Empress Pars wandered among the wall-riding factions, constantly talking and making promises, and in the meantime there was an unexpected incident. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

One of the councillors approached the other with a flushed face, and the former roared angrily and scolded the latter. The latter looked helpless and kept shaking his head, which immediately caused a conflict between the two sides. The former sealed the latter's neckline, picked up his fist and punched the latter in the face, the latter was unwilling to be beaten, and the two immediately scuffled together.

What's even more interesting is that there weren't even many onlookers, allowing the two to fight together. Many people just watched from afar, and they didn't even have the idea of persuading them to fight.

In fact, it is not difficult to see that the two parties must have had some kind of agreement before this, but one party violated the agreement between the two parties. This kind of thing happened from time to time in the Imperial Diet, and it is said that the largest scale involved almost all the members of the parliament, and the whole meeting hall was in a pot of boiling wheat porridge, causing all the agenda of the day to be nullified.

Seeing the two of them rolling on the ground in an orderly manner, Wren crossed his legs with interest, took out a cigarette from his arms, lit it, and took a puff. The strong fragrance lifted his spirits, and the cyan smoke turned beige after a circle in the lobes of his lungs, slowly spurting out from his mouth and nose. Behind him, many people took out their pipes or cigarettes, and began to swallow the clouds. Some people actually ordered dim sum, and while watching the excitement, they tasted the food carefully prepared by the chefs.

Cigarettes have been listed in the imperial capital for a limited time, and a box of ten exquisite cigarettes is sold for as much as one gold coin per box. It seems that this price is extremely expensive, and ten cigarettes are not much for those who like to take a sip when they have nothing to do, and the sales are extremely hot. It's almost just on the counter, and it doesn't take a few minutes to sell out. This is just retail, many nobles directly find Wren to place orders, often hundreds of boxes or thousands of boxes.

Before the cigarettes were fully spread across the empire, Wren had already made a fortune.

Of course, there are still some aristocrats who like to use a variety of exquisite pipes to taste the special and rich aroma of Dragon Island tobacco bricks, but these people are definitely not the main force of consumption. The main consumers are the young aristocrats, who have enough money to squander and curiosity to pursue new things. In addition, cigarettes are more convenient to carry and use, and they have won the popularity and love of young people as soon as they are put on the market.

Someone privately called Wren a gold aristocrat who wanted money to die, and he set up a monopoly on goods and a luxury tax in Ortlenburg, and looted a lot of money for him. Now even the royal family has put some goods on the list of franchises, which can only be operated by Sarcomo, who is appointed by the royal family, which makes Rennes criticized by many people.

These are all pink eye!

However, Wren did not have the slightest pressure, the benefits in his hands were the most real, and a few words from others would not cause him any harm.

The two scuffling nobles finally separated, nosebleeds on both sides, one of them even had the corner of his mouth cracked, and the two of them turned red and blue, pointed at each other's noses and scolded a few times before returning to their seats.

The small turmoil quickly subsided, and the aristocrats who kept wandering back and forth offered higher prices again one by one, hoping to get more supporters.

"It's hard for me that you're doing that. Pilagos sat beside Isaac, his face a little uneasy, and when his eyelids opened, it seemed to scrape hard from the surface of his eyeball, "What more do you want?"

Isaac chuckled a few times and shook his head, "Don't you think you're humiliating me with the price you offered?", he was quite disdainful, his feet were raised and slammed on the table, his body leaned back, and the chair under his ass was only supported by two legs on the ground, and it was likely to capsize at any time. Isaac, who was born on the Northwest Frontier, had a rudeness that the Southerners did not have, but more of a mask that hid himself deeply, and the elitist education of the nobility did not make them rude.

Rudeness is just a way for Isaac to disguise his true nature.

Pilagos smiled quietly, "Seven thousandths of a share, can't be more." ”

He was talking about the share of the Tiberium spar veins in the province of Bell, as the most scarce strategic material in the empire, almost every nobleman with lofty goals and pursuits would desperately accumulate it. This kind of thing does far more than the average person can imagine. Whether it's the operation of various magic bases, or the consumption of magic items, Tiberium hedron is an indispensable part. Without this thing, a lot of magical equipment is as meaningless as stone.

Seven thousandths, this share is already very high, how much does Pilagos hold in his own hands?

