Why did the lord rebel

Chapter 372 Chapter Thirty Seventy

Eldridge sat on the galloping horseback, spitting the sand in his mouth, and shouted disdainfully against the wind:

"Just a few, ah, orcs, scared you out of your wits, ah, you guys from the military academy, ah, are all cowards!"

Sean Mountbatten, who was riding behind Eldridge, choked and rolled his eyes wildly.

But he is really not good at talking back to Eldridge—no better than Sean Mountbatten, a scholar who came out of the Imperial Military Academy's staff department, Eldridge really led troops to fight against orcs on the bloody front of the Eastern Border The old ass of the actual combat faction, about the Glorious Federation, in the entire Frost Maple Ridge, only Eldridge speaks the most.

Eldridge took another breath of wind and sand, then turned his head towards the senior official Xiahou riding his horse and said humanely:

"Boss, the group of green skins in the Glorious Federation, ah, are good at everything, just like it, ah, tearing up... Our Eastern Army hunks, ah, have long wanted to enter the Federation mainland! Although we only have 500 people, Ah, but there is no need for us to confront them head-on! According to Grand Duke Rosario’s original plan, ah, after he invaded the federal mainland, he should have, ah, fight guerrillas! I still don’t believe it, ah, Grand Duke Dolores These green-skin tribes on the plain, ah, can be twisted together!"

Master Laurie clutched his mage hat, and said in the wind:
"But if we insist on fighting guerrillas, don't we become a group of insignificant wilderness bandits? The federal army in the east certainly doesn't even bother to fart at us!"

"Didn't you say you've been fighting guerrillas all the time!" Eldridge snorted, "When we make things bigger, ah, look, these orcs must be, ah, in a hurry!"

What everyone didn't expect was that it was Sean who was refuted by Eldridge, who nodded solemnly at this time and said:

"Ai Shuai is right. Sir, do you still remember the map of the Dolores Great Plains given to us by the 'Dan-Azler' sub-orcs? It marked the territory boundaries of each orc tribe in detail... If we follow the What Ai Shuai said, if you make a fuss around the boundary of their sphere of influence, maybe it will really cause some trouble..."

Xia Houyan was in a daze for a while:

Why does this guerrilla strategy interspersed with various forces sound so familiar in history?
What made him even more depressed was that he was busy suppressing bandits in the Land of Soul Breaker a year ago, so why did he become a suppressed bandit in Dolores Great Plains in just one year?
Lamenting the magic of fate, the Frost Maple Ridge Expeditionary Army left behind the billowing yellow sand of the Tongge Desert, and finally saw a green corner of the Great Plains of Dolores.

……

The camera pans back to Frost Maple Ridge, a land of broken souls far away from the mountains.

When the expeditionary army was galloping through the land of the orcs, everything in this wasteland territory seemed to be operating normally.

As the temperature warms up, the peak trade season in the south of the empire has officially kicked off.

However, Shuangfengling, who made a lot of money cutting leeks from the demon merchants last year, may find it difficult to repeat the brilliant record of that time this year:

The war situation in the Central Plains of the Empire has seriously affected the trade security between the human and devil races. In order to help the Central Plains relieve the pressure on supplies, this year the Arcane Spire defense line deliberately released the checkpoint early this year. There are still very few demon business trips;
In addition, in order to prevent the infiltration of orc spies, this year's investigation of the defense line of the Arcane Spire was extremely strict, which further dampened the enthusiasm of the demon merchants.

The final result is that even many demon businessmen who have cleared the customs would rather earn less, and regard Shuangfengling and Yanxi City in the north of the Shixinhe River as the end of their trip, resolutely refusing to go to the city under the shadow of war. A step forward in the Central Plains of the Empire:
After all, earning money belongs to earning money, and you have to spend your life to spend it.

Although the lord led his troops across the Dusty Mountains to fight, Mayor Joel and Katerina, the top Igor family members who stayed behind in Shuangfengling, could not turn a blind eye to the drastic changes in the international trade situation after all;
In order to conform to the general trend of the times, Shuangfengling specially held the first "Left Bank Town Free Trade Festival" in the left bank town on the south bank of the Lion Heart River these days, and opened up several major settlements in Huafang Town, East and West Fairy Town, etc. Commodity Fair, where the demon merchants who go north and the humans from the Central Plains who go south trade goods here:
The meaning of Frost Maple Ridge is also very simple - since wars are raging in the Central Plains of the empire, and everyone is unwilling to risk their lives, then don't bother, we, Frost Maple Ridge, provide convenience, and our two kingdoms of humans and demons are here where our peace doves fly Doing business in the land of cracked souls!

