Suldak sat on the terrace and looked at the magician in front of him with tortoiseshell glasses on his nose. He still had a fluffy beard on his lips and looked at this side with enthusiasm...
"As long as you are willing to temporarily join the cavalry battalion and become a full-time magic pharmacist, I will try my best to help you find magic herbs."
Suldak made a promise, but then said:
"The groups currently in control of the magic herb resources in Invercargill Forest are the indigenous tribes in the hills and mountains."
This is something everyone knows.
He continued:
"You also know how much damage this beast tide has done to the Invercargill Forest, and how many magic herbs can be found later. To be honest... it is difficult for me to make a guarantee, so I can only try my best to collect..."
The male magician with glasses nodded and said:
"Of course. I stayed in Duodan Town because I wanted to personally contact these indigenous tribes."
Unexpectedly, this man with glasses was very ceremonial. He stood up and solemnly extended his hand to Suldak and said:
"Hello, Commander Suldak, please call me Justin... please take good care of me in the future."
Suldak could only stand up from the chair on the terrace and shook hands with him.
"Hello, Justin."
Next, the bespectacled male magician named Justin began to introduce himself in great detail:
He is the junior magic pharmacist of the Magic Guild of Helensa City.
Since the magic herb quota of the Helensa Magic Union is very limited, if a magic pharmacist wants to learn professional skills, it is obviously difficult for a pharmacist who wants to learn magic potions urgently to rely solely on the quota issued by the union every month.
Too little.
Unable to find more magic herbs, magic potion science can only stay at the theoretical level. If he wants to continue studying magic herbs, Justin can only try to get out of the ivory tower of Helensa City and look for magic herbs outside.
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Originally, Justin wanted to try to get out of Helensa City, find a more reliable adventure group, and enter a plane rich in magic herb resources for jungle exploration.
Before he could make a choice, he saw his friend Lance running to him with some magic herbs and asking him to refine some healing potions.
So the glasses magician couldn't wait to ask for details. When he learned that these magic herbs came from the Bailin plane, and that the owner was a friend of Lance, Justin made a decision, that is, to go to the Bailin plane with Lance.
Turn around.
In fact, the Bailin plane is not a plane rich in magical herb resources.
When they arrived in Wilkes City, they registered with the local magic union and did some research in the magic market. As a result, they could not find any magic herbs at all in the magic market here.
Friends in Wilkes City heard that they were going to Dodan Town, and they only knew that it was the northernmost border town in the White Forest Plane, close to Invercargill Forest.
But the specific magic herbs there are unknown.
To say that there are no magic herbs in the World of Warcraft Forest...that is simply impossible, but the World of Warcraft Forest there is definitely not rich in magic herbs.
Justin came to Duodan Town with such an uneasy mood at that time.
When I arrived in Dodan Town, I discovered that, as my magician friend from Wilkes City said, there was no magic herb at all...
During the following period, some encounters changed Justin's view. It was not that there were no magic herbs in the Invercargill Forest, but that these resources were not in the hands of the imperial immigrants at all, but in the hands of the indigenous tribes.
Everyone talked about the magic awakening ceremony again.
For every magician, this ceremony is still fresh in their memory. It is a moment of rebirth in their life.
Galena is a young awakening ceremony examiner in Helensa City. Her cold personality is also a necessary condition for her to become an examiner.
She sat next to Lance, took out a piece of magic parchment from her arms, unfolded it and quickly wrote a line of text on it, then stamped the line of text, then rolled up the magic parchment and used
A mulberry leaf is tied tightly.
She pushed the scroll in front of Surdak and said to him:
"The Magic Guild in Wilkes City also has our classmates. If you want to go to Wilkes City, you can take our letter of recommendation to the Magic Guild over there and find a magician named Combilodi.
He came out of Helensa, so I think he should take some care of you."
It turns out that magicians also talk about relationships and relationships...
Surdak quickly put the scroll into his arms and thanked Galena: "Thank you so much."
Lance sneered, waved his hand and said:
"I think it's better to forget it, Galena... If you write, it might make things worse than if you don't write anything."
The way Galena frowned seemed to have a very unique charm.
"What do you mean?" Galena said angrily to Lance.
Lance lay lazily on the wicker chair and said nonchalantly: "Don't you know what that guy Combirodi thinks about you? Of course he will be unfaithful to you, but that doesn't mean he sees your feelings.
