Chapter 340 Bait

There are no secrets in aristocratic circles.

After all, the assassination of the noble negotiation team could not be dealt with. However, due to the efforts of Ronald and other new nobles, this matter only spread quietly among the noble circles of Shanxi City and did not spread widely.

As for Simpson and others, although they cannot blatantly sabotage the negotiations, they will definitely report this matter to the capital. Of course, according to their accounts, the most suspected murderer is the gray-coated army.

But these are all side details, the most important thing is the negotiating parties.

First of all, the originally planned one-day negotiation plan will definitely come to nothing. Although the secret agency gave up revenge, Peart's betrayal still shocked Josiah and the others. After getting Tang En's advice, Joshua simply made some adjustments to the organization.

The restructured secret agency completely followed the guidelines of the intelligence department, and its skeleton was the ten people Tang En had trained before. According to Tang En's plan, the future organization will be more hidden and more professional than before, whether in external locations or internal communications. Of course, power must also be more centralized!

However, although it is a partial adjustment, the scale of the secret agency is already quite large, so naturally the effects cannot be seen immediately. But as long as there is a direction, with Josiah's ability, there is no big problem in running an efficient and professional organization.

At the same time, Ronald's new aristocratic group is also troubled by many trivial matters. After all, the nobles died, and they all came together. Although this matter has been suppressed for the time being, the undercurrent surging within cannot be underestimated. If it is not handled well, it will be a fuse that can ignite at a moment's notice. Moreover, they also have to deal with the endless accusations from the traditional nobles, which is even more headache-inducing.

However, despite this, the contact between Josiah and the new nobles has not been cut off in the past two days. After Philip passed the mediation, the two parties once again established initial trust.

But just on the third day after this incident, the hotel where the noble negotiating team stayed was assassinated again!

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In the morning, at the secret agency contact point, Phillip, who had hurriedly arrived, gathered in the meeting room with Josiah, Tang En and others.

Because of the shocking news brought by Philip, the room went through a lot of chaos. After the discussion paused, Tang En frowned and asked, "How many people died this time?"

"Three." Philip shook his head with an unlucky look. "This time they are all from our new nobles' side. Two are the administrative deputies for this negotiation, and one is a nobleman. Alas, that nobleman lives opposite my room. You said good night to me before going to bed."

"Have the people from the police department arrived? Did you find anything?" Now Tang En already knew that Powers had begun to notice this matter. As the so-called profession has specialization, naturally the matter of solving crimes and arresting people depends on these professionals.

"I came early in the morning, but what can I find?" Philip smiled bitterly and spread his hands, "It's still the same simple and neat method, just cutting off the head while he was sleeping without any struggle, naturally he wouldn't Leave a clue."

Tang En nodded silently and then fell into deep thought.

"Hmph, a good death, a very happy death..."

"Diff!" Joshua glared at the murmuring Diff, and then apologized and bowed his head to Phillip.

Shrugging, Phillip didn't care. Of course, this is the guy who doesn't care about the new nobles at all. If Ronald and the others were sitting here and heard what Dave said, at least a chaos would be inevitable.

"It seems that the negotiations can no longer proceed again." Joshua frowned and shook his head slightly, asking, "What are you going to do now?"

Philip honestly spread his hands: "I don't know. When I first came out, the hotel was noisy. Some people said they wanted to change places, and some said they wanted to go back... Alas, in fact, after the last assassination, layers of security had been deployed inside the hotel. We are on alert, but now we are still easily succeeded by the other party, and now everyone is worried that they will become the next target.”

This result is inevitable. In this case, not to mention the nobles who cherish their lives, even others would not be able to avoid it.

Tang En, who was silent, suddenly said: "Do you new nobles have anything important about this negotiation?"

"Important thing?" Philip was stunned and scratched his head, "There seems to be such a thing... Oh, by the way, Sir Ronald has a seal. Well, it is more important."

"Oh." Tang En nodded thoughtfully and then stopped talking.

Josiah on the side was stunned, because she saw Tang En wink at her covertly, and then looked at Enoch, Diff and others, and lowered his eyes. After thinking for a moment, Joshua understood, returned to his normal expression, continued chatting with Phillip for a while, and soon got up to see him out. Of course, as a friend of Philip, Tang En naturally got up to see him off.

When approaching the gate of the contact point, Philip consciously picked up a piece of black cloth to cover his eyes and walked into the closed carriage.

Tang En didn't say anything, he just waved and took the driver's place. Although Joshua on the side didn't understand, he still sat with Tang En.

Tang En glanced at Josiah and did not refuse. He waved his riding crop to urge the horse forward. After driving for a few minutes, Tang En suddenly turned the carriage into a remote alleyway, stopped, and then got into the carriage with Joshua.

"It's so fast this time... Huh? This smell..." In the carriage, Phillip was sitting obediently on one side. He muttered to himself first, and then opened his mouth in shock, pointing his nose in the direction of where Joshua was sitting. After sniffing a few times, he quickly reached out and took down the black cloth in front of him.

