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Vio Shipping Company is a private enterprise engaged in the water transportation business between the Newing Town Wharf in Nadir and the Moses Port Wharf.

Such small-scale local enterprises that can successfully stand in a certain field are mostly privately owned by nobles or have inextricable connections with nobles; Wei'ao Shipping is no exception... the company's large The boss is the noble Baron Vio of Newing Town.

When Inad stood up to review the old case vigorously and purged all the lawless lunatics, the baroness and couple of the Vio family relied on their excellent character (according to the local nobles) and their good reputation in the town of Newing Survived this hurdle—the crew and employees of Viau Shipping are all locals of Newing Town, and they treat the workers and sailors relatively generously; in terms of their family’s contribution to the employment of locals, the town hall has more or less Save a little affection.

Although it is inevitable that part of the land of Vio's family will be involved in lawsuits, and part of the property will be confiscated by the city hall because they cannot explain the source clearly, but at any rate, the important shipping company and several properties of the family have been preserved.

In view of their family's cooperation with the city hall's decree and their active clearance of land and property from unknown sources, the city hall has approved this private shipping company, issued relevant operating certificates, and given the green light to Vio Shipping for some businesses ——Except for the skeleton fleet of the Transportation Department, only their ships can legally bring affordable Inadrian goods to Moses Port.

During the two months when Odis Territory was undercurrents due to the change of the lord, Vio Shipping diligently brought dozens of ships of supplies to Moses Port, which played a role in stabilizing local prices to a certain extent— — Otherwise, the price of unhulled wheat would not have increased twenty-fold.

The day before the skeleton fleet arrived at Moses Port, the fleet of Vio Shipping Company brought four shipments of Westham flour, corn from Yongwang Town, potatoes from Kane Town, and fresh lotus root provided by the Orange Cat Knight Leader as usual; The port area of ​​Moses Port and Xicheng District, two urban areas where civilians are concentrated, are open for sale.

Only more than 20 hours later, the four shipments brought by Wei Ao Shipping have been sold out.

The business is doing so well... The owner of the fleet, the big boss of Viau Shipping, the Baroness Viau and his wife who came to Moses Port last month after smelling uneasiness, are not happy at all.

On Jili Avenue in the west part of the port area, in the Port of Moses branch with the signboard of Viau Shipping, in the room on the second floor, the Baron Viau and his wife and the three capable deacons were looking through the account books, each with a more dignified expression.

"We have thought of so many ways, but the big head is still being monopolized..." The baroness put down the account book, cold sweat covered her plump brow, "Maltz, doesn't even the single-person purchase limit work?"

"Yes, ma'am." Deacon Maltz said solemnly, "Those who hoard goods only need to let all the people under them line up. They are so numerous that they can stop ordinary citizens outside our stores, and they can also prohibit The townspeople are near the blocks where we open our stores, and our people... you know, we have so few people that even if all the sailors on the ship come down to help, there's no way to keep those people in check."

The baroness and his wife looked ugly, and Baron Vio, who was also round and chubby, asked, "Then what if our goods are not sold in the store?"

"Early this morning, I asked our people to take a few carts of goods to the civilian block of Xicheng District before dawn, and quietly sell them along the street. The goods were all handed over to the citizens. But when the second batch of goods was pulled over, the The guy who smelled it came here..." Deacon Maltz sighed, "Those guys will give some small money to the common people who provide cheap goods, and there will always be people who want to take advantage of this."

Baron Vio rubbed his brow with his fat hand in a headache.

"We haven't been able to refuse to sell to those people, otherwise we will just give those people an excuse to tell the citizens that there is no more food for Innatrix to bring to Port Moses. The citizens believe them The price of food is going to go up again." Deacon Maltz said seriously, "But even if we maintain the status quo...the situation is not much better. When our fleet entered the port yesterday, the price of wheat in the world dropped to 160 copper a piece kilos; by this morning we were out of stock and the wheat price bounced back."

"Oh, hell..." the baroness couldn't help but groaned, "Those damn moss port idiots - don't they know that something will happen if this goes on?! Just to get more money from the pockets of those poor people They are willing to be hanged on the gallows for a few silver coins??"

"Why don't our products also increase in price? After working so hard for a long time, I actually sent money to those guys." Baron Vio said angrily.

"If you want to be stupid and die, don't drag me, you fat pig!" the baroness yelled violently.

The baroness couple, of course, did not take the initiative to do this kind of good deed of stabilizing prices out of compassion... This is actually just a task entrusted to them by the logistics department of the city hall.

