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Salian picked up a grape from the fruit bowl and fed it to Hilda's little mouth, and asked, "What kind of business do you think can make a profit?"

Anna asked Yulia to continue pouring her wine, and replied indifferently: "To participate in a tournament or any other invitational tournament or tour, you only need travel expenses and tournament equipment, and then every time you win the championship, it will be a great profit, not a good reputation, just like my father and I are doing." Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Echelin was concentrating on the snack he had prepared for him in front of him, a five-year-old roasted peacock. He nodded in agreement with Anna's statement, and after drinking a large glass of wine and swallowing the peacock meat, he continued Anna's words: "Not only those cousins said the competition, but you can also participate in the Wine Contest and the Big Stomach King Competition, and you can still make money when you are full, haha!"

Then Manstel smiled and said, "There is nothing more than making money to make money, let's say I spend money to buy all the bay leaves of my peers, and then raise the retail price by twenty percent, so that I can make a big profit." Or someone else mortgages something to me, and then finds a way to make his business fail, then all the collateral is mine. ”

Salian waited quietly for them to finish before speaking: "Yes, you can indeed make a lot of money by your own talents. However, it is possible to meet a master who will pierce your body with a sword or spear. Monopolizing bay leaves may make others buy all the tarragon grass in turn to get revenge on you, or one day when you step out of the house, you will be stabbed in the heart with a dagger by a ruined borrower, don't you think these means of making money are very risky?"

Anna heard this with disdain, "Humph!" With a sigh, Achelin thought that being stabbed shouldn't be a big problem for him, so he shook his head as well.

Manstel laughed and said, "If you want to stab me to death in front of my house, then ask my guards first, come to your castle today, because it is very safe, I only have a minimum of entourage." Usually when I walk around the city of Constance, I am surrounded by bodyguards, hugging me back and forth, not counting those who hide in the shadows to protect me. And in any case, I am also a horror knight of the protection genre, and my baron father also has a trick left to me, so it will not be so easy to kill me. ”

Salian laughed too, and he fed Hilda another grape and pinched her little face, not retorting to his three friends.

"Now I have a big piece of news, and we can use this news to get a rare investment opportunity," he said. If it succeeds, dear Manstel, you can decide the price of bay leaves, tarragonia, or rosemary, and even make the free city of Constance a hereditary domain of the Barenberg family. For Aicherin and Anna, it may have been vast domains, coins, medals, and titles. And the risk, similar to what I just told you, is no higher than being stabbed to death with a sword or a dagger. And I've learned that you're not afraid of that. ”

"Salian, don't test us, these are all your own people here, there's no need to beat around the bush! Isn't the current situation that you want to engage in a high-risk and high-reward conspiracy, and you still want to pull us in?"

Manstel was still smiling. It is not for nothing that he is called the "smiling nobleman" of Constance by ignorant people, but unfortunately it is only a façade of hypocrisy.

"Well, dear Manstel, I can't fool you with anything," said Sallian, playing with the wine glass in his hand, "yes, this invitation to you is indeed a great plot. I have a very important top-secret news to tell you first, listen up, according to reliable information, an imperial meeting to elect the emperor will be held early next year. ”

Hear the big news from Salian. Naturally, Anna didn't react, and Salian had already discussed the matter with her. Hilda didn't care much about human politics, and she still looked like a seven-year-old girl, so she shouldn't have understood this, and she pretended to eat fruit and watch the human moves. Echelin, we can ignore this eating and drinking machine. Only Manstel was so excited that his face was slightly reddened, and he knew what it meant.

Manstel stood up and asked, "What, is Your Majesty's time coming?" Sure enough, only you can get this kind of news here beforehand. ”

Then, as if he understood something, he sat down quietly again. Except for Salian, he is smart.

"My dear Manstel, I'm right. You should be able to estimate the value of this classified information. ”

And Acherin, who was sitting there dealing with another roasted heron, didn't feel anything when he heard Salian say that the Imperial Council was being held, he didn't understand what it meant, just like the day before yesterday when Salian first mentioned it to Anna. It is true that both cousins lack political acumen, but it may be better for Salian, as long as they are patiently guided, and can be used as a base for Salian, while on the other hand, he and Manstel are more of a mutually exploitative relationship.

Seeing that Manstel was so excited, Echelin asked in confusion, "Oh, good brother Manstel, is it important for us to open this?"

"Of course, the empire will soon be in turmoil, and the current Rosenberg family, because there is no male descendant, will inevitably be extinct after the death of the current emperor. And Salian must have had an idea about this important news to summon us. ”

Speaking of which, let's talk a little about the so-called Imperial Hierarchy, which is in fact a meeting of all the independent lords of the empire and above to discuss important matters of the empire, and is generally only held when changing the laws of the empire, waging war, or major religious events, collecting new taxes, and electing the emperor. The current Emperor is very old, and it is rumored that he has recently been seriously ill, so the extremely resourceful Manstel could have imagined that this would be an Imperial Hierarchy meeting to elect an Emperor without much information.

