On the 9th, in White Tree City, the southernmost city in the Northwest Earldom, Peter Maned Wolf wore a gorgeous dress and entered the castle of the local noble Viscount White Tree.
It is said that this city was once the capital of the southwest count of the kingdom. The city was captured by the fallen demons 300 years ago. After the war, the Dragon Kingdom merged the original five marquisdoms in the south, and White Tree City was divided among the northwest counts.
There was a palace coup in the Dragon Capital 9 years ago. At that time, Viscount Baishu saw the opportunity and defected to the Southwest Blue Lion Family. From then on, although Baishu Ridge was still considered the defense area of the Southwest Earl, Viscount Baishu only asked the Southwest Earl for help. Special Blue Lion allegiance.
Seeing Peter being welcomed into the castle by a group of beauties, Jim, a member of the auxiliary army who came with him, frowned. They had been in White Tree City for 7 or 8 days. They had originally heard that this place was close to the southern forest. Some are cheap non-demon slaves.
However, after I arrived, I heard that a gang of orcs had emerged from the southern forest in the past two months. The price of slaves in the entire market had more than doubled. Not only that, there were no more than 3,000 slaves for sale in the entire city. , far from the 50,000 people Rand hoped for.
The originally unfavorable situation was enough to give Jim a headache. However, at this moment, the leader of the entire team, the intermediate knight Peter Maned Wolf, was completely immersed in the pursuit of wealth.
The 2,000 gold coins Rand gave them before they came actually spent most of it in less than 10 days. The thousands of gold coins they could buy not only slaves, but also magic fairies.
"Young man, let's go back!" Next to Jim, an old man about 50 years old said.
"Yes, Knight Dutov." Jim nodded.
This knight Dutov Manitov is the "slave" purchased by Peter.
To be precise, yesterday Peter spent another 100 gold coins to buy Dutov's family: the intermediate knight Dutov, two sons of junior knights, a daughter of a demon possessor, and a family scholar of a junior knight.
However, for Jim, although the knight was just a "slave" of the lord, and he was the manager of the territorial auxiliary army appointed by Lant himself, Jim still felt very guilty when he actually faced him.
Dutov glanced at Jim's eyes and knew what he was worried about, and said with relief: "I know you don't understand Knight Pete right now, but I think he is working hard to complete his mission."
"Yeah!" Jim nodded with difficulty, but in his heart it was difficult to link the debauchery with completing the lord's mission.
In the afternoon, Jim saw two more knights coming from Yeqi City in the hotel where they lived. They gave Jim a ring and left.
"If White Tree City is run well, it will definitely become a count city in the future. It's a pity that the current Viscount White Tree has no vision and wasted such a city with a teleportation hall." Dutov said with regret as he watched the knights leave. .
In the evening, a rather luxurious carriage finally stopped at the door of the hotel. Several slender girls sent Peter, who was drunk, into the room. The girls did not return to the carriage, but closed the door directly and waited on Peter. rest.
Jim, who was responsible for the future of the auxiliary army, couldn't sit still anymore. He decided to contact Knight Danico directly, the captain of the auxiliary army, and asked Danico to report to Lord Lant.
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At night, in the small town of Iowa, at the door of the Knights' stables, the Little Cardinal was reporting today's briefing to him.
"Negotiations between the Northern Niel and River Clan representatives Lennikova Findoro have been completed,
Neil said that if Lenikova could be more serious, the negotiations would go much smoother." The little cardinal almost laughed when she looked at this briefing.
"In addition, there is a Walrus Archmage Yumis Changya who is on his way to Yeqi City. He said he was sent by His Excellency Xiu Ming."
"Um"
Lant nodded. Gu Leiya had already said hello. Xiu Ming was very interested in Poseidon's eggs and specifically looked for a water mage to come over. At that time, Lant didn't know where Red Dragon Rock found the mage. Now it seems that he followed Jing. The river leaves the sea beast tribe of the ocean.
After reading the happy story, the little cardinal's face became serious: "Sir, there is one more thing. Knight Danico hopes that you can meet with Jim. He is in White Tree City. He said that Captain Peter Maned Wolf is wasting your gold coins."
"Oh?" Rant thought it was interesting. Not only did he agree to Danico's proposal, he contacted Jim directly and called Laniya.
"Sir, I must say in advance that according to the statistics team, Peter Maned Wolf purchased at least 1,000 gold coins from Sally Feilong's shop, almost entirely on credit."
Before the magic mirror could connect to Jim, the little cardinal started to complain: "In addition, he was also reselling various specialties from the territory in the south. I'm afraid he made hundreds of gold coins in vain!"
Lant glanced at Lanya next to him, only showing a playful expression, and didn't say much in detail. It wasn't until Jim came online that he heard him start complaining about Peter's eating, drinking, having fun and spending too much money.
After Jim finished speaking, Rant looked at Laniya again, waiting for her evaluation.
"Sir, I suggest letting Peter explain himself. I think even if he is not a qualified knight, he is still a relatively qualified vassal. He will not waste your trust at will." Laniya did not defend Peter too much. Nor did he add insult to injury.
Lant nodded and said to the magic mirror: "It makes sense, Jim. If Pete is still awake, let him tell me!"
It didn't take long for Peter Maned Wolf to appear on the opposite side of the magic mirror. At this moment, his face was still red, and it looked like he had drunk too much magic wine.
"Sir, we will move out tomorrow to pick up 20,000 slaves!" This was the first thing Pete said when he saw Lant. "At least 4,000 more will arrive in the next two days, but the slaves are all in a building outside the city. We’re in the camp, it’s not very safe over there, I hope you can send more people over!”
"Well, okay." Lant nodded, his eyes full of relief, "Jim told me just now that there are very few slaves in White Tree City. Can you tell me where you got all these people?"
"Sir, there are three types of slaves in White Tree City." When he said this, Peter showed a smile. This is what he spent so much time and alcohol these days to do. "One type is the slaves captured in the southern lizard forest. Recently, There is a bandit gang in the forest, and there are many fewer slave hunters like this.
The second type is slaves sold by nobles from other places. Most of these slaves are scapegoats for the great nobles, just like the people in the salt mines and iron mines in the past.
The Baron Dutov I bought two days ago was originally a vassal of Count Kirislav Larzan's family. Their family has been managing the count's city for generations. It seems that because of an accident to a great knight of the King's Knights, he became a vassal. A scapegoat. "
Having said this, Peter quickly flattered him: "He has managed Earl City for more than 20 years and is very experienced in city management. I think you can use it and buy it."
"Well, you're doing a great job!" Lant also admitted that he currently lacks the most management talent.
(End of chapter)
