Realm of Power

"I heard that one of your regular customers is a Duke!" Watching the fat man enter the room, Dustronlenkai turned around with a trace of curiosity on his face.

"Guest, you are really well-informed!" Upon hearing Dostelenko's question, the middle-aged woman's face immediately filled with smiles. Dostelenko was also born into a noble family, and he was also ridiculous for a while. Later, he joined the army and rarely visited these places of fireworks. , but it does not mean that they do not know the characteristics of these places. Many people will think that it will be difficult to find a duke in the attic area. In fact, it is wrong to think so. Not only is it not difficult, it is even extremely simple. You only need to ask If you speak, you will be able to get the answers you need.

Red light district owners will try their best to boast that their stores have enough distinguished customers to stop by.

And a Duke who truly owns a principality like the Duke of Putau is as dazzling as the sun. Even if the red light district owner loses money, he will try his best to retain such a customer, regardless of whether the customer is from the Falcon Empire or not. , at least this is a person who truly owns soil People with land, strength and the highest title are enough to dwarf other lofts. It is like an invisible competition. The lofts are not much worse than the swords and swords on the surface. In the red light district, only the most A good loft can attract the most distinguished people!

With such a duke as a guest, Dostelenko only showed curious interest. The middle-aged woman leading the way pointed to a room on the third floor without hesitation, "That is the room of the distinguished duke. The room with the sheep's head decoration on the door is the most gorgeous decoration, which will definitely make the Duke feel at home."

As if she was afraid that Dostronkai wouldn't understand, the middle-aged woman even emphasized her tone and said, "This is a Duke who truly owns a principality and land. He is not an empty shell like those in the empire who only have titles left! It's just that his personality is a little weird. , spend money like water, but she is particularly fascinated by a woman named Aviva here. This woman named Aviva can only be regarded as average in appearance." The middle-aged woman's voice stopped, and she curled her lips with some dissatisfaction and said, " On the arrival of this eccentric duke Before, even most of the guests didn't know her. She was just a third-rate person who served tea and water. She was from Salander. She had a child before, but she died of illness. It was probably because she was from Salander. I deliberately attracted the Duke who had never been to Salander. As you know, Salander people are always more romantic and affectionate. And the war caused many Salander nobles to suffer. Who dares to say that this woman is not the best. He will be a descendant of a certain Salander noble! "

"Do you also know about that war?" Dostelenko looked at the middle-aged woman with a sad face. He really didn't expect that a madam from the attic would say this.

"I was one of the first immigrants to arrive on the northwest coast two years ago! The middle-aged woman straightened her face. She said with a rare seriousness, "Although I didn't see the war with my own eyes, I heard about it. Some, the Avengers from Salander slaughtered millions of Normans, but not for the women of Salander who were plundered because of the war. But they also adopted brutal isolation methods and allowed these women who had shamed the Salanders to fend for themselves. He is really a coward who is worse than the Normans, but our Falcon Majesty is still very humane.”

"These women are just victims of war. It is really stupid to punish the women of your own nation because of your own incompetence! I will always remember these words in the anti-killing order issued by His Majesty Falcon! Only then did I finally save I saw these poor people caught between Salander and Normandy. Obviously, this woman named Aviva is one of them. Although she never mentioned her past identity and experience, at least when I met her, You can still see the rumored petal symbol of the noblewoman Salander!”

The middle-aged woman's face was shining with admiration. She had no idea that she had just recommended a masseur to the person she admired most. The masseur didn't look very good, but she was only nineteen years old and had smooth fingers. Long, tall figure, and the massage techniques are quite good, middle-aged women are not that She is a woman who doesn't know how to fish. She knows that in order for a man to be full of desire, he first needs to fully relax. And the masseur she paid a lot of money to poach from other lofts. After receiving special training since she was a child, she can definitely know When to make a man relax and when to make a man nervous

"That Aviva must be in the room now!"

