A heavy snowfall covered the entire Bena City in silver. Under the moonlit night, Count Gophero stood on the high tower of the manor and looked at the aristocratic district of Bena City lined with castles. There are exquisite palaces here.
The manor is surrounded by a large area of woodland, making it even more precious in this city where every inch of land is precious.
As one of the oldest aristocratic families in Bena Province, the Gofilot family ranks low among the wealthy families, but the style of the aristocratic family is clearly reflected in everything, whether it is a gorgeous silver carriage,
It is still a manor garden with a simple style. The style and taste of the family members are almost all pursuing the luxury only possessed by wealthy aristocrats.
It’s just that this is the Gophero family 200 years ago. At that time, the Gophero family owned the top constructed swordsman group in Bena Province. The brave and capable Gophero swordsmen were almost unparalleled on the battlefield in Bena Province.
Everywhere, they used the most unique broad-edged sword to bring down the glorious era of the Gophero family.
Today, the Gophero family has lost the protection of the legendary strong man, and the decline of the family covers almost all aspects.
In the past hundred years, there have been almost no outstanding leaders in the Gophero family.
In today's generation, Count Gophero is almost the worst patriarch.
Before he succeeded to the throne, Count Gophero was a very active and outstanding young nobleman in the province of Bena. He put forward many new ideas, but it was only during the practice that he discovered that his ideas could only be said to be too idealistic.
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As a result, family reforms, territorial expansion, and business operations all ended in failure.
Count Gophero has always stubbornly believed that he is only one step away from success. As long as the goddess of luck treats him better, these things may succeed.
But the reality is very disappointing, it seems that Lady Luck has never been on his side.
Now, with the over-exploitation of resources on some private planes, some planes have exhausted their energy resources, so the nobles who have united together have to abandon these planes.
The plundering of resources on the plane has always been the main economic pillar supporting the private armies of the noble lords. Since the Gophero Family's Constructed Swordsmen Corps withdrew from the Bena Legion, the Gophero Constructed Swordsmen Corps has gradually disappeared in the world.
in this nearly hundred years of history.
The resources of the plane are shrinking little by little, which is holding back the giant chariot of the Gophero family.
Except for this seemingly vast manor in the city, the assets that the Gofilo family can currently handle are very limited. Almost all the assets have fallen into the hands of family members. Although the Gofilo family seems
Very poor, but some family members are richer than imagined.
This time Harvey Gophero wanted to start a wheat milling business, and for this purpose Harvey also invited Baron Jack Kennelly, the spokesman for the Kennelly family's wheat flour business in the south, to raise funds for the business.
After paying the deposit in advance, Count Gophero not only allocated the last sum of money in the family treasury to Harvey, but Harvey also borrowed some money from other family members, thus collecting nearly 5,000 magic crystals.
Count Gophero recalled Harvey talking endlessly about the plan to build a business empire at the dinner table, talking about the expected profit scale of the wheat flour shipped from the south, and encouraging many family members to participate in the shares.
The money was handed over to Jack Kennelly as if it were a treasure before Harvey even warmed it up.
In just one afternoon, rumors spread throughout Bena City that a group of swindlers had tricked Baron Harvey Gophero around.
Count Gophero had aged a lot overnight. He was even a little hunched over, and his originally sharp eyes had become a little gloomy.
He stood alone on the high tower blowing the cold wind. The last batch of magic crystals in the family treasury was emptied by his son Harvey, and the savings of other family members were also buried here.
He could feel that the crisis the Gophero family encountered this time was more serious than ever before.
In fact, Harvey also consumed the last bit of trust that the members of the Gophero family had in the family leader.
No one even went to Gophero Manor to pursue those magic crystals from Count Gophero, because they knew that even if they asked Count Gophero now, Count Gophero might not be able to get them.
In fact, he really couldn't produce that many magic crystals.
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At first, Baron Harvey Gophero hid outside and did not dare to go home.
After Count Gophero heard the news, although he did not scold him, he just looked at him coldly with a numb face and ignored him. This was obviously more uncomfortable than scolding him.
He frantically searched for Jack Kennelly all over the world, and even did not hesitate to use his contacts in Bena City, but unfortunately no good news came back.
At first, he thought that Baron Jack Kennelly might be joking with him, and he would show up when he lost patience without even looking for it seriously.
Later, he hoped that while Baron Jack Kennelly was absconding with money, he suddenly realized that the magic airships full of wheat were about to arrive in Bena City. He felt that absconding with money in this way was just the most rude exchange of resources.
Will come back and continue this transaction similar to resource exchange.
In fact, he was just hoping for a miracle to happen.
His horse was tired from running and stood panting in the street, its hooves digging hard at the snow on the ground, refusing to take another step.
Harvey held the horse's reins with one hand, raised his whip and whipped the horse several times.
The war horse immediately stood up and almost knocked Baron Harvey off his horse.
Baron Harvey put his body around the war horse's neck and pressed his body tightly against the war horse's body. However, the war horse's temper was very violent. Then its body fell heavily and trampled on the ground. The huge reaction force immediately caused Ha
Baron Wei jumped off the horse, and Harvey lost control of his body. Then he was hit hard by the back of the horse, and fell hard off the horse.
He was ashamed and angry, and limped up from the ground. He felt that he was really too careless. Not only was he deceived by Jack Kennelly, but he was also bullied by his own horse.
He angrily pulled out the long sword from his waist, and stabbed it into the belly and heart from the ribs of the war horse. A fat and strong war horse slumped down on the snow with a cry of pain, and a large amount of blood spurted out from the wound. Not long after,
The war horse died in the street.
Harvey planned to ask friends to borrow some money to tide him over, but he didn't expect to visit several of his usual friends one after another. These ordinary friends all rejected his request for a loan, and no one was willing to give up their money.
Lend him the remaining money.
After visiting six friends in succession, Harvey returned to the Gophero Family Manor dejectedly.
As soon as he walked into the manor, he looked up and saw the bleak Count Gophero standing alone on the tower.
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