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It was not yet eight o'clock, the sky was already dark, the palace was still brightly lit, and Suleiman seemed to be having another banquet for a vassal monarch of a small European state.

There was not even a light in a house next to the Topka Palace, where the Grand Vizier Ibrahim Pasha was working, and he was still on business while he was eating dinner at great speed.

The chief preacher did not have much official business, but the chief justice had a lot of business, and if Rutt was not there, Ibrahim took it all.

He looked at the official document on the desk, estimated it, and made sure that he should be able to read it all before twelve o'clock, and smiled with satisfaction.

Don't get me wrong, he can rest so early, and after twelve o'clock, he has an hour to work.

Although he is talented and has the love of the Lord of the Stars and Moon, the necessary exercise at noon and evening every day is still required, and this level of training cannot make him go further, that is, to maintain the level of medium protector, which is enough.

The time spent exercising was actually entertainment for Ibrahim.

In addition to this entertainment, he has other rests.

"Your Highness, do you want to take a break?"

"Okay."

A favorite concubine saw that the time was almost up, so she brought a plate.

"The Gibraltar station sent a letter eleven days ago, and they have been monitoring day and night for the past thirty days, and they have not relaxed for a moment, and it can be determined that the Spanish fleet has still not entered the Mediterranean."

This favorite concubine was rewarded by Suleiman, not only with a graceful figure. The voice is sweet, and he is still a good mage, and the combat power of the backbone level is not very powerful for going to the battlefield, but the processing of paperwork is clear, and it is also very good as a specialized nutrient maker.

In addition to dealing with domestic affairs, listening to foreign intelligence is the rest of Ibrahim Pasha.

This way of working is terrible for others, but Ibrahim is able to adjust his mood and stay in shape.

"Seville sent a letter ten days ago, and the prices of several important products have fallen, the price of allspice and chili peppers has fallen by 15 percent compared with the peak, and the price of indigo has decreased by more than 20 percent."

Ibrahim didn't just focus directly on the fleet, Spain had the best commanders of the era, and their counterintelligence department wasn't dry.

Go directly to the Admiralty or the palace secretariat to steal information, and you will be arrested in a few times, not to mention that the clerks are also the second generation of various nobles who are innocent for three generations, and they can't develop any inside lines at all.

The average life expectancy of the agents at the Gibraltar station was only nine to ten weeks, and they were killed at every turn, and the stationmaster was rarely able to work for a full year before being dug up and hanged.

Nevertheless, Ibrahim has succeeded in finding a solution, and the stations in Seville and Madrid have been in operation for many years and have been able to provide information reliably, compared to the Gibraltar station, which was often destroyed and rebuilt.

Although it is still not possible to infiltrate the middle and high-level in Spain, it can at least provide secondary information stably, and it is also very timely.

The beautiful concubine continued to say softly: "The letter sent fifteen days ago at the Madrid station also confirmed that the prices of products produced in the New World on the market continue to fall, although the magnitude is not as good as that of Seville, but there is no doubt that several traders controlled by the Spanish nobility have stopped eating and have begun to release their stocks. ”

Although the length of time it took for information to arrive in Istanbul varied from site to site, the overall outline of the message was clear.

Although it was impossible for the great nobles themselves to collude with the Ottoman Empire, it was impossible for them to seize economic benefits without relying on their own information superiority.

The Habsburg royal family themselves did the same, and if the situation in the New World was unstable, all kinds of production would be tightened, and once the prices fell, it would be revealed that they were in the process of making a strategy for the New World, and that they were quite confident.

"What about the report at Vienna?" Ibrahim suddenly asked about the situation in Austria.

"The Vienna station reported six days ago as follows." Vienna was not too close to Istanbul, but the Ottomans controlled Buda, so the news came quickly, and "the Grand Duke Regent had become more hawkish on the banking syndicate, having rejected the request of the Fogel Textile Society to lower the quota limit for textiles." ”

"Austria also rejected the demands of several Italian merchant groups to control the power of the Viennese brewery, and His Royal Highness the Regent claimed that textile and brewing were the cornerstones of Austria's prosperity and would never be controlled by foreign capital."

The infiltration of Austria was relatively successful, Ladislaus gave them a lot of government positions in order to win over the Hungarians, and the Ottoman Empire relied on the Hungarians in its occupied areas as a medium, and had already attracted several figures of certain value.

Ibrahim nodded, Austria's toughness on the bankers also indicated that the amount of Spanish subsidies would increase next year, otherwise the regent would have little strength to protect the national industry.

"Okay, continue to scout, we must not relax our attention to the Spanish fleet, this is a matter of life and death for the Ottoman Empire." (To be continued.) )