Chapter 50: Intrigue and Change On January 12, 3040, Zhao Yannian left the royal capital in a magic car, and after seven days of fierce debate, the Supreme Council finally made a decision to demarcate thirteen industrial pilot zones, including the Rodnik Domain, and Zhao Yannian's territory would be the first to be industrialized as a territory directly under His Majesty the King.
The Supreme Council will give Zhao Yannian the greatest support to establish an industrialized pilot city, which includes the support of materials and personnel, of course, these supports will not be free, Zhao Yannian will completely share all the knowledge about industrialization to the officials and alchemists who support the Rodnik Territory, and then when these alchemists and officials are thoroughly familiar with the operation system of industrialization, they will be used as seeds to build other industrialized cities.
At this time, the Supreme Councillors have begun to go back to select the personnel sent to Zhao Yannian's territory, and the transportation of materials will also start as soon as the ice and snow melt in spring, and Zhao Yannian still has one last period of free time in his hands, and during this time, he will first have to complete a certain insidious plan decided last year.
On January 15th, the cold streets of Ivorda were still bustling with people, and the million-inhabited city was like a giant machine, and everyone was like a cogwheel that was constantly spinning in its place for various reasons.
The transformed Zhao Yannian appeared on the streets of Ivorda wearing a scholar's uniform, wearing gold-rimmed glasses and a beard, and according to the contact information agreed before, Zhao Yannian came to the National Library of Ivorda, and left a note with a code in a certain knight's novel.
A day later, Zhao Yannian and Sherlock sat in a private house, and Zhao Yannian listened to Sherlock talk about the recent events in Ivorda while drinking steaming milk tea.
"The City Lord's Mansion is now working with those chambers of commerce to open a canning factory in Belaku in the south, and Anthony has become the chief alchemist of the City Lord's Mansion."
Sherlock explained the recent situation.
"We're almost ripe."
Zhao Yannian put down the teacup and said with a smile.
"My lord, for the sake of your father-in-law, do you want to implicate the last earl?"
Sherlock knew Zhao Yannian's plan from the very beginning, but this plan involved an earl with great power, and if it was exposed, he and Zhao Yannian would have to hide in the hole for the rest of their lives to guard against the assassination of others.
"This plan has been carefully done enough, even if it leaks out in the future, I will still have a duke on my head, and after this plan is successful, it will bring huge benefits to my territory."
Zhao Yannian didn't care about what Sherlock was worried about, there was only one specific executor of this plan, and the executor didn't know the whole picture of the plan, even if Zhao Yannian was exposed, he could withdraw at any time.
"The plan is perfect, and I don't know how you could have come up with such a sinister plan."
It was the first time Sherlock had seen Zhao Yannian's insidiousness, but Sherlock was fascinated by the feeling of being in control of everything in secret.
At the New Year's Ball of the City Lord's Mansion ten days ago, Count Belloc not only invited several wealthy merchants who have been in the limelight recently, but also invited the alchemist Anthony, who was also in the limelight but not very famous.
Fortunately, the lord of the city was not willing to throw his limited manpower to the far south to bask in the sun, and after the ball officially began, several merchants were recruited into the city lord's study at the same time for a long time.
The aristocracy in the inner region of the kingdom is completely different from that of the outer regions, in order to maintain control over the inner region, the kings of the past dynasties implemented a unique system of aristocratic advancement, as long as each citizen pays enough money, or serves a sufficient amount of military service, they can get the lowest title, and after obtaining the title, they can participate in the assessment to obtain a position such as village chief.
Later, as long as you accumulate a certain amount of merit in the position, you can be promoted to the title, and after the title is promoted, if you are still in the prime of life, then you can compete with the nobles of the same rank for a higher vacant official position.
And if you are dying of old age at this time, then you can wait for your retirement to pass on your title to your son, and your son can continue to participate in the examination to become an official after obtaining the title, of course, if your son is a fool and has no talent to get an official position in his life, then your grandson will inherit a title in the future will be reduced by one grade.
Generally speaking, it is very easy for a knight to be promoted to a baron, and most of them only need a generation of hard work, and his children and grandchildren can get the baronial title and then become the mayor of a certain town.
