Chapter 153: Attitude towards bandits
Generally speaking, if a caravan encounters a robbery in the territory of the Candela Empire, or even an accident such as a direct group annihilation, it will enter the official report of the Candela Empire for follow-up processing according to the process.
If this caravan belongs to the Chamber of Commerce under the rule of the Candela Empire, then the procedure is very simple, report it first, and then depending on the mood of the Candela Empire officials to decide whether to track it down, or how strong the investigation is.
And if this caravan belongs to a chamber of commerce outside the Candela Empire, the situation is slightly more complicated.
If the chamber of commerce to which it belongs comes from a country that is not very powerful, and it is also a not-so-well-known chamber of commerce, then the final result is that the time for this caravan to be attacked will be over, and the chamber of commerce to which it belongs can only consider itself unlucky.
And if the chamber of commerce to which you belong is from a deeper background, the official of the Candela Empire will decide on the process of dealing with it depending on the severity of the incident, as well as the attitude of the chamber of commerce behind it or simply the country behind it.
For example, if this caravan is from the Maro Empire, and it is also from one of the three major chambers of commerce in the Maro Empire, and has the official background of the Maro Empire behind it, then once such an incident occurs within the Candela Empire, even if the relationship between the Maro Empire and the Candela Empire has not been harmonious at all, for the sake of diplomatic face, the official of the Candela Empire will inevitably conduct a thorough investigation of this matter and give a complete explanation to the Maro Empire.
However, the situation of the caravan of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is more special.
The Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is from the Duchy of State, which is a completely inconspicuous small country among all the countries on the entire Sainz continent, so it is naturally impossible to put any pressure on the official Candela Empire because of the national background.
However, this caravan belongs to the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
The Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is now a very special chamber of commerce in the entire Sainz continent, with extremely special magical machinery. Or rather, military magic machines. The Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has used the past few years to get the attention of almost all countries on this continent.
Although the Candela Empire does not have a good relationship with the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce on the surface. But in fact, there are still secret cooperation in many aspects.
Therefore, in fact, the official of the Candela Empire still attaches great importance to the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, and also pays more attention to the activities of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce in the Candela Empire.
And this time, another entire caravan belonging to the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce was robbed by robbers and annihilated, which is not an ordinary event.
What's more, the goods transported by this caravan are still a batch of farmland magic machinery sent by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce to the Northeast Province, and it is a new batch of goods ordered by the Northeast Province to further promote the cultivation of machinery within the province, which is of great significance.
Now the caravan was suddenly attacked, all its personnel were killed, and all kinds of farmland magic machinery loaded with a total value of more than 200,000 gold coins also disappeared. Naturally, it caused a great shock.
After the incident, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce's office in Wimbledon immediately reported to the Candela Imperial Secretariat, and strongly demanded that the murderers be thoroughly investigated, not only to recover the farmland magic machinery, but also to severely punish the arrogant bandits.
The Candela Empire also attached great importance to this matter, and immediately ordered the Governor's Office of Tagner Province and the Town Guard of the Town of La Rul to assist in the investigation of the matter.
However, after a week of investigation, even the town guard of La Rul Town specially sent a garrison of 200 people to cooperate with a group of mercenaries to enter the Sunset Mountain Range to search, but still no results were found.
As a result, the Candela Empire was forced to announce that the bandits had fled the Sunset Mountains and could only be traced later.
As long as it's not a fool. Everyone knows the meaning of this sentence, which means that the official Candela Empire has given up the investigation, and the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce can only consider itself unlucky.
However, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce does not intend to give up. Instead, he continued to send constant notices urging the investigation to the official representatives of the Candela Empire, namely the Governor's Office of the Tagner Province and the Town Guard of the Town of La Rul, through various channels, and said that the matter would never be allowed to be settled.
Such an attitude naturally aroused the displeasure of the Governor's Office of the Tagner Province and the Governor of the small town of La Rul, and although they still said that they would try to track it down, in fact they simply abandoned any pursuit of it.
When the people of the small town of La Rul and the business travelers discussed this matter, they couldn't help but laugh at the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
The continent is full of bandits, and even if it is as powerful as the Candela Empire, it is impossible to really track down a single robbery.
The official Candela Empire has been able to give the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce a positive response, which is already enough attention, but the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce still has to be so unrelenting, it is simply not good.
