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Chapter 60 Transaction Processing
"City Master, Miss Eve and Master Rand are currently living in the mansion of the Drake family in Black Rock City, and have sent you a notice to stay in Black Rock City for a long time."

In the meeting hall of Pekers Castle, Foreign Minister Aldrich was reporting to Ronan.

Presumably they have reported the situation here to Earl Drake, and are waiting for the earl's reply.

Ronan understood.

It doesn't matter what the identity of the siblings is, what's important is that they can help Ronan contact the ruler of the northern part of the kingdom.

Become the communication link between him and Earl Drake.

This helps him better understand the development of the situation in the kingdom.

With the ability of this earl, I believe he is also very aware of the current turmoil in the kingdom.

On the surface, it was a church dispute between the Archbishop of Holy Water and the fundamental bishops.

Behind them are the noble alliance of the empire dissatisfied with the status quo and the conservative nobles of the emperor's faction.

The contradictions accumulated by the two sides over the years were completely detonated.

And from the attitude that Earl Draco showed towards Ronan next, it is enough to guess his position.

Judging from what Duke Nushi said to Edson, the core of this dispute lies with the Ronan family.

The rebellious alliance of nobles clearly wanted to put a new emperor on the throne who favored them.

In order to meet their political needs.

And this process must be secret, and the nobles of the emperor's faction cannot be warned.

Otherwise, the plan is doomed to fail before it even begins.

Therefore, in the eyes of others, the Ronan family still belonged to the emperor's faction and was part of the royalist party.

If Count Drake hadn't been involved.

So for Ronan, a not-so-important member of the royal family.

No matter which side he decides to take next, he will show some kindness to him, but it will not take it too seriously.

Because in his eyes, Ronan's royal status has nothing to do with it.

It will neither allow him to win more allies, nor will he be confronted by political opponents.

But on the contrary, if Earl Drake had already participated in the resistance movement of this noble alliance.

Then with his identity and influence, he must occupy a pivotal position in the alliance.

If you already know the truth behind the scenes, you will realize Ronan's special identity.

In order to get close to the future new emperor and occupy a greater initiative, Earl Drake showed great enthusiasm for what he thought would happen.

After all, both the North Lion Principality and the Orange family have a deep blood relationship with Edson.

In comparison, Earl Drake looked like an outsider.

"In addition, Luca, on behalf of the Chamber of Commerce, expressed his sincere apologies to you for his mistakes in his work. The gang of thieves from the Blackstone Merchant Road have already escaped and disappeared, so there is no need to worry about the city owner. For this reason, he donated [-] yuan to Blackrock City on behalf of the Drake Chamber of Commerce. Gold coins as compensation for worrying about you."

Ronan recovered from his thoughts and nodded after hearing Aldridge's report.

"Tell him I forgive him for this mistake, but not allow it to happen again."

It seems that the bandit group is indeed related to the siblings, and Luca is just the one who was pushed out to take the blame.

However, he woke up in time, which was equivalent to giving him a sum of money for nothing.

The family is indeed the largest military dealer in the empire, and they can give him five thousand gold coins at will, which is really rich.

Different from the high prices in Triumph City, as a place of steel production, in the northern province, this money is enough for Ronan to summon more than 500 soldiers to arm him.

So far Ronan has a total of [-] trained professional soldiers and [-] knight troops in his hands.

Relying on the weapon reserves in Viscount Pecks' castle, he basically didn't need to buy extra.

But if the army of soldiers continues to expand, the number of weapons will not be enough.

However, the expansion of the army will have to wait until next spring to plant all the farmland around Black Rock City.

Otherwise, he would have to face the trouble of too many soldiers to support him.

He couldn't keep pumping the blood of Black Rock City to feed his Cold Wind collar, otherwise the nobles here would definitely make trouble, which would affect the normal operation of the city.

Ronan stayed in Black Rock City for a total of five days.

After handling the government affairs in the city during this period, he took Ed and Cassana back to Cold Wind Territory.

It would take at least ten days to transmit the letter from Black Rock City to Purple Spring City and back again.

It is impossible for Ronan to wait in Black Rock City all the time. Cold Wind Leader still has many things to deal with.

Especially one day ago, the surrendered wild man arrived at Winter Wolf Village with soldiers and tribe population.

After more than two months of mining treatment, the topsoil on the upper layer of the coal mine has been cleared out a huge gap, exposing the minerals below.

And the rocks and shrubs around the mine have been cleared to open up a road that can be walked normally.

Ronan previously sold a lot of pre-orders by relying on his status as the city lord, in order to obtain resources such as steel and wood.

Now is also the time to start mining in earnest.

Ronan, who returned to Cold Wind, saw White who came to greet him.

"My lord, this time we brought back a total of 340 people from the barbarian tribes. Among them, there are more than 1000 people with the ability to work. Although they can't compare with those warriors, they are enough to undertake the mining work. There are still 100 people left. Most of them are elderly people and children, and they are now being resettled in Winter Wolf Village."

"How are they feeling?" Ronan asked.

"There was a conflict when we first arrived in the tribe, but after the soldiers pressed all the remaining warriors among the wildlings to the ground, and the barbarian messenger killed several of the leading tall wildlings, they stopped resisting."

"The savage asked me to pass a message to you on his behalf. As long as you provide shelter and enough food, he will let the people of the tribe obediently work for you."

White reported the situation one by one.

Having said that, Ronan knew that what really made these savages willing to obey his orders was the sense of oppression brought by the fifty knights and one hundred soldiers.

For now, he still needs to arrange at least a hundred soldiers to stay in Winter Wolf Village to ensure the stability there.

As for how to develop in the future, it depends on these savages' own ideas.

Nor did Ronan intend to crush them outright.

As an incentive to motivate them to work, he will pay as usual and set up a trading market in Winter Wolf Village.

If some of them perform outstandingly, they can be promoted.

From a miner in a mine to a manager of Winter Wolf Village, gain more freedom.

With internal competition and conflicts, it will save them from looking for opportunities to rebel and trouble him.

In addition to the arrival of the miners, White also brought another good news.

"According to your description, I collected these items from the barbarian tribes, please take a look."

White handed Ronan a large bag of items behind him.

It contains various animal bone carvings, tooth necklaces and other decorations that show barbarian civilization.

After choosing among them for a long time, Ronan picked up an animal tooth necklace with a satisfied expression on his face.

(End of this chapter)