"Good day, my Lord. Good day, madam." Barol bowed to victor and Lilia respectively.
Victor looked up at his spy leader and met again after 12 months. Barol''s spirit was still strong, but his hair was gray. Obviously, he didn''t spend less time during this period, but he should have achieved good results.
"Barol, what''s the development of mercury outside?" Victor raised his hand and motioned the old spy to sit down and talk.
"My Lord, since December, we have visited three main cities in Gambis, nine populous towns, and have established relations with the local gray forces. We have gathered 58 available people and 17 orphans. These people are temporarily placed in Yeliu city and are ready to listen to your instructions." Barol sat down and said.
According to Victor''s design, Mercury''s organizational structure is divided into core layer, internal line and external line.
The core members of mercury understand the background and secrets of the organization. They are directly responsible to victor and complete the tasks assigned by Victor by controlling the inside line. At present, the core layer of mercury is only small spies trained by Barol and Randall family. Insider members are the helpers of core members. They don''t know who the boss behind the scenes is. They only know the name of the organization. At present, there are only five insider members. They are villain monkey, killer Fitch, liar Mia and spider, as well as the thief red wolf. These people were trained by barrol in Heibao town. The outside line members are gray forces in various places. They know nothing about the organization, do not even know that they have become the dark son of mercury, and can not get financial support, but they can benefit from smuggling trade.
Cultivating secret spy dead is time-consuming, laborious and expensive. Only those ancient families with a long history have their own intelligence organizations. Even so, the intelligence organizations of nobles are generally small, generally no more than 200 people, and most of them are responsible for intelligence collection in the family''s sphere of influence.
Victor bears the name of an ancient family for nothing. He has neither money nor time to train family spies step by step, but he has a vision different from that of the indigenous aristocrats.
It is really difficult to establish an elite and loyal intelligence organization, but it is very simple to build a smuggling organization with free people as the main body. No one will have trouble with kinsol.
Strictly speaking, mercury is a part of the smuggling network. Collecting intelligence is only the sideline of outside members. It is their job to cover private businessmen and take over private goods. It doesn''t matter whether the outside line is loyal and reliable. In the face of smuggling interests, if you don''t do it, others will rush to do it!
Under the guidance of Victor, Barol led insider members and ten monkey militias to visit many densely populated and developed trade towns. The main cities of the three lords are the focus of Mercury''s strategy. They are the vistock city of the Wellington family in the south, the copper city of the SoLIM family in the South and the deep-water city of the Joshua family in the East. The black city of the York family, the aughibwa city of the NIM family in the west, and the towns in the middle and north of the Kingdom have not been patronized by mercury for the time being, just because Mercury has not enough hands.
Victor did ask barrol to recruit some inside staff, but he took 75 people back when he went out, which still startled victor.
As the liaison between private businessmen and local forces, insider members have touched the secrets of smuggling trade. If they have spies from other families, it is bound to hinder the immature smuggling network.
Barol is old and cunning. He won''t be unaware of the stakes. Victor frowned and asked, "how did you bring back so many people?"
"Sir, we have some trouble in deepwater city in the East." Barrow stood up and said awkwardly, "I met old acquaintances and they recognized me. I had to bring back their wives, children, confidants and subordinates to wait for the adults."
Barol used to be the spy of the eastern Lord. Most of his old acquaintances were former accomplices. They always had some friendship, but if the two sides met, it would be a life and death situation for their own safety. Barol said lightly: bring them back and wait for them. There must be several bloody battles behind this discourse.
Victor was not interested in the process, but baronin risked bringing people back and didn''t choose to kill them on the spot. There must be his reason.
"Say!"
"Yes, my Lord." Barrow bowed and said, "I met some old guys in deepwater City, and they recognized me. I knew they were going to kill me, so I decided to do it first. That night, I took people to their nest and brought them to a pot."
