Realm of Power

Lisbonto, the most prosperous sea trade center in the southern part of the empire, although it suffered heavy losses in the Lisbonto economic crisis, as the value of the Commercial Alliance's golden tickets rebounded, it once again showed prosperity that attracted the attention of the entire continent. The empire's The benefits brought by the huge territory are also reflected. With the rapid expansion of the empire's territory to the eastern part of Obarro, from Istan From the Barro region in Central Europe to Lisbon, a golden maritime trade line spanning from east to west has been formed. On this trade line spanning thousands of miles, hundreds of ports controlled by the empire are like trading points. , the daily throughput of goods and the connected coastal economy continue to attract businessmen from the entire continent, even from Central and South Africa.

According to statistics from Lisbonto City Hall, the number of merchant ships docking in Lisbonto every day has exceeded 3,000 ships per day. Although the original port facilities have been expanded three times, they are limited by the original landform and the maximum number of accommodations. Only 2,300 ships can no longer be expanded, so it is very difficult to Many merchant ships that were unable to enter the port of Lisbonto chose to dock on the coast near Lisbonto. The huge trade flow brought about soon turned these docking areas into large and small trading towns, and eventually formed the The existence of a huge commercial area extending nearly a hundred miles from the center of Lisbon

Three-quarters of the commercial trade in the entire southern part of the empire comes from Lisbonto's trading houses. Although Lisbonto is only a hundred miles away, its population has already exceeded one million. It is the first commercial city in the empire to have a population of more than one million. In the city, even if it is not the center of Lisbon, you can just walk into a restaurant on the business road, throw out a dozen silver coins, and a smiling waiter will bring you good wine. ~, and you can easily meet elegant beauties surrounded by horse-drawn carriages and servants in various shops along the business road, go in and out of high-end hotels, and you may bump into big shots such as dukes and marquises of a certain country.

Even the small business district thirty miles away in Lisbon. There are still so-called royal luxury chain stores,

The luxury goods inside are definitely the best in the entire continent, because this is indeed a real royal store, belonging to the Imperial Ministry of Internal Affairs. As long as you can afford it, buying a crown is not a problem, and it is legal, Business Road Along the way, there are countless stalls selling groceries.

At this moment, in the mansion and villa of He Ruile, one of the twelve deacons of the Business Alliance, the weather has already entered the cold winter. Ice floes also appeared on the lake, but thick curtains were opened all around the entire villa. One side of the curtain opened, but it faced the huge flower bed in the middle of the villa. Land in the Lisbon Villa area is now very expensive, so even if It's He Ruile's identity, and the mansion is not very big, but the people who designed the other courtyard are very ingenious, even if there are flaws. It has also been decorated with great care. Under the heavy snow and the clear sky, the scenery in the courtyard is like a jade-colored scenic tower, which is unique and ingenious. The evergreen pines are covered with snow and frost, but there is another strange scene.

Standing on the balcony of his villa, He Ruile frowned and waved his hand to a business alliance employee behind him, and said coldly, "No need to say any more. No matter what, I will not participate in this deacon meeting."

"My lord, please also consider canceling the Thirteenth Deacon's seat. It will be beneficial and harmless to your lord and the merchants of the entire empire!"

The middle-level staff of the Business Alliance was still trying to persuade, hoping to change He Ruile's attitude. The reason why he was so eager was because if he wanted to cancel the seat of a Business Alliance deacon, and also to permanently cancel this position, he must All twelve deacons of the Business Alliance have expressed their opinions, and among the twelve deacons, He Ruile is mainly responsible for ocean trade. Yi can be said to be the number one sea trade merchant in the empire. His words can determine the position of most of the business alliance’s deacons. After all, the most profitable thing now is sea trade. No matter how good the goods are, if they cannot be transported by sea, they will not be transported by sea. Profits will be greatly reduced. If He Ruile doesn't take a stand, the business alliance's decision to cancel a business deacon is a joke.

"A group of short-sighted people. Miss Dailan takes such good care of the Business Alliance. Without Miss Dailan's careful care, where is the current Business Alliance? Dailan has just left, and you want to kill them all, even the thirteenth I want to abolish the position of deacon. I am very disappointed with this business alliance deacon association!”

He Ruile looked at the middle-level staff member seriously and said unceremoniously.

He is a deacon with an important status. It can be said that apart from Sokutus Stellan, he had the highest status in the business alliance in the past. Therefore, he does not need to be polite to a deacon council's mouthpiece. He was secretly ordered to do so at Kailuo Port. I stayed there for three or four months, so I know very well who the real boss of Sokutus Stellan is. "Your Excellency, you should think about it. The annual meeting of the Business Alliance is coming soon. Even if your Excellency does not agree, other deacons can still pass it. And do you really want to go against the entire Deacon Association? This will not be good for your future!"

The face of the middle-level employee who was scolded by him turned red and white. Just now, he called He Ruile "Sir", but now he has changed it to "Your Excellency". After all, he is also a prominent figure in the business alliance, and one of them has just joined the Deacon Council. The deacon's confidant, and although Horele was a veteran deacon among the deacons, he He has not been in Lisbon for several months, and has ignored the maritime trade. Instead, he has concentrated all his manpower and material resources on the construction of the Port of Cairo. This has long aroused strong dissatisfaction among many people in the Deacon Council. Now it is even more How could he be willing to swallow this breath of scolding him so shamelessly?

