Chapter 563: A Secret Report from the Business Alliance

At this time, there was a knock on the door of the study, and Genorio pushed the door in, holding a thick document bag in his hand: "Your Highness, the secret report of the business alliance sent by Lord Tagel. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ”

Secret reports are different from emergency reports, in the intelligence classification of the Norton family, emergency reports are generally related to the vital interests of the family, and the use of letter eagle summons is used to explain the occurrence and process of the incident in the most concise writing. The secret reports are different, they are all major events that affect the region, but they have nothing to do with the Norton family, they are just worth paying attention to. Basically, the entire process of the incident is summarized, and after the investigation is confirmed, the documents such as reports and certificates are packaged and sent back to the family territory. In fact, the queen's fornication incident should have been a secret report, but because of Lorlist's gossip heart, it took the form of an urgent report, and used the letter eagle to convey the latest developments in a timely manner......

Shi Fatzi also stood up and asked curiously, "What's going on again?"

Genorio opened the folder, glanced at it, and reported: "Your Highness, there was a rebellion in the Business Alliance on September 15, and the Grand Duke of Comberland used the Two-Headed Dragon Chamber of Commerce Legion to carry out a bloody and brutal purge and suppression, nearly twenty chambers of commerce were involved in this rebellion, and seventeen chambers of commerce were destroyed. It is said that the initiator of the rebellion was the vice president of the Two-Headed Dragon Chamber of Commerce, Marquis Crilos, who contacted a large number of nobles of the Chamber of Commerce who were dissatisfied with the Grand Duke of Cumberlet, and attempted to overthrow the rule of the Archduke of Cumberlet and replace him, but unfortunately failed.

After the rebellion was suppressed, the Marquis de Crilos disappeared, and the Archduke of Cumberlet declared the Marquis of Crilos a rebel and wanted him with a bounty of 10,000 gold fords. At the same time, the Archduke of Cumberlet announced a series of administrative measures, preparing to intensify the development of the territory of the commercial alliance, and decided to gradually reform the system of noble titles, changing the territorial nobility to honorary titles and annuity payment systems, and sent envoys to the Liberty Alliance and the Kingdom of Peterson and other countries around the world, reaffirming the willingness and determination of the commercial alliance to live in harmony with all countries and maintain peace......

Lorist was moved: "It seems that the business alliance has been reborn from the ashes after this rebellion, and the Archduke Cumberlet is a personal masterpiece, and this series of measures is about to be real." ”

Shi Fatzi was very curious about the initiator of the rebellion: "Who is that Marquis of Crelos?"

Jenorio quickly found the information of the Marquis of Crilos in the folder: "Hey, this Marquis Crilori also sent an envoy to our kingdom, and it was the incident that he wanted the Storm Sword Saint to take His Majesty the King and the nobles of the kingdom hostage to go to Moriente City, and finally His Highness stepped forward to fight with the Storm Sword Saint and was seriously injured. The Marquis of Crelos was the envoy of the merchant alliance who was denounced as a liar by His Majesty the King and sent back with feathers all over his body. ”

"Oh, it turned out to be him. Lorist remembered the impression of the Marquis of Crylos.

Shi Fatzi was very strange: "Why is he still alive? Isn't his body full of raw lacquer? It should have been poisoned long ago, how can it still be alive?"

Genorio retorted, "Lord Schreid, it shouldn't be fatal to be covered in raw lacquer, it's not poison, how can it be finished." What's so strange about this Marquis of Crilos living so well. ”

Shi Fatzi replied very calmly: "You don't understand, I've seen the example with my own eyes." When I was a child, there was a lacquer shop next door to our house, once a startled horse broke into the store and smashed a large bucket of lacquer, a guy in the store and the horseman and the horse were unlucky to be covered with lacquer all over the head and upper body bare * exposed places, as a result of cleaning the lacquer less than two days after they were allergic, the body stained with lacquer all festered, has been bleeding pus, the boss invited the famous senior pharmacist said that there is nothing to do. The shopkeeper and the groom couldn't stand the pain that went deep into the bone marrow and committed suicide. The frightened horse's neck also festered and died, which was unbearable.

As a result, the lacquer shop went out of business. Later, I learned that even those painters were wearing thick protective clothing when they painted raw lacquer, and they were not naked at all, and their wages were the most expensive. Therefore, those furniture coated with raw lacquer as a primer can be preserved for hundreds of years, and there is no need to worry about being eaten by insects and ants. The strangest thing is that after the raw lacquer is applied to the furniture as a primer to dry, there is no need to worry about its toxicity and allergies, and it is okay to touch it with bare hands. This is also the reason why people choose primers for raw lacquer. When I was a young student at Dawn Academy, I studied lacquer for a while, and I wanted to figure out why, but unfortunately I didn't research it......"