In this way, the precarious cross-border trade can be carried out as usual, and Shuangfengling, who is the hero of the country and the people, can also get a piece of the pie, collecting a little bit of intermediary fees, venue fees, service fees, and tea fees , Hospitality fees, customs duties, trade tax, value-added tax, resource tax, security tax...

It's not a win-win!

At noon that day, Mayor Joel had just rushed back to the territory from the exhibition site in the left bank town.
The old minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs who loves to worry is still not at ease about the free trade festival organized by the boys. He has to go to see it by himself and confirm that all taxes and fees have not been missed before giving up;
At the site of the trade festival, Mayor Joel also announced to all the businessmen of the two countries present, "The Land of Broken Soul will become the window of the empire, The port of trade, in the next few years, Shuangfengling will further open up the town on the left bank of the Lion Heart River into a "wasteland free trade zone", providing a trading platform with ultra-low tariffs for all devil merchants"!
There is no way, the market is in panic during the war, and it is always necessary to draw a big cake to inject some confidence into the businessmen——

——You can’t sit on the sidelines and do nothing, just watch the whole line of A shares go green, right?

A promising government should be combined with an efficient market. This is a truth that the lord has emphasized countless times at the high-level economic meeting of the territory. Mayor Joel and other senior officials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs are naturally familiar with it.

Mayor Joel, who was physically and mentally exhausted after running back and forth in the northern part of the Land of Broken Soul in a pony carriage, thought this was the end of his mind, but he never expected that the real trouble was still to come.

After returning to the territory, the old mayor first went home and had a sip of hot tea, rested on the recliner for a while, and then rushed to the Vincent Palace non-stop, preparing to put the trade report of the "New Boston Chamber of Commerce" on the Go to the Territory Archives—this time the trade festival opened, and Rogge, the fat president of the "New Boston Chamber of Commerce", also came. After hearing that the lord did not show up in person, he was so depressed that he seemed to have never seen his relatives. father.

However, Mayor Joel was halfway on the road with a cane when he was stopped by Anjie, the maid of Horned Eagle Manor.

"Mayor Joel!" The little maid ran over in a hurry without changing the maid outfit that the lord specially shortened the skirt, and shouted, "Go to Horned Eagle Manor quickly... Carter Miss Linna asked me to call you over!"

Horned Eagle Manor?Mayor Joel was a little puzzled for a while: important affairs of the territory are usually decided at the Vincent Palace, but the lord sometimes likes to handle some paperwork and foreign affairs in his home, Eagle Manor - but the lord is not there ah?

But since the eldest lady gave the order, Mayor Joel had nothing to say, and with An Jie's support, he hurried to Horned Eagle Manor.

——As soon as the heavy wooden door of the manor hall was pushed open, Mayor Joel probably realized what had happened.

In the manor hall decorated with resplendent and magnificent decorations and elven cultural relics scattered like no money, Katerina Igor was wearing the gorgeous long dress that she would only wear on important occasions, sitting gracefully in the main seat that the lord usually sits in , holding a cup of black tea in his hand.

And in the armchair opposite to the eldest lady of the Igor family, there is a middle-aged man with a fair face, gentle manners, and wearing black Chinese clothes, and another young man in beautiful clothes is standing by the middle-aged man with his arms tied. Behind the person, his face was full of tension.

Mayor Joel immediately realized that this was obviously a distinguished guest in the territory, and the lord was not there, and Miss Katerina was in a hurry to ask herself to help out!
The old mayor felt a little regretful, why didn't he change into formal clothes at home just now.

Seeing Mayor Joel walk into the hall, Katerina introduced to the middle-aged man in black with a smile all over her face:

"This is Mr. Johanson Joel, our Minister of the Interior at Frostmapped Ridge."

The concept of "Ministry of Internal Affairs", which was unheard of in the Haven Continent, obviously stunned the two guests.However, the middle-aged man stood up with a hearty smile and nodded to Mayor Joel, which was a simple salute.

