The news of Verina's battle of wits with those merchants in Shawan Harbor is not unaware of Dane. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Although, during this time, he spent most of his time in Orinedu, and may occasionally return to White Wolf Castle, and has not personally made a public appearance in Shawan Harbor. But a lot of news still reached his ears through various channels.

He is still very satisfied with Verina's work in Shawan Harbor.

Obviously, this heroine of knights basically understood the two-sentence guidelines that Dane gave her. She did not recklessly have a direct confrontation with the General Affairs Office and the three giant merchants behind the General Affairs Office, but she showed her tough attitude very well.

In a recent letter, she mentioned that after the introduction of the new tax bill and the various battles with the three major chambers of commerce, the commercial activity of the entire city has decreased by 10 percent in just half a month.

This is a very large dive that can cause panic in any city manager.

In particular, this declining rate still has no intention of slowing down, and it seems that as long as the newly promoted warlords of Shawan Port continue to fight with those merchants, the business of Shawan Port will continue to slump.

This is a prelude to the city's going to be ruined. Even if Verina is a determined person, she can't help but be terrified by this.

There was a sentence in her letter that Dane agreed with very much.

“…… Any small means, under our strong attitude and the guarantee that we have sufficient military strength, are only a trick and have no meaning, and cannot shake our foundations. However, in the midst of this struggle, the commercial industry of Shawan Port will be greatly affected, and it is inevitable that the degree of commercial activity will shrink significantly. This may be the strongest move of those businessmen of the General Affairs Office, and it is also the biggest hole card that they have no fear. ”

Verina's point of view, Dane 100% agreed.

The three major chambers of commerce have played a lot of small tricks in Shawan Port, and Verina has spent a lot of brains trying to crack these small tricks.

But in reality, that's not the essence of the matter. Only a fool would think that those tactics could really threaten Dane's rule in Shay Bay Harbor. And in the same way, no matter how beautifully Wei Lina cracked these small methods, in the end, she could not really uproot the influence of the three major chambers of commerce in Shawan Port.

The most fundamental point is that through these small means, the purpose of the three chambers of commerce is to destroy the commercial capacity of Shawan Port to force Verina and Dain behind Verina to submit.

This is also the most powerful weapon in the hands of the General Affairs and Communications Office: if I want, I can make the port of Shawan, which is prosperous today, dilapidated tomorrow into a wasteland where not even a ship wants to come.

Don't think that the warlords who once controlled Shawan Harbor don't want to completely hold this hen that can lay golden eggs in their own hands. However, this is not something that can be done by just thinking about it. Under the extremely tough performance of the General Affairs and Communications Office, any warlord has to bow his head.

If you want to control Shawan Harbor, there is no way. The Ministry of Internal Affairs would rather destroy this bustling city than let it fall into the hands of the warlords out of the control of the merchants.

This is where the merchants are tough.

And the clever thing about them is that they don't plan to eat alone in Shawan Harbor either. Whichever warlord controls the port city, they will respectfully offer a profit to the general who controls the city.

To the warlords, a dilapidated Shawan harbor had no value. And if it is kept in the hands of the merchants, it will at least receive a large monthly tribute.

So how will the warlords choose?

Almost all warlords have been defeated in this routine. No one can fight these merchants in Shawan Harbor, their power penetrates into every corner of this port city, and they are not limited to this, multinational business groups, even if they do not have any military strength, they are not ordinary warlords can fight.

But Dane still demanded that Verina maintain a tough attitude. This attitude was tantamount to telling the merchants that Dane would not, at least not yet, choose to compromise.

For such a warlord, the merchants have not seen it.

Although, letting Shawan Port fall into ruin, it is also a huge loss for the merchants who control the lifeblood of the city. However, business is fluid, and without Shawan Port, they can tap this market from other places and in other ways, and there will always be a time when they can make up for the losses.

But for the lords, it was hard to pay so many lives, and the city that was captured by other warlords with all their lives was completely decayed, which was almost unacceptable damage.

Therefore, no matter how tough the warlords are, they will always choose to compromise in the end.

As for the 'degree' of this, what kind of measure to grasp depends on the game between the two sides.

According to the experience of merchants, the lords could not sit still when the decline of a city reached the level of decline of ten percent. But it was obvious that Dane was much more patient than they expected, and after half a month of fighting, the port of Shawan had fallen by one percent of its trade volume, but Dane had no intention of compromising in the slightest.

This was somewhat unexpected by the General Affairs Office, but in their eyes, it was nothing more than continuing to lose money. They believe that 10 percent of Dane will not give in, 20 percent, 30 percent, and there will always be a time when Dane can't bear it.

What if you can bear it all the time? Then let the Shawan Harbor fall.

It's just that what they didn't expect was that during this period of time, Dane, who had not appeared publicly in Shawan Harbor, already had the idea of breaking the situation in his heart.

Dane, who had just drunk the potion of permanent strength and was adapting to the newly grown power, counted the days and sent a reply letter to Verina.

In his reply, he asked Verina to continue the struggle against the General Affairs Office of Shawan Port, with the ultimate goal of maintaining the situation as much as possible, maintaining a tough attitude while slowing down the weakening of Shawan Port. The mandatory target is that the overall commercial trade volume of the port shall not decline by more than 15 percent within half a month.

It's a metric that Velena will need to work hard to achieve, but Dane does need at least the female knight to buy him some more time.

As for other actions......

Dane thought for a moment and wrote a few more letters to a few more people. (To be continued.) )