The years when I was a nobleman in the world of Terra

"Do you want to settle the storage fee first?"

"Let me think about it, like this?"

His gaze crossed the window, and finally settled on the three newly opened casinos by the side of the road.

"My sister, I can blow up all three casinos to the sky without anyone noticing."

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"Unconsciously?"

Charlotte smiled playfully.

"The explosions in three casinos are no small matter. It shouldn't be so easy to hide it, right?"

"Then just blow up all those who know the truth, and no one will know the truth anymore."

Why do these words of W sauce sound so familiar?

The best way to infiltrate is to kill all the insiders. If W hadn't been a sniper operator instead of a guard operator, Charlotte would have thought she was the apprentice of the lord with the black sword on his back.

"Don't make trouble."

Charlotte sighed incredulously.

"Violence can solve problems, but after violence, more problems may arise."

On the surface, the relationship between these three newly opened casinos and his casino is purely commercial competition.But earlier, Charlotte had already asked W and Senomi to help secretly investigate, what kind of origins were the owners behind the three newly opened casinos.

Then the conclusions drawn by W and Senomi made Charlotte vaguely feel that something was wrong.

The bosses behind these three newly opened casinos are also a businessman named Aldridge, and the person who hired the "Unmanned Alliance" commercial spy to steal business information from Charlotte Castle is also the same Aldridge Mr. Qi.

Such things as vicious competition and commercial espionage are not uncommon in Casimir, but a businessman with no power and status dares to provoke a viscount and an earl. This is something worth thinking about.

Casimir has been a country dominated by officials since ancient times. Except for the aristocratic class, the social status of all other classes is the same.Even though the merchants have a lot of wealth, in the eyes of the nobles, they are just a group of wealthy commoners.

According to Casimir's law, it is a crime of beheading for civilians to provoke nobles, or even attack nobles.

So what is the reason for this businessman named Aldridge to take the risk of beheading?

Charlotte recalled what Earl Anthony had said to him before. The battle between those above had already penetrated into every corner of Casimir silently. It is difficult to say that it can be completely avoided.

In a sense, His Royal Highness the First Prince represents Casimir's aristocratic class, His Royal Highness the Second Prince represents the merchant class of Casimir, and in the eyes of outsiders, Charlotte really belongs to His Royal Highness the First Prince one side.

At a certain point in time, Charlotte seemed to understand something.

But what Charlotte hopes more is that his idea will not become a reality.His career is still in its infancy, if possible, he certainly wouldn't want to be coveted by others so soon.

It's just that the matter has already happened before his eyes, even if Charlotte wants to avoid this problem, at least he has to wait until this matter is dealt with.

He and his girls have been sitting in a box on the second floor of a tavern on the outskirts of the casino for almost an hour. He has been paying attention to the movements of the guests, and he can clearly see that almost two-thirds of the guests are Walked into the three newly opened casinos.

"W sauce, you and Senomi have been investigating for so long, do you have any personal opinion?"

"Yes, after all, my sister and I are a very independent person."

W-chan shrugged slightly.

"My opinion is that these three casinos have much more advantages than Little Charlotte's."

"What's the reason?"

For w's answer, Charlotte was noncommittal.

"I want to hear the reason you gave."

"Two o'clock."

The Sarkaz girl held out two fingers.

"The first point I think you should already know, little Charlotte. The odds of these three casinos are higher than yours, and they are still much higher. It can't be said that there are no such things, but you only go to the casino for After all, there are only a small number of people who experience it, and most people who enter the casino will more or less have a heart to get rich overnight."

"Since you want to get rich overnight, the higher the odds, the better. Few people can resist the temptation to earn big money with little money."

"Then if I also increase the odds of the casino, can I bring the customers back?"

"Do you want to listen to the truth, little Charlotte?"

"Well, let's be honest."

Charlotte nodded.

"To be honest, it's hard."

W sauce said.

"Because Little Charlotte's casino is completely different from these three newly opened casinos in terms of positioning."

"position?"

Charlotte raised an eyebrow.

Vaguely, he felt that he could understand what w wanted to express, but he still decided to listen to the personal opinion of the Sarkaz girl first.

"Well, it's positioning."

W nodded.

"Little Charlotte, your casino has always positioned itself as aristocratic customers. But the three newly opened casinos are different. They have always targeted businessmen as their customers."

"Wait a moment."

Charlotte rubbed her eyebrows, and then said something in the direction of Linguang.

"Linguang, please help me record what W said next."

"clear."

The knight girl took out a pen and paper, acting like a competent secretary.

This is the benefit of high favorability. Now Linguang is almost obedient to Charlotte's orders.Although so far, only the first half of the sentence has been realized, but Charlotte believes that it will not be too far away from realizing the second half of the sentence.

"Little Linguang is awesome, little Charlotte, you must have saved the whole world in your previous life, only in this life can you meet such a wonderful girl."

"I think so, maybe I am the so-called savior."

This level of ridicule, Charlotte has long been able to calmly deal with it.

"Cut, shameless."

W-chan gave Charlotte a cute look.

