Path of light

Chapter 524 525. Leader Berkeley’s concerns

Padstow City Defensive Regiment

Captain Berkeley was standing on the training ground wearing silver standard armor, and a group of mixed-blood elf warriors were selecting war horses.

Now that the infantry combat training of the city defense regiment has been successfully concluded, the mixed-blood elf warriors of the city defense regiment will receive riding training. For the elf warriors of the city defense regiment, an excellent war horse is a must. Indispensable.

Seeing this group of mixed elf warriors choosing war horses, Roy realized that his mine guard group was not equipped with war horses either...

The Silver Pegasus Legion has very strict control over war horses. It is estimated that even if you apply, it will be difficult to get approval. On the Pajisto Plateau, argali are more adaptable to the climate and terrain there than war horses, but currently almost all argali are there. Lysander's hand.

If you want to equip the mine guard with mounts, you must find a way to convince Lysander...

As the guard soldiers in the city defense regiment have all turned into mixed-blood elves, the security of Padstow City has been very good during this period, and it is almost rare to see those young mixed-blood elves with nothing to do wandering on the streets.

The residents here are more accepting of the mixed-blood elf guards patrolling the city, and will not make any provocative gestures when meeting the guards.

Captain Berkeley turned around, saw Roy, and asked him:

"How is the investigation going on the Pagisto Plateau?"

Roy was stunned for a moment...

If Captain Berkeley hadn't mentioned it, he would have forgotten it.

"They have been wandering around Plateau City a few days ago... they should be fine!" Roy said with some uncertainty.

Captain Berkeley shook his head speechlessly and motioned for Roy to walk over. Captain Berkeley lowered his voice, covered his mouth with his hand, and said to Roy: "Try to leave a good impression on the investigation team. After all, your identity is somewhat Sensitive, their evaluation of you is quite important.”

"Sometimes, if they just say one less word, they might save you a lot of trouble!"

Seeing that Captain Berkeley was a little serious, Roy quickly responded:

"knew."

Captain Berkeley motioned to his deputy to come here and keep an eye on him, and he took Roy to the edge of the training ground.

"The Partington plane is about to be opened, and a large number of merchants will definitely flock to Padstow City in the near future. These merchants will not only have a certain impact on the legion's magic herbal business, but it is estimated that your junior magic herbal business will also be greatly affected. , you have to make some preparations in advance to see how you can maintain your market share.”

"But there is nothing we can do about it. The top brass of the legion cannot resist the pressure from the upper elf nobles. It is only a matter of time before the portal is opened." Captain Berkeley sighed.

Roy nodded and said:

"I've already negotiated it here, and I guess the impact won't be big."

"That's good!" Captain Berkeley waved to the followers around him, motioning them to stand farther away, and then whispered to Roy:

"After the plane is lifted, in order to make up for the losses, the first thing the legion will do is to levy commodity tax on the portal. All goods passing through the portal will have to pay tax, and the goods on your side will also have to pay tax. There will not be any form of reduction or exemption. , But! You can use this tax to offset the magic crystal that you need to pay for the mine."

After speaking, he winked at Roy, indicating that he must keep it secret.

"Is this still possible?" Roy was a little surprised.

Captain Berkeley waved his hand casually and explained: "The legion has never provided any substantial help to the Pagisto Plateau, so they have also been very relaxed about the profit sharing of the mine. These have been done before. There was discussion.”

"Also, although the magic airship route here in Padstow City is being established, I hope you'd better keep a low profile as much as possible."

Captain Berkeley reminded Roy.

Captain Berkeley was promoted to the commander of the City Defense Corps in the Silver Pegasus Corps. This position has much more power than the commander of the Logistics and Transportation Corps.

He and Roy have gone through so many things, and they can be regarded as close friends in the Silver Pegasus Legion.

Captain Berkeley said to Roy unceremoniously:

"Because of the incident with the Abiel mine owner, it is not very good for some information about you to reach Buenos. Your reputation among the mixed elves in the Partington plane is too high. Now, Partington is The ban is about to be lifted again, and there will be a large number of mixed-blood elves entering the Partington plane. The upper-class elven nobles don’t want to see someone step forward to unite all the mixed-blood elves at this time.”

