"Wonderful, absolutely wonderful speech." After Alphonse sat down, Darren Desai smiled and said to everyone: "We want to build Calais as the strongest fulcrum;

We must also bring together our properties, cars and ships, make the lever longer than ever before, and finally put it on our wealth, leveraging the wealth of the entire earth!

So, let us welcome Mr. Francis and first tell you how to build our fulcrum..."

"Your speech was good." After Alphonse sat down, Christina said.

"Thank you for the compliment, I don't mind if you learn from me." Alphonse winked playfully.

"Learn from your speech, or learn from you to leverage wealth?" Kristina rolled her eyes and said.

"Learning to be an adult is all you need." Alphonse shrugged, and Christina suddenly lost her temper. She turned around and continued to listen to Francis's speech beside her...

Early the next morning, Darren Desai went to solve the first issue of the fulcrum: the position of the deputy mayor and the positions of the two council members; he took a box to the city hall early in the morning to visit the current mayor.

We chatted all morning and left the box behind when we left.

The mayor opened it and saw that it was full of 4,000 livres in cash. There was also a donation list attached to it, which was marked in proportion to the shares according to the merchant alliance's franchise list. For example, Alphonse, who holds up to 35% of the shares, was donating.

First place: 1,400 livres!

The power of this list far exceeds that of Livre itself. Most of the famous local people known to the mayor are here; and the famous and difficult people are all on the list. The meaning is naturally obvious: if the deputy

If the appointments of the mayor and the two council members are not implemented, everyone on this list will inevitably take revenge!

And the other power of the Merchant Alliance frightened Rie, who came to Calais again: when the carriage just entered the city gate, he found that every Calais native looked over!

These people all stared directly at him, as if they wanted to remember his carriage and appearance deeply. This creepy feeling penetrated into his bones when he arrived at the Calais House Hotel:

"Mr. de Vigery, welcome to Calais again. Your room has been cleaned. If you need anything, please let us know. Mr. de Moller has already paid the rent and tip." Riet just walked in.

At the hotel, a young waiter who had never been masked came over with a smile, took the luggage from his hand, and took him straight upstairs.

"Do you know me?" Rieux asked with some fear. Unexpectedly, the waiter just smiled and did not answer him. Instead, he continued to talk to himself: "Mr. de Moller has prepared a dinner for you. You can do it in the room first."

Take a nap, and I will call you outside the door in the afternoon;

At that time, you can take care of yourself and go to Mr. de Moller's house. If necessary, we can also make an appointment with a barber or tailor for you in advance."

"Uh... No, no need. I want to visit Mr. de Moller right away." How dare Rie take a nap here? This place is so weird that it makes his scalp tingle!

"Well, your room is here. You can rest for now, and I'll prepare a carriage for you." The waiter took Rie to the door of the room where he last stayed, opened the door, put down his luggage, and bowed again.

Say goodbye and leave.

Rieux's legs suddenly softened and he sat down on the chair next to him! In less than ten days, when he last came here, he could follow Alphonse freely and investigate the whereabouts of his guests, but now?
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As soon as he entered the city gate, he was stared at by countless pairs of eyes. When he came to the hotel, someone recognized him and said that Alphonse had already prepared everything for him. What happened to lead to such a earth-shaking change? Or was it the last time?

This time it was basically Alphonse pretending to be a pig and eating the tiger?

"Riet de Vigeri wants to see me soon? Then let him come." While he was instructing workers in the annex on the left how to build a new annex, Alphonse received a notice hurriedly sent from the hotel.
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"Yes." The messenger hurried back to the hotel to report, and at the same time, he could prepare the carriage for Rieux to come to Moller's house. Alphonse turned around and went to the annex on the right. In the courtyard downstairs, Kristina

He is sparring with Beiserion with a rapier!

"The swordsmanship is good." Alphonse applauded from a distance and said with a smile: "But a guest has arrived, Tina, it's time for etiquette lessons."

