Chapter 86: Sprouting (5)

But despite the fact that he had a premonition that the plunder was real, Hawkins was furious when he received the definite news from the kind and honest Breasian gentleman. As the Prime Minister www.biquge.info of the Reich, the head of government, and the representative of the supreme protector of the vast number of Belese commerce, he must say something. Hawkins' exasperation led him to immediately file a motion to send the Empire's best fleet and soldiers to deal a devastating blow to the raiders. He changed the route to his mansion and asked the driver to drive directly to the Houses of Parliament. When they saw that they were about to reach the building, the horses were unexpectedly startled, so on the most prosperous street in the imperial capital, people saw such a scene, the luxuriously decorated four-wheeled carriage, which was not controlled by the coachman and ran towards the suburbs. The policemen patrolling with batons were shocked, and the Prime Minister's carriage was out of control! The crazy horses did not leave a chance for the police to chase after them, and they went all the way.

Hawkins was also alarmed by this change. The coachman's frightened cries were not enough to stop the sturdy horses from galloping. The horses eventually led the two to a dense forest on the outskirts leading to the mountains, stopping without warning. After a scream, Hawkins heard a not-so-standard accent and was asking him to get out of the car. Through the curtain-hung window, a tall black object appeared in front of Hawkins. Hawkins barely had to be particularly sensitive to guess the details of the comer. Once again, the group summoned Hawkins in an unexpected way, but this time the driver didn't know if he would survive. Hawkins stepped out of the car and stepped onto the black object. The majesty and strength of the group lies not only in the mysteries that can be maintained well, but also in the high technology that makes people marvel.

When Ruixi took his last breath, only the butler was by his side. This is Ruixi's decision, and it is necessary to keep it a secret. Although it has been a long time since he left his homeland in China, the funeral etiquette has never changed in the slightest. The housekeeper personally walked all over the island, looking at the terrain, and finally found a southeast slope for Ruixi that could overlook the boulder on the coast. Before Ruixi could breathe, he dressed up early and walked into the wide coffin, and finally the butler covered the coffin after he left. Considering the family's secrets, Ruixi did not allow his widow to be buried with him after a hundred years, and finally Ruixi lay down on the slope and failed to go in the direction of his hometown. Before leaving, he asked the housekeeper to visit Mei Yi, and even he waved his hand to say that he did his best. After the housekeeper Zhang Luo finished the funeral of the Dong family, he stood alone on the boulder, not knowing what the Ke family would do without the person in charge, what would happen to this small island in the future. On the nearby sea routes, on large and small islands, more and more white-haired and red-haired people can be seen. Tall, violent, and murderous by nature, it will not be beneficial to this island. Ruixi was disheartened and unwilling to look at things before his death, but the danger was really there. The housekeeper wrapped the clothes draped tightly on his body, and remembered the mission to find the missing Mei Yi. In the vast sea, there is no clue, where to find?

Curris's deep mania was not always revealed, and as a standard businessman, it was his job to deal with the officials assigned by Breth. These contacts would have allowed him to know a great deal of old news from Blions. Since he disappeared in the jungles of the Continent of Evernew in the name of Ecovacs, he has naturally lost the opportunity to associate with many high-ranking officials in Breez in the past. A new Territory Merchant needs to start building new channels of communication. On the basis of their commercial connections, the officials of Bris were willing to associate with these merchants. Of course, gift-giving in a relationship is bound to be inevitable. Curris heard from the second-class commercial representative of the Doge's Mansion about the Empire's attitude towards the sabotage of the separatists in the realm, and also heard such a rumor. Business glared at the drunken red and swollen eyes and Curris whispered that there were rumors in the imperial capital that Prime Minister Hawkins was a monster. Curris was shocked at the moment, and then asked silently why he said this. The representative said after the expression changed, don't you know that Prime Minister Hawkins is the youngest head in the history of the empire?

The representative chattered until later, and actually mentioned the name Ecovacs. It is said that this young man, as the younger brother of the prime minister, was once a rising star in the industrial and commercial circles of the empire, but I don't know why he went to the desolate and barbaric Philek, and I heard that he also went deep into the hinterland of the mainland. Curris pretended to be interested and asked what happened. The representative waved his hand and said that he had disappeared inexplicably. The Prime Minister of the Empire sent his most astute and capable henchmen to find his brother, but to no avail. This reminded Curris of the shapeshifter he had seen at Korors. Without exception, at the end of the dinner, the delegates would pretend to be serious and say, "Curis, will you choose to stand with the Empire or with the land under your feet?" Curris always smiled and said nothing, and the representative also laughed out loud and then stopped. It sounded like a threatening inquiry, and Curris knew exactly what it meant. Colors, who had not come as promised, still gave Curris instructions, and those sudden ideas were the best proof of this. Just the night before, Curris had seen Korols again in a dream, and the tall alien lizard had told him that they needed a more explosive conflict between Blees and the Empire. Therefore, it is necessary to create a controllable conflict. Curris doesn't know what a controlled conflict is. I don't understand how to create a conflict, is it referring to the recent sabotage of Belese merchant ships by separatists?

