The torch red light shone on a gorgeous carriage docked in the harbor, the gilded double-headed eagle coat of arms reflected in the firelight, Aurerio put the crystal statue in his hand heavily on the table, picked up the cane leaning on the sofa, pushed the car door, got down from a gorgeous carriage in the port area, snorted heavily, looked at the large cargo ship flying the flag of the Falcon Empire in the distance, and asked a henchman waiting at the door, "Is everything all right?" I don't want any after-effects, even though this is my territory, if the news gets out, there will be some trouble."

"Adults can rest assured that everything is in order"

The henchman of Aurelio, with a wicked smile on the corner of his mouth, returned to him with a respectful expression." The port security office has been cordoned off for four weeks, and no one will be allowed to come in, just like the usual practice, the other party thinks that we are still helping those big people, where do you dare to ask more, before dawn, the port belongs to our merchant group, even if the entire port is burned, there will definitely not be a single person, we have also cleaned up the people in the entire port, and now except for this ship, there is no one other in the port" "Yes, I hope so!" Aurelio's gaze swept over the sail-lined harbor in front of him, and he couldn't help but exhale at the thought that a great fortune was about to fall into his hands, "You know what happened tonight, I don't want any wind to get out......!"

"There is no problem, they are all directly under the smuggling team of the branch, led by Captain Fred who is a third-level warrior, the whole team has fifteen second-level fighters, sixty-four first-level soldiers, and the others are all subordinates of adults, and the news to the outside world only says that the other party is an enemy of adults, absolutely foolproof!" the henchman said with an affirmative expression

"Fred?" said Aurelio was stunned when he heard that it was someone from the smuggling team.

"Your Excellency also knows that the reliability of these guys, all the family members are in the hands of the merchant group, even if they pick their skins afterwards, they will not say a word!" The corner of the henchman's mouth showed a cruel smile, "Those guys in the smuggling team are all people who have sold their souls, as long as they can get benefits, they are willing to do anything" "Well, you did a good job!"

Aurelio nodded, acknowledging that the henchman was right, these guys. He is really the best person to handle this kind of thing, why didn't he think of it, of course, he can't admit this at the moment, this subordinate is getting stronger and stronger, and the more secrets he knows, but it's a good thing! After this incident, it is better to have an early opportunity to deal with it more safely, and with this than the money, he should be able to go to the next level. Access to headquarters is not a problem

"Aurelio, can you start? If there are only about two dozen people on the other side, I hope it will be done sooner, to be honest. That's a bit of a fuss!" Fred, the leader of the merchant group's smuggling team, walked over with a respectful expression, his bare head was a little red from the torches, and he was wearing thick short-sleeved scale armor. When he walks, he makes a whooshing sound, like a ghost that suddenly appeared in the night, and his right eye, which was once blinded by a slave. It was not covered, but a striking cross scar was pulled out of the eye socket, which should have been unable to be closed anymore.

Under normal circumstances, the injured position will try its best to cover up, but this guy, there is no meaning to cover it up at all, the wounds that have healed are polyps, some disgusting feelings, a one-handed scimitar inlaid with blue gems is inserted in the waist, and the blade is cold and invaded as you walk, and a small thin leather knife is tied to the calf, it is said that at least thirty slaves were skinned by this knife, and limped away, so that the brass button boots on their feet pressed very the road stone of the port, making a gurgling sound, and a rushing smell of blood, just pressed over,

Aurelio frowned slightly, and immediately took out a white handkerchief to cover his nose, and said in a deep voice, "Fred, I know you are very powerful, but although there are not many people on the other side, it shouldn't be a good stubble, I am not suitable to come forward, please everyone!"

The so-called smuggling team is a special detachment responsible for smuggling of the double-headed eagle merchant group, which is the darkest part of the double-headed eagle merchant group, the nature of the double-headed eagle merchant group is to meet the various needs of the Feize royal family, so in addition to normal trade, there is a large part of the things that cannot be disclosed, the various needs of the royal family, such as human slave trade, secret goods trading, prisoner of war handling, kidnapping, plunder, revenge and massacre, as well as the secret execution of those nobles who oppose the royal family, and even the transport of gold from the farther south, to put it bluntly, what the royal family wants, they must do, and the person responsible for doing this is the merchant smuggling team,

Only those within the merchant group know how dark and bloody this force is

It is said that more than 100,000 people have died in the smuggling team over the years, even if it is a ruthless person like Aurelio, he shuddered at the few smuggling team actions he saw with his own eyes, these people can no longer be called people, killing people is as casual as cutting vegetables, several times, when they saw the slaves resisting with the ship, the smuggling team either directly sealed the cabin, and then scuttled the whole ship to sink, allowing hundreds of people to drown alive, or poured seawater into the separate cabin until the sea water overflowed from the tightly sealed iron bars, and after an hour, when the upper deck of the cabin was opened, you could see the full cabin of people, floating in the water, still in a desperate posture of wanting to grasp the iron bar above, the unrecognizable corpse soaked by the sea water undulates on the surface of the water, that feeling, like seeing the evil ghosts in hell,

Most of the people who make up this force are death row prisoners in the Fei Ze country, war mercenaries, and nobles who have committed crimes, in the outside world, these people have been declared dead, and everyone thinks they are dead, these people have been under the surveillance of the kingdom power since the day they entered the smuggling team, and as long as there are rebels, the whole family will be exterminated immediately, if it is done well, the merchant group will give their families a certain amount of money every year, or give care in some places, so most of the people in the smuggling team will finally choose to accept such a fate,

The person who is about to die can still take care of his relatives a little, and what is not satisfied, of course, it is not that there are not one or two who dare to defect at all, but there is pressure from the Fei Ze royal family, even if the other party reveals something, what is the use! On the contrary, the punishment from the merchant group will make these people regret running away in the first place!

