Chapter 12: Some Tax Laws of the Dragon Kingdom
Yan Tielong hurried to the Rourou Hotel. When he entered the hotel and saw the beautiful blond Ospine in the restaurant eating white bread and the milk of an unknown animal in an aristocratic and elegant way, he remembered that he was chewing
Brown Bread and Ale, feeling unbalanced and envious, asked Kirimis at the counter: "Aunt Kirimis, why can Ospine eat such a good breakfast?".
Qilimis, who was writing something at the counter, heard Yan Tiezui's question and said matter-of-factly: "Those breakfasts were bought by Ospine with his own money. They are not like someone who is so lavish and still owes them."
If you have a lot of debt, if you want to eat those exquisite breakfasts, you should pay off the debt as soon as possible."
Qili Missy remembered that Yan Tielong hurriedly went to Kemedis in the morning, thinking that he had not had breakfast and asked: "Yan Tielong, you haven't had breakfast yet, right?".
Before Yan Tielong could react, Chilimidi ordered Yumi Xixi, who was walking towards him: "Yimi Xixi, go to the kitchen and prepare a piece of black bread and water for our Lord Yan Tuhao."
"Okay, Aunt Misi." Yumi Xixi responded, and then walked towards the kitchen.
"Wait a minute, sister Yumi Xixi, there is no need to prepare it for me, I just used it at Uncle Kemedis's place." Yan Tielong hurriedly stopped Yumi Xixi and explained that he had had breakfast at the Green Yuxi Tavern.
When Qilimis heard that Yan Tielong had already eaten, she asked: "Since Yan Tielong has already eaten, what do you want to do when you come back here now?".
"Oh! Aunt Kirimis, if you didn't remind me, I almost forgot. I just accepted a good escort mission from Uncle Kemedis, but now I have to wait for Ospine to finish his breakfast.
Say." Yan Tielong remembered his purpose after hearing Qilimis's words, but when he saw Ospine still eating, he said.
When Qilimis heard Yan Tielong's words, her expression flashed with satisfaction that Yan Tielong could understand her mercenary members, and then she stopped paying attention to what Yan Tielong continued to write with his head down.
Yan Tielong waited aside for a while, and after seeing the elegant way Ospine finished his breakfast, he stepped forward and said: "Ospine, I have accepted a good mission, let's go."
"Okay, captain!" Ospine actually noticed Yan Tielong when he entered the hotel, but he was able to explain his purpose to himself after finishing breakfast, and he agreed with it in his heart and responded.
On the way to Lu Yuqian's tavern, Yan Tielong explained the situation of this mission and the fairly generous commission to Ospine.
"We are here, Platinum Eagle Qinan!" Yan Tielong took Ospine to the warehouse at the back door of Green Feather Qian's Tavern. When he saw Platinum Eagle Qinan and five Mulu beast carts and three people chasing the Mulu beast cart driver,
Just said hello.
"Brother Yan Tielong, can we set off?" Boying Qinan asked Yan Tielong directly when they arrived.
"Of course, our employer, Your Excellency!" Yan Tielong saluted as a mercenary, and then took Ospine onto the Mulu beast cart.
"Let's go!" Boying Qinan announced loudly when he saw everyone was ready.
Platinum Eagle Banner asked Yan Tielong and the others to take the lead. Yan Tielong and the others drove five empty Mulu beast vehicles out of Guyu Town and headed towards the Platinum Stroll Fortress.
"Captain Yan Tielong, is there really no problem with just the two of us protecting the caravan?" Ospine, who was sitting next to Yan Tielong, asked worriedly about the lack of manpower.
Yan Tielong heard Ospine's concern, and he didn't care as he chased the Muru beast and said confidently: "Haha, this trade route from Guyu Town to Bostro Fortress is only unlucky enough to encounter those who don't."
There is no other danger to the civilized greenskins. The strength of the two of us is more than enough to deal with those greenskins, so there is no need to worry about the shortage of manpower."
