Chapter 496: Agreement
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"Your Majesty, I think you should meet this baron!" As soon as His Majesty's words were settled, a voice rang out, without the slightest sense of respect, as if he was talking to an ordinary person.
When the Pope heard this, instead of being upset, he replied with a smile: "Yes, Miss Morrow." ”
Everyone present was amazed, why could a little baron let this speak, Mo Luo's voice sounded again: "Your Majesty, although this is a baron, I think everyone will know who it is when they hear his name?"
"Who is it?" The Pope was a little depressed, originally the Pope's answer just now meant that he saw a little baron for the sake of Morro's face, but Moro didn't buy it, but pointed out that this baron was not simple, and the Pope turned his head and asked the white-robed priest who reported.
"It's Baron Cook. The white-robed priest hurriedly bowed down and replied.
"Baron Cook, is that guy who took out more than a billion gold coins from our treasury in half a year?" The Pope was too impressed by Cook, mainly the magic airship, and such a large consumption of magic metal was traded with Cook.
"Yes, Your Majesty!" the white-robed priest hurriedly replied, the white-robed priest actually received the benefit of a piece of Cook's top-grade light magic crystal, and when he heard that His Majesty could actually remember Cook, he quickly bowed down and replied again.
"Hehe, then invite someone to the Privy Council. The Pope thought for a moment and replied.
In fact, to say that the most talented is the pope of the Holy See of Light, not only to manage the Holy See, but also to deal with national affairs, the Privy Council is actually in charge of the work of the Holy See, the Pope is to make his position clear, as a Holy See pope to meet with Cook.
When Cook saw the Pope of the Holy See of Light, a powerful coercion came to his face, Cook felt a slight shock in his heart, and in an instant Cook also knew that this Pope had reached the legendary realm.
Legend is to reach level ten, but have not yet comprehended the realm, it can be said that it is above level nine, outside the threshold of the holy realm, and the legend is in this key position.
Once you comprehend the laws of the realm, then you will reach the holy realm, if you can't comprehend it, then you will only die slowly, which is the first big bottleneck on the way to cultivation, and it is also a big realm improvement.
"Meet His Majesty the Pope!" said Cook, with the courtesy of a magician.
"Hehe!" The Pope is a little unnatural, after all, if Cook wants to meet him with aristocratic etiquette, he will have to bow down, but magicians don't need to, the Pope has no way to lose his temper, the Magicians Guild is the largest force in the continent, but fortunately, magicians are people who like to study, otherwise the Magicians Guild would have dominated the entire continent long ago, even if the Holy See has divine arts.
The Pope smiled and then asked, "Is there anything Baron Cook looking for me?"
The Pope bites the word baron very hard, which is nothing more than to show that you are a baron, I see that you are giving you face, even if you are rich?
Cook also replied with a smile: "Your Majesty, I have one thing to ask Your Majesty to allow." ”
"What's the matter?" The Pope was in a very good mood now, and secretly rejoiced in his heart: "You begged me to do something, then I will resolutely disagree, when a little baron actually looks like a big thing in front of him, if he didn't have the identity of a magician, he would have positioned you as a heretic a long time ago." ”
"Your Majesty, there's an agreement here!" Cook blinked, then pulled out a dossier.
A white-robed priest next to him took the file, then carefully examined it, and then handed it to the Pope, who originally wanted to throw the file directly on the ground, but he had to make an appearance, after all, the Holy See was not up to himself.
However, when the Pope saw the contents of the dossier, his whole mouth opened wide, and several bishops of the Privy Council below were surprised, what did His Majesty see, and it took more than ten minutes for the Pope to look at Cook carefully.
"Baron Cook, do you know what your dossier is about?" the Pope asked in as calm a tone as he could.
"I know, Your Majesty, I just asked Your Majesty to allow logistics materials to pass through the Empire, and I also want to ask Your Majesty to sign a contract, and the land north of the fortress will belong to me. Cook replied with a nod.
"Three million beast army, how can you, a little baron, say the land north of the Scarlet Fortress?" the Pope asked loudly, standing up.
When the surrounding Privy Council bishops heard this, their mouths opened wide without any aristocratic demeanor, and they did not have the appearance that a gentleman should have, and they were shocked in their hearts, this thing actually wanted the land north of the Scarlet Fortress, and the God of Light was above, don't you know where there are more than three million beast armies now?
"Yes!" Cook didn't explain, but continued to nod.
"Can you explain?" the Pope asked after a half-talk.
"After signing the contract, you can!" Cook didn't want to explain, but once he explained clearly, the negotiations with the Empire of Light would fall into a passive situation.
The Pope and several bishops of the Privy Council were completely speechless, what kind of person is this, it is still a secret, could it be that there is something wrong with the Orc Empire, but the Light Empire has little information about the Orc Empire.
Because the Orc Empire and the Bright Empire are enemies all year round, even if they are smugglers of the Bright Empire, they can't get any clues in the Orc Empire, because the characteristics of humans are completely different from those of orcs.
