The Great Age of Voyage of the Elves

Chapter 156 Fangs in the Dark

After showing a little bit of strength, the subsequent cooperation suddenly became smoother.

Because the people in the house were dealt with so quickly, even though the chamber of commerce had ambushed people near the wooden house, the person in charge didn't choose to continue shopping to the end, but decisively approved Mu's cooperation proposal.

"Then, happy cooperation."

Mu held out a hand.

"Cooperation...pleasant."

The person in charge first wiped his hands quietly to wipe off the sweat on his palms, and then took Mu's palm.

Afterwards, the chamber of commerce was very efficient and immediately began to operate, trying to bring the Black Pearl into the territory of the Boschman family.

The fiefdoms of the Boschman family are mainly distributed along the middle and lower reaches of the Little Liliz River, including a large piece of fertile land on the river beach plain in the lower reaches and a rugged mountain forest in the middle reaches.

Their family castle was built in the mountains in the middle reaches of the river, surrounded by lush high-altitude forests, sparsely populated, but full of elves.

It used to be the main elf producing area of ​​the Boschman family. According to legend, there is a dragon cliff in the mountain, where all kinds of rare dragon elves are produced.

A hundred years ago, the Boschman family was once known as the Yulong family in the mountains.

It’s just that in the past hundred years, with the development of the times, the economic output of the plain area in the lower reaches of the river has become higher and higher, and the cities there have become bigger and more prosperous. Later, with the advent of the age of great navigation and the rise of maritime trade, the section of the river from the lower reaches of the Liliz River to the mouth of the sea has been widened many times, and the surrounding cities have also risen rapidly due to commerce and trade.

Nowadays, few of the younger generation of the Boschman family are willing to live in the castle in the mountains for a long time. Most of the time they prefer to live in the cities on the plains.

Before coming, Kirulian's divination results also showed that the three friends of Kuailong are all in the river plain now.

After systematically learning various derivative applications of superpowers from Richard, Kirulian has become more and more proficient in divination techniques. Kuailong's friends can be used as a medium to locate him. Correspondingly, they can also use Kuailong as a medium to divination the location of his friends.

A wave of skillful reverse operations.

So the next goal is very clear-they need to try to enter the river flats in the lower reaches of the Little Leeds River first.

The Chamber of Commerce did not disappoint in this matter.

Within a few days, they successfully guided the Black Pearl into a port near the mouth of the Little Leeds River, which was surprisingly efficient.

As a serious kingdom port, all ships entering and leaving here should have legal entry permits, identity certificates, and customs payment certificates. However, the chamber of commerce seems to have bribed the governor of the dock here, so that the black pearl, a three-no ship, berthed in so grandiosely.

This operation stunned Sible, a veteran of the sea, and called himself old.

But Mu was not stupid, he did not fully trust the other party, after the Black Pearl docked and entered the port, he left the first officer and half of the soldiers on board, and told them to go ashore to rest in batches, always keep people on board, and leave the port immediately if they found something wrong.

Afterwards, he himself took the rest of the soldiers ashore with the Chamber of Commerce, left the pier and went deep into the plains, heading for the largest and most prosperous city nearby: Talon City.

Along the way, they witnessed the various operations of this chamber of commerce. They took a whole convoy of goods around, walked through forests and gaps along the way, and entered every forest.

In the end, they didn't plan to enter the city through the main entrance until they came to Talon City. They conspired with the gangs in the city, put slings on the city wall at night, and with the help of the elves, they climbed over the city wall and transported all the goods into the city.

In the middle of the night, Mu and his party, who had sneaked into the city through the channel of the chamber of commerce, came to the slums in the lower city of Talon City, and met with the leader of the chamber of commerce and the gang members in the city.

Mu originally thought that they had gone through so many troubles on this journey, and what they transported into the city must be some particularly expensive or dangerous smuggled goods, but he didn't expect to open the box in the city to find out that it was just some ordinary tea, spices and berries for making high-level elf rations.

Out of curiosity, Mu asked, "Isn't it normal for you guys to smuggle them like this?"

The leader of the Chamber of Commerce laughed.

"You just don't know the situation in this area. These goods are normal, but do you know how much tax you will have to pay if you take the regular route into the city? Entry tax, checkpoint tax, city gate tax, trade tax, etc. After all the taxes are paid, your trip will almost be in vain."

Mu frowned, "Are these taxes levied by the kingdom?"

"Bad, of course not." The team leader rolled his eyes, "Only the entry tax is handed over to the kingdom, and the others are all collected by those bastards from the Boschman family."

Only then did Mu suddenly realize.

No wonder their chamber of commerce had conflicts with the Boschman family.

This is not a contradiction in business competition, it is clearly a deadly enmity that cuts people off!

On the bright side, they have no power to resist: the feudal nobles have the right to collect taxes independently in their own territories, which is the core of the enfeoffment system, so don't play if you are unhappy.

Hearing this, Mu suddenly thought of a piece of news that Sibul had heard before.

So he chuckled, "So, in recent years, the Boschman family's prestige and control in the riverbank plain area have been getting worse and worse, and you must be responsible for it, right?"

The leader of the chamber of commerce was alerted immediately, and retorted with a half-smile: "Oh, my friend, there is no basis for this, so don't talk nonsense. We are all serious businessmen, so how dare we interfere in the management of the nobles' territories."

"Ha ha."

Mu Wei only responded with a laugh.

I thought to myself, I believe you a ghost.

They just inquired about the Boschman family on the black market before, and the chamber of commerce immediately came over to express their goodwill. After hearing that they had a grievance with the Boschman family, they immediately offered to provide assistance. They could talk about money first, and they could continue to discuss cooperation if they couldn’t agree.

On a larger scale, the scene in front of me can be regarded as a microcosm of this era——

A few decades ago, if a chamber of commerce dared to provoke a family of earls with a century-old heritage and fiefdoms, people would probably only regard it as a nonsense made up by a bard, and sneered that the adaptation is not random, and jokes cannot be nonsense.

However, just a few decades later, as the trade dividends brought by the age of great voyages were continuously eaten by these big chambers of commerce, the power of capital expanded rapidly, so much so that today, they have even begun to dare to secretly show their fangs to the former rulers of this old road: the old fiefdom nobles!
Mu believed that they were by no means the first group of forces sponsored by the chamber of commerce to seek revenge on the Boschman family.

Now that the Boschman family would set up a card to collect taxes in such a frenzied way, either there was a problem with the family's finances, or their actual control over the territory had dropped to an extremely dangerous level. The normal tax standard would not allow money to be collected at all.

Regardless of the reason behind this, Mu believes that the chamber of commerce he is now cooperating with must be inseparable.

(End of this chapter)