With a sound of "Bang!", the precious purple gold silk black pottery was thrown out by the angry Marquis Krillos, and it became large and small pieces on the hard floor tiles. A curio worth nearly a thousand gold dollars just disappeared like this. You must know that the Marquis of Krylos did not forget to bring this purple gold silk black pottery with him when he left the business alliance on that turbulent night. The object was smashed on the ground, one can imagine how angry he was...
Today is August 10th, 1783 in the general calendar of the Galintia continent. It is the day when the Kingdom of Antinak restored the name of the former Cresson Empire, and it is also the day when the King of the Kingdom of Antinak, Ogethello I, bid farewell to the king. position, the auspicious day of enthronement as emperor of the empire, from today onwards, Ogethello I will become Christen IX, or known as Ogethello the Great. His unlucky father, the former King Antinak I, was posthumously named the titular Christen VIII...
The entire imperial capital was filled with a joyous and festive atmosphere. The streets were filled with joyful singing and the noise of gongs and drums. There were endless streams of floats and parades. The residents of the imperial capital well fulfilled their duty to celebrate the enthronement of the great majesty, and the great benevolence The generous emperor also announced that he would reward all the residents of the imperial capital with free wine and meat. To put it simply, it is to eat, drink, and cheer to your heart's content. Today is a good day to eat extravagantly or eat for free...
From time to time there were bursts of cheers on the street, long live the emperor, long live the Krissen Empire. For the Marquis Krylos, the celebration of the enemy and the day of the grand ceremony were the source of all his pain, and the physical pain was even worse than that. Not to mention the bursts of sadness in his heart. After escaping from the business alliance, he finally came to the imperial capital after several twists and turns. According to his plan, he successfully got to know the Earl of Wixas, and was recruited by the Earl of Wixas with his outstanding talents, making himself a Count Earl's docile brains.
At that time, the Earl of Wixas was just a knight, and because he offended the Norton family, he was deprived of the position of acting city guard of the imperial capital, which was also his most frustrated time. When the Second Highness came back, he decided to confer the title of his illegitimate son as an Earl, whose territory was in the remote Magik Province, and strictly ordered the Earl of Wixas to return to his territory immediately.
At this critical moment, it was the Marquis of Krylos who stopped the Earl of Wixas from going to the territory. He asked the Count of Wixas to go to the palace to beg bitterly in front of the Second Highness, and finally moved the Second Highness with his family affection. , withdrew the order and allowed the Earl of Wixas to stay in the imperial capital. After all, the Earl of Wixas had been hanging out in the streets of the imperial capital since he was a child, and he had never traveled far. It was indeed a bit too ruthless to drive him to the territory of Magek Province.
I remember what the Marquis of Krillos said to the Earl of Wixas at that time, once you leave the imperial capital, it means that you will no longer have that throne, and you may still sit on that throne if you stay in the imperial capital. Although His Majesty the King has another son, it will take more than ten years for this son to grow up. Anything can happen in this long time...
The Earl of Wixas followed the teachings of the Marquis of Crylos, went to the palace, lay down in front of the Second Highness, and begged in the name of his dead mother, and finally got his wish and stayed in the imperial capital. With the assistance of the Marquis of Krylos, he established the Ontario Chamber of Commerce, used the excuse of doing business to earn money for the royal family, regained the trust and support of His Royal Highness, and obtained the right to sell several mineral deposits in the kingdom.
Another burst of pain struck, and the body of Marquis Krillos trembled again. The two scars on his pale face from forehead to chin were distorted into abstract shapes. At this moment, the expression of Marquis Krillos was so Ferocious and ugly, like a demon.
But he was the only one in the room. In order to get revenge, Marquis Krillos personally got these two scars on his face, ruining that handsome face. Because of this, he can move freely in the imperial capital without worrying about being recognized. He used to be the Marquis Krillos, the special envoy of the Commercial Alliance.
