Power and Empire Chapter 2380: The Emperor’s Knife (19)

Tirnarante’s carriage stopped in front of a courtyard. The courtyard was not big, but the scenery was excellent. It occupies the best position in this wealthy area. The May wind from the direction of the sea blows. Looking at the verdant ground, the green shade and the evergreen pine forest, it is more delicate and quiet,

A beautiful-looking maid in a white dress was already waiting, and when she saw the carriage stopped, she hurried forward

"Master Tirront?"

"It's me" Tirnarante stepped out of the carriage, and the three inspectors had put the organized portraits into the folder, and got out of the car immediately afterwards.

"Come with me, please!" the maid said to Tirnarante, leading the way in front, and four people followed and walked into the gate, through the corridor of the other courtyard, in a two-story pavilion. Before stopping, the maid reported to the people inside, and as the door opened, the light inside came out,

The thirteenth deacon of the business alliance Socutus Delan, sitting on a brown-red bench, dragged a delicate black dress to the ground, the cold face with a deep sense of surprise made Tirnarante He also felt his heartbeat quickened. For the woman behind the business alliance, he knew it when he was in the empire. Although he will be the administrative officer of Lisbonto, when it comes to real power, the woman in front of him should be stronger. As for the confidant, this is the emperor’s confidant,

"Ms. Delan, please forgive me if I take the liberty to interrupt," Tirnarante said in a salute

"Master Tirronte is a Vekia?" An accident flashed across Socutus's face. Tirnarante spoke a very authentic Vekia language instead of the current Obaro. Popular lingua franca

"I'm from County Tyre!" Tirnarante hesitated for a moment, and was not going to hide anything. As the emperor's confidant, her identity would be revealed one day. It is better to be frank. The emperor puts himself in this position, indicating that he has to cooperate with this woman to control Lisboa. After all, as the thirteenth deacon of the business alliance, there is still a big inconvenience, through the hands of his own administrative officer. Many things will be easier to handle,

"Tir? Tirront?" Sure enough, Socutus Delan raised her head in amazement, and after a slight shock, her expression became weird, as a Vecya. How can I not know that the emperor suffered a loss in Tyre at the beginning, it was one of the rare failures in the career of the military **** emperor that was not a failure,

"Can we start?" asked an inspector

"Of course, before I start, I can ask. Do I just need to recognize these people?"

Socutus Delan’s pretty face became serious, her white hands clasped together, and her knuckles turned pale due to the force. The Lisbonto incident was cited as the biggest failure of her life, especially when She learned that perhaps in this incident, imperial merchants colluded with the Southern Chamber of Commerce, secretly contributing to the flames. She already hates it, and if she can, she hopes to do it herself. But after learning that the people sent by the emperor were from the Ministry of Supervision, I had to admit that the Ministry of Supervision was indeed better able to handle such matters, at least torture. In interrogation of this type of professional work, the talents of the Supervision Department are professional households. It is undoubtedly the most convenient for the government to arrest these people as quickly as possible under various names. Everything has been set up in advance, all I have to do is to identify these pictures

"Yes, your majesty meant that!"

The highest-ranking inspector among the three nodded and said, "As long as Miss Delan recognizes it, your Majesty does not want such a thing to be related to Miss Delan, and does not want Miss Delan to appear in the merchant. Take this opportunity to eradicate dissident rumors. The reply from the business alliance requires Miss Delan. This kind of taint is absolutely impossible, so I hope that Miss can understand your majesty’s painstaking efforts!"

"Okay, I see, let's get started!"

There was a trace of tears flowing in Socutus Delan’s eyes. The emperor didn’t mean to blame himself for such a big crisis in Lisbon. Instead, he was still trying his best to defend himself. Such a man, his life is also worth it. , She picked up the picture handed over by the inspector, and had to admit that the inspector’s painter was very capable, almost just a few strokes to outline a character’s face,

A dozen pictures, in less than three minutes, Socutus Delan recognized them all without fail, and the situation made her eyebrows slightly frowned

"Miss Delan, is there anything weird?" Tirnarante asked curiously

"These merchants were without exception. A few years ago, they were the largest slave traders. They started their business by trafficking in slaves. Their relationship with the upper classes in the south is quite complicated!" Socutus Delan said coldly, "I doubt, this time Suddenly attacking Lisboa is not just a two-headed eagle merchant group. If I am not mistaken, there are six southern kings behind the Lisboa incident!"

