A subjugated princess will never die a vagabond

Seeing Theo Pavel Calle's attitude, Cloris couldn't help laughing and said, "Things are not as bad as you think."

She sees an opportunity for healthy development under the governance of the Gospel Correctional Institute. After this wave of refugees passes, at least life will not be worse.

Furthermore, there are many channels for refugees to digest. The mines in the west are one of them. There are also many slave traders who transport refugees to plantations and sweatshops in the colonial area.

Theo Pavel Calle shook his head and said: "I am the person in charge here, and I will not gamble my future on luck. It is harmless to suspend business for a while. At that time, even if the whole city that never sleeps is wiped out, this route is still valuable. , we don’t have to worry about no place to sell our main mysterious materials.”

Cloris nodded and said no more.

The goblin asked: "You said that there are god-endowed people protecting Walsh's safety, I can believe this, but... which side do you represent? Are you from the Church of the Sun?"

Cloris asked back, "What if I am?"

Theo Pavel Kale fiddled with his fingers, thinking: "As long as the Church of the Sun gives special preferential treatment to the business of the Canary Company, we don't care who rules the city that never sleeps. Besides, the Canary Company has no local background, so you don't need to worry that we will Collude with the business alliance."

The Canary Firm’s competitor is the Nightless City Chamber of Commerce. This organization controls trade routes, crowds out foreign merchants, and forces the Duke’s Mansion to increase tariffs to protect local trade. Even if it is loose internally, it is surprisingly united in the face of external threats.

Only businesses like Canary, which mainly focus on mysterious materials, can survive a little bit. If it is replaced by grain merchants, drug dealers and other merchants in other airspaces, the transportation cost alone will be beaten by the local chamber of commerce.The Phoenixtail Butterfly Firm is still working, and the Qiqikeya insects are operating in the service industry with differentiated operations, and the conflict of interest is relatively small.

Cloris didn't care about Theo Pavel Calle's words. Even the Church of the Sun needs basic supplies to maintain stability. What do ordinary people want mysterious materials and extraordinary props for?Rebellion?

Cloris came here mainly to inquire about matters related to the Gegel family and the Abam family through the more professional information network of the Canary Firm.

"The Gegel family, they have several small islands in Zuixiang, the manor is worthless, and the brewing business is doing well. After Luentia took over the Night City, the Gegel Family's business scope has further expanded, and [-]% of the city's imports The food comes from the Gegel family... Medicine and mining are also in the business, and last year, the Gegel family also acquired the third largest medicinal plantation in Zuixiang."

"Where's Abam?"

"The mercenaries started. After Luntia became the city lord, she married Miss Abam. The two munitions production lines that the Church of the Sun gave Luentia are in the old nest of the Abam family. They can produce some by themselves. Powerful rifles and explosives, these weapons can't influence the overall situation, but they are sold very well in many tribes in the deep world, and many explorers often use them."

Judging from Theo Pavel Kahler's description, the two families have no obvious interest disputes.

"You mean there is discord in Luntia's family?" Theo Pavel Calle understood what Cloris meant, and said, "Why do you care about this, as long as it is beneficial to you, just do it. Did he use you as a gun, and you are worried about this with the support of the Church of the Sun? Uh... as long as you don't target the Canary Firm, anything is fine. By the way, your loan of more than 2 Aegis... "

"Makes sense."

Cloris ignored the second half of Theo Pavel Calle's sentence.After she goes back, she has to negotiate further with the Abam family. Unless Kamol Abam has a channel to replace the Gegel family, the final result will be self-defeating.

No matter how high the Gegel family raises the price of food, as long as their bread cannot enter the city that never sleeps, the citizens will go hungry in droves, causing the price of food to rise further.

Misty natural disasters are regarded as a self-regulating cycle of the world. During the continuation of natural disasters, most areas will suffer negative impacts due to changes in climate, shipping routes, and mysterious characteristics, and the output of drunkenness will also decrease. To alleviate the famine, either from other sources Local grain transportation, or have to wait for the next year's wheat harvest, the grain price may be lowered.

In comparison, the Upper Realm, which is almost unaffected by the fog, is countless times more stable.

Counting the refugees, the city that never sleeps has a population of over a million. In the past few months, she has seen topless women walking on the street and disabled children begging along the road. Near Shenfeng Lake, human flesh has become a commodity for public sale.

The once prosperous city that never sleeps is still like this, what about the place where the refugees came from?

