Chapter 433
2014-08-16
"Shop owner, everything is here, please check to see if there is any damage.""No , no. Oh, this is the deposit, I'll give it back to you. Well, how are you, how are you feeling?"
"Yes, there are a group of guests here."
"That's good, that's good, hehe..."
At noon, the chubby shopkeeper regained his tavern, and after chatting for a while, he respectfully sent the two of them out of the house.
The thoughts of the nobles are really hard to guess... Watching the two disappear on the street corner, the fat shopkeeper sighed, and there was a bit of envy in his words.
In fact, in the middle of the journey, he once came back once, and he didn't get close, but looked at it from a distance. I saw a dozen luxury carriages parked in front of his unremarkable tavern, surrounded by many brightly armored Knights. In this way, the identity of these two people is naturally classified as a noble by him.
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Along the street, Tang En and Joah walked side by side in the crowd.
"Phew..." With a long sigh of relief, Joah raised his hands in a posture of exhausting the pressure, and pursed his lips, "Really, after arguing all morning, a condition was not reached."
"The success or failure can be determined once, that is kidnapping for ransom." Tang En shrugged indifferently, "At least, you embarrassed that hateful old man, didn't you?"
Joah squinted his eyes when he heard the words and said with a smile: "hehe... If you say that, I still have something to gain. Well, my heart is suddenly balanced. Ha!"
They said that after the negotiation in the morning When Simpson left, he slammed his foot on the threshold and rolled over in shame. At this age, sitting for such a long time will inevitably lead to poor blood flow. Of course, Joah's credit is not small, it is precisely because of her heart-piercing remarks that Simpson is in a mood to have ups and downs, hair stands up in anger, and that old face has been in a bloody Condition. The combination of the two eventually led to this "tragedy".
It is conceivable that such shameful things will inevitably spread in the aristocratic circle. The argument at that time is likely to become Simpson's speechless, lost soul, and finally stepped on the air when he was refuted in the negotiation... Maybe it was because of this situation that Simpson rolled his eyes after the fall and directly After fainting, it caused chaos again, almost causing both sides to do it.
"By the way, then Simpson won't just die, right?" Joah turned his head and asked after taking pleasure in other people's misfortune.
"A little sympathy?"
"It's an old man after all... well, and if he really dies because of this, we're afraid we won't be able to continue this negotiation."
"Ha, really the most poisonous woman's heart... don't worry, it shouldn't be dead."
"Well? How do you know?"
shrugged, Tang En said: "I was in the back at that time, there was someone... Well, that Alex was by my side, I heard him muttering something and pretended to be dizzy or something, look, experienced, It won't be so easy to die."
"So..." He waved his fist, "Well, then I'll keep working hard next time and try to make him faint again."
With an expressionless face, "Come on, come on..."
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In the afternoon, the Advanced Hotel in the center of Shanxi City.
This is where the noble negotiating group lives in Shanxi City. The reason why they did not enter the East City District, where the nobles warmly invited them, was of course for the convenience and confidentiality of the negotiations. But even so, in their identities, the hotel was completely wrapped up and surrounded by guards.
At this time, in front of the hotel, a middle-aged nobleman was sending a white-bearded doctor out. Immediately laughing, he hooked the head and walked back to the empty tavern hall, as if he had remembered something, step one stopped, turned his head and said to the counter: "The bowl of nourishing soup will be delivered to Room 1."
" Yes!"
He kept walking through the elegantly decorated courtyard and into the attic. He walked directly past Room 1, stopped in front of Room 9 at the end of the corridor, looked around, and pushed the door in.
"Sir Simpson is all right, hehe, I'm starting to believe what Alex said now... This old moth is not pretending?"
The old moth is the new aristocrat's response to the traditional A derogatory term for nobility. On the contrary, in the mouth of the traditional aristocracy, the new aristocracy is the upstart. (Mentioned before in In Literature there is)
"Although I would prefer him to be bedridden, but...it doesn't have much to do with us, doesn't it."
The speaker is Luo Nader, this is his room. But now there are a lot of people here, except for Philip, basically all the new noble members in the negotiating team are here.
Ronald looked around and said, "Okay, let's discuss what to do while those people visit Simpson?"
Silence for a moment, the previous one The middle-aged noble said: "In the past few days, I have received some news from the Northern Armed Forces. The strength of the Grey Cloth Armed Force is not low now, and what is even more terrifying is the speed of its expansion. I think they have fully met. The conditions for allies of the new nobles."
This is almost nonsense, but meetings, always use some nonsense to lead to the next topic.
Sure enough, a younger aristocrat got up and said: "But the key is how can we reach a cooperation agreement with the Grey Cloth Armed Force? You have also heard the conditions put forward by the other party today. Although it has always been the gang The old moth is refuting, but we... well, we mustn't agree."