Dostelenko continued to ask, raising his eyebrows. He did not pay attention to the middle-aged woman's compliment to the Duke of Putao. In the empire, the title of Duke has lost its original brilliance. Since the unification of the empire, The war, with its devastating momentum, wiped out the Ikadiva continent in one fell swoop. For most of the Ikadiva people, the original aristocratic elites have been divided by the businessmen and military classes, and few people still use the obviously aristocratic title of Duke, while in Dustrunke In the eyes of such an important minister of the empire, the Duke of a small principality is really not enough!

"No way, you are also interested in Aviva?" A trace of surprise flashed across the middle-aged woman's face, and she obviously misunderstood his idea. She looked up and down at Dostelenko strangely, which seemed to mean something like He's talking about a very handsome young man, why is he so good at this? It's obvious , she thought of Dostelenko as the kind of young man who would find it extremely exciting to play with the mistress of a real foreign duke. There are many such people in the strange red light district, but they have more perverted characteristics. Middle-aged women have also seen people with hobbies,

She smiled and said, "Young man, Aviva is not in the Duke's room now. Although the Duke spends the night here, he never leaves women in the room. He will leave after that kind of thing, but Aviva cannot receive guests now, Because the guests haven’t left yet, this is the rule. If you are interested, you can come during the day and I can help you arrange it, but you must pay a deposit in cash. After all, there are many people waiting to see Aviva! "

"So the Duke is the only one in the room now?"

Dustelenko had no intention of correcting this. He just breathed a sigh of relief at the moment.

It seems that this Duke of Putao is quite interesting. Not only must he be able to hide from the sight of Gang Fei, but he must also wait hard for an olive branch from the Falcon Empire. It is estimated that people in this gap are also quite difficult, and they even do not hesitate to demean themselves and come up with such a way to look depressed. Such people may really have something worthy of the empire's investment.

According to the information sent back by Salon. The Principality of Putao is at most one-third the size of the southwest, but its geographical location is good. It is less than 200 miles away from the Kyoto of the Gangfei Empire. If the empire wants to open up the bottleneck of commerce and trade that has been stagnant for half a year, it wants to completely open up the Gangfei Empire. The vast market in the empire's economic circle and the advantage of the Principality of Putau in the core area of ​​the Congolese coast are enough for the empire to consider such an investment. Common sets can become a support point for imperial merchants to squeeze into the Congo-Africa economic circle, allowing the empire's commercial network to penetrate into Congo-Africa, a place that is not much smaller than the imperial market, without any hindrance.

For Salon's suggestion, Dostelenko was not only appreciative but also a little surprised. This butcher was always used to killing people. The commander of the imperial army with a fierce and cruel style, unexpectedly began to think about more far-reaching things immediately after serving as the governor of the southwest. This feeling was like a butcher. But the most important thing is that it is as weird as the terms used when people are keen to discuss Fanli poetry. The butcher's poems suddenly made even the most knowledgeable scholars become cautious.

"Your Majesty, can I come in?" Dostelenko came to the door of the Duke's room and knocked on the door with his hand. There was a sound of stirring inside. It seemed that the Duke of Putau was not sleeping inside either.

"Who is it?" A slightly hoarse voice came from inside

"I am a servant, and my master has a little business to discuss with the Duke!" Dostronkai replied

"Servant?" The door was opened from the inside, revealing the face of a somewhat pale middle-aged man. He looked up and down at Dostelenko, who had a natural look on his face. A trace of surprise flashed in his eyes, as if who could be like this? The calm servant was surprised, opened the door and said

"Come in. Your Excellency's temperament is not that of a servant. If I must say it, more like a noble. In such an area, it is really surprising to see someone like you!"

"The Duke is really joking. In our Falcon Empire, noble is not a compliment!"

Dostelenko smiled and walked into the room. Although this middle-aged man was much thinner than the person in the portrait sent back by Salon, he was still 78% similar. Out of caution, Dostelenko He did not directly identify himself, but sat down opposite Duke Putao.

"Your Excellency, the Duke has not rested so late!"