"Captain Yan Tielong, are there no gangsters and robbers on this road?" Ospine asked curiously.
"Yes! But the robbers and robbers here are newcomers who don't know the situation. The robbers and robbers who really know the situation here will not choose here." Yan Tielong first admitted that there are lawless elements in this business road.
At the same time, he also explained that the criminals in this business road are newcomers who don't know the situation, and the veterans will not choose this place.
Ospine was a little surprised when he heard Yan Tielong's words and asked: "Commander Yan Tielong, why is this?".
When Yan Tielong heard Ospine's doubts, he directly explained the reason: "It's not the green skin relationship."
Yan Tielong saw that Ospine was confused by his words and continued to explain: "Lawless elements such as bandits and robbers will choose dangerous and secret places near business roads as their bases. Firstly, it is convenient for robbery and robbery. Secondly,
It can store looted goods, and thirdly, it can defend against wild beasts, bounties like us, and people with a strong sense of justice.
But as soon as those bandits and robbers decided on their desired base here, they would start building a camp. However, when they were halfway through building it, they were suddenly troubled by greenskins who appeared from nowhere. Then they would have to deal with those greenskins.
It was so hard to find time to rob again, so over time there was no room for bandits and robbers to live here, so I would say that only those robbers and robbers who did not know the situation would choose to rob here."
"Is this really true?" Ospine still didn't believe what Yan Tielong said, but he didn't show it, he just doubted Yan Tielong in his heart.
When Yan Tielong and the others arrived at Bostro Fortress safely before noon, Platinum Eagle Banner decided to take a short break and replenish water and food. During the rest, Platinum Eagle Banner went to the Howling Tavern and hired eight employees.
A mercenary of the Mingshan Red Mercenary Group.
"Let's go!" At 11 o'clock at noon, Platinum Eagle Qinan and the others loudly announced after they had rested, and then led the Mulu beast fleet out of Platstro Fortress and set off towards the Baronial Territory of Melobais in the Flying Dragon Kingdom.
"Captain Yan Tielong, since Platinum Eagle Banner has a caravan, why do we need to hire other mercenary groups?" Ospine asked when he saw Platinum Eagle Banner hiring other mercenary groups.
When Yan Tielong heard Ospine's words, he said unwillingly: "The caravan will encounter those criminals along the way. Only the two of us cannot protect the caravan intact from being attacked by bandits and robbers with brains.
, after all, it’s our own strength that matters! Well, we just have to do our own thing well, and when we recruit other members in the next few days, things like this won’t happen!”.
Ospine heard the unwillingness in Yan Tielong's tone, so he opened his water bag silently according to some questions in his patience, handed it to Yan Tielong and said: "Here, Captain Yan Tielong.".
"Thank you!" Yan Tielong took Ospine's water bag and took a sip of water. Feeling that his mood had calmed down a lot, he thanked Ospine.
Platinum Eagle Banner led the caravan on the road for two hours, and they finally arrived at the small fortress outlying village of the Barony of Melobas.
Boying Qinan walked up to Yan Tielong and said, "Brother Yan Tielong, I'm going to leave this to you for the time being!".
"Don't worry, you can go to Boying Qinan. I'm here to watch and nothing will happen." Yan Tielong assured Boying Qinan in response.
When Boying Qinan heard Yan Tielong's assurance, he ran to the village where two soldiers were guarding a more beautiful house.
"Captain Yan Tielong, what is Bo Ying Qinan going to do?" Ospine, who was beside Yan Tielong, asked curiously when he saw Bo Ying Qinan running into a house guarded by soldiers, but the two soldiers did not stop him.
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"Oh, Bo Yingqinan went to the tax collector of Baron Melobas to pay the tax on the ale!" Yan Tielong explained to Ospine beside him.
"Commander Yan Tielong, we haven't bought ale yet, why do we have to pay taxes?" Ospine asked doubtfully.
