The sighs of little people like Jimenez and Bernadotte and the idea of moving forward involuntarily with the changes of the times, Solomon did not know, and even if he knew, he would not care, for him it would be as insignificant as a drop of water in the sea.

On the morning of the second day of the dance above, it was sunny, and Solomon was sitting in his office in a building in St. Quentin, reading some data and reports.

There was a cacophony of voices outside the window at an inopportune time, and it was chaotic, as if there were many people shouting together.

Solomon put the report on his desk, and was about to get up to look at it when there was a knock at the door.

After receiving permission, a handsome young man in a tuxedo walked in, a little nervously, he was one of the secretaries arranged by the Central Bank of Asturias for Solomon, the building of the Central Bank, and Solomon was no longer a member of the cabinet, but also held the position of governor of the Central Bank.

"What's going on out there?" asked Solomon casually.

The handsome young man's face turned crimson, and he took two steps, as if realizing that he should answer Solomon's question first, and stopped: "Lord Duke, I have come to close the window for you, and it was my mistake that disturbed you with these nasty noises outside. ”

"Oh, it's okay, I just want to know what's going on?" Solomon slowly got up and paced to the window.

He saw the procession outside, many of the worker-like people holding high flags with the words "We want to eat" in lingua franca.

"It's the workers' movement, the workers' movement. The secretary rubbed his hands nervously and looked at Solomon with some concern.

Although he was nominally Solomon's secretary. But he was only one of the central bank's secretaries to Duke Solomon in banking affairs. In other words. He was merely one of Solomon's secretaries when he was at the Central Bank. And at present, it is only in the stage of not being rejected, and it is not that the position is stable.

But even so, the young man knew how important such an opportunity was to him, and how hard it took his family to win such an opportunity for him.

If he is lucky enough to get the favor of the big man in front of him, then he can not only sit in the position of the current bank secretary, but even follow this adult. It is no longer limited to the central bank, that is the real boom.

And damn it, he forgot to close the window, and the thought of it made him chagrined, and if he made the Duke look down on him, he would have ruined his own good future.

"What's going on?"

"It's just a labor dispute, the workers want a raise, but the bosses don't, and the conflict grows. The secretary hurriedly replied about what he knew, "But there shouldn't be any trouble." The patrolmen will come and disperse them in a moment, and they can't do anything about it. A group of poor ghosts, so poor that they can't even afford muskets, and they don't want to do more to make money, but they want to do less and less, but their wages are asking for more, how can there be such a good thing in the world. ”

"Oh, what do you think?" said Solomon.

"Of course, it's all their fault. This is the best of times, with the wise leadership of you and Her Majesty the Queen, and the good command of the Cabinet Ministers, this is the prosperity of our Asturias, everyone thinks so. In such a beautiful era, as long as everyone is willing to work hard, life will get better and better, those people outside are poor and lazy, and they still play the banner of "we want to eat", this is begging, their parade is illegal, it is threatening others. The secretary said excitedly, and did not forget to pat the ass in his words.

Solomon smiled again, motioned for the secretary to close the window, and then he sat back at his desk and continued reading the reports and information.

The handsome young man closed the window, lowered the curtains, and turned on the latest magic lighting for Duke Solomon, and when he saw the duke's preoccupation, he relaxed a little, and it seemed that he had not left a bad impression in his heart.

"Lord Duke, at ten o'clock in a while, someone from the Department of Security Affairs is asking to see you. If nothing else, I'll go out first. ”

Solomon didn't raise his head and said, "Well, you go out, if someone comes, you can let him come directly to me." ”

The room was quiet again, and Solomon read quickly.

Most of the information before us is financial data provided by the central bank, and some is from other departments or stock exchanges. Although he is no longer a member of the cabinet, neither the identity of the prince nor his own status will be kept secret from him.

Taken together, these figures reflect the economic situation in Asturias in recent years.

As Solomon was about to finish, there was a knock at the door.

"Please come in. Solomon put down the information in his hand.

The door opened, and someone from the Department of Security was not supposed to be here, but Solomon was in a different office, and other departments wanted to find him, so they had to follow.

Although Akari does not belong to the Ministry of Security Affairs, this department is ostensibly responsible for internal security, especially the security of members of the royal family, and most importantly, the cabinet members who are directly in charge of this department were originally added by Solomon, and the Minister of Security has always been held by Gera, and Guerra was also sent to the cabinet by Solomon. Over the years, although there have been changes in the cabinet, each successive secretary of security has been nominated by the royal family to continue Guerra in office.

It wasn't Gera who came in, but Nigaul.

Of the two commanders of the Secret Guard, Hurley died, and Nigaul turned to refuge, which was not reused at first, but after more than ten years, the regime has been stabilized, and Nigaul can neither have any dissent, but also reliable and effective, and slowly re-enter the upper system of the Secret Guard.

"Lord Duke, Minister Gera is in a meeting with other cabinet members, and he can't leave for the time being, and I have taken over the affairs of the kingdom in Falmalik, so I will report some information to you. ”

"How's that going over there?" said Solomon.

"Since you successfully opened up the situation on the Falmalik continent, our development there has been a steady development, because the army is not suitable for a large number of people. Therefore, the external activities over there are mainly in charge of our secret guards. Nigaul Road.

Solomon had begun his layout in South Falmalik. Help Bofeng City become independent. Other cities allied with the city of Bofeng were supported by the Asturians, not without altruism, as the bankers of St. Quentin and the Free City generously lent loans, and the merchants of Mistritz and Fameridos.

In the beginning, he used those loans to buy a large number of muskets and ammunition to defend his city, and at the same time planted rosemary and sold it to Solomon to obtain funds to repay the loan.