And if you want to advance to the viscount, then it takes two or three generations of hard work for this family to accumulate more merits, and one of their descendants can get the viscount title, and then if the position of the lord of a small city like Dante becomes vacant, he can smoothly become a city lord.
An earl like the lord of Ivorda, who rules over all the nobles under a county, needs to accumulate more than ten generations of merits and accumulate a deep foundation to make the officials and nobles below meek and obedient.
And at this time, after more than ten generations of excellent bloodline marriages, there will hardly be good-for-nothing fools in the aristocratic families, and the aristocratic families who mainly focus on official positions will generally choose the legal profession for marriage, and the descendants of the legal profession will be more intelligent even if they have no magical talent, which is why the vast majority of nobles are incompetent.
On the second day of the New Year's Ball, Count Belloc announced that Anthony would become the chief alchemist of the Belloc family, and that Lord Count would become a shareholder of the five chambers of commerce in his private capacity, and that the five chambers of commerce would soon send personnel to the southern Belaku to establish a canning factory.
Anyone with a discerning eye can see that this is the city lord is solving the problem of the elves with green blood, and most of the nobles seem to be making a fuss about the city lord's actions, but if they have three hundred great magicians under their own hands, I am afraid that even if they want to eat dragon meat, they will find a way to get it for them.
However, what happened next was something that everyone did not expect, originally the Count of Belloc built a factory for his legion, such a trivial matter as other nobles were just greedy but did not think about it, and this matter should be carried out at this time, according to Zhao Yannian's prediction, Anthony will set off for the south in a few days, and then this plan will bear fruit.
Unexpectedly, the Count of Belloc was moved by the president of the Summit Chamber of Commerce to start raising funds from the nobles of Ivorda, and all the nobles up and down Ivorda now know that the canning factory is an absolute cornucopia, and the three archdukes of the northern territory have earned millions of gold coins from the useless fruits on the mountain.
Although the nobles in the inner region have no territory, but who has no savings, although the small nobles usually buy land to invest in merchants, but those meager profits, there is a factory that works day and night with machines.
According to Zhao Yannian's original plan, he will only offend Count Belloc, and in the future, as long as he cooperates with the project, he can easily make up for the loss of Count Belloc, and at that time, even if this conspiracy leaks out, Count Belloc will probably only laugh it off.
But now that Count Belloc has actually thought of the idea of raising funds, this will give Zhao Yannian a headache, the victim of this conspiracy will change from an earl to the entire aristocratic class of Ivorda, even a few grand dukes in the outer regions may not want to provoke so many enemies.
On the evening of January 17, Zhao Yannian had a headache when he looked at the list of shares he got from Anthony.
"I'm afraid it's not easy to solve this time, right?
Why don't we get Anthony to change his plans?
Sherlock walked into the room with his glass.
"No, if you let it go at this time, the nobles of Dongsen County will become a new interest group, and it will be extremely difficult to deal with those merchants at that time."
Zhao Yannian said with a frown.
"Then what to do, if the original plan is carried out, you will offend the entire Inner Domain nobles."
Sherlock also saw the seriousness of the matter at this point.
"The current plan is like a frightened carriage, except that there are more unlucky people sitting on the carriage."
After thinking for a while, Zhao Yannian spoke.
"What are you talking about?"
Sherlock didn't understand what Zhao Yannian meant.
"We've already had a scar on the axle, and it's only a matter of time before they overturn, and since the horse is frightened, what are we letting the coachman stay on it?"
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Zhao Yannian looked at the night sky outside the window and said faintly.
"What do you mean?!"
Sherlock's eyes shrank sharply.
"Don't worry, it's not really about the coachman to die, we just need to make everyone think that the coachman accidentally fell off the carriage, and then those who have become blind for the sake of money will naturally reach out and take the reins and continue to rush towards the cliff."
Zhao Yannian turned around and said with a smile.
"But this needs a good reason, if the people in the car are suspicious, then our efforts will not only be in vain, but may also be traced."
Sherlock said as he played with the wine glass in his hand and stared at the red liquor in the glass.
"There's just a small role that can be used, and this time it's going to clear all of our suspicions, and by the time they find out, all the evidence will be completely gone."