"Thank you Miss Delan for your reminder, we will step up our inquiries!" The inspector collected all the pictures with a grim expression, wrote his name and gave it to his companion behind him, saying, "There is still a lot to do tonight. , Don’t bother Miss!"

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"Your Majesty, the time is up to one hour ago. The scheduled targets of Luansoc, Ritilla, Oriel, Ben Rust, and the four major southern ports have all heard the news of success!" When an officer of the Ministry of Supervision left, the fat man dropped the red pen in his hand on the chart in front of him.

Four eye-catching red crosses are reflected in the brightly lit candles. Under the red blood color are four weeping cities. They are also the four largest foreign seaports in the south. The empire has invested 30 million in funds, except for one Ten million in reserve funds, 15 million out of 20 million are all landed on the four major ports on the southern coast. As a cooperating Admiralty, the "Emperor's Knife" combat plan is mainly aimed at the military operations of the six southern countries. In fact, only the Ministry of Supervision knows that the emperor’s sword does not mean a single cut, but a single cut on the economic lifeline of the six countries. The four major ports are naturally the first to bear the brunt

This is also thanks to the excellent cooperation of the ten major business groups in the south. In order to force the closure of the small and medium business groups, the ten major business groups in the south not only united, but also activated their own forces, deliberately suppressed, closed all lending institutions, and blocked The port is driving down prices and creating panic. As a result, in just a few days, the four major southern port cities fell across the board, and merchants sold a large number of business alliance gold tickets.

What followed was that the port industry, which used to have a lot of money in the past, fell to a freezing point. In that environment, a large amount of capital from the empire took the opportunity to flood in, like a beast landing, and the greatest benefit of this financial volatility was incorporated into the bag in just one night, but less than two hours. Only the emperor knew what had happened. Sixty percent of the industries of the four major ports fell into the hands of the empire, and their value was inestimable. In normal times, the combined value of these industries exceeded 50 million gold coins. And this time, the empire only spent less than 5 million gold coins, and more than 35 million business alliance gold tickets were wiped out at an unimaginable low price.

You don’t need to think about the reaction in the south. The top ten business groups in the south are either alone or incomparable with the business alliance, but if the ten business groups join forces, they will never be under the business alliance

But it was a surprise attack. It is at the moment when the opponent thinks the winner is in hand, imaginable, in such a short time. In the face of such a huge fund flow cleaning, even the top ten business groups, apart from being able to watch the results that they have spent countless efforts on, and being pried away with a little finger easily by the other party, what else can they do? ?

"With almost the same roughness as robbing someone else’s home, he swept away 80% of the business alliance gold tickets in the southern six countries with no scruples. At the same time, he also took this opportunity to buy the small and medium-sized businesses in the six countries that were affected. The various industries of the regiment. Even the weak master will respond to the robbers! "This is the result that the fat man expects most. The other side’s sudden attack in the Istan Empire is nothing more than bullying that the main force of the empire is too far away from the Istan Empire. Then the economic problem will be dragged into the framework of the war. This is the Inland Sea and the home field of the Imperial Navy. The empire’s power has an absolute advantage, then we Let's talk at this negotiating table!

"Your Majesty, there was news from the search fleet, and the target found "The Secretary of the Navy Dusteren Kaixing opened the door and walked in,

"Then sink it." The fat man waved his hand indifferently

"The 12 million business alliance gold tickets..." Dusterenkai was shocked when he heard that, he hesitated and said, "The financial fluctuations in Lisboa are not due to these gold tickets. If If these golden tickets can be captured, the problem of Lisboa can be easily solved."

