Alice snorted angrily: "Stop making excuses, I've seen this happen. It's obviously you, relying on your own power, trying to extort money from outsiders, why are you still pretending to be the victim here?"
She walked to the pile of scattered goods, scratched them with her feet and said: "What kind of shabby clothes are these? You dare to say they are worn by the queen and princess. Have you ever seen what kind of clothes the princess wears? How dare you mess around here?"
explain!"
The people in the caravan smiled contemptuously and said: "Of course we have never seen it, but the ladies and gentlemen of our Alexia family have. These clothes are all popular among the emperor's daughters and ladies this year. You go to the street now.
Take a look and see who among the people of some status doesn’t wear these styles? We don’t know this, but don’t you know better?”
"you……!"
Mark Xiuting pulled Alice and said: "Forget it, little girl, it was our fault that the goods were damaged, and we should pay compensation. We came to the imperial capital from other places, and we don't want to cause trouble here." He said to
The caravan man said: "You said these things are worth 400,000 gold coins. I can't afford so much cash. Why don't we each take a step back and compensate you 150,000 gold coins? Let's forget it. Of course, if you insist
We compensate 400,000 gold coins, so we have to find a place where we can reason and comment." He retreated and then advanced, soft and hard, even if he gave the opponent a step down, he didn't want to let people like himself get into trouble.
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The leading businessman was not as easy to talk to as the one just now, and he couldn’t figure out Alice’s identity, so he didn’t want to cause any more trouble, so he just wanted to get over it. He said: “Well, I think you’re okay.
For the sake of common sense, I won’t argue with you. The 150,000 yuan in cargo compensation, and our people were injured by you, so we have to pay some compensation anyway.”
"Yes." Xiu Ting took out a package from the carriage, found a stack of gold scrolls and was about to count the money, but Alice stopped doing it.
"No, you can't pay them like this." Alice stopped Xiu Ting and said: "They are obviously blackmailing you, why do you have to tolerate them? Humph, aren't they just a bunch of little minions who pretend to be powerful? Let me see if they are.
There is no more national law!”
"Hey little girl!" the businessman said angrily: "What does the matter between me and them have to do with you? They themselves are willing to pay compensation, why are you joining in the fun?"
Xiu Ting also persuaded: "Yes, little girl, thank you, but we still have things to do, and we don't want to cause trouble, so let's forget about it."
Alice stamped her feet and shouted: "No! You just can't pay him. These people are bullying others. If they blackmail you once, they will blackmail others a second time. They just see the attitude of you outsiders who want to calm things down, so
You are so lawless! I, Alice, saw it here today. I will pay you whatever amount you should pay. I won’t agree to pay even a penny more!”
Both the merchant and Xiu Ting were dumbfounded, wondering what was going on.
As soon as they got into the car, Kulizarid looked at the haha and laughed, and said to himself: "In this era, girls as simple and stubborn as her are really rare. Both parties want to settle the matter, but she is still here and won't let her go.
.Hmm...it's rare to have an upright heart."
Alice is indeed more angry than anyone else. She is not only angry at the merchants who bully the outsiders, but also angry at the weakness of the outsiders. She is even more angry that the city gate guards here have not moved yet and have not come to mediate the dispute.
In fact, we don’t blame these city gate guards for watching the excitement and not coming to help outsiders. In fact, they also have entangled interests here. You must know that goods entering and leaving the city must be collected, and taxes are collected according to different grades and values of goods.
It’s not necessarily how much. And those businessmen, especially those with powerful connections, will always find ways to evade taxes. For example, fox skin is more valuable than rat skin, so the tax on fox skin is higher than that on rat skin. Businessmen
After bribing the tax officer at the city gate, he changed the fox skins on the goods list to rat skins and the fine snow fox skins to ordinary fox skins. This way, he could pay a large amount of tax.
Although the city gate guards don't get a big share of this, they can get a little bit of it, and the extra money they earn in a month is sometimes several times higher than their salary. Now that they have encountered such a thing, naturally
Secretly siding with the merchants, the caravan has a large number of people, so they will let the merchants make trouble. If the merchants suffer a loss, they will come out to mediate. And this truth, Mark Xiuting, Kulizarid, they all know
, but Alice didn’t know.
So Alice shouted angrily in the crowd: "Guards, guards!"
But at this moment, Hullington was negotiating with the city guards who were watching the excitement. When he saw Alice rushing into the crowd, he knew that she was going to cause trouble, so he quickly found the city guards and spoke to them quietly.