A letter of recommendation will help Suldak, but maybe it will be a disservice."
Galena raised her delicate eyebrows and asked Lance:
"Are you hinting...that I have suitors all over the Bena Province?"
Lance sat up lazily, put his arms around Suldak's broad shoulders and said, "I'm just worried about Suldak, but if I come forward as a recommender, that guy Combi won't make things difficult out of jealousy."
you."
"boring!"
Galena leaned back in her chair, looking at the white snow on the peak of the towering Thorny Mountains in the distance, and stopped talking.
…
As a large number of caravans, mercenary groups and adventure groups poured into Dodan Town, many businesses in the town exploded like a blowout.
Especially when many people come to Duodan Town for the first time, whether they are buying toasted wheat cakes in a bakery or eating sliced white bread in a restaurant, they have a surprising discovery, that is the price of scones and bread in Duodan Town.
Almost to the point of being outrageously low.
Many people try to buy flour at home and make some bread by themselves, but it is definitely not as cheap as the bread sold in bakeries.
These outsiders will initially suspect that maybe the bakery can buy cheap wheat flour, or maybe the owner of the bakery has added some other cheap things to the wheat flour, or maybe the bakery here is doing malicious promotions.
...undercutting other bakeries with price.
In fact, there is only such a bakery in Dodan town, and this bakery is deeply trusted by the residents of the town. Almost all civilians and poor people in the town come here to buy scones and bread.
Occasionally, you can see some nobles boarding the magic caravan parked on the roadside with a bag of white bread in their arms.
Therefore, before many adventure groups and mercenary groups enter the hills and mountains, they will buy some scones in the bakery to take with them. Occasionally, they will go to the blacksmith or leather shop to repair weapons or leather armor. They will also go to the magic market to learn more.
Local leather and Warcraft material prices.
There was originally a magic market in Duodan Town, but it has never been very prosperous, and few businessmen went to the magic market to trade.
But now a commercial tax is levied on all trade in Dodan Town, and every transaction must have a tax receipt before bulk goods can be shipped out of the town.
Therefore, it is obviously inconvenient to conduct private transactions and then go to the tax official to file taxes.
But if you conduct transactions in the magic market, there will be a dedicated tax officer waiting beside each transaction when it is completed.
At this time, as long as you pay 3% of the transaction amount as tax, you can get a voucher for leaving the town.
Of course, there are times when a tax officer is not needed in the magic market. As long as the goods can be consumed in the town, there is no need to pay taxes...
For example, the owner of a new leather shop in town does not need to pay taxes when he purchases hard armor, but if he makes these hard armors into leather armor and sells them outside, he will need to pay taxes.
Hathaway has helped Suldak set up a tax bureau. The director is Tax Officer Batra and has four tax officers under his command.
Now there are basically no large-scale workshops in the town, and the industrial base is zero.
Therefore, the Tax Officer of Batra only needs to have two of his subordinates keep an eye on the magic market all day long to collect a large amount of taxes.
The only shops in the town are the blacksmith shop, leather shop, tailor shop, and grocery store, which are relatively healthy.
Originally, these shops served local mercenary groups and adventure groups. Now that the number of adventure groups and mercenary groups is gradually increasing, the business of these shops has become busy.
For the mercenary group and adventure group, Surdak promulgated a decree in the town prohibiting the killing of the indigenous tribes in the hills and mountains, and listed several indigenous tribes that were already willing to establish contact with Duodan Town.
Even the approximate locations of these indigenous tribes are clearly marked on the map, and harassment is prohibited.
If there is another slave hunt or wanton massacre of local indigenous people, the town will immediately dispatch the garrison to investigate.
Once it is discovered which adventure group dares to violate the town's laws, the punishment that will follow is, at the very least, the entire team will be expelled from Dodan Town.
In Duodan Town, there are many kinds of magic materials about ghost-striped red ants.
You can find everything from the leather on the belly of worker ants to the thick armor of ghost-striped male ants, so merchants are willing to do business here even if they have to pay a tax.
In the beginning, there were always businessmen who evaded taxes.
After a series of punishments, this kind of imagination has been basically eliminated.
The Tax Collector of Batra is in charge of the town's treasury, and now the gold coins accumulated in the treasury are growing at a rate visible to the naked eye every day.