During this period, although the empire did not conquer the alliance formed by these traitors again, other forces threatened the nascent free alliance on several occasions.

The Xi were fine, although they rejected Khorin's request for an alliance. But at least the well water does not interfere with the river water, because they are also hostile to the Apuro Empire, the first threat to the Free Alliance is the Binfu Kingdom, which wants to expand when the Apuro Empire is weak, so it is logical to take Kehorin and them as one of the targets, and after being refused, they also carried out a small-scale tentative attack, but the various cities of the alliance are tightly united, and there is the ammunition support of the aliens, and the invasion of these Binfu Kingdoms has been repelled without breaking the battle.

The Binfu Kingdom did not want to gnaw on this hard bone while the Apuro Empire was still alive, so it turned to use troops to seize the remote areas after the shrinkage of the Apuro Empire, and turned to be soft on Kehorin and them. Trade also began, and Asturian merchants were able to sell their goods along the road to the territory of the Kingdom of Binbook.

The second is that the Aurora people have also thought about annexing the Freedom Alliance. Although their strategy against the Epro Empire was victorious in the last war, it did not go well in the future.

Because the Matthew Church announced its full support for the Apuro Empire, it did not hesitate to transfer back the Knights of the Church and two cardinals who were originally stationed in North Falmalik to monitor the Ghana Empire, and cooperated with the Empire to resist the Aurora, and there seemed to be some aliens in the Matthew Church.

And the Aurora people who know it well certainly know where these aliens who support Matthew's church come from, but they are helpless for the time being.

As a result, the Aurora people turned their expansion elsewhere, and with the encouragement of the Republic of Yaman, the nascent Liberal Alliance was almost in danger of collapse.

But the Asturians certainly didn't want this to happen, so after reaching an agreement with Titania, the two countries jointly put pressure on Aurora, declaring that the free alliance was in the common interest of the two countries.

If there is only the pressure of Asturias, unless you are willing to send troops to fight a few battles with the Aurora, you may not be able to solve the crisis, but it is different with Titania, and the Aurora people have always been very worried that Asturias will also reach here, and they have the meaning of relying on each other with Titania, but now they are under pressure from both sides, so they have to make political transactions along the way.

In the end, the three kingdoms reached a secret treaty, Asturias and Titania supported the Aurora's condemnation of the Saxon Kingdom and the Church of Light, and promised not to send a large number of troops to attack Falmalik except for the troops stationed in the concession, and to respect the interests of the Aurora here, but at the same time, the Aurora people must also respect the political and commercial interests of the two countries here, and not directly attack the concessions of the two countries, and not harm the legitimate merchants and normal trade of the two countries.

In this way, the crisis of the Freedom Alliance was temporarily resolved, and Nanfalmalik was in a strange phase of confrontation, with the Aprolo Empire facing off against the Aurora, and the other indigenous forces either wary of it or taking advantage of the opportunity to expand, and the nascent Freedom Alliance was also growing rapidly, and Khorin had become the first leader of the Freedom Alliance.

As Asturias sent troops to only guard the teleportation and the security of the concession, it had to use a large number of secret guards for external activities, for which the Heterotopic Development Bureau of the Ministry of Security recruited a large number of men and put Nigol in charge.

"Lord Duke, I came to report to you this time because a large-scale war broke out in Northern Falmalik, the Ghana Empire defeated the combined forces of the Aoli Kingdom and the Red Prince, the capital of the Ori Kingdom has fallen, the Ori King has absconded to the border city to resist the invasion, and the army of the Cana Empire is besieging the Pure Prince. Nigaul Road.

"Oh, can they capture the Pure Country?"

"It shouldn't be that easy, the Earth Mother Church is also in the country, and they will definitely fully support the country. Nigaul Road.

Solomon also reminded Asturian Stoka of the situation in Northern Falmalik, because the Matthew Church had withdrawn the Knights and Cardinals from the Holy See, and there was a vacuum there.

Sure enough, the Ghana Empire began to bounce back, and at such a speed that even Solomon felt a little fast.

However, it is not surprising that the Ghana Empire was the strongest in Northern Falmalik, but it did not believe in Matthew, strictly speaking there were a small number of Earth Mother Church beliefs in their country, but more of them were unbelievers, because the founders succeeded in extremely harsh conditions, advocating self-belief.

After the Ghana Empire became strong, it has always had ambitions for its neighbors, and at the beginning, he didn't know how to defeat the Ori Kingdom and the Pure Country with the help of the power of the Otherworldly Demon, but the Success Demon and the Defeat Demon also alarmed the Earth Mother Church, and even the largest Matthew Church in South Falmalik.

In the end, with the joint support of the two churches, the kingdom of Ori and the kingdom of Chizi won a crucial victory, forcing the Ghana Empire to sue for peace.

In order to prevent the return of demons, after the war, the Matthew Church used this as an excuse to station the Holy See Knights and Cardinals, and took the opportunity to start a mission, and had a conflict with the Earth Mother Church, until now because of the situation in the south, it has to withdraw its military forces, giving the Ghana Empire a chance.

"The Empire of Ghana has achieved successive victories, and we have observed that there is a shadow of purgatory in their army again. Nigaul Road.

Finally, he pulled out a photograph of a woman with fiery red hair and purple eyes, and the photo alone could feel her allure.

"We suspect it's this woman, but now we only know that she is a military advisor of the Cana Empire, named Luna. She appeared after the removal of the cardinal from the Matthew Church, and after her appearance, the Ghana Empire began to quickly reorganize its army, sweeping away the barbarians and some intelligent tribes in the country, and forcibly conscripting into the Cana army until it began to attack the kingdoms of Ori and Chizi. (To be continued.) )