Cloris feels that if the Abam family can't come up with a plan to replace the Gerger family, she doesn't need to cooperate with severe suppression.

Strictly speaking, Cloris is not a believer in any religion. Except for the symbol of the spirit vein and Woyty, she has nothing to do with Void, so she naturally doesn't believe in it.

However, she remembered what Arista had said to her: humanity is the only thing that can give back to the Void.

So Cloris would think that if Arista was here, even if she did nothing, she would not cooperate with the Abam family to do bottomless things against her conscience.

Since it is called "emptiness", why do we need the so-called human nature?Cloris sometimes finds it funny, but after experiencing the tragedy herself, she can't help but wonder whether it is because everything points to nothingness that she needs the endowment of humanity.

Arista told Osgar that the disciples of the void exist to enable more people to exist.The moment the world was born from nothingness, the world has gone through the transition from nothing to existence. Even though everything will eventually meet destruction, for those who exist, "reproduction" is always the instinct engraved in the soul.

This "reproduction" is inheritance, not control, nor destruction.

Climbing up little by little, reaching the limit that will never be reached.

Cloris guessed that Arista probably meant something like this.Although the selfish girl who likes to be comfortable with Xia Xia does not agree very much, but it does not hinder the goodwill within the scope of her ability.

From the point of view of the girl herself, this is not like the Grace House treating people as sheep, nor is it expecting a small number of sheep to become reborn shepherds. If everyone can become their own shepherd, what she will do There will be fewer things to do, and it will be easier to run the Gospel Correctional Institute——

perhaps.

242. Valint's Chance

After saying goodbye to the goblins, Cloris made a special trip to see the ruins of the Grace House.The nearby houses were destroyed, and the original residents could only set up tents on the spot.

Being able to live around Afra, the residents here have a lot of income, but these incomes are obviously not enough for them to buy another house in a prosperous area, and they can only spend time in unheated tents.

Despite this, Aphra is still prosperous. The slave trading center "Titan's Kiss" that originally belonged to Kaisan was seized and then auctioned off. It opened again in a few days. All kinds of slaves, male and female, were stripped off like exotic beasts. To be exhibited, to be sold.

Even the brave orc male slaves are not much better. If they are bought to be bodyguards, they will most likely be castrated, and at the same time be controlled by the slave contract.

This is also where Cloris is helpless. She also cannot stop the slave trading business in the area under the jurisdiction of the Evangelical Correctional Institute. At most, she can only restrain the behavior of disposing of slaves at will through the teaching of faith.

As for why it is not advocating that slave trade is a sin...

The Church of the Sun is doing this by itself, and it may be a little hidden in the colonial territories, but in the deeper world, it does as the Romans do, and becomes unscrupulous.

Even in the Mists, strong slave contracts are rare.

What can she say?It's nothing more than going to the bathing place to take a bath, chatting with friends to change your mood.

……

The northern district of the city that never sleeps, the haven of peace for nobles and rich people.

The nobles in the wilderness layer and the deep realm usually have a long history, but because the political environment is not as stable as the upper realm, the rise and fall of a family may only be a short moment.

Usually, these "nobles" will not accept specific canonizations. The criteria for measuring "nobles" mainly depend on three aspects: force, financial resources, and recognition within the circle.

People who can be called "nobles" are often members of local power groups. Of course, if they can accept the canonization of the upper realm empire like Luentia, the gold content will be higher.

There is not a single refugee in the North City of the Nightless City. All the people who come and go are well-dressed, elegant and handsome. No matter how ugly the guy is, as long as his body shape is not too out of shape, he is more energetic than ordinary people at the bottom who are always troubled by the price of radiation resistance.

This is the result of a good life. The rich and powerful here do not rely on the city that never sleeps. Most of them have a background in business alliances 20 years ago, and their industries are not limited to Hurricane Island. One of the reasons for standing.

It also means one thing -

No matter how difficult the life of the citizens of the Nightless City is, the nobles don't care about it. If they reduce production in the drunken land and plantations, they may frown, but the greater the disaster in the Nightless City, the greater their chances of making a fortune.

Of course, it doesn't mean that they are indifferent to the difficulties encountered by the city that never sleeps. Kind people still worry about whether the income of their own industries will be reduced if the citizens cannot survive.

After all, the sustainable depletion of fish ponds also depends on timing. Before the new batch of fish fry live long, the old fish ponds should not be rushed.

