Chapter 121 Looting

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After asking all five of them, Roland breathed a sigh of relief.

He leaned back on the chair, and Nightingale took the initiative to go to the back and stretched out her hands to rub his shoulders.

It only took one day from defeating the duke to entering the city and occupying the lord's castle.

Things went even smoother than he had imagined. When the Duke died in battle, most of the people chose to surrender. The mercenaries turned their backs and knelt on the ground one after another, expressing their willingness to serve His Royal Highness.

So the mercenaries guarded the surrendered knights and nobles, and the First Army guarded the mercenaries. A group of people marched mightily to the east and arrived at Longsong Fortress at 3:00 p.m. that day. The guards guarding the city gate immediately opened the city gate to welcome the fourth prince into the city after seeing the head of the Duke of Lane and a large group of captured nobles.

Roland did not summon all the nobles in the city with great fanfare and declare to them the ownership of the city, but went to the lord's castle immediately.

The castle is at the highest point in the center of the fortress, like a city within a city. A small-scale battle broke out when entering the castle area. After Nightingale blasted open the gate of the garden with explosives, more than 20 guards who did not follow the Duke tried to prevent Roland from entering, but were killed by the First Army. The opponent used a hand crossbow when they resisted. Five team members were injured, and two of them were seriously injured. Fortunately, Nana, who followed the army, healed them immediately.

There were also ten guards who wanted to secretly take the Duke's family and escape through the back door of the castle, but they were discovered by lightning surveillance from the sky and were immediately rounded up. The duchess's wife and two sons were captured without a fight--up to this time, they were still kept in the dark about the duke's defeat.

After taking control of the lord's castle, Border Town's first army immediately took over the defense of the castle area. It has to be said that Duke Lane's castle is three to four times larger than Border Town's, and its shape is much more magnificent. Six watchtowers make up its regular hexagonal outline, and the main tower in the middle is almost five stories high—a rare high-rise building in this era. Residential warehouses and stables are available in the garden, and there is even a private prison in the basement of the castle.

He stuffed the valuable captives and the family members of the duke into prison cells, all the civilians were disbanded, and the mercenaries confiscated their weapons and placed them in batches in idle rooms in the garden. At the same time, a few leaders were selected to give high salaries and let them take care of themselves—in Roland's eyes, the North Slope Mine was the best destination for these speculators, but he still had more important things to do now.

That is the most important loot link after a battle - commonly known as touching the corpse.

Roland led a group of witches to search the castle up and down, even the God's Stone of Retaliation placed in the vault and the secret room. He searched it all, and the results were really touching. It is conservatively estimated that there are as many as ten thousand golden dragons in the two large boxes of golden dragons found in the basement warehouse. Nightingale found dozens of eyeball-sized gemstones in a dark room in the bedroom, and Echo found a dark room behind the fireplace. After entering the secret room, it is not only full of various gold crafts, such as scepters, crowns, etc., but also many dazzling pieces of jewelry, which are neatly hung on the wooden shelves on the wall.

This is the wealth of a duke!

Roland looked at this huge wealth, and then thought about the ore revenue of less than 500 golden dragons in the autumn and winter seasons of Border Town, and he was filled with emotion. This is the allure of plundering. If he didn't come from a highly developed industrial society, he might also be addicted to it.

But the emotion is the emotion, these things still have to be accepted. In the foreseeable future, Border Town's working population will increase significantly. Before the development of territorial agriculture, he needs a lot of money to import food from other places.

So the hummingbird lightened the boxes of treasures, and the iron ax and the prince's personal guards were in charge of escorting them, and brought the spoils back to their castle for storage through the small town. Taking into account the time it takes to enchant large items, it will take about three days for the entire shipment to be delivered.

This was also the reason why Roland decided not to ask for the golden dragon as a ransom the next day. He had benefited from eating a duke, and now he needed living people and animals.

"Your Highness, are you really only here for a week?" Nightingale asked.

"What's wrong?" Roland closed his eyes, enjoying the numbness from his shoulders.

"This is the largest city in the Western Region, right?" She said softly, "Compared to Border Town, don't you want to stay in this more prosperous place?"

"Longsong Fortress is complicated and not suitable for what I want to do. It's okay to maintain the status quo. If you want to make changes, you will encounter more and more resistance, and now I can't brutally take them all together. And eradicate it." Roland smiled, "Of course the most important thing is that the people here are deeply influenced by the church, and it is difficult to accept you in the short term. I once said that I hope witches can walk freely on the streets. It's been done."

"Yes," Nightingale said softly, "You have fulfilled your promise."

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On the morning of the third day, Pei Luo hurriedly brought his list, and Roland received him in the lobby as usual.

"Your Highness, I have chosen."

"Let me see." Roland took the list. As expected, most of the serfs filled in the list were serfs with a score of 2, about 800 of them, 100 cows and 300 sheep accounted for a total of 900 points, and the rest were all kinds of craftsmen.

"Your Highness, is this okay?"

"Of course, as long as you have enough 3,000 points." Roland returned the list to Pei Luo, "When can you gather all these people and supplies?"

"It can be done today. This is an arrangement I made based on the property and people in Honeysuckle's territory. However, Your Highness, if you want to bring them back to Border Town, it may take about half a month."

"This has to be done by yourself," Roland said, tapping on the table. "You should have experience in organizing caravan transportation, right?"

"Yes, Your Highness." Pei Luo hesitated, "Then my father..."

"You can take him back today," the prince smiled, and at the same time handed him a parchment roll. "If you think there is no problem, please sign and press your thumbprint on it."

"This is... an agency contract?" Pei Luo glanced at the beginning, and his voice became agitated, "Have you agreed to grant the agency right to the Honeysuckle family? Please wait a moment." He flattened the paper roll and began to carefully examine it. read the contract carefully.

The prudence shown by the other party made Roland nodded in satisfaction - as a collaborator, it is the most basic requirement to pay attention to the contract.

After a while, Peiluo raised his head, "The content above is basically the same as what you told me yesterday, except for one thing..." He pointed to the end of the contract, "Your Highness, shouldn't my father's name be written here? He is the honeysuckle." The earl is also the representative of the family."

Roland smiled, "Of course not. It was you, not your father, who discussed the agency matters with me. So, of course, your name is also written at the end of this contract."

Pei Luo was stunned for a moment, and asked in disbelief, "Your Highness, do you mean to let me come—"

"That's right, you will take the place of the Duke and manage Longsong Fortress for me." Roland nodded. "If the contract is executed smoothly, you can continue to own this city after I become king." He paused Paused, put away his smile, "However, if you break the contract, you will end up the same as the Duke—if I can break into Longsong Fortress once, I can do it a second time. Work hard, Mr. Ambassador." (To be completed continued.)

( let go of that witch )