Chapter 32 Compensation Must Be
Today, he defeated the Graystone Fort Legion and successfully captured Baron Sabi and some of his men. This made Sean feel very happy and unprecedented.
Rebirth in this world, forget about the time, it should be about half a month.
In the past half month, Sean has never felt so comfortable.
This caused him to have a big appetite, ate more dinner, and drank several glasses of wine in a row, which made Old John, who was serving next to him feel a little depressed.
I used to say that I didn’t like drinking, and said that I would drink hot water in the future, but now I have to drink alcohol again.
The changes are confusing.
After dinner, the Knight Chief Morris came with a list of prisoners.
Sean sat at the desk, looked carefully with the help of the candlelight, and frowned secretly.
In today's war, Baron Sabi, four heavy armored knights, nineteen light cavalry, thirty-eight guards, and twenty-three war horses... In addition, one silver heavy armored knight, ten light cavalry, and eleven war horses captured in the morning, were seventy-three and thirty-four war horses...
"All here?" Sean asked.
"They died in the battle, including a heavy armored knight," said Morris, facing Sean's questioning, and quickly replied: "They escaped some people, otherwise they would have captured more."
Sean asked again: "Are our men killed and injured?"
Morris shook his head and said, "Only five people were slightly injured and did not die. They were sent to the church in the afternoon. Please ask for treatment from the clergy."
Hearing this, Sean nodded with satisfaction, "Have the body of the Graystone Castle been dealt with?"
"Their government officials arrived in the afternoon and said they wanted to see you, but were driven away by us. When they left, they took the body back."
Speaking of this, Morrist paused and said, "As the Lord's order, we refuse to see anyone in the territory of the Graystone Fort before we sign a covenant of redemption with Baron Sabi."
"You guys did a good job!"
Sean praised him and then said, "Now they have been captured, let's discuss the ransom issue. Otherwise, these guys will stay here every day, need to be supervised and waste food, which is also a troublesome."
"What the Lord said makes sense!"
Morris lowered his head and thought for a moment, and soon calculated the result: "According to the Principality's Prisoner's Redemption Treaty, a baron's ransom is 100 gold coins, a heavy armored knight 20 gold coins, a light cavalry 5 gold coins, an ordinary guard is 2 gold coins, and a war horse is 10 gold coins. Total, the Greystone Fort needs to pay a ransom of 761 gold coins. As for other compensation such as the invasion of the territory, it seems that there is no such thing as the current compensation."
"At the same time, in accordance with the Treaty of Protection of the Principal Territory, when they agree to pay the ransom, we must return all their weapons and equipment and shall not be confiscated, otherwise the Lord of the Lord will be sued in the military court for trial."
"761 gold coins, this number is pretty good, but it's a pity that the five sets of heavy armor, otherwise we can take it for ourselves." Sean sighed secretly.
This is the case with wars between the lords of our country. The defeated party will be protected by some war treaties of the principality.
For example, the opponent's weapons and equipment shall not be confiscated.
Like the last time Sean was captured and paid the ransom, Baron Sabi also returned all the weapons and equipment in the Black Hawk territory.
But Sean was just jealous of the five heavy armor sets of Greystone Castle.
Thinking of this, he said with some regret: "It's a pity that Sabi is not the lord of the neighboring country. Otherwise, we wouldn't have to return their weapons and equipment."
After hearing this, Morris knew what he was thinking and couldn't help but smile: "Lord, heavy armor is different from light armor. Each set of heavy armor is tailored based on the body of the knight. Even if it is given to us, we can't use it. Besides, except for the real knight, ordinary people are difficult to walk on nearly a hundred kilograms of heavy armor, let alone take up weapons to fight. Therefore, although heavy armor is expensive, except for the usefulness of the knight himself, it is a pile of scrap iron in the eyes of others."
"I understand this, but they feel it's a bit cheaper."
Sean lowered his head and thought for a while, suddenly said, "By the way, how is he doing now that thief before?"
Morris said: "He is fine, but his mental state is a bit bad."
"Normal, no matter who is imprisoned in a dark dungeon, his mental state will become worse over time."
Having said this, Sean paused and instructed: "Don't imprison Baron Sabi on the same level as him. I don't want the fangs to be known by outsiders."
"He was still locked up alone at the bottom of the dungeon," Morris said respectfully: "Baron Sabi and four heavy armored knights, and nineteen light cavalry. I held them on the upper dungeon and squeezed them with Foggs and the others. The remaining thirty-eight guards and captured war horses were temporarily held on the training ground."
"That's good!"
Sean nodded and ordered, "You go down and see how Sabi and his friends are injured. If it is serious, you must ask clergy to treat it. If Sabi dies in the dungeon and the ransom is gone, we will still have great trouble."
"Yes, Lord Lord!"
After Morris saluted, he was about to turn around and leave.
