Joanna wanted to chat with Guo Kang for a while, but Guo Kang had other things to do today. He had made an appointment with Shi Huizhen before to take her to arrest someone.
Cao Jian delayed for too long, and the bells of the Chen Shi Sutra had already sounded just now. Guo Kang looked up at the clock. It was almost ten o'clock. She is no better than ordinary people. If she leaves late, I don’t know what trouble she will cause.
However, he can't always tell his purpose directly. Therefore, Guo Kang claimed that he was going back to report the military situation to his adoptive father and prepared to leave.
But when he reached the door, Joanna pulled him aside again.
"When you move these days, you'd better be careful and pay attention to safety." She reminded seriously with a rare serious look on her face.
"Ah?" Guo Kang didn't react for a moment.
"I know you have other plans. Don't worry, I won't ask." Joanna said, "But recently, the city has not been peaceful. Don't let your guard down in a place where you think you are safe."
"How do you know?" Guo Kang said in surprise.
"Do you think everyone is blind?" Joanna said angrily: "You led a group of armored cavalry and ran on the street at night, and the whole city knew about it. Everyone was celebrating the victory, but you were in a hurry, She looks extremely nervous. It’s impossible not to be noticed.”
"Oops..." Guo Kang was so anxious at the time that he didn't consider these impacts at all. He didn't react until she said this.
"But it's not a big deal." He could only try to appease the other party: "It's just some public security cases. Maybe the gangs in the city are causing trouble again. Let's investigate here and solve the culprit. That'll be it."
"Hey, haven't you seen it yet?" Joanna shook her head: "It's not just a security issue. These Russians want to use Cao Jian to enter the legion."
"I already feel this way." Guo Kang agreed, but still felt it was not a big deal: "We will strictly screen those gang members. Just look for opportunities to kick them out later."
"Can the Alemanni mercenary you found be able to control these violent and evil-hearted Russians?" Joanna questioned: "And this is not just Cao Jian and his group. The relationship between the Cao family and the Li family Very good, the son-in-law of the Cao family is gathering people recently, and is planning to ask the Li family to jointly guarantee it, and send it in through their way."
"How do you know this?" Guo Kang was even more surprised: "I designed the plan myself, and I don't even know this..."
"Because I'm in business. If the Florence Chamber of Commerce knows about it, I know it." Joanna showed an expression that only little Jeanne had shown before:
"If you don't pay attention to it yourself, of course you don't know. Are you so careless? When you put forward the plan, you leave it all to others?"
Guo Kang was speechless for a moment - he really thought that this was no problem and not worth paying attention to.
Joanna could only shake her head helplessly and told him: "Gregory Pronsky is the largest backend and investor of the Ryazan Chamber of Commerce. The Ryazan people who go out to make a living have some connection with him. As business partners, they Of course we will also know something about the situation.”
"I thought it was Grand Duke Liangzan and Mrs. Cao who pushed it." Guo Kang was a little surprised.
"Grand Duke Fyodor relies very much on the financial support of the Pronsky family, otherwise he would not be able to maintain his current situation." Joanna said: "The nobles do not fear him as much as they fear his father, which leads to various problems in the court. Policies are often not implemented well. He can only carefully adjust the relationship between various families, maintain the balance of interests, and make up for it with additional wealth in a timely manner to make everyone obey for the time being."
"Then he won't be worse off in the future?" Guo Kang asked: "If Pronsky can influence the legion..."
"Then he will have to influence the legion even more." Joanna shrugged: "He can't stop Pronsky's actions. He can only use the simplest and crudest means to directly accept your plan to set up a legion manor in Ryazan. Hedging. This will at least allow him to have some influence, and will also gain the support of the benefited commoners and minor nobles."
"So that's it..." Guo Kang scratched his head: "I knew there was a Ross gangster in the city before, but I never thought of so many things."
"Strictly speaking, it's not really 'one'." Joanna said: "Russians in different places have many different organizations. That gang is more like an alliance."
"Of course, it's not just them, in fact, all gangs are like this. Although our side is called Italy in a broad sense, some gangs from the north are even close to the French. Among Sicilians, this is obviously completely unacceptable. of."
"Is there such a distinction?" Guo Kang had never paid attention to it before and was quite curious.
"Yes, I saw a group of Milanese businessmen going to visit Princess Jeanne of France, including several gang leaders." Joanna gave an example.
"For Sicilians, the French, especially the French royal family, are natural enemies. It is said that the origin of the Sicilian gang was the Vespers incident in 1285. At that time, it was ruled by the Anjou family from France, but France The officials and soldiers were very dissolute and cruel."
"Finally, a woman in Palermo was publicly assaulted by a French officer outside a church. Her husband could not bear this 'French habit' and drew his knife and killed the officer. Other French soldiers present joined the fight , but in the end they were all killed by angry locals."
"Those locals had some loose associations, so they organized themselves and killed all the French people on the island. Their slogan at the time was 'Morto Alla Francia, Italia Anela (The elimination of France is Italy's desire)'," This acronym, Mafia, has since become the collective name for this type of association.”
"After that, the Anjou family retreated to Naples. The Sicilians hated them very much and cannot accept these French rulers until now. This has also resulted in two Sicilian kingdoms existing together. Even if these people go to a foreign land, they will not like France. Noble."
"This is really complicated." Guo Kang thought for a while and felt that he wouldn't be able to figure it out for a while: "But I understand what you mean. Thank you for your reminder. I will be more careful in the future."
Joanna took half a step back, lifted up her skirt, bowed slightly, and saluted him goodbye.
Guo Kang nodded towards her and turned to leave.
"Mr. Guo." Joanna said dissatisfiedly from behind: "I know your status is higher than mine, but it's too perfunctory for you to treat a lady and supporter like this."
Guo Kang turned around, a little embarrassed, but he really didn't know how to return the favor in this situation. In daily life, he either nodded to others or greeted each other with religious gestures with the priests.
Thanks to the crude etiquette system of the Purple Horde Khanate, he thought for a long time and found that the etiquette he had an impression of were all Serris etiquette, which was not consistent with others. Although the etiquette of bowing is commonly used in daily life, he remembered that it should be used to express respect for people with higher status, and as Joanna reminded, he himself is the person with higher status here.
Although Joanna's words contained complaints, she smiled mischievously. She tilted her head and opened her arms slightly, as if encouraging him to respond quickly.
Seeing that he could not answer this temporary test question, Guo Kang could only use the most common method: he also stood up straight, stretched out his arms, and shouted: "Long live Rome!"
"..."
Joanna was speechless for a moment. Seeing this, Guo Kang quickly smiled at her, turned around and went on his way.
Fortunately, the agreed place was not far from here, and we still made it to the place on time. But at this time, Shi Huizhen was already waiting there - and Theodora was right next to her. Obviously, she also had doubts about letting this guy move freely.
"You guys came quite early." Guo Kang said in greeting.
"I think we'd better hurry up." Shi Huizhen told him: "Hurry up and finish this job. I still have to change clothes. It's really troublesome."
"Huh?" Guo Kang couldn't understand for a moment.
"She has a banquet to attend at noon." Theodora explained for her: "It is a regular gathering of nobles. This time it is held at the home of Sir Vlahos, and there should be many famous ladies attending. .”
"That's right." Shi Huizhen nodded: "I will definitely defeat those annoying guys this time!"
After hearing this, Guo Kang hesitated to speak, but finally decided to respect the freedom of others.
"Then let's start work quickly." He said, "My plan is this..."
(End of chapter)