The reason why he said that the annual meeting was coming soon was to warn Horele that the annual meeting of deacons would be used to calculate the annual performance of each deacon. You, Horele, have been in Porto Cairo for half the year. Even if the Lisbon crisis is so big, You He Ruile ignored the matter, which almost led to the collapse of the entire empire's shipping disaster. For this reason alone, the Deacon Council can completely revoke He Ruile's position as deacon!

"Are you threatening me?"

He Ruile narrowed his eyes and fell on the middle-level staff, revealing a chilling feeling. Of course he heard what the other person meant and sneered with disdain, "It seems that I have really left the deacon." The meeting has been going on for a long time, so long that even a small role like you dares to threaten me, no You think I don’t know who is behind you, but even he was just a beggar in front of me back then. A newcomer who just joined the Deacons Association, does he really think that the Deacon of the Business Alliance is the pinnacle of businessmen? Ridiculous? ! Get out of here now. I don’t want to see you anymore!”

"You'll regret it!"

The face of the middle-level member of the Business Alliance was red with frustration, and his body was shaking with anger. He wanted to explode but did not dare to do so. The other person was He Ruile, the most powerful one among the twelve deacons of the Business Alliance, even if he was behind his back. He didn't like He Ruile enough. If it weren't for other purposes, he wouldn't dare to come!

As soon as he left He Ruile's room, the middle-level employee of the Business Alliance changed his anger. Instead, he took a deep breath. He Ruile was indeed a die-hard loyalist to Sokutus Stellan. It was originally difficult for his master to persuade other deacons to abolish the Thirteenth Deacon. After all, he had to persuade everyone to agree. It's not a simple matter. Now there is basically no problem.

Sokutus Stellan's shadow in the hearts of other deacons was too great. She had dismissed as many as six business alliance deacons simply because they opposed her. Sokutus Stellan actually took the initiative to resign. Naturally, the business alliance was extremely happy to leave this huge mountain that weighed on everyone.

Many business alliance executives held banquets to celebrate. Businessmen are driven by profit. Because of the existence of Sokutus Stellan, many businessmen who excessively pursue profits have been severely punished, causing the business alliance to lose a lot of business opportunities. Moreover, this woman has shocked and purged the top executives of the Business Alliance several times, and the iron-fisted methods and extremely powerful counterattack she has shown have once made the entire top brass of the Business Alliance despair.

Now that this woman is gone, the shackles on the business alliance are suddenly lifted.

The first resolution passed by the Business Alliance at the recent deacon meeting was to propose the permanent elimination of the position of the Thirteenth Deacon. According to the words of the deacon meeting, "This is a very unreasonable and inappropriate position. Business alliances don’t need someone who is above everything else!”

It's just that no one dares to take it lightly when facing such an enemy. Even though it has been two months since this woman left the Business Alliance, there is still an unspeakable pressure on everyone's heart. In addition, the twelve deacons are not uniform, so that time Didn't pass, but this time is different, adequate preparations have been made, and Sokutus Stellan has been away for more than two months, and her fear and pressure have dissipated a lot. If Heruile is Soku If the news of Tustelan's die-hard loyalties spreads again, in order not to let this shackles continue to be placed on everyone's heads, the direction of the deacons' association should instantly shift to one side. Even those deacons who remain neutral will also sway to their own side. The Thirteenth Deacon is the aspiration of the people and the trend of the times. As the woman who remains at the top of the Business Alliance Deacons Association, He Ruile will naturally be shunned and ostracized by other deacons, and will eventually be kicked out of the Deacons Association.

"Everyone is pushing against the wall, not to mention the benefits that are irresistible! He Ruile, you are really old, and your eyesight is so dim! Is it really worth supporting a woman who has lost her power?" The moment the middle-level staff stepped onto the carriage outside the door, they glanced at He Ruile's room, the corners of their mouths curled up, and He Ruile palmed his hand. The entire business alliance has seen how rich the ocean trade is. For such a huge piece of cake to be occupied by He Ruile alone, everyone's eyes have long been red. Taking advantage of the opportunity to eliminate the Thirteenth Deacon, they will He Ruile stepped down from this position and re-divided this huge piece of cake. I believe that no one in the entire deacon association will refuse!

The disdain shown by this middle-level business alliance executive before getting into the car showed that he was noticed by a young man not far away. Two minutes later, the young man opened the door of He Ruile's room and his eyes fell on the person who was examining a man. He Ruile, who had read the document, said with a hint of worry, "Father, isn't it too unwise to directly confront the entire deacon council like this?"

"The entire diaconate? You think too highly of them!"

He Ruile raised his head and smiled. The person who came was his youngest son, He Ruile, who had returned from Imperial Ocean University.

