Chapter 697

Nightingale manor, the study of the Lord's residence, Victor sat behind his desk reading sheepskin stationery from various channels, which was full of information about the wizard attack in shuitao town.

Although he now seems particularly focused, the beautiful and enchanting Marquis of Wimbledon knows that her husband has the ability to do many things. She sat opposite Victor, holding her snow-white cheeks in her hands, and said softly in an inviting tone: "honey, your bear group has done a great job in the development of ghost forest. I have helped a lot. I sent all the small mercenaries under the Wimbledon chamber of Commerce, and the bear group has the scale it has now."

Victor gave a faint "um" and continued to look at the sheepskin stationery in his hand.

Sophia clenched her silver teeth and said with a smile: "thousands of mercenaries of the bear group have been able to support themselves, and the income of the bear group has a considerable surplus. As far as I know, in the four months of the water season last year, the bear group scraped away all expenses and earned at least more than 1600 gold sols. HMM... guess how do I master the income of the bear group in these four months?"

"The resources obtained by the bear group in the ghost forest were purchased by the team of Wimbledon chamber of Commerce. I set a favorable shipping price for them. I'm supporting your bear group by reducing the profits of the business group... Hey, are you listening?"

Sophia was angry, stretched out her arm and tried to take the sheepskin stationery from Victor's hand.

The palm turned naturally to avoid the grip of the high-level female knight. There seemed to be an insurmountable barrier between Sophia's jade hand and sheepskin stationery, but Victor was indeed disturbed by his wife. He had to buckle the stationery on the desktop, raise his dark eyes, and say to Sophia, who was slightly angry and thin: "Dear Madam, what do you want to talk to me?"

Sophia swept all the sheepskin stationery on the table in front of her with her moist and crystal red lips, glanced at Victor proudly and charmingly, and said after considering it for a moment: "Dear, you set up the gold regiment, chose the remote and few people's trade routes, and gathered many wild people's cottages as the nodes for the transportation of private goods. Now, we have reached secret agreements with several border lords, including the bronze halberd city of the dekrian family, the Dengshi city of the dweimick family, the count leader of Dolly de Kaiser, the liushuang city of the branstet family... The north of the gold regiment The route to the East has been basically determined. I think your secret trade routes and wild people's cottages can be gradually abandoned. What do you think? "

As for the development strategy of the golden regiment, the main difference between victor and Sophia lies in the wild people's cottages he accepted earlier. Victor hopes that the golden regiment can continue to maintain these remote and secret business routes, but Sophia opposes it. She believes that these wild people's cottages are of no value to the development of the golden regiment and should be abandoned. The output resources of the cottage are still low by the local lords The purchase price and then flow into the market opened by the great Lord.

From the perspective of profit alone, Sophia's proposal is more in line with the actual needs of the gold regiment. Victor's hard-earned remote business roads and strongholds are now very weak. The main reason is that the freight volume is limited, the transportation cycle is too long, and it is difficult for the mountain people to collect and process materials and sell them for profit. It is even difficult to ensure the daily supply of the mountain stronghold. This is because after the mountain people subordinate to the gold regiment, they The number of people has increased greatly. It is certainly not enough to obtain food by hunting and gathering alone. Victor's smuggling caravan must find ways to transport more food for them.

In this way, nearly 100 smuggling caravans have been unable to make ends meet, all supported by the huge profits of coffee.

However, Victor has controlled about 150000 mountain people and built more than 30 secret training camps in the depths of the mountain forest. Every year, the smuggling caravan selects school-age young girls from the mountain stronghold and takes them into the training camp for Loyalty Education and martial arts training, which not only reduces the population pressure of the mountain stronghold, but also trains a group of elite, loyal and brave soldiers for victor.

The children in the training camp practice the secret method of blood source, take the strong medicine invented by master tofven, and send an average of 200 first-class blood source warriors and 50 second-class blood source warriors to the Randall family every year. Some people even have the opportunity to become third-class blood source warriors, that is, spiritual Warriors with the talent of life toughness.

Victor hoped that the golden regiment would continue to maintain secret smuggling routes and provide supplies for the stronghold and secret training camp, but he could not be honest with Sophia about the existence of the training camp. This armed force, including the stronghold, was in Victor's hands and distributed in all kingdoms. Once the matter was exposed, they would be surrounded and suppressed by local lords.

Sophia didn't know it and certainly couldn't agree to continue to maintain the business channel destined to lose money. If she knew the reason, who should this armed force be?

The gold regiment adopts the joint-stock system and has multiple partners. Sophia has the largest proportion of capital contribution, has the most perfect business channels, and even monopolizes the barbarian trade. Therefore, she controls the management right of the gold regiment. In contrast, the people and horses have only the right to pay dividends. Although Victor has practical influence on Sophia, he wants the gold regiment to pay for the army and monopolize the force It doesn't make sense to install strength from any angle.

The two sides have been unable to reach a consensus on this issue. Victor's coffee business, public carriage transportation system, preserves chains all over the main cities and black market terminals have not delivered to Sophia.

