The Origin of Arcane

Your Excellency, the military has taken up too much energy, and it's normal to have no time to think about these issues. Sean turned his head and flattered him, Business and trade are based on the stalemate and equal dialogue between the two sides. If it weren't for these years, East and West Odin The empire has been suppressed by His Excellency the Grand Duke, and the proposal just now is like saying nothing, and rashly opening the border exchange market will only bring disaster to oneself.

This flattery was definitely of a high standard. It not only saved face for the other party, but also praised the other party's most proud achievements over the years.

Since entering the door, Grand Duke Cedric, whose face has been tense all the time, now has a much softer facial line, nodded and said: That's the truth, the Odin orc race is inherently authoritarian, if you don't subdue them, they will I won't obediently make a deal with you. After all, what can be snatched, why bother to trade? That is, in recent years, the balance between the two Odin empires has been broken. In order to compete for the grassland, the two sides fought to the death. Pay more attention to us, otherwise we wouldn't have so many leisurely lives, let alone this kind of thinking.

Grand Duke Cedric took two steps back and forth, and continued: Now is an excellent opportunity to try to open some borders and trade with small and medium-sized tribes who had a difficult time in those days, what do you think?

Grand Duke Cedric's last sentence was not about Sean, but about Princess Regent Sophilia.

Without the support of my niece, there is no way to implement this matter, because Broken Blood Castle lacks the support of basic commodities, and at that time, I will have to take part of the commodities from Sophilia as the initial trade start-up funds.

The princess regent nodded without hesitation and said: I agree with this matter. We have been deadlocked with the Odin orcs for so many years. It is time to change the mode of war. Baron En's opponent, since you started it, tell me, do you have any other good ideas?

I don't have any mature ideas for the time being. I can only think of what to say. Consider what is useful, and ignore what is useless. Sean explained in advance.

Sometimes you are impassioned, and then you are mother-in-law and mother-in-law. Just now you were about to point your nose and scold me. I didn't do anything to you. How can I eat you because you said something wrong? Grand Duke Cedric He glared at Sean and said, obviously he prefers Sean's previous style of saying what he said.

It's because I thought too much. Sean laughed and said quickly, There are two ways to trade with the Odin orcs. One is to bring goods into the Odin Prairie and conduct business tours. In this way, we The advantages and disadvantages are very obvious.

The risk factor is too high, and the entire caravan will disappear on the vast prairie at every turn, and it will take a long time. A caravan wanders around for at least half a year, and at most a year or two, and the benefits will shrink a lot. The advantage is, You can bring intelligence personnel in and out to understand the situation of the Odin Prairie and those tribes.

The second way is to choose a fixed location on the border between the two sides, set up a trade market, and use a large amount of scarce materials on the prairie to attract those Odin orc tribes to send them to their door. The benefits of doing so can greatly reduce the risk index. Even if there are greedy tribes who want to attack the trade market, they still have enough geographical and personnel advantages, and maybe they can take the opportunity to eat the other party.

The downside is that they can only passively wait for the other party to come to their door, which takes a long time, especially in the early days. It is not easy to open up the market. Those Odin orc tribes are worried that this is a trap, so they dare not try easily.

My suggestion is to take a two-pronged approach. While establishing a border trade market, at the same time send caravans to go deep into the Odin Prairie to trade. It doesn’t need to go too deep. The main purpose is to promote the border trade market and attract those Odin orc tribes to come to your door. After stabilizing the trade relationship, they can sit back and reap the rewards. Not only will there be a large number of Odin orc tribes coming, but the merchants on the side of the Byron Alliance will also flock there after seeing the benefits.

The method you just mentioned is indeed a good method if it is used in normal times, but it is not easy to use now. In other words, the caravans that have emerged in the Odin Prairie in recent years are all yours forever. The leader of the night army? Grand Duke Cedric did not let go of the information contained in Xiao En's words.

That's right. Sean nodded generously.

There must be Grand Duke Cedric's eyes and ears on the Odin prairie, and the momentum that the leader of the Eternal Night Army has created here in the past two years is not small. It is impossible to hide it from him, and there is no need to hide it.

I advise you to withdraw them from the prairie as soon as possible. In the next few years, this place will be extremely chaotic. If you are not careful, you will be lost. Grand Duke Cedric warned.

Sean's eyes were fixed, and he said solemnly: Is the Western Odin Empire preparing to launch an all-out war against the Eastern Odin Empire?