"Damn it! Didn't you mean night?" Christina retracted her rapier and said dissatisfied.

"Maybe he is restless and anxious to see me." Alfonse said with a smile. The treatment that Rie will encounter today was arranged by him, just for such an effect! If Rie really slept like a normal person,

After taking a nap, no matter how leisurely he came to the banquet, it was Alphonse's turn to become nervous.

"You might be more restless after seeing me." Christina returned the bayonet to the guard of Baiserion, then turned to Baiserion and said: "Your Excellency Juan, I can continue to come to you to practice swordsmanship tomorrow.

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"If I have nothing to do." Baiserion replied calmly and looked at Alphonse again.

"The production of what you want is being stepped up in the past few days. You can take it away as soon as the money is available." Alphonse smiled. After the test firing yesterday, Baiserion asked Alphonse to quickly produce the artillery for him and prepare it for delivery; therefore, the new

The diameter of the porcelain bottles is still being remade, but the existing 60 porcelain bottles have already begun to produce artillery and are ready for delivery.

"That's good, money is not a problem, and it will be very fast." Baiserion replied.

"Then farewell." Alphonse Town replied, but Christina caught up with Alphonse and asked: "What kind of goods did Sir Juan buy from you? He is a soldier, is it a musket?"

"Does it have anything to do with you what he buys?" Alphonse smiled.

"Of course, can I see the muskets you produce?" Christina asked quickly.

"Then you guessed wrong. I don't produce muskets, at least not now." Alphonse smiled and said, in fact, he could also produce muskets. He also collected a pepper bottle pistol before.

But to be honest, the gun business is too small. Firstly, there is no huge profit, and secondly, it is mainly for military equipment. The cost of large-scale production is not directly proportional to the return on investment, at least it is far less than Alphonse's current artillery business.

Alphonse took Christina to the door of the house and waited for a few minutes. Lieutenant's carriage had already arrived at the door. Sure enough, as Christina said, Lieutenant was shocked by her: The man who was at the manor yesterday

The dirty "child who came to live with a relative" whom he had met once before, actually appeared in front of him cleanly at this time, and greeted him decently, "We meet again, Mr. Sir de Vigeri."

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"Aha...Hello..." Lie said awkwardly. He didn't remember Kristina's name at all, or maybe Yvette didn't tell him her name at all yesterday...

"Welcome, Sir, let me introduce to you, my sister, Christina." Alphonse said with a smile, and extended his hand to motion for Lieutenant to come into the house for a chat.

"Excuse me for disturbing you, Mr. de Moller, and Miss de Moller." Seeing Kristina, Rie seemed to understand why Alphonse knew that he was coming today, and then he relaxed a little; then he followed

Alphonse entered the door, but before he sat down, Alphonse gave him another unacceptable shock!

"It's really a funny thing. A distant relative of mine passed away unfortunately not long ago. He died alone, and he didn't even have many relatives and friends by his side before he died. This made me very childlike." Alphonse said with a smile.

He said: "Fortunately, the old man still cared about me, an incompetent descendant, and left me a rich inheritance, allowing me to completely solve the problem of insufficient funds."

As if Rie was being punished by God, he was so stunned that he couldn't say a word! The rich inheritance completely solved the problem of insufficient funds!

The implication of this is that he no longer needs investment?! Does this also mean that after he boasted about Haikou in Paris, everything was wiped out...

Lie could not accept such a dramatic turn of events, but when he saw Kristina again, he suddenly remembered that Yvette told him yesterday that this little girl came to live with her relatives after a family member died!

Moreover, she wanted to defect to Alphonse by name, so Yvette had no enthusiasm for her at all!

Now, if his prediction was correct, Christina would come to Alphonse with this inheritance; and if Alphonse could refuse to invest, this would be at least a huge inheritance of 100,000 livres!

My stupid cousin not only let the 100,000 livre inheritance that could have been obtained fly away like a boiled duck, but she even messed up such an important task for herself!