Perhaps I shouldn't pin my hopes on Wixas, the Marquis Krillos tremblingly took out a small tube of blue potion from his arms, unscrewed the pine stopper on the top of the potion bottle, and slowly poured the potion A bottle of blue medicine was poured down his throat. As the potion entered his stomach, the expression of the Marquis Krillos finally returned to normal. He slowly sat on the chair and reached out to grab the purple gold silk black pottery that he habitually held when he was usually thinking, but he grabbed nothing. , Then I remembered that when I was angry just now, I threw this beloved thing out...
Regretfully looking at the fragments on the ground, the Marquis of Keriros began to calmly think about what happened, why the Duke Norton who had turned against the Second Highness, the Sword Master of the Nation, and the three Grand Dukes of the North appeared in the Second Highness again At the enthronement ceremony, it seemed that nothing happened, and the monarch and his ministers got along happily...
Two days ago, it was said that Grand Duke Norton and His Highness the Second Highness turned their faces on the spot in front of many nobles of the kingdom in the palace hall, kicked the two doors of the hall and walked away, and then took the family members of the four grand dukes, family armed forces and servants with them Nearly 5,000 maids left the imperial capital to return to the family territory.
The Marquis of Crilos was ecstatic when he heard the news. The four alliances of the Northern Lands are the number one noble force in the Kingdom of Antinac. It can be said that it is the defeat of his men. In addition, if the Grand Duke of Beidi, the swordsman of the town, can break with the Second Highness and start a war again, it will be great news for the Marquis of Krillos.
Even if the golden swordsman Mechus who followed him and more than forty loyal silver swordsmen fell on the street as the guards of the chamber of commerce, and were massacred by Duke Norton and his guards, but the Marquis of Crylos thought that as long as he chose The conflict between the Norton family and His Royal Highness caused them to break up, so the sacrifices of these loyal subordinates are still worthwhile, because there is hope for his revenge.
In fact, Lorist suspects that His Royal Highness is the mastermind behind the Ontario Chamber of Commerce and the mastermind behind the assassination of the Duke of Kenmes. He misunderstood the Second Highness. The golden swordsmen under the sword, as well as the silver guards of the Ontario Chamber of Commerce who were killed, were actually subordinates of the Marquis of Krylos, and even the Snow Salt Chamber of Commerce and the Ontario Chamber of Commerce competed for the kingdom's salt market, causing them to lose The 100,000 goldfords were paid for by the Marquis Krillos himself.
But Lorist thought that the Second Highness was paying for all of this for his illegitimate son, the Earl of Wixas. But I don't know that the Marquis of Krylos is suffering, and he has to do so, because the illegitimate son of the Second Highness, the Earl of Wixas, is really muddy and can't get on the wall. If he doesn't come out and wipe his ass for what the Earl of Wixas has done In other words, I am afraid that the Earl of Wixas will be driven back to the territory of Magik Province by the Second Highness soon, and by then the Marquis Krylos' revenge plot against the Second Highness will be in the foreseeable future.
Obviously two nights ago, Duke Norton and the family members and family armed forces of the other three Dukes did not return to the imperial capital, which was witnessed by the cronies sent to the city gate by the Marquis Krylos. At that time, I only heard that His Royal Highness personally brought dozens of horses to chase after him. After a while, the rest of the nobles of the kingdom also rushed to stay, but the family members and family arms of the last four grand dukes still did not turn around. When His Royal Highness and his party returned to the city The faces are all black. Last night, there was news that the team of the four grand dukes had arrived at Qilin Port and was preparing to board the ship.