Hearing what Captain Berkeley said, Roy woke up a little, and some cold sweat broke out on his back.

Captain Berkeley continued:

"They don't want the mixed elves to completely escape control. They just want the mixed elves to live a peaceful life in a concentrated area..."

"You also know that the population of the Silver Moon elves has been shrinking in recent years, but the population of the mixed-blood elves has grown very fast. From any perspective, the upper elf nobles do not want the mixed-blood elves to make a sound. You understand me. What do you mean?"

Roy nodded.

After visiting the commander of the Berkeley regiment, Roy left the camp of the city defense regiment.

…

In just half a month, a large number of magic herbal shops appeared on the streets of Padstow City.

When the herbal medicine merchants heard that the plane was about to be lifted, they immediately took action and quickly purchased stores before the ban was lifted.

As the price of magic herbs continues to increase, herb collectors and merchants all go to the Partington plane to share the cake. At least seven of the ten shops on the street deal in magic herbs.

The economy of the Partington plane gradually recovered, and Padstow City immediately became lively.

There were originally many empty tree houses that were unused, but now they have become the first choice of this foreign businessman.

Moira held Sabrina's arm and looked around on the treehouse-lined street, with Woods following behind them.

Since the entire city is almost made up of mixed-blood elves, Moira and Sabrina feel that this place is like the lower town of Castletown. The only difference is that the lower town of Castletown is full of brick buildings. They all build treehouses on the canopy of giant trees.

There are many shops here with various unique buildings built around the trunks of giant trees.

Woods kept asking about the price of magic herbs at the stall. Compared with Castletown, the price of magic herbs here was at least 30% cheaper.

For herbal merchants, as long as they have a teleportation pass, this profit is almost a net profit.

Of course, Roy and the Silver Pegasus Military earn more. Before the plane is lifted, the only ones who can legally transport magic herbs back to the Elf Continent are the Silver Pegasus Military and Roy...

Once the ban is lifted, the prices of magic herbs in these stores are bound to increase.

"Why does it feel like Padstow City suddenly became prosperous?"

Woods put down the bundle of magic herbs in his hand and said to Sabrina walking beside him.

Sabrina smiled lightly but said nothing.

"The Plane War broke out in the Green Empire of Roland Continent, resulting in a shortage of magic herbs, so the market for magic herbs suddenly became hot. Our Partington plane is rich in magic herbs. From the beginning, no one cared about it, to now, merchants from all over the world are flocking to it. And it was only because of the pressure from many parties that the Silver Pegasus Legion opened the plane blockade!"

The owner of the herbal medicine shop is a Silver Moon Elf businessman who is very well-informed about outside news.

"Are you here to purchase magic herbs, or are you preparing to ship them?" the shop owner then asked.

"I have an alchemy workshop in Castletown, but the prices of herbs here are still a bit expensive. I want to walk around again..." Woods said casually.

The herbal medicine shop owner immediately shouted to Woods: "If you want to purchase magic herbs, I advise you not to wait. Once the plane is unblocked, the price of magic herbs here will definitely increase."

Woods waved to the herbal medicine shop owner and motioned for him to move on.

The three of them sat in a cold drink shop on the street for a while and drank a glass of watermelon juice with ice.

Waiting for Roy to come out of the Silver Pegasus military headquarters, Moira quickly stood up from her seat and waved vigorously towards Roy across the street.

After Roy signed in at Padstow Military Headquarters, he took the three of them in a carriage and ran to the rental warehouse to visit Lambeau who was guarding there.

Lambeau has been having a good time recently, because Roy gave Lambeau a lot of authority. He has rented all the thirteen rows of warehouses by the river. It is next to the river and surrounded by some tall oak trees. The location On the western edge of Padstow.

The only drawback is that it is a bit far from the airport terminal.