The northwest area of ​​the Radiance Tower is a place where nobles enjoy their sensuality. The place is brilliantly lit, and the banquet at Battier Hotel lasts all night long.

This place gathers famous ladies and beauties from all the beauties in the city that never sleeps. The skin-breakable girls are dressed in furs and brocades, and they are cut into evening dresses with a unique deep-world style. I don't feel cold.

They held their male partners tightly, perhaps because of the temperature.

But fortunately, there is round-the-clock heating inside the hotel. The moment he stepped into the resplendent hotel, his tense expression was much more natural.

This is the No.30 second banquet organized by Prisna after returning to the city that never sleeps.

What's more interesting is that after she returned to the city that never sleeps, besides returning some of her family property, Luentia only granted her the management rights of anti-radiation and a few medium-sized transport ships for trade. Women shouldn't have so much wealth For squandering.

But the bad thing is that a noble who has been down and has nothing is suddenly re-promoted by the Duke, which makes people have to suspect that there is something tricky in it.

And watching Prisna's day-to-day extravagance, this confirmed some people's speculation: this woman may have an affair with the Duke.

Luentia didn't know about this, and he had paid attention to this woman a month ago, but as the problems in the city that never sleeps became more and more, his energy could only be put elsewhere.

So, after Prisna mortgaged her family property to several banks in exchange for loans, she took advantage of this unequal information to easily get more cash from the banks.

Only one month later, Prisna immediately repaid the interest and arrears with the money from tearing down the east wall to pay the west wall. At the same time, she forged the account books and had the right to manage the radiation-resistant Ningxia as a foundation, making people think that her business had made progress. With sufficient repayment ability, in the second month, the banks gave her a three-year medium and long-term loan with more confidence.

Prisna will negotiate business with big shots every time she has a banquet, usually related to transportation, which is one of the industries she is most comfortable with. The people of the Valint family are also very familiar with business routes, and they can avoid detours, which is better than their peers. Save a lot of cost.Every time a discussion is completed, she will write a lot, exaggerate, and release additional smoke bombs, making people think that the Valint family is thriving, and the rise is today.If the Valint family is listed on the stock exchange in Floating Star Sea, then you can see a green line falling into the bottom of the valley suddenly fluttering red, rushing all the way to an unreachable high point...

However, only she knew how weak the Valint family was behind this.Exaggerating operating income means paying more taxes to Luntia.What's more terrible is that she still can't get the fire source crystal ore.

What she gave to Luntia were false coordinates. Even if they were real coordinates, the fleet would not be able to reach their destination safely through the turbulent area.

The anti-interference secret script imposed on her airship by Fancy Parrot Grandmaster Chaga is time-sensitive, once more than half a month, the secret text will dissipate on its own.

Through the naive Zura of the Indigo Club, Prisna successfully reached a cooperation with Sim, and was allowed to set up some industries on the site of the Indigu Club. The move to the Western Wall.

It's a pity that the buttocks are not hot yet, and those savage gangs actually started fighting by themselves!If the business does not make a profit, it will be compensated!Worse……

Sim is dead.

The hero of Shanggang was killed by unknown poison at the celebration banquet.

What can she say?

Prisna originally wanted to make money through smuggling after becoming acquainted with the Indigo Club, but instead of getting the money, she got a fortune instead.

The woman still has to hold receptions and dances. If the bank sees that she is strong in the outside world and collectively pursues the arrears, which exposes her "feat" of "crossing the sky", I am afraid that she will have to smuggle to other cities and really rely on Hubbard to support her.

But, who wants to be a little woman who is supported?

Prisna stood on a high place, enjoying the jealousy and envy of those prom girls looking at her.

She is not as beautiful as those women, so at such a banquet, there is no need to attract attention through revealing clothes. Her money, her power, and her means are the foundation of her life. She clearly understands the eyes of those women. ——

Destiny is in your own hands, rather than being slaughtered like goods.

Although those women don't understand Prisna's unspeakable secrets and fate, Prisna knows that once she loses her wealth and power, her fate will be worse than those women.

Regardless of her appearance, her wealth and power is what makes her superior to other women.

Prisna understands this truth well.

At the moment, she is talking with a businessman under the Church of the Sun. Recently, the amount of mining in the mining area has increased a lot, and the Church of the Sun needs more ships to transport these source crystal minerals to drunken land.