"Then you can make an offer. Pilagos picked up the teacup and took advantage of the action of bowing his head to drink the tea, hiding the emotional change in his eyes. Isaac is so greedy that a seven-thousandth share is enough to make many people change their positions, but he is not yet satisfied.

Isaac held out a finger, "One percent share, I support you unconditionally." ”

"Dreaming, eight thousandths, absolutely no more!", Pilagos is extremely self-contained, he did not get angry in the face of Isaac, who was asking for a sky-high price, and his hand holding the teacup was steady without even a trace of shaking.

Isaac smiled indifferently, actually folded his legs and stood up, glanced at the Empress Pars, who took the initiative to canvass for votes, and actually walked towards Her Majesty. Pilagos laughed, he had his plan, it was not yet the time for the final battle, "Nine thousandths, if you have more, you can go to Her Majesty the Empress, she will definitely give you a satisfactory price." ”

Isaac paused, turned around and sat back in his chair, with a hippie smile on his face, "Wouldn't it be okay to say that earlier? Nine thousandths of a thousand, isn't it?", he slapped the table, the loud noise attracted a lot of attention, but he didn't care at all, "Vote no, right, I'll listen to you this time, haha......"

The northwest of the empire is full of Gobi and deserts, and there are no valuable ore veins, let alone the Tiberium Crystal, a strategic resource known as the "magic star". Isaac has been blushing at the veins of Bell Province for a long time, but he doesn't have any excuses, otherwise he can really take a bite off the quota shamelessly.

In the face of the lack of Tiberium spars in the northwest, Tiberium spars are the greatest control of the royal family over them. They don't dare to disagree with the royal family in a clear manner, after all, the Grace and Greon brothers are sitting on the Western Front, and if they provoke the revenge of these two loyal lackeys of the royal family, the loss will be too great.

If he could get even a quota of nine thousandths, it would be enough to raise Isaac's dominance in the northwestern aristocratic group of the empire to a higher level. All he needs to do is to prevent this bill from passing, and let everyone vote against it, just by showing his hands!

The fourth round of voting soon began in earnest, and this time the results of the vote were once again reversed, and the nobles who could be traded proved once again that there was no difference between nobles and scoundrels, and that they could not even have a little face in this place for the sake of benefit.

The votes continued in a strange way, the aristocrats seemed to be following some kind of agreement, and the results of the fourth vote were still deadlocked, and the opposition once again led the vote by a narrow margin.

Naturally, the voting will continue to be extended for a fourth recess.

Faced with such a result, Isaac apparently realized that he might have been deceived. All of his people voted against it, but to his surprise, some of Pilagos' people voted in favor. If this was an accident, then Pilagos was definitely humiliating Isaac's IQ, and it was clear that Pilagos had plans for the future, and it was not as simple as opposing it. He's balancing the votes for and against, just like Isaac did before.

Wren also put his mind at ease, he glanced at Empress Pars, who had a shallow smile on the corner of her mouth, Zhizhu in her hand, and looked at the councillors in the hall with grace and dignity.

It's like three people discussing whether to buy a luxury house, some people are clearly affirming the answer, some seem to be firmly opposed, and the third person is wavering. The three of them are not facing the same problem.

People who clearly say that they want to buy a house really want to express the act of "buying a house", not necessarily to buy "this house". Those who are adamantly against it are against the act of "buying this house", not "buying a house". As for the wavering person, his position is not that he hesitates to buy "this house", but how to spend the least amount of money and buy the most suitable house.

The three people seem to have different positions, but in fact, the contradictions between them can be reconciled. If the "person who wants to buy the house" chooses a house that the "swing person" can fancy and the house is not a house that the "opponent of buying a house" does not want to buy, then the positions of the three people will be unified.

Now Empress Pars's attitude is very clear, that is, to do her best to get the reform of the Imperial Diet to be passed by the Imperial Diet. And Pilagos's attitude is not that this plan cannot be passed, but that his appeal is to pass it in his own way. Isaac had almost understood it by this point, so he needed to seek more advantageous benefits rather than be left behind by both sides.

The seemingly simple situation is actually full of a kind of compromise wisdom, the game between the three parties is full of trickery and calculation, except for the Empress Pars, the other two parties have no firm position, what they need is a step. The changing stance of parliamentarians is only one manifestation of their pursuit of maximizing profits.