Chapter 61 Dismayed
William once launched a major purge on Shangjiang, which made the human nobles extremely disappointed with the royal family. Fortunately, Howard became king and stabilized the internal turmoil in time, but he soon disappeared.
Now Abigail's child is likely to become the new king. He will be a Howard or a William in the future. The nobles have no idea, but just looking at the customs of the black elves, the new king is likely to become a puppet.
The compromise between the nobles at this time is no better choice.
And when Joyce announced that he would become king, what would the human nobles choose?
Bartlett's calm thinking was not angry with Daliang's warning. He admitted that Joyce had always had a high prestige. As the Crown Princess appointed by the former king, he assisted William in managing the hostess of Shangjiang. She was in charge of the navy and the lifeblood of the city. Although Shangjiang encountered consecutive accidents, Joyce's prestige did not decline but was higher. He is now the person with the highest status of the Shangjiang tribe.
Many nobles were willing to follow Joyce.
Therefore, if the angels oppose Joyce's claim to be king and trigger a civil war in Shangjiang City, Bartret really doesn't have much chance of winning. Especially when the Marquis of Stanley also supported Joyce, Abigail's army could not even come up on the surface, let alone support the angels to protect her orthodox royal rights.
The other party has planned everything. Earl Daliang came here this time to show off and force the angels to express their attitude.
Did even Howard give up the royal family and family?
Bartlett found that no choice he made had any meaning. After repeated consideration, he said: "The angels do not support Joyce's king. They do not support or oppose it. How will other cities choose? You will fight for it yourself. Whether it is war reunification or peaceful reunification, the angels will not participate.
When Joyce unifies Shangjiang, I will disband the Angels Legion. You can use the new royal status to sign a new contract with the angels who are willing to stay, and I will no longer serve Shangjiang.
I hope you can tell me where Howard is, and I still like the life of fighting with him."
Although he did not receive support from the Angels Legion, it would be a good result to make the angels give up blocking Joyce. As long as Bartlett does not intervene, Joyce will be much easier to integrate the Shangjiang people.
As for Bartlett's disbandment of the Angels, Joyce needs to sign a contract with the angels who are willing to stay. Daliang believes that as long as the Holy Bella appears publicly, most angels will choose to stay here.
Next... it is to hold a meeting of imperial edicts to gather all the city lords of Shangjiang together...
Discuss Joyce's kingship.
The next day, Batterite assembled the Angels Army and entered the west camp, and then closed the camp, and no one was allowed to enter or go out.
The navy began to enter Shangjiang City on a large scale, especially some important buildings, and all the defenders were replaced by naval soldiers.
The Vow rose into the air.
Soon, news came from the Jiading City that Marquis Stanley was gathering his own army.
The sudden change in Shangjiang City has aroused many speculations. You should know that the last time the Navy and Jiading City assembled the army at the same time, they then attacked Shangjiang City. What did they want to do this time? Some nobles have explored what is going to happen recently through various channels, while the middle and senior nobles went directly to the Admiral's Mansion of the Pudong Fleet and asked Joyce in person.
However, Joyce entered the Oath and refused to receive any visitors.
The invisible "true" imperial prime minister could not see him, and the Count Daliang, who was leisurely wandering in the Admiral's Mansion of the Pudong Fleet, was caught by the nobles.
He forced Joshua and Abigail away, and appointed Marquis Stanley as the former prime minister to help Joyce stabilize Shangjiang City. Daliang had an extraordinary influence in the Shangjiang City aristocratic circle, so the nobles who did not see Joyce came to Daliang one after another, hoping to find out from him what big moves would be in Shangjiang City in the near future.
Of course, Daliang would not say that he would push Joyce to be king. Anyway, the Navy had already controlled Shangjiang City, and Bartlett chose to ignore it. The attitude of these nobles was not considered an attitude. At that time, when the king flag was up, they would have to follow. Therefore, if they said too much to these nobles, they would alert the other city lords.
Daliang was afraid that Joyce would let go of the nobles of his father, so he asked her to hide on the oath, while he was in the Admiral's Mansion to deal with these nobles who came to his door.
Facing the nervous nobles, Daliang sat in Joyce's office and smiled relaxedly, "You guys, don't be nervous. All the measures in Shangjiang City are all to welcome a special mission.
If we can cooperate comprehensively with the alliance represented by this mission, we can effectively improve our reputation and competitiveness in maritime trade.
Everyone has also seen that the development of Shuntong Chamber of Commerce has reached a bottleneck. The war in the Kingdom of Death has made Sigh City unable to provide us with more mercenaries, so we must seek other partners.
If this cooperation can be negotiated, I believe that Shuntong Chamber of Commerce can expand the maritime trade preferential zone at least five times. Now everyone is following Shuntong Chamber of Commerce to do business, which is definitely a great thing for us.
Therefore, Lord Joyce attached great importance to this mission visit, and he was a bit extreme in preparing for the mission reception. After all, the army did not have the convenience of its own naval command.
Marquis Stanley is also gathering his troops to show the military strength of the Shuntong Chamber of Commerce to the delegation and increase the confidence of the other party in cooperation."
This explanation seems to be reasonable, and the cities in Shangjiang are peaceful and there is no conflict of force. The nobles are much relieved. But what kind of mission is actually that Joyce and Stanley welcome it so grandly?
The nobles turned to Daliang to inquire about the mission. If the Shuntong Chamber of Commerce would expand again, they would also raise funds in advance to take the sailboat.
Facing a group of curious babies-like nobles, Daliang said: "There is a temporary confidentiality about where this mission comes from. After all, the fewer people know about this kind of commercial secret, the better. I hope you all can understand it.
In short, the scale of this commercial cooperation is very large, and the Shuntong Chamber of Commerce cannot afford it. If you want to participate, you will go back to raise funds and convene the army to show our strongest side in Shangjiang."
The nobles continued to ask, and Daliang kept changing the topic and insisted on not revealing more information about the mission.
Soon, the nobles who achieved their main purpose left the Admiral's Mansion of the Pudong Fleet.
Chapter completed!