Bright Era

When the scent of beef and wine began to float over the town of Malen, Lin Qi had already taken Lu En and more than a hundred guards and escorted ten carts to Mali City slowly. Malun Town, a small town with more than 10,000 residents, and Mali, less than sixty miles away, is a big city with more than 300,000 permanent residents and hundreds of thousands of floating population.

Unlike the town of Malun, where birds don’t lay eggs, Mali is the official commercial port of the Gaul Empire facing the Gaul Empire across Lake Saint Luen. All legal goods of the Gaul Empire will be transferred to all parts of the Caesar Empire through the city of Mali.

Therefore, there are many chambers of commerce and the commerce here is extremely developed. Although it is far behind Vias Port and Dunelker Port, it is still a small commercial hub. It is precisely because of this that the city of Mali stationed a small fleet of 30 medium-sized warships, as well as 5,000 elite soldiers.

In the past few days, Lin Qi has obtained corresponding information from Mali City. The commander of this small fleet is a lieutenant colonel from the Caesar Empire; and the commander of the five thousand elite soldiers is a colonel from the Caesar Empire. The two have been serving here for ten years. They have mixed forces and can be regarded as real emperors near the city of Mali.

Sitting diagonally on the cowl of a big cart, Lin Qi grabbed the tail of a strong horse pulling the cart, and constantly tore off the tails of the horses, dexterously weaving them into a small whip. While busy with purely boring things, Lin Qi turned his head and looked behind the team.

There were a few extremely faint shadows following the team in the distance. Although the sun was shining in broad daylight, it would be impossible to detect their movements unless Lin Qi had such abnormal eyesight. Lin Qi couldn't help but sneered a few times. They were all elite assassins who were stepping into the heaven one step closer. These guys' stealth skills were so powerful, it's no wonder that Rune didn't even find outsiders on the construction site.

Less than sixty miles away, the healthy horse pulling the cart had very fat and strong feet. Luen and the others were also quick on their feet, and it took less than three hours to arrive there. Lin Qi casually caught a roadside man and asked a few words, and then led the people to the garrison headquarters in Mali City.

It is also interesting to say that in any city in any country, the garrison headquarters of different services will be separated as far apart as possible, putting on a posture of old and dead. However, the city of Mali is a complete category. The local naval headquarters and the army headquarters share a building. The small three-story building belongs to the navy on the left side and the army site on the right side, and the two commanders The office of the official is simply combined.

When Lin Qi came here with ten carts, the two highest commanders of the Mali City Garrison were summoning a few staff members and gambling in the shared office. Of course, their gambling will not be as **** as Lin Qi in the Yun family. They are conducting military chess games on a huge sand table covering the four provinces of the northwestern Caesar Empire. The two sides alternate offense and defense to determine the outcome, and the bet for each round of gambling is just a gold coin for small gambling.

Lieutenant Colonel Norwayman, who was nearly fifty years old, frowned and moved a flag representing a thousand heavy infantry to a position, then carefully pinched his fingers to calculate the situation on the sand table for a while, and waved angrily. Make a fist. Undoubtedly, he urgently mobilized a thousand heavy infantry to reinforce the breached line of defense, which could delay the opponent's attack by at most a quarter of an hour.

Facing the assault of eight hundred heavy cavalry, one thousand heavy infantry is just a piece of cake.

The bet against Norwayman was the thirty-seven-year-old Army Colonel Kailuman. The tall and mighty Kailuman is in sharp contrast with the short and shrewd Norwayman, but in front of Norwayman, Kailuman can only be respectful even if his rank is one level higher. He became Norwayman's son-in-law ten years ago?

With a reserved smile, he threw the last two flags representing the group of strong archers into the battlefield, and began to sweep away the defeated soldiers on both sides of Norwayman. Kairouman smiled lowly: "Father-in-law, you still go play with you. Ship, army, you really are not this material!"

Norwayman's gray beard stood up one by one. He grabbed his bald forehead hard, and snarled angrily: "Then, let's fight against the navy in this round! You command the Royal Captain of the Caesar Empire. The Seventh Cruiser Fleet, I command the Royal First Reorganization Fleet of the Gaul Empire. Haha, where is the battle, um, how about Lake Saint Luc?"

Kairouman rolled his eyes. The first reorganization of the Gaul Empire’s Royal Fleet is really a **** of a ghost. It is one of the best heavy fleets in the entire Western Continent. There are 200 heavy warships over 200 meters. This was used by the Gaul Empire to guard against the orcs on Wudalian Island. The core fleet of the fleet. As for the Royal Seventh Cruiser Fleet of the Caesar Empire, although it bears the name of the Royal Fleet, it is basically a local guard fleet, with only 70 ships, all of which are smaller than medium-sized boats.