It seems that you have a lot of information about the Odin orcs. Grand Duke Cedric took the initiative to sell, The Western Odin Empire has been preparing for this for many years, and now it is the most chaotic time in the Eastern Odin Empire. If it were me, I would not let go of this great opportunity.

Thank you, Your Excellency, for your information. We will adjust our deployment on the Odin Prairie as soon as possible. Sean said sincerely, although such a large military operation of the Theodin Empire cannot be hidden from the eyes of those who are interested, it is just news It's a question of whether it will be sooner or later, but if he can get the news one minute earlier, he can make contingency deployment one minute earlier and reduce the loss by one point. What he is waiting for here is this news.

Both public and private, I should remind you. Grand Duke Cedric waved his hand and said, Besides, I still have to ask you now, and then I will talk about how to carry out this border trade if this condition is substituted into the entry. ?”

Everything has two sides, and the turmoil in the general situation is no exception. The two Odin Empires in the east and west are at war. The main force should be large tribes. Those small and medium-sized tribes are mice in the cracks. Life will be even more difficult. If you are not careful, you will be defeated. Reduced to cannon fodder, in order to survive, they will try their best to avoid the main battlefield. They have only two choices.

Either try to go north or go south. The north is a frozen wasteland. It is more difficult for them to survive there. It is estimated that there will be more tribes going south. With so many tribes crowded in a small area, all kinds of living materials will be lost It is even more scarce. If the border market is opened at this time, it will be easier to open up the situation. If it were me, I would definitely try it. Anyway, there will be no loss, will there be no? Sean asked with a smile.

Sean didn't speculate on the deeper things, and he needed to know. Sophie Liya would naturally tell herself that there was no need to play tricks in front of an old fox.

Very good! Very good! Very good! Grand Duke Cedric patted Sean on the shoulder in satisfaction.

I just don't know if he's talking about Sean's idea for Broken Blood Castle, or as his niece and son-in-law.

Sean wiped a cold sweat from his heart. After such a long period of time, Archduke Cedric's posture of interrogating prisoners at the beginning naturally couldn't be continued, and it was considered to have fooled him.

If Your Excellency really wants to open the border trade, there is still one thing I can do to help. Sean began to show his fangs cautiously.

Which aspect? Archduke Cedric asked.

Sean's proposal really scratched his itch. There are two purposes for his trip.

One is about the future marriage of the Lancelot royal family and the Strachey family.

The other is the issue of the military expenses of the Broken Blood Castle, and at the same time raise more military rations to prepare for the turbulent situation on the Odin Prairie.

At the military meeting at Blood Castle, Grand Duke Cedric spoke with great pride, as if he had personally acted, and the nobles and nobles bowed their heads obediently and handed over the military supplies they needed.

Only Grand Duke Cedric himself knows how difficult this is.

This is different from the battlefield, where the enemy is clearly visible, and he only needs to swing his knife to chop it.

Although those lords and nobles were afraid of themselves and did not dare to fight him hard, it was not an easy task to reach out and take something out of their pockets.

None of these lords and nobles are simple, and they have long honed a set of ways to deal with him. When they met him for the first time, most of them were crying.

Either crying for poverty, or telling Grand Duke Cedric about the many disasters in his territory in the past year, whether it was floods or droughts, and the plague was rampant even if nothing happened. up.

Some used rotten food and moldy bread at the banquet for Grand Duke Cedric in order to act realistically.

When Grand Duke Cedric left, he dryly squeezed out the poor military supplies and food, and stuffed a bunch of worthless tears of guilt by the way.

Grand Duke Cedric knew that the other party was acting, but there was nothing he could do. He couldn't lead his troops to break into the other party's warehouse to verify whether there was any food in it, right?

No matter how domineering Grand Duke Cedric is, there is no way to do this.

Because if you do this, the nature will completely change, and you will be treated as enemies by those lords and nobles in the future.

However, the way of dismissing the beggars made Grand Duke Cedric feel disgusted.

If there were other possibilities, he would never deal with these bastards.

Now Sean put a brand new possibility in front of him, how could he not be interested.

I formed a chamber of commerce in Valesta, all of which are pure merchants, but due to local security, they cannot conduct long-distance business, so we want to organize a mercenary certification agency to formalize mercenaries... ...

Sean roughly described the idea of ​​mercenaries proposed to the presidents of the Valesta Chamber of Commerce to Grand Duke Cedric and Princess Regent Sophilia.

Obviously, Sean set his mind on the retired soldiers of Broken Blood Castle.

The five presidents of the Valesta Chamber of Commerce unanimously approved Sean's idea of ​​a mercenary, and believed that it had great maneuverability.

