time, some commodities will have to be taken from Sophia Liya as the initial trading start-up capital.
The regent princess nodded without hesitation and said: "I agree with this matter. We have been in a stalemate with the Odin orcs for so many years. It's time to change to a different mode of war. However, when it comes to doing business, it is not a good idea for the two of us to be tied together.
Baron En’s opponent, since you were the one who started it, tell me, do you have any other good ideas?”
"I don't have any mature ideas at the moment. I can only talk about what I can think of. If it's useful, you can consider it. If it's not, just ignore it." Sean explained in advance.
"One moment you are impassioned, and the next you are mother-in-law. Just now you were about to point your nose and scold me. I didn't do anything to you. How can I eat you because you said the wrong thing?" Archduke Cedric said.
He glared at Sean and said, obviously he preferred Sean's previous style of saying something.
"I've thought too much." Sean laughed and said quickly, "There are only two ways to trade with Odin orcs. One is to bring goods into the Odin prairie for traveling business. This way we
Currently in use, the advantages and disadvantages are very obvious.
The risk factor is too high, and the entire caravan can easily disappear on the vast prairie, and it takes a long time. A caravan can wander around for at least half a year, or at most a year or two, and the benefits will shrink a lot. The advantage is that,
You can bring intelligence personnel in and out to understand the situation of the Odin Prairie and those tribes.
The second way is to choose a fixed location on the border between the two sides, set up a trade market, and use a large amount of scarce materials on the prairie to attract the Odin orc tribe to come to your doorstep. The benefit of doing this is to greatly reduce the risk index.
Even if there is a greedy tribe that wants to attack the trade market, it still has enough geographical and personnel advantages, and maybe it can take advantage of it.
The disadvantage is that you can only passively wait for the other party to come to your door, which takes a long time, especially in the early stages. It is not easy to open the market. Those Odin orc tribes are worried that this is a trap and dare not try it easily.
My suggestion is to take a two-pronged approach, while establishing a border trade market, and at the same time sending caravans deep into the Odin Prairie to do business. It doesn’t need to go too deep. The main purpose is to promote the border trade market and attract those Odin orc tribes to come to your door. Waiting for the establishment
After stabilizing the trade relationship, we can enjoy the benefits. Not only will there be a large number of Odin orc tribes coming, but the merchants from the Byron Alliance will also take the initiative to flock there after seeing the benefits."
"The method you just mentioned is indeed a good method in normal times, but it is not very useful now. So, the caravans that have appeared in the Odin Prairie in recent years are all your permanent ones.
Led by the Night Army?" Archduke Cedric did not let go of the information contained in Sean's words.
"That's right." Sean nodded generously and admitted.
There must be Archduke Cedric's eyes and ears on the Odin Prairie. The momentum that the leader of the Evernight Army has created here in the past two years is not small. It is impossible to hide it from him, and there is no need to hide it.
"I advise you to withdraw them from the prairie as soon as possible. In the next few years, this place will be extremely chaotic. If you are not careful, you will be in catastrophe." Archduke Cedric warned.
Sean's eyes narrowed and he said solemnly: "Is the West Odin Empire preparing to launch a full-scale war against the East Odin Empire?"
"It seems that you have a lot of information about the Odin Orcs in your hands." Princess Cedric said eloquently, "The West Odin Empire has been preparing for this for many years, and now it is the most chaotic time within the East Odin Empire.
If it were me, I wouldn't let go of this great opportunity."
"Thank you for the information, Your Majesty the Grand Duke. We will adjust our deployment on the Odin Prairie as soon as possible." Sean said sincerely. Although such a large military operation of the Odin Empire cannot be hidden from the eyes of those who are interested, it is only after receiving the news.
It's a matter of sooner or later, but if he can get the news one minute earlier, he can make contingency arrangements one minute earlier and reduce the loss by one point. This is the news he is waiting for here.
"In both public and private matters, I should remind you." Archduke Cedric waved his hand and said, "Besides, I still have something to ask of you. Let me tell you how this border trade should be carried out if this condition is substituted for entry.
