In a secret underground room in a two-story building in the backyard of the Yellow River Trading Company, Nero was flipping through a document in front of him, his fists clenched so hard that they made a creaking sound. The document was a list of the whereabouts of King Nero's direct family, which the Yellow River Trading Company had investigated and compiled through various channels.
Nilezi had five older brothers, and like Nilezi, all of them were missing.
But in fact, people like Ni Luozi are probably the only ones who are truly missing. Those who are declared missing by the Hunhuo Luo people are most likely killed by them.
During the secret investigation of the Yellow River Trading Company, it was confirmed that two eldest sons were definitely killed, including the eldest son of King Nero. The eldest son had two sons and one daughter. The older one was in his teens and the younger one was still in swaddling clothes. They were all brutally killed.
King Nero and his queen were killed in the palace, and the people of Hunhuo announced that the couple had hanged themselves.
However, the queen was not Nero's biological mother. Nero and his two sisters who survived the disaster and whom he took with him to play were born to the same mother.
The Yellow River Trading Company did not launch the investigation just because of Nilezi. The information was old, so they did not investigate the whereabouts of other concubines.
King Nero had seven daughters. According to investigation data, except for the two youngest daughters who were missing, the rest were found.
Of the five daughters, three were taken into the harem by the Hunhuo Luo chief, King Chihuo.
The eldest daughter and the second daughter became concubines of the lords of the other two city-states respectively.
"I want to stay!" Ni Luozi looked up and said seriously.
There were only three people in the secret room, Ni Luozi, Lu Ming and Madam Sanjin.
However, Nerozi spoke fluent Griffinian, so there was no need for Madam Sanjin to act as an interpreter.
"Can you contact the resistance in the city?" Lu Ming asked.
Ni Luozi hesitated for a moment and said, "I have a way. Although I don't know if they are in the Resistance, I have some people I need to contact."
Lu Ming smiled and didn't ask any further questions. He thought that maybe he had some secret to guard the family and had been working for King Nile's family in secret.
"If you must stay, I suggest you go to the countryside. There are many remote mountain villages that refuse to obey Hunhuo Luo's rule and have killed the tax collectors sent by Hunhuo Luo. Hunhuo Luo people have no time to care about the remote villages now, because the news that the Baoyue King's armed forces in the south are purchasing arms for training will soon be reported back, and that is the enemy that Hunhuo Luo people are wary of."
Lu Ming paused and said, "As for you, you can gather various resistance forces around you in the countryside. Once the Baoyue King's armed forces head north, you can take the opportunity to start an uprising."
Ni Luozi gritted his teeth after hearing this and said, "King Baoyue is also a bird of a feather, as barbaric as Nanman and Hunhuo Luo!"
Lu Ming said: "To be honest, my Yellow River Trade is currently supporting the southern city-states. However, whether you can restore your country still depends on the strength you can gather. What I can help you with is that if the difference between your strength and King Baoyue is not too great, I can suppress King Baoyue and seek peace. But if the difference in strength is too great, I can't help you!"
Ni Luozi's eyes sparkled, "Do you think the Nanman can definitely defeat Hunhuo Luo?"
Lu Ming smiled. This young man was no ordinary man. He immediately realized the message in his words, because what he was thinking about was whether King Baoyue and the Nile people could live in harmony.
Madam Sanjin had been silent the whole time, but now she said, "Sir Ni Luozi, my master is a master strategist, planning countless battles, big and small, and he has never been defeated!"
Lu Ming coughed. Although these words were praising himself, why did it feel like he was sounding like a warmonger
"It still depends on the strength of the Sonya people's intervention." Lu Ming said calmly. This was the truth. The Western Region was hundreds of kilometers away from the Kingdom of Sonya and thousands of kilometers away from the Principality of Montenegro.
Moreover, in itself, not to mention secret weapons and the like, in terms of military and economic strength, the Principality of Montenegro is not on the same scale as the Kingdom of Sonia.
After all, most of the Kingdom of Sonia is the core area of the western part of the empire, with extremely developed industry and commerce. In addition, two southern marginal states have recently been incorporated after referendum. The Kingdom of Sonia now has nearly 30 states and a population of over 350 million.