"I was going to kill all of them. None of them remained. But those old men''s companions are well-trained and fierce. I think their fighting style is from mercenaries. Their personal strength can be comparable to that of feudal soldiers. The mercenary leader uses two machetes, which are very powerful and not inferior to your elite soldiers. Spies and ordinary villains can''t have such fighting power! I''ll be a hero He became suspicious, so he ordered to stay alive... Peter was killed by him in order to catch the mercenary alive. " As he spoke, barrow secretly observed Victor''s face. When he saw that the LORD was as calm as before, he quietly breathed a sigh of relief.
A spy who deserts his family and meets an "old acquaintance" by chance. No one knows the current background and purpose of the other party. At this time, he can''t entrust his life to his previous friendship. Then he should make his own decisions, arrange his destiny, subdue his opponent first, and then talk about others.
Barrol is cunning and cruel. It is not easy to hold Victor''s thigh. He is about to start a career. He can''t tolerate any mistakes. Just in case, Barol took the initiative to attack and win his opponent in accordance with the practice of spies, but he didn''t expect that the other party was hard stubble. One of the strange things aroused the interest of the old spy. It was because he asked to catch alive that Peter was stabbed to death by the other party.
Peter is the monkey militia arranged by Victor to Barol, and his strength is comparable to that of a trainee knight. Barrow was very worried that his master would be angry because he lost a powerful soldier. He was obviously worried too much.
"After interrogation, I found that those old guys had joined the local thieves'' Union. They had no direct relationship with the Joshua family."
The deep-water city of Joshua family is the central city in the east of Gambis kingdom. It has dense population and developed trade. It is connected to the RAND empire in the East and the Neville kingdom in the north. The transportation is very convenient. As long as mercury develops an external line in deepwater City, smuggling caravans can rely on this city to penetrate abroad.
Although the Joshua family is also a powerful Lord, the Lords and nobles never pay attention to the free people. The Sheriff of deepwater city doesn''t care about the struggle between gangs, as long as the new boss obeys his orders. It is this loose management method that gives Mercury the opportunity to develop outside lines.
There are 10 soul monkey militia around Barol, which is strong enough to attack any gangster forces. Victor didn''t expect mercury to be defeated in deepwater City, and his opponent is not the Lord''s direct force.
"The thieves'' Union is not simple!" Victor shook his head.
"Yes." Barrol explained: "the thieves'' Union ostensibly does dirty work for the sheriff, and secretly does human trafficking. The head of the union is deeply related to an overseas organization. The mercenaries in the trade union''s nest are members of that organization. They came to deepwater city to receive people and were just hit by us."
Victor asked with great interest, "did you find out which organization is behind the thieves'' Union?"
Barol''s face became strange and said, "after torture, the leader of the thieves'' Union and the mercenaries confessed that they were working for a secret organization called the masked brotherhood. It is said that the Brotherhood has a history of more than 100 years, does not belong to any lords, and is completely a free people''s gangster."
"The masked brotherhood specializes in gray industries, including theft, fraud, robbery, assassination and mercenary business. It also operates shops, circuses, hotels, pubs and other industries. Those mercenaries are going to send the kidnapped boys and girls to the brotherhood''s stronghold in the kingdom of Sus for training. I analyze that the birthplace of the brotherhood is in the East, and they are going to our Gambis Penetration! "
"By the way, this is the brotherhood coat of arms found from the mercenary leader." Barol took out a bronze coat of arms and handed it to victor. "The leader of the thieves'' Union is just a minion. He doesn''t know much. His position in the brotherhood is similar to that of mercury. He also became the leader of the union with the help of the brotherhood."
"The mercenary leader is a hard bone. No matter how we torture him, he won''t let go. Finally, Moore filled him with a bottle of Psychedelic medicine, and he began to explain."
