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In the Magic Tower.

Krausa flipped through the text, which was the latest instruction from the family's side.

The family's instructions are clearly stated in the text that he should be careful in the city of Saint-Quentin and not to clash with the king for a short time.

He calmly handed this text to the baby-faced mage Sizma next to him, and said with a smile: "It seems that my family is also worried about my behavior here, it seems that I know about some high-level mages of the Magic Academy some time ago in the name of my family." ”

"So, we're going to stop teaching that wild mage who doesn't know how to lift a lesson. Sizma said reluctantly.

Klausa smiled bitterly: "In this situation, we in Asturias need to unite, this is a compromise that has been reached between the royal family and the three major ducal families, as well as other powerful nobles, otherwise if there is still infighting, not only will the interests of the royal family be damaged, but we Bourbon will not be happy." In Faroución, Bourbon's army and Aurora's corps have fought several times. My father deliberately extended the dispute between me and Lucar over the inheritance, and it was also evident how tense the situation had become. ”

Of course, Sizma understood the power of this, so the Duke of Bourbon specially gave clear instructions to remind Kraussa in Saint-Quentin to pay attention to his behavior, and not to start disputes with the royal forces at this time, so as not to be regarded by all the nobles as the one who provoked infighting.

The two heirs of the Bourbon family, Lucar chose to stay in the county of Mystry, the home base of the Bourbon family, and Krausa had to come to Saint-Quentin.

Although it is far away from the family center, it also has the advantage that he can represent the family in St. Quentine, and some of the family's power and influence in St. Quentin are subject to the battle of heirs and are strictly forbidden by the Duke to help directly, but they can still use one or two, otherwise Krausa will not be so smooth in recruiting people in the Academy of Magic.

For example, before Krausa was going to create some obstacles for Solomon, he instructed Sizma to secretly contact some high-level mages of the Academy of Magic in his name.

This was just a trivial matter in the past, a wild mage and a family heir were dignified, and others must be able to distinguish clearly.

But this time it was a little different, that man climbed to the royal side, and seemed to be appreciated by the royal family's important minister, the Marquis of Regina, and according to intelligence, some of the royal family's recent series of actions were from this person's idea.

Not only that, but he also seems to have established a good relationship with a merchant force in the city.

In this case, it was not so easy to do what he could do lightly before, and some of the high-level mages he came into contact with would give face, but there were also many who had vague attitudes.

Between one of the possible heirs of the House of Bourbon and someone who has recently gained the attention of the royal family, it is not so easy to choose, although it will be easier again if Crowe becomes the sole heir of Bourbon.

So the Duke of Bourbon, who was far away, also seemed to have received the news, and was worried that his behavior would unwisely provoke a conflict between the Bourbons and the royal family, if that Solomon's man was really appreciated by Regina, so he came to instruct him.

Now it has to be stopped, because since there is this kind of instruction, some of the hidden forces of Bourbon in Saint-Quentin must also know, if Krausa refuses to give up, and the tentative forces hidden in Saint-Quentin will not cooperate as before.

Because of the fairness of the heir dispute, although the duke is not allowed to directly help with too many forces, for those who may become his masters in the future, the people below will of course support them in a certain way and in vague places.

Even though the power support on the surface is limited due to the Duke's orders, secretly intelligence alone is very helpful to Krausa.

But when the duke had a clear intention to restrain Klausa, the people below naturally began to restrain themselves, after all, the duke was their real master.

And if outsiders show this kind of movement, they will naturally guess the situation, so I am afraid that some of Krausa's requirements will not be very important.

"It's almost done. Sizma was reluctant to say that he had already approached some high-level mages in the name of Krausa, and most of them said that they would sell Bourbon face, and only those like Agatha's teacher Cecilia or Goering, who were working with Solomon, directly refused.

"I have to stop, otherwise my father will be very upset when he sees that I am disobedient. Klausa said lightly.

It was of course a great shame for Krausa to be rejected by a small man from a wild mage, and he also valued Solomon's talents, hoping to take them under his command and become one of his right-hand men, and he would definitely play an important role in the inheritance battle with Lucar in the future.

But this is not worth mentioning in terms of the joy or anger of the Duke of Bourbon, whose joy or disgust is directly related to the fate of Klausa, and no matter how optimistic Solomon is by him, it is not worth directly displeasing the Duke for this.

The unhappiness had the consequence of Klausa losing points in front of the Duke, giving Lucar the lead.

"But that's not it. Klausa muttered to himself.

He furrowed his face slightly, and there was a hint of jealousy on his young and good-looking face.

In the case that the family minds, he can't make any more direct moves, but these days, he has been carefully checking the information.

The more he saw Solomon's affairs, the more uneasy he felt.

Kraussa explained to himself that the uneasiness was definitely not due to jealousy.

If you want to embarrass Solomon's behavior, it is not just because of annoyance, but if this person is really very talented, then he has already sided with the royal family, and will bring trouble to the Bourbon family in the future.

So if he can't take it, then the best thing to do is to ruin his future.

"But if you don't let go, it's easy to arouse the Duke's anger, and you just said you had to stop. Sizma wondered.

"Just be careful. Klausa laughs: "Sometimes you don't have to deal with someone yourself. ”

"You mean to lend someone's hand?" Sizma's eyes lit up, and then he fell into deep thought, Klausa didn't directly say whose hand he lent, and he didn't hesitate to test Sizma to see if he could figure it out.

"Angli, I know he doesn't like that kid either, although Angli is also close to the royal party, but it seems that the limelight is suppressed by that person, if you create some opportunities for him......" Sizma said.

