Hearing Rhodes call herself a traitor, Quileta subconsciously retorted - but although she said she wasn't, her heart had sunk to the bottom.

Finished.

Unsurprisingly, Rhodes reported a long list of numbers.

From the receipt of the adventurers' missions to the throughput of the entire port of Besilico, from the financial interception to the abnormal mass renewal of infrastructure, these abnormal things have become a series of strong evidence under the combing of Rhodes.

Adventurers were hired to fight pirates, and the Bilgewater Flame Wave led to a massive increase in the throughput of the port of Besilik, but tax reporting did not fluctuate much.

A large number of weapons are "worn out in battle", and a considerable proportion of the taxes reported to renew their armaments are accounted for, when in reality the combatants are adventurers who bring their own weapons.

A large amount of wasteland has been cleared, but the food harvested is "consumed in battle", and in reality the adventurers never use the food to settle their accounts.

Going around and around, the whole of Besilico opened up many sources, but did not add any financial contributions to the empire, although the report stated that "resources are difficult to convert into taxes in a short period of time", but in fact...... All those resources have been turned into food and defensive equipment!

Looking at Queleta, who was as earthy as his face, Rhodes smiled rather wickedly.

"As far as I know, your Svein has just taken office, do you think he will choose to give Besiliko a hard time?"

Queletta was silent.

The office fell silent again.

Rod carefully flipped through the file in his hand.

"Looks like a lot of your actions have something to do with Bilgewater?"

Queleta remained silent.

"How?" Seeing that Queletta didn't speak, Rhodes could only put down the file in his hand, "Want to take advantage of the momentum of the Bilgewater Flame Wave to do something?" ”

“……”

Queleta couldn't hide it, so she could only nod silently.

"Kind of interesting - let me guess...... Bilgewater was not very strong, but naval battles counted as one, and I had heard before that it seemed that Planck had snatched Svein's ship—albeit at the cost of all his own guards. Rhodes further confirmed his suspicions, and the smile on his face became more kind, "If you're not mistaken, you want to use Bilgewater's sea power, right?" ”

"But the funny thing is that you didn't mean to contact the Queen of Doom, and even stepped up your maritime patrols to try to block the news, so it seems that you and Bilgewater are not cooperating, but unilaterally using it."

"Then let's move on - in the whole of Noxus, Besilico is not strong, and your connections are not very good, so in the strategy, you are in an absolute weak position."

"The weak want to challenge the strong, either by not dying, or by letting the strong cast a mouse--you're a moderate in Noxus, so you shouldn't be crazy about playing jade, so ...... Your purpose is to make Noxus scruple and compromise. ”

"Let Noxus scruple ...... As far as I know, Noxus is ruthless enough to make Noxus jealous of him, and the stakes are not small - considering that you are using Bilgewater, then your goal is imminent. ”

"You want to kidnap the Noxus Navy, right?"

When Rhodes came to his conclusion, Quiletta was stupid.

As the mastermind and executor of everything, Queletta knows very well that it is difficult to hide everything she has done for a long time - and even she can do it to this extent today, because of the internal politics of Noxus and the left and right of Besilico, so now Queletta has accelerated the pace of action,

Now that the Immortal Fortress has won and lost, and the good days of the grass on the wall are over, Queleta wonders if the Svein, who no one can see through, will settle the score.

But he never told anyone about the whole plan, not even his daughter Infutia!

And yet Rhodes guessed everything!

As Rhodes had guessed, Quaretta was now preparing to contact the lord of Fendor (another Noxian moderate leader who admired even Svein's business and domestic skills) in the south and invited her to join her.

As long as Besilico and Findor act at the same time, all routes throughout Noxus in the Sea of Conquest will be blocked.

To this end, Quiletta was even prepared to use the adventurers to attract the attention of the Noxian navy, and then report it herself to the Queen of Doom of Bilgewater planning to plunder on a large scale.

Although the new leader of Bilgewater has no sign of making a move, the pirates in history make big news every time they change their leader, and it is said that Bilgewater now has the same belief as the richest Piltover, so as long as he says that the pirates want to raid Noxus, Quiletta believes that no one will doubt the authenticity of this news.

At this juncture of desperate need to show strength, Queleta dared to assure that Noxus would fight back.

And once the Noxian Navy leaves the port, Queletta will directly block the port of Besilicco.

The navy of Noxus is made up of slow heavy warships, and once they depart to reach Bilgewater, it will take at least half a month for them to return, and the total time it will take to count them is probably a month - and usually, their supplies are only enough for a month.

Without the supplies of Fendo and Besilico, the navy will be "starved" at sea, and if the time comes, as long as the transport ships trying to resupply the warships are intercepted, the navy of Noxus will be completely incapacitated!

The mages of Noxus did not know how to make food or water, and the consequences of cutting off supplies at sea were far more terrible than on land.

At that time, in order for Noxus' navy not to be completely destroyed, no matter how angry Svein was, he could only sit at the negotiating table and negotiate with himself.

Once things get to this point, Queleta is well placed to expand the conservatives' influence...... Or even change the strategy of Noxus.

To hell with expansion and war, Noxus is already scarred!

In fact, there are two most difficult points in the whole plan - one is to convince Fendo and create the illusion of pirates; The other is to fend off the first wave of Noxus attacks from land.

For the former, Queleta recently wanted to use "the new situation of commercial cooperation in the conquest of the seas after the tide of flames" as an excuse to go to Findor to convince her old friend Aminisi; As for the latter, as Rhodes said, Queleta had prepared Besilico to defend himself with the adventurers - but now it's okay, the whole thread of the matter has been shaken out by Rhodes.

Queletta felt hopeless, the kind that couldn't breathe.

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Historically, Besilico did rebel under Qurieta's leadership (Darius' comic "Blood of Noxus"), but Qurieta's rebellion failed because Flame Tide did not involve Rhodes.

But now, because of the change of the Flame Tide, the bounty hunter has become the Queen of Doom, and Queletta has a bigger plan, which is quite feasible, and even has a good chance of success because of the participation of some adventurers.

The only pity is that Rod came, and he saw through the whole plan by combining the information provided by Elise with his own experience in Bilgewater.