In the secret courtyard outside the palace, Kohler is reporting to Marin—
"In the name of suppressing bandits, the coalition forces of the Seven Kingdoms chased 2,000 people who looked like horse bandits, and marched northwest from the northern part of Ravensburg and Liperbo. At present, they have entered the territory of Northmunster."
"In North Munster Province, the army captured a fertilizer processing site and obtained a large number of volcanic ash. Then, the people we arranged in the fertilizer processing site insisted that it was the core of the fertilizer..."
"But our fertilizer is made of three parts, how do you explain this to those people?" asked Marin.
"I asked our people to answer this question - the other two ingredients are to cover up the purpose, and what really works is the volcanic ash imported from Italy." Kohler replied.
"Very good, very classic answer. So, what if they send someone to Italy to investigate? Have we arranged a cover in Italy?" Marin asked casually after taking a sip of honey milk tea. As a modern person, Marin knew that drinking too much sugar in milk tea would cause wealth and prosperity. Therefore, although he planned to sell sugar, he never drank sugar-sugar-sugar-sugar-sugar-sugar-sugar-substituted milk tea instead. Moreover, honey is cheaper than sugar now.
Of course, in later China, it is difficult for you to buy authentic honey. Even more than half of the honey sold in supermarkets are made of malt sugar, especially some small brands. Many diabetics think that it’s okay to buy honey, but if you buy this fake honey, you will be done after eating it...
Even in the later generations, let alone honey, the ingredients of milk tea are mainly chemically synthesized creamer and saccharin. It is considered conscience to have sucrose. As for coconut fruit, it is also synthesized, not real coconut meat. In short, the master who mixes milk tea is a bit like an alchemist. He uses a complete set of chemical products to feed you, for fear that you will die too late...
Just when Marin's thoughts were offside, Kohler's reply pulled back his divergent thinking:
"It's a coincidence that the lord (Marin thought about it, but still thought the title of lord in the Three Kingdoms is more suitable, so he asked Kohler and the others to shout it like this). Didn't you get cement before?"
"Yes, what's wrong with cement? It doesn't seem to attract foreign attention, right?" Marin said strangely.
Kohler was speechless - could it attract foreign attention? What kind of Ming Dynasty did you learn from the strict household registration system and road guidance system? No one else could enter, so could you see cement roads?
Even when the foreign envoy walked Emden to Olichi's cement road, Marin poured a lot of paint on the road, making it look like a camouflage uniform. Moreover, the old boy Leonardo da Vinci had a sudden idea to design artificially painted "cracks" for the cement road. It looked like the road paved by stones, and the cracks were like cracks... The passing foreign envoy thought that the road paved by stones at this time was just a skill...
After a pause, Kohler replied:
"That's right. Didn't you say that cement is made of volcanic ash before to cover the cement? You also specifically claimed that it was the technology of the Roman Empire?"
Marin nodded:
"Yes, that's how I announced it. But later, Ada came up with a way to manually draw the 'stone cracks', which concealed the cement road, and the outside world no longer cared about cement."
Kohler continued:
"It's true, but in order to cover the cement, we ordered people to buy several volcanoes and surrounding areas in the Kingdom of Naples and Sicily to mine volcanic ash and make a look. Do you remember this?"
Marin thought about it...it seemed...this was happening...so he nodded...
In fact, the volcanic ash near the volcanoes that Marin sent people to buy were not fertile. If the ash there were very fat, the local government would not sell them, but instead used them for farming. After all, the food price is so high now.
But the problem is that Marin didn't expect the ash from those volcanoes to be used as fertilizer at the beginning, but just bought it to cover the cement. Later, it simply stayed there. At present, there was only one volcano that was still digging soil and loading it out of Italy...
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Seeing Marin recalling, Kohler continued to report:
"My intelligence personnel said that after occupying a fertilizer field near the city of Ferhita, North Munster, the coalition forces stopped moving for the time being, as if they were waiting for something."
"At the same time, the coalition forces seemed to have sent a large number of spies to the south, probably to Italy to inquire about the news..."
"Hey, it's so cautious!" Marin exclaimed. Needless to say, it must be the work of Charlie, Earl of Gelden.
"Then how should we deal with it?" Kohler asked.
"We have a hotel station system, which can change horses all the way south, faster than them... In this way, you can quickly send people to the volcanic areas and order people to start up several idle volcanoes, restore digging and loading ships, and show them to the people they send..."
"But time is a little tight, I'm afraid that our people have not arranged it yet, their spies will arrive..."
"Then we will send people to stop them halfway. Of course, it is not to intercept them, but to create obstacles and delay their speed of travel. We also have many intelligence personnel in Italy. As long as we move quickly, we can still hold them back for a long time, leaving us with enough time..."
