Chapter 576: The Helplessness of the Marquis of Crilos

"Bang!", the precious purple gold silk black pottery was thrown out by the angry Marquis of Crelos, turning into large and small pieces on the hard floor tiles. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoA treasure worth nearly a thousand gold fords is gone. You must know that the Marquis of Crilos did not forget to bring this purple gold silk black pottery with him when he left the business alliance on that chaotic night, and he usually did not leave his body for a moment, and from time to time he held it in his hand to enjoy it, but now he smashed this beloved thing on the ground, you can imagine how angry he was......

Today is August 10, 1783 in the universal calendar of the Gaylinthia continent, the day when the Kingdom of Antinac restores the name of the former Krisen Empire, and it is also the auspicious day for King Augercello I of the Kingdom of Antinac to bid farewell to the position of king and ascend the throne as Emperor of the Empire. His hapless father, the former King Antinac I, was posthumously named Cleison VIII in name......

The whole imperial capital is filled with a joyful and festive atmosphere, the streets echo with happy singing and the noise of gongs and drums, floats, processions are endless, the residents of the imperial capital have fulfilled their duties to celebrate the enthronement of the great majesty, and the great benevolent and generous emperor His Majesty also announced that all the residents of the imperial capital will be rewarded with free wine and meat, simply put, it is to eat and drink well and toss and cheer to the fullest......

From time to time there were bursts of cheers from the streets, long live the Emperor and long live the Crisian Empire, and for the Marquis of Crilos, the day of the celebration and the pomp of the enemy was the source of all his pain, and the pain of the flesh was not even comparable to the sorrow in his heart. After breaking away from the business alliance, he finally came to the imperial capital after several rounds, and according to his plan, he successfully met the Earl of Wixas, and used his outstanding intelligence to obtain the Earl of Wixas's recruitment, making himself the Earl of Wixus's obedient thinker.

At that time, the Earl of California was just a knight, and he was deprived of his position as the guardian of the imperial capital because he offended the Norton family, which was also his most frustrated time. When His Royal Highness returned, he decided to canonize his illegitimate son as an earl, and his territory was in the distant province of Majik, and he strictly ordered the Count of Waixus to return to his own territory immediately.

At this critical moment, it was the Marquis of Crelos who stopped the Count of Wickus from preparing to go to the territory, he asked the Count of Coastus to go to the palace to plead bitterly in front of the Second Highness, and finally moved the Second Highness with family affection, and withdrew the order to allow the Count of Coastus to continue to stay in the imperial capital. After all, the Count of Wickus has been in the streets of the imperial capital since he was a child, and he has never traveled far away, so it is indeed a little too ruthless to drive him to the territory of Majik Province.

I remember that the Marquis of Crelos said to the Count of Wickus at that time, once you leave the imperial capital, it means that there will be no more your share in that throne, and it is possible to sit on that throne if you stay in the imperial capital. Although His Majesty has another son, it will take more than ten years for this son-in-law to grow up, and anything can happen in these long years......

The Count of Wickus listened to the instructions of the Marquis of Crilos, went to the palace and pleaded in the name of his dead mother in front of the Second Highness, and finally stayed in the imperial capital as he wished. And with the assistance of the Marquis of Crelos, he opened the Antitario Chamber of Commerce, and regained the trust and support of His Royal Highness under the pretext of doing business to make money for the royal family, and obtained the right to sell several mineral deposits in the kingdom.

Another burst of pain struck, and the Marquis of Crilos's body trembled again, and the two scars on his pale face from his forehead to his chin were distorted into abstract shapes, and at this moment the expression of the Marquis of Crilos was so hideous and ugly, like a demon.

However, he was the only one in the room, and in order to take revenge, the Marquis of Crilos personally made these two scars on his own face, ruining the handsome face. Because of this, he was able to move freely in the imperial capital without fear of being recognized, he was once the envoy of the Business Alliance, Marquis Crilos.