Dostelenko looked around. The room was indeed gorgeous. There was a fire burning in the six-meter-high arched relief fireplace, and the warm firelight flickered in the empty room. Through the tall windows, you can see the black sky outside, reflecting several golden squares on the snow-white walls. A whole piece of Casmal cashmere carpet with red background and white stripes covers the entire room.

At the other end of the carpet, a middle-aged man was taking down a bottle of red wine from a wine cabinet and walking over with two glasses.

"I'm really not used to the weather here. Maybe it's because it's closer to the north. It always makes people reluctant to leave the warm fireplace, which makes you laugh!" The middle-aged man put the cup on the table between the two of them and slowly Pour the wine inside and ask casually, "You just said you had a small deal, I don't know what it is!"

"Actually, it's nothing. My master has a piece of land in the northwest. I wonder if the Duke is interested!" Dostelenko stretched out the finger with the ruby ​​ring in a casual manner, picked up the wine glass in front of him, and sipped gently. Taking a sip, the red luster stunned the middle-aged man who was about to pick up the wine glass.

"Northwest?" The middle-aged man's eyes immediately became hot, and he asked almost impatiently, "What is the land you are talking about? If it is good enough, as long as I can pay for it, I will not hesitate at all, but now." .

Thinking of his precarious situation, the middle-aged man showed a trace of hesitation and pain on his face, and said bluntly, "My position is in danger. If you want that land, you must be able to guarantee my position!"

"For my master, the Duke's request is nothing! However, any transaction requires sincerity. Even if it is help, we still need to know whether you are qualified or not!" Dustelenko said at the corner of his mouth He stood up with a smile, pretended to be careless and took off the ruby ​​ring on his finger, threw it into the wine glass, and placed it carefully on the table. "My master said that the Duke will know what to do!"

"It seems. This will be the case after all!"

Duke Putao looked at the wine glass in a daze. The wine in the glass was mixed with rubies. It looked even redder like blood. Until Dostelenko left, Duke Putau hesitated for more than ten minutes before he stood up solemnly. He looked at the black sky outside the window and smiled bitterly, seeming to have made some determination.

"Come here. Find my coachman! I need to leave for something urgent. He should be in the attic next door." Duke Putau walked to the door and shouted to the servants outside.

"As you command, Your Excellency the Duke!" A servant left quickly. Ten minutes later, the Duke's coachman, who looked sleepy, came in cursing.

He was indeed in the attic next door. The mission given to him by Gang Fei Ren was to closely monitor the Duke's every move in the Falcon Empire, but he spent more than ten days in a row in a red light district full of women, and the Duke always stayed out all night, in the cold winter. Here, the coachman finally relaxed his constant surveillance. The most indispensable thing here is a comfortable place. Anyway, there is a pretty good attic next door. He really doesn't even have the most basic fear of this master who will be imprisoned immediately when he returns home.

"Your Majesty the Duke!" the coachman shouted several times at the door. But there was no echo inside

"What are you doing? They are all going to die. You are still putting on airs like this!" The coachman snorted in dissatisfaction and pushed the door. The door was slightly pushed open a crack. The coachman was stunned for a moment. He suddenly became pale, that guy couldn't run away, right? With these thoughts, Che The husband pushed open the door without hesitation. The sight in front of him stunned him for a moment. The Duke was sitting on the sofa in the room neatly dressed. With a rare calm look on his face, he glanced at the coachman who rushed in and said calmly: " Liluo, I haven’t run away yet. Speaking of which, you’ve been with me for three years!”

"The young one is just afraid that something might happen to the adults, so..." The coachman was at a loss and stood there blankly, not knowing how to answer. The Duke's calmness gave him a strange feeling, as if his All the secrets were exposed to the Duke's indifferent gaze. This feeling made his body tremble slightly.

"Don't worry, you won't die, at least not yet!"

The Duke sneered at the corner of his mouth, stretched out his hand to his coachman, and made a gesture of asking him to sit down, "Sit down, you have followed me as an angry Duke for several years, and you have also suffered a lot. I remember your first My second son is about to be born, and the delivery date is next week!”

