Chapter 1423: Winning Alliance

After leaving Dragon Island, Lin did not return to Azore Port. The bank at the port had opened for business a few days ago, and the elves who came to assist only stayed for one day before being handed over to local officials for management. Let me repeat again, at this stage, Midi Bank only has the function of deposit and withdrawal for fools. It does not require professional financial personnel, only security personnel...

Lin himself went directly back to the capital of the Karlsruhe Empire, the Imperial City of Neuquen. William, on the other hand, continues to stay at ease on Long Island. Inexplicably, the white swordsman made many new friends and naturally continued to play around. There is no need for anyone to worry about the return trip.

I didn't know that this guy was just like always, pretending to be stupid and eating big people. The brainwaves of a certain dragon really matched up, and they became close friends inexplicably, and they developed a good friendship.

This person's state of dealing with others is not just a matter of familiarity, but a state of being a cosmopolitan family when he comes to your home and becomes my home. I don't know how to write the word polite. Speaking of which, he is no different from Azad in his willfulness, except that he cannot chop off people's heads easily.

After more than a month - in fact, most of the time was spent on the boat trip to Dragon Island - Lin returned, but he brought back a lot of good news to the empress.

Longdao agreed to take his hands off Prince Behar, and did not mind the empress making the news public. I heard that this made the aggressive prince so angry that he broke a lot of things, and it also made other nobles become more vigilant.

Although Longdao is not a force within the empire and does not have many political connections, absolutely no noble dares to ignore such a powerful group. As long as Dragon Island has the slightest tendency, it will cause shock within the empire.

Therefore, the movements of Long Island have attracted the attention of many people. Cutting off the original collaborators undoubtedly reduced Prince Behar's chances of ascending to the throne.

The only good thing is that Dragon Island has not decided on its next ally. This means that the Empress is still the same, and the strength in her hands has not increased dramatically.

Secondly, the Karlsruhe Empire has a second Dragon Island flag.

The first flag was the result of a peace treaty between the Empire's founding emperor and Dragon Island, and was used as proof that both sides maintained peace. This flag has always been kept by the empire's naval fleet. It has also been used as a certificate of trade between the two sides, and has gained a lot of benefits. Therefore, the Navy also wants to bring this second flag into management.

However, as the true holder of the second dragon flag, Lin actively promoted the alliance and cooperation between the empress and the Greco Chamber of Commerce. If others want a share of the pie, they can only get the consent of the first two.

Lin is not involved in the specific operations. As long as a sum of money is deposited into his bank account every quarter, it is considered a dividend. As for dividing more or less, it is optional.

This vague agreement actually reserved Lin's power to take back Long Qi at any time. Anyway, by using the excuse "I think the dividends are less", Longqi can be recycled.

The reason why the empress made this kind of agreement was not to guard against outsiders, but to guard against members of the royal family. To prevent people from seeing money and getting hot-headed, they will find excuses to swallow the dragon flag.

The reason why Lin chose the Empress as a partner was because this person was once the female warrior Kono and is now Saint Alegria. It was not because she was the emperor that she was chosen as a partner. Typical of treating people wrongly.

The empress's attitude was the same. She had never thought about asking this magician to be loyal to the empire and the royal family. As long as the personal relationship between the two parties still existed, she would try her best to maintain it. Anyway, among the family members with the same surname, there are many people who oppose him and no one who supports him.

It would be fine if he had done something stupid and was a coward, causing everyone to rebel and alienate him. But the reality is that all those greedy relatives want to usurp power, so they unite to hold them back. In this case, why should I give up the gifts sent by my friends to others?

Other jealous nobles wanted to encourage nobles related to the navy and maritime affairs to come forward and compete for the ownership of the dragon flag. Especially the two grand dukes in charge of maritime affairs. Although they did not die personally, they worked hard behind the scenes.

Uncharacteristically, the empire's naval fleet ignored all the explicit and implicit hints. Especially the fleet officers who participated in this escort voyage were completely aloof from the incident and did not dare to say a word.

What a joke. A magician who can single-handedly challenge Kraken at sea, and kill over a hundred giant dragons on Dragon Island, he is just tired of living and only provokes such a murderous god!

At this time, the shortcomings of the Lost Land, which has long used taverns and bards' heroic poems as the main means of spreading information, became apparent. That's what everyone believes in what they witness with their own eyes.

As for the rumors from others, as long as they are too exaggerated, they will automatically lower themselves to a few levels to understand them, completely ignoring whether those exaggerated rumors are true or not. Anyway, everyone is used to bragging, so silly Quan Xin, if you go out and tell people about it, you won’t be laughed at.

Therefore, the threat of a certain magician was artificially reduced by the nobles. Coupled with the huge Dragon Island trade interests covering their eyes, they angrily criticized the navy fleet for not doing anything, but no one wanted to face the magician in person.

Even if you don't fully believe the exaggerated rumors about Dragon Island, the magician killed two waves of assassins sent by the nobles, including two giant dragons. These were solid facts, and they couldn't help but believe them.

The Empress certainly values ​​this cooperation. Although someone once gave her an opinion on future governance, that is, a constitutional monarchy. But that change was too huge and would affect the future structure of the empire, so she still couldn't make up her mind to take that path.

Alegria was still looking for ways to increase his influence and regain control of the emperor. For this reason, she paid considerable attention to the allies that a certain magician sent to her door.

However, although the Greco Chamber of Commerce was hit by this piece of pie, the Chamber of Commerce itself was not strong enough to completely eat this piece of Long Island trade pie. Henry could only choose to cooperate with foreign countries and actively expand the strength of the Chamber of Commerce.

It's not that the empress doesn't want to rely on the benefits brought by the dragon flag to win over the nobles. It's a pity that all the nobles are strictly guarded against her as the emperor, and they don't want to share any power. Even if there are enviable interests in front of them, everyone will grit their teeth and hold on.

This does not mean that all nobles are stupid and do not take advantage of them. Instead, he took advantage of the emperor in the first place, and then he had to think about how much price he had to pay in order to deal with the revenge methods of other nobles.

Even if we are not all monolithic, we will still do things like beating the wrong bird with a stick. Comparing the two, the bait in the Empress's hands doesn't taste very good either.

Therefore, Alegria could only choose the non-aristocratic civilian route, trust the Greco Chamber of Commerce, and support it to become powerful. Thanks to the environmental characteristics of the Karlsruhe Empire, civil forces have flourished.

There are many private forces whose strength is no less than that of the powerful aristocrats. It's just because the development time was relatively late and there was no land to occupy and divide, so I couldn't get a title.

Alegria also thought about winning over the support of these people, but she didn't have any leverage at that time. All governing power was divided and firmly held by the nobles, so she had no way to take action. Now that she has the opportunity, how could the empress ignore this aspect.

But the empress also made an agreement with the people from the Greco Chamber of Commerce that the period of protection qualification is only one year. If the Chamber of Commerce cannot meet the needs of Dragon Island trade in any way and obtain the benefits it deserves after one year, the Empress will then let others join.

The reason why the Greco Chamber of Commerce was given such a big opportunity was that, in addition to the advice provided by someone out of compensation, Alegria also looked at the face of William Greco, the white swordsman.

But someone lying on the big bed unceremoniously poured cold water on the head of the beauty next to him and said: "You don't really think that you can win over William just by selling it to the Greco family."

A pair of beautiful eyes cast a resentful look, and Alegria said, "Can't you?"

"In my opinion, William's feelings for that family, except for the blood relationship, are the same as those of all his friends. If you want to win over him with such small favors, you must be mentally prepared to get nothing." Lin said frankly .

After getting up from the big bed, there was naturally a maid from the Jade Palace waiting on the empress to change her clothes. Alegria was at the mercy of others and said, "If that's the case, how did you get that person to help?"

"Just provide him with good food and drink. If you need help, just tell him directly. Or if you are in trouble, as long as he sees it, he will naturally help. But the whole problem is, how to make William stay obediently. In a place, waiting for his call at any time. He is the kind of person who, if you ask him why he likes to wander around, he will only answer 'because my legs are on my body'."

Suddenly, Alegria was deeply touched, and she felt that she should also get along with this sword master. It's just that he is bound by the title of 'Emperor', but what can restrain him from that one.

"In short," Lin brought back the topic, "the chips have been handed over to you. It's up to you to make the most effective use of them. Henry and his family only had one year to run away." It’s just a trip to Dragon Island. Now that there are no restrictions, they can’t raise so many tradable goods. So they retain their qualifications to sail, and they can use it to win over other people at other times. Isn’t this good?”

Being qualified to go to Dragon Island and having goods to trade with dragons are two different things. At least those greedy giant creatures can't be fooled by glass beads.

However, the empress decided to maintain her original idea and explained: "Now those stronger squires still have doubts about me. Giving a small and medium-sized force like the Greco Chamber of Commerce a chance will just allow me to set an example for others to follow." People believe that I have the ability to bring them benefits. But the main reason is that I don’t have enough manpower to handle these things, and you are unwilling to help me.”

In the end, I felt a little helpless and a little bit complaining. Lin could only laugh, change the subject and said: "No wonder Lisa and Acorus can't be seen, they have been sent out by you to do things."

"Yes. Why, do you miss them?" Alegria glanced back at a certain magician and said with a bit of sourness.

Lin smiled and said: "No way. I just want to say that what you lack is just manpower you think you can trust, not those things that I can't do."