With the help of the Thunderhammer, Aldrich Triss can fly directly back to the Western Turkish Customs Union, but it is a bit foolish to use his body to resist the cold air currents of the high altitude without the armored floating ship Tianhuo.

The whereabouts and whereabouts of Helena Thirriès, the generous hand, were relayed to the temple higher-ups, and they did not know what secret methods they used to verify them, and soon sent back messages and instructions.

The prototype of the armored floater, carrying Aldrich Triss, a distinguished guest, slowly sailed out of the airspace of the three North Sea countries and sailed for the territory of the Customs Union in the southwest.

Fifty times faster than an ordinary seagoing ship and ten times faster than a steam warship, the full-fledged Skyfire sent Aldrich Tris to the battle-fortified White Sail Harbor in two days, two days and one night.

The Platinum Chariot Lester learned the news in advance and gave a warm reception to the Grand Knight of Virtue who arrived here at the first stop after his resignation.

As the highest military commander on the front line who has the fastest access to the war situation, he knows better than anyone else Aldrich Tris's exploits, but the accumulation of combat exploits is too high, and he is about to block the way of others. So the dismissal order from the Grand Duke of Eastwood was not surprising at all.

In the fort-like private residence, the Platinum Chariot welcomed the rumored chief knight of the Western Soil with a simple family feast, and because of its private nature, the senior military generals and business leaders who stayed in Baifan Harbor touched their noses in front of the closed door.

Lester retired his servants and had a secret conversation with Aldrich Triss in his study, which did not end until the early hours of the next morning. The outsiders could not guess what they were talking about, and even if the servants who had paid a high price to buy the mansion inquired about the situation, no secrets could be leaked due to the strict control measures imposed on the inner mansion by the platinum chariot.

It wasn't until Aldrich Triss left White Sail Harbor and boarded the intercity carriage back to Eastwood City, where he slowly watched the scenery along the way, that Lester's industry began to offer delicious canned fish and meat, and those who watched their every move realized that the Knights of Virtue had given the Platinum Chariot the secret recipe he had developed.

"There must be a dirty deal behind it!"

This is the consensus of most businessmen who smell the blood of wealth and have a greedy appetite like a shark, but the senior generals do not think so.

They were very interested in the potential of Lester's industry, and in occasional private conversations with friends, they only complained that they had not met Aldrich Tris in advance and missed the opportunity to make a fortune.

As the supreme military governor of White Sail Harbor, Platinum Chariot certainly understands that since the signing of the North Sea Peace Treaty, the generals under his command who have no war to fight have shifted their goals from military merit to business.

Remembering Aldrich Triss's instructions before leaving, Lester specially convened a military conference on the collection of logistics and war materials, but after the boring opening remarks, the topic was to take out nearly half of the shares of the industry under his name and let the generals present bid for it.

It's a slick way to gag them with lucrative commercial profits, or to tie each other's interests together.

In the face of the temptation of Cheng gold coins, the honor of standing in the same trench as the supreme military commander, what should have been a solemn atmosphere of the meeting turned into a noisy stock exchange.

The sentry on duty outside could still hear the sound of quarrels through the thick walls, and they thought that there had been a major military deployment recently, so they tacitly walked away.

With the help of the special geographical advantages of Baifan Port, he used his authority to open the back door for some improper business, such as smuggling and traffickers, and obtained rich returns, and every general has more or less touched it.

However, those are all one-time transactions, faster than the legitimate industry, but there are too many competitors to make the income stable, as for the current purchase of shares in the property under the name of the supreme governor Lester, they are all gritting their teeth and betting their blood.

No one dares not to buy, and when colleagues are actively responding, the exiter will be tacitly excluded by everyone, even if the backstage is big and the background is thick, it is useless.

When the dust settled, the platinum chariot began to publish the income and expenditure books and the composition of the shares of the industry under its name, and the most valuable thing was the warehouse near the port for storing military supplies, together with the nearby land, of course, this was only a nominal existence, and had no value.

In fact, the strategic materials inside have long been transferred to the armored floating fleet, and these empty warehouses have been written off by Lester and have become an important part of the industry under its name.

"The rent alone is not a small amount of money every month, and I believe that many long-term businessmen will compete to bid for leases because of the geographical advantage of being close to the port. ”

The generals attending the meeting were stunned by the magnanimity of the supreme military commander, compared with the "business" that he could not get on the stage and the gray area, the platinum chariot Lester was the real capital player, and the routine entry and exit of military materials swallowed the duck with the belt meat that laid the golden egg.

"It's too ugly to eat! I'm not afraid to die...... By the way, he knew that he would definitely not be able to bear it, so he pulled us all in. Sure enough, it is insidious and cunning, worthy of the title of charioteer. ”

There is no shortage of smart people in the world, but due to the strict power disparity, especially in the self-contained military, it is difficult for subordinates to resist the will of their superiors.

Fortunately, Lester didn't know who he was instructed to do, so he took out a small part of the profits he had swallowed and used them to "buy" the senior generals under his command, at least with this little trick, he succeeded in blocking all their complaints in his throat.

