Working Prophet.

Chapter 360

Ilea unfolded the parchment, scanned the contents from top to bottom, and suddenly showed surprise on her face.

She knew that although Li Yu had been learning the common language of the mainland in private, now he could speak some common words at a minimum.

But it was limited to listening and speaking, and it was still difficult to read characters, so she approached Li Yu's ear and told Li Yu what was recorded on the parchment.

"The Emmanuel family decided to grant us the tax-free trading rights in Black Rock City. Simply put, all transactions between the Arias Family and the Shuangxiu Church in Black Rock City will no longer need to pay taxes.

"We can save a lot of money in this way for a year. The Emanuel family is really generous this time."

More than generosity, the Emanuel family is simply suffering.

Of course, Li Yu can also understand why the other party would do this, because as we all know, the Arias family has made money by selling radishes for thousands of years, and there are almost no other specialties in the territory.

And carrots have always been called the food of the common people. The nobles don't consume much, or the amount of consumption is not large, and they can't be sold at a price. Of course, don't expect to collect much tax.

The Emmanuel family is rich and powerful, and they look down on these three melons and jujubes, so they let it go. As for the pepper sold by the female lord for the Shuangxiu Church, even if the Emmanuel family wanted to accept it, Miss Rabbit would not be able to It is impossible to pay taxes in this life.

Pepper is not like radish. During the harvest, several carts are pulled out. It is just two small bags, and you can go to the city with just a pocket.

As long as there is a way to deal privately, it is like meeting with salted fish in person, highlighting the fact that no one knows.

Moreover, tax evasion is not exclusive to Ilea, it is very common in Black Rock City, and the Emanuel family has no good solution (too strict control, merchants will go to other places to do business) .

Therefore, this part of the income can be ignored.

After talking about selling, let's talk about buying.

With the success of slaying the dragon, Ilea's reputation skyrocketed, and in less than a month, everyone in the western region knew about it.

And once this person becomes famous, he will inevitably be sectioned and put under a microscope.

Of course, there is a good side in it, and of course there is also a bad side, especially no matter which plane it is in, the spread of black material is always faster.

For example, Miss Rabbit's stinginess is now known by more and more nobles, except that Ilea gritted her teeth and made a lot of money before fighting with the evil dragon. Usually, the female lord herself is more like an evil dragon. dragon.

Lie down on her treasure and take a nap, whoever comes in and tries to steal her money, she will breathe fire and burn him to death.

Theodossi is probably also not optimistic about the neighbor's spending power.

To sum up, the price of giving the Arias family duty-free trade rights is not high, but this gift is of extraordinary significance. Compared with giving money directly, it can draw in the relationship between the two families. It is a small amount of money to pretend to be big.

On the side of the Double Break Church, Diodosi probably didn't think much about it at all. He also gave the Silver Moon Church similar privileges. The symbolic meaning is greater than the actual meaning, which is a proof of friendship.

The church is for evangelism. As long as there are enough heads, it can raise as much money as it wants.I have never heard of anyone who went into business, but it is serious to teach anyone who can do business. This is not doing business properly.

If it was half a month later, Diodosi would probably not think so. He would rather pay the two of them one thousand, no, even ten thousand gold coins. In short, he would never issue this duty-free trade order.

Unfortunately, there is no regret medicine in this world.

Li Yu was also a little surprised after Ilea finished talking about the contents of the parchment. He didn't expect the Emanuel family to be so polite. Among other things, the raw materials that need to be put into production in the future can be purchased in Black Rock City, which can save money. Next big bucks.

In the later stage, Saffrey can also open a semicolon or something here. Anyway, the Emanuel family does not charge taxes for selling things.

But since Sapphire is willing to leave Black Rock City and go to the green field, Li Yu also plans to put the economic center in the green field, trying to help Miss Rabbit upgrade her castle to a town as soon as possible.

Since the Silvermoon Church has been in a dominant position in the western region for a long time, the nobles here are deeply influenced by them, especially the church's unarmed tradition, which has almost become an iron law, imprinted on every noble. in the bone marrow.

So much so that when Herodotus, who was born in the Silver Moon Church, wanted to break this iron law, he received unprecedented strong opposition. The nobles in the western region even formed a coalition spontaneously to help High Priest Martina crusade against the Greek who had already controlled the Holy See. Rodod.

It may be more difficult than imagined to get them to accept the armed weekend religion.

At present, only Miss Rabbit, who is driving the ducks to the shelves, has accepted all the conditions of the weekend education by virtue of the absolute trust accumulated between her and Li Yu.

In this case, you might as well adjust your strategy, stop attacking everywhere, but attract people to the green field as much as possible.

Of course, external publicity should still be done, especially when the Silver Moon Church is weak, Li Yu has already thought of a way.

Li Yu was still thinking about the next plan, and Harman suddenly said, "Excuse me, can we take a look at that parchment?"

"can."

The duty-free trade order is not something that needs to be hidden, and Miss Rabbit handed it over generously.

Harman thanked him after receiving it, read it from beginning to end, and then carefully read it no less than two or three times before handing the parchment to Ilkander beside him.

Ilkander saw it quite quickly, and passed it to Rafal after only a few glances.

Rafal also read very slowly, and read each word for a long time, so that Miss Rabbit wondered if the eyes of the three brothers were not very good.

"It's my father's handwriting." Rafal returned the duty-free trade order to the female lord.

"I think so too, and the ink is very new, if nothing else happens, it should have been written today." Harman said.

Ilkander didn't say anything, but if he really saw something wrong with his temper, he would have yelled by now.

The housekeeper quietly waited for the three to check the authenticity of the duty-free trade order, but did not stop it.

Until Harman asked again, "We have received several orders from my father in the past few months. Since my father can always write letters, why doesn't he want to see us?"

"Lord Theodosius has his own considerations."

Obviously, the housekeeper's general answer did not satisfy the three brothers, but this time she did not keep her secrets like before, and continued after a pause.

"Lord Theodosius suspects that someone within the family has betrayed him."

(End of this chapter)