Fatty Shi accompanied Grand Duke Fausta's wife, Windsor Bilina, to Shirowas Island, where they will discuss the issue of ransom for Grand Duke Fausta and his family's armed Firebird Legion. This back and forth is estimated to take about a month . Fortunately, Fatty Shi has handed over the administrative affairs of Morente City to the newly formed Morente City Autonomous Committee, and reached a package solution with Earl Kate on the release and transportation of more than 100,000 residents in the inner city. , nothing to do, just take a trip.
Tagle brought the private boat owner to Lorist. Lorist was curious about how the private boat owner came back so quickly. It should take about a month to travel from Hilovas Island to the southern waters. In addition, those private ship owners also purchased a large amount of commodities produced by the Norton family's territory on Shilovas Island, and it would take some time to sell these commodities, so Lorist originally expected that it would take about a month for those who have paid off the sweetness. Private boat owners will come again to purchase and trade various commodities.
The private owner is Captain Fredres, and his family has been navigators for three generations. Tagle said that when Captain Fredres was in the transport fleet last time, he joined forces with those private ship owners to subdue the escorts sent by the Armada to their merchant ships, and destroyed some of the personnel who were loyal to the commercial alliance. After the Armada raised the white flag and surrendered, it attempted to set fire to the transport fleet, for which it was commended by Admiral Sembawood.
Captain Fredres was flattered to be summoned by Lorist, the famous Grand Duke of the Northland and the newly promoted sword master. For this reason, he presented the most precious treasure of his family to Lorist, a bright red blood-like plant. It is said that this red coral was obtained by his father when he was in distress at sea. It was because of this red coral that he could escape smoothly. In the eyes of many navigators, red coral represents good luck.
For Lorist's question, Captain Fredres answered everything. He told Lorist that he was from the Kingdom of Chigda and owned a ship called Mermaid Song, which was the first large ocean-going merchant ship owned by his family after three generations of navigators' struggle. Because the ship is named Mermaid Song, it has an intersection with the Mermaid Chamber of Commerce, the largest chamber of commerce in the Chigda Kingdom, and often delivers goods for the Mermaid Chamber of Commerce.
The backer behind the Mermaid Chamber of Commerce in the Kingdom of Chigeda is the Fausta family, and the head of the Chamber of Commerce is the Duchess of Windsor Bilina. Originally, the Mermaid Chamber of Commerce was engaged in high-end clothing and expensive luxury goods at the beginning, but in the past two decades, with the increasing power of Grand Duke Fausta, the Mermaid Chamber of Commerce has also developed into the largest chamber of commerce in the Kingdom of Chigda. Covers almost every aspect of daily life.
Captain Fredres was full of praise for the Duchess of Windsor Bilina. He said to Lorist that in the Kingdom of Chigda, the Duchess of Windsor is almost an angel in everyone's heart. She is so noble, beautiful, and kind. He is generous and donates a lot of money to the poor every year. He often personally distributes food and clothing to the elderly and children in the slums. In the capital of St. Maned, the reputation of the Duchess of Windsor even surpassed that of Her Majesty the Queen.
Because of the relationship with the Mermaid Chamber of Commerce, Captain Fredres accepted the entrustment of Grand Duke Fausta to send the personal letter of Grand Duke Fausta and two messengers to the capital city of St. Maned. After the letter was delivered, Captain Fredres discovered that because of the surrender of the Grand Duke Fausta and his family's armed Firebird Army, the capital of San Manede and the territory of the Kingdom of Chigda were in full swing. On the second floor, many aristocratic forces that were hostile to the Fausta family jumped out to fight against the Fausta family's territory and its subordinate industries and vassal lords, intending to beat the dog in the water.
At this critical moment, on the one hand, the Duchess of Windsor shrunk the power of the family to protect herself, and on the other hand, she raised funds and quietly transferred them to Captain Fredres' ship. As long as the Duke of Fausta and the family are armed If the Firebird Legion is redeemed, the turmoil will calm down immediately, and the Fausta family is still as stable as Mount Tai. Maybe they can take a few of the most joyful noble families to try their swords.
Lorist asked Captain Fredres curiously, how did he handle the cargo he purchased from Hilovas Island? Lorist really wanted to know if the daily necessities and commodities produced in his family's territory were selling well in the southern part of the Galintia continent.
Captain Fredres replied that the Mermaid Chamber of Commerce underwrote all the goods of his ship, and the Duchess of Windsor took advantage of this unloading opportunity to secretly transport the funds she raised to the ship, so he was so fast. can return to the voyage. He brought sufficient funds for this return voyage, and the Mermaid Chamber of Commerce also allowed him to borrow an interest-free loan to satisfy him to purchase some high-end products produced by the Norton family, such as various glass products and those snowflake papers, Fredres The captain is sure that these cargoes will make him a lot of money, and maybe the Fredres family will own a second large ocean-going merchant ship in two or three years.
