Confidential Intelligence from the Commercial Alliance

The study door was knocked on. Jenorio pushed it open, carrying a thick document bag. "Your Highness, this is confidential intelligence from the Commercial Alliance, sent by Lord Tagel."

Confidential intelligence differed from urgent reports. In the Norton Family's intelligence classification system, urgent reports generally concerned matters directly affecting the family's interests. They were sent by messenger hawks and described the event and its course in the most concise wording possible. Confidential intelligence was different. It concerned major events that affected a region but had nothing to do with the Norton Family and merely deserved attention. Generally, the entire course of the event was compiled, investigated, and confirmed before the report, evidence, and other documents were packed up and sent back to the family's territory by a specially assigned courier. The Queen's affair that year should technically have been classified as confidential intelligence, but because of Lorist's gossip-loving nature, it had been sent as an urgent report by messenger hawk so the latest developments could be conveyed in time...

Fatty Shi stopped as well and asked curiously, "What major event happened this time?"

Jenorio opened the folder and skimmed it before reporting, "Your Highness, a rebellion broke out in the Commercial Alliance on September 15. Grand Duke Comberlet mobilized the Two-Headed Dragon Merchant Guild's legion and carried out a bloody and brutal purge and suppression. More than twenty merchant guilds were caught up in the rebellion, and seventeen were destroyed. It was said that the rebellion was initiated by Marquis Krilos, vice president of the Two-Headed Dragon Merchant Guild. He contacted a large number of merchant nobles dissatisfied with Grand Duke Comberlet and intended to overthrow his rule and replace him, but unfortunately, they failed.

"After the rebellion was suppressed, Marquis Krilos disappeared. Grand Duke Comberlet declared him a traitor