"Otto is back?" Magus bent down and took out today's newspaper from the mouth of the hound at his feet, and asked while putting on his glasses.
The period from 6:30 to 8:30 every morning is the most relaxing time for Mags. There is no endless official business to bother him, and there is no wrangling between various departments that requires him to mediate. You need to face the troublesome diplomatic note applications that diplomats come up with. He could just sit in the courtyard of his villa, make a cup of scented tea, ask his wife to make him a pancake, and interact with Bick while reading the newspaper.
Piccolo is his dog, an old dog, already eleven years old. The lifespan of dogs is very short, at most thirteen or four years, and those who live longer cannot live past twenty years. This dog named Bick has entered the life of an old dog. The fur on his slender muzzle has become loose, and even the teeth wrapped under his lips have begun to loosen. When he was young, he was a great boy and won great honors for Mags in many hunting competitions.
Bick is a purebred Auxerre hound. It runs powerfully and is extremely fast. It also has good patience and bite force. Generally, one Auxerre hound is enough to complete the task alone against small beasts under fifty pounds. Even if the prey is more than fifty pounds, three or five Auxerre hounds can complete the hunt. Such hounds, especially pure-blood hounds, are expensive, ranging from 500 to 5,000 yuan. The hound named Bick raised by Mags has served Mags' family for at least three hundred years...
Yes, starting from its ancestors, its family began to serve the Magus family and has continued to multiply until today, which has a history of more than three hundred years.
Piccolo slowly walked away from Mags and stopped less than ten meters away from him. It sniffed the pair of familiar-looking leather shoes with its nose, then lazily lay down on the lawn to bask in the sun. It recognized this smell and appeared here often, so it didn't show any aggressive behavior.
Barr lowered his head and glanced at the old dog at his feet, then walked towards Mags. The weather is getting warmer, and people have taken off their thick coats and stepped out of the cold winter. Like animals, everyone is lazy. It must be the most comfortable thing if you can read a book in the sun, taste some delicious snacks, and then squint your eyes and fall asleep in the sun after you feel sleepy.
He unbuttoned two buttons of his clothes, sat on the chair next to Mags, and took a piece of pancake from Mags and took a bite, "He came back at midnight yesterday. I asked him to take a rest and wait until nine o'clock. I’ll report to the other side later.”
At this time, more than half a month had passed since Otto went to the west. He came back after taking care of the things there. It seemed that everything in the west came to an end at some unknown and ignored point in time. , and it stopped abruptly. After handling the resettlement of the new immigrants, Otto came back immediately. He could no longer pry more useful things out of Memnon's mouth, unless he used threats of harm to force Memnon to speak.
But under such circumstances, even if Memnon speaks, these people may not believe that what he says is true, and they always have to verify it repeatedly. If Memnon added one or two people to the real list that he wanted to kill but were not from Bloody Dawn, the official list would become a knife in his hand. Although this will not bring any negative impact to the cabinet or the empire - in fact, it will. After all, there have been some robberies or burglaries that resulted in death. People will still feel that there is no official publicity on public security. So good.
But neither Mags nor Otto wanted to be disgusted by Memnon, so they waited for a while and waited patiently for Memnon to take the initiative to send over the entire list.
The reason why the empire has not had many clues about Bloody Dawn in the past twenty-seven years is because this organization is full of lunatics. They are almost completely different from those famous people or organizations such as thieves during the same period. Those organizations may be for fame, wealth, or want to make a career. These people all have a clear purpose. Every time they harm the nobles and plunder places, their purpose is to strengthen themselves and make themselves stronger.
After repeating this many times, he tried to have enough power to confront a small area, so as to change the pattern of the entire empire.
But Bloody Dawn is different. These people are all lunatics. Obtaining wealth is just an incidental behavior when they assassinate nobles. They will not assassinate nobles specifically for wealth, and some of the wealth they obtain will not be given to the poor. Most of them are still in their hands. They don't assassinate nobles for reputation. They are not picky about their targets, and they don't have any rules. Generally speaking, wherever they go, they will assassinate local nobles.
They did not increase their strength. At the beginning, there were about forty or fifty people. The ambush, which was the last large-scale activity of Bloody Dawn, only had fifty or sixty people, or a little more. They didn't care how much power they had in their hands. Even if they assassinated the nobles and instigated the slave uprising in the territory, it seemed like they did it casually and not intentionally.
