Transcendent Noble

"My lord, good day. Madam, good day" Barol bowed to Victor and Lilia respectively.

Victor raised his eyes and took a look at his dense heads. After seeing him again after 12 months, Barol's spirit is still healthy, but his hair is graying a lot. Obviously he didn't bother much during this period of time. , But it should have achieved good results.

"Barol, how is the development of the mercury outside?" Victor raised his hand to signal the old spy to sit down and talk.

"My lord, in the past 12 months, we have traveled to the three main cities of Gambis, 9 densely populated towns, and got connected with the local gray forces. We have gathered 58 available manpower, With 17 orphans, these people were temporarily placed in Wild Willow City by me, and are always waiting for your instructions." Barol said after sitting down.

According to Victor’s design, Mercury’s organizational structure is divided into core, internal and external lines.

The core members of Mercury understand the background and secrets of the organization. They are directly responsible to Victor, and through controlling the inside line, they complete the tasks that Victor confessed. spy. Insiders are the helpers of the core members. They don't know who the boss is behind the scenes. They only know the name of the organization. There are currently only 5 insiders. They are the villain monkey, the killer Fitch, the liar Mia and the spider, and the thief Red Wolf. These people are all trained by Barol in Black Castle Town. Outsiders are gray forces everywhere. They don't know anything about the organization. They don't even know that they have become Mercurial's hidden sons, and they are also impossible to get financial support, but they can benefit from the smuggling trade.

It is time-consuming, laborious and costly to train Secret Agents. Only those ancient families with a long history have their own intelligence organizations. Even so, the intelligence organizations of the nobles are generally small in scale and generally do not exceed 200 people, most of them are responsible for the collection of intelligence in the sphere of influence of the family.

Victor bears the name of an Ancient Family in vain. He has neither the money nor the time to train family spies step by step, but he has a vision that is different from that of the native nobles.

It is really difficult to build an elite and loyal intelligence organization, but it is very simple to build a smuggling organization with freedmen as the main body. No one will have trouble with Kingsall.

Strictly speaking, mercury is part of the smuggling network. Collecting intelligence is only the sideline of outside members. It is their job to cover private businesses and take over private goods. As for whether the outside line is loyal and reliable, it does not matter. In the face of smuggling interests, if you don't do it, others will rush to do it!

Under the guidance of Victor, Barol led the inside members and ten monkey militias to travel through many densely populated and well-traded towns, and the main city of the three major powers was the focus of Mercury’s strategy. They are the Vestok City of the Wellington family in the south central region, the Copper City of the Solim family in the south, and the Deepwater City of the Joshua family in the east. The black city of the York family, the Ajub city of the Nimes family in the west, and the towns in the central and northern parts of the kingdom have not been watched by the silver light for the time being, this is only because the mercury is not enough.

Victor did instruct Barol to recruit some insiders, but he brought back 75 people as soon as he went out, which shocked Victor.

Inside members acting as liaisons between private merchants and local forces have already touched on the secrets of smuggling trade. If they have secret agents from other families, they will inevitably hinder the immature smuggling network.

Barol wily old fox, I don’t know the stakes. Victor couldn't help but frown and asked, "How did you bring back so many people?"

"My lord, we have some trouble in Deepwater City in the east." Barroll stood up and said uneasily:" I met the old acquaintance before, and they recognized me. As a last resort, I brought their wives, children and confidants back together, and waited for the adults to send them back."

Barol used to be the lord of the east. Secret agent, most of his old acquaintances are former acquaintances, and they always have several points of friendship, but if the two parties really run into each other, for their own safety, it will be a life and death situation. Barol casually said: Bring them back and wait to be sent. There must be several bloody fights behind these words.

Victor is not interested in the process, but Barol would rather take the risk to bring people back than to kill him on the spot. There must be his reasons.

"Say!"

"Yes, my lord." Barol bowed and said, "I met some old partners in Deepwater City, and they recognized me. . I knew they were going to kill me, so I decided to do it first. That night, I took people to their lair and gave them a pot."

