066, Martin's Secret
Seven days later, Adam received a letter from Martin. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
In the letter, Martin said that he would visit Adam in two days to discuss an important matter.
For Martin Adam, he always felt that this fat businessman was not simple, so for his arrival, Adam did not have any intention of refusing, and expressed various welcome meanings in his reply.
And in these nine days, Adam himself was not idle, and took Andrew to visit York several times, fully understanding some of York's situation, and readjusting some affairs of the territory.
For example, lower taxes, especially for traders. Originally, York's tax revenue was higher than that of Falcon City, and there was no way, and the best way to get more taxes was to increase taxes.
However, Adam is not short of this money, just the gold, silver and gems obtained in the ruins last time are enough for Adam to spend for a while, who cares about this little money.
Moreover, Adam believed that only when the sheep were strong could they harvest more delicious goat's milk.
Adam's approach was incomprehensible to some people, and it seemed unbelievable enough not to raise taxes, and now Adam actually lowered taxes, which is beyond their comprehension.
However, Adam's action was unanimously praised by all the inhabitants of York, who were somewhat apprehensive about the new lord, who would have to live in fear if the lord was a brutal man.
Fortunately, this is a very generous and kind lord, and he has been pleasantly surprised for a while by issuing a decree to lower taxes just a few days after arriving in the territory.
Martin arrived in the joyful mood of the residents of York.
"On behalf of Mr. Martin, I welcome you." Welcoming Martin on the street was Arras, once Martin's employer.
Even when he became the consul of York, Aras still addressed Adam by the word sir, and he still valued the status of his follower rather than the position of consul.
"Haha, Arras, congratulations, I've heard that you're now the Archon of York." Martin laughed enthusiastically, as if there had never been any fetters between them before.
"Please come with me, Sir is waiting for you in the Lord's Palace."
Arras felt that he was still too young to be able to act like Martin in any way he could face anyone, at least not when he faced Martin.
Soon, Arras took Martin and Pepin to the lord's palace.
Leaving aside the little things about Martin as a businessman, such as greed, he is very good at dealing with people, for example, he now makes Adam very happy with a few jokes.
"Of course, you are welcome, it doesn't matter if you want to open as many stores as you want." Martin had just raised the question of wanting to open his own shop in York, and Adam would naturally not object.
"That's great." A look of joy appeared on Martin's chubby face.
After chatting for a while, Martin got to business.
"Actually, I came this time mainly because I need your help from the lord." Martin looked at the other people present, Andrew in armor, Martin knew that this was Adam's guardian knight, the silver powerhouse.
Arras, a follower of Adam and now the consul of York, can be said to be a model of one-step ascension