Heroes of Silver Moon

After receiving the news, the old king rushed to King's Harbor with a group of people.

Seeing the heroic Singer full of scars, docked alone at the pier, everyone's heart sank.

"How did it happen?" Looking at Viscount Doyle kneeling in front of him on one knee, the old king frowned.

The navy of the Silvermoon Kingdom was already weak, with only two fleets in total. This time, the first fleet was almost completely wiped out, which could be described as a fatal blow to the Silvermoon Kingdom.

If he hadn't known, there would never be a more experienced fleet commander than Viscount Doyle in the kingdom, and Viscount Doyle was indeed loyal. I'm afraid the old king would have been dragged down and chopped down long ago.

"Your Majesty, we have encountered a very powerful spellcaster of the Sea Clan. He can control ocean currents and sea beasts, and beat us to the point where we can't fight back." Viscount Doyle said with a bitter smile in his heart.

"Manipulate ocean currents? Control sea beasts? Mage Avedon." The old king savored a few words first, and then looked at an old mage accompanying him.

Master Everton was expressionless, tapped his staff in front of him, and a magic circle emerged out of thin air. A brown book full of patterns appeared in the magic circle.

The book floated in front of him, and the pages kept flipping until it stopped at a certain page.

"Well, there is a high probability that it is a unique occupation of the Sea Clan. Tidecallers who have received the blessing of the Sea God do possess power far beyond other spellcasters at sea." Everton said with a flat face.

"Tidecaller?" Viscount Doyle was a little helpless.

His family has controlled the navy for generations, and he had vaguely heard of this profession, but he didn't expect to be so unlucky that he would run into it.

"I see." The old king also nodded thoughtfully, thinking carefully.

After a long time, the old king let out a sigh of relief, and said to the Minister of Finance who followed him, "How many gold coins do we still have?"

The Minister of Finance thought for a while, and replied: "Not counting the royal family's reserves, there are about 650,000 gold coins."

The old king frowned slightly, and said dissatisfiedly: "Why is it so little? Isn't the money we have earned in the past few years quite a lot?"

The Minister of Finance smiled bitterly, and spread his hands helplessly: "We have indeed earned a lot of money in the past few years, but you first paid off the debts owed to the nobles, and then expanded the poverty alleviation base outside the capital several times. The alchemy material called cement is used to repair the roads in the entire Lower Crescent County, and there is really only so much money in the treasury."

The old king frowned and murmured: "650,000 gold coins, excluding the necessary expenses, the most that can be used is 200,000 gold coins, plus the royal family's reserve of one million gold coins, that's just, we only have A budget of 1.2 million?"

Lying on the chair, the old king was covered with a blanket, tapped the armrest with his fingers, and asked Clifford next to him: "Master Clifford, how many warships can be built with 1.2 million gold coins, and how long will it take?" time?"

Such a dangerous person suddenly appeared in the Sea Clan. They had to take precautions early and restore the strength of the navy as soon as possible.

As the highest-level alchemist in the Silvermoon Kingdom, Clifford, who once taught Simon alchemy, said in a deep voice: "With the shipbuilding level of our Silvermoon Kingdom, we can build a three-masted warship at most, and the cost price should be 150,000 yuan. gold.

If it is a five-masted warship, you must go to the Blue Kingdom or the Holy Empire to buy it. The price should be 600,000 gold coins. Of course, this is their internal price. If we want to buy it, it will cost at least 650,000. To about seven hundred thousand. "

"Hiss!" The old king gasped, and asked in disbelief, "Does the navy burn so much money?"

In terms of the army, the Silver Moon royal family has three major armies, with a total of 150,000 people, and the annual military expenditure is only 600,000 gold coins.

Who the **** can play this!

Clifford said helplessly: "Of course ordinary ships don't need to be so expensive, but when those ordinary ships go out to sea, they will be smashed into pieces by sea beasts, so they must be alchemy ships.

You also know that everything from alchemy to magic is always very expensive. "

The old king had a bitter face, and asked after a long time: "Then what do you think, facing the situation of the Sea Clan, should we build a few more three-masted warships, or buy five-masted warships?"

Clifford looked at Viscount Doyle and said with a wry smile, "I think Viscount Doyle has more say on this question."

