Chapter Seventy-Five, The Beginning of the King
"Who is our friend and who is our enemy, this is a very important question. ”
Lana said calmly, her gaze coldly falling on the businessmen who were kneeling on the ground, shivering as if they were swinging as cold.
They are all representatives of the Chamber of Commerce who had agreed to supply goods with the Lizardmen Group before, but only failed to make an appointment for various reasons.
There are various reasons for their failure to make appointments, some are afraid that if the alliance of the three clans wins, the lizardmen will be defeated, and they will not be able to recover their investment, some are afraid that they will offend the smuggling joint chamber of commerce and will not be able to do business with peace of mind, and some are ......
But Yunero is not interested in their reasoning!
Everyone in the world who makes mistakes can find a reason for themselves, so what?
Is it possible that if a reason is found, the mistake does not exist? Or can the mistake be forgiven if a reason is found?
Fart!
If you casually forgive those who made mistakes, what about those who were harmed by their mistakes?
So the name that Yunero proposed for this operation was "No forgiveness of one".
Yes, he does not intend to forgive any of them.
Usually he is a good man, even if others offend him, he can laugh it off. But this time it's different, or rather, his position is different now.
Now, he is not dealing with problems from the standpoint of "Yunero" personally, but from the standpoint of "leader of the lizardmen group".
Because of these people, the lizardmen's battle this time was much more troublesome than expected, although the casualties were not large, but it took a lot of time and cost more. And these losses must be counted on the heads of these people, and on the heads of those chambers of commerce behind them!
So he invited the representatives of the Chamber of Commerce, but instead of seeing them immediately, he asked Lana to take them to visit the gallows that were erected as densely packed as a wood, and on each gallows hung a half-orc's terrifying execution ground.
These chamber of commerce representatives have obviously never seen such a formation - there are many power fights in the South China Sea, and murder and arson are commonplace, but it has not happened for a long, long time to hang on a large scale like this one.
Even in the entire Western Continent, this hasn't happened for a while.
At the beginning of the Norma massacre, Marquis Henry, who presided over the massacre, only let the soldiers kill all the captured Normars, and did not engage in trial and hanging. Although the corpses were piled up, and when they were burned, black smoke rose into the sky, and the day was like night, but after the burning, there was no longer anything to be seen, only the blood-soaked soil on the execution ground, silently indicting the sins that had occurred.
Like here in the "Noose Wasteland" on Longtou Island, the gallows are erected like a forest, and ordinary people with short lives have never seen it in their lives.
Therefore, the representatives of the Chamber of Commerce panicked all of a sudden, they thought that Yune Ruo was very talkative, as long as he apologized and said a few soft words, he would be able to pass the test smoothly. Or maybe they think that after all, the lizardmen still need to do business with them, and even if they suffer a loss this time, they will swallow it silently, and they will not really turn their faces against them.
But they never expected that the lizardmen would put on a posture of wanting to be completely liquidated, and they were asking them to pay for it with their lives!
So they were all afraid, they were all afraid, they were all trembling, they were all trembling, they were fidgeting.
Lana specially told the soldiers not to prepare dinner for them, and when they were so hungry that they could not stand it and ate dry food with cold water, Yunero suddenly summoned them.
Inside a poorly lit hall filled with an eerie atmosphere. Outside the hall, there were many soldiers waiting.
The merchants, who were the most sensitive to numbers, habitually counted the number of soldiers outside the hall, and were surprised or alarmed to find that there were exactly three times as many as them.
Two people are held left and right, and one person is responsible for the execution, which is the practice of hanging!
So they were even more frightened, to the point that their souls could not possess their bodies.
Yunero didn't say anything, and looked at them coldly.
"Your Majesty, he can tolerate others joking with him, bargaining with himself, and even seizing the opportunity to start a lion or something...... It's not that he's unacceptable. Lana said grimly, "But when the lion opens his mouth and then breaks the appointment, he can't tolerate it!"
A merchant representative who was kneeling on the ground trembled violently and shouted: "This is all a decision discussed by the heads of the Chamber of Commerce!
Lana turned her head to look at Yunero, who was expressionless and nodded slightly.
Lana bowed slightly, then turned her head and said coldly, "Hang!"
The three soldiers immediately rushed in, grabbed the paralyzed chamber of commerce representative like a chicken, and dragged him out like a wolf.
The screams stretched into the distance, stopping abruptly after a few moments.
Representatives of other chambers of commerce were even more frightened, and more than one even peed his pants.
"The Chamber of Commerce behind him, we will naturally go to trouble. Lana said viciously, "We will not treat our friends badly, and we will never let traitors go!"
The representatives of the Chamber of Commerce kept trembling, they felt that of course they could no longer be regarded as "old friends of the lizardmen", but the identity of "traitors of the Alliance" was likely to be involved.
They trembled even more at the thought that they might be like the unlucky man just now, hanged and hung in the gallows like a wood, swaying in the wind like the orcs.
Fortunately, Yunero really didn't plan to kill them all.
In business, he was of course extremely annoyed by the betrayal of these chambers of commerce. But with the exception of the most serious of them, he did not intend to use force and punish other chambers of commerce by physical means.
Of course, it is necessary to make an example of chickens and monkeys, and if there is not enough punishment, these greedy guys will only treat him as weak and deceitful, and will play other tricks in the future. But to set an example, it is enough to have an example - for the greedy and dishonest Chamber of Commerce, Yunero will use a thunderbolt to make these guys have only a short time to regret it, and let others understand that he is the leader of a powerful force, not a good old man who can be deceived casually.
As for the other chambers of commerce, he intends to punish them with commercial means.
The means of business, including but not limited to money. According to his plan, the indemnity was only a small part of it, and the main punishment was to require the other party to train sailors for free, hand over important information, and other things.
These will all be decided through the magic contract, and perhaps the heads of those chambers of commerce will be reluctant and will want to rebel. When the time comes, Yunero doesn't mind packing up one or two more.
With the Big Fish Chamber of Commerce as his main business partner, these untrustworthy guys are already dispensable to him. It's good if he can be subdued, but if he can't, he doesn't mind turning these chambers into food for big fish and making his allies stronger.
Looking at the representatives of the Chamber of Commerce who had completely lost their courage, almost did whatever Lana said, and signed the contract without resistance, Yunero smiled slightly.
In this smile, there is a strong and domineering spirit that pandas and their old friends are not familiar with.
A new king, from this moment on, can be regarded as truly embarking on the journey.