Power and Empire Chapter 2379: The Emperor’s Knife (18)
The cold pupils also reflected the dazzling brilliance of the banquet, Tirnarante, with a smile on his face, sent the last of the rich merchants from the Lisbon region to the gate of the government office and watched him walk up. The carriage, hesitated to speak, glanced at itself, closed the door, the wheels bulged, and gradually turned into a black spot in the dark
Behind Tirnarante, the lights in the Lisbon Too government affairs hall are brightly lit, in stark contrast to the dead silence outside. The reception banquet of the new government officials of Lisbon Too, the imperial maritime trade base camp, is naturally grand and luxurious. It comes from the Lisbon To government affairs office No matter how reluctant it is, Lisboa’s wealthy family dare not offend a district official with an unknown background, but definitely not an ordinary person. It’s just that at the banquet, no one mentioned the current situation. The embarrassment of Lisboa, even if someone wants to say, is stopped by the eyes of his companions,
"What do you want to do? The administrative officer has just arrived in Lisbon, what can be done even if he knows the situation? On the contrary, no district administrative officer has discovered that he has actually taken over a huge mess!" At the end of the banquet, I did not want Tirnarante to tell the situation of Lisboa. This is a performance that he has completely lost his confidence
"It seems that the situation is worse than expected!"
turned around and looked at the brightly lit government affairs hall. The smile on Tirnarante’s face turned into a cold frown in an instant. The emperor’s guess was correct. It was a 12 million gold ticket. Confused, the secret cooperation of the top ten southern business groups is not the most terrifying for Lisboa. The most terrifying thing is these black hands who colluded with the southern business group and secretly contributed to the fluctuations,
, as the base camp of the empire’s maritime trade, Lisboa has a superior geographical location and a central link between the north and south seas. The scenery is beautiful and charming. It is also the most prestigious resort on the entire continent, where 30% of the European continent gathers. Seventy-five percent of the business groups in the entire empire set up branches here, and the number of ships going to and from each day is counted in thousands, and the number of merchants has exceeded 50,000. There are one sea trade fleet of more than ten ships. Thousands seven hundred and thirty
That is to say, there are more than 17,000 ships in Lisboa by ship alone. How can so many merchants and so many fleets be squinted by the golden ticket at once? Even if you lose your judgment on danger due to the temptation in front of you, but the scope can only be a small number of people, how can the entire business group of Lisbon to be trapped?
To say that no one is secretly leading this undercurrent, Tirnarante doesn’t believe it, and the situation at the banquet tonight really shows this.
"Can you give me the list of chambers of commerce for the banquet tonight?" Tirnarante turned around, stopped at the entrance of the administrative hall, and reached out to the administrative staff responsible for registration at the entrance. It was time to close the net Up,
"Of course, my lord" The government official stood up quickly, not knowing what it meant to hand over the past list with both hands respectfully. For this new boss who is not yet clear about his background, the entire government office maintained Be cautious
I heard that I have had the experience of the administrative officer of the Salander region, but when I mentioned the position of the administrative officer of the maritime trade base in Lisbon, I was still a bit reluctant. Although there may be a certain background, I came here In such a situation, no one can do anything about it. No one knows the importance of Lisboa to the entire empire. It is the most important area of the emperor. It is really unlucky to encounter such a thing at once. Who said it was not, and finally got it. Such a fat and poor, **** has not covered the heat, immediately because of this financial volatility and get out!
Ignoring the weird gaze that fell on him in the entire government affairs hall, Tirnarante pretended to turn a few pages, densely written on a dozen pages, at least two or three hundred, and then handed it over. One of the three deputy hands waved to everyone
" Thank you very much for your efforts! I will take this list first. Anyway, I have just arrived. The other party gave me face, and I should pay a visit one by one. "Tirnarante is very gracious. The carriage has been arranged outside the hall, and the three deputies also followed the carriage.
the car door closed, and started to move forward after a slight shock
"Three of you, I want to take a break!" Tirnarante said to the three Supervision Department officers sitting across from him. He cast his eyes on the lifeless and dim yellow street lamp outside, and the three supervisors began to discuss in a low voice. According to their respective discoveries, they can have a panoramic view of the entire banquet situation without blind spots. The emperor allowed himself to hold the reception banquet without any scruples at such a stormy moment. The effect was surprisingly good.
