Ilea unfolded the parchment and scanned the contents from top to bottom, with a look of surprise on her face.
She knew that although Li Yu had been learning mainland lingua franca in private, he could now speak some common words in a fluent manner.
But it was limited to listening and speaking, and it was still difficult to read words, so she approached Li Yu's ear and told Li Yu what was recorded on the parchment.
"The Emmanuel family has decided to give us the duty-free trade rights of Black Rock City. To put it simply, from now on, the Arias family and Shuangxiujiao will no longer have to pay taxes on all transactions in Black Rock City.
"This way we can save a lot of money over the year. The Emmanuel family is really generous this time."
More than being generous, the Emmanuel family has simply suffered a huge loss.
Of course, Li Yu could understand why the other party would do this, because as we all know, the Arias family has made money by selling radishes for thousands of years, and apart from that, there are almost no other specialties in the territory.
And carrots have always been called common people's food. The nobles don't consume much, or the consumption is not large, so they can't be sold at a high price. Of course, they can't expect to collect much tax.
The Emmanuel family is very wealthy and looks down upon these three melons and two jujubes, so they let it go. As for the pepper that the female lord helped Shuangxiu teach on behalf of, even if the Emmanuel family wanted to take it, Miss Rabbit couldn't.
Paying taxes is impossible in this life.
Peppers are not like radishes. When the harvest is good, they are hauled out by several carts. With just two small packages, you can easily carry them into the city.
As long as there is a way, private transactions are like face-to-face interactions, highlighting the fact that one is unaware of the situation.
Moreover, tax evasion is not exclusive to Ilea. It is very common in Black Rock City, and the Emmanuel family has no good solution (if the control is too strict, the businessmen will go to other places to do business)
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Therefore this part of the income can be ignored.
After talking about selling, let’s talk about buying.
With the success of slaying the dragon, Ilea's reputation skyrocketed. In less than a month, everyone in the Western Territory knew her.
And as soon as this person becomes famous, it is inevitable that he will be sectioned and put under a microscope.
Of course there is a good side to it, but of course there is also a bad side, especially no matter which plane it is in, black information always spreads faster.
For example, Miss Rabbit's stinginess is now known to more and more nobles. In addition to the fight with the evil dragon, Ilea gritted her teeth and made a wave of blood. Normally, the female lord herself is more like an evil dragon.
dragon.
She lay on top of her treasures and took a nap, and she would breathe fire and burn anyone who came in and tried to steal her money.
Theodosius probably was also not optimistic about his neighbor's spending power.
To sum up, the cost of giving duty-free trade rights to the Arias family is not high, but this gift is of extraordinary significance. It can build a better relationship between the two families than giving money directly. It is a small amount of money to pretend to be big.
As for the Shuangxiu Church, Theodosius probably didn't think much about it at all. He had also given similar privileges to the Silver Moon Church. The symbolic meaning was greater than the actual meaning, and it was regarded as a proof of friendship.
The church is for missionary work. As long as there are enough followers, you can raise as much money as you want. I have never heard of anyone going into business. Who in a serious church can do business? This is not doing their job properly.
If it had been half a month later, Theodosius probably wouldn't have thought so and would have preferred to pay the two of them one thousand, no, even ten thousand gold coins. In short, he would never have issued this duty-free trade order.
Unfortunately, there is no regret medicine in this world.
After hearing what Ilea said on the parchment, Li Yu was also a little surprised. He didn't expect the Emmanuel family to be so polite. Apart from anything else, all the raw materials that need to be put into production in the future can be purchased in Black Rock City, which can save money.
Next a lot of money.
In the later stage, Safuri can also be asked to open a semicolon or something here. Anyway, the Emmanuel family won't collect taxes when selling things.
But since Safuri is willing to leave Black Rock City and go to Green Field, Li Yu also plans to put the economic center in Green Field and try to help Miss Rabbit upgrade her castle to a town as soon as possible.
In the Western Region, the Silver Moon Church has been in a dominant position for a long time and is a dominant family. The nobles here are deeply influenced by them, especially the church's tradition of demilitarization, which has almost become an iron law and is imprinted on every noble.
in the bone marrow.
So much so that when Herodotus, who was born in the Silver Moon Church, wanted to break this iron law, he encountered unprecedented strong opposition. The nobles in the Western Region even spontaneously formed a coalition to help High Priest Martina crusade against the Greeks who had taken control of the Holy See.
Rododd.
It may be more difficult than imagined to get them to accept armed double-holiday education.
Ms. Rabbit, who is currently only chasing ducks, has accepted all the conditions for a double break with the absolute trust accumulated between her and Li Yu.
In this case, you might as well adjust your strategy and stop attacking everywhere, instead attracting as many people as possible to the green fields.
Of course, external publicity still needs to be done, especially when the Silver Moon Church is weak, Li Yu has already thought of a way.
Li Yu was still thinking about his next plan, and Harman suddenly said, "Excuse me, can we take a look at that piece of parchment?"
"Can."
The duty-free trade order was not something that needed to be hidden, so Miss Rabbit handed it over generously.
After taking it, Harman thanked him, read it from beginning to end, and then read it carefully no less than two or three times before passing the parchment to Ilkand next to him.
Ilkand read it very quickly, and only glanced at it a few times before passing it to Rafael.
Rafael also read very slowly, reading each word for a long time, so that Miss Rabbit even wondered whether the three brothers had bad eyesight.
"It's my father's handwriting." Rafael said after returning the duty-free trade order to the female lord.
"I think so too, and the ink is very new. If nothing else, it should have been written today," Halman said.
Ilkand didn't say anything, but with his temper, if he had really seen something wrong, he would have started shouting by now.
The housekeeper waited quietly for the three of them to check the authenticity of the duty-free trade order without stopping them.
Until Halman asked again, "We have received several orders from father in the past few months. Since father can always write letters, why doesn't he want to see us?"
"Lord Theodosius has his own considerations."
The housekeeper's general answer obviously did not satisfy the three brothers, but this time she did not pretend to be pretentious like before, and continued after a pause.
"Lord Theodosius suspected that someone within the family had betrayed him."
This chapter has been completed!