Chapter 9: Muddy the Waters
As soon as the afternoon arrived, Casio received the news that Count Lyme wanted to talk to him. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
This stunned Casio, and then guessed if Count Leme knew about Rosa's visit to him?
In this way, Casio is a little confused, these two forces seem to have no secrets from each other, what does this mean?
Following the guards to the hall again, Casio saw that Count Lyme was still sunk in a warm, comfortable fur chair, and the whole person exuded a faint sense of twilight, like a toothless old dog, no longer majestic.
Casio was still not polite at all, and made his ass to the fur chair.
"I don't know how His Royal Highness the Prince is doing these days? I am sorry that I am too busy with government affairs to communicate with you, His Royal Highness. ”
When Count Lyme said this, he had no expression at all, and there was not the slightest sense of apology in it.
However, Casio didn't care, and nodded: "Lord Earl, your wine and food are good, and I'm doing quite well." ”
"Then I'm relieved. Count Lyme tugged at his cheeks as if he were laughing.
Seeing that Count Lyme began to groan, as if he had something to ask, and was thinking about how to phrase it, Casio simply spoke first: "Lord Earl, your rule is quite novel. ”
"How?" said Count Lyme, looking slightly puzzled.
"This morning, Viscount Rosa came looking for me. Casio looked at Count Leme with a smirk.
Count Lem's eyes condensed slightly, revealing a hint of danger: "Oh? What did he say?"
With a playful smile on his lips, Casio surprised Count Leme by what he said.
"Viscount Rosa wants to cooperate with me, and expressed it, it seems that the position of the city lord should be changed. ”
Hearing this, Count Leme fell silent, not knowing whether he was thinking about the truth of Casio's words or something else.
If Gurea also has this adjective, then Count Lem really has thousands of divine beasts rushing in his heart at this time, and the purpose of his calling Casio is naturally to know about Rosa's meeting with Casio, and he wants to get some information from Casio.
But he never expected that Casio didn't hide it at all, but took the initiative to say it.
He felt that his brain was a little stiff now, and he couldn't keep up with Casio's leapfrog thinking at all.
Casio didn't feel any shame about selling his "teammates", and muttered in his heart, "Anyway, Rosa didn't say that he couldn't reveal the situation of our meeting to Count Leme, it's not a violation, hehe." ”
"You promised?" said Count Lyme was silent for a long time before he could hold back such a sentence.
As soon as these words came out, Count Lyme had an embarrassing feeling that he hadn't had for many years. It seems that in front of Casio, he has returned to his younger self and been played by some old fritter aristocrats.
Casio stared at Count Lyme for a few seconds, and when the other party was a little uncomfortable, he grinned: "Of course not, I'm a traditional and conservative person." I've always believed that the truth is true!"
Casio opened his mouth and talked nonsense, which made Count Lyme wonder whether he was telling the truth for a while.
However, Count Leme at least understands that Casio's attitude until now has been in favor of his side, even though his hospitality is not very friendly.
"In light of this, Lord Earl, you see, our cooperation, isn't it?" Casio smiled, extremely kind.
Count Lyme pondered for a moment and asked directly, "Then what about your request, Your Royal Highness?"
"Pretty much what you asked for yesterday, but Sisko them, you're going to need to spend money this time. And the profit ratio of the mining area, you can only take four layers. "Casio played very well and took advantage of his strengths to start taking further advantage of the bigger benefits.
This time Count Lyme did not answer immediately, but thought carefully.
After a long time, he nodded: "Yes, but you have to do me a favor as the basis for our cooperation." ”
Casio raised an eyebrow: "Tell me about it." ”
Count Lyme sorted his thoughts for a moment before he said, "I hope you can help me remove all the instability in Lyme City." ”
Casio thought about it, and did not immediately refuse, but asked rhetorically: "I think you know that Lord Earl, in comparison, your opponent is actually more advantageous. The reason why I didn't favor them is because I believe you have the foundation to win in the end. ”
Count Lyme did not deny it, but said: "Your Royal Highness, if I tell you that as long as you help me, I can help you bring all the towns around Lyme City over as your backing, what do you think of this idea?"
Truth be told, this proposal really got Casio's heart fluttering.
He also believed that with the foundation of the Count Leme family's business for so many years, it would definitely not be too difficult to contact some surrounding towns as their backing to resist the pressure of Otes City.
But in fact, he came here, whether it was to cooperate with Count Lyme or Rossa, it was just a process to provoke infighting between the two of them and consume the strength of Lyme City.
Casio is certainly not a war maniac, and he has to offend his neighbors before he stops.
The key is that he knows that when the Waltis Empire begins to really wage a full-scale war against the Graka Empire, at the current development rate of Greenwater Town, it will only be an ant under the iron hooves of the Waltis Empire.
And if you want to improve the development of Lushui Town as soon as possible, the only way is to collect all the resources to Lushui Town, so that Lushui Town can develop at the fastest speed.
This creates a contradiction, that is, as Casio's most important resource now, the vein, he cannot give anyone a single bit.
When he is unwilling to divide the interests of the ore vein, then the cooperation with anyone in Lyme City is almost untenable!
Sighing in his heart, Casio did not change his ultimate purpose because of Count Lem's proposal.
But after thinking about it for a while, he said, "If you have these allies, why does the Earl still seek my help?"
Count Lyme's eyes darkened: "Even if you win the victory with the help of the power of your allies, in fact, the Lyme family is almost at the end." ”
Hearing this, Casio was silent.
As Count Lyme said, if things really come to this point, then it proves that the Lyme family is indeed not good, and the nobles around who are not very friendly with Count Lyme will definitely not be soft.
And this infighting is obviously also an opportunity for Count Lyme to show his strength. It's just that because Casio completely defeated Sisko and them, it caused some surprises in the infighting in Lime City.
"Okay, what do you need me to do?" said that, and Casio didn't refuse.
Count Lyme nodded, and the corners of his mouth raised a rare arc: "Ever since they knew that Sisko and the others had an accident, I haven't left Lyme City. And the only thing that can get me out of Lyme City, I think for the time being, is Sisko and their handover. ”
Casio smiled, understanding Count Lyme's plan.
So, the two began to discuss the details of the plan.