"Otto is back?", Maggs asked, bending down and taking the day's newspaper from the mouth of the hound at his feet, as he put on his glasses.

The period from half past six to half past eight in the morning was the most relaxing time for Mags, with no never-ending official business to bother him, no matters to mediate between various departments, and no need to face the headache of diplomatic note applications brought out by diplomats. He could sit in the courtyard of his villa, make a cup of tea, ask his wife to make him a pancake, and interact with Vic while reading the newspaper.

Vic is his dog, an old dog, who is eleven years old. The lifespan of dogs is very short, at most thirteen or fourteen years, and those who live a little longer will not live to be twenty years old. The dog, named Vic, had entered the life of an elderly dog, and the fur on his slender snout had slackened, and even the teeth wrapped around his lips had begun to loosen. In his youth he was a great guy and won great honours for Maggs in many hunting tournaments.

Vic is a purebred Auxerre Retriever, a powerful and fast runner, and also possesses great patience and bite power, and is usually enough to complete the task alone against a small beast under fifty pounds. Even if it is more than fifty pounds of prey, three or five Auxerre hounds can complete the hunt, and this kind of hound, especially pure-blooded hounds, can cost a lot of money, ranging from five hundred to five thousand. Like the Hound raised by Mags, called Vic, has been serving the Maggs family for at least three hundred .......

Yes, from its ancestors, its family began to serve the Mags family, which has been multiplied to this day, for more than three hundred years.

Vic walked slowly away from Maggs's side, coming to a stop less than ten meters away from him. It sniffed at the familiar-looking leather shoes, and lazily fell on the lawn to bask in the sun. It recognizes the smell and is often present here, so it does not show any aggressive behavior.

Barr glanced down at the old dog at his feet and walked over to Maggs. The weather is getting warmer and warmer, and people have taken off their thick coats and come out of the cold winter, and everyone is lazy like animals. If you can bask in the sun to read a book, taste some delicious snacks, and squint your eyes to sleep in the sun after being sleepy, it must be the most comfortable thing.

He unbuttoned his clothes, sat down on a chair next to Mags, and took a bite of a pancake from Mags, "He came back in the middle of the night last night, I asked him to rest and wait until nine o'clock to report on the other side." ”

At this time, more than half a month had passed since Otto went to the west, and he came back after taking care of the affairs there, and everything seemed to come to an end in the west at some unknown and neglected point in time, and came to an abrupt end. Otto returned as soon as he had taken care of the resettlement of the newcomers, and he could not pry anything more useful out of Memnon's mouth, except to make Memnon open his mouth by means of threats of harm and persecution.

But in that case, even if Memnon speaks, these people may not believe that what he says is true, and they must verify it repeatedly. If Memnon had mixed in a large list of real people who he wanted to kill but weren't Scarlet Dawn, the official would have become a knife in his hand. Although this will not have any negative impact on the cabinet and the empire - in fact, after all, there have been robberies or burglaries that have caused deaths, and people will still feel that law and order is more or less as good as the official propaganda.

But neither Maggs nor Otto wanted to be disgusted by Memnon, so they waited a little and waited patiently for Memnon to take the initiative to send the full list.

The reason why the empire has not had many clues about Scarlet Dawn in the past twenty-seven years is because this organization is all insane. They were almost completely different from the famous people or organizations of the same period, perhaps for fame, wealth, or a career. These people all have a clear purpose, and the purpose of every time they harm the nobles and plunder the place is to strengthen themselves and make themselves stronger.

After repeating this many times, he tried to have enough power to confront a small region, and wanted to change the pattern of the entire empire.

But Scarlet Dawn is different, these people are all psychotics, and obtaining wealth is just an act of their assassination of nobles, they will not assassinate nobles specifically for wealth, and some of the wealth they get will not be given to the poor, most of them are actually still in their hands. They didn't assassinate the nobles for the sake of fame, they didn't have any pickiness about their targets, they didn't have any rules, and in general they would assassinate the local nobles wherever they went.

They didn't grow their strength either, there were about forty or fifty people at the beginning, and the ambush was the last large-scale activity of Scarlet Dawn, fifty or sixty people, or a little more. They didn't care how much power they had in their hands, even if they assassinated the nobles and instigated the slave revolt in their territories, it seemed that they did it easily, not intentionally.

