The initial layout of the Port of Lyon was very chaotic, with civilian areas, dock areas and wealthy areas all mixed together. There were neither street parks nor city squares. Although the business here was very developed, it was not suitable for human habitation.

However, with the expansion of the deep-water terminal, the port area has also undergone large-scale transformation. Urban areas such as civilian areas, commercial areas, wealthy areas, and garden areas have been re-planned, and more buildings have been built during the reconstruction.

The perfect sewers have prevented the cross-flow of sewage in the Port of Lyon as before.

The wealthy area is located on the south side of the port area, next to the garden area, backed by a large virgin forest, and has an independent wealthy pier. It can be said to be the best residential area in the port area. People who buy houses and live in this area are absolutely

Most of them are not locals of Port Lyon, but more are directors of various chambers of commerce or wealthy businessmen in Port Lyon.

Although the overall national strength of the United Kingdom has not weakened after losing the area north of the Dibia Mountains, it has also increased a lot. It seems that a big burden has been lost, but for ordinary people, the United Kingdom has been lost without resistance.

To seize such a large piece of land and such an important city was a great defeat that shook the country. This sentiment also affected foreign businessmen.

The Port of Lyon, which is dominated by overseas maritime trade, has been most obviously affected. The villas and apartments in the business district are almost empty. The only ones left are some servants responsible for cleaning and maintenance. Most of the supervisors have temporarily left this place under various names.

Country, it seems that they will not return here until the situation is completely settled.

However, at the same time, there are also some businessmen with adventurous spirit and business acumen who stay, because they know very well that the more turbulent the place, the more opportunities there are to make money and make big money.

The Goode Chamber of Commerce is such a chamber of commerce that is good at gaining huge benefits in wars. In order to avoid conflicts with those local snake chambers, thereby causing unnecessary losses, the Goode Chamber of Commerce does not get involved in various types of strategic material transactions with the greatest benefits like other chambers of commerce.

, but focus on those who fled and the wealth on the refugees.

Before Miria City was completely blockaded by the imperial army, the wealthy people and scholars in Miria City who had no time to escape to the south took refuge in the Port of Leon on the west side, preparing to wait there for the situation to calm down before returning to Miria City.

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However, when the empire showed its determination to completely destroy the city of Milia, these rich people and scholars all chose to leave by boat, and the Port of Lyon, opposite the Port of Lyon in the north and south, became the most suitable place to land for refuge.

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Except for a few of these refugees who had relatives in Lanxi and other states and counties, who were able to leave smoothly, other native Miria businessmen and scholars were restricted to the Port of Lyon due to the control of the United Kingdom.

Fortunately for the businessmen, as long as they have enough funds on hand and rely on their previous contacts, they can do some small business in the Port of Lyon and temporarily establish themselves in the Port of Lyon. The situation is miserable for the scholars. Apart from doing academic research, they can do almost nothing.

They do not know any other livelihood skills, which makes their lives even more difficult.

The business opportunities that the Goode Chamber of Commerce has identified are in these fleeing merchants and scholars. It buys the valuables they have on hand from the fleeing merchants at low prices. This is the first transaction, and then uses the convenience of the Chamber of Commerce to do business with these fleeing merchants.

The funds used to purchase valuable items were recovered, and closer business relationships were also used to bring these businessmen into the circle of influence of the Goode Chamber of Commerce, strengthening the foundation of the Goode Chamber of Commerce.

Although the fleeing businessmen now appear to be in dire straits, they are just temporarily unlucky. Once these businessmen are given a chance, these businessmen can quickly recover, and investing in these businessmen is definitely a huge profit industry that is sure to make money without losing any money.

As for those scholars, they themselves are the best commodities. In the United Kingdom, there are a large number of businessmen who are willing to spend a lot of money to hire a scholar from Milia City to serve as their tutor, business consultant, etc., and the Good Chamber of Commerce is

An intermediary company was established immediately for refugees who had fled, and even before those scholars were hired, they were willing to provide free loans to those scholars to maintain their living needs.