"I originally planned to kill them all. , One does not stay. But those Old Partner’s accomplices are well-trained and sturdy and vigorous. I think their fighting style is of mercenary origin, and their personal strength is almost comparable to that of vassal soldiers. The mercenary leader uses two machetes. Very powerful, not inferior to your elite soldiers. Secret Spy and ordinary villains impossible have such a battle strength! I was suspicious at the time, so I ordered to stay alive... In order to capture the mercenary alive, Pete was killed by him." With that said, Barol secretly observed Victor's face, and when he saw Fief Lord calm as before, he quietly relaxed.

The secret agent who turned his back on the family and ran into "old acquaintance". No one knows the other party’s current background and purpose. At this time, you can't trust your life to the past relationship. , Each set his own destiny, first subdued his opponent and then talked about other things.

Baroel is cunning and vicious, he finally hugs Victor's thigh, and he is about to start a career. He can't tolerate a little omission. In order to guard against the unexpected, Barol followed the practice of spies and took the initiative to take the opponent, but he didn't expect that the opponent was actually a stubborn stubborn. The strangeness aroused the interest of the old spy, and it was precisely because he asked to catch his mouth, that Pete was stabbed to death by the other party.

Pitt is the monkey militia assigned by Victor to Barroll, and his strength is comparable to that of the trainee Knight. Barol was very worried that his master would get angry because of the loss of a powerful warrior. He was obviously too worried.

"After interrogation, I found that those Old Partners had joined the local thieves’ guild. They have no direct relationship with the Joshua family."

The Deepwater City of the Joshua family is the center of the eastern part of Gambis Kingdom. The city is densely populated and well-developed with trade. It is connected to Rand Empire to the east and Naville Kingdom to the north. The transportation is very convenient. As long as Mercury develops external lines in Deepwater City, smuggling caravans can rely on this city to penetrate abroad.

Although the Joshua family are also powerful lords, the lords and nobles have never regarded free people in their eyes. The sheriff of Deepwater City doesn't care about the struggle between the gangs, as long as the new boss of the gang obeys his orders, it is this loose management method that gives Mercury the opportunity to develop outside lines.

There are 10 monkey militias around Barol. Such strength is enough to slap any gang forces. Victor didn't expect that Mercury would be frustrated in Deepwater City, and the opponent is not the lineage of the lord. .

"This thieves' union is not simple!" Victor said, shaking his head.

"Yes." Barroll explained: "This thieves' union does some dirty work for the sheriff on the surface. It also does some abduction and trafficking activities behind the scenes. The organization is deeply connected. The mercenaries in the trade union’s nest are members of that organization. They came to Deepwater City to receive the population, and we happened to hit them."

Victor asked with interest: " Did you find out which organization is behind the Thieves Union?"

Barol's expression became weird and said, "After torture, the leader of the Thieves Union and the mercenaries confessed. They are working for a hidden organization called Masked Brotherhood. It is said that Brotherhood has a history of hundreds of years and does not belong to any lord power. It is completely a free-man gang force."

"Masked Brotherhood specializes in gray industries. , Including theft, fraud, robbery, assassination, and mercenary businesses. They also operate businesses such as shops, circuses, hotels, and taverns. Those mercenaries are going to send the kidnapped boys and girls to Brotherhood’s stronghold in Suse Kingdom to accept the organization’s Training. My analysis, Brotherhood’s Place of Origin is in the east, and they are infiltrating our Gambis!"

"That’s right. This is the brotherhood coat of arms found from the mercenary boss." Barrow Er took out a copper coat of arms and handed it to Victor, “The leader of the thieves’ guild is just a little guy, and he doesn’t know much about it. His status in brotherhood is similar to that of Mercury outside. He also relies on the help of brotherhood to become a guild. Leader."

"The mercenary leader is a hard bone, no matter how we tortured, he will not let go. Finally, Moore poured him a bottle of psychedelic potion, and he began to confess."

"This person has been brought up by Brotherhood since he was a child. At the beginning, he was trained in the Eastern Alliance's mercenary training camp. When he became an adult, he was arranged by Brotherhood to serve as the deputy head of a mercenary group. That mercenary group usually To accept orders from local lords, but as long as the brotherhood summon, they must unconditionally obey the orders of the organization. I have already figured out the training camp and contact information of the mercenary group."

