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Chapter 631 It's Difficult

"A Woman from the Southern Countryside Presents a Huge Money Order in a Restaurant"

The Jazz Girl Frightens the Tailor with a Money Order

The Lady of the Ancient Empire - Jewelry Shop

The Lady of Weissenberg Takes Over the Famous Apartment

"Wesson Bank issued a statement: The bill of exchange has been verified to be authentic"

"Her Majesty the Sovereign One Hundred Thousand Pounds Visits Loyal Londinium"

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Frederick sat back against the head of the bed, carefully studying the newspapers of the past few days.

Because the tractor 4S shop was outside the city, he went out every day without eating breakfast and rode the bicycle borrowed from his boss, and came back at dinner time. He only knew that Anna had a lot of fun, but he didn't know what they played specifically.

Although Anna rented a luxury apartment, she only held tea parties from noon to afternoon every day, ending on time at 233: pm and returning to Shell Street for dinner.

It was only today when Frederick heard someone ask him about his relationship with Mrs. Meyer that he found out what had happened.

Anna put all her new jewelry into the jewelry box and said proudly, "I'm awesome!"

Frederick nodded and said, "It's really amazing."

Anna got on the bed and sat next to Frederick. She took a newspaper he had just finished reading and said, "My father warned us before he died that the Kingdom of Angland is the country we need to be most wary of, no doubt about it."

"There is no peaceful place on the mainland now. They are isolated overseas and may be harboring bad intentions."

"Nowadays, many nobles go to the World Expo and leave their wives and daughters behind. We can get a lot of information from them."

Frederick nodded and said, "In recent years, the Anglo-German royal family has been purchasing a large number of guns and steam engines and trying to imitate them themselves. Their progress is no slower than yours."

Now, countries with some ambition are trying to emulate Frederick's path to rise, and imitating steam engines and firearms is one of the focuses.

But Frederick had been blocking the export of machine tools and setting the price of steam engines so that others would rather buy than make them, thereby delaying the pace of others.

The Osmaga Empire was also among the "others". Anna tried to get Frederick to relax exports, but Frederick was only willing to increase the number of finished products exported, so she never mentioned it privately again.

Frederick continued, "They seem to have made some progress in replicating steamships. Can you help me find out about the export of timber for ships?"

Anna nodded.

She added: "I heard that their royal army is changing their uniforms very quickly. Could it be that they want to participate in a war?"

Frederick frowned and said, "This possibility cannot be ruled out."

At this time, there was a noise downstairs, and then it quickly became quiet.

After a while, Anna's maid came up to report that two thieves tried to break into the house and steal things, so they were beaten and thrown into the street.

Anna said: "I heard that many places no longer grow crops but raise sheep instead, and many country people have to move to the city to make a living."

Frederick could only sigh.

In the next few days, their lives remained the same as before. Frederick worked in a tractor 4S shop, and the guests at Anna's tea party became more and more prestigious.

That day, a noble lady who had just returned from the Kingdom of Sardinia came to the tea room. Her best friend was the daughter of the owner of the high-end jewelry store that Anna had emptied out. Anna and the other young girls and wives listened attentively to her story of "Grand Duke Wesson's visit to five cities and six miracles."

Anna had previously heard about Frederick performing a miracle to resurrect a couple who had committed suicide in love, but in the eyes of a political creature like her, this was another matter, so she didn't take it seriously.

She hadn't heard anything else, and was as amazed as everyone else.

After the story was told, Anna was asked, "Mrs. Meyer, have you ever seen the Grand Duke of Wessen before in the city of Wessenburg?"

Anna was a little wary and replied, "I saw Grand Duke Wessen on the day the cathedral was capped."

She was right in saying that she had been to Weissenburg when the German Cathedral was capped.

The man then said, "Oh, I thought you were his agents."

Anna thought that someone had asked this question, so she said, "The bill of exchange was actually given to us by the God of Light."