So far, the Bright Empire knows the approximate ethnic distribution map of the Orc Empire, and it is only the racial distribution in the south of the Orc Empire, and as for the north, there is no news from the Bright Empire.
The Pope glared at Cook, but Cook was unmoved, and in desperation, the Pope of the Empire of Light felt a sense of powerlessness for the first time, and then said in a deep voice: "We need to discuss this matter. ”
"Well, I'm ready to wait. Cook nodded and replied, the Pope said that it was the Emperor, but compared to other empires, the Pope's power was not very large.
It can only be said that the Pope represents the Empire of Light and the Holy See of Light, and within the Holy See there are not only cardinal archbishops to manage the dioceses, just like the governors of the United States, the Pope cannot directly interfere in the affairs of the major dioceses, especially when the cardinal archbishop is not at fault, the Pope only has the right to build.
In the case of general heavy affairs, the Pope cannot be the Lord alone, and there are departments such as the Privy Council, the Ministry of Finance, the Inquisition, the Priest's Temple, the Knights of the Temple, the White-robed Priests, etc., and then decide what to do.
This is something that everyone understands, but it is different when it is said, and the Pope feels that Cook is simply retorting himself, of course, Cook is just telling the truth.
The Pope left with a black face, and several bishops of the Privy Council got to know Cook one after another, and Cook finally got rid of these bishops and came out of the door of the Privy Council, Cook couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Three drinking parties, two banquets, and a hunt!"
"What do you mean?" Ume asked Cook with a smile as she looked like a noblewoman, her tail shrouded in a wide skirt.
"A group of people just now invited us to three drinking parties, two banquets, and a hunt. Cook explained in detail.
"Okay!" Ume is still a girl, and she is overjoyed when she hears the excitement.
"Let's go!" Cook said with a wave of his hand, and then stepped onto an extremely ordinary carriage, there were four big men around the carriage, giving people a cold chill, these are four Frost Titans, and now the entire Frost Titan tribe has twenty Awakened Titans, and the rest have not yet reached the age of awakening.
And the snow-capped mountains within 20,000 kilometers near the Golden Pass have been divided by Cook into the Frost Titan tribe, as for whether these places belong to Cook or not, only God knows.
When Cook took Ume around the Holy City, the entire Holy See was almost turned upside down, what is the Orc Empire, that is the Empire's henchmen, for tens of thousands of years, the territory of the Empire of Light has not expanded a little, what is the reason? It is because of the existence of the Orc Empire.
The Orc Empire is like a madman, rushing up from time to time to bite twice, and in history, the Scarlet Fortress has been breached three times, and these three times have caused the Empire of Light to suffer heavy losses.
The place where the orcs passed was like a fire, even the iron nails were looted away by the orcs, everything that could be taken away was packed and taken away, and the annual expenditure of the empire on the fortress was hundreds of millions of dollars, as well as a lot of manpower and material resources.
So when Cook's agreement was placed in front of everyone, everyone felt like they were stunned by pies falling from the sky, and the land north of the fortress had something to do with the empire, so if you want to take it, take it.
As for the turnover of materials through the empire, okay, this also increased the tax revenue for the empire, so Cook's mention was almost one-sided.
But there are also sober people, Mo Luo is one of them, and the Pope, the Pope was excited when he saw the people below, and couldn't help but say loudly: "Everyone, everyone, I'm afraid this matter is not as good as we imagined." ”
"What do you mean?" someone immediately disagreed.
"I'm just saying that Cook doesn't always get nervous, right?" The Pope doesn't know what to say, is Cook a fool? Definitely not, since it's not, then what does Cook mean by making this suggestion?
"Do you have any other ideas?" someone asked again.
The Pope was speechless, if he knew Cook's truest thoughts, then he would still need to remind everyone in a roundabout way, but fortunately, Moro spoke: "Everyone, I think it is necessary for us to investigate carefully to see what Baron Cook has planned, so as not to lose the face of the empire in the end." ”
"Miss Morrow, what do you think you should do? Reject Baron Cook's agreement, or is the massive annual cost of the Scarlet Fortress just a few numbers in Miss Morrow's eyes?"
"And the lives of Imperial soldiers, this year's Holy War in the Orc Empire has caused the deaths of 300,000 soldiers, and nearly 400,000 disabled soldiers, Miss Morrow, do you know what that means?"
"There is also equipment, as well as huge logistics, everyone, I think as long as we don't have the hidden danger of the Scarlet Fortress, the rise of the Empire is no longer a dream!" Some bishops asked Moro loudly, in the eyes of these people, no matter what Cook's intentions, then as long as the Empire loses the burden of the Scarlet Fortress, it will be a victory for the Empire.
"But let's ask Baron Cook to come up with the collateral, in case we are tricked by Cook, we might as well have an explanation. "This is the consideration of those who have left behind, after all, Cook's agreement seems a bit ridiculous now, and more than three million beast troops are still outside the Scarlet Fortress.