Jacques discovers that Marianne, who has entered the working state, is different from Marianne, who usually maintains a ladylike appearance.

At this time, Marianne put her hair in a bun at random, fixed it with a pencil, and held a shorthand book to write and draw, interrupting the report of the Earl of Naselli's personal treasurer from time to time, asking some questions, and recording them.

Jacques poked his head over her shorthand notebook, the words were extremely sloppy, mostly word by word, and she had hand-drawn many jumping lines and roundbread filled with words. This is the same as Marianne's other bookkeeping bookkeeper, he knows all the numbers, but he can't see how to calculate the profitability of the industry from these numbers.

Omar, the earl's personal finance officer, graduated from the best grammar school in Rand, and his family is now the third generation to serve the Earl of Naseri, who has been helping the Earl with his finances for more than twenty years.

"Miss Marianne, I suggest that the purchase price of the five southern cities be consistent, for the nobles of the south are more closely connected, and anyone who learns that his price is lower than that of others will think that he has been deceived.

Moreover, most of them are involved in the railway company, and their income does not depend on the output of the land, and growing and selling grain in recent years is just a habit for them. Omar emphasized the peculiarities of the south of Castile.

Marianne tapped the notebook with the tip of her pencil and said, "Hmm...... The most likely to sell me grain are also the southern nobles, and you said that eighty percent of the land occupied by the twenty-three nobles in the five cities is not necessary for me to buy grain elsewhere if the acquisition in the five southern cities goes well. According to you, I'm very worried that they'll band together to form a price alliance that will make me pay more than I budgeted for credits. ”

Count Naselli lit a cigarette, took a deep breath, spit out the smoke ring, and said: "The breakthrough of the five southern cities is from Count Cacho of Casares, convince him that most of the southern nobles will do business with you." ”

Marianne's eyes curved into crescents, "So can Uncle Dan help with the introduction?"

"Naturally, this is no problem! ”

"Then I'll pay a visit when I return from the imperial capital next week. Tomorrow we will set off for the imperial capital. ”

......

Jacques and Lily, with their hooded cloaks, followed Marianne, walking and standing like well-trained guards.

The five of them board the train again and head to the imperial capital to complete the most important part of Marianne's plan to make a fortune.

This time, Marianne had experience, and simply bought all six consecutive seats in the first class, leaving a seat for Fat Orange.

A strange aristocratic woman, waiting for the train with guards and maids, is already eye-catching.

In addition, Marianne was dressed in a black dress, holding a fat orange in one hand and a vaulted parasol in the other, inadvertently rotating the umbrella handle in her hand, and her wonderful side face appeared from under the umbrella from time to time, which focused everyone's attention on the platform.

Once in the car, Jacques and Lily sat together with their hoods on, while Marianne sat in the corner by the window next to Lily.

As soon as the car started, Alyssa couldn't wait to dig out the pastries and snacks prepared by the Earl's cook, and began to stuff them into her mouth, and recently she also opened the "Eight Winds Refinery", and like Jacques at the beginning, she was always hungry and always wanted to eat.

Everyone is no longer surprised, only Fat Tangerine can't resist the aroma of secret beef, and competes with her for the food in the food box.

Marianne leaned back on the table, her head resting on one arm, her other hand pinching her fat orange face, her eyes fixed on the rapidly receding scenery outside the window.

Emma huddled in the corner opposite her, carefully reading the newspaper articles, according to her theory, reading the newspapers could tell half of what was happening in the world, and the other half could be deduced from the contents of the newspapers......

After many warnings from Mr. Naselli, Jacques and Lily had to be cautious for fear of being recognized, and were not at all as swaggering as they had been when they had traveled from Port Mousse to Rand.

For this reason, Jacques spoke softly: "Do you think we should go to Claudia first, or do we go to those people first?"

"If you want to find Claudia, you still have to go through Fran, I heard that Claudia lives in the royal palace on the outskirts, you can't get close to it, okay!"

"Go find this kid, I always think this kid is a little ...... Look down on us...... "Jacques jumped off the wall to save Fran, but he didn't deal with Fran very well.

Marianne stroked Fat Orange's head and said, "Fran gave me his address, I have already sent him a telegram, let's go to him first, as for Claudia, it is impossible for us to see her without being introduced." ”

Emma suddenly said: "Actually, there is a way to reduce it directly to Claudia's ......"

"What's the idea for our little Emma?" Alyssa snatched the last slice of beef and stuffed it into her mouth under the gaze of the fat orange atmosphere.

Emma spread the newspaper in her hand on the table, pointed to an article and said, "The Transcendent Tournament, the last game of the Gyeonggi Division, Claudia should go to see it, just three days later......"

"How do you know she's going to go?" Marianne wasn't familiar with this event, which was so famous in the Empire.

Emma replied, "Is that...... The team in the southern city of the imperial capital, the boss behind the scenes is the big prince, they reached the finals of the Gyeonggi division for the first time, and if they win, they will enter the national quarterfinals, so the big prince will definitely go to watch this game. ”

"The Great Prince...... Oh, I see, so he'll invite Claudia to watch the fight. Marianne understood. "But how can you be sure that Claudia will go?"

Emma said slowly: "Because yesterday Claudia accompanied the second prince to watch the premiere of the play "A Doll's House", according to the balance theory, Claudia will definitely attend a public event with the eldest prince in the near future. ”

"Poof...... Balance Theory!" Jacques almost laughed as he drank the water.

Emma said solemnly: "Before determining the crown prince, Claudia will definitely achieve a balance between the eldest prince and the second prince, such a simple matter." ”

"I'm starting to look forward to seeing Fran, hahaha, will he regret trying so hard to get Claudia back to the imperial capital......" Jacques laughed.

Lily also smiled and whispered, "You can see it, I thought you didn't know." ”

Alyssa opened another box of desserts, picked out a small cake in disgust, hesitated for a moment but put it into her mouth, chewed it and said, "I see, not only Fran likes Claudia, but the little girl likes him too." ”

After feeling the imperial capital, isn't it too much to knock on Fran for the most expensive meal, that guy is already so pitiful......

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