Feudal society was a world where status was important, and Lorne's guarantee made the girl's face full of excitement.
As a priest of the Holy Light Religion, the only person she could call a friend was Reese, who often came to heal her injuries.
Lorne was also her first male friend.
But how could a priest girl who longed for friendship understand the complex relationship between men and women?
Under Lorne's deliberate efforts to please and her past impressions, Elsa only felt that Lorne was her good friend.
The two discussed the descending process in the tone of friends.
As the sky was about to get dark, they agreed that the girl would come over tomorrow to help build the ceremony stage.
Lorne left the church and returned to the Lord's Hall.
At this time, Grant had completed his mission and did not need to deliberately cause trouble for the Adams and his son.
Their accounts were not so clean to begin with.
Under Celine's persuasion, Lorne did not execute the father and son who had hacked his gold coins.
But the two father and son who had their house confiscated and emptied of all their belongings by Grant were no different from death.
Lorne didn't know their expressions at that time, but through Grant's description, the Baron regretted not going to the show with him. .
But he didn't go to see it.
Many nobles who still stayed in the Fast Territory didn't miss this rare event.
Seeing the boxes of finances being loaded onto the carriage belonging to the lord, and seeing that Lorne kept his word, most people put away their restless thoughts.
Only those who were completely eliminated, such as Hunter or the Adamses, still dreamed of relying on the Charles family to deal with Lorne.
But the news was lagging behind, and at this time, the Charles family had not received accurate information.
The team led by Byron did not rush into the Fast Territory, and Lorne and Celine still had a safe period of time to develop.
But lying on the bed, hugging the woman next to me.
Listening to Celine describing their property, Lorne's frown could not be relieved.
I thought that after confiscating the homes of Bude, Milu and Adams, his financial situation would be more than sufficient.
The fact is just the opposite.
Bude and Milu are knights, and most of their property consists of weapons and war horses.
Only the Adams and his son contributed a lot of gold coins to Lorne, but compared to his expenses, those gold coins were of little use at all.
According to Celine's conservative estimate, the cost of this military conscription alone would be very serious.
The expenses mentioned here do not include the settlement expenses of the soldiers and the like, but the equipment to arm them.
Whether it's the family warriors on the bright side or Lorne's main team of cyborgs.
The minimum number of recruits this time will be more than a hundred each, and the weapons and equipment they have on hand are obviously not enough to arm a team of more than 200 people.
Putting aside the family warriors who need time to train, even the cyborgs who supplied all the equipment to Lorne would not be able to equip each person with a set of armor.
Without armor, their mortality rate would be very high under the cyborg's desperate play style.
Moreover, the wear and tear of weapons will be very serious, so they need to take precautions to avoid problems with their logistics.
The Fast Territory has not produced weapons for a long time, and buying complete sets of equipment from outside is definitely not a cheap price.
"Three thousand gold coins" Lorne almost jumped out of bed after receiving Celine's preliminary quotation.
The price of a piece of equipment accounts for almost half of his annual income, so why should he do other things?
The only thing that comforted him was that the reformers did not have to pay wages, otherwise he would not be able to maintain the armed forces in the territory.
"Three thousand is not a lot.
If we arm all the puppets according to your request, we will spend at least ten gold coins on each one.
Three thousand is only the size of three hundred people.
I have estimated that based on our current situation.
A puppet army of three hundred people is already the bottom line, otherwise it will be difficult for us to face the difficulties in the future. " Of course Lorne would like his team to be as powerful as possible, but the key is that he doesn't have so many gold coins.
Originally, he had placed his hope in the treasury of the Fast Territory, but Celine told him that most of the gold coins had been used by her to make connections.
As for what the so-called matchmaking was about, Lorne didn't ask any more questions.
They must have all been used to compete with him for the title.
Now that the two have reconciled, all the gold coins have been wasted.
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Celine also knew that the current financial difficulties had something to do with her, so the woman came up with an idea: "Don't you know someone from the Gerald family?
Their family is rich in iron ore.
Maybe we can buy some cheap equipment from them.
Or ore or something like that.”
Celine was talking about that little fat guy Doug, but even if it was cheap, how much cheaper could it be.
Besides, Doug is just a knight, and the little fat man is an heir who is not liked by his father.
Lorne rejected Celine's proposal and asked her another question: "Their territory is rich in iron ore.
As for our Fast Territory, I think the scale of the blacksmith shop is not small.
Our territory should also have ore and the like. " “The original Fast Territory did have a medium-sized iron mine, but your family had already lost it during the previous generation of Baron Fast.
Now that the iron mine is in the hands of the Tuke family, I don't recommend taking the initiative to cause friction with other families before we have strong strength
.
"
Women are women after all, and Celine wants to develop conservatively and then strike hard.
But Lorne didn't like to wait like this.
Since people could snatch it from him, why couldn't they snatch it back.
With the ability of a meat ball, if you can win, it will not be the income of an iron mine.
Lorne's coveted expression was seen in Celine's eyes, and the woman had to remind him: "Although the Tuke family is only a baron family, he and the State family are related to each other by marriage and are both around our territory.
If we are not careful, we can easily be attacked by them all at the same time. " The State family is also a baron family, and there are no big lords near the Fast Territory.
It is normal for the Took family and the State family to support each other after getting married.
The old Baron Fast married Celine because he was really suppressed and had no other choice.
He also thought that Celine would give him a son, and that the Fast Territory still belonged to the Fast family.
It's a pity that the stubborn Celine would rather harm herself than let Old Fast keep the seed, and in the end she could only take advantage of Lorne.
His mind wandered slightly, but Lorne still decided to take the initiative despite being aware of the surrounding situation.
After walking around for a while, everyone respectfully called her the Queen.
He really felt that he was a big shot, and a big shot obviously couldn't be timid.
The most important thing is that he doesn't want to waste gold coins at all, so he can just rob others for fun.
What's more, the iron mine originally belonged to the Fast family: