However, for the actual person in charge of the Kingdom's Financial Conference, Charles Lyons-Victor de Treville, the Under-Secretary of Finance, this meeting was not so pleasant. After all, although the two sides are not political enemies in the traditional sense, they have basically no contact with each other.
Not to mention, they need to avoid suspicion among their backers, so they have always maintained a stance of disdain and indifference. Therefore, this hasty meeting was inevitably filled with vigilance, fear and suspicion, as well as verbal cynicism and allusion-like temptations.
Despite this, Ciel still achieved the most basic goal through his own negotiations. But this was only a temporary solution to one of his many troubles; next, he had to deal with the pig teammates in his camp as agreed and make others shut up.
After all, just because he could not compete with the other party in the underground black market of Seine City and was robbed of the market, he dared to cross the police station and the high court and try to directly report the other party as a collaborator at the Imperial Council. What kind of stupidity is this? How heart-rending!
As a qualified politician and bureaucrat, shouldn't we maximize the value and benefit of the other party after getting the other party's information? Instead of trying to make a big splash, send it directly to the Imperial Council to detonate it, which will bring various unexpected consequences to the political situation.
Hasn’t that seriously atrophied brain never thought that since the other party can make this business so big, it has no allies and backers, and there are no potential beneficiary groups? Will they just sit back and wait for death, instead of launching a desperate counterattack and causing a bigger political turmoil?
Even if this fallen imperial ceremonial official has no clear connection with the rebels in the south, are all the supporters who have benefited from it all blind and stupid? There must be enough interests and needs for them to deliberately ignore these doubts and problems.
Once the trend of suspicion is overturned, how many people can stay safe in front of the increasingly vigilant and suspicious His Majesty? Not to mention, as the actual person in charge of the dynasty's finances, Charles needed relative stability to maintain the fragile balance.
Therefore, he could only break the traditional convention and come here in person; otherwise, according to the tradition of the kingdom's upper class society, he would have to go through the ceremonial transition of at least two or three social banquets before he could be introduced to each other and have a more in-depth discussion. Negotiate on the substantive content.
However, Ciel couldn't wait any longer. But fortunately, since it is an issue caused by the competition for interests in the underground black market, there are still areas that cannot be negotiated and compromised under the larger negotiation of interests; the final agreement is the result of market expansion and benefit sharing.
In other words, the underground black market business will come to the fore, and more unnecessary links and losses will be reduced. The cost savings and gradually increasing profits will be made by the Capital Bank Group joining behind the scenes. , dividends will be distributed in proportion.
You must know that the business scale of the underground black market in Seine City is not small, but the various links and channels are extremely trivial; in previous years, the banking group simply did not look at this profit. However, there is a but-to in everything; the Burgundian dynasty, which is directly or indirectly supported by the banking group.
In recent years, the feedback that can be provided to the banking group has been getting less and less, and the demands from all aspects have been increasing; even the land rights and monopoly projects used as loan pledges are being defeated and the authority is damaged one after another. , and it is shrinking day by day visible to the naked eye.
Therefore, when these dissatisfaction and dissent accumulate to a certain extent, the biggest remaining problem and internal voice is no longer how to continue to make profits, but how to stop losses as much as possible. But facing a dynasty that has real military power, this is not an easy task.
In fact, after similar suggestions were made, most of the bankers' mansions and villas encountered unabashed public surveillance and guarding by dynastic patrols and spies. Then there were some ragged idle men who greeted the female relatives who came and went.
You must know that it was the banking group that secretly reached an agreement with the Burgundy family, and privately paid heavily to buy the National Guard, which was mainly composed of property owners in the capital, and most of the generals in the dozens of regiments; only then did they let them sit back and watch the Burgundy family. The march ruined the left-behind government of the constitutionalists.
Compared with those business representatives and bankers with foreign royal backgrounds who can decisively give up properties in the capital; the dynasty monitors and restricts all aspects, so that most of the local bankers whose net worth is in the country cannot even make it public. Transfer property.
As an important link between the bankers group and the dynasty, Charles was naturally warned in a sense; although the dynasty still believed in his loyalty and ability, his wife and cousin Charlotte was even named as a companion. The Queen's senior lady-in-waiting.
However, at the same time, because street mobs inside and outside the capital were becoming more active, he was equipped with guards from the Secret Service of the reconstructed royal family. The other party, who was always expressionless all day long, looked at him with equally creepy eyes, but he could not refuse this "good intention".
