The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Leo listened quietly, disapproving of Cass Langton in his heart. In his opinion, even without him, Jason's current strength as the president of the porters' union, coupled with the status of the Nelsons in Port Dorset, is enough to Easily solve the threat of Cass Langte.

Even so, Leo simply asked, "Do you need me to help you solve this trouble?"

"No, no need, it's just a small trouble." Lisa shook her head hastily, rejecting Leo's kindness.

Since she got along with Jason, she has heard various deeds about Leo from Jason more than once, knowing that Leo is a person with special abilities, just like some strange people she encountered in the tavern, But she didn't think Leo could solve Jason's current troubles well.

In her opinion, the way for Leo to solve the trouble is to get rid of the troublemaker, but getting rid of Cass Langte is not the best way, but it will bring a lot of trouble for Jason to become the manager of the large cargo terminal .

Because now almost everyone with a heart knows that Cass Langte is looking for trouble for Jason and is going to kick out what he thinks is the weakest candidate on the list. Believed to be the work of Jason.

Although this would not necessarily disqualify Jason from being a candidate, it would definitely affect the opinion of the decision makers. After all, no city manager would like to see a subordinate use such drastic means to deal with his competitors.

Leo easily saw through Lisa's mind, and he had no intention of explaining, but just smiled lightly.

Perhaps it was because she thought that she refused too directly, but Lisa felt that Leo would be displeased by it, so she asked Leo's recent situation a little out of words, in order to alleviate the dull atmosphere in the room.

Regarding this, Leo didn't think about alleviating the atmosphere. He always answered Lisa's questions very simply, which instead made the atmosphere more dull and even a little embarrassing.

"I'll go see if he's here." In the end, Lisa couldn't find a suitable topic to talk about anymore, so she stood up, made an excuse, and left the room in a hurry, leaving only her two subordinates to wait. In this room that made her feel awkward.

Leo didn't say anything, he sat on the chair calmly, looked at the furnishings in the room, his eyes fell on the newspaper rack next to the desk, so he got up and picked up a few newspapers and started to read them.

As one of the largest port cities in the Kingdom of England, Dorset Port is the city that has the most contact with the outside world, and it is also the city where foreigners settle the most and come and go. A large number of foreign businessmen come to Dorset Port every day, and leave As a world-class port city, the Port of Kasset naturally has a variety of city newspapers. The same newspaper has different world language versions such as English, French, and Sigma. The content of the version records is different, involving various things in almost all countries in the world.

For example, Leo saw from a newspaper that a worker riot occurred in the Kingdom of Maris half a month ago. This riot affected the entire Kingdom of Marris, and naturally had a great impact on the kingdom's industry. The worst thing is that the Kingdom of Maris failed to quell the riot immediately, causing the riot to gradually expand, and has formed batches of workers' armed forces.

The Kingdom of Marris is the largest industrial kingdom in the world of Villen. The latest steam engines are all manufactured by the Kingdom of Marris. Workers can be said to be the cornerstone of this country, but the status of workers in the Kingdom of Marris is not high, even It can be said to be very low, and some are even inferior to the private serfs of some noble lords.

Every day, workers do heavy work far beyond ordinary people. The place they live in is small and dirty, and the food they eat is even moldy and expired. , just waiting for a crack to appear on the top of the head, and this worker riot is the best opportunity to detonate the workers of the entire Maris Kingdom.

For ordinary people in Port of Sete, they only see the chaos in the Maris Kingdom, just like reading a novel, and forget it after reading it. Be more concerned, after all, the Kingdom of Maris is too far away from the Kingdom of Engel.

For businessmen, the chaos in the Kingdom of Marris has allowed them to see various business opportunities, because as the largest industrial kingdom in Velen, worker riots mean that factories have shut down, so that various industries related to the Kingdom of Marris There will inevitably be a situation where the demand exceeds the supply, and the price will definitely skyrocket, so they will all think of hoarding a sum of goods immediately, waiting for the price to rise to the peak, and making a fortune.

Among the merchants, the war merchants will become even more excited because of this news, because now the Maris Kingdom is bound to fall into war, and all strategic materials, whether it is medicine or weapons, are profiteering commodities. They are already gearing up, ready to grab a fortune from the warring parties of the Marris Kingdom.

For those who are not satisfied with the peaceful world, after seeing this news, they will be very happy about the emergence of war. They will gather under the command of both sides of the war, fight for their respective ideas, and gain money and power through war.

However, after Leo saw the news, he had a subtle feeling that although the workers' riots seemed to erupt suddenly, the aftermath of the workers' riots seemed to have a pair of big hands leading things to a more and more serious direction. development in a more out-of-control direction.

For example, the riot was initially caused by the accidental death of a worker at work. A workers' mutual aid organization demanded some compensation from the factory owner for the worker, but the factory owner rejected the organization's request and asked the factory security to drive the workers away. Organizers and other onlookers, causing conflicts.

It stands to reason that such a conflict would not cause too much trouble, because the factory owners of the Maris Kingdom have rich experience in dealing with such matters. If people solve it, this fluctuation will soon subside.

But things went wrong that night. The factory owner of that factory was attacked by masked workers at home. More than 30 people including the factory owner’s family, bodyguards and servants were killed, and the factory owner’s family was even more so. He was tortured very cruelly before his death.

It would be fine if the deceased were just ordinary factory owners. The local city hall would arrest some of the workers who set up the incident. Regardless of whether they were guilty or not, they would be judged as guilty and then executed to suppress the workers' will to resist.

But the problem was that the factory owner was still a member of the city council, and his wife was one of the dead, the daughter of a nobleman in the Kingdom of Marris, so this matter became a little different.