In the past, tax collector Batra walked on the street and hurriedly approached businessmen when he saw them, licking his face and collecting taxes from them. If he met some good-tempered businessmen, he would give some symbolically, but if he met a bad-tempered businessman, he would inevitably have a meal.
sarcasm.
Because at that time everyone knew that Baron Josie Golding was the business talker in Dodan Town.
As the tax collector of Dodan Town Hall, Batra looked like a beggar in front of these businessmen.
Nowadays, Tax Officer Batra always receives invitations to dinners from many businessmen when he comes home every day...
…
Tax collector Batra and Mrs. Luna stood by the river on the southern outskirts of the town, chatting casually while looking at the river flowing westward.
A group of aboriginal migrant workers, led by supervisors, were cleaning thatched houses on pedestals by the river. The rotten wood and thatch were piled together and set on fire in a space by the river, completely burning them.
The land along the riverside of the slums has been initially cleared, and square timbers coated with a layer of varnish have begun to come in.
Only the tannery's leather shop and the tailor's printing and dyeing workshop still stand by the river. These two workshops, which are no better than thatched houses, are particularly abrupt at the edge.
According to Surdak's request, all buildings in this area must be removed.
However, according to the Green Empire's decree, all private property is protected by the empire. No matter how dilapidated the leather workshops and printing and dyeing workshops here are, if you want to completely remove them, you must have leather shop owners and tailor shop owners.
Only with consent.
Those poor people received a demolition payment, happily took all their belongings and ran to another corner of the slum area to continue living the lives of poor people.
In accordance with Surdak's request, Mrs. Luna gave each of their families five gold coins. These gold coins were enough to buy a small house elsewhere in Dodan Town. If you built it yourself, you would only need three gold coins.
But businessmen would not be willing to move their properties by the river just for a few gold coins. Now Tax Collector Batra and Mrs. Luna were standing by the river, and it was Suldak who invited them to meet here.
Suddenly, the neighing of a war horse was heard from the other side of the river, and Surdak was seen riding an ancient Bolai horse, charging across a river more than ten meters wide.
The river water had reached the belly of the war horse, but it could not slow down the ancient horse in the slightest.
When the war horses carried Surdak ashore successfully, Mrs. Luna and Tax Officer Batra secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
After the war horse landed, he shook off the water stains on his body vigorously, regardless of who was standing next to him. Countless water splashes splashed all over Surdak's body and face.
When he just crossed the river, Surdak's thighs were immersed in the river, and his leather boots were filled with river water. As he walked on the grass beside the river, there was a gurgling sound in his boots...
"Sorry! I'm late..." Suldak led the horse over and showed no airs at all.
"Mayor, we just arrived!" Mrs. Luna said to Suldak with a smile on her face.
"The trouble you encountered are those workshops near the river?" Suldak wiped the water stains on his face with his hand, raised his chin, and looked in the direction of the printing and dyeing workshop.
Mrs. Luna didn't expect that Surdak would go straight to the topic when they met. She was slightly startled, and immediately got into the mood and said: "Ah...it's just that these two workshops are not satisfied with our relocation subsidy for the time being, and they are not very satisfied either."
I’m willing to move downstream, saying it’s too far from the town!”
"I'll go talk to them..."
Surdak didn't even understand any other situation. He loosened the reins of the war horse in his hand, let it graze freely by the river, and walked alone towards the leather workshop by the river.
Tax collector Batra, Mrs. Luna and the two secretaries quickly followed behind.
Everyone could hear the sound of water accumulating in Surdak's leather boots, but no one dared to laugh at him at this time...
Surdak strode to the gate of the leather workshop and stood outside the rotten wooden wall.
There was a 'bang' sound.
Surdak used his leather boots to kick open the wooden door of the yard. The workers who were cooking leather in a large pot were startled in the yard.
Everyone in the yard stopped what they were doing and looked at Surdak standing at the door with wide eyes.
Faced with a stench that was more disgusting than the smell of sour rot, Suldak stepped into the yard filled with animal fat and leather. He looked at the several large square iron pots in the yard, which were boiling.
In the hot water, there are countless pieces of hard armor soaked in it.
A steward walked out of the dilapidated wooden house. The moment he saw Suldak, his pupils suddenly shrank.
He forced out a stiff smile, walked over cautiously, and stood in Suldak, the expression on his face was uglier than crying...
"Lord Commander..."
He knew Surdak.
Of course, no one in Duodan Town dares not to know him.