Chapter III: Creditworthiness

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Yes, I would like to leave the city of Françola tomorrow on the earliest boat, and I'm very sorry that Cameron was unable to attend your celebration and awards conference

In such a hurry, Lyss felt very strange where you were going

I'm going back to the Republic of Monis, Cameron replied, "Your Majesty, you know, Cameron is first and foremost a businessman, working for His Majesty, and only doing business part-time, I have left a lot of business and industry in the Republic, which has not been taken care of for quite some time, and I must hurry back and take care of the business that I have left behind because I am not there."

Haha, I thought it was something important, but it was just a small thing, Du Liss laughed, our plan can be carried out so smoothly, you can't erase your achievements, how can a hero like you not appear tomorrow at the celebration and awards, as for your loss, that's no problem, how much your business loses, I will give you an additional ten times the reward in the celebration and medal conference

No, Cameron shook his head and smiled and said to Duris, Your Majesty, you misunderstood, it's not a matter of money

Oh, Duris's look was listening, it wasn't about money, it was about what it was

Cameron didn't answer Duris's question directly, but asked in a somewhat pretentious way: Do you know what is the most important thing about being a businessman?

What is this, it is only necessary to ask the businessman, the most important thing is, of course, the pursuit of more profits, Duriss thought so, but he did not say it directly, because he knew that this smart businessman would give him a different answer

It's integrity

good faith

That's right, Cameron further explained that businessmen want to make money, but they should take it in a proper way, blindly pursue superficial profits, and put morality aside, businessmen are short-sighted businessmen, even if they make a lot of profits for a while, but they can't do really big business;

Then the object of your 'integrity' is Duris, and he couldn't help but ask

is my business partner

Well, I understood, and Duris nodded to Cameron, and said, "Since you'd rather give up a huge reward than break your trust in your business partner, then I won't force you to stay."

Thank you for your understanding, Cameron said very politely

Duris patted Cameron on the shoulder and said to him with great appreciation: Cameron, you will be a very successful businessman

His Majesty Cameron also smiled at Duris, and said that you will also be a very great king

Hahahaha...... Two men with different identities and statuses who were sympathetic to each other smiled at each other

The next day finally turned to the next day, the Age of Light, August 5, 1686

The celebration and award ceremony was held in the afternoon, and the main thing to do in the morning was to prepare for the afternoon meeting

Before dawn, Cameron had already taken the earliest ship and embarked on the road back to the Monis Republic, Duris did not go to see Cameron, first, Cameron was on a passenger ship, it was inconvenient for Duris to expose his identity and the fact that Cameron had served him in public; second, the most important thing for Duris at that time was to rest, as a monarch, he must appear at the conference in the best condition; third, there had already been a deep exchange of ideas between the two, and there was no need to do too much superficial work such as seeing them off

However, even though Durris did not go in person, he sent his attendant Guinine to the docks to give Cameron a ride in his place, and he also asked Quinine to send Cameron a large sum of money as compensation for not personally giving Cameron a reward at the convention, and Cameron knew that this was a change of heart from King Duris, and accepted it as a matter of choice

The preparations for the assembly had been given to Leeman and Fawkes, and the king did not take much care of it, so that Durris did not leave his study all morning, and he should have been very busy, but instead of burying his head in the large pile of papers on his desk as usual, he walked to a window with his hands behind his back and looked through the glass at the view of the window

Honesty, Duris, recalling last night's conversation, can you think that a monarch runs a country like a businessman manages a business, and a monarch also needs to have integrity in order to manage a country well

Just as Duris was thinking about how to govern the country, there was a chaotic noise outside the study

Guard, Durris, called in one of the guards who was guarding the door and asked what was going on outside

There was a political offender who pestered Bai Lai and said that he wanted to see His Majesty, and we stopped him, and the guard replied

The political prisoner Du Lisi frowned

The political prisoners they are talking about are the more than 150 prisoners who were originally imprisoned there when Duris was fighting in the dungeon of the lord's castle a few days ago, most of them are political prisoners, of course, some are local lords who have been arrested for personal reasons, and there are also some vicious real criminals who have been released, and most of them choose to take up arms to fight side by side with the Duris's squad in order to survive and be free, but many of these prisoners have no formal military training, and have been tortured and malnourished for a long time, and their physical quality is extremely poor, and nine of them were killed by the holy army that attacked the dungeon, and in the endOnly 15 people were rescued, and all of them were wounded, and two of them died from their injuries

The 13 prisoners who survived were left in the castle by Duris to recuperate from their injuries, although Duris had used them, but these people were still prisoners after all, and it was not good to deal with them for a long time, so Duris ordered the military priest to quickly heal the injuries of these people, and then send them home, but he didn't expect that there would be people who would stay, and he wanted to see him

Originally, Du Li Si wanted the soldiers to send more money to drive this political prisoner away, but he thought about it, this political criminal had to risk killing his head, and he also had to break into the study to ask to see him, maybe there was something very important, maybe it would also be beneficial to the Pole Kingdom, so Du Lisi asked the guard to bring the political prisoner in

Half a minute later, the noise stopped, and the guard led in a bad old man with a white beard, who had changed into new clothes, weakened body, and his face was covered with old and new scars caused by various torture instruments, but his eyes were as sharp as an eagle's eye, and Duris recognized this old man named Weimar, and it was this old man who called on most of the prisoners to join Duris in the battle of the dungeon, and he seemed to have a very high status among the prisoners, and some of the prisoners even did not hesitate to protect him with their lives

Duris dismissed the guards, and then left alone with the old man Weimar in the study, and with his strength as a royal knight, he was not afraid of being assassinated, and then the two of them began to talk for hours

Who in the world would have imagined that the secret conversation in this study at this time would accomplish the great revolution that would sweep through most of the Holy Light countries a few years later