Mystery: Shadow of Order

On the West Side, at 45 Gatton Street, a wagon, expertly driven by a coachman, heads toward Queens.

Rolls, who was wearing a black suit and a cotton vest of the same color, sat on the small sofa equipped with the carriage, eyes slightly closed, holding a cane in one hand, and gently twitching his eyebrows in the other. Just as he was about to go to the door to say goodbye to Philip this morning, he received a message from the other side's valet asking him to come to Negan's villa, saying that there was something to discuss.

After a hurried breakfast, he got into the carriage and began to think about what Philip wanted to discuss with him.

Sending someone to deliver the news early in the morning must be a more urgent matter, and Backlund will be calm and quiet during the period after the new year. On the one hand, the three major churches are becoming more and more powerful, and they have already entered the military. The ceremony of George III should be almost ready, and there will be no major moves; on the other hand, after the New Year, most of the nobles will return to themselves. fiefs, the National Parliament will not open until after March.

So the Negan family is taking advantage of this rare free time to silently integrate their own forces. The only big moves are only two. The new Duke Philip Negan is looking for a suitable marriage partner, and the Negan family begins to give up gradually. The power in the overseas colonies, especially the power in the Central Sunia waters, is to maintain Backlund's fundamentals.

Although the former has a reason for Rawls's arrogance, it is impossible to find him in such a hurry for such a thing. It is only a problem with the integration of power, and he just mentioned to Philip yesterday that the Negan family was in Bayam. industrial problems.

Although this is a question raised to verify whether MI9 Director Selt has reached an agreement with the Negan family, this problem does exist, and if there is any trouble, it will have a great impact on the future of the Negan family. .

The repeal of the Corn Laws reduced the Negan family's land rental income by a third, the abolition of invalid constituencies made it impossible for the aristocracy to manipulate votes, which was related to the number of Conservative MPs, which was related to political influence.

Fortunately, the Negan family barely managed to walk on two legs before, and they also had a lot of income in the colony. They could maintain political influence by giving up this part. As for the abandoned property, as long as another governor is introduced, it can be taken back.

The carriage soon came to Negan's Villa. Rawls jumped out of the carriage with a walking stick, saw Prime Minister Agusid's carriage parked beside him, and walked quickly towards the villa.

"Viscount Drian, the duke and the prime minister are waiting for you in the study." Philip's personal servant greeted you.

"I see."

Rawls took off the silk politely and handed it to him along with the cane, and walked down the stairs to the study on the second floor.

As soon as I opened the door of the study, I saw Prime Minister Agusid sitting on a chair facing the door with a serious expression and asked in a deep voice:

"Mr. Prime Minister, is something wrong?"

"You're here..." Agusid showed a reluctant smile and turned gloomy, "Yesterday, the problem you mentioned arose. When the team we sent arrived at Bayam, we found that some of the assets of the Negan family had been transferred. At least half of it, there are MI9 figures, and more specifically, we have to wait for Amelius' response."

"Part of the assets?" Rawls groaned and had a bad premonition.

"Well, the rest should not have time to transfer, but there should be nothing wrong with the MI9 people involved. I have sent someone to send a message to Sert, but he has not been found."

Agusid handed over a telegram. His main concern was that MI9 was involved in the transfer of assets. This was simply trampling on the face of the Negan family. A few days ago, he and Philip had just been with Sert, and MI9 reached a cooperation, and now such a thing has happened.

He stretched out his hand to take the telegram, his eyes just fell on it, and Rawls's eyelids jumped. The Negan family's team in Bayam had already compiled a detailed list, and he was very familiar with the list of company names. .

In order to make Edward Laito be abandoned by George Negan, he used the "Dream Catcher" to influence a group of company leaders, which just matched this list, but there were more people on this list. Some.

Just why would MI9 people get involved?

"Philip, I remember your classmate Delin Harker in the 'Pritz' ironclad fleet?"

Philip, who was sitting behind the desk, frowned, and the lines on his forehead were obvious:

"He's just a battleship captain who was promoted to colonel early last year."

He understood what Agusid meant. He wanted a heavyweight who could represent the Negan family to sit in the Rhodes Islands, but a colonel was not enough.

"But we have no other choice, do we?

"As long as he can keep those assets on behalf of the Negan family, we can put him in the position of brigadier general by the end of the year..."

Listening to the conversation between the two, Rawls sat aside with the telegram, and he always felt that something was wrong. Only very few people know about the death of George Negan. The heads of these companies should not have access to this news, so how dare they transfer half of their assets in less than a month?

The "psychological cues" he planted by using "Dream Catcher" are not so strong, and these companies on the telegram are not all the assets of the Negan family in the Rhodes Islands, all of which were made by George Negan with the help of his own governor. Take it from Hao.

Looking at Philip, who had been reluctant to express his position, and Rawls, who was silently watching the telegram in his hand, Agusid frowned. According to his idea, Rawls was to go to Bayam to sit in town, but Philip did not agree. I had to say this on purpose, so that Rawls could understand the meaning of it himself.

This matter is not that simple. As one of the two leaders of the Negan family, Agushid naturally sees how these transferred assets on the telegram came from, and can even speculate that it is Prince Sonia. Led by Rove Augustus.

Only he can mobilize MI9 without fearing the power of the Negan family and conflict with George Negan.

In the face of a demigod, a prince, even if he and Philip go together, it will not necessarily prevent the continued transfer of assets, because those assets themselves are difficult to count as the assets of the Negan family, which is why they give up so simply.

Letting Rawls go, although it won't do anything, can completely tie him to the Negan family. After getting the title, he failed the first time, and even had a conflict with members of the royal family. After that, besides relying on the Negan family, who else could he rely on?