Perhaps I shouldn't have pinned my hopes on Vicus, the Marquis of Crelos shuddered and took out a small tube of blue potion from his bosom, twisted the pine cork on the top of the potion bottle, and slowly poured the blue potion into his throat. With the potion in his abdomen, the face of the Marquis of Crilos finally returned to normal, he slowly sat down in the chair, and reached out to take the purple gold silk black pottery that he habitually held when he usually thought, but he grabbed it empty, and then remembered that he had thrown this beloved thing out when he was angry just now......

Glancing at the debris on the ground with pity, Marquis Crilos began to think calmly about what had happened, why the Grand Duke of Norton, the Sword Saint of Zhenguo, and the three Grand Dukes of the Northland, who had already turned against His Second Highness, appeared at the enthronement ceremony of His Second Highness, as if nothing had happened, and the monarch and ministers felt happy together......

Two days ago, it was said that Grand Duke Norton and His Second Highness turned their faces on the spot in front of many royal nobles in the palace hall, kicked the two doors of the main hall and left, and then left the imperial capital with the family members and family arms of the four Grand Dukes and nearly 5,000 servants and maids, ready to return to the family territory.

When he first heard the news, the Marquis of Crilos was overjoyed, the four alliances of the Northland are the first noble forces in the kingdom of Antinac, the Norton family is known as the strongest army in the Gaylinthia continent, and the commercial alliance forces can be said to be the defeated generals under them. Coupled with the Grand Duke of the Northland of the Sword Saint of Zhenguo, if he can break with His Second Highness because of this, it will be really great news for the Marquis of Crilos.

Even though the Golden Swordsman Mercius, who followed him, and more than forty loyal Silver Swordsmen fell on the street as the guards of the Chamber of Commerce, and were slaughtered by the Grand Duke of Norton and his guards, the Marquis of Crilos believed that as long as he provoked the conflict between the Norton family and the Second Highness and made them break up, the sacrifice of these loyal subordinates would still be worth it, because there was hope for his revenge.

In fact, Lorist suspected that His Royal Highness was the mastermind behind the Antario Chamber of Commerce and the mastermind of the assassination of Duke Kenmeth was misunderstood by the Second Highness, whether it was the first-class great swordsman who went to assassinate Duke Kenmeth, or the golden swordsman who died under the sword of Tiger Rose, and the silver guards of the Antario Chamber of Commerce who were killed, they were actually the subordinates of the Marquis of Crelos, and even the 100,000 goldfords that the Snow Salt Chamber of Commerce and the Antilevio Chamber of Commerce competed for the salt market in the kingdom and made them lose were all the private money paid by the Marquis of Crelos himself.

And Lorist thought that all this was paid for by His Second Highness for his illegitimate son, the Earl of Visas. But I don't know that the Marquis of Crilos has a hard time, so he has to do so, because the illegitimate son of the Second Highness, the Count of Wickus, is really a mess on the wall, and if he doesn't come out to wipe his ass for what the Count of Willus has done, he is afraid that the Count of Willus will soon be driven back to the territory of Majik Province by the Second Highness, and then the revenge plot of the Marquis of Crylos against the Second Highness will be far away.

Obviously, the night two days ago, the Grand Duke of Norton and the other three Grand Dukes' families and family forces did not return to the imperial capital, which was witnessed by the cronies sent to the city gate by the Marquis of Crelos. At that time, I only heard that His Royal Highness personally brought dozens of horsemen to chase after him, and after a while, the rest of the nobles of the kingdom also rushed to stay, but in the end, the families and family forces of the four Grand Dukes still did not turn back, and the faces of the Second Highness and his party were black when they returned to the city. Yesterday evening there was also news that the party of the four Grand Dukes had arrived at the port of Qilin and was preparing to board the ship.

But what is the matter with the Grand Duke Norton and the three Grand Dukes of the Territory who appeared at the enthronement ceremony today? And where did the 1,000 Norton family armed forces who held the angry bear banner of the Norton family and walked through the parade with their heads held high, shouting "Long live the Empire, long live the Emperor?" Not only the Norton family forces, but also the family arms of the three Grand Dukes of the four alliances, the three thousand people followed the Norton family forces and were inspected by the Second Highness, shouting the slogan of allegiance to the emperor and the empire and walked to the streets of the imperial capital......

