The next day, when it was still dark, there was a long queue outside the gates of Fort Dossa.

Although the name of Fort Dossa bears the word "fort", it is actually a large city with a permanent population of more than 300,000.

Because of the convenient transportation and complete roads, it is very suitable for the trading of bulk goods, as long as there is some fame in the large chamber of commerce in Flange, most of them will choose to open a branch here.

The group of merchants, who were born to be potential believers in the goddess of wealth, gathered enough merchants to become one of the several "churches" of the Church of Wealth.

Fort Dossa holds a grand gathering every year, which has two main purposes, one is to celebrate the blessings of the goddess of wealth, and the other is to exchange information and sell a large number of goods. Therefore, in addition to the big chambers of commerce, there are many small and medium-sized chambers of commerce, and even some small businessmen will come to join in the fun.

As the sun rose higher and higher, the queue outside the gates of Fort Dossa grew longer and longer, and the sounds of people, shouts, and the neighing of horses and livestock resounded in a bustling scene.

A thin old man lay on his stomach at the head of the city, staring at the wagons full of goods, and his mouth could not be closed.

Malagredi was Kane's uncle, and although he did not inherit the actual title, after Kane went to the royal capital to negotiate, he became the presiding officer of the three marquisdoms and took on the task of looting for wealth.

He stared happily at the people who were rushing in, and looked at the caravans with the look of a big fat sheep

According to the temporary tax set up before Kane left, the harvest of the Greddy family this time is estimated to be the output of several years of the previous marquisate, and these "fat sheep" produce a lot of meat, obviously a lot of shiny Kingord

After hearing that the heavy tax had almost doubled, the merchants at the city gate complained, but after all, they had come and barely made money, so they finally had to pay the money and enter the city with resentment.

Mara looked at the angry faces of the merchants and scolded with great comfort in his heart

All the wealth in the territory belonged to the lords, and these merchants were nothing more than blood-sucking leeches.

Anyway, why do they only meet once a year, and how nice it would be to meet once a month, if that were the case, this Dossa Fort would be fantastic, and they wouldn't exchange a principality.

When he thought of this, a look of regret appeared on Marat's face.

It's a pity that this hen that can only lay golden eggs is borrowed, and in the end it has to be returned to others, even if Kane's kid fights hard, it is estimated that it can only drag on for a month, and sooner or later this place will be taken back by the royal family.

Reluctantly looking at the long line below, the old man stood up sharply and called his entourage with a hideous face.

"You go and tell the tax collector at the door that because you need to help the merchants maintain order, you will increase the tax by 50% this time."

The attendant was taken aback and hurriedly persuaded him

"Lord Marat, more than half of the big chambers of commerce are here, it's not good to raise taxes temporarily, and Lord Kane's taxes are already very good, if they are increased again, no one will come here in the future."

The old man scolded him angrily, "We will leave in a month, stupid, and it will be the royal family that will take over at that time, and these businessmen will not come to care about my business."

The attendant still shook his head in horror. "Lord Marat, but it's us who collect taxes, and our Greddy family still took the money from the Wealth Church to buy the Marquisate, this"

"Oh, a group of lowly businessmen, it's hard for these blood-sucking leeches to dare to take revenge on us"

"But they still have the Church of Wealth behind them"

"Shut up"

Marat scolded in annoyance, raised his cane and twitched his attendant's face hard, leaving a hideous blood mark.

"Of course I know that they have the Church of Wealth behind them. ”

"The Church of Knowledge has the Pope in France, and the Church of Eros has a legion of professionals to guard, we can't afford to mess with these two churches, but the Church of Fortune is a group of loose businessmen who don't even have a church of their own, you're afraid of a fart."

"Now shut up your foul mouth for me, and immediately go to the tax collector and tell him I'm going to raise taxes"

Marat sneered and held out a withered hand.

"Add another 50% to Kane's tax, if you don't accept it, you will deduct its goods for me, and if anyone dares to make trouble, then throw it directly to prison"

The squire ran down with the blood marks on his face to give the order, and soon the angry questioning of the merchants came from the city gate.

"Are you crazy about raising taxes?"

"The tax here is already twice as high as in other places, and if we add 60 percent, what will we do here?"

"With such a high tax, I'd rather go back the way I came than go into the city"

The businessmen of these big chambers of commerce were enraged, and they scolded the tax officials one by one, and the tax officials who were surrounded looked at a loss, and hurriedly shouted "Guards and guards"

A group of armoured guards streamed out of the garrison near the city gate, quickly dispersed the surrounding merchants, and then formed two rows in front of the city gate, staring at them fiercely.

