Chapter 10 The Man Who Can Solve the Problem
"Alright! Knight-sama! What I want to say is! These things may be good to you! No! It's a rare treasure for any warrior, but he's not in my trade! What I need is a treasure! Do you understand Jumbo? It's gold jewelry, it's the treasures of heaven and earth, do you understand? ”
Li leisurely said to Ellington helplessly, but Ellington was extremely angry and said, "What! Don't you think they're precious enough? They can hold our lives on the battlefield. ”
"Yes! You can save your life! But they're not worth much! No big nobles are interested in them! If there are no treasures! I think it's time for me to go, Knight Ellington, and good luck. Li Youran was about to leave, he didn't believe that a lord only had this thing.
"No, no, no! Wait a minute! Merchant! Eh, what's your name! I can't call you a merchant, that's rude, well, I still have some treasures, those that were supposed to save my life, but if I can't pay the tax, I guess I'll die, so come with me. ”
Sure enough, Li Youran was stopped, but Li Youran rolled his eyes, and only then did he remember to ask his name, how slow he was.
Then Ellington entered another room, and this time he saw what he wanted to see, some jewelry that looked like this world, and a small box, Ellington opened it carefully, and then saw that there were some gold coins inside, which looked like about a hundred and ten.
"That's all I have! What do you want! I need to see what kind of food you can provide me, and I won't change it if I can't pass it. Ellington said.
But Li Youran hadn't paid attention to the box since he entered the room, and the gold coin was attractive, yes, but when he saw the huge gem on a tiara jewelry, his eyes immediately lit up with gold, and of course he immediately suppressed his greedy gaze, and he couldn't let Ellington know his purpose, otherwise he would have to pay more to get what he wanted.
"Oh! Of course! It's easy to say that there are gold coins! Check it out! That's the food I've prepared, or if you need something else, you can mention it, but it's not cheap. Li Youran tried hard not to look at the pile of jewelry, but concentrated on introducing his food.
Looking at the bread and ham sausage that Li leisurely took out, Ellington hesitated and said, "This is bread and sausage?" ”
"Of course! That's bread and sausages! I wonder if these two things can meet the requirements? Li asked with a smile.
"Ahem! I need to give it a try, I don't know if it's going to work. "Ellington tried to make himself look calmer, what is this! White bread! That's after following the viscount to participate in the territorial war launched by the Duke and winning the food that he stepped on when he attended the banquet! Even the Viscount rarely eats it.
Li leisurely opened the package and handed it to Ellington, Ellington took the bread calmly, and then took a bite gently, the fragrance from the bread and the milky aroma of the cream in it mixed with his mouth, without chewing, the bread had melted, and then flowed into the esophagus with the saliva he saw, this unprecedented experience made Ellington intoxicated,
When did he, who had only eaten brown bread, ever try such bread? At most, it is to let people cook brown bread into bread porridge, he usually eats barbecue, the bread is too hard.
Since the bread was so delicious, there must have been something unique about the sausage, but Ellington didn't want to try it anymore, he was sure it must be delicious, and he was worried about how much his money could be exchanged for, whether it would be enough to pay the food tax.
"Not bad! I don't know how many you have! How much can I buy? Ellington gave a pretty good review.
"If you like it, your lord! Don't know how much your taxes need? If it's too much, it may not be enough money! ”
Li Youran turned into a profiteer at this moment! It's going to drain Ellington's family.
"How much do you need in taxes? Oh! Damn it! It depends on what the tax collector means! The ones I hate the most are them, a bunch of vampires who only know how to drain our purse bags and food. Ellington had another headache, but he had to get the tax collector.
After a while, a man dressed better than Ellington came up and said, "What's the matter!" Have you received enough food taxes? Leave it to me, I'll leave immediately, it's so bad here, not even **! ”
Li Youran saw Ellington's fists clenched, but said with a smile: "That's the case, Lord Tax Collector!" I found a merchant who was willing to sell me some food! Just don't know how much you need. ”
He wasn't afraid of the tax collectors, he was annoying! It's just that behind the tax collector is Viscount Veron! So he had to bow his head, because to be disrespectful to the tax collectors who came to collect taxes was to challenge the majesty of the viscount.