Therefore, this group of people are a group of lunatics who are not doing it for money or fame. They seem to simply like to assassinate nobles. However, such a crazy style made the nobles and royal families at that time helpless against them. They killed one here and there without any rules and purpose. They set many traps and the other party had already moved to the other half of the empire.
The only flaw they left was Memnon.
Memnon is an Ogdin, a treacherous horse trader active in the central part of the empire. There is much more intelligence and information about Memnon than anyone else in the Bloody Dawn. For example, he often buys some sick horses and uses some kind of plant medicine to stimulate the active state of these sick horses, making them look very healthy, and then sells them to others to make a fortune. In previous files, there were almost 70 horse trading fraud cases related to Memnon.
So when Memnon took the initiative to stand on the stage, the empire paid attention to him and his people. The empire's intelligence agency believes that Memnon must have many people from the Bloody Dawn, but it is not clear who is and who is not. Without Memnon's cooperation, those who are not will definitely say that they are not, and those who are will definitely say that they are not. When Walter's family was killed, he did not admit that he was a member of the Bloody Dawn. It can be seen that these people are all crazy.
Originally, Mags's idea was that since Dulin wanted to go to the west, let him go and let him fight Memnon. From Mags's perspective, he could see that Memnon was definitely no match for Dulin. After Memnon is ousted by Du Lin, maybe Memnon will become angry and send Du Lin a blackmail. If only he did so, then Maggs' plan would have succeeded. But what is unimaginable is that without Dulin taking action, Memnon himself took the initiative to cut ties with the people of Bloody Dawn and devoted himself wholeheartedly to the new party's camp, which was completely beyond Mags's expectations.
But this is fine. It is better for one of our own people in the west than Dulin to cause chaos in the west. Originally, he planned to use Dulin to deal with Memnon and restrict the growth of the Kadima Party. Now, in turn, he wants to use Memnon and the more pure Kadima Party. Party, to restrict Dulin's expansion.
Of course, he didn't think Memnon could last long. He would be almost overthrown by Dulin in a year or two at most. During this turmoil in the west, Maggs had been paying attention to the situation in the west. When Memnon had problems and his freedom was restricted, almost all the big capitalists did not take the initiative to help Memnon out of the siege, not to mention their powerful power and They didn't even ask whether financial resources could really allow Memnon to escape this accident.
Memnon was the most important partner of the western capitalists, and their silence reminded Maggs of Dulin. Dulin must have negotiated some terms with these people, so they chose to watch the show from the sidelines.
With the current situation in Memnon, if he cannot bring these capitalists back into his camp, he will soon be finished.
Because the "Three Guarantees Policy" he instituted also included his direct separation from Bloody Dawn.
Mags considered that if he were the leader of the Bloody Dawn, what he would have to do now would be to wipe out a person who knew most of the inside story from the world, especially since he had betrayed him, let alone let him Stay alive. Magers had reason to believe that Memnon did not give out all the lists. He must still have a more important list in his hand. This list was used by him as a bargaining chip to negotiate terms with the new party.
Honestly, he's stupid.
Mags' mind was racing with many things and he had already finished thinking about them within a few seconds. He opened the newspaper, glanced at the headlines, shook his head slightly, and then put the newspaper on the table.
His old friend Barr picked up the newspaper and took a look. It said that the United Construction Engineering Company expects to completely penetrate the western mountains of Otis City by the end of April, fully opening the east-west direction to traffic, and Otis City will usher in a new round of development. There is also a subtitle at the bottom of the article, which states that United Construction Engineering has won three more major projects, including the construction of the tallest building in the empire in cooperation with the Imperial Academy of Engineering in the southern city of the empire, and two construction projects with a total length of not less than one meter. Thousands of kilometers of railway.
"I don't like federal people, before, now, and in the future." Barr threw the newspaper back on the table and looked at Maggs angrily, "You should submit a bill to prohibit federal businessmen from participating in important affairs of the empire. project."
Magus chuckled lightly, "I know you are talking angrily, and we should recognize the reality. In the past, maybe we could play our own games, but now the relationship between countries in the world is getting closer and closer, and cooperation is getting closer and closer. More and more, isolation will only make us eliminated. Today it is a federal businessman, tomorrow it may be a businessman from other countries, these people may become a force that cannot be ignored in the empire.”
"We don't have the right to choose to refuse. We can't resist, so let's try to attract it!"
(End of chapter)