Quadruple split.

Chapter 322 Indemnity ceding land and lifting the ban

Grand Duke Vernon Baroca snorted, his dark brown tiger eyes widened: "What do you mean by pleading guilty?"

"What's the point..."

It was Futaba who answered him, and the girl leaned lazily on the back of the chair, and said slowly: "What the Grand Duke Marshall is willing to bear is naturally 'the slave traffickers mixed into the territory because of his own carelessness', 'neglecting the territory' "Management", "Stupidly being used as a knife by those despicable villains and still not knowing" is a serious crime with extremely bad influence, am I right?"

Futaba deliberately added accents to the words 'extremely bad influence' and 'big crime', then looked at Buffy Marshall unusually gently, and said with a smile: "Am I right, Your Excellency?"

"I couldn't have said it better myself, ma'am."

The latter nodded with a wry smile, and touched the tip of his nose in embarrassment like a commoner: "Of course you understand my crimes, as you just said, it was my negligence that caused Mercury City to be punished by those who deserved it." The infiltration of mortals has not only brought nightmares to my own people, but also caused unreasonable disasters to the Lord of Firepaw. On behalf of the Marshall family, I would like to express my sincerest apology and condolences to the Duke of Firepaw you represent. Thank you, if it weren't for you, I really don't know how long I would be blinded like a fool."

【Of course I understand your crimes?Oh, so that’s the case...]

Futaba smiled calmly, she knew that the other party still had something to say.

"Of course, anyone can say such beautiful words, so I didn't expect to be forgiven and understood so easily." The Grand Duke Marshall really had something to say. He first nodded to Emperor Clever, and then solemnly and seriously Futaba said: "The Marshall family will compensate Fireclaw with [-] million gold coins within half a year. It is the Marshall family and not the Marshall collar. I guarantee with my surname that these assets are all private assets accumulated by the Marshall family over hundreds of years. Wealth does not involve any taxes or offerings related to the people. At the same time, I am willing to cede the territory of Dieyan City and its surrounding twenty miles to the Fire Claws, and I will punish Benecroft who escaped after slaughtering innocent people. A reward of [-] gold coins has been issued. In addition, the Marshall leader will support a total of [-] craftsmen for Fire Claw for free, and help you carry out related construction in the territory. This is only the first batch. If the Lord Fire Claw is willing If so, the Marshall Continent will support the Fire Claw Territory in establishing a more efficient trade system in the next three years and exempt all the Fire Claw Territory's trade tariffs."

Snapped……

The black ball that Duke Scorpius Hussein had been playing with fell on the table. The famous profiteer lord had a big mouth, and he looked dumbfounded like a stranded salted fish.

No one knows better than him what the promise the Grand Duke of Marshall just made means. First of all, [-] million gold coins is a huge sum of money even for the Nine Violet Families with a long history and strong family background. Scorpius, who has a business relationship, feels that the money is at least one-third of the former's total wealth. If it is put on that silly bear-like Grand Duke Baroka, it is likely to be all the wealth!
Secondly, it was the decision to cede a small part of Dieyan City and its surrounding areas to the Fire Claw Territory. You must know that although it was a relatively desolate and barren land for the Marshall family, due to geographical reasons, the owner of that piece of land The Fireclaw collar can open up at least three business routes leading to the Violet collar, the Dantes collar, and the Crystal wolf collar. Even if you just send a few hundred miners there for a year or so, there will be an output of tens of thousands of gold coins. Even if you don't sell it, it will be of great benefit to the fire claw leader who lacks high-quality weapons all the year round. benefits, but those are not the point...

The real point is, the connotation of the four words 'cede the land' itself, the cedor is the lord, not the landlord, it can be said to be a super sensitive topic that cannot even be discussed for the princes present, after all, this equivalent Yu directly used a knife to gouge out the flesh from others. Everyone knows the seriousness of the land problem, and the nine territories in the Violet Empire can basically be equivalent to the territory of the corresponding lord, so no matter how remote the wilderness is, The weight at this level cannot be simply measured by money.

