A strange world

Chapter 316 Section 169. Sacrifice

Soldiers are training, woodcutters are cutting wood thorns, fishermen are catching fish, workers are building fortifications, women are making clothes, and everyone in Xingyue Bay is paying for their future. Even Annan is no exception!

Breeze City.

A dinner party for nobles and wealthy businessmen in the name of the King of the North is being held in the banquet hall.

Unlike a normal banquet where most men are the guests, most of the guests at this banquet are ladies and ladies from various families.

Annan's image of Jack not only fascinates ladies, but also makes them dream. Annan in particular fulfilled all their fantasies about a spouse, such as having his own fief, never attending banquets, and having an appearance that made their mouths moist.

The reason why Annan had to make such a big sacrifice was simple - preparing for the war emptied Annan's savings.

Not only magic muskets and magic cannons, but also plate armor, fortifications, and hired workers require huge expenditures. The money alone for Annan and Francois was no longer enough - after all, they still had to keep some gold coins to survive the winter.

Ingrid offers to sell the knighthood. As a fiefdom lord, Annan can distribute about 300 knights, but only territories that are about to be unable to survive will use this method to gain profits. It's not okay for Xingyue Bay, who is just one year old, to enter old age early, and there is no money to be made in Xingyue Bay.

Filming a third Magical Image? But the income from the magic images is getting less and less each time, and the nobles of Planang's Grace County can no longer collect them unless they show off their feelings.

"How about the prequel to "The Fall of the Mage Tower"? Tell the story of Jack and Rose before they moved to Breeze City. It would be better if there is a plot that allows them to pass by each other." Evelin suggested at that time.

"How long are we going to shoot for?" Annan pointed out the window. It was okay in the first two months, but now it's too late.

Sell ​​magic guns and magic cannons to Olmedo? It's just that Olmedo looked down on these things, and the reason was simple: when the rat plague had broken through the battle lines of the Mage Tower and the Knights, it made no sense to give three hundred thousand residents a magic gun.

Annan wanted to say at that time that the current magic guns and artillery are just one shot at a time, and the future will be automatic magic guns and magic artillery, but it will take time...

Double the price of magic newspapers? It is known that the 10 copper coins of the magic newspaper can just maintain the balance of payments, but the Claudia brand magic stone can only be produced once a day, which is 7,000 copies a week. The sales volume of the magic newspaper has been between 40,000 and 60,000 copies since the issue of the Rat Man going north. Toggle - Xingyue Bay Magic Newspaper does not suffer any loss due to the sponsorship of the Wine Lady. For example, the magic newspaper changes from 10 copper coins to 20 copper coins, and all the money goes to Xingyue Bay, which is 50 gold coins per week...

Annan now goes to Breeze City and knocks on the doors of noble ladies for more money than this.

But sadly, those industries in Xingyue Bay, including fishing, spinning machines, cotton yarn and plate armor that no one wants at all, can only earn less than 50 gold coins a week... including taxes, they can barely reach it.

After all, the core of Xingyue Bay is Annan. Annan is there, so Xingyue Bay is here. Annan died, so Xingyue Bay died. Because this is how a territory should be: the lord has the power of life and death over the people in the territory, and the people in the territory from birth to reproduction to death are all shrouded in the shadow of the lord, or under the favor.

A monthly tax of 200 gold coins? I sympathize with your subjects and serfs. They must be exploited inhumanely... One-tenth of the tax? You must be making me laugh... Let the people work and pay them? Have you done too many bad things in the past so you are doing good things to escape hell?

Xingyue Bay, which is nominally a territory, is essentially a city - but as a city, Xingyue Bay is abnormal. A real city would have nobles who check each other and unite to weaken the power of the city lord. Even a small town like Pinglin Town with a population of 3,000 is divided into three factions: the mayor, the nobles, and the professionals.

In Xingyue Bay, Annan's words are whatever he says. His will will be accurately transmitted to the ears of the people, and then executed efficiently by the people.

Xingyue Bay is like a giraffe. Annan, as the head, tried its best to reach up, crawling through the airtight tree canopy, chasing the beautiful sunshine and white clouds, but its body fell into the gloomy forest, feeling the warmth from its head.

The body thinks that they are dragging the head down, and the head thinks that the body is holding it up.

Therefore, Mr. Swaro described Xingyue Bay as a "family", which is both a compliment and a derogatory meaning. Star Moon Bay has a level of loyalty that no other town has, but it is not uncommon for families that work together to gain status and wealth to end up falling apart due to interests.

In any case, Annan's purpose of launching this banquet was to make money: to sponsor the "Xingyue Bay News", and to sell the magic stone of "The Fall of the Mage Tower" again. It is nominally a collector's edition: it has an additional crystal base worth less than three gold coins, and Annan's worthless signature, priced at 150 gold coins.

Francois, who was wearing a fitted dress and holding a magic stone in white gloves, stood beside a pile of collector's edition magic stones and introduced it to the surrounding guests, saying that he would also enjoy a 20% discount on ordering at the banquet, which cost only 120 gold coins, which is equivalent to Earned 30 gold coins!

The ladies who had never seen this kind of sales method were a little moved, but there were also ladies who hoped to be alone with Annan for a while after ordering. After Francois asked Annan for advice, he changed his alone time to dancing.

On the dance floor, Annan tried hard to keep a distance from the beautiful lady with heavy makeup in front of her, so as not to let her weak and helpless body be swallowed up, but she couldn't stop the hand on her back from touching her back.

This is a necessary sacrifice...

Annan lowered his head and did not dare to look at his partner. This shyness made it difficult for the women to control themselves. They crowded around Francois, taking off their necklaces or waving their money bags: "Give me a share."

In order to save Annan from those bad women, the girls also crowded over: "I want a share too!"

Annan's body was full of fragrance when he danced, and Francois was very happy to count the money.

After dancing again, Annan let go of the girl on Xiafei's cheeks. She woke up from her daze and asked in despair: "Is it so fast?"

Annan smiled and said, "Sister Posaisi, I want to go have something to drink."

"Then I'll take a rest too." The girl said shyly and gently, returning to her companion.

"how is it going……"

The noble girls urged Portsaith anxiously.

"It feels good... I seem to have turned into Ruth, hugging Jack in the hall of the Mage Tower..." Posaisi said with a beautiful smile.

"I spent more than a hundred gold just for a dance..." A girl said in a sour tone, but she could hardly hide her envy.

Her companion nudged her slightly: "Don't you want to experience Ruth for once?"

Posaisi also felt it was expensive, but she couldn't help but hold her hands up and cherish the breath of the brief embrace: "But he called me sister..."