Warlock Royal Family

The task of acting as the Grand Duke is really deceitful.

Ladislaus and Caligula had been at odds since childhood, let alone their most recent relationship.

And at this time, I went to express my condolences to Anna who lost all her brothers. I really don't know what treatment I will receive, and I may not be able to pull the hatred that should have been suffered by acting as the Grand Duke on myself.

In the end, Ladislaus decided to hand over the deceitful task to Machiavelli, and let the old diplomat do the unfortunate job.

Ladislaus decided to avoid Anna for a few days. Although he was not the mastermind, he really couldn't say that he didn't participate in the matter of tormenting the Xibo family. fuck it.

But how dare Ladislaus be sure that this is not some ill-fated loyalty test by the Grand Duke to see if the offshoot of the Ligurian-born family is useful, obsessed with a woman who has lost her status.

Bypassing the former eldest daughter of the Xibo family can also be interpreted as the final rescue and win over of the Ligurian consul family, although Ladislau occasionally reflected on it and felt that he hadn't thought about it that much at the time.

At least that's how it could be explained to the emperor and the deputy grand duke.

In any case, no matter how soft-handed they are now, it is really impossible to explain.

Recently, I really shouldn't go to the Xibo family. It's better to wait and see for the time being.

In the next few days, Treasurer Fugger began to organize the people in the city who had lost their livelihoods to clean up the ruins of the city and restore the economic order of the city of Milan.

Of course, the remnant rebels of the Unfortunate Girls Church must also be wiped out.

If the city of Novara was not taken down, the elite acting grand duke had to be placed on alert, and some secondary tasks were left to Ladislaus' subordinates to maintain.

Such as guarding the food transport team.

It was really hard work to maintain a newly occupied city, especially since the local and newly occupied areas were almost impossible to transport, and it was obviously impossible to transport supplies from Austria across the snow-capped mountains.

The help of the allies is better than nothing. Although the Church of Rome and the Republic of Florence both promised to provide a batch of supplies, not to mention the small amount of these supplies, they have to endure layers of kickbacks, and they have to drift several times before they can get them.

Fortunately, apart from these damned inefficient bureaucrats, there are also efficient merchant organizations in the world, and the caravans from the Republic of Venice can provide all kinds of supplies that the city of Milan continues.

That’s right, it’s the Venetian merchants. The acting Grand Duke snatched the treasury of the Venetian army. Now that he is not short of money, he has established relationships with several Venetian firms in the name of negotiating the ransom of the captives. Those merchants have nothing to do with betraying their motherland. In their view, the only crime in the world is probably to have money and not make money.

The task of Ladislaus is to provide protection for these caravans as much as possible, so that they can safely deliver food, ordnance, and spell-casting materials, which are urgently needed by the acting Grand Duke, to Milan City.

At the same time, we must also keep vigilance on these caravans, because along the way, Prime Minister Sazastan, Marquis of Pescara and Old Colonna are each commanding a team to attack the fort controlled by the Venetians. The acting Grand Duke asked Ladislau Beware of the possibility that these caravans are disguised by the Venetian reinforcements. Of course, if there are particularly brave businessmen who want to be heroes, they must also be on guard.

However, in the past few days, everything has been uneventful. Venetian merchants are busy making money, and there is not even one who expresses sympathy and concern for the defenders of the country who are struggling in the fortress, let alone rescue them.

With Silver Thaler, who cares if the hero is not a hero?

After the Venice government lost its consul, it also fell into a state of extreme chaos. At present, the parliament is in a mess, fighting each other for the vacant positions, and it is impossible to implement the difficult plan of "dressing up as a caravan and sending reinforcements".

The only thing that Ladislaus needs to guard against is that these businessmen are shoddy this time, and they are short of money.

For example, when a batch of goats were inspected, the owner of these lambs, a Venetian merchant named Shylock, wanted to give Sirica boss who was in charge of the inspection [-] talers of hard work, so that Sirika boss could take the five batches of goats. One pregnant ewe among a hundred goats counts as two.

The old Silica, who has a lot of money recently and only wants to seek a noble status, naturally cut his face face to face and reported it to Ladislaus.

After hearing this, Ladislaus was in no mood to severely punish this Sherlock.

Recently, Old John also reported many similar incidents. Machiavelli, who had the most authority, even received a kickback of 12 talers, asking him to change the age of a group of military horses from [-] to [-] years old.

There is no hope for the merchant's character Xing Ladislaus, and this meat supplier is still very useful.

Let Silica's boss reprimand her again and impose a fine of fifty thalers, and that's fine. Silica is also satisfied with getting half of the fine as a bonus.

Although Shylock lost a lot, the business still made some money. The military horse supplier named Antonio was fined and confiscated all the horses according to the contract.

The bottom line is still necessary, if those pack horses go into battle, it will be a disaster.

Grace must also be prestige, otherwise all kinds of things that have not been offline will emerge one after another, and the limited punishment will not scare other businessmen away.

The acting grand duke does not withhold payment for goods, and officials at all levels ask for less regular kickbacks. Venetian merchants can make a lot of money. This time, the severe punishment will only deter other Jian merchants, and will not cut off military supplies.

After sending the goat to Milan City, this Sherlock came to pay the fine. Although he was repeatedly scolded by the boss of Silica, the dealer did not show any embarrassment. He paid a fine, and then confessed again and again, declaring that he was deceived by the housekeeper, thinking that there were [-] goats. As for the gift to the boss of Silica, it was not a bribe, but as an enthusiastic person, he provided opportunities for the soldiers to liberate Milan. Thanks, I hope Ladislaus will not misunderstand his sincerity.

This Sherlock was a short and fat man, and he was sweating profusely as he spoke, looking really terrified.

It's just that Ladislaus is still very convinced that this is all nonsense.

Of course, in the world, most of the time, everyone can't help but say some nonsense.

"I trust you completely, Mr. Sherlock."

The reason why Ladislaus had the patience to let him finish his nonsense and "believe" him was because he told Boss Silica that in addition to the fine, he wanted to send a bottle of precious potion to express his sincerity.

The boss of Silica said that although he couldn't see what the potion was, it should be valuable and worthy of Ladislaus seeing him.

After Sherlock finished talking nonsense, he handed over a container. This is a magic flask made of precious glass. Ladislaus has several in Liguria's laboratory, but it seems that the quality is not as good as this one. .

There is about half of the bottle of blue-black liquid in the bottle, and the other half of the bottle is filled with blue-black mist.

Ladislaus was sure the bottle was worth about a hundred talers, but he couldn't make out what was inside.

He handed the bottle to Machiavelli.

After looking at the bottle for a while, Machiavelli nodded to Ladislaus, "It is indeed a good product, the death ice beetle potion, which can provide a little extra resistance to necromancy and cold resistance for 24 hours, let's say It's worth seven hundred to a thousand talers."

Ladislaus said to the chunky businessman who had remained humbly silent during Machiavelli's appraisal: "Thirty talers you want to exchange for two hundred sheep, seven hundred talers, what do you want to exchange?" ?”

Sherlock listened to Ladislaus's heart-breaking question, but instead of acting as a clown, Sherlock expressed his request in a neither humble nor humble manner.

"A catty of meat, Your Excellency the Archbishop."