The freight terminal of the Port of Sète has been transformed three times. The first freight terminal was built in the city, next to the current passenger terminal. However, as a large number of factories were built on the edge of the Port of Sète, a large freight terminal was formed.

In the large factory area, the surge in cargo throughput overwhelmed the repeatedly expanded terminals. Eventually, the municipal authorities decided to move most of the large freight terminals out of the city and set aside a large area of ​​coast near the factory area for the construction of terminals.

After the construction of the large freight terminal is completed, all export goods produced by factories and imported raw materials will be handled through this large freight terminal, while general commodities will go to the freight terminal in the city.

What is different from the freight terminals in the same city is that this large terminal not only has a large number of warehouses used to store goods, but also has a large dock that can dock four or five cargo ships, as well as a secret dock dock specially used to load secret cargo.

On the dock, there are more than a dozen docks capable of loading large cargo ships. Each dock is closely connected to rows of private warehouses. When the cargo ship arrives at the port, it will be towed into the dock by a tugboat.

, and then the people inside the dock will close the water gate at the entrance, completely sealing the dock.

Whether it is goods loaded onto the ship or goods unloaded from the ship, they are transported back and forth from these closed docks, without giving outsiders any chance of prying.

Although the reason for building such docks and docks in the first place was to facilitate the transportation of goods, now these docks are almost used by large chambers of commerce and nobles to transport smuggled goods. This kind of thing has become a problem in large freight docks.

An open secret, but no one will tell it, because everyone who tells these secrets will eventually become a corpse floating on the sea.

After Leo arrived at the place agreed upon with Jason, Jason led Leo to one of the docks.

On the way, Jason introduced the situation: "This dock belongs to Earl Ed of Esenberg. He also has a factory here. This dock is specially used to transport factory raw materials and products." Here, he paused.

He added: "Of course this is just a statement to the outside world. In fact, this is Earl Ed's smuggling point. Tobacco and tea shipped from the Moissanite continent will be unloaded from this terminal, and then labeled as factory raw materials, and transported to

Domestic sales avoid a lot of taxes that need to be paid.”

"Tell me the important point." Leo looked at the somewhat verbose Jason and said.

Jason smiled naively and got to the point: "Earl Ed's recent investments in Moissanite have all been losses. There are problems with funds, and some debts have matured, which forced him to sell some of his property to use it.

The mortgaged debt, this dock and warehouse was one of the properties that was sold, and the person who bought it had something to do with you."

"It has something to do with me?" Leo frowned.

"The Duke of Buckingham." Jason said the answer directly without any hesitation.

"He." Leo just nodded flatly and said nothing.

Jason was a little disappointed with Leo's reaction, but he did not dwell too much on this point. Instead, he continued: "Since the Duke of Buckingham has bought the dock and warehouse, the things originally placed in the warehouse and dock will naturally be taken away.

We came out to transport it away, but a strange thing happened to my man when he was transporting the goods in one of the warehouses. He forgot to move something."

"Forgot to move things?" Leo was stunned and looked at Jason with some confusion.

"How should I say it?" Jason seemed to know that Leo would have this reaction, so he thought about it carefully and said, "They just forgot. They forgot to move things! They were supposed to go to the warehouse and move the things in the warehouse.

They moved out, but after they got in, they all forgot to move their things, and they walked out empty-handed without doing anything. Do you understand this?"

Leo thought for a moment and said, "You mean there is something in the goods in that warehouse that is affecting your men and making them forget what they want to do, right?"

"Yes, yes, that's what I mean!" Jason nodded repeatedly.

After receiving a positive response, Leo became interested in this matter.

The carriage the two took quickly arrived at the dock that Jason had mentioned, but now it was not as deserted as other docks. Instead, a lot of people gathered there, and various quarrels came from the crowd.

Let the silent dock become very noisy.

"What's going on? Are those boys drunk and fooling around again?" After the carriage stopped, Jason went down and saw the manager of the dock that was coming up to him, so he asked immediately.

