Chapter 530 is ruthless

Fat Man accompanied Windsor Bilina, the wife of Archduke Fausta, to the island of Hilowas, where he was to negotiate a ransom for Archduke Fausta and his family's armed Firebird Legion, which was estimated to take about a month. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Fortunately, Shi Fatzi has handed over the administrative affairs of the city of Moriente to the newly formed city of Moriente Autonomous Committee, and here he has reached a package with Count Kate on the release and transportation of more than 100,000 residents in the inner city.

Targar brought the private boat owner to Lorist, who was curious about how the private boat owner came back so quickly, from Hirovas Island to the Southern Seas, a trip should be about a month, plus those private ship owners also purchased a large number of goods and goods produced in the Norton family's territory on Hiroas Island, and it would take a while to sell these goods, so Lorest originally expected that it would take about a month for those private ship owners who had paid off the sweetness to come over again to purchase and trade various commodities.

The owner of the private boat was Captain Frederes, and the family had been seafarers for three generations. Targar said that the last time Captain Fredris was in the convoy, he had joined forces with the private shipowners to subdue the escorts sent to their merchant ships by the Armada, and had been commended by Admiral Sambarwood for disrupting some of the commercial alliance loyalists who wanted to set fire to the convoy after the Armada surrendered with the white flag.

Captain Fredere was flattered to receive Lorlist, the famous Grand Duke of the Northlands, the newly promoted Juggernaut of the Sword, and for this reason he presented Lorlist with the most precious treasure of his family, a foot-long red coral that was said to have been obtained by his father when he was in distress at sea, and it was because of this red coral that he was able to get out of danger. In the eyes of many sailors, red coral represents good luck.

Captain Fredere answered Lorlist's questions. He told Lorist that he was a native of the Kingdom of Chigda and owned a sea ship called the Mermaid's Song, the first large ocean-going merchant ship that his family had owned after three generations of voyagers. Because the name of the ship is the Song of the Mermaid, it has an intersection with the Mermaid Chamber of Commerce, the largest chamber of commerce in the Kingdom of Chigda, and often transports goods for the Mermaid Chamber of Commerce.

The Mermaid Chamber of Commerce in the Kingdom of Chigda is backed by the Fausta family, and the Chamber of Commerce is headed by Duchess Windsor Bellina. Originally, the Mermaid Chamber of Commerce initially operated high-end clothing and expensive luxury goods, but in the past two decades, with the increasing authority of Grand Duke Fausta, the Mermaid Chamber of Commerce has also developed into the largest Chamber of Commerce in the Kingdom of Chigeda, and its business scope covers almost all aspects of daily life.

Captain Verderes was full of praise for the Duchess of Windsor Bellina, and he told Lorist that in the Kingdom of Chigeda, the Duchess of Windsor was an angel in almost everyone's heart, she was so noble and beautiful, kind and generous, she donated a lot of money to the poor every year, and often personally distributed food and clothing to the elderly and children in the slums, and also set up a workhouse to find work and free treatment for the poor people. In the royal capital, St. Maned, the Duchess of Windsor is even more prestigious than Her Majesty the Queen.

Because of his relationship with the Mermaid Chamber of Commerce, Captain Fredere accepted the commission of the Archduke Fausta to deliver the Archduke Fausta's handwritten letter and two messengers to the royal capital, St. Maned. After the letter was delivered, Captain Fredere found out that because the entire army of the Archduke Fausta and his family's armed Firebird Legion had surrendered, the royal capital of St. Manede and the Kingdom of Chigda were full of mountains and rains, and many aristocratic forces hostile to the Fausta family had jumped out to claim the Fausta family's territory and its subordinate estates and vassal domains, intending to beat the water dogs.

At this critical moment, the Duchess of Windsor on the one hand shrinks the family power to protect herself, on the other hand, she raises funds and quietly transfers them to Captain Ferres's ship, as long as the Grand Duke of Fausta and the family's armed Firebird Legion are redeemed in the fastest time, then this turmoil will soon be calm, and the Fausta family is still as stable as Mount Tai, maybe you can also take a few of the most happy noble families to try the knife.

Lorist asked Captain Fredris curiously what was going on with the shipload of goods he had purchased from Hirowas? Lorist wanted to know if the goods produced in his family's domain were selling well in the southern part of the Gelinthia continent.

Captain Fredere replied that the Mermaid Guild had underwritten all the cargo of his ship, and that the Duchess of Windsor had taken advantage of the unloading opportunity to secretly transport the funds she had raised to the ship, so that he could return so quickly. He had brought plenty of money with him on his return voyage, and the Mermaid Guild had allowed him to take out an interest-free loan to allow him to purchase some of the Norton family's high-end goods, such as glassware and snowflake paper, which Captain Fredere was sure would make him a fortune, and perhaps in two or three years the Frederes family would have a second large ocean-going merchant ship.