This is also Agusid's consideration for the future. The political sensitivity and wisdom shown by Rawls can threaten the Philip and Negan families. The latter's thinking has been finalized and will rely more and more on the former. As long as the former is malicious, the Negan family will suffer huge losses.

For example, in this case, Philip knew the inside story, knew that Prince Grove was in Bayam, and knew that he could command MI9, but he couldn't connect these things together. Fear of another George Negan assassination by pirates.

And if Rawls knew this information, he could certainly deduce the real reason.

Agusid sighed in his heart, and just as he was about to speak, he heard Philip's decisive voice.

"Uncle, now that Sir Selt has not received the news, it is impossible for him to do so at the risk of offending the Negan family."

Looking at his firm eyes, Agusid touched his receding hairline and gritted his teeth:

"Then wait for Selt's news!"

After saying that, he strode out of the study and walked towards Mrs. Della's room.

Seeing Agusid's whereabouts from the corner of his eye, Rawls raised his eyebrows. Although he didn't know that the Prime Minister wanted him to face Grove Augustus, he heard that he wanted to let himself go to the Rhodes Islands. mean.

If it doesn't involve his promotion, it's okay to go there, but on behalf of the Negan family, I'm afraid I won't be able to get out in a short time, and I can't find someone to pretend to be myself with the "Variety" mask, the risk is too high.

Looking at Philip who sat down silently, Rawls got up and closed the door, smiled and said:

"Actually, Prime Minister Agulhid is right. I am very suitable to go to the Rorsted Islands, but..."

"No, it's too dangerous there. The last time we caught a pirate general, Uncle George was assassinated. Now we have to deal with Nast!"

Philip shook his head again and again. He recognized very few friends. He had temporarily given up revenge for Andy Haydn for the sake of his family, and could no longer put a friend in danger.

"Listen to me first, I can go, provided..." Rawls shook the telegram in his hand, "There is no problem here."

"Problem? What's the problem?"

"When I was investigating Auston Levitt, I stayed in Bayam for a long time to investigate the smuggling problem. At that time, I found out that Governor George may also be involved in the smuggling. His channel was through a company in Bayam. Shipping company, the predecessor of this company is the transportation division of the Central Sunia Company.

Likewise, many of Bayam's companies remained independent in name after the arrival of Governor George, but in fact have become assets of the Governor's Palace. "

"Are you saying that Uncle George took advantage of the governor's power to get these companies on the telegram?" Philip stood up. He didn't even know what assets Bayam had, let alone such a thing.

"should be."

Rawls nodded. In fact, these should be acquiesced by Duke Negan, but it is better not to mention them in front of Philip.

"Because of the way we got the assets, it's hard to put this on the surface and use the Negan family's influence to force the people behind the back to give in. And the people behind obviously know this and just move the companies. asset."

"This is what Selt did?" Philip subconsciously remembered the director of MI9.

"No, I don't think it's Director Sert. He has just reached a cooperation with us and will never acquiesce to this happening."

Although Rawls always thought that the demigod director had some other ideas, he turned his face as soon as he cooperated with the Negan family, which obviously did not conform to his previous performance of attaching great importance to the identity of the director of MI9.

"Who would that be?" Philip pressed the table, and the lines on his forehead deepened.

"A person who can mobilize MI9 and is not afraid of the Negan family, and more importantly, he should be in Bayam."

After a few minutes of silence in the study, Philip said in a low voice:

"It's Prince Sonia, Grove Augustus!"

The "chaos hunter" of Sequence 3 fits one of the two demigods on the "Prize". It seems that he has been staying in Bayam in revenge for Nast's attack?

Just why would you start with the assets of the Negan family?

Rawls, who got another useful message, put the telegram in his hand on the table and said solemnly:

"If it is a prince, MI9 can indeed be mobilized. What is the reason?"

"This is the only person who meets the conditions you listed." Philip didn't know the specific reason, but the possibility of Grove was very high. "It seems that we have to give up that part of the asset."

"There is still a chance. We have an issue that the royal family must pay attention to, that is, in order not to cause political disturbances, Governor George is still alive in name. But Prince Grove's doing this is tantamount to expanding his influence. We only need to tell His Majesty Report this matter, even if those assets were not converted into the assets of the Negan family through formal channels, His Majesty will return these assets to us."

What George III wanted was reform, and what he wanted was a half-dead Negan family that would not allow the political crisis to spread, attracting Feysac's covet when the ceremony was not fully prepared.

"The premise is that we can confirm that this is the order of Prince Grove, which can be verified with Lord Selt. He will not help us face a prince, but it should still be helpful. Other than that. Besides, Admiral Amelius Leavitt should also have some news."

"I see, I will ask the two admirals for confirmation."

Selt is the director of MI9 and also holds the rank of general.

Philip squeezed his eyebrows and was about to sit down when Prime Minister Agusid walked in again, unable to hide the depression and anger on his face.

Mrs. Della also didn't agree with his method, thinking that if she wanted to tie Philip to the Negan family's chariot~www.wuxiaspot.com~, she could use other means, such as marrying a girl of the family's age to him. Let Agusid almost not scolded.

"Rolls..."

"uncle…"

The two uncles and nephews spoke almost at the same time. Philip knocked on the table and looked at Agusid:

"Rolls, you go back first, you can rest for a while, or you can go to Sisson County to see your fief."

Agusid looked at Philip in disbelief, and was interrupted by Rawls before he could speak.

"Hehe, I originally wanted to tell you that I want to go out on vacation and rest for a while, but Sissen County is still a little far away. I plan to find a small town near Backlund to visit."

"That's fine, I hope you have a good time."

Rawls politely said goodbye to his uncle and nephew, and left Negan's villa leisurely.

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