If it is in the vast ocean with complicated sea conditions, Kairouman can also use guerrilla tactics to conduct harassment warfare. But Norwayman, this shameless old guy, is he actually going to have a decisive battle at Lake Saint Luc? In such a small water area, he could crush Kairuman's small wooden ship to pieces by just one charge with a heavy warship.

Kailuman didn't want to just hand over a gold coin in his pocket just now. He immediately started haha, and quickly moved to another topic: "There was a very interesting news recently. Father-in-law, do you know Marron Town?"

Norwayman blinked his eyes: "That town so poor that there is no underwear? I'm not interested. The tax officials in Mali, they can squeeze oil out of the sand, but they haven't had it for years. The full tax has been collected from Marron Town. Is there anything worthy of your attention in such a poor town?"

Grabbing a small bottle, ignoring the military order prohibiting drinking during duty, Kailuman opened his mouth and drank a sip of bad wine, and then comfortably hiccuped: "Yes, I was right. There was no interest there, but two days ago, I sent a team of scouts out for field reconnaissance training. They discovered that there was a foreign chamber of commerce doing construction in Malun Town."

Norwayman's eyes widened: "Is that man stupid or stupid? Marron Town? Is there any valuable specialty there? Is there a mine? Is it strategic? Not even a woman who looks pleasing to the eye? How many, go there to build a chamber of commerce? Is his money too much to spend?"

He slapped his forehead hard, and Norwayman sighed up to the sky, "Oh, such an idiot, why not come and donate three to fifty thousand gold coins to us? Military expenses are always not enough, you know, those old stingy in the military The gold coins issued are more than enough to feed the soldiers, but I want to buy some big guys, **** it, and they always say there is no money!"

Annoyed, Norwayman slammed a punch at the sand table: "Look at the Gaul Empire on the opposite side. In the past three years, their garrison fleets have added three to ten large warships. But here we are. I have been stationed in Mali for fifteen years, and a new ship has not been added, and even the annual routine maintenance funds are not paid in full!"

Just when Norwayman complained to his son-in-law about the mothers of the ministers of the military, a navy lieutenant and an army lieutenant rushed into the office side by side, and replied in unison: "Fan Lily family second business Officer, His Excellency Yalin Targus, President of the Bluefin Salmon Chamber of Commerce, has requested to meet you!"

Norwayman and Kairouman glanced at each other, and the two laughed ‘haha’. They hugged each other enthusiastically and punched each other in the chest. Then, with the help of their staff, the two began to take care of their personal military posture as quickly as possible. After all, during the game just now in the sand table, the two people who were clamoring into the air took off their general uniforms, and Kailuman took off only a small undershirt. It was impossible to see anyone.

So when Lin Qi took Luen into the huge office in the middle of the top floor of this small three-story building, Norwayman and Kailuman, who were well-dressed, well-dressed, and sturdy, were standing there. Beside the huge sand table, pointing and whispering.

On the sand table, several small ship models are swimming on the water near Malun Town, and a flag representing the thousand-man infantry brigade is firmly inserted in the core of Malun Town. Neither of them glanced at Lin Qi, but through their deduction on the sand table, a murderous intent came to their faces, like a big shark, to swallow the bluefin salmon represented by Lin Qi. in stomach.

Lin Qi smiled. With this kind of psychological tactics, the young man had analyzed countless cases to him when he was in Heiyuan Divine Prison.

What the young man taught to Lin Qi was the imperialism of using various situations to coerce opponents. Norwayman and Kailuman were only soldiers. They were still a hundred thousand miles away from the realm of the emperor. Their naked threats For Lin Qi, the effect is really lacklustre.

With a light cough, Lin Qi stepped forward two steps, and saluted the two pretending commanders meticulously.

Norwayman slowly turned around, and the few tenacious hairs on his bare forehead were so eye-catching. He held his hands behind his back and looked at Lin Qi majesticly: "Bluefin Salmon Chamber of Commerce? I can’t understand. , Why don’t you open a chamber of commerce in Mali, but go to Malon?"

Facing Norwayman's questioning, Lin Qi had already prepared. He smiled and nodded to Norwayman, and walked slowly to the sand table.

He placed the flags placed next to the sand table, used to represent various military forces, one after another on the city of Mali. When there was no more flag in the area of ​​Mali, Lin Qi stopped his hand and looked at Norwayman and Kairouman with a smile: "Mali is too small and too crowded to accommodate the newcomers. The Chamber of Commerce. If the two adults can allow a large-scale armed conflict between my Chamber of Commerce and them to seize the site, then I can give up the construction work in Marron Town."

Norwayman's eyes condensed, he met his opponent! In Lin Qi's words, the needle is hidden in the cotton, which is hard to deal with. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point (qidian.com) to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets. Your support is my biggest motivation.)

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