It may be that tomorrow is the deadline, and these people’s disguise has also been reduced a lot, or they are afraid that this new administrative officer, who does not know the details, will intervene in a critical juncture regardless, and even use military power to stop it. There is always a group of people at the banquet, trying to stop those businessmen who want to complain to themselves,
Those people, Tirnarante didn’t know, but the three deputies sent to him by the emperor had been watching all this in the corner of the banquet with cold eyes,
Because the entire Lisboa business group cannot be trusted, and the business alliance system cannot guarantee that there are no internal problems, the three deputies are actually officers of the Imperial Supervision Department directly under the emperor, and they are still The emperor was temporarily transferred from the Congo North Army Corps,
The Lisboa Supervision Department has become an object of isolation in this matter. It is conceivable that the emperor’s inner anger, no one here knows them, and the merchants who attended the banquet only regarded the three deputies as their three deputies. People who come with them don’t put them in their eyes,
These three people also don’t know the businessmen of Lisboa, but they have a very good ability, that is, remembering each other’s looks, looking at the target with suspicion, and seeing the truth from the faces of different expressions. Really, this is the torture technique of the Ministry of Supervision, and one of them is a master of film and picture drawing, and then the lights outside the car window, after a brief exchange between the three, a few simple strokes have been placed on the table of the carriage. Up,
The lights of the street lamp kept dazzling from the window, and there was a gloomy cold on his solemn face. Regarding the situation in front of him, Tirnarante was more careful before arriving, but when he arrived in Lisbon , I know how my own caution is in the face of the huge predicament that is about to face, how powerless it is,
Very sad sir, the tragic figure who will soon be crushed by the rolling wheels of this torrent, everyone thinks that way, right? A wry smile appeared at the corner of Tirnarante’s mouth, and the carriage was gleaming in the dark, passing through a commercial street in the city,
Tirnarant opened the driving curtain by hand, and saw what the report said, the port direction is a large amount of fine iron, and the carriage beside the street is also fine iron, the original prosperous business The street was also occupied by countless fine irons. More than half of the shops in the city were closed. The copper facades of the shops were hung with signs of transfer. In the May wind that should have been very pleasant, the whole city was bleak. Loud, closed-door shops, listless pedestrians, groaning businessmen, drunk men screaming loudly on the side of the road, on the commercial streets of the city that never sleeps, there used to be carriages like running water in the past, and there are only two or three of them. It’s the kind that speeds by without nostalgia,
The rumored port of gold, the headquarters of the empire’s maritime trade, and Lisboa, which owns tens of thousands of re-registered merchant ships, was destroyed by invisible forces in just one month. It is simply war-level destructive power. Lisboa The situation is worse than the worst that I expected. The invincible empire on land, in this city, is full of sorrows and countless deaths and injuries
"I hope you understand that the reason why you are appointed as the administrative officer of Lisbon is not only because of your relationship with me, but also because you have nothing to do with all the forces in the imperial country, so you can truly stand in the perspective of an administrative officer. This endgame, this is where you are going to enter. It is not the most prosperous city in the empire, but a **** battlefield, both now and in the future! That is the battlefield!" The words of the emperor seemed to be echoing before getting off the car. , Tirnarante took a deep breath, and that His Majesty said that it was a battlefield that he stepped into, and it was a battlefield where his side was about to collapse! The tide is approaching, who can turn the tide?
The war between the Falcon Empire and the six southern countries, who started the war first, has always been an unpredictable matter in the history of Obaro, because of the fact that the Lisbon trust has caused the imperial navy and the southern Kingdom of Fazer to start. The armed conflict and the brutal shelling of the largest seaport city of Luansok by the Imperial Navy resulted in the destruction of the entire port and more than 3,000 casualties. Therefore, it was regarded as a landmark event of the declaration of war.
