For the first time in a while, I activated the Diplomat Scouter.
[Available justifications]
[Main River, price surge, hoarding, port, influential families, overland route, Feuzen, monopoly, spoils of war, Belorus family]
[Wenzenberg of Strasbourg, by supplying the gunpowder the Grand Duke's army lacks, aims to secure a monopoly on military supplies and spoils of war.]
[F-Rank Negotiator (Persuasion 20%) applied]
So a monopoly on military supplies and spoils of war was the crux?
The kind of goal only a merchant would think up.
"The price of gunpowder and transport costs have gone up, you say? Didn't you come up the [Main River]?"
"I don't have the nerve to sail a boat through Duchy of Beren territory in the thick of a civil war."
With the Manager Scouter, I detected Wenzenberg's lie. Given that port and influential families were among the justifications, what I could surmise was that his use of the port had been blocked against his will.
