Wolf King

Valentine, the second largest city in the Cronin Kingdom, and the largest of the three largest frozen ports in the north of the southern continent, has a resident population of nearly one million, and the floating population cannot be estimated.

Since it is the largest northern port in the southern continent, the size of the dock is extremely shocking. When Xiao Yun standing on the deck sees the rising coastline at the sea level, the first goal is to see the size of the boat at a glance.

"It is indeed a natural deep-water port, is this port bigger than Yangshan Pier?" After the shock, Xiao Yun lamented... The dozens of ships docked in the wizard port are barely reluctant, and the coast of this place will become concave. The extensive deep-water area is wrapped up, and the pier can be repaired on both sides, and it is almost easy to handle thousands of boats.

"Mr. Ayun, there is a dedicated pier for the Lamia Merchants Group." An official of the Transportation Department of the Adventurer Association pointed to the west with an envious look.

"A lot of ships, such a big ship?!" Xiao Yun looked in the direction of the person's finger, and was shocked at the time-it wasn't that he hadn't seen a bigger ship, it was really the world's shipbuilding technology tree. The tonnage of the main ship of the Carlisle Fleet is no more than 500 tons, and the displacement is about 2,000 tons. The main ship of the Adventurers Association Transportation Department is half as large as a man. Although it is a large steel ship, the technical content of shipbuilding is no better than that of Zheng He’s voyage How much stronger.

Compared with the main ship of Carlisle, which is regarded as a small overlord in the Inland Sea, the ship of the Lamia Merchants Group can be called a Big Mac-visually it is the difference between Yao Ming and Pan Changjiang!

"That's the fleet to the Far East and Bradrick." Officials from the Ministry of Transport are not jealous. "Only Cronin can build such a large ship on Bloomfield and refuse to sell it. Our The ship cannot cross the sea, and trade with Bradrick can only rely on airboats, and sometimes has to lease traffic from Lamia."

Xiao Yun nodded his understanding, and the Inland Sea and Offshore Adventurer Associations can still get some soup. The Far Sea Association can only watch people eating meat. No wonder the Ministry of Transport has no place in the Adventurer Association... cough.

As the most powerful and dynamic group organization, the Adventurer Association also has its own pier in Valentine, but compared to the dedicated pier of the Lamia business group that I have just seen, this place looks very compact... The public pier is next to each other, and it is almost heaven and earth with the Lamia business group pier that occupies a large area.

The Snow Wolf tribe leased 60% of the five ships of the Ministry of Transport. The main ship brought two boats together to transport more than 600 tons of cargo. The Ministry of Transport also kindly let the Snow Wolf tribe borrow their warehouse for free; With the hard work of the adventurers and the hard work of the adventurers, they moved the goods to the warehouse for registration in two days, and took the warehouse keys with the transportation department. The next thing to do is to sell these goods.

This batch of goods mainly consists of vermicelli noodles, yarn, vinegar, sealed canned non-staple food and other low-end market commodities. The Adventurer Association does not have so many people to make money in the low-end market, otherwise Xiao Yun will directly sell them to them. ...

"Mr. Ayun, do you need to contact some local businessmen?"

In the two-storey self-built small building that the Ministry of Transport lent to the Snow Wolf, the official Margaret, who was already very familiar with Xiao Yun, rushed to inquire after diligently handing over the materials within the association.

"Thank you, Ms. Margaret, and Mr. Sean has helped us find a buyer." Xiao Yun is baking a wheat bread in the coal stove in the room. I invite someone to sit down and skillfully bake it out of focus. The oatmeal cracked open in the middle, stuffed in a spoon and spicy rabbit buns eaten with bones and handed it to the other party.

Margaret is a 50-year-old human female. Her long-term traveling outside the world has blown her wind and frost. Some of them are old. People are very spiritual and easy-going.

"If Mr. Sean came forward, it would be much easier to handle, and the city hall would give some preferential treatment." Margaret smiled.

Xiao Yun also smiled...no explanation. He was reluctant to pay even the taxes of the Dark Elves. He was willing to pay the Valentin City Hall.

Also in the room were two patriarchs and two heads of human adventurers. Both patriarchs dedicated themselves to eating scones and rabbits. The two heads of humans exchanged their attention and silently dropped their eyes.

In Valentine's tax evasion, they didn't see anyone succeed anyway, but if it's the Snow Wolf Ayun...it's really hard to say.

Margaret rubbed a pie and took a jar of two-pound cold-eating rabbits when she left. Dismissing the official of the Ministry of Transport, Xiao Yun turned to look at the heads of the two heads and smiled away, saying seriously: "Let's talk about the underground forces of Valentine."

As long as he doesn’t laugh, Isaac and Hannah’s tense spirits will relax a lot, and then you will say what I know, one by one.

