Chapter 78: You're nothing but a shield.
The Alba Kingdom are ten times smaller than the Snow Kingdom, and five times smaller than Cesoria. Not to mention that it was three times smaller than the other kingdoms, and they all have something that the Alba Kingdom did not, the density of qi is greater by several folds. Which hinders the emergence of medicinal herbs and cultivation resources.
In this world, the resources are everything, every emergence power is due to the precious resources with which the disciples and elders were trained. And when the density of qi was higher, the more likely and more frequent was the emergence of rare medicinal herbs. Not to mention that the common herbs that survive in the most desert environments are found in heaps.
In mortal countries, some powers take the germinate herbs in their regions, cultivate them and take them to the desolate areas selling them at double or triple their price. They make more profit than if they sold them in their regions. Like the Precious Hall.
There were also powers that they called "Medicinal Gardens", which their primary goal was to cultivate medicinal herbs as efficiently as possible and sell them to alchemists or weak powers.
In this world, some herbs can survive in almost any environment, of course with the right method, one can produce in mass. But there are also herbs that only germinated in specific environments, such as corpses, the aura of death, abundant wood qi or other qi attributed.
Because of this, medicinal ingredients have several classifications such as Common, Rare, Unique and legendary. Each stage has their own stars rating; Example: Ingredient 1 common star.
Now the problem with the Alba Kingdom was that it had only 0-star medicinal herbs and yet rare herbs that other neighboring kingdoms are considered relatively common at least if compared to the Alba Kingdom.
It is true that the Alba Kingdom had fertile land but this land could only produce food for ordinary people, like rice or wheat but nothing else. In this kingdom, there was no famine, plus it exported food to neighboring kingdoms like the Snow Kingdom, and this food was cheaper compared to medicinal herbs. They can be paid by using iron, bronze and silver coins.
One must have known that the capital city of the kingdom has the highest standard of living cost in the city to live in a citizen of a family of four could live comfortably on 10 silver coins per month.
Whereas in all the cities and villages of the kingdom with iron and bronze coins were more sufficient to live a month comfortably.
If someone found a medicinal herb and sold it in the Kingdom, because of its rarity they could get a range of 1 to 10 gold coins, which was sufficient to live for a long time comfortably.
An example can be seen in the Kingdom tax, which barely reached 100,000 gold coins each year, but neighboring countries collect several folds more taxes.
100,000 coins may seem like a lot but from these taxes, the royal family pays soldiers, guards, repair roads, among other hundreds of expenses, only a few thousand left over for the royal family. Which they can't spend without second thoughts.
Alexander explained all of the above to the others in the room, and they understood why no one wants this land, it was too weak compared to the neighboring kingdoms.
Frey was sad to see his beloved country being despised, but he could only accept it in silence, there was no need to defend against the facts. So he just closed his eyes and continue to listen in silence.
At the end explanation was: "The emergence of Alba kingdom only serves as a shield of flesh and protection between the neighboring kingdoms, if the kingdom Cesoria wants to attack the Kingdom Snow must first pass through this kingdom, and conquered this kingdom, the Kingdom Snow will have enough time to prepare for war, the same thing could happen with Ethova Kingdom, Kingdom Aras."
Hearing that, Audrey said: "If it's as you say, why did the King (of the Snow Kingdom) marry Miss Anna to the King of this kingdom, how could he do that to his sister-in-law, marrying that garbage almost ruined the lady's life! "
Alexander showed a faint smile and said, "He did it to thwart the Webber family's plans."
This confuses Audrey but she still didn't say anything and she was waiting for Alexander to explain: "As I said before, the Royal Snow family has a great connection to the James clan and not only that they are the second most influential power in their country after the clan, and this is due to the James clan itself."
"The Webber family wanted a similar treatment to that of the royal family, but the royal family will never allow it so they had to do it meticulously with their actions, I imagine the family has had this planned for several hundred years. So they invest as much as they could in the younger generation until finally there was someone with whom they could start their scheme, and that was my uncle, Joseph Webber. With his core disciple position, he could come into contact with the disciples of surname James and not just that but with his potential".
At this point, Audrey furrowed her eyebrows and said, "But what's in it for them?"
Alexander laughed softly and said, "haha, then my uncle could propose like a matchmaker and marrying one of his sisters with a genius named James, even if she were not the official wife, even the wife would be married as a concubine".
Hearing that, Audrey's eyes opened in shock and I couldn't believe it, "But Anna's sister is the queen!"
Alexander nodded and said: "If one of the daughters married the royal family and another married the James clan, it might not be crucial, but the Webber family could not be touched in a long time, as they would have a foot with the two major powers of the Kingdom, pity that the royal family realized their intentions and made an arranged marriage with the garbage king of this kingdom".
"But they weren't afraid of the young lady's brother? He was a core disciple after all, plus he could also marry someone from the James clan! "
Alexander shook his head and explained: "At that time my cousin was already born, besides the fact that only the king knows how much money he invests and that he gave his wife during pregnancy to promote the talent of his future son/daughter. So even before he/she was born perhaps they already knew that their son/daughter was going to be very talented, so much so that he/she will surpass my uncle. As for my uncle marrying someone with the surname James, I find it much more difficult and it would not be the same. After all, his children's surname would not be James but Webber".
Hearing that, Audrey could not help but lower her head and be on the verge of tears, in these years Miss Anna has to lead a difficult life due to the third concubine and queen. All because her son was male, but the Weber family did not send any help, it was as if they abandoned the Miss, This made Anna furious with the Webber family and cut off her communication with them but that was only known to her and Anna, at this moment she only thought of two people like her family and those were her brothers, but her sister had not spoken to Anna in more than two years, cut off her communication from nothing. As for her brother, Anna sent him letters and he replied, everything was normal.
At this moment Frey listening in silence opened his eyes and said: "A marriage, between the second prince and the princess of the Snow Kingdom!"
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