Chapter 425

Marquis SoLIM knocked on the table, and the noisy meeting was suddenly quiet.

No one can despise the dignity of the earth knight, especially when others have reached the last moment of transformation. No one can ignore the opinion of a great Lord. Although the bronze blood of the SoLIM family is declining day by day, the army of Tongcheng still ranks first among the southern Lords.

"This may be my last meeting of the Senate... I'll tell you something."

The old Marquis was very satisfied with the attitude of the Lords and raised his voice: "SoLIM established a settlement on the North Bank of Jinshui River before the establishment of Gambis. It has been 632 years. As the guardian of the southern border of Gambis, SoLIM also has a history of 364 years."

"Although we are guards in the south, all of you here know the situation in the south of the Kingdom... Surrounded by mountains and inconvenient transportation. The fish people on the Jinshui River bank and the forest people and horses in the West are not against each other in Tongcheng... I must admit that SoLIM has made too little contribution to the kingdom for a long time. As a guard in the south, SoLIM doesn't deserve his name." The old Marquis sighed in a low voice.

Too little contribution, not worthy of the name.

In a word, it explains the root cause of the decline of the SoLIM family. The four Dukes also sighed.

The SoLIM family was once the court Earl of the RAND royal family. In order to balance the increasingly powerful augustian Lord group, the imperial royal family canonized SoLIM as the southern border guard of the Empire, led an army to explore the wasteland on the North Bank of Jinshui River, and formed a north-south encirclement of Augustus.

When the nyovist family lost power, SoLIM defected to the iris family. But there was a natural gap between SoLIM and Auguste, so that they gave up the title of Duke of Gambis and refused to marry the Royal daughter.

In response to the call of kite castle, the Knights of Gambis families went north to dodo kingdom to fight against the invading Sassanians. Only SoLIM pushed back and sent only a small number of vassal soldiers to respond to the king's war order. The Allied forces of the Lords of Gambis were resentful of SoLIM, and the soldiers in copper city naturally came to no good end.

The elite soldiers in Tongcheng are always destroyed. The SoLIM family was more convinced that Auguste was targeting them, so they simply stopped sending vassal soldiers, and only some prisoners, refugees and mountain people pretended to be family soldiers to deal with the problem.

This situation exacerbated the contradiction between the Lord of Gambis and the copper city. The Knights of Dodo and Neville also looked coldly at SoLIM in a corner and were unwilling to marry copper city.

There are no strong enemies outside, but internal troubles arise from themselves. The Knights of other families shed blood on the battlefield. There are more and more Knights of SoLIM family, and they marry the noble daughter of a small family. Bronze Knights give birth to trainee knights, and trainee Knights give birth to ordinary nobles. The vast number of noble children are entangled together, and the interest competition within SoLIM is becoming more and more intense.

Buryat and chebman are the losers of SoLIM's internal struggle. They were driven out of the copper city, not counting, even SoLIM's surname was deprived. As independent lords of Gambis, they gradually opened up the situation.

Kite Castle seized the opportunity to exchange high-quality scouring medicine for the resources of the copper city, which completely disrupted SoLIM's Bronze blood. Eventually caused SoLIM to fall apart.

"Your Highness The Regent, on behalf of the SoLIM family, I accept the royal capital tax official to settle in Tongcheng." The old Marquis stood up and bowed deeply to Williams,

It's too late to admit defeat now... Nbiser sighed secretly.

The York family had similar concerns as SoLIM. But the tusk city is flat and safe, and the strength and blood of the York family can't compare with SoLIM. Tusk has no choice but to cater to August. In the war against the Sassanian Empire, compared with Joshua, Wellington and Nim, the Knights of the York family always undertook the most dangerous tasks and showed no mercy to the Sassanian knights. The first high-level Knight of Gambis died in tusk city. More than 15 Knights of the York family were killed or captured.

Due to the heroic fighting of family knights, tusk city not only integrated into Gambis, but also won the respect of Dodo and Neville nobles. Through the introduction of Neville's great Lord, the York family was introduced as Austrian aid by branstedt, exchanged children, maintained bronze blood, and finally gained a foothold in the east of the kingdom.

Even so, the York family was severely suppressed by the royal family. The area of the real territory of tusk city has been reduced by nearly 30%, which is used to accommodate the squire Knight Lord of kite castle. The territory taken out by deepwater city is pitiful. York and Joshua had constant friction and hostility to each other. Those peripheral lords are wall grass and keep making trouble for tusk city.

The combined suppression and infiltration of the royal family and the Joshua family led to the bottom of the comprehensive strength of the York family among the great lords of Gambis. Otherwise, Ryan Augustus would never dare to divide the three eastern provinces in front of the divine knight. As a result, kite Castle lifted a stone and hit itself in the foot. Even the future queen became the guardian of York family.