"Okay, I'm going to continue talking, where did we talk just now?"

"position."

"Yes, it's positioning."

The Sarkaz girl continued.

"If you want to say which class is the most powerful in the land of Casimir, most people will definitely answer the noble class. But if the question becomes: 'Who is the richest class in Casimir', then the answer may be Not necessarily.”

"Anyway, according to my understanding, the wealth in the hands of merchants is far greater than that in the hands of nobles. Perhaps in the eyes of nobles, merchants who don't even have a knight are just fat on the cutting board , but in the past few years, with the support of the one above, more and more businessmen have dared to challenge the nobles."

W sauce gestured to the ceiling above his head with his eyes.

"The conflict between the two classes can almost be said to be on the bright side. Little Charlotte, your casino has a lot of aristocratic guests, but almost no merchant guests. But the three newly opened casinos are completely opposite. Merchant There are many guests, but there are almost no noble guests."

After listening to W Sauce's analysis, in Charlotte's eyes, Casimir's current situation is a bit like the eve of the "Glorious Revolution". class antagonisms emerged.

The final result of the "Glorious Revolution" was the complete victory of the capitalist class, and at the same time, it also made the country the world's first constitutional monarchy.

Whether the future Casimir will have a "glorious revolution" Charlotte like the previous one is unknown, and he can only deal with the immediate matter first.

"It's unlikely that the big nobles will appear in Little Charlotte's casino, and the small nobles don't actually have much wealth. Unless you are willing to lend them money to continue gambling, otherwise the guests will not come back."

"Borrowing money... then forget it."

Charlotte shook her head.

Lending money outside the casino was a very common thing in Charlotte's previous life, but he didn't really want to do it.

Because opening a casino is already a bit against his principles of life, if he becomes a usury and ruins other people's families, he may have to be questioned by his own conscience all the time.

Besides, he has a noble and righteous female knight by his side. If he still wants to ride his horse in the future, he should not do such immoral things in the end.

"Isn't there any better idea than lending money?"

Charlotte said to herself.

"Or should the strong man cut off his wrist and give up the casino business as soon as possible."

He closed his eyes and entered the state of thinking, and the four girls were also very obedient and did not disturb Charlotte who was thinking.

A few minutes later, Charlotte opened her eyes again.

"It doesn't matter which way you decide, but you should first listen to what Earl De Vos thinks."

After making up her mind, Charlotte stood up from her chair.

"Let's go girls, we are going to visit Earl Devos."

……

Count De Vos Castle, drawing room.

Charlotte once again led the girls to meet with Earl De Vos, but unlike the good atmosphere of the previous meetings, today's Earl De Vos has quite obvious anger on his face.

"Brother Charlotte, here is the income and expenditure statement of our casino for the last week."

Earl Devos pushed a document to Charlotte's eyes.

Reports are not unfamiliar to Charlotte, and he quickly found the relevant data he wanted in the report given to him by Earl De Vos.

"The income is 4 Longmen coins, the expenditure is less than [-] Longmen coins, and the net profit for a week is more than [-] Longmen coins, which looks pretty good."

"If you just look at this report, it's really not bad. After all, the net profit of more than 4 Longmen coins a week can be considered pretty good."

Earl De Vos didn't explain much, he just pushed another report to Charlotte's eyes.

"This is the casino income and expenditure statement for the previous few weeks. You can read it first, and then you will understand why I am so angry."

"Ok."

Charlotte nodded, and then finished reading the second report at the same speed.

"The income is close to [-] Longmen coins, the expenditure is less than [-] Longmen coins, and the net profit is a little more than [-] Longmen coins."

Now Charlotte understood the real reason why Earl Devos was angry. In just one or two weeks, the net profit had been doubled.

But is the reason for anger really just because the net profit has doubled?

To be honest, Charlotte didn't think that Earl De Vos would be the kind of person who attached great importance to personal wealth. Compared with wealth, he should value power in his hands more.

"Earl De Vos, the reason for your anger should be more than what I saw on the report."

Charlotte asked tentatively.

"I still want you to be honest with me."

"Have you discovered it, Brother Charlotte?"

After a few seconds of silence, Count Devos sighed.

"Indeed, if it's just a loss of money, I wouldn't be so angry. After all, the DeVos family won't be hurt by the loss of a casino, let alone the casino itself is still making money."

"The reason why I am angry is more because the Duke's attention has always been on the two of us."

"Duke?"

Charlotte froze for a moment.

The jumping level of this topic is outrageous. Why did it suddenly skip the Marquis and go directly to the Duke?

"Brother Charlotte, listen to me, I don't need to lie to you about this kind of thing."

Count DeVos explained.

"In fact, after the border defense war ended, His Excellency the Duke mentioned to me that he hoped that I, Brother Charlotte, and you would contribute more and greater strength to His Royal Highness."

The biggest hero in the border defense battle is undoubtedly Linguang, but the publicity must say that the biggest hero is His Royal Highness, so in order to avoid dissatisfaction between Linguang and him as the lord, he gave himself An opportunity to perform.

What is this, a reward in disguise?