Genolio rolled his eyes and said, "Since you haven't researched any famous names, what kind of expert are you pretending to be?" The Marquis of Crilos is a nobleman, even if he is allergic to the poison of lacquer, he can naturally spend a lot of money to find the best pharmacist to treat it, which should be completely different from the treatment of the shopkeeper and the groom when you were a child, and after so much time, maybe there are already pharmacists who have figured out a way to cure the poison and allergies of this lacquer. ”

Shi Fat Man was speechless by Genorio, so he grabbed Genolio and rubbed his hair messily: "You kid has grown hair during this time, dare to talk to me like this, see how I clean up your ......"

Lorist couldn't help but laugh, and said while looking at the documents: "You two are almost enough, Schred, you are the chief knight of the family, and you are also Genorio's uncle in terms of age, be careful of being noted by Genorio." When that bastard boy of yours comes to me in two years and will be my attendant, Genorio will give him little shoes to wear......"

"He dared to ......" Fat Shi let Genolio go, and went to open a bottle of blackcurrant cider, which made him not hurry to leave, and came over to watch the secret report about the rebellion that had occurred in the business alliance.

"Your Highness, you should be able to rest assured. The rebellion of the business alliance this time was too bloody and cruel, suppressing so many nobles of the Chamber of Commerce, and more than 10,000 people were killed and hanged. Shi Fatzi quickly read the entire secret report.

"No, I'm different from what you think, and I think the current business alliance deserves more vigilance. This rebellion gave Archduke Cumberlet a good excuse to purge the dissidents and the opposition, and it can be concluded that he had slaughtered almost all the nobles of the Chamber who opposed him, and destroyed the superfluous Chambers. The rest are basically his allies and supporters.

Next, we will soon see that the Grand Duke of Cumberlet will soon integrate the forces of all the chambers of commerce of the business alliance, carry out unified development and planning of the territories of the four provinces, reform the current outdated rules and regulations of the business alliance, and within a few years the business alliance will regain most of its strength and become a threat to the countries of the central and southern regions again. ”

"Your Highness, do you think too highly of the Commercial Alliance and the Grand Duke of Comblett? You must know that in the countries and regions in the south-central and southern parts of the continent, the markets that were originally occupied by the Commercial Alliance have now been occupied by the goods and goods of our family territory. If the business alliance wants to revive, it will have to re-compete with our family for the market in order to reap the benefits.

But the question at present is, is the goods produced by the Business Alliance as fine and affordable as those produced in our family domain? If not, where does it get the benefits? Not to mention that Your Highness, you once said that war is all about logistics. How can the business alliance arm their chamber of commerce legions without profits, and how can they regain their strength?" Shi Fatzi argued unconvinced.

"You're right, the goods produced in our family's domain have an absolute advantage over the business alliance. But you forgot the important point, the business alliance has a great geographical advantage over our family in a certain specialty. Lorist raised his glass and took a sip of blackcurrant cider: "Think about it, the territory of the four provinces now occupied by the commercial alliance was the territory of which countries used to be?"

"The Kingdom of Trimbourne, the Duchy of Delia, and the former Duchy of Morkebi...."Shi Fat Man blurted out, after the Kingdom of Trimbor was destroyed and annexed by the Business Alliance, the fifteen counties of the country were divided into five provinces, the provinces of Mawiforin, the provinces of Gerodana, the provinces of Chalbuco, the provinces of Cuvadro and the provinces of Rioriga. The provinces of Mawefulim, which are now part of the restored Grand Duchy of Kabasi, the provinces of Gerodana and Chalbuco, and the province of Aligome, which was formerly the Duchy of Delia, became the territory of the Kingdom of Petersen, which was independent from the Union of Commerce.

The only remaining territories of the former Kingdom of Trimber occupied by the Merchant Alliance were the provinces of Cuvadro and Riolica, of which a small part of the Cunvadro Province was occupied by the Kingdom of Petersen and turned into a defensive front against the forces of the Merchant Alliance. There are also two provinces, Toscao, which was formerly part of the Duchy of Delia, and Fimsilan, which is the former Duchy of Morcobi, adjacent to the province of Tenarigue, which has just been restored.

"The specialty of the business alliance you said should be glass...... "Shi Fatzi quickly understood what the specialty in Lorist's words meant.

"Yes, I mean green glass and oil glass. Lorist nodded: "Most of the glass products produced and marketed in our family territory to the central and southern part of the continent are exquisite utensils, such as tableware, as well as the glass wine glasses we hold in our hands, as well as various shapes and decorations made of glass, these goods are very profitable and profitable, so they can be sold everywhere." But no one wholesaled large quantities of green and oil glass from our family territory and sold them to the central and southern parts of the continent.

