Chapter 849 Spending Money to Eliminate Disasters?

In all fairness, Marienburg is a very special city in the history of the empire.

The city first appeared in 20 years before the imperial calendar, when the Zhudon tribe settled here. They established Marienburg on an abandoned elf acropolis and dock at the mouth of the Reik River, and Marin The castle soon faced the attack of the mist demons in the southern swamps, and it took ten years for the Judon tribe to defeat the mist monster tribe.

In 501 Imperial Calendar, Emperor "The Conqueror" Sigismund defeated the Kingdom of Judun in the Battle of Marienburg, and King Jutnis of Judun agreed to peaceful reunification, incorporating Marienburg and its surrounding areas into Wei Since then, Marienburg has become part of the empire, and the Judon Kingdom has disappeared from history. However, as the price of peaceful unification, the Judon royal family has obtained many privileges and passed them on to this day.

In 632 Imperial Calendar, the Norscan barbarians plundered Marienburg for the first time. This terrible war continued for more than a hundred years. Until 765 Imperial Calendar, the empire finally signed a peace treaty with the Norscans. The war was temporarily stopped.

Since then, Marienburg has been a part of the empire until the beginning of the Three Emperors era. At that time, there were three emperors in the empire. These three emperors fought endlessly for the throne, and other electors also began to self-govern. From this time, Marienburg There have been signs of separatism in the West Territory. Around 1600 in the Imperial Calendar, the merchants and trade unions of Marienburg, together with the Elector von Beek, announced the establishment of the Marienburg Autonomous Parliamentary Government. Since then, Marienburg gradually broke away from imperial rule.

In 1979 Imperial Calendar, Margarita III, the Elector of Westland, was elected as the Empress of the Empire at the Electoral Council, but neither the Justice Church nor the White Wolf Church or other churches refused to be Margarita III. The third was crowned, and Margarita III decided to cooperate with the Church of Sea God to establish himself as the emperor of Marienburg. From this day on, Marienburg officially separated from the empire. The Runefang of Westland was later managed to be sent back to the empire by the loyal imperial people. The Empire handed it over to Nordland.

After that came the Great Holy War. The savior Ludwig gathered all the remaining armies of the empire. At this time, Marienburg also gave up the title of emperor. The merchants of Marienburg decided to give all they had to supply the savior with military supplies. After the end of the great jihad Afterwards, the Marienburg Council agreed to return to the imperial system, and gave an astonishing amount of wealth to allow the savior to rebuild the empire, but on the condition that it was completely autonomous and the empire would not interfere in its internal affairs. Ludwig agreed after thinking for a long time. its full autonomy.

After the Friedrich family of Grand Prince Rick won the imperial throne, Karl Franz's grandfather, Emperor Leopold, tried to lead an army to recover Marienburg, but was defeated by the local defenders. After that, Prince Rick They tried many times to retake Marienburg, but to no avail.

At the same time, Marienburg also has Iftaul, the only enclave of the high elves in the old world. This has been introduced in the previous article, so I won't repeat it here.

Therefore, the merchants of the House of Marienburg have faced many crises after the Great Jihad, but they often have a solution, either they ask for the help of the Empire, or they ask for the help of Britannia, which is really not enough Merchants can also call upon the High Elves for assistance.

These business princes have nothing to fear.

It's all about money!

However, this time, the situation is different.

It's the dwarves, and the dwarves have come to seek revenge!

In the spacious and bright hall of the House of Lords of Marienburg, the business princes of Marienburg gathered together,

Discuss what to do.

Among them, Vander Gouber-Schulz, who is the Grand Duke of Marienburg, kept his face calm. He leaned on his luxurious seat with an expression of none of my business, sipping gin, and sitting with him. Next to him, the second largest merchant in Marienburg, Viscount Casanova of the Gentlemen's Union Chamber of Commerce, chatted and laughed happily.

