Actually if Lord Wein was willing, even if the people of his territory wanted to leave, he had a hundred ways to stop them. He could even forcefully stop them from leaving his territory.
Because the lords of this world had absolute power in their territories, unless the citizens ran far away, they wouldn't dare go against them. There was no need to mention running to Xu Yi's territory that was next to theirs.
But when Xu Yi proposed this to Lord Wein, Lord Wein's attitude was different from last time. He told Xu Yi that since the people of his territory were willing to leave, as long as they paid him a satisfactory compensation, he wouldn't stop them at all.
This was naturally a disguised agreement.
So after some bargaining, Xu Yi finally reached an agreement with Lord Wein on behalf of the New Flyer.
According to the agreement, five thousand people of Lord Wein's territory would "willingly" move to Xu Yi's territory.
According to the rules of the Sines and the rules of the Principality of Constantine, Xu Yi as the new lord had to pay Lord Wein a corresponding fee of one hundred and fifty gold coins for each person.
Other than that, in order to compensate Lord Wein for losing his people, Xu Yi had to pay seven hundred thousand gold coins for Lord Wein.
The agreement was a total of two million and two hundred thousand gold coins. New Flyer proposed using other items as compensation, which Lord Wein agreed to.
In the end, it was decided that New Flyer would pay five hundred thousand gold coins to Lord Wein. The remaining one million and eight hundred and eighty thousand gold coins would be replaced with household magic machines and military magic machines that were divided into four batches.
Other than this, Lord Wein had three chances to ask New Flyer to help him in battle.
This final request reflected the current situation in the Principality of Constantine.
After defeating Fran Count, Lord Wein hadn't even digested all the resources in Fran Count's territory before fighting three lords and winning all of them.
In just a month's time, he had completely defeated two of the overlords. The remaining overlord was also retreating in defeat, unable to resist at all.
He believed that it wouldn't take long for the remaining Lord to be completely defeated.
This situation attracted the attention of everyone in the Principality of Constantine.
If Lord Wein defeated these three lords and swallowed their territories, Lord Wein's territory would be over ten thousand square kilometers. He would become the lord with the largest territory in the north of the Principality of Constantine.
Even in the Principality of Constantine, he was one of the strongest lords other than Duke Stantine.
Moreover, because the population density in the north of the Principality of Constantine was higher than in the south, once Lord Wein of these three territories, his territory would surpass five hundred thousand people. In the Principality of Constantine, he would be second only to Duke Stantine's territory.
Adding in his military strength, Lord Wein's overall strength could even be compared to Duke Stantine.
This naturally attracted the vigilance of the other lords in the Principality of Constantine.
Lord Wein's strength had suddenly increased and he had defeated four lords including Count Fran who was on par with him. Then he wouldn't stop and would definitely target the other lords in the duchy.
Even ….. he might challenge Duke Stantine!
The power division in the Principality of Constantine was based on strength. If Lord Wein could defeat Duke Stantine, then Lord Wein would most likely become the next Duke Stantine and control the greatest power in the Principality of Constantine.
For a while, the situation in the north of the Principality of Constantine became very tense.
Correspondingly, all kinds of military magic machine orders were sent to the New Flyer like snowflakes.
Perhaps there were a few lords who had doubts about the New Flyer before, but after seeing the might of the military magic machines Lord Wein provided by the New Flyer, as well as using actual battle examples to prove this point, the lords in the Principality of Constantine no longer dared to have any doubts.
Because the New Flyer's production wasn't enough, they couldn't satisfy all these orders at the same time. As a result, many lords in the Principality of Constantine kept raising the price.
These lords naturally didn't have enough gold coins to pay. Before this, most of the lords used resources to exchange with the New Flyer, but now all the lords used this method.
A carriage of normal quality iron ore could be exchanged for ten Magic Repeating Crossbows or a Magic Bazooka, but now it required three carriages of high quality iron ore to exchange.
If one looked down at the Principality of Constantine from the sky, they would find a strange phenomenon.