"Henry isn't that stupid. Klausa shook his head, "Henley's greatest wish is to establish his own branch before his brother Goetz officially takes over the family, he is not a brainless person, we secretly provoke him to do it, he will only take the opportunity to ask us for excessive support to gain his own advantage." ”

"Who else would there be?" Sizma was stunned.

"Absolutely. For example, those who were usurped by Solomon. Krausa sneered and took out a bundle of paper rolls, on which were some information provided to Krausa about St. Quentin, collected by the family lurking in the city, this one Krausa did not destroy, and it happened to be about Solomon.

For example, he presided over the banks for the Free City, a new type of business organization that relied on loans and rentiers. Well, he did a good job, as if he was helping the businessman build a bridge between Regina, and let the businessman help Regina solve the debt trouble that he had just taken office. It really killed two birds with one stone, both thanks to Regina's gratitude and appreciation, and also built a relationship with the businessman. So the merchants should be very grateful to him, and lo and behold, the merchants of the St. Quentin Mercantile Exchange had begun to get into the habit of borrowing money from the Franklin Bank, which he represented, when they needed money for their business. ”

"It seems to be good for him, but it's not good for us. Sizma was at a loss, he had a certain talent for tactical command and illusion magic, but he was not so keen about politics, and he was not trained by the Duke since he was a child like Klausa, and he consciously contacted and learned this knowledge, and he couldn't see the key from it at the first time.

"Look, how well he's done. Ignoring him, Kraussa continued to flip through the next page, which clearly showed with the information he could gather that in just two months, Solomon's good relationship with the commodity exchange had brought Franklin's money business on a par with that of St. Quentin's, who had been in business for many years.

This is completely counterintuitive, knowing that credibility is not so easy to build, but it only shows that Solomon has the trust of those merchants, and others are willing to take the initiative to borrow from him.

Klausa glanced to the side, and saw that Sizma hadn't thought of what was going on, so he smiled and said, "But if he does this, he will definitely offend some people, those who could have lent money to these merchants." ”

"Goldsmith of St. Quentin?" Sizma blurted out.

"No, no, though the goldsmiths were also in the business of money-lending, they were like legitimate merchants, and it was unlikely that they would do anything to Solomon even if they were to be hostile to him because of it. All they can do is imitate Solomon, turn their backward ways of doing business into the Franklin Bank, and maybe even prostrate themselves at Solomon's feet in the future. Krausa said contemptuously.

Then he straightened his face and turned the third page of the information.

"I'm talking about them, usury merchants. Klausa reveals the real answer.

"It turned out to be a loan shark!" Sizma's brow furrowed, most people didn't like usury merchants, and he was certainly no exception.

Compared to the regular goldsmiths and the Franklin Bank, the loan sharks were complete villains, and although they called themselves merchants, none of the other merchants liked them, but they could not leave them completely.

Because businessmen, especially big business, may face the problem of capital turnover, in addition to borrowing from goldsmiths, there is also borrowing from usury merchants.

Needless to say, the bad record and bad reputation of the usurers who did anything for the sake of rentier, and the worst thing is that they made the atmosphere very bad.

With the table of loan sharks, the goldsmiths will also take the opportunity to raise the interest rate on loans, although it is not as exaggerated as the loan sharks, but the idea of the goldsmiths is that you don't borrow from me, you can borrow from the loan sharks, I am at least lower than them, and I will not borrow the money, and when you get it, you must deduct the interest first.

Even the interest rates on private loans by merchants, as well as private loans between citizens during the strictest period, continued to rise, and the root cause of this was the exemplary role of usury merchants.

The Church had strictly forbidden usury and called on nations to crack down on usurers, which silenced the most odious of merchants for a while.

Kraussa was referring to these people, who were clearly different from the goldsmiths, and in addition to being a franchise of usury, they also had a very close relationship with the underworld of the nations.

"There's always been a very bad force behind them that supports them, so even the church can't make them disappear completely. Klausa said, "Solomon did a good job, but the better he did, the more he offended them in this respect." So we just need to give some information about him to the loan sharks, and they will find a way to deal with him, and they are usually very rough and not as easy to talk as I am. ”

Sizma nodded knowingly, he understood what Klausa meant.

As long as he and the others show their way in front of the Duke and others, the family's latent power in St. Quentin will still remain the same.

All they have to do is "accidentally or accidentally" provide some information to the loan sharks, and they will jump out like red-eyed wolves and tear Solomon apart.

"Is there anything else we need to do besides this?"

"Also, I was guessing he would be involved in the Dimensional Trade. "But strangely, so far, he has only lent money to merchants on commodity exchanges." ”

Solomon persuaded Regina to liberalize the royal family's restrictions on trade, and Krausa of course suspected that he was trying to profit from it, and he did not believe that there were people of high moral character who were purely for the sake of others and not for personal gain.

"So I suspect he's trying to...... I heard that in a few months, the royal family will take out some spatial coordinates of the lower planes and put them up for auction. Krausa said uncertainly.

"Do you think he's playing with the idea?" said Sizma, a little unconvinced, "unlikely, if he has the financial resources to organize an adventurous party on his own, where will he get one? unless he's contributing to the Free City." ”

"Whether he has the ability or not, we can do something about it. However, this matter is not easy to borrow someone else's knife, and we have to spend some effort ourselves. "Sometimes you don't have to stop someone to stop, you just need to help him change the direction of the sign as he moves forward." ”