Realm of Power

"Lon Ruido, you did this. How will it end now? You should give everyone an explanation!"

An old man in a dark black dress looked away from the window and looked at the other seven people with solemn expressions in the hall. The angry voices outside could be clearly heard even through the window.

Several deacons all looked at Lang Ruiduo. In fact, they did not all agree with the evaluation of the little-known "Sunrise Chamber of Commerce" as an S-level chamber of commerce. It was just that in that situation, everyone's Attitude represents the camp. If you cannot stand on the same line, you will definitely be defeated by the new factions! So even if it's a fire pit, in that case the only option is to jump down together as a group!

"Believe me, Miss Dai Lan will give everyone an explanation." Lang Ruiduo pretended to be calm and shrugged his shoulders.

"That being said, I'm afraid that even Miss Dailan didn't expect that the situation would become so out of control!" A deacon said with a worried look.

"What are you afraid of? The Sunrise Chamber of Commerce's assessment is completely in compliance with the procedures. Even if we say it out, we have nothing to be afraid of."

"Fifty thousand employees, thousands of port industries, and four fully staffed large merchant fleets, this is indeed a bit unreliable!" The old-school deacons are actually beating the drum in their hearts, the situation is getting out of control, and outside The businessmen are getting more and more excited, and some businessmen are even clamoring to attack the Business Alliance Headquarters. If the businessmen did not still maintain a sense of fear towards the Business Alliance Headquarters, they might have rushed in by now, Miss Sokutus Stellan. , what on earth are you playing! Just when everyone was panicking, a headquarters staff hurried in with a report.

"Sir, this is a request letter just sent from Fort Locke," the staff member said.

"Castle Rock?"

Langredo was stunned for a moment, feeling something vaguely. He quickly took the request letter and opened it and took a look. At the first glance, he gasped, asking for surrender. It turned out to be a letter of surrender, a letter from Fort Rock. A letter of surrender, because I felt that surrendering to an unknown Sunrise Chamber of Commerce would really harm Luo The face of the Medici family, the rulers of Castle Fort, therefore, with the consent of the Sunrise Chamber of Commerce, Castle Rock's surrender to the Sunrise Chamber of Commerce became Castle Rock's surrender to the Commercial Alliance. Although it is also a surrender, surrendering to a Chamber of Commerce is not the same as surrendering to a Chamber of Commerce. The concept of the surrender of a powerful chamber of commerce alliance covering the entire continent is completely different.

So a copy of the document signed between the Sunrise Chamber of Commerce and the Medici family of Fort Locke was sent to the Business Alliance. This not only saved the face of the Medici family, but the Sunrise Chamber of Commerce also received 1.5 million imperial gold from the Medici family. !

"Lon Redo, what's going on with Castle Rock? Why do you have such an expression?"

A deacon felt the surprise on Long Ruido's face, and gathered around him curiously. He craned his neck to take a look at the letter, and his eyes suddenly widened. Just now, everyone was secretly speculating about the so-called 50,000 employees of the Sunrise Chamber of Commerce. I didn’t expect to see this report in the blink of an eye. It mentioned and representatives of the Sunrise Chamber of Commerce had friendly and far-reaching discussions with representatives of Castle Rock. In the end, Castle Rock was honest and trustworthy and agreed to repay the 1.5 million imperial gold it owed. This is not the point. The point is, for this time with Castle Rock For discussion, the Sunrise Chamber of Commerce dispatched 43,000 An employee went to Castle Rock to negotiate. Seeing the touching sincerity of the Sunrise Chamber of Commerce, Castle Rock paid the arrears very readily... "What's wrong? Is there something wrong with Castle Rock!" Other deacons gathered around, "I don't know how to understand this either. You should see for yourselves! "Lang Ruido suddenly grinned and burst into laughter. The depression just now was gone. Sokutus Stellan's counterattack came. She was indeed the business queen who once dominated an era. , this is no longer a counterattack, this is crushing, naked crushing! "My God, what are 50,000 employees? Now I am very sure that this is an army of 50,000 people!" A deacon exclaimed. The question is, where did these 50,000 people come from? "Some people looked confused." It is impossible for an armed merchant group with such power to grow out of thin air. Moreover, this is an empire with extremely strict control. Even a chamber of commerce with a size of fifty people wants to be reviewed by the Sheriff. What's more, there are 50,000 people, and everyone is smart. I believe you should still remember that at the Empire’s annual meeting that ended just two months ago, the Barrow countries in Central Europe jointly asked the Empire to return the port! "A middle-aged deacon with sharp eyes snorted." It is said that this This incident made the imperial minister Hu Lord Keqili was very angry, and even alarmed His Majesty. In the end, His Majesty made the decision to return Hong Kong to these Central European Barrow countries! ""You mean, behind the Sunrise Chamber of Commerce is the military! Fang, maybe even..."