After seeing the fierce appearance of these guards, some small businessmen retreated, if they were really taxed so heavily, then this trip was probably no different from running in vain, in this case, it was better to find a place to dispose of the goods cheaper.

With the mentality of "can't I hide if I can't be provoked", more than a dozen smaller caravans drove their livestock and prepared to leave, and Marat at the city gate was so anxious that he jumped to his feet when he saw this scene.

These people are all living money, how can they just let them run

He pulled his neck and shouted, "Come and bring the city guards out, and none of the merchants at the gate are allowed to leave."

The city guards, who had received the order, pounced and drove back the few caravans that tried to leave, but the small merchants with only one or two carriages ran away quite a bit.

However, as they were gathering together in a state of reluctance, scolding the shamelessness of the Greddy family, they ran into another legion head-on.

He even sent someone to copy the bread in front of us, even us, the small merchants, as for doing such a desperate job

After discovering the legion in front of them, these merchants had sad and angry expressions on their faces.

These small businessmen are different from those big chambers of commerce, more than half of their net worth is in the carriage behind them, if they are really intercepted, some people may not even have the capital to come out to do business again.

"I'm fighting with you"

Seeing that there was no way into the heavens and no way to enter the earth, a merchant probably couldn't accept the cruelty of reality, and actually rushed forward with a carriage.

Seeing that someone took the lead, many small businessmen also had red eyes and chose to rush up after him, still holding a trace of unrealistic hope in their hearts.

The people on the other side don't seem to be very many, probably only about a thousand people, although ordinary people attacking the regular army are tantamount to looking for death, but what if they can really break out of the way

However, with a loud bang, the last hope of these merchants was also extinguished.

A knight with a silver helmet rolled over and dismounted, stopped the galloping carriage with one hand, and then, with a slight lift, he toyed the huge carriage to the ground, and the goods on it fell everywhere.

The small merchant who drove the car scrambled to his feet, took out the dagger he carried with him, and pounced on it with red eyes.

"Come on, you damn nobles, just kill me"

Who is this man?

William frowned suspiciously, curled his fingers and flicked out.

With a crisp sound, the dagger in the little merchant's hand directly cracked into pieces, and the huge force attached to it tore his tiger mouth with ease.

"Who are you, why are you rushing into the army?"

After hearing William's question, the merchant who was desperately holding his hands suddenly looked up, his face full of joy of desperate life, "You are not from the Gladyy family"

After hearing the little merchant's words, William and Jessica on the side glanced at each other.

The family behind Kane is really doing something

"We are here to take over Fort Dosa, and not only Fort Dosa, but also the three marquisates sold by the Farrell family will return to the arms of the royal family of France. ”

The little businessman was overjoyed when he heard this, and after Avril's years of hard work, the royal family's reputation was much better than that of the Graydie family, who were frantically looting, and he quickly explained

"This sir, today is the day of the gathering of the Jinsoro Chamber of Commerce, we are all small businessmen, and we want to bask in the glory of the goddess of wealth.

However, the Greddy family suddenly became troubled, and temporarily set a heavy tax that was close to four times the usual amount, and we couldn't afford to pay it and were ready to leave, so they actually arrested people and detained the goods."

After listening to the small businessman's complaint, William's brow furrowed.

Although he is still nominally a member of the French royal family, he will have to be responsible for his own profits and losses in the future, after all, he has resigned and started a business, so he can't go back to the parent company to ask for money

What's more, he is now preparing to sabotage Mr. Ai's plan to go public, if he goes back to her to ask for money and food, it is really better to kill him headfirst.

Thinking of this, he narrowed his eyes and looked at Fort Dossa in the distance.

Fortunately, I came early, otherwise these three marquisates would have been hollowed out, and if I got it like that, I really had to go back to Avril Lavigne for soft rice.

After his brain made up for himself and rubbed himself on the chest of Her Majesty the Queen, crying and shouting for take-in, while shouting "Rich woman help me, I don't want to work hard", William's eyes couldn't help but flash a trace of horror.

The temptation of this proposal was too strong, and I almost wavered

In these few seconds, his mind flashed through countless various scenes, but under the maintenance of the careerist's face, he still maintained the appearance of a deep city.

Seeing William's indifferent and arrogant face, the little businessman's heart, which had just climbed up from the ice cave, fell down again with a pop, and it was even colder than before. ，，，

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