In the restaurant filled with candlelight, waiters in white served dishes on silver plates. There were many dishes provided on the airship. Ma Wei chose the whole goose feast, and the appetizer was foie gras with pan-fried butter bread. The portion is small and can be finished in one bite.
After the appetizer, there is onion and clam soup, followed by the main dish - a whole roast goose. Of course Mavey can't finish it. He will cut the roast goose and share it with others.
"It seems Nicholas... Please forgive me for the offense of calling you by your first name. In fact, all three of you brothers are named Manstein. To distinguish them, I want to call you by a more familiar name."
Under Mavey's kind smile, Stuart Frederick, a young man with a slicked back hair, took a sip of red wine and continued: "Nicholas, you speak Windsor very well and you know our situation very well. Come here before." Have you been to the Kingdom of Windsor?”
"I know a few friends from the Kingdom of Windsor, Stuer." Mawei abbreviated the young man's name, making it more intimate: "They told me a lot about the Kingdom of Windsor. I am studying at Freiberg University of Technology. When I was in school, I longed for the Kingdom of Windsor.”
After the conversation just now, Mavey has figured out the details of the young man sitting on his left, Stuart Frederick, from High Wycombe, a city next to London. His father is the current Baron of High Wycombe. You can also call him Baron Frederick, one is the title, the other is the honorific suffix, you can call him whatever you want.
Stuart is a typical child of a noble family. He studied at Oxford University. During the year-end vacation, he took a female companion he met at the university to travel to the Kingdom of Frederick. The blue badge with a long sword on his chest is the symbol of the Frederick family. .
Mavey, who has served in the Royal Navy for many years, has some knowledge of the London aristocracy. Baron Frederick is barely in the upper middle class among the Windsor aristocracy, but Baron Frederick has one very powerful thing... .
He gave birth to a good daughter, Yin Elizabeth, who married the Prince of Oxford, Shukri Windsor, the famous second prince.
Strictly speaking, this is not a family marriage, but the choice of Prince Shukri of Oxford.
If it were a marriage, Prince Shukri would definitely choose a more prominent and top-level noble family instead of the middle-to-upper-class Frederick family.
As for Stewart’s father, the current Baron Frederick, serves in the House of Lords and has two sons and one daughter. The daughter is naturally married to Prince Shukri’s Yin Elizabeth. The eldest son Kilani is 35 years old and has inherited the family business. , the second son is Stuart, who is 21 years old, still in school and does not interfere in the family business.
The blond woman sitting next to Stuart is his classmate at Oxford University, studying finance. Her name is Abigail. She comes from a business family. Her father is engaged in the jewelry industry and is very rich.
Stuart and Abigail were already engaged. As the second son of the family, Baron Frederick had no need for his son to marry the daughter of a noble family. On the contrary, a businessman with a lot of wealth was what the Frederick family needed at the moment.
Abigail's father, James, needed to marry a nobleman to enter the upper class. The two hit it off and finalized the engagement after just one meeting.
After Stuart and Abigail's trip, on their way back to the Kingdom of Windsor, they happened to meet the Maveys.
The status of businessmen is definitely not as good as that of nobles, but Stewart does not despise the status of Mavey and his friends. Instead, he has been asking about the Manstein family's 'financial resources' in an indirect way, trying to find out the details of Mavey.
But after communicating for a long time, he only knew that Ma Wei was a grocer and knew nothing about his strength. On the contrary, his family's information was almost trapped by others.
You can't blame him. Stuart had restrained himself from revealing the information. But by chance, he met Mavey, who had served in the Royal Navy for many years. His former boss Tulay Crowley had told him a lot about aristocrats. thing, when Stewart said his family name...
A lot of information has been exposed to Ma Wei.
"Nicholas, are you going to London this time to settle down and do business there?" Stewart forked a piece of goose, dipped it in applesauce, and stuffed it into his mouth.
"Yes." Ma Wei nodded: "In the past few years, the three of us brothers have accumulated some connections and funds, and plan to go to London, which we have always longed for."
"The water in London is very deep." Stewart patted the back of his fiancée Abigail's fair hand: "Her father is a famous jeweler in London. If you don't mind, Nicholas, I will do it for you when we get to London. I would like to introduce you so that you can exchange experiences and familiarize yourself with the situation in London in advance and avoid many detours."
"That's great!" Mavey raised the red wine glass in his hand, touched it with Stuart, and left as soon as his lips touched the wine.
With the help of Stewart's relationship, Mavey can get in touch with London's business circle and the Frederick family. As long as he shows strong enough strength, the second prince Prince Shukri will also notice him. By then...
Didn’t the Manstein family successfully come into contact with the upper class of the Kingdom of Windsor?
A ticket of 50 gold pounds is a great value!
"By the way, Nicholas, what is your main business?"
After finishing the meal, Stewart asked the waiter to remove the plate and bring the dessert. While waiting, he asked: "There are many kinds of grocers, some sell everything, and some specialize in one kind of product... What about you?" "
"Oh, we also sell everything, but we focus on herbal medicines."
