Rise from the coffin and rebuild the vampire empire

Chapter 209 Storm and Messenger

It turns out the game is a little too real.

It really makes the players who failed to win the beauty beat their chests and stamp their feet, and they are so regretful.

Unfortunately, they don't have many opportunities left, because the high elves have gradually moved to "Silver Leaf Port", and there are only more than 5,000 high elves left in "Wangbo Port".

With the construction of "Silver Leaf Port", most of the high elves have moved away, which also makes room for the newly absorbed population of "Wangbo Port". The "High Elf Residential Area" is gradually shrinking, and humans are gradually filling the vacancies left by them.

It was precisely because of this that Okanina was touched. The human population was replenishing too quickly. It was not just a problem of fertility rate, but the human population was originally very large. "Wangbo Port" could completely obtain a large population from other places, which was something their "Silver Leaf Port" could not do.

"How are the people from Kalkanni absorbing?"

In the Governor's Mansion of "Wangbo Port", Uther asked his second son Lyle. They, father and son, are now the policy helmsmen of "Wangbo Port" and are in charge of all matters, big and small, of "Wangbo Port".

"It didn't go well."

Lyle shook his head. This wave of people from the "Carkanni Province" was indeed not easy to absorb, because there were two thousand professional soldiers, which was a bit too many. Moreover, they were all professional soldiers, so it was very difficult to absorb them directly.

"We still have to do it the same way as last time."

Uther nodded, not surprised. After all, this was the first time these people from the "Kalkanni Province" were defeated and captured. Unlike the last time when the Magras people had some fellow countrymen who had previously joined "Wangbo Port" and could help persuade them to surrender.

This time, Lyle did try to ask the Magras people to persuade them to surrender, but the final result was obviously not satisfactory.

The soldiers of the "Carkanni Province" expressed their complete disapproval of the Maghras' surrender, one of the main reasons being that they were tricked by the Maghras.

Everyone had been cursing the Magras people, and then they arranged for the Magras people to come and persuade them to surrender. This was simply igniting their anger, and naturally it would not have any effect.

There is no other way but to find another way. Anyway, even if these guys are not convinced, they can't cause any trouble. Everything is under control.

"It seems difficult to carry out the task of picking them up. Those guys won't cooperate."

Just like what happened to the Maghras, it is indeed not an easy task to bring back the families of these soldiers, because it will be difficult for them to act if these soldiers do not cooperate.

"Try it first. If you can differentiate one, then that's it."

Uther naturally understood this, so his idea was very simple, which was to divide them first. It was impossible for more than 2,000 people to be of the same mind, so he just had to divide them up slowly.

Of course, this would be slow, but they had time.

"You can try it."

Lyle nodded. This was also a way to break through slowly, and it was also necessary to divide these two thousand people. It was better than letting them keep sticking together and cohesive.

"Those most troublesome ones, should we transfer them to Obsidian City to mine?"

Lyle came up with a new idea, to transfer the core members of these two thousand people to "Obsidian City" to mine with the lizardmen, and to severely temper their tempers. Maybe it would be of some use. The main purpose, of course, was to make them face reality.

At this stage, "Wangbo Port" still provides them with food and drink, and wants to absorb them into becoming a part of "Wangbo Port", but if these guys don't accept the toast, then don't blame "Wangbo Port" for being rude, and give them a taste of pain first.

"can."

Uther agreed with this method. Of course, the troublemakers had to be dealt with severely, otherwise these Kalkanni people would not be deterred at all. They really thought that "Wangbo Port" did not dare to deal with them.

Indeed, the Kalkanni people, who had only been defeated once, were now obviously a little confused about the situation. They really thought that the people of "Wangbo Port" would not do anything to them, and were still waiting to return to the Old World and wait for the "Kalkanni Province" to redeem them.

In fact, if you really want to say it, it is not impossible to redeem them, but "Wangbo Port" does not charge money and only accepts people to redeem them. One ordinary soldier is exchanged for five young and middle-aged men with official positions, and the number increases step by step. Now the main focus is to absorb the population crazily.

