Heart of Empire Chapter 459: Back
After losing the wasteland pass, Waterman's idea of fighting Dane in the desert has become unrealistic.
At this moment, the Earl, who was nearly seventy years old, but still full of energy and as strong as a real bull, was jumping and cursing in his marching tent, wearing a heavy knight plate armor.
"Idiot! Trash! Garbage! I spent so much money to build the fortress back then. In the hands of that scum, I can't even hold on for a day! It's fine to die by yourself. Such a good situation, all His mother was ruined! I should have known that he was an incompetent guy, and I should have chopped him up and fed him to the dogs!"
The person he scolded was naturally his illegitimate half-brother.
No wonder he is so angry, the current situation is really too bad. It is unreliable to go forward to fight, but to go back in such a disheartened way? That's even more impossible!
Organizing such a massive army without fighting a single battle, and being frightened away by others, the reputation of Earl Waterman and the entire Bull family in the Duchy of Florence may be ruined. Became a laughing stock.
Wortman didn't want to advance rashly, fight an uncertain battle, and lose his precious army. I don't want to just go back like this and tell others a joke.
Just when he was facing a dilemma, it was his 'enemy' Dane who brought him 'warmth'.
It was a team of peace envoys who brought Dane's goodwill, brought peace, and brought Waterman a step so that he could slip down.
With Earl Bull's temper, if he hadn't had no choice, he would not have considered peace talks. Especially when he saw Dane's conditions, he was so angry that he almost threw the messenger out.
The most important conditions given by Dane are as follows:
One is to require Waterman to represent the Duchy of Florence, to recognize the division of regions between Florence and the province of Schindler in the era of the Second Caesar Empire, and to promise not to do so in any way Interference in the political, economic and military activities of the Schindler region.
Second, Wortman must stop all unfair treatment of Schindler merchants. This unfair treatment includes taxation, including restrictions on access rights, in order to maintain the normal development of commercial trade between the two places.
Third, the Duchy of Florence is the largest country in Schindler's onshore commercial activities. The two parties have a very strong tradition of commercial trade. They should be good business partners with each other and should uphold the principle of mutual benefit. , to discuss a set of cooperation treaties that can better stimulate the business prosperity of both parties.
Leaving aside the third article, the first two seem to have no offensive tone, but judging from the content, this is tantamount to telling Wortman that all your interests in Schindler are over, sir Go back honestly.
How can this make him angry?
He even shouted that he would lead the army to continue eastward, and he would not stop until Dane's head was chopped off.
However, in the end, the angry Earl Bull was stopped by his staff, retainers, and other nobles in the coalition army who followed him.
In this war, they no longer take the initiative, and there is no good fruit to eat if they continue to fight. What's more, when the front-line battle reports came, these arrogant nobles in Florence were shocked to find that the "Hindlers of Schindler", who were not considered by them at all, actually had such strong strength.
Up to now, the nobles of Florence still haven't figured out why the gate of the wasteland pass was opened so inexplicably, and they don't know how powerful Dane's intelligence and spy teams are. However, just Dane's powerful artillery formation and the vanguard unit led by Caroline, the performance of these two troops in a battle to capture the city gate is enough to be called elite.
At least, most of the Florentine nobles did not feel that their legions could possess such combat effectiveness.
This alone has already made the Florentines a little scared, but this is not what scares them the most. What really terrified them was the rumor that the team used any door spells to attack the city wall with teleportation tactics.
It is an elite knight group with a scale of 100 people and an average strength of more than ten professional levels! Even the most famous elite regiment in the Duchy of Florence - the Knights of the Duke's Guard, it is impossible to have such a strong strength, right?
There are 300 official knights in the Duke's Guard, which are outstanding in strength. This is the biggest reliance on the Grand Duke of Florence's position as the head of state.
No one could have imagined that in the wild land that Schindler had imagined, there could be an army even stronger on average than the Duke's Guard.
This is a really scary situation.
The nobles of Florence were frightened. They followed the Earl of the Bull to this desert to reap some benefits. They didn't want to fight a tough battle and lose their money here.
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Wortman's army stayed two days west of Badlands Pass for three days without moving an inch. To the west, Earl Bull's subordinates disagreed, and he himself was somewhat trembling. Go back, without that face.
But in the end, face or death, Waterman still made the right choice with the help of his subordinates.
He did not accept Dane's conditions, but he did not dare to continue approaching the barren land pass, and retreated on his own.
After learning the news, Dane felt that things did not exceed his expectations. He never thought that Wortman would accept his own conditions so easily. If he wanted to reach a more reliable trade agreement with the Florentines, it would require strength and long-term negotiations to determine.
As long as there is no fight with Waterman, Dane will be satisfied.
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In the following three months, the land trade between Schindler and Florence almost fell to freezing point. The Earl of the Bull retaliated by preventing a large number of caravan trade from the land borders of the two sides, imposed heavy taxes on Schindler's merchants, and even directly refused entry, and several caravans were directly seized.
Dyne also retaliated. As you treat Schindler's merchants badly, I will treat Florentines badly.
The stagnation of trade has resulted in the loss of a lot of economic benefits. However, Dane believes that all this is only temporary, and in the end, Waterman will succumb.
The reason is simple. For Dane, land trade is only a part of his income, and sea transportation is the real big one. However, Earl Bull's territory depends on land trade for food.
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