When the Saint comes, she does not collect food

Chapter 700: The journey to Black Snake Bay is over

The carriage woven with green wood vines moved slowly on the muddy road to the main city of Tiannv City, and the carriage was still filled with the scent of flowers and cinnamon.

Horn leaned his head on the silk and grass cushion, closed his eyes slightly, but said nothing.

Jeanna couldn't hold it back any longer and coughed heavily several times. Seeing Horn's puzzled look, she pouted and said, "Brother, you're not really going to sell Shilov to that dragon, are you?"

"What are you thinking?" Horn patted her head, not knowing whether to laugh or cry. "She is the head of the seminary. If I sell her out, will I still be the Pope?"

In today's Holy Axis system, if officers and farmers are all from the line of Jeanne, then civil servants (monks) and craftsmen are all from the line of Shilov.

Although Horn could enforce it with his strong personal authority, it would be a major blow to the credibility and legitimacy of the Holy Axis, and the impact it would bring would be no less than the Luoshui Oath.

Horn came from a holy background and had a strong inclination towards universal morality, so many times he had to play the role of a moral role model and religious leader.

Besides, it was impossible for Horn to exchange these unknown things given by the Red Dragon for a top scholar who had achieved enough and had not made any mistakes.

If they really changed, there would be almost no difference between the Holy Axis and the Empire in essence.

Duke Darnay of Kush has already shown Horn what happens when one hopes to rely on others for victory, and Horn is unlikely to make the same mistake a second time.

So Horn's direct response at the time was: "Unless she is willing and you guarantee her safety, there is no discussion."

After comforting Jeanne, Horn once again leaned against the carriage, holding the "Hidden Eye" pendant given by Otatila, but his heart was not as calm as he looked.

He had stayed in Black Snake Bay long enough. After this meeting, he would take a boat back to Thousand River Valley in three days at most.

This time he went south to Black Snake Bay, he had three main goals.

The first is to bring Black Snake Bay, a raw material production area, into the scope of the Holy Axis, so as to bring in extensive financial resources.

Because in the current imperial market, spices and sugar are sellers' markets, while Qianhe Valley is mainly based on agricultural products and low-end industrial products, and currently has no competitiveness in the imperial market.

So, he had to use spices and sugar to draw enough capital from the imperial market and invest the capital in his workshop.

Although many of them were just centralized manual workshops, they surpassed the guild's rural processing of imported materials and suburban industrial zones, and could even suppress early industrialization to a certain extent.

And now this goal has not only been achieved, but also doubled.

Not only did he obtain the raw material production area and market of Black Snake Bay, he also received a five-year investment of 400,000 gold pounds.

This is not half-physical and half-currency, but real precious metal currency. Such a large sum of money is just a shot in the arm for Qianhe Valley's business, which was originally a bit bubble-like.

However, what worries Horn on this issue is that, from a strategic perspective, these lilac nobles will inevitably choose to pay compensation rather than continue fighting.

After all, paying compensation and negotiating peace can still retain some of the existing interests. If the war continues, it will not only be a waste of money and manpower, but may also lead to annexation by the royal family.

But in the real world, these nobles are not rational people, and it would be troublesome if they continued to fight in a hot-blooded manner.

It’s not that Horn was afraid of the nobles of the Lilac Corridor, but he was afraid that if he hurt the Franks, the royal family would be dissatisfied or the nobles of the Lilac Corridor would defect to the royal family.

Second, after incorporating Black Snake Bay into the Sacred Axis, through political and military struggles, Black Snake Bay was slowly transformed to become the depth of the Sacred Axis.

This was also barely accomplished. After capturing Dragonfly Harbor and destroying Two-Headed Snake Castle, the entire coast of the Ibe River was under the jurisdiction of the newly born Black Snake Bay Federation.

At least four-fifths of the entire Black Snake Bay fell into Horn's hands.

Thousand River Valley is adjacent to Black Snake Bay. After the Black Snake Bay Wizard Federation was established and joined the Holy Axis, the territory of the Holy Axis Alliance (abbreviated as Holy Alliance) also expanded.

The land area of ​​the Holy Union expanded from 42 square kilometers to about 110 square kilometers, and the population expanded from about 450 million to about 750 million.

But there is also a hidden concern at this point, that is, those gang-like secret parties. Horn hopes to clean up and suppress the unstable factors within Black Snake Bay as much as possible before the war comes, so as to prevent them from causing trouble during the war.

But the reality is not that good, it can only come little by little.

Third, it is to explore the life experience of Shilov, the movements of Sefaye, and the secrets of the mysterious alchemy and star-cast gears on Autumn Dusk Island.

Horn can currently determine that Serfaye, a vampire from the Soridor clan, is an extraordinary master of blood magic and alchemy, and is good friends with the red dragon Cynthia.

She has been researching a series of bizarre studies including immortality, artificial organisms, and body modification.

After she broke with the Sicheng Order, she probably stayed in Daze Township with the support of the Church or the Empire to conduct research on dragon language magic and blood magic.

But why? How did they come up with it? Why would the church support a vampire? None of this is known.

As for Serfaye's movements in the past twenty years, there is no news at all.

At least according to Cynthia, the Sorido clan of the Flesh Court had been looking for her but had never found her.

In the matter of Serfaye, he did obtain a lot of news and intelligence related to Serfaye, but none of them were on point.

In other words, we know where Serfaye came from, but we don't know why she came or where she is going.

The only thing that can be considered a gain is the production method and source of lunar mercury.

Cynthia did not hide anything on this point, and told everyone in detail how to select the site and build the spiritual world boundary markers and how to make lunar mercury.

This spiritual world landmark is similar to the Ether Spire, both of which require a lot of complicated calculations and reasoning, and cannot be produced in a short period of time.

Since Red Dragon Breath requires dragon blood, this technique is basically useless to Horn.

At Horn's request, Otatira promised to transport enough lunar mercury to Autumn Sunset Island every quarter for their research.

As for the final problem with the Star-Forged Gear, Cynthia, who had fallen out with Horn, naturally refused to tell him.

Where did Shilov come from? What exactly are the Starforge Gears? We also don't know anything.

The only thing to be thankful for is that with the technology of condensing lunar mercury, perhaps Jeanne can be asked to use lightning to bombard the ether in the ether spire to create electric lunar mercury.

By using technology similar to dragon blood crystallization, it may be possible to make unstable electric mercury into crystals and carry it with you, so that it can be used in lightning furnaces or on the battlefield.

This third goal is halfway accomplished.

After silently reviewing his actions in Black Snake Bay during this period, Horn was surprised to find that although the profits increased, the troubles also increased exponentially.

The previously sufficient manpower is now a little insufficient.

"Your Majesty, we have arrived."

It was only when the groom notified Horn that he realized they had returned to their residence in Black Snake Bay, so he woke Jeanne up and went out.

As soon as he got off the carriage and stood in front of the quiet courtyard, Du Valon hurried out of the garden-style mansion assigned to Horn.

Before Horn could ask what was going on, Duvalon excitedly raised the letter high in the air.

"Your Majesty, the armistice agreement has been signed in the Lilac Corridor. All the terms have been agreed to. The first batch of 10 gold pounds has been shipped to Dragonfly Port. The Black Snake Bay War is over!"

(End of this chapter)