There is no way, because the grain production of "Wangbo Port" has increased. Now "Wangbo Port" is almost supporting the food supply of more than 30,000 people in "Wangbo Port", "Obsidian City" and "Silver Leaf Port" at the same time. Even with this level of consumption, there is still surplus.

It is normal to have surplus. After all, the more people join, the more farmland will be reclaimed, and the more grain "Wangbo Port" will produce. The more grain it produces, the more population it can absorb. Now it is a virtuous circle because the land is there.

There is still vast land in this new continent waiting for humans to conquer, and "Wangbo Port" is at least at the forefront.

The level of activity at "Wangbo Port" is almost approaching that of its predecessor "Shilin Port", and naturally, "Wangbo Port" has also been noticed by "Shilin Port". After all, many agricultural products from "Wangbo Port" will still be processed at the major commercial port "Shilin Port".

The influx of large amounts of high-quality salt has attracted many merchants. In the past six months, "Wangbo Port" has made a lot of money by selling sea salt, and they have been targeted more than once. Money is a tempting thing, and there are always people who want to get something for nothing and want to seize resources directly from the source.

But without exception, those who dared to have ideas about "Wangbo Port" were eventually sunk into the sea. One of the main tasks of Drake's navy was to escort merchant caravans.

In the New World, a merchant caravan escorted by four warships is considered a large fleet, and ordinary forces would have to keep their ideas to themselves even if they had any.

Such huge profits have already tempted "Shilin Port", which is a trading center. Of course, this is also because "Wangbo Port" wants to break away from "Shilin Port" as a trading center and work on its own. They have been making appointments with familiar caravans to go to "Wangbo Port" to trade, so as to avoid "Shilin Port" making a profit from the price difference.

This kind of behavior is naturally not allowed by "Shilin Port". They earn money from this "security tax". If "Wangbo Port" does not come, they will lose a considerable amount of transaction tax.

Some caravans have actually been persuaded by Wangbo Port. As the saying goes, money can move people's hearts. They can earn more by trading directly at Wangbo Port. After all, the transaction tax at Shilin Port is also a huge burden on them. But one of the most critical factors that has prevented the caravans from making up their minds is the issue of security. Shilin Port is a regular commercial port that has been "reformed" and is even a territory of the empire. Merchants coming here to trade naturally do not have to worry too much.

Even though "Shilin Port" is actually a mixed bag, at least the authorities will not touch them, but will protect their trade security instead.

As for "Wangbo Port", although it has shown great commercial potential, safety issues still make the caravans hesitant. After all, no one knows how deep the water in "Wangbo Port" is.

However, "Shilingang" knew that they could not sit idly by, because when it comes to interests, there will always be people who take risks.

When the first caravan went to "Wangbo Port" and returned safely, and made a lot of money, others would follow suit.

"Shilin Port" could not accept this result. They had to find a way to prevent this from happening. The simplest way, of course, was to directly suppress the "Wangbo Port" that suddenly emerged, and then take over the salt trading business.

In fact, there are many places like "Shilin Port" that have the same idea. Some caravans come to do business on the surface, but they may have ulterior motives in private. Those bold caravans are mostly supported by financial backers from the Old World, or they are simply private caravans of a certain family.

Compared to buying salt from the New World and bringing it back to the Old World to sell it, it would naturally be best if we could directly control the salt production area.

A storm caused by "salt" is blowing towards "Wangbo Port". At the same time, the envoy from "Carkanni Province" finally succeeded in landing in "Wangbo Port".

The person in charge of receiving this envoy was still Drake, who was responsible for receiving Killian, the special envoy from "Magras Province" last time.

"Hello, I am Erlin, an envoy from the province of Kalkanni."

After getting off the boat at the port, Erlin saw Drake in a navy uniform. Drake looked very energetic in the blue and white uniform. It was a brand new uniform, and it looked very gorgeous because it was the uniform of a "Marshal of the Navy".