When the Marquis of Crelos was overjoyed that the four alliances of the Northland and the Second Highness had broken up, looking forward to the resumption of war in the Kingdom of Antinac, gloating and watching the enthronement ceremony of the Second Highness become a farce, he did not expect to see the Grand Duke of Norton and the other three Grand Dukes appear next to the Second Highness on top of today's ceremony, as if the murder two days ago had never happened. This unexpected scene of harmony almost drove Marquis Crilos mad, and as the saying goes, the greater the expectation, the greater the disappointment, and the Marquis de Crilos, who found himself disappointed, returned to his residence and began to smash things.

The door was pushed open with a "bang", and a figure deftly entered the room, turned around and closed the door again, and then pressed against the door panting and stroking his chest and said, "I was scared to death, I almost collided with Grand Duke Norton, but fortunately I ran fast." Otherwise, you'll never see me again, Selig. ”

Serrig is a pseudonym for the Marquis of Crelos, who tells the Count of Wickus that he is the eldest young master of a chamber of commerce in the Empire of Romon in the south of the continent, and that he was exiled to the imperial capital of the Kingdom of Antinac because he offended an archduke of the empire. He prepares to reopen the Chamber of Commerce in the Imperial Capital, so he invites the Count of Waixus to partner with him to make money.

I may have found a pig teammate...... The Marquis of Crylos stroked his forehead helplessly. The man who had crept into his room without saying hello was none other than the Count of Wickus. In the eyes of the Marquis of Crilos, the illegitimate son of the Second Highness, in addition to inheriting his father's handsome appearance, was actually a big straw bale. The Count of Wickus, who grew up in the streets, is a qualified gangster and a hooligan.

Maybe he wouldn't even be a rascal, if it weren't for his adoptive father's old knight, who had laid a good foundation for Wickus since he was a child, and had awakened his vindictive spirit at the age of sixteen before he died. Maybe Wickus, who has not awakened his fighting spirit, will not be able to survive the war and famine in the imperial capital for a long time, and will report to the kingdom of the god of war. It was because of his vindictive spirit that Vicus survived until he was found by the people sent by His Second Highness.

In the eyes of the Marquis of Crelos, the Count of Wickus has no merits, let alone aristocratic knowledge and cultivation, greedy for money, lustful, reckless and impulsive, etc., almost useless. Of course, the Count of Coastus is still very righteous, but his righteousness is generally manifested in not forgetting to pull his friends when he falls into the pit, and pulling his friends into the pit to share the joys and sorrows with him. Like the Marquis of Crilos, he has been cheated twice in less than a year......

The first was the competition with the Snow Salt Chamber of Commerce, and it was known that the nobles of the Gallinthia continent habitually consumed rock salt. Sea salt is bitter and inexpensive, and is generally eaten by civilians. Although the salt of the Snow Salt Chamber of Commerce is as white as snow, it is after all refined sea salt, and for some nobles, it is a substitute of last resort when there is no rock salt.

The Marquis of Crilos, through the Count of Wickus, obtained the right to sell three rock salt mines from His Second Highness, or in a sense had a monopoly on the kingdom's rock salt industry. He is ready to start from the aristocratic circle and push rock salt to the table of the nobles of the kingdom and become a high-end condiment. It's just that rock salt needs to be processed many times before it can become refined salt. Since the Marquis of Crilos was unwell, he left these matters and the sales pitch to the Count of Wickus.

In the eyes of the Marquis of Crelos, as long as the Count of Wickus visited those nobles of the kingdom in the name of His Second Highness and sold rock salt, it would be easy to achieve results. But what he didn't expect was that when the Earl of Wax learned that a small bottle of rock salt would make less than a small silver coin, he felt that it was too hard to make it, so he took a friend's advice and bought a large amount of snow salt, mixed it with the rock salt, and sold it. In this way, the profit was increased several times at once.