When he had just walked to the door, Sean suddenly said, "Captain Morris, if you meet the Governor of Kukochi, please come and see me, thank you!"
"Okay, Lord Lord!"
Looking at Morris's back as he left, Sean stretched out his finger and slowly tapped the tabletop.
Although the ransom for 761 gold coins was too high, he still couldn't satisfy him.
What a joke, that guy Sabi has occupied the mine for so many years, but he knows how many gold coins he has earned from it.
Over the past decade, they had captured the Black Hawk Lord many times, and they probably received thousands of gold coins for the ransom.
Today I finally captured Baron Sabi once, and I wanted to let him go so easily, but there was no door!
According to the treaty of the Principality, the ransom of local prisoners of war is uniformly stipulated and clearly marked.
However, the lords of other losses caused by war invasion can ask for compensation from the defeated party after victory. How to compensate for the losses is generally resolved through negotiation.
Anyway, there are many messy treaties, some that protect the interests of the victorious party and some that protect the interests of the defeated party.
In the final analysis, the boss of the Tulip Principality wanted to convey this meaning to everyone:
You guys are so fucked, don’t do anything if you have anything to do.
If you lose, you have to spend money to learn a lesson, and you have to pay a heavy price! If you win, you cannot harm the prisoners, and you cannot confiscate the opponent's weapons and equipment. Otherwise, once a war between the principality and foreign countries occurs, you need to recruit soldiers from various territories. If you don't have all the weapons and equipment, what will happen to this battle?
Another thing is that if the lord of the defeated side suffers serious losses and lacks weapons and equipment, if it is invaded, how can the territory be protected?
For the prosperity and stability of the Tulip Principality, everyone should try to get along well with each other, don’t make trouble, don’t make trouble, if you do it too much, I will deprive you of your title and lock you up!
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Not long after, the government official Kukochi came.
"Lord!"
"sit!"
At the sign of the Lord, Kukochi sat across from him carefully. Seeing the Lord pondering, Kukochi didn't dare to say anything, his eyes were full of awe.
He has no way to be unaweful.
The changes in the Lord’s recent years have been too great and are becoming increasingly unpredictable.
First, the Fanged Thieves Group was annihilated, and then this afternoon, defeated the arrogant Baron of Greystone Castle.
It was just now that the lord had advanced to an intermediate divine summoner and could summon mysterious weapons from the kingdom of heaven.
It was with the weapons of the kingdom of heaven that the lord showed great power and killed five heavy armored knights in a row, including two powerful silver knights.
Thinking of this, Kukochi became more and more nervous.
However, it was more joy and pride. After so many years of wandering around, he finally met an awesome lord. As long as he was loyal, his future should be bright.
Facing the random thoughts of Kukochi, the Lord Lord who had been pondering for a long time, finally spoke, "How long can the food in our territory last?"
"After one...a little over a month..."
Kukochi said nervously: "If everyone saves a little, they can last until two months, but they can't survive this winter."
Hearing this, Sean frowned, "Is the food consumed so quickly?"
Kukochi smiled bitterly and said, "It was not so fast. The last time I defeated the Fanged Thieves, I captured more than 30 of their war horses. These war horses are not as good as ordinary livestock. In addition to feeding them a lot of forage every day, they also need to mix eggs and oatmeal beans to maintain a strong physique and strong combat power. In addition, they also need to consume a certain amount of salt every day, otherwise these excellent Aberdo war horses will be useless."
Sean nodded, "If you don't say it, I'll almost forget that these war horses are really consumed."
Kukochi said again: "Our territory has very little salt reserves. In the territory, there are nearly twenty war horses, plus the more than thirty war horses captured, which cannot be maintained with the population and financial resources of our territory."
"If we can't support it, there will naturally be someone to support it for us!" Sean said lightly.
"Who will raise so many war horses for us?"
Kukochi was stunned, "Does the Lord want to send these war horses to Snow Wolf City?"
Sean glared at him angrily, "Silly, these well-trained and docile Aberdo's war horses may not be able to buy so much money. Give it to someone else? Is your mind stuffed with hay?"
Kukochi smiled embarrassedly, "What does Lord Lord mean?"
Sean did not answer this question, but looked at him with a sinister expression and said slowly: "Today, Baron Greystone Fort led a large army to invade our territory, trampling on our wheat fields and crops, causing huge losses to our territory, which caused no harvest in our Black Hawk territory next year, and there was a serious food crisis. What should we do? Lord Kukochi should understand, right?"
Hearing this, Kukochi's eyes turned and he understood it instantly. He hurriedly said, "Don't worry, Lord Lord, I will calculate the loss of the territory now and send the list to you tomorrow morning."
Sean nodded with satisfaction and said, "You did not disappoint me, this is a reward for you."
After saying that, he took a gold coin from the drawer.
"Thank you for your reward, I will go down to investigate now."
Chapter completed!