Chapter 172: Negotiation
Sure enough, less than half a day after Dylan returned to the City of the North Wind, Victor came to the City of the North Wind with dozens of soldiers, hoping to meet Windy Green.
In the hall of the castle, Victor's face was very ugly, he looked at Ao Feng who was sitting on the top seat, and said: "Lord Ao Feng, how can your son sneak into Jiagu Mountain to steal my things? You must discipline you well today!"
Ao Feng smiled and said, "Victor, it's my business to discipline my son, you don't have to worry about it!"
After saying that, he said to Max beside him, "Go and call Dylan." ”
Max took the order and left.
Victor waited in the hall for a long time, but he didn't see Dylan, and he couldn't help but feel a little like he was on pins and needles, and his face was sweating.
Unbeknownst to him, Dylan had already known that he had arrived at his castle and had listened to all his conversations with his father, Aofeng.
Dylan just walked very slowly all the way, and even though Max urged him many times, he still had a leisurely attitude.
As soon as Dylan appeared in the front room, Victor stood up suddenly, stared at Dylan viciously and said, "Give it back to me!"
"What's that?" Dylan looked at him in surprise, pretending to be innocent.
Victor gritted his teeth and said: "Don't pretend, you should know very well whether the thing was taken by you or not." ”
Ao Feng frowned and asked Dylan, "Dylan, if you do take his things, then give them back to him, everyone has come to the door." ”
Dylan responded, "Father, don't you want to ask him what he lost?"
Okaze couldn't help but look at Victor, waiting for his answer.
Victor's eyes changed, but he didn't know how to explain it, and after thinking for a moment, he said solemnly: "That's the ledger I use to record the amount of black iron mined every day!"
"Mining what?" Dylan pretended not to hear.
Victor's face was already very ugly: "It's my account book that records minerals!"
"Oh, the ledger for mining black iron, then I don't have it here!" Dylan sneered, he just wanted to force Victor to confess the matter himself, he already had the radio scroll with him, as long as Victor said that sentence, then all the information would be recorded by Dylan, and even if the two sides confronted each other in the future, Dylan had the evidence, he could also have an advantage.
Victor's face was flushed, and his eyes were as sharp as knives, but they were uncertain, as if he was weighing something.
In the end, Victor still disappointed Dylan, he didn't say those words, but snorted coldly, walked out of the hall, and prepared to leave the Grimm family castle with dozens of warriors.
But how could Dylan let them go so easily, he stopped in front of Victor in a flash, and said, "What, what do you think of our Grimm family?
Victor tried to suppress the anger that was about to erupt, and said through gritted teeth: "Dylan, don't go too far, offend Viscount Roosevelt, your life in the City of the North Wind will only be more uncomfortable! What else are you going to do?"
Dylan looked fearless: "It's very simple, let Roosevelt fill the tax gap in our North Wind City, and I'll treat it as if I haven't seen anything!"
Seeing that Victor wanted to speak, Dylan immediately interrupted him: "As for those dozens of pieces of paper, don't think about it, I won't return it to you! But you can rest assured, as long as Roosevelt doesn't go too far, we in North Wind City will not embarrass him! Of course, if the Imperial military finds out about it and discovers the secret in Gaya Mountain, then please go and explain it to the Empire yourself, don't blame us!"
Victor said viciously, "What if I don't say yes?"
"Hehe, if you don't agree, you also know that I still have some connections in the army, and when the time comes, I just need to report the situation here to Captain Angela, what do you think the empire will do?" Dylan finished speaking, and looked at Victor with a smirk.
Victor was already trembling with anger, and even his mouth twitched, and he took several deep breaths in a row before he could barely suppress the anger in his heart, and finally almost roared: "Let's go!"
The group left Castle Green with great fanfare, attracting the puzzled eyes of the people of North Wind City.
Seeing Victor gradually moving away, Dylan couldn't help but show a smug smile, being able to play a noble eagle dog like Victor fiercely, Dylan was naturally happy.
After returning to the hall, Dylan told Aofeng everything he had seen on Mount Gargok.
After listening to this, Ao Feng couldn't help but frown and said: "Roosevelt dared to secretly mine the Shadow Ore Vein?
Dylan nodded: "So, now that we have their account books in our hands, they are naturally weak and dare not fight against us." ”
"You just said that the city of the north wind is still short of a large amount of taxes that have not been collected, and why is it that Max never mentioned it in front of me?" asked Ao Feng with some confusion.
Dylan told Ao Feng all of Max's concerns and thoughts, and then added: "Father, you don't have to blame him, even if he did something wrong to hide this from you, he is also thinking about you." ”
"Hey!" Ao Feng sighed, "I trust him very much, so I have handed over a lot of things to him in the past few years, and I am also very relieved, who knows that he has too much burden on him, and he doesn't want me to worry about it, so he hides everything from me and finds a way to deal with it himself." In the past few years, it's really hard for him!"
After a moment of silence, Ao Feng changed his words and asked, "By the way, I heard that you have been teaching the foundry masters in the city the art of casting recently, and also asking them to build legion-standard armor, why is that?"
Dylan smiled bitterly and said, "Now that the empire is in a period of war, it is certain that taxes will become heavier, and we can't change this fact. However, the remote location of the city of North Wind and the relatively barren land around it made it difficult for the empire to levy taxes. ”
"So I came up with a solution, and we sent the Warframes to the Border Guards and exchanged food with them. You must know that there is never a shortage of grain and grass distributed to the border army every year by the empire, and there is often a large surplus, but because a large number of casters have been recruited into the Warcraft Mountains recently, there is a shortage of battle armor. We exchanged the armor they needed for their surplus food. We have used our casting advantages to fill the gap in taxation. The border army, on the other hand, exchanged the surplus food for armor or weapons that were in short supply, which was a satisfactory deal for both sides. ”
Listening to Dylan's words, Ao Feng couldn't help but nod again and again, he didn't expect that in just three years, Dylan had grown so much!