Chapter five hundred and thirty seventh warm welcome
December 30th, 11:25 pm.
Tulum Port, Kumquat Hills, that is, the consulate district of Tulum Port.
In the Consulate General of the Ice Sea Kingdom in Tulun Port, there were bright lights, singing and dancing. Red men and green women were in groups, accompanied by the light dance of small waltz in the spacious hall.
The Kingdom of Ice Sea, and dozens of diplomatic officials from the Consulate in Tulun Port, as well as their relatives, are also enjoying a welcome banquet, quietly waiting for the arrival of the New Year.
In previous years, a grand welcome ceremony will be held in Tulun Port City Hall.
As long as these diplomats are qualified, they will go to the city hall to attend the official New Year's banquet in Tulun Port.
But this year... the situation is special.
On the third floor of the Consulate General, a luxuriously decorated chess and card room, the consuls of four superpowers, including the Kingdom of Ice Sea, the Republic of Gaul, the United Kingdom of Nice, the Kingdom of Saint-Shia, and the consuls of several other second-rate powers, are dressed up and sitting around an oval card table.
Earl Xiafei, Consul General of the Ice Sea Kingdom in Tulum Port, frowned and flipped over the two cards in front of him. After hesitating for a while, shook his head, sighed, and counted a thousand gold marks from the stack of banknotes in front of him, pushing forward with force.
"Rise, a thousand gold mark...ah, what's going on on both sides?"
Earl Xiafei sighed and gently tapped his fingers on the back of his two cards: "My luck today is a bit bad."
Several consuls who were betting against Earl Xiafei curled their lips at the same time.
Bad luck, you still have a thousand gold mark?
Marquis Tulandol, the new Consul General of the Kingdom of Saint-Shia, shook his head and threw the two cards in front of him: "I don't follow this hand... I'm also very curious about what's going on on both sides?"
Standing behind Earl Xiafei, a military officer of the Consulate General with the rank of lieutenant colonel stood at attention and said in a deep voice: "The Weitu family and Prince Fillet held a New Year's celebration banquet at the same time, based on the information just sent back..."
The lieutenant colonel military officer took out a piece of folded official paper and quickly glanced at the information on it.
"Ninety-five percent of the local large family in Tulun Port attended the New Year banquet held by the Weitu family in the Mid-mountain area."
"And 73% of the big family members from the three provinces including Claude attended the New Year's banquet held by Prince Ferrit in the top area."
The consuls present laughed softly at the same time, and they loved this scene.
The lieutenant colonel and military officer pursed his lips and raised his voice half a tone.
"However, a quarter of an hour ago, the Duke of Gassica disclosed the news from the Hedra Fort... Hessen, the head of the Vitu family, was enthroned as a duke, and his fief is the entire province of Claude."
The words of the lieutenant colonel and military officer made the consuls present froze at the same time.
Earl Xiafei widened his eyes and stood up suddenly, staring at the military officer standing behind him: "Hesen was named Duke? Hey, when did this happen? Why didn't you tell me this damn news earlier?"
The lieutenant colonel and military officer looked at the blue-faced Earl Xiafei at a loss.
Marquis Tolandone knocked on the card table hard, and he shouted: "What happened? Lord Xiafei! Hesen was named Duke. This news is amazing...but it has no effect on the overall situation."
"Does we have to run halfway to the Vitu family's banquet because Hesen was named Duke? Obviously, this is impossible."
"A brief and high-intensity war is right in front of us, and we have received domestic orders... We temporarily suspend all contacts with the official Delun Empire and wait for the outcome of the war."
"We can only sit here quietly, play a few small cards, and earn some pocket money."
Marquis Tulandon looked at Count Xiafei with some suspicion: "Your reaction is a bit too much... What have you done?"
Earl Xiafei's verdant face quickly returned to normal. He smiled and sat back in his original position with a calm and calm attitude: "Oh, nothing... I'm just worried. When we face the Weitu family in the future, our attitude will change greatly."
"Ah, a medium nouveau riche, Junker, has turned into a top Teutonic... It's really a headache."
Earl Xiafei smiled with a forced smile and did not express his real worries.
He had previously received an order from Fort Heidra, which was an order from the Embassy of the Ice Sea Kingdom.
There was no telling him there, and a duke who had actually enthroned a province suddenly appeared in the Vitu family!
Damn embassy...
Can this be the same thing as the raid of a rural nobility Junker nobleman in Tulum Port and the raid of a real Duke of Toutun, which was newly released by the Derren Empire?
The blood of a country bumpkin nouveau riche family will only trigger chaos in Tulun Port.