Use some means to bring the Chamber of Commerce closer to these scholars, and then let these scholars indirectly influence the businessmen who employ them, thereby expanding the influence of the Good Chamber of Commerce.

Although this will be a loss-making operation for a period of time, its potential benefits are extremely huge. At least it allows the Good Chamber of Commerce, a foreign chamber of commerce that has just established its foothold in the Port of Lyon, to have access to high-level officials like the United Kingdom General Chamber of Commerce in a short period of time.

Get some hugely profitable business opportunities from these executives.

As the decision-maker of the Goode Chamber of Commerce in the United Kingdom, Spike Goode single-handedly led the Chamber of Commerce's business expansion plan in the United Kingdom and successfully operated this United Kingdom branch that was regarded as a burden by everyone in the Goode family.

Judging from the development momentum, it will not take long for it to become one of the most outstanding branch chambers of commerce in various countries of the Good family.

However, Spike Goode was in a bad mood today because he had just received news that the man he sent to receive guests in Foggy Bay Town was found dead in a forest not far from the city, and more than one person had died.

It was almost an hour, and it took such a long time that he didn't even have the chance to send someone to remedy the situation. He could only sit in the office and wait for the bad news to arrive.

Ten days ago, an order was sent from the headquarters of the Goode Family in the Moissan Continent. This order was stamped with the exclusive seal of the family’s Council of Elders and was the highest-level order among all family orders. This order was very simple, it was to

Pike helped a scholar leave the United Kingdom and go to the Moissan continent to assist in the family's ongoing research on ancient ruins.

As a member of the New World faction of the family, Spike doesn't like the fact that the family elders are obsessed with ancient family legends, relics of ancient civilizations, etc. He and other young people in the family believe that the family's strength relies on more modern things.

Things, such as the latest steam ships, steam locomotives and other steam machinery.

So he didn't take this order very seriously. It wasn't until he wanted to help the scholar get a pass to leave the United Kingdom that he discovered that things were unexpectedly difficult.

The United Kingdom seems to be conducting some secret research, and is protecting these researches extremely closely. Even if he just sent people to inquire, he has already lost three of his best men, and was even hinted by a high-level member of the United Kingdom with good connections.

method gives a warning.

The scholar who was the target of his mission happened to be involved in this research.

After feeling that the matter was unexpectedly difficult, Spike had to pay personal attention to the matter, and used all his connections to secretly contact the scholar, reach a cooperation agreement, and then secretly pick up the scholar.

Although the matter was troublesome, it went smoothly. In order to avoid being noticed, or even being found to be related to himself, he did not dare to send anyone to approach the scholar, and always only contacted him indirectly through the client. Late at night, over there in Button Town

After the client puts the person on the train, he uses the latest telegraph machine to deliver the message. He only needs to go and pick the person up.

Originally, he was going to pick him up in person, but in the early morning, he suddenly got important news. A big customer was coming to negotiate a hugely profitable deal. If the deal was concluded, he Gude Chamber of Commerce said

He might not be able to achieve a leap in promotion, so he had to stay in the Chamber of Commerce and wait for the arrival of the big client, and he just sent two of his men to greet the scholar.

Looking back now, he felt that the so-called big deal was probably just a fake news to divert his attention. Otherwise, if he traveled in person, there would be five or six bodyguards accompanying him, and there would be no such accident.

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Spike was sitting in his office waiting for the bad news to arrive. In his mind, he thought about the punishment his family would impose on him after his mission failed. The best case was to lower his support level, and the worst case was to find someone to replace him.

Position, transfer him back to the family headquarters in the Moissan continent, then everything he has done in the United Kingdom in the past six months will be in vain.

Just when Spike was feeling uneasy, there was a knock on the office door.

"Come in." Spike adjusted his sitting posture and clothes. Although he was full of uneasiness, his face remained calm. Even if he heard bad news, he did not want to appear abnormal in front of his men.

The door of the office opened, and Assistant Spike walked in and said: "Boss, Mr. Diego sent someone to deliver a letter. He said that Professor Dio Browno has successfully arrived at the safe house, and he asked you if you have any other arrangements.

