The cargo terminal of the port of Scith has undergone three transformations, the first of which was built in the city, next to the current passenger terminal, but with the construction of a large number of factories on the edge of the port of Set, forming a large factory area, the surge in cargo throughput overwhelmed the repeatedly expanded terminal, and finally the municipality decided to move most of the freight terminal out of the city and divide a large area of coast in the seaside of the factory area for the construction of the terminal.

After the completion of the construction of the cargo terminal, all the export goods produced by the factory and the imported raw materials are handled from this cargo terminal, while the general goods go to the freight terminal in the city.

The difference between the cargo docks in the city is that this large dock is not only built with a large number of warehouses for hoarding goods, but also has a large dock that can dock four or five freighters, and a secret dock dock dedicated to loading secret cargo.

On the wharf, there are more than a dozen docks that can load large freighters, each dock is closely connected with rows of private warehouses, and when the cargo ship arrives at the port, it will be towed into the dock by a towing ship, and then the people in the dock will close the water gate at the entrance, so that the dock is completely closed.

Whether it is loaded into the ship or unloaded from the ship, it is transported back and forth from these closed docks, without giving outsiders any chance to snoop.

Although the reason used in the first construction of this kind of dock was to facilitate the handling of goods, now these docks are almost used by various large chambers of commerce and aristocratic power to transport smuggled goods, and this kind of thing has become an open secret in the large freight docks, but no one will tell this secret, because everyone who tells these secrets will eventually become a floating corpse on the sea.

After Leo arrives at the agreed location with Jason, Jason leads Leo to one of the dockyards.

On the way, Jason introduced the situation: "This dock belongs to Earl Ed of Eisenburg, and he also has a factory here, and this dock is dedicated to transporting factory raw materials and products," Speaking of this, he paused for a moment and added: "Of course, this is just a statement to the outside world, in fact, this is Earl Ed's smuggling point, and the tobacco and tea transported from the Moisan mainland will be unloaded from this dock, and then labeled as factory raw materials and transported to the country for sale, avoiding a large amount of taxes that need to be paid." ”

"Getting to the point. Leo looked at Jason, who was a little verbose, and said.

Jason smiled and got to the point: "Earl Ed's recent investments in the Moisan continent have been lost, there are problems with funds, and some debts are due, which makes him have to sell some family property to mortgage debts, this dock and warehouse is one of the properties that have been sold, and the person who bought it has something to do with you." ”

"Something to do with me?" Leo frowned.

"Duke of Buckingham. Jason didn't sell it, and directly said the answer.

"Him. Leo just nodded flatly, and didn't say anything.

Jason was a little disappointed by Leo's reaction, but he didn't dwell too much on this, but continued: "Since the Duke of Buckingham has bought the dockyard and warehouse, the things that were originally placed in the warehouse and dock will naturally be taken out and shipped away, but a strange thing happened to my subordinates when they were carrying the goods in one of the warehouses, he forgot to move things. ”

"Forgot to move something?" Leo was stunned, looking at Jason with some confusion.

"How?" Jason seemed to know that Leo would react in this way, so he thought about it carefully and said, "They just forgot, they all forgot to carry things! They were supposed to go to the warehouse and move the contents of the warehouse out, but when they went in, they all forgot to carry things, and one by one they didn't do anything and walked out empty-handed. Do you understand this?"

Leo thought for a moment and said, "You mean there's something in that warehouse that is influencing your men to forget what they need to do, right?"

"Yes, yes, that's what it means!" Jason nodded repeatedly.

After receiving an affirmative response, Leo became interested in the matter as well.

The carriage in which the two men were riding soon came to the dock that Jason had mentioned, but it was not as deserted as the other docks, but rather a lot of people had gathered, and all kinds of quarrels came from the crowd, making the silent dock very noisy.

"What's going on? Are those boys getting drunk and messing around again?" asked Jason as soon as the carriage stopped, and he went down just in time to meet the dock manager who was coming up.

