The Origin of Arcane

three days later.

The Danube, Port of Brothers Pier 1.

The leader of the Yongye army and the Kingsley family's Eastern Army, two forces that have clashed openly and secretly, held a high-level meeting.

On the Danube River, there are many warships, and the elite are at their best, forming a siege to Brother Port. If there is any problem in the meeting, the Yongye Army Leader will launch a full-scale landing operation.

In Brother Hong Kong, the Kingsley Family's Eastern Conquest Army was also tense. Outside the first pier, surrounded by large troops, even defensive siege equipment was pushed up, and they were also afraid that the Yong Ye Army would use small tricks.

In the first meeting, the two sides have not yet established the most basic trust, and they are afraid that the other party will attack their commander-in-chief.

For this meeting place, the two sides racked their brains and wrangled for several days.

In the end, it was the leader of the Yong Ye army who made a concession and reached an agreement.

Compared with Ake Messer, the leader of the Yongye army is more confident in terms of the overall situation and means.

Regardless of the black collar air support or the soul beast card, they are all means for Xiao En to protect his life. Ake Messer knows the former, but not the latter.

Once the calculation fails, Ake Messer will push the Zhengdong Army into a hell that will never be restored, and the angry Eternal Night Army will cut off all possibilities of negotiation.

Due to thorough preparations, the initial meeting went smoothly without any accidents.

Both sides entered the arena in a very low-key manner, and did not show any sensitive moves of showing off their force. It was meaningless to do so except to stimulate each other's sensitive nerves.

After all, the two sides have confronted countless rounds, both openly and secretly, and they are out-and-out old opponents, and they can be regarded as knowing the basics.

Your Excellency the Baron, you are younger than I expected. Akemesser said with a smile.

Marshal is not the first to say that, and I believe he won't be the last to say that. Xiao En responded with a smile, Your Excellency, Marshal, you are also younger than I expected.

Is the baron flattering me? Or scolding me? Akemesser brushed his gray and white hair and beard and said, Is this still young?

Your Excellency Marshal, the more serious personality is consistent with the rumors. Sean laughed and changed the topic, Let's start.

Let's get started! No matter how serious Akemesser's character is, he would not hold back a compliment. If he was so serious, he wouldn't be sitting in his current position.

Sean was sitting upright, opened the door and entered the mountain and said, I believe the people below have finished the probing work. Your Excellency, Marshal, let's stop wasting the time of both parties. You should be clear that the lives of 20,000 crocodile civilians cannot be your amulets. Make a real price so that we can proceed to the next step of the matter. The longer the two thousand crocodile civilians stay in your hands, the faster the depreciation rate will be. When they are all dead, you will not even be able to exchange for food One.

The baron is not only a qualified lord, but also a qualified businessman. Ake Messer couldn't help sighing.

Thank you Marshal for your praise.

The grain load of a thousand merchant ships must not be less than 20 tons. Ake Messer directly offered the price.

20,000 tons of grain, one ton of grain per person on average, Marshal, are you slaughtering us like fat sheep? Or are you treating these 20,000 crocodile civilians as real money? Marshal, you still have no sincerity.

Ake Messer was a typical lion with a big mouth, 20,000 tons of food was enough for his 200,000 troops, and he lived frugally for half a year.

Sean sat on the ground and paid back the money: Two hundred tons of grain, no more.

Your Excellency the Baron has always given me a little sincerity. When I get to my side, I can't see the slightest sincerity. It's too cruel to cut off 99% as soon as I get started. That's 20,000 living people. Even if two Ten thousand pigs is more than this price, right?

Everything depends on the situation. If it is normal, human life is priceless. Let alone 20,000 human lives, even if it is two human lives, we will not hesitate to launch a war. But now is the time of war, and human lives are more important than pigs. It’s cheap, at least the pigs are still edible, and they are in the hands of the marshal, so it’s an out-and-out trouble, do you think that’s the reason?” Sean argued solemnly.

You are out-and-out sophistry. Ake Messer said with a cold face, Human life is human life, and this will never change. I heard that the baron just absorbed the crocodile tribe, so don't you care about the life and death of your own people? ? Just like what the baron said, just drag it on like this, and it will be your clansmen who will die at that time. It is really hard to say whether this bad debt will be charged to us or to the baron. After all, our Kingsley family has withdrawn The Swamp of Despair has become a foregone conclusion, Your Excellency the Baron will continue to rule here, how about this, you and I each make a concession, 18,000 tons.

Your Excellency, Marshal, are you confusing concepts? It is obvious that you have done evil things, how can you put this bad debt on our heads? You see, even if it is unsuccessful, we have already expressed our sincerity, and I have come in person , the final result is still caused by your exorbitant asking prices, how can you succeed if you ask others to do a task that cannot be completed? Two hundred and fifty tons, no more.

