Thousands of sparks

Chapter 82 Bribery with a lot of money

Six plump waterfowl is a bit too much for three young men.At Dusande's insistence, the servants serving by the lake ate the remaining four ducks, as well as the spicy fried duck offal that hadn't been fished out of the pot.

"Aren't you going to save some for Mrs. Androni?" Rosen looked at the servants who were feasting, with some reluctance in his eyes, "I spent a lot of effort to hunt these ducks."

"With your accurate marksmanship, it's not difficult to shoot another twenty ducks that are not damaged at all." Dusande patted Rosen on the shoulder and said, "The ducks are hard and fishy when they are cold, I think mother may not Would love food like that. And wasting food is a disgrace—it would be better for everyone to eat."

"Well, you are the master." Rosen shrugged his shoulders indifferently, "I didn't see Mrs. Androni today, is she still working?"

Although Androni is usually busy with work, she is still happy to attend the children's "entertainment activities".Especially when Lorraine will be present, even if the work is very busy, she will leave a welcome letter for Lorraine.

If you look at the relationship between her and Lorraine in terms of the "mother-in-law relationship", the relationship between the two is really good, which is a bit outrageous.

"Mother is in the flower hall today. I think she might have something to deal with?" Dusande said with some uncertainty, and he felt a little strange that his mother didn't show up today.

"Master, it seems inappropriate for Madam to come to see Miss all the time." Rosen reminded out of kindness, "Should Miss Lorraine go and say hello to Madam?"

Rosen himself told his grandmother that "Mrs. Androni attaches great importance to Miss Lorraine" to her grandmother.After listening to Rosen's description, the grandmother frowned and commented, "This young lady is really unreasonable. How can the madam always say hello to her?"

Rosen himself did not understand why his grandmother would say that, but this did not prevent him from sharing his grandmother's experience with Dusand.

Anyway, the master said that the experience of the older generation is a very valuable wealth of knowledge.

"Your proposal... makes sense." Dusande thought for a while and nodded, "I still have to thank you. If Rosen hadn't reminded me, I might not have realized this at all."

For a mother-fetal single male who travels from China to another world, the most terrifying and difficult problem in the world is probably the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.Thanks to His Majesty the Emperor for his shelter, at least the relationship between mother and Lorraine is quite good now.But this does not mean that Dusande can sit back and relax from now on.After more than two years in the House of Commons, Dussand learned a very valuable lesson.

Any relationship needs constant maintenance.Even if it's just an ordinary member from a remote area, Androni needs to write to this member regularly to encourage and urge him to continue to dedicate his loyalty to His Majesty the Emperor.

This is not just a simple "to win people's hearts", but also a necessary means to maintain the relationship between the two parties.And these congressmen, even if they are not in the same camp as Androni, will at least maintain a relatively peaceful attitude on the face of it.

From this point of view, Dusand believes that Lorraine may really need such an opportunity to say hello to Androni.

"Then let's go together." After much consideration, Du Sande decided to take Lorraine and Rosen to the flower hall together. If mother is too busy to meet Lorraine, at least let her know that Lorraine has been here.

It takes about a quarter of an hour to walk from the lakeside to the flower hall.Dusande and Lorraine were chatting while walking, and it could be seen that Lorraine was a little nervous now—just halfway through the journey, she asked Dusande three times if her hair was neat.

"Okay, calm down a little bit." Dusande gently took Lorraine's hand, squeezed it slightly and said, "You asked to marry me four years ago, and things like this always have to happen of."

Lorraine's eyes were a little dull, and after a few seconds she said angrily, "I have wasted most of my time in these four years on mathematics and imperial law, how can I have time to prepare?"

This is completely a matter of nothing to do.But because of Lorraine's performance and her just right "anger", this kind of behavior is not only not annoying, but also has a sense of youthful shame unique to little girls.Du Sande laughed twice, and asked intentionally, "Then if you're not prepared, why don't we go?"

Lorraine glared at Dusand without saying anything.She took a few steps forward, then stopped suddenly, and stared at Dusand without saying a word.

"What's the matter?" Du Sande asked with his head tilted, "Decided not to go?"

"Pull it!" Lorraine stuffed her white little hand into Dusand's hand, then turned her head and pulled Dusande to continue walking.

Rosen, who was several Joel behind the two, vaguely felt that his act of going along to say hello to Mrs. Androni...may be a bit redundant.

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The three young men were followed by six guards. It wasn't that Dusande or Lorraine were too ostentatious, but that they happened to be patrolling.

Todd and Tom are Dusand's bodyguards, and they follow the little master closely like Dusand's shadow.The two hardly ever strayed too far from Dusand, except at night when they slept.

Only when Dusand and Lorraine were on the boat before, these two guards were very interesting and hid far away from the shore to take charge of security.