The industry of the supreme military governor was only the tip of the iceberg, and there were whole dockyards, simple coastal docks, fish processing factories, and especially this new business of producing canned fish, which beared the distinctive mark of Aldrich Triss, especially when the generals had tasted the meat rations that had recently left the factory and were about to be shipped to the countries of Middle-earth.

Due to the unique spice recipe that suppresses the fishy smell, the salty taste and the golden soup of oil and water, the generals who know the quality of the daily diet of the low-level soldiers understand that this is a lucrative way to make a fortune.

Looking at the shareholding structure of Lester's industry, Aldrich Triss unexpectedly occupies a place, and owns a stake second only to the original owner, and the participating generals immediately understood that they had been on this boat through thick and thin.

It was not enough to have a mere group of officers with a stake, and on the way back to Eastwood, Aldrich Triss visited powerful princes along the way—large lords and even lesser lords who had a certain say within the Customs Union.

The strength of the chief knight, the descendants of the noble clan of military achievements in the pioneer period, the heir to the old mage tower, the deep political and economic connections, the powerful scavenger union, the great knight of virtue, the holder of Thor's hammer, and a series of dazzling titles, are undoubtedly the best stepping stones.

It was only a seven-day journey, and he was dragged to the ground by Aldrich Triss for a month, until greetings from the two houses of Eastwood City Hall flew like snowflakes that he ended his wandering of the Westlands and returned home unhurriedly.

Back in Eastwood, first to the union headquarters in the Docklands, to stabilize the mood of the basic scavengers, and with Lovette Triss pregnant and unable to hide her loose clothing, Aldridge restrained herself from seeing with her discerning eyes to see if it was a boy or a girl.

The two simply hugged each other tightly, confiding in each other's thoughts after their separation, and the messenger urging him to go to the two houses to report to his work was tacitly blocked by the members of the scavengers' union.

Under the pretext that the dusty journey required rest and bathing, Aldrich Triss delayed for another day, and took advantage of this hard-won opportunity to secretly visit several key people.

Among them is the staff group of the Grand Duke Nobushige, who was introduced by his old friend Master Felix, and talked with Edmundo, the head of the eight leaves, until late at night. Immediately, he met with the core decision-makers of the Merchant Federation, the Seven Old Men, and used the channels and business partners that the three Beihai countries had built up with great difficulty as bait, so that they were inclined to fully support themselves.

When everything was ready, Aldrich Triss returned to his lair at the dawn of the next morning. After changing into a brand new dress, although he had not closed his eyes and rested all night, he was still in good spirits, like a warrior about to set foot on the battlefield.

Riding the dark horse Hayes to the city hall, there were quite a few ordinary citizens who bowed to him along the way, and it was obvious that a large number of negative public opinion caused a large number of civilians to have an inexplicable rebellious mentality.

Aldrich Triss, who had performed a remarkable feat in the Battle of Moon Island, was deplored by a dismissal order and forcibly recalled to report on his duties, after all, the international prestige gained by the victory over the three North Sea countries honored even the civilians at the bottom of society, and their faces were filled with the glory of victors.

To the surprise of Baron Aldrich Triss, but also to his reason, there were exceptionally few members of both chambers present to participate in his debriefing, and when he stood in front of the podium and read the carefully prepared manuscript dryly, no one cared at all.

Obviously, after a series of operations, he not only won the support of enough friends within the Customs Union, but also won him a wide range of friendship by relinquishing some of his interests.

In fact, the Tris family, which owns the Leng Shan fiefdom, cannot stop rising strongly, and the call for the old patriarch to by-elect senators into the Senate has become a reality.

In exchange for his interests, Aldrich Triss handed over part of the shares of the munitions factory on the estate estate to the "introducer" Quincy De Niro, the veteran Senator Baron Federi, and even the first Sir DeWitt and Lord Brian, all of whom took it for granted.

Aldrich Triss was not silent, and he unabashedly began construction of a dry dock for the armoured flotation ship in his domain, the old mansion of the Lonely Mountain.

Since the Thunder Hammer changes the weather and calls for the divine power of the Thunder, the filling of the Elemental Crystals is not a problem at all. The key is a variety of basic materials, armor steel that is much harder than ordinary pig iron, soft but extremely flexible skin, metal frame design of popular lines, and a serious shortage of professional manpower.

He directly crossed over the first generation of armored floating ships and began to develop flying airboats, but the funds invested could not keep up with the consumption, and the gap was getting bigger and bigger.

At the most critical moment, the Temple of the Friends of the Merchants learned the news, and after lengthy internal discussions, they decided to invest in Aldrich Triss's business.

In addition to the necessary money, and the support of all kinds of scarce goods, Her Royal Highness Helena Sériès, who is said to have been generous, seems to have sent good news to her old friend.

Perhaps the more crucial reason was that the coalition of the Southern Grand Dukes marched north to win the Battle of Manassas, a hastily cobbled together new army armed with arcane muskets and defeated by the famous general Marsden Weir, who earned him the title of Stone Wall.