Volume 10: Our Journey Chapter 315 Disciples (Part 1)
The news that the four-race coalition had "fallen" into the cursed land and been annihilated would only spread everywhere after the Bloomfield continent entered the spring of the new year.
Everyone in the mainland who learned about this through "Travels in Mainland China" or other channels was speechless for a moment.
Especially in the southern continent occupied by humans, countless royal families of big and small countries have turned their attention to the cursed land in the northern continent, a small grassland country that in their impression only sells vermicelli and sauces and does business in a friendly manner.
The Far Eastern Empire's orc army is very powerful. The fact that the fertile land of the Far East has never been set foot by invaders for thousands of years is ironclad proof of this. It's almost certain that they can go out to fight others... If it weren't for the sea, the northern part of the Southern Continent would have become a pasture for the orcs many years ago.
What special material is this small grassland country made of to make three batches of troops from the Far East Empire unable to return?
In the royal palace of St. Bridget in the Southern Kingdom, Prince Carlisle found that the ministers were more respectful to him. The military minister, who was extremely dissatisfied with the deprivation of his military command and the reduction of the military department to a "clerical office", did not dare to look up at him when they met in the meeting room in recent days. Even his rude and arrogant "opposition to everything" attitude was restrained.
As for Prince Hilbott, who had been left at the front line and suffered from the wind and sand for several years... this prince, who had originally planned to return to the capital during the coronation ceremony of His Royal Highness the Prince, has been so quiet during this period that people almost forgot about him, as if the "controversy over the legitimacy of the prince system" that was previously raging among the nobles in the royal city had never happened.
"I'm taking advantage of the teacher again." In the study of His Royal Highness, when facing his friends, Prince Carlisle took off his majestic mask and laughed and teased, "After Teacher Xavier was expelled from the country for 'offending' the royal family of Elliot Palace, I don't know how many people privately discussed whether the disciples taught by such an ignorant teacher were worthy of being a role model for the kingdom. Teacher Ayun's Kingdom of Fire successively wiped out tens of thousands of beastmen, but no one thought that the disciples taught by such a 'barbaric and warlike' teacher were equally rude. It seems that these gentlemen in our royal city have nothing to do with whether a person is polite when evaluating whether he knows etiquette."
"Four thousand soldiers of the Three Bears Alliance, twenty thousand Moon Bears, and more than thirteen thousand of the Orc Alliance were all wiped out in the cursed land, and no one escaped. Such an amazing record was created in three years. Even if the winner was the most brutal ogre, there were still people praising him." The Earl's daughter Yumi Hockley, who was sitting on a single sofa with her legs crossed in a convenient riding suit, said indifferently, "Didn't someone propose to hire Orc mercenaries to go to the front line and replace their precious useless children last year? There were so many members of the Nobles' Council who loudly praised the bravery of the Orc mercenaries, as if the countless times they had despised others as beasts were not spoken from their asses."
To Yumi's left, Tim, Darren and Dan, who were sitting side by side on the sofa, looked away silently... A young noble in the royal city had openly cursed Dahe, and then Yumi started to quarrel with all the nobles in the royal city. They had countless verbal battles and even published an advertisement in the newspaper asking a certain noble young man to challenge her in a duel - as a spellcaster who did such a thing, her friends didn't know what to say to her.
Carlisle didn't quite agree with Yumi's radical approach of throwing all the royal city nobles into the garbage dump, but at this stage he would definitely not ruin his friend's plan. Moreover, as Yumi was his die-hard supporter, her attitude could reflect his attitude to a certain extent. It was not a bad thing to let those fat-headed guys keep a tight rein.
"Well... Carlisle, Mr. Ayun invited us to send a study abroad team to the grassland. How do you plan to arrange this?" Tim Humphrey, a caring good friend, knew that Carlisle did not want to directly express support or opposition to Yumi's radical attitude, so he jumped out to change the subject.
"Since the six nations have formed an alliance, they should advance and retreat together. I am going to send invitations to the royal families of the five nations and suggest that each nation send a royal family member to lead a study-abroad delegation." Carlisle said with a smile, "If it were a few years ago, the royal families of the five nations might not have bought into it. Now it is much easier. Just looking at the impressive record of the Flame Nation, it is enough for the royal families of the nations to make friends with it wholeheartedly."
"A member of the royal family is leading the team?!" Yumi almost jumped up, "Wait, so I still can't go see Taiga?!"
"Ms. Hockley, our country is in need of manpower right now. You can't abandon us comrades and go chasing after the snow werewolves at this time." Dan Claudy said with bulging eyes. He would never give in to Yumi in every way!
Yumi rolled her eyes impatiently: "Please have some self-awareness. Is your butt worth seeing?"
"Guys, can we please stop mentioning the word butt?" Darren said with a look of pain on his face.
Tim Humphrey was unmoved and refused to change the subject: "In that case...then our study abroad team will be led by Princess Rose?"