It's not good to be too brave, not to be too timid... What did Victor say? It's like walking on the ice, careful and brave... Nbiser York looked at Williams, the Marquis of SoLIM, and the Duke of Joshua, and straightened his back uncontrollably.

If he has a waist.

"As for the specific details of the new tax collection, my successor is responsible. I won't discuss it." The old Marquis SoLIM looked around and continued, "building a port, shipbuilding and crossing the river to the south are related to the future of Gambis. As the guardian of the southern border of the Kingdom, I have a suggestion."

"Your Excellency sorim, please speak frankly." The Regent raised his hand.

The old Marquis turned to enbiser, smiled and said: "I totally agree with the Duke of York. If Gambis wants to expand southward, there must be enough ports and ships. However, there are many mountains on both sides of Jinshui River from Renma hill to SoLIM, and there are few beaches suitable for port construction. Moreover, the river channel is narrow and the water flow is relatively fast. It is difficult for large sailboats to cross. They can only go down the river and gradually approach the south bank, and they have to find suitable places to land and build ports A place to go. "

"Have you ever thought about how our ship will return to Hong Kong if it goes against the current?"

There was a moment of silence, only the rustle of clerks writing parchment with quills.

The gray haired Duke Joshua narrowed his eyes and said with a smile, "you don't have to worry about the problem of ships going against the water. Every year in the wind season, the large fishing and hunting ships of Borui Kingdom go westward thousands of kilometers against the water by virtue of the monsoon, and sail into the funas lake near the kingdom of SUS, where they cast nets for fishing and kill water lizards. Our warships can..."

"You can sail into Firth lake first. In the wind season, the warship will sail west from Firth lake and return to the port nearly a thousand kilometers away."

The Marquis of SoLIM interrupted Duke Joshua's speech with a numb expression and said, "Your Excellency just didn't speak. Obviously, everyone knows that the best place to build a port is the shore of Lake Firth in the south of the east of the kingdom."

"Since we want to launch the fishman war, and since we want to build two ports upstream, why can't we build one more port on the shore of Firth lake with better geographical conditions?"

As if given orders, the clerks rolled up the meeting minutes one after another, hurriedly left the meeting room and ran to their respective lounges.

Jinshui River flows from west to East and stretches for tens of thousands of miles. Its reach in Gambis is covered with hills on the north bank and cliffs on the south bank, which is not suitable for crossing the river and landing. Fortunately, Jinshui River passes through the southeast corner of Gambis and converges into the world's largest Lake - Fisi lake.

The Firth lake covers an area of more than 100000 square kilometers, with a length of more than 700 kilometers from east to west and a width of more than 300 kilometers from north to south. The north coastline alone is more than 1900 kilometers, with dense forests and flat terrain. Most of them are shoals. The four major tributaries of the Jinshui River flow into the lake. In addition to the brinor River and the St. Louis River, the other two major rivers originate from the southern continent, namely the pituru River and the mourning river Red River.

It is said that more than 10000 years ago, in order to avoid the slaughter of the chosen ones, the northern barbarians gathered millions of people to cut down forests, make rafts, break through the obstruction of fishmen, set out from the North Bank of Firth lake and fled to the southern continent through the crying Red River.

The barbarian rafts can still cross Firth lake, not to mention the large warships of Gambis?

As a matter of fact, the gunbis warship needs to sail into the Firth lake first and then find a suitable landing place. Baron krumen of the gunbis kingdom is located at the mouth of the Firth lake. The water there is gentle and only 43 kilometers away from the shoal on the south bank. Krumen collar is the best place to build a port.

If Baron kruman owns a port, Gambis ships can come and go whenever they want. Warships don't have to wait for the monsoon period before heading west, and then sail back to the distant chebman port and rose port.

Everyone knew that the Baron of krumen had unique geographical conditions, but no one mentioned it except the old Marquis of SoLIM.

There are also two major forces on the North Bank of the Firth lake, the kingdom of El and the leader of the RAND empire. If Gambis launches a fishman war at the mouth of the Firth lake, nahtigal and nyovist will take advantage of the situation to eliminate the large-scale fishmen on the lake and build their own port.

Once the fishman war of Gambis becomes the common Fishman war of the three forces, it becomes a political position. King Ryan fell into the hands of emperor Rand, and Gambis must not let the RAND Empire grow again.

Ironically, Emperor Rand is still the nominal Lord of the kingdom of Gambis, and Marquis SoLIM's proposal is not a betrayal.

As the guardian of the east of the Kingdom and the patriarch of Baron kruman, Duke Joshua must express his political position and do not need the advice of the family think tank at all.

"I object!"