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"Everything has two sides, and the turmoil of the general situation is no exception. When the two Odin empires of the East and West start a war, the main force should be the large tribes. Those small and medium-sized tribes are the rats in the cracks. Life will be more difficult. If you are not careful, you will...
Being reduced to cannon fodder, in order to survive, they will try their best to avoid the main battlefield. They have only two choices.
Either try to go north or go south. The north is a frozen wasteland. It will be more difficult for them to survive there. It is estimated that there will be more tribes going south. With so many tribes crowded in a small area, all kinds of living supplies will be lost.
It is even more scarce. If we open the border to mutual trade at this time, it will be easier to open up the situation. If it were me, I would definitely give it a try. Anyway, there will be no loss, right?" Sean asked with a smile.
Sean did not speculate on the deeper things. He needed to know what he needed to know. When the time came, Sophia Liya would naturally tell her that there was no need to play tricks in front of an old fox.
"Very good! Very good! Very good!" Archduke Cedric patted Sean on the shoulder with satisfaction.
I just don’t know whether he’s saying that Sean’s idea for the Broken Mouth Blood Castle is a good one, or that he’s saying that he’s his nephew and son-in-law.
Sean wiped a cold sweat in his heart. After all this, Archduke Cedric's attitude of interrogating the prisoner at the beginning was naturally no longer possible, so he was allowed to get away with it.
"If His Excellency the Grand Duke really wants to open up border trade, I have one more thing that can help." Sean began to reveal his fangs carefully.
"Which way?" Archduke Cedric asked.
Sean's proposal really scratched his itch. The purpose of his trip was two-fold.
One is about the future marriage between the Lancelot royal family and the Strachey family.
The other is the issue of military expenses for the Broken Mouth Blood Castle, and at the same time raising more military rations to prepare for the turbulent situation on the Odin Prairie.
At the military meeting at the Bloody Fortress, Archduke Cedric spoke with great pride, as if he had personally taken action. The nobles and nobles bowed their heads obediently and handed over the military supplies they needed.
Only Archduke Cedric himself knows how difficult this is.
This is different from the battlefield, where the enemy is clearly visible and he only needs to swing his sword to strike.
Although the lords and nobles were afraid of him and did not dare to challenge him, it was not easy to reach out and take something out of their pockets.
None of these lords and nobles were simple. They had already honed a set of ways to deal with him. When they met him for the first time, most of them hugged him and cried.
Either he was crying about poverty, or he was telling Archduke Cedric how many disasters had occurred in his territory in the past year, whether it was floods or droughts, and even plagues were rampant. He couldn't even blame him, let alone support Broken Mouth Blood Castle.
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In order to be realistic in their acting, some of them used rotten food and moldy bread at the banquet hosted by Archduke Cedric.
When Archduke Cedric left, he squeezed out the meager military supplies and food and stuffed them with a bunch of worthless tears of guilt.
Archduke Cedric knew that the other party was acting, but he had nothing to do. He couldn't lead his troops to break into the other party's warehouse to verify whether there was food in it, right?
No matter how domineering Archduke Cedric is, he cannot do this.
Because if you do this, your nature will completely change, and you will be treated as enemies by those nobles and nobles in the future.
But that way of sending beggars made Archduke Cedric disgusted.
If there was any other possibility, he would never deal with these bastards.
Now Sean has a brand new possibility in front of him, how can he not be interested.
"I formed a chamber of commerce in Valesta, which is full of pure businessmen. However, due to local security, they cannot do business over long distances, so we want to organize a mercenary certification agency to regularize mercenaries...
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Sean roughly described the mercenary idea that he originally proposed to the presidents of the Valesta Chamber of Commerce to Archduke Cedric and Regent Princess Sophia.
It was obvious that Sean had set his sights on the retired soldiers of the Broken Blood Fort.
The five presidents of the Valesta Chamber of Commerce unanimously approved Sean's mercenary idea and believed that it was very feasible.
However, when it comes to implementation, there are many difficulties. It is not a problem of formulating the rules, but the existing mercenary industry is too mixed. They do not have their own team, and when they actually start doing it, they lack the confidence.
The most important thing is to punish the team. This is the core focus.
If there is not enough force to ensure that they can hold those mercenaries with evil intentions accountable, the so-called mercenary system will be difficult to establish.
