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Chapter 416 The Earl of Montville's Probe

I ran from Tuskrum Village to Uludana Village, and from Uludana Village back to Tuskrum Village, which is not a short distance.

To say that it is more than 100 kilometers, in the real world, it is only a few hours' drive, but this is the game world, the uncivilized ancient world, although this is a grassland area, but after all, it is close to the Cass Mountain, and the terrain can be regarded as entering out of the highlands.

Fort Lunvadia is a castle on the plains, and Uludana Village is actually a hilly mountain village on the plains facing the grasslands. The village at the foot of the mountain is also a mountain village.

From Uludana Village to Tuskrum Village, the terrain becomes more and more rugged. Although the road has already formed a cinder path, well, there is no coal, it is slag, and there are mines in this place. It is a gravel path paved with slag, and it is really impossible to build a road in this era.

In this way, the means of transportation can only be mules, horses, and even carriages are difficult to see, which belong to the patent of the Kingdom of Swadia and the Kingdom of Nord, because that place is a plain, one is an inland plain, and the terrain is flat, or A relatively developed commercial kingdom, one is near the sea, the trade roads are also smooth, and the technology is also developed. When it comes to the Kujit Kingdom, it can only use horses as a means of transportation.

Zhang Qiang ran back and forth like this, and he was a little tired, but not tired. He had to prepare for the expedition. There were a lot of family affairs and preparations for the expedition. Make a decision.

This aristocrat is also very tiring. A nobleman is not just a master of food, drink, entertainment and enjoyment. He is a high-level official who decides major events in this era. For their own benefit, they also have to work hard.

When Zhang Qiang was dozing off on his horse, a team of about forty or fifty riders rushed towards him. He was inexplicably panicked, and the team stopped, waiting for the opponent to approach.

It was the Count of Montville who came.

The other party was very relaxed, and even greeted Zhang Qiang proactively.

"Viscount Zhang Qiang, I heard that you have received a big deal this time?"

Zhang Qiang smiled and bowed to salute, he is his superior lord, of course he has to salute, "Dear Sir, I just want to earn some extra money, as you know, I have four territories, which can maintain the security of the territories A lot of troops are needed, and the troops need to be strengthened in order to ensure their combat effectiveness and protect the security of the territory.

In addition to improving their personal strength and training them to know how to cooperate in combat, the most important thing to enhance the strength of the army is their wages and equipment, all of which need money.

I don't have a castle with a mine behind it, a lot of black iron ore, the money is shipped out, and it can support many elite troops, so I took this deal. "

The Earl of Montville rolled his eyes a few times, as if thinking of something, "How did I hear that you robbed the Kujit village of Zegasi before and robbed a lot of dinar gold coins and supplies, look Look, whose territory is developing faster than your village of Tusculum? His level of prosperity, even Uxhall, Suno, and a big city like Dherim, can't compare with it. Isn't it because of you? rich?"

"Hehe, the earl was just joking. It's not like you haven't plundered other people's villages. How much oil and water can a small village have? Items worth twenty to thirty thousand gold coins have to be sold to become gold coins. The military expenditure is more than [-] to [-] gold coins."

The Earl of Montville had a look that I couldn't fool, "How did I hear that there are seven or eight billion gold coins and two or three billion in supplies?"

Zhang Qiang frowned, tens of thousands of grass and mud horses were galloping in his heart, who is spreading rumors, who is selling himself, how can he tell other lords about these things?

The bad thing about the continent of Calradia is that wealth is disgusting. Originally, his village and territory could develop into a very rich and prosperous place. He was already worried. Kings and nobles are the best at plundering the wealth of lower-level lords. For a crime of treason, you have to abandon your territory and wealth, and take your loyal army into exile in another country. This is the most common thing.

And [-] billion gold coins, [-] billion in supplies, even the Holy See of the Great God of Heaven, can't afford so much wealth at once.

If this matter is known to other kingdom lords or kings, it will be very bad for me.

What's more, he used the money to rebuild the manor several times, build roads, develop mines, build villages and territories, and fight for conscription several times. I support myself, otherwise, how could Harlaus allow himself to own four village territories?
There are hundreds of lords in the kingdom, but there are only dozens of big noble lords, more than 100 small noble lords, two or three hundred exiled noble lords, some merchant nobles, declining nobles, and some knight nobles. They are all waiting for fiefdoms.

With the fiefdom, there is income. In principle, whoever lays down the territory has the priority to be granted the right to be enfeoffed, but in real implementation, don’t you need to ask the opinions of other noble lords?
Who does Harlaus finally decide to belong to?

Without this money to open the way, do you think that with Zhang Qiang's current relationship, a Viscount Rogerson, this is a small nobleman, who has little say in the kingdom, Earl Reyes and Count Montville, this is a big nobleman, Agu Earl, I pushed it up by myself, an Earl of Glenward who had a life-saving relationship with himself, this is a noble lord of a big family, with this relationship, can he win these benefits for himself among hundreds of noble lords? ?
In private, it is not necessary to give some gifts and exchange benefits.

But I have nothing to do with those lords. I know a Hanong civilian officer in Uxhall City, that merchant nobleman. Through this guy's friendship, Zhang Qiang got through most of the merchant noblemen. King Laus bestowed upon him the position of squadron commander of the royal court city guards. Some merchants and nobles want to give some face, but they don’t give face. Then when passing through the city gate, the soldiers he sent to guard the city of Palavin will make things difficult for them .

Well, this position in the royal court also has a little effect.

"Haha, Viscount Zhang Qiang, are you surprised? How do I know your secret?" Earl Montville said proudly.

Zhang Qiang really wanted to know, the first thing he heard from the Earl of Montville was that he wanted to kill people, and the nobles didn't kill them because they could get a ransom, but if they wanted to keep their secrets, it didn't matter if they killed them, but it would be troublesome to deal with later. But if he can be secretly captured and sold to slave traders like Ramon, these slaves will basically not appear in the Calradia continent. Everyone knows that Ramon's slaves are generally sold to the outer continent world .

It can’t be said about the outer continent world. It can only be said that this guy knows how to sail to the distant sea and other kingdoms on the sea. Zhang Qiang understands it this way. After all, he is a person in the real world. When Fatty introduced the world of Outer Continent, he believed it to be true. He didn’t know much about the game world. Now that he has lived in the game world for more than three years, he already has some general impressions.

How did the Rolf family come here, and how did the Nord kingdom come from the sea?
It must be because there are some countries on the other side of the sea.

Zhang Qiang asked with a half-smile: "I want to know, Lord Earl."

(End of this chapter)