Durekton City is slightly further south than Thurwell, but the wind and snow from the north still covered the entire city this morning, staining the entire city white.

Count Michel put down the letter in his hand and looked up at the window.

Outside the window, the snow is shrouded and icicles hang from the branches, which looks particularly beautiful, and also indicates that Dullekton City is likely to have a good year next year.

But Count Michel did not have the slightest joy in his heart at the moment, but fell into a trace of worry.

His Royal Highness Prince Eric was obviously dissatisfied with Count Longli's private contact with Xu Yi, and even invited the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce to invest in Basaru City, and even angrily denounced Count Longli as a traitor in this reply letter to Count Michel, betraying not only His Royal Highness Prince Eric, but also his dead father.

Perhaps because of the anger caused by Count Longley, His Royal Highness Prince Eric was also very dissatisfied with Count Michelle's previous letter about whether he should cooperate with the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, and he was full of doubts about Count Michel between the lines, and even questioned, so he didn't directly ask Count Michel if he also wanted to be a traitor.

Count Michel was not surprised by His Royal Highness Prince Eric's reaction, but he was very disappointed that His Royal Highness Prince Eric only knew how to express his anger in such a situation.

Before he really understood what Count Longli was trying to do with Xu Yi, he directly judged Count Longli to be a traitor, which was really a very stingy approach in the eyes of Count Michel.

Even if Count Longli did contact Xu Yi, he did invite the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce to invest in Batlu City, but this was different from his betrayal of His Royal Highness Prince Eric. It does not mean that the city of Batroux and the Longli family will switch to the side of Her Royal Highness Queen Sevigny.

At times like these. His Royal Highness Prince Eric's correct course of action should be to find out the situation. After clearly understanding Count Longlei's thoughts, he made judgments and decisions, instead of directly pushing Count Longli out in the first place.

He had already identified the Earl of Longli as a traitor, so even if the Earl of Longli did not really betray His Royal Highness Prince Eric, in this case, he was afraid that he would be forced to leave.

His Royal Highness Prince Eric did not have many supporters in the Northeast Province, only himself, Count Longley, and Count Will of Lemmat City.

Now he defined the Count of Longli as a traitor, and he still questioned himself in his heart, did he intend to abandon the support of the entire Northeast Province?

The city of Lemart, the Earl of Will, is the largest city in the northeastern province. However, the city of Lemat alone still does not represent the entire northeastern province.

What's more, compared to the Count of Satsuma, a staunch supporter of Her Royal Highness the Queen of Severny in Sewell City, Count Will may not be as strong as that.

Moreover, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has also entered Tsurwell City to invest heavily, if Count Satsuma and Thurwell City are given a few years to make Tsurwell City develop into the same as Bonta City, then the entire Northeast Province may have to look at Count Satsuma's face and behave.

Thinking of this, Count Michelle suddenly felt a strong sense of exhaustion.

His Royal Highness Prince Eric's attitude towards him made him a little unhappy, and His Royal Highness Prince Eric's way of handling things made him even more disappointed.

He even felt that he had made a mistake in his original choice.

"Perhaps...... Would it be better to choose to support Her Royal Highness Queen Sevigny?"

The thought had just sprung up in Count Michel's mind. He was immediately thrown out with a flick of his head.

As a veteran nobleman who is almost sixty years old and has experienced several changes in the political situation of the kingdom. He even has a truth.

That is, in the fiercest competition, there are winners and losers, but the most unpopular are always the wavering people.

Count Michelle sighed, pinched his forehead, soothed his expression, picked up the bell on the table and shook it gently, and called his personal butler in.

"Go and check what Earl Longli and Xu Yi did in the two days they were together, and even try to find out what they said. Count Michel commanded first. "Then I sent a gift to the Earl of Longley in my name, and conveyed a word to him. ”

The butler stared intently at Count Michelle.

Count Michel paused for a moment, and after thinking for a while, he continued: "I will sue him, hoping that he can inherit the legacy of old Longli and become the lord of Batroux City." ”

The butler's face was a little strange, this was the first time he had received such a vague order from Count Michelle.

But the steward had no intention of inquiring, and honestly wrote down the two orders.

"By the way, are the supplies ready for His Royal Highness Prince Eric?" asked Count Michelle again.

"It's ready to load into the carriage and go. The butler replied.

"Carriage?" said Count Michelle, smirking with a sneer in his smile. "Okay, let's arrange the loading and departure. Our Royal Highness the Prince just can't wait. ”

The butler answered, but stopped talking.

Say. Count Michel said in a deep voice.

The housekeeper hurriedly said: "Lord Earl, when collecting these materials, there were some Diao people who tried to resist, but the soldiers of the city guard did not notice it for a while, and they were too heavy, and the result was ......."

Seeing the embarrassed face of the butler, Count Michel sank his face: "How many have died?"

The butler replied with a wry smile: "At present, thirteen have died, and fifty-six people have been seriously injured, and I am afraid that more than twenty of them will not be able to hold on." ”

"Nearly forty people will die?" said Count Michelle's face was so gloomy that it seemed to be dripping water. "I asked them to collect supplies, not to let them kill people!"

The butler looked at the anger hidden in Count Michel's eyebrows, and was afraid, but he still had to explain: "Lord Earl, now that it is the end of the year, there are not many things left in the homes of those civilians, and they will be forcibly requisitioned, of course, they will fight hard. The soldiers of the city guard must not fight back, and then they will ......"