After about half an hour.

"In this way, Valentine's water is very deep..." Xiao Yun touched his chin and narrowed his eyes. "Xiacheng City Trade Union, the Brotherhood of Thieves, Red Carmen, want to recruit people to bypass these three ground snakes locally- —What if you abandon recruitment in the urban area and go directly to the surrounding towns and villages?"

"Uh..." Isaac stopped talking.

"It's okay, you say." Xiao Yun said.

"Valentin is a city of "freedom." In this city, as long as certain rules are followed, foreigners can avoid a lot of trouble. But if it is out of the city...Mr. Ayun, I think we better not. Do it." Isaac politely.

"How to say?" Xiao Yun strangely said, "There are no scruples, here are just a few of us."

Isaac hesitated and smiled bitterly: "Mr. Ayun, the southern continent is not on the grassland, you can walk everywhere if you don't care about the risks in the wild... Especially in the Kingdom of Cronin, every inch of land here has a master. The rules of the people who entered their territory...'the slaves without a master' belong to them."

"..." Xiao Yun understood these words and began to smoke, "Wait, do you mean...?"

"Cronin's law stipulates that when an alien enters a noble's territory and there is no owner, the noble can decide the alien belonging." Isaac smiled deeper.

The grass root patriarch had not understood it yet, and the chestnut patriarch who had understood it was stunned.

"How can there be such a nonsense rule? Then the alien adventurers who pass these nobles' territories will also catch them?" Xiao Yun broke the ground.

"Employed alien adventurers and adventurers with their own teams are not included here." Isaac wiped his sweat. "Just pay double the toll for a human adventurer."

"...I understand why there is such a strong natural deep-water port, the economy of this place is still not going up." Xiao Yun stared at the dead fish eye, and the xenophobia developed into a fart. This port brought about The dividend does not benefit the general public at all, let alone radiate the surrounding areas of Fuze.

Hannah interjected: "I am also a Cronin. Now this rule is the result of the efforts of this generation of royal family. Listening to my grandfather, when he was young, he did not even allow local adventurers to escape. Ability to act locally."

This is not difficult for Xiao Yun to understand. The most common laziness in the feudal regime is reflected in this virtue. If it is difficult to manage the floating population, it will simply prohibit population movement. Anyway, no matter how embarrassed and backward, it will not be as poor as the small group at the top of the pyramid. Of course how convenient it is.

Think of Sean's intention to tell the Snow Wolf tribes to leave Valentin when they left, and it can be seen that Cronin, the human kingdom, has closed the xenophobia to no extent. "Is it only possible to recruit workers in urban areas..." Xiao Yun frowned, to tell the truth that his recruitment target was biased towards rural areas. The old fritters in urban areas did not mean that they were unusable, but they had to pay more time for training .

However, if you run hard to the country, it is estimated that you will waste more time to tear and pinch the local aristocracy... It seems to be more uneconomical!

"Forget it, just recruit from the urban area. Anyway, as long as we have a few hundred people, a little blood will come out." Take the thigh and make a decision. Xiao Yun's mind turned the wool on the sheep, and then earned it. That's it...

Valentine this season is not as lively as it is during the winter. The adventurers who come here every year to spend the winter are either fighting in the Far East, or in the Western Continent or the underground world. The flow of people on the streets is at least one-third less.

In Shangcheng District, the neighborhood where the wealthy and wealthy families live in the city, a group of luxurious mansions, the main palace of the city, seems to be unremarkable.

"Look at who is coming...Oh, Sean, but you are a rare customer, an old friend, what is the wind that blows you to Valentine?" The 60-year-old lord of the city still hale with laughter and laughed fast Walked into the living room and spread his arms towards the guests.

"Don't I have been here two years ago, Philip." Sean stood up and smiled and hugged Philip the Lord. "This is... Lola? How long has it been since I've grown up and become a big girl."

Lord Laura, the granddaughter of Philip, smiled and lifted her skirt to salute, then threw herself up to hug Sean's waist: "Sean, when will you accept me as a disciple?"

"Of course it's time our little Lola won't pounce and hug young men." Sean smiled and touched the little girl's head.

"Laura, want some ladies." Philip was half blaming and half flattering.

After a few words of greeting, Philip asked the housekeeper to take Lola out, and when the door of the living room closed, the old town owner no longer concealed his emotions, with a concerned expression: "Sean, have you decided to'come back'?"

Sean closed his smile and slowly shook his head: "You know mine, Philip, my decision never changes."

Philip sighed in disappointment: "Shaun, he really needs you--"

"Looking at our friendship for more than thirty years, please stop talking about people who make us unhappy, okay." Sean calmly.

Philip nodded regretfully and shifted the topic: "How long do you intend to stay in Valentin this time? If you don't mind, please stay. We should also cherish our time and describe the old."