Impossible task? The baron is joking? Let's not talk about how easy it is for you to directly distribute grain from the Asia Minor Plains now that you have all the advantages. Just say that the grain merchants on the Huayu Plateau have no less than 8,000 tons of grain in their hands. Didn't you just say that? Has an agreement been reached?

The marshal's news is really well-informed. Yes, we have indeed reached an agreement, but it is one thing to reach an agreement. Whether we can afford it is another matter. Our family has a small business and is engaged in construction. , It’s a war again, and it’s already beyond our means, and there’s no way to eat it all at once, and it’s already the limit to get a small part of it, not to mention that our army and the people also have to eat.”

There is not much difference between the two sides fighting with each other, the bargaining between you and me, and the confrontation between small vendors and grocery shopping ladies in the vegetable market, except that the numbers in their mouths are bigger.

As the seller, Ake Messer demanded a lot of money, and as the buyer, Sean sat down and paid back the money.

It's just that the psychological price difference between the two is far-reaching, and the disparity is nearly a hundred times, and it will be difficult to reach a consensus for a while.

In the end, Ake Messer insisted on 10,000 tons and refused to drop any more, and his eyes were fixed on the 8,000 tons of military rations that the grain merchants on the Huayu Plateau should deliver to them.

And Xiao En's price has increased to 1,000 tons, and he is unwilling to continue to increase the amount. It is true that the leader of the Yongye army wants to rescue the 20,000 crocodile civilians. That is on the premise of not affecting their overall plan. If too much military rations are put in the hands of Ake Messer, it will increase the variables, and only fools will do it.

The meeting lasted three hours on the first day, and finally broke up unhappy.

The two seem to have been talking about food, and there are many things mixed in the gossip.

For example, Xiao En hinted in a roundabout way that as long as Ake Messer is willing to lead the army to surrender, the leader of the Yongye Army will treat each other with the highest standard and still command an army.

Ake Messer not only refused cleanly, but also expressed that as long as the leader of the Yongye Army let go of the river and let the Kingsley family conquer the Eastern Army go home, they will not only let go of the 20,000 crocodile civilians in their hands unconditionally, but also promise Kingsley The family can sign a non-aggression pact with the leader of the Eternal Night Army and give up peeping at the Swamp of Despair.

This proposal was also ignored by Xiao En. After finally catching a big fish, if two catties of oil were not blown out of him, how could he be worthy of his previous hard planning?

Both sides are taking this opportunity to test each other's bottom line, and the result is not very good.

For the leader of the Yongye Army, Ake Messer's will to resist is still very tenacious, and he is not affected by the predicament at all. This kind of experienced and indomitable veteran is the most difficult to deal with, even if there is no glimmer of hope in front of him. Can also hold on to the end.

Such a person, let Yong Yejun lead the mouse to drag the eggs, and have nowhere to talk. It is too difficult to find a breakthrough from him.

For Ake Messer, Sean was more difficult than expected. He was very young and politically sophisticated, and his words were so secretive that you couldn't tell which of his words was true and which was true. Fake.

If it was said that Xiao En didn't pay much attention to the lives and deaths of those 20,000 crocodile civilians, the Yongye military leader not only agreed to the negotiation, but even the supreme leader, Xiao En, personally stepped in.

If it is said that they value it, Xiao En's words and deeds reveal endless indifference. In his mouth, 20,000 crocodile civilians are just a cold number, and he is not willing to pay even a grain of food for them.

The life and death of the 20,000 crocodile civilians had to stand aside for the benefit of the Yong Ye army leader.

Their current behavior is like the ropes thrown from the city wall during the defensive battle of Brothers Port.

They only care about whether they have made such a gesture. As for how many people can be saved, it is secondary.

This is a process of fighting wits and fighting strength.

Both sides are procrastinating, and it depends on who can't hold back first and makes the biggest concession.

Time is obviously more unfavorable to the Kingsley family's expedition to the East. As time goes by, the military rations in their hands are shrinking at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Normally, they can save food and clothing, and everyone eats half full. Now that they are in a state of nervous negotiation, they can't do this naturally. Otherwise, before the enemy makes a move, their own people will mess up first, and that will be a big trouble.

The 200,000 army, people eat horse chews, and the food and grass consumed in a day is a terrifying figure.

I don't know if the leader of the Yong Ye army is aware of this, but Sean seems to have consciously dragged the negotiation into a stalemate, dragging Ake Messer around every day, and in the end, it was several tons of grain.

Ake Messer's asking price is tens of thousands of tons. According to this method of digging, can you get it to the year of the monkey?