"This man was raised by the brotherhood since he was a child. At the beginning, he was trained in the mercenary training camp of the Eastern League. When he grew up, he was arranged by the Brotherhood to serve as the deputy head of a mercenary regiment. The mercenary regiment usually receives the entrustment of local lords, but as long as the brotherhood calls, they must obey the orders of the organization unconditionally. I have the training camp and contact information of the mercenary regiment It''s clear. "
The bronze coat of arms is obviously a keepsake of the masked brotherhood. A blood dripping mask is engraved on the front of the coat of arms, and the number 47 is on the back of the coat of arms. With this bronze coat of arms, the members of the brotherhood can communicate with each other, which shows that the masked brotherhood is quite large, the organizational structure is very strict, and the members may not know each other.
Victor now believes that the masked Brotherhood has a history of more than 100 years. It''s hard to say whether there are other forces behind them.
Mercury hit a large gangster on her first trip. Isn''t it a coincidence?
Victor knew it was not a coincidence, but an inevitable result.
"Barol, have you never heard of the masked brotherhood?"
"My Lord, we family spies only pay attention to the dynamics of the nobility. No one cares about the free people." Barol explained awkwardly.
Civilians and knights and nobles are in two classes, and the relationship between them is extremely weak. On weekdays, knights and nobles are busy with drilling camp and communication, polishing fighting spirit and breeding. The daily affairs of the territory are also handled by the housekeeper, and they are indifferent to the lives of free people. In the same way, many free people have never seen a real knight master in their life, but they also have their own world and survival rules.
Victor often deals with members of the work point system, but they are all farmers and have not been mixed in cities and towns. Both their mentality and communication objects are different from the real land lost refugees, so Victor knows little about the underground world of free people. To be sure, it is not surprising that there are several forces with a long history in the huge free people group.
The extraordinary power of knights is an insurmountable gap for ordinary people. No matter how many potential forces of civilian gangs are, it is impossible to threaten the aristocracy. On the contrary, this gap has become the soil for the survival and growth of gangs. However, there is no essential difference between the intelligence and ambition of ordinary people and the aristocracy. There are always some people who would rather be the head of a chicken than the queen of a cow. It is also reasonable for them to create several inherited organizations.
The War Bear mercenary regiment has a history of more than 40 years. They also have unique training methods and organizational culture. For example, they never abandon their old and weak companions. If the War Bear mercenary Corps can survive, they are also a free people organization inherited for a century.
From the beginning, mercury has to follow the civilian line. It will collide with gangster forces sooner or later. But Victor was still startled by the size and secrecy of the masked brotherhood.
"Barol, what advice do you have for the masked brotherhood?"
"My Lord, the power of the masked brotherhood is not limited to one town and one territory. They can help mercury quickly open the situation of the kingdom of SUS, the kingdom of Borui and the eastern alliance. My suggestion is to kill them!"
Victor looked at barrow with satisfaction and said with a smile, "your ambition is great. You left your former companions to deal with gangsters like the brotherhood?"
The masked Brotherhood has the ability to help mercury and become a stumbling block to mercury, and this is almost certain. No powerful force can ignore the huge profits brought by smuggling trade. The question is, is the brotherhood qualified to take a share? Do you have the strength to resist the attack of mercury?
How can the side of the bed allow others to snore. Since mercury began to set foot in the underground world of free people, there was no room for the masked Brotherhood to exist.
In Victor''s strategy, both liberal democratic organizations and Lord forces are nodes of the smuggling network. They can only manage their own one-third of an acre of land, and cross regional organizations will challenge Victor''s leadership and become opponents that Mercury must defeat.
Barol knew very well that Victor could not let them go, whether there were aristocratic forces behind the brotherhood or not. Barol did not want to wipe out the masked brotherhood, but to destroy the high-level of the brotherhood and disintegrate it into local forces. It''s not easy to do this. Barrow needs more people. In addition to powerful family dead, experienced spies are also indispensable.
"Your Excellency is wise!" Barol said flatteringly, "my old acquaintances are just making a living in the thieves'' Union. They are not members of the brotherhood or spies of other families. All of them have taken psychedelic drugs and will never tell lies! Lord Moore can testify!"
"What about the rest of the thieves'' Union and the brotherhood mercenaries?"
"It''s all cleaned up!" Barol said quickly.