The merchant group will arrest all the relatives of the defectors. If the other party doesn't come back, he will kill one every day, and then peel off the human skin and hang it in the open square, and claim to be a runaway slave who is caught and punished, anyway, most people know that the double-headed eagle merchant group is also the largest slave trade group in Feize's country, and no one will show mercy to these escaped slaves, as long as the defector knows that those are actually his relatives, and the skinning is in charge of a special skinner, which is a craft that has been passed down for generations. It can definitely leave the painful look of the deceased on it, watching the tragic death of relatives one by one, and the vivid newcomer skins are hung up in turn, the pain of that kind of torment is enough to make every defector go crazy, and finally he is captured by the merchant group and crushed alive with a stone to crush into minced meat. "Your Excellency, you can rest assured, we will do what we need to do, but if we can ......complete it this time," Smuggling Captain Fred said with a look of earnestness on his terrible face. His son, who is fourteen years old and has just graduated from a district college studying accounting, if he can get a good recommendation. will get the opportunity to serve in the homes of the great nobles, which is not to get ahead, but you can also have no worries about food and clothing,

For a small aristocratic background like Fred. The results were already very good, and Fred had already submitted a request to the Merchant Branch, at this time. The henchmen of the branch minister Aurelio found himself, even if he was hard-headed, he had to do it, not to mention that it was just a small problem, the merchant fleet of more than two dozen escorts, he was ordered to pretend to be pirates and attacked more than double digits, but since the Falcon Imperial Navy entered the inland sea, the crackdown on pirates was unprecedented, and the imperial merchant fleet was all in a group and equipped with considerable weapons, so he was called back from the new

In private, Fred has met his son several times, a young man who is more talented than his old son, his fate is already doomed, so let his son live in his place

Although the members of the smuggling team have lost their personal freedom, they also have fat in private, and the rich smugglers can naturally bring more money to their families, and if they can be appreciated by powerful people, they can even bring a chance to the family to be promoted, after all, the backstage of the merchant group is the royal family, and with such a huge reliance, many big families in the kingdom will also sell the face of the merchant group," Alright, I see, I have seen your request, and I will ask the merchant group to recommend your son to the house of Bero in Raoulan!"

Aurelio was a little impatient, and the sound of the handkerchief covering his mouth was a little low and blurry, but it was basically clear that the smell of Fred was too great, and he lived in a "floating hell" all year round The smuggling ship, no matter how many times it is washed after docking, there will be a heavy smell of dead rot on the body, if it weren't for the fact that these people are really needed this time, I wouldn't even have the mood to talk to these people, the smuggling team is a special department within the merchant group, even if it is a very heavy sub-minister, the smuggling department does not need to be too polite,

But in Luansoke, as the largest maritime trade port in the Fizer Kingdom, Aurelio, the branch minister, also has an identity, that is, one of the personnel who take over the goods from the smuggling headquarters of the merchant group, and is not really the real power, it is completely for scheduling and cooperation, but nominally, it is also counted as the headquarters label,

"Thank you, sir!"

Fred saluted and slowly stepped back, the two sides reached an agreement, he got the promise he wanted, turned around, Fred's scarred hand held the scimitar on his waist, and his eyes were cold and stinging,

"Let's start, kill everyone and leave no one behind!"

Fred shouted loudly, dozens of heavily armed subordinates, and more than a hundred attached sailors on the smuggling ship, although the target of the attack was only a merchant ship, but even the side of an ordinary merchant ship could not be easily broken by brute force, in order to ensure that in case, he even asked his subordinates to unload a small catapult from the merchant smuggling ship,

The catapult was pushed forward by several subordinates, and the others drew their weapons one after another, and followed behind with small round shields, and the red turban wrapped around their heads was blown backwards by the harbor wind, and at the same time stained everyone's eyes red like a flame, and there were one hundred and sixty of us, and there were only about twenty on the other side, which was not a level at all

The torches moved closer in the direction of the merchant ship, and the entire battleship remained completely hidden in the darkness under the command, so that in the darkness it created an illusion for the other party, that this was a trembling prey,

"Stop. Who are you? There was a slight trembling voice from the direction of the merchant ship, and it seemed that it was indeed terrified.