Even the population is more than twice that of the Principality of Montenegro.
They occupied two provinces in the northern region, plus two provinces in the south of the Yangtze River, with a population of about 150 million.
There are also allies such as Ren Zhonglin, Han Renwang, Miao Baifeng, and the border residents of the Northern Territory, with a population of about 100 million.
However, the Western nobles never cared about the population of the Northern Territory. After all, in their eyes, the people of the Northern Territory were all ignorant, and the per capita wealth they could create was incomparable to that of the Westerners.
Regardless, in the Western Regions, the Principality and the Kingdom of Sonia seem to have no chance of winning the battle.
However, the principality has been operating here for many years, and has made many friends through the Yellow River trade. Xiheishan Fort has taken the oil corps model and firmly established itself here.
The Hunhuo Luo city-state alliance supported by the Sonyans provoked the war. The Hunhuo Luo were barbaric and aggressive. They were originally a small tribe and were at the bottom of the contempt chain of the Western Region city-states.
Nowadays, it seems that the influence of Punk Trade is getting bigger and bigger. Many city-states have to open their markets and significantly reduce taxes on imported goods under its tyranny.
The Hunhuo Luo city-state alliance was even more powerful, and even destroyed the pearl of the Western Regions - the Nicoluo city-state in one fell swoop.
But there is no doubt that the vast majority of city-states are extremely resistant to the Sonyans.
This is the advantage of the principality.
In such a traditional and closed place with poor transportation in most areas, it is difficult to conquer it by force.
There was also an imperial graveyard in his previous life. Two superpowers collapsed one after another. Even with the support of technology in the 1980s, 1990s and even the technology of the new century, the superpowers were helpless.
Not to mention the Western Regions today.
Although the many city-state models in the Western Regions are completely different from the imperial graveyard in the previous life, the principles are the same.
"I'm still planning to move around in the city." Ni Luozi thought for a long time and then looked up, "But I need a new identity. I hope you can help me."
Lu Ming looked at him, "It seems you have a way to hide your appearance?"
Ni Luozi nodded slightly and said, "Yes, it's actually very simple. I cut my hair short into a civilian hairstyle and it completely changed my appearance."
Seeing his long hair covering half of his face, Lu Ming nodded. It was true. Moreover, most of the people who were with him day and night and could recognize him were missing. The ones who survived, except for those he wanted to contact, would not happen to work for the Hunhuo Luo people and see him.
"Then I'll arrange a barber for you right away, and take a photo for you as a work permit. Yellow River Trading is too conspicuous, so I'll find a small trading company in Montenegro to hire you. You'll be considered a local employee, and you can decide on a pseudonym."
"Thank you!" Ni Luozi said sincerely, "I'll leave my uncle, aunt, and two sisters in your care!"
Lu Ming nodded: "I will send them to the plane tomorrow during the day."
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Under the dim night lights, Lu Ming opened his eyes and realized that he had just been to Japan.
Tomorrow, the Ashikaga coalition will launch an attack on the Kansai Army. The goal is to annihilate the Kansai Army's manpower and occupy Gyeonggi Province, that is, to capture Kyoto.
Ashikaga and the daimyo lords who supported him were all gearing up for action. "Going to Kyoto", that is, controlling Kyoto, was the most exciting ultimate goal of the ancient Japanese princes as overlords.
The Principality's troops stationed in Japan will also cooperate with the coalition forces.
I have to keep an eye on it tomorrow to make sure nothing goes wrong.
In the next few days, the focus of my activities will also be on Japan.
Fortunately, Mrs. Sanjin is really capable, and it doesn’t matter whether she is there or not.
"Sanjin, I will have a good rest here tomorrow. Please don't disturb me unless it's a major incident. For the rest, please help me deal with it." Lu Ming said.
"Yes, I got it!" Mrs. Sanjin's tender voice came from the ground beside her.
Mrs. Sanjin and Papaya made a bed on the floor and slept under Lu Ming's bed.
There is no way. The two-story building is not big and there are only four bedrooms. The second floor is the master bedroom and the lady’s bedroom, and the downstairs is the guest room and the servants’ room.
There were five sons of Nero: Nerobe and his wife had one room, Nero's sons had one room, and his two sisters had one room.
