Continental Warriors Yoo Ma

"It's my honor to be able to help you," Vera said.

Although she had heard similar compliments many times since she was a child, Yofu Ma still made her feel happy.

The rest is the question of the Flemish merchants.

The Netherlands is still slowly reclaiming the sea to build farmland. It is far from the time when the economy takes off, and the power of the merchant class is not too strong.

In the Brabant region, the industries are numerous and scattered, and the power of the merchants is difficult to form a fist, so it is easier to deal with.

The real tricky part is Flanders.

There is a thriving and historic textile industry here.Not only in the lowlands, but in the whole of Europe, Bruges and Ghent are the top big cities.Based on these two cities, the citizen class with sufficient population will have the strength to compete with Philip III.

The well-organized and financially rich Textile Association has played a core leadership role.

If it is only to attract lowland merchants to join the North France Trading Company, it does not require much effort.There are as many businessmen as they want to hitch a ride with the Marquis of La Manche.

However, Ma Youfu wanted to attract lowland businessmen to join the trading company and get a large amount of capital, but he did not want to give up too much power to the new shareholders and maintain his dominant position.This needs to be discussed slowly.

Businessmen in the Netherlands and Brabant are easy to deal with, but those in Flanders have to work hard to negotiate.

Fortunately, the wool trade route in Iberia is too attractive. Even in the eyes of Flanders merchants, Ma Youfu’s conditions were too harsh, so they did not directly refuse, but chose to continue negotiations.

"Your Majesty, this is a letter from Jost van Spiningen, President of the Textile Guild of Flanders." Vera handed a letter to Youfu Ma and sat down in his arms. .

"Jost van Spiningen..." Yofu Ma had an image of a fat man dressed in gold and silver in his mind.

He had met the great merchant before at the ducal palace in Dijon.Other than being a "typical shrewd businessman", there is no other impression.

"Respected Marquis of Lamanche, Count of Rouen, Your Excellency the Commander of all the Knights of North France, Your Excellency Jost van Spiningen has something to ask..."

The textile guild president spent a long time complaining to Yofu Ma.

The London massacre after Fabre negotiated a major loss to the textile merchants in Flanders.Coupled with the interruption of wool supply in England, the wool supply chain in Iberia has not yet been established. Relying only on wool from Scotland and other places, many textile factories are completely unable to make ends meet.

Now that it is winter, the problem is not obvious.When the stock of wool is exhausted and new wool cannot be bought in spring, the entire textile industry will face a huge blow.

Although Ma Youfu has promised to help textile manufacturers build a new wool supply chain as soon as possible, no one knows when or if this will happen.

The efficiency and governance ability of the nobles in this era are not very good.

A considerable number of factory owners are planning to close some textile factories and invest in other industries.

And this has caused a huge number of textile workers to become unstable.

This cold winter is very difficult, and many textile workers' families have exhausted their meager savings and even took on debts in order to obtain food and fuel.Now facing the risk of shutdown and unemployment, people's hearts are more fluctuating.

Philip III levied a temporary tax in order to fight England, which made life for the weavers even worse.

Although the Duke of Burgundy is not the culprit responsible for the plight of the textile workers in Flanders, but under the intentional guidance of various forces dissatisfied with his rule, he has become the Lich King who needs to be overthrown in the eyes of many civilians. .

"...Dear Yofu Ma, I hope you can provide assistance to help the Textile Guild stabilize the situation in the city..."

As the largest textile merchant in Flanders, although Jost has some conflicts of interest with Philip III, he does not want the situation to continue to deteriorate, or even lead to riots.

The civilian uprising in Florence was not far away, and he did not want Ghent to be in trouble.

But as a bloodless and tearless capitalist, Jost's solution is not to raise wages for struggling textile workers, or to distribute free daily necessities to survive the cold winter.He hoped that Yof Ma would station his army outside Ghent and use force to deter the mob that was about to move.

"It seems that I have been with Joan of Arc for a long time, and I have forgotten how much the 'big men' of this era despise the lives of the people at the bottom." Ma Youfu threw the letter away with an undisguised look of disgust on his face.

Chapter 130 IX Mark I Golem

Although he hated the greedy and cruel faces of the textile merchants represented by Yost, there was not much that Ma Youfu could do.

This is Burgundy, not France.As a guest, if Ma Youfu intervenes too much in this matter—for example, helping poor textile workers spend the winter out of his own pockets, it is likely to be self-defeating, causing Philip III and many factory owners to be vigilant and dissatisfied.

