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Chapter 202: Wizards who don’t pay taxes and civilians who can’t make money (please subscribe)

Listening to these numbers, Linn felt like his head was spinning. He had personally participated in the entire incident and had guessed that there would be many deaths, but he did not expect that there would be so many.

"In addition, during the follow-up investigation, the security team also discovered a strange thing. On the day of the catastrophe, nine wizards in Harbor Town were mentally severely damaged inexplicably. Five of them have been confirmed dead, and the remaining

The four people suffered severe brain injuries, which are no different from death." Orlando continued to report.

"After searching the mansions of these wizards, the security team found some books on psychic magic, and this thing..."

Orlando took out a small box and placed it in front of Linn. Inside were nine rings.

"Each of them carries this thing with them. Judging from the runes on it, it may be a kind of mutual communication magic. However, the magic spell on it has long since expired, and it is impossible to continue tracking it."

"Leave this matter to me. I will ask Master Raphael to study it in depth when I have time." Lin En nodded calmly, put away these [Rings of the Faceless Man], and prepared to arrive.

At that time, it was directly reworked and made into [Ring of Secret Magic].

Orlando nodded, without thinking much, and talked about another thing again.

When the news of Hellram's death was exposed, more than thirty wizards chose to leave the port of Iyetta, and some even directly changed their sects to join other schools, while also taking some apprentices with them.

"Do you need me to send someone to invite them back? I think these people will be very happy." Orlando said with a smile.

He felt that most of these wizards were filled with regret after learning that Linn had received the Order of the Sun.

They would never have imagined that, instead of declining, the Iyetta School would have a tendency to soar into the sky.

"No, since it was your choice, let them go." Lin En shook his head, not regretting that these people had no sense of belonging to Iyeta, and staying here might not be a good thing.

You must know that sometimes internal ghosts are more difficult to deal with than external enemies. It is true that he is in short supply now, but he does not need everyone...

On the contrary, Lin En felt that although the entire seaport city had gone through a lot of hardships, it was not all without its benefits. At least most of the unstable factors within the school had been eliminated.

"Where are the poor people and their families who were affected by the disaster? Have everything been arranged? Have the pensions been paid?" Lin En asked with concern.

Although the whole story of this incident has little to do with him, it was caused by Hellram. The Parliament concealed this information for the sake of the stability of the wizarding land. At least they had to settle these innocent people who were affected by the disaster.

The total population of the entire Iyetta Harbor is not large. The poor living in Nancheng District are dispensable waste in the eyes of wizards, but in Linn's eyes, they are a very good working population.

"This... I'm afraid Ietta can't afford that much money now." Orlando said with a look of hesitation on his face, rather helplessly.

Lin En was stunned. As the largest seaport city in the Wizarding Land, it also monopolized part of the foreign trade, so it should be very wealthy.

He couldn't have secretly spent all the reserve funds at Iyeta Harbor while Heram was secretly studying psychic magic, right?

Linn quickly found some financial reports from a pile of information. After reading it for a few minutes, he discovered that the entire economic situation of Iyeta could only be described as weird.

First of all, wizards and civilians are completely two economic systems. Except that the latter needs to supply the former with food, there are basically not many connections.

After all, it is common for precious magic materials to be sold for more than a dozen magic gold coins, and a non-magic worker may not be able to save that much money after working for decades.

Wizards basically do not engage in ordinary production activities. They make alchemy equipment, and only wizards can afford magic potions.

Therefore, thousands of wizards and a large number of apprentices throughout the wizarding land formed a unique cycle and built an economic superstructure, completely disconnected from the civilians.

The most important thing is that as a privileged class, they don’t even pay taxes!

In the past, the finances of seaport cities basically did not rely on taxes. There was little money to be gained from plundering civilians, and it was basically just a symbolic collection.

The real bulk is relying on foreign trade, taking advantage of the geographical advantage of the Iyeta seaport close to the outside world, and continuously transporting various ores and scarce products from the Wizarding Land through merchant ships, and then they only need to turn around and sell them to Greenriel City.

You can make a lot of money.

Yes, just making a lot of money... Although this is a near-monopoly business, foreign trade also means taking the risk of exposing the entire wizarding land.

In exchange for the acquiescence of the parliament, the prices of the scarce materials transferred have been set in advance. It is impossible to make huge profits through this. The annual income is about 30,000 magic gold coins, which is enough to supply the entire seaport.

The functioning of the city.

Thanks to him, one of the three lines has been cut off, and the largest financial source is likely to shrink.

Lin En immediately felt that the tens of thousands of magic gold coins he earned by selling glass, paper, and even airships didn't seem like a lot.

I can still make a lot of money every day now, but that won't be the case in a few months.

The entire wizarding land has a combined population of only a few hundred thousand. The market is too small and will become saturated quickly, so we must consider continuing to expand foreign trade.

Many of his next big moves will basically require money, and appeasing the families of the poor people in Nancheng District who died in vain will also cost a lot of money.

Linn thought for a long time, and already had a rough idea in his mind, and then looked at Orlando. "I probably already know the situation at Iyeta Port. I will take out 10,000 magic gold coins to replenish the treasury. First, I will add the magic gold coins to the treasury.

The innocent people in Nancheng District who were affected by the disaster need to settle down and we can’t delay it any longer.”

"As for the remaining funds, they will all be used to purchase these materials." Lin En handed over a thin piece of paper that had been written on.

Orlando took it, no matter how many times, when he saw this kind of paper as white as snow, he could not help but feel some emotion in his heart. Who would have thought that this thing was actually made of wood.

"Well, saltpeter, charcoal, sulfur, brass..." Orlando glanced at it. The page was filled with various raw materials, including very common things like saltpeter and charcoal, as well as some ores that he had never heard of.

Linn also specially marked many characteristics of these ores and asked him to find anyone who knew these things.

(End of chapter)