Chapter 52: The Northern Merchant The trio took advantage of the unique training conditions, while training hard to improve their strength as soon as possible, and at the same time, the trio did not slow down the implementation of the economic destruction plan.
Du Wei and Helen focused on the expansion of the Daji Cult, and thanks to the large amount of money they had, the Daji Cult expanded rapidly, and many of the lower and middle classes of the Norman Duchy joined the Daji Cult.
As a result, the Cult's intelligence network expanded throughout the principality, and spread abroad through petty merchants, mercenaries, sailors, porters, and other believers.
The expansion of the Daji Cult has reached such a point that it is in fact impossible to hide from all kinds of powerful forces, and the Norman Grand Duke received the letter that he already knew the religious beliefs and missionary situation of the Daji Cult.
As a representative of the political forces, the Norman Archduke surprisingly did not react.
This is understandable, Grand Duke Norman himself is not a believer in the Holy Cult of Light, he is not willing to let the Holy Religion of Light monopolize power, posing a threat to his administrative power, and having a religious organization that can compete with the Holy Cult of Light is what he very much wants to see.
At the same time, the religious beliefs of the Daji cult and the idea of good rewards and good results in the afterlife are beneficial to the government, and he needs such a sect to stabilize the people at the lowest level of society, who are increasingly oppressed.
Strangely, however, the Cult of Light also took a tacit attitude towards the expansion of the Daji Cult.
The power of the Cult of Light is very large, and the Western Rus' Empire has made the Cult of Light the state religion, and the cardinals have more influence and power than the local governors.
The Tagore Empire, which occupies the center and south of the continent, is also the most powerful sect in the country, but it is not as powerful as the Russ Empire, where the Pope can compete with the Emperor and the bishop is more glorious than the Governor.
However, with their influence in the political, economic, and military circles, and the wide base of believers in the upper class, it would definitely be very easy to launch a holy war to annihilate the Daji Divine Cult, but they did not react to it.
The reaction from the high-ranking people within the Bright Holy Cult in the Norman Duchy was even forcibly suppressed by the Bishop for no reason, and no hostile actions against the Daji Cult were allowed.
When the bishop first came to the Norman principality twelve years ago, he was one of the most radical believers, and it was at his suggestion that many of the pagan religions in the Norman principality were crushed one by one and many of the faithful were burned at the stake.
Twelve years later, he has become the most conservative person, and this strange behavior has caused a lot of speculation among the top leaders of the church, but no one has a reasonable conclusion.
Under this favorable situation, the Daji Divine Cult expanded rapidly like a plague, and its power expanded at an astonishing rate.
At the same time, Jedi and Barto have teamed up to call for wind and rain in the financial markets, with people making a windfall every day and people being destitute every day.
However, as Du Wei sarcastically put it, the direct evildoer is the devil, and people forget that its creator is also the God of creation.
So they hated and feared the devil, and at the same time they worshipped the Lord God even more and prayed for His favor.
No one blames Jedi or Bartow for this, but rather a frenzied obsession with the wealth game they designed, with countless gamblers and adventurers joining this bubble wealth club every day, increasing its power and influence.
On this day, Jedi received news from Ryan, a small clerk at Paul's Auction House, who was a fanatic who had recently joined the Daggy Cult.
This information was not noticeable at first, and he merely mentioned in passing in his prayers that a great merchant from the north would soon bring a large number of goods to the Norman principality for auction.
The news seemed worthless, but the faithful clergy put it in the hands of St.
Helen.
Helen immediately raised her vigilance, she noticed that the great merchant came from the northern part of the empire, and now the situation in the empire was tense, and generally the larger business was completed by merchants from various countries, so the transaction cost increased sharply, and few people came to such a far place to trade with large quantities of goods themselves.
Therefore, since this great merchant is willing to come, he must have a large force, and he can pass through the checkpoints of the various principalities, kingdoms and kingdoms without being exploited too much, and he must be able to protect himself enough to avoid being robbed of his property by robbers, thieves, and bandits along the way.