Warman arrived, clutching a stack of newspapers in his hand, and Curris saw the quotation in it. Warman showed him the quotation first, with a smile on his lips. Curris saw the clue at a glance, the price of several industrial products that could only be made locally by the imperial government had risen many times, and there was no need to ask, those who did futures investment in the market were going crazy again. Could it be that the imperial government has given birth to some kind of hegemonic policy that makes people unjust? Warman pointed to the cartoon in the newspaper and told Curris to take a closer look, and it was written above the cartoon that the shipping route was no longer safe and that a business crisis had arrived. It depicts several almost naked people, people wielding wooden sticks and stones, around a large boat among the waves. Curris couldn't help but laugh out loud, you must know that the ocean-going merchant ships of the British Empire are basically equipped with weapons in order to deal with the red pirates that appear from time to time near the southeast sea of the Emerik continent. There are even some ships where all the crew members are from retired soldiers, that is, an ocean-going merchant ship can be regarded as a warship with considerable combat effectiveness. How can a warship be threatened by a group of backward wildlings?

Warman judged that this was nothing more than a low-level trick played by the empire in order to further squeeze the economy of overseas territories and strictly maintain the subordinate nature of the territorial economy. Just ask, between Europa and Emmeric, apart from a few small groups of pirates that have nothing to do with it, where is there a force that can threaten the ocean routes. The country of sea coachmen had long since become a defeated commander of the Royal Navy of the British Empire, and now it has long been reluctant to do business obediently. What Warman said is not unreasonable, but it is doubtful that there is no better reason for the government of the Empire of Blis. Or simply, the Empire's military might be strong enough to sustain a brutal economic policy. Curris picked up the cartoon again and looked at it carefully.

After the prices of several major industrial products continued to rise in the market, some industrialists in the territory began to look at high profits and began to move. Ignoring the ban of the Imperial Government on the other side of the ocean, they were ready to secretly start producing those products on their own. Such a choice is risky, Curris told his peers who have come to vent with him in private. But he soon changed his attitude and became positive. This change comes from a contact that is both unexpected and expected, because the original agreement with Korors already included contact from time to time, and unexpectedly because the way of contact is called Curris's accident, and Korors's attitude is transmitted through Warman. Why can't I get in touch directly? Curris guessed that the alien monsters at the bottom of the sea, taller than any earthling, did not fully trust him, and that Warman was no longer a simple servant or retinue. On the surface, Curris did not show any unusual attitude towards Warman.

Curris began to support his peers' bold moves. While he supported them directly through monetary lending, he was more closely connected with the merchant representative, hoping to know every movement of the empire in the territory. The bloody battle for the killing may be a little more time, but the naked battle for wealth in business has begun and is on the fast track. Through Warman, Flowers tells Curris that the two sides of the fight will go faster and farther along the road. Soon after, the commercial representative was sent home, and before leaving, he told Curris that he would most likely be replaced by a high-ranking government official because of the Empire's growing dissatisfaction with the status quo of trade on both sides of the ocean. Curris anticipates that what he will face next may be a more subtle but fierce struggle. However, the real master of the struggle is not him, and the last time they got along at the bottom of the sea, Curris understood that the game that Korors started on Earth was definitely not a one-man show. And the opponent hiding behind seems to be just as powerful. The most likely thing is that the Empire of Bulles is the power controlled by Colors' opponents. This should be called the struggle of agents, Curris thought of this, and opened a new book he had just purchased. Unintentionally flipped, there was a sentence that drilled into his eyes like an arrow from the string: because human beings have never been the masters of their own destiny and life. We are the children of the cage! This sentence not only entered his eyes, but even quickly stung his heart. Curris was stunned for a moment, and immediately reopened the closed book, but could not find which chapter this sentence was in anyway.

