Quansha Bay Harbor, under the strong means of Captain Verina, temporarily lost its voice. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

People never seemed to have imagined that this woman, who was the spokesperson of Dane and controlled Shawan Harbor, could be so tough.

The four penniless merchants, who had been heavily fined, were driven out of Shawan Harbor. and was warned that in his lifetime, if anyone dared to enter the port of Shawan Bay, he would be killed.

These four people were undoubtedly the 'chickens' that Verina used to kill chickens to show the monkeys, but there was more to the 'chicken' than just that.

On June 28, the day after the four tax-resisting merchants were disposed of in public, and the day after Paran led two brigades of soldiers to the docks, there was another incident.

It's tax resistance again, and it's two foreign businessmen who 'don't know about the new law in Shawan Harbor and are very dissatisfied with it'. Palan, who had already received Verina's order, didn't even need to ask for instructions this time, so he started directly at the dock.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the two merchants were not stupid enough to confront Paran's soldiers on the spot, one was directly arrested, and the other took advantage of Palan's inattention, got on the ship that had not yet fully docked, turned around and ran.

But how fast can a merchant ship full of cargo run?

Shortly after leaving the port, the merchant who chose to run away was intercepted by a fast boat belonging to the former port guard.

The temporary tax department at the terminal is very efficient. The arrest on the same day, the calculation of the fine required for tax resistance on the same day, and the punishment on the same day, everything was carried out under everyone's noses.

The signal released by this is already very obvious: whoever dares to stir up trouble at such a time will die.

Verina and Paran felt that the six merchants who had chosen to resist taxes must have nothing to do with the General Affairs Office and the Commercial Guild of Shawan Harbor, and that they must have been instructed and relied on to make such a provocative choice.

And under her thunderbolt methods, this unhealthy trend was not quickly contained.

This kind of punishment of confiscation of all property is not much different from the death penalty for merchants. And after six people were punished like this in a row, in the next few days, it stands to reason that no one would dare to continue to fight against Verina with all their belongings.

But that's how strange it is.

Every day, almost every day, more than one merchant will be fined for his belongings after entering the port and clashing with the soldiers guarding the port because of the new tax law.

Once or twice, Verina could feel that it was a temptation from the General Affairs Office. But every day, she realized that those big businessmen and big chambers of commerce had already made a move.

Soon, news came from the intelligence services of Chapur, who were scattered in Shawan Harbor and other places.

The 'unreasonable' tax hike bill at Shawan Port is very pitiful, and it is completely unreasonable exploitation of businessmen. At the same time, Verina, who now serves as the acting lord of Shawan Harbor, is a temperamental, brutal and murderous woman.

The news spread at an unusual speed, and in the process of spreading, it was obvious that it was deliberately demonized.

This is obviously the trick of the General Affairs Office. According to Verina, these guys are planning to put pressure on themselves by expanding public opinion. And the worst thing is that if this kind of news really spreads all over the sky, it will inevitably affect the commercial trade of Shawan Port.

However, Verina is not without a way to deal with this trick.

Akari began to increase the number of soldiers patrolling the harbor of Shawan to preach to the people of the harbor that the new tax bill was 'serving the people', and to further build a bright image of Dane and herself. At the same time, the patrolling soldiers also began to search for and arrest the rumors of walking in the city, which also had some effect.

And secretly, it took Chapur a few months, and finally relying on the former intelligence system of White Wolf Castle, the rearranged and constructed intelligence department also began to exert its strength. They made a lot of claims in favor of Shawan Harbor, rumor-to-rumor, and at the same time secretly tracked down the other party's rumor-mongers, and handed them over to Verina to deal with.

With the two fists swinging together, I dare not say that the spread and influence of these rumors have been completely eliminated, but at least under the effective response, the means of the General Affairs and Communications Office to use public opinion have been somewhat contained.

But before Verina could catch her breath, the opponent's second set of moves came.

It was a riot in the underworld.

In Shawan Harbor, there are a lot of gray practitioners. From legitimate mercenaries, to gangsters and gangsters who collect protection money and wander the streets, to absconding criminals or robbers, and even pirates who don't wash their hands, there are plenty of them in Shawan Harbor.

These things are impossible for any city to completely eradicate, and Shawan Port is also out of proportion. They hide in the crowd, they are not easy to catch, and they are quite troublesome to cause trouble.

In the following period, there was a significant increase in the number of public security incidents in Shawan Harbor. Among them, theft was the mainstay, a small number of burglaries and robberies, and a small number of street collective brawls, which made the garrison camp anxious for a while.

At this juncture, when such a sudden increase in public security incidents occurred, Verina directly linked these matters with the General Affairs Office. Just like the people who resisted taxes and spread rumors before, although it was a practice without evidence, she would rather think that the people from the General Affairs Office were causing trouble for her, rather than naively think that these things were really just accidents.

Since they all already feel that the other party made a move, how can Verina not deal with it?

When the Third Wing was entangled in these things, she very decisively transferred 600 people from the 1st Wing of the Garrison Corps, which was stationed in the White Wolf Fort and was replenishing troops, and 300 people from the Rotten Wolf Town, and urgently transferred them to Shawan Port to increase the patrol in the port city.

On the 4th of July, after the arrival of these mobilized reinforcements, she activated Chappell's intelligence department, arrested several gang leaders who had always been associated with the big merchants, and dealt a thunderous blow.

On the same day, there was a burst of chickens and dogs jumping in Shawan Harbor, and the three gangsters who had figured out the situation were directly uprooted and all arrested.

At the same time, through the clues of these arrested and uprooted gangster organizations, Verina continued to grope upwards for the traces of the big businessmen in Shawan Port related to them, and whether there was real evidence or nonsense, she climbed directly to it.

Her thoughts were: You make me uncomfortable, and I won't make you feel better.

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Crazy codeword, finally in time to complete two chapters before twelve o'clock! (To be continued.) )