A group of people looked at her curiously, waiting for the next words. Anna took a sip of tea and said, "That happened when we first arrived in Londinium."

"That night, when we were going home, the road was dark and there was a robbery ahead. A gangster robbed an old gentleman's briefcase and ran towards us."

"When the criminal saw us in front, he roared loudly with such a long knife in his hand, got angry, and rushed over. My husband hurriedly hugged me and jumped, but hid a few steps away..."

None of the young girls and wives around them had ever faced a knife-wielding gangster in person, and they couldn't help but get nervous as Anna spoke, occasionally mixing in foreign words.

"My husband grabbed the criminal's hair with his left hand, and with his right hand free, he swung his fist as big as a hammer and beat him with all his might. After he had hit him fifty or seventy times, blood gushed out of the criminal's eyes, mouth, nose, and ears."

Everyone was relieved when they heard that Anna's husband had beaten the gangster to death.

Anna continued, "The old man thanked us for helping him get his bag back. He took out an envelope from his bag as a thank you gift and then hurried to catch the boat."

"We returned to our residence, opened the envelope, and found the golden money order inside!"

At this time, someone said, "Yes, there was indeed a fleet that night because a ship needed to be repaired and was delayed until the evening."

"But the passengers on those ships are all small merchants. They can afford bills of ten or twenty pounds, but certainly not bills of that size."

Someone else said, "Yes, if I had 100,000 pounds, I could definitely take the same boat with His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

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Everyone was talking about it. Anyone with so much money must be a well-known noble. He would definitely be surrounded by a group of people. How could he be walking alone in a dark alley and get robbed?

At this time, the answer Anna was waiting for appeared: "Oh, could it be that the God of Light saw that Mr. Meyer was righteous and fearless, so he changed the bill in the envelope into one for 100,000 pounds?"

This is the only reasonable answer that everyone thinks.

Then someone asked, "Mrs. Meyer, what are you going to do with the money?"

Anna replied: "We want to see if there is any business here."

"This amount of money is too big. We want to invest in some businesses, run them, sell them, and take more money home."

The local nobles had already noticed that the Meyers came from a small family.

Because real nobles would ask merchants to bring the goods to their homes and choose the products themselves, unlike Anna who went to tailor shops and jewelry stores herself.

Anna knew this very well and did it on purpose.

The young ladies and wives present were all from the business circle, and they all offered suggestions.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, Anna's maid came to report: "Madam, the master sent a message saying that he will bring a guest later and host a banquet."

"The master said that if the ladies are free, he hopes they will accept the invitation to attend the banquet."

Everyone was interested in Mr. Meyer and agreed to stay for the dinner.

Half an hour later, the appearance of handsome Frederick brightened the eyes of all the guests.

The guest he brought, Sir John Fitzwilliam, was a typical small landowner, with a fat figure, a mustache, and a hint of cunning in his eyes from time to time.

Frederick whispered a few words in Anna's ear and then left.

Anna chatted with Fitzwilliam with ease and found out the situation.

Fitzwilliam came from the north of Sheffield, more than 200 kilometers away, and his family owned several estates.

He said excitedly: "When I was digging a well, I found coal. It was very thick, as high as a whole floor!"

The guests knew nothing about the coal mining industry. They had only heard that coal export prices were very high now, and they thought that this country bumpkin was going to get rich.

Anna was thinking, it seems that the Kingdom of Anglan is preparing to grow a Wesson army out of the ground?

Frederick went to the kitchen and placed the sample of coal that Fitzwilliam had brought in a saucer and lit it.

There are only a few indicators for determining the grade of coal, mainly how much smoke there is, whether there is any irritating odor, the proportion of residual ash and how much heat a unit weight of coal can provide.

Frederick can only test the first three at present, which is enough.

After getting the initial results, he muttered to himself: "This is difficult. It's not easy to station troops here."

(End of this chapter)