Mayor Joel suddenly froze on the spot.

The first reason is that when middle-aged people nodded, their hands were not placed on the chest or behind the back according to the traditional etiquette of human beings, but slightly spread to the side;

The second reason is that when the middle-aged man raised his head and looked at Mayor Joel with a smile, what the old Minister of Internal Affairs saw was a pair of dark purple eyes with a faint red glow under his pale eyelids. eyes——

——Those eyes belonged exclusively to the nobles of the Demon Race.

"Nice to meet you." The middle-aged man finished his salute, sat back in his seat calmly, raised his legs gracefully, and smiled with his fingers crossed, "My name is Michael Gorther, and I am the Dark Moon Emperor." Under the seat, the seventh inheritor of the Eternal Night bloodline. May the bright moonlight shine on your path forever."

The mayor of Joel was already mentally prepared, but he was still shocked by the identity reported by the other party:

The so-called "under the throne of the Dark Moon, the seventh inheritor of the Eternal Night Bloodline", this overly polite statement, if translated into the vernacular of the empire, has the most obvious expression:
The seventh child of the current Demon Emperor, the majestic Seventh Prince of the Demon Race!
The demons are no better than humans. When the titles of the human empire have begun to open the entrance to some civilians who have been rewarded for their meritorious service, the demons living in the south of the mainland are still adhering to the ancient tradition of strictly linking nobles and bloodlines;
And the crimson color in the pupils of this Michael Gorther is exactly the blood of the eternal king of the Demon Race—the symbol that members of the Gorther Dynasty family cannot forge.

And Mayor Joel's shock was not really frightened by Michael Goser's lofty status - the ancestors of the Igor family were once rich, and now Frost Maple Ridge, which has power in the south, is more than enough to compete with any empire. The nobles stand against court;

A Prince of the Demon Race is certainly worthy of Shuangfengling's respect, but to be honest, it's really nothing;
What really surprised Mayor Joel was how a member of the royal family of the Demon Race, who was young and young, appeared in the nominal imperial territory of Shuangfengling!
After the completion of the arcane spire line of defense, the war between humans and demons has gradually extinguished, and transnational trade has been gradually liberalized in the past century, but the "Doomsday War" that almost tore the continent left a lasting impression on the relationship between the two countries. A rift that can never be healed:
At the end of the doomsday war that year, the emperors of the human and devil countries were in this soul-breaking land, dipped in the undried blood of the "Light of the Empire" Count Olaf, and signed the peace treaty at the same time as the "King of Grace" that will go down in history forever. Lodia Blood Oath":
The ruling bloodlines of the two races, the Palioglo family and the Gorse royal court, members of which can never step into each other's territory, but those who violate it will be smashed to pieces!
This bloody oath is intended to show that the truce between the two countries is by no means a consensus and a peaceful end, but a compromise that has to be made for the sake of the happiness of the people on the mainland—the hatred left by the Doomsday War will never fade away. In the future, as long as I see someone from your noble family in my territory, I will definitely kill them!
It is precisely because of the existence of the "Claudia Blood Oath", that since the end of the war, the imperial family and the demon royal family have hardly stepped into each other's territory;
In history, only Byron Gosser, the flirtatious demon prince "Knight of Flowers", once sneaked into the central plains of the empire to play with human girls, but was finally discovered by the empire, and he was dismissed according to "Claudius" without saying a word. "Ya Blood Oath" came to a five-horse body.

Regarding this matter, even the Great Demon Race Emperor who lost his beloved son at the time failed to raise any effective protests in the end:

After all, the "Claudia Blood Oath" symbolizes the deep hatred condensed by countless deaths and destructions. The weight of this ancient oath really cannot tolerate any tampering and revision.

And this is why Mayor Joel was so surprised at the moment:
The Michael Goser in front of him is a member of the demon royal family, but at this moment he is standing on the Phoenix Terrace of Shuangfengling swaggeringly—even if Shuangfengling immediately kills him on the spot according to the "Claudia Blood Oath", It's all justified and justified!

Mayor Joel first sincerely admired the bravery of the demon prince, and then realized with a shudder that since the demon prince, Mr. Maple Ridge...

It seems that this guy really has something important to discuss.

(End of this chapter)