Regarding the sale of the products produced in the family territory that Lorist was concerned about in the southern part of the mainland, Captain Fredres patted his chest and said that there was no problem at all. As an old navigator and owner of a smuggling ship who has been on the sea for more than 30 years, Captain Fredres taught Lorist a good lesson.
For several countries in the southern part of the continent, the supply of goods from the central, southern and northern parts of the continent is always in short supply. The specialty of the Romon Empire is ivy gum juice, and the specialty of the Havistan Khanate is cattle, horses and sheep. Both of these are needed by the countries in the central and southern parts of the mainland. Similarly, those countries in the central and southern part of the mainland also send their special products into the country. In the south of the mainland, such as the glass of the Trimble Kingdom, the fruit wine of the Bedsen Principality, the pottery of the Amazon Kingdom, and the gold and silver wares of the Chiketor Principality, etc...
However, the rise of the business alliance made Morente City the number one commercial city in the Galintia continent. The unique geographical environment and commercial advantages made the goods produced by the business alliance gradually exceed the traditional production of some south-central countries. For example, the fruit wine of the Principality of Biedersen, the ceramics of the Kingdom of Amazon, and the gold and silver wares of the Principality of Chiketor. These special products can no longer compete with the production of some chambers of commerce in the commercial alliance. The markets of the two major southern countries of the mainland are gradually being used by the commercial alliance. Monopolized by the price advantage.
After the Glass War, the central and southern countries jointly blocked the commercial routes of the commercial alliance and refused to trade with the commercial alliance. It was not to fight for the countries annexed by the commercial alliance. The most important are those markets monopolized by business alliances. From a commercial point of view, the nobles of those countries in the central and southern parts of the mainland really have no good way to compete with the business alliance for the market, so they can only use such rogue methods to achieve their goals.
Because of the confrontation between these countries in the south-central and commercial alliances, smuggling among various countries is prevalent. The commercial alliance has an invincible fleet, and most of the goods can be transported by sea to the Romon Empire and the Havistan Khanate for trading. However, the blockade of the land commercial route has caused the commercial alliance to lose most of its raw materials. .
Captain Fredres said that the most profitable smuggling in the past ten years was to transport raw materials from various countries in the south-central countries to the Golden Bay by sea, exchange them for the produced goods from Morente City, and then smuggle them to other countries. However, the blockade of commercial routes by various countries in the central and southern parts of the country made such smuggling of raw materials a drop in the bucket for the commercial alliance, so it was inevitable that the war between the coalition forces of the central and southern kingdoms and the commercial alliance would eventually break out.
Years of wars have destroyed the commodity production capacity of the commercial alliance and various countries in the south-central region. At the same time, the commercial alliance implemented the lord system, which made each chamber of commerce relocate the production workshops to their respective chambers of commerce. decline. Fredres said that the products produced by the Business Alliance have become more and more crude in recent years.
Under such circumstances, the exquisite daily necessities and goods produced in the Norton family's territory effectively filled the vacancy in the market in the southern part of the continent. With years of experience in smuggling, Captain Fredres guarantees that the goods purchased by the privateers will be sold well in various countries in the southern part of the mainland. These guys will make a lot of money by relying on the goods produced from the Norton family's territory, Frederick. Captain Reis said somewhat unwillingly. After all, he only owns one sea-going ship, so he cannot monopolize the entire trade route, and there are too many private ship owners scrambling for food.
At this moment, Lorist suddenly understood why the Petersen Chamber of Commerce and the Chickard Chamber of Commerce in the previous business alliance had been suppressing these commodities produced in his family territory. Because they are chambers of commerce and have their own production workshops. If large-scale purchases of these commodities produced by the Norton family's territory will definitely have a market impact on the commodities produced by their own workshops, squeezing their monopolized market share, so they used to purchase only a small part each time. For boutique sale. On the one hand, they want to keep the market for their own products, and on the other hand, they take advantage of the monopoly of trade routes and the asymmetry of market information to purchase from the Norton family at low prices to win more profits for their chamber of commerce.
And now these private ship owners don't care if it will damage the market share controlled by those chambers of commerce. They only know that the goods purchased from the Norton family can earn them a lot of gold coins, and they don't have any private production workshops. , There is no need to worry about whether putting these products produced by the Norton family on the market will affect the production of the business alliance. That's good, Lorist didn't expect that his random move would deal the most fatal blow to the business side of the business alliance. You must know that at that time, he was only thinking about finding another market for the products of these family territories accumulated on Hilovas Island.