"In the large transactions of the Commercial Union Gold Tickets, the codes are all recorded, and that batch of gold tickets was registered on the Commercial Union notice a month ago. "The fat man knew that his Secretary of the Navy was thinking What? I sneered. "This is also a necessary means to protect the holders of the golden tickets, so leaving these golden tickets will only be evidence that we have attacked the double-headed eagle merchants, although the empire is doing its best to attack the double-headed eagle merchants. The regiment is not afraid of being identified by others, but you have to know that most of the gold tickets are from other business groups. Do you want the empire to be returned! Since you can’t get it, it’s better to sink with the ship."

"In that case, what about Lisboa's problem?" Dusterenkai asked hesitantly. He still doesn't know how bleak the once glorious business alliance gold ticket has fallen on the southern coast. Two million business alliance gold tickets, I'm afraid that even five hundred thousand gold coins are not worth even on the market, let alone know that his lord is sitting here calmly, in fact, he has grabbed more than five thousand in the four major ports in the south. Ten thousand business alliance gold tickets, as well as a large number of inestimable industries, because the number is too large, so the specific value cannot be estimated in a short time.

The fat man smiled coldly at the corner of his mouth, looked out the window, and said categorically, "As long as the two-headed eagle business group cannot arrive in Lisbon as scheduled, the responsibility for the breach lies with the other party. Even if this transaction is over, it will be the business The alliance came forward and purchased the fine iron in the hands of the merchants at a fair price. Although there will be a certain loss for the business group in Lisbon, but it will not be too large. The business alliance can also establish a new prestige and prove that it has enough to quell such fluctuations. Strength, it won’t take long for Lisbon to prosper again"

"That's it, I understand!"

Dusterenkai nodded suddenly. He is a soldier and doesn't know anything about business, but he knows one thing. That is the fine iron piled up in Lisbon at present, although it is not a valuable item. But in this era, it can be regarded as a kind of hard currency. That country does not need to forge weapons. Commercial alliances will buy them at par and sell them to the military, or sell them to other countries, and they will not lose money.

"Now that the news is coming back, how many ports have the conflict erupted?" The fat man turned around from the window, walked to the wine cabinet, poured himself a glass of red wine, and put it in the nose, which should have been a bustling city that never sleeps. , Now there are only a few lights, and the lights of the government office in the center of the city are undoubtedly the brightest. Tonight, there will be all the businessmen of Lisbon together. Naturally, the guys who colluded with the southern business group should also be there. Among them, none of the people who were fanning the flames in the dark to promote this crisis can't escape. This time, I didn't even use Lisboa's Supervision Department, but directly mobilized the unfamiliar Ministry of Supervision in the North of Congo. System. At this moment, Socutus Delan should have been recognizing the images of those people. The 3,000 troops transferred from Gangfei North have also entered the city at this moment.

"Currently, there are six ports that have sent back news, two of which have used fleets, Luansok has already suffered casualties" Dustellenkai answered truthfully

"Luansock?" The fat man turned his gaze to the map~IndoMTL.com~ to find the target, he grinned slightly, Faze’s largest export port, it was really good enough. He was used gold coins in front of him. Smash it. Now conflicts are breaking out. I am afraid that prices in these areas will continue to fall for a long time. It is the best time to start.

To formulate such a huge plan was originally quite a painstaking task, and the scope involved was the ocean that he was not familiar with. As the highest strategist of the empire’s strategy, the ocean in Fatty’s eyes was actually a piece of energy. The waters for expanding the influence of the empire are densely packed commercial ports, a golden route that brings countless wealth, and an engine that promotes the development of the empire.

The situation in front of us is like a general battle. Although the empire is based on the six southern countries as the scope of combat, when the teams rank up, what really tilts the battle situation in the end is actually that one or two points. The strength of the confrontation,

It’s not uncommon on the battlefield to make a breakthrough that leads to a complete loss.

Luansok, this is undoubtedly such a breakthrough point. The opponent is already defeated. It is not bad to kill him fiercely all over the field. The fat man drank a glass of red wine in his hand and spit out a breath of heat. (To be continued )