Chapter 494 Joe's Consciousness (5)
The study of the Duke of Portland.
The Portland Duke, who had several broken ribs and vomited a small pot of blood, was sitting weakly behind the desk.
There is no one else in the study.
The knights of the Great Hydra Knights, the knights of the Royal Knights, and several court officials sent by Sallyan, who cooperated with Joe's actions were all sent out by Joe.
In the huge study, there are only Joe, Mr. Sigens, Ya, Marcos, Ivan, Lan Mujin, Lan Liguo, and several old killers of the Weitu family.
The door of the study was closed tightly, and the Great Ivan smiled strangely, and his heavy back leaned heavily on the door, and his huge body blocked the door firmly. Even if someone outside bombarded with field cannons, the shells would hit him first. With the strength of Great Ivan, ordinary shells would not pose any threat to him.
In other words, even if they were bombarded with field cannons, people outside could not enter this study.
The Grand Duke of Portland looked pale and his eyes were blazing fire.
"I ask to see His Highness Mata...you can't do it so freely...Major, you are in Heidra Fort, beating me who is protected by the Deren Empire...your actions have put the empire shame..."
Joe shrugged his shoulders and said nothing.
He pointed to the bookshelf in the room, and Lan Mujin walked over quietly. His slender, fair, flexible and powerful fingers seemed to sweep across the rows of bookshelfs at random, and then he gently pressed a seemingly ordinary book on the bookshelf against the wall.
The Grand Duke of Portland's face turned pale slightly, and he suddenly sneered: "Mr. Major, are there actually top thieves among your subordinates?"
Qiao didn't say anything, and no one in the study answered the words of the Grand Duke of Portland.
Accompanied by the crisp "ding" sound - this is the purposeful arrangement of the people who built the mechanism. With the sound of the bell with extremely penetrating power, a bookshelves in the corner of the study slid out two feet out and then slid to one side.
The sound of "ding ding" was endless, and behind the huge bookshelf, Qiao's familiar old friend was revealed.
Shandun Company's heavy-duty safe, two thick alloy doors exposed from the back of the bookshelf. On the huge portal, four huge password disks flashed with a faint cold light.
Portland announced the safes placed in the study, and each door is two circles larger than the door of the study. This shows how large the safe is and how strong the defense of the safe is.
"Dear Lord, please tell me your password." Qiao looked at the Lord Portland with a serious smile: "Password..."
The Portland Duke looked at Joe with a gloomy face: "Do you think it's possible?"
Joe nodded, and pointed out his finger at the Great Ivan who was standing against the door: "Go, drag the old man named Vasily to a hidden corner and cut off his head."
The Grand Duke of Portland's face changed suddenly, and he looked at Joe in horror.
Big Ivan smiled strangely, gestured to him to cut his neck, then turned around, opened the door and walked out.
"I will tell you the password." The Duke of Portland said hurriedly: "But, Mr. Major, embezzled the funds for the restoration of the Duchy of Portland in exile. What do you think the public impression of the Derren Empire on the Medland continent will become after this incident is spread?"
"Password, hurry up." Qiao looked at the Grand Duke of Portland with a gloomy face.
Grand Duke Portland gritted his teeth, staring at Joe for a while, spitting out four long strings of numbers from the gaps in his teeth.
According to the password for Portland bus, Qiao easily opened the heavy door of the safe.
Behind the two alloy doors is a huge space that is only a circle smaller than Qiao's study, and the four walls are made of heavy alloy plates - here, it is filled with golden bars and green banknotes...
Oh, in addition to the bronze gold mark banknotes, there are also many dark and brown gold pound banknotes in the Ice Sea Kingdom, as well as the bright colors of the Gallic Republic, mainly red, white and blue.
The gold bars and banknotes are all shaped into rectangular hills of three feet long and six feet high. At first glance, at least hundreds of piles of gold bars and banknotes are neatly placed here.
On the three walls are rows of alloy shelves, with small cowhide briefcases and pockets made of white cotton cloth.
Several old men from the Vitu family walked over. They picked up a few white cloth pockets and swayed them. When they opened the pockets, they saw that they were all exquisitely polished and precious gems such as diamonds, rubies, sapphires, emeralds, etc., which were at least one carat.
They grabbed a few more pockets and looked at it. They were filled with smallest natural sea pearls as big as the fingers of middle fingers.
In those cowhide briefcases, there are contracts, contracts, bonds, and various handwritten IOUs printed with fingers, etc.
Several elderly people from the Vitu family were very experienced. They found several notes with amazing numbers in those IOUs.
"Wow, young master, there are actually several dukes who borrowed debts from our grand duke... and the number is more than ten million gold marks... tsk, they are all mortgaged with real estate from their fiefdoms."
"A first-class winery can only mortgage one million gold marks... This is really a lucrative transaction."
Joe couldn't help but whistle.
