Chapter 316

That's naturally because Rand is actually quite powerful in the royal city.

Rand was able to borrow nearly all of the forces of the Black Brown Marquis family in the royal city and some of the Bucks Earls.

Moreover, Rand also has Crow Coke, Elsa, Olena, and the personal guards with terrifying numbers and elite levels.

It is just that the private connection between the nobles of the royal city is still inevitable.

Just try to maintain the stability of the royal city.

Then there is only one other thing.

Ensure the interests of the third prince.

Rand and Grand Duke Thorns were not the previous king himself after all.

If you want to support the eldest prince to take office, you must ensure that the third prince and the forces that support him will not be suppressed too ruthlessly.

The previous king who is now dead can slowly weaken another faction after making his heir choice.

But Rand and Thorns are not good.

For example, if you support the eldest prince and forcefully suppress another faction, even if the nobles of another faction cannot defeat it, they are likely to rebel.

Just like Rand.

If the Frost Moon Kingdom suppresses Lander, Lander can completely surrender to the Kingdom of Renza.

In fact, it is not a bad idea to defect to the Kingdom of Poron, even if Rand killed Prince Alex.

If we make a cruel decision to suppress it now, some other nobles in the Frost Moon Kingdom who support the Third Prince may also rebel to other countries.

The North has signed a covenant with the countries and is not allowed to attack each other.

However, the changes in territorial caused by the rebellion of the nobles are not included.

Moreover, this does not allow attacks on each other, but only means that the war cannot be launched in full swing.

When orcs were still being crushed outside the northern defense line, the pirates of the Ice Sea Kingdom sometimes harassed the United coastal countries of the North.

Unfortunately, the Ice Sea Kingdom has not yet recovered their royal city.

With Olena's help, Rand dressed up.

Elsa and Olena are not as capable of tolerance for shame as Ellie.

When Rand and Olena were close, Elsa rarely stayed aside, and even in the room, she could hardly watch it.

When Rand and Elsa are close, Olena is often the same.

So today Elsa is patrolling outside the house.

Only after Rand got dressed and went out did Elsa follow Rand with Olena.

At first, when Rand was still commanding the infantry corps under the Black Brown Marquis, Rand even needed his beauty subordinates to put on makeup to make it ugly to avoid trouble.

But now, when Land was walking in the royal city, no one dared to look up at the two beauties following Land.

Rand did not need to disarm the weapons or anything else when he entered the palace.

In the palace, Grand Duke Thorn has arrived long ago.

After Rand entered the palace and stood at a later place, Grand Duke Thorn said, "I mean the same thing as Earl Rand."

Rand nodded as well and said, "We hope you should be more tolerant to the third prince and those who support him."

In fact, Rand and the Grand Duke of Thorns are a bit offensive.

It is equivalent to threatening and saying: If you don’t agree, we will not support you. If we don’t support you, you will not be able to get the throne.

There is no intention of a monarch and minister.

But the eldest prince was not frustrated by this, which was really not something that Grand Duke Thorns and Rand would give priority to it now.

Stabilization is now overwhelming.

When the fight begins, the vitality that the Frost Moon Kingdom has recovered after the continuous development of the past five years may be regressed.

Rand is actually not willing to regress in the domestic economy of Frost Moon Kingdom.

That's all money!

If they fight, the nobles will use their money to buy weapons and armor.

But if you don’t make a call, maybe you’ll come to the resort to spend money?

Or sell Rand a little slave?

Each of the nobles leaked some wealth from their fingers and gathered together, which was quite important to Rand.

As for Grand Duke Thorns, as long as there is no civil war, the Thorns family will always be the only grand duke family in the Frost Moon Kingdom. At most, one extra Moon Duke will be available in the future, and nothing else will be left.

But if you fight a civil war, there will be risks.

So even if we ignore the mood of the eldest prince, Rand and the Grand Duke of Thorns still "forced the palace" of the eldest prince here.

Although Rand and Grand Duke Thorns essentially need to do, they still support the eldest prince to the throne.

"Earl Rand, Grand Duke Thorn, I know the opinions of the two lords." The eldest prince looked gentle, and seemed to agree with the opinions of Rand and Grand Duke Thorn.

Rand and the Grand Duke of Thorns were a little worried, but they had already done everything they could.

The next step is to let the messenger tell the third prince that he should calm his mind. Although this may also offend the third prince, Rand and the Grand Duke of Thorns must notify the third prince of the current situation and promise to guarantee his interests.

Grand Duke Thorn and Rand are indeed a bit uninhabited inside and outside.

On the shoulders of Grand Duke Thorns and Rand, there is nothing to do if you suffer a little resentment in the entire Frost Moon Kingdom.

