Genoa ??? Jonas knew the geographical location of the city, which seemed to be below his own territory, and it was a free commercial city within the empire, very wealthy, with a population of more than 100,000, second only to the Hanseatic League and the Republic of Venice.

In the Western Mediterranean, the free city-state of Florence is the most powerful presence in the commercial trade of the Western Mediterranean, and I have heard others say that the pirates who guard the Strait of Gibraltar at the mouth of the Mediterranean Sea were hired by the merchants of Genoa, so that their power can be permanently above the other free cities.

This is a very powerful neighbor, but Jonas doesn't know much about them, after all, there is nothing wrong with Genoa being a commercial city, but their way of making profits is through large-scale reselling and war profits, or usury, which has nothing to do with Jonas's life.

His life revolves around noble horses, exquisite clothing, delicate food, and power, which can be found in Milan and Turin, and power can only be found in these places, so for the commercial capital of Genaya, Jonas can be said to be the first time to hear an outsider mention it, so it is not so cold to this guy who calls himself Diro Fimir.

"Oh~ Well, what's the matter with you?" Jonas was embarrassed to ask anything by the somewhat familiar businessman, so he could only look at the golden fellow, politely asked him where he came from, and took a step back to keep himself at a safe distance from him.

Generally speaking, after hearing his identity, these noble lords generally have either a look of disdain or enthusiasm, and their disdain is for these people who stand in front of them by money, because they know what this family means.

The Diro Fimir family, one of the five great families of Genaya, is the youngest of them, and it is said that the founder of the original family was a descendant of a nobleman who was framed by his brother and wandered around until he finally settled in the city of Genaya.

Then, with the good relationship established with the mercenaries of the Duchy of Switzerland through his own ability during his wanderings, this ancestor quickly occupied a large share of the market that had not yet been tapped by Genaya merchants in the early days of commerce, and quickly became the fifth family of Genaya, serving as a city councilor in Genaya, having jurisdiction over city affairs and participating in politics, which can be said to be a very important position.

It's just that compared to the speed of his rise, the history of the Diro Fimir family is very short, only a short 90 years, compared to the other four families with a history of five or six hundred years at every turn, it is obviously a very young force, so in order to make the trading partners not look down on them, they wear a little fancy excessively, and later this has become the characteristic of the Diro Fimir family, and it has maintained this exaggerated style until the generation of Kuake.

And now the reason why Kuang Ke is standing in front of Jonas is because it is related to the problems of their family, the so-called success is also Xiao He, defeat is also Xiao He, and the Diro Fimir family, which originally relied on mercenaries to make a fortune, was also tired by these mercenaries after a long time.

Although their Diro Fimir family relied on the mercenaries of the Swiss Duchy to gain a firm foothold in Genaya, and because they were engaged in a gray industry, several other nobles did not dare to do anything to the Diro Fimir family, but the hardships involved were not for outsiders.

The money to be paid to the Duke of Switzerland every year alone is a headache for the family, the Duke has mastered the supply source of the entire mercenary industry, so that they don't even have room for negotiation, the original founder was still in good shape, he had a good relationship with the dukes of that generation, and the Duchy of Switzerland at that time had no other channels to profit from the mercenary trade, but now for several generations, the relationship between the two families is no longer as good as it used to be.

And because of the war, the ability of the Swiss mercenaries is obvious to the surrounding nobles and even the nobles of other countries, so now the mercenaries of the Swiss principality have begun to gradually sell wars to other families with the benefit of the duke, which makes the Diro Fimir family in a very passive state.

Although the family still had a lot of cash, the chassis was becoming unstable, and after a long family meeting, the head of the Diro Fimir family, the father of the Scuck family, decided to make a change, and they had to introduce a new pillar industry to achieve the goal of perpetuating the family. And now, Jonas's smelter is clearly favored by one of the heirs, Kuangke.

Kuak's father's plan was to give the children a fortune and let them find a promising business for themselves, and if anyone could succeed in getting the Diro Fimir family out of a single business model, he would be the next patriarch, and he was clearly one of many brothers.

You must know that Kuangke's father was a man in the prime of life, and there were 5 legitimate sons alone, and there were countless children born out of wedlock, and the question of family inheritance among merchants was much lax compared to the strict inheritance system of the aristocracy.

Such a family situation obviously makes the pressure on Kuang Ke very great, either become the owner of the property, or be swept away, the latter end is very tragic, they are not nobles, the second son and third son of the nobleman can also get a piece of land to become a gentry, or become a knight who helps his brother, and then marry a noble wife, can spend this life well, but if they fail as the children of the merchant family, the end is swept away.

So after getting the initial funds, Kuang Ke began to arrange eyeliner to find something nearby that he could use, and I don't know if Kuang Ke was born with a sensitive gene for business, after hearing the news that the war between Saluzo and Monferrato was about to break out, he quickly sent his own men to the front line to collect clues directly, and his intuition told him that there must be a great business opportunity here.

At that time, Kuang Ke didn't think much about it, he was just waiting for the rabbit, but he didn't expect that he really saw the rabbit, and just like that, he appeared on Jonas's territory now.

"Your Excellency, this Mr. Kuok is a well-known merchant in Genaya, and would like to discuss your smelter with you. Doron duly told his master the news so that he could start thinking. (To be continued.) )