Since he has such a large power, then he may have all kinds of relations with the Oberstein family, just in case, Helen immediately told Du Wei to rush back to the gold mine to avoid the limelight, and at the same time reduce his recent contacts in the high society of Baptiste, as much as possible to avoid people mentioning him.
So while the great merchant Samuel Beckett was still on the way, "Baron Alex" disappeared from under the noses of Baptiste's upper class.
When Samuel Beckett arrived at Baptiste, it was already half a month later, and Baptiste, which was in the news every day, had no one to mention the great baron for the time being, and now people are talking about hot people except for Jedi and Bato, and there is only one lucky person who has just become a millionaire in stocks.
Samuel was a wealthy merchant who could afford to pay his money, and he had just arrived in Baptiste with a merchant group escorted by a mercenary team, and now all the important people in Baptiste had received a gilded invitation from him, inviting nobles, officials, and entrepreneurs to his party.
These invitations are given to public and are only given to leading figures from all walks of life, and instead of inscribed the names of the other person in particular, the invitations are written on the same invitation for all the invitees, which is a symbol of the social status and economic power of the recipient.
It's a clever psychological offensive, and since all the people who receive the invitations are the best and most important people, even if some people are dismissive of Samuel Beckett, he will decide to attend because of the other successful people on the list.
The treacherous merchant Samuel's first move succeeded, and although he had just arrived in Baptiste and had no prestige or fame, one of his invitations succeeded in entrapping the entire Baptiste elite.
Jedi and Barto were naturally invited, and there were not many banquets attended by the two of them, but the purpose of the wine and wine was nothing more than to attract and liaise with various forces and stir up greater turmoil in the economic field.
Barto and Dewey are both drunkards, and Jedeh, although he is handsome and dashing, has long become the object of admiration of Baptiste's high society, but he has always been clean and self-conscious, and has never had any amorous affairs, so Helen is very comfortable with him.
Leah took out her hand-ironed gown, served Jedy to change into it, and the two sisters put him in the carriage and went back.
Jedi rode in a carriage to meet Barto, and then rushed to Paul's auction house with Barto and his twelve burly bodyguards.
The building of the auction house is like a manor, and on the square outside the front door, there is a huge fountain stone sculpture in the middle, and on the stone pillar in the middle is the shape of a scale, with weights on one side and gold on the other, and the fountain is splashed up from the center of the scale rod, scattering into a splash of water.
The sky was dark, and the lights in the crystal lampshade were colorful, reflecting the fountain like a dream.
The square was full of traffic, and many of the invited guests had already arrived, and Samuel paid a lot of money, and every guest who entered the door with an invitation card was led into the hall by a well-trained maid who had pre-arranged a seat for him after being identified.
These handmaidens are good-looking and charming, which also shows Samuel's strength.
Jedi was now a well-known figure in Baptiste, many of the nobles of the upper class were his friends, and his colleagues in the banking industry were now divided into two factions, one on the side of President Gibson, and the other on the side of Jedey, who was firmly on the same side as him.
Barto also had many welcomers, but most of them were people who wanted to get some inside information about a stock or bond from him and could make a fortune, and some of them were some of the ladies who used their private money to speculate, and Barto picked some good looks, and took advantage of them with some provocative jokes, and at the same time told some specious and vague so-called inside information.
Jedi held his glass and greeted his closest friends as he observed the hall.
The hall, which can accommodate 300 to 500 people at a time, is usually filled with neat chairs, but now it is completely vacated, and six rows of tables filled with wine, melons, fruits, and platters are set out on long strip-shaped tables for everyone to use.
There was no such thing as an auction table on the semicircular stage in front of it, where the lights were supposed to be the brightest, but now they were the darkest, with hardly a single light and a curtain in front of the stage.
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Jedi didn't realize it, everyone knew that Samuel invited these big names to come today, the purpose was to auction some rare things, so he wanted to cover up, but he just wanted to increase everyone's interest.
"Mr.
Jedi, it's early," a voice suddenly sounded behind him.
Jedi turned his head to see a round spherical object parked beside him, and a small ball on top of the big ball, it was Gibson, the president of the Goldsmiths Banking Association
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