Sophia doesn't want to delay any longer. She must solve these problems with her husband today. She sincerely said: "Dear, you put forward the strategy of separating the shareholding system from the management right. I have made corresponding commitments to the joining lords of the golden mission to maintain the neutral operation of the golden mission and will never deliberately favor people and horses. Otherwise, they will terminate the cooperative relationship with the golden mission, and our previous efforts will be wasted."

"It is obviously inappropriate to continue to maintain those business routes whose cost is higher than the profit. Even if I force it, the Lords will have doubts and dissatisfaction, which will expose your mountain stronghold and smuggling caravan."

"Honey, I know that you have made great efforts to build your own business network, and your men have also established a close relationship with those mountain strongholds. However, you should know that the transaction volume of mountain goods between the mountain stronghold and the small Lord has become smaller, which has attracted the attention of the big family..."

Victor knocked on the table, interrupted Sophia's narration, smiled and said, "you're alarmist... Can't the smart Countess think that the small lords in remote areas are also the beneficiaries of the smuggling caravan. They have been helping us cover up... What's less for the big family?"

"The tight house needs to be repaired from time to time, but there will always be problems over time. Those small lords in the countryside have a growing appetite. How many benefits are you going to buy them?" Sophia went around the back of the table, sat on her husband's lap, put her arms around his neck and said intimately, "we don't have to deal with the little Lords. The Lord they serve will solve all the problems. This way has the lowest operating cost and the largest profit. I'll provide a plan. Do you think it's ok?"

"At the end of this year, the gold regiment will pay a dividend for the first time. Although the amount is not large, I am willing to give you a sum of money from the dividend belonging to the Marquis of Wimbledon to settle your smuggling Caravan and some mountain people. In the future, the money will be available every year, increasing or decreasing in a fixed proportion. I have only one request to remove unnecessary smuggling routes and strongholds from the gold regiment Peel it off. "

Sophia was determined to abolish the redundant personnel and additional expenses of the gold regiment. Victor didn't ask if he could, but said, "you're not going to take care of the stronghold and some smuggling routes? I'll continue to pay for it, and you won't ask?"

"Whatever you do, it has nothing to do with the golden group anyway." Sophia pecked Victor's lips and said with a smile: "however, I'll pay for you myself. Your coffee business and preserves business should be handed over to the golden group. If you are reluctant to give up the private goods channel you created, the golden group can receive your mountain goods business, but only limited to mountain goods... Other goods can only go through the golden group channel."

"Give me a good price?" Victor rubbed his wife's little hand and joked.

"Well thought!" Sophia snorted, outlined a smile on her mouth and said, "stripping is about to be stripped clean. I can't calculate the purchase price of mountain goods until I say."

Victor shrugged his shoulders and said, "well, the price of mountain goods will be as you say. Anyway, they are all picked up from the mountains and forests... How much extra bonus do you give me every year?"

Sophia put out a white and smooth finger, shook it in front of Victor's nose and said, "ten percent... Ten percent of the dividend of the Marquis of Wimbledon."

"... too few."

"A lot..." Sophia leaned over Victor's ear, spit out balm and said in a beautiful voice, "my money is not inherited by our children? Do you have the heart to rob money from your children?"

The beautiful Countess is coquettish and plays a role in Victor's. After all, the golden group is only a part of his overall layout. At present, there are more important things worth his attention.

The wizard attack in shuitao town has been heard by Victor. Although the Church tried to cover up the truth, it purified a wizard caught from nowhere in the church square in shuitao town and put the attack on his head. Victor used various channels to master some details, and then pieced together to restore the course of things.

Two of them have attracted Victor's attention.

The attacker killed dozens of clergy at that time, which is not to say how powerful the attacker's witchcraft is. In fact, the defect of witchcraft is seriously solidified, and the means of attack is relatively single. Even if the attacker's puppet can't be killed, as long as the clergy present scattered and fled, delaying time, and the wizard's energy is exhausted, so many people will not be killed or injured.

The response of paladins and cardinals was very bad. They chose to resist puppet witchcraft rather than avoid its edge. This is because the witches attack the church, and the priests must stick to it until the last line of defense collapses, and the survivors take refuge.

The time and place of the wizard's attack are very accurate. Who provided him with information?

Second, intelligence shows that the magic puppet has withstood the holy fire and evil attack, which shows that the caster has long responded. He not only understands the divine skills of priests and paladins, but also has the method to solve them.

How do wizards do this?

The devil is a good explanation. Victor believes that this matter is related to the devil, but it belongs to the non-material level. When it is reflected in the real world, there must be accomplices, or people who use the devil.

This is normal. Wizards who use the devil's nonsense to obtain knowledge and power have always existed. Like Emerson, he also expanded his witchcraft talent and reached the legendary level through the occasional nonsense. Those witches who can't hear the devil's nonsense are really talented. I'm afraid they can't even be a wizard apprentice in the era of God elect.

