Volume 4 Chapter 103 - Start of the civil war (1/2)

Volume 4 Actually if Lord Wein wanted it, even if those people wanted to leave his territory, he had a hundred ways to stop them. He could definitely forcefully stop his citizens from leaving his territory.

Because lords had absolute power in their territory, so unless those citizens escaped far away, they definitely couldn’t go against his words, not to mention running to Xu Yi’s territory right beside his.

But when Xu Yi mentioned this matter to Lord Wein, Lord Wein’s attitude was different from the rejection from before. He told Xu Yi that since his people wanted to leave, as long as they could pay the compensation for themselves, he wouldn’t stop them.

This was naturally disguised consent.

So after negotiating a bit, Xu Yi on the behalf of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce reached an agreement with Lord Wein.

According to this agreement, Lord Wein would let five thousand people “willingly” move to Xu Yi[‘s territory.

According to the silent rules of the Sines Continent and the rules set by the Stantine Duchy, Xu Yi as the lord of the territory they were moving to, he had to pay the moving expenses for these people to Lord Wein, which was a hundred and fifty gold coins per person.

Other than paying compensation for those citizens to Lord Wein, Xu Yi had to pay another seven hundred thousand gold coins to Lord Wein.

This agreement had a price of two million and two hundred thousand gold coins. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce proposed using goods to pay which Lord Wein agreed to.

In the final deal, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would pay Lord Wein five hundred thousand gold coins and the rest would be paid with some household magic machines, as well as four batches of military magic machines.

Other than this, Lord Wein had also requested the Frestech Chamber of Commerce help him fight three times.

The final request was related to the situation in the Stantine Duchy.

After defeating Count Fran, Lord Wein had not digested all the resources on Count Fran’s territory before he declared war on three lords near him, which he had won.

In just a single month, he routed two lords and the remaining lord could only retreat without the ability to fight back.

He believed that it wouldn’t take long to defeat that final lord.

This situation had attracted everyone’s attention in the Stantine Duchy.

If Lord Wein defeated these three lords and swallowed all their territory, the territory under Lord Wein would reach a shocking ten thousand square kilometers, making him the lord with the largest territory in the north of the Stantine Duchy.

Even in the Stantine Duchy, other than Duke Stantine, he was one of the strongest lords.

Moreover because the population was more dense in the north than in the south, once Lord Wein took these three territories, he would have over five hundred thousand people under him. Next to Duke Stantine, he would be the one with the most people in his territory.

With his current military strength, the overall strength of Lord Wein could already match Duke Stantine.

This naturally caused the other lords of the Stantine Duchy to be wary.

Lord Wein’s strength suddenly increased and he had defeated four lords of the same strength as him, including Count Fran. He wouldn’t stop after this, he would definitely aim his army at the other lords.

He might even…..challenge Duke Stantine!

In the Stantine Duchy which revered power, if Lord Wein could beat Duke Stantine, then Lord Wein might become the next Duke Stantine and control the most power in the Stantine Duchy.

Suddenly the situation in the north of the Stantine Duchy became tense.

Accordingly, all kinds of orders for military magic machines came to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

The lords had been doubtful towards the Frestech Chamber of Commerce before, but after seeing the power that Lord Wein gained from these military magic machines and proving this in battle, all the lords in the Stantine Duchy no longer felt doubt.

Because the production capacity of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wasn’t enough, they couldn’t satisfy all these needs at once, so many lords began raising the prices.

These lords naturally didn’t have gold coins to pay, so before this, most lords used resources to trade with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and most lords still used this method.

In the past, a carriage of normal quality iron ores could be traded for ten Magic Repeating Crossbows or a Magic Bazooka, but now it costs three carriages or more of high grade iron ore for this.

If one looked over the Stantine Duchy from above, they would find a strange scene.

From all places of the Stantine Duchy, there were horse carriages that were like ants that carried all kinds of ores to the northwest, centralizing around Xu Yi’s territory.

After these various ores were delivered, those horse carriages would return to their original places with military magic machines.

If one watched for some time, they would find that on the way to and back, there would be many robberies.

The Frestech Chamber of Commerce only traded based on the resources they received, they weren’t responsible for the transport.

You want to buy things? Alright, come yourself.