Before the results were obtained, the Kingsley family ran out of food for the Eastern Army.

It's useless for Ake Messer to be in a hurry. Once he makes a concession, he will fall into the trick of the leader of Yongye.

Just as the negotiations in the Swamp of Despair reached an impasse, a political confrontation was going on in Valesta, the capital of the kingdom thousands of miles away.

Sorry, Your Majesty the Grand Duke, Her Royal Highness the Princess went to the Convent of the Virgin Mary and has not returned yet. Bi Luo, the princess regent's personal bodyguard, stopped in front of Grand Duke Buck.

How long will it take for Her Royal Highness to come back? Grand Duke Buck asked patiently. This was his thirteenth visit to Princess Regent Sophilia, but none of them succeeded.

Every time the honorable Princess Regent was either ill or happened to be out on business.

God is so pitiful, when did the great knight become as delicate as the noble ladies in the boudoir?

I have consciously blocked the opponent several times, but all ended in failure.

This is Valesta, the capital of the kingdom, and the opponent's world. If the opponent is blocked by him, an outsider, then there will be a real problem.

Knowing that the other party was hiding from him on purpose, Grand Duke Buck could only hold back his anger. After all, he came to beg for help this time.

It's hard to say, there are long and short, sometimes it only takes two or three hours, sometimes it takes several days, the princess regent will stay in the convent of the Virgin Mary for a few days. Bi Luo replied ambiguously.

Today, no matter what, I will see Her Royal Highness. No matter how long I have to wait, I will wait here. Grand Duke Buck is also determined to see Sophie Liya.

But they didn't mention going to the Holy Mother's Monastery. Who knew that after they ran there, they found that the princess regent had returned to the palace by another way by coincidence. When they chased her, the other party went out because of other coincidences.

He has seen this kind of coincidence too many times, no matter how fast people run, they can't keep up with the speed of the mountain eagle, right?

This time he made up his mind to guard the palace to the death. He didn't believe that the princess regent could hide for a lifetime?

The supreme ruler of the Kingsley family is shameless, and the Lancelot royal family is also shameless?

Grand Duke Buck just sat down in front of the palace and ignored Bi Luo's request to invite him to the parlor.

On the turret of the palace, which is no more than a hundred meters away from Grand Duke Buck in a straight line, there is a group of people looking down on Grand Duke Buck's every move.

The leader is the Princess Regent Sophilia who Bi Luo said should be retreating in the Convent of the Virgin Mary.

The middle-aged man standing side by side laughed when he saw this and said, The situation is so bad that the dignified leader of the army used such indecent methods?

It's not that Uncle Arnold doesn't understand the greedy faces of those old guys. No matter the wind or waves, they can make trouble for you, not to mention that the Kingsley family is deeply mired this time. They are like sharks that smell fishy. They all wanted to take a bite out of the Kingsley family. Just three days ago, the Adolf family of the Southeastern Army brought up the old matter again and demanded a new ruling on the ownership of the Nansi Hills area that had disputes, and then mobilized 5,000 The private army of the nobles blocked all the roads from the Nansi Hills area to the Karth army, and expelled all the nobles and mine owners here.

So serious? The smile on Arnold's handsome face could not help restraining himself.

The ownership of the Nansi Hills area is in dispute. It is not a matter of a day or two. The Byron Alliance has not been able to make it clear at the beginning of its establishment, let alone after three hundred years of inheritance, the nobles here have married each other, and the inheritance rights have changed back and forth. It's even more difficult to say that the truth is not clear. Anyway, the public says that the public is right and the woman says that the woman is right, and both sides insist on their own opinions.

Most of these areas will fall to the side with the bigger fist.

As for axioms?

In many cases, the big fist is the axiom.

The Nansi Hills area has been under the rule of the Carter military leader for the past fifty years. The Adolf family's actions are undoubtedly a military provocation to the Kingsley family.

In the past, the Kingsley family's army would have already driven over.

Even if you want to talk, wait until the claws of the Adolf family are cut off.

Because once they show weakness, neighbors in other disputed areas will use this as an excuse to move around.

At that time, they will not just take back the ownership of the disputed areas, but will even take the opportunity to create more disputed areas.

Although Arnold doesn't play politics, his eyes and ears are open and he is very familiar with politics.

Grand Duke Buck, they gambled too much this time. In the Swamp of Despair, they invested too much. The victory is a brilliant victory, and the defeat is a crushing defeat. The result now is that the latter, the most elite troops of the family, are trapped in the Swamp of Despair. Not to mention the Swamp of Despair, it is also in a financial crisis, even if the trapped troops are rescued, they still have no way to get rid of the wolves' gaze. As a bystander, the Princess Regent knows the dire situation of the Kingsley family. more clearly.