A deacon murmured in a low voice with a horrified expression.

The hearts of the other deacons also felt as if they were being trampled by ten thousand horses. The picture that emerged in their minds was that of tens of thousands of troops densely packed like black clouds pressing under the walls of Fort Locke. The Medici of Fort Locke. The family representative, under the cold light of the sword, with an extremely ugly face, handed out the surrender letter.

Imperial Chamber of Commerce with military connections is not uncommon, but compared to the Sunrise Chamber of Commerce in front of me, which dares to directly dispatch tens of thousands of troops, it can't even compare with a toe!

"Sir, this is the roster of management expansion personnel just sent by the Sunrise Chamber of Commerce." Another staff member hurriedly walked in.

"Quick, get it here right away!" The deacons looked excited and almost rushed over in a swarm. Everyone felt tense in their hearts for this mysterious Sunrise Chamber of Commerce. They took the roster and opened it nervously, looking first. Shi Shi saw the names of the Scarlet siblings. The surname Scarlet seemed to be the surname of the Nords native to the empire, and one of the deacons was a middle-level management official from the former Nord Kingdom. He only entered the business world after the fall of the Nord Kingdom. When he saw Crimson Rui's name at the top of the list, this well-informed deacon couldn't help but tremble slightly.

"Is the famous Nord family, the Crimson Family, the First Princess?"

"Deacon Bichel, do you know this Crimson Rui?" other deacons asked curiously

"If I remember correctly, this should be the missing former Imperial Palace Guard Captain." The deacon named Bicher took a deep breath. "Last time the First Princess came to Lisbon in person, this Imperial Palace Guard Captain She was accompanying her, but for some unknown reason, when the princess left, the imperial palace guard captain seemed to have evaporated, and even caused quite a stir in the imperial capital."

"I have heard about this matter. For this vacant position of Imperial Palace Guard Captain, it is said that the wealthy families who have the possibility of Imperial Palace are almost breaking their heads."

"So, behind the Sunrise Chamber of Commerce is Her Royal Highness the First Princess?" Someone whispered, "Everyone, look at the column of vice president, it is Miss Sokutus Stellan! And this... Tierniu Miss Liz"

Someone pointed at the lower line of the document with an ugly expression and read out the names on it word by word. The other discussions stopped for a moment. They looked at each other and could see the shock in the other person's eyes. The Queen of Business asked Kutusdelan, Tiernuris who once headed the Lisbon Government Affairs Office, if the Crimson Family in the front represents the first princess of the empire, then the Crimson Family in the back represents It is the Imperial Bank and the Lisbon Government Affairs Office. Any one of them is enough to make the imperial business community tremble. But now, there are three gathered at once. If this list is not false, then don’t mention the following. The so-called thousand port properties, even if it is said to have ten thousand, the deacons will no longer doubt it. "Enough, if I read any more, I'm afraid I won't be able to bear it and faint." People looked away from the rows of densely packed rosters below. The tip of the iceberg of the Sunrise Chamber of Commerce already made everyone feel a chill in their backs. It was like the feeling of sweat being blown by the wind." This report needs to be given to the new factions to read. "Someone asked in a low voice. After all, this is a document sent to the Business Alliance Deacons. The new factions are also deacons." Of course, it must be given to them. They also have the right to see this article. Please send it to Spear's desk first!" A sneer appeared at the corner of Langredo's mouth, and he handed the letter in his hand to the assistant outside the door. The new faction is currently in the limelight and is thinking of taking advantage of the opportunity. The Deacons, who overthrew the control of the old-schoolers, thought they had caught a big fish, but they didn't know that what they caught was actually the tail of a bloodthirsty beast. The harder you pulled, the faster you died!

The bulky bow of the merchant ship squeezed open the sea water below, and there was a tearing sound. The huge sail was blown into a ball in the wind. This is the most famous fish production area on the Barro coastline in Central Europe. There are a lot of Schools of large yellow croakers and small yellow croakers are surging in the light blue water. The sailors are throwing nets on the deck. In each fishing net pulled up, there are tons of fish dancing, and occasionally there are many rare fish. Class, "The second target is ahead, Anthea Port!"

