Chapter 427 The Conditions of the Sith Kingdom

The auction was held at the Williamburg Opera House and lasted for three days. Richard sold 32 sets of magic hot air balloons, 3,000 alchemical bombs, 60 scorching ray guns, 30 death ray guns, 600 bottles of Tenghui potion, 16 bottles of Styx potion, 10 wizard robes, 6 magic wands, and 200 enchanted armors.

Not counting the three most valuable finale treasures, Richard took out about 350,000 gold coins worth of extraordinary resources.

This batch of extraordinary resources brought Harland Territory 10,000 magic crystals, 60 magic cores of different levels, about three tons of super magic metal, and more than a dozen rare magic plants, filling a lot of gaps in magic materials.

The first of the three finale treasures at Harland Territory's auction this year was a ninth-level enchanted long sword, which came from the Duke of Otto's family in the Sith Kingdom. In August this year, Richard solved the Yunhai Slave Catching Group and killed Rick and seized this item from him.

Although the value of the ninth-level enchanted longsword is not as good as the ninth-level crossbow, let alone the ninth-level armor, it is an extraordinary treasure second only to the legendary props. Even in the royal family, it is an important collection and is distributed in the hands of heavyweight nobles. Many nobles at the level of earl may not have ninth-level extraordinary treasures. In the countries near the Kingdom of Grant, those who can use the ninth-level enchanted longsword are basically either royal families or dukes.

Richard led Harland to dominate for many years and annihilated many arrogant opponents, but he only seized three ninth-level enchanted longswords. The other two came from Pirosa and Mark Dean, both of whom were legendary knights and heavyweight dukes.

Richard used one of the two ninth-level enchanted longswords for himself and gave the other to Sylph.

Richard had intended to keep the sword seized this year in the territory and give it to Sutton, Soros and others. However, the territory suffered a disaster this year, the fiscal revenue was insufficient, and the growth rate of military expenditure was particularly large, so he took it out for auction. On the one hand, it could promote the reputation of the Harland Trade Fair, and on the other hand, it could make up for the lack of fiscal revenue and fill some gaps.

This enchanted long sword was eventually traded to the Ryan royal family in exchange for 300 Warcraft horses and 30 underage lion ducks. If converted into gold coins, it is worth about 130,000.

The Kingdom of Ryan has a 300-man Lion Duck Cavalry Corps. About 60 lion ducks are born every year. On average, about 20 lion ducks die each year due to old age, illness, and battle. Because the cost of maintaining the Lion Duck Cavalry is very high, the Kingdom of Ryan sells an average of 40 young lion ducks a year.

Normally, the young lion ducks of the Kingdom of Ryan will not be sold in nearby territories, such as the neighboring countries of Stannic, Grant, and Delon. Even if they are exchanged for extraordinary resources, the Kingdom of Ryan will not agree to sell the lion ducks.

Their main customers are the Kingdom of Parame, the Kingdom of Sith, and the Holy Empire Slave Catchers. When selling young lion ducks, they will also choose to castrate male lion ducks.

But now the Kingdom of Grant has also cultivated the Lion Duck Cavalry Regiment. The Lion Duck population in the hands of the two great nobles of Grant and Harland is already very large, and the Kingdom of Ryan cannot restrict it.

So the Kingdom of Ryan can only relax the restrictions and sell lion ducks to the great nobles of the Kingdom of Grant. After all, if the Kingdom of Ryan does not do this business, the Harland Territory Family and the Grant Royal Family will do it in a few years, and then the benefits can only be given to the opponent.

The second finale auction item is a high-level Styx potion, which can increase magic power by 30 points. Even in Harland, only one or two potions can be refined a year. Many backbones of the Mage Association have never refined this thing and can only use medium-level Styx potions to make up the number.

This year, the high-level Styx potion refined by Sophia fell into the hands of the East Coast United Kingdom Mage Academy. In exchange for this potion, the East Coast United Kingdom took out four Life Evolution Potions in exchange.

Life Evolution Potions are a must for a sixth-level warrior to break through to the seventh level. The price has been relatively stable, about 30,000 gold coins. With these four Life Evolution Potions, even if the probability of advancement is about half, Harland should be able to train two seventh-level masters.

The final finale is the ninth-level enchanted armor. Although the ninth-level armor taken out by Harland has defects, its value is far higher than the ninth-level enchanted long sword, and it is estimated to be worth about 300,000 gold coins.

In the end, it was Grand Duke Jonathan who made the decision on the spot, and decided to exchange the ninth-level longbow he had inherited from his family with 16,000 magic crystals for this item with the Harland family.

The manufacture of the enchanted longbow is also very troublesome. Although the Harland Territory is a large family, it has not yet manufactured a ninth-level enchanted bow and arrow. The best enchanted bow and arrow in the territory is only seventh-level.

