Blue Sword

"What's so strange about hanging Governor Venis?" Asker said disdainfully, "Since Constantinople was captured by the Crusader Knights under the leadership of your Governor Venis, the Sirians have been asking for help every week. Hang a Venisian governor."

"That's verbal hanging!" the thief chuckled, "just like illegal fund-raising and promising high interest, they are just words to deceive people. But this time our governor was really hanged! Since Enrique The successor to the Governor-General was hanged in the Venetian’s own harbor less than a year after taking office!”

"I heard it was someone from the Pure Blood Monastery who did it." Ask said calmly.

He knows very well that to deal with young people like this, when extracting information, he must adopt the arrogant attitude of "I know more" and "all you know is false news" to arouse the opponent's competitive spirit.

Sure enough, the thief rowing opposite him immediately sneered:

"Not only that, but she is also a female demigod who has fallen into madness! All the citizens of Torcello District have seen it!"

Female demigod? Then Paige can ask her master...wait a minute, could this crazy demigod be Agrippina, the flower of belladonna?

Asker suddenly had a strange premonition and quickly asked:

"Is that demigod a woman? She's a bit old and she's dressing up as a lady?"

"Not only that." The thief said show off, "The figure is well maintained! She is as plump as she should be, and as slender as she should be. She is comparable to the top brand in the Moulin Rouge!"

Ask:………………

The boat gradually approached Rialto Island, and the thief asked him to lie down and hide himself, then rowed the boat along the shadows of the waterway, and soon passed through the layers of bridge holes and entered the underground river of a certain building. inside.

Sure enough, no matter where they are, the Thieves Guild and the city sewers are inseparable.

The sewers of Venice are actually an underground river system that runs through the bottom of the city. When the city was built, concrete pillars were driven into the bottom of the shallow sea, and then waterproof Istrian stone slabs were laid as the foundation.

So the Istrian stone slabs divided the entire Venis into two areas. The upper part is the sun-drenched neighborhood, and the lower part close to the sea is where the thieves guild activities are held. The shadows are built through various ships and wooden planks. Street market.

The girls of the Blue Sword and Albrecht's knights were already waiting there. They took off their armor, put on absorbent gray/brown cotton robes, and hid their weapons under the robes. They looked like devout believers preparing to go to St. Mark's Church to worship.

After paying money to make the same disguise, and buying a stack of all Venis maps from the Thieves Guild, Asker distributed the maps to everyone, then rented a dark room nearby specifically for secret meetings, and discussed with everyone:

"Next, we have to act separately."

"One team is responsible for representing His Majesty the Emperor as an envoy to negotiate with the Venis City Council."

"The other team is responsible for secretly investigating the truth behind the 'hanging Governor Venis' incident."

"Wait!" Albrecht questioned, "His Majesty has told us during this trip that because time is tight, we should advance the negotiations as soon as possible..."

"Okay, then you will be the one to preside over the negotiations and it will be done within three days, okay?" Ask asked calmly.

Albrecht:………………

"The reason why the previous envoys were unable to resolve the issue for a long time was because the Venis City Council, which was negotiating, could not form a unified opinion." Asker explained, "The hanged governor was the successor designated by Governor Enrique before he participated in the Eastern Expedition. The person has inherited enough political prestige by nature. And his death resulted in a temporary power vacuum at the top of the Venetian City Council."

"Today, the Venetian City Council is divided into two groups. One group is the Conservative Party, which advocates attachment to the Holy See and hostility to the Empire. After all, the Empire once supported Italy and the city-state of Genova (Genova) opposite, and has long been with Venetian in the Mediterranean trade. Confrontation, so they have no good opinion of the Empire."

"The other group is the new party, which advocates digesting the means of production plundered from the Eastern Solomon Empire, transforming the development of industry and manufacturing, and achieving industrial diversification. If you want to develop manufacturing, then maintaining good relations with the empire that is initially industrialized is very necessary."

"Due to the death of the Governor, the political struggle between the Conservative Party and the New Party will inevitably intensify. I can make a clear assertion, Albrecht, even if you and the New Party give 10,000 reasons why the Empire and Venis should cooperate, the Conservative Party will I can think of ten thousand reasons to object.”

"What's worse is that there is no political leader with enough authority who can unify the opinions of the New Party and the Conservative Party, so the negotiations can only be delayed indefinitely. So the only key to breaking the situation is to engage in Know who the murderer was who 'hanged Governor Venis'..."

"Then give this to the new party as a credit? Let them use the public support gained by finding out the truth to quickly overwhelm the conservative party in the political arena, thereby promoting cooperation between Venice and the empire?" Albrecht was also born in a noble family after all, so he immediately Realizing how important the political value is to the current top leaders of Venis to "catch the murderer of Governor Venis".

"Giving it to the new party?" Ask looked at him as if he were an idiot, "How could it be given away for nothing?"

"To be precise, we sell it to them through an exchange of interests... Of course, it depends on how much they can offer. After all, we also need to try our best to facilitate the transaction."

Albrecht:………………

Well, he also forgot that this was a mercenary.

As a profit-seeking mercenary, you can give up some of your interests in the transaction to ensure a quick closing of the business, but it is absolutely impossible to give it away for free.

"In this case, how long will it take?" Albrecht pondered.

"Three or four days," Asker said. "If we can't find out the truth in three or four days, it will probably be a very difficult situation. We will have to abandon this path and choose a more risky plan."

"Okay." Albrecht didn't ask what the "more risky plan" was. Are the weapons hidden in everyone's robes just decorations?

"Then how to divide the teams?" The loyal and honest knight asked again.

"Nora, Eleanor, Sheila, and Mier." Asker quickly counted the people. "You are responsible for representing the imperial envoys and negotiating with the Venis City Council. Please note that advancing the negotiation process is not your focus. Your actual task is to We need to understand the distribution of the two parties on the Venis City Council, those who are die-hards who oppose the empire, and those who are outsiders."

Considering Eleanor's status as an imperial noble, Nora's mind-reading ability, Sheila's clever mind, and Mi'er's personal protection, such a detachment was quite reasonable, so the four girls solemnly nodded in agreement.

"Medea, Sidrifa, Peggy and Mia, you are responsible for following me to investigate the case. Pay attention to trying not to get into trouble, but when you have to fight, you must fight cleanly and don't get entangled with the other party. You’ll keep attracting official attention, you know?”

"I know!" the other four girls also said.

Here, Mia is responsible for investigation, Peggy is responsible for kidnapping, Hilda is responsible for torture and extorting confessions, and Medea is responsible for soul torture. The four-person team of unscrupulous agents was quickly and temporarily established under the leadership of the big devil Ask. .

"So, Albrecht, where are you going to follow?" Ask asked finally.

"We'd better follow Her Highness Eleanor." Albrecht was quite self-aware.

After all, their main purpose is to supervise the negotiation process between the mission and the Venis City Council. As for what Asker said about investigating the truth of the case, he does not have the right talents in his knight team, and rushing to follow the past will only cause chaos.

"Okay." Asik finally said, "Every night at 18:00, each team will send a representative to gather here at the Thieves Guild to exchange information with each other. Do you understand?"

"Got it!" The girls and knights all said this time.

Thanks to jhwillie for his 100 coins, thank you to Sun and Moon Cloud Ghost for his 1,000 coins, thank you to CHI_1698 for his 10,000 coins, and thank you to Jianmeng Fubai for his 1,000 coins~