Chapter 3382 Taking advantage of the situation
There were not many people from the city guard, probably a small team of close to 300 people. The total number of city guards in this imperial city is 4,500, and they are responsible for the outer city. There are also 3,000 royal guards in the inner city, which are the permanent troops in the imperial city.
And of course there are troops outside the city who can be mobilized at any time.
In comparison, these 300 people are indeed not many, but not many.
The leader of this team is the Duman whom Coxsacki sent to inform him before. He is one of the captains of the city guard and is considered the number one figure in the Imperial City. There are only about ten captains like him in total. He is a captain with real power and has three hundred people under his command.
Being able to take charge of the guards in the imperial city clearly shows that Duman's status is not ordinary. He actually went to the battlefield and then retired with meritorious service.
Faced with the situation in front of him, Duman did not directly step forward to say hello to Lucy Kossage and others. He directly asked his men to block both ends of the street and set up formations. He doesn't know what these businessmen are doing now, but if you think these few hundred soldiers can do anything in the imperial city, then you are looking down on him.
Even if the caravan guards all wear decent armor, after all, they have money and can match the equipment. But when it comes to fighting, the combat effectiveness of this group of people is completely incomparable to that of the regular army. There is a huge gap between heaven and earth.
Although Duman only brought 300 people, the number was still less than the two sides on the opposite side combined. But when it comes to a real fight, Duman is very confident that he can defeat all of them without even injuring a few of them himself.
He is now blocked at both ends, and there is no way for him to make waves on the other side.
He is not blindly confident. In fact, the two ends of the blockade have just been blocked. The caravan guards who were surrounded inside have already begun to panic when facing this majestic guard team. Many guards even saw his legs trembling. With these soldiers, do you still expect them to achieve anything?
Duman understands very well that if the opponent is like this, it will collapse immediately after a fight, which is their unilateral harvest.
After doing this, Duman stepped forward with confidence, because the situation was under control and would not get more serious no matter what.
"Korsacki, what are you doing?" Duman's tone was very unkind, and he was also annoyed by this matter. Although Coxsackie was usually very respectful to him, the problem was that he looked down on these businessmen from the bottom of his heart.
Duman felt that the money he received was at best to prevent his subordinates from causing trouble to Coxsackie, that's all. But now Coxsackie doesn't know what trouble he got into, and he actually wants to find a way to settle it himself. Who gave him the courage?
But this matter was indeed within the scope of his responsibilities, so he brought people here. However, he had no intention of supporting Coxsackie, and even felt that this guy had to hammer and knock, otherwise he would be disgusted sooner or later if he climbed up the pole.
"Sir, I don't know what happened. You also saw that this is my home. The Qiwan Chamber of Commerce across the street led so many people to surround my home. I also want to know what they want to do." Coxsacki was very Said innocently.
In fact, Duman knew who was on the other side. The person who sent the letter before also said that he was from the Qiwan Chamber of Commerce, so he came with 300 people. Otherwise, if it were someone else, such as spies from other countries, or a killer guild, he would definitely notify the other captains to come with them, and he couldn't just bring these people with him.
But he couldn't reveal his private connection with Coxsackie, otherwise he would be attacked. Fortunately, Coxsack stepped forward and knew how to answer, so he immediately explained the situation.
"Qiwan Chamber of Commerce?" Duman looked to the other side, "Where is the president of Qiwan Chamber of Commerce? By the way, the previous one seems to be dead, right? Who is the president now? Come out and answer." Duman knew that Fidelman had been Regarding the poisoning, because the city guard was also helping to investigate the matter, wasn't this also a murder that occurred within his jurisdiction. However, he didn't pay too much attention. He was not responsible for investigating the case, he was just assisting. As for who has passed the chairmanship of the Qiwan Chamber of Commerce, of course he didn't know.
"My concubine, Lucy Fidelman, is currently the president of the Qiwan Chamber of Commerce." Lucy here took a step forward, which surprised Duman. He didn't expect that the president of the Qiwan Chamber of Commerce was a woman.
"Oh, you are very brave, you dare to cause trouble in my jurisdiction." But Duman quickly came to his senses and said fiercely, "You better give me a perfect explanation, otherwise, I won't I will be polite to you because you are a woman. Our prison cells do not recognize men and women.”
"My lord, I'm here for official business." Lucy said calmly without showing any timid expression.
"Official business? You are a businessman, how can you get such official business?" Duman laughed directly, "What's the matter? Did your Majesty send you an imperial edict?"
"There is no imperial edict, but the prime minister just gave me a letter of appointment." Lucy said, taking a few steps forward, and then holding out a scroll with both hands.
Duman was stunned for a moment, and the other party actually answered the casual sentence. He frowned and suddenly realized that things were not as simple as he thought.
Stepping forward to take the thing from the other party's hand, Duman saw that it was really an official document, and the content was very simple, which was to appoint Lucy as the vice president of the Royal Chamber of Commerce. There is actually a lot of content in the official document, but that's what it says over and over again, and the rest of it doesn't reveal much information at all.
As mentioned before, the vice president of the Royal Chamber of Commerce is not an official position, so the appointment actually did not go through Linton's hands at all. Prime Minister Tyrard just needs to approve it. This is just an ordinary official document.
But Tyrad just casually dealt with them, and the people below didn't dare to deal with them casually.
Duman sweated as he looked at the appointment letter.
On the one hand, this official document is indeed stamped with the seal of the Prime Minister's Office in the end. This is of course true. Who in the imperial city dares to secretly create a fake prime minister's seal? Your whole family won't want it, right?
And the second point, and the more important point is, what is the name of the chamber of commerce to which Lucy was appointed? Royal Chamber of Commerce.
Duman didn't know anything about the Royal Chamber of Commerce and had never heard of it, but something with the word "royal" in it was destined to be complicated.
Duman didn't know how valuable the vice president of the Royal Chamber of Commerce was, but he didn't dare to care about it now. Of course he wasn't afraid of the Lucy in front of him. He was afraid of ruining the Prime Minister's affairs, and even more afraid of ruining His Majesty's affairs.
"Then the business you're talking about is..." Duman's attitude changed obviously this time, and he couldn't stand up anymore.
"I brought people here this time mainly because I suspected that President Coxsacki was using illegal means to interfere with the affairs of our Royal Chamber of Commerce. I wanted to ask him to go back and inquire about the situation, but your Excellency also saw that this guy was still Prepare to resist. Since you are here, please do me a favor so that I can complete my mission as soon as possible and deal with the Prime Minister." Lucy said with a smile.