Looking at his youngest son's puzzled expression, He Ruile picked up the documents on the table and handed them to him, saying, "Look at this first. This is something I brought back from the south. Imperial Ocean University probably doesn't have this yet. Compared with this, the business alliance’s decision is a joke!”

Imperial Ocean University is a university established by the empire specifically to cultivate talents for maritime trade. It mainly recruits students from the children of sea trade merchants like He Ruile. You know, among the crowds in Lisbon, the most eye-catching one is Not those queues full of luxury cars, but some bright-looking young people wearing dark blue uniforms,

These are the students of the Imperial Ocean University, which the empire spent a lot of money to establish. The Imperial Ocean University is not an imperial military college. There are no strict selection conditions like the Military Academy. If the talents trained by Ocean University are used in ocean trade, most of the students accepted are from the business class who already have some understanding of ocean trade. The sea area is boundless, and there are still many who have not yet learned about it. The land that has been explored exists, and there are still many undiscovered business opportunities. The purpose of the empire in establishing the Ocean University is to hope that the empire’s maritime trade can prosper for a long time, instead of falling into decline after just a few decades of prosperity.

And these young people. In the future, it will be the backbone of the Empire's maritime trade. I don't know how many people will become extremely wealthy businessmen. Sending their children to study at the Imperial Marine University has become an important task for many families that have risen because of maritime trade. I Whether the family's glory and wealth can be sustained depends on whether their children can enter the Imperial Ocean University. The Ocean University recruits students in two seasons: spring and autumn. As a student of the Imperial Ocean University last spring, He Ruiluta has studied nearly a year. One year. I came back this time for a winter internship.

"This is?"

Horiluta took the document curiously, wanting to know what it was that made his father value it so much that even the deacon of the continent's number one business organization didn't care. You must know that outside, if anyone dares to say that the deacon of the Business Alliance is a joke, he will immediately be drowned in the saliva of countless businessmen, but he also believes that his father will not exaggerate. Because his father is the deacon of the Business Alliance, and he is also the most powerful one, standing in his father's position. The way he looks at things should also be different, so he believes that his father is not telling lies

This was what made him extremely curious. Hori Luta opened the document in his hand with extreme caution, glanced over it, and murmured "Imperial Bank?" in a low voice. This was something he had never heard of. The name of the business group, since it bears the name of the empire, must be the empire's business group, a business group that even his father paid attention to, but he had never heard of it, which aroused his curiosity even more.

He turned over the first page of the document, and the content involved in the document immediately made his eyes bulge into bells. He saw a familiar name, Sokutus Stellan, the Queen of Darkness in the empire's business world. In this report, he saw a real queen, a huge flow of funds calculated in tens of millions, just like a real continental war, overcoming obstacles and sweeping all the way, affecting three-quarters of the southern coast area, and one by one southern merchants. The group is like a sway in the storm The remaining leaves were swallowed up. As a businessman, Sokutus Stellan defeated the entire south. This kind of thing was completely beyond Horiluta's knowledge. It turned out that the power of businessmen could be so powerful. It was so powerful. It only took half a month to bring the entire southern business group to its knees. Even the invincible Imperial Army could not do this on the battlefield, and the Imperial Bank founded by this woman , and even set off a huge storm in the southern part of Oparo.

"Do you know what the foundation of the business alliance is?"

He Ruile stared at his youngest son. Ever since he knew that his eldest son had arrogantly collided with His Majesty Falcon, he had given up on training his eldest son and instead placed the heir of the family on his younger son. He There were many things about Ruiluta that made him satisfied. He was not as arrogant as his eldest son. He is horizontal, but he is more cautious than a businessman. What he lacks is experience and experience. After a few years of training, he should be able to bear the burden of his family. Now a huge opportunity lies in front of the He Rui family. He Rui Le felt that it was time to teach his little son something real.

"The foundation of the business alliance should be businessmen," Heruluta said confidently. This question was really not difficult. He didn't know why his father asked

"Haha, if the foundation of the business alliance is businessmen, then tell me, who was the person who founded the business alliance in the first place?" He Ruile smiled noncommittally, focusing on the mountains and rivers in the distance, and curled his lips disdainfully ,

He Ruiluta looked a little embarrassed and hesitated for a moment. It was obvious that it was wrong to say that the businessman was a businessman. Could that rumor be true... He seemed to have thought of something, but his voice was obviously less confident. "It is said that His Majesty Falcon founded the business." alliance……\

,""You are right, it was indeed the business alliance founded by His Majesty Falcon!"

He Ruile nodded, "When the Business Alliance became known to everyone, it was already quite large. On the contrary, when it was established in the Zivadin era, only a few people knew the specific situation, and most of the people in the empire knew about it. I only know that the first president of the Business Alliance was Si Duhan. There are also vague rumors that it was the Falcon of Grand Duke Samour who was responsible for it. As a senior figure, I naturally know that it was His Majesty Falcon who founded it in the first place. business alliance,

And Sokutusidalan became the thirteenth deacon at that time! It was because of Sokutusidalan that the Business Alliance was able to grow rapidly with the expansion of the empire. Now that Sokutusidalan is gone, what do you think will happen to the Business Alliance? "(To be continued.)