These two people have nothing to do with them, and revenge will obviously not come to them. The other heads of the Chamber of Commerce in Marienburg obviously know that Viscount Casanova has spent a lot of effort to hire that famous mercenary partner. The matter of Gotrek and Felix made those business princes gnash their teeth, and cursed Casanova in their hearts.

The businessmen attending the meeting mainly include the following.

Marienburg is now the third largest chamber of commerce, the largest food merchant in the old world, with trading branches all over the entire old world, and the Bahel family chamber of commerce with strongholds in many places.

Marienburg's fourth largest Chamber of Commerce, a descendant of the royal family of the Judun Kingdom, and the president of the Judun Chamber of Commerce, Van Hoogemans. The Judun Chamber of Commerce suffered a lot of losses in the attack on the national debt of Bafeng Mountain, and took a step back from the third largest chamber of commerce.

Claude Juncker, president of the Luxembourg Chamber of Commerce, the fifth largest chamber of commerce.

The three business princes knew that they were the main targets of revenge for the dwarves. At this time, Hugemans was sweating on his face, and the president of the Judun Chamber of Commerce first put the Bafengshan Dwarf Hate Big Book leaflet on the table: " Guys, we're in trouble."

"Damn dwarf!" Becker, the president of the Baher Chamber of Commerce, said impatiently: "This is a normal business activity for us. What do they think Marienburg is? This is a free trade port! Everyone has freedom of speech and The right to make a choice! Why do they blackmail us and find us... eh? Ask for compensation and accept the trial of these dwarves?"

"Yes, I think so too." Claude Junker was wearing a gray-black military uniform with a rapier hanging from his waist, and he cursed the dwarves for being a bunch of idiots: "I suggest that we can use the stones from the city to Smear the dwarves with rotten fruit and tell them to go!"

"Then they'll smear our faces with mercury bullets and cannons!" Hugmans, a descendant of the Judon royal family, said viciously, "Have you seen those two iron-clad ships? Who of you wants to try shelling? Compete with the iron-clad ships." Wake up, our fleet is nothing but fishing boats!"

Marienburg does have a navy of its own, but it is a yellow water navy, and the more elite Rick Navy and Nord Navy, the two imperial navies, are not Marienburg's army.

The business princes doubted whether their gunboats could penetrate the skin of the ironclad ship.

"...That's not the ironclad ship of the dwarves." Someone in the House of Lords said: "Those bearded dwarves just boarded the ship of Britannia and the Legion of Ashes."

"That's the ironclad ship of the dwarves! It was made by the dwarves, and the dwarves came down from it." Hugemans said sharply: "Are you still pretending not to understand? The dwarves belong together!"

"Knight King Ryan and Ash Legion Commander Forgan are brothers. They brought the dwarves and parked at the port. Don't you understand the meaning of this?" Hugmans continued: "Damn Knight King and Damn Legion of Ashes, they made up their minds, are you pretending not to understand or really don’t understand? If we do it, they have a reason to do it.”

Everyone was speechless, and the princes of the business world began to encounter difficulties.

"How much do you want for a dwarf?" At this time, Becker, the president of the Bahel Chamber of Commerce, spoke. This old gentleman in his sixties was wearing a tuxedo, a black round cap on his head, and a single gold silk circle on his face. Framed glasses, he thought for a long time with a big belly, and this time he said slowly: "Peace, we only want so much, as much as the dwarves want, everyone get together and let the matter end here, otherwise we How to do business?"

"How much the dwarf wants is written on this leaflet." Hugmans took out a crumpled leaflet and put it on the table.

"For Marienburg's disrespect to the Anglund clan: three thousand gold coins."

"For Marienburg's disrespect to all dwarven clans: five thousand gold coins."

"For Marienburg's disrespect for recovering all the dead fellow dwarves in Eight Peaks: 10,000 gold coins."

"Finally, in order to wash away the unwarranted insult of the failed expert, we celebrate the return of Bellegar and his glorious royal family: 20,000 gold coins and the head of José, the magic bird!"

