Chapter 637: 626. Harvey
Chapter 637 626. Harvey
A heavy snow covered the entire city of Bena covered in silver. Under the moonlit night, Earl Gophero stood on the high tower of the manor, looking at the aristocratic area of the city of Bena with many castles in the distance. There are exquisite manors here. Surrounded by a large area of woodland, it is even more precious in this city where every inch of land is expensive.
As a member of the oldest aristocratic family in the province of Bena, the Gophero family ranks low among the wealthy families, but the style of that noble family is vividly reflected everywhere, whether it is a gorgeous silver carriage, It is still a manor garden with a simple style, and the style and taste of the family members are almost all pursuing the luxury that only the rich and nobles have.
It's just that this is the Gophero family 200 years ago. At that time, the Gophero family owned the top-level swordsman group in the province of Bena. Everywhere, they used the most unique broad-edged sword to lay down the glory days of the Gophero family.
Today's Gophero family has lost the blessing of the legendary powerhouse, and the family's decline covers almost all aspects.
In the past hundred years, there have been almost no outstanding leaders in the Gophero family.
In the current generation, Earl Gophero is almost the worst patriarch.
Before succeeding to the throne, the Earl of Gophero was a very active and outstanding young nobleman in the province of Bena. He put forward many new ideas, but only discovered in the process of practice that his ideas can only be said to be too idealistic .
As a result, family reforms, territorial expansion, and business operations have all ended in failure.
Count Gophero has always stubbornly believed that he is only one step away from success, and as long as the goddess of luck treats him a little better, these things may succeed.
But the reality is very slap in the face, it seems that the goddess of luck has never been on his side.
Now with the over-exploitation of resources on some private planes, some planes are exhausted, so the united nobles have to give up these planes.
The plundering of resources on the plane has always been the main economic pillar supporting the private armies of the noble lords. Since the Constructed Swordsman Corps of the Gophero Family withdrew from the name of the Bena Legion, the Constructed Swordsman Corps of the Gophero Family has gradually disappeared in the world. In the nearly hundred years of history.
Plane resources shrunk little by little, slowing down the giant chariot of the Gophero family a little bit.
Except for this seemingly vast manor in the city, the current assets that the Gophero family can sell are very limited. Almost all of the assets have fallen into the hands of family members. It's down and out, but some family members are richer than expected.
This time Harvey Gefiro wants to start the wheat flour business, and for this Harvey also invited the southern aristocratic lord Kennelly family wheat flour business speaker - Jack Kennelly Baron, in order to raise the business Not only did Earl Gophero allocate the last sum of money in the family treasury to Harvey, Harvey also borrowed some money from other family members, making up nearly 5,000 magic crystals.
Count Gophero remembered Harvey talking endlessly at the dining table about the plan to build a business empire, talking about the expected profit scale of the wheat flour shipped from the south, and encouraging many family members to participate in the shares.
The money was sent to Jack Kennelly by Harvey before it was warmed up.
In just one afternoon, there were rumors in the entire city of Bena that a group of liars played Baron Harvey Gophero around.
Count Gophero 1. He aged a lot overnight, he even had a hunched back, and his sharp gaze became a little sad.
He stood alone on the high tower blowing the cold wind. The last batch of magic crystals in the family treasury was emptied by his son Harvey, and the savings of other family members were also buried here.
He felt that the crisis that the Gophero family was facing this time was more serious than any previous one.
In fact, Harvey also consumed the last bit of trust that the Gophero family members had in the family leader.
No one even went to the Gopher Manor to pursue those magic crystals from the Earl of Gopher, because they knew that even if they asked the Count of Gopher, the Earl of Gopher might not be able to get it.
In fact, he really can't come up with so many magic crystals.
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Baron Harvey Gophero hid outside and dared not go home at the very beginning.
After hearing the news, Count Gophero didn't scold him, but just gave him a cold and numb look, and then ignored him. This was obviously more uncomfortable than scolding him.
He frantically searched for Jack Kennelly all over the world, even at the expense of mobilizing his contacts in Bena City, but unfortunately no good news came back.
At first, he thought that Baron Jack Kennelly might be joking with him, and he would show up when he lost patience without even looking for it seriously.
Later, he hoped that Baron Jack Kennelly would realize that in the middle of his absconding with the money, the magic airships full of wheat were about to arrive in Bena City, and he felt that absconding with the money was just the rudest exchange of resources Will run back to continue this transaction similar to resource exchange.
Actually he was just hoping for a miracle.
His horse was tired from running, standing on the street panting heavily, the horse's hooves ruthlessly scratched the snow on the ground, refusing to take another step.
Harvey held the reins of the horse with one hand, raised the whip and whipped the horse a few times.
The horse immediately stood up, almost throwing Baron Harvey off his horse.
Baron Harvey put his body around the horse's neck, and his body was tightly attached to the horse's body, but the horse's temper was very irritable, and then his body fell heavily, trampling on the ground, and the huge reaction force immediately made Ha Baron Wei jumped up from his horse, and Harvey lost control of his body. Then he was slammed by the back of the horse and fell off the horse hard.
He was ashamed and angry, and he limped up from the ground. He felt that he was too careless. Not only was he deceived by Jack Kennelly, he was even bullied by his own war horse.
Furiously, he pulled out the long sword in his waist and pierced the horse's ribs into the heart. A fat and strong horse groaned in pain and fell down on the snow. A lot of blood spurted out from the wound. The horse died in the street.
Harvey planned to find some friends to borrow some money to tide over the difficulties, but he did not expect to visit several usual friends one after another. These ordinary friends rejected all his requests for borrowing money. Lend him the rest of the money.
After visiting six friends one after another, Harvey returned to the Gophero family estate disheartened.
As soon as he entered the manor, he looked up and saw the bleak Earl Gophero standing alone on the high tower.
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Suldak rode a horse across the moat suspension bridge of Bena City, and watched the city gate close again, feeling indescribably happy...
(end of this chapter)