Hearthstone Farm Lord

Chapter 313 Four Days Later

On the way back to River Beach Town, Sean chatted with Henry about trivial matters in the territory while walking.

Butler Henry is the only aborigine who has entered the core leadership circle of River Beach Town. He has outstanding abilities, and Sean also thinks highly of him.

Of course, he has also been tested by Anduin's [Mind Stealing], and he has no other shortcomings except for his selfishness towards his child.

The two walked to the square in the north of the town while chatting.

Sean said to Henry earnestly:

"Henry, after this war is over, you can take all your children back to River Beach Town. Now that River Beach Town has developed, it will not be worse than Jorn City in the future."

Henry understood what Sean meant, and hurriedly replied:
"Of course, my lord! My children are still studying at the School of Etiquette. After this semester is over, I will let them come back to serve you, my lord!"

Sean nodded and patted Henry on the shoulder:

"Henry, I still appreciate your kindness. You will be the general manager of commercial trade with Kapoor Port."

Henry was very pleasantly surprised. Being able to hand over such an important burden to himself fully demonstrated the master's trust in him!
But he hesitated again: "Master, I may be too busy with the affairs in the castle."

"It's okay, just leave these to my personal servant Anton, he will be my second housekeeper from now on."

Sean waved his hand indifferently, and at the same time emphasized:
"Remember Henry, don't take bribes, and don't do things that harm the interests of the territory! Once Anduin finds out, the consequences are not something you can bear, and it may affect the people around you!"

"Don't worry, sir, I am extremely loyal to you!" Henry replied hurriedly.

The fact is also true, ever since Sean made his "first pot of gold" with perfume and spirits, he never thought of betraying Sean.

"Very good!" Sean nodded with satisfaction: "If you do well, there will definitely be a lot of rewards!"

After Xiao En finished speaking, he returned to the castle with Henry, the housekeeper, and arranged for him future work in detail.

Now that the commodity trade is basically settled, the most important thing left is to prepare for war.

Regarding wars between lords, this world certainly has a set of rules:
When a lord declares war on another lord, there must be a valid reason, and the just reason is made into a declaration of war and handed over to the other party. After the other party receives the declaration of war, the army can start the war.

Otherwise, the war violates the "Aristocratic War Law", and it will not be recognized by other nobles after occupation, and other nobles can also launch unrestrained attacks on the territories of illegal nobles.

Even though the Principality of Lane is now divided, this set of rules still applies.

……

Sean has not received the declaration of war yet, so it should be some time before the war begins.

Coupled with the distance between Shuisong Town and Hetan Town, the war could take as short as six or seven days and as long as half a month.

Therefore, Sean continued to go to the Elf Forest to level up while preparing for the war.

现在肖恩的等级是25级1/2400，修炼的经验值增速是151/小时，再加上练级200—300/天，大概5天后，也就是战争开始前就能达到26级开启【武器】模块了！

5 month 22 day.

At 9 o'clock in the morning, the River family began to seize all of Sean's property in Yorn City.

Khadgar went to the Castle of the Golden Wolf King to meet Jessica, and told Jessica that the seizure was fine, but it could not affect the production and sales of the entire industrial chain.

Of course, Jessica also wanted to own a complete perfume and spirits industry chain, so she agreed to Khadgar's suggestion.

At 10 o'clock in the morning, under the cover of Khadgar, Kawiz Lodian spread the status quo of the industry in Yon City, and dismissed the guards and Paladin Sean to go home to rest.

Without the protection of the strong sky-level dwarves and the guards, all gangs, large and small, in Jorn City climaxed, and collectively dispatched to attack Sean's property.

At 2 o'clock in the afternoon, before the arrival of the River family, the gangsters ransacked all the gold coins and valuables stored in the warehouse and residence of Xiao En's property.

The River family didn't get a single gold coin.

At 8 o'clock in the evening, Khadgar used [enhanced invisibility] to sneak into the warehouses of the lairs of the major gangsters, and took all the valuables into the [dimension backpack] while they were still celebrating.

The size of Khadgar's [dimension backpack] is 100 cubic meters, which is almost filled by him.

At 9 o'clock in the evening, Khadgar and Luodian counted the harvest together.

At this time, Khadgar discovered that the gang had stolen something worth about 30000 gold coins. He used the [Dimensional Backpack] to recover the gold coins and other things worth as much as 45000 gold coins!

Also made a big profit of 50%!

So Khadgar took out 5000 gold coins and distributed them to the poor in the slums at night.

5 month 23 day.

At 10 o'clock in the morning, the Silver-rank female assassin that Xiao En had captured before discovered that Water Pine Town had begun to gather troops to prepare for war, so she returned to River Beach Town from Water Pine Town.

After seeing Sean who was leveling in the Elf Forest, she handed Sean a detailed information about Shuipong Town.

The information includes the geographical location and road map of Shuisong Town, the deployment of troops, and the strength and combat preferences of each practitioner above the Bronze Rank in Shuisong Town.

Shuisong Town is located 30 degrees west of the north of Hetan Town.The straight-line distance is 30.06 kilometers, and the road distance is about 42 kilometers.

Unlike Hetan Town, which has only one lonely town, Shuisong Town has more than a dozen large and small villages besides the town, with a total population of nearly 1.

The main reason for this is: Hetan Town was born to trade with the Elven Kingdom, and Shuipong Town is the main grain producing area.

So Shuisong Town has many villages under it, but Hetan Town has none.

One hundred years after the Elf Kingdom closed down trade, the population of Hetan Town dropped from the original 100 to 2.5, while the total population of Shuisong Town and its subordinate villages remained almost unchanged at around 4000.

……

As for the army in Shuisong Town, there are a total of 510 soldiers who can go to the battlefield, and 500 logistics troops.

These include 110 territorial soldiers and 200 logistics troops;
100 mercenaries, 150 mercenary logistics troops;
100 reinforcements sent by the Marquis of the River, and 150 logistics troops;
There are 200 farmers left.

There were not many people, but what worried Sean the most was the strong men sent by Jon City, such as the two sky-level strong necromancers and Lucas in Jon City, who could easily destroy the armies of both sides.

Moreover, Yoen City may send some gold-level experts, which is also a great threat to the territory.

At 11 o'clock in the morning, Sean returned to River Beach Town and convened a meeting of all core personnel to discuss preparations for war through the latest intelligence.

The preparation has not changed much in general, only minor adjustments have been made in the details.

(End of this chapter)