Guarding Dusand is not an easy job. Compared with other nobles, Dusand is like a child with ADHD.

He can't rest for a moment.

When guarding other nobles, most of the guards have to face standing for a long time.But here in Dusand, it is a luxury to stand still for a while and rest.

Ever since Dusande came back from Boysenk, he's been running around town.Visited the slums, talked to coach drivers and ordinary poor people, and even made a few trips to Nolf Street, which is full of warblers and gangsters.

Dussande's conversations with these people were never superficial.Especially when going to Nolf Street, Todd and Tom even had to make up and pretend to be "guests" in order to let the people there put down their guard, and then took Dusand to wander around Nolf Street to inquire about news.

After becoming Androni's chief private secretary, the number of times Du Sande went out not only did not decrease, but even increased.These two guards had to follow Dusand repeatedly from the Upper Albin House of Commons every day, and then went to the administrative departments distributed in various corners of Upper Albin.

Such high-intensity work made the two professional guards secretly complain, but Dusande didn't mean to "take a break" at all.He maintains his workload with great enthusiasm, and also gives them two vacation rotations from time to time.

He was hardworking like a 14-year-old chief private secretary.Not even a lord.

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The flower hall was not far away. With his good eyesight, Du Sande quickly found a fat man standing outside the flower hall.

It is not uncommon for people who come to visit Androni to bring their entourage.Dusande didn't pay much attention either—it's just that the figure looked slightly familiar.

Perhaps it was the entourage brought by the people who had visited the mother?Dusand speculates about the identity of the other party with some uncertainty. The "professional training" he received in Aika requires Dusand to be highly sensitive to people at all times.This has almost become Dusand's "occupational disease".

Unlike other postmen in red, most of the training Dusande received at the Coat of Arms Management Office belonged to the type with strong applications in the field of intelligence collection.No matter how big-hearted Byrne was, it was impossible for Dusande to receive training from the action team.

Dusande is good at intelligence, he was even able to extract information from a group of gangsters, and guided the Heraldry Management Office to finally capture an earl suspected of smuggling the Ypsilon Mine.

It would be too wasteful for such a talent to wear steam knight armor to carry out operations.

In order to make talents come in handy, the training of Dusand by the Emblem Management Office began to develop in the direction of intelligence collection and intelligence research and judgment.And Du Sande's study is also very effective.

He felt that the fat man's back looked familiar.But Dusande was puzzled that he couldn't remember where he had seen such a fat man.

Dusand thought for a while, and then slowly pulled Lorraine to stop.

"What's wrong?" Lorraine stopped, turned to look at Du Sande and asked, "Why didn't you leave all of a sudden?"

"You wait here for a while." Du Sande didn't explain anything in detail, after all, it really doesn't sound reliable based on his "not deep impression".He just signaled Lorraine to wait first, and then ordered Todd to accompany him where he was.Then he took Tom and walked towards the flower hall.

The fat man standing there kept his face facing the flower hall, and Dusande could see from behind that the sweat under his armpit had soaked the fabric under his jacket.

The weather is not very hot.Dusand's frown deepened, wondering if the fat man had some strange disease or something.

As the fat man got closer and closer, the sense of "familiarity" in Dusand's heart became so strong that it almost became a reality.But he just couldn't remember where he had seen the man before.

"There may be something wrong with this person." Dusande whispered to Tom who was following him, "Be smart later, and call someone immediately if there is something wrong."

Dusand stood about seven or eight behind the fat man, then stopped and raised his voice and said, "Sir, you look familiar, have we met somewhere?"

The fat man who was standing there suddenly became clever.

Dusande even felt as if he saw the fat on the fat man's body rippling from top to bottom.

"Mr. Lord..." The fat man rubbed his hands nervously, then turned around awkwardly, nodded and said, "This is really a coincidence, I didn't expect to see you here..."

Du Sande's pupils shrank suddenly.

This fat man's face... he did recognize it.But... shouldn't he be dead long ago?
There was a tense silence.Tom frowned and thought for a moment, then came to himself suddenly.

He had seen the fat man, too, in the restaurant at Saint-Saar--he was the fraudster caught on the spot by Monsieur Monsieur!

Tom looked at Dusand nervously. He remembered clearly that the fraudster who used the royal department's badge was arrested on the spot by Dusand and handed over to the Newsail Coat of Arms Management Office.According to the law, the fraudster has no possibility of surviving.If he could escape from his cell at the Newsale Arms Office, he would be a highly dangerous man.

Tom's body reacted faster than his brain could figure it out. He rushed between Dusand and Feuerbach in one stride, and blocked Dusand firmly with his body.

Then he took out the pistol from the holster under his coat, and aimed firmly at Feuerbach's head.

"Mr. Lord, please let this nervous guard take back his gun." Feuerbach continued to maintain a nodding and bowing expression, but his face was completely free of the tension that a human being described by a gun would have.

