Urban Sims

Count Merlin, Merlin Castle.

A grand banquet celebrating the victory is being held in the gorgeously decorated banquet hall.

Guests with rough appearances and loud voices were strategizing, and the banquet hall was filled with a noisy and pleasant atmosphere.

In the corner of the banquet, in a slightly more clean corner, sitting a few dull men drinking wine, saying nothing, and frowning occasionally, it is difficult to adapt to this particularly noisy atmosphere.

"Edward Knight, you are here."

Holding a huge wine glass, Ronald Baron, who was flushed with alcohol, walked to the table a little, and said to the handsome young man in front of him, "Edward Knight, welcome to join the Northern School!"

After that, Baron Romon held the wine glass, saluted the handsome young man, leaned on the thick red neck, poured the wine into his mouth, and after drinking the ale in the wine glass, Romon burped The baron drew cheers from all around.

"Baron Romon, I also respect you a cup."

Zhou Ming got up smiling, took a trumpet glass full of ale, moved his head down gracefully, and drank the wine inside.

"Boy from the south, drink a big glass, don't be like a girl!" The big man next to the loud voice rang, he was not used to this kind of elegant drinking method.

"Yes, boy from the south, change a big glass for a glass of wine to show us, this cup is too small for ten-year-old children." Another drunken man coaxed.

"Don't say this, Edward Knight is extraordinary in martial arts. On the battlefield that day I saw him kill at least ten knights of the Southern School. No knight can walk ten moves in his hand." A slightly sober person said .

"So what? The winery is the battlefield, as long as it doesn't drink, it's still a girl!" The drunkard said disdainfully.

"You—!" The Knight of Morris pressed the hilt of his sword, and Horti stood up. He had always been gentle, and he was really fed up with these rude, savage, no knight-like Yankees!

"Teacher, please sit down."

Zhou Ming raised his hand and pressed slightly, let the Morris Knight sit back, and asked someone to change a huge wine glass, and let a coquettish man pour him wine. When the wine glass was about to overflow, he raised the glass loudly to everyone around him. Tao: "Gentlemen, I respect you all!"

Finally, Zhou Ming turned his head up and poured the golden ale into his mouth. A small amount of liquor overflowed from the corner of his mouth. After a while, the ale in the huge glass drank low.

The wine glass in his hand stood upside down, and no drop of leftover wine dripped down, but Zhou Ming bulging out of the green bars near the temple shouted, "Good wine!"

"it is good!"

"Good thing!"

"It's a man!"

"This kid has an appetite for me!"

The lords applauded loudly and watched the boy looking up, and even the master of the scene, Count William, walked over with a laugh, patted Zhou Ming's shoulder, and said to the crowd loudly, "Don't call you Edward in the future." Knight "boy from the south", starting today, we are all Yankees! "

"Yes, Yankee! We are all Yankees!"

"Long live Yankee!"

"Cheers for Yankees!"

For a time, the warm atmosphere at the celebration banquet reached its zenith.

Uh ...

After attending the celebration banquet in Fort Merlin, on the way back to Grand Collar, Zhou Ming saw that his father Baron Conner and his father-in-law Baron Sean were listless and unhappy.

"Damn, **** it! I turned out to be a **** Yankee!" Baron Howard scolded all the way, making it hard to accept that he had also become a Yankee reality.

Seeing this scene, Zhou Ming is not good at persuading him. Compared to being trapped and killed, the territory is divided and swallowed by others. Some changes in his own faction category are nothing.

Just get used to it for a while.

Four years.

Zhou Ming silently calculated that this 1,000 horse war was four years ahead of the previous 500 horse war.

King Herian, who is good at the technique of domination, played such a clever hand within a few days of coming to power. If there is no expert guidance behind it, it must be impossible.

However, Herian still seriously underestimated the power of intelligence in Zhou Ming's hands. As long ago, when the noble court was arguing about the distribution of 1,000 horses, Zhou Ming already knew that after several years of blowing balloons The expansive development has grown into a free trade union of capital behemoths. Sooner or later, there will be a fierce collision with the king.

I just did n’t expect that this collision would come so early and so fast that when King Herlian announced that all the merchant alliance goods within the king ’s collar would be levied a 50% commercial tax, he had to spend three months, Having done the ideological work of all the lords of the seven earl lords in the north, stated the interests, and introduced that once the free business alliance is disbanded, the northern lords will return to the original dilemma of hardship and poverty. The land lords have expressed that they will stand in a fair position and safeguard the interests of the business alliance.

Of course, it is also to safeguard their own interests.

After all, what touches the soul more than morality is still profit.

Therefore, at the meeting of the Business Alliance ruling, the representatives of the lords of the Northland all abstained. Although the 16 representatives of the South objected, those members of the Foreign Business Alliance who are not in the Kingdom of Warris, regardless of whether you are a royal family Territories, as long as they violate their interests, you will be sanctioned!

The monster of capital, no matter whether you are His Majesty the King or Lao Tzu, as long as you stop it to make money, it will bite you fiercely.

However, the free business alliance in Zhou Ming's hands is only a capital cub that has developed for more than four years, and its claws and teeth have not grown well. It is not the ultimate form of devouring blood and swallowing meat, whaling everything. There is no problem with the kingdom of Rees running halfway through the mountains and rivers, but if you leave the country, you will not be under his command and control.

So, soon after the influential 1,000 horse war, a huge negative effect quickly appeared.

Half a month after the end of the war, the Southern Business League of the Kingdom of Wallis, which almost copied the organizational structure of the Free Business Association, was proclaimed. In addition to all the seven counts in the south, the royal territory of King Herlian also joined the Southern Business League, and by A senior member of the royal family, served as the chairman of the Southern Business League.

Subsequently, in order to compete with the Free Business Alliance for the market, the members of the Southern Business Alliance concentrated resources on the one hand, referenced some of the best-selling products of the Free Business Alliance, and carried out a large number of copycats. On the other hand, they also Products, issued a "full blockade order"!

Is prohibiting the passage of free merchant alliance caravans, UU reading books www.uukansshu.com burns free merchant alliance goods, and intercepts merchants who sell free merchant alliance goods!

In October, just one month after the war, there were 544 traveling merchants who lived on the sale of goods of the Free Trade Union. After entering the southern territories, they mysteriously died in the hands of various thieves.

Various business activities of the Free Trade Association quickly fell into a low tide.

In November, several worse news came that the upper levels of the kingdoms such as Churin, Arino, and Iron Fort around the Kingdom of Warris have issued "commercial restrictions" and issued bans, demanding that the country join the free business. The noble territory of the League must withdraw from the commercial organization of the Free Business League!

Then, the Chulin Business Alliance, Alino Business Alliance, and Iron Fort Kingdom Business Alliance, led by the upper levels of these kingdoms, filled the market gap of various commercial goods after the free business alliance exited.

Among them, the "Iron Prohibition Order" adopted by the Iron Fort Kingdom is the most fierce. The kingdom, the king of the Iron Fort Kingdom, is this time determined to limit the abominable "Grand Licensed" ironware to one piece and not sell it.

At the end of the year, after the domino-like withdrawal, after the last baron leader at the border of the Chulin Kingdom, Zhou Ming had only 84 members in the free business alliance in the northern border of the Kingdom of Warris. Too.

"Although I had expected this step, it was still one to two years earlier than expected, but it does not matter. With the funds I have on hand, I should start the second step plan. It should be no problem. Now ... "

Zhou Ming, who was lying on the desk at his desk, pondered a little, and the quill pen in his hand, on a piece of white paper, wrote the words "mercenary union".