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"Ah?" After hearing the news, Spike thought for a moment that he was hallucinating, and immediately confirmed: "What did you just say? Professor Dio Browno has successfully arrived at the safe house?"

"Yes." Spike's assistant looked at his boss with some confusion and handed over the note he had just received.

"Didn't he meet those killers in disguise?" Spike, who received a positive response, couldn't help but feel a little confused. He took the note and looked at it. He soon discovered that things were not as he thought.

The content recorded on the note indicated that Dio Browno took the exclusive steam locomotive of the Good Chamber of Commerce to the safe house, but the driver who arrived at the safe house with him was not the subordinate he sent, nor did he kill his subordinate.

The killer in disguise is actually a person he has never heard of, a student of Dio Browno.

"A student of Dio Browno?" Spike's face was full of doubts. Logically speaking, if there is a person like a student of Dio Browno, then the client will definitely mention it in the previous notifications, but from beginning to end

None of the last clients mentioned this person. This made him wonder whether this so-called student might have met on the train.

Although this guess seemed absurd, Spike couldn't think of any other reasonable answer.

Moreover, he also thought about more, such as why the professor and the so-called student came back in the car that went to pick him up? This undoubtedly means that the killer who killed him failed, and what was the reason for the failure? No matter how you think about it, it should not be

It will be the scholar and professor who only knows how to study ancient civilizations, or the mysterious person who suddenly appears and becomes a teacher for students.

"Silver Mask." Spike immediately thought of Silver Mask, the secret department of the United Kingdom, and guessed that his act of secretly taking away Professor Dio Browno had alerted Silver Mask, so they sent people to investigate the matter.

But then he denied this speculation, because according to his understanding, if he was really targeted by Silver Mask, the other party would never appear in front of him like this and conduct blatant investigations. He would only secretly collect evidence and act as Silver Mask.

The moment the masked person appeared in front of him, that was when the other party took action.

Spike couldn't help but be curious about this mysterious student. After thinking about it for a moment, he stood up and told his assistant: "Move all meetings this morning to the afternoon. If you have an appointment, arrange another time, unless it is a very important document."

, Otherwise, let the heads of each department make their own decisions.”

After saying that, he picked up the coat on the hanger, put it on his body, walked out of the office, went downstairs, got into the prepared carriage, and drove towards the safe house.

The Gude Chamber of Commerce has set up a total of five safe houses in Port Lyon to prepare for emergencies. Four of them are located in the dock area, and only one is in the wealthy area. This safe house is a private club, and its ostensible business is for Gu.

Scholars funded by the German Chamber of Commerce provide a gathering place. In the past month, it has become a rare cultural exchange venue in Port Lyon and has gained a certain reputation.

Spike is personally in charge of this safe house, but now the person in charge of the safe house is Diego, a master architect from the Mozan continent, who was specially hired to receive the fleeing scholars.

In the family mission he received this time, Diego also contributed a lot, because it happened that Diego and the target of this mission, Dio Browno, turned out to be friends for many years. Diego had some problems with the decoration of classical buildings.

They will all ask Dio Browno, and Dio Browno will also ask Diego to help him find some unique patterns with civilization characteristics on ancient buildings.

Because of Diego's help, Spike was able to find enough bargaining chips to attract Dio Browno to agree to go to the Moissanite continent to participate in the family's archaeological mission, so in terms of reception, Spike also handed over the matter to Diego.

Diego didn't know about the accident at the reception, but the person who sent Dio Browno to the safe house was not someone from the Goode Chamber of Commerce, but a student of Dio, and the vehicle he took was from the Goode Chamber of Commerce.

I felt something was wrong about the steam locomotive.

Therefore, after he sent someone to tell Spike Goode the information that the mission target had arrived safely, he came to the room where Dio Bronno was housed and asked what happened.

Dio Browno did not hide his good friend and directly told him what happened on the road.

"What Wakanha wants to assassinate you?" Diego was also a little surprised. At the same time, he also secretly glanced at Leo who was admiring the oil paintings in the room. He was both surprised by Leo's status as a student and also by him.
Chapter completed!