The copper coat of arms is obviously Masked. A token of Brotherhood, the front of the coat of arms is engraved with a bloody mask, and the back of the coat of arms is the number 47. With this copper coat of arms, brotherhood members can communicate with each other, which shows that Masked Brotherhood is quite large and its organizational structure is very strict. Members may not know each other.

Victor now believes that Masked Brotherhood really has a history of more than 100 years. It is difficult to say whether there are other forces behind them.

Isn’t it a coincidence that Mercury ran into a large gang organization on its first trip?

Victor knew this was not a coincidence, but an inevitable result.

"Barol, haven't you heard of Masked Brotherhood before?"

"My lord, our family spies only pay attention to the movements of the nobles. No one cares about the free people. ." Barol explained awkwardly.

The commoners and the Knight aristocrats are in two classes, and the connection between each other is extremely weak. Normally, the Knight aristocrats are busy in the camp and communication, polish the Battle Qi, and reproduce the offspring. The daily affairs of the territory are also taken care of by Steward, and they are even more indifferent to the lives of free people. By the same token, many freedmen have never seen the real Lord Knight in their entire lives, but they also have their own world and rules of survival.

Victor often interacts with members of the work-point system, but they are all farmers and have never been together in towns. Both their mentality and the objects of communication are different from the real lost refugees, so Victor treats the freedmen Little is known about Underground World. To be sure, it is not surprising that several long-established forces have emerged among the huge group of freedmen.

Knight's extraordinary power is an insurmountable gap for ordinary persons. No matter how large the potential of the civilian gang, it is impossible to threaten the noble class. This gap has become the soil for the survival and growth of the gang. However, the intellectual ambition of the ordinary person is not fundamentally different from that of the aristocracy. There are always some people who would rather be the first than the queen, and it is reasonable for them to create several inheritance organizations.

War Bear Mercenaries have a history of more than 40 years. They also have unique training methods and organizational culture. For example, they never abandon old and weak companions. If War Bear Mercenaries can survive, they will also be a freedmen's organization with a century-old inheritance.

From the very beginning, Mercury will take the civilian route. It will be a matter of time before it collides with the gang forces. However, Victor was still taken aback by the scale and secrecy of the Masked Brotherhood.

"Barol, what advice do you have for Masked Brotherhood?"

"My lord, the power of Masked Brotherhood is not limited to a town or a territory. They can help Mercury quickly opened up the situation of Suse Kingdom, Borui Kingdom and Eastern Alliance. My suggestion is to get rid of them!"

Victor glanced at Barol with satisfaction and said with a smile: "Your ambitions are very high. That’s great. You left your previous companions just to deal with gangs like Brotherhood?"

Masked Brotherhood has the ability to help mercury, and it also has the ability to become a stumbling block to mercury, and this is almost a no-brainer. Any powerful force is impossible to ignore the huge profits brought about by smuggling trade. The question is, is Brotherhood qualified to take a share? Is it capable of resisting the invasion of mercury?

No one is allowed to snore on the side of the couch. Now that Mercury has set foot in the Underground World of the freedmen, there is no room for the Masked Brotherhood.

In Victor’s strategy, both freedmen’s organizations and lords are nodes of the smuggling network. They can only manage their own piece of land, and cross-regional organizations will form Victor’s leadership. Challenges are opponents that Mercury must defeat.

Barol knows very well that regardless of whether there is noble power behind the brotherhood, Victor is impossible to let them go. Barol is not trying to kill the Masked Brotherhood to the last one, but to eliminate the high level of Brotherhood and disintegrate it into a local power. It is not easy to do this, Barol needs more manpower, in addition to a strong family deceased, experienced spy is also indispensable.

"My lord is wise!" Barol said flatly: "My old acquaintances are just eating in the thieves' guild. They are not members of brotherhood, nor are they secret agents of other families. They all Everyone has taken psychedelic drugs and will never tell lies! Lord Moore can testify!"

"Where are the others in the Thieves Guild and Brotherhood mercenaries?"

"both It has been cleaned!" Barol said quickly.

Victor shook the head and said in disgust: "I believe your colleagues are not members of Brotherhood, but I hate human traffickers the most! Let them take care of them too!"

