Section 216 Diplomatic Situation (1)
Overhead is a bright lamp plate, inlaid with a fist-sized fluorescent stone, illuminating the whole hall as if daytime, and this lamp plate on the ceiling of the building also follows a certain trajectory movement, like a pendulum as accurate, is a simple mechanical structure to control the movement of the lamp plate.
Murphy, however, scoffed at this backward way of lighting, which had been behind Asturias for at least fifteen years.
Twenty years ago, Asturias had been using mechanically controlled light panels for public lighting, such as the cinema theater in Liberty City.
But since the widespread use of Black Rock, people like Asturias and Titania have been extravagant enough to use constant illumination on the lamps, and the effect is far stronger than the current lamp plate on the head.
However, this is the Kingdom of Aurora, among the countries on the Azure Continent, Aurora and Saxon still adhere to classical customs, and the other two countries have been developing magic for almost twenty years, and they have not made any big waves in their country, although the nobles among them will also buy goods produced in the development of magic guidance.
The Saxon resistance to the development of magical research and industrial production in other countries was largely hindered by the Church of Light, which would have broken the influence of the Church on Saxon supremacy, while the situation of Aurora was much more complicated.
The Kingdom of Aurora has always been a barbarian kingdom among all nations, although it is also a part of the human race, but it was originally united by several tribes in the east under the threat of foreign enemies, and its full name should be called the United Kingdom of Aurora.
The original royal family did not have very strong royal power, and even the position was not so secure, it was more like the leader of an alliance, and there were incidents where the inner clan wanted to overthrow them and replace them.
However, this rebellion occurred during the reign of the third king, and the British lord decisively introduced orcs. On the condition of allowing the orcs to become their own nationals, he received a reinforcement army that others did not expect, and then during the Armageddon with the rebels, he relied on the surprise attack of the orcs to turn the tide at a critical moment, and then won the war. It also established the advantage of royal power after the war.
However, the ethnic differences within the country are still quite large, the customs of the north and the south are different, the southerners are closer to other human countries, and the heroic characters are mostly mages, while the north is multi-racial mixed, some of the half-orc tribes who have made great contributions in that battle settled in the north, and the north has contacts with the orc Tygo, Srek and other tribes, so later the eastern orcs became independent from the orc tribes, and it was logical to make friends with the Aurora Kingdom.
Over the years, the Kingdom of Aurora has not had an easy time.
Asturias in the western part of the continent developed rapidly. The national strength is rising at an astonishing rate, and even Titania is overshadowed in the speed of development, which cannot be compared, but the relationship between Asturias and Aurora is notoriously bad, and William's death at the beginning, although the account was counted on the Srek clan of the Eastern Beast Alliance, but if Aurora did not help from it, it is unbelievable.
Therefore, when Asturia launched a war of retaliation, Aurora also argued that it would endanger them. Asturias was asked to stop, after this request failed. He simply intervened directly in the war and fought a war with the Saxon kingdom of Asturias.
After a truce, diplomatic relations were gradually restored, but Asturias and the Kingdom of Aurora still did not establish a high-level formal diplomatic relationship.
It wasn't until five years ago that Asturias had a liaison office in the Kingdom of Aurora, and there was no official diplomatic consul. Only one military attache was appointed.
However, in recent years, with the frequent dissent within the Aurora Kingdom, all countries have strengthened their activities in the Aurora Kingdom, whether it is diplomatic activities on the surface, secret contact lobbying, or even dark intelligence spying.
So in fact, in addition to official diplomatic activities. Some of the country's activists with some kind of mission will appear in the Aurora Kingdom as merchants, and some merchants will also make cameo appearances as activists, frequently appearing in Aurora's capital or the famous border city of Turin, both to bring their own business into Aurora and to carry out some of the kingdom's demands.
This is also something that can not be done for these businessmen, after all, many businessmen need the support of their own country, especially foreign international trade, without the strong support of their own country, the goods of the merchants are easy to get into trouble, or be overtaxed.
Murphy spent another eight years in the ghost land after the Battle of the Dark Regions, in fact, five years ago he became the first adventurer in the Dark Regions to be protected by the surface kingdom and allowed to return to the surface.
However, he was not able to completely leave the Dark Regions, and remained for another five years, until Asturias gained some control over the Dark Regions, and he completely escaped the underground life.
When he returned to the surface, his life was much better than that of the adventurers of the Dark Lands who were also returned to the surface.