Regarding the sale of goods from the family's domain that Lorist was concerned about in the southern part of the continent, Captain Verderes patted his chest and said that there was no problem at all. As a veteran navigator and smuggler owner who has been on the seas for more than thirty years, Captain Verderes taught Lorist a good lesson.

For several countries in the southern part of the continent, goods from the south-central and northern parts of the continent are always in short supply. The specialty of the Romon Empire is green vine gum juice, and the specialty of the Havistan Khanate is cattle, horses and sheep, both of which are needed by various countries in the south-central part of the continent, and those countries in the south-central part of the continent also transport their specialties to the south of the continent, such as glass from the Kingdom of Trimber, fruit wine from the Duchy of Bidson, ceramics from the Kingdom of Abosson, and gold and silver ware from the Duchy of Ziktor......

However, the rise of the commercial alliance has made the city of Morente develop into the first commercial city of the Gelinthia continent, and the unique geographical environment and commercial advantages have made the goods and commodities produced by the commercial alliance gradually exceed the traditional production of some central and southern countries, such as the fruit wine of the Principality of Bidson, the ceramics of the Kingdom of Aberson and the gold and silver of the Principality of Sycotor These specialties have been unable to compete with the production of some chambers of commerce of the commercial alliance, and the market of the two major powers in the south of the continent has gradually been monopolized by the commercial alliance with price advantages.

After the glass war, the countries of the central and southern parts of the country jointly blocked the trade routes of the commercial alliance, and refused to trade with the commercial alliance, not to fight for the countries annexed by the commercial alliance, but on the contrary, it was a conflict of interests, and these countries wanted to compete for those markets monopolized by the commercial alliance. From a commercial point of view, the nobility of those countries in the central and southern parts of the continent really had no good way to compete with the commercial alliance for the market, so they could only resort to such rogue means to achieve their goals.

Because of the antagonism between these countries and business alliances in the central and southern regions, smuggling between various countries is prevalent. The commercial alliance had an invincible armada, and most of the goods could be transported by sea to the Empire of Romon and the Khanate of Haavistan for trade, but the blockade of the overland trade routes deprived the commercial alliance of most of the source of raw materials.

Captain Fredere said that the most lucrative smuggling in the past decade was to transport raw materials from various countries in the central and southern parts of the country to the Zangjin Bay by sea, exchange them for good goods from the city of Morente, and then smuggle them to other countries. However, the blockade of the trade routes of the various countries in the central and southern countries against the commercial alliance made the smuggling of such raw materials only a drop in the bucket for the commercial alliance, so it was inevitable that the war between the alliance forces of the Central and Southern Kingdoms and the commercial alliance would eventually break out.

Years of war have destroyed the commodity production capacity of the commercial alliance and the countries of the central and southern regions, and the lordship system of the commercial alliance has caused the chambers of commerce to relocate their production workshops to their respective chambers of commerce, resulting in a decline in the quality and efficiency of the goods they produce. In recent years, Frederes said, the goods produced by the business alliance have become more and more crude.

In such a situation, the goods and goods of the exquisite daily necessities produced in the Norton family territory are very effective in filling the gap in the market in the southern part of the continent. Captain Frederes, with his old eye for many years of smuggling, ensures that the goods purchased by the smuggler will definitely be sold in various countries in the southern part of the continent, and these guys will make a lot of money from the goods produced in the Norton family's territory, Captain Fredere said with some reluctance. After all, he only owns one sea vessel, and he can't monopolize the entire trade route, and there are too many private ship owners who grab food and food.

At this moment, Lorist suddenly understood the reason why the Peterson Chamber of Commerce and the Chicked Chamber of Commerce, which were previously in the business alliance, had been suppressing these commodities produced in their own family territory. Because they are a chamber of commerce, they have their own chamber of commerce's production workshops. If they purchased these goods from the Norton family's territory on a large scale, it would definitely have a market impact on the goods produced in their own workshops and squeeze their monopoly market share, so they used to only purchase a small part of it at a time as a boutique for sale. On the one hand, it maintains the market for the goods it produces, and on the other hand, it takes advantage of the monopoly of trade routes and the asymmetry of market information to purchase from the Norton family at low prices to win more profits for its own chamber of commerce.

Now these private shipowners don't care if it will damage the market share controlled by those chambers of commerce, they only know that the goods purchased from the Norton family can earn them a lot of gold, and they don't have any private production workshops, so they don't have to worry about whether putting these goods produced by the Norton family into the market will affect the production of business alliances. That's good, and Lorist didn't expect that his casual move would be the most fatal blow to the commercial side of the business alliance. You know, at that time, he was just thinking about finding another way to sell the production of these family territories that had been piled up on the island of Hilowas.

