Princess Catherine, who is far away in the Stone Castle, has never stopped paying attention to Meng Han and Huangsha City. She even did not hesitate to use His Majesty the Grand Duke's most powerful spy for this purpose.
She couldn't understand how she found out that Meng Han didn't have many gold coins anymore. The daily gold coin income seemed to be enough to maintain Meng Han's luxurious life. But for some reason, Meng Han suddenly had an elf.
The handicrafts were auctioned, and the gold coins obtained made His Majesty the Grand Duke greedy.
The struggle between His Majesty the Grand Duke and the Marquis seems to have reached an even more speechless point. At this point, the competition is not about the number of armies they control, the number of masters they can win over, the number of nobles who surrender, or the right to speak.
How much, but it boils down to the simplest thing that makes people most speechless - gold coins. Their struggle now is about who has more gold coins.
As long as you have enough gold coins, you can arm more armies, win over more masters and even magicians, buy more nobles, and gain more say. It seems ridiculous.
But this is the fact. The economic base determines the superstructure, and it seems that in this world, there is the same irrefutable truth.
For this reason, Princess Catherine will definitely invest more energy to understand how Viscount Antonio of Huangsha City easily went from a humble Huangsha Town to the richest man in the principality in just a few years.
. If you can learn such skills, it seems that His Majesty the Grand Duke will not have to worry about the hostility of the Marquis.
Of course Meng Han didn't know that Princess Catherine, whom he had met once and naively wanted to sacrifice herself in exchange for Meng Han's support, was paying close attention to his movements. He was now happy, with another source of wealth, and the most profitable one.
of financial resources.
His Highness just realized what Meng Han meant. Selling to him again means that Meng Han will catch all the people he sent out. Then when His Highness needs to buy weapons again, the same batch of goods will be sold twice.
Make money twice. In other words, Meng Han is confident that he will wipe out any troublemaker he sends.
How arrogant and ignorant is this? Even if Meng Han's two hundred personal guards are outstanding, even if their weapons are extremely sharp, and even if the castle in Huangsha City is much stronger, His Highness will never believe that two hundred
A personal guard plus thousands of city guards can fight against an army of tens of thousands. Also, how can a guy who only knows how to make money and even sells such high-quality weapons to the enemy know this?
After thinking about this, His Highness was suddenly reluctant to kill Meng Han in the military camp. On the one hand, Meng Han had already said that the arms trade could only be carried out after the war was over. On the other hand, leaving a stupid super
Those who can make money will feel more pleasure if they are reared until they are fat enough and then slaughtered.
"Hahahaha!" His Highness almost doubled over with laughter. After an unusually ungraceful move, he patted Meng Han's shoulder boldly and laughed loudly: "Viscount Antonio, you really know how to tell jokes.
!Hahahahaha!" The officers at the back of the hall also burst into laughter. However, this time they performed well. At least they were still vigilant when laughing, instead of being as lax as last time. Look.
After getting up, Meng Han's threat still had an effect.
"Okay!" His Highness finally stood up straight, stopped laughing so much, and his face returned to normal. He looked at Meng Han and replied seriously: "I'm waiting for that day to come. If that's the case,
, I will buy back those weapons at double the price."
"Deal, Your Highness!" Meng Han still maintained his professional smile when facing the customer. Although this customer only has a business of two thousand gold coins, which does not sound like a big enough business, but who gives this person potential spending power?
After His Highness also left, the greedy nobles swarmed over and finalized the purchase of high-quality weapons with Meng Han. Meng Han took the trouble, but could not shirk it. Only at this moment did Meng Han regret that he had taken Grace with him if he had known this.
Or if any of Alice comes over, this trouble can be avoided.
Although they were tired of it, these dozens of lords still brought Meng Han more than 20,000 high-quality swords. Although the sales volume of each lord was only a few hundred pieces, the overall sales volume was,
Including the orders from His Highness and the Marquis, the number has exceeded 30,000. In other words, the business of at least 60,000 gold coins, if nothing unexpected happens, will be secured. The value exceeds 600 million yuan, no matter where it is.
In this world or in the previous world, it can be considered a big business.
Sure enough, the arms business is still very profitable! Although the profit from silk is also more than a hundred times, silk is a monopoly operation, while arms are not, but it can still make profits from a monopoly operation, and this is just a basic sword.
If you replace it with a metal crossbow, how much can it be sold for? Thinking about it makes people feel like a golden light shines in front of them.
The army sets up camp, and the next gathering is naturally about giving rewards. In the army, it is taboo not to reward merits and not punish demerits. You can expressly say that you will postpone it, but you have to honor it. This victory is originally the enemy's.