Of course, although Drake is called the "Admiral of the Navy", he is actually not worthy of the title. At most, he is the "Admiral of Wangbo Port". Apart from four warships, no, it is five now. Apart from the five warships, all other ships under his command are merchant ships and transport ships. He really does not look like a "Admiral of the Navy" but more like a "captain of the merchant caravan guard."

However, others knew it, but Ambassador Erlin obviously didn't. He was very surprised to see Drake's gorgeous clothes.

"Wangbo Port" actually sent such a person to meet with him. He didn't know for a moment whether it was a sign of respect or a deterrent. It should be a sign of respect, otherwise giving him a direct warning would be a more direct deterrent. General Drake behaved quite politely and appropriately, and seemed to attach great importance to his arrival.

This may be of great help to the subsequent negotiations. This attitude at least shows that the "Wangbo Port People" do not really want to have a hostile relationship with the "Carkanni Province", so there should be something to talk about.

From Drake's appearance, Ambassador Erlin had already made some guesses that General Drake was obviously a Lalier.

The Lalier people are the barbarians in the south of the empire. Actually, although it is called the south, "Lalier" and "Magras Province" are not far away.

Judging from the latitude, "Lalier" is actually not much further south than "Magras Province", but it is obvious that no one cares. It is useless for the Magras people themselves to care, because people in other parts of the empire call it that anyway.

'Could it be that a group of Laliers have established a colony here?'
It was natural for Erlin to have such an idea. After all, many of the sailors at the dock were from Lalier.

Of course, this idea gradually disappeared after entering "Wangbo Port", because the ethnic groups in "Wangbo Port" are still very rich, basically covering all kinds of categories on the Old World. "Wangbo Port" is like a hodgepodge.

"There are so many high elves!"

Walking on the streets of "Wangbo Port", Erlin was shocked. There were actually quite a few high elves coming and going on the street, and they seemed to get along very harmoniously with humans.

That's right, the High Elves and Humans are getting along more and more harmoniously now. Karen's destiny reward of [Racial Harmony] has a significant effect. The barriers between the races have been mostly eliminated. They are almost as close as a family, and no one looks at each other as if they were an alien race anymore.

At least that's the case between humans and high elves at the moment, otherwise there wouldn't be so many couples crossing that barrier so quickly.

The couples who were able to get together quickly all had a high degree of affection for each other before, but they had been stagnant because of the barriers and concerns between the "immortal species" and the "short-lived species". Karen's new talent undoubtedly helped them overcome that hurdle.

"Please come in, Ambassador Erlin."

Arriving at the "White House", Drake took Erlin into the Governor's office, where Uther was waiting for the ambassador to come for negotiations.

"To cut to the chase, if you want to keep things quiet, we won't pursue your invasion of Wangbo Port. Simply pay some compensation to our fallen soldiers. After a peace agreement is reached, we can even engage in trade cooperation. If you want to redeem the captured soldiers, you can exchange them for slaves: five strong slaves for one ordinary soldier."

After a brief exchange of yes and no between the two parties, Uther put forward the conditions neatly. He was too lazy to waste time talking to these people from the "Kalkanni Province". If it could be done, then do it. If it couldn't be done, then forget it. This was still good. At least it provided a possibility of ransom. The Magras Province did not have the option of ransom.

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Faced with the conditions put forward by Uther, Erlin was stunned. Obviously, he did not expect Uther to be so direct.

"I'm sorry, Governor Uther, I need to think about it."

Erling, who was stunned by the "beaten", said that he needed to take a break first. There was nothing he could do. The information given by Uther was a bit too explosive. He couldn't accept it for a while and needed to take a break.

"Of course, go ahead."

Uther nodded and signaled Erlin to sit aside and think about it. There was a lounge nearby, which gave Erlin ample time to consider. Anyway, the conditions on their side would not change. It all depended on whether the people of "Kalkanni Province" could accept it.

(End of this chapter)