But what happened to the Duke Norton and the three princes who appeared at the enthronement ceremony today? And where did the thousand Norton family arms come from, holding the Angry Bear banner of the Norton family and striding forward in the parade ranks, shouting "Long live the empire, long live the emperor"? Not only the armed forces of the Norton family, but also the armed forces of the three grand dukes of the four alliances. The three thousand-man troops followed the armed forces of the Norton family and accepted the inspection of the Second Highness, shouting the slogan of loyalty to the emperor and the empire. The streets of the imperial capital…
When the Marquis Krillos was overjoyed at the breakup between the four northern alliances and the Second Highness, looking forward to the resumption of the war in the Antinac Kingdom, gloating at the Second Highness's enthronement ceremony as a farce, he did not expect that At today's grand ceremony, Duke Norton and three other Dukes appeared beside the Second Highness, as if the murder incident two days ago had never happened. This unexpected scene of harmony almost drove the Marquis of Krillos crazy. As the saying goes, the greater the expectation, the greater the disappointment. When the Marquis of Krillos found that his wishes had failed, he returned to his residence and started smashing things.
The door was pushed open with a bang, and a figure sneaked into the room nimbly, turned around and closed the door again, and then leaned against the door, panting and touching his chest, and said, "I was scared to death, almost bumped into Duke Norton, Luckily I ran fast. Otherwise you'd never see me again, Seyrig."
Selig is the alias of the Marquis of Krillos. He told the Earl of Wixas that he was the young master of a chamber of commerce in the Romon Empire in the south of the mainland. imperial capital. He was going to reopen the Chamber of Commerce in the imperial capital, so he invited the Earl of Wixas to partner with him to make money.
I may have found a pig teammate... Marquis Keriros stroked his forehead helplessly. The man who had entered his room without warning was the Earl of Wicksas. In the view of the Marquis Krillos, apart from inheriting his father's handsome appearance, the illegitimate son of the Second Highness is actually a big idiot. The Earl of Wixas, who grew up in the neighborhood, can accurately be described as a qualified gangster and hooligan.
Perhaps he wasn't even qualified to be a rogue, if it wasn't for the old knight his adoptive father had laid a good foundation for Wixus since he was a child, allowing him to awaken his fighting spirit at the age of sixteen before passing away. Maybe Wixus, who has not awakened his fighting spirit, could not survive the war and famine in the imperial capital long ago and went to the kingdom of God of War to report. It was because of his grudge that Wixas survived until he was found by the people sent by the Second Highness.
In the view of the Marquis of Krylos, the Earl of Wixas has no advantages, let alone the knowledge and cultivation of aristocrats. He is greedy for money, lustful, impulsive, etc., and is almost useless. Of course, the Earl of Wixas is still very loyal, but his loyalty is generally manifested in not forgetting to help his friends when he falls into the pit, and pulling his friends into the pit to share the joys and sorrows with him. Just like the Marquis of Keriros, he has been tricked twice in less than a year...
The first time was the competition with the Snow Salt Chamber of Commerce. As we all know, nobles in Galintia used to eat rock salt. Sea salt is bitter and cheap, and is generally eaten by civilians. Although the table salt of the Snow Salt Chamber of Commerce is as white as snow, it is refined from sea salt after all, and for some nobles it is a last resort substitute when there is no rock salt.
The Marquis of Krillos obtained the sales rights of three rock salt mines from the Second Highness through the Earl of Wixas, or in a sense, he has already monopolized the kingdom's rock salt industry. He plans to start from the circle of nobles and push rock salt to the tables of nobles in the kingdom, becoming a high-end condiment. It's just that rock salt needs to be processed many times to become refined salt. Since the Marquis of Krylos was unwell, he handed over these matters and the work of going out to sell to the Earl of Wixas.
In the view of the Marquis Krillos, as long as the Earl of Wixas visits the nobles of the kingdom in the name of the Second Highness to sell rock salt, it will easily achieve results. But what he didn't expect was that when the Earl of Wixas knew that the profit of a small bottle of rock salt was less than a small silver coin, he felt that it was too much effort to earn the money, so he adopted a friend's advice and bought a large amount of snow salt. Salt, mixed with rock salt and sold. In this way, the profit was increased several times at once.