"Haha, this is for the nobles to prevent merchants from smuggling. After all, many merchants used to buy goods and choose to leave the noble territory without paying taxes. This caused the nobles to lose a lot of money, so the kingdom and the nobles jointly issued a statement to pay taxes first before buying goods.
"Business laws." Yan Tielong explained the Feilong Kingdom law of paying taxes first and then buying goods.
"We haven't bought goods yet, how can those nobles collect taxes?" Ospine asked once.
"It's a tax on the nobles! Well~, let's take the purchase of ale for our Muru beast cart as an example. If we want to buy ale for a Muru beast cart, we will have to pay a tax of about 20 silver coins.
Of course, you paid the tax on ale, but bought other goods and were discovered by the local nobles. Not only will your goods be confiscated, but you will also be imprisoned. At that time, you will have to spend a lot of money to atone for your sins."
Yan Tielong explained the kingdom's laws on taxation to Ospine.
After hearing Yan Tielong's explanation, Ospine muttered in a voice he could hear: "So the Feilong Kingdom actually collects taxes like this!".
"Ospine, what are you talking about?" Yan Tielong heard Ospine's muttering, but his voice was too low and he asked without hearing the content.
"Commander Yan Tielong, I was just saying that the weather today is really good." Ospine laughed.
Just when Yan Tielong was about to continue questioning Ospine, he was interrupted by Bo Ying Qinan's voice: "Brother Yan Tielong, it's time for us to leave."
"Oh! Okay, let's set off now." Yan Tielong gave up and continued to ask Ospine, and he responded loudly to Platinum Eagle Qinan.
Yan Tielong drove the Mulu beast cart with Bo Ying Qinan and the others to the village's ale store in the baronial territory of Melobas. After buying ale in Bo Ying Qinan, Yan Tielong and the others immediately moved the large barrels of ale onto the Mulu beast.
car.
After half an hour of moving, Yan Tielong and the others finally loaded all the ale onto five Mulu beast carts. Yan Tielong and the others set off directly towards Bostro Fortress without rest.
When the caravan escorted by Yan Tielong was about to leave the Baron of Mai Luobaisi, it was suddenly stopped by a group of more than a dozen farmers in somewhat shabby clothes. At the same time, a middle-aged man wearing a rusty knight's armor walked out from among them and said loudly: "I am Mai Luobaisi."
Knight Baron Robais, now I suspect your caravan of smuggling, and now you will be inspected. If you make any threatening moves, you will be arrested for attacking the nobles."
"My Lord Knight, my name is Bo Ying Qinan and I am the leader of this caravan. We are all good businessmen. There is only ale here. By the way, this is proof of our ale tax." Bo Ying Qinan hurriedly raised his hands above his head.
He walked up to the knight wearing rusty knight armor and said, finally put down his raised hand, took out the tax certificate from his underwear and handed it to the knight in front of him.
Just when Platinum Eagle Banner put down his hand, the soldiers dressed as peasants around the knight nervously raised their wooden guns at Platinum Eagle Banner. Those soldiers thought he was about to draw his weapon. If the knight in the rusty knight armor hadn't known about the businessman in front of him,
There is no threat and you can just wave your soldiers back! Otherwise, the consequences will be really hard to predict...
"Yeah~! The documents are correct. Now check whether your Mulu beast cart only contains ale! Everyone, get on the cart and check!" The knight in rusty knight armor read the tax certificate handed over by Bostro and nodded, admitting that there was nothing wrong with the tax certificate.
, but he still gave instructions to his soldiers.
"You guys come down! We want to check your Mulu beast cart!" Baron Melobais looked like a peasant soldier and pointed a long wooden gun at Yan Tielong and Ospine who were in the Muru beast cart, and the man next to him said in a bad tone
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When Ospine heard about the bad attitude of the peasant-like soldiers, he was about to teach the soldier in front of him a lesson when he was held down by Yan Tielong and heard him say: "Don't cause trouble, let Bostro handle it here."
Chapter completed!