But if you move time forward for five days, you will see that in the Istan Empire in the eastern part of the Inner Sea, the army of the six southern countries has already started war against the imperial army. This is called the first financial war by later generations. In the confrontation between the North and South continents, few historians will focus on a small twin group that was completely destroyed because of the impact.
Double-headed Eagle Merchant Group
This name is just a short-lived embellishment in history. At this moment, it is the wind that affects the entire imperial navy.
The emperor’s order, the first moment of the war, is to find the double-headed eagle merchant group’s own fleet and give a fatal attack, so that the opponent will never have a chance to appear in Lisbon. The news of Luansok’s start has been passed to the navy. At the same time, an ongoing assessment in the Imperial Navy has come to an end
"According to the results of the two reconnaissances that were installed as merchant ships, plus the judgment of the direction of Shanghai, I think the target team’s position in the sea off Lisbon is at an angle of 75 degrees southeast of Lisbon. The distance is between 110 nautical miles and 150 nautical miles! This distance is also suitable for the other party to reach Lisbon in one day!" Stink, who was wearing the uniform of the Imperial Navy staff and without a title on his shoulder, looked on. I proudly drew a slash on the chart on the table with my hand, wrote my opinion, signed the name, and handed it to an imperial navy officer who was already waiting next.
"I heard that the fleet in the port has gone out, I don't know if it is true?"
Stinkson stretched out his body and asked indifferently. This is the final additional test content of the three project exams, and it is also the most difficult one. It is required to find out the target that is lurking outside Lisbon. It was sent yesterday as a basis for judgment, that is, an enchanting character like Stink. If you dare to take this extra point question, others just have nowhere to proceed. Fortunately, the previous exam items are basically completed. Even if there is no extra points, the overall impact will be small. There are many fronts in the room wearing imperial navy uniforms. The Admirals of the Strand Navy are reviewing the test papers for the last time and handing them to the person in charge of collecting the test papers
"It's true" the officer who collected the examination papers answered without shy, the whole hall suddenly became quiet,
"It's really that plan, right?"
Stink seems to have thought of something, his expression was shocked, he took a breath of air-conditioning, and asked with a slight change
The so-called plan was that when they were ordered to arrive at the Admiralty Department for reorganization and training half a month ago, the Admiralty proposed that in order to test the abilities of everyone, they decided to give the Strand Admiral a large and cooperative assessment. The content is to make an empire's suppression plan for the entire southern coastal area within five days.
Of course, this is just an assessment. Even the officers of the Strand Sea Nation do not think there will be a day of implementation. The suppression of the entire southern coast area, even the Imperial Navy, seems a bit arrogant. Different from land warfare~IndoMTL.com~The inland sea environment is complicated. Regarding the distribution of the sea environment, the undercurrents caused by the sea flow, and the tides under the change of seasons, it must be clear to the chest, and the number of warships invested is not this era. It may be possible. Although they defeated the imperial navy, these navalists who have been trained by the Strand Sea Power for decades and have been committed to the dominance of the inland waters also believe that this plan is impossible to achieve.
"If it cannot be achieved in reality, then it can be achieved in the plan. Your performance will determine which fleet you are assigned to and what position you will occupy!"
The response of the Imperial Navy Department made the Strand naval officers who were a little repulsive make a boiling sound,
is a matter of the future. Everyone has a twelve-point spirit, and each selected the southern coast area of the inner sea that they are most familiar with as the setting content,
Five days later, this super combat plan, which gathered the wisdom and energy of the entire Strand Navy, was placed on the table of the Imperial Navy Secretary Dustronkai.
With this plan as a foundation, the sea environment and climate change along the southern coast of the Inland Sea are clear at a glance, and even the replenishment points and reef areas in the southern coast are marked out one by one.
After passing through 37 first-line fleet staff from the Imperial Navy’s Combat Staff, they worked endlessly for three days and nights, and made modifications based on the combat characteristics of the various fleets of the Imperial Navy. The final battle plan formed was "The Emperor's Knife!" If you like this work, you are welcome to (,) to vote for a recommendation and a monthly pass. Your support is my greatest motivation. For mobile phone users, please go to m,, to read.) [To be continued] []