"No, Mr. De Moller!" Rieux stood up impulsively, but felt it was inappropriate, so he could only sit down again and said to Alphonse sincerely:

"It is a good thing that you get an inheritance, but more investment does not affect anything; especially you have to know that this is an investment from the Louvre, which will bring unexpected convenience to your business."

"What about?" Alphonse smiled.

"Uh... I can't say it clearly, but many people will give the Louvre a face. You know, who wants to have trouble with His Majesty, who is so superior?" Rieux himself was unable to give exact conditions, which made him feel it.

Not convincing.

"Look, no one wants to have trouble with His Majesty, and I will, Sir." Alphonse spread his hands and said: "I don't mind paying a little more king's tax, but investment is risky, and the profits of business are so high.

High, the risk will naturally not be that small.

If there is a loss, my head will not be enough to offset the sin that caused the Louvre to lose everything; so even if I lose some help, there is no need for me to take the trouble myself, right?"

"Let me put it this way, there are many big shots who are very optimistic about you, and in any case, the Louvre can also provide financing for some products, so you don't have to worry too much about losses." Rieux had to make a blind promise to himself: "And

Since you are willing to invest your own money, aren’t you confident?”

"So how much loss can the Louvre bear? I mean, nothing can be guaranteed to be 100%. I can only accept investments that are within the Louvre's loss tolerance." Alphonse shook his head and said: "

No one wants to lose money, but I don’t want to take too much risk either.”

"Mr. De Moller, for the sake of our relatives, please help me. You know I can't make the decision on such a matter, or even ask;

I don’t plan to lose my job over this, so just give me an investment ratio that you think doesn’t have too much risk, and maybe I can give it a try.” Rieux almost cried.

"Let's say 50,000 livres." Alphonse replied without thinking. Just by looking at his expression, he knew that 50,000 livres was just a small amount of money to him at this time, and maybe he could afford to lose it all.

"Alphonse, can I call you that? This is definitely not your limit. If you help me now, I will naturally help you later. I have many contacts in Paris and am very familiar with the army and navy. I can

I'll help you sell some of your products, for Armand and Yvette's sake." Rieux probably didn't know that the effect would be better if he didn't mention Armand and Yvette.

"100,000, that's all. This is the first and second phase of the investment. It's enough for you to give an explanation to the Louvre." Alphonse still replied without hesitation, which made Rieux even more excited.

Vomiting blood, I said 100,000 livres without blinking an eye, how much is this inheritance!

What's worse is that he couldn't find a more convincing reason for Alphonse to accept more investment, and apparently he told Colbert this when he went back. Maybe Louis XIV wouldn't say anything, but Duke Letelier

I will never let myself go!

"In the third phase, the Louvre must participate at least until the third phase! Alphonse, the first phase has nothing to do with the second phase. The Louvre will not be rewarded until at least the third phase. Before that, the part is

It doesn't matter if we lose everything." Rieux had to grit his teeth and fight for something for himself. Although investing 100,000 livres would not cause a loss, it would only be beneficial to Duke Letelier and Count Colbert; if it were the other way around, investing 300,000 livres would not cause a loss.

Wan Dan lost 100,000. As long as he can successfully complete the task now, he will not care about the future.

"Sir, if you are worried that the funds I gave you before were in vain, then you don't have to worry about them; in my opinion, they at least allowed me to know a friend like you.

, this is already worth it." Alphonse replied with a slight smile.

This suddenly made Rie even more miserable. He had swallowed Alphonse's money out of curiosity. Now it depends on his mood whether he will give you face or not. As Alphonse said, those livres are used for

The money that made him a friend is now gone!

If it were anyone else, Rie would dare to threaten the other party, but this is their territory...and their power here is so great that there are people watching him everywhere! If he dares to say something rude, he might be beaten as soon as he leaves the city.
Chapter completed!