Therefore, this group of people is a group of neurotics, not for money, not for fame, as if they simply like to assassinate nobles. However, such a neurotic style made the nobles and royalty at that time helpless against them, completely irregularity and purposelessness, killing one here and there, and setting traps many times, as a result, the other party had already run to the other half of the empire.

The only flaw they left behind was Memnon.

Memnon is a native of Ogding, a treacherous horse dealer active in the middle of the empire, who has more information and information about Memnon than anyone in Scarlet Dawn. For example, he often buys sick horses, stimulates them with some kind of botanical, makes them look very healthy, and then sells them to others for a profit. In the past, there were almost 70 cases of horse trade fraud related to Memnon.

So when Memnon took the initiative to stand on the table, the empire was paying attention to him, and his people. The Empire's intelligence agencies believe that Memnon must have had a number of Scarlet Dawn men under his command, but it is unclear which ones are and which are not. Without Memnon's cooperation, those who are not must say that they are not, and those who are must also say that they are not, and he did not admit that he was a member of Scarlet Dawn when Walt's family was killed, which shows that these people are all neurotics who step on horses.

Originally, Mags's idea was that since Dührin wanted to go to the west, he would give him a go and let him fight with Ménnon, and Maggs's vision could see that Monong was definitely not Doolin's opponent. After Memnon was ousted from power by Doolin, maybe Memnon would be angry and give Doolin a black post. As long as he did, then Maggs's plan would have succeeded. It's just unimaginable that without Duhrin's action, Memnon himself took the initiative to cut off the relationship with the people of Scarlet Dawn and threw himself into the camp of the New Party, which was completely beyond Maggs's expectations.

Originally, he planned to use Doolin to deal with Memnon and restrain the growth of the Forward Party, but now he wanted to use Memnon and the more pure Forward Party to restrain Dühring's expansion.

Of course, he didn't think Memnon would last long, and in a year or two at most he would be dethroned by Doolin. During this turmoil in the west, Mags's eyes have been paying attention to the situation in the west, and when Memnon has problems and his freedom is restricted, almost all the big capitalists have not taken the initiative to stand up to help Memnon break the siege, not to mention whether their powerful power and financial resources can really let Memnon escape this accident, they have not even asked.

Memnon, as the most important partner of the western capitalists, their silence made Mags think of Dühring, and Dührin must have negotiated some terms with these people, so they chose to watch the play on the sidelines.

In the present situation of Memnon, if he is not able to bring these capitalists back into his camp, he will soon be finished.

Because of the "three guarantees policy" he made, it also included his direct separation from Scarlet Dawn.

Magus considered that if he was the leader of the Scarlet Dawn, what he had to do now was to erase a person who knew most of the inside story from this world, especially since he had already betrayed him, and he couldn't let him live. Maggs had reason to believe that Memnon did not give all the lists, and that he must have a more important list in his hand, which he used as a bargaining chip to negotiate terms with the new party.

Honestly, he's stupid.

Maggs had thought about a lot of things in a matter of seconds, he opened the paper, glanced at the headlines, shook his head slightly, and placed the paper on the table.

His old friend Barr picked up the newspaper and glanced at it, which said that the United Construction Engineering Co., Ltd. expected to completely penetrate the western mountains of Otis City by the end of April, realize the complete opening of the east-west direction, and the city of Otis will usher in a new round of development. There is also a subtitle at the bottom of the article, which reads that the United Construction Engineering has won three more major projects, including the construction of the Empire's tallest building in the southern city of the Empire in cooperation with the Imperial Royal Academy of Engineering, and two railways with a total length of no less than 1,000 kilometers.

"I don't like the Federalists, I was, I am, and I will be. Barr threw the newspaper back on the table and looked at Maggs angrily, "You should submit a bill prohibiting federal businessmen from participating in important projects in the Empire." ”

Maggs chuckled, "I know you're talking angry, we should recognize reality." In the past, we might have been able to play our own games, but now that the relationship between countries is getting closer and closer, and there is more and more cooperation, isolation will only make us eliminated. Traders of the Federation today and merchants of other countries tomorrow may become a force to be reckoned with within the Empire in the future. ”

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