After thinking about it, Ma Youfu finally decided to invite Yost and representatives of textile workers to come to Longquan Palace to negotiate.He will act as an intermediary, trying to bridge the contradiction between the two classes and strive to reach a solution acceptable to all parties.

Violence and bloodshed are the worst outcomes and need to be avoided as much as possible.

Youfu Ma took out a pen and started writing a reply to Yost.

And Vera, wiggling a charming and charming body that doesn't fit her age, sat in his arms.

"His Excellency Jost van Spiningen, as a faithful believer of the Seven Saints, I am deeply concerned about the increasingly restless situation in Flanders. I suggest that you and the representatives of the textile workers come to Longquan Palace together to meet with you. Lord Philip III, together, discuss ways to calm the situation. As a friendly neighbor of Burgundy, France..."

Yofu Ma suddenly shook his right hand, and the writing on the paper suddenly became crooked.

He patted the girl who was making trouble in his arms, and said deliberately with a straight face: "Vera, don't make trouble. You have already turned the soft seat into a hard seat. If you get angry again, the hard seat will become a socket."

The dark elf girl did not restrain herself at all.She put her hand around Yofu Ma's neck, raised her head and smiled tenderly: "Although I don't know what you are talking about, it sounds like a very obscene thing, I like it very much~"

……

In the end, the letter took two hours, torn a dress, wet a quilt and a rug, before it was finally written.

After sending the letter to Ghent, while waiting for a response, Ma Youfu lived a comfortable and regular life in Longquan Palace.

Wake up at noon in the delicate chest pillow of the dark elf girl.After lunch, I started writing the German love story "Frederick and Theresa".

The little princess Mary often brought her maids to visit, and they held a literary salon together.If Mary didn't come, when she was alone with Mrs. Anne, her private secretary, she could appreciate the shy expression on the lady's face when she wanted to refuse.

After dinner, they began to study magic.In addition, he had to take time to treat Mrs. Anne's body and dispel the remaining divine power of the evil god of plague in her body.

After living like this for four days, things changed.

Ghent has not replied yet, a convoy from Lance arrived at Longquan Palace first.

There were ten heavy-duty carriages in the convoy that were specially used to transport artillery. It took half a day for the goods inside to be transported to the workshop specially prepared by Philip III for Ma Youfu.

"Lord Marquis, I didn't expect you to be able to make a golem yourself, and you are fully prepared for it. It is no accident that you can continue to succeed and achieve what you are today." Pastor Milot looked at the neatly arranged golems. Various golem parts, can not help but sigh.

Of course, Yoof Ma couldn't get so many golem parts in a short period of time.These are the "wastes" left behind after the chess legion's energy is exhausted.

He's just reusing waste.

Philip III asked Ma Yof to send troops to attack Calais together, and the promised reward was ether crystals.

Priest Milot brought him three pieces of high-quality medium-sized ether crystals today, which is half the payment.The remaining half will have to be paid after the siege of Calais is over.

After sending off Priest Milot, Yoof Ma began to make golems.

According to the resources at hand, Ma Youfu finally decided to use the torso of the pawn golem as the core, and then match the parts of other golems to make his first golem.

In the next few days, he pushed all other things away and devoted himself to the production of golems wholeheartedly. He stayed in the workshop for more than ten hours a day, constantly interacting with various metal parts, magic circuits, and golems. Base, control language to deal with.

When he returned to the bedroom every night, Youfu Ma would fall back to sleep without even having time to spend time with his lover, which made Vera quite resentful.Even Mrs. Anne, after not seeing Yofu Ma for several days, had a subtle feeling of happiness and disappointment in her heart.

Fortunately, with the help of the "Magical Staff", Yofu Ma made the golem a lot faster.

A week later, Yoof Ma's first golem was finally completed.

He named it "Mark I".

The whole golem is two meters high and weighs more than five hundred kilograms. It has a standard humanoid structure.Melee weapons are retractable blades hidden under the arms.The additional armor on the chest is engraved with the spell "Sun Flame Protection".

When the golem rushes into the enemy's formation and triggers the "Sun Flame Protection", it will radiate magical flames around it as the center, killing the enemy.Coupled with two sharp blades, the melee ability is absolutely trustworthy.

The golem's long-range weapons are placed on the shoulders and back, and it is a "vertical launch system" with a total of forty pits in four groups.

