Late at night, west of Lawther's Arcade.

Unlike Sequoia Boulevard, which was nicknamed the "aristocratic quarter" by the residents of the royal capital and is home to a large number of old aristocratic estates, the western area of the Lauther Arcade, known as the "Rich District", is also inhabited by many nobles, but there are few large estates.

Due to the completion time of nearly 100 years later than Sequoia Avenue, the royal capital of every inch of land is no longer allowed to enclose land to build large estates, and most of the people who live here are new aristocrats who started in business, and their political status is much worse than that of the old aristocracy, and the specifications have naturally dropped again and again.

If you can have a few gorgeous and exquisite townhouses here, it is already the "top match" in the entire "rich area", and if it can be paired with a medium-sized garden, then the owner of this residence will probably be an important person in the political arena of the royal capital.

However, this rule is not completely absolute.

After all, although the Lawser Arcade was fully completed very late, it was not a wasteland before it was built, and there were still several older noble manors that were included in the scope of the Lawser Arcade, and the Cuiyu Manor belonging to the Golden Juan family was one of them.

……

Strange, what is that Marquis of Jinjuan trying to do?

When stepping on the road bricks that should have been very white, but have turned into dark yellow after hundreds of years of rain, and came to the entrance of the Emerald Feather Manor, looking at the gorgeous buildings exposed in the jungle, Leon's brows couldn't help but frown slightly.

To be reasonable, although only looking at the area covered, it is obvious that Baohua Manor is larger, but the manor in front of you is not much smaller.

And looking at the fine reliefs on the façade of the main building, the marble statues dotted in the garden, and the decorations on the outer porch that you can know at a glance that they came from the master's handwriting, this Cuiyu Manor is much stronger than the simple Baohua Manor.

So are they crazy? If you don't live in your own house that is hundreds of years old, you have to forcibly occupy Emma's predecessor's manor that has been abandoned for six years?

With a heart full of confusion, Leon stepped out of the dark night, stepped into the light outside the gate of the manor, and also entered the field of vision of the night sentry, and opened his mouth slightly.

"Meow~"

"Who is it?!"

After seeing a somewhat hazy figure approaching, the guard in charge of standing guard suddenly became vigilant, and instinctively wanted to call out his companion who was taking a nap in the duty room, and asked him to interrogate the identity of the person who came, why he approached Cuiyu Manor alone at night.

However, at this moment, it seemed that the oil in the lamp was dripping a little more, and the street lamp directly above the sentry suddenly burst into flames for a moment, and the originally soft night light became extremely dazzling, shaking the sentry's eyes unconsciously narrowed.

And when he tried to blink his eyes and continued to look at the figure, he realized that it was not a person, but a cat with something around its neck.

Odd...... How could I be wrong about the size difference between cats and humans?

Stared at the kitten in surprise and looked at it, but no matter how you looked at it, it was just a fluffy and long-haired bantam cat, and after there was no sign of turning into a cat lady, the sentry of the Golden Juan family had to shush at it twice, and then retreated to its original position in confusion, however......

"Meow !!"

With a meow full of anger, the gray-and-white cat turned into a gray and white phantom, and instantly pounced in front of the sentry's eyes, and knocked him to the ground with a savage movement.

I...... Got beaten up by a cat?

Before the knocked down sentry could accept the outrageous reality, the kitten, with its small size and short four paws, used its chest as a springboard and slipped into the duty room through the open window.

The porter in charge of registration in the duty room only had time to let out an exclamation before he was silent, and the other two guards on duty who were on duty at night also stopped moving after a muffled snort. ???

After finding that the duty room was a little too quiet, the sentry who had struggled to get up looked startled, and hurriedly ran over to take a look, and then was extremely shocked to find that the three people in the room had already staggered and lay down.

In the entire duty room, there were small cat footprints everywhere, but the strange kitten had long since disappeared, and there was an inaudible breathing sound from the back of his neck......

"Meow !!"

……

"Well done."

After catching the somewhat hazy kitten and reaching out to scratch its chin, Leon flicked the little red fork hanging from his chest.

With a dreamlike pleasant sound, the hazy gray kitten disappeared, and a portkey carved with a cuckoo pattern appeared in Leon's palm.

I'm sorry, I'm not familiar with this thing, and it seems a bit heavy, but today you can leave work early.

After apologizing to the sentry who had fainted in horror, Leon led him through the window into the duty room, and then took the key found by the dream cat, opened the locked door in front of him, and entered the Golden Juan family's manor in a grand manner.

Three generations of old men used the weapon of the [Lord of Dreams] as the core material, and the [Dream Invader] created for himself has an extremely hidden way to launch.

