Admiral in the Azure World

Chapter 376 Ernest
Ernest's house is located at the foot of the hill from Erich's villa. As an agent of Gleneagles, he is equivalent to a member of Parliament.In this residential area, most of them are rich or noble. Some are members of the parliament, some are local officials, and there are also houses of wealthy businessmen. Naturally, there are also houses of deacons, consuls and even governors.

Here, even if you go out for a walk, you may encounter the annoying idiot who was tit-for-tat with you in yesterday's meeting. However, generally at this time, no one will keep the emotions in the meeting into reality. Opposing during the meeting only means that The opinions of the forces behind him, in fact, many agents of the opponent forces may still be good friends in private.

Ernest has been stationed on Ramhuatan Island for two years under Huang Jiang's instruction.At first, he came here for the consulship in Huangjiang, mainly to persuade some people who were biased towards Jialan to speak up for Jialan.After the Gloria Territory officially became a consular territory, Ernest continued to participate in federal affairs as an agent.

After the Merchant Alliance got involved with its huge wealth, the Parliament changed the past model of collusion between nobles and deacons, and became a place where civilian members, noble members and consuls or governor-general agents clashed. Among them, The governors are all born into the nobility, and most of the consuls are also from the nobility. Logically speaking, they should form an alliance with the noble councilors, but in fact this is not the case. As the rulers of a governorate, the governor's family is at the top of the federation. Families have natural defenses against second-tier nobles. Similarly, families with consuls will generally focus their family's development center on the territory where their consuls are located. In order to ensure the greatest interests, they will also know what to do. Consciously suppressing some things is beneficial to nobles without real power.

And after the Chamber of Commerce pushed civilian members into the parliament, this contradiction became more complicated, which made almost every issue in the parliament discussed for ten and a half months, always voted to overturn and then proposed, and so on. Some wrangling bills and treaties will even take half a year.

Take the "Sea Soul Treaty" signed more than a year ago. If the nine governors didn't have a tacit understanding, it would probably be stuck in the parliament for a year.

It was very easy for Ernest to be the Garland agent, but it was also very difficult.The relaxed place is that Huang Jiang has not given him any tasks yet, but has only given him a principle: "Don't take sides, don't make trouble, don't speak, don't make proposals." For more than a year, Ernest has strictly followed Huang Jiang carried out his mission according to the given goals.

In parliamentary voting, except for the general trend proposals, basically all abstentions are cast.

However, during this period, he was not idle. He joined forces with various forces, and he had almost figured out which ones could be joined together, which ones must be vigilant, which ones were hostile to Jialan, and which ones he had a favorable impression of. .

What is not very comfortable is that as the consul of the Tulip collar, Ernest's position is arranged in the position of the Tulip collar. He is surrounded by all the consuls from the Tulip collar. The first one is Mill. Stendahl, Don's agent, was originally an inspector of the Tulip Territory, but was recently transferred to become the parliamentary agent of the Tulip Territory.

Ernest was well aware of the conflict between the agent and his own consul. Those deacon friends from Lanhuadan Island could even vividly describe the time when Yinhuo rushed his head and knocked Standal's sea retreating star into pieces. The scene during the break has become a big joke in Lanhuadan Island. Not long ago, Huangjiang changed its publicity strategy, and the momentum of Jialan Leader became louder and louder. These little stories are on Lanhuadan Island. Dan Island spread quietly.

Ernest couldn't control other people's opinions on Gloriosa, but he knew very well what his colleagues in the Tulip Collar thought of Gloria.To sum it up in one sentence, it is:
They regard Jialan collar as an outsider.

Almost all the proposals were never mentioned to Ernest, and no one took the initiative to talk to him every time he attended the meeting, and even reserved a seat near the corridor for Ernest, because no one wanted to stand up and give him a seat .

This kind of cold and violent rejection made Ernest deeply aware of the Tulip collar's rejection of Gloriosa, at least at the top level, it absolutely rejected the Gloriosa collar.Although the two parties have still not made their conflicts public, there is no apparent conflict between Gloria and Tulip, and some of the increased mining taxes are within the scope of compliance.But Ernest had to make some preparations for the future confrontation between the two parties.

The only thing he worries about is that Mark Irma, the lord of the Gloria Territory, does not have enough awareness of the hostility of the Tulip Territory. In that case, Gloria will definitely be at a disadvantage in major events that may occur in the future.

You know, the most convenient and safest way to enter the Jialan collar is to take the tulip collar. When the time comes, the two sides will turn against each other. I don't know if Jialan can win, but being choked is absolutely certain.

At noon, Ernest cooked spaghetti as a habit. He spent a long time looking for his favorite tomato sauce, and then the doorbell rang.

When you open the door, the first thing you see is a beautiful lady. Her gentle temperament means that she is a very virtuous wife.

And Ernest knew her.

"Ms. Lexington," Ernest said in surprise.

"Are you not bothering me?" Lexington did not do the rude act of looking past Ernest, and looked at Ernest.Only then did Ernest notice the man behind Lexington.

"The consul is here too," he said.

Huang Jiang smiled at Ernest: "What, you're not welcome?"

"How is that possible!" Ernest made an inviting gesture.

"I'm cooking pasta." Huang Jiang came in and saw the macaroni in the pot, "I knew I would have asked Veneto to come with me."

"Spaghetti?" Ernest was a little confused.

Only then did Huang Jiang come to his senses, and said, "Ah, it's nothing, this is Veneto's favorite delicacy, and her hometown also has this, as you know, she is the soul of the sea."

Veneto belongs to one of Jialan's open sea souls, so Huang Jiang didn't hide her existence from Ernest.

Besides, didn’t he bring Veneto with him this time?

"That's it." Ernest smiled and arranged seats for the two of them. "I thought other worlds were backward worlds, or magical worlds or something."

"There is always a high-tech world." Huang Jiang said with a smile, "It may be more advanced than the technology of Azure Federation."

"How is this possible?" Ernest couldn't believe it.

Huang Jiang thought for a while, looked at the Sea Fog System emblem in his hand, and said, "Ah, it's really impossible. At least the Sea Fog System definitely doesn't have one."

"Do you want to eat some?" Ernest finally found his own tomato sauce. "This tomato sauce is very delicious, and it is a specialty of Tomato Island."

"No need for the moment, we've had lunch." Huang Jiang glanced at the ketchup, "And it reminds me of a summer that doesn't exist, a certain Aji that doesn't exist."

"Huh?" Ernest didn't quite understand.

"Ignore him, he's dreaming again." Lexington said with a smile.

(End of this chapter)