Barrow At first, Er was taken aback, but humblely nodded agreed, and Lilia looked at Victor with a strange look.

"My dear, do you have anything to say?" Victor asked with a smile.

"It's nothing." Lilia shook the head, and said with endurance: "We also bought women and children, or you ordered them yourself. Those women and children are now family members of the work-point system. "

"How can it be the same?! I was recruiting, recruiting!" Victor defended himself loudly.

"But you paid the monkey boss."

"..." Victor couldn't say a word for a long time, so he mocked himself: "Okay. No one is cleaner than anyone else! Barol, if something goes wrong with your old acquaintance, I will only ask you!"

"Thank you, sir! Thank you, madam!"

Rohr is overjoyed, Mercury is now short of manpower. Since the previous partners are no longer threatened, let them do things for Mercury. This not only takes care of the friendship in the past, but also strengthens the strength of Mercury, giving consideration to the best of both worlds.

Victor was not happy. Mercury is a gold swallowing beast. It cost him 5000 goldsore to go out. Equivalent to Randal received half a year of trading profits. The more people Barol recruits, the bigger the Mercury booth will be, and the funding will follow as the tide rises, the boat floats, but the things that should be done have to be done, and the money that should be spent has to be spent.

"Barol, there are two things for you to do." Victor said with a serious expression: "The first thing, I want you to build a gang in Wild Willow City to assist Mrs. Judy. The sheriff controls the situation in Wild Willow City, and guards against people who are instigating the mass influx of refugees into the Randal collar."

"The second thing is that you must arrange for manpower to go north to the Kingdom of Dodo as soon as possible to develop the Mercury Outside Line, because I am very I’m about to send someone to get through Dodo’s smuggling business."

"How much do you need to do these two things?"

Barol thought for a while and said:" It takes about 12,000 Kinsoul." Tone barely fell, Lilia stared roundly, screaming: "So much money? Why don't you grab it?!" In fact, Barol does not have lion's big Mouth, in order to support outside lines, Mercury always manages the sheriffs in various places. This expenditure accounts for the vast majority of Mercury's funds and cannot be saved. However, the Randal Family's funds on the books are only 20,000 Jinsor, so it is no wonder that Lilia has to jump in anxiously.

However, Victor still has 200,000 Kingsold in his hands, of which 80,000 Kingsall was given to him by the Marquis Sophia House, and the other 120,000 Kingsall was seized from Assassin Ace. However, Victor had to spend 150,000 to buy territory for Sylvia, leaving only 50,000 Kingsol.

There is a total of 70,000 gold sols, and Victor has to pay 20,000 annuities, resettle the refugees, and make Golden Dragon lizards. It is really impossible to squeeze out the money for mercury. Fortunately, the alchemy militia dug hundreds of white crystals worth 140,000 in the dark forest. Although white crystal is hard currency, it is difficult to realize it in a concentrated way, but it is just right to hand it over to mercury.

Victor soothed Lilia, who was anxiously red-eyed, and turned to Barol and said, "I will give you 2000 kinsall and 30 white crystals, is that enough?"

Rohr wiped the cold sweat on his forehead and said repeatedly: "Enough, enough..."

"I want you to remember one thing. Mercury is only responsible for spending money, not allowed Make money! I am responsible for all the funds. If anyone dares to make money privately, he will definitely die!"

Victor has a serious expression and a cold tone. Barol heart shivered with cold, bowed her head and said: "My lord, I remember it!"

"Go down."

After Barol left, Lilia was puzzled. Inexplicably asked: "Victor, why not let Mercury support itself?"

Victor explained: "The people who are released are powerful and rich. How can we control them?"

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"It turned out to be like this!" Lilia leaned against Victor's arms and asked softly, "Wealth is also a means of restraint?"

"Smart!" Lilia squeezed affectionately Victor said with a smile: "Don't you say that the family is short of staff? I will be able to solve this problem soon, and it will cost a lot of money."

"How much?" Lilia He covered his face and asked tangledly.

"haha, I haven't counted it yet. But it will definitely make the little money fans feel bad." Victor laughed.

"Before this, I have to talk to the old god stick about the death penalty!"