Chapter 510

Before dawn the next day, the Neville royal family sent the court manager to send a heavy gift to Viscount Randall. The Lords and nobles of cogston seemed to have received a signal and sent housekeepers to visit Viscount Randall with gift lists.

For a time, the secluded Earl de Kaiser's house became bustling, and the gift giving carriages lined up from the gate of the Earl's house to the outside of the orchard.

Victor certainly didn't have to meet the Lord's Chamberlain in person, but the original plan to leave the city in the morning had to be postponed to the afternoon.

Near noon, Catherine and Baroness Ariel attended the morning tea party specially held for them by Queen sadia and came to the single villa where Victor stayed. They found that the hall was full of large and small boxes. Viscount Randall's personal maid was directing his attendants to count the gifts and then re classify and pack them.

Piles of gold, gemstones, black glazed rock statues, weapons and armor, amber, animal skins, horns, silk and elemental crystals were poured on the floor, dazzling the queen mother of Gambis.

"Renault and shack, you carry the refined gold, gemstones and elemental crystals to the left room and arrange the family guards to guard them in turn... Amber, animal skin and silk need moisture protection. You wrap them with oil canvas first, and then put them into the sundry room on the right... Caligula! Who asked you to carry the black glaze rock statue? Put it down, move gently, don't touch it... You are responsible for putting the installed yellow glaze Kim moved to the right room... Oh, the Supreme Lord is up, you take less... Forget it, be careful not to hit your feet! "

Like a giant, Caligula easily picked up two iron boxes and strode towards the corridor behind the living room. Katherine looked at it. If the box was full of gold, they would weigh at least 800 pounds.

When Caligula came out of the hall, Elena immediately saw Catherine and Baroness Ariel, quickly bent her knees and said in a cramped manner:

"Good day, Lady Catherine. Baroness Ariel, good day... Madam, I'm sorry I didn't notice you coming back."

Elena's hair was light, her face was red, and her eyes were full of light. Catherine looked around the dazzling living room and thought: it would be strange if you could see me in time.

"Don't be polite. Where's victor?" The queen mother asked faintly.

"The adult is in the study on the second floor and is answering letters to the families according to the gift list."

Elena said sadly, "so many gifts... We don't know how to return them."

Catherine looked at the corner of her upturned mouth and nodded silently, "I'll see him." With that, she rattled up the second floor, crossed the corridor, came to the study, raised her hand and knocked at the door.

"Please come in."

Katherine opened the door and saw behind her desk a sweetheart as delicate as an art. Her heart suddenly warmed up. The depression caused by Neville nobles' heavy "bribery" of his highness Gambis dissipated. She raised her hand to untie her crown and hairpin and gently shook her head. Her long flaxen hair flowed down her waist like a waterfall. She paced to Victor's side in high-heeled shoes with enchanting and elegant steps, and asked in a charming voice:

"Honey, what are you looking at?"

"I was just looking at the original design of the water conservancy project... Now I just look at you." Victor put down his quill pen, put his hand on his leg and held his noble lover. He wanted to say something more. His sweet words were blocked in his throat by a soft little tongue.

Catherine kissed the little lover's delicate and smooth cheek for a long time, changed her breath with satisfaction, and said with a smile: "the gift given by the Neville noble to the Randall family makes your close maid happy, but what are you going to give back?"

"Return gifts? There is no need to return gifts. Compared with the wealth I brought to them, the gifts they gave can only be described as meager."

Victor smiled, took out a scroll from the drawer and said, "baby, this is the gift list compiled by Elena. See if you like it. I'll let you choose one first... If you don't like it, you might as well wait until the afternoon, when someone will give gifts."

Catherine took the scroll, glanced at it roughly, and with her deep experience in the kite castle, she immediately widened her eyes, covered her small mouth and exclaimed, "so many?" Then she looked carefully. The beautiful willow eyebrows gradually frowned. Finally, she put down the scroll, raised her eyes, stared at Victor and sighed: "the gifts sent by the Neville royal family alone are worth 400000 gold sol. If all the gifts add up, I'm afraid they will exceed 700000."

"How can there be so many?" Victor smiled reserved and secretly proud. "Some gifts are priceless, and the fineness of gold is uneven. Refined gold, white crystal, green amber, spider silk and animal skin can be accurately valued... The total price is almost 300000 gold sol."

Catherine said in a funny and angry way: "... They are helping you improve the details of the Randall family. This favor may be worth millions of kingsol."

The gifts given to Victor by the Rex family include 10 pounds of refined gold, two top four series element crystals, 100 top gem raw ores, 50 white crystals, two centurions' leather, and 30000 gold coins.

The royal family was the first to give gifts, which also limited the upper limit of gifts given by the Lords and nobles. The well-informed lords took out the rare treasures collected by the family. The conditions were slightly worse. Some families gave special products and gold coins to the territory. Families with financial difficulties simply used gold ingots as gifts.

