Working Prophet

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 to a certain extent.

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 Emanuel family 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 there are almost no other specialties in the territory.

Carrots have always been called common people's food. Nobles don't consume them very much, or they consume a small amount, 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 on these three melons and dates, 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. It is impossible to pay taxes in this life.

Peppers are not like radishes. When the harvest is good, they are hauled out by several carts. Just two small packages can be easily carried into the city.

As long as there is a way, private transactions are like face-to-face interactions, highlighting one's ignorance.

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) .

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.

Lying on her treasure and taking a nap, she would breathe fire and burn anyone who came in and tried to steal her money.

Theodosi is probably 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, Diodosi 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 people below, it can raise as much money as it wants. I’ve never heard of anyone going into business. Anyone who teaches them how to do business 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 big bucks.

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 of the Western Region even spontaneously formed a coalition to help High Priest Martina crusade against the Greeks who had already 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 her 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, and then handed 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 word for word for so long that Miss Rabbit even wondered if 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 people to check the authenticity of the duty-free trade order, but did not stop them during the process.

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."