Cosma Empire

"Otto is back?" Magus bent down and took out today's newspaper from the mouth of the hound at his feet, and asked while wearing glasses.

The period from 6:30 to 8:30 every morning is the most relaxing time for Magus. There is no unfinished business to bother him, and there is no dispute between various departments that he needs to mediate, let alone Need to face the troublesome applications for diplomatic notes that diplomats come up with. He could just sit in the yard of his own villa, make a cup of scented tea, ask his wife to make him a pancake, and interact with Piccolo while reading the newspaper.

Piccolo was his dog, an old dog, eleven years old. The lifespan of a dog is very short, at most 13 or 14 years, and even those with a longer life span will not live to be twenty years old. The dog, Piccolo, has moved into the life of an older dog, the fur on his long, thin muzzle has loosened, and even the teeth beneath his lips have begun to loosen. He was a great lad in his youth and won great honors for Magus in many hunting games.

Piccolo is a purebred Auxerre hound. It runs powerfully and is extremely fast. It also has good patience and bite strength. Generally, an Auxerre hound is enough to complete the task alone when dealing with small animals weighing less than 50 pounds. Even if the prey weighs more than 50 pounds, three or five Auxerre hounds can complete the hunt. This kind of hound, especially the pure blood hound, is expensive, ranging from five hundred to five thousand yuan. Like the hound named Piccolo raised by Muggs, it has served the Muggs family for at least three hundred years...

Yes, since its ancestors, its family has been serving the Magus family, and it has been multiplying until today, with a history of more than 300 years.

Piccolo walked away from Magus's side slowly, and stopped less than ten meters away from him. It sniffed the pair of leather shoes that looked a little familiar with its nose, and lay down lazily on the lawn to bask in the sun. It knows this smell and often appears here, so it didn't show any aggressive behavior.

Barr glanced down at the old dog at his feet, and walked towards Magus. The weather is getting warmer and warmer, and people have taken off their thick coats and come out of the cold winter. Everyone is lazy like animals. It must be the most comfortable thing if you can read a book in the sun, taste some delicious snacks, squint your eyes and sleep in the sun when you are sleepy.

He unbuttoned the two buttons of his clothes, sat on the chair next to Muggs, and took a bite of a pancake from Muggs, "He came back in the middle of the night last night, I asked him to rest, wait for nine o'clock Go to the opposite side to report after the clock.”

At this time, it has been more than half a month since Otto went to the west, and he came back after dealing with the things there. It seems that all the things in the west have come to an end at some unknown and ignored point of time. , and it stopped abruptly. After handling the resettlement of the new immigrants, Otto came back immediately, and he couldn't pry more useful things out of Memnon's mouth, unless Memnon was forced to speak by threats of harm.

But in that case,

Even if Memnon speaks, these people may not believe what he said is true, and they have to verify it repeatedly. If Memnon mixed one or two people who he wanted to kill but were not Scarlet Dawn among a large number of real lists, the official would become a knife in his hand. Although doing so will not bring any negative impact to the cabinet, it will actually have any negative impact on the empire. After all, there have been robberies or burglaries that have killed people, and people will still feel that there is no official publicity on law and order. so good.

But neither Magus nor Otto wanted to be disgusted by Memnon, so they waited for a while and waited patiently for Memnon to send the complete list on his own initiative.

The reason why the empire didn't have many clues about the Scarlet Dawn in the past twenty-seven years is because this organization is crazy. They are almost completely different from those well-known grand thieves and other people or organizations in the same period. Those organizations may be for fame, wealth, or want to make a career. These people have a clear purpose. Every time they hurt the nobles and plunder the place, their purpose is to strengthen themselves and make themselves stronger.

After repeating this many times, try to have enough power to fight against a small area, so as to change the pattern of the entire empire.

But Scarlet Dawn is different, these people are crazy, acquiring wealth is just a incidental behavior when they assassinate nobles, they will not assassinate nobles specifically for wealth, and some of the wealth they get by chance will not be given to the poor. Most of them are still in their hands. They didn't assassinate nobles for the sake of fame, they were not picky about their targets, and they didn't have any rules. Generally speaking, wherever they went, they would assassinate local nobles.

They didn't increase their own strength. At the beginning, there were about forty or fifty people, and the ambush, which was the last large-scale event of Blood Dawn, was only fifty or sixty people, or a little more. They don't care how much power they have in their hands. Even if they assassinate the nobles and instigate the slave uprising in the territory, it seems that they did it conveniently, not intentionally.