Victor received 1.1 tons of gold ingots alone, as well as 15 pounds of refined gold, various kinds of gem raw ore, elemental crystal, white crystal and amber, a cart full of animal skin and spider silk, 18 craft statues, 4 sets of ritual armor, 17 handles of refined gold long sword and 40000 gold coins.

Among them, only gold coins, refined gold, white crystal and amber count as hard currency. For example, the price of gold, gem raw ore, elemental crystal, craft statue and armor sword is uncertain. For example, for the top element crystal, only the gold knight can release the element power, but the number of gold knights is even rarer than the element crystal. They don't lack this kind of thing, let alone pay for it. The top-level element crystal can hardly be realized. It is only a dispensable icing on the cake to curry favor with the Golden Knight,.

There is no standard for the market price of gem raw ore and handicrafts. The law is that the larger the shipment, the less valuable it is. However, 1.1 tons of gold ingots can only be sold at 20% of the price without the right of coinage, so it is best to use them as decorative materials.

Victor felt sorry for the five top fire element crystals. He wanted to build an element furnace with these fire element crystals, but they were recorded in the gift list. Victor didn't want to expose the secrets of the fire element furnace, so he had to take them to Sylvia's favor.

These gifts are all packaged for sale. It's a little reluctant to sell 300000 gold sols. As Catherine said, if gifts are regarded as the treasure of the Randall family, the greater Victor's reputation, they are invaluable.

Unfortunately, the alchemy tower ignores the noble circle's method of calculating human wealth. The beautiful gemstones and black glazed rocks are still broken stones even if the carving is exquisite It's better to give gold coins directly... Even if they are all replaced by inferior fire element crystals!

At the moment, Victor was particularly melancholy. Catherine's mood was also quite complex. She was silent for a moment, bit her lips and said, "you just came to Neville and gave a letter to the liaison officer to let Rex hold last night's tea party? Today, they will give you a heavy gift..."

"Knowledge is wealth."

Victor didn't deny or admit it. Instead, he asked, "honey, why did king Rex give me a gift first?"

"If he doesn't send it, other lords will rush to send it. He sends it first. Others can't send more than the king." Catherine smiled and said, "the king is a leader."

"You're right, but it's not comprehensive enough." Victor nodded with a smile, picked up the original hydraulic engineering design on the table and handed it to Catherine: "look at this."

Catherine looked at the drawings for a while, raised her head and said suspiciously, "I don't know much about water conservancy projects... Neville's water conservancy projects are mainly concentrated in the central region of the Kingdom, which seems to deliberately ignore the southern Lords."

"The original design is actually the Rex family's industrial structure layout of the Neville kingdom." Victor's jaw head said: "Rock Castle hopes that the central Lord of Neville can develop water conservancy agriculture and animal husbandry and realize self-sufficiency of food, so as to reduce the burden of the northern basin. However, the territory of the Southern family is too far away from cogston. If they also lead the vassal army to return to the territory and develop water conservancy agriculture and animal husbandry, Rex will not be easy to mobilize the power of the south again."

"So king Rex bribed me with a lot of money to make me adjust the water conservancy project according to the original design and not to overthrow his industrial layout." Victor smiled and asked, "kite Castle doesn't need to bribe me, and I'm willing to contribute to Gambis. However, Gambis's industrial structure is generally in a reasonable state, with complete agriculture and animal husbandry, mining, handicrafts and commerce. There is no obvious weakness. The Lord welcomes me to tell him about his internal affairs?"

Catherine smiled sweetly, put her head on Victor's shoulder and said coquettishly, "honey, I'm just a little jealous... You're clearly his highness Gambis."

Victor stroked Catherine's hair and sighed, "Your Highness Gambis can't sit back and watch your allies struggle... And can't be unreserved."

"Mrs. dolly has a close relationship with the Neville royal family. Although the de Kaiser Family is young, it is the leader of Rex's scheduled Southern family. I can help Mrs. dolly design the water conservancy system to cut off her business with the RAND empire."

Catherine asked in surprise, "I'm afraid it's not easy. I guess Mrs. dolly would rather give up the water conservancy project than open up the business road connecting the RAND empire."

"It's not easy... But it's also simple." Victor smiled confidently, "there is a loophole in the water conservancy project designed by the silver white tower for Neville. They didn't consider the fire isolation belt."

"Fire barrier?"

Victor explained: "The spread of mountain fires is a terrible disaster for mountain forest areas. Due to the exuberant vegetation in the land and fire seasons and the wet and cold weather in the water season, it is unlikely that mountain forest fires will occur. Only in the wind season, man-made fires are often difficult to control. Therefore, in the wind season every year, the Lords of the mountain area will send rangers to catch poachers. With the increasing density of the population, human beings are in the mountains It is not enough to rely solely on forest rangers to monitor and stop the fire. This requires the establishment of open spaces, reservoirs and canals specially used for fire prevention, fire isolation and fire fighting. I can help Mrs. dolly design a water conservancy system to her satisfaction, and then use the fire isolation belt to cut off the business road between the dekaize family and Emperor Rand. "

Catherine was overjoyed and said with a smile, "honey, you are so clever."