In another half a year, after those private ship owners spread the production influence of these purchased Norton family territories to the entire southern part of the continent, perhaps the business alliance will really jump over the wall. Lorist thought triumphantly. He rewarded Captain Frès with a family-made monocular, and after learning how to use it, Captain Frès was overjoyed and vowed that he would keep it as a family heirloom and pass it on from generation to generation.

"Maybe you can start with those private ship owners and arrange our spy intelligence system without having to send personnel to the southern part of the continent to gather intelligence. For example, this Captain Fredere is a good candidate, we don't need to develop him into our family, we just need to have a good relationship with him, get the latest news from those countries in the south of the continent from his mouth, and then confirm it with other private shipowners to know if these news are true. Lorist pointed out to Tugger.

"I understand, Your Highness, I'll arrange it. Tagger nodded. Lorist is right, these private boat owners are well-informed and well-traveled, and they are the first to know about the slightest disturbance in those countries in the south of the continent, and it is much more convenient to get the latest news from their mouths than to send people to the south of the mainland to collect intelligence from their own side. The most important thing is to save money, effort and time, and after a few glasses of wine in the tavern, you may even be able to find out what color underwear the king's lover is wearing.

From Captain Freres's mouth, Lorist knew that the big-eyed girl he had liked back then had now become a truly elegant and assertive aristocratic lady. This made him very emotional. Back then, the poor girl was helpless after the great change in the family, and in a desperate situation, she actually committed suicide by throwing herself into the lake, and after being rescued by herself, she relied on herself to ask herself to make ideas for her, and she really couldn't think of any other way than Lai Pi and crying at that time.

Nearly twenty years, just in a blink of an eye, the once simple beautiful girl has also changed, maybe from the breakup of the year, I should understand that I know too little about her, or maybe I think of her too simple, judging from the crisis she encountered in dealing with the Fausta family this time, she is not lacking in scheming, maybe in the past twenty years of marrying the Grand Duke of Fausta, she has finally sharpened out of the intrigue of the aristocratic circle.

Lorist did not regret that he refused to meet her again, the past was gone, and it was better to miss this sentence to describe his mood at that moment. It is the best choice to let Shi Fatzi deal with her, Shi Fatzi will not care about the friendship of the year, now the initiative is on the side of the Norton family, he will sharpen the knife he wants to sharpen quickly, and he will slaughter it as he wants.

It's just that Lorlist's relaxed mood was quickly ruined by the latest news from the imperial capital: "What did you say? Her Majesty the Queen died of a violent illness?"

"Yes, Your Highness. Tagar held in his hand the message that had just arrived: "On the 32nd of August, the Grand Duke of Fisabrun rushed to the imperial capital and entered the palace to meet His Majesty the King, and did not leave the palace that night. The next afternoon, news came from the palace that Her Majesty had fallen ill and died......"

One corpse and two lives, how can they do it, more than a month has passed since the queen's pregnancy was discovered, and it will be ready to give birth in a few months, and it is almost certain that the children in the queen's womb have developed into babies. Although Lorist was a pure bystander in this matter, he also felt gloomy at this time, and the hearts of His Royal Highness and Grand Duke Fisabrun were too ruthless.

In mid-July, the coalition of nobles of the Kingdom of Antinac led by His Royal Highness Twenty Highness embarked on a journey home, and the armed forces of the Fisabrun family were separated from His Royal Highness in Cambona Province, and the Grand Duke of Fisabrun took the road of the Pudoolg Province, and he had to go to Wolf Province first, which was another family territory assigned by the Fisabrun family, and nearly forty collateral relatives of the Fisabrunn family would be canonized as territorial nobles in this province. This is also the agreement and compensation reached between the Fisabrun family and the Second Highness to send troops to help in the war.

Since the scandal of the queen's pregnancy came out, His Royal Highness has not moved, except for strictly forbidding the people of the imperial capital to discuss this matter, and in addition, the queen's adulterer, that is, the rumored illegitimate son of the knight of Wixus, has been put under house arrest. Lorist originally thought that His Royal Highness wanted to wait for the child to be born before disposing of it, but now he knew that he was waiting for the arrival of the Grand Duke of Fisabrun.

It is obvious that His Royal Highness and the Grand Duke of Fisabrun have reached some secret agreement, which is why he is poisoned. As a passer-by who played soy sauce as an onlooker, Lorist was not good at saying anything, and he couldn't accuse His Royal Highness of being ruthless, but this matter must have been turned over like this, and it will only be slowly forgotten with the passage of time, and perhaps only a short record will be left in the history of the kingdom: On a certain day, the queen suddenly fell ill and died after ineffective treatment.

"Well, what about the Wickan Knight, has he been disposed of?" asked Lorlist.

"Nope. Targar tossed and turned the silk in his hand and looked at it carefully twice before replying: "It seems that he is still in the palace, still under house arrest, and has not been disposed of." ”

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