Business princes, you look at me, I look at you, a little shaken, Claude Junker is wearing a silk robe and light tights, his brows are frowned, and he takes the leaflet from Hugmans, Look carefully: "So, the dwarf wants 38,000 gold coins, plus the head of Mr. Magic Bird?"

"That's right." Becker touched his gold-rimmed monocle round glasses, and he narrowed his eyes: "The dwarf asked us to give an answer within three days, and today is the first day, gentlemen, members of parliament. , can you make it in time?"

"Really want to give money?" Claude Junker's face was gloomy: "Doesn't that make us easy to bully? The dwarves can come to ask for it once, and in the future they can come to ask for it twice, three times, countless times, we are not dwarves Your small treasury! Your Excellency Becker, you are really out of your mind!"

"Dwarves are not humans, Mr. Junker? Dwarves are not elves. Gold coins can wash away their hatred and let them return with a rewarding reward. This matter is over." Becker interlocked his fingers, put them on the table, and said in a deep voice: "If All right, will you listen to my advice? Let's try to raise some money and go and get rid of those dwarves."

"Collect money? How much?" Van Hoogmans, the president of the Juton Chamber of Commerce, said impatiently: "Don't forget, we are the territory of the Empire! We are citizens of the Empire, and the dwarves can even tear down Fort Marien." Is it impossible to bring them back to their mountains? If so, it would be tantamount to declaring war on the empire, and this group of mustaches cannot represent the entire race of dwarves!"

"Karl Franz's court will not declare war on the dwarves for us!" Becker emphasized: "The High King Thorgrim-Iron Hammer's questioning has come to the emperor's desk! Do you think it is right for the empire? Are we more important than the covenant of the dwarves?"

"We have the founding ceremonies of the saviors!" roared the Hugelmans. "Complete autonomy."

"The dwarves have the holy alliance of Emperor Charlemagne!" Becker also roared: "Hugelmans, put away your Judon royal pride, that is a higher-level alliance, the empire cannot lack dwarves, and neither can we , you know how many things there are in Marienburg, and how many trade contracts are signed with dwarves!"

"So there's nothing we can do? We can only obediently pay the money, right?" Van Hoogmans sat down helplessly.

"How about this, let's put together 18,000 gold marks." Claude Junker, president of the Luzern Chamber of Commerce, said: "The dwarves' compensation, we recognized the first three items, and half of the last one. They recovered Bafeng Mountain, Returning to our hometown, what does it matter to us? We don’t recognize this, and that Mr. Jose-Magic Bird...Your Excellency Hugmans, where is he?"

"He's hiding in a manor outside the city now." Hugmans said helplessly, "My people have controlled him, but..."

"Send him to the dwarves." Becker's old voice was a little hoarse, and he had yelled a few times that made his vocal cords tired: "Take it as an apology."

"But if we do this, how can those people be willing to continue to speak out for us in the future?" Hugemans was very annoyed: "And our flamboyant Mr. Adabe? Where did he go? Why did he disappear at the critical moment? ?”

"You don't know him yet? This old dragon (olddragon) is very cunning." Becker continued his words: "Okay, send Mr. Magic Bird to the dwarves. As for the eighteen thousand gold coins, we will pool them together." Collect, our three major chambers of commerce collect 12,000 gold coins, and the remaining 6,000 gold coins, everyone also collects together, take it, and use it as money to eliminate disasters, everyone, we are all businessmen, and harmony makes money, you guys Are you willing to break this tranquility? If there is a chaos, it will be difficult for everyone to do business."

"Yes, that's the only way to go." Hugmans was also discouraged.

In the end, the House of Lords of Marienburg discussed and decided to spend a sum of money to send these dwarves away, and it was right to spend money to eliminate disasters.

They appointed the Archbishop of the Sea God Church, and Aldridge took the money to solve the problem.

At the same time, the leader of the underground world in Fort Marienburg, the romantic Adabe Huntsman also got the news that the dwarves came to seek revenge.

