Chapter 123: The Noble Alliance

After arriving at Black River Fort, Richard soon met his old acquaintance Baron Rice.

Baron Rice's territory is closer to Black River Fort, and he has been in Black River Fort for two days.

After meeting Richard, Baron Rice took the initiative to invite Richard to a tavern.

This tavern is Baron Rice's property, with very high-end decoration and rosewood from the southern part of the Grant Kingdom.

Most of the wines sold inside are expensive wines.

In the current wine market in Black River Fort, the top people are still used to drinking red wine, and the middle and lower classes are used to drinking white wine from the Harland Territory.

With the hot sales of white wine, the sales of red wine have dropped by more than half.

A large number of soldiers, mercenaries, and hunters who have the habit of drinking used to drink red wine occasionally, but now they have basically become loyal customers of white wine.

Red wine feels more and more like a luxury, and can only serve a small number of people.

The temperature in the northern border area is low, and the grape production is low. Only the Duke of Jonathan produces a small amount of red wine. The red wine sold mainly comes from the three earls of Paulus, Charlotte and Marcel.

Although the southern earls are very powerful and can be called a dragon crossing the river in the wine market.

However, in the northern border area, there is nothing they can do about the Harland family, which is a local tiger.

After all, the red wine is transported from more than a thousand kilometers away, and each bottle must be bottled in a more expensive glass bottle, which cannot compete with the locally produced white wine.

Unless dirty means are used to assassinate the people who sell white wine and violently attack competitors.

But in this case, the Harland family will not sit idly by and will also use violent means. The three southern earls may not be the ones who benefit from killing.

Unless Richard wants to sell white wine nationwide and seize the remaining market, the three earls may not be able to resist provoking a commercial war.

Baron Rice's tavern is basically not open to the public, just like a private club in the previous life, only doing aristocratic business. In addition to acquaintances of the Rice family, the guests are senior bureaucrats of Heihe County.

There is a stage in the middle of the tavern, with several revealing dancers standing on it.

These dancers performed sexy erotic dances and looked beautiful and young.

Richard knew that these dancers were Baron Rice's prostitutes, used to entertain the distinguished guests of the Rice family.

In addition to Baron Rice, there were several acquaintances of Richard in the tavern, namely Baron Dark, Baron Baron Baron Baron Bazel, and Baron Diram.

Because Richard bought salt from the Duke of Jonathan, Baron Rice and others knew that the Harland family and Governor Jerram had already had a business conflict.

Although they did not know that Jerram hired mercenaries to attack Richard, the two families almost tore their faces directly.

However, the instinct of the nobles is to avoid trouble. During this period, they still did not want to get too close to Richard to avoid being implicated by the Harland family.

After all, Governor Jerram was responsible for managing the logistics of the entire army in this battle.

Jerram could make the army of the Harland territory very uncomfortable with a casual operation. Being in the same army with Richard might suffer an unexpected disaster.

In war, whether the food supply arrives one day earlier or later, and whether the logistics supply is sufficient or not, are all very big things.

They cannot be careless, and many things must be considered in advance.

But after Richard brought the army to Black River Fort, he met the soldiers of Harland Territory. After discussing with Baron Rice and others, they immediately changed their minds and decided to follow Richard to act together and get some military merit.

The soldiers of Harland Territory are well-equipped and march in step. It can be seen at a glance that they are elite soldiers who are not inferior to the main army.

In addition, Richard has Warcraft cavalry under his command.

In this rebellion war, the main army only dispatched two battalions to the south, and did not send Warcraft cavalry.

The soldiers led by Richard may be the main force in the rebellion army second only to the main army.

According to the income of the territory, a barony can basically support one or two squadrons of soldiers.

For example, Baron Rice's territory has only two squadrons of regular troops.

Because Richard and others had eaten up all the territory of Baron Diram, there were less than 2,000 people in the territory now, and they had trained a squadron of serfs with extremely weak combat effectiveness.

Richard only needed to send a small team of soldiers to easily defeat the Diram squadron, which was not even equipped with spears.

Even if there were tens of thousands of rubbish serfs, they would be easily defeated by Richard's 1,000 elite soldiers.

Because the situation was unclear, Baron Rice and others did not invest in the main force of the territory, but instead trained a squadron of serfs to fool the province to complete the conscription order.

Baron Rice and others also knew what kind of soldiers they brought? They also knew what responsibilities such soldiers could bear?

This time to suppress the rebellion, these serfs were either cannon fodder to fill the trenches or escort food and fodder in the rear.

Baron Rice and others knew that they had a general relationship with Governor Jerram, and it was not their turn to transport food in the rear, and they were likely to be cannon fodder.

If they were asked to withdraw the main force in the territory, they would not agree.

If the main force is lost in the war of suppressing the rebellion, what can they use to resist the invasion of orcs?

This may be the fate of the two baronies of Stob and Diram.

Baron Stob also has a genius daughter, Sophia. She has a good eye for talent and found a good husband who is also capable, strong and can make money, so that the territory can turn around.

Look at the miserable state of Diram's territory now. Years of accumulation have been destroyed. I don't know when it will turn around.

Even if they died in the war of suppressing the rebellion, the territory would still be inherited by their sons, and they would still be hereditary nobles with no loss of strength.

So even if they would die in the battle of suppressing the rebellion, they were unwilling to use their elite soldiers to suppress the rebellion.

Seeing Richard with three main squadrons, a squadron of Warcraft cavalry, and two hundred auxiliary soldiers, Baron Rice and others immediately decided to hug his thighs.

As for whether Governor Jerram would do something, it was not something Baron Rice considered.

If Jerram ignored the overall situation and withheld military rations too obviously, everyone could hold evidence and jointly file a complaint at the noble meeting.

With a group of nobles opposing, the position of Governor of Jerram Province might not be able to be retained.

Many people on Nolan's side were vying for this lucrative job.

King Charles did not have only one prince, Felix, and Jerram's position was not as stable as Mount Tai and could not be shaken.

Including the Joint Territory of Shaprafil, there were a total of twelve baronies in Black River County.

The only territory directly governed by the royal family was near Black River Castle.

The Harland family has three baronies, plus the five barons of Rice, Dark, Barton, Bazel, and Diram, the command of the private army of the nobles of Black River County has fallen into Richard's hands.

Moreover, Baron Sharp has a good relationship with Richard and will definitely support Richard.

The remaining Barons Green, Soren, and Wilden have a close relationship with Viscount Romen, and are expected to join the noble coalition of Romen County and fight with Viscount Romen.