The city hall sent troops and police to capture all the workers in that factory without any purpose, regardless of whether the worker was guilty or not, and selected more than a hundred of them with considerable reputation, and quickly made a trial and sentenced them to death. More workers were sentenced to mining in mines, which was even crueler than a direct death penalty.

After the verdict came out, the workers in the whole city were enraged, and then a few prestigious workers among the workers raised their arms and led the workers to raid the arsenal and barracks in the city, quickly armed themselves, captured the prison, and rescued the imprisoned workers .

Originally, the few worker leaders were going to stop here, and then negotiate with the established factory owner organization, and then decide what to do next.

But what they didn't expect was that although they were the igniters, the trend of the fire was out of their control. Their success seemed to see an opportunity for other workers' organizations who were watching. When they arrived in the wealthy area of ​​the city, all the usually honest workers turned into thugs. They not only robbed shops and apartments, but also trampled down all the big people they could only look up to before, abused, ravaged, and finally killed, the whole Not only factory owners in the city, but even ordinary businessmen were not spared, so all escape routes were blocked by this out-of-control riot.

The most strange thing is that the news of the workers' riot this time spread throughout the entire Maris Kingdom in a short period of time even though the news was blocked by the Maris Kingdom, and finally turned a small riot in a city into a world-shaking riot. A great riot in a powerful country.

When Leo saw this report here, he already thought of the manipulation behind this incident in his mind, and he also thought of the two people or countries most likely to do this, the French Empire and the French Empire. United Kingdom, Louis X and Rupert Fitz.

With the split of the Farland Empire, the crown of the number one land power that had been worn on the head of the Farland Empire for many years has been crumbling. Without the support of merchants and industries in West France, the French Empire was no longer able to support such a huge army and military expenditure. There have been voices within the French Empire to abolish the army and reduce the financial burden.

There is no doubt that once the French Empire abolishes the army, the laurels of the first land power will definitely be transferred to other countries. Among the more than 20 countries in the world of Velen, the most likely to bear this crown is the industrial power Maris Kingdom.

Therefore, the French Empire is definitely the country that is most willing to see the Marris Kingdom fall into turmoil, and will do something to make the Marris Kingdom fall into turmoil. Such a turmoil is enough to shake the Marris Kingdom no matter whether it succeeds or not The foundation of the country, and the surrounding countries will also take this opportunity to weaken the Maris Kingdom. The final result will only be that the Maris Kingdom will withdraw from the list of powerful countries, and it will no longer be qualified to bear the title of the number one land power.

As for Rupert Fitz, he also has enough reasons to manipulate this matter. A long time ago, Rupert Fitz planned to let the worker organization he secretly controlled enter the Maris Kingdom, but it ended in failure. The power level of the entire Marris Kingdom, even those who accepted the bribes of Rupert Fitz, all opposed this matter, which made it impossible for the largest worker kingdom in the world to have a unified and complete worker organization , there are only some workers' mutual aid associations confined to a certain factory.

This matter has always been recorded in Rupert Fitz's mind, and he mentioned it from time to time in some public occasions, taking the opportunity to express his concern for the poor treatment of the workers in the Maris Kingdom, and also mocked the Marris Kingdom from time to time It is a mutant slavery state.

Also because of Rupert Fitz's exaggerated words, some factory owners and nobles in the Maris Kingdom, with the state's acquiescence, used some extraordinary means to deal with Rupert Fitz, including an assassination, and even He almost killed Rupert Fitz, so Rupert Fitz and the nobles of the Marris Kingdom can be said to be deadly enemies, and once they have the opportunity to deal with the Marris Kingdom, they will never let it go.

Judging from the timing of the riots in various parts of the Marris Kingdom, it is obvious that there is a trace of connection between them, and they were planned in advance, and judging from their riots, they all attacked the arsenal, barracks, and police stations with a purpose. Controlling the violent organizations and weapons in the entire city, and then taking over the entire city, the method is sophisticated and exactly the same. There is no doubt that there must be a big force secretly manipulating it.

Being able to have great influence among the workers, and silently establish an underground force that expanded to the entire Marris Kingdom, it is almost impossible for anyone else in the entire Velen world to be able to do it except for Rupert Fitz .

Leo is not interested in where the Maris Kingdom will go due to the labor movement. What he cares about is the adverse impact the chaos in the Maris Kingdom will have on Rembrandt, because Rembrandt has gone deep into the Mozambique continent this time. In addition to his own funding for the expedition to the wasteland, there were several major sponsors, all of whom were from the Maris Kingdom, and even most of the adventure team members and bodyguards were from the Marris Kingdom.

The news of the turmoil in the Kingdom of Marris may not have reached such a remote place deep in the wilderness of the Mosang Continent, but the news will reach there sooner or later. There will definitely be some confusion in the expedition team, and the old man Rembrandt may It will be more or less affected, and if those adventurers and treasure hunters who are interested in the things in the ancient ruins take the opportunity to make trouble, the old man Rembrandt may encounter some dangers.

However, thinking of the old man Rembrandt, Leo couldn't help but look at the feather in his storage space. He didn't like the feeling of being in debt, so that he had another impulse to go to the mainland of Mosang and find Lun. Old Man Brown handed over the feather to him to settle the debt, but in the end he endured the impulsive emotion and followed his original choice to stay in Port of Sete to rest for a period of time.

Just as Leo was flipping through the newspaper in his hand, there was a rush of heavy footsteps coming from outside the door, and then the door of the office was roughly pushed open, Jason's huge body appeared at the door, and his face was full of beard. After seeing Leo, the majestic he showed a childlike smile, strode forward, hugged Leo vigorously, and said with a big smile: "I knew it, I knew it You'll be fine!"