"Yes, my lord!"

The coachman looked embarrassed and did not dare to sit down. Hearing the Duke's talk, he couldn't help but feel a flash of hesitation in his heart. Three years ago, he was just a wanderer on the street. It was the Duke who felt pity for him and let him take the post. Although the coachman was also looked down upon, at least he followed The duke later had no problem with food and clothing. He married a wife and had children. He became numb from the initial touch. I don't know when everything changed. Or, on the day when the other party came to the door with a gambling debt IOU to press for debt, he put the dagger in his hand. It probably started from the day when I held my own neck,

His master has been replaced by Gang Fei!

"Can you tell me, how many eyes have you placed beside me?" Duke Putau looked at the ugly-faced coachman, picked up the wine glass on the table, and didn't care at all that there was a red gem in it. After taking a sip, a touch of coldness melted in his lips and went down his throat, making him cough slightly in discomfort, but this feeling made his fingers holding the wine glass make a gurgling sound.

"I...I don't know what you mean!" The coachman trembled and his face turned ashen.

"Lilo, there is nothing to feel guilty about. Before you, my servant, my mistress, and my captain of the guard were all just like you!" Duke Putao smiled bitterly, took a deep breath, and stood up from his seat. He stood up with a ferocious look on his face, "Since I returned to the principality, From that moment on, people in Gangfei knew exactly what I was doing. The reason why they pretended not to know anything was because they knew that I would always be under their sight. As long as I was in Gangfei's circle of influence, There won't be anything. . . .

"So, please forgive me!" Duke Putao suddenly turned over his sleeve, revealing a sharp dagger.

"Sir, what are you doing?" The coachman was completely stunned. At this moment, the biting cold light of the dagger shone on his pale face. With a bit of determination and ruthlessness, the Duke of Putao suddenly shook his head. The dagger pierced his ribs, and the severe pain even caused him to suffocate briefly. His two eyeballs even bulged out. He almost exhausted all his strength and breathed out loudly.

Grand Duke Putau let go of the handle of the dagger with his blood-covered hand, and red foam emerged from the corner of his mouth. He suddenly pointed at the coachman who had no idea what was going on, and shouted with a ferocious face, "Come here, catch the assassin!" Then he was filled with laughter. He ran out of the gate covered in blood, squealing all the way, and his shrill shouts immediately attracted a lot of people.

"What's wrong?"

"The Duke was assassinated! I heard it was the Duke's coachman who did it."

Soon, the regional security team arrived within ten minutes. What they saw was Duke Putao lying in a pool of blood and a completely stunned "killer!"

"This time we are in big trouble!" The sheriff shuddered at the sight in front of him, his face looked so ugly that he wanted to die. Duke Putao was too famous in this red-light district, and everyone knew that the duke came to the Falcon Empire to perform foreign affairs. In other words, a foreign affairs official from another country was assassinated in his own jurisdiction. Such a fact will definitely be reported to His Majesty the Falcon.

"Come on, protect the scene immediately and arrest this daring guy!" The sheriff pointed at the coachman, and the soldiers rushed forward. This is not a good time. It was a sloppy time, no one noticed that in another room of the attic, a young man with a feminine appearance was calmly watching this scene.

"This Duke of Putao is really cruel to himself!"

Dustrenkai took a deep breath, his face calm. The sincerity that the Falcon Empire wanted was very simple, that is, the Grand Duke of Putao must direct and act out a play of being assassinated. After all, this assassination took place in the territory of the Falcon Empire. According to the principle of maximizing interests, it is easy to point the mastermind behind the assassination to the Principality of Putao.

Someone actually assassinated a special envoy of another country in the empire. His Majesty the Falcon was furious. The Empire was able to formally intervene in the chaos of the Principality of Putao in the name of investigation under the inhuman sight! (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Qidian (qidian.com) to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users please go to m.qidian.com to read.)