As long as there is any sense of "interaction" with oneself, the target's soul will be shaken, and the power of the dream world will use his soul as a springboard to briefly intervene in reality.

As an ordinary person who did not have any abnormalities on his body, after hearing the "meow" sound he made, the sentry of the Golden Juan family fell into the control of the [Dream Invader], and under its influence, he directly "dreamed" of a kitten.

And this dream cat, which invaded reality with the help of his soul, easily stunned everyone in the duty room under his own control, and left a lot of cat footprints in the house.

After the General Administration sends someone to investigate, if the investigator is not careful enough, as long as it is confirmed with the sentry's memory, the direction of the investigation will be directly deviated, and even led to some anomaly that "turns into a cat".

Even if the results of the investigation are not found in the end, they will still find their heads, but with this non-existent target, their suspicions will be diluted in disguise, which is the second way to get rid of suspicion after the "alibi" provided by the coachman.

And as the saying goes, there are two and two, and there are three and four, as for their third backhand......

"It's work!"

After touching his buttons and getting the black goat out, Leon pointed to the main building that was still brightly lit in the distance, and said calmly:

"Come on! Help me find someone! ”

……

"Rustling ......"

Even though it was late at night, and even the sky was faintly white, there were still people who had not fallen asleep and were still busy at their desks.

After filling most of the letter paper in intricate and gorgeous flower characters, the man with a somewhat tired look folded the letter in half in his hand and handed it to the secretary standing at the table.

"Go, seal the letter and seal it, and tomorrow with my warrant, send it to the Mining Guild!"

"Okay."

After carefully putting away the letter handed by the man, and after processing it according to the requirements, the secretary with the same tired face said with a strong spirit:

"Lord Renard, when your letter arrives, continue to woo the Mining Guild as it did last time, or?"

"There's no need to co-opt, they have no other value."

After taking another copy from the document on the table, and looking at the signature on the lower edge, the man named Renard frowned and said:

"I have supported the request of the Mining Guild in order to relocate to Merino County to mine through tax cuts, and the spices produced by the spice gardens of Merino County are our Kuco family's greatest rivals.

Due to the high demand for water in both mining and spice farming, as long as the mine is opened in Merino County, it will start to compete with several large spice gardens there, suppressing rivals and reducing the kingdom's spice production and increasing the price of spices.

This role is the reason why I support the Mining Guild, not the value of the mining bitterness itself, now that they have a warrant to open the mine, then there is no need to continue to spend effort on them. ”

"Ah, okay!"

After taking note of the Marquis of Renard's instructions, the secretary muttered slightly, and then said with some hesitation:

"But the miners of the Mining Guild have already clashed with Merino County several times because of this incident, and seventy or eighty people have died before and after, if it is a big trouble......"

"Then let them go to the princess, she gave the decree to encourage the Energy Guild, and she will naturally be responsible if something happens."

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And she has always wanted to bypass the Ministry of Finance and the Parliament to find a source of revenue that does not need to be approved, so as to fill the military budget hole of the military department, and the industrial guilds established by these citizens are the ones who support her the most, and even take the initiative to donate two regiments of ordnance.

If a few more people can die this time, it will also make those mud-legged people wake up and understand that the game between the royal family and the Ministry of Finance is not something they are qualified to participate in, maybe it will be a good thing.

Also, who delivered this letter to my desk? ”

After reading the earnest declaration letter in his hand at a glance, Renard frowned and said with a displeased face:

"The Weavers' Guild actually handed in a declaration and cried to me that I couldn't live anymore, hoping to reduce some taxes...... Their taxes have been reduced, what will happen to the municipal side this year? The greenery in the parish and arcades should have been renovated last year, so where will I get the money if I don't collect their taxes? ”

"This ...... It's a bit difficult over there for the Weavers' Guild......"

After flipping through the corresponding materials, the secretary carefully reminded:

"After losing the war six years ago, two of the kingdom's foreign maritime trade routes were robbed, and the one that trafficked fabrics was among them, so many things could not be sold, and a number of weaving mills were closed.

And you and Bao ...... The northbound land trade route that they operated with that family could continue to trade fabrics, but they had to be heavily taxed by the Ehito Kingdom, resulting in very low profits, so they might indeed have a bit of a hard time......"

"Why are you talking so much today?"

After squinting his eyes slightly, Renard looked at his secretary with a cold look in his eyes, and said with an unkind expression:

"The Weavers' Guild will send you money?"

