Chapter 320 6.68 White Cloud Night
The Kingdom of Mercia, one of the seven kingdoms of England, has six provinces within its borders.
Among them, the most special province is the "Cloud Province" close to the "Salt County".
This province has many unique features.
First of all, it is the only province in the Kingdom of Mercia that does not produce grain.
Unlike the Mercian people who desperately use the fertile land to grow grain and sell it for money, the Cloud Province is surrounded by fog all year round. The unique climate makes this place rich in a kind of white rose.
This "white" is different from any color in nature.
Rice will have a hint of spring water.
White clouds will have some blue of the sky.
And wheat flour will have some golden color belonging to the land.
However, the rose "White Cloud Night" produced in the Cloud Province is so pure white that people can't bear to touch it.
The thick fog that almost permanently surrounds this place and the unique valley climate make the unique flower "White Cloud Night" only survive in a valley with a width of 200 meters here in the world.
This valley is located in the "Cloud Province".
"White Cloud Night" is a necessity for the French royal family "Plantage Family".
Plantagenet is the family emblem of this family.
The demand for bouquets in the Grand Palais in Paris is huge. The French national flower "Plantagenet" is placed in the center, and naturally some pure white bouquets are needed on both sides to serve as the "background".
The "White Cloud Night" that is so white that it is almost fragile naturally becomes a beautiful green leaf.
Every spring, the Plantagenet family will send nearly a hundred MOA knights to deliver bouquets. The roses just cut from the branches in the early morning will appear in the halls of the "Paris Grand Palais" before sunrise after 2 hours of non-stop high-speed flight.
Therefore, "Cloud Province" is also one of the most special provinces in the Kingdom of Mercia.
The most valuable land in Cloud Province is the "White Cloud Valley" with an area of only 2 square kilometers. However, in order to prevent this land from being "polluted", the French businessman "White Eagle" Andre Jarvan spent a huge amount of money to rent the entire province!
The two thousand hectares of land outside the "White Cloud Valley" only grow one crop - black beans.
Because the French believe that black beans can absorb all the colors around them, making the "White Cloud Night" in the White Cloud Valley whiter.
Therefore, the "Yun Province" is nominally the territory of the Kingdom of Mercia, but the actual control of this province has always been in the hands of the French.
It is precisely because of the connection between Yun Province and France that Ulysses Elan can bypass Wessex and do business directly with France on the sea.
Both sides get what they need, and they have been at peace for decades.
The mountain king who controls Yun Province is the French businessman "Andre Jarvan". His nickname is called "White Eagle", on the one hand because his hair was all gray when he was young.
On the other hand, because in the business world, he is as fierce as an eagle.
Negotiate a monopoly business exclusively for royal flowers, and forcibly "lease" a province from the hands of the King of Mercia. To accomplish these two things, strength, connections, negotiation skills and a lot of capital are indispensable.
But Andre still completed this seemingly impossible task.
He had hardly encountered any major setbacks in his life.
Except for these few days.
He was driven out of his castle by a group of mysterious guests.
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"President, I have never seen such a shameless person!"
"Walked into my castle openly, drove away all my gardeners and servants, and even pretended to occupy my private territory for a long time!
Sir!
Is there any law in this world?"
The person Andre roared with indignation was extremely noble. This blond middleman, wearing a loose long gown and holding an emerald green cane in his hand, was the president of the "French Merchants' Association". This time he set off from Paris and came to Yun Province on a MOA just to appease Andre beside him.
Andre is a successful businessman.
But even so, with his wealth, the "Illuminati" simply disdained him.
The secret of their existence is only circulated among the top dignitaries at the top of the pyramid.
"Diamond Flower" Durand, the president of the French Merchants' Union, is one of them.
Durand was surprised by the "cautious actions" of the Illuminati this time. As an outside member of this secret society, he did not know much about the rumors of this mysterious guild.
However, among the limited rumors, all he heard were the big moves of the 12 masters about hunting foreign gods, enslaving monsters, or subverting the national regime.
This time, in the matter of requisitioning "Yun Province", they only drove Andre away, but did not kill all the residents in the province.
This is not their usual style of doing things.
France is the "trade capital" of the Western Continent and the most important commercial center of the entire Western Continent. All goods from the Eastern Tang Dynasty, the Arab Empire, and the Byzantine Empire all the way to the west eventually need to come to Paris, and from the city of Paris, they are distributed to Visigoths, England, Lombardy, and other remote areas.
Durand is familiar with two-thirds of the large chambers of commerce and business elites in the entire Western Continent. Therefore, he would naturally hear many secrets that others had never heard of during tea parties.
Not to mention a small businessman like Andre, who was the size of a fingertip, even the head of state could be killed at will by the Illuminati. They controlled the entire planet in the dark, and mortals were ants in their eyes.
What happened that made these guys not even dare to fight for territory in an open and aboveboard manner?
And why do they want to save the life of this noisy small businessman?