"General, general, good news, good news!"

At dinner, while Rykmund's knights were drinking and merry, the Persian officer who had been there in the morning came to disturb him with shouting.

"What's the good news?" Redmond asked lazily with a dancing girl in his arms.

"This ......"

The Persian officer looked at the group of dancers and the juggling clown in the room, and looked embarrassed.

Knowing that the butler had let the officer in, it must be important, and with a wave of his hand, he kicked the dancer and the clown out of the room.

His knights didn't care whether the matter was important or not, because they were disturbed, they complained loudly, and a few guys who had drunk too much screamed and slapped the table with their big hands.

"Shut up!" Rekmund roared, and the drunken knights immediately sobered up with his anger.

Redmond glared angrily at the Persian officer

"Tell me, what's the important thing that makes you bother me at this time?"

The Persian officer, though trembling at Rykmund's rage, told him what he had seen at the city gate in the morning.

“… The subordinates thought that the caravan was strange, so they sent people to secretly follow the caravan, and when their people relaxed their vigilance, they went to check the goods on the carriage, which was ostensibly loaded with wool, but in fact there were other goods hidden under the wool, which were considered to be high-quality Tang silk and colored porcelain, and some jewelry, which were worth at least tens of thousands of gold coins in one piece! ”

The story of the Persian officer tells the ups and downs, and the story of sending people to forcibly search the goods of the merchant is boasted like a spy movie, and the story especially highlights the witty side of Persia.

"Tens of thousands of gold coins?!" Redmond's eyes widened, since he refused to be loyal to the stinking prince, Tus City cut off his military salary, and expanded the armament war, Redkmond has long been troubled by money.

As one of the most important cities in the province of Khazar, Chanalan is home to a number of large merchant groups that hold a lot of goods and wealth in their hands.

However, these merchant groups are not easy to mess with, most of them belong to a certain tribe, they are all armed, and there are not many single families, but these people have long been united, so that Redmond does not dare to attack them.

In addition, Redmond also had to collect various materials to feed the army through these merchants, so he had to admit the semi-autonomous status of the merchants in the city, and he had to negotiate with these people to collect taxes.

Redmond couldn't bear this for a long time, and now a foreign fat sheep jumped out, how could he let it go.

"Are all the goods detained?"

The Persian officer nodded eagerly

"It was detained, in the name of tax evasion, the people from the Chamber of Commerce came to ask, and I heard that it was tax evasion, and there was no reason to intervene, but the businessman seemed to know the people of the Chamber of Commerce, so his subordinates did not arrest people. After all, these goods still have to be sold by the Chamber of Commerce, and their subordinates are afraid of causing trouble to the general. ”

The Persian officer's appearance of consideration for Rykmund was actually the result of a bribe from Gitak with a bag of gold coins, and his rhetoric was also taught to him by Geetak.

"You're doing a good job." Rekmund admired the ingenuity of the Persian officers, and with this 10,000 gold cargo, he could temporarily alleviate the problem of tight military spending.

The Persian officers reaped a lot of benefits in the process of confiscation, and won the praise of their superiors, and their hearts became very happy when they remembered another important news that they had painstakingly discovered.

"General, as I was leaving, I overheard the merchant and the Chamber of Commerce secretly talking..."

"Huh? What did they say? As soon as Redmond heard the word Chamber of Commerce, his eyes immediately became very sharp, and what he was most worried about was that the Chamber of Commerce colluded with outsiders to his detriment.

The Persian officers were taken aback by the change in Rykmund

"Uh... The merchant's carriage and horses had been confiscated, and he was going to borrow some from the Chamber of Commerce... Kindness... He also said that he wanted to borrow a sum of money. ”

As soon as Redmond heard that it was not what he was worried about, his tense nerves immediately relaxed, and he commented in a mocking tone

"This merchant is so stupid, he is a foreign businessman, the goods and carriage are gone, how can he borrow money, how stingy the Chamber of Commerce is, I know very well..."

However, the actual situation was not what he had guessed

"The Chamber of Commerce agreed."

"What? How can it be? Did you hear it right? Redmond exclaimed in disbelief

"Surely yes, when the two of them discussed, I hid behind the door, and I heard the conversation between the two clearly, and the people of the Chamber of Commerce promised to lend him ten carriages, as well as the payment of ten thousand gold coins, on the condition that he would have someone in his caravan."

Rykmund heard the Persian officer even say the specific content of the transaction between the two, and he believed that it was true, but it was precisely because of this that he was very angry, before he offered to borrow 5,000 gold coins from the Chamber of Commerce, but the Chamber of Commerce refused on the grounds that he had no money, but now they actually took out 10,000 gold coins to lend to a small merchant from other places, or a guy who had just been confiscated by him for all the goods, this is simply a naked slap in the face.

"Has the General, ever wondered why the people of the Chamber of Commerce suddenly became so talkative and would lend money to a small merchant from outside?" In order to highlight their role in this matter, the Persian officers deliberately sold a pass.

"Hmph, how do I know." Rykmund snorted coldly, and the Persian officer saw that his superior's eyes were not good, and he didn't dare to show off anymore, so he hurriedly said

"The subordinates were also very strange, and later the subordinates used their own money to buy a guy in the caravan, and learned from him that the Tang goods they had hidden before were actually bought from others, but they had little capital before, so they only bought a small part, and the merchant borrowed money from the Chamber of Commerce, just to go back and buy some more, and the people of the Chamber of Commerce lent him money, also to get the location of the source of goods from the merchants."

Rekmund was overjoyed, grabbed the Persian officer's shoulder, and shook it excitedly

"Did that guy tell you where they got their Tang goods?"

The Persian officer was shaken and stammered

"No... Didn't say, the man... The man asked for a hundred gold coins as a reward before he was willing to tell the news to his subordinates, who did not have that much money..."In fact, the Persian officer had obtained nearly a hundred gold coins from Gitak alone today, and he was just reluctant to pay the money himself.

Quickmond was straight-witted, but not stupid, and immediately guessed what the Persian officer was doing, and glared at him viciously.

"You're going to let me pay for it?"

The Persian officer was taken aback, knowing that he was too greedy and self-defeating

"No, how can you let the general break the bank, my subordinates went home and sold a few pieces of jewelry before, and I have already scraped together enough money, my subordinates will go to that person now to inquire about the news, and the general will wait for my good news."

After speaking, without waiting for Redmond to speak, he even escaped from the City Lord's mansion.