Having seen with their own eyes how the undead regime brutally dealt with the nobles of Innatrix, the Vio couple did not dare to ignore the orders of the city hall. During this period of time, they tried their best to find ways to deliver cheap food to the citizens as much as possible. hands—but obviously, under the "encirclement and suppression" of more than a dozen local nobles, their task did not go smoothly.

"Damn it, we have to think of a way. If the city hall mistakenly thinks that our family didn't pay attention to what they told us, who knows how those guys will clean up our house?"

The baroness bit her nails anxiously. After working hard for a long time, she couldn't come up with a reliable idea. She slapped her husband's head angrily: "Don't look stupid, think about it too!"

"You shrew! Don't attack me so easily!" Baron Vio said angrily.

"What?! How dare you call me a shrew??"

"What's wrong with scolding you, fat woman!"

"Okay, you fat pig still dare to call me a fat woman!"

Deacon Maltz silently exited the room so as not to interrupt the quarrel between the couple.

Just as he was about to go downstairs, a sailor from the shipping company ran up the stairwell.

"Deacon, someone wants to borrow some food from us." The sailor said in embarrassment, "He's in the store downstairs, look..."

"Borrow it, borrow it." Deacon Maltz waved helplessly, "Go with me to the warehouse and see how much is left."

Newing Town has close contacts with Moses Port. Many people from Newing Town work here all the year round and earn money and bring their families to Moses Port to settle down. Some women from the town married to Moses Port; The workers and sailors are all locals in Newing Town, and they have more or less relatives with these "villagers".

Deacon Maltz took the sailors to the warehouse to find half a bag of flour, a bag of cornmeal, and a basket of potatoes reserved for the employees of the Port of Moses branch as rations. They carried them together to the store on the first floor, and a group of "villagers" surrounded them.

"There's only so much left, let's share a share and save some food."

Deacon Maltz personally distributed food to these "villagers" and did not remember who took how much. If it weren't for the special situation now, it would be impossible for these people who have the ability to settle in Moses Port to bow their heads and borrow these three melons and two dates. .

When putting a handful of potatoes in a vegetable basket brought by a skinny young man, the deacon Maltz was stunned, and called out the other's name: "Sapir? Why are you here?"

Sapir Rachel, the bartender at the Sailor's, had an older brother named Joey who was married; their brother's mother was a Newing native who married into Port Moses, and was somewhat related to Deacon Maltz.

"Good day, Uncle Maltz." Sapir nodded with a wry smile, "I... the bar I worked in closed down two weeks ago. My elder brother was in poor health and was fired last month..."

Deacon Maltz knew about Joey Rachel's unfortunate encounter with a vampire more than a year ago, so he didn't say anything, but pulled Sapir aside and told him to wait a while.

After distributing the flour and potatoes to the "villagers" who came to borrow food, and sending away the thankful compatriots, Maltz asked his nephew sternly: "Didn't Leo's family lose a lot of money, and you squandered that money?" gone?"

Sapir Rachel fell silent.

When the deacon Maltz urged him again, the bartender who had dared to go to another place behind his back to ask for help said awkwardly: "Our brother did not spend money indiscriminately, Uncle Maltz... the family members of Sister Lisa's family died last month. I had no choice but to ask for help to come to our house. After the money Leo’s family compensated for the medical treatment of my eldest brother, there is still a lot left, but..."

Maltz sighed: "You brothers are too stupid, why do you have to buy such expensive food locally? Even if the boat fare back to Newing Town is too expensive, it is more cost-effective than buying locally."

"You really don't know, Uncle Maltz." Sapir said sadly, "Last month, our neighbors thought the same way. The family called a group of friends and pooled their money to take a boat to Newing Town to buy a batch of wheat flour. When I came back, I was arrested by the city police superintendent on the charge of illegally reselling grain before I had time to point it out, and I haven’t released it yet.”

"What?!" Maltz was taken aback, "Is there such a thing??"

"The only ones who can still pull food in and out of Moses Port, except for those decent people's chariots and cargo ships, are you Wei Ao Shipping." Sapir gritted his teeth and said, "You are a busy person, and you may not have noticed that every day at the pier and Around the city gates, there are many city police and private soldiers from the gentlemen's homes patrolling. The goods entering and leaving the city will be searched, but if you bring a little more food, you will have to pay a large amount of taxes... For months, merchants who drank in our store complained about it."

Deacon Maltz slowly raised his hand and pressed his forehead hard.