The old king looked at Viscount Doyle, who shook his head with a wry smile, and said, "Your Majesty, judging from the situation of this battle, facing the tide caller, whether it is a three-masted warship or a five-masted warship, Even a mast warship is useless, we must have a stronger warship."

The old king narrowed his eyes slightly, and asked tentatively, "You mean, a seven-masted warship?"

Viscount Doyle's face froze, he lowered his head and replied, "I'm afraid we won't be able to get that kind of warship of the Zhenuo class."

The old king immediately gritted his teeth, glared at Viscount Doyle angrily, and said, "Just as long as you know!"

As the strongest combat unit on the sea, there are not many seven-masted warships in the entire world. Among all human countries, except for the Holy Empire, only the Blue Kingdom has them.

Let’s not talk about this kind of state-level alchemy creation. Will people sell it? Even if it is really sold, the seven-masted warship with a cost price of 1.8 million gold coins will eventually be sold. How much?

Is it two million gold coins? Or two and a half million gold coins? Considering the scarcity and value, three million gold coins is not impossible.

Even if the Silver Moon Kingdom emptied their family fortune, they would not be able to spend so much money!

"But Your Majesty, the three-masted warship and the five-masted warship have no chance of winning against the tidecaller. They are simply going to die in the past!" Viscount Doyle persuaded.

"Well, that's also a problem." The old king rubbed his forehead with a headache. People tend to lose energy when they are old, and being a king is no exception.

"Your Majesty, actually, I just thought of someone." Clifford coughed twice, and said suddenly.

The old king was taken aback for a moment, and then immediately reacted: "You mean, that kid!"

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In the lord's study, Simon, who had not recovered from his injuries, slapped the table and stood up angrily: "What, you mean, all the food brought by the merchants was robbed by those lords?"

Wallace's face was very ugly, and he said sarcastically, "My lord, it's not appropriate to use the word rob. At least they paid these merchants at the market price in previous years."

"Grass, the market price of previous years! This year's heavy rain has at least doubled the price of food in the entire southern border. The market price of previous years is not even the purchase price of this year. Adding in the toll, these merchants will have to pay for it. !" Simon akimbo angrily.

He still underestimated the shamelessness of these neighbors, or the shamelessness of the entire noble class.

Merchants have rare goods to live in and are waiting for a price. Although they may be suspected of taking advantage of the fire, at least they will do things for money.

But what about these nobles? Simply grab it directly without losing any face.

Looking out the window, a murderous intent emerged in Simon's heart. This incident made him make up his mind that these nearby lords must be dealt with as soon as possible.

Otherwise, they might not know what kind of mess they will make.

"What did the group of businessmen say?" Simon asked gloomyly.

It was their new law that allowed these merchants to transport food~www.readwn.com~ Now that the food is being robbed, they can't just stand by and ignore it.

If this is the case, I am afraid that in the future, no businessman will come to Xinfa again.

Now the time is not yet ripe, he does not have the ability to directly attack those leaders, so he can only compensate these businessmen as much as possible first.

"Those greedy businessmen demanded that we compensate them for all their losses at the agreed price." Wallace sneered.

The nobles were robbers, and the merchants were no better off.

Seeing that the current new law provides for the shortage of grain, it has raised the price of grain by ten times at once, and transporting grain from other places, excluding the purchase price and travel expenses, at least four times the profit.

Now that the food has not arrived, these people still want the new law to compensate them at ten times the price, showing their shameless faces at a glance.

"It's impossible. We will also compensate them for their losses based on the market price in previous years." Knowing that the businessmen were talking to the lion, Simon refused without thinking.

Taking a share of those lords' money, plus the compensation from the new law, is enough to make up for most of the losses of these businessmen. If these people still want to push forward...

Then Simon will also let them know why merchants can never beat nobles!

"It's a reasonable compensation. I'll take care of this matter. If there's nothing else, I'll go down first." Wallace nodded.

"Well, you go to work first." Simon looked out of the window and waved his hands casually, the suppressed killing intent in his heart became stronger and stronger.

boom! When Wallace was about to leave, the door was pushed open.

Deborah ran in with a panicked expression: "Simon, it's not good, those people gathered outside the grain drying field and demanded to take away their grain!"

"What!" Simon turned around sharply, his face grim.