"Don't be happy too soon." Victor shook his head and said solemnly, "this kind of small hand may lead to worse results... At the dance yesterday, Queen sadia talked to me about Princess Celine of the kingdom of SUS, who intends to recruit Raymond Peter of the kingdom of Borui."

Catherine nodded and hesitated: "I've heard of this... The Knights of glory transferred 10000 Temple troops from the twilight forest line. Duke medin, the northern Lord of the kingdom of SUS, was under great military pressure. He planned to marry the Peter family of Borui and support Princess Celine's first succession, so as to promote the military alliance between the kingdom of SUS and the kingdom of Borui."

"What good is it for the kingdom of Borui to send troops to help Susi resist the jackals in the dusk forest? Can the people of Borui swallow the kingdom of Susi by virtue of the marriage between hilling and Raymond?" Victor raised his eyebrows and asked.

Catherine was shocked, thought for a moment, frowned and asked, "do you mean... The Borui people want to take suss as a springboard and cooperate with neowest to build a port?"

Victor nodded, then shook his head and said: "Sadia and I talked about Celine's marriage. I thought she was lobbying for the eliano family... How could the queen of Neville consider for the kingdom of SUS? The kingdom of Borui depends on the bread fruit trees on the seven alliance islands. They have no natural conditions for developing new agriculture and animal husbandry, so there is no possibility of expanding the army. On the other side of the seven alliance islands, there is a powerful barbarian Kingdom, Borui How can people defeat them? If the Borui people build several ports along the river of the Susi Kingdom and the Bank of the Firth lake, their fleet can go more than 2000 kilometers westward and land from the South Bank of the Firth lake, avoid the main force of the barbarian Kingdom and explore the southern continent. "

"The borriens stretched out their hands too long. The neville people were not happy. They also wanted to have a port on the shore of Lake Firth as a back road." Victor sneered: "if Neo West chooses to cooperate with the kingdom of Borui, how should we Gambis react?"

Catherine got up from Victor's legs, went to the window, turned her back to him, and whispered, "of course, wait for neowest to go to the south continent and find a chance to destroy him."

"In addition to hatred, there are benefits." Victor said faintly: "Neo West and Borui kingdom are enough to challenge our development right in the southern continent. Because we all landed from the South Bank of Firth lake, we are too close to each other, with equal strength and hatred. War is inevitable."

"The best way for the kingdom of Borui to maintain peace with us and explore the southern continent is, of course, to sell neowest. Neowest must doubt whether the Borui people can go to war with Gambis for him. Therefore, neowest is also unwilling to choose the kingdom of Borui as an ally."

"Neo West is going to win over the Neville kingdom. He abandoned the Pope?" Asked Catherine.

"I'm afraid so." Victor said, "Neville's strategic focus is in the northern wilderness, and the Rex family has a close relationship with the Privy Council. Niowest's alliance with the Neville Kingdom poses no threat to us, and the Privy Council mediates from it. We really have no excuse to trouble him."

"I understand... It's not without excuses, it's unnecessary." Catherine's shoulders trembled slightly, and soon recovered her calm. She turned around, smiled at Victor and said, "dear Lord Randall, what's your opinion?"

"I have no opinion. I only state the current situation." Victor shook his head and said, "as a legendary strong man, Neo West must build a port. If he cooperates with the Borui people, we will have another competitor.

Catherine turned her eyes and said angrily, "dear, as your highness of Gambis, you have the responsibility to make suggestions to the kingdom."

Victor shook his head and laughed: "OK. My suggestion is to try to destroy the marriage between the medins and the Peter family. Neville's strategic focus is on the north rather than the south. Their support for nyovist is limited, and it is impossible for them to do their best to help him destroy the fish people in the FIS lake. They must rely on the strength of Gambis to build a port on the FIS lake. We can feint at the fish people at the mouth of the FIS lake and give them a chance When Neo West saw the hope of building a port, he kept hanging on to his appetite and continued to consume his effective strength. "

"Of course, when Neville completes the internal integration, they will still send mercenaries and craftsmen to help nioveste build the port, but that is more than ten years later. The warships of Gambis have been formed and launched, and they have enough strength to guard the channel of the whole Firth lake."

"Delaying their pace of Building Hong Kong and expanding south is indeed a feasible way." Catherine nodded, hesitated for a moment and said, "the problem is that it is difficult for us to destroy the marriage between Borui and sus... It is OK to say if it is an ordinary family marriage, but sus needs to rely on the power of Borui kingdom to resist the jackals in the dusk forest. This political marriage is very stable."

Victor knocked on the table, shook his head and said, "the Neville kingdom is the force that most wants to destroy this political marriage. I have a feeling that they must have a backhand."

"I hope so." Catherine sighed and said, "I'll write a letter to kite castle first."