Compared to the prosperous Imperial Capital Terminal, which has a first-class throughput in mainland China, the Tulip family's fleet is not the largest they have ever encountered, but the problem is that this fleet is still
It’s so eye-catching. First of all, the twenty large ships are all Sea Spirit-class ships. This is extremely rare in inland canals. It can be said that if it were not for the need to welcome the triumphal victory of the Nanyang Expedition Fleet many times in history,
If the river is widened, it will be difficult for such a large ship to enter the imperial capital directly from the waterway.
And secondly, it must be "credited" to the dazzling flaming tulip flag on the ship.
The huge fleet actually occupied the river, and even stayed at the dock for too long. Originally, there were a lot of merchant ships coming and going from the dock in the imperial capital every day. So many berths were suddenly occupied by such a huge fleet of sea-going ships. Of course,
It seemed crowded. However, for the sake of the tulip flag, no one dared to provoke it.
Under the supervision of officials and soldiers from the Imperial City Public Security Bureau, the huge fleet began to unload the goods. Huge and heavy boxes were carried from the large ships. The surrounding heavily armed warriors of the Tulip family were on tight guard. Little Zach personally
On-site supervision was carried out and hundreds of large trucks were mobilized to move the goods back and forth.
After working in full swing for two days, all the ships were unloaded. At this time, if you are careful, you will find that an official from the Public Security Department responsible for the inspection at the dock is already sweating profusely!
Since the day of the coup, the Solomon family quietly transported a group of archers into the city using merchant ships. After the coup, the docks entering and exiting the imperial capital have been strictly inspected. Fortunately, Du Wei has a personal relationship with Camisiro, the current commander of the Public Security Bureau.
Very good (Camisillo is about to step down as the head of the Public Security Bureau and take up a post in the military. He is also happy to sell Du Wei a favor before leaving office). Therefore, the inspection of these cargoes of the Tulip family is not strict, and they are just randomly selected.
I opened the box with two or three goods and checked it. It was not a prohibited weapon or dangerous person being smuggled in, so I let it go.
However... a detail worth mentioning is that during the interrogation, in a certain cargo hold on the ship, little Zach casually opened a box in front of the officials of the Public Security Department, and the box had just been opened a crack.
The official took a deep breath after leaving, and then exclaimed: "Almighty God!!"
The golden color in the box was reflected on his face, almost blinding the poor guy! At this moment, the greed and surprise in human nature were clearly revealed.
Little Zach immediately closed the box, then took out a gold nugget about the size of half a brick from his sleeve, stuffed it into the official's hand, and said calmly: "My lord, what does it say on the document? Go back
What should I say, you already know what’s going on."
This man only felt that such a big piece of gold was heavy in his hand... Even though working as an inspection officer at the dock was a fat job, such a big piece of gold was enough to cover his income for one or two years! He struggled to put this heavy piece of gold into his hands.
He stuffed the gold into his arms, placed it close to his body, and then quickly smiled and nodded to the chief steward of the Tulip Duke.
In this way, these twenty ships of gold, silver and jewelry were recorded on the documents of the inspectors of the Imperial City Public Security Bureau as: Nanyang native products.
As a result, the inspection officer and the recording officer each received an income worth thousands of gold coins, and the head of the Public Security Department, Lord Camisillo, had a box of "
Nanyang Souvenirs".
Of course, Du Wei doesn't expect to be able to hide this method of concealment from everyone. After all, it will still spread out over time. However, he needs to have a legal "windfall" for his "windfall".
"Immigration formalities".
As for letting others know that you are rich, so what? Does anyone dare to take any action against you? Don’t forget that in addition to being a powerful duke, you are also a magician of mainland civilization!
Sure enough, after a few days, the imperial capital was abuzz with a "news". It was said that Duke Tulip's Nanyang maritime trade fleet had dug a huge gold mine on a small island in Nanyang...
Du Wei had no intention of paying attention to such gossip. He was very busy these days, very busy.
What surprised the personal guards around him was that the Duke, who had never had any respect for gods, actually went to the temple in the imperial capital for three consecutive days in the past few days!
On the first day, when Du Wei went out and ordered his men to "set up the temple," these men almost thought they had heard wrong, right? We adults are notoriously disrespectful to gods, but we actually want to go
Temple?
After arriving at the temple, Du Wei directly asked people to go in and announce: Duke Tulip, wants to see the Pope!
Did the Pope just meet him whenever he wanted? What's more, the Tulip Duke, who was notoriously disrespectful to the temple, wanted to set up a religious center in the Northwest Temple. The clergy suffered a lot from Du Wei, so there was little respect for him within the temple.
There is really nothing friendly about this Tulip Duke.
These subordinates were completely confused about what happened next.
The Pope actually immediately sent someone out and politely invited Duke Tulip to enter. Then, Du Wei stayed in the temple until dark before coming out.
After that, the Duke ran to the temple for three days in a row, and asked to see His Majesty the Pope every day. He stayed in the temple from morning to night, not knowing what to talk about inside.
Du Wei was usually very kind to his subordinates. If the personal guard who was curious and bold could not help but ask his boss, Du Wei smiled and said: "Your master, I have decided to convert to the light of the gods, and I will devoutly believe in them from now on."
God, become an honest believer.
As soon as these words came out, everyone absolutely did not believe it. In their opinion, it was possible for the world to turn upside down. It was absolutely impossible for the Duke to believe in God.