He pointed to his head and said with a smile, "This villain's head is still going to continue to contribute a little bit of insignificant strength to His Majesty the Emperor."

"Whose entourage are you?" Dusand patted Tom on the shoulder, motioned him to put down his pistol, and then asked, "If it's convenient, why don't you introduce yourself again, Mr. Feuerbach, where are you from?" ?” Dusand raised his eyebrows and said with a sneer, “Don’t tell me that hell has opened a regular ship to Newsail.”

"My loyalty belongs entirely to His Majesty the Emperor." Feuerbach shook the fat on his body twice, and narrowed his eyes into curved slits, "This time, I am following the senior Mr Bilson, the representative of affairs, is calling on the Speaker of the House of Commons, Mrs Androni."

Dusand's pupils shrank suddenly.

The question that had been troubling him before was finally solved.How could an ordinary fraudster, who has been bluffing around the empire with the badge of a prospector of a mining association for several years, never be discovered?
But if you think about it the other way around, there is no problem—a prospector from a real mining complex would bluff everywhere when he was bored, and then use his own identity to successfully get rid of the crime... This is completely reasonable.

As for why he would bluff around when he was so bored, Dusande didn't intend to figure it out.

That doesn't matter.

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"What are they doing? Why are they standing still?" In the distance, due to the angle, Lorraine and Rosen could only see their backs——Tom suddenly blocked Dusand with his body, and then Called away by Du Sande.

This situation is really confusing.

The moment the fat man turned around, Todd used his body to protect Lorraine.He was nervous now too—Todd remembered Feuerbach's looks.

"Miss, please stand behind us and stay still." Rosen stood beside Todd, and together with Todd, blocked Lorraine with their bodies.

"Mr. Todd, what should we do next?" Rosen's company has an armed security business. Although he has never taken over the "guard" type of mission, Rosen, who often contacts Dusand, has some "knowledge" about this situation. ", "Do you need me to call for support?"

Todd quickly assessed the situation on the scene and said to Rosen, "Mr. Rosen, please go to the main building to find the guards, and then tell them that there is a blue-14 situation in the flower hall, and ask them to support quickly."

"Blue-14" is the code name for "a highly dangerous target sneaks in and requires concealed armed support", and it is a code name that is only known among the guards in the manor.

In fact, according to the safest plan, Todd should escort Lorraine out of this potentially dangerous place first, and then return to the flower hall with support.But the situation at the scene was unclear, and Todd was really not sure whether Tom could protect Lord Dusand by himself when he left.

He could only just stand there, and squat down slightly, ready to sprint in the direction of Dusand at any time.

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Bilson looked at Androni and frowned slightly.

On the ground, the two suitcases that Feuerbach had just brought in were lying on the ground, "opening their arms" to Androni.

It was filled with wads and wads of thick livid notes, each a ten-pound note.

The total weight of the two suitcases exceeded 160 pounds, and there was a full one million pounds in cash in the two boxes.

That was a fortune enough to buy the friendship of a duke. One million pounds can buy 100 Army or [-] Navy gas-powered vehicles at the Belford Automobile Manufacturing Company.

And this huge sum of money is now lying on the ground of the flower hall, and Androni is not even interested in looking at them.

"Your Excellency, this is the goodwill and greetings from our United Mining Industry." Bilson took a deep breath, and made the fourth effort and attempt, "Our purpose is also very simple, and we don't need you to oppose Mr. Marquis, nor You need to do something special with the Imperial Forestry Department. As long as you can withdraw the bill and make some minor changes to the content here."

Androni tapped the table lightly twice, then shook her head.

"Mr. Bilson, I can sit in the position of speaker of the House of Commons not because of my great achievements." Androni said loudly, "I can sit in this position because I have great respect for the empire and for The absolute loyalty of His Majesty the Emperor. Improving the living conditions of miners and slaves, and protecting the colonial satellites are all measures that are most beneficial to the Empire and His Majesty."

"We are also an important part of serving His Majesty." Bilson was a little out of breath, and he said eagerly, "There are too many mining farms in the United Mining Industry, and we need enough time to complete the transformation of the management model..."

"Then I can only advise you to move faster." Androni sighed, she turned the finished teacup in front of her on the coaster and said, "One million gold pounds is enough to buy any nobleman's Friendship, but this cannot buy away my loyalty to the Empire and His Majesty. Mr. Bilson, our proposal is not aimed at any individual or organization, it is indeed the most beneficial choice for the Empire."

"The empire and His Majesty the Emperor are rich in the entire universe, but only by treating the poorest people well can we create more wealth for the entire society." Androni said earnestly, "Rich miners can greatly promote the circulation of goods in the empire. It will also increase the demand for ore output by all factories and enterprises. Mr. Pilsen, such a future is the future that is in the best interest of the joint mining industry."

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