Sean was silent, and said softly: "You have always been the most dazzling one of the young talents I know, Philip, so 30 years ago and 30 years later."

Philip couldn't help but smile: "You're not someone who praises people so much, Sean, but don't say it's sympathetic to my old age to say such things."

Sean shook his head: "No, I'm serious, Philip. Valentine was just a small city without characteristics thirty years ago. You made this city the second largest city in Cronin. You Build a free trade terminal and port. You can put pressure on you and make Valentine the only city of freedom in Cronin. I cannot achieve such an achievement, even if I can live more years than you. Could not be completed."

Philip showed a heartfelt smile of pride, and even his wrists were a little uncontrollable-let Sean "The End of Illusion" so highly evaluate a person, how many people in Bloomfield can do it?

"Do you know Carlisle Harvey Ferdinand, a disciple of Sage Xavier?" Sean suddenly retorted.

"Oh, no one has been more eloquent than this Carlisle prince this year. For this prince, the aristocratic parliament and the military issued three tax increase orders to Valentine in six months, only looking at the harsh ones Wording, if I weren’t Valentin’s lord, I would have thought that 70% of Valentin’s income fell into my pocket.” Philip was angry when he heard this, and made an exaggerated gesture, the tone was full of irony To be honest, "It is said that the military needs to recruit 100,000 troops for food this year. It's ridiculous. Isn't the entire Federation only Cronin sending troops? Or is it that we are so generous that Cronin takes the entire federal expedition for consumption? What happened?"

Sean seemed to see Viscount Philip again when he was young and couldn’t help laughing: “Valentin’s finances are not controlled by you alone. It’s over to the side of the Lamia Chamber of Commerce, or you can’t help arguing with the noble council. Woke up?"

"Anyway, I have always been considered by the parliament to have no aristocratic demeanor. Now I have reached this age, and it is nothing more to be ridiculed." Philip grumbled.

"Three years ago, the unnamed Carlisle Harvey Ferdinand, three years later, is now disturbing Cronin's parliament and the military. What do you think of this sage Xavier's disciple, Philip? ?" Sean smiled and pulled the topic back.

Philip thought for a while and said: "I have heard of a series of actions he took in St. Bridge, if Ferdinand's family can be stronger... I think his future is limitless."

"Yeah, St. Bridge's stage is too small, there is no room for the prince to show his talents." Sean nodded and said, "However, if this prince can unite the six southern countries?"

"In that case, I can only dismiss the position of Lord Valentin. I can't stand the extortion on both sides of the parliamentary military. Such a good opportunity to make money is impossible for those guys." Philip hummed again. , "Why are you talking about this specifically, Sean? The Federation will not give the Ferdinand boy a chance to develop, not to mention that he is just a prince, he doesn't have this time."

"It took only three years for Carlisle to overthrow his elder brother and to gather nearly half of the nobles in the country to seek refuge and obtain national support." Sean calmly, "If he can smoothly transition from a prince to a king within this year, then maybe the federal army While still on the road, other southern countries have negotiated agreements with this prince."

"How is that possible, I remember that the King of St. Bridge was two years younger than me? Isn't it possible that this prince was extremely...cowardly...?" Philip suspiciously.

Shaun slowly shook his head: "The prince followed Xavier and worshipped a teacher. The teacher instructed Carlisle to develop from the nameless second prince to today's point in three years, and... taught him How to smoothly take over the throne without killing your father."

Philip rubbed up and stood up, speechless in surprise.

Sean smiled bitterly: "I, like you, thought that Carlisle's achievements were derived from Xavier's teaching before I knew it... but think about it, Xavier has so many royal disciples, and who can be as sharp as Carlisle? ?"

Philip sat back slowly...Although Sean expressed his euphemism, he also understood the meaning of the old friend. After a long silence, he sighed: "It seems that I should go back to my hometown for retirement... I can't wait for others to be impatient with me. Only after sitting in this position did you know the interest."

Sean came here to remind Philip of this matter. Philip, who had a stiff personality, had always been at odds with the aristocratic council. If he really waited until both sides broke their faces, Philip could not step down smoothly. Seeing that he could figure it out without persuading him, Sean was relieved and turned to say: "Despite this, you can't sit back and relax. The original fiefdom of your family has already been taken up? Have to plan for future generations One or two, when Lola got married, she couldn't be without dowry."

"Of course I know, Sean, but my son is really incompetent-at that time, I was too negligent in teaching him." Philip sighed for a long time, and he seemed to be several years old.

Sean smiled and persuaded: "If your son wants to compare with yourself, it must be foolish in your opinion, but compared with other noble children, he is much more decent. Besides, Warren Ding is run by you into a big piece of fat, and everyone is jealous when he sees it, but the Bolton territory next door is desperate. If you ask for Bolton territory by transferring Valentin, the noble council will not refuse."

