Due to the covenant and agreement between Temeria and Redania, export to Kaedwen is also prohibited.
In the end, Kaedwen had no choice but to import it from Kovir at a high price.
After all, Kovir is a neutral country and anyone can buy things from it.
Therefore, even if Autonomous Dominion of Eszpádén is to the north of Kaedwen, if it offends Kovir, then Kaedwen will have to fight with a wooden stick from now on.
To the northwest of Kaedwen are many small countries that broke away from Kovir during the "Poviss Secession" incident. However, due to the obstruction of the Kestrel Mountains, it is easy to defend but difficult to attack.
There is a flat and open plain to the southwest, but it is the territory of the strongest kingdom in the north, Redania.
Since Henselt was pinned to the ground and rubbed hard by King Vizimir from Redania, he has been suffering from "Skyphobia" ever since.
Not to mention stepping into the territory of Redania again, even seeing the coat of arms of Redania will make me shit my pants in fear.
Therefore, for so many years, King Henselt and his ministers have turned their attention to Aedirn in the south.
However, while the Southward Movement theory has been going on for so many years, Kaedwen and Aedirn have been pecking at each other at the border.
Sometimes Kaedwen is lucky and can cross the border of Aedirn.
But the advantage does not last long and is often pushed back.
And more often than not, it cannot beat the border of Aedirn.
In order to solve the dilemma of "can't get out", King Henselt came up with two clever ideas:
The first is to regularly harvest those non-human race settlements that have developed well.
Those that have not developed will be ignored for the time being.
But when it developed, they sent soldiers disguised as robbers and used the plundered property as treasury.
The second one is to develop towards the Blue Mountains.
Blue Mountains is continuous and covers a huge area.
From the north of Isparaden, go east, then turn south, close to the east border of Kaedwen, continue south, until it closes to Aedirn and Lyria.
Henselt I don't believe that such a vast land cannot be all mountainous. After crossing the mountains, there will definitely be land suitable for settlement.
Therefore, he sent this team of riders to the Blue Mountains.
As for why we have to go into the mountains when there is heavy snow, instead of waiting until next summer.
This is because Henselt is a person who always does something immediately when he thinks of it.
Of course it's best to gain something.
But if these people die in the mountains, it doesn't matter.
They are just cannon fodder anyway.
The riders were walking on snow that was deep and shallow.
After walking for a while, they finally found two houses.
"There are two huts in front, just in time to escape the cold."
The riders approached the two lonely houses standing on the snow.
They first opened the hut on the left and found a stable inside.
So he led the horse into the stable.
Then go to the house on the right.
A rider opened the door and just walked in, when he suddenly backed out with a look of horror on his face.
"Kiusha Captain!"
"What's the matter?"
"There... there's a body in there."
Kiusha was stunned by this nonsense.
"Dead people scare you?"
Kiusha drew his sword and walked into the house.
I saw a young woman lying on the floor of the house. The woman had no head and was wearing a rough dress made of animal skin.
After only a short inspection, he came to a conclusion.
"He has been dead for a long time. There are no external injuries on his body. He must have died from freezing."
Another rider asked tremblingly, "Captain Kiusha, then do we still want to live here?"
Kiusha glanced at him and said disdainfully.
"What's so scary about the dead? Who hasn't seen a corpse exposed in the wilderness these days when you're out and about?"
He waved his hand casually, as if to ward off a fly.
"Throw this body out. The snow is so heavy that it will cover her."
Two riders stepped forward and lifted both ends of the body.
But just as they passed by Kiusha, Kiusha fell to the side like a conditioned reflex.
"Kiusha Captain?!"
Everyone looked at Kiusha and saw that the latter's face was pale and he looked frightened.
However, this look of horror turned into anger in an instant.
"Which of you suddenly caught me just now?"
The two riders carrying the corpse looked at each other and shook their heads quickly.
"Kiusha Captain, we are all carrying the body, how can we free our hands to catch you?"
Kiusha After calming down and thinking carefully, this is indeed what happened.
He lowered his gaze, not sure if it was a coincidence or some other reason.
It happened to meet the eyes of the female corpse.
At that moment, Kiusha's hair stood on end and his spine ran cold.
It seemed like he was being watched.
My legs almost gave out and I fell to the ground again.
However, the two riders didn't know what Kiusha was thinking, so they just carried the body out anyway.
After the body was carried out, Kiusha felt a little better.
He thought for a while and then ordered, "You guys, go find some firewood and burn the body."
"Kiusha Captain, it's hard to make a fire in such a cold weather."
No one wants to do this hard work.
As Kiusha said before, no one has seen a dead body these days.
Famine, disease, war...
If ordinary people hit each of them, it would cause countless casualties.
Perhaps only noble ladies and daughters who never leave the castle have never seen dead people.
A grain of sand of the times falls on everyone's shoulders, and it becomes a big mountain.
The corpse is just a corpse. You can just throw it in the snow. How troublesome it is to find firewood to burn it. It's so cold outside.
Kiusha was furious. "Stop talking nonsense, I will burn it if I ask you to."
Everyone doesn't know why Kiusha is angry.
But I still obeyed.
After a while, Kiusha saw with his own eyes that his men went to find some firewood that was not wet by the snow, first spread a layer of firewood on the snow, then lifted the body onto the firewood, and finally piled firewood on the body.
Ignite with tinder.
Looking at the blazing fire, Kiusha felt a little at ease.
The exhausted riders returned to the hut, sat on the ground, took out dry food and wine, and started eating.
But the biting chill still kept creeping in through the cracks in the house.
It was so cold that they cursed me.
One rider suggested.
"Captain Kiusha, why don't we also light a fire, otherwise it may be okay during the day, but it will definitely not be able to survive at night. I have a friend who was frozen to death. I heard from the old man that if you don't pay attention to keeping warm, even if you don't freeze to death, you will have to have your limbs amputated if you get frostbite."
Kiusha has no reason to object.
A rider opened the door and tried to go out to collect some more firewood.
As a result, the snowstorm rushed in before he could go out.