Chapter 655 Heading South to Black Snake Bay
The ice and snow froze the window grilles on the glass, and the heat from the brass pipes formed a hazy mist on the glass.
Since the recruit camp is on holiday, Jeanne has nothing to do these days and has been hanging out in the Stag Room of Horn in the Holy See Building.
She sat by the window lattice, licking her fingers and flipping through the new Witcher novel.
This new type of witcher novel from the Holy Armament Chamber is different from the previous ones. It uses vernacular and slang throughout the novel, and compared to the content of hunting witches in the past, it is more focused on adventure and excavation of ancient ruins.
But from time to time, she would hold back a duck-like quacking laugh from her throat, which made Horn, who was immersed in the official document, refreshed and his eyes darkened.
"From what Lulesi said, I originally had to wait until around the New Year's Day to pass, but I didn't expect it to be passed now." Looking at the schedule in his hand, Horn crossed out two items with a pen, "I thought it was red leaves. Qiu wanted to take action, but unexpectedly it was Lilac Corridor who took action.”
"After all, Hongye Mound is too close to us, so they have some concerns." Pelletier smiled and showed Horn the second schedule.
This schedule is the timetable for Horn's southern tour next month.
This time Horn went to Black Snake Bay with a total of two goals. The first was to persuade most of the secret parties to unite, and the second was to hope that the entire Black Snake Bay would join the Sacred Axis.
Theoretically speaking, Black Snake Bay is a huge treasure. A large amount of alchemy technology that has lasted for thousands of years has been forced to fall into dust due to the suppression of the empire.
A single orichalcum gave Horn the weapon foundation to defeat Prince Condai and the Imperial Company.
Even without such an advanced structure and organization, it is still feasible for Black Snake Bay to expel most of the demon hunters and knights through local operations, not to mention defeating Prince Condai.
However, in the current Black Snake Bay, there is still a large amount of land occupied by the church and the demon hunter organization, like a dense net pressing on the heads of the Black Snake Bay secret party.
The biggest reason why they are currently on defense or even struggling is because of their disorganized organization.
Horn believes that there are two reasons for this scene:
The first is that many of the Black Snake Bay secret parties are formed by fugitives, bandits, savage tribes and secret organizations. They are born with anarchist tendencies.
The second is that the church's settlement at regular intervals will cause a major reshuffle of forces in Black Snake Bay, making it impossible to develop in one place for a long time and forming a scattered living habit.
However, this decentralized state is obviously not in line with the times. What Horn has to do is to merge the large and small secret parties and eventually form a Black Snake Bay national entity.
Otherwise, Black Snake Bay will not only not be a help, but also a burden.
Given the current situation of internal and external troubles in Black Snake Bay, both Horn and the Council of Cardinals felt that this was a good opportunity.
After completing the first goal, Horn's second goal is to have Black Snake Bay join the Holy Axis Monarchy.
The current Holy Axis is a federal organization established mainly by the Holy Father Worshipers to fight against the church. Its main purpose is to defend against the invasion of the church.
But this federal organization currently only has one member country, and that is the Holy Monarchy of Thousand River Valley.
Horn has two identities. He is both the Patriarch of the Thousand River Valley and the Pope of the Sacred Axis.
Of course he hopes that Black Snake Bay and Qianhe River Valley will form a stable and close alliance, and he can even turn them into a sacred axis through customs alliance and military assistance
As the Pope of the Holy Axis, Horn has always felt that vassalage is an advanced form of alliance.
In addition, through the customs union policy of the Sacred Axis, the tentacles of the Horn forces can reach the Green Dragon Forest Sea and the outlet of the Ibe River.
After breaking through the Green Dragon Forest Sea and the Lilac Corridor, Horn's merchant ship can sail all the way down the river to the newly cultivated land.
They even bypassed the Nauan River route and went directly to sea for trade.
By integrating the Black Snake Bay, Horn's Sacred Axis can further expand in size and strength, thus solidifying its defenses against the Church.
At the same time, through the banner of the Sacred Axis, Horn was able to gain ground every day and expand his power bit by bit from the Customs Union.