"No, they are not our people." The manager immediately explained: "Not long after you left, two groups of people came to tell us that the ownership of this warehouse belongs to them. They are the ones quarreling now, and we are just standing by.

Just watching the fun."

"Two gangs? Who are they?" Jason raised his eyebrows and asked displeasedly.

"One is the housekeeper of the Duke of Buckingham's family, who is here to deal with shipyard matters, and the other is an office called the Special Bureau. They want to take over the warehouse from the Duke of Buckingham's family, but the Duke of Buckingham does not allow it. Both parties

There was a commotion at the door."

"Damn it." Jason couldn't help but curse, then turned to look at Leo and said with a wry smile: "It seems it's not our turn to solve this matter. Shall we go back now?"

"It's not necessary." Leo shook his head and said, "I want to see it."

After saying that, Leo walked into the crowd and relied on his body strength to squeeze into the center of the crowd and saw the two sides confronting each other.

I saw three people here from the Special Bureau. These three people happened to be known to Leo. Two of them were the two members of the Special Bureau who were seen at the death scene of Leo's men, and the other one was at the sacrifice ceremony.

The member of the Special Bureau who appeared at the scene.

At this moment, these three people are confronting a dozen strong people. At a glance, it is obvious that those ten strong people are some battle-hardened warriors. Everyone has a bulging waist.

They are equipped with weapons, and one of them exudes a strong Familia aura, but there are no Familia mutant organs on the surface of his body.

In front of these dozen or so strong men, the one facing the three of them was a middle-aged man. Although his appearance was completely different, Leo saw the figure of his butler in this middle-aged man, or to be more correct.

, this middle-aged man is imitating the gestures of Butler Sanges, but the middle-aged man does not know that he is only imitating a superficial appearance, and his inner temperament is not imitated at all, so the overall look looks strange.

"What are you doing?" Jason, who followed closely, walked past Leo and walked in front of both sides of the confrontation. He said loudly: "Your behavior has affected our work. The handling here is based on the number of pieces of goods and the transportation.

It’s calculated based on delivery time. Will you compensate for the wasted time and reduced income?”

Seeing Jason coming over, the people from the Special Bureau were overjoyed at first, thinking that Jason was a member of the Special Bureau and would definitely be on their side. But when they heard Jason's words, their faces became very ugly, because

They could hear that Jason was obviously not on their side, but they could also hear that Jason was not on the Duke of Buckingham's side.

To ordinary people, the Duke of Buckingham is the first duke of the Kingdom of England and is one with the Kingdom of England. However, to the top brass of the Kingdom of England, the Duke of Buckingham and the Kingdom of England are completely two entities.

Although the Buckinghamshire and Buckingham Sea area where the Duke of Buckingham is located is nominally the land of the Kingdom of England, in fact it is completely the private land of the Duke of Buckingham. Neither judicial nor taxation is managed by the Kingdom of England.

There is even an independent army formed here, but this army bears the name of the Third Army of the Kingdom of England.

For a long time, the Parliament of the Kingdom of England has tried its best to return the power of Buckinghamshire to the kingdom. Unfortunately, the Duke of Buckingham's background is so deep that even the power of the entire Kingdom of England may not be able to shake it.

Unless the Kingdom of England is willing to engage in a devastating civil war in the territory of the Duke of Buckingham, the Kingdom of England can only allow the territory of the Duke of Buckingham to be in this state of full autonomy.

Although the Parliamentary Government of the Kingdom of England could not deal with the Duke of Buckingham in Buckinghamshire, they were able to restrict the Duke of Buckingham from developing power within the Kingdom of England, and it was quite effective. At least some of the people the Duke of Buckingham cultivated within the Kingdom of England were quite effective.

All the forces were secretly removed.

But this is limited to those forces secretly cultivated by the Duke of Buckingham who do not want to be known. When the Duke of Buckingham makes some business investments openly and intrudes into the power circle of the Kingdom of England from a commercial perspective, the parliamentary government is somewhat powerless.

