Chapter 32: The Olive Branch of the Kingdom of Orange
After the impact of the jackal incident, Liu Xiao found that the employees in the chamber of commerce worked harder, and their colleagues were more united and alert.
He saw that the employees spontaneously built several wooden buildings at the entrance for observation, and also made some homemade bows and arrows for defense.
Not only that, some people even volunteered to sign up with Cota, asking to join the patrol team and conduct regular patrols around the Chamber of Commerce camp.
Liu Xiao was very pleased. He felt that everyone's sense of belonging to the Chamber of Commerce has improved significantly and deeply, and people's hearts have become more united.
However, due to such a disturbance by the jackals, the already somewhat stretched manpower became even more inadequate.
Not only did they kill three people and seriously injure several others, but now they had to use extra manpower to carry out lookout patrols, which caused the construction progress of the camp to slow down instantly.
This is not what Liu Xiao wants to see.
It seems that he needs to go to the market to recruit some people today.
Let the dwarf Johnson catch up with the carriage, and Liu Xiao took Abu and Rosa to the most prosperous market in the cursed land again.
Similar to the situation last time, Liu Xiao's carriage was surrounded by a group of eager natives from another world, three floors inside and three floors outside, as soon as it drove in.
If Dwarf Johnson hadn't been waving his whip, their carriage wouldn't have been able to drive into the market normally.
And there, Liu Xiao's old friend Mr. Brandy was watching him with a smile.
In addition, Liu Xiao noticed that Brandy was followed by two people, one was a knight with bright eyes and the other was a lady wearing a water-mirror monocle and a hood on her head. In fact,
Age is hard to tell.
Liu Xiao asked Johnson to park the carriage side by side next to Brandy's carriage, and the two met again in the central open space separated by the two carriages.
"Hello, dear Mr. Liu, nice to see you again~"
Liu Xiao waved his hand casually and said: "You don't have to be so polite~ Lao Bai~! As the saying goes, what makes you old twice is familiar, so you can call me Boss Liu, or Liu Xiao~! What, do you still want to do some transactions today?
"
Brandy straightened up, the smile on her face not changing at all.
"We can put the transaction aside for now. I am here specifically to wait for Boss Liu today because I want to have deeper cooperation with your Chamber of Commerce. Or... you can understand this as a business alliance."
"Oh? The Black Rock Chamber of Commerce wants to form a business alliance with my Riot Chamber of Commerce? Hmm... It seems that your president is very ambitious~ He is not satisfied with being my first-level agent... Okay, let's talk about it,
What are your plans? What kind of alliance law do you want?"
Brandy, an elderly gentleman, bowed slightly, took off his white gloves, and slowly opened a parchment scroll with gold edges very solemnly.
"This is a knighthood ceremony letter that our president of the Black Rock Chamber of Commerce applied to King Orange II. It is clearly written on it that because of Boss Liu's significant contribution to the Kingdom of Orange, you are specially awarded a baronet.
Title! And a territory will be specially drawn for you in the Kunda Hills south of Orange.
If Boss Liu is willing to accept it, from today on you will have the noble title of Baron of the Kingdom of Orange, as well as a large and rich fiefdom~! There, you can build your own castle, cultivate your own land, and train your own army.
Of course, as a national noble of Orange II, you only need to pay a negligible harvest to the king every year to continue to enjoy this title and your fief."
Liu Xiao raised his eyebrows when he heard this, and looked at this kind-looking gentleman, but in fact he was a thief. Brandy said: "There is a saying in my hometown that no merit will be rewarded~! Lao Bai, how many days have we known each other?
I have never even met His Majesty the King of Orange, so how can he make a significant contribution to his kingdom? Let’s only talk business today, not politics! How about that?”
Seeing that Liu Xiao was not swayed at all, Brandy refused without thinking.
His expression remained unchanged, as if he had already anticipated Liu Xiao's answer. He rolled up the parchment with a smile and said: "Boss Liu doesn't know something. Our Black Rock Chamber of Commerce also has quite a say in the capital of Orange. Our president
He also serves as the Finance Minister of the Kingdom of Orange. It can be said that he is both an official and a businessman...
Because the high-quality potion materials that Boss Liu traded with me twice played a great role in the kingdom's war in the north! Therefore, the king used his power to grant you a noble title and a fief. Boss Liu, this is
What a great honor~!”
"glory?"
Liu Xiao didn't say anything, but he said "poof" in his heart.
"Damn your glory! I am free here and no one cares about me, and I have my back to the gem mines. Don't make money too fast~! Why do I have to go to your fiefdom of Lao Shizi to be controlled by others?
Do you want me to hand over my harvest? Give me a vain baronage and a piece of desolate land, and want me to grow Chinese medicinal materials on it and hand it over to you for free?
What a good calculation! Don’t think that I am a wild cannon who is uneasy about the world! I am a highly educated social animal~!
And what kind of ghost title... is it to be a baron? It sounds nice~ I can build my own castle and train my own army, but in fact there are restrictions on this! It’s just you country bumpkins from another world who put ten
A security team of dozens or twenty people is called an army! I don’t care about that~!”
Liu Xiao complained in his heart for a while, then he laughed twice and looked around at him.
"Eh~? Lao Bai, why don't you introduce two new friends today?"
Brandy didn't care that he deliberately changed the subject, stretched out his hand and introduced: "Please allow me to introduce to you, the person standing on my right is Arthur, the fighting instructor of the Blue Dragon Mercenary Association that our president spent a lot of money to invite! Stand next to me
The person on the left is Ms. Diana, the vice-president of the Royal College of Cultivation in Orange.
To be honest, Boss Liu said that our president specially applied for this for you. He knows that you can’t find suitable talents in this barren land of the cursed land.
Those indigenous people or exiled prisoners can only provide some brute force, and this Mr. Arthur is a registered Paladin in the kingdom! With many years of military training experience, he can provide Boss Liu with necessary personnel training and defense guidance.
Everything about combat experience.
Ms. Diana is knowledgeable and talented, and is the kingdom’s highly anticipated future reserve minister. She has outstanding talents in cultivating crops and flowers~! I believe that Boss Liu is in urgent need of talents in this area, so I brought them both.
.”
Liu Xiao nodded, with a smile on his face, and stretched out his hand and said: "Oh~~ He is really a talent~! Lao Bai, you are really anxious about what others want and think about what others think! I am worrying about these things. You
I sent two professionals!
Hello, hello~~Welcome~~Mr. Arthur, Ms. Diana, you are my timely help! Don’t worry, you will definitely be paid for your work here~! In this way, Lao Bai, they will be in their original positions
What’s the reward? I’ll double it here!”
There was still a faint smile on Brandy's lips, and she waved her hands slowly: "Boss Liu, just send him, their remuneration has been paid by our Black Rock Chamber of Commerce. In addition, I have an unkind request today...
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"Old Bai, I've already told you that we are all acquaintances, so if you have anything to say, just say it!"
"Boss Liu, I hope to be able to stably purchase large quantities of the cold granules you brought last time! In addition, I also hope to sign an exclusive agency contract with you, just like the previous potion materials. After signing the contract, you
Then we can no longer sell those cold particles to other countries or other chambers of commerce! What do you think?"