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"Are the merchants and aristocrats fighting?" Crito asked in confusion. "Haven't they already divided their spheres of influence? It's like they have separated. Why are they still fighting?"

The intelligence officer in charge of the subpoena obviously knew the cause and effect of the matter very well, and immediately replied: "According to the merchant faction, the aristocratic faction had troops pretending to be bandits to attack the caravan. They asked the aristocratic faction to ask for someone, but the aristocratic faction not only refused to hand over the murderer, Instead, they complained that they were harassing the border during this period, so they took action. "

"What about the aristocratic faction's statement?" Crito asked again.

"The aristocratic faction's statement is that the merchant faction deliberately provoked first, framed the blame later, and finally took the lead in taking action. It is really unreasonable!"

Crito nodded, thought for a moment, and asked, "What is our position on this matter?"

"Director East told me that we in the Northwest Republic have no position. If we have to find a position, it would be to call for peace and break up the fight."

Clito smiled: "This position is good, I like it!"

He is not the kind of war monger who firmly believes that "a cannon fires, and gold is ten thousand taels", nor is he the kind of war madman who shouts that "only iron and blood can solve problems". Although his personality is actually quite aggressive, in the big world Politically speaking, he is a peaceful person.

It would be best if everyone stays safe and does not fight. If someone gets into a fight, what he hopes to do most is to break up the fight, rather than taking advantage of the opportunity.

In his opinion, the Northwest Republic is rich and does not necessarily lack population. Overall, the situation is very good and there really is nothing special that needs to be grabbed.

wrong! Even if you are short of something, you can’t grab it!

The merchant faction of the Gold Coin Federation was fighting against the aristocrat faction. It was their civil war. As a neutral party, the Northwest Republic should certainly try to persuade them to stop the war and restore peace.

At least that’s what Crito thought.

After he laughed, he frowned again, thought for a while, and asked, "Has Director East analyzed who did this?"

"Director East said that he thinks there are two possibilities. One possibility is that the soldiers on both sides of the border are dishonest and attack each other's civilians. This kind of thing is not uncommon and has often happened in the past history. Both It is common for such things to happen between two hostile forces.”

Crito nodded and asked, "What about another possibility?"

"Another possibility is that someone is causing trouble behind the scenes, pretending to be both sides, attacking the other side's sentries and civilians, and provoking a war. This kind of thing is also very common, and it is a relatively common but very useful strategy."

Klitto was stunned, thinking for a long time, frowning.

"How could this happen? The merchant faction and the noble faction are fighting...who would want them to fight? Who would benefit from them fighting?" He murmured to himself, lost in thought.

After the intelligence agent left, he was still thinking hard and wondering what happened.

He was very convinced of East's vision. Since East thinks there might be someone behind the scenes, this possibility definitely exists, and it's not small.

He even felt that perhaps East had already made a conclusion in his mind, and the reason why he asked the intelligence agent to tell him both possibilities was just to take this opportunity to test himself and see his own vision.

So he clearly could have asked Sui Xiong, but he didn't ask. He just thought hard and figured it out by himself.

"Which one do you think is more likely?" There was a flash of light and shadow in the Kingdom of God, and Sui Xiong's clone came to East and asked, "This fierce conflict between the two forces within the Gold Coin Federation, do you think it is What's going on?"

"Do you still have to ask? Someone is provoking." East put down his pen and said with a smile, "Both the merchant faction and the aristocratic faction are currently seeking stability and want to develop steadily. The merchant faction is training a new army and needs to buy time. Let the new army take shape. The noble faction needs to stabilize agricultural production and appease the lords who have changed their territories before. How can they have time and energy to fight now? But there must be people outside the Gold Coin Federation who don't want to see them like this. We want to live in peace and stability, so we can’t wait to provoke him and them to fight, and I hope they fight as fiercely as possible.”

"Then what kind of force do you think it will be?" Sui Xiong asked.

"The biggest possibility is of course the Thunder Principality, and the Eagle Kingdom is also possible." East said, "After all, if you want to benefit from the civil war in the Gold Coin Federation, it makes sense to border it."

He thought for a while and then said: "Actually, the Dhaka Business Alliance is also possible. They and the Gold Coin Federation are both purely commercial countries and compete fiercely with each other. If the Gold Coin Federation starts a civil war, they can take the opportunity to occupy many more markets. From then on, From this perspective, perhaps they are more likely to provoke a civil war in the Gold Coin Federation."

"Are there no other forces?" Sui Xiong asked.

East thought carefully for a long time, then shook his head: "At least I can't think of any other forces that may benefit from it, but this kind of benefit is obviously not enough to make up for the benefits. For example, the Church of the God of Nobles, they will definitely be able to benefit from it. They made a profit in this civil war, but how can they guarantee that the aristocrat faction will win the civil war? If the merchant faction wins, they will lose everything."

"But if the aristocracy wins, they will make a lot of money, right?"

East nodded, then shook his head.

"It's unreasonable to use 10% of the capital to pursue 20% of the profit, and risk losing all your money." He said, "Even if you make a profit, the initial investment will be too large, and it will definitely damage the Noble Faction itself. The strength. If you don’t want to damage the strength of the Noble God Faction, you must damage the strength of the Noble God Church. The Noble God Faction is not a fool. If you want them to fight against the Merchant Faction, the Noble God God Church must spend a lot of money, at least send out It will take a large number of paladins, priests, and priests to participate in the battle. Although they have been established for hundreds of years and have the foundation of the previous Church of God of Kings, their vitality will definitely be severely damaged by such a fight..."

"What if they don't send people to fight?" Sui Xiong asked.

"What will be damaged is the influence of the Church of the God of Nobles. How can a church like this expect the nobles to support it when it lets others fight the war but does not send troops to support it?"

Sui Xiong thought about it and found that this was indeed the case.

He wants others to gamble on his own money, but he is unwilling to put down his own money. Who would believe him?

"So, it's really unlikely that the Church of the God of Nobles is causing trouble?"

"Unless there is some inside story that I don't know, I don't see the need for the Church of the Noble God to fight this war." East replied, but he didn't have much confidence, "It's just... the gods. The matter is really unpredictable, and I’m not sure if there is any reason that I can’t think of.”

Sui Xiong smiled: "Don't worry, I'll go investigate. The results will be available soon."

After saying that, he went to find Wei Ye.

To say that the most well-informed among the gods, apart from those guys who professionally collect information, he is the god of pleasure who specializes in eating, drinking and having fun, and has friends all over the world.

If the God of Nobles really has some tricks or conspiracy, Veyer can always get some clues.

Chapter 2: I'm a little sleepy today, so I'll go to bed first. Chapter 3 will be updated at noon tomorrow... Oh, please give me a vote first...