After leaving Dragon Island, Lin did not return to Azore Port. The bank at the port had started operating a few days ago, and the elves who came to assist only stayed for one day before being handed over to local officials for management. Once again, the current stage of the mystery is
Local banks only have the function of deposit and withdrawal for fools and do not require professional financial personnel, only security personnel...
Lin himself went directly back to the capital of the Karlsruhe Empire, the Imperial City of Neuken. William, on the other hand, continued to stay on Dragon Island. Inexplicably, the white swordsman made many new friends, and naturally continued to travel around.
No one even needs to worry about the return trip.
I don’t know if this guy is just as usual, pretending to be stupid and eating big money. Or he has really matched the brainwaves of some dragon, and inexplicably made him a confidant, and they have a good relationship.
This person's state of dealing with others is not just about being familiar with each other, but when he comes to your home, he is my home. I don't know how to write the word polite. Speaking of which, he has nothing to do with Azad's willfulness.
They're both the same, except they don't chop people's heads off easily.
After more than a month - in fact, most of the time was spent on the boat ride to Dragon Island - Lin returned, but he brought back a lot of good news to the empress.
Longdao agreed to remove Prince Behar's hand from behind, and did not mind the empress making the news public. I heard that this made the aggressive prince so angry that he broke a lot of things, and made other nobles become more vigilant.
Although Long Dao is not a force within the empire and has no political connections, no noble dares to ignore such a powerful group. As long as Long Dao has the slightest tendency, it will cause shock within the empire.
Therefore, the trend of Dragon Island has attracted the attention of many people. Cutting off the original collaborators will undoubtedly reduce the chance of Prince Behar ascending to the throne.
The only thing to be thankful for is that Long Island has not decided on the next ally. This means that the empress is still the same, and her strength has not increased dramatically.
Secondly, the Karlsruhe Empire has a second Dragon Island flag.
The first flag was the result of the peace treaty concluded between the founding emperor of the empire and Dragon Island, and was used as proof that both parties maintained peace. This flag has always been kept by the navy fleet of the empire, and is also used as a certificate of trade between the two parties.
A lot of benefits have been obtained. Therefore, the navy also wants to bring this second flag into management.
However, as the true holder of the second dragon flag, Lin advocated for the alliance and cooperation between the Empress and the Greco Chamber of Commerce. Others who wanted a share of the pie had to obtain the consent of the first two.
Lin is not involved in the specific operations. As long as a sum of money is transferred into his bank account every quarter, it is considered a dividend. As for how much or how little he distributes, it is up to him.
This vague agreement actually reserved Lin's power in disguise to take back Long Qi at any time. Anyway, he could take back Long Qi with the excuse of "I think the dividends are less".
The reason why the empress made this kind of agreement was not to guard against outsiders, but to guard against people in the royal family. To prevent anyone who was jealous of money and got hot-headed, looking for excuses to swallow the dragon flag.
The reason why Lin chose the empress as a partner was because this person was once the female warrior Kono and is now Saint Alegria. It was not because she was the emperor that she was chosen as a partner. Typical
Not good for people.
The empress's attitude is the same. She has never thought of requiring the magician to be loyal to the empire and the royal family. As long as the personal relationship between the two parties is still there, she will try her best to maintain it. Anyway, the whole family with the same surname is opposed to her.
Support your own emptiness.
It would be fine if he had done something stupid and was a coward, causing everyone to betray and alienate him. But the reality is that all those greedy relatives wanted to seize power and usurp the throne, so they joined forces to hold him back. If that was the case, why did he do it?
I want to give away gifts from friends and friends to others.
Other jealous nobles wanted to encourage nobles related to the navy and maritime affairs to come forward and compete for the ownership of the dragon flag. Especially the two grand dukes in charge of maritime affairs. Although they did not end up personally, they worked hard behind the scenes.
The empire's naval fleet was uncharacteristic of the situation and completely ignored all the explicit and implicit hints. Especially the fleet officers who participated in this escort voyage were completely aloof from the incident and did not dare to say a word.
What a joke. A magician who can single-handedly challenge Kraken on the sea, and kill over a hundred dragons on Dragon Island, must be tired of living to provoke such a murderous god!
At this time, for a long time, the Mysterious Land has used taverns and bards' heroic poems as the main means of widespread information dissemination, and its shortcomings are revealed here. That is, everyone believes more in what they have witnessed with their own eyes.
As for the rumors from others, as long as they are too exaggerated, they will automatically lower themselves to a few levels to understand them, completely ignoring whether those exaggerated rumors are true or not. Anyway, everyone is used to bragging, and they will stupidly believe it and go out to tell others.
Still not being laughed at.
Therefore, the threat of a certain magician was artificially lowered by the nobles. Coupled with the huge Dragon Island trade interests, they angrily criticized the navy fleet for not doing anything, but no one wanted to face the magician in person.
division.