Therefore, as bankers and representatives of large business groups in the capital, they care less about the benefits from the underground black market than about the transportation and access channels represented by the underground black market. For example, charging a certain fee based on their identity and sending people secretly out of the Capital Region.
But what troubled him more was family matters. His wife Charlotte was a smart, pleasant, thoughtful and considerate woman before her marriage; but after her marriage, she was busy with affairs and traveling for a long time, which caused her to mix among those aristocratic women and was deeply affected by it.
Therefore, as he became more accustomed to flashy social activities and keen on the pleasures brought by power and fame, he also became more and more concerned and persistent about his private life. He was forced to send them away one after another, and always maintained a relationship in life and work. Several women of...
But what bothers him the most is his close relatives who are still far away in the south, and his sister Fran, who has always made him feel guilty. Charles heard one after another that she had encountered many things in her hometown in the south, and there were even rumors that she was getting involved with those rebels called the Free Army.
No matter how many times he wrote letters to persuade and tried various ways to redeem himself, he refused to listen; until a few days ago, he sent him a self-portrait wearing a ribbon. The signature inscription reads "Baron Fran del Treville". It wasn't until this moment that Ciel gave up completely.
Obviously, Fran, as his sister, has been deeply hurt by him, and is determined to establish her own family in her hometown in the south; to continue a family with the surname Travell. This made him feel both ridiculous and angry, and he noticed the underground black market.
In fact, the previous denunciation letters sent to the police station, municipal authorities, and the High Court all originated from his subordinates' warnings and tests against the hosts behind the underground black market; as a result, nothing was revealed, and even No case was even filed.
But because of this, he followed the clues and implicated the imperial ceremony officer. But then, a fool in the Ciel political camp took advantage of the situation and pushed the whole matter into an unpredictable direction, forcing him to show up to solve the problem.
And after he began to pay attention to news related to the south, he was able to discover some of the truth behind the many rumors that had been hidden for a long time. The chaos in the south is no longer a group of escapees from the capital and a gathering of southern heretics, but a powerful force.
It has complete government agencies and local organizations at all levels, as well as a well-organized army and a formalized knighthood/knight inheritance; it also controls many overseas provinces, controls most of the southern and central areas of the kingdom, and even defeats all directions. Foreign intervention forces.
However, the policies and ideas they adhere to are too crazy; they actually want to eradicate most of the nobles above the knight/jazz class and deprive them of all privileges and land property. And in the process of marching, trials and liquidations are constantly being carried out.
Not to mention that their forced labor was almost like the Colosseum in ancient Rome to please the civil class in front of those humble and ignorant mobs, completely trampling on the feudal system that the kingdom had maintained since then and the dignity of the aristocratic class that was the cornerstone. In the sludge.
There are also legends that they like to force the wives and daughters of nobles to engage in the prostitution industry of selling their bodies; they like to bring loan sharks, tax collectors appointed by the kingdom, and even many wealthy and famous bankers and heads of chambers of commerce, to the cheers of the mob. Hanging one by one in the sound.
It is simply more cruel than the Republicans, liberals, and constitutionalists of the past combined. For Charles, who believed that his ancestors were from high-ranking nobles, and now he was an important minister of the dynasty and a representative of the banking group, this was simply unimaginable and unacceptable.
Their leader calls himself the Knight King, but he has no knightly virtues of mercy, justice, and honor. God knows how Fran, who stayed in her hometown in the south, could hang out with such a group of extremists; and what miserable and despicable things she would encounter.
Of course, Ciel is not unprepared for the difficulties and difficulties that the dynasty may encounter in the future. Although the dynasty placed surveillance guards around him, they still could not stop him from making arrangements through private social gatherings and family gatherings.
There are more than a dozen members of the Travell family branch in the city hall and the police station; one of his cousins is in the postal censorship office in the capital. In addition, there were many young officers in the garrison whom he supported, and close friends of Wang Li's corps who were also nobles.
Although their existence cannot resist the dynastic rule, it can provide some convenience at a critical moment; allowing the main members, including him and his wife, to wait for an opportunity to flee abroad and start over. Of course, all this is based on the situation before the change of the celestial sphere and there are no aliens running rampant.
Therefore, they must, in turn, try their best to maintain the rule of the Burgundian dynasty, so as to ensure that their existing assets will not be reduced to nothing by the endless attacks and destruction of wild aliens who cannot be negotiated or bribed. Worthless garbage and waste paper.
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