"If you say so, then I am relieved." The slave trader was also a person with a quick mind and naturally understood that Marianne wanted to make an example of those slaves in front of them.
"If you want to fill the vacancy of dead slaves in the future, please patronize my business again." The slave trader knew that it would be difficult for Marianne, who was about to return to her home country, to visit the slave market in Segaunt in person again, but he was convinced that the picky and rich princess of the Grand Duchy of Norsca would never look at the defective products from the remote areas again after she had bought the finest goods from him.
"I will recommend you to the noblewomen of the Grand Duchy of Norsca if I have the chance." Marianne was rich, but she wouldn't turn down an offer at her fingertips.
And the smile on the slaver's lips couldn't help but deepen a few more points after hearing this, "If you can introduce me to the clients of the Grand Duchy of Norsca, then no amount of words can express my gratitude to you."
"Words are not enough, after all, hearing too many good words can make people feel uncomfortable." Marianne opened her ornate folding fan and gestured for the slaver to come closer to her ear, "I prefer tangible favors."
The slave trader met a pair of smiling eyes and immediately smelled the strings and knew the meaning, "You can look forward to my future performance ...... with sincerity."
Talking to someone who can do things is just so pleasant.
Unfortunately for Marianne, her good mood didn't last long before it was ruined by an uninteresting person.
The Norsca Grand Duchy is a small country, bordered by Odin, Obstar, Solins, and the Dark Forest, and is also situated in Alexandra Harbor and Victoria Harbor, which can be said to be an advantage in terms of geography, and at the same time, it also brings unimaginable wealth and social status to the Norsca family.
At the time of Marianne's and Lucius's great-grandfather's generation, the Grand Duke of Norsca was still a nominal bannerman of Canterlot, and therefore could not be called "Grand Duke". However, when Marianne's maternal great-grandfather became the Grand Duke of Norsca, this Grand Duke, who made a fortune from tolls and tolls, took advantage of the war between Canterlot and Obstar to make the Pope and the King of Canterlot recognize the independence of the Grand Duchy of Norsca through monetary diplomacy, and then took the opportunity to make a fortune in arms and bought the two countries that were at war. The Pope and the King of Canterlot recognized the independence of the Grand Duchy of Norsca through monetary diplomacy.
Marianne's maternal great-grandfather made one of the best deals of all time.
It's just a shame that the Grand Duchy of Norsca doesn't have enough military power to support its absolute neutrality in an environment where it's approached by multiple countries, which is why Marianne's maternal grandmother wants to cuddle up with the Duchy of Bretonia, which is attempting to break away from the Solins, and Marianne's mother wants all of her children to enter into marriages that are beneficial to the country.
It's just a shame that things didn't work out the way they were supposed to.
At least when it came to Marianne's marriage, the Grand Duchess of Norsca realized what it meant to have a bad fate. However, she didn't worry that Marianne would be devastated, after all, if her daughter didn't have this kind of mental quality, this female Grand Duke of Norsca would have already married her daughter to the second son of a nobleman who was willing to join the family after Marianne's first marriage failed.
However, this is not an optimal choice for the female Grand Duke of Norsca.
"Have Marianne and Lucius already entered the country?" In the palace garden of the fairyland-like Grand Duchy of Norsca, the female Grand Duke who was nearly forty years old looked much younger than her peers because of her good maintenance. Even because of being in a high position, this female Grand Duke of Norsca has more majesty and confidence than the average noble lady, just like the secret silver treasure that has been precipitated over the years, with a few points that are hard to ignore, but not too eye-catching elegance.
"Counting the days, the princess should have returned." The maid serving this female Grand Duke was pouring slightly darker colored black tea into the clear glass.
The female Grand Duke of the Grand Duchy of Norsca watched the translucent mist rising from the reddish amber color, and her voice rarely showed a little bit of helplessness: "These two children of mine, one of them has ambition but no brains, and the other one has brains but no ambition. If Henry could have Marianne's scheming, I wouldn't have a headache just looking at him."
"Perhaps His Highness Henry will curb his temper once he is married." The head waiter consoled, "Whether it's a man or a woman, they all become reliable after marriage."
"Don't say such comforting words." This female Grand Duke of the Grand Duchy of Norsca interrupted the Head Servant's words, her originally helpless tone becoming cold, "Reliable people have always been reliable, while unreliable people won't become reliable even if they have married and have a family. Besides, I don't have the time to wait for Henry to cultivate a relationship with Solins' sidekick princess, I only care if the relationship between Grand Duchy of Norsca and Solins can be eased, and I don't want to listen to the complaints of the bears."
"But ...... no one expected Solins' sidekick princess to go so wrong when she first arrived." The head maid could understand why Prince Henry was furious once she remembered the embarrassing scene from a few months ago.
After all, his fiancée had actually mistaken his half-brother for himself in public.
Not to mention the already arrogant Prince Henry, any noble man with a temper would not swallow this humiliation.
However, the Princess of Solins' side branch is not an object that Prince Henry can be angry at, not to mention that this marriage is also set by the female Grand Duke of Norsca and Richard of Solins, so Prince Henry, in his anger, in addition to cold-shouldering his new wife, is a brain to find Lucius' trouble.
As for Lucius, he could neither resist Prince Henry's torment, nor could he complain about it to this female Grand Duke of the Grand Duchy of Norsca. Aside from using the mission to avoid a head-on conflict with Prince Henry, Lucius couldn't find any other way to deal with it.
"It's good that Marianne is about to return." This female Grand Duke of the Grand Duchy of Norsca was thankful that her youngest daughter was a normal person. It's just a shame that Marianne's inheritance comes second to Prince Henry's and is an easy target for ambitious men to pursue.
The female Grand Duke of Norsca drank half a cup of black tea, her eyes shifted from side to side as she spoke, and then she said, "While I'm alive, it's fine, but once I'm dead, Henry will absolutely trample Marianne to death, and letting Lucius ally with Marianne is a way out for them. I think Lucius also don't want to suffer from Henry's harboring, after all, he is ......"
The lady-in-waiting noticed that this female Grand Duke of the Grand Duchy of Norsca's expression froze for a moment, and could only hurriedly lower her head, allowing time to wash away the feelings of embarrassment that gradually froze in the air.
It was only when the messenger officer came to inform Marianne that she had arrived at the palace that the female Grand Duke of Norsca left the garden with a softened face and asked the head maid to invite Marianne to her study.
Unfortunately, before the head waiter approached Marianne, Prince Henry couldn't wait to see Marianne's devastated face after her withdrawal from the marriage, so he had a violent conflict with Marianne in the section of the corridor where he entered the door.