"Okay, I'll make arrangements later. In addition, it seems that the Seven-Nation Alliance has sent a large number of scouts to the northeast, as if observing the movements of the Second Legion and the Third Legion. It seems that they are very worried about these two Legions..." Kohler said.
Can you rest assured? In fact, Charlie, Earl of Gelden, is still a little scared, afraid that the Second Legion and the Third Legion will suddenly reconcile with Orich. Once this happens, the Second Legion and the Third Legion will go south to "respect for the king", and then more than half of them are the 40,000 coalition forces recruited by soldiers are not opponents at all. After all, that is a 30,000 regular army!
Therefore, Charlie, Earl of Gelden, is that we will stop near the city of Frechtta in the eastern part of the Northummit region and observe for a while. If the Second Legion of the North Sea Kingdom and the Third Legion and Orich reconcile, they will immediately admit defeat and withdraw from the Northummit region and then wait for the coalition forces of the princes to join. Anyway, they have obtained the agricultural secrets now, and it is not in vain. As long as the spies sent to Italy send back the good news, they can apply it.
If the Second and Third Legion did not reconcile with Orich, then they could enter boldly and take the opportunity to divide the North Sea Kingdom.
Several other princes also agreed with Count Charles's safe method. For this reason, the seven-nation coalition only occupied the villages and towns around the city of Fochta and did not attack the city of Fochta. In this way, even if the two legions of the North Sea Kingdom reconciled with Orich, they still had room for improvement.
Because if you don’t attack the city, it can indeed be explained as “suppressing bandits by”. If you attack the city, you will not be able to defend yourself.
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After thinking for a while, Malin also guessed the worries of these princes. So he came up with a countermeasure:
"Korle, go and send someone to inform Wagner and Steindorf and let them fight..."
"Fight? What does it mean? Pretend to fight?" Kohler asked.
"Yes, the Seven-Nation Alliance is very afraid of the Second and Third Legions, and is worried that they will join forces with Orich. Therefore, they don't even dare to attack the city now."
"But if the Second Legion and the Third Legion fought for 'fight for territory', then they would have no worries." Marin explained.
"But it's not right. Lord, aren't the Second Legion and the Third Legion going to join forces to fight against Orich? Against the backdrop of Orich's eye, the fight between the two legions is seeking death..." Kohler said in confusion.
"So, I can ask Steindorf to send a secret envoy to contact the coalition forces of the Seven Kingdoms and ask them to make a big noise so that they can have internal conflicts with the Third Legion and the Second Legion can gain a safe external environment!"
"Yes, if the Seven-Nation Alliance makes a big fuss in the south, then the First Legion of Orich will have no time to care about the affairs in the east... This explanation is reasonable... But what conditions did Steindorf offer to get several princes to agree? After all, it would cost a lot to ask someone to send troops... Could it be that the Steindorf Legion commander pay?" Kohler asked.
Marin smiled:
“Isn’t it ready?”
"Original? What?"
“'Fertilizer Technology'…”
Kohler was stunned, and then suddenly realized:
"You mean, continue to use fake volcanic ash fertilizer technology as bargaining chips to fool the seven princes? But those princes have already obtained this technology..."
Marin waved his hand:
"So what? Let Steindorf pretend not to know! Moreover, this fertilizer technology is quite precious. Steindorf uses this technology to exchange it and can express sincerity. Moreover, the Seven-Nation Alliance does not need real benefits at all. What they need more is that the Second Legion and the Third Legion remain neutral. Therefore, it is very appropriate to let Steindorf use this fake fertilizer technology to express sincerity. You must know that if you use appropriate volcanic ash, the yield per mu of rye can also be 200 pounds..."
Kohler thought for a while, then smiled and slapped his horse with a slanderous look:
"Gao, really high!" That look like a flattering puppet army commander...
After kicking it lightly, Malin said angrily:
"Go and arrange it quickly! Also, we deliberately asked the envoys sent by Steindorf to tell us the specific locations of several volcanoes we bought in Italy, and waited for the secret spies from the seven countries to go and inquire. We have bought those volcanoes for several years and have also developed them, which is very convincing. Your people have not mentioned the specific locations of the volcanoes before, right?"
Kohler shook his head. The person he arranged was just a small person in charge of the fertilizer processing site. At most, he was responsible for the fertilizer mixing. He should not know so detailed. If he said it too detailed, it would be suspicious. Therefore, they only said that they bought ash from Italy, but did not mention the specific location.
Steindorf is different. He is a senior general of the Beihai Kingdom and has also been to Italy. He knows that the specific location of the volcano is very reasonable, and it seems that he is sincere in sending it to the location of the volcano.
"Then let Steindorf send someone to contact and discuss secretly with the seven princes, and then deliberately expose the location of the volcano!"
"Yes, I'll make arrangements now!"
Chapter completed!