"We are the port security team, and if we suspect that there is contraband on your ship, the people on it will immediately lower the ship ladder and be inspected" A tall and strong man stood out from the merchant smuggling team, and he was really wearing the uniform of the port security station, shouting loudly in the direction of the ship, the other party may be an armed merchant ship, this is already clear. And the businessman is generally not very bold, if he can calm the other party at once, he can easily get on the boat and kill all the people on it in the name of pretending to be inspected, I don't know how many times this kind of thing has been done, there will be no problem, the smuggling team that is familiar with the car is even ready in uniform, "Lower the ladder of the boat, accept the inspection, we can guarantee your safety!" More than a dozen smugglers who had already dressed up stood up. Pretended to stop about twenty meters away from the Shanlin

"Harbor Guard, are we fools?" Noras looked at the strong man shouting at the top of his voice, his eyes fell on the small catapult that was slowly propelling, and then at the rows of Imperial Navy soldiers standing in the dark, the corners of their mouths slightly upturned. If it weren't for the requirements of the task, I would have ...... long ago

Noras heard a rolling sound and turned to see several Imperial Navy soldiers pushing out of the cabin a metallic Imperial Ballista. The bowstring of the ballista had been pulled open, and iron bolts as thick as an adult's arm were placed into the slots of the ballista, even in the dark. This chill also hit the brain, as a former Nord soldier, how could he not know the horror of this weapon, is this too much to bully them, Noras couldn't help but have such a thought floating in his heart

"My lord, actually, we can defeat the opponent with absolute strength before they get close!

Steve Steve, an officer of the Fourth Fleet of the Imperial Admiralty, said beside him, looking at the firelight rushing over like a tide in the distance, looking at the ugly faces full of cruelty and greed under the firelight, this naval officer also felt that it was a bit of a fuss, mobilizing the Imperial Navy warships to deal with a gang of smugglers, this joke was a bit of a joke!" "Do you think that the empire has invested such a huge amount of money, and even secretly involved the Admiralty to participate, is it just to save the golden ticket of the business alliance?" Noras looked at the fighters of the Two-Headed Eagle Merchant Regiment, who were gradually losing patience in the distance, and said coldly

"This ......" Navy Officer Steve hesitated, this time the matter was strange from the beginning, as a middle-level officer of the fleet, although he was not exposed to a high level, but he could also perceive that the turmoil involved this time was just beginning, and this was the situation at the beginning, so how huge would it be to really unfold?

The same order as the Fourth Fleet, the nine sub-fleets of the Imperial Navy, the North Sea Fleet is too far away, the Seventh Fleet is repairing, the Eighth Fleet is stopping at Port Hérault to deter, the Sixth Fleet is in Lisbonto, and the other sub-fleets in the Inland Sea have been dispatched, mobilizing more than 300 warships of various types, almost throwing down to the southern part of the Inland Sea with an operational line, almost thinking that this is the person of the Imperial Navy's military pressure on the south, and there is definitely more than one himself, but what is the specific, the level of the commander of the sub-fleet has been completely secret, only knowing that if the situation gets out of control, the fleet has been granted the right to open artillery, and the target may be the entire southern region of the Inland Sea, if this was a military operation, it was definitely the largest of the Imperial Navy since its creation.

"Have you ever thought about what it would mean if the Double-Headed Eagle Merchant Regiment below used force against the Imperial Navy?"

Noras's face looked a little excited, the secret is pressed for too long, it will also make people's emotions abnormal, not to mention that this battle plan has reached a super operation with the entire southern inland region as the scope, but it is a pity that he is not a soldier, otherwise, this is enough capital for his life to recall, and some content is turning in his mind

Battle plan "Emperor's Sword"

Planner: Emperor

The goal of the operation is to "make an example of the chickens and monkeys, destroy the double-headed eagle merchant group, deter the southern big business group, and at the same time take the opportunity to intervene in the economic lifeline of the six countries in the southern part of the inland sea by taking the opportunity of the fluctuation of the golden ticket of the business alliance"

"What does that mean? ...... Go to war!" Navy Officer Steve's face changed suddenly, and he blurted out almost subconsciously, his hands clenched unconsciously

"You're right, if you are bold enough to attack the warships of the Imperial Navy, isn't this a war? As long as tonight's incident breaks out, the Imperial Navy will have enough excuse to completely strangle all the inland sea ships related to the Double-headed Eagle Merchant Regiment."

Noras looked at the two-headed eagle merchant group below who had begun to pounce on the side of the ship, and his tone was as cold as ice

"At the same time, the empire will take tough measures to put pressure on the entire south, ask Fetzer to give an explanation, and drag this economic war into an armed confrontation, but we have occupied the righteousness."

Noras paused, and smiled, "The empire just wants to see if the southern Faeser wants to desperately protect a so-called double-headed eagle merchant group, or choose to abandon this troublesome chess piece, and at the same time let the entire southern merchant group know that in the face of the absolute control of the empire, their patron is not as tough as imagined! Moreover, this time the empire has made a lot of money, and sixty percent of the wealth of all medium-sized chambers of commerce in Faizer is already in our hands!" As long as the empire is willing, tomorrow it will be able to make the commerce of various countries enter the cold winter and wither" (to be continued......