The bad news brought by Gregorian cast a haze on the upcoming war. The goblins chose to stop trade with the Storm Kingdom at such a sensitive moment. It seemed that there was little impact, but it was enough to show the attitude of the goblin princes.

Although the trade volume between the Storm Kingdom and the Goblins was sharply reduced due to the upcoming Second Orc Invasion War, the Goblins' big customers, the nobles who concentrated on the wealth of the human kingdom, were preparing for the upcoming war and would no longer spend money on buying luxury goods for pleasure as usual. But most of them are not all, and there will always be some exceptions.

Perhaps the amount of trade at this time is far less than usual, and trade always exists, and goblins can still make money from the Storm Kingdom. Once trade is stopped, they can't make a penny. For goblins who regard wealth as life, there is only one possibility that even if there are gold coins, that is, stopping trade with the Storm Kingdom will get greater benefits.

Only interests can offset the interests, and only more gold coins will allow the goblin to stop trade.

So the question arises, where does the benefits that goblins can obtain come from?

Roger didn't know, but he knew that the goblins had made a choice, and they did not stand on the side of the Storm Kingdom, but made another bet.

"Isn't even the goblins optimistic about Storm Kingdom?"

Roger didn't understand why the goblin made such a choice.

With his understanding of goblins, he was 100% sure of his mistakes, and it was impossible for the Goblins to reach a consensus.

Speaking of this, Roger suddenly remembered something, that is, the news that the orcs gathered in large troops was brought out by the venture capital company from the dark swamp.

The boss behind the venture capital company is nothing but the goblin's trading prince.

To understand the situation in the dark swamp, venture capital companies that took the lead are far better than Storm Kingdom.

According to the above information, Roger inferred the fact that venture capital companies must have discovered something amazing in the depths of the dark swamp. It was this thing that prompted the goblins' trading princes to make the same choice. This thing can be a powerful existence, a thing, or a secret that has not been known yet - no matter what it is, it makes those who know it not optimistic about the Storm Kingdom and believe that the Storm Kingdom will be defeated.

Roger doesn't think there is anything wrong with the choice of goblins. It is not that he is a human, so he thinks that goblins should be on the side of the Storm Kingdom. In fact, even Roger himself is not optimistic about the Storm Kingdom, let alone the surplus who is profit-oriented.

Pros and cons, pros and cons, all things have good sides and bad sides.

The bad side of the goblin's decision to stop trade with the Storm Kingdom was that Roger could no longer hoard materials through trade means. This was undoubtedly extremely bad for the Red Ridge Collar, which was in the early stages of inability to be self-sufficient. The good side was that Roger made up his mind and the expansion of the Red Ridge Collar was put on the agenda.

"The goblins stopped trade with us and had little impact on the territory, master." The trade with goblins during this period had long made Frey resentful to these green-skinned dwarfs. Seeing this opportunity, she began to give eye drops to the goblins. "The materials stocked in the territory of Treasure Bay are enough for 20,000 people to use for five years, and the land that is reclaimed in a few months will have the first harvest, and we will soon be able to eat the food we grow. I am frank, I think we should no longer bear the unreasonable blackmail of goblins."

Blackmail!

This is Frey's evaluation of the trade between the Red Ridge Collar and the Treasure Bay.

As far as Frey knows, the things sold to them are already high, and they can buy several times the supplies outside for the same amount of money. The goblins are not satisfied, so they keep raising prices, trying every means to squeeze oil and water from the trade between the two places, and treat the red spine as their ATM. If it weren't for the rich family of their own lords, they might have been ruined by the goblins if they were others.

As an old man who worked under Roger at the beginning of the establishment of the territory, Frey has gradually become the role of the Red Ridge Administrator as the training of these days. She has long been unable to bear the affairs of the territory, especially the finances. Even if the goblins do not stop trading with the Red Ridge Administrator, it will not take long for Frey to propose to Roger to terminate the unreasonable transaction of purchasing supplies at high prices.

"Do you think I don't know that the things that goblins sell us are several times higher?" Roger looked at the airship docking tower that was suspended due to the departure of the goblin airship. "It's enough for 20,000 people to use for five years. Do you think such a little bit of supplies is really enough?"

"No! I want to tell you, it's too far."

Frey blinked, his face full of confusion, as if asking Roger: "In a few months we will be able to achieve self-sufficiency in food, and the territory has accumulated enough supplies for five years, so is it still too little?"

Why do I feel like I don’t hoard it now and I can’t buy anything even if I have money after this period?

Her face was full of doubts and her heart was full of doubts. Frey wanted to speak but stopped. She really couldn't understand Roger's thoughts.

As the current administrative officer of Red Ridge, it would be a bad thing if Frey didn't know anything.

Roger waved, signaling her to come forward, and lowered her voice to explain to her: "More than ten years have passed since the first Orc Invasion War. The new generation of humans and orcs has grown up. If nothing unexpected happens, the war will break out soon. Do you think if the orcs invade the Taimo Province again, there will be no refugee wave, and prices in the kingdom will not soar?"

The war is about to break out!

Frey was stunned and shocked to speak.

War is a bad thing for the people. It is even more terrifying than a flood of beasts. Once this monster runs out of the cage, it will surely devour the lives of countless people, break up countless families, displace countless people and have no place to live. Especially in the war with barbaric alien races like orcs, the war is in the wild thousands of miles of land, and thousands of miles of fertile fields are all turned into scorched earth.

It can be imagined that at that time, countless people who lost their land would be forced to flee from their homes. Those who lost their land would either starve to death or become wandering refugees.

The administrator Frey, who has been working for so many days, knows very well what the red spine collar is missing.

With Roger, the lord who spent money like earth, the Red Ridge Collar is not short of money. With the vast land to be developed as the Red Ridge Mountains, the Red Ridge Collar is not short of space for expansion. What they lack is people.

How to reclaim land without enough manpower, how to build towns without enough manpower, how to occupy more land without towns without it?

With enough manpower, only enough manpower can we establish a virtuous cycle for the development of the red spine collar.

"The master means to use the refugee wave caused by the war to absorb enough people for the territory? If so, the territory is hoarded too little." Frey paused and then carefully advised Roger, "The territory should absorb additional refugees. Should the current enrollment selection system be expanded? The subordinate's suggestion is to divide the people who have not become enrollment people and give different treatments according to their contributions to the territory. We must not let newcomers treat the same treatment as those who have made a lot of efforts to the territory."

"You are starting to have your own governance ideas, good, very good." Roger's words of praise made Frey feel relieved. He nodded with satisfaction, "Then you can get me a charter as soon as possible so that I can see your abilities, Frey."
Chapter completed!