In other words, Horn could annex Black Snake Bay in a relatively peaceful way, and his southern tour was to convince these groups face to face.
The only problem is that the prerequisite for joining the Holy Axis is to recognize Horn as pope.
"Brother Horn, are you sure you can convince them?" Jeanna, who was the guard chief of Horn's southern tour, raised her head and couldn't help but ask, "Can these Black Snake Bay people really listen to you?" "No. Sure, but as long as we play our cards right, I’m 70% sure it will work.”
"Why only 70%?"
"Seventy percent is enough. If the Clove Corridor hadn't launched a crackdown on sugar and spices in advance, it would probably not even be 70%."
After accepting the invitation from the Witch Council, the lobby group of the Joan Party and the Megdi Chamber of Commerce entered the Black Snake Bay in advance before Horn went there.
But Horn relied on more than just lobbying groups. His real trump cards were "sugar and grain trade" and "military aid."
The sugar and grain trade solves the poverty and hunger inside Black Snake Bay, while military aid can solve the military threats outside Black Snake Bay.
If the Black Snake Bay secret party can see the current situation clearly and want to get rid of this endless cycle, they must turn to Horn.
When she heard about military matters, Jeanne suddenly became energetic: "Then when will we send out troops to attack the church and those hypocritical temple knights?"
"Take your time, just play with them." With a chuckle, Horn lowered his head and glanced at the schedule, "We can assist a group of officers and soldiers to Black Snake Bay and participate in the war as private mercenaries."
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Judging from the current attitude shown by the Witch Council, they still have not been able to correct their mentality.
In the past, Horn and the others needed Black Snake Bay's assistance because they consumed a lot of power in the Civil War in the Thousand River Valley. This does not mean that Horn's power is weaker than that of Black Snake Bay.
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But Black Snake Bay still regards Horn as a younger brother who has succeeded with his support, rather than as an equal.
That's why he asked Black Snake Bay to take a look at the coffin first and shed tears before taking action.
Thinking of this, Horn turned his head and asked Pettier on the side: "How is the construction status of the Ibe River Terminal?"
"Four simple docks have been built. Although they are not yet completed, they are open to navigation." Pettier paused, "Of these four docks, three have been contracted by the Ibe Foundation, and their construction speed is very fast. ”
The so-called Kush Foundation is an organization established by Alcor's grandmother Vivian.
When he heard about this foundation for the first time, Horn couldn't help but marvel at the unity of the Ibe Knights.
The essence of this Kush foundation is that the Kush knights in North County and Ibe Plain have the money and strength to pool their resources together to contract Horn's infrastructure projects.
A large number of Kush knights transformed into contractors, leading their families, young and old, to build roads and bridges in their own estates.
These Kush knights not only lead others to do the work, but sometimes roll up their sleeves and do it themselves. With the endurance and strength of their extraordinary knights, the efficiency is astonishingly high.
The most important thing is that since the old grandmother is a private fundraiser, it needs to be guaranteed.
In order to ensure that she could take on more projects, the old grandmother guaranteed a large amount of land ownership in the manor.
In order to maximize profits by opening more projects, a large amount of cash flow raised was invested in construction.
In other words, the Kush Knights will not be able to see their money back for a long time, and may even have to work in vain and repay money.
However, the Kush knights were still able to work hard, and Horn had to admire the old grandmother's methods and the family tradition of the knights' unity and sacrifice.
After all, if there was no unity and no sacrifice of distrust, they would have been assimilated and eliminated in the strife of the church.
The Kush Foundation is one of the few things that makes Horn feel entangled, because on the one hand it can speed up infrastructure construction and concentrate resources to do big things, but on the other hand it can easily cause local problems in the Ibe region.
The most classic example is that several simple small towns have been formed beside the docks of the Ibe River that have been built so far.
Almost 90% of this small town is composed of Kush knights and their peasant relatives.
After thinking for a long time, Horn waved his quill and added something to the itinerary.
"Before going to Black Snake Bay this time, let's meet with the old grandmother first."
(End of chapter)