It was not just Yaqi and Leya who were decided to have a marriage without her knowledge.

In the north of the Kingdom of Lampari, on the Murto Mountains, more than a thousand kilometers away from Xinfei Farm, Viscount Leslie looked at the letter in his hand, sneered, and used both hands to tear the letter from exquisite letter paper into pieces in an instant, and then threw it at the mountain stream beside him.

In an instant, countless pieces of paper fell down, as if another light snow had started among the mountains.

Seeing the paper falling into the mountain stream and disappearing, Viscount Leslie was silent for a moment, and looked back at his colleagues from other Zhenbei Army beside him, thinking that they must be like other ordinary people, and they envied very much that they were born into the Stark family, a large aristocratic family, but they did not know that as descendants of the large aristocratic family, they also had many things that they could not help themselves.

For example, in this letter sent by his mother, it shows that the family has already decided on a marriage for him and he has no room for rejection.

The girl who is about to become his wife is the youngest daughter of the patriarch of the Aleman family. She is twenty-three years old this year. According to her mother, she looks beautiful and gentle, and is very suitable for being a wife. After ending her two-year service goal in Zhenbei Army, Viscount Leslie immediately returned to Anweimar City to get married.

Viscount Leslie could only sneer at his mother's evaluation of this Miss Aleman.

Perhaps this Miss Aleman is indeed beautiful and gentle, but Viscount Leslie never believes that his mother is for her. The reason why she is sure that this Miss Aleman will become his wife is nothing more than for the Aleman family.

It is not uncommon for aristocratic marriage to be together. Viscount Leslie had long expected that he would encounter such a day.

He has resisted such a thing for nearly ten years. Now he has finally delayed until he is in his thirties, but he can no longer delay it.

Looking at another letter in his hand that was much simpler than comparison, Viscount Leslie smiled bitterly.

"In comparison, Xu Yi is much more free than me. At least he can be with the girl he really likes."

Viscount Leslie sighed and opened the letter sent by Xu Yi and looked carefully.

The letter Xu Yi sent him naturally did not have so many family matters, but briefly described the development plan of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce during this period and asked him about the current situation of Zhenbei Army.

The focus of the inquiry was on the military preparations of the Zhenbei Army.

If this question is asked by someone else, it will inevitably be charged with spying on military intelligence. However, Xu Yi himself has a false title of military department, and the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce and the Military Department have profound cooperation, so Xu Yi is qualified to know these situations.

I hope that these questions can be asked by Xu Yi, but only rough statistics can be obtained from Major Maconley. As for the specific details, of course, people like Viscount Leslie who are in the Zhenbei Army are most aware of them.

However, after seeing these questions from Xu Yi in his letters, Viscount Leslie smiled bitterly again.

"How should I answer him?"

Viscount Leslie looked back at his colleague who was boiling water using a magic kettle that had been smashed to a corner by accidentally falling to the ground. He thought that if the Military Logistics Department would not supply the Zhenbei Army any longer, he would be afraid that the Zhenbei Army's military would not be able to keep up with the consumption. It would not take long for the Murto Mountains to be lost again and fall back into the hands of the guys in the Sak Kingdom.

During the offensive and defensive battle of the Murto Mountains from the beginning of last year to the end of the year, although the Zhenbei Army occupied the Murto Mountains with a large amount of high-quality arms provided by the military headquarters and pressed the Greedy Wolf Legion and Tiger Legion of the Sak Kingdom tightly into the territory of the Sak Kingdom in the north of the Murto Mountains, in the next six months, the Greedy Wolf Legion and Tiger Legion never gave up the idea of ​​counterattack.

Although facing the powerful army of the Zhenbei Army, the Greedy Wolf Legion and the Tiger Legion did not achieve any results, and the Murto Mountains were still firmly in their hands by the Zhenbei Army. However, due to frequent battles, the Zhenbei Army's military consumed very quickly.

Since the second half of last year, the supply of the Zhenbei Army by the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the supply of the Zhenbei Army has been greatly weakened. After the beginning of winter, it has not supplemented any other military equipment except for transporting a few trucks of cotton jackets.

The other soldiers of the Zhenbei Army could only complain in private, but did not know the truth. However, Viscount Leslie knew the specific reason.

It's very simple, the military headquarters has no money.

During the offensive and defensive battle of the Murto Mountains, the military headquarters provided a large number of military headquarters, which made the Zhenbei Army show its power, but such a huge military headquarters consumed a lot of money.

Although armor and weapons are built by a newly built arsenal through magic machine tools, the cost is greatly reduced and a lot of money is saved, maintaining such a large amount of consumption still makes the Logistics Department unable to support it.

This issue was mentioned in a letter sent by Xu Yi to Viscount Leslie before. He said in his heart that although many of the military supplies provided by the New Aircraft Chamber of Commerce to the military headquarters have almost reached a full cost price, the military headquarters still cannot afford to buy it.

Xu Yi expressed deep concerns about this situation.

If the military headquarters has not had enough funds and the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce cannot provide it for free, then there may be problems with the Zhenbei Army's military supply.

Once the army of the Sak Kingdom counterattacks in the beginning of spring, the situation in the Murto Mountains will be extremely dangerous.

In the letter, Xu Yi also hinted to Viscount Leslie that if you notice the danger, you must leave as soon as possible to ensure your life.

Now in this recently sent letter, Xu Yi clearly expressed his worries.

The military headquarters has not placed any orders with the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce for more than three months, proving that the military headquarters is completely unable to support the military consumption of Zhenbei Army.