Under the current system, we can think of the entire Grace Empire as a joint-stock company. The Emperor, or Chairman, was elected by the various imperial hierarchies. The most powerful ecclesiastical princes - archbishops, bishops, grand knights, and secular princes - archdukes, dukes, and counts of special status - were the majority shareholders, and they each had a separate vote. The high clergy, that is, the abbot of the convent, the parish priest of the cathedral, etc., exercised collective voting rights in the High Priests' Council, and the counts everywhere also exercised collective voting rights in the Earl's Council according to geographical divisions, that is, minority shareholders. Imperial Free Cities can only attend meetings, not votes, and other independent knightly ranks have no right to participate in meetings. It is easy to see that the current empire is the product of compromise between all parties, and there is no centralized power at all.

Still ignorant, Aichelin turned his head and asked, "Big brother, is this really the case?"

Anna, who had not spoken just now, said to Achelin with a fierce look: "Achelin, you have a lot to say! ”

Salian kindly said to Achelin, who was frightened by Anna, "Dear Brother Acherin, listen to me if what I say makes sense. It's all possible to get a spear through the chest, and a jousting championship will only get you fifty guilders, not counting the cost of travel and equipment. Suppose I told you that, under the same risk, my plan would allow you to become the master of the entire border between Schwartenn and Franços, and that the border duties generated alone would bring you about a thousand florins a year. ”

Using his slower-spinning brain, Acheline imagined the glorious future that Salian had planned for him, and it made perfect sense. He had always trusted Salian more than he trusted himself.

Just as Echerin was seriously fantasizing, Manstel said to Salian, "What do you really think, so sure that you can use this Imperial Hierarchy Conference to make a fortune?"

Salian confidently replied, "The most lucrative business in the world is to make a king remember your good." And the biggest benefit is the merit of recommendation, which is really a million benefits. Kings are the easiest to remember the merits of others every time there is a change of dynasty, and the example of the Second Dynasty speaks for itself. ”

Manster, frightened by Sarian's somewhat crazy thoughts, said, "If we choose the wrong one, we'll all be hanged, oh no, it's going to be a five-horse split for our nobles!"

"Is there any essential difference between this and being stabbed in the chest with a dagger by a debtor?"

Manstel was infected by the calm he shown, and his mood gradually calmed down, and then he asked Salian earnestly, "Do you have any specific plans, my friend?"

"The day before yesterday I was invited to the wedding of the eldest son of the Count of the Palace of Palettinnai, the illegitimate daughter of the Archbishop of Tver, Bruno, and many powerful figures of the Empire have been invited, and I will go to this event to see if there are any outstanding figures in the family of the Count of the Palace who can lead the Empire. ”

Manstel nodded and said, "Well, as far as I know, there are only four secular nobles in the empire who have the best chance of being elected emperor, the Rokenhausen family of the Grand Duke of Aldenburg, the family of Ernsbach, the Count of the Palace, the family of Eppenzel, the Duke of Kirzen, and the family of Hindfingen, Duke of Wienria, and only they have enough strength to compete for the throne in the current empire." Of course, the Hinterfingen family can not be counted, and the old duke's ambition is insufficient. ”

Salian took a sip of wine and said to Manstel: "Yes, my good friend, you have a thorough grasp of the situation in the Empire! Among the first three, Duke Kerzen, who has a conflict of interest with my New Mark Territory, can also be ruled out, unless he gives me conditions that I cannot refuse, which is naturally impossible. The remaining two need to be carefully examined. I will assist a family in the best interests of the empire. ”

"So how can we make the king impress us?"

Salian replied with a good moment: "Indeed, this is an important question. The three families can now be said to stand together, and other princes and lords will naturally choose sides and help them, so how to make the king remember your merits in this situation, of course, you need to think carefully. That's why I need your help, your purse, Anna and Acherin's fists, with which you can do some earth-shattering things. Besides, we already have quite a lot, one vote of my own, one vote of the Counts of Schwartenn, one vote of the Bishop of Konstanz. What to do, when I understand their situation, there will naturally be arrangements. ”

Manstel smiled and said to Salian, "Don't forget, all of our things need to be arranged with your ingenuity in order to be successful, haha!"

In the end, the dinner brought the four of them to a consensus, and they will unite and fight as a force to be reckoned with. Salian was very pleased with the results of this dinner.

As it was getting late, he invited Aicherin and Manstel to stay in the castle for the night. A sumptuous late night snack was also prepared for the guests, much to the delight of Acheline. Manstel, on the other hand, stayed because Anna, Hilda, and Yulia wanted to take his carriage to Constance tomorrow.

With that, Manstel went to get out of the carriage with the two bodyguards who had been hiding in the carriage to rest for the night. This is what the baron just called the bare minimum of his entourage. Even in the safest of situations, Manstel still took two masters with him wherever he went, one was a white mage who was skilled in light life magic, and the other was an elemental envoy who was proficient in the magic of the electric element. Implement 24-hour uninterrupted intimate security service, even if you take a shower, sleep or anything else. And according to Manstel, he can't sleep peacefully at night if he can't put his arms around these two personal bodyguards left and right. There is no way, they are a pair of fairy twin sisters that Manster's late president's father bought to accompany him since he was a child, so to speak, Manster's shadow, a multi-purpose prop that has been cultivated by spending a lot of money from the Spice Chief, and has never been separated from the baron. In addition, there is no need to explain any special functions that the two of them have, but Salian is also envious of this.

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