On the fourth day, Du Wei stopped going out. He locked himself in the study, then called Hussein Rodriguez and Queen Medusa Nicole into the study, and then ordered everyone
No one was allowed to disturb me. A few people stayed like this in the study all day.
At the same time, a strange thing happened in the palace.
The religious leader and spiritual leader of Roland Continent, His Majesty the Pope, who never leaves home all year round, actually came to the palace in person and asked to meet and discuss with the regent!
What a joke! A few days ago, because of the snow disaster relief in the south, the temple deliberately disgraced the royal family. The relationship between the two parties was already extremely tense. Now why does His Majesty the Pope come to see the regent? Is it because the verbal war is not enough and he wants real people?
pk??
In less than half a day, this news spread throughout the inner circle of powerful people in the imperial capital, especially several important ministers of the empire, and they all got the news.
After all, there must be something going on in the meeting between the actual master of the empire and the spiritual leader of the empire. Otherwise, both of them are busy people, so why would they have nothing to do with each other?
At that time, according to some news from the palace, His Majesty the Pope and His Highness the Regent had a secret conversation for a full afternoon. After His Majesty the Pope left the palace in the evening, His Majesty the Regent was obviously mentally exhausted and weird, and he did not know.
What happened to affect the mood of His Royal Highness the Regent? That night, His Highness slept in his study room and had no sleep all night. There was a concubine of His Highness who thought she was very favored. She probably felt that she was favored because of her.
She might be the future queen or concubine, so she couldn't help but be a little arrogant. Originally, the regent had promised to go to her place to spend the night that night, but he gave up. This woman was probably a little unhappy, and she actually relied on his favor.
I was so proud that I went to the Prince Regent's study to act coquettishly.
But what this beauty never expected was that Prince Chen, who was usually gentle and doting to her, would get furious that night! In such a rage, he ordered the palace warriors to be summoned, and in front of the guards and palace attendants, he violently
He whipped this woman dozens of times and then ordered her to be thrown out of the palace!
At this moment, everyone knew: His Highness was in a very bad mood!!
And for the whole day that followed, His Royal Highness the Regent seemed to behave extremely strangely. He locked himself in the room and did not allow anyone to disturb him. Even his most trusted personal bodyguard was disturbed by the look on the Regent's face.
I was frightened by the deep murderous aura.
What the hell happened?
Another day passed, and the regent seemed to become more and more manic. His mood was extremely unstable. He even suddenly ran out of the room in the middle of the night, barefoot, and drove away the waiters and guards who were following him. He was alone.
I ran to the "White Tower" in the center of the palace.
Then, the ruler of the empire, who was considered to be the wisest young monarch in the empire for generations, frowned tightly, went barefoot, and wore light clothes, sitting in the cold night.
I sat alone on the cold ground under the White Tower all night!
All the guards were under his strict orders not to approach him and to stand at a distance.
The regent sat up all night until dawn. When the sun rose in the morning, Prince Chen, who looked extremely tired, finally calmed down. He stood up, walked under the white tower, stretched out his hand, and stood under the white tower.
Stroking the white marble on the wall of the tower back and forth, he suddenly whispered to himself: "Your great Majesty Aragon, you spent countless thousands of years building this white tower and leaving behind this powerful magic array. Could it be that
To prepare for today’s situation?”
Well, it's the ground, it must be.
At that time, the mainland had been unified. Under the leadership of the great His Majesty Aragorn, the Roland Empire's army was invincible. There was no existence on the mainland that could threaten the empire. Looking inside, there was no threat. In this case, Aragorn
But it happened to leave behind such a giant magic circle that cost the empire countless financial and manpower. Is it to defend against enemies from where?
Could it be that it is the north...
Thinking of the secret conversation between the Pope and himself, Prince Chen frowned.
If it were just a one-sided statement from the Pope, maybe Prince Chen might not believe it.
This is normal. How can you believe such a major thing just by talking about it? It’s like the Pope in the Vatican suddenly went to see the President of the United States and said: "God gave me a dream. I know that aliens are going to attack us in three years."
A large-scale invasion of the earth, now you should quickly order the whole country to prepare for war." If this is the case, people may think that the Pope is crazy.
Similarly, Prince Chen would not believe such a thing casually. But after all, thinking about the recent frozen forest, a large number of magical beasts suddenly rushed out. This has never happened in the empire for thousands of years.
Moreover, in addition to the words of the Pope, in fact, there is an iron law within the royal family of the Roland Empire that has been passed down from generation to generation! It is "Under no circumstances should the magic circle of the imperial capital be abandoned!!"
Each generation of emperors had to invest new financial resources to repair and even improve this magic circle. Even the most stupid emperor adhered to this iron law.
What's more important is that in the north of the continent, beyond the frozen forest, there are some exiled races... This legend is completely unknown to ordinary people on the Roland continent.
However, Prince Chen knows! In the royal family, there are naturally the most secret and precious documents handed down from ancient times. Although they are only vague records in a few words, when taken together, a vague guess can be drawn.
The Pope's visit to the temple also brought some ancient documents that had been preserved in the temple for who knows how many years. All of this reminded the young monarch: all of this is real, it really happened!
In the north of the continent, there is a group of ferocious enemies, much more powerful than the grassroots and the northwest army! And soon, they will go south and enter the empire!!
"At this moment, I rather hope that it is my brother who succeeds in the coup." Prince Chen stood under the rising sun, gently caressed the White Tower, and whispered: "What a heavy burden..."
And it was also after dawn that morning that the military sent an urgent military intelligence report, which was personally written by the commander of the Rostock Army of the Northern Storm Army.