For example, most of the adventurers who will flee to the dark region have committed serious crimes on the surface, or offended people or forces that should not be offended, otherwise whoever has enough to eat will flee there, if it is a general crime, they would rather go to the alien plane to colonize, and no one will want to go to the underground life, only those who are desperate enough to go to the alien plane to colonize will be in danger of being hunted down and killed will flee to the more dangerous dark region.
Therefore, the other adventurers who have been able to return to the ground and obtain Asturian citizenship like Murphy may not have made it out of the borders of Asturias, although they can live on the surface.
Because once you leave the country, the possibility of being found and killed by the enemy is much greater.
But Murphy is different, just like now, he is an employee of a new company in Asturias, an investment consultant for Tron God Consulting Ltd., and he came to the Kingdom of Aurora for the ostensible purpose of serving the wealthy.
According to the tax and business records of the Ministry of Finance of Asturias, Chuangshen Consulting Co., Ltd. is not only a new company, but also a new type of company.
The organizational form of the company, in today's Asturias, and even other countries, even the most conservative Saxon is not unfamiliar, businessmen are also accustomed to this new type of business organization model, because it can be better than the traditional model, the form of power and responsibility is more clear, but the premise is that there must be a certain degree of cooperation in the political system, otherwise even if the rights and responsibilities are clearly defined, but when encountering unreasonableness, the interests of businessmen can still not be protected.
Therefore, with the development of commerce, businessmen in various countries want to have a bigger voice, improve politically, and become more and more active.
In Asturias' records, this Chuangshen Consulting Co., Ltd. is a relatively mysterious company, because part of the information is confidential, except for the external legal representative, the internal structure of the company, the internal shareholders are secretive.
However, the scope of this company can be very wide, almost the whole field, regardless of any industry can be involved, of course, this involvement, is only one of the two vertical and horizontal coordinates, and the other coordinate limits the company's business scope is not to compete with other companies, but to choose to serve other industries.
Consulting, a new type of industry, seems destined to be a little difficult from the birth of this company, because there is always a process of people's acceptance of new things.
For example, the scope and content of Chuangshen's consulting includes "diagnosing the pulse" of other companies, sorting out the problems in their development, and proposing a complete set of solutions, which is the company's record in the registration data.
But it is difficult for any other company or business group to be willing to consult them, because it is tantamount to exposing their own shortcomings, especially the more conservative the family and its connections, even some businessmen in various countries who tend to "reform" are hesitant to consult such advice.
Therefore, although the company has been established for half a year, it has not yet completed a single major business, but in Asturias, it is said that it has helped several workshop owners and small merchants to solve their difficulties.
But the strength of the company is quite strong, because not only did it not back down because of this, but also sent people to other countries to prepare for development.
Murphy was stationed in the Kingdom of Aurora as a stock advisor to Chuangshen Co., Ltd.
The Kingdom of Aurora is now in turmoil, the old king Harrison has entered the twilight of his life, not only is he not energetic, but also his health is not very good, the recurrence of old injuries in the past has destroyed his health, even the quasi-legendary powerhouse cannot resist the threat of death, and he has a son in his old age, and the heir is not yet an adult.
In the past, he had been able to control the situation, but with the recurrence of his old injury last year, the kingdom was already in a dark tide.
Murphy had already begun to gain popularity in the capital of the Kingdom of Aurora, and his ability to attend this gathering in the "classical" style compared to Asturias today meant that someone was willing to introduce him to the aristocratic circles of the Kingdom of Aurora.
As for the reason, of course, it was the Count of Rogue who followed his advice and made money acting as a guide.
Four months ago, Count Rog's trading caravan was robbed by orc bandits, and he suffered heavy losses, not only losing his own goods, but also being responsible for the losses caused to the other party by failing to fulfill the contract, and unfortunately, his "business" in the alien colony of the Kingdom of Aurora also had problems.
As a result, Count Rogge's economy fell into an embarrassing situation, and in this anxious time, someone introduced him to Murphy, an investment adviser to Chuangshen Co., Ltd.
Then, at Murphy's suggestion, he put the only money he had into the stock market and futures in Asturias.
The result was a large sum of money back, which led Earl Rogge to immediately treat Murphy as a guest.
Within two months, Count Rogge became Murphy's first major customer in the Aurora Kingdom, and heeded Murphy's advice to withdraw his funds from the riskier financial markets and invest in manufacturing instead, which is now in preparation.
It must be mentioned here that Count Rogge is the southern nobleman of the Kingdom of Aurora.
The recurrence of old injuries, which led to the serious illness of King Harrison and the royal family, more support came from the north. (To be continued......)