"Burton Territory?" Philip looked puzzled. Sean is also a Cronin. He should know how bad the Bolton Territory is-the only city is ruined, and several towns are so poor that the local nobility is a year. Can't afford a few decent clothes.

Sean smiled mysteriously, this was his real purpose here... Philip, who was a king's precursor and was not used to by the Parliament, did not save a few net worths. He had to plan one or two for his friends.

Shawn, who doesn’t have a good face to the outside, has a mouth that is not forgiving, and even has a bit of bitterness, is actually a very emotional person...If he didn’t move to help an old friend’s mind, he couldn’t wipe the skin as fast as he could. Admit to respecting (kneeling) and admiring (licking) Xiao Yun.

Thinking carefully about Sean, Xiao Yun’s attitude is very clear: no tax, nothing!

When Sean sold Amway to Philip City owner... a group of adventurers & Snow Werewolves were rushing to the Lower City District with their rickshaws.

The urban area of ​​Valentine is five or six kilometers away from the port. Due to the rotten road surface (compared to the road engineering in the tribe), Xiao Yun turned the three cubs who could not rest into burlap. Before entering the Xiacheng District, there was a high degree of attention...

"My God, such a big wolf?"

"God, is this Warcraft?"

Residents of Valentine cannot say that they are ignorant, but most of them are estimated to have seen the live Snow Wolf for the first time in their lives, and all the citizens who came into the city on the dirt road in the process were shocked and shrank to the side of the road. , Waiting for someone to go further and can't help but stretch his neck to see...

"Mr. Ayun, how amazing it is to say..." Isaac wiped his sweat, trotting a few steps to catch up with Xiao Yun, and persuaded him gently.

"It's okay, the city of freedom, whatever." Xiao Yun didn't care. "It's not just our snow wolf who can be transformed into an orc, what a fuss."

Isaac: "Uh..." People can change but they won't parade so exaggeratedly!

The three cubs did not feel that they were treated as strange, and they looked out curiously while walking with their tongues out.

Pear: "A lot of people, Thrall, Thrall, look, there are many weak people like you!"

Thrall in the crowd: "..."

Several adventurers who followed: "..."

"Isn't your hometown Thrall? Are there any relatives?" Moore excitedly.

"Talk to Thrall!" Sunshine couldn't wait, licking Thrall out of Thrall with his tongue hanging out.

Thrall was startled and quickly shunned sideways, crying: "My hometown is not here, and there are no relatives here."

"Is your loved one as weak as you?" Yang Guang asked.

Thrall: "..."

The adventurers who followed were silently farther away from Thrall... If at first it was because the guy didn't need to train, he was a bit jealous, jealous and hateful. Now it is quite sympathetic.

The closer to Xiacheng District, the more dirt roads (Xiao Yun never admits that this kind of road is ten times worse than the country road) is a serious road, or there are more people on either side of the road, or stop and look around; a wagon out of the city comes to meet, After seeing the three giant snow wolves, the chauffeur skidded and drove the carriage to the wild on the roadside...

"It's too careless!" Xiao Yun frowned and looked at the rollover cart, nodding toward the grassroot patriarch.

The grassroot patriarch who was very helpful and spirited left the team and jumped off the roadbed. With his arms stretched out, he exhaled, and "drinked" to the ground. He turned the at least a catty carriage into a straight position, and he couldn't help it. The two horses lifted up; then they brought back the dizzy driver and laid them firmly beside the carriage before clapping and returning to the team.

Passersby on both sides of the road: "..."

The adventurers in the team: "..."

When the coachman came back to know the thanks, the snow wolves had already gone far...

City gate.

More than a dozen garrison soldiers ran out of the entire squad, waiting for the enemies of the Snow Wolf tribe to approach.

"How much is the entrance fee?" Xiao Yun turned to look at Isaac.

"People don't have to pay, the goods have to pay taxes, one cart and one silver coin."

"It's so expensive..." Xiao Yun sullenly paid.

Seeing his move, the soldiers who had almost drawn their weapons were relieved... They are willing to pay money to enter the city to do business, they do not have to feed the wolf mouth with a scalp.

"Wait!" Xiao Yun paused for the money.

The slack soldiers who had just relaxed were tense again, and several recruits could not help but hide behind the veterans.

"The goods are paid by car, don't you have to pay for the things you carry?" Xiao Yun glanced at the most expensive armor among the group of city gate soldiers.

"...No need." The city gate official was tough.

"We are the Snow Wolf tribe, and the three packs are the cubs in our clan. The goods on them are free of money according to your rules, right?" Xiao Yun turned sideways, toward the middle three of the team The cub pointed.

City gate officer: "..."

Guardian soldier: "..."