Even if they didn't fully believe the exaggerated rumors about Dragon Island, the magician had killed off two waves of assassins sent by the nobles, including two giant dragons. These were solid facts, and they couldn't help but believe them.
The empress certainly values this cooperation. Although someone once proposed to her the idea of a constitutional monarchy in future governance, that change was too huge and would affect the future structure of the empire, so she has not yet been able to make up her mind to take that path.
Alegria is still looking for ways to increase her influence, trying to regain the power of the emperor. To this end, she attaches considerable importance to the allies sent to her by a certain magician.
However, although the Greco Chamber of Commerce was hit by this piece of pie, the Chamber of Commerce itself was not strong enough to completely eat this piece of Dragon Island trade pie. Henry could only choose to cooperate with foreign countries and actively expand the strength of the Chamber of Commerce.
It's not that the empress doesn't want to rely on the benefits brought by the dragon flag to win over the nobles. It's a pity that all the nobles are strictly guarded against her as the emperor, and they don't want to share any power. Even if there are enviable interests in front of them, none of them will
They all gritted their teeth and held on.
This is not to say that the nobles are all stupid and refuse to take advantage of the benefits. But in the first place, they take the benefits of the emperor, and later they have to think about how much price they have to pay in order to deal with the revenge methods of other nobles.
Even if everyone is not monolithic, they will still do things like beating the leading bird with a stick. Comparing the two, the bait in the hands of the Empress is not very good.
Therefore, Alegria could only choose the non-aristocratic civilian route, trust the Greco Chamber of Commerce, and support it to become stronger. Fortunately, the environmental characteristics of the Karlsruhe Empire allowed civilian forces to flourish.
There are many private forces, and their strength is no less than that of the powerful nobles. It's just that because they developed relatively late, there is no land to occupy and divide, so they can't get a title.
Alegria also thought about winning over the support of these people, but she didn't have any leverage at that time. All the governing power was divided up by the nobles and firmly controlled, so she had no way to do it. Now that she has the opportunity,
How could the empress ignore this?
But the Empress also made an agreement with the people of the Greco Chamber of Commerce that the period of protection qualification is only one year. If the Chamber of Commerce cannot meet the needs of Long Island trade in any way and obtain the due benefits after one year, the Empress will let others go.
people join.
The reason why the Greco Chamber of Commerce was given such a big opportunity was that, in addition to the advice provided by someone out of compensation, Alegria also looked at the face of William Greco, the white swordsman.
But someone lying on the big bed unceremoniously poured cold water on the head of the beauty next to him and said: "You don't really think that you can win over William just by selling it to the Greco family."
A pair of beautiful eyes cast a resentful look, and Alegria said, "Can't you?"
"In my opinion, William's feelings for that family, except for the blood relationship, are the same as those of all his friends. If you want to rely on such small favors to win him over, you must be mentally prepared to get nothing." Lin said frankly.
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After getting up from the big bed, there was naturally a maid from the Emerald Palace waiting on the empress to change her clothes. While Alegria was at the mercy of others, he said, "In that case, how did you ask that person to help?"
"Just provide him with delicious food and drink. If you need help, just tell him directly. Or if you are in trouble, as long as he sees it, he will naturally help. But the whole problem is, how to make William stay obediently.
He is in one place, waiting for his call at any time. He is the kind of person who, if you ask him why he likes to wander around, he will only answer, 'Because his legs are on my body.'"
Suddenly, Alegria was deeply touched. She felt that she should also be compatible with this sword master. It was just that she was bound by the title of 'Emperor', and that person, what could restrain him.
"In short," Lin brought back the topic, "the chips have been handed over to you. It's up to you to make the most effective use of them. Henry and his family only had one year to run away."
It’s just a trip to Dragon Island. Now that there are no restrictions, they can’t raise so many tradable goods. So they retain their qualifications to sail, and they can use it to win over others at other times. Isn’t this good?”
Being qualified to go to Dragon Island is different from having goods to trade with the dragons. At least those greedy giant creatures cannot be fooled by glass beads.
However, the empress decided to maintain her original idea and explained: "Now those stronger squires still have doubts about me. Giving a small and medium-sized force like the Greco Chamber of Commerce a chance will just allow me to set an example for others to follow."
People believe that I have the ability to bring them benefits. But the main reason is that I don’t have enough manpower to handle these things, and you are unwilling to help me.”
At the end, he felt a little helpless and a little bit complaining. Lin could only laugh, change the subject and said: "No wonder Lisa and Acorus can't be seen, they have been sent out by you to do things."
"Yes. Why, do you miss them?" Alegria glanced back at a certain magician and said with a bit of sourness.
Lin smiled and said: "No way. I just want to say that what you lack is just manpower you think you can trust, not those things that I can't do."