Silently, the nobles present were silently nodded.
The ass determines the brain, this is the truth that can be popular everywhere.
New nobles are also nobles and vested interests. To put it bluntly, they just want to grab more power and a greater right to speak from the traditional aristocracy. But some of the conditions proposed by Joah today have fundamentally touched the lifeblood of the aristocratic class. As for what Joah said is also good for the Empire and so on, why don't they know it, but their position has decided they absolutely can't do it. If you do, then what Simpson said today is really not a threat. "...If you dare to agree to this condition, I promise you will die ugly!"
There was a half silence, or Ronald He opened his mouth: "It's impossible for them to know this... It should be just a negotiation strategy. The land cannot be moved, but it is still possible to let the commoner children enter the Academy and other conditions."
"Well, I think so too. "
"That's right! But it's also very difficult, let's take the commoner's children into the Academy as an example... Well, let me say it bluntly, we and the commoner There are two levels, if we let our children mix with the commoner children, will they grow up, will they no longer respect or fear us?"
This noble is indeed straight. White, but the truth is the truth. In addition to the beauty, the distance will also produce a mysterious sense of prestige! Usually the nobles are aloof and remote, and the commoner can't get in touch, so they will naturally guess, and the unknown is always scary. But if they live together, these commoner children will find that the original nobles are like that, similar to us, and even in some fields, they have not learned as well as us, and so on. As a result, that layer of mystery will naturally disappear.
"This is a problem, but it can be solved!" Ronald seemed to have considered a lot during the negotiation, directly opened the mouth and said, "We can build another Academy for commoner children, so Then the problem doesn't exist."
"Good idea, I agree!"
"I agree too...Sir Ronald is worthy of being the backbone of my new nobleman Hero!"
"That's right, that's exactly what it is..."
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Waved his hand, Ronald seemed very calm, but The feeling of being praised is naturally also good, the corners of the mouth rise, and then he said: "We can do the same for some other insensitive conditions. We can always think of ways to deal with it, and now the key is..."
After a while, as if organizing language, he immediately said, "Don't forget, Second Prince is still waiting for our news. We must now let the other party accept the three-vote parliamentary resolution... I don't think the other party will refuse this, Because they also have the conditions for the commoner to join the regime. But how to make the other party accept the conditions that come with it... how to disband the army?"
Three votes of parliamentary decision power, which is what the new nobles want. If there is a dispute in the size of the empire, it needs to be voted by the parliament. However, the traditional aristocracy has a natural advantage. They account for the vast majority of the seats in the parliament. Naturally, the result of this vote will not benefit the new aristocracy. After these years of hard work, the new nobles have made little progress. Now that they see the power of the Grey Cloth Armed Force, coupled with this great opportunity, they will naturally not miss it.
And once the two sides can cooperate successfully, the votes of Grey Cloth Armed Force are naturally equivalent to those of the new nobles, which undoubtedly increases their right to speak. Of course, these bright prospects have a premise that the Grey Cloth Armed Force agrees to disband the army.
"That's the root of them, it's too difficult... I really can't think of a way."
"Yes, and to put it bluntly, they may not be completely Trust us... simply don't dare to disband the army."
"Did Second Prince say that this idea can be compromised?"
"Difficult, this is Second Prince's manipulation of those three votes A bargaining chip for the parliamentary decision-making power. If there is a compromise, I am afraid that it will be difficult for Second Prince."
"Everyone!" Looking at the nobles who kept shaking their heads, Ronald pinched the bridge of his nose, " In any case, we always have to test first, at least we need to know where their bottom line is?"
"That's right." The middle-aged aristocrat from earlier nodded, "If you think about it, the other party will agree. That's unlikely, at least we have to discuss some results to report to Second Prince, and let the people over there discuss countermeasures."
"Well, that's it...but these old moths How should we communicate with each other?"
"Federation has a way, they shouldn't follow closely."
"This is really hard to say. ..."
This is indeed a problem, the traditional nobles are naturally impossible for the new nobles to reach such cooperation with the Grey Cloth Armed Force, so the next step is to take strict precautions.
After discussing for a while, the younger aristocrat's eyes shined suddenly, raised his head and said, "I have an idea, um, how about letting Philip come forward? His freedom of movement is unobtrusive, and with Grey The Cloth Armed Force seems to have something to do with it."
"Uh...yes! How can I say that Philip is also one of our people..."
"It's a good idea. But then again , is he reliable?"
"Well...well, this is a problem."
"Alas..."
Everyone was tangled, let Philip conveying is undoubtedly the best way. But to be honest, they really can't trust Philip...
In the end, Ronald stood up and made a decision: "No matter, try it! Let him convey some news first, and if it works, we will hope Pin it on him."
"That's all it can do..."
"Light God bless..."
…(To be completed Continued.)