"Herbal medicine?" Stewart raised an eyebrow, "Is it related to the pharmacy industry?"
As soon as these words came out, Ma Wei knew that Stewart had misunderstood. The pharmacy industry in Stewart's mouth refers to the pharmacy grocers that sell opium, cocaine, marijuana and other commodities. According to the laws of the Kingdom of Windsor, smoking cocaine is not illegal. The concept of drugs It didn't appear either. Just like cigarettes, as long as you have money, you can buy them in any pharmacy.
This is a hugely profitable industry. Businesses and companies that can sell drugs are supported by top nobles. Overseas planting land is their private property. They can grow whatever they want. The United States of Citi originally wanted to seize the market of the Romanov Kingdom. This behavior aroused resistance from the Kingdom of Windsor, which involved disputes over the interests of the aristocratic group.
Dino did not dare to touch the interests of these top nobles at first. It was not until Pluto Trading Company became famous and got to know many nobles that he got a piece of the pie from them.
Of course, Ma Wei won't do drug trafficking. What he wants to do is serious herbal medicine... The potion business is essentially different from drug trafficking.
"Stull, have you read the newspapers of the Romanov Kingdom?"
"No." Stewart shook his head: "I don't understand Slavic."
Ma Wei waved his hand, and the messenger on the side immediately took out the newspaper he had prepared in advance and handed it over.
"The latest issues of the Pravda newspaper of the Romanov Kingdom published a lot of information about extraordinary herbs. I thought this was a big business opportunity, so I wanted to open a shop selling extraordinary herbs." Mawei said.
Hearing this, Stewart shrank slightly and said in surprise: "The Romanov Kingdom would actually make the information about extraordinary herbs public? What on earth do they think?"
"Who knows?" Ma Wei shrugged, as if it had nothing to do with him: "Anyway, they did this, so I plan to take advantage of the opportunity to make a fortune."
"Do you have a channel?"
The waiter in white brought the dessert, but Stewart was not in the mood to enjoy it at the moment. He kept asking: "As far as I know, extraordinary herbs have side effects that are difficult for humans to resist. Only extraordinary people can obtain them and can do this business." There are not many people..."
Ma Wei smiled and said nonchalantly: "We three brothers have worked hard outside these years and accumulated some connections... Dessert is here, eat it quickly."
"oh...."
Stewart ate the triangular cake one bite at a time, absent-mindedly, his eyes flickering, as if he was thinking about something.
Noticing his expression, Ma Wei knew that the fish had bitten the hook, and he would loosen the line and pull hard...
After finishing the cake on the plate in a few mouthfuls, Ma Wei grabbed a napkin and wiped the corners of his mouth, stood up and said, "Stuer, I'm a little tired. I'm going back to the room to rest. You can enjoy it slowly."
"How about sitting there for a while?" Stuart, who came back to his senses, suggested: "I have a bottle of old wine from the Bordeaux region in my box. How about everyone come to my room for a drink?"
The letter was a bit emotional, but fortunately Ma Wei understood his temperament and said first: "Thank you for the invitation, but I am really tired today, so let's do it tomorrow."
"...Okay, then tomorrow." Stewart nodded with difficulty.
Picking up Yunia who was holding on to the cake plate, Ma Wei winked at Lai Wen and Daniel. The three of them turned away and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
Before returning to the room, Ma Wei and others took a trip to the kitchen and brought a whole plate of cakes and several bottles of expensive red wine - the cake belonged to Yunia, the red wine belonged to Li Wen, and this kid drank it at the dining table. He drank a whole bottle, causing other guests at several tables to look at him strangely, thinking that he was an alcoholic...
Returning to the guest room on the fourth floor, Lai Wen and Daniel first came to Mawei's room, closed the door, and asked loudly: "Brother, that kid Stewart has good wine, why did you refuse his invitation?"
"What kind of distance is the most itchy and unbearable?" Ma Wei took off his coat, slowly hung it on the hanger, and said in a calm tone: "The distance that is suddenly far and suddenly close is the most itchy and unbearable."
"What we have to do is to make Stewart aware of the huge gaps and profits in the potion industry. Anyone who is not a fool can understand the importance of potions in the future."
The messenger nodded: "So, brother, you want to seduce Stewart, right? What good does this do to us?"
"Behind Stewart is the Frederick family, and behind the Frederick family is the second prince Shukri. To befriend Stewart is to befriend the second prince Shukri."
"But it's not the one we support..." Daniel hesitated, looked around, lowered his voice and said, "Isn't it the one we support the fourth prince Arthur?"
"It is indeed him, but have you ever thought that we should disintegrate the enemy from within?"
Ma Wei sat on the sofa behind the tea table, held his chin in one hand, and said with deep eyes:
"If we want to stir up this big fish pond in London, a small wooden stick is not enough. We should use several other forces to add fuel to the fire behind the scenes and plunge the situation into complete chaos."
"As long as we can control the potion market in the Kingdom of Windsor, then no matter which prince or archbishop will rely on us, we will have the power to shake London. On the surface, we are Arthur's enemies, but the actual situation... "
"Is that true?"
