"I have a question that has been bothering me for a long time. Only you can give me the answer to this question."
"Then I feel truly honored," Cyprian said with a triumphant smile on his face, "Excuse me, Lord Baron."
"Now that you know my identity, why are you still targeting my business?"
Cyprian·Wiley is indeed very powerful in Novigrad, even the city council can't help but look at his face.
But the problem is that we are not yet a capitalist society after all, but we are still in the feudal era.
If it is a capitalist society, then the capitalists can indeed overwhelm the aristocrats. After all, even the old England aristocrats in the home world do not live an enviable and luxurious life.
Some of the nobles are deeply in debt crisis for one reason or another.
On the other hand, the situation is different for capitalists. Chaebols, who also have hundreds of years of history, often have a much better life than the nobles, and can even secretly control the country.
But the feudal era was different.
In this backward era, the common people's fear and fear of the nobles are deeply ingrained in their bones and passed down from generation to generation along with their bloodline.
Whether they were merchants or landowners, they were still civilians in theory, and there was no difference in the eyes of the nobles from the workers outside the manor who were moving goods at the docks or working in the workshops.
It's not impossible to say that there are cases where common people are driven to kill nobles, or things like hunting fallen warriors.
It's just that someone like Cyprian, who is not barefoot and actively provokes nobles, is really too abnormal.
Cyprian stood up from the chair and gave an exaggerated salute.
"Please forgive me for my rudeness. I don't really want to embezzle your property, and I do all kinds of rude things, just to make a request."
Lynn frowned and said, "Request?"
"I want to meet you," Cyprian said with a smile, "The Baron is a big shot in Toussaint, and I am just the gang leader of Novigrad. Our statuses are one in the sky and one on the ground. If I didn't use some means, how could we have this conversation today?"
Lynn was silent.
Before, he thought that Cyprian acted because he was a local snake.
Now it seems that I still have other plans.
Cyprian Go on.
"Lord Baron, actually, I would like to discuss cooperation with you."
"Well, keep talking."
"I know that Lord Baron Toussaint's territory produces rose wine. Although it is not as well-known as Est Est, it is still Toussaint's famous wine. I hope to win the exclusive agency right. You only need to transport the rose wine to Novigrad. You don't have to worry about anything else. I will be responsible for the sales. We will split the money we earn in the future."
Perhaps feeling that what he said was ambiguous, Cyprian paused and added, "Of course, 70% is yours, I only want 30%."
Lynn crossed his arms in front of his chest. "I really don't know, Novigrad people use this method to make appointments with people to discuss business."
"It seems that Lord Baron is still angry, so be it." Cyprian clapped his hands.
"Bring it in."
The door opened, and two guards came in carrying a box and put it down in front of Lynn.
The box contained shiny gold krona coins.
"Lord Baron, regardless of whether our cooperation today is successful or not, this money will be regarded as compensation for you."
Lynn glanced at it and realized that if this box contained all krona, then this box could probably contain several thousand kronor gold coins.
A few thousand kronor, the bottom Novigrad ordinary people have probably never seen so much money in their lives.
"The reason why you want to meet me is just to sell wine?"
If Lynn is really just an ordinary baron of Toussaint, and the other party is not a gang leader, then it is not impossible to consider.
I only bear the transportation costs, and all expenses and troubles such as local sales channels, labor costs, store rents, and establishing good relationships with local officials are borne by the other party.
Therefore, the actual share that the other party can get is far less than 30%.
And you can get 70% without doing anything.
No matter how you look at it, you are guaranteed to make a profit.
But he is not only the baron of Toussaint, but Lynn also does not believe that Cyprian·Wiley is only willing to be a middleman who does not make money.
"Mr. Wiley, I'm afraid you have additional conditions that you haven't said yet."
"As expected of a baron, his intuition is very keen. In fact, it's not a big deal." Cyprian lay back on the chair. "I like to make friends. I just hope to take this opportunity to meet friends in the south."
"Friends from the South? You mean the Nilfgaard people?"
Lynn thought for a while, "In the past few decades, although Nilfgaard has continued to fight in the north and south and invaded many countries, Novigrad still doesn't need to worry about the clouds of war, right?"
"The Nilfgaard people must first cross Marnadal Valley, occupy Cintra, then cross Yaruga River, capture Temeria, and finally be able to face Novigrad across the river at the Pontar River."
"Do you think Nilfgaard people can do this?"
Lynn, who was familiar with the plot, certainly knew that Nilfgaard had done it, but he was surprised that Whoreson Junior didn't have the ability to predict the future, how could he have predicted it?
You know, even the king may not have much knowledge.
In the original plot, after the Nilfgaard people occupied the entire territory of Cintra, some kings in the north naively thought that the Nilfgaard people would stop south of the Yaruga River.
It wasn't until the Nilfgaard people attacked Sodden that the northern army united and defeated Nilfgaard in Battle of Sodden Hill at the cost of huge casualties.
Then I felt that Nilfgaard was nothing to worry about, and no longer regarded Nilfgaard people as a threat.
Even the king is like this, how can a mere gang leader have such far-reaching foresight?
"Lord Baron, you have misunderstood me greatly. I never thought that the northerners would eventually succumb to the iron heel of the southerners."
"I just heard that in Nilfgaard, even commoners have the opportunity to be promoted to the nobility. Old Wiley just doesn't want to be a commoner for the rest of his life."
Lynn suddenly realized.
This is a common thought.
Just like the Edo period of Japan, businessmen who were originally at the lowest social status of peasants, farmers, industrialists, and merchants, after mastering a large amount of wealth, not only accepted many samurai as their subordinates who did not know how to run bankrupt business ideas, but they even spent money to buy themselves the status of a samurai.
This is even more true in modern times. Once you have reached a certain level of wealth, buying a noble status is no longer a problem.
People are all like this.
Once the immediate goals are met, you will look forward to longer-term goals.
Although this era is still in the feudal era, it is just that the north cannot spend money to buy status...
Well, actually neither can the South.
But Nilfgaard can obtain noble status through other means.