"Father, what should we do? What should we do? The dwarves have come to seek revenge, and the knights have come to seek revenge!" Adabe's son Alphonse was terrified: "Damn, damn! Why didn't they annihilate the entire army on Bafeng Mountain? "

Adabe was very calm. The king of Marienburg's underground world sat calmly behind his desk. He unhurriedly opened the safe, threw the most important physical evidence inside into the brazier and burned it. The old gentleman didn't seem nervous at all, but calmed down: "What should we do? What should we do? Did we attack the national debt of Bafeng Mountain? Or did we offend the knight king or dwarf king? Think about it carefully, we did it." What? Have we left any evidence?"

One bill after another fell into the fire and burned cleanly. Adabe smiled and said: "Besides, we sent a generous gift to Britannia. Whoever they ask to settle accounts will not ask us. Don't worry, Alphonse, calm down, you will die at this time! If you are looking for death, it is not like you are looking for a way!"

"Father, you really have the foresight." Alphonse carefully recalled the series of actions of their father and son, and then managed to calm down. Before he knew it, his back was soaked.

"Think twice, think about danger, think about retreat, and think about changing things. Only when you know the danger can you avoid danger." Adabey frowned. He burned all the most important evidence, then opened the small vault, and took it out from inside. a big box.

It is full of god gold coins, and on each god gold coin is a photo of Ms. Fortune. After careful calculation, there are hundreds of them! There are more than 100,000 gold marks inside. Adabe looked at the box, sighed suddenly, and handed it to his son: "Take them all, go to make some connections, go buy generous gifts, and give some of them to the Legion of Ashes." , part of it will be given to the King and Queen of Britannia, and you will keep a few for yourself to buy the best equipment and go to the Sea God Church to bless you. I have signed up for you. From the day after tomorrow, you will be ashes A recruit from the First Army of the Legion, an apprentice knight."

"Father?!" Alphonse hurriedly rushed in front of Adabe, he seemed very emotional: "What, you actually want me to join the Legion of Ashes? Father, aren't you pushing your son to a dead end? You want me to join the Legion of Ashes? Expedition to the New World? Then...then what do you do?"

"Hehehe~ I'll teach you a phrase that those imperial generals like to say again." Adabe smiled dryly, and pulled Alphonse to sit down. The romantic man who has been in the Marienburg for more than 20 years pointed his index finger at the brazier Burning ashes in the middle: "Put it to death, and then live!"

"I have carefully observed and collected information over the past few years. Sooner or later, the future of the new world will belong to this purple phoenix, and this purple phoenix has a lot to do with King Ryan and Schultz." Adabé said with regret Said: "Don't look at these years, our father and son have done such a big thing, it is because we are still useful, the business princes need us to solve the underground world of Marienburg and clean the dirty corners for him, so that we can get a chance , but people like us are destined to be just a rag, not even a tool person. After more than 20 years, I can feel that those people in the House of Lords have recently thought of changing people, but we are in On the recent national debt issue, I am on the wrong team.”

"What? We have done so many things for him! How could he?!" Alphonse said angrily, "Could it be that we are destined to be..."

"So, I let you serve in the Legion of Ashes." Adabe closed his eyes and nodded slowly: "Alphonse, my son, I tell you, with your tail between your legs, go and serve as a soldier for Fulgrim Your Excellency, you have to use your performance to make Your Excellency Fulgrim and the generals and soldiers of the Legion of Ashes look at you again. I have spent more than 20 years cultivating you at any cost, your swordsmanship, your knight, even in The Legion of Ashes will not be vulnerable, when you get there, forget that you are my son of Adabe, forget that you are the underground noble prince of Marienburg, you are just a new soldier, an apprentice knight, and be your soldier."

"Father, I understand." Alphonse shed tears. He wiped the tears vigorously with his hands, and lowered his head that had been up all the time.

"Oh, let's go." Adabe sighed, "If Grand Duke Schulz really starts to think about changing my rag, father's old life may have to be saved by you!"

"Otherwise, people like us are destined to end badly!"