Ride and Cut

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"Since you are your Majesty's staff, is your Majesty still staying in Coron?" Richard picked up the cup and took a sip. He unexpectedly discovered that it was a good rum. He thought it should be tea.

"No, I returned to the capital half a month ago." According to human standards, Liola's appearance is slightly exaggerated, and it is difficult to make a good impression at first glance.

But when he held the cup to his mouth, his posture was impeccable, very elegant and noble, and no one could escape the slightest flaw.

Then-suddenly raised his head and dried it all in one mouthful, dripping with no more drops.

Just as Richard looked at him, he picked up the handkerchief in a more elegant and invulnerable posture, and gently touched the corner of his lips, as if everything was just a dream bubble, and it never happened.

"Definitely a senior drunkard." The lord immediately had a judgment in his heart, and then he took it up and did it himself.

Sauron looked at the two of them and had to follow suit, but he was neither a drunkard nor a high mountain fort lord, so he was choked with a low cough.

"Master Liola, this is the last cup of the day. You must not drink anymore, not even a drop." The waiter whispered while pouring the wine.

"Got it!" The impatience of the lame goblin was as obvious as the lice on top of the bald head, and his tone was very bad.

"Your Excellency Liola, what are you doing here when you come to our Gaoshan Fort?" Lord Lord touched a cup with him, and the two of them had a tacit understanding and raised their heads.

"You may not know that the mediation of the Bright Church organization will be restarted soon." Liola looked down at the empty glass in his hand, and suddenly raised it and poured the last few drops of residual wine into his mouth, only to show a satisfied smile. "After all, it's a big deal. I have to make sure that everyone who should attend the meeting can attend the meeting in time."

"Of course it's okay." Richard was not surprised by this, but secretly said a fluke. If these two people go to the door for a few days in the morning, it is estimated that his disappearance will be revealed.

"That's good." Liola grinned, "Your arms business in Alpine Fort has been suspended for several months inexplicably. I was wondering if there was an accident, so I came here to take a look."

Richard was stunned, "It seems that as long as you open the door to do business, it's hard to hide it from someone with a heart."

Alpine Fort is indeed in the arms business, but the customers are basically indigenous tribes in the wilderness, and the trade route is farther away from Coron City.

Even the possession of iron ore has never been reported to the Noble Court. Lord Lord has always thought that the secrecy is good, and it is not known to outsiders.

"False. It's not too difficult for someone like me to conceal it occasionally, otherwise the tax officer would have come. If it weren't for Mr. Liola, I really don't know you are so courageous." Sauron shrugged, "It's nothing but words. Then again, how much tax did Gaoshan Castle miss? Hurry up and make up for it."

"Why should I make up for the tax that I have leaked by myself?" Seeing that it had been exposed, Richard also got up, and choked Sauron back in one sentence.

Turning his head and looking at Liola next to him with a suspicious expression, "Does our Gaoshan Fort have spies?"

He has a system close to him, so there is no need to worry about traitors appearing in the Ripper's fighters, which is a great convenience. But in fact, there is still no way to avoid mixed spies among the civilians, let alone the possibility of information leakage.

"It's actually obvious." Liola casually tapped the wheelchair with his index finger, and said intermittently in a more casual tone: "The style of the equipment used by the Ripper Warrior is obvious, and it's no secret that Alpine Fort has dwarven leaders. , You know at a glance that you have the ability to produce self-produced equipment.

"I checked the transaction records of various trading houses in Xia Kelun and found that Voya had purchased coal and blacksmith tools for you several times, but almost never bought iron ore, which only means that Gaoshan Fort has found the source of the ore itself. "

"There are blacksmiths and iron ore. It is perfectly normal to want to run some arms business by yourself to make money. Of course, this is just a guess, but with this guess as a prerequisite, it doesn't take much trouble to verify it a little. Leave a trace."

"Everything is so obvious that you don't need a spy." Liola pushed the neck pillow under his neck a little, so that he could lean more comfortably: "Most of the time, as long as you follow a clue to chase down, it's really fundamental. There is no way to hide."

"Very meticulous reasoning process." Richard maintained his demeanor with a smile on his face, but he was swearing in his heart, wishing to do this on the spot.

As the most prosperous commercial city in the entire northeastern province, Coron has a large number of large and small businesses and various trading methods. It seems easy to count all the procurement items of a territory, but it is actually more trouble than removing all the watermelon seeds!

How could ordinary people notice such minutiae!

"No." Liola shook his head with a smug smile, "not because of my meticulousness, but because the actions you tried to cover are too perfunctory. If you want to hide a cat, you have to hide it all, just hide it. What's the matter with a strand of hair."

"Is it so obvious?" Sauron clutched his forehead, knowing that he must be suspicious of himself by looking at his expression.

As the chief official of the Noble Court in the Northeast Province, he is theoretically the one who should master the activities of the noble territories in the province, but he has never found Xiao Jiujiu in Gaoshan Fort.

But it would be too wrong to say that Sauron was negligent. Because in other provinces and even other countries, the management is almost the same-the officials maintain the overall stability, the nobles and lords underneath each have their own pros and cons, and both sides have tried not to add to the other side as the greatest vocation. It is the common pursuit of everyone.

"Yes." Liola certainly didn't know what humility means. Before Sauron's voice, he immediately replied:

"Even if it is difficult to count the transaction entries~www.readwn.com~, it is not difficult to find that their financial situation is obviously abnormal-it can be inferred from the entry and exit records of the city gates in Cologne. The monthly financial expenditure of Gaoshan Fort It’s huge. The trophies alone are not enough. There must be extra income."

"I learned it." Sauron sighed and said nothing.

Although he has been dragged down by official duties for a long time, Sauron is also a mage anyway, and he pursues truth in his life. For him, being taught by a goblin is obviously not so easy to accept.

"In your opinion, how can we truly conceal the existence of an iron ore?"

"Unless you don't use it at all, otherwise..." Liola rested his chin for a while and shook his head: "It's difficult. Any action will leave traces, including those done to erase the traces, but also leave new ones. Traces. To find clues, you only need to find the tip of the iceberg, and to erase the clues, you need to eliminate the entire iceberg. The difficulty is not an order of magnitude at all."

"Why on earth—why did Pompeii expel the Church of the Ice and Snow Goddess and welcome the Church of the Holy Light as the state religion? Why did Stuart go the other way?" Richard finally asked the question he was most concerned about.