This indirectly proves that the current situation of Zhenbei Army is already very dangerous.

Seeing Xu Yi hinting at the end of this letter that if he saw that he had to find an opportunity to leave in advance if he saw that the opportunity was not good, Viscount Leslie couldn't help but sigh and shook his head gently.

Of course he knew Xu Yi had good intentions. But he had served in the Zhenbei Army for nearly two years. Even though he was mainly responsible for logistics, he still experienced a lot of bloody storms with his colleagues and developed a deep affection for the Zhenbei Army.

Although I knew that the situation in Zhenbei Army was not good now, Viscount Leslie did not intend to give up here and escape alone.

But he also knew that his power alone was extremely limited. With his current ability, he could not solve the real problem of Zhenbei Army at all - that is, the military headquarters had no money.

Thinking of having no money, Viscount Leslie developed a deep disgust for Earl Stark, who was far away in Bonta City, and even hated the concept that his family had always adhered to.

There is obviously a better way to make the entire kingdom rich, but these corrupt guys only care about their own interests and deliberately ignore all this, and even have to vigorously suppress it.

In their eyes, the rise and fall of the entire kingdom and the good or bad life of all the people are probably not as important as the long-term existence of their own families?

"Hmph! A bunch of idiots! Now the world is about to change with the emergence of Xu Yi. You still have to hold on to that old concept. If this continues, you will become sinners who will lead to the elimination of the entire family!"

Viscount Leslie narrowed his eyes, pondered for a while, took out two pieces of letter paper. He first wrote a reply to Xu Yi, and in the letter roughly described the difficulties the Zhenbei Army is facing now, and hoped that Xu Yi would help solve this problem as much as possible.

The second letter was a reply to my mother.

In this letter, Viscount Leslie expressed his willingness to accept the family's arrangements and returned to Anweimar to marry Miss Aleman, and also revealed his other meaning in a very serious tone.

He, Leslie Stark, will use his best efforts to win the position of patriarch of the Stark family!

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While Viscount Leslie was writing his reply carefully, Lampari XIII was watching the financial report of the Lampari Kingdom in his hand in his hand, with a smile on his lips.

This year's financial statements are much better than last year. Compared with the fiscal revenues totaling less than two million gold coins last year, according to statistics, all the fiscal revenues of the Kingdom suddenly exceeded 3 million gold coins, which can be said to have made a leap.

However, as the king of a country, Lampari XIII's perspective on the problem would certainly not be so simple.

Two years ago, the annual fiscal revenue of the Kingdom of Lampari was only more than one million gold coins, but since last year, it has achieved a leap for two consecutive years.

The reason for such obvious changes is that from this financial statement, it can be seen that more than 90% of the increase comes from commercial taxes.

If the focus is moved to commercial tax, it can be seen from the additional report of the Department of Commerce that more than 90% of the commercial taxes have been added, as many as 40% and more than 40% are from chambers of commerce that produce magic machinery.

In the report, the New Air Chamber of Commerce was constantly mentioned.

Within one year last year, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce paid tax revenue of more than 300,000 gold coins to Bangta City in the first half of the year, and 110,000 gold coins were handed over to the national treasury.

In the second half of the year, because the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce transferred to Viscount Xu Yi's private territory, all the taxes paid by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce will be directly owned by Xu Yi personally, and will eventually be paid to the national treasury by Xu Yi, totaling 270,000 gold coins.

In addition, because the New Aircraft Chamber of Commerce has obtained the right to trade freely, the New Aircraft Chamber of Commerce will not pass through Bangta City and directly pay the tax to the treasury in trade with other countries.

Although the investment and construction of the New Air Chamber of Commerce in the Black Rice Wasteland in the second half of the year, the Principality of Stantin and the Kingdom of Rulson were just launched, so the taxes paid were still as high as 130,000 gold coins.

So last year, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce alone paid a huge sum of more than 500,000 gold coins to the national treasury.

This has not included all the taxes of the Chamber of Commerce related to the production of magic machinery that have emerged everywhere in the kingdom that have been affected by the New Air Chamber of Commerce.

If these are also counted together, then the tax on the more than 3 million gold coins collected by the Kingdom of Lampari last year was even more than 1.5 million gold coins affected by the New Air Chamber of Commerce.

Moreover, although the increased commercial taxes by other chambers of commerce are not related to magic machinery, they still extend their influence to the Xinfei Chamber of commerce.

Take the Armani Chamber of Commerce, which specializes in the production of clothing in Bangta City as an example. With the help of the magic textile machine developed by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, the Armani Chamber of Commerce's production capacity has increased significantly. Although the clothes sold have been reduced to varying degrees, due to the significant increase in sales, the overall profit has actually made a leap.

According to statistics, the total commercial tax paid by the Armani Chamber of Commerce last year was as high as 320,000 gold coins.

For example, the Amley Chamber of Commerce, which is now mainly responsible for paving roads everywhere in the kingdom, also paid a commercial tax of 260,000 gold coins last year.

For example, the Rekton Chamber of Commerce...

...

After watching for a while, Lampari XIII suddenly discovered that the major chambers of commerce that originally belonged to Bangta City had provided a huge commercial tax of nearly 1.5 million gold coins to the treasury.

However, the total tax paid by Bangta City this year is only 190,000 gold coins.

Compared to last year, it is undoubtedly far behind.

Looking at the extremely obvious contrast, Lampari XIII couldn't help but sneer.

"I want to see what those guys still have the face to say now." (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!