Throne of the North

"What? The orcs are going south?"

The person who exclaimed was March Miles. This person's political understanding seemed to be too poor, and he didn't understand the way of fighting between nobles at all.

The others also had more or less shocked and frightened expressions, even Christian, who was breathing slightly faster.

Viscount Miles sighed.

"Rage, you come too."

Quite unexpectedly, Largo glanced at Ryan kindly. It was obvious that Lane's counterattack against Miles made Largo the biggest gainer in this conversation between nobles.

Viscount Miles still has several development orders in hand, and perhaps one of them will fall on this head.

There are only interests between the nobles. Rag was clearly scolding Ryan just now, but now the two of them are nodding to each other like friends for many years.

If Viscount Miles's manor house inherits ancient grandeur, then the Viscount's study is truly a complete witness to history.

"This study was moved here from the south when I hired a Holy Domain mage. No detail was compromised during the entire process."

Viscount Miles sat in front of a desk, and Ryan naturally sat on the leather sofa next to him. As for Miles' two sons, they could only stand.

"Baron Lane, if you have anything to say, just say it here."

Viscount Miles is already old. He doesn't want any accidents to happen to his territory now. He just wants to spend this winter safely.

At this time, Ryan stopped beating around the bush.

"The orcs did move south, and my soldiers discovered their scouts."

"Scout?"

Viscount Miles' eyes were sharp, "An orc scout?"

"That's right."

"Orcs also have scouts?" On the side, Christian seemed to want to prove his sense of existence, and he was surprised and confused.

Ryan smiled and looked at the eldest son of the Viscount, soon to be Viscount Miles.

"Among the orcs, the powerful and intelligent orcs all have their own military knowledge. Even if their fighting methods have not changed, they will still have eyes like scouts."

Christian's face darkened, and he felt that Ryan was saying that he was not smart enough.

"Baron Lane, please tell me which orc group it is."

Rager said, he knew that he had already broken up with other competitors of the family, and for the sake of the development order, he certainly didn't want to fall behind.

"How much does the Sheriff think it's worth?"

Ryan looked at Viscount Miles.

"I'll give you two months' worth of food for a thousand people. In this way, your tundra territory should be able to survive this winter."

Viscount Miles looked at Ryan and said at the same time:

"Besides, you are not allowed to tell this news to anyone else."

Ryan shook his head.

"not enough."

"Twenty-five thousand kilograms of grain, Lord Viscount, please don't tell me how many people can eat it and how long it takes. Those slaves, they can eat one meal in three days, do they have to be included in this?"

"In addition, I also want war horses, a hundred war horses sent from the south."

"Baron Ryan, you are too greedy."

Viscount Miles looked at Ryan coldly.

"No, my news must be worth the money."

"Twenty thousand catties of grain, fifty war horses, and the remaining fifty horses. When spring comes next year, I can make the decision and ask the Imperial Chamber of Commerce to leave fifty horses for you."

"Not enough, Lord Viscount, 20,000 jins of grain and a hundred war horses, not one less."

Ryan was unwilling to make any more setbacks, because the price of buying a war horse from the Empire Chamber of Commerce would have already reached the sky.

"Baron Ryan, I hope you can correctly understand the value of a hundred war horses."

If there were no wars in the pan-plane of gods, the price of war horses would not be too high. Even in many territories, war horses are just names in a state of war. In normal times, they are even used to pull goods and plow fields. .

But after the pandimensional war between the gods, the name of the war horse became separate from other horses.

Because after the War of Gods, a large number of extraordinary legions appeared, the quality of the war skyrocketed, and the size of the soldiers must be at least as good as that of a trainee knight.

These trainee knights wear metal armor, and the more powerful formal knights and bronze knights wear full-body metal armor with both men and horses.

With that kind of weight, if it weren't for a specially trained war horse, it wouldn't be able to move at all.

For example, the empire's heavily armored knight corps has only ten thousand people in total, but the weight of each of them, including their armor and equipment, on their horses has exceeded a thousand kilograms. Ordinary horses can't even walk a few steps, let alone run. To be crushed.

In short, it is for this reason that the price of war horses has gone from being only one or two times higher than that of pack horses to now costing tens of gold coins in the south, and even ten times more in Beifeng Province.

The value of an ordinary farmer's life can be compared to the value of a war horse.

"The price of a highland war horse in Lingdu County is as high as five to six hundred gold coins. After the Empire Chamber of Commerce remains, the price may continue to rise."

"But I know that the price that the Viscount paid for the war horse from the Imperial Chamber of Commerce will definitely not be this amount."

"In the south, a war horse costs only seventy or eighty gold coins. After arriving in the Beifeng Province, in front of the Viscount, those chambers of commerce will have three or four times the price at most. If they go further, they will not be able to withstand the anger of a nobleman."

"Two to three hundred gold coins, one hundred horses, twenty or thirty thousand gold coins, this amount should not be a big deal for the viscount, right?"

In the other plane, because of the winter brought by the Pan-Plane War, the Witman family, which can only wander with four or five hundred people for hundreds of years, still has thousands of gold coins.

In the North Wind Province, Viscount Miles, who occupies an entire county and has countless mineral resources, is twenty or thirty thousand gold coins really a lot?

You know, for the nobles of the North Wind Province, the empire has a policy of not collecting taxes for the first ten years.

"Seventy horses, I can only give you seventy war horses, that's the number, if you can't accept it, I will arrange people to find those orc scouts."

In the end, the transaction between the two nobles was completed with 20,000 kilograms of food and seventy war horses.

Ryan believed that this news would allow Viscount Miles to earn several times the gold coins from other nobles and the entire Lingdu County.

Afterwards, when he heard about the black goat tribe, Miles's face became so ugly.

Christian was also beside him.

"This Viscount, it seems that he has had contact with the Black Goat People before."

Ryan thought to himself, but he still stood up and said goodbye.

As a standard noble, even if Viscount Miles died now, and most of the other Miles died, it would be impossible for the Miles family to owe Ryan the wealth of the transactions.

After leaving the Viscount's manor, Ryan led his men to the streets where the empire's chambers of commerce were located.

Except for Viscount Miles's manor, this is the widest street in the entire Lingdu City, because there will be various ox carts and horse carriages shuttling.

Of course, that is not a scene that can be seen in winter.

In these chambers of commerce today, they don't sell things, they only collect.