The Count of Wickus triumphantly thought it was a clever plan, but he forgot that the nobles of the kingdom were not fools. It is correct to say that the snow salt is white, and the rock salt is a little cyan, and the Count of Coast's blue and white salt soon became a joke. The Marquis of Crilos could only silently take out his private money to fill in the cost hole of rock salt production, storage, and processing, and lost nearly 100,000 gold fords when he settled the account. By the way, the friend who gave the Count of Coast an idea received a thousand gold fords in return from the Count of Kenmeth......

The second big hole is that the Marquis of Crilos suggested that the Count of Wickus win over the nobles of the kingdom to cultivate contacts and fame, and hold more banquets and balls, as for the expenses, they are naturally provided by the Antario Chamber of Commerce. The Earl of Wake was very pleased with this suggestion, and spending his days drinking and having fun was his favorite thing to do, and even liked to go so far as to force the ladies of the nobility to send balls to the royal boulevards. Because of the prestige of His Second Highness, the nobles of the kingdom who knew that he was the illegitimate son of His Majesty the King could only swallow their anger and beg for satisfaction with him.

Until it bumped into the Norton family, the so-called ball invitation became a big hole again, and this pit pitted the Marquis of Crelos's personal bodyguard, the golden swordsman Mercius, and more than forty silver guards, and even the Antario trading house was destroyed by most of it, and the losses were huge. You must know that when the Marquis of Crylos came to the imperial capital, there were less than a hundred henchmen and guards with him, and now half of them are gone......

"Wow, why did you throw this treasure away? What a pity, Miss Bellis said last time that if I gave her this treasure, she would be willing to spend three wonderful romantic evenings with me...... I knew I was going to give it to her last time......" The Earl of Wake found the debris on the ground, fussing out in pity.

"You ......" Marquis Crilos was angry, but had to explain: "I accidentally fell and broke it." By the way, do you know how Archduke Norton appeared at the ceremony today, didn't he say last time that he and His Majesty turned around and left the imperial capital with his family and family arms?"

"Oh, well, didn't my father go after him, and finally persuaded him to turn back. However, he and the three Grand Dukes came back with a dozen or so guards, and they stayed in the courtyard next to the palace for the past two days. Today, their family forces are all impersonated by soldiers of the Royal Guard. The Count of Wickus replied nonchalantly.

"Then why didn't you say it earlier?" said Count Crilos, who was angry, and rejoiced in vain.

"What's the use of telling you? Didn't you see that I had been hiding in hiding for the past two days, and I almost met with Archduke Norton just now. ”

The Marquis of Crilos was speechless, and he sometimes had to admire the good fortune of the Count of Wickus. Just like this time, the Count of Wake should be regarded as the culprit who offended the Norton family, and he also ran to complain to the Second Highness, distorting the facts, and as a result, the Second Highness and Lorist almost turned their faces. When His Royal Highness found out what happened, he was in a hurry to recover Lorist and his party, and he didn't bother to settle accounts with the Earl of Wickus.

Because Lorist refused to let his family and family forces return to the imperial capital, His Royal Highness was sulking for this, and when he returned to the imperial capital, he had to send the Royal Guards to pretend to be the family arms of the four Grand Dukes and check the preparations for various grand ceremonies. And the four Grand Dukes of Lorist pretended to be low-key and hid in the courtyard without going out, and as a result, they forgot about the Count of Willus. So much so that the Earl of Wake has been wandering around for the past two days, and even mixed in with the ranks of the nobles of the kingdom to participate in today's enthronement ceremony......

"Lord Count, as your friend, I have to advise you, if you still want to sit on that throne, you should change your bad habits and become a true nobleman, so that you can gain the heartfelt support of the nobles of the kingdom and become a great monarch in the future......," Marquis Crelos began to persuade again.

"Alright, Selig, I know, don't be verbose, I will definitely become the heir to the royal family......" The Count of Coast replied impatiently: "By the way, do you still have this purple gold silk black pottery? ”

Marquis of Crilos: "......"

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