"No, not our people. The manager immediately explained: "Not long after you left, two groups of people came to tell us that the ownership of this warehouse belongs to them, and now they are the ones who are arguing, and we are just watching the excitement from the sidelines." ”

"Who's the two gangs?" Jason asked, raising an eyebrow and displeased.

"One is the butler of the Duke of Buckingham's house, who has come here to deal with the dockyard affairs, and the other is an office called the Special Bureau, and they want to take over the warehouse from the Duke of Buckingham's house, but the Duke of Buckingham will not allow it, and the two sides will quarrel at the door. ”

"Damn it. Jason couldn't help but curse, then turned his head to look at Leo, and said with a wry smile: "It seems that this matter is not our turn to solve, shall we go back now?"

"There's no need. Leo shook his head and said, "I want to see it." ”

After saying that, Leo walked into the crowd on his own, squeezed into the center of the crowd with the strength of his body, and saw the two sides of the confrontation.

I saw that there were three people on the side of the Special Bureau, and these three people happened to be known to Leo, two of them were the two members of the Special Bureau who were seen at the scene of Leo's death, and the other was the member of the Special Bureau who appeared at the scene of the sacrifice ceremony.

At this moment, these three people are confronting more than a dozen sturdy people, and the dozen or so sturdy people know at a glance that they are some battle-hardened warriors, each of whom has a bulging waist, which should be equipped with weapons, and one of them exudes a strong family atmosphere, but there are no family mutant organs on the surface of the body.

These dozen sturdy people confronted the three of them head-on with a middle-aged man, although the appearance is completely different, but Leo saw the figure of his butler from this middle-aged man, or more correctly, this middle-aged man is imitating the gestures of Sanjies's butler, but the middle-aged man doesn't know that what he imitates is just a surface, and his inner temperament is not imitated at all, so the overall look is strange.

"What are you doing?" Jason, who followed closely, walked past Leo, walked in front of the two sides of the confrontation, and said loudly: "Your behavior has affected our work, and the handling here is calculated according to the number of goods and the delivery time, will you compensate for the wasted time and reduced income?"

Seeing Jason coming over, the people from the Special Bureau were first overjoyed, thinking that Jason was definitely on their side, but when they heard Jason's words, their faces became very ugly, because they could hear that Jason was obviously not on their side, but they could also hear that Jason was not on the Duke of Buckingham's side.

For ordinary people, the Duke of Buckingham is the first Duke of the Kingdom of England and is one with the Kingdom of England, but for the high-ranking people of the Kingdom of England, the Duke of Buckingham and the Kingdom of England are completely two individuals.

Although the Buckingham County and the Buckingham Sea where the Duke of Buckingham is located are nominally the land of the Kingdom of England, in fact this is completely the private land of the Duke of Buckingham, whether it is justice or taxes, it is not under the management of the Kingdom of England, and there is even an independent army formed here, but this army is named after the Third Army of the Kingdom of England.

For a long time, the parliament of the Kingdom of England has tried its best to take the power of Buckinghamshire into the possession of the Kingdom, but unfortunately the Duke of Buckingham's heritage is too deep, so deep that even the power of the entire Kingdom of England may not be able to shake the territory of the Duke of Buckingham, unless the Kingdom of England is willing to have a devastating civil war, otherwise the Kingdom of England can only let the Duke of Buckingham's territory be in this state of full autonomy.

Although the parliamentary government of the Kingdom of England was unable to deal with the Duke of Buckingham in Buckinghamshire, they were able to restrict the Duke of Buckingham from developing his influence within the Kingdom of England, and it was quite effective, at least the few forces that the Duke of Buckingham cultivated within the Kingdom of England were secretly removed.

But this is limited to those forces that the Duke of Buckingham secretly cultivates who do not want to be known, and when the Duke of Buckingham is making some commercial investments and invading the power circle of the Kingdom of England from the commercial side, the parliamentary government is somewhat powerless.

