At first, Victor was quite pleased when he heard that he might have a chance to be promoted to duke. After all, he knew that he was still far from attaining a ducal title.
However, when Duke Barick—the prince of the kingdom—proposed these conditions for the exchange, Victor fell silent.
He understood how badly the kingdom wanted these technologies. In fact, someone had approached him about this matter at the very beginning of the East Sea Alliance Invasion War. The kingdom had been willing to pay a considerable sum, but Victor had refused at the time. In his view, money was not particularly meaningful to the Golden Sunflower Family. He was not short of it.
The fact that the Two Rivers Army possessed artillery technology had been known for a long time. Two Rivers County had never concealed it, either. They had already used it in their earliest major battles against the Barbarians, and five years had passed since then.
Wired Telegraphy was even more conspicuous. The Golden Sunflower Family had already completed the construction of telegraph networks in Two Rivers County and the Vela Northern Frontier. Even parts of the central region, as well as Iron Tree City, had been connected to this telegraph network.
The Vela Nobles had long since experienced the benefits of Wired Telegraphy and held the technology in high regard. Two Rivers County had made a considerable amount of money simply by constructing wired telegraph networks.
As for steam engines, the Two Rivers Army had not concealed things like railways and Inland-River Steamboats, so the Raine Kingdom's Spy Organization naturally could not turn a blind eye to them.
Previously, perhaps because these technologies had not yet been fully rolled out, most people did not understand their importance.
But as Two Rivers County made increasingly extensive