"I did send a little...... But these are also true. ”

The secretary smiled a little embarrassedly, and then spoke:

"As you know, many of the weavers' guilds are still small and medium-sized workshops, and they really can't compare to those big businessmen who are rich in money, and it is easy to be unable to hold up the ...... with a slight change."

"Then let them hold on!"

Renard snorted:

"I don't care about your money, but tax cuts are definitely not good!

Don't think I don't know, I also worked in this business back then, and if I want to make money in this business, it is nothing more than pumping the blood of a weaver, and a weaver can do the work of two hundred pieces of fabric, as long as I give back fifty or sixty pieces of fabric.

So instead of asking me for that little tax cut, it's better to just pump more water out and push the salary to 40 horses and not starve to death, if I can press it to 30 horses, it will be more useful than my two tax cuts! ”

"That's true, but I'm afraid the weaver ......."

"Then drive the troublemakers away, do you still want me to teach them?"

After crumpling the letter of tax deduction declaration for the weaver industry and throwing it into the trash, Renard said impatiently:

"I really can't recruit people, so I go straight to the slum Lila! Those people can do it if they are fed, and they can't do it as a dyeer who needs skill, and they can't do it as a weaver who only needs to move their arms and legs?

Besides, don't think that you are also surnamed Kuko, I can tolerate you again and again, no matter how much they squeeze you, this matter will be given to me until now, and the tax due to it is not less than a copper wheel! ”

"Okay, then I'll tell them the day after tomorrow......"

"I'll go tomorrow! Also, what's going on at Baohua Manor? ”

After drinking a cup of refreshing tea imported from across the sea, Renard rubbed his swollen temples vigorously on both sides, closed his eyes and asked:

"It's been four or five days since you cleaned up over there, right? Has the main building of the manor been cleaned up? Can you live in it? ”

"This ...... I'm afraid it will take another three or four days......"

The secretary said sarcastically:

"Lord Marquis, you know, it has been deserted for six years, and most of the rest is deserted, except for the occasional tidying up in the garden, so ......"

"Don't care if the manor is deserted or not, clean up the place for me first!"

"This ...... That place is so barren, wouldn't it be ...... you to live there?"

"It doesn't matter if it's deserted or not, as long as you can live in it and don't collapse."

Stopping to rub his temples, Renard explained with a tired look in his eyes:

"The princess has the support of the Duke of Lionheart, in addition to getting the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Highways, it is equivalent to winning the seat of the Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords, and if His Royal Highness Joshua wants to compete with her for the seat, it is not enough to have the support of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, but also to have the ability to speak in the House of Lords.

According to His Excellency the Chancellor, as soon as I change my mind and admit my marriage to that woman, he will be able to help me do my job and forcibly get the upper house seat of the Baohua family, so that the two Highnesses can return to the same starting line.

And moving from Cuiyu Manor to Baohua Manor is the first step in this operation, even if there is the endorsement of the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the royal family, my people must be there, at least they have to do it in place, so as to inherit the political heritage of the Baohua family, understand? ”

"Got it......"

"Do it if you get it!"

Seeing this cousin, who was nominally his own secretary, but in fact came to his side to learn to deal with government affairs, and then looked for an opportunity to be released, Renard relied on his last patience to urge:

"Other things can be put aside, but this matter is explained by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and if Baohua's seat can be occupied, His Majesty the King will also strongly support it, and it must be done first!

So now you urge me, call those workers up, and start work for me overnight! ”

"Okay! I'll go! ”

The secretary who had been instructed quickly got up and walked out of the office quickly, while Renard, who had no distractions, put down his teacup and re-examined the old pile of papers on the table, and the room was quiet again, except for the rustle of the tip of the pen rubbing against the paper, until ......

"Crackle!"

The whale oil in the lamp on the table shook slightly, making a slight chirp, causing the light of the lamp to shake slightly, and also alarmed the man who was writing hard at the table.

After looking sideways at the empty sub-table, Renard couldn't help frowning, turned around and shouted:

"Mark?"

"Where's you?"

After waiting for a while and seeing no response, not even the guards guarding the outside room did not move, Renard couldn't help but frown and stood up from the table.

"Mark?"

"I'm here."

With a slightly vague response, a slightly hazy figure appeared by the door, but the size seemed to be slightly different, and it looked a little slimmer than the slightly obese Mark......

"Mark?"

"Hmm."

With a positive response, the person came in from the shadows outside the door, and the figure, which originally looked a little hazy, also returned to normal under the light and stabilized completely.

Looking at Renard, whose tense body had relaxed again, the secretary who was still tired in his eyes smiled slightly, and said calmly:

"Lord Renard, I'm here."

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