But when it is implemented, it is full of difficulties. It is not a problem of formulating rules, but that the existing mercenary industry is too mixed. They do not have their own team, and when they actually do it, they lack confidence.

Among them, the most important thing is to punish the team, which is the core focus.

If there is not enough force to ensure that they can hold accountable those mercenaries with evil intentions, the so-called mercenary system will be difficult to establish.

So, so far, the plan is still on paper.

If they still can't think of a way to open up the situation in the future, they will have to seek help from the Yong Ye Army Commander to find a way in this regard.

This is the last move. After all, the leader of the Yong Ye army is currently short of strength, and he is unwilling to spend too much energy on it.

The visit of Grand Duke Cedric made Sean see an opportunity.

Isn't the retired soldier of Broken Blood Castle a natural candidate for mercenary?

Although due to disability and age, their combat effectiveness has been greatly reduced, but the foundation is there. As long as the disability is not too serious, it is still no problem to deal with those petty thieves and ordinary bandits.

Most importantly, their quality is more guaranteed than those mercenaries of unknown origin.

Sean spared no effort to encourage Grand Duke Cedric to open the border market, which naturally has his own interests.

The leader of the Yongye army can't go around such a big circle and go there to collect money, but the Valesta Chamber of Commerce can.

If they can take the opportunity to open up this line, the Valesta Chamber of Commerce will truly stand up. Even without the support of the Yongye Army Leader, no one will dare to move them.

Because at that time their interests will be tied to the Blood Castle.

Good, good, good! Grand Duke Cedric said three good words.

The ruler is long and the inch is short.

Grand Duke Cedric is definitely a good player in war, but he is an out-and-out layman in economics and business.

Just now, Sean talked about border business in a hype, which really made him see a huge business opportunity, but he didn't have a good idea when he was really asked to start it. For example, what are the most in-demand supplies among the Odin orcs? Where did these materials come from? And how to transport these materials over there? How much does shipping cost? How do you go about pricing, etc.?

Not to mention thinking about it well, whether he can think about these is a question.

The retired soldiers of Broken Blood Castle are basically in the same situation.

Trading is also a skill. If no one leads you in, and you want to bump into it head to head, you don't have enough capital to squander it, and it is difficult to find the way.

As I said before, the reason why the Valesta Chamber of Commerce was able to grow in a snowball manner was because the Eternal Night Army Leader made full use of the descendants of the Andes.

They are doing business themselves, but they are limited by their ability and scale. When they are at the bottom, they are engaged in the trade with the cheapest profit.

But that is also a kind of trade, and it is also the most challenging one, because they can't afford to lose, and it is more difficult to make money, and they have to calculate.

Once the Yongye army leader provides them with channels and products, they will naturally take advantage of the situation and grow at a terrifying speed.

Without them, it is still a question of whether the Yongye army leader can develop to the present level even with their information and product support relying solely on some laymen without any business experience.

The retired soldiers of Broken Blood Castle are out-and-out laymen.

But when it comes to mercenaries with guns and rollers, Grand Duke Cedric is good at it. They are a group of undisciplined soldiers. It is easiest to organize them into shape and manage them with military methods.

If there is Valesta Chamber of Commerce as commercial support, and retired soldiers from Broken Blood Castle as military support, the border market will no longer be empty talk.

After doing this, Xiao En was completely confident in his heart, and said to the Grand Duke Cedric: It seems that the Grand Duke lacks business talents in his hands, so how about it, when I am free some other day, I will send some members of the Valesta Chamber of Commerce The Grand Duke introduced them to His Majesty the Grand Duke, and I believe they have their own unique insights into the border market.

It couldn't be better. Grand Duke Cedric nodded again and again, I will discuss this matter in detail after I go back and study it carefully. I am here on this trip, and there is one more thing I need to explain to you in advance, my youngest son. Arnold may have sneaked into your territory, I hope that after you discover him, you can teach him a lesson, but don't hurt his life.

General Arnold went to lead the Eternal Night Army? This sudden news almost made Sean shiver, as countless alpacas galloped past in his heart.

Although Arnold Strachey is not as famous as his father, Grand Duke Cedric, he is also a famous general as the top three generals of Broken Blood Castle. According to legend, entering and exiting the Odin Prairie is like no one's land.

In the past few decades, more than half of the many brilliant achievements created by the Broken Blood Cavalry are from him. He is the life idol of Kelman, the chief of staff of the three major chiefs of the Yongye Army.