(Omitted above)

"I don't understand why when talking about the leaders of religious organizations - such as the Pope, the Monk King, the Taoist Head, and the Holy See - there are always many mortals who mistakenly think that these religious leaders are able to 'speak and follow the Dharma', 'Golden Mouth Decree', 'I am my religion', the ultimate authority limited within a certain religious organization?"

"It's like [Cardinal], [Abbot of the Great Temple], and [Sulu Tianshi] are all like air, as if they don't exist."

"Yes, those holy thrones, monks, and Taoist leaders are many of the extraordinary people who are [the most capable of fighting] within their own organizations. In the corresponding world, they are the bosses of their own churches, the largest-sized stepping stones."

"But I think it's funny whenever I think of some mortals who always mistakenly think that these leaders are unrestrained and perfect authoritarians."

(The following is omitted)

——"Neil Harber's Survey Report on the Structure Form of Secular Religious Organizations in Multiverse", page 37

......

It's still early night.

In the dock area of ​​the small and medium-sized sea merchants, several cargo ships of small and medium-sized sea merchants were mooring. Sailors and freighters on the dock (of course, they are local residents) were bringing bustling flocks of sheep, boxes of cut cashmere, baskets of chickens, bags of dried salted fish, tanned leather, refined sea salt, and other local products onto the ship.

Or you can move some semi-finished fabrics, Sarasen spices, flour, French Portuguese koji (various winemaking ingredients), wood pulp paper, etc. from the deck to the dock.

The tax collector naturally also took several subordinates to busy collect import taxes.

Each one takes the necessary one.

Although the geographical location is considered a remote corner of the Kingdom of Siberia, due to the existence of the maritime trade routes, the residents of Gus City can not only sell their livestock and by-products, but also buy special products from the French Portuguese and Saracens region, as well as local food in Siberia.

Compared with the territory of the kingdom, the purchase price of imported goods in Gus City is definitely the least premium - just as the minstrel sang: the heroes who have just left the novice villages, boarded the convertible carriages of brigades, and on the way to the big city, they protected the convertible carriages from bad luck by the attacks of wild wolves and bandits - whether it is the Kingdom of France, Portuguese or the Kingdom of Siga, the carriages in the inland areas and border markets, and the ports of sea harbors are extremely dependent on the convertible carriages in the heroic story, and the traffickers naturally have to pay premium for the carriages.

Although the residents of Gus City are relatively "poor and marginal leaders" compared to the royal capital, the three major dukes, and other wealthy territories, the living costs of residents of Gus City are relatively lower, and there is no premium.

In short, buyers are happy and sellers are happy.

I am happy, so I have to drink some wine, drink water, and chat.

So the tavern has to be opened in the dock area!

The tavern was bustling at this time.

"Little Hadir, make 6 more cups of spicy wine. The guests should be the purest. Be sure to call me!"

The owner of the shop who opened a smile first ordered the waiter at the bar, then bent down and picked up a bucket of cheap ale, speeding up the pace and filling several tables of guests with large glasses of cheap ale.

These tables of guests are sailors, local vendors, and other idle people, sitting together, drinking, bragging and playing dominoes.

The young waiter, Hadir, the son of the guard Hamo, is now shaking his hands and making spicy wine (slightly expensive flavored wine) that the "VIPs" order to drink.

Ah, relatively speaking, the ‘VIP’.

Small and medium-sized maritime merchants, captains, local tailors and janitors in Guscheng, grain shops and village chiefs, and nine people sat down at a table.

In other words, compared with the guests at other tables, the consumption capacity of this table is higher.

Of course, the guests at this table not only drink better,

Talk about topics,

It's also more subtle.

After three rounds of wine,

The tailor of Gus City spoke to the sea merchants and the captains half drunk and half awake:

"Hey, brother, you definitely can't guess. Today, there was a rare person in Gus City, hiccup~"

Before any captain or merchant took over the conversation, the tailor whispered the person who spoke to himself:

"A courier from the Wang family! He came to our island at noon today with his horse and a passenger ship!"

"Then, Chrysan ~ around three or four o'clock in the afternoon, he rode his horse back to the dock from the castle of our Lord Lord, and left the island on a passenger ship."

The person in the grain store next to him responded, "It's really rare. The last time a messenger from the capital came to our Gus City, it seemed like he was here three years ago?"

The village chief represented by the self-cultivated farmer, first nodded, then shook his head.

"I came once three and a half years ago, and I also came once five years ago."

“Bad news both times.”

One time brought war.

He brought back the body once.

The other people were stunned for a moment and heard the implicit sound of the three Guscheng.

The captains and merchants who were sitting there were both Spanish and French scholars.

The kingdom belongs to the kingdom, and the people belong to the people.

In the feudal era, some people chose to use iron and blood to achieve class rise.

But more people are just people with coordinates (-1, 1).

After all, the benefits gained by men, priests, and mercenaries are mostly unrelated to civilians.

The captains and the maritime merchants were silent for a few seconds. Then, a maritime merchant who was a native of Seychelles spoke: "Maybe it is our king who wants to increase the tax?"

Another captain, who is also a native of the Segali, said while thinking: "I know the owner of a local medium-sized horse farm in Jiteng, on the coast of the north of the kingdom. He and I grew up in the same countryside, and I are my brother, huh..."

"Well, when I return to Jiteng on this route, I will go and chat with him in private."

"If our king really wants to start a new war, the lord of Jit's leader will probably receive the order from the messenger of the capital."

"The local large and medium-sized horse farms are all related to the castle under Jiteng. I guess my buddy knows a little about the news."

Everyone was silent for a few seconds, with their own thoughts.

After all, if the two countries really want to start a war again (to put it more accurately, if Spain really wants to provoke a war again), the border markets of the two countries will inevitably bear the brunt of the first wave in the next few months.

The second wave of the sea trade route was affected.

This only means that before the war officially begins - if a war really happens again, the mobilization and preparation of both sides will take at least a few months - in the months before the war begins, the merchants engaged in external trade will be the first to be affected.

After the war officially began, the two kingdoms, whether engaged in external trade or domestic trade, most of the merchants needed temporary transformation to preserve their wealth in the turmoil of the times.

Interests are dynamic, not static.

People who cannot adapt to the current situation will lose their interests or [class fall].

The master has his way of living, and the people have their way of living.

"Well, what you said reminds me of something."

At this time, a French-Portuguese maritime merchant suddenly spoke.

"Last month, when I was still in France and Portugal, I heard a little bit of news from my cousin, who was the vice president of the [mercenary guild] in a certain territory on the border."

"It's just a rumor, it's not fidelity."

The French-Portuguese maritime merchant paused and began to preach:

"According to the internal rumors of our French and Portuguese [Mercenary Guild], it seems that it is possible to..."

"It happened once two months ago..."

"The "forced palace" of 8 Cardinals!"
Chapter completed!