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For example, when the Duke of Buckingham purchased the Dockyard, some people in the municipal government who were leaning toward Congress were originally prepared to block the transaction, but in the end they did not take any action, leaving the Duke of Buckingham far ahead of others.

The terminal was bought at a high price, once again strengthening its influence on the Port of Sète.

However, it was obvious that those people did not want to just watch the Duke of Buckingham successfully take over the dock. When they heard that some strange things were happening in the warehouse that was integrated with the dock, they immediately mobilized the Special Bureau and used the abnormal incident as an excuse to blockade the dock.

Even if the dock warehouse cannot be permanently blocked, it can still delay the Duke of Buckingham's taking over the dock. This period of time can allow the parliamentary authorities to find out the true purpose of the Duke of Buckingham's purchase of the dock and factory and prepare countermeasures.

However, just like within the municipal government, not everyone is on the side of the Congressional government. There are also people on the side of the Duke of Buckingham, which is why they block the news sent to Jason and let Jason, this important dock,

The person in charge did not receive any information in advance.

At this time, the person in charge sent by the Duke of Buckingham also frowned. Although he expected to encounter obstacles before coming here, he did not expect that the people who hindered him were people from the Special Bureau, and the dock warehouse he bought

There was actually an item in it that triggered a situation, which was somewhat beyond his ability.

Although there was no solution for the time being, he still wanted to safeguard the power of Duke Buckingham, so he said: "The warehouse has been bought by the Duke, and everything belongs to the Duke..."

"Wait, you seem to be mistaken!" Jason suddenly interrupted the other party and said: "If I remember correctly, the Duke of Buckingham only bought the dock and warehouse, and did not include the goods in the warehouse and the dock.

Tools," he said, turning to the crowd and shouting: "Lame, when the contract was signed that day, you were one of the witnesses. Did the contract mention the goods in the warehouse?"

"Head, no." An old man with some lame legs walked out of the crowd carrying a briefcase. As he walked, he took out a document from the briefcase, handed it to Jason, and said, "This is a copy of the stub of the contract that day.

, the transaction content written above only involves the warehouse and dock, and does not involve the goods inside."

Jason took the document and flipped through it casually without looking at it carefully. He handed it to the Duke of Buckingham and said, "You should take a look at it for yourselves!"

The middle-aged man did not accept the document because they knew the contents of the contract better than Jason, and the so-called ownership of the goods was just an excuse.

The middle-aged man said coldly: "Even if they don't belong to the Duke, those things still belong to Earl Ed. Did your Special Bureau seal the warehouse with the Earl's permission?"

The people from the Special Bureau also argued: "Although we did not get the consent of the Earl, Congress gave us the power of the Special Bureau to block any..."

The middle-aged man interrupted the Special Bureau and said: "Congress has indeed given you the power to block abnormal items, but don't forget that your power is only limited to ordinary people. You cannot block any noble property at will."

"You..." The people from the Special Bureau were still ready to argue.

"Okay!" Jason interrupted the two parties who were about to get into an argument again, then looked at them and said, "I don't care how you deal with the things in there, I just hope that the things in there are taken away as soon as possible.

Let's go, so my people can clean out the goods inside." After saying that, he thought for a moment and said, "Let's do this! Both of you send people in to find out what the item is that caused this incident, and then take it out.

Whoever takes it out is allowed to keep it."

"How is this possible?" Both parties were dissatisfied with Leo's crude and simple solution.

"That's it, I'm the person in charge here and I have the final say." Jason yelled at both parties angrily, then looked at both parties with contempt and said, "If you can't even get anything out,

It means you are not qualified, so why are you arguing so much!"

After saying that, he motioned to the watching subordinates to open the warehouse door, and then walked aside, apparently waiting for both parties to decide who to send into the warehouse.

"The three of us came together, so naturally we will go in together." The people from the Special Bureau demanded, seeing that Jason had made a decision and would not change it.

"We are the same." The Duke of Buckingham immediately made the same request.
Chapter completed!