Quite simply, unprofitable or even loss-making deals are not done for businessmen. A piece of green glass is worth only three or four copper coins, and when our family territory did not master the technology of glass manufacturing, Kenmeth's family chamber of commerce bought green glass from the kingdom of Trimber, transported it all the way to the north, and when it was sold to us, it was already a small silver coin and a piece of green glass, almost five or six times the price, and this was already a five-fold discount for our family.

For the Kenmath Family Chamber of Commerce, it was actually very difficult for them to sell us at this price because of the small profits. The cost of freight and personnel along the way, as well as customs clearance fees and taxes, added up to the most common and cheap green glass in the city of Moriente, which became a high-priced luxury decoration, and many of the castle windows of the Northland lords were made of wooden planks, because they did not have the financial resources and were reluctant to install these windows with these green glass.

This is the main reason why I decided to go to the Kingdom of Trimber and spend any cost to get glass recipes and technicians. The glass workshop in our family estate has now become a major source of income for our family's finances, and the green and oil glass produced are sold in most of the provinces of the kingdom. Now there is no chamber of commerce willing to buy green glass and oil glass from the business alliance, because the trade is no longer profitable.

In the same way, the green glass and oil glass of our family territory cannot be marketed to the central and southern parts of the mainland, because the business alliance can also produce green glass and oil glass, in a way, we cannot compete with the business alliance for the market of green glass and oil glass in various countries in the central and southern parts of the mainland, even if we have zero cost plus subsidies, we can not defeat the business alliance, the high freight and labor costs will make all our efforts in vain, and the more we sell, the more we lose. ”

Lorist shook his head with a wry smile and sat on the chair, fiddling with several intelligence documents in the secret report: "Back then, the Kingdom of Trimber had accumulated tens of millions of gold fortunes by buying and selling green glass and oil glass for more than 100 years, and now the business alliance can also rely on green glass and oil glass to quickly gather wealth." Especially when the war in the central and southern parts of the continent subsides, all countries will increase development and construction in order to restore the prosperity of the past, whether it is a nobleman or a commoner, as long as there is a condition, they will try their best to decorate their homes. Green glass and oil glass will become a big deal.

The era of peace was the most active era of merchants, and it is conceivable that the revival of business alliances was just around the corner. This document said that the Archduke of Cumberlet was ready to gradually reform the aristocratic knighthood system, changing the territorial nobility to an honorary title and annuity payment system, which was originally an idea that I was going to give to Ledos, and I wanted the Liberty Alliance to adopt this honorary aristocratic knighthood system, so that the Liberty Alliance could maintain its self-motivation and vitality, but I didn't expect the commercial alliance to take the lead.

Even the salt monopoly system could not curb the development and revival of business alliances, and bribery and smuggling could easily bring this salt monopoly to naught. The only thing we are thankful for is that the Mercantile Alliance has been trapped in its current four provinces, and if the Plains of Fallimound and the city of Morent are still in the hands of the Mercantile Alliance, then all we can do now is expand our armaments and wait for the resumption of war with the Mercantile Alliance in three or four years. ”

Shi Fatzi protested unwillingly: "Your Highness, you can't help but think too highly of the business alliance, if it is really as you said, it is better to take advantage of the fact that the business alliance has just put down the rebellion and the internal emptiness is panicking, our family will once again mobilize a large army to attack the business alliance and completely eliminate this trouble." ”

Genolio also nodded hurriedly beside him, thinking that what Shi Fat Man said was very reasonable, this kid was too superstitious about the Norton family's invincible reputation in the world.

Lorist smiled dumbly: "In what name do we send troops? You must know that the armistice agreement has just been signed and peace has been restored, why did our family go to do this? It is not a good thing to attack the commercial alliance now, but it will make us a peacebreaker in the eyes of those countries in the central and southern regions." Whether it will rain or come out of the sun is something we can't control. Anyway, it's not our family that will be unlucky when the time comes.

For our family, there are only two things we need to do, one is to support the Freedom Alliance and maintain friendly relations between us. The second is to ensure the normal operation of the wholesale market for the transit of goods and goods produced in the city of Morent as our family territory. In addition, the life or death of other countries in the south-central continent is none of our family's business, and we do not need to meddle in the internal affairs of these countries, as long as they purchase our goods and pay for them. ”

Fat Shi and Genolio nodded thoughtfully.

Lorist asked Genolio, "Is there anything else?"

"Yes, Your Highness, Knight Renmerd has returned. Well, he also has four of his wives with him, and he has five more children......" Jenorio replied.

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