The chubby businessman smiled gently: "The situation in the commercial port has been chaotic recently. In order to avoid unnecessary risks, Ms. Valint can choose to load at the No. 17 terminal, and at the same time reduce some unnecessary management expenses. "

"Do you have a cooperative relationship with the person in charge of the No.17 terminal?" Prisna asked doubtfully.

It is a good thing to have a relationship, otherwise you will always be peeled off when you deal with those helpers.

"Ah, that's not true. It's just that Bishop Maxi's favorite celebrity at the moment, Your Excellency Cloris controls the southern commercial port. In the future, you will berth at the wharf of the Southern Commercial Port. I can write to Your Excellency Cloris Letter, let your fleet receive a certain degree of preference..."

"Wait..." Prisna suddenly felt something wrong with her ears, "Who do you say controls the southern commercial port?"

"Your Excellency Cloris, oh, don't you know?" The businessman explained with a smile, "She is a devout believer. She integrated the local church and transformed it into an evangelical correctional center to preach the glory of the Lord. Now the whole The Southern Commercial Port is under the rule of the Gospel Correctional Institute."

243. Devaro Surrenders

The city that never sleeps, the tower of light.

Duke Luentia moved the mansion to the Radiance Tower, so that he can keep an eye on the construction of the wonders at any time. If the engineering mages of the Church of the Sun want to tamper with the construction process, they can quickly find problems.

He definitely can't see any faults in the small details. He doesn't care if there are a few tiles missing in the bathroom or how many secret orders are hidden in the attached mage tower. As long as there is no accident in the general direction of the glow tower, Luentia can accept.

It's just that he doesn't seem to be in the Radiance Tower today.

"My lord is going out today, you can come back later." The housekeeper of the Duke's mansion said to Prisna.

"How long after? Tomorrow?"

"I'm afraid not. If the Duke comes back, I will send someone to report to you."

This is not the first time Prisna has been rejected.

Luentia always disappears for three to five days every month, just like a woman's menstrual cycle. Some people say that the Duke is out hunting (sexy) and hiding in a golden house, but as far as Prisna is concerned about Luentia Judging from my perception, that is not a lustful person.

The one who disappeared with him was "The Duke's Wrist" Mystek. Can't the two have that kind of relationship?

"Then please report when the duke comes back. The transport ship that I transported the fire source crystal ore was attacked by a strange fleet. A medium-sized transport ship crashed. I am still in contact with the people from 'there'. I implore the duke Your Excellency will allow another month," Prisna put a check filled with a thousand Aegis in the file and handed it to the butler, "I will still not lose a cent of the offerings to the Duke's Mansion this month, so... ..."

Consecration is not a tax. Prisna is waiting for Ruentia's new dog in the eyes of outsiders, so naturally she needs to pay the owner a regular donation.

"Assault..." the butler took away the documents calmly and said, "Is this the fourth attack this month?"

"I don't even dare to hang the flag of the Valint family, so I suspect that someone has tipped off my whereabouts to Uronos..." Prisna struggled, "You know, Valint has always been with The Gegel family disagreed, and the Duke transferred their management rights to me, so..."

"The Duke is free to decide this matter, you don't need to say anything else." The butler didn't want to get involved in these family conflicts.

"Thank you, Mr. Sidson, then."

Walking out of the Tower of Radiance, Prisna took the long-awaited Hubbard's arm, and pressed the plump part on the young man's elbow like a little woman.

The latter obediently and obediently allowed him to be intimate, and he couldn't resist Prisna's amorous feelings.He has no father and no mother. He was taught by the priest of Dawn who wandered in the lower world when he was a child. Later, he was displaced due to the Great Purification.

He watched this woman transform from a pretty little girl to the head of the family, and also watched her skin change from tender to rough, and her innocent expression gradually became unpredictable, and her slender waist and tight buttocks also Gradually understand how to seduce men.

But Hubbard doesn't care, he doesn't care whether she is used or not, and no matter how much Prisna loves others, he only hopes that this woman can return to simplicity with a sense of security.

Prisna asked, "What's next on the schedule?"

"That one will gather the big bosses and merchants of the Commercial Port at noon to discuss the future direction of the Commercial Port..." Hubbard said, "According to some rumors, the Evangelical Correctional Institute and the Abam family will jointly eat the Commercial Port. .”

If this is the case, it means that the Church of the Sun and the Duke's Mansion have reached a settlement on the ownership of the commercial port, and at the same time will kick the Night City Chamber of Commerce out of the commercial port.

No one dared to contend except for a mindless reckless man.

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