When the Saint comes, she does not collect food

Chapter 662 In Horn's Explanation

As Horn was explaining, every member of the secret party in the entire hall was flipping through or listening to others explaining the contents of the document.

What started out as mosquito-like whispers soon became a noisy torrent.

"Sir Horn, I find this hard to accept." Finally, a drunken little secret party leader bravely stood up and said, "We have been a secret party for hundreds of years. The church has not eliminated us. Why do you want to ban us just by saying so?"

"Yes!" another representative of the small secret party echoed, "We fought so hard to defend the territory, isn't this a clear way of forcing us to hand it over to the big secret parties?"

"Yes, the church didn't destroy you because it didn't need to do so!" Holding the wine glass in his hand, Horn's tone was calm, but there was a kind of impressive power. "It only needs to make you split each other, and then reap the benefits."

Lulos blew out a puff of smoke and cursed in a sarcastic tone, "You only think about defending your territory with all your might, and don't think about the benefits of the federation and unity. You really only think about yourself."

"but……"

The man wanted to argue, but was interrupted by Solan coldly: "You defended the territory? If you really defended it, how could the church easily kidnap your people as slaves?"

The two secret party leaders and several people around them were mostly sober, and they suddenly discovered a problem.

That is, from the perspective of strength, they are completely at a disadvantage.

These small secret parties are different from large secret parties like the John Party, which controls seven or eight towns and hundreds of village estates and alchemy workshops. These small secret parties often only have three or five villages to worship.

In many cases, small secret parties do not even have their own bases. They are more like wandering merchants or even live in towns controlled by large secret parties.

Originally, they could resist the annexation of large secret parties by wandering around, relying on fortresses, and even cooperating with the church.

However, with the support of the Northern Salvation Army, the two large secret parties, the Ruoan Party and the Shadow Society, as well as several medium-sized secret parties, can join hands to deal with these small secret parties.

Look at the piles of cracks on Fort Fraser. Could their fort be taller and stronger than the walls of Fort Fraser?

If you want to continue to roam or sneak into the church territory to be a guide, you can either go north through the Red Copper Fortress to the Thousand River Valley, or go south and pass through Fort Fraser right under your butt!

No wonder, no wonder the Joan Party fought so hard to eliminate the outer outposts of Fort Fraser and attack Fort Fraser. It turned out that they were waiting for them here.

The two secret party leaders who had stood up were a little embarrassed for a moment. They didn't know whether to stand or sit, and they didn't know what to say.

Fortunately, at this time, Horn walked up to the two secret party leaders with a glass of wine in his hand and said, "I know that you are afraid of being annexed for the sake of your secret party members, so you can also form a secret party alliance.

By cooperating with other secret parties, you will be able to jointly control the decision-making power in the county council. You can even put forward your own suggestions through the council and influence the policies of the entire Black Snake Bay. Isn't this more powerful than you had before?"

The two secret party leaders then slowly sat down, a thoughtful look on their faces.

"Sir Horn, I have another question." As soon as Horn turned around, he heard a deep voice coming from behind him.

Seeing the fat middle-aged man in front of him, Horn quickly went over the information that Lulos had provided earlier in his mind.

"You must be the wizard Esteban from the Ramirez family?" Looking the wizard up and down, Horn raised his glass to him.

After arriving at Black Snake Bay, it was the first time that Horn met representatives of the secret party wizard family.

This kind of wizard family belongs to the landlord class in Black Snake Bay. They often own estates with tens of thousands of acres of land and are engaged in various trades and alchemy industries.

Generally, any secret party of medium size or above is usually composed of one or several secret parties, which are connected by marriage and blood. Secret parties like the Ruoan Party, which are based on fanatical worship of Ruoan and have political programs, are a non-mainstream minority in Black Snake Bay.

Wearing a wizard's straw hat and a thick mustache, Esteban bowed to Horn in a standard manner: "Yes, it is a great honor to have your acquaintance."

"If you have any questions, feel free to ask."

"My question is very simple. You said that as long as you submit the population register under your name, you can get a seat in parliament. What does it mean to be 'under your name'?"

Horn understood immediately.

An important issue involved here is that if two secret parties simultaneously claim control over the population of a certain area, who should it belong to?

In Black Snake Bay, there are not only co-managed areas, but also double-worship areas, that is, offerings are made to two or even more secret parties at the same time, or simply no offerings are made and the area is completely autonomous.

So how to deal with these villages or regions is a big problem that cannot be avoided.

“It’s very simple. Based on the current situation and documents, whoever controls the area now will own it. Whoever can provide more detailed and authoritative management records will have priority.

These documents may include tax records, trade transactions, or evidence of direct administration of land and population.

If the dispute still cannot be resolved, how about the Holy Axis forming an arbitration committee to decide who can gain more recognition from the actual local population? "

Esteban bowed again: "I couldn't agree more."

Horn's eyes swept over several large wizarding families and toasted them from a distance, and these wizards stood up and returned the toast.

Holding a wine glass, Horn slowly walked back to the stage under the gaze of the crowd, the candlelight illuminating his smiling face: "Everyone has shown sincerity, it seems not good for me to do nothing, so let's do this.

The Sacred Axis donated 20000 pieces of woolen cloth, 3 tons of grain and 1 iron farm tools to Black Snake Bay free of charge for the construction of sweet branch plantations, smelting herb plantations and slime farms.

Our Holy Scythe Monastery will provide you with planting techniques and herbal seeds, and provide agricultural consultants to help you establish plantations."

Needless to say, the sweet branch plantation was prepared for the future sugar and grain trade, while the smelting herb plantation was for the north.

The northern county of Black Snake Bay is not as hot and humid as the central and southern counties, and there are more wastelands and wetlands, which are perfect for planting and making dissolving and softening potions for smelting metals.

Pumping out accumulated water through a clockwork machine can greatly increase the mine's iron ore production, but with so much ore it has to be refined.

Horn's current lightning furnace has not yet been successfully developed. Even if it is successfully developed, it will take a long time to completely replace the wet iron smelting process.

There is no need to explain much about the slime farm. Slime is a treasure and can almost replace the industrial raw material of rubber.

Both the mortar and sugar industries have a huge demand for slime juice. The local slimes in Daze Township are almost being hunted down, and they have to rely on breeding to supply the market.

For Horn, Black Snake Bay itself is a huge market and raw material production area.

Lulos stood on a chair and poured a glass of fruit wine into a copper cup: "I propose that everyone raise their glasses again to celebrate the passage of the bill."

"cheers!"

(End of this chapter)