The blood of a top Teutonic noble family will cause a war of controllable scale to fall into an uncontrollable abyss.
Earl Xiafei took out his pocket watch with a smile and looked at the time.
His behavior was calm and his expression did not change at all, but the cold sweat on the soles of his feet had soaked his soles.
He smiled and forced his next house to flew away, then compared the final card with the last remaining consul of the Gaul Republic, smiling and took down the bet of more than 40,000 gold marks on the table, and then stood up with a smile: "Sorry, I'll go to the bathroom... I'll deal cards normally. Before I come back, I will follow every round of raises!"
"Oh, oh, oh!" The consuls at the card table smiled happily, and at the same time applauded softly.
Earl Xiafei smiled and left the chess and card room, walked through a short corridor, and came to the bathroom equipped with the chess and card room. Then he quickly slipped out from the side door of the bathroom and ran out along a separate small corridor.
"Bastard, contact His Excellency Dulinde as fast as possible... I want to ask for his opinion, tonight's action... Damn, ask Fort Heidra to verify and ask the Embassy to reply to us with the highest key. Is the previous action order issued by His Highness George himself?"
Earl Xiafei found his most trusted confidant secretary as fast as possible, almost pinching the other party's neck, and hysterically issued a series of the most urgent orders.
"Damn... I hope the people sent by Dulinde will not be so efficient!"
"I hope they can take a little longer!"
When Earl Xiafei issued the order, thirty giant demon knights, a thousand newly added sailors, and two battalions of marines that were no longer satisfied were less than three miles away from Tulun Port.
Under the hazy moonlight, a man in a small dress, a top hat and a small cane walked out of the woods by the roadside.
"The weather is good today, huh?" the man raised the hat on his head.
"The weather is really good, which makes me unconsciously want to taste a pie looking up at the starry sky." A giant demon knight also raised the top hat on his head: "Which bastard is this the joint code made by a bastard? What I hate the most is the pie looking up at the starry sky."
The giant demon knights chuckled at the same time.
Even the sailors behind them were many of them grinning and shaking their heads at the same time.
Every young man in the Ice Sea Kingdom grew up by gnawing on the starry sky pie made by his grandmother or mother since childhood... But when they grow up, the loving pie will often become the deepest childhood nightmare in their memory.
Once, an admiral from the Ice Sea Kingdom confessed after drinking - 'The reason I joined the Navy is to stay away from the starry sky pie made by my mother... How far is it, how far it is, even the ends of the world'!
Several well-dressed men came out in the woods. They bowed to these giant demon knights with reserved and weird smiles.
Both sides connected.
A sixth-level knight asked straight to the point: "What's the situation now?"
A man who was receiving the support took out his pocket watch, popped open the cover and looked at the time: "Ten minutes ago, the message we received was that everything was normal... If thirteen blood-colored fireworks had not been launched in a row, then everything would be safe and normal in Tulun Port."
The sixth-level knight nodded with satisfaction: "So, where is the target?"
The man who responded pointed to the St. Heard Mountain inside and outside. The entire St. Heard Mountain was brightly lit, and the lights of the mansions made the whole mountain bright as daylight: "In the mid-mountain area, in their own houses... almost the entire Tulum Port are there at this moment. According to convention, the New Year banquet will not be dispersed after about three in the morning."
The five strongest giant demon knights, together with the two battalion commanders of the Marine Corps, and the naval major in charge of the 1,000 sailors, gathered together. After a group of people briefly discussed for a while, a sixth-level knight made the final decision: "This is a war, and it is inevitable that there will be accidental injuries. Moreover, if they get together..."
"Of course, they happened to get together, and they were all big shots." The Navy Major narrowed his eyes, his tone was a little erratic, and his mood was a little loud.
In today's Medland, the naval fleet is outside the sea and occasionally works part-time to privateer fleets several times...
The navy of the Ice Sea Kingdom is inevitably bound to have extremely good cooperative relations with some "official pirates" who have obtained privateer licenses.
Raid the Vitu family, killed Leah, and hid Leah in Ferrit's official residence.
By the way, they robbed a group of big figures and "given" them to a group of good-looking pirates, and squeezed out all the oil and water from their bones.
This is a very feasible operation.
Anyway, the commands they get are very vague and vague.
It can even be said that their raid this time felt a bit inexplicable.
In this case, since the superiors have not limited their actions and have not given them clear and clear action orders, why not exercise their freedom?
"Okay, start now."
"We will kill Mount St. Hilde directly. Now, it should be the time when they are the weakest of their vigilance."
Chapter completed!