"Oh! You're in luck! It's not much, your supplies have already offset some of them, so you only need to pay another 500 catties of food this year! By the way, after the beginning of spring, the viscount is going to start a war! You have to gather ten soldiers, two archers, a knight, and of course you are responsible for the food. ”
The tax collector's words made Ellington scared! He is a country knight, and his fief is only a village with a large fart, and there are only twenty families in the full! Didn't he want his life if he sent ten soldiers!
"This! How can I have ten soldiers! "Ellington is aggrieved! In order to make his people suffer less, he even deducted the taxes of the donkeys he pulled, so why did he need to serve in the army?
"None? Hey! That's not impossible! You can pay more food! As long as you pay enough for 2,000 catties! Military service will be exempted, and even you can rest, how about it! Do you have one? The tax collector laughed.
He came with a mission, to collect as much grain and grass as he could, and he really needed to start a war in the coming year! Is it just that they lack the strength of the country knights like Ellington's last? No! Although it has only been 200 years since the founding of the People's Republic of But the Empire's standing forces have reached a terrifying three million, which is enough for the Empire! It's just that such a force requires a huge supply of grain and grass, so the small lords as long as the knights suffer, and the big noble empire can't afford to provoke it! The little nobles are different! Don't give? Then deprive the title, it's not okay to kill monkeys, it's always okay to kill chickens!
Poor Ellington is the poor chicken, and the Viscount is to cut him, and there is food to say! You can fight if you don't want to! No food! Go to the front, life and death are fate!
Ellington had no choice but to look at Li Youran with a blank eye, and Li Youran smiled, two thousand catties? It's just a ton! It's easy to buy, but how much can you knock out?
"Two thousand pounds! Not for nothing! It's just that the knight will take what to exchange? That's not enough. Li Youran laughed in his heart, a God-given opportunity! I deserve to make money! There are a lot of gold coins for two thousand catties of grain, not to mention that his goal is not gold coins.
"You profiteer! One hundred and twenty gold coins can't buy two thousand catties of grain? Are you insulting my IQ? Ellington was furious, if it wasn't for the tax collector's urgency, how could he have bought food with gold coins! This is the stupidest decision.
"No, no, no! Knight-sama! You must know that in business! Scarcity is expensive! What the? I don't understand, all right! That is to say, what you lack is the most precious, if you don't have territory and life, then nothing matters, and I'm a businessman, I care about profit, don't I? Li leisurely explained.
"Alright! What you'll need! All for you, when will you give me the food I need? Ellington was irritated, he couldn't take care of that.
"Food is available at any time, do I need it! The room before and the room now! What do you think? "Li Youran, the lion opened his mouth, everything! This is also to disguise their own purposes.
"What, you greedy goblins! I'll kill you! "Ellington is furious! Stretch out your hand and draw your sword.
"I advise you to calm down, if this merchant is gone, I'm afraid you won't even be able to go to the front line, and your head will be cut off by the viscount on charges of tax arrears." The tax collector on the side said quietly, his tone was cold.
No way! He really hates this place! But there was no way, unless Ellington said he didn't! Or pay enough food, or he won't be able to go there, and he really hopes that the merchant can help Ellington so he can complete his mission and go home.
Ellington was agitated, put his hand down and said, "All right! Take it all! You get the grain when I see it. Ellington's tone was calm! But Li Youran felt a trace of killing intent! Looks like Ellington was going to do something.
Li Youran sneered, it seemed that he needed to deter them, otherwise they would not trade quietly.
"No problem! I'll fetch it later. Then he returned silently in his mind, and vanished as a ray of light before the eyes of Ellington and the tax collector.
Ellington and the tax collector were confused, and Ellington said to the tax collector, "Do you see clearly? Could it be that this is a mage? ”
"Not only a mage, but also a powerful mage, and a mage with a huge family, I tell you that you better be smart, if you want to do something, I think Lord Viscount will be happy to show his friendship in front of Lord Mage." As a tax collector, he naturally knows what kind of character a knight like Ellington is, they may be knights, yes, it is not bad to love their people and protect the weak, but it does not include merchants, in their eyes merchants are dirty, greedy, mercenary, even if they are killed, there is nothing.
But this is not the case in front of me, this is a mage, although I don't know why the mage is a businessman, but he is a mage is certain, who dares to provoke a mage on the mainland? I'm getting tired of living!