So, so far, this plan still remains on paper.
If they still can't think of a way to open up the situation in the future, they will have to ask Yongye Army Leader to find a way in this regard.
This is the last move. After all, the leader of the Yongye Army is currently stretched thin with its own troops and is unwilling to spend too much energy on it.
Archduke Cedric's visit made Sean see an opportunity.
Aren't the retired soldiers of the Broken Mouth Blood Fort the natural candidates for mercenaries?
Although their combat effectiveness has been greatly reduced due to disability and age, the foundation is there. As long as the disability is not too serious, they can still deal with petty thieves and ordinary bandits without any problem.
The most important thing is that their quality is more guaranteed than those mercenaries with unknown origins.
Sean spared no effort to encourage Cedric to open up the border trade, which naturally has his own interests.
The Eternal Night Army Leader cannot go around in such a large circle to collect money, but the Valesta Chamber of Commerce can.
If we can take the opportunity to open up this line, the Valesta Chamber of Commerce will truly stand up. Even without the support of the Yongye Army Leader, no one will dare to touch them.
Because at that time their interests will be tied to the Blood Castle of Broken Mouth.
"Okay, okay, okay!" Archduke Cedric said three good words in a row.
A ruler is longer and an inch is shorter.
Archduke Cedric was definitely a good player in war, but when it came to economics and commerce, he was an out-and-out layman.
Just now, Sean talked about border trade in such a grand way that he really saw huge business opportunities. But when he was asked to start it, he didn't have a good idea. For example, what were the most in-demand supplies among the Odin Orcs? These supplies
What are the source channels? How to transport these materials? What is the transportation cost? How to price, etc.?
Let alone thinking about it, whether he can consider these is a question.
The retired soldiers of Broken Mouth Blood Fort are basically in the same situation.
Doing business is also a skill. If no one shows you the way, you will be stuck here and there, and you don't have enough capital to squander it. It will be difficult to figure out the ropes.
As mentioned before, the reason why the Valesta Chamber of Commerce can snowball and grow is because the Eternal Night Army leader made full use of the descendants of Ans' enemies.
They themselves are doing business, but they are limited by their ability and scale. When they are at the bottom, they are engaged in the cheapest trade.
But it is also a type of trade, and it is also the most testing type, because they can't afford to lose, and it is more difficult to make money, and they must be calculating.
When the leader of the Yongye Army provides them with channels and products, they will naturally take advantage of the situation and develop at a terrifying speed.
Without them, the Yongye Army Leader would simply rely on some laymen without any business experience. Even with their intelligence and product support, it is still a question whether it can develop to the current level.
The retired soldiers of Broken Mouth Blood Fort are outright laymen.
But when it comes to mercenaries who dance with guns, Archduke Cedric is good at it. They are a group of undisciplined soldiers. It is easiest to organize them into shape and manage them using military methods.
If there is the Valesta Chamber of Commerce as commercial support and the retired soldiers of Broken Blood Fort as military support, border trade will no longer be an empty talk.
After doing this, Sean felt completely confident, and said to Grand Duke Cedric: "It seems that the Grand Duke lacks business talents. Let's do it this way. When I have time another day, I will bring together several members of the Valesta Chamber of Commerce.
The chief introduced them to His Excellency the Grand Duke, and I believe they have their own unique insights into the border trade."
"This is the best thing." Archduke Cedric nodded repeatedly, "I will discuss this matter in detail after I go back and study it carefully. I have one more thing to explain to you before I come on this trip. My youngest son
Arnold may have sneaked into your territory. I hope that after you find him, you can teach him a lesson, but do not hurt his life."
"General Arnold has gone to lead the Evernight Army?" This sudden news almost made Sean dodge, and countless alpacas were rushing past in his heart.
Although Arnold Strachey is not as famous as his father, Archduke Cedric, he is still famous as one of the three generals of Broken Mouth Blood Castle. According to legend, entering and leaving the Odin Steppe is like no one's land.
In recent decades, most of the many brilliant achievements that Broken Mouth Blood Cavalry has created with less and more victory are due to him. He is the life idol of Kelman, the chief of staff of the three main forces of the Eternal Night Army.