But Buffy Marshall actually gave away a piece of land belonging to the Marshall Territory without even waiting for the matter to be completely settled. Is this person crazy! ?
Duke Hussein expressed incomprehension.

Compared with it, it is no longer important for the latter to issue rewards to so and so, and to support the economic construction of the relatively backward Fireclaw collar in the trade field. Of course, this kind of unimportance is only relative. If nothing else, Marshall alone Exempting Fireclaw from the three-year tariff is enough for the latter to make money.

Not only Hussein alone, but also the other grand dukes present were in an uproar. Even Emperor Clever couldn't hide the shock on his face, looking at the calm Buffy Marshall in surprise.

There is only one person who can continue to remain calm...

[Sure enough, it's a hush money, a hush money that Huo Claw leader can't refuse, if someone like Le Wen is sitting here who really focuses on Huo Claw's interests, he must have been completely knocked out by now, heh, really The beautiful gecko with a broken tail, first confessed his crimes to me, who is absolutely in the know, with a pun, which is equivalent to telling me that there will never be any slave catchers in the Fire Claws in the future, and then smashed a lot of profits Come here, and finally sell that subordinate who God knows is dead or ran away... Just to make Huozhuo lead this biggest trouble to shut up, what a good handwriting and courage. 】

Futaba smiled playfully, and then winked at Grand Duke Marshall: "Since your apology has so much 'weight', no matter how barbaric and closed our Fire Claw Leader is, we are embarrassed to refuse this gift."

Marshall looked happy: "Then..."

"Then let's talk about business."

Futaba interrupted him with a smile, and after looking around, she spread her hands and said, "Obviously, the report of the investigative team that His Majesty read out just now is somewhat different from the information I provided, although Captain Ned left Some of the content of the evidence below has indeed been confirmed, but it has not played any substantial role. Oh, Grand Duke Hussein, please don’t be in a hurry to speak. I know you want to say that most of the content of this evidence has been confirmed. Our Fire Claw Collar... Or Ms. Futaba, who is smart, beautiful, cute, kind, knowledgeable, gentle and well-behaved, like your mother, who is good at astronomy and low-knowledge in geography, innocent and lively but has a slightly bad personality. For one reason or another, Ms. Futaba has tampered with it, but even if This may indeed exist, and there are indeed many things worthy of attention in this report~ I think everyone may wish to discuss this first, what do you think?"

"Miss Futaba, what do you mean..."

Marshall's complexion became a little gloomy, but this gloomyness was understandable by everyone present. After all, he had already made such an overture without any "conclusive" evidence pointing to him, but Futaba Still no intention of stopping there.

"It's just the literal meaning, and I didn't intend to offend." The girl smiled sweetly, shrugged innocently, and said, "We appreciate your kindness with all our heart, body, body, and hand, anyway, we are willing to accept it anywhere, but this does not mean that we, Fire Claw Leader, accept it." Your good intentions will become 'safe', right? In any case, it is imperative to analyze the current situation and bring those villains to justice, otherwise not only us, but also the slave hunters will be persecuted... …Well, I mean, if this matter has nothing to do with you, can the Marshallese and the Grand Duke, who are also suffering from the scourge of slave catchers, sleep well when you go home?"

Buffy Marshall was silent for a moment, then slowly sat back on the chair, nodded and said: "You are right, if this matter is not handled properly, it will indeed make people sleepless at night, what do you think?"

"Cough, that..."

Grand Duke Fernand, who was squatting on the chair, coughed lightly, and then said in a shrill voice unique to dwarves: "Hasn't the investigation team reached a conclusion? They have found two slave hunting dens in Mercury City...but with Marshall The family has nothing to do, and those despicable people's trading partners are in the Mirkwood bordering the southern border of the empire."

Futaba nodded: "That's really good, there should be applause here~"

Of course no one applauded, because everyone knew that there was no difference between saying this and not saying it.

Grand Duke Fernand stood blankly on the chair for a while, and then sat back with a face full of horror. I don't know why he was so frightened...

"Mercury core."

The meticulous dark elf Archduke Simon glanced at the former, shook his head and said, "What the investigation team gave us is only the results of the investigation, not the conclusions. We cannot make a rash decision."

