Chapter 548: Speaker's Confession
readx;?“ Twenty years ago, I inherited the Julay Commercial Bank from my father, which was also the heyday of Julai. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 Info banking was booming, and I was starting to enter politics. But the following year, in 1178, Julay suddenly suffered a drastic change. The Duchy of Northumburia, which had an important maritime trade relationship with Julai, suddenly suffered a great disaster, and it is said that it has been in ruin ever since, and Julai's maritime trade has also been affected and shrunk by more than half.
The industry related to maritime trade is becoming more and more depressed, and the bad debts of banks are also increasing, and the wealth saved by the predecessors has almost been ruined. Although I relied on my influence to persuade the City Hall to put all the financial funds of Julai City into the Zhulai Commercial Bank, it was still extremely difficult.
In the spring of 1193, my fate was again baptized, and a war broke out in a neighboring country, which caused futures on the exchange to plummet and local merchants to go bankrupt one after another. Then, several large deposits in succession, which were relied on, were suddenly swept away from the bank. Seeing that the bank was about to go bankrupt, by the summer of 1193 there was suddenly a large sum of money in the bank, which was the compensation for the land occupied by the railroad that had been transferred from the Empire. Julay is a small place, as long as there are hundreds of millions of cash, it is enough to support the cash flow of Julay Commercial Bank. So I gathered a few cronies together to see if I could find any way to keep the money in the bank for a while.
My original intention was just to delay the payment of the land compensation and allow the bank to turn around. But when the people below heard that there was such a large sum of money, their eyes turned red, and some people said that the group of northlanders had always rented land and planted, so why should they be compensated. Later, the parliament successfully passed the bill, and the money was easily divided among the parliamentarians, and the remaining money also smoothly became the working capital of the bank.
Originally, things went smoothly so far, but the compensation for the land was not paid enough, and the empire paid the money, but the railway could not start smoothly, so after a year of delay, the empire began to send people to inquire about the matter.
At that time, the money had already been divided, and naturally it could not be handed back. The man sent by the Empire to rush the matter, the current Governor-General, gave a deadline within which he would file a huge claim on behalf of the Empire if the matter could not be resolved within the deadline.
I gathered the people who took the most money together to discuss countermeasures. At this time, someone came up with an idea and said: "Anyway, as long as the railway is built, you can make a deal to the empire, and those mud-legged people, as long as they find mercenaries to scare and scare, they won't dare to make trouble."
At this point, we have only one way. So, we spent the money from the secret account in the bank, and the people below were responsible for hiring some people to scare those who didn't get the compensation.
It is said that they have found a particularly experienced foreign hunting regiment, which charges exceptionally high, but fortunately it is a foreign organization, and it is guaranteed to be effective.
Our intention was to scare the mud-legged people, as long as they didn't make trouble and let the railroad resume construction. But who knows, when that group of outlaws took our money and went to execute it, they ran into a hard stubble. There was a blacksmith in the town of Wheat Field who was so strong that he rose up and killed one of the chasseurs, and the outlaws were immediately red-eyed, and shot indiscriminately in the town, killing many people, and setting fire to the town. That's how things got bigger.
The Governor had always known the details of the matter, and he used it to scare us, and through this matter, he firmly grasped the Julay City Council, and finally even proposed that Julai vote to join the Erebonian Empire. To help the Governor accomplish this, I gave each councillor a red envelope of three million miras from the remaining funds in the secret account as a voting fee for voting for Julay to join the Empire. By now, we have completely lost our effect, that is, it is time for the rabbit to die and the dog to cook. ”
Lu looked at the record on this piece of paper with blood-red eyes, and ordered, "Take it and let him press his handprint." ”
After Delgado pressed the bloody handprint, he took the paper, crouched on the stone, and froze.
Coolo silently leaned over and crouched across from Delgado, admiring his embarrassment. After a long time, he asked, "What about the railway bombing?" ”
Delgado let out a long sigh.
