Mount & Blade: Wind of War

The Lonely Mountain Castle in a peaceful state is rich and prosperous with extremely developed commerce.

Because this is the gateway of the human camp and the orc camp, backed by the most powerful Styak Empire in the human camp, even the orcs dare not act rashly, so they can only export resources through mutual trade to obtain the goods they want but are difficult to produce.

White and clean snow salt, delicious sugar, sharp swords, and powerful heavy crossbows are expensive luxury goods even in the human empire, and they are also impossible for the high-level officials of the orc empire to refuse.

Fully loaded caravans drove carriages to and from this increasingly magnificent city. Although there were certain risks, the commercial transactions between humans and orc countries could never be refused once they were done.

Because that was twenty times, fifty times, or even a hundred times the profit!

Lonely Mountain, in a small castle that temporarily served as the city lord's mansion.

Rhode was enjoying breakfast with Kress. Although she was called a maid, Kress actually enjoyed the treatment of half a mistress. However, the newly promoted maids around her could only envy her. The friendship between the master and servant, who had started from humble beginnings and fought through hardships, was something they could not compare to in peacetime.

"Let the guards of the city check more strictly. Ironware and military supplies will be taxed twice as much. These merchants dare to buy and sell anything to make money. Don't they think that once the orcs really win the war, will they still abide by the trading rules with them?"

Rhode was working while eating breakfast. Anyway, he was working for himself. Only he cared about others, and no one cared about him.

On the long table, covered with red silk, Rhode was placed in front of him with deer hind legs, liver mash and blood sausage, barley bread and onions. Kress was a bit too much. She was filled with chocolate, candied fruit, lemon cake and strawberry cream cake beside her. Although Rhode could not help but taste some, he still did not agree with the girl's eating habits.

"Kress, if you keep eating so many sweets, your teeth will eventually be unable to bear it."

"Woo, sir, today is Saturday, I only have one day off a week." Kress put his hands together on the side of his cheek and begged, so Rhode shook his head and said nothing more.

On weekdays, Kress still has strong self-control. If it's only one day a week, just let her temper.

At this time, after Rhode signed the decree to impose heavy taxes on weapon merchants, he clicked on the system shop. Every once in a while, some items will be refreshed in the system shop. Although the probability is not very high, sometimes very valuable items will be refreshed, such as magic tools.

However, with the development of Lonely Mountain Castle today, ordinary magic tools, blood beard dwarves and even two wizard towers can be made by themselves, so there is no need to waste precious dinars.

However, today is different. Rhode waved his hand to open the system shop and looked at the refreshed item list. He even saw a battle flag in the first column of the weapon list.

"Why is the flag placed in the weapon category?"

With such doubts, Rhodes clicked on the message of the battle flag:

[Antique·Unfinished Battle Flag! ]

[This is the last flag left by a destroyed kingdom. The loyal weaver, the old wizard, and the last little daughter of the king who died in battle, all of them poured their last vitality into this battle flag. If this battle flag can be completed, the obsession of the undead who have traveled through a hundred years will be comforted.

Special note: The better the weaver's skills, the stronger the feelings poured, and the more excellent the magic properties obtained after the battle flag is completed. ]

Price: 8260 dinars.

"What a good thing!" Rhodes exclaimed after reading the relevant introduction.

This item is like the "Incomplete Rhodok Crossbowman Training Manual" back then. It doesn't seem to be an item that directly generates value, but in fact it is of great value. Rhodes bought it directly without hesitation. No matter what attributes it will add in the end, it is definitely better than nothing.

"Notify Janice immediately to hold a weaving competition. The rewards for the top three may be set more generously. This will also help improve the social status of female workers."

In fact, with silk becoming one of the iconic commercial specialties of Lonely Mountain Castle, the status of women in Lonely Mountain Castle, which has obtained an economic foundation, has been greatly improved, at least far higher than that of women in most other regions of the world. However, Rhode is a time traveler after all. Although he knows that extreme feminism is harmful to the family and the country, he still thinks that the status of women in this world is too low.

The situation in the previous life when divorce was fashionable was certainly not good, but in this world, the situation where rural women hanged themselves and jumped into the well at any time was also not good. We are all human beings. As long as he can, Rhode is willing to let the people under his rule live a decent and comfortable life.

The knights guarding around responded to the order.

Just when Rhode finished breakfast and was about to change rooms to start a day's work, a knight suddenly ran in with a blood-stained scroll in his hand and a panicked look.

"What's wrong?"

People who have been in the military for many years will become extremely sensitive to the color and smell of blood. Rhodes is no exception. He quickly noticed that his subordinate was not injured and the bloody smell came from the scroll in his hand.

"We just found a female knight who was unconscious and seriously injured outside the city. Commander Remo recognized her and said her name was Berry and asked me to hand this scroll to you immediately."

Hearing this, Rhodes quickly took the scroll and started reading it. At this moment, another knight ran in.

"Your Majesty the Duke, please report urgently from the capital."

This urgent report came from the Finance Minister Marquis Angel, who had a good relationship with Rhodes. In order to maintain the friendship between the two, Rhodes gave two tamed griffons to the other party.

After all, this is a major benefactor who allocates more than 300,000 yuan to himself every year. At the same time, there are people who are inclined to him among the senior officials in the capital of Faster. The benefits are self-evident.

However, the two scrolls and letters that he suddenly obtained today made Rhodes' expression suddenly change:

His Majesty the Emperor passed away, and the Styak Empire fell into division. At this moment, the royal capital of Fastel was already in flames of war.

Although the third holy relic oracle of Gushan Castle predicted the "split of the empire", everyone regarded it as Rayamond and Saint Laurent. No one thought in advance that it would be the strongest among the three human kingdoms in terms of comprehensive strength and no one. The Styak Empire, which fell into a state of war, was the first to collapse.