So Mrs. Sanjin and Papaya came to Lu Ming's bedroom and slept on the floor.
Suddenly, there was a soft knock on the door outside the bedroom.
A particularly soft and tender voice, "Representative, are you asleep?" The voice was also very soft and uneasy.
Madam San Jin got up to open the door, whispered to the person outside, and came back to Lu Ming's bedside and reported: "Master, it's Lady Lashimi. She wants to see you, and she said she doesn't want to go to the reception room downstairs because she's afraid her brother will hear it."
Lu Ming nodded, "Then come in!" He got up, wrapped himself in his bathrobe and got out of bed.
Mrs. Sanjin brought in a stunning young girl with Western charm. She was young, but very charming. She had been able to sing and dance since she was young, and her temperament was probably cultivated in this way.
She has deep eyes, a high nose, fair skin, and delicate facial features that are almost perfect. The red dot on her forehead is the finishing touch, reflecting her peerless beauty like a ruby. Her brown eyes are as affectionate as water waves, which make people intoxicated and unable to extricate themselves. Her long black hair is flowing like waves, and is covered with a golden veil, which makes her look more noble. She is wrapped in a golden long skirt, revealing her tender figure. Her jade arms, white wrists and soft ankles are all adorned with large and small gold rings, which are exquisite and flawless, like the beautiful feet of a bodhisattva who has stepped into the mortal world, with red toenails painted, adding a bit of vulgar and charming meaning to her fairy-like aura that cannot be desecrated, which makes mortals' hearts sway and unable to control themselves.
Purity and seduction are blended so perfectly.
Sitting down at the tea table next to him, Lu Ming smiled and said, "Little Princess, what's the matter?"
Madam Sanjin whispered in the Middle Kingdom language, "Master, her name is Lashishimi, and her sister is Fatima."
Lu Ming waved his hands. He was too lazy to remember those weird pronunciations. For Nilezi's two younger sisters, the symbols he remembered were Little Princess Nile and Little Princess Nile.
"I... I..." Lashishimi hesitated to speak.
As a Nicolo noble, he had learned the Greifani language since childhood, and did not need Madam Sanjin to translate.
Lu Ming smiled and said, "Don't be nervous, just talk."
"I, I want to know how my mother and sister Jiali are doing? Do you, do you know?" La Shimi mustered up her courage, but did not dare to look up at Lu Ming while speaking.
Mrs. Sanjin knew that her master would not know who Lashishimi was talking about, so she whispered, "Jali is the fifth daughter of King Nero."
Lu Ming nodded. It was the little princess’ fifth sister. It seemed that although they did not have the same mother, they had a good relationship with this fifth sister.
“I don’t know about your mother, but your fifth sister, she is…” Lu Ming paused, “She is still alive, and she may be…” He thought what he said might be true, but then he shook his head. He couldn’t just speak without thinking.
The fifth sister had been taken over by the leader of Hunhuo Luo, Chihuo Shen, and her husband had also been killed.
Whether she is living a good life or in hell now depends on her personality and how she thinks.
"I, I want to see Jiali... and, my mother, she..." La Shimi's tears welled up in her eyes. She wanted to say something, probably wanting to ask Lu Ming for help, but she didn't know how to ask, and she didn't dare to.
"I will ask someone to find your mother, and your brother will also look for her. As for your fifth sister, I want to meet her... Let's see if there is a chance in the future." Lu Ming turned around and said, "Please remember this matter and I will arrange it when there is a chance."
Mrs. Sanjin nodded softly.
"I, I..." Lashishimi suddenly burst into tears.
Lu Ming was helpless: "Sanjin, you talk to her, go to her room and talk, comfort her." He spoke in Zhongzhou language.
Mrs. Sanjin was busy beside La Shimi, whispering comforting words.
It can be seen that in front of the great noble Nicolo, Master Sanjin felt as if he was suppressed by his bloodline and was very cautious.
After all, from the perspective of the Western Regions, the Nicolo royal family should be the most noble bloodline.
Lashishimi wiped her tears and was persuaded to leave by Mrs. Sanjin.
Lu Ming shook his head, went back to bed, and in the blink of an eye, he went to Montenegro.