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"My Lord Earl, my subordinates have finished negotiating with the envoy.

They want to start normal trade with you. In addition, they hope that you can send an army of no less than 20,000 people to help destroy the rebels.

To this end, they are willing to provide five life potions and several alchemical materials.

And give a magic book produced by the Natural Hand Mage Association and a high-level staff. "

After the four beauties were taken away, Tully began to tell the truth.

"There is no problem in trading with each other, but there is no need to send troops.

By the way, if they want to buy food and weapons, they must exchange them for slaves. "

Simon heard this, thought about it for a moment, and chuckled.

"Yes! Sir! I understand."

"Go ahead."

"I excuse myself." Tully bowed respectfully and exited the Lord's Hall.

"It seems that the nobles in Lingu are also very tired..." Simon thought to himself.

However, he has no idea of ​​going south yet. He will at least consider it after unifying Western Cedi.

The next day, Tully signed a mutual trade agreement after discussing with the envoys of the nobles in Lingu.

Simon also met with them, and the envoy tried his best to persuade him to send troops to help suppress the rebellion, and even replaced the high-level staff in the chips with a gray-robed staff.

But Simon refused to let go and refused on the excuse that he needed to defend against the orcs.

The envoys had no choice but to leave in great disappointment.

After they left, Simon immediately summoned Varillo, the head of the Shadow Guard.

"What are your duties?"

Simon stared at him and asked quietly.

"My lord, the count, is to protect the security of the territory from spies from other forces."

When Varillo heard this, his heart thumped, and he quickly knelt down and said cautiously.

“But now, the nobles of Lingu who have just opened the road know too much about my place.

This makes me doubt whether you are up to the task. Simon said indifferently.

The envoy sent by the Grand Duke of Lin Gudi actually knew that he had more than 50,000 troops.

This shows that they set up a spy agency in this area, probably a long time ago.

This is actually quite normal. Most earls have their own ears and eyes, and sometimes viscounts also have their own.

"My lord, please forgive me! I will investigate strictly! Please give me another chance..." Varillo begged.

"I will add 500 more golden eagles to the Shadow Guard every year, making sure to keep the core production area secretive.

If you dare to reveal the secret, please bring it up!

Go do some errands. "Simon hammered and urged.

"Yes! Sir!" Varillo saluted respectfully and backed out of the Lord's Hall with a panic-stricken look on his face.

It is very difficult to completely eliminate spies from external forces and is almost impossible to achieve.

However, they can maintain a high-pressure state at all times, making it difficult for them to carry out espionage activities and making it more difficult to spy on intelligence.

After that, Simon lived a peaceful life for a few days, and another delegation of envoys arrived.

This time they came from the north, sent by Marquis Val. After all, he couldn't sit still.

Foreign Secretary Tully came to see Simon again and said respectfully: "My lord, the Marquis of Val has sent an envoy.

The leader is Rueter, who is said to be his chief steward. In addition, there is Darwin Bavarik, the heir to the marquis. "

"Darwin? Why did you send the heir..." Simon muttered in his heart, feeling that Marquis Val's plan this time was not trivial.

"Settlement them, you go to negotiate first, explore their intentions, and then report to me." Simon pondered for a moment and then ordered.

"Yes, sir." Tully accepted the order respectfully and immediately went to do the work.

Two days later, Tully completed the preliminary negotiations and rushed to the Lord's Hall, found Simon and reported: "Your Majesty, their intentions are clearly understood.

The Marquis of Val has sent his heir to marry Miss Gurney. In addition, he wants to purchase a large amount of food and weapons. He also hopes that you can move the population north...

In addition, there is a personal letter from the Marquis de Val, please read it. "

After receiving the signal, the guard mage Delly who was standing by the side walked over to check it again and presented it to Simon if it was correct.

He immediately took off the paint and read it carefully, looking very strange.

"Damn it! Heartless!! Marquis Val has lost his mind??" Simon secretly thought, quite unbelievable.

But after he thought about it, he understood a little bit.

After all, Simon's thinking is different from that of the aborigines.

In the letter, Marquis Val actually proposed to marry Simon's mother, Bara Hollen, and then the heir, Darwin Bavarik, would marry his sister, Gurney Hollen.

In this way, the two families are as close as one family, and the Huolun family can be regarded as relatives of the emperor, and has truly become a noble family.

Considering Simon's background, this is indeed a huge advantage.

I heard that the Bavarian royal family had been passing down their family roots in Middle-earth for thousands of years before they even set foot on this land.

But he doesn't care about bloodline at all. The right man is the one with strong soldiers and horses. Now Simon, why should he cling to any royal family.

Besides, the current Marquis of Val is like a piece of fish on the chopping board, like a candle in the wind, so there is no strength for marriage.

"No wonder Marquis Val's first wife never renewed their relationship after her death. It turned out that she wanted to use the steel on the blade... Ha, it's such a beautiful idea!"

Simon thought disdainfully, and his evaluation of this person had dropped to another level. Some of the Marquis's ideas and strategies were too old and naive.

Simon doesn't accept this trick at all. It should be noted that political power comes from the sword, and soldiers are the grass-headed kings.

"Tully, you should entertain Darwin and Ruttel every three to five days, and try to delay them. Don't give any answer yet.

When the troops are assembled, detain them and put them under house arrest." Simon thought for a while and ordered.

"Yes! My lord! I understand!" Tully responded respectfully.

"Go ahead." Simon waved his hand.

"Yes!" Tully saluted and turned to leave.

Afterwards, Simon personally inspected the mobilization of troops and found that the three field corps were already in place and were now conducting preliminary warm-up training.

However, there were more than 10,000 militiamen on the way to support logistics.

It was still early for the agreed time, and this speed of assembly was already very good.

However, Simon was already a little anxious to go to war. The Marquis of Val's envoy this time exposed his weakness, and it was a good opportunity to seize territory and eliminate dissidents.

In the days that followed, Simon inspected the soldiers, food and weapons every day to know what was going on.

The officials selected at all levels are pretty good, there is no corruption, and the data in the account book is basically real.

In a blink of an eye, the militia was assembled, five days ahead of schedule.

However, Simon did not go out immediately, but spent another half a month to let them get used to each other and almost recognize each other before announcing the departure.

On this morning, Simon had breakfast, put on a full set of heavy armor mixed with alchemical materials, rode on the red flame horse, and led more than 5,000 brave guards out of the city.

Now, after this period of accumulation, these guards of his are all cavalrymen with two horses, of which 2,000 are fully equipped, more than 2,000 are half-equipped, and the rest are armored archers.

The number does not sound very large, far less than 100,000 iron cavalry.

But if you can go to the scene in person, you will find that so many cavalrymen are galloping, already connecting the sky and the earth, and the rumbling sound continues.

Unless they are veteran elites who have experienced many battles, ordinary elite soldiers have no courage to line up and resist in the plains.