The butler did not dare to say any more, and looking at the look on Count Michel's face, he doubted that he would continue to speak. If you don't know, even he will be unlucky.

Count Michel was silent for a long time with a gloomy face. Only then did he take a deep breath. waved his hand and said, "Since you have been killed, forget it." The soldiers who killed were fined 100 gold coins each, and if they couldn't pay it, they were all put in prison. ”

The butler was surprised: "Lord Earl, I'm afraid there will be a question ...... this"

Count Michelle glanced at him, and the butler immediately swallowed the following words back into his stomach.

"Alright, go and arrange for those supplies to be loaded into the car and shipped out. Count Michel waved his hand and motioned for the butler to go out.

I saw Count Michelle's expression full of exhaustion. The butler didn't dare to say anything more, and quietly withdrew after giving the salute.

Count Michel stood there for a long time, and then suddenly sighed, a self-deprecating smile appeared on his face.

"It turns out that our huge Durekton City is actually a little difficult to even scrape together 300,000 gold coins?"

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"Lord of the city, this is an account that will be handed over to the kingdom's treasury, please check it. Formar, the treasurer of the Lord's Mansion of Bonta, respectfully held an account in his hands and handed it over to Sevigny on the other side.

Sevigny took it and just looked at it, then nodded and put it down.

"I already know the accounts, so I don't need to check them more. Sevigny smiled. "This year, we have been able to pay more than 700,000 gold coins in taxes to the kingdom's treasury. It is inseparable from everyone's hard work. I am here to thank you on behalf of my Father for your hard work. ”

The various officials of the City Lord's Mansion in the room hurriedly got up. Sincerely, he bowed to Severny.

"Your Royal Highness, this is our job, and we can't afford your thanks. ”

Saying that, everyone was all happy, and the whole room was full of joy.

This year's financial revenue in Bangta City is much higher than last year's, and the lives of everyone in Bangta City have improved dramatically, making them, the officials of the City Lord's Mansion, highly respected wherever they go after they leave the City Lord's Mansion.

"It is precisely because of your excellent work that we have been able to develop so well in Bangta City, and I should thank you. Sevigny said. "Alright, let's all sit down, and now let's discuss the plan for next year's development plan for Bonta City. Baron Fawmar, tell me, how much money is left in the finances of Bunta City after we have paid to the kingdom's treasury and settled the various expenses of this year?"

Baron Fomar didn't need to look at any records, and replied directly: "There are 1,276,346 gold coins left." ”

"That's close to 1,280,000 gold coins. Sevini nodded. "How to spend this money, do you have any good ideas?"

Everyone looked at each other and hesitated.

"Don't be afraid, just give your opinion, I just want to ask you what is feasible. Sevini encouraged.

"That'...... Lord of the city, let me mention one first. Baron Fomar raised his hand.

Severny nodded to him, a smile of encouragement.

Baron Fumar hurriedly sat up straight, and said, "Your Royal Highness, I will take out a sum of money to repair the old town of our Bangta City. Now our city of Bangta has gradually developed into the most prosperous city in the south of the kingdom. But the old town is still in the same way it used to be, and I think it doesn't match the current status of our Bang Ta City. ”

"Yes, compared to the clean, beautiful and neat new town outside, the old town is a different world. Another officer chimed in. "Now people in the old town want to move to the new town. If it weren't for the fact that I wanted to save some more money to buy a villa built by the Amrley Chamber of Commerce, I would have moved out a long time ago. ”

"It's just that the old town is small and cramped, and it's not convenient to do anything, so it's good to be able to fix it and make it pretty. ”

"Well, that's what I thought too......"

......

Hearing that everyone agreed, Sevini thought for a moment and nodded: "This is a good mention." So Baron Fawmar, since you have proposed this mention, have you ever thought about how much it will cost?"

Baron Fomar had obviously thought about it for a long time, and replied with a look of confidence: "Lord Castle, it is obviously impossible for us to really make earth-shaking changes to the old town, so my mention is only to repair some parts that are particularly dilapidated and unusable. So it's just a matter of building some public facilities, repairing some dilapidated parts, and making some improvements to some places, and according to my preliminary estimates, about 50,000 gold coins are enough. ”

"Is it only fifty thousand gold coins?" said Sevigny, a little surprised. "You're really saving. Okay, after removing these 50,000 gold coins, we still have more than 1.2 million gold coins in our fiscal balance, do you have any better mention?"

Baron Fomar was a little strange: "Lord City, do you want to spend all the more than 1.2 million gold coins?"

"Of course you can't spend it all. But it's useless to keep that much money in your hands, is it? it comes from taxes paid by the people of Bunta, so of course it should be spent on improving their lives. Come on, think of a new tiyì. ”

Everyone looked at each other, and for a while they couldn't think of any good ideas.

Looking at the embarrassed appearance of everyone, Sevigny sighed, thinking that if Xu Yi was here, there would definitely be a lot of new ideas to come up.

This guy makes a lot of money, and he spends money as well.

But then Sevini thought it was a little funny.

At a time when almost all cities in the kingdom are having a headache with the financial settlement at the end of the year, they are worried about how to spend their money next year, which is really too luxurious. (To be continued......)