After the change of dynasty, the costumes are no longer as wide and sleeved as in the past, and have become fine. The long black and shiny braids dragged by everyone on the street roamed around, whether it was a northern city or a small southern city, it seemed that they had gotten rid of the bloody and tragic time of the change of dynasty, and became like a peaceful and prosperous era. The people on the street naturally don't know what the officials in the court are worried about, there is no war around them, and as for where there is killing under the court, it seems to be a matter of heaven. However, the worries of the imperial court were not in vain, and the notice just posted on the wall attracted many people to look around. A few people who were coarse and slightly literate in writing and ink recited aloud. The recitation caused an uproar, and the war in the northwest of the imperial court was opened, and there was a shortage of soldiers and salaries. The lack of pay is naturally a matter of increasing taxes and levies, but the lack of soldiers has not been assessed for a while, but the heavy pay is recruited.

After listening to the recitation of the good deeds, the crowd of onlookers thought that it was not their own business, and their interest dispersed, and they did not pay attention to the man who had been surrounding outside, and only raised their hands slightly to remove the notice that the errand officer had put up on the ladder. This man is extremely tall and serves strangely. looks at a person with an extraordinary temperament, but he looks like a downfall. What's even more surprising is that this person didn't have a pigtail in the back of his head, he was really a damned person. After the people discovered this strange person, their hearts of good things suddenly rose, and they followed them towards the yamen. Someone whispered, I'm afraid there will be a lot of excitement to see, just the bare back of the head is enough to go to the Nai He Bridge to drink Meng Po soup. The young man completely ignored this, and still strode into the yamen.

The people who waited restlessly outside the door did not see the young people come out again until sunset. So all kinds of speculation rose, but no one dared to say how sure. Before night came, the people dispersed. The tall young man has not appeared again, and over time, it has become a headless legend of this border city on the sea. From time to time, there are still people in the streets and alleys who rely on the chapters and remarks made up by this headless legend, attracting some scoundrels and idlers to sit around and cheer and listen. According to the storyteller, this young man is not an extraordinary man, but a god from heaven and earth, or he is calm and calm without braids at the back of his head, and he will not be punished by the government. As for what happened to this young man in the future, he became a thing to spend his leisure time after dinner. What young man traveled to the northwest with the imperial court, and immediately made great achievements, and returned to Beijing to enjoy wealth and prosperity. After everyone listened, the storyteller said very seriously that this young man was comparable to the ancestor Xiwa, and he was also a person who was good at change. As a result, some squires were displeased, and the government drove away the storyteller.

After a long period of peace, someone in the court handed the emperor a notebook to propose to reopen the sea ban, and he actually agreed to it. So the spring flourished again. Unlike in the past, when the sea ban first opened, there were people with high noses among the merchants on the shore, who were either white-skinned or red-haired. Fortunately, the people were divided into business, and the imperial court allowed them to stay. After giving a number of gifts to the present day as a token of gratitude, he proposed to revise the treaty for a long time in trade. The court also sent a minister to come, and when he walked in front of the street, someone suddenly said in the crowd, isn't this noble man the tall young man who unveiled the notice that day? The people who had seen this person back then said yes, so they lamented that what the storyteller said was not bad. It was only very soon that someone thought of it. The young man lives in the temple, so how does the storyteller know what happened before and after?

After Hawkins came out of the black object hidden in the forest, he returned to the carriage according to the instructions of the mysterious voice, adjusted his breathing, closed his eyes, and waited for the arrival of the police with the coachman who had fallen into a coma and still did not wake up. The wait lasted so long that when the unconscious driver woke up, the police had not yet arrived. The driver who woke up apparently had no memory of the object that appeared, and the group had probably erased his memory long ago. The coachman chattered and thanked God, lamented the unexpected danger, and made Hawkins cry and laugh. When the police arrived, the driver was still there thanking God. The fine beads of sweat on the head of the police inspector who took the lead showed his panic and anxiety, and the prime minister encountered an accident, and the policeman, who claimed to be the most efficient in the empire, actually walked around the forest and spent a lot of effort to find the prime minister. The police inspector took off his hat, repeatedly said that he was derelict in his duty and asked for punishment, while giving up his horse for the prime minister to ride. Hawkins looked at the carriage, some parts were damaged, and he couldn't go back to the city, so he had to ride a horse. The police inspector was so flattering that he followed behind, and when he talked about the prime minister's horse, it was really extraordinary, and it galloped at an astonishing speed, and it went deep into the forest. Hawkins chuckled, these people had no idea that the power of the group could teleport objects. However, it is clear that the group is under direct threat, and it is not known where this threat will come from. Or maybe the group didn't want Hawkins to know. The voice in the darkness simply told Hawkins that the blockage of the oceanic route was a correlated factor in a series of events.