At this time, the city guards did not know whether it was true or false after hearing this, but if it was true, they could not afford to suffer the crime.
Hullington pulled them together again and said: "Land and order in the imperial capital has been poor recently. It is not appropriate for the princess's identity to be exposed, lest she cause any trouble again."
The city guards naturally understood this. If their identities were exposed and they were assassinated by assassins again, they could not afford the crime.
"Guards, bastard city guards!" Alice shouted again and again. Finally seeing a city guard coming, she stepped forward and angrily said: "What happened at the gate of the city and you didn't care? You are the ones.
This is how you maintain law and order in the imperial capital?"
"Uh, this..." the city guard captain said: "Official... this is not within the scope of our responsibilities in terms of official duties, but you are right. If such a dispute occurs at the city gate, we should take care of it, so I
Didn’t you bring someone here?”
"snort!"
The captain of the city guard stepped forward with an ax and a halberd, and said arrogantly to the caravan: "You bastards, do you take us seriously when you make trouble at the city gate? You have ruined the security of the imperial capital! Don't even look at this place.
What kind of place is this? This is the imperial capital, not the countryside. Don't think that just because you are a local can bully outsiders. Do you still have the law of kings? Is there a harmonious society? You are not even a powerful person, but you dare to bully others. Tell you, don't
He said that you are just businessmen from a noble family. Even if people from the Alekaya family are here in person, don’t even think about making trouble here, do you understand?”
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! The businessman was stunned, thinking: "Isn't this guy usually helping me?" But people like them are the best at judging people's faces.
, glanced at Alice, and immediately reacted: "It seems that this little girl is indeed a person of status. I think it's better to be patient and bear with this matter." Thinking of this, he stepped forward and said: "Yes, yes, yes
, Captain, why are we making trouble here? Wasn't the cargo knocked over? It's hard for us to explain to the owner."
In fact, these businessmen, so to speak, are not as good as those wealthy merchants. They are just domestic servants raised by noble officials. They sell popular and popular goods in the imperial capital, and they have no power at all.
The captain put one hand on his waist, shook his legs and said: "This is your business and has nothing to do with me, but if you want to blackmail others here, I tell you that I can't rub sand in my eyes, and this city guard armor that maintains the security of the imperial capital is also
It’s not for nothing.”
"Yes, we are not extorting, it's just...it's just the nature of a businessman, and he likes to raise random prices when he opens his mouth." The leader of the caravan said to Mark Xiuting: "Our truckload of goods costs 30,000 to 40,000 gold coins, so do I.
If I don’t blackmail you, I’ll pay you 40,000 yuan.”
Mark Xiuting counted them and took out four gold scrolls and gave them to him.
The merchant leader counted the money, said a few polite words to the city guards, waved his hand and left with the convoy, not even leaving the things that had been knocked over on the ground.
Shuke put the remaining money away, turned to Alice and said, "Thank you, little girl. It's really thanks to your help that we were saved from greater losses."
"Hey, you're welcome, I can't stand people like them the most." Alice was quite proud of having done a good deed for herself, and said, "It's up to you, don't be angry about this. In fact, the Imperial City is quite good.
Most people are very polite and will not bully outsiders. You will know after living in the Imperial Capital for a few days. The people in the Imperial Capital are very friendly and enthusiastic. By the way, is this your first time in the Imperial Capital?"
"Haha, yes, it's our first time to come to the imperial capital." Xiu Ting said with a smile: "Society is complex, and there are all kinds of people. Even in a good place, there will always be a few bad people. We won't
Because of such a trivial matter, there is prejudice against the Imperial Capital. Many people in foreign countries praise the Imperial Capital and say that the Imperial Capital is a great city."
"Hmm, it turns out you are visitors from abroad." Alice nodded repeatedly, and of course she was happy to be praised by foreigners for her country. She suddenly clapped her hands and said, "Well, you are new to the imperial capital, and you are not familiar with the place.
How about I be your guide and introduce you to this city?"
"Hey, Alice." As soon as Hurlington walked up to Alice, he saw her enthusiastic hospitality. He wanted to dissuade her, but seeing that she was rarely happy at the moment, he gave up the idea of dissuading her.
"Ah!" Xiu Ting scratched his head, looked back at the carriage behind him, and laughed dryly: "Isn't this bad? I won't trouble you?"
"It's okay, it's okay." Alice waved happily: "I'm very free and have nothing to do, so you're welcome."
"Well...well, I'll trouble you then." Xiu Ting couldn't refuse, and looked back at the owner in the carriage. Seeing that Kulizarid had no objection, he had no choice but to agree to her.