Chapter 820: Prepare for the expedition
For example, trade some iron ore, mithril ore or daily textiles from Eurasia to the cities of Johnson and others.
Then use the gold coins earned to buy food or other cheap goods from the Holy Continent and sell them back to Eurasia.
But don't underestimate this kind of trade. Because of the cheap labor of the serfs in Eurasia, the products produced have a great advantage in cost, which is unmatched by the Holy Continent.
The noble caravans could make a fortune just by selling these low-tech necessities or mineral resources.
And buying cheap food from the Holy Continent and shipping it back to Eurasia would generate huge profits.
Under such a trading environment, the noble merchant groups in Eurasia made a fortune in just five months.
This also made the nobles of the entire Eurasian continent know that the Holy Continent is a treasure trove, and they can pick up real gold and silver as long as they send out caravans.
After the news spread, many nobles who had not come to buy in Saint Ann's shops because they thought the prices were too high now flocked to the city and tried their best to buy in Saint Ann's shops and obtain permission to trade in the Holy Continent.
The coastal town of Stormwind Territory was already crowded with nobles or people sent by nobles to purchase goods from the shops in Saint Ann City.
Unfortunately, they did not respond to Gervis' call five months ago, but came only after they saw that there was profit to be made.
Naturally, Gervis would not let them take such an advantage.
So, Gervais has now issued new regulations.
That is, from now on, the noble families who purchase shops in Saint Ann City will no longer enjoy the original tax-free preferential policies in trade between the Holy Continent and Eurasia.
Gervis charges a five percent trade tax on caravans traveling between St. Ann and Eurasia.
Of course, Gervis did not do this out of greed for their little bit of money. Compared with such a small amount of tax, it would be more beneficial to Gervis if the Eurasian continent could prosper.
Gervis's real purpose was to make it easier for people to travel from Eurasia to the Holy Continent.
Because traveling from Eurasia to the Holy Continent requires passing through a teleportation array.
Nowadays, with the increase in caravans, the teleportation array operates almost 24 hours a day.
Even so, there are still long queues around the teleportation array every day.
Some caravans that want to come to the Holy Continent or return to Eurasia need to submit an application two days in advance and then queue up with the personnel who manage the transmission channel.
Therefore, Gervis has sent people to the City of Hope to continue building several teleportation arrays between the Holy Continent and Eurasia, in order to alleviate the current problem of insufficient teleportation arrays.
Seeing the prosperity of St. Ann's City, Gervis was very happy.
What made him even happier was that the walls of Stormwind were constantly rising thanks to the efforts of tens of thousands of serfs and thousands of goblins like Chachar.
Because of the supervision and guidance of the goblins, and because Gervis occasionally asked Laurie and Olde to bring the bronze knights to help with training, the construction of Stormwind City was greatly accelerated.
Perhaps Stormwind City will be basically completed in less than two or three years, or even in another seven or eight months.
During these five months, Gervis himself did not neglect his training. With the help of the kiwi fruit, he has broken through two levels and successfully advanced to the Black Flag High-level Knight.
If other titled knights knew about this training speed, they would be so shocked that their eyes would fall out.
While Gervis is practicing his fighting spirit, he also practices his magic.
He is now an intermediate magician. What's more interesting is that after Gervis summoned his skeleton soldiers.
Only then did he discover that all of these skeleton soldiers including No. 1 had been promoted, and No. 1 had even become a red skeleton.
And the original nightmare has now become a purple skeleton.
Gervis remembered that he had never used soul crystals on them, but these guys had improved one by one.
Number One and Nightmare were so fast that Gervis immediately communicated with his two younger brothers through his thoughts.
In the end, from their simple expressions of thoughts, Gervis only understood one thing, that is, they were constantly fighting in that dark world to become stronger.
Although he didn't know how fighting could help them level up so quickly, it didn't do any harm to Gervis. He was too lazy to worry about it anymore and just let them develop on their own.
…
Early that morning, Gervis woke up again from his fragrant bed.
"Grevith!"
Just as Gervis sat up, he heard Lolita's voice calling him from outside the door.
