Chapter 128: The Cash Truck Incident
The food at the dinner was sumptuous, which shows how much effort the chefs at Singalla Manor put in, but most of the food here is Italian, Spanish, or French, and Joseph is slightly unaccustomed to it.
After the dinner Joseph left the hall under the guidance of the servants, but Singhella followed him a little later, and Joseph was not surprised. Count Singla was invited to sit down, and the two talked to each other.
"King Alfonso wants me to give more advice on the royal family's investments."
To put it mildly, this is also a foreshadowing given by Count Singhella for Joseph to be invited to the palace tomorrow, and Joseph was not prepared at that time.
"How much does he want to earn each year?"
"Five million euros, the financial conditions of the Spanish royal family are not very good right now, and if there are these five million euros, they can solve a lot of things."
The consumption of a large family, especially the royal family, is very high, such as the Ragnar family, and now the annual consumption of the royal palace is about three or four million euros. And that's just the servant's salary, ordinary daily necessities, and if you add banquets and the like, it's not hard to break through five million euros.
The Duchy of Nord is still like this, and the embarrassment of the Spanish royal family can be imagined, after all, there are a large number of nobles in Spain, excluding those low-level nobles who are not qualified to be invited, and those who are qualified alone are fifty or sixty people.
The royal honor guard is also a big expense, according to the tradition of the Spanish royal family, how much is that ceremonial military uniform alone? In addition, there is the salary of the honor guard, daily training, and so on. Of course, these are all government contributions, otherwise the Spanish royal family would have gone bankrupt.
"Five million euros is not much, you discuss these with Smith, I rarely interfere in economic matters, and I can't do it."
Although Smith is the Minister of the Interior of the Nord, the entire Duchy of Nord is no different from Joseph's private property, and it is not unreasonable to treat Smith as a retainer.
That was the purpose of the evening visit, and since the purpose had been achieved, the Count of Singla would not stay any longer, and after good night, he left Joseph's room and returned to his bedroom.
After a night of silence, when the sun shone on Joseph's face the next day, James was waiting for him to wake up, and when he looked at the curtains that had been lifted, he knew it was his masterpiece.
"Good morning, James!"
"Good morning, Your Majesty!"
As he spoke, James stepped forward to help Joseph get dressed, and Joseph was a little unaccustomed to it the first time, after all, the opposite sex and the same sex are two completely different feelings, but after these two days, Joseph has become accustomed to it.
There was still a little time to get dressed and attend King Alfonso's breakfast, but Joseph didn't delay, after all, there was still something to discuss during breakfast, and there was no obstacle to going early.
By this time the Count of Singhella had already gotten up, but he was not invited, so Joseph was the only one who went to the palace, and the car was already waiting, and it was the welcome car of the palace.
The air in the suburbs of Madrid in the early morning is very good, and there are not many pedestrians on both sides of the road, which is normal, after all, it is only seven o'clock, and the residents of Madrid are either eating breakfast or just getting up, and only two kittens are walking. While Joseph was on his way to the Spanish royal palace, some people in Western Sahara were preparing their own plans for war.
Rebellion? Attacking the Nord-controlled territory of Western Sahara? Naturally, those warlords and terrorists do not dare to do this, because it is a dead end, and they will not die in vain if they are not stupid.
The plan of a small warlord is to rob a cash truck, and it is self-evident how rich and poor they live in Western Sahara, a cart of euros is not more than a million, but this is enough to make them tempted.
Millions of euros can be exchanged for thousands of AKs, and these AKs can form an armed army of thousands of people to attack the Nord-controlled areas in Western Sahara, they naturally do not have the ability, but there is no problem in unifying their own periphery.
Western Sahara is indeed a place where grandpa doesn't hurt and grandma doesn't love, there are oil fields in the Middle East, and there are ore resources in South Africa, but what do they have? Yes, just piles of yellow sand.
In fact, the unification of the surrounding area and the acquisition of land are nothing to these warlords, and they do not value these useless lands, they value the population resources and the pressure of war.
If they defeat the armed forces around them, they will be much safer and more powerful, and if they can one day rule the whole of the southern part of Western Sahara, then they may have the power to drive out the Nord principality.
Of course, this will not be realized, because their every move is in the eyes of the intelligence department of the Principality of Nord, and now they are just allowing them to kill each other, and once their power grows to a certain extent, someone will naturally be dispatched.
The predecessor of the First National Defense Army of the Principality of Nord was the mercenary army, and although they have been reorganized, some of them remain in various places to continue to operate, including a small mercenary division in Western Sahara.
This small branch may not be able to hide from the CIA or the KGB, but there is no problem in hiding these small warlords, and they still do not know that this is Joseph's plan, or they know but can only do it according to Joseph's ideas, because this is an inevitable conspiracy.
On the dilapidated streets, a cash truck, protected by several police cars and helicopter gunships, began to move along Qaltazaymar towards Laayoune. Qaltazammor was the most remote city in the Nord-controlled region of Western Sahara, and it was also the most garrisoned.
It's just that although there are quite a few garrisons, they don't actually have the ability to monitor everything, and the place where the warlords are ready to do it is on unsupervised roads, not heavily guarded towns.
After the yellow sand, looking at the gradually approaching cash trucks and helicopter gunships, one of the militants glanced at his own leader with some embarrassment, the gunships are not easy to deal with!
"Bazooka! With a bazooka! ”
"......"
The status of the militant does not seem to be low, he obviously does not want to use a bazooka, you must know that their entire organization is only two complete sets, and it takes at least two helicopter gunships to shoot down two helicopter gunships, which is still a hundred shots, if you don't hit......
I haven't seen the money lose two rockets first, who wants to do such a deal? However, they also know that there is no way to be reluctant now, after all, once the gunship finds them, then don't say that money is life, they have to stay.
The two militants formed a position as instructed by the arms dealers, and then aimed at the helicopter gunship...... Shout...... The rockets pulling the flaming light flew towards the helicopter gunship as the two militants were knocked out by recoil......
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