"Hey, do you think this new flying chamber of commerce is also taking itself too seriously? Isn't it just that you have made some money with something new like that magic machine, and you really think that you can be on an equal footing with our Candela Empire?" The largest tavern in the town of La Rul was filled with a large number of the king's merchants and mercenaries, and one of the rough mercenaries was sipping a big drink and letting out an extremely mocking laugh.
Hearing his words, the surrounding drinkers burst out laughing in unison.
Most of you here have long-term business travel experience, and you are already familiar with bandit attacks, and you don't think it's a big deal at all.
Not to mention the Candela Empire, even if it is attacked by bandits anywhere on this continent, it is the key to take care of your life as soon as possible, as for relying on the strength of the local country to hunt down the bandits and recover the lost goods, it can only happen when luck is blowing.
Therefore, the vast majority of people present were convinced that the best thing for the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce to do was to consider themselves unlucky, and not to harass the official masters of the Candela Empire.
Otherwise, if those big men are unhappy, the caravan of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce will be even more unable to guarantee the safety of the Candela Empire in the future.
"Cut, it's a group of nouveau riche from a small place like the Duchy of Stantin, of course, they don't have much vision. The other mercenary laughed loudly. When he found that he had attracted everyone's attention, he became mysterious again. "I've heard that there are not only one caravan attacked by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce recently, in addition to this, there have been three caravans of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce in our Candela Empire in the past month. The same people were killed, and there was no goods left. ”
The original noise in the tavern suddenly became much quieter, and everyone looked at each other, and then several other people spoke out to prove the rumors of this mercenary.
"yes, I've heard that there have been accidents in other countries, all in the last month or two. ”
"Well, I also heard that some time ago, the offices of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce in two places were attacked, and it is said that the patrol was also heavy. ”
"What's more, I also know that even the sea fleet of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has been attacked, and the losses are even more exaggerated. ”
"No, isn't it true that the fleet of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce may not even be able to defeat the fleet of our Candela Imperial Navy, who can deal with them at sea?"
"I don't know, but I've heard that a very powerful magician has personally intervened. No matter how strong the fleet of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce is, it will encounter the Great Magician...... Oh, not to mention the great magicians, even if you run into high-level magicians, it's useless, right?"
"Well, that's right......"
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The tavern was instantly engulfed in a lively discussion.
For almost all the chambers of commerce on the mainland, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce can be said to be a miracle.
This previously inconspicuous small chamber of commerce made its fortune in the Lampari Kingdom, and it only took more than ten years to develop into a well-known large chamber of commerce in the entire Sainz continent, and it also mastered the military magic machinery that all countries were dying, and it became important on the entire continent.
In the process, it has encountered almost no difficulties, and its development has been very smooth.
This point makes other chambers of commerce envious at the same time, but also deeply jealous.
Of course, they didn't have the ability to do anything to the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, but at this time, when they heard that something had happened to the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, they inevitably gloated a little in their hearts.
"Alas...... Actually, that's not a good thing, is it?" a calm middle-aged man's voice suddenly rang out. "Even a famous chamber of commerce like the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce was robbed, and those big men didn't care about it, and if small businessmen like us were robbed, no one would care about it. ”
Hearing this, the tavern instantly fell silent.
Half of the people in the tavern were merchants, and the other half were mercenaries, and they were all very likely to deal with the bandits on the road.
Mercenaries may also want to make a little more money by encountering bandits, while merchants don't want to run into damn bandits at all.
The Xinfei Chamber of Commerce made this happen, although it made them satisfy their thoughts of schadenfreude, but when they thought of the official attitude of the empire towards the bandits, they couldn't help but feel a chill in their hearts.
Yes, even a big chamber of commerce like the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce doesn't care, who cares about small businessmen like them?
Just as the tavern fell into an indescribable silence, a shadow suddenly came from outside, falling through the door and window of the tavern, and the environment inside the tavern was suddenly darkened.
Everyone turned to look out in amazement, and immediately let out an exclamation at the same time.
Outside the tavern, huge black clouds drifted slowly, but it was obvious that they were extremely low from the ground, and they looked very powerful.
Some mercenaries with better eyesight took a closer look, but found that these floating clouds in the sky were not black clouds, but huge steel monsters, and they couldn't help but open their mouths wide in shock.
"What the hell is this?"
One of the mercenaries stared at the sky for a moment, then shouted loudly.
"I see! These are magic airships! It's the magic airships that the New Flyers will build!"
Everyone was stunned.
The magic airship of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce? Could it be that the New Flying Chamber of Commerce sent someone? (To be continued......