"That's right." Emmeline, the youngest crystal wolf lord, immediately nodded in agreement, and rapped on the table with a slight frown: "One of the things that makes me feel most disobedient is that Mercury City, as the trade and administrative center of the Marshall Territory, unexpectedly No matter how you think about it, it’s too strange for a slave hunting group to hang around there for several years, right?”

The seemingly rough-looking Grand Duke Baroca added while snapping his knuckles: "More than that, none of the two dens and three transit stations found by the investigation team in Mercury City have anything to do with the Marshall family." Don't you find the evidence of the connection a bit strange?"

The gray-haired Grand Duke Dantes nodded thoughtfully: "You mean, is it too clean..."

"I think it's normal." Grand Duke Hussein pouted and shrugged his shoulders, who had a clearer stand: "Wouldn't it be strange to leave a bunch of clues?"

Grand Duke Baroka rested his chin and said in a deep voice: "Those dens were discovered in Mercury City, which itself is a clue that no one can erase."

"I'll just say it straight, Uncle Buffy."

Emmeline leaned forward slightly, staring at the Grand Duke Marshall without blinking her eyes: "If there is no help from insiders, let alone Mercury City, which is the core of Marshall's territory, even the relatively large-scale ordinary city in our Crystal Wolf County It is impossible for a city to have two dens and three transit stations mixed up by the arrested slave group!"

"No matter how well the concealment is done, even if the members of the slave hunting group have decent identities as cover, those slaves cannot be sent in and out quietly under normal circumstances." Archduke Simon also frowned, looking He glanced at Grand Duke Marshall who was sitting next to him and kept nodding his head: "I have been to your Mercury City before, and I am very aware of the intensity of the investigation there, Buffy, you understand what I mean..."

"Of course I understand what you mean, old man, and I never intend to ignore the strangeness in this incident."

The latter sighed, covered his forehead and took a deep breath. After a while, he looked around the crowd and said slowly: "I understand what each of you mean, whether it's Vernon, Emmeline, Futaba Miss, if something happens to my side, Scorpius will cut off at least two high-quality business chains. I know your doubts and concerns very well, and I never intend to expose this matter lightly, so , my dear majesty..."

Emperor Clever, who was silent most of the time, turned his head to look at him: "Huh?"

"I want to write a personal letter to my head of internal affairs, using some of the names of the people in the evidence of Miss Futaba as a reference, asking him to conduct a thorough investigation of the entire Mercury City in a short period of time, and temporarily deprive the city of military affairs. All the rights of those who are closely related to Bannecroft and the former deputy head of the Knights of Buffy's Sword, Bokborg." Marshall clenched his hands and said loudly: "Until the truth comes to light."

Clever nodded slightly: "Of course, your stay-at-home order is over, Buffy."

Futaba raised her eyebrows, but didn't say anything. After all, it's not justifiable to put a grand duke and all his guards under house arrest for a long time. What's more, the investigation team didn't find any evidence to make the Marshall family believe it. Naturally, it is impossible to keep him locked up due to the evidence of the crime.

Grand Duke Marshall was not surprised by this result, but continued: "In addition, I am willing to invite all the lords here, including Miss Futaba to send someone or personally go to Mercury City to supervise the progress of the investigation. As long as there is any clue, the Marshall family I will fully cooperate with the search and elimination of the slave hunters, and in order to express my sincerity, I am willing to hand over the command of the Buffy Sword Knights and the Ice Curtain Mage, and let you drive me."

As soon as these words came out, even the two Grand Dukes Emmeline Crystal Wolf and Vernon Baroka, who had been aggressive before, nodded subconsciously.

This handling can indeed be said to be impeccable under the current circumstances, and there is even no room for continuing to make things difficult. After all, no matter how you say it, the Marshall family was not directly convicted in the previous investigation. As for Futaba No matter how much she thought about it, it would be impossible to beat the Marshall family to death.

So the girl just smiled faintly...

"It's a very beautiful decision. I don't have the slightest opinion, but...shouldn't we focus on the dark forest that may gather a lot of lawbreakers?"

Chapter Three Hundred and Nineteen: The End

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