Victor shook his head and said in disgust, "I believe your peers are not members of the brotherhood, but I hate human traffickers most! Take care of them too!"
Barol was stunned and humbly nodded, while Lilia looked at Victor with strange eyes.
"Honey, do you have anything to say?" Victor asked with a smile.
"Nothing." Lilia shook her head and said, "we also bought women and children. You gave orders yourself. Those women and children are now the families of members of the work point system."
"How could that be the same?! I was recruiting, recruiting!" Victor defended himself loudly.
"But you paid the monkey boss."
“......” Victor couldn''t say a word for a long time, so he said mockingly, "well, no one is cleaner than anyone! Barrow, if something happens to your old acquaintance, I''ll ask you!"
"Thank you, my Lord! Thank you, madam!"
Barol was overjoyed. Mercury is short of manpower now. Since the former partners are no longer threatened, let them work for mercury. This not only considers the past friendship, but also expands the strength of mercury, giving consideration to both public and private, and having the best of both worlds.
Victor was not happy. Mercury was a gold eater. It cost him 5000 gold sol to go out, which was equivalent to Randall''s trade profit for half a year. The more manpower barrol recruits, the bigger the mercury stall, and the higher the funds, but the things to do have to be done and the money to spend have to be spent.
"Barol, there are two things you need to do." Victor said solemnly, "first of all, I want you to build a gang in Yeliu City, help Mrs. Judy''s sheriff control the situation in Yeliu City, and prevent the intentional people from encouraging the large-scale influx of refugees into Randall''s collar."
"The second thing is that you should arrange people to go north to dodo Kingdom and develop mercury outer line as soon as possible, because I will send someone to get through dodo''s smuggling trade soon."
"How much do you need to do these two things well?"
Barol thought for a moment and said, "it will take about 12000 kinsol." As soon as the voice fell, Lilia''s almond eyes widened and scolded: "so much money? Why don''t you grab it?!"
In fact, barrow didn''t have a lion''s big mouth. In order to support the outside line, mercury always had to manage local sheriffs. This expenditure accounted for the vast majority of Mercury''s funds and could not be saved. However, the Randall family''s book capital is only more than 20000 gold sol. No wonder Lilia has to jump in a hurry.
However, Victor still has 200000 gold sols in his hand, of which 80000 gold sols were given to him by the Marquis of Sofia, and 120000 gold sols were seized from the assassin ace. However, Victor had to spend 150000 to buy territory for Sylvia, leaving only 50000 kinsol.
There are a lot of 70000 gold sols. Victor has to pay 20000 annuities, resettle refugees and make alchemical dragon lizards. He really can''t squeeze out the funds for mercury. Fortunately, the alchemist militia dug hundreds of white crystals in the dark forest, worth 140000. Although white crystal is hard currency, it is difficult to realize it centrally, but it is just right for mercury to use.
Victor comforted the red eyed Lilia, turned to Barol and said, "I''ll give you 2000 gold sols and 30 white crystals. Is that enough?"
Barrow wiped the cold sweat on his forehead and said, "enough, enough..."
"I want you to remember one thing. Mercury is only responsible for spending money, not making money! I am responsible for all the funds. If anyone dares to make money privately, he will die!"
Victor looked somber and his tone was cold. Barol was awestruck in his heart, bowed his head and said, "Sir, I remember!"
"You go down."
After barrow left, Lilia asked in confusion, "Victor, why don''t you let mercury feed herself?"
Victor explained, "the people who are released are powerful and rich. How can we control them?"
"So it is!" Leaya leaned in Victor''s arms and asked in a charming voice, "wealth is also a means of restriction?"
"Smart!" He pinched Lilia''s face intimately, and Victor said with a smile, "didn''t you say that the family is short of staff? I can solve this problem soon, and it will cost a lot of money."
"How much?" Lilia covered her face and asked in a tangled way.
"Ha ha, I haven''t counted yet. But it will certainly hurt the little financial fans." Victor laughed.
"Before that, I have to talk to the old God about the death penalty!"