After seeing the Jonathan family's heirloom enchanted bow and arrow, Richard immediately couldn't take his eyes off it and agreed to the Jonathan family's conditions on the spot.

Sylph has been promoted to a legend, and the enchanted bow and arrow in her hand is only seventh-level for the time being. Sylph has been promoted to a legend, and using the ninth-level enchanted bow and arrow can maximize the power of this item. After exchanging for the ninth-level enchanted bow and arrow, Richard immediately handed the ninth-level enchanted bow and arrow to Sylph.

After the auction, the staff of the business department of the Harland Territory counted the transaction volume of this year's commodity fair. Together with the transaction volume of the auction, the transaction volume of this year's commodity fair exceeded 2.8 million gold coins.

The merchandise sold and exchanged in Harland alone amounted to 2.16 million.

For the remaining 740,000 gold coins, the transaction tax alone amounted to 37,000 gold coins. As the Harland Commodity Fair grew in size and became more famous, Harland was already making a lot of money just from the transaction tax collected each year.

After the trade fair, Richard drew troops from the territory and formed the fourth Warcraft Cavalry Battalion.

Now the number of Warcraft Cavalry in Harland has reached nearly 3,000, of which the first Warcraft Cavalry Battalion is already fully staffed, with a total of 1,000 soldiers.

The second Warcraft Cavalry Battalion is also almost fully staffed, with a total of 900 soldiers, and the third Warcraft Cavalry Battalion has a large shortage, with only 600 soldiers.

In addition, during the war last year, Richard organized three Warcraft Cavalry squadrons in different areas, such as the Dragon Canyon, the Demon Hunting City, the Ogre Lair and other strongholds.

The fourth Warcraft Cavalry Battalion has only 500 soldiers. After the formation of this Warcraft Cavalry Battalion, the establishment of the Warcraft Cavalry in Harland has reached 3,300.

Among them, the first and fourth Warcraft Cavalry Battalions are Iron Horned Horse Warcraft Cavalry, and the second and third Warcraft Cavalry Battalions are Flame Horse Warcraft Cavalry. Because the Warcraft warhorses are different, the logistics supply is a little troublesome.

After the reorganization of the army last year, Harland Territory has established four main legions, with Richard, Soros, Jennings, and Wilde as the commanders of the four legions.

This year, Richard and Jennings were absent for a long time, and the deputy legion commander took over. In order to ensure the combat effectiveness of the main legion, Richard recruited some senior barons from the vassal nobles, such as Vito, Grumman, Kenyon, Bazel and other barons. These four barons are high-level professionals with more than 40 years of combat experience in the northern border. They have also served as captains and deputy legion commanders in the main legion. Appointing them as deputy legion commanders can easily perform their duties and assist the legion commander in commanding operations.

Hearing that the territory exchanged four life evolution potions with a high-level Styx potion, a group of captains with outstanding merits in Harland Territory immediately exchanged them with merits.

It takes three great merits to exchange a life evolution potion, which may take many years for a sixth-level captain. For example, Sura has only accumulated four great merits and five medium merits after joining the army for 21 years, which is less than half of the distance to be awarded a knighthood.

Relatively speaking, it is easier to make merits in Harland Territory, because there are many battles to beat the fallen dog. Even so, it is very difficult for the captain to come up with three great merits at one time.

In the end, only four captains with very senior qualifications, Sura, Norman, Bradrick, and Claude, successfully exchanged. Norman and Bradrick successfully advanced, while Sura and Claude were unlucky and did not break through the realm even after taking the potion.

Norman is also a member of the Dark family and the nephew of Soros, but his father is an illegitimate child with a very low status and no inheritance rights. More than 20 years ago, Norman was already a second-level professional and the backbone of Soros Mercenary Group.

Now Norman is 45 years old and still commands operations under his uncle Soros. This time he was promoted to the seventh level, and his position was simply raised by one level, becoming the second-ranked deputy legion commander.

Bradrick is also very experienced. He is one of the earliest professional officers under Richard. He is over fifty years old. Luck is a key factor in his promotion to a high level this time.

He broke through the high level in his fifties, and his potential was almost exhausted. Although he could not be promoted to a legend, he was appointed by Richard as the deputy commander of the third legion and became a high-ranking officer in the Harland Territory.

In fact, Richard's third uncle Bernie was also promoted to the eighth level for many years and was suitable to be the commander of the legion. However, because Richard was arbitrary, he dismissed Tang En and expelled him from the Harland family and abolished the heir. Bernie had a bad impression of Richard and was unwilling to return to the territory to obey Richard's dispatch.

Now Bernie has served as the second deputy commander of the Crazy Lion Legion and is developing in the south like William. The two brothers are not too far away from each other. Although they are busy with military affairs, they can meet often.