To be honest, the wines of the Derren Empire are not as famous as those of the Gallic Republic and the United Kingdom of Nice. However, if a first-class winery in the Derren Empire is slightly better, the market value of the entire winery will be around 3 million gold marks.
However, the real estate with a market value of 3 million Jinmak can only be mortgaged to the Grand Duke of Portland.
"It's really profitable to lend money to usury!"
Qiao sighed and glanced at Mr. Si Gengsi.
Mr. Si Gengsi nodded, unbuttoned the buttons of his coat and cloak, and took out a huge kraft paper briefcase from the hidden bag on his chest.
On the yellow-brown kraft paper briefcase, an iron-gray Hydra badge representing the Army Department of the Delun Empire can be clearly seen.
Above the Hydra badge that occupied most of the front of the kraft paper briefcase, there were a line of straight and blood-colored handwriting with teeth and claws - top secret!
The Grand Duke of Portland widened his eyes.
He suddenly realized what Joe was going to do with his subordinates.
His head was blank, and his horrified eyes swept across everyone in the study one by one - they were all subordinates of Qiao, not an official official of the Derren Empire, not an aristocratic knight!
As mentioned countless times before, the folk traditions of the Delun Empire are conservative, rigid and rigid, so their aristocratic knights can be regarded as the example of the aristocrats in the entire Medland continent - most of them still uphold the oldest knight virtues.
They won't lie.
With their own actions, they defended the initial and simple glory of the knight class in this era of material desires.
These royal knights of the Derren Empire would not do anything to frame the situation.
But Joe...and his subordinates...
Qiao worked as a policeman in Tulum Port for two months. During those two months, he learned a lot of very effective "practical" skills from those veteran policemen.
For example, when you want to make things difficult for the owner of a small shop, but you can't find any evidence of his illegal crime...
You put a small bag on his shelves and wrapped it in extremely tightly, without any family emblems on it... Then, this little boss is destined to lose everything.
The bigwigs of the seven-member committee of Tulum Port will join forces to throw this little boss into hell!
Every pepper in Tulum Port is strictly controlled, and every pepper must flow out of families with the qualifications of "smuggling"... Any pepper that is not allowed by any family and is not in the sales files of those families will be frantically investigated by major families.
A small bag of pepper is enough to determine the life, death, honor and disgrace of a small boss in Tulun Port.
The identity of the Grand Duke of Portland is much better than the small boss of Tulun Port... Therefore, the briefcase that Mr. Si Gengs took out naturally could not be a small bag of pepper.
Inside this briefcase is a design drawing of a new flintlock rifle designed by the Delun Empire Army Department in the past two years and has not yet been put into production, a new 120-millimeter-caliber army field gun, and a new 90-millimeter-caliber super-large-caliber mortar.
Because of the new ordnance drawings presented by Qiao, these latest ordnance designed by the Delun Empire have been behind the scenes for hundreds of years before they were put into production... So, these drawings are now completely waste paper for the Delun Empire.
But for other countries in the Medlands, especially like the Delun Empire, which retains a huge amount of army troops and is also a top army power, these design drawings of the "latest top-level ordnance" are "priceless treasures".
If there is a chance to obtain these drawings, not to mention other countries, the Gallic Republic is willing to pay tens of millions of goldmarks for these drawings.
"Oh, no, no, no...you can't do this...you do...you..." The Grand Duke of Portland gasped and screamed in despair: "Are you still, still...a glorious noble?"
Because of Joe's ribs, the Grand Duke of Portland's breathing was rapid and his lungs were painful. He tried his best to scream, but he couldn't make much noise.
Qiao didn't say anything.
Mr. Si Gengsi walked to the side of Duke Bertrand with a smile. He pulled the Duke's weak hand and slowly pressed dozens of finger marks on the kraft paper briefcase.
Then, Mr. Sigens took out a thick stack of drawings from the official document bag, one by one, leaving the Grand Duke of Portland with messy fingerprints on it.
He even made some ink from the ink bottle on the Duke of Portland's desk and applied it to the Duke of Portland's fingers, leaving a clearer mark on several drawings.
After processing these drawings, Mr. Si Gengsi took the drawings back into the document bag.
He pulled off another very distinctive, fiery red hair of the Portland Duke and clamped it into the drawings.
After reinstalling the document bag, Mr. Si Gengsi took a few steps back, stuffed the entire document bag into an empty cowhide document box, and then placed it in the corner of the vault.
Ya walked up, took out a handkerchief dipped in water, and carefully helped the Grand Duke Portland clean the ink on his fingers.
He wiped it carefully until the fingers of the Portland Duke's fingers became clean, snow-white and pink without leaving any trace.
The Portland Male's pupil shrank to the size of a needle tip.
Joe looked at him and said calmly: "I hate you guys... When I was in Tulum Port, it was you foreigners who destroyed the peaceful Mid-Autumn Night Celebration... Now, it's you who have done this in Heidra Fort."
Chapter completed!