Although it is the eldest prince and the third prince who are angry.

Rand and the Grand Duke of Thorns walked on the streets of the royal city.

Rand held a skewer of barbecue in his hand and sprinkled some seasonings on it, and after he distributed some of Olena and Elsa, Rand dragged the last few pieces of meat from the skewers into his mouth.

Grand Duke Thorns had known Rand for a long time, and he was not surprised that he had brought two beauties to guard, because Grand Duke Thorns also brought two beauties to guard.

Originally, Grand Duke Jingthorn was planning to make some jokes, but when he said that, he felt it was a bit boring.

Things have now been initially stable.

His tense nerves also relaxed slightly.

This made Grand Duke Thorn feel very bad.

He and the king were childhood friends.

But now, his friend has been killed by his son.

This made Grand Duke Thorn a little confused about how to vent his anger.

Will kill the second prince? This is too unfavorable to the development of the Thorn Family.

Rand didn't know that Grand Duke Thorn's expression suddenly became a little depressed. He had been thinking about the reasons for the current situation.

At present, Grand Duke Thorns definitely has no intention of sitting on the throne of the Frost Moon Kingdom. Now Rand is willing to initially trust Grand Duke Thorns.

However, the information obtained by Grand Duke Thorns from the Second Prince was obtained from investigation, not from interrogation.

Rand wants to interrogate the second prince and try it.

"If I want to interrogate the second prince, is there any way?" Rand asked Grand Duke Thorns.

Thorns said calmly: "At this time, I personally recommend not to create troubles. If you insist on doing it, I suggest you secretly knocking on the stick. I can lend you some good hands."

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The Burning Land, adventurers set foot in dangerous areas.

It's really going to burn here.

They purchased some fire-resistant materials from the Torch Church in the resort villa and created special fire-resistant equipment.

And requested a one-time fire resistance blessing.

The old bishop who had been in that church that day was not here, and the one who blessed them was a blind nun who was suspected to be a detective in the resort villa.

At first they were worried that the blind nun who looked a bit like a temporary part-time job, who was very young and was not very reliable except for being very beautiful and useless.

But now it seems OK.

They just felt a little hot when they ventured in this place where flames would come out from time to time.

But the main danger here is not the flames, but the bugs and beasts here.

The poisonous insects, high-temperature-resistant monsters and monsters here are very threatening.

Coupled with the porous rock landform, it makes it difficult to take risks.

Fortunately, the profits here are really good.

After killing the monster, you can drag it back and sell it for a good price, and if you are lucky, you can find the open-air dragon blood stone.

as well as……

"What is this?" An adventurer raised a dark and soft mineral through the high-temperature gloves.

It looks a bit like charcoal and has a texture like a block of soil, but it is harder than common blocks of soil.

From the back, an adventurer dressed in a scholar came over, took the soft mineral, pinched it, and said, "As expected, this is coal."

The adventurers who discovered this mineral were somewhat disappointed.

The adventurer dressed in scholars was a little excited: "If the output is large, Lord Rand will definitely reward us."

If the output is large, Rand will indeed reward them.

In this era, coal is somewhat inferior to charcoal.

Because it is a bit troublesome to deal with sulfur in coal in this era.

If you want to make steel with coal, you need to distillate it to make coke before you can use it.

Charcoal doesn't have this problem.

However, if the quantity is large, it will be different.

Chapter 393 "Do you think I look like Ellie?" (Fighting Cat Essential Edition (probably))

Upper den.

The upper dens and resorts in winter are covered with snow coats.

Nowadays, at least at the upper dens and resorts, everyone can go out at will in winter.

The church members and staff who are active in the upper den, as well as various staff members or civilians in the resort villa, have enough clothes to keep warm.

Probably not very new, but at least keep warm.

Whether it is a velvet coat or leather boots, it can slow down the heat loss of their wearers in the cold winter and snowy seasons.

This is also one of the ways Rand can increase productivity.

In the north, civilians often have to hide in their houses if they want to spend the winter.

It is difficult for them to get clothes that can withstand the cold.

Then naturally, I can't work in winter.

But at resort villas and upper dens, they gained the right to work in the winter!

Instead of just staying at home and resting!

And this winter, there is indeed a lot of work to be done.

Before Rand left the resort, he issued a major instruction to the Earl of Moon Phase.

Vigorously produce crossbows.

Now that the population of the Earl of Moon Phase is increasing year by year, Rand can start to continue to expand his army.

The domestic political atmosphere in the Frost Moon Kingdom is very tense, and Rand also needs enough military strength to maintain his voice and influence.

Due to the technical experience accumulated in order to make longbows, the crossbow technology in the den is also improving.

After that, you can form the long bowman troops and the hard crossbow troops separately.