The church will trace this matter to the end. The problem is that the mastermind behind the attackers seems not afraid of the church.

Where does their confidence come from? What is their purpose?

Elizabeth's whereabouts are unknown, but there are two possibilities. She was killed or captured by some force. If she is alive, the golden blood is hard to hide. When she is promoted to the golden level, the legendary Knights will feel it, and the people who captured her will be exposed. If Elizabeth dies, the church will launch a great prophecy to find out the truth.

The mastermind hiding in the dark is not afraid of great prophecy?

Yes, they are not afraid, or they have the means to fight against great prophecy. Then this will be a very clear signal to the balelius family.

The referee purged the rebels in the shadow priest, but someone is telling the balelius family that we are still alive, we have the power to fight against the great prophecy, and we can still cooperate!

In connection with this inexplicable Orc war, Victor was a little convinced that the shadow priest could fight against the great prophecy, or to be exact, use it. Because the emergence of Centaur Khan is unusual, it is reasonable that the Sidon Centaur group will not appear two legendary centaurs in such a short time. The afterwave of great prophecy can do this, but whether there is human interference remains to be confirmed.

In any case, Victor had doubts, and the Barcelona family would have a similar idea.

According to orohija, the Pope once kept wizards. The Pantheon more than a thousand years ago is inextricably related to the shadow priest. The difference is that the Pantheon is controlled by the Pope and finally out of control; The shadow priests were created by the referee's office. They were in a hot relationship with the oldest Holy Mountain Monastery. The Holy Mountain Monastery is likely to master part of the inheritance of the chosen wizard.

There is a certain possibility that the wizard scholars fed by the church can study and improve the great prophecy for the Pope and the Pope.

In addition, father Miller was highly suspected, and Victor was convinced that the old man had intervened secretly. When it comes to prophecy and the devil, it's strange that he doesn't intervene.

However, Victor believes that Miller has no practical connection with the shadow priest. It is too simple for him to help the shadow priest get rid of the slavery of the referee. He will do so as long as necessary.

The God of the Lord of glory is too high, and the shadow priest himself is the most likely. The third suspect, Victor, is placed on the Pope. As for Pope Clement, I'm afraid he won't do so if he has the ability. The Holy See doesn't want to see the separation of the Sassanian empire. Naturally, it won't take Elizabeth away.

The Pope and nehtigal have a deep foundation. Even if the Pope is now in captivity, nehtigal also knows the secrets of church wizards very well. Moreover, nahtigal was unfathomable, and Victor could not grasp their minds.

In short, we must try to test nahtigal... Victor shook his head, turned his attention to Sophia and said: "Princess Elizabeth is missing and the Sassanian Empire must have trouble. Orokhia sent a message to me. She decided to go all out to try to restore the iron mountain. I understand the plight of the basselius family, but I don't think much of them... If the iron mountain Lord and the Sassanian Lord can ensure a stable supply of food to the Gambis Kingdom, how they fight has nothing to do with me. It's obviously impossible, In the face of political interests, any commitment is unreliable, and food supply will certainly be used as a political bargaining chip for both sides... I hope you can design two sets of food purchase agreements from the perspective of trade, one for the Barcelona family and the other for the Frederick family... I'll compare them and see the reactions of both sides before I can decide who to bet on. "

"I'll draft the plan as soon as possible..."

Just then, Natalia hurriedly broke into the study and hurriedly said to the count and Countess who were holding each other: "just received an unofficial news, Howard testier and the chief magistrate rushed to the sassanne imperial capital to propose to his highness orokhia!"

"What? Who are you talking about?" Victor stood up as if he hadn't heard him clearly and asked after him with gaping eyes.

Natalia, who was obviously younger and more beautiful, took a deep breath and said excitedly, "it is the chief of the shining knights who is ready to step down from his post in the church, give up the divine power of the paladin, take Frederick as his surname, ascend the throne of the Sassanian Empire, propose to the Duchess of orocia Barcelona, and make him the queen of the Empire!"

"This... This also..." Sophia was at a loss. She didn't know what to say. Finally, she commented: "this is too cruel!"

Natalia's face flushed with excitement and asked curiously, "will oroksia promise?"

"Ha ha, how can you promise? My cousin doesn't even want dignity. The Barcelona family can only admit defeat." Victor laughed and nodded: "it's good. Only when the blood wolf Castle continues to hold the imperial power of the Sassanian empire can our food purchase agreement be guaranteed..."

Sophia looked at Victor inexplicably and sighed: "how do you know that orohija will refuse? What if she agrees to the proposal and asks Howard to be prince of the iron mountain Empire? TESL, don't face, orohija will be afraid of him?"

"This... Ha, it turned out that Tesla would not agree. He was going to fight in person and have a formal showdown with the Lords of both sides to force everyone to stand in line." Victor smiled at himself, shook his head, turned his mouth slightly up, and said brightly, "in that case, send out our 'gifts' and invite judge trigowal to Nightingale manor for me to a private dinner."

"I have many questions to talk to him..."