Power and Empire Chapter 2181: Mainland Public Enemy (9)
A villa with a unique view on the outskirts of Lisbon. The villa is not big, but the view is excellent. It occupies the best position in this wealthy area and faces the sea. Even in the early winter season, you can still see the villa Senichi The large verdant grounds, shady greens, and evergreen pine forests, set against the gray and white of winter and autumn in the surrounding courtyards, are more exquisite and secluded.
Although the Pu Tau area has been a large number of merchants since the empire opened the Inland Sea, Pu Tau's position as the center of transfer between the inland sea and the open sea has become more and more obvious. Entering the Inland Sea, where the three major ocean trades converge, the major chambers of commerce in the empire have moved here one after another. Rumors of local merchants and nobles investing in ocean trade and getting rich overnight are everywhere, but they can spend up to 100,000 gold a year. There is only this one just to maintain a piece of evergreen lawn, at No. 66, Empire Avenue, a wealthy and wealthy district.
The owner of this house is very mysterious. It is said to be a high-level property of the Empire Business Alliance. You can often see a gorgeous woman in a black dress appearing in the villa. Nearby merchants are speculating that this woman should be similar The status of a lover with a big man should be a canary raised by a big businessman! ,
Guessing voices from the neighborhood will often be heard in the ears of Socutus, the thirteenth deacon of the business alliance who lives here in seclusion. Socutus is noncommittal about these rumors, but in order to reduce interruption , I still greeted the Imperial Supervision Department, hoping to clean up the undesirable people nearby. The actions of the Imperial Supervision Department have always been shocking. Knowing the identity of the owner of this villa, the person in charge of the Lisbon Too Supervision Department personally ordered the entire All the rich people in the area, please go for tea. Of course, it was to investigate smuggling in name. This trick made the surrounding merchants dump their properties. The Ministry of Supervision took the opportunity to buy all the eight villas around No. 66 Imperial Avenue.
Give the name post in your hand to the servant at the door. After two inspections, Herrel met the thirteenth deacon of the Business Alliance, Socutus Delan. In the bright and spacious office, Socutus Delan sitting on the brown-red bench was dragged by a delicate black dress. On the ground, the cold face with a deep sense of astonishment made Horelle also feel his heartbeat speed up, and quickly lowered his head. Almost even the most basic greetings were omitted, and he put the report in his hand on the table and said eagerly, "Miss Delan, please forgive me if you take the liberty to interrupt. It is really a very tricky thing that I just got. No one except Miss Delan. I can help"
"Deacon Horelle joked. Since it's a business alliance business, it is naturally Delan's business. I can't talk about helping. It's good to be called due diligence." The white hand picked it up and placed it on the table. In the report, Socutus Delan smiled, and Horelle, as the deacon of the business alliance ocean trade, can definitely rank among the top three in the position of the twelve deacons. He is the real power figure among the senior leaders of the business alliance. When she was in Salander, Socutudan had beaten this figure with the tiger skin of His Majesty Falcon. Since then, in the deacon’s meeting, Horelle is a determined user as long as it is Socutus Delan’s decision. For his own people, Socutus Delan will naturally not show up for business. face.
It's just that this time things really made her feel tricky, and she glanced over the contents of the report. The beautiful eyebrows furrowed tightly, just thinking a little bit. She knew what Horelle was here to do. This thing really only has the ability to do this. According to Horelle’s identity, she can actually submit this report to the Imperial Admiralty, but in terms of strength, it’s far inferior. Your thirteen deacon, you must know that your Majesty the Falcon Emperor is standing behind him, even if it is the Imperial Admiral Dusterenkai, he must be cautious in front of him, but Socus Stelan is very clear. That is, although I have the power to mobilize the military, when the empire and Feshan are on the verge of a war, arbitrarily mobilizing the imperial navy to provoke an empire may not necessarily be what His Majesty Falcon hopes to see.
"I’m afraid it’s difficult for the Imperial Navy to intervene. As you know, the main force of the Imperial Navy is currently assembled in the southern part of Feshan, where his Majesty personally commanded it." Socutus Dailan took a deep breath and said that he might There is nothing that can be done, unless the war is over, the imperial navy may go south to Erot
"This is a bit of a hassle!" Horelle had already thought of the result when he came, but his face still showed a little sadness, saying, "The fire in Port Kello has caused heavy losses to the imperial merchants. If you can't The imperial merchant’s losses are second to the hard-line intervention. On the contrary, other southern inland countries see the imperial merchants as weak and can be deceived. Then they will adopt all kinds of clever and plundering methods like Eero. It is definitely a disaster for the imperial merchants. The empire’s highly anticipated strategy of opening the inland waters will also be stagnant due to this incident, and it may even go backwards, which is hard to say. That’s why I have this idea. If the Imperial Navy cannot be dispatched, then I have another proposal, which is Some..." Herrel's voice stopped, and now hesitated a bit
"Talk about it, it's not necessarily implemented!"