"Your grandfather was an old antique, and he was always opposed to the annexation of Julay to the Empire. The governor found a man, slandered him for his involvement in the railroad bombing, and told us to launch an impeachment bill in Parliament, and your grandfather stepped down. ”
A pale smile appeared on Kulo's face, and he said several "Good!" in succession. Although he still had several questions in his mind, he didn't bother to ask them at this time, and squatted to the side like a road, startling up.
Of the four, Gracia's confession took the longest, and it took him almost three hours to recall all the details that could be recalled, and the mercenary in charge of recording it wrote down a large stack of papers. When his confession had been recorded, Walter instructed the mercenaries to tie up the captives with ropes, and then, taking the last confession, walked to the fire.
Lu didn't have the heart to look at the testimony at all, but instead Kuro carefully examined everyone's testimony and compared it repeatedly.
After reading Gracia's testimony, he pointed out a loophole: "In addition to Delgado's unclear testimony, the testimony of the other three people mentions that there is also a councillor named Christo Faisi who is a participant and even the main strategist, who did not attend the banquet tonight, so he missed the net." ”
Lu cheered up, took the testimonies of other people and read them, and said: "This will definitely not be bad, even if it is made up, it can't be made up so coincidentally, I'll ask that Delgado again." ”
After a while, Lu came over with Delgado's additional testimony and whispered to Culo: "That old thing Delgado said that this Fercy was indeed the key person involved in this plan, and even many of the nefarious ideas were his own, but later, he gradually fell to the side of the governor, so Delgado's relationship with him was also estranged. ”
"So what about this man? Now I definitely can't sneak back to Julai to arrest him. ”
Lu thought about it for a long time, and finally said melancholy: "Let's talk about this person later." ”
Gavin looked at the dark cave and whispered, "What about these four people?" Do you want now? As he spoke, he made a motion to wipe his neck.
Lu Xin said exhaustedly: "Let's stay for the time being, sleep for a while, and then talk about it when you wake up." ”
Gavin looked at Lu's tired appearance and whispered, "You go to sleep, I'll be on duty for the night." ”
Lu nodded and said, "That's hard for you." "On this night, he listened to so much information that can bring back sad memories, and he was very mentally damaged, and he really needed to rest. He got into the tent, and after a while, he began to snore, and began to dream.
Gavin looked at Delgado, who was tied up with a rope and thrown aside, snorted, found a blanket for himself, wrapped it around the fire and thought about it, and after a while, he couldn't help but fall asleep.
After the two men fell asleep, Delgado, who was curled up on the side, squirmed. A strong desire to survive inspired the banker and politician to be extremely courageous. Just now, he clearly heard Gavin and Lu He's conversation, and knew that he would probably be thrown into the sea to feed the fish after dawn.
However, for now, he still has a way to live.
He, Filitz Delgado, when he was young, that is, before he inherited the Julay Commercial Bank, was also an adventurous young man who longed for the brave man to fight the monster, and although he had never been to distant places, these islands near Julai were trodden all over the place. He also knows about these rat-shaped monsters on this island. The reason why these rats are able to exhale that poisonous gas is because there is a soft sac in the neck that stores a toxic substance.
He crept quietly towards the fire, where there was a large pile of skinned rats. Reach! He quietly shoved a few rats towards the fire with his feet, and then, he hurriedly crawled away, head down, arching as far as he could into the wet earth.
After ten minutes, he calculated that time should be enough, and when he looked sideways, not only Gavin was sleeping more soundly by the fire, but even the mercenary who was farther away was lying on the ground, his posture was extremely stiff.
It's done. He felt a burst of ecstasy in his heart, and touched the road, and reluctantly pulled out the military thorn on the road's waist with his hand, and with a slight rub, the rope on his body that was not bound well was broken. He held the military thorn in both hands, looked at the sleeping road, and wanted to stab it with a knife, but he was afraid of waking up the others, so he carried the military spur in both hands in shackles, and fled towards the last hope in the darkness.
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