Sokutus Stellan stood quietly at the bow of the large merchant ship, her eyes flashing back from the sparkling beautiful sea in front of her, and she looked towards him, dressed in a female knight's costume, with her long ponytail hanging down on her uncontrollable slender waist. On his body, he wears a cross sword inlaid with white silver rim. His heroic appearance is so heroic that people can’t bear to turn around. Purpose Scarlet Rui said, "Actually, sister knew from the beginning that Rock Castle would not resist, right?" Scarlet Red Rui turned to look at Sokutus Stellan who was wearing a purple dress next to her. She was really afraid that Rock Castle would fight to the end. , then the only way is to storm Castle Rock. Under the bombardment of dozens of Imperial Thunder Gods, Under the attack, the only result of this Pearl of Barro in Central Europe, which is known as the city that does not fight, is to become a ruin!" In the end, the Medici family of Castle Rock is no different from merchants, although they have quite impressive possessions. military strength, but in fact they dare not start a war, because Castle Rock can have the current scale and return to The fundamental reason is that Castle Rock can maintain a detached and neutral position in the war. Once Castle Rock's superiority of being able to stay out of the war is broken, the popularity that Castle Rock has managed to gather over the years will be completely eliminated. , once refugees start to flee, Castle Rock will really be finished! "Sokutus Stellan smiled, and she had long expected to suppress Locke Castle.

And Scarlet Red Rui didn't even know that her first target was to choose Castle Rock, which was strong on the outside and hard on the inside. Another reason was to give a final word to the old and new business alliance dispute that was breaking out in Lisbon! Sokutus Stellan has long been dissatisfied with the new faction that has been clamoring for reform. The new faction always proposes reforms and wants to change the twelve deacons system of the Business Alliance. Without the consent of the emperor, this is the same as rebellion. What's the difference? It's just that the emperor had already asked her to withdraw from the business alliance, so she didn't take action for a long time. But this time, the emperor let the Sunrise Chamber of Commerce come into being, just to take this opportunity to severely suppress the new faction in the business alliance.

"Fort Locke chose to surrender. Anthea's strength is even worse than that of Castle Locke. She should also surrender, right?" Crimson Rui took a deep breath of the moist sea breeze and asked in a solemn voice.

"There is no need to take chances. For Anthea, the only way is war!" Sokutus Stellan smiled bitterly, shook his head, raised his hand and pointed into the distance. "Anthea Port is not actually on the coastline, but An island in the triangular sea between Moroga Island and Castle Rock, not only Central Europe Barrow is the largest marine fish production area and the most prosperous golden waterway. The coastline here is very straight and there are many beautiful harbors. The South China Sea water here is particularly gentle. From the beginning to the end of the year, There are no damaging winds and waves, making it ideal for ships to dock and navigate'.

'And there are a large number of natural deep-water harbors on this coastline. With only slight modification and processing, large ships with a displacement of more than 5,000 tons can be berthed. This made this place the most densely populated merchant ship before the Feishan Coast was developed. It is precisely because of this that the capital invested by the empire in Anthea Port was far greater than that in Lock Port! "

"If the status of Anthea's golden waterway hub has not changed, or there will not be too much of a problem, but now the Feishan Coast is rising, a large number of merchant fleets that originally used Anthea Port have turned to the Feishan Coastline. In this case, you If Anthea wants to pay a debt of 2.3 million imperial gold, do you think Anthea's king will agree?

"And there is another thing that my sister may not know. There have been some problems in Anthea Port recently. That is, the Anthea pirates, who have been extinct for more than thirty years, have appeared frequently in Anthea's waters recently." Sokutus Dailan's face became a little grim. She turned around and ordered the entire fleet to stop moving forward. "Sister, what do you mean, are these pirates arranged by the Kingdom of Anthea?" Crimson Rui reacted immediately.

"You know now, you've all started pretending to be pirates to steal money. Do you still expect Anthea to shell out 2.3 million in imperial gold? The Imperial Navy once came to encircle and suppress the enemy, but once they hid in Anthea Port, they could no longer Found it, so this time, we have another mission, which is to eliminate the Anthea pirates!" Sokutus Stellan raised his head and looked at the sea in the east. In the distance, a white line appeared in the sky. Those are the sails of densely packed imperial battleships

"What if the other party hides on land again?" Crimson Red Rui perked up.

"Then just kill Anthea. Otherwise, are these tens of thousands of people really here to travel?" Sokutus Stellan said with a disdainful smile. These tens of thousands are not mercenaries, they are employees of the Imperial Bank. Bloodthirsty thugs in Barrow, South Europe, Reichsbank flag The combat effectiveness of the team is not at all inferior to that of the regular army of the Empire. Fort Locke has already set an example that surrendering can avoid fighting. Now it needs to see some blood. Otherwise, the Barrow countries in Central Europe really think that the Empire will not fight after the Hungarian Rebellion. , just changed to a vegetarian diet?