Of course, Yoof Ma was incapable of building missiles.The Mark [-] Golem fires enchanted [-]mm caliber projectiles.

Due to the relatively large quality of the projectile, the magic effect of enchanting it is also stronger than the enchanting effect of ordinary bullets.It's just that the hit rate is more reliable only if the buckshot is enchanted with "magic missile", which has the effect of force field damage and target tracking.Whether other projectiles can hit the target can only rely on the probability.

Of course, even so, this is a formidable war machine.

In addition, Ma Youfu also placed "healing armor pieces" on the limbs, head, chest and other key parts of the golem.

This armor piece is enchanted with the second-level spell "Repair Construct".If the golem suffers damage that severely affects its functionality, spells on the armor sheet are triggered to repair it.

In this way, the golem's continuous combat capability has been greatly improved.

After the completion, Ma Youfu took the golem to the open snow to conduct various functional tests.

boom!boom!boom!boom!

Accompanied by the sound of annihilation, more than a dozen targets were smashed by a single salvo from the Mark I.

Looking at the debris flying in the sky, Youfu Ma nodded in satisfaction, very satisfied with the destructive power of the golem.The combat power of the artificer is reflected in all kinds of magic machinery.With this golem, his combat power will not even be inferior to those of elite professionals.

"Lord Marquis de Lamanche, the duke, please go to the parlour as soon as possible. Ghent is coming." A servant told Mayoufu panting.

Chapter 140 Textile Workers

Under the guidance of the servants, Yoof Ma came to the largest living room of the Margaret Palace.

Five people had already arrived here before Mayouf.

Philip III, and his secretary, the Rev Milot.

President of the Textile Guild of Flanders, Jost van Spiningen.

Although the other two tried to keep their clothes clean and decent, but looking at the cheap and simple clothes, they knew that they were not in the same class as the others.

Of the two of them, tall and strong, with a weathered face and a natural leadership temperament, is the president of the Textile Industry Guild, Ludvik Valbes.

The other man with a dark complexion and the appearance of an old country farmer was the vice-chairman Bassot Racheltrun.

Although there is only one word difference between the Textile Industry Association and the Textile Guild, they are completely different things.

The former is a non-governmental organization formed spontaneously by textile workers in order to protect their own rights and interests.Because Philip III has already promulgated a decree prohibiting workers from forming their own guilds, the Textile Industry Guild is still an "illegal organization" that can only operate underground.

The members of the Textile Guild were all merchants and factory owners.They are the wealthy bourgeoisie, the ruling class who can participate in the governance of the country through the three-tier parliament.

But Ludvik, who was just a commoner, did not have stage fright when facing the noble duke and the amazingly wealthy Yost.

"My lord the duke, not only the weavers, but the dock workers and fishermen and sailors, too. I want you to end the war with England immediately, and to suspend tax increases on the poor until the summer." Dweck said, the loud voice resounded throughout the living room, and it was just the momentum that seemed to overwhelm others.

"Hmph, the leader of a mere illegal organization dares to make a request to me. I didn't arrest you immediately, and you should thank me for my kindness." Philip III snorted coldly.

In the eyes of nobles, merchants, and artists, he is "the good Philip", but in the eyes of the poor, he is no different from other greedy and vicious rulers.

Philip III did not take Ludwick to jail, not because he was kind, but because he was concerned about the opponent's influence among the vast urban poor.

As Ludwick said, not only the weavers, but other poor people living in hardships also united with him.This is an incredible force.

"Lord Duke, it is a rare opportunity for us to sit in one place to communicate. If you don't cherish it, the future will replace peaceful dialogue with sharp knives and blood." Ludwick refused to let it go.

"you!"

Philip III was clearly incensed by the other's threats.He clenched his fists and was about to have a seizure. He looked at Pastor Milot, who was shaking his head slightly, and Yost, who was worried, and finally suppressed his anger.

At this time, Youfu Ma walked into the living room, further diluting the tense atmosphere.

He was the planner of this meeting, and Philip III had to give a face.What's more, the signs of riots in Flanders really need to find a feasible way to eliminate them as soon as possible, otherwise the consequences will be disastrous.

After introducing himself, Yofu Ma said straight to the point: "Everyone, the purpose of my small meeting today is to eliminate the conflicts between the workers, the Duke, and the merchant class as much as possible, and reach an agreement that is acceptable to all parties. No one wants to see bloodshed, right? Ghent has had riots before. What happened in the end? No one benefits, everyone loses. This shouldn't happen again."