Compared with the high-ranking officers under the royal family, the quality of high-ranking professionals in the Harland Territory is slightly worse. After all, the Harland family has been prosperous for too short a time, and it has not been able to cultivate a large number of high-level professionals for more than 20 years. Now that it has such a scale and a group of talents can be used, it has benefited from the rapid development of the territory.

This is not only due to the opening of extraordinary resources in Harland Territory, but also because Richard has a keen eye for talent and has given them many opportunities to train these talents.

Shortly after the end of the commodity fair, the envoys of the Kingdom of Sith also entered Harland Territory.

Since the disappearance of the large magic ship of the Yunhai Slave Catcher Group, the Kingdom of Sith suspected that Harland Territory defeated the Slave Catcher Group and seized the magic ship. Because the two countries are far apart, communication is very difficult, and it took three months to go back and forth.

The envoys of the Kingdom of Sith came to Harland Territory mainly to discuss with Richard about redeeming people and returning the magic ship.

The magic ship is a very precious alchemical prop. The price of a large magic ship is more than 500,000 gold coins. Most of the time, there is no market for it, and it needs to be ordered through the channels of the Holy Glorious Empire. The Kingdom of Sith has participated in the trade of capturing elves for hundreds of years, but has only accumulated three large magic ships and more than twenty small and medium-sized magic ships. The loss of a large magic ship will hurt the Kingdom of Sith for a long time.

The envoy of the Kingdom of Sith is named Parsons, who is also a member of the Duke of Otto's family. He is also a close relative of Rick and is Rick's nephew by blood.

After receiving Parsons' request to visit, Richard quickly met with him.

"I am not familiar with the envoy. I don't think we need to be polite to each other. Just say what you want to say."

Hearing Richard's words, Parsons thought to himself: "I heard that the people of the Harland family are very barbaric. It seems that there is some reason. The transactions between the two countries do not use diplomatic rhetoric, nor do they have singing and dancing banquets. At first glance, they lack the etiquette of the nobility.

Last time, I heard that Edmund, the special envoy of the United Kingdom on the East Coast, had his tongue cut out and his eyes gouged out by Duke Harland because he said the wrong thing. I must learn a lesson. When speaking, you must take care of this barbarian's emotions, and you must not be caught and lose your life. "

Parson organized his words and said: "Three months ago, one of our magic ships was stranded near the Duke's territory due to a storm. We hope that the Duke can help find this stranded magic ship based on the friendly relations between the two countries. We are willing to Provide the Duke with a sum of money to pay for the ship."

Richard raised his wine glass and smiled at the entourage beside him: "Look at this special envoy, he speaks so nicely. You all should learn from it. Diplomacy is like this. His face is thicker than the skin of an ogre. On the surface, Very personable, but ruthless in heart and hands.”

Facing Richard's verbal sarcasm, Parson still kept a smile on his face, as if he didn't understand and was completely unmoved.

"We haven't seen any stranded magic ships. Viscount Parson has found the wrong person."

Seeing that Richard rejected his proposal, Parson pointed to the direction and said, "Our magic ship is parked outside Black River Castle. Why would your Excellency the Duke deny it?"

"That ship invaded the Harland Territory and wanted to capture the noble citizens of our territory. Now it is the spoils of our territory. How much money can you give in exchange for it?"

The magic ship manufacturing technology has almost been mastered by the Harland Masters Association. The value of this ship to the Harland Territory is just that, whether it is light or important, it is not important.

If the Sith Kingdom wants to trade back, it's not impossible as long as it can afford the price.

"We are willing to spend 300,000 gold coins."

“What use are the gold coins of the Sith Kingdom to us?

Could I still use the Sith Kingdom gold coins to buy supplies on the spot, then hire a caravan, set up a supply station, and cross a distance of more than 2,000 kilometers to enter the Harland Territory?

Besides, the price of 300,000 gold coins is too low. If you really want to redeem this ship, you will need at least 50 tons of blood steel, 5 tons of orichalcum, 500 kilograms of mithril, 30 kilograms of fine gold, plus Thirty thousand standard magic crystals. "

Richard was very impatient when he heard Parson's conditions. After all, the gold coins of the Sith Kingdom cannot be used in the Grant Kingdom. If you go to the multinational chamber of commerce, you will definitely be peeled off and take away 20 to 30% of the profits.

Therefore, it is impossible for Richard to agree to exchange gold coins, at least he must use magic crystals common to the Dawn Plane. Of course, Richard would be very happy if he took out the super magic metal.

Because of the refining of the legendary golem, Leader Harland consumed all the super-magic metals stored in the territory, especially orichalcum, mithril, and gold essence. The treasury has been completely wiped out. He finally got some back from the commodity fair trade. Now After catching up with the Sith Kingdom to redeem the magic ship, Richard of course asked the lion to open his mouth and make up for the shortfall.