This deacon, who is over forty years old, has been called into Vio's house as a servant since he was a teenager, and has served the baron couples from the previous generation of Vio's family to this generation.

There is no one out of ten nobles in Inad who stand collars. On the surface, Maltz dared not criticize this harsh approach of the city hall, but he did not hesitate to slander him in his stomach.

In Maltz's view, even if there are indeed some decent people who are not very particular about the rules and do things that are not "decent" at all, it is really inappropriate to treat all nobles so harshly—at least the Vio family he served The people of Newing Town have done a lot of things, and many people in Newing Town rely on the Wei Ao family to ensure their food and clothing.

But now... In the past two months with the baroness and his wife in the Port Moses branch, he was used to seeing the ugly behavior of the local nobles, and hearing Sapir mention these dirty tricks that even he didn't know, Maltz couldn't bear it. I can't help but feel... these gentlemen in Moses Port should really be dragged out to hang on the city wall like those hapless nobles in Inadoli.

If it wasn't for his inappropriate status, Maltz would have wanted to growl like a baroness—what kind of nerve problem did these Port Moses nobles have? ?Are you in such a hurry to earn enough money for a lifetime in just a few months, and then be hanged? !

Obviously, they only carve up the land, real estate, apartment factories and factories that the nobles who moved away can't take away, which is enough to make their wealth skyrocket several times... How can they not be satisfied to this point? !

If you want so much money, are you going to take it to hell to buy a golden coffin? !

No one could answer Maltz's question, and the steady deacon didn't yell out the question...his self-cultivation did not allow him to do so.

Maltz raised his hand and patted his nephew's bone-thin shoulder, took out a small bag of coins from the inner pocket of his jacket, and stuffed it into Sapir's hand: "Let your elder brother Joey recover and come to our ship to work , I remember that he has a certificate of accounting, you can also come to do a short-term labor for a while, and you will get better after this period of time."

Sapir couldn't help lowering his head and wiping his tears: "Thank you, Uncle Maltz... In fact, our brothers have been regretting this period of time. If we had known earlier, we might as well have stayed in Inadili..."

Maltz sighed: "There is no need to mention the past, believe me, Port Moses will be fine."

Maltz was about to send his nephew out when he suddenly heard the sound of people boiling outside.

The uncles and nephews went to the door and looked around strangely, and saw... several men in uniform blue cloth overalls (actually, they were the crew members of the skeleton ship), riding a rickshaw full of goods, walking along the side of Jili Avenue. Driving slowly while holding a horn and shouting loudly.

"Cheap, full-bodied Westem noodles! The full-bodied noodles can double in size after being cooked! Only three copper coins per catty!"

"Buy some noodles and get some noodles with sweet tomato sauce!"

"Yongwang town sweet stuffed corn cakes are five copper coins a bag, and a bag is two catties! No butter is needed, and they can be eaten roasted, steamed or cooked! Sweet and delicious!"

"Kane Town Mashed Potatoes are two copper coins a can! There are sweet, tomato and fish flavors!"

The people of Moses Hong Kong have not heard of such low food prices for a long time. I don’t know how many residents on Jili Street rushed out of their homes and flocked frantically to the rows of three-wheeled convoys driving along the street...

The boatswain who maintained order next to the convoy saw the store facing the street with the signboard of Wei Ao Shipping, and strode over: "Good day, are you from Wei Ao Shipping?"

"Yes, I am." Deacon Maltz was stunned for a moment before he realized it, and hurried forward.

"I'm the boatswain on the shipping department's ship. Our fleet has just landed, and the cargo has not been fully unloaded. Can we borrow some manpower from Wei Ao Shipping?" The visitor said politely.

"Yes, of course we can. Our employees are just idle." The deacon Maltz became excited when he heard "the fleet docked." Come out, lads! There's work to be done!"

A group of sailors wearing Vio's shipping uniforms quickly ran out of the store...

The boatswain called away the people who were transported by Vio without saying a word, and the deacon Maltz yelled a few words to tell the young man to listen to the arrangement of the transportation department. Nephew: "What are you doing standing there, hurry up and help!"

"Uncle?" Sapir couldn't react for a while.

Maltz winked at him, silently made a "behave well" mouth shape with his mouth, and then piled on Sapir's back again, and shouted to the boatswain who rushed away: "Sir, let me Let your nephew follow suit, he is very capable!"

The boatswain looked back at Sapir, waved and said, "Hey, buddy, keep up!"

Sapir was overjoyed, and quickly chased after him.