Chapter 41: Reaction of both sides
The Hanging Castle of St. Trite at night, because the exterior wall is painted with a layer of fluorescent mortar, once night falls, the entire Hanging Castle looks like the legendary eternal city of God.
In the outer towers of the residence of the Grand Duke of Vasari, the heart of the castle, Miss Lisa, a powerful diplomat of Freeport, could not sleep at night.
On the desk in front of the windowsill of the bedroom was a drawing of a steam engine from Extraordinary, so detailed that even Lisa, a layman, could recognize it as a real drawing, not a joke made by Extraordinary.
"Do you really not care about this monstrous wealth, or do you have some conspiracy desire for Freeport?"
With one palm on her cheeks, Lisa shook the wine glass in her hand and fell into memory.
Outside of the gold and jade, Lisa has seen many people.
Is there a person who is perfect inside and out? Of course, judging from the current performance, extraordinary is such a kind of person.
But in Lisa's twenty-five years, I have really met it.
It was his first love, with flowing blonde hair, always speaking so freely and indifferently, with gentleness and kindness to people and things.
Cordo was extraordinary, without the high bridge of his nose and the deep circles under his eyes that had been sculpted over time.
Whether a person possesses the noble qualities of kindness or not can be seen from very small things.
And a woman's definition of a man's kindness is often to rescue a wind rabbit with a broken leg, and to see civilians in need of help on the streets of the city, it's simple, isn't it?
It is such a handsome and kind man who makes Lisa fall into the wonderful taste of love alone.
On a full moon evening, Lisa dressed up to confess to the man she liked at the reception.
However, the man took advantage of Lisa's kindness and copied the key to the vault of the Duke of Vasari, and he was never found.
During Lisa's lockdown, she was still looking for a person she wanted to do so.
Maybe his family was coerced by gangsters, or maybe he had a blood feud and his enemies were so strong that people were desperate.
Until she saw the duke send a thick stack of man's information, the man who made her feel the beauty of love for the first time was a habitual thief, and the crimes committed on the mainland were too numerous to mention.
That damn filthy half-elf!
Therefore, in order to hide her guilt for Duke Vasari, Lisa slowly accepted that Lisa was a woman who liked sister and brother love.
It is such a young woman who is known as the "Queen of Freeport Diplomacy", whose rational side is suppressed by emotion at the moment, and she can't think of a way to deal with this drawing.
As a high-ranking official of Freeport, it was best to hand over the drawings to the Duke's Palace as soon as possible.
Clapping her hands, Lisa summoned Martha outside the door and ordered her to release Maggie from the confinement room.
After listening to Lisa's story, the two attendants who had grown up with her since she were a child objected immediately.
"Lisa-sama, we have been looking forward to growing up since childhood, and you told us not to grow up to be what we hate! If you hand in this blueprint, you may be able to get the admiration of the patriarchs, and Grand Duke Vasari will value you even more, but can you go to that hurdle in your heart?"
Almost with a roar, Martha looked at her sister, who was known for her gentle and casual nature, and was silent.
"Extraordinary, but it saved our lives!"
"What is the difference between us doing this and those ungrateful fools?"
Lisa's face darkened instantly.
"That's enough, I'm here to ask for your opinion, not to tell me how to do things! Martha, Maggie's confinement has been doubled!"
Martha stopped talking, pulled Maggie over the chattering and walked away quickly.
This is the first time that sisters have quarreled over a man.
Martha also has a crush on the extraordinary, but that's about it.
In her opinion, for the sake of these good feelings, it is not worth the friendship of more than 20 years.
In the distance in the Berman Hotel, a scene is also staged, but the plot is more reversed.
Guriet, Francis and Dosta sat in a row, and across from them sat Extraordinary and Annaal.
Throwing the steam engine design book to the city-state of Saint-Trite was the best solution that several people had communicated.
"My lord, are you sure you didn't send out the design book for the sake of picking up girls? Hey, what are you staring at, I just want to make sure again!"
The fat man puffed out his cheeks and looked at the extraordinary change of face in a huff.
"You only see the outermost meaning of this disaster!" Gu Lie explained to the fat man.
"Grand Duke Vasari is the ultimate beneficiary, but if there is gain, there will be pay!What Saint Trite needs to pay is to help us share the pressure from the conspirators on the mainland!"
"If it's one person or a few people, we're not afraid, but if it involves most of the forces on the mainland, it's not something we can bear!"
In order to deepen the impression of several people, Gu Lie took out a few intelligence letterheads and asked them to look through them.
The Dwarven trade group from the Northwest Highlands has set out for Yorktown, and they want to forge better equipment that cannot be achieved without a powerful ram.
The stamping air hammer is driven by a steam engine.
Elves and goblins are also ready to move, and the Far North Ice Sheet has set off a mysterious team, led by two high-level shamans who manipulate the mind.
Seeing that everyone had a new understanding of their situation, Gu Lie summarized the pros and cons.
"The Grand Duke is the ultimate beneficiary, Miss Lisa is second, and the Extraordinary Lord is third!"
The ridiculous Extraordinary interjected and asked, "Eh, why am I the third? Do you know how much psychological construction I have done to make the design book that I have worked so hard to make is given away for free like this?"
"Hmph, I'm afraid the Extraordinary Priest is snickering in his heart! I don't know how Lisa is going to thank you now!Do you want her to be your marriage partner?" Anna stingily expressed her displeasure.
Extraordinary gave Anna an inexplicable look, and Anna snorted angrily.
"Haha, isn't the whiskey thing obvious enough? We are not equal to those fools, and we lose some small industries in order to pave the way for big industries in the future!"
"The most important point is that you think that Grand Duke Vasari will share the technology of the steam engine with other continental powers, or sell it?"
"Impossible, looking at the guards on the street with magic crystal guns on their backs, Freeport is not short of money. ”
"The citizens of Freeport have been through a lot, and have given a lot! So in order to defend their hard-won peace, they will strengthen their city defenses and complete their legions. ”
What Gu Lie said is very pertinent, the free port that obtained the blueprints of the steam engine will definitely expand the maritime territory of St. Trite to the east for thousands of miles.
The steam engine is the inducement and the opportunity.
Maybe it will be defeated and oppressed by the enemy who will come from nowhere, or it may be a monopoly from now on, proud of the entire continent.