The Earl of Wixas smugly thought it was a clever plan, but he forgot that the nobles of the kingdom were not fools. It is correct to say that the snow salt is white, and the rock salt is a little blue, and the blue and white salt of the Earl of Wixas quickly became a joke. The Marquis of Krillos could only silently spend his private money to fill up the cost pit of rock salt production, storage, and processing. Once he settled the accounts, he lost nearly 100,000 goldfords. By the way, the friend who advised the Earl of Wixas received a thousand gold fords in return from the Earl of Kenmes...
The second big hole is that the Marquis of Krylos suggested that the Earl of Wixas woo the nobles of the kingdom to cultivate contacts and fame, and hold more banquets and dances. As for the expenses, the Ontario Chamber of Commerce will naturally provide them. The Earl of Wixas was very satisfied with this suggestion. Spending time, drinking, and having fun was his favorite thing to do, and he even liked to block the way to forcefully send invitations to the ball to the noble women who went shopping on the Royal Avenue. Because of the power of His Majesty the Second Highness, the nobles of the kingdom who knew that he was the illegitimate son of His Majesty the King could only swallow their anger and make compromises with him.
Until it ran into the Norton family, the so-called prom invitations became a big pit again, and this pit trapped the Marquis Krylos' personal guard, the golden swordsman Mechus, and more than forty silver guards. Even most of the Ontario trading house was destroyed, and the loss was huge. You must know that the Marquis Krillos came to the imperial capital, and he brought less than a hundred confidant guards with him, and now half of them are gone...
"Wow, why did you throw this treasure away? What a pity, last time Miss Bellis said that if I gave this treasure to her, she would be willing to spend three wonderful and romantic nights with me... Morning Knowing that I gave it to her last time..." Earl Wixas found the fragments on the ground, making a fuss and screaming that it was a pity.
"You..." The Marquis of Krillos was in a hurry, but he had to explain: "It accidentally fell and broke. By the way, you know how Duke Norton appeared at the ceremony today. Didn't he say that he fell out with His Majesty last time? Have you left the imperial capital with your family and family armed forces?"
"Oh, that, didn't my father chase him, and finally persuaded him to turn him back. But he and the three princes brought back a dozen guards, and they stayed by the palace for the past two days They didn’t go out in the other courtyard. Today their family’s armed forces are all pretended to be soldiers from the Royal Guards.” Earl of Wixas replied nonchalantly.
"Then why didn't you say it earlier?" Earl Krillos was very angry, and he was happy for nothing.
"What's the use of telling you? Didn't you see that I've been hiding in hiding for the past two days? I almost met Grand Duke Norton just now."
The Marquis of Krillos was speechless, and sometimes he had to admire the good luck of the Earl of Wixas. Just like this time, the Earl of Wixas should be regarded as the chief culprit who offended the Norton family. He even ran to complain to the Second Highness and distorted the facts, which almost caused the Second Highness and Lorist to fall out. After the Second Highness found out what had happened, he rushed to chase Lorist and his party back, without bothering to settle the score with the Earl of Wixas.
Because Lorist refused to allow his family members and family armed forces to return to the imperial capital, the Second Highness was sulking for this, and when he returned to the imperial capital, he had to busy dispatch the Royal Guards to pretend to be the family armed forces of the four grand dukes and check the preparations for various grand ceremonies matter. And the four Grand Dukes of Lorist pretended to be low-key and hid in the other courtyard and did not go out. As a result, they forgot about the Earl of Wixas. As a result, the Earl of Wixas has been free and easy these two days, and even joined the ranks of the kingdom's nobles to participate in today's enthronement ceremony...
"Lord Earl, as your friend, I have to advise you that if you still want to sit on that throne, you should change your bad habits and be a real nobleman, so that you can be a nobleman of the kingdom." With your heartfelt support, you will become a great monarch in the future..." Marquis Krillos began persuading again.
"Okay, Selig, I got it, so stop rambling, I will definitely be the heir to the royal family..." Earl Wixas replied impatiently: "By the way, you still have this black pottery with purple gold silk Is it? If you have it, give it to me for safekeeping, lest you accidentally break it again."
Marquis Krillos: "..."
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