Genshin Impact is a big stage, come if you dare

The team of travelers decided to first go find the merchant who had the goods to see what the situation was.

Jiulisu pointed out the location to the traveling group. Sure enough, there was a brown-haired foreign merchant on the river bank. The box next to him contained some purple crystals.

Paimon asked uncertainly, "Are you Werner?"

Werner, who was born in Mond, now looks completely like a rice wife.

"I have never seen such a strange face before," Werner looked up and down at the group of travelers, "What do you want from me?"

Paimon asked politely: "Excuse me, where did you mine these crystallized bone marrows?" The naive Paimon thought that if he knew the origin of the special mineral, the difficulties of the merchants of the International Chamber of Commerce could be solved.

"Go away, do you understand the rules? I'm not going to continue my business until I tell you where to source the goods!" Werner waved his hand to drive him away with an annoyed look on his face.

Paimon asked again: "Then, can the price be cheaper?"

“...Oh, I understand! Were you invited by Kulisu’s gang to intercede for us?” Werner’s expression changed. “Go back and tell him that this is the price, not a penny less!”

"You guys should leave quickly. You should thank me for buying the goods from me! Without me, they can't even complete the work. How dare you bargain?"

This person spoke rudely, and seeing Su's face beginning to darken, Paimeng also began to speak harshly angrily.

"You, you, you! Who do you think you are talking to? The man standing before you is Liyue's great hero, the Honorary Knight of Mondstadt!"

"I suggest you be sensible and speak nicely! Otherwise you'll get beaten!" Su was still feeling unwell, so she tried her best not to let the bad guys make her angry.

"Mond?! Honorary Knights?" Werner suddenly heard that the Honorary Knights from his hometown came to Inazuma, and he looked like he wanted to cry and ask for help, "Really? Are you really Honorary Knights?!"

The Traveler Squad looked at each other, and Sora took out the Honorary Knight Badge he had obtained in Mondstadt.

Werner held the badge that represented reliability and strength in his hands, tears welled up in his eyes. "The breath of freedom! Hometown... I really want to go back, to the free city-state..."

After learning that the young men in front of him were knights certified as righteous (and extremely powerful) by their hometown, Werner told them the whole story.

He was indeed in collusion with the Kanjo Bugyo, but he was forced into it.

The tax officer in charge of collecting taxes secretly raised the required tax amount. A portion of the collected crystallized bone marrow was handed over, and the rest was hoarded by Werner. He would sell it back to the merchants at a high price when the merchants had no other source for it.

Paimon was very angry, "This is simply making money out of nothing! Profiting without any investment!"

Werner wiped away a bitter tear. "I worked hard against my conscience, but I only got a 10% profit! This Mora is barely enough to live on, and I am often beaten by angry merchants in retaliation!"

The Traveler Team was speechless now. No wonder he had such a bad attitude.

Werner is a puppet of the Inazuma tax collector. Even if it weren't him, there would be other merchants being manipulated by the tax collector in this way.

Fortunately, Werner was not a idler. He said he had followed the tax collector and knew that he would go to a place before collecting taxes every time.

The guide Werner took the group of travelers directly to a wild place, where they saw the tax collector take out a book from a hole in the ground, read it, and then carefully buried it back.

After the tax collector left, several people dug out the things the tax collector had hidden and saw that this was the account book that the tax collector used to record how much crystallized bone marrow and Mora he had embezzled by collecting extra taxes.

With the key evidence, the travel team returned to the International Chamber of Commerce. The tax officer was forcing a foreign businessman on the verge of bankruptcy to pay taxes. No matter how much the businessman and the Chamber of Commerce President Changlixu begged, the tax officer refused to give in.

The merchant said sadly that if he paid taxes like this, he would just starve to death.

The tax officer looked arrogant and said, "Laws are laws, rules are rules! You have to pay for the goods you are supposed to pay. There is no point in making so many excuses!"

"Speaking of laws and rules, I think you are the one who breaks the rules the most!" Paimon held up the key evidence, "This is the evidence that you hid the goods and sold them for money. We are going to make it public!"

In desperation, the tax collector tried to grab the account book, but Kong simply drew his sword.

Overwhelmed by Kong's battle-hardened aura, the tax collector became willing to talk nicely.

Jiulixu took the account book and checked it carefully to make sure that every entry on it matched the tax paid by the merchants. The amount of money embezzled by the tax officials recorded on it had become a very huge number.

But the tax officer who was exposed was still fearless, "Don't think that this has caught me, I just earned a little hard work fee."

He had already made arrangements with his superiors, so he was not afraid even if the account records were reported to the Kanjo Bugyo.

After all, he recorded the account book with the hand that he seldom wrote with, so he could easily deny it!

Besides, the higher-ups would certainly protect “family members” like him rather than these foreign businessmen.

Seeing the tax collector's fearless look, the knowledgeable Chamber of Commerce Changjiu Lixu also understood something. He changed the subject and told the tax collector to use the extra crystallized bone marrow he had collected before to offset the tax this time, and he could collect taxes normally in the future.

But the tax collector looked as if he had been taken advantage of, and he called the officer in charge of military support to put the resisting merchants in jail.

Seeing that the parties were about to clash, Thomas, who had been standing in the distance, came over and tried to get close to the tax collector and his superior.

Thomas: "Everyone, why are you so serious? If there is a conflict, just have a drink together and talk it out. It will be resolved."

But the tax collector didn't give this blond foreigner who suddenly appeared a chance a face, "Who are you? Who wants to drink with you?"

Thomas ignored the tax collector who didn't know him, and just took out his business card and handed it to the tax collector's superior.

"Oh? You're actually... a member of the Society Bugyo." The chief tax officer looked Thomas up and down and snorted coldly, "But this is the territory of the Kande Bugyo. Even if you are a member of the Society Bugyo, you have no right to interfere in matters concerning leaving the island."

No matter how powerful the community's power is, it is ridiculous that a small subordinate official of the community dares to show off on their remote islands!

Seeing that the atmosphere was getting worse, Thomas took out a small folding fan from his waist bag and said, "Then please give my lady some face."

"You two would not like your names to appear in the official document submitted to the general."

The Kanjo Bugyo will not be shaken by a memorial from the young lady, but what about the soldiers under his command?

"That fan... belongs to Princess Bai Lu!" The tax collector's face changed, and his attitude immediately improved. "No need to bother your young lady. We would rather have less trouble than more. Let's forget about it this time. Let's go!"

Seeing the tax collectors leave, the merchants thanked Thomas for his timely rescue, but also expressed their concern about a conflict between him and the Kanjo Bugyo.

Thomas was very good at dealing with people. "Thank you to the travelers. It was them who helped you find the key evidence and seized the "opportunity to turn the situation around." I believe the tax collectors will be more restrained from now on."