Chapter 172: I Am a Shareholder
A luxury horse-drawn carriage pulls into Nasser's Second Street, and the scene on both sides of the street is no longer full of bustling and romantic elements like the other main streets of Nasser, but is replaced by a solemn atmosphere.
The Second Avenue of Nasser is very famous on the whole continent, not because it is an old street with a long history, but because there are so many government departments of the Flensian Kingdom that the Second Avenue is also known as the "Flensian Administrative".
On the north side of Second Street, there is a four-storey brick and stone mixed building, which looks like it is one or two decades old, and it is quite conspicuous on Second Street, which is generally more than 100 years old.
This is the administrative department established by Florence 20 years ago, the Patent Administration, which was officially renamed the Patent Administration Office a few years ago.
The luxury carriage stopped at the entrance of the Patent Office, and the golden vines on both sides of the carriage surrounded the insignia of the long sword, so that the people waiting in line at the entrance of the Patent Office couldn't help but take a few steps back and keep enough distance from it.
If a baron family dares to use gold to decorate the family crest, it must be at least a viscount family, and if a baron family dares to use gold on the family crest, then this badge will not be recognized by the noble house.
Countess Butremoano sat in the carriage and looked out the window at the closed door of the patent office, in the same bad mood as her face.
Just a few days ago, she received samples of more than a dozen revolvers from Charles in three series, and each one made her very satisfied, especially the grapevine elongated sword pattern on the second revolver, which made her feel very intimate.
Charles had agreed to patent this revolver as the exclusive patent of the new weapons factory, and now the Moyano family insignia is directly engraved on a series of revolvers, which can be regarded as a complete recognition of the Moyano family's ownership of this new pistol, and the Count of Bayonne has shown enough sincerity for this cooperation.
But when Butremoano sent someone to apply for a patent for the revolver under the name of "X Arsenal", he ran into unexpected trouble.
The initial stage of the patent application was relatively smooth, and the preliminary paper-based technical review was completed in two days, but on the last day when the physical test was ready to be carried out and the patent was issued, a director of the patent office came forward to inform the people of the X Arsenal that the patent was suspected of plagiarism and could not be issued for the time being.
And the object of the suspected plagiarism turned out to be Aurelian's Viscount Philoon Lampaut, a guy who started out as a loan shark, and it is said that he had already made a weapon toy similar to a revolver.
Butremoano was very angry, as a veteran arms dealer, she could not know whether Charles's revolver was original or not? There was no problem in the technical review stage on paper, but when the patent was finally issued, it was suspected of plagiarism, is it really true that the Moyano family is the country's hillbilly aristocracy?
The Moyano family is indeed the hillbilly aristocracy of the Flensian kingdom, but its family lineage can also be traced back to the Norman nobility hundreds of years ago, and it has a strong appeal in the Bolian region, and a large group of vintners are their allies and younger brothers.
After exerting pressure on the patent office through two members of the noble parliament belonging to the Bryan region, Butremoano received the unconfirmed news that the patent application had been troubled because she had not published in the newspaper a few months earlier to cancel the bounty offered by Hornconnell the "Heart Eater", as some had suggested.
"What a joke, what a precious thing is a man's integrity, where can you tarnish it as you want?" said Countess Moyano with an angry laugh.
Recently, rumors have been circulating in the royal capital about Count Bayonne's victory over Hornconnell, including the sniping of spiritual pets eight hundred meters away, and other plots have also faintly appeared, and those who temporarily canceled the bounty don't know how humiliating it will be.
Knowing the importance of the word "integrity" to a businessman, Butremoano did not back down, but directly asked to confront the "toy" Filoon Lampott, and his attitude was very tough.
And today, it is the day to make an appointment with the patent office to confront Filorn Lambert.
"Dadada"
There was a sound of horses' hooves, and a horse-drawn carriage came from the south side of Second Avenue, and the carriage attached to Butremoano stopped side by side, blocking half of the street, with a very arrogant attitude.