So it is said that this group of people is a group of psychopaths, not for money or fame, it seems that they simply like to assassinate nobles. However, such a crazy style made the nobles and royal family helpless against them at that time. They killed one here and killed the other without any law and purpose at all. Many traps were set up, and the opponent had already gone to the other half of the empire.

The only loophole they left was Memnon.

Memnon is an Ogdin, a treacherous horse dealer who is active in the middle of the empire. There are much more information and information about Memnon than anyone in Blood Dawn. For example, he often buys some sick horses and then stimulates the active state of these sick horses with some kind of plant medicine, making them look very healthy, and then sells them to others to make a fortune. In the past files, there are almost seventy horse trading frauds related to Memnon.

So when Memnon took the initiative to stand on the stage, the empire paid attention to him and his people. The intelligence agency of the empire believed that there must be many people from the Scarlet Dawn under Memnon, but it was not clear which ones were and which ones were not. Without the cooperation of Memnon, those who are not must say that they are not, and those who are yes must also say that they are not. When Walt's family was killed, he did not admit that he was a member of Scarlet Dawn. It can be seen that these people are all crazy.

Originally, Magus's idea was that since Durin wanted to go to the west, let him go and let him fight Memnon. From Magus's eyes, he could see that Memnon was definitely not Durin's opponent. After Memnon was kicked out by Du Lin, maybe Memnon became angry and sent Du Lin a black post. As long as he did, Magus's plan would have succeeded. It's just unimaginable that without Du Lin's action, Memnon himself cut off the relationship with the people of Scarlet Dawn on his own initiative, and devoted himself to the camp of the new party, which was completely beyond Magus' expectations.

But that's fine too. It's better to be a "person of one's own" in the west than Du Lin to mess around in the west. Originally, he planned to use Du Lin to deal with Memnon and restrict the growth of the Progressive Party. Now he wants to use Memnon and a more pure forward party Party, to check Dühring's expansion.

Of course, he didn't think Memnon could last long, and he would be ousted by Du Lin in at most one or two years. During the turmoil in the west this time, Magus has been paying attention to the situation in the west. When Memnon had problems and his freedom was restricted, almost all the big capitalists did not take the initiative to help Memnon out of the siege, not to mention their powerful forces and Whether financial resources could really allow Memnon to escape this accident, they didn't even ask.

Memnon is the most important partner of the capitalists in the west, and their silence reminded Maggs of Durin. Durin and these people must have negotiated some terms, so they chose to watch the show from the sidelines.

With the current situation of Memnon, if he can't bring these capitalists back to his camp, he will soon be finished.

Because of the "Three Guarantees Policy" he made, it also included his direct separation from Blood Dawn.

Magus has considered that if he is the leader of Scarlet Dawn, what he has to do now is to erase a person who knows most of the inside information from this world, especially if he has already betrayed, let alone let him survive. Maggs has reason to believe that Memnon did not give all the lists, and he must still be holding a more important list in his hand. This list is used by him as a bargaining chip for negotiating terms with the new party.

Honestly, he's stupid.

Maggs finished thinking about many things in a few seconds while his mind was spinning. He opened the newspaper, glanced at the headlines on the front page, shook his head slightly, and then put the newspaper on the table.

His old friend Barr picked up the newspaper and glanced at it. It said that the joint construction project was expected to completely break through the western mountains of Odis City by the end of April, and realize the complete opening to east-west traffic. Odis City will usher in a new round of development. There is also a subtitle at the bottom of the article, which is that the United Construction Engineering has won three more major projects, including the construction of the tallest building in the Empire in cooperation with the Imperial Academy of Engineering in the southern city of the Empire, and two projects with a total length of no less than one year. thousand kilometers of railway.

"I don't like federal people. I used to be, I am now, and I will be in the future." Barr threw the newspaper back on the table and looked at Muggs angrily, "You should submit a bill to prohibit federal merchants from participating in the empire's important project."

Magus chuckled, "I know you're talking angry words, we should recognize the reality. Maybe we could play our own game in the past, but now the relationship between countries in the world is getting closer and the cooperation is getting closer. More and more, isolation will only make us obsolete. Today is a federal businessman, tomorrow may be a businessman from other countries, and these people may become a force that cannot be ignored in the empire in the future."

"We don't have the right to refuse, we can't resist, so try to attract it!"