From all over the Principality of Constantine, there were horse carriages that were like ants, carrying various ores to the northwest of the duchy, finally gathering at Xu Yi's private territory.
After delivering the ores, these horse carriages would bring the military magic machines exchanged from the New Flyer back to where they came from.
If one paid attention for a bit longer, they would find that on the way back, there would be various hijackings.
The New Flyer only took care of the transactions in their territory, they also weren't responsible for transporting the goods.
Want to buy something?
That's fine, do it yourself.
Want to bring the things back?
That's fine, do it yourself too.
If there was a company on earth that dared to do something this irresponsible, they would be cursed to death by all the consumers.
But in this place, everyone felt that this was natural and no one dared to object.
Xu Yi saw the caravans that worked hard to transport large amounts of ores to his territory, only to exchange for a few military magic machines and he couldn't help feeling a bit guilty.
Dear, we don't include shipping.
However, when the caravans sent by the lords exchanged for the military magic machines from the New Flyer, they were all very happy and didn't complain at all.
As for the New Flyer including shipping?
They didn't even think about it.
Different from how he treated the lords of the Principality of Constantine, Xu Yi's attitude towards Seveni was the complete opposite.
When providing military magic machines to Seveni, not only did the New Flyer take care of transporting the military magic machines into the Lampari Kingdom, they even allowed Seveni to owe them.
It could be said that in the five years since the New Flyer was established, Seveni was the first customer that the New Flyer allowed to owe them money and give them priority in paying for their products.
It had to be known that no matter what product the New Flyer made, they were all very popular and the supply never met the demand.
Before this, other people would pay New Flyer in advance and pray that the New Flyer would provide the goods as soon as possible. How could there be people who owed New Flyer?
But no one in the New Flyer objected to Xu Yi's decision.
Everyone knew that this was Xu Yi's investment in Seveni, it was his big gamble.
If Seveni could control the Lampari Kingdom, the New Flyer would definitely receive a return that was much greater than their current investment in the Lampari Kingdom.
The only question was, her highness Seveni ….. could she succeed?
In the autumn and winter of year 3784, in just a short three months, Seveni used facts to prove Xu Yi's accurate judgement to everyone, as well as the power of the New Flyer's support.
In the beginning of October, her highness Seveni gave a speech on her territory. She once again confirmed Duke Stagg's conviction, calling him a traitor. She also said that she would punish him as the previous king's little sister and the princess.
Three days later, Duke Stantine released a statement saying that her highness Seveni was slandering him. Her idea was to deny Prince William's right to the throne and try to take the throne herself. She would announce the king's decree in Prince William's place, confirming that her highness Seveni had betrayed him.
A week later, both sides formed their armies and the Lampari Kingdom's civil war officially began.
In the beginning, everyone thought that her highness Seveni was hitting a rock with an egg.
This was because in the year that King Eric had taken the throne, the entire Lampari Kingdom was under Duke Stagg's control.
During this time, Duke Stagg had used various methods to suppress most of the voices that opposed him and his family's strength had greatly increased.
As for her highness Seveni, she had completely disappeared in this year. Not only were the nobles that supported her forced to change sides, she even took the initiative to disperse some of her personal guards.
The difference in strength between the two sides was naturally like heaven and earth.
However, when the Lampari Kingdom's civil war officially began, the facts exceeded everyone's expectations.
First, after her highness Seveni made the announcement, close to half of the cities in the Lampari Kingdom expressed their support for her highness Seveni.
Compared to half of the cities that supported King William and Duke Stagg and most of the cities that didn't express their stance and remained neutral, her highness Seveni's momentum was much bigger.
When Seveni's personal guards clashed with the kingdom's second army that Duke Stagg sent out, the results shocked everyone.
The second regiment of the Lampuri Kingdom's army that was only second to the first regiment of the kingdom's garrison army couldn't fight back at all.
The kingdom's second army had fifteen thousand people and Seveni's private guards only had three thousand people.
This shocking result made everyone feel that it was unbelievable.
Why did Seveni's personal guards have such shocking battle strength?
Was it just because they were equipped with the military magic machines from New Flyer?