How big is the entire Red Ridge Mountains?

Although no one knows the exact number, the Storm Kingdom and its neighboring allies, dwarves and gnomes, can also roughly estimate it after hundreds of years of exchange of information.

Its area is not smaller than that of the Elvin Forest.

Although the current Red Ridge Mountain is desolate, it belongs to a wilderness outside of civilization, wild beasts everywhere, the gnoll clans who hate humans, and the fishman tribes that spread all over the waters... and other reasons have blocked the pace of the Storm Kingdom's pioneering. But everyone knows in their hearts how valuable the Red Ridge Mountains are.

In fact, the orcs that suddenly surged from the dark swamp more than ten years ago attracted the attention of the Storm Kingdom to the south, and the development of the Red Ridge Mountains had long been put on the agenda. With the strength of the Storm Kingdom, if the Parliament and the royal family really reached an agreement, although it would not be possible to occupy the entire Red Ridge Mountains in one go, it would not have been like now.

Since everyone knows the value of the Red Ridge Mountains, everyone will naturally not sit idly by and watch Roger's Red Ridge Leader gain a foothold and do nothing.

The ruling kingdom has different attitudes towards Roger's pioneering of Red Ridge Mountain.

The faction believes that since the kingdom cannot draw for the moment, let Roger take the lead. When the orcs in the dark swamp are solved, are they still worried that a mere pioneer lord can grow enough to compete with Stormwind City?

One sect felt that no matter whether the kingdom could free up his hand, the orcs in the dark swamp were likely to break out for the second time, and when the battle in the Taimo Province was about to be imminent, Roger went to Chiji Mountain to explore the territory. Isn’t this obvious that he had any unfavorable intentions? He wanted to develop his power while the kingdom had no time to care about it, and asked them if these bigwigs in Storm City?

The former faction kept his attention to Roger and temporarily let him go, while the latter faction firmly suppressed him. Even if he could not take action openly due to the restraint of the former faction, he would use some means to make Roger suffer in secret and delay his pace of developing the Red Ridge Mountain.

It seems that the previous party is more friendly to Roger, but in fact, the two factions are birds of the same feather, and there is no difference in essence. Because their ultimate goal is to swallow the Red Ridge Mountains, the only difference lies in the time arrangement.

As for Luo Jie, who pioneered the Red Ridge Mountain?

Sorry, what is that?

Do we, the great men of the kingdom, care about him?

Knowing that Roger's Red Ridge was a newly developed territory, such territory needed food when it was first established, many nobles attacked Roger in terms of food. They first asked their merchants to purchase grain at a fair price, and when the purchase amount was almost done, they worked together to raise the price of grain, which caused the grain prices in the Taimo Province to soar several times.

The price of grain in a border province is several times that of the kingdom's capital. Even fools know that there is a problem. It is also a loss that the Storm Kingdom under the feudal system is a closed small peasant economy based on territory. As long as the people in the famine are not able to be self-sufficient in the years of famine, they would not know how many people would starve to death at such a high grain price.

"Did you buy food at an average price close to the Taimo Province. After raising the price of the grain, you have to sell it to me at the current market price. Do you really treat me as a sucker?" Roger looked at the man with murderous aura flashing, "I'll give you a word, it's better not to be too greedy."

The man lowered his head and did not go to see Roger, but kept shouting injustice: "You misunderstood, Lord Lord. It's not that we want to increase the price temporarily, and we don't want to do this. It's because the food price is too high now. We have worked hard to transport the purchased food. You can't let us lose money, right?"

The aggrieved tone made me feel like I was going to buy and sell for myself. When I saw it by an unknown person, I thought I was going to do anything to him.

"Life is like a play, it all depends on acting skills. You are a qualified actor."

Roger said something that made the man feel confused and completely confused.

"But don't treat me as a fool. I really think I don't know where your food comes from? The province of Taimo itself is short of food, so where do you collect so much food? The food prices in the Twilight Forest and the Elvin Forest are not a little lower than those in the province of Taimo."

The man looked up at Roger: "It's no point in saying that this kind of thing is nothing, Lord Roger."

Roger laughed twice: "I knew you were not an ordinary businessman for a long time. Tell me, who are you doing for."

It is impossible for ordinary merchants to be elected by other merchants to negotiate with Roger on behalf of various caravans. With the status of merchants in the Storm Kingdom, they would not have time to avoid such things that would inevitably anger a lord, so how could they take the initiative to come up? From the beginning, Roger knew that the man in a silk robe in front of him was not an ordinary identity, and there must be a big figure in the kingdom standing behind him.

The man put his right hand on his chest, bowed and bowed to Roger: "I, Matt, Marquis Cowen, asked me to say hello to Roger, the Golden Mage on his behalf."

Marquis?

Tsk, it's really not an ordinary person.

As Roger expected, the person standing behind Matt was indeed a big shot in the kingdom.

According to the fifth-level title system of Duke Hou Bo Zinan, the marquis is only under the duke, and the entire Duke of the Storm Kingdom can count with one hand several times. The Marquis who are only under the duke can definitely be regarded as the very few who stand at the peak of the kingdom's power.

There is a marquis support, no wonder Matt is not worried about angering Roger, because he is sure that Roger will not offend a marquis because of him.

As Roger's current identity as the Lord of the Pioneer Leadership, he is not worthy of attention from a marquis. Didn't he see Matt only mention Roger's identity as the Golden Mage, and did not mention the five words "Red Ridge Lord"?

"You just have a red-ridge collar. Before you can determine whether it can stand firm, you stretched out your hands. Should I say it's my honor, or should you say you're too anxious."

Roger shrugged, and the teasing tone could not hear the pressure of being followed by the attention of the kingdom. His reaction was beyond Matt's expectations. Matt thought that no matter how Roger was, he would have nervousness, anxiety and other emotions, but Roger did not. He was like a person who was fine, so Matt didn't know how to answer the conversation for a while.

Matt didn't think about how to answer, and Roger wouldn't wait for him.

"Okay, I understand. What you ask for is money. Adding 20% ​​to the current market price of Taimo Province is right? I promise you."

Matt felt relieved when he heard this.

I pretended so easily, but I didn't agree. I was almost frightened by you. I really thought you didn't care about the pressure of Marquis Coven.

However, Roger's next words made Matt's heart chill.

"Okay, I promised to give the money, so I'll throw it into the river to feed the fish."
Chapter completed!