While Loranthir was discussing with the mages of Lurna, a round of questioning also began in the study of Tisiphone's family.
"Wick, was this your order?"
Adeley looked at his adopted brother and frowned slightly. The assassination incident in the past few days quickly spread throughout the city. After thinking about it, he thought that only the Tisiphone family, that is, his adopted brother
It can be done.
"Yes."
"Hey, when will it be your turn to help me make up my mind?"
"I just don't want you to be seduced by beauty."
"So, you can make decisions for me at will? And then throw the whole family into the fire? You are very talented, my brother."
He thought carefully about the word "brother". Wick was not a biological son of the Tisiphone family. He was just adopted by the old family master and raised by Tisiphone. Although his status in the family was not low, he was not a direct bloodline after all.
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Normally, he is fine and has good abilities. He often handles family affairs and has a group of subordinates of his own. However, this operation touched upon something that Adeley could not tolerate. It was not that he sent someone to assassinate Lacey, but that he was the one who assassinated Lacey.
He didn't tell him anything about it in advance.
A knife is a good knife in his hand, but if he has his own ideas and doesn't obey orders, the knife will have no value in existence.
If it weren't for the deep brotherhood over the years and Wick's true loyalty, Adeley would have had his family cleaned up long ago.
"Let me tell you again, I am the heir of the Tisiphone family. Any action must be approved by me, instead of just sending people to do it if you think it is okay. This will only bring great danger and conflict.
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"Understood, my brother." He emphasized the word 'brother' again.
"I don't want to see the day when we can't be brothers anymore." Adeley slammed his fingers on the solid wood desk, warned Wick, and then slammed the door and walked out.
Wick leaned on the back of the sofa chair, looking at the ceiling, covering his eyes with the back of his hand, and remained silent.
After Adeley left the study, he asked the attendant to bring the carriage out.
"Sorry, the agreement proposed by your country is too harsh and we cannot accept it."
Lorraine Hill put down the contract paper in his hand, and his light voice spread throughout the quiet hall.
"Why not? Don't you know how excellent this technology is? If you cooperate with us, you can at least ensure that your Carites family will be in the leading position in the shipbuilding industry within a hundred years."
"But that doesn't mean you can get 70% of the profits for nothing."
"But you are not the only chamber of commerce that can build ships, and we, Lurna, are the only ones with such advanced technology." Master Braunton didn't care about Lorraine Hill's rebuttal. He just felt that this business lady was inexperienced.
I haven't figured out the key to it.
"We, Kalites, pay for all the costs of raw materials, labor, facilities, etc. and manufacture them, and you assign a small number of people to provide technical guidance, and you will get 70% of the net profit, without taking any risks and taking the big share. It is unavoidable to think of such a thing
Isn’t it great?”
"Miss Lacey, please pay attention to your words. Now there are signs of another war in the Green Empire, and the seven Snow Flower Kingdoms must unite and work together to overcome the difficulties. Why are you still so greedy and obsessed with immediate interests, regardless of the overall situation of the century?
." A middle-aged male mage said.
"Once the Verdant Empire captures Lurna, Verga will have no chance of defending and will fall into the enemy's hands at any time. What's the use of having tens of millions of assets then?" Another mage next to him also started to support.
"If Cang Cui hadn't had the idea of starting a war now, you wouldn't have had access to Lurna's advanced technology and design concepts for twenty years. You should be lucky."
Lorraine Hill was extremely angry and laughed. How should I put it? It turns out that mages with no business acumen dare to say this during negotiations. How confident is this? How despicable do you think the other party is? You are so insulting and expect the other party to do it.
promise?
"Then I'm even more embarrassed to take advantage of you. You can look for whomever you like and see which chamber of commerce is so lucky to be favored by you."
She stood up, walked through the corridor between the seats and left the meeting hall. Hundreds of people from the Carites Chamber of Commerce also neatly left the venue behind the young lady.
Looking at the suddenly cold conference hall, Braunton's old face was a little uneasy. All the good feelings he had for Miss Carites were gone. How dare she do this? How could she leave the meeting directly like this? Isn't it just that she would make less money?
A little bit, to make yourself seem very noble. It is simply unreasonable. As expected, women are irrational animals no matter their age.
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Something unexpected happened. Lurna's delegation only stayed in Hoplaner for 2 days before leaving. They went to Green Water Port, which is the headquarters of the Dayas Chamber of Commerce and the place where Karite once worked with
It is a loser in the competition in the shipbuilding industry. Although its market share has decreased significantly, it still exists tenaciously.
Three days later, the Dayas Chamber of Commerce happily accepted Lurna's delegation, and then began to laugh at the Kalites family's short-sightedness and irrationality.
Lorraine Hill has no regrets at all. Although he has never seen the actual product, judging from the drawings introduced by Luerner, their so-called new technology is just a wooden ship replaced by an iron ship. However, he does not know that it is powered by sails.
After changing to propeller propulsion, the structure of the entire hull will be greatly changed.
Moreover, their design ideals were too conservative. The hull was only about 80 meters long, and the weapons it carried were still the cannons fixedly arranged on the sides of the past. There was nothing new.
If Lorraine Hill were to design it, the last battleship of the World War II, the Iowa class, would be 270 meters long, with a displacement of about 50,000 tons, and a single shot of the 406mm 50 times caliber main gun, which could stop a small boat like Luerna in its tracks.
Break into pieces.
Although the current craftsmanship in Ivar's world is not standard and precise enough, with the existence of extraordinary magical power, the power of explosions and shells will only be greater than in previous lives.
With the current technology, Lorraine Hill deduced that it would take one year at the earliest for Dayas to come up with a test ship, and it would be three years before there would be a mature design. And three years would be enough time for her to do too much.
It's a matter of fact, and besides, the country of mages doesn't just refer to Lurna, right?