The first big victory since the invasion, of course, must be publicized with great fanfare to boost one's morale. Under such circumstances, how can one not get a reward?
However, both the Marquis and His Highness were a little troubled by Meng Han's commendation. The soldiers and even Commander Leo said very well that a formal military position and a reward of some gold coins would be enough. Anyway, they had already made money by searching for loot.
Translate. However, it is different for Meng Han. Meng Han is a noble, a noble with a title. He personally goes to the front line to fight. This is an unprecedented power of example. It can inspire all the troops to unite around the noble commander. How can we underestimate the good example?
To send?
Reward with gold coins? Just kidding, how much can be rewarded? With Meng Han’s family background, would he care about those pitiful gold coins? Reward with a title? Meng Han has only been promoted to viscount for less than a year, should he give it to an earl? Even if the Marquis wants to give it,
His Highness will never agree. If it is given to Earl Menghan, there must be an appropriate territory. Should all the territory around Stormwind City be allocated to Menghan? Isn't this a joke?
However, even if it is simply for the weapons provided by Huangsha City, His Highness has to carefully consider this issue. It is not that he does not want to directly seize Huangsha City's industry, but he has had several experiences and everyone understands
, that wealth is only wealth when it flows out of Meng Han's hands. If others snatch it away, it can only be a burden.
"Tony, whatever you want, just say it. As long as it can be done, I will approve it immediately." The Marquis was more direct. In front of the commander-in-chief and other colleagues around him, he nakedly asked Meng Han to make his request. When he heard
The Marquis said this, whether they are those who have made meritorious service or those who have not made meritorious service, their eyes are all red when they look at Meng Han.
"However, forget about the title, you have just been promoted." The Marquis didn't wait for Meng Han to speak, and immediately put forward the conditions for ***, and even gave reasons that were impossible to refute: "Besides, you must not be short of gold coins either.
Giving you gold coins is an insult to you, tell yourself, what do you want? Beauty? Slave? As long as you want!"
Even His Highness did not object to the words of the Marquis and nodded frequently. As long as Meng Han's suggestion was not excessive, he could be satisfied at any time.
As soon as such a proposal came out, even Meng Han himself was stunned for a moment. After thinking about it, it seemed that there was no better solution other than this. He seemed to be a bit too special. When he even gave the reward,
There is no reward left, this is not a good sign. Meng Han warned himself secretly, his mind flashing rapidly.
"Okay, in that case, let me make a few requests." Meng Han quickly thought of a few solutions and said: "First of all, including this battle, including future battles, all prisoners of war, I
Everyone has the right of first refusal.”
They are just asking for priority in purchasing. Everyone knows how generous Meng Han is in terms of price. This request is not excessive at all. No matter who it is, what is the purpose of catching a prisoner of war slave? Spend money to feed him? Is it not to sell money?
It's the same for everyone. No one will object to this request, and many people have even secretly made up their mind that as long as they have slaves in their hands, they will sell some to Meng Han even if they have no choice but to make friends with each other.
"In addition, I want ten places as official knights of the principality." Meng Han then made a second request: "My warriors who fought bravely against the enemy should have such a status."
This request was also approved without any objection. His Highness even waved his hand and said very generously: "In addition to those who have accumulated merits and promotions on the battlefield, I will give you twenty more knights. Lord Viscount, you can reward them at any time.
A loyal subordinate." It's just a knight's title. Since the principality doesn't need to pay a salary or anything, it's just given. It's just a name, so who cares?
"Third, I request that the principality's magic academy can conduct magic trials for my two maids as magic apprentices!" Since he has decided to train Demi and Diana, Meng Han certainly does not want to seek help from a magician's guild or a magician's guild.
Magic academies in other principalities can solve things in their own principality, and it is more convenient to have this name.
"If Dean Green doesn't agree, I don't mind changing to another dean who can agree." The Marquis was in a group and gave the assurance with a smile. At this moment, despite the respected status of the magician, under the aura of the nobility,
, but still firmly suppressed by the power.
"Okay, let's do this for now. We'll talk about it later when we think about it." Meng Han thought for a while and stopped making any excessive demands. At this time, what he needed was to keep a low profile and bide his time, rather than charge into the battle as a pawn of the Marquis. It would be better to keep a low profile.
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"Rewards are rewards, but military merit cannot be lacking." The Marquis once again replaced His Highness as the commander-in-chief and announced loudly: "Viscount Antonio is still the first to contribute to this victory. Who is dissatisfied with this?"