"Tuk Tuk"
Butremoano turned his head to look to the right and saw a middle-aged man with a big back open the window and was looking this way, looking to talk to her.
Butremoano didn't pay attention to him at all, she didn't even open the car window, she has been in the mall for so many years, where does she not know what the result will be if she catches up, if she doesn't talk to herself, she will only deal with a loan shark, if once she takes a talk, then the forces behind him will have to think about it, and you can't pretend that you don't know anything.
"Mrs. Moyano, I have a few words to say"
"Squeak!"
Butremoano opened the door directly from the left, got off the station and went to a prominent place on the side of the road, and looked coldly at the carriage parked in the middle of the road, and the arrogant rose lion badge.
"A loan shark is even entitled to use a lion as a family crest?"
Butremoano looks down on the nouveau riche like the Polante family in his heart, and he only pays attention to interests and does not pay attention to rules, and may be able to rise quickly in a few decades, but the family that lacks background will fall faster.
Butremoano stood in the street, and Filon Polant could not speak to him, and he lost his temper, and simply did not get out of the car and waited for the Authority to open the door.
It stands to reason that nobles of status like the two of them don't need to come here so early to wait for the door to open, but Filoon Polant wanted to come early and wait for Butremoano to whisper, while Butremoano was waiting for another person.
Another carriage came from a distance, brand new carriages, ornate ornaments, beautiful Norton horses, and the sound of horses' hooves was crisp and loud.
The carriage stopped behind Butremoano's, the door opened, and the well-dressed Lord Fani stepped down, his new coat of gorgeous fur and charming face, blinding the eyes of the crowd around him.
"Hello, Mrs. Moyano, I'm really sorry I'm late!" Fani smiled apologetically at Butremoano.
"No, His Royal Highness the County Lord is just right!"
Two costumed beauties stood on the side of the road and laughed at each other, much to the amazement of the people around them, and everyone wondered if something was going to happen in the patent office today.
Someone finally couldn't sit still, and the carriage parked in the middle of the road opened the door, and the middle-aged man with a big back walked over.
"Hello, two beautiful ladies, I'm sorry to disturb you, there's a café over there, can we go sit down for a while? ”
"Who are you, and what can happen between us?"
Fani's face turned cold with a smile, and she refused to ask from thousands of miles away.
"I'm Filoon Polant of Aurelian, I have something to do with a patent at the X Arsenal, it's a bit complicated, we need a quiet place to talk about it!"
"Something to do with the patents of the X Arsenal?"
Fani looked at Filoen Polante strangely, and then turned to look at Butremoano, she knew that there was a problem with the patent application at Charles's house yesterday morning, and in the evening she sent someone to the place where Butremoano lived to make an appointment for a meeting, and the latter directly said that she would come to the patent office today, so she did not know the specific reason why the patent application was blocked before she came.
Butremoano took Fani a few steps away, and whispered in her ear what had happened, and Lord Fani's face changed suddenly, first with anger and then with indifference.
"Are you sure you invented a toy similar to our patent?"
The gentle Fani turned into a cold queen, looking down at Filone Polant in a condescending manner.
"Of course, I vouch for the royal family, we Polante"
"I know better than you that you Polantes have never been publicly acknowledged by the royal family, and stop taking the humiliation of your ancestors as your honor. ”
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"Are you questioning the dignity of the royal family? Who are you?" Flouon Polant felt himself on the verge of exploding, it was the first time that anyone had publicly questioned their Polant family's relationship with the royal family in public.
"I am Fani Augustine, the seventh in line to the throne of the Kingdom of Florence!"
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At this time, everyone saw that the last carriage had a small special pattern on it, and a lion had a rose in its mouth.
And as long as the lion badge is used, it basically means that he has something to do with the royal family.
Filone Polanth's head was buzzing, and he suddenly felt that something bad might happen today, and he asked in a trembling voice, "How does Lord Fani have something to do with you?"
"I'm a shareholder of the X Arsenal!"