Carlisle nodded, feeling relieved and reluctant: "Rose is already 24 years old, a grown-up girl. It's time for her to see the outside world and experience the wind and waves on the sea. Since I hope she can become the first female Grand Duchess of St. Bridget, she must learn to face everything independently."
This made the friends very eeemmmmmm...
According to the tradition of St. Bridget, noble girls who are eighteen years old or older will formally enter social occasions, attend various cocktail parties and dinners, and participate in gatherings and activities of young people under the guidance of female elders.
Princess Rose was different. The only time she left the palace was when the Snow Wolf delegation came to visit... At other times, her activities were confined to the side halls and the main hall. Every day, she could only see a group of ministers who were old enough to be her father or grandfather...
You, the overbearing brother, are finally willing to give the eldest princess freedom - this is the voice of the little friends.
Carlisle was completely unaware of his friends' complaints. He lamented that his sister would eventually leave him when she grew up, and then discussed with his friends the candidates for the study abroad group. This study abroad exchange was held in the name of economic studies. His Royal Highness, who was carrying out reforms in the country at a leisurely pace, had to set up an administrative team that was loyal only to himself, and now he was going to set up an economic team as well!
That’s right. In the past ten years, the impoverished primitive tribe was turned into the City of Flame, a small grassland country that is absolutely as prosperous as the human city and even has an economic scale that exceeds that of some human countries. This time, it plans to pull the southern countries close to the grassland into its own economic system and play a soft economic invasion!
The main reason that prompted Xiao Yun and the top leaders of Huoyan City to make this decision was that two years ago, when Saint Bridge was carrying out a large-scale pioneering operation in the northwest, he discovered bauxite in a large uninhabited area of wasteland at the border with the Principality of Yagalan and the Kingdom of Holmes... Before, they had to guard against the threat from the Far East and kept it under control, but now, they can start playing!
If oil is the blood of industry, then aluminum alloy is the skeleton of industry. When a country steps into the threshold of industrialization, whether the skeleton of the newborn industry can fully develop and grow gradually depends entirely on the support of aluminum alloy.
There are no large-scale bauxite mines in the grasslands of the northern cold temperate climate and the underground world under the cold temperate continent. This is simple geological common sense. Bauxite formed by weathering of aluminum-containing rocks can only be formed in tropical and subtropical regions with hot weather and abundant rainfall. Therefore, the aluminum powder sold by the snow elves is so expensive because the amount they can obtain is pitifully small...
According to the information Xiao Yun managed to get from Selina, the bauxite mines owned by the Snow Elves were actually in the southeastern Far East, and they were secretly mining under the nose of the Beast King and then secretly transporting them back - it was also because the Far East Empire had no development in metal smelting that the Snow Elves took advantage of them.
Not to mention how much bauxite can be obtained by such piecemeal efforts, Xiao Yun is not confident that he can learn from the snow elves and go to the Beast King to mine (the reason why he did not discuss prospecting with the Lion Clan who owns the tropical territory is because such a thing depends too much on luck and it is possible to invest ten or twenty years in vain). Bauxite was discovered in the great pioneering work in St. Bridge, and he, who has a master-disciple relationship with Carlisle, naturally would not let it go.
For St. Bridge, this is undoubtedly a good opportunity to once again rally the centripetal force of the six southern countries and allow St. Bridge to maintain its leadership position among the six countries.
Carlisle, who discovered the bauxite mine two years ago, had been hesitating on how to transform this benefit into political energy. Now that their ally, his teacher, has proved that the Fire Nation has the strength to hold its own, of course he is going to use force immediately!
Even his friends didn't know about the existence of bauxite, and thought that Teacher Ayun was helping St. Bridges to establish the leadership of the six southern countries and organized an economic study exchange activity. Carlisle, the eldest disciple, was really influenced by Xiao Yun...
At the same time, in the Kingdom of Kronin in the northern part of the Southern Continent, Isaac, who was squatting in the Knights' Territory selling goods, received a letter from the Kronin royal family.
The messenger who delivered the letter to Isaac was Viscount Pope, Lord of Valentine. When the Viscount handed Isaac the gold-stamped envelope with the seal of King Kroning on the wax seal, he looked at his political ally with a particularly tender look... King Kroning wrote a private letter to his family knight and asked him to pass it on. What kind of concept was this? It was the concept that his name was also known to King Kroning!
He is not the only nephew of Grand Duke Pope, and he is not the only young man in the Pope family who can stand on his own. When the Grand Duke chose him to take over Valentine, there were rumors in the family. Now, Viscount Pope has not only increased Valentine's trade volume and turned Valentine's finances from loss to profit by reselling grassland products, but also caught the eye of King Kroning. Who else in the family is qualified to question his ability!
Viscount Pope was very happy, and Isaac was even happier. When he took the envelope with King Cronin's private seal, his excited yet suppressed reaction was not at all acting.
After spending many years squatting in the suburbs of Valentine and spending a lot of money on the activities supported by Teacher Ayun (in fact, he earned more by helping Caoyuan sell goods, ahem), he now finally has the opportunity to get in touch with Kroning's core of power and have the opportunity to fulfill his teacher's wish!