Roy jumped out of the carriage and was seen by the warehouse clerk. Soon Rambo came out of the warehouse to greet him and shouted to Roy from a distance:

"Roy, your goods have arrived, those wooden boxes shipped from Sun Island Bay!"

Roy was slightly startled.

At first, he was planning to use the only two sets of flotation devices to transport all the three-masted sailing ships to Sun Island Bay, and then he decided to remove all the flotation devices on the first magic airship and secretly transport it to Partington Island. .

But now there is no need for it at all, because the Green Empire Merchant Marine Federation has collected all the remaining floating devices.

Now the airship modification factory on Partington Island is working hard...

Roy walked up, put his arm around Lambeau's shoulders and said to him:

"Uh, Rambo, help me find some carriages later. I want to transport those magic devices out."

Rambo immediately agreed: "No problem." Then he called a warehouse clerk and asked him to go outside and hire some carriages...

"Roy, when will the air transport service of the magic airship start?" Lambo asked curiously.

Roy thought about it and said:

"It is still under preparation. I estimate that it will take at least a month before the cargo route can be opened. There are only two magic airships now, and the transportation capacity cannot even meet the needs of the mine guard group..."

Rambo tugged Roy's arm and whispered to him:

"Lesander came here the day before yesterday and complained to me that the demand for various materials in Plateau City was too great. His pack team could not transport so many materials. Originally, some business groups had already set their sights on Pagisto. On the plateau, because the magic airship is about to be launched, many business groups have given up their original ideas. "

Roy smiled and said:

"Actually, you and Lysander don't have to worry. Those business groups will slowly find a point of profit. Now the economy of the entire Partington plane is recovering. Even transporting green apples to the plateau will make money."

…

In the past few days, caravans have arrived in the plateau city almost every day, and the supplies they brought have greatly alleviated the shortage of supplies.

The entire plateau city is rising rapidly...

The investigators stayed in the plateau city for more than twenty days.

Every night here, I almost live in a tent at the end of the street and eat whatever I can buy.

The investigators looked a little disheveled at this time, but they finally completed their investigation of the owner of Abiel Mine.

The mixed elves here in Plateau City almost always have a very bad impression of the owner of the Abiel Mine.

There are also several different versions about the cause of death of the owner of Abiel Mine.

After this period of investigation by the investigators, everyone is more inclined to believe that the lover of the owner of Abiel Mine killed this descendant of the Silver Moon Elf noble.

The most unlikely version is that the owner of Roy Mine heard that the owner of Abiel Mine was guilty of many evil deeds and personally beheaded the owner of Abiel Mine in public.

This investigation actually ended a week ago, but the investigators could not find a caravan willing to leave with them.

When many caravans left Plateau City, they would rather not carry all the supplies from Plateau City than take these three Silver Moon Elf merchants with them.

As a result, the investigation team had to stay in the plateau city for more than a week.

In the end, they finally reached a cooperation agreement with a small mixed-blood elf caravan. The caravan would take the three of them back to Padstow, and they found a hotel room for this caravan in Padstow city. Stable supply.

Finally leaving this monotonous plateau city without any flavor of life...

The faces of the three investigators all showed excitement, but this small caravan did not have any extra horses, so the three investigators could only buy three at a high price in the market.

Leaving the city on the plateau, we walked along the Tuolai River towards Nanjing.

In fact, it is faster to go directly through the wilderness and southward along the Kartim Mountains than to take the Sudarso Mountains...

It’s just that the road across the Kaltim Mountains is more difficult.

Just as Roy, Moira, Sabrina and others returned to Padstow City, the three investigators happened to walk into the Kaldeum Mountains with this small caravan.

During a break along the way, the three investigators gathered together and secretly discussed Roy:

"Both of you! Do you think Roy is the murderer who killed the owner of Abiel Mine?"

"Although I didn't get any clues, I think Boss Roy is very suspicious!" Another investigator said: "I will mark Roy as a key suspect in my investigation report."

"Perhaps it was the lover named Aulisis who killed the owner of Abiel Mine..."

"Even if it is true, I will still indicate in the report that Roy is the key suspect."

"..."