"Tsk, tsk, you have a pretty good nose." After first looking at Josiah, who was blushing, Tang En turned his head and smacked his lips, his face full of contempt and admiration.

"Haha, it's okay, it's okay." Phillip put down the black cloth in embarrassment, and then as if he thought of something, he suddenly shrank back, with a look of horror on his face, "I guess, Tang, you don't really want to kidnap me. Well, I’m really not a prince.”

"Uh, haha..." When Joshua saw this, he was stunned for a moment, and then couldn't help but cover his mouth and chuckle.

The corner of his mouth twitched, and Tang En said expressionlessly: "Don't worry, even if you are the prince, I will not kidnap you..."

"That's good, that's good..."

"I'm mainly worried that your father will exterminate the family out of righteousness!"

"..."

"Okay, no kidding." Tang En waved his hand and looked serious, "That seal really plays an important role in the negotiation? Oh, if it's difficult, you don't need to go into details."

"Actually, it's not that..." After a pause, Phillip rolled his eyes, straightened his body suddenly, and waved his arms grandly, "Look what you said, so what if the seal has an important role? I don't care about you. Face, can we not give Joshua face?”

"Tell me the important point!" Tang En strengthened his tone and continued to remain expressionless.

"You know, I know he will be guarded..." murmuring in a low voice, Philip glanced at Tang En angrily, then leaned against the car wall, and said listlessly, "Remember what I said to him earlier? Are you talking about it? On the surface, this negotiation is a battle between the new nobility and the traditional nobility, but in fact, what it really involves is the struggle for imperial power between the two highnesses of the Bran Empire. Ronald and the others were just pushed out to perform tasks. , if the negotiation really has a result, he will pass the result back to the capital and let His Highness make a decision. Of course, the letter passed must have the personal seal of His Highness."

"So, the seal in Sir Ronald's hand is the second prince's personal seal?" Josiah concluded.

Phillip nodded: "Not bad!"

Tang En pinched his chin: "It seems to be really important... Do the Simpsons know about this?"

"I should be able to guess it, but I may not know about the seal." Phillip gave his answer after thinking about it.

"This is the effect we want!" Tang En smiled while stroking his hands, and then said to Phillip, "I need you to get the seal, well, it's best to do it in public."

"Uh, why?"

Tang En narrowed his eyes: "Because I think the so-called murderer is around you, or someone who knows you very well, and his purpose should be to sabotage the negotiations."

Phillip looked stunned and asked in confusion: "Wait a minute, I believe you said that the other party is trying to sabotage the negotiations. After all, the people killed now are indeed members of the negotiating team. But why do you think he is with us?"

"It's very simple, because you're not dead." Tang En spread his hands and analyzed calmly, "Last night, the other party killed them at the door opposite you. Why didn't they just enter your room? Don't forget, they killed five people last time. , and only three were killed this time. I don’t believe that you are just lucky. The most likely thing is that the other party knows your identity. Tsk, didn’t you say that as long as the other party is not crazy, you won’t dare to kill you? ?Obviously, the other party is not crazy yet."

Snapped! Philip was stunned for a moment, then slammed his palm, "It makes sense! It makes sense... I guess, it seems that the problem still lies with those traditional nobles! They are so fucking crazy. In order to divert attention, they even killed one of their own people. Kill too.”

"I don't care if he is crazy or not, I just know that if the seal is with you, the other party will definitely come to you."

"What a great idea, lay a trap and wait for them to come... Uh, wait!" His excited expression paused for a moment, Phillip blinked a few times, pointed at himself, his expression changed drastically, "You, you, you, are you going to do this to me? bait?"

"Yeah, what's the problem?" Tang En spread his hands, with a sure look on his face, "I've thought about it, as long as your identity is really awesome enough, they will only make you faint at most, and they won't dare to kill you. .”

"Thank you and your whole family for me...I'll wipe it! Are you kidding me if you ask me to do something like this? No, absolutely not!" Phillip kept waving his hands and shrinking into the car. That posture was like breaking the car and running away.

"Don't worry, I will go with you. You only need to be responsible for sleeping, and leave other things to me."

"Uh, that's not okay either!"

"I knew it would be like this..." Twain shook his head speechlessly. He stood up and patted Josiah's shoulder with an expression of 'I'm relying on you'.

Joshua pursed his lips and chuckled, nodded easily, opened the car door and let Tang En out first.

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"Uh, why are you looking at me like that? I'm telling you, I like you if you like me, but when it comes to my life, the honey trap is of no use to me... Well, it's of no use at all!"

"..."

"Wow, your eyes are so beautiful, the stars in the sky are just like that... Ahem, what, can you stop looking at it, it makes me panic..."

"..."

"I'm a piece of shit, please stop looking..."

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…………(To be continued.)