In another half a year, after those private ship owners spread the production influence of the purchased Norton family territory to the entire southern part of the continent, perhaps the business alliance will really be in a hurry. Lorist thought proudly. He rewarded Captain Fredres heavily and specially gave him a family-produced monocular. After he understood how to use this telescope, Captain Fredres was overjoyed and vowed that he would take this single The binoculars are regarded as family heirlooms and passed down from generation to generation.
"Perhaps you can start with those private ship owners and arrange our spy intelligence system instead of sending personnel to the southern part of the mainland to collect intelligence. For example, this Captain Fredres is a good candidate, we don't need to send He has grown into a member of our family, we only need to establish a good relationship with him, get the latest news from the countries in the southern part of the mainland from him, and then confirm with other private ship owners to know whether the news is true or not." Lorist Pointing to Tagle.
"I understand, Your Highness, I will arrange it." Tagle nodded. Lorist is right. These private boat owners are well-informed and travel a lot. They are the first to know about any disturbances in the countries in the southern part of the mainland. Getting the latest news from them is better than sending people to the southern part of the mainland to collect them. Intelligence is much more convenient. The most important thing is to save money, labor and time. After drinking a few glasses of wine in a tavern, you may even be able to find out exactly what color underwear the king's lover is wearing.
From Captain Fredres' mouth, Lorist knew that the big-eyed girl he liked back then has now become a truly elegant and assertive noble lady. This made him very emotional. At that time, that lovely and pitiful girl was helpless after the great changes in her family. When she had nowhere to go, she threw herself into the lake and committed suicide. Can't think of any other way.
Nearly twenty years have passed, and in the blink of an eye, that once pure and beautiful girl has also changed. Maybe I should understand from the breakup that year, that I know too little about her, or maybe I think her well. It’s too simple. Judging from the crisis she encountered in dealing with the Fausta family this time, she is not lacking in scheming. Perhaps during the twenty years of her marriage to the Grand Duke Fausta, she has finally tempered herself from the intrigue of the aristocratic circle. up.
Lorist didn't regret that he refused to meet her again, the past had passed, and the words "meeting is worse than missing" well explained his feelings at that moment. Letting Fatty Shi deal with her is the best choice. Fatty Shi will not worry about the friendship in the past. Now the initiative is on the side of the Norton family. He will sharpen the knife he wants to sharpen quickly. slaughter.
It's just that Lorist's relaxed and happy mood was quickly ruined by the latest news from the imperial capital: "What did you say? Her Majesty the Queen died of a sudden illness?"
"Yes, Your Highness." Tager held the Eagle message that had just arrived in his hand: "On August 32, Grand Duke Fesabrun rushed to the imperial capital and entered the palace to meet His Majesty the King, but he did not leave the palace that night. In the afternoon of the second day, the news of Her Majesty the Queen's sudden illness and death came from the palace..."
One corpse and two lives, how could they do it? It has been more than a month since the queen was found pregnant, and she will be able to give birth in another month. It is almost certain that the children in the queen's stomach have developed into babies up. Although Lorist was a pure bystander in this matter, he also felt sad at this moment, the hearts of the Second Highness and Grand Duke Fessabrun were really too cruel.
In mid-July, the Allied Forces of the nobles of the Antinac Kingdom led by His Highness the Second Highness embarked on a journey home, while the armed forces of the Fesabrun family separated from His Highness the Second Highness in the province of Campona. On the road in Org Province, he has to go to Anderwolf Province first, which is another family territory allocated to the Fessabrun family. Nearly forty collateral relatives of the Fessabrun family will be canonized Become a landed nobleman in this province. This is also the agreement and compensation reached between the Feisabrun family and the Second Highness who sent troops to assist in the battle.
Since the queen's pregnancy scandal came out, the Second Highness has been silent. Apart from strictly prohibiting people in the imperial capital from discussing this matter, the other thing is to give the queen's adulterer, which is rumored to be his illegitimate son, the Knight of Wixas. House arrest. Lorist originally thought that His Royal Highness wanted to wait for the child to be born before taking care of it, but only now did he realize that he was waiting for the arrival of the Grand Duke Fessabrun.
It was obvious that His Highness the Second Highness had reached a secret agreement with the Grand Duke Fessabrun before he committed the murder. Lorist, a passer-by who is a soy sauce bystander, can't say anything about it, and he can't accuse the second highness of his cruelty, but this matter must have turned over like this, and as time goes by, it will only be slowly. Forget it, maybe only a short sentence will be left in the history of the kingdom: On a certain day, a certain year, the queen suddenly fell ill, and the treatment failed.
"Well, what about the Wixus knight? Has he been dealt with?" Lorist asked.
"No." Tagle looked at the silk on his hand twice carefully before replying: "It seems that he is still in the palace, still under house arrest, and has not received any news of being disposed of."
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