Socutus Delan looked around and waved to him. According to Socutus Delan’s dexterity, how he didn’t know that Horelle had found herself, but he didn’t come to solicit the opinions of the thirteenth Deacon. What the other party really wants to do is to pass a message to His Majesty Falcon through himself. Horelle is fifty-seven years old this year, and his face is not good-looking. On the contrary, he looks a little wretched because of his half-bald hair. He has a son. Sarand was also severely taught by His Majesty Falcon, but even so, His Majesty Falcon did not deprive him of the position of deacon of the business alliance. The main reason is that Horelle's ability is very good, and he can always keep up. The pace of the empire’s expansion, and a broad mind, otherwise the empire sea trade will be able to present a prosperous era in a few short years, rather than a monopoly era.
"If possible, I hope that the young lady can forward this to His Majesty the Emperor as soon as possible"
Horelle took out a letter from his arms and handed it respectfully to Socutus Delan. He knew that looking at the entire south of Gangnam, don’t look at many important imperial officials, but except for the Governor of Varisian, That is to say, the woman in front of me was able to reach the emperor directly. Because of a little nervousness, Horelle's hand holding the secret letter was a little trembling,
This time, he is preparing for a gambling. In terms of family wealth, his Horelle family has reached its peak. Even if it will continue to increase in the future, there will not be too breakthrough development. Business giants can often have Those who have been maintained for more than a hundred years, the true kind of aristocratic family who has passed on for hundreds of years, need to rely on the big tree of the power to survive the wind and rain, otherwise, as long as a disturbance will be uprooted,
Horelle, who has achieved the culmination as a businessman, is the person who admires most in his heart, that is, Lidarcus, who is also from the great merchant family but has already ascended to the position of the governor of the empire
Even in the business community of the empire, it is recognized that the Lidarcus Governor’s vision is fierce, and he saw at a glance that the Emperor, who was only a small lord of Samor at the time, has unlimited potential and not only made Lida’s family eventually an empire. The largest military industry tycoon, as a civilian, has reached the high position of the governor that no empire generals can reach.
This time, Horelle is also ready to take a big bet. The main force of the Imperial Navy is indeed difficult to mobilize, but since the opening of the Inland Sea, the Empire has encouraged the formation of armed caravans. These armed merchant fleets are equipped with weapons and The regular imperial navy is incomparable. Most of the weapons were eliminated during the civil war. However, the navy is still capable of fighting against some weaker regions. Even some pirates were almost killed. The most important thing is Yes, according to the registration of the Empire Business Alliance, the number of armed merchant ships owned by the Empire exceeded the 5,000 mark last month. What is this concept?
In other words, based on the minimum configuration of 50 people on each armed merchant ship, that is also an appalling 250,000 people and 250,000 armed sailors. Looking at the inland sea, which country can get it! The Imperial Merchant Fleet has such a strong force, even if only one-fifth of the armed fleet enters the Eero Sea, even if there is no strong intervention from the Imperial Navy, the Eero Empire can still be eaten.
This is a war between the empire business alliance and the local chamber of commerce in Eero. The businessmen of the empire are being bullied by the hostile chamber of commerce, and the chamber of commerce who is helpless and helpless will not come forward if they encounter the same thing. With this kind of righteousness, coupled with the appeal of the business alliance and the mutual support agreement between the chambers of commerce, Horelle believes that mobilizing an armed merchant fleet of two to three thousand ships is not a problem. After all, the face of controlling maritime trade for several years is still worthwhile. A few dollars, what really needs to be considered is the attitude of His Majesty Falcon. As long as His Majesty allows the Imperial Navy not to interfere, then this storm blown by the Imperial merchants will inevitably make the southern coast of Obaro tremble~IndoMTL.com ~I have long heard that His Majesty the Emperor intends to let the armed fleet seize the area, and then establish the colony of the empire. If this is the case, as long as it is done properly, it is still possible to get a colony governor by himself
Hereil did not know the secret letter he submitted. It was called "Hereller's ambition" in later generations, which was considered by historians to be the turning point of the Falcon Empire's ocean expansion strategy from point to surface.
"Horrel's ambitions make the ocean truly connect with the empire's territory."If the Falcon Empire’s marine strategy was mainly based on military expansion based on maritime hegemony in the early stage, after Horele’s ambitions, the empire’s oceans The focus of the strategy shifted from maritime hegemony to colonial hegemony, which led to the origin of the Falcon Empire as the "mainland public enemy". The three-hundred-year history of the expansion of the Falcon Empire began with the first overseas colony of Kailo and ended with the last tile. At the end of the ancient tower island chain, the control area of the Falcon Empire's overseas territory is three times that of its homeland control area, and the starting point of the embryonic ocean empire is Horelle's ambition!
The letter from Socutus Delan was delivered to the emperor’s table on the fourth day. Looking at this secret letter full of naked expansionism, the fat man had the urge to burst into tears. Sure enough, the ultimate form of maritime hegemony is colonial hegemony. I was still considering that such a requirement would only appear 20 to 30 years after the empire opened its inner seas. I didn’t expect it to be only a few years ago. Such hegemony has already It is on paper, (to be continued)