Duke Joshua got up from his seat, first looked at the smiling regent, glanced across the audience and said calmly: "There are more than one million fishmen on the North Bank of Firth lake. Provoking them is tantamount to launching an all-out war. We will never forget that the five families of Borui have fought the fishman war for 80 years in order to eliminate the fishmen on the river beach, and they are almost on the verge of collapse. We must not repeat the mistakes! The riverbank line of gambisto mountain is our biggest strategic advantage, because the number of fishmen is relatively small and there are many species It's easier to deal with groups scattered on various beaches. "

"Our so-called Fishman war focuses on attracting fishmen on the river beach and building ports. It is by no means to mobilize all the strength of the kingdom to fight a meaningless ethnic war, which will be cheaper for nothing."

"How can the original strength of the five Borui families be compared with that of Gambis? How can the fish man in Fisi lake be compared with that in Dahe Bay?"

Marquis SoLIM pushed aside his chair, walked up to Williams, knelt down on one knee and said in a deep voice, "Your Highness, I swear SoLIM has never betrayed Auguste, in the past, now and in the future."

Williams said, "well, I'm sure of that."

"Your Highness, the main force of the Ayre religion is in the east of sassanne and the dusk forest of suss. The strength of the two families of nyovist and nahtigar alone can not eliminate the fishmen in FIS lake, let alone build a port. However, the great development has become the consensus of mankind. When all countries put down their guard against each other and when we and the kingdom of Borui succeed in the southern continent, the church must have confidence It belongs to its own port. I think even if the shining knights can't spare their hands, the kingdom of SUS will cooperate with the Ayres to build several ports on the Bank of the Firth lake. In that case, why can't we unite to eliminate the fishmen of the Firth lake? "

Williams smiled approachably and said, "I prefer that the kingdom of Suez will open up the eastern alliance or cooperate with the kingdom of Borui... Your Excellency, please continue to express your opinions."

The old Marquis of SoLIM lowered his head and said in a deep voice: "Your Highness goron has pointed out the way for me to be promoted. I need a vigorous battle. SoLIM is ashamed of being the guard of the South and has not fulfilled my due obligations to the kingdom. I am willing to donate 1.5 million gold sol as the cost of building a port in Lake Firth and summon 5000 elite of copper city to be the main force of killing fish people. If I die on the lake bank, I will make up for the past mistakes of SoLIM family Loss. If I get lucky enough to set foot in the gold field, SoLIM is willing to act as a sharp sword in the hands of his highness and cut through thorns and thorns for Gambis in the southern continent. "

The SoLIM family was dying. Williams felt very difficult.

The king should create favorable conditions for the promotion of high-ranking knights. Marquis SoLIM gambled on all the wealth and strength of the family and swore allegiance to the royal family. If kite castle still refused him, it would appear that Augustus had no royal demeanor. Williams was particularly embarrassed and let other lords dislike him.

If Williams accepts the request of Marquis SoLIM, Gambis must cooperate with the nyovist family. Williams wants to cut off nyovist's head, how can he form an alliance with emperor Rand?

Marquis golon sat quietly in the corner, like a lifeless statue. Williams took back his eyes, knocked on the handrail and said calmly, "please get up, your excellency SoLIM." Then the Regent stood up and said to the people, "I personally support the proposal of Marquis SoLIM, but I have no right to vote. Then, please vote on the proposal of Marquis SoLIM."

"Objection."

"Objection."

"Objection."

Amid all the opposition, it was the York family's turn. Nbiser took the letter that the clerk had just handed over, glanced at it, and said in a deep voice, "the York family seconded."

The meeting fell into a dead silence. Everyone looked at the Duke of York incredulously, and even the Marquis of goron opened his eyes.

Williams was the first to react and said, "only the Duke of York seconded. Your proposal can't be passed."

The old Marquis smiled and said, "in that case, I'll leave first. I'll go north soon to see if the Centaur clan in the Northern Wilderness is really wild."

"Good luck to your excellency SoLIM. May your sword be full of the enemy's blood, and may you ascend to the top." The people got up and bowed and said in one voice.

Without saying a word, the Marquis SoLIM walked to the wooden door of the conference room. Before going out, he turned to the Duke of York and said, "Sir, please give my regards to his highness Sylvia."

When the Marquis SoLIM left the conference room, nbiser shook the fat on his cheeks, lowered his head and muttered in a voice that everyone could hear: "you should pay tribute to Viscount Randall..."

Now the participants' eyes were even more strange. Nbiser felt that it was wrong to pit Victor so. He soon thought of a way to eliminate the political influence and continued to whisper: "this guy is hot with the chebman lady and doesn't want her to marry someone else... Alas, he really doesn't know what to do."

Everyone's eyes were on the Regent. Williams said with a straight face, "move on to the next topic."

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Brinor, the York family residence.

Sylvia held her chest in her hands and said angrily to victor who was looking at the map: "give me a reasonable explanation. Why should we support the Marquis SoLIM's proposal? It makes us very passive!"

Victor raised his head, smiled and said, "because it's reasonable."

"It's because it's very reasonable to build a port by lake Firth!"