For example, the Duke of Buckingham's purchase of the dockyard pier, some people in the municipality who leaned towards the parliamentary side were originally prepared to stop the deal, but in the end they did nothing, and the Duke of Buckingham could only buy the dock at a much higher price than others, which once again strengthened his influence on the port of Sette.

It's just that obviously those people don't want to just watch the Duke of Buckingham successfully take over the dock, and when they hear that something strange happened in the warehouse that is integrated with the dock dock, they immediately mobilized the Special Bureau to block the dock warehouse under the pretext of an abnormal incident, even if it can't be permanently blocked, it can delay the Duke of Buckingham's time to receive the dock, and this time can allow the congressional authorities to find out the real purpose of the Duke of Buckingham's purchase of this dock and factory, and prepare to deal with it.

However, just as within the municipality, not everyone was on the side of the Congressional government, and some were on the side of the Duke of Buckingham, so they blocked the news to Jason, so that Jason, an important dock head, did not receive any news in advance.

At this time, the person in charge sent by the Duke of Buckingham also frowned, although before coming here, he expected to encounter obstacles, but he did not expect that it was the people of the Special Bureau who hindered him, and there was an item in the dock warehouse that he bought that caused a situation, which was somewhat beyond his ability.

Although there was no solution for the time being, he still wanted to maintain the power of the Duke of Buckingham, so he said: "The warehouse has been bought by the Duke, and everything is the Duke's ......"

"Wait, you seem to be mistaken!" Jason suddenly interrupted the other party, and said, "If I remember correctly, the Duke of Buckingham only bought the dock and the warehouse, not the goods of the warehouse and the tools of the dock," and as he spoke, he turned his head and shouted into the crowd, "Cripple, when the contract was signed that day, you were one of the witnesses, did the contract mention the goods in the warehouse?"

"Head, no. An old man with a somewhat lame leg walked out of the crowd with a briefcase, took out a document from the briefcase as he walked, handed it to Jason, and said: "This is a copy of the stub of the contract for that day, and the transaction content written on it is only the warehouse and the dock, and it does not involve the goods inside." ”

Jason took the document and flipped through it casually, without looking at it carefully, he handed it to the Duke of Buckingham's man and said, "Look at it for yourselves!"

The middle-aged man didn't take the papers, because they knew the contents of the contract better than Jason, and the so-called ownership of the goods was just an excuse.

The middle-aged man said coldly: "Even if it doesn't belong to Lord Duke, but those things also belong to Lord Earl Ed, have you done so with the permission of Lord Earl in your special bureau to seal down the warehouse?"

The members of the Special Bureau also argued: "Although we have not obtained the consent of His Excellency the Earl, the Congress has given us the power to block any ......."

The middle-aged man interrupted the Special Bureau and said, "Congress has indeed given you the power to block anomalous items, but don't forget, your power is limited to ordinary people, and any aristocratic property is not something you can ban at will,"

"You ......" the people of the Special Bureau were ready to argue a few words.

"Alright!" Jason interrupted the two sides who were about to get back into an argument, then looked at them and said, "I don't care what you want to do with the contents, I just want the contents to be taken away as soon as possible, so that my men can clean up the contents." So saying, he thought for a moment, and said, "So be it, both of you will send someone in to find out what the object that caused this is it, and then take it out, and let whoever takes it keep it." ”

"How can this be?" both parties were unhappy with Leo's crude and simple solution.

"That's it, I'm in charge here, and I have the final say. Jason yelled at both sides angrily, then looked at both sides with disdain, and said, "If you can't even get something, it means that you are not qualified, and you are still fighting for a fart!"

After speaking, he motioned to his subordinates who were watching the excitement next to him to open the warehouse door, and then walked to the side, seemingly waiting for the two sides to decide who to send into the warehouse.

"The three of us came together, so naturally we went in together. The guys in the Special Bureau could see that Jason had made a decision and would not change, so they demanded.

"We're the same. The Duke of Buckingham's men immediately made the same request.

"Okay, why don't you all go in together. Jason nodded in agreement and proposed.