"Come in! Lolita, Anna!"
Gervis was already accustomed to Lolita waiting at the door, and he immediately gave an order to the outer door.
Snap!
"Grevith, morning!"
"Good morning, Your Majesty!"
Soon, Lolita came into the bedroom with the maid Anna.
Since the last engagement, Lolita has appeared in Gervis' bedroom every morning for the past five months, just to cooperate with Anna in helping Gervis get up.
Gervis once advised Lolita, but she said that if she wanted to marry Gervis in the future, she would have to learn how to serve Gervis and find something to do for herself.
After all, Caroline was already managing the camp, and it was not easy for Lolita to interfere in other aspects.
After hearing this, Gervis stopped trying to persuade her. It would be a good idea for her to find something to do so that she wouldn't be bored.
Now, the little sea princess’s serving skills have reached Anna’s level, not only quick but also considerate.
Moreover, because of the engagement, even though the two have not yet finalized the matter, they no longer have the same reservations in their behavior as before.
So getting up now is also a pleasure for Gervis.
"Alright! Gervis! See how it goes today! I specially asked the caravan to bring this dress back from the City of Hope!"
Lolita clapped her slender, white hands, pushed Gervis in front of the mirror, and showed off to him proudly.
"Oh, very nice! I like this pattern very much!"
Looking at the tulip lace embroidered in gold on the clothes, Gervis nodded with satisfaction.
"Hehe! I'd be glad if you like it!"
Lolita suddenly felt a sense of accomplishment, and then took Gervis' arm and said.
"Grevith, then you should go to the restaurant and have breakfast! I've asked Jimmy the chef to prepare it!"
"I won't eat with you. I'm going to go find Sister Caroline! I'll tell her that we're going to continue our trip to Eurasia today!"
"Well, go ahead! Come back soon!"
Gervis was led out of the bedroom by Lolita, and when he heard that she was going to Eurasia to play, he did not object.
Over the past few months, Caroline and Lolita have become best sisters.
On weekdays, he rides on the Swift Dragon Bird to wander around, and sometimes even goes to Alice's place to play with her.
These days, the two of them have become fascinated with the Eurasian continent, mainly because they went to the Eurasian continent, where there is an ocean next to the Storm Territory.
Lolita can take Caroline to the bottom of the sea to see scenery that Caroline has never experienced before.
As for safety, Gervis doesn't need to worry about it. The one thousand elite sea creatures can naturally protect them.
Boo! "Grevith, I'm leaving now!"
When they were near the restaurant, Lolita tiptoed onto Gervis and gave him a passionate kiss. After that, she walked towards the door of the building with a smile on her face.
"This chick!"
Gervis raised his hand to wipe his cheek and shook his head helplessly.
This girl's previous aloof personality no longer appears in front of Gervis.
Of course, Gervis could be seen once or twice in front of outsiders.
Sometimes Gervis would happen to see Lolita on the street. This girl was with Alonso, holding her head high with an indifferent look on her face. Even when a group of Eurasian nobles saluted and greeted her, she would just nod in response.
…
After finishing breakfast in the restaurant, Gervis came to the temple by himself according to his daily routine during this period.
Just as he finished checking the training progress of the slave soldiers and was about to start training, the guards guarding outside the temple trotted in quickly.
"Your Majesty, I just received a message from Saint Osqui City!"
The guard ran in front of Gervis and immediately took out a roll of envelopes.
"Oh? Bring it here and let me see it!"
St. Osque was the big city captured by Edward. During this period, they would communicate with each other once a week.
But the last summons was three days ago. The fact that he came earlier this time meant there must be something important.
"Yes, Your Majesty!"
The guard immediately handed the envelope to Gervis respectfully.
Because the envelope was delivered by the Rainbow Bird, it was rolled into a long tube. After Gervis took it, he confirmed that the sealing wax on it was intact before opening it to check.
"Is it finally going to start?"
When Gervis finished checking the contents of the envelope, his expression immediately became serious.
The envelope was naturally written to him by Edward, and it only said one thing, which was to let Gervis be prepared. In the next few days, the various holy cities should begin to take action.
According to reliable sources, the Golden Shield Family and its allies have made major moves in the past few days, constantly mobilizing troops and collecting supplies to send to the Land of the Fallen Gods.
This is the sign that the war is about to begin.
Gervis originally thought that he still had a few months to develop, but he didn't expect that the battle would start again so suddenly.
"You go down first! Feed the rainbow bird well. I will ask it to deliver a letter back later!"
After silently putting the envelope into his arms, Gervis asked the guards to leave.
"Yes, Your Majesty!"
After the guards left, Gervis looked at Ike on the side and spoke.
"Ike, go and inform my father now, and have Gust, Laurie, Audrey and the others come to me. I'm going to hold a meeting!"
"Yes, Your Majesty!"
…
In the next few days, Gervis began to carry out pre-war mobilization, and this pre-war mobilization was to strengthen actual combat drills.
In addition to frontal charges on flat ground, the drill also included multiple siege battles!
During the drill, Gervis divided his men into two teams, with the first thousand direct guards as the siege team.
While Labori and Audry led the new direct guards to defend the city.
In this way, after three days of two drills a day, the direct guards became more proficient in attacking and defending the city walls.
And Gervis himself also had a better understanding of how to seize the opportunity and allocate personnel to attack the city.
Originally, Gervis was planning to practice for a few more days, but he didn't expect that on the afternoon of the third day, Edward's message came again.
The Golden Shield Family and its allies really started and officially began to attack the remaining indigenous cities.
Edward has also completed his preparations and will begin gathering troops in two days and launch a formal attack a week later.
In his letter, Edward asked Gervase if he wanted to take a detour to join them.
Gervis thought for a moment and decided not to take the long way to go to Edward and the others.
After all, the road outside his city can also lead to the indigenous city.
More importantly, if he chose to take a detour, the safety of St. Ann City would inevitably be at risk.
Therefore, he planned to send an army alone this time. Even if he could only capture one or two small cities, he would be satisfied. The most important thing was to maintain the stability of Saint Ann City.
As for Edward and his men, we will wait until they start fighting, and then let them march towards us, so that the natives can attack them from both sides.
If everything goes well, St. Ann's City will no longer be isolated, but will be able to connect with the territories of Edward and others again, and there will be no need to worry about security issues.
…
Time flies, and soon it’s two days later! Woohoo!
That morning, the sound of trumpets spread throughout the city of St. Ann, and the streets were filled with crowds of onlookers.
These people are the nobles of Eurasia or the business guys who work for the nobles.
These people are quite excited today because they have received news that their King will go to war today.
Ever since the church was destroyed, and now that the continent is unified by the powerful King Gervis, there has been no war in Eurasia for a long time.
Even the friction among the nobles disappeared.
If it weren't for today's news, people would have thought that there would be no war until His Majesty Gervis died of old age.
Hearing it suddenly now is naturally very new. Of course, more importantly, there may be business opportunities, because war actually represents wealth. As long as His Majesty Gervis can capture more cities, they can take a lot of spoils.
…
"Grevith, you must protect yourself! Remember, we are waiting for your return in Saint Ann City!"
In the temple, Gervis was wearing new silver armor with a red cape hanging on his back.
At this time, Caroline and Lori were holding Gervis' arms on the left and right, leaning on his chest, with reluctance written on their faces.
"Don't worry, Caroline! Have you ever seen me disappoint you?"
Gervis knew Caroline's worry and immediately comforted her softly.
"Gevis, why don't you let Alonso take those 1,000 sea tribe soldiers with you! Although they are sea tribes, they can also fight on the ground!"
Just as Gervis finished his words of comfort to Carlo, Lolita spoke again.
"No need. Alonso will stay in Saint Ann City. This way I can go to war with peace of mind. After all, 90% of Laurie's 1,000-man direct guard are bronze knights. The only ones who are truly capable of fighting are your 1,000 elite sea tribesmen!"
Gervis softly rejected Lolita's proposal again. This time, the main force of Saint Ann's city's defense was indeed the one thousand elite soldiers that Neptune left for Lolita!
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(End of this chapter)
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