Cthulhu Gonfalon Chapter 101:
Faced with the gazes of the two marquis and the earls, Earl House was silent for a while, and said, “Actually, I am not a person who likes to cause trouble. Since there is a risk of involving the Northwestern Republic, I will accept the soldiers. WWWW.SUIMENG.lā”
“Thank you!” The Marquis of Uk nodded with a smile, “I will compensate you for your loss.”
“It’s not’me’, but’we’.” The Marquis of Gordon said, “House did suffer a loss this time. Since he chose to give in for the interests of our nobles as a whole, then Naturally, we should all make up for his loss together. House, I will send someone to send you twenty sets of standard slatted armor later.”
On hearing this, more than one earl frowned slightly.
Slat armor is an armor made of wide iron bars inlaid on leather armor. Although it is a little cumbersome, it has good protection and is an excellent full body armor for soldiers at the grassroots level. As long as you put on a slat armor, you generally don’t have to worry about bows or swords, and if you put on a shield, it will be directly like a walking iron block.
Although the price of slatted armor has dropped with the introduction of simplified full-body armors in the Northwestern Republic, a standard slatted armor is at least worth about 200 gold coins, and twenty sets are 4,000 gold coins.
The money is not much, but since the Marquis has given out four thousand gold coins, the earls must also give at least two thousand gold coins. The frowning earls have a bad relationship with the “good horse” earl, and they really don’t want to subsidize him so much by themselves.
However, the Marquis of Uk immediately followed up, saying that he could produce ten sets of simplified full-body armor of the Northwest Republic, and with a large shield with iron skin.
Calculating the price, this is about six thousand gold coins.
So the counties who had a bad relationship with Earl House couldn’t help but become more gloomy.
But the two bigwigs both expressed their opinions, and they produced materials worth tens of thousands of gold coins. How can they be stingy?
So you give a little, I give a little, and finally the earls put together almost 22,000 gold coins.
Earl House smiled very happily. Of course he had a loss this time, but the materials of more than 30,000 gold coins were enough to make up for his loss and make him a lot of money.
In this way, what he was afraid of assassination before can be exposed.
A few days later, the materials were successively shipped to the Earl of House. Of course, these materials could not be transferred from the capital or the earls’ territories, but were prepared directly near the Earl’s land. They were responsible for preparing the materials. Yes, it is the Chamber of Commerce under the Marquis of Gordon.
The aristocratic faction is not without merchants. For example, the two Marquis have a large-scale chamber of commerce. The chamber of Marquis Gordon happens to have a shop near the Earl of House. It uses the logistics of the chamber of commerce. , All kinds of materials were prepaid and sent in advance, and it would be good to settle the accounts when the materials supported by everyone actually arrived.
Obtaining these supplies, Earl House naturally hurriedly withdrew his troops. The aristocratic faction once again sent envoys to discuss with the merchant faction about peacefully solving the problem.
The chambers of commerce that were confronting Earl House didn’t understand what was going on at first, and did not dare to pursue them. Although they took the initiative to attack because of their anger, anger cannot make up for the gap in strength between them. In the past few small-scale confrontations, the mercenary-based merchant army not only failed to take advantage, but repeatedly suffered. In this case, seeing Earl House retreating, their first thought was that there might be a trap, so instead of pursuing them, they hurriedly strengthened their positions to ensure safety.
A few days later, the aristocratic messenger came, and they realized what was going on.
Some people who are more intense naturally feel that they have missed the opportunity and feel regretful. But some of the older people secretly rejoiced, happy that the border war could finally be resolved peacefully.
Businessmen are only asking for money, what good is there in fighting? Even if you can get a little bit, it may not be enough to pay the mercenaries!
Based on this idea, the peace negotiations proceeded smoothly.
In fact, the merchant faction does not have very conclusive evidence to prove that the aristocratic soldiers attacked the caravans and civilians. The messenger in charge of the negotiations directly took out a big killer and said that the Lord of Justice (the law of the The priests of the (God) Church came forward to preside over the inspection of the aristocratic soldiers in various territories nearby. Once they found someone involved in the crime of attacking merchant caravans and civilians, they immediately took them down and executed them on the spot.
In this way, even those businessmen with a fierce attitude are more comfortable, and the rest is nothing more than a question of money.
Money is not a problem.
In other words, for a negotiator who has been jointly authorized by the leaders of the noble faction, a problem that can be solved with money is not a problem.
He said that although it is not clear who attacked the caravan and civilians, the noble faction is willing to subsidize half of the other party’s losses for peace. If the investigation proves that the attack was indeed done by aristocratic soldiers, then in addition to subsidizing the other half, an additional double compensation will be added.
The price is really full of sincerity, and the managers of the merchant school are very satisfied. Although there were some greedy people who wanted to take the opportunity to speak loudly, they were stopped by their companions.
The aristocratic pie is not a good soft persimmon. Although I don’t know why they are willing to be soft this time, if they are too greedy and irritate them, they will not only be beaten up, but I am afraid that they will steal the chicken and lose the rice. It.
If it really fights again, the Merchant faction won’t have much chance of winning.
If the black sheep is controlled, the next negotiation will naturally go smoothly. The two sides negotiated in detail on how to trace the murderer, and finally signed some terms and completed an agreement.
This agreement is generally fair and does not particularly harm the interests of either party. Especially at the end of the agreement, the messengers of the noble faction insisted on adding the clause “if the harassment and assault is found to be committed by a hostile force from outside, the two sides must unite to the outside world”, which made several leaders of the merchant faction think.
There can be no waves without wind, if it weren’t for any clues~IndoMTL.com~ the nobles would not have made such a big concession, let alone insist on adding this to the agreement.
So after the peace talks, they immediately contacted the core of the merchant faction and told the information to several large chambers of commerce.
The major chambers of commerce attached great importance to this matter and quickly held a meeting. After repeated discussions, all the big businessmen of the wealthy and enemy countries finally decided to join the noble faction to investigate together, and we must track down the guys behind the scenes.
Business people only value making money and don’t like to cause trouble. But if someone calculates them secretly and wants to provoke them to war with the nobles, then they will definitely not swallow their anger.
Be aware that fighting will cost a lot of money and kill a lot of people!
Spending money makes business people feel distressed; dead people make business people fear. At the thought of almost falling into a trap, the merchants couldn’t help rushing into the crown.
No matter who he is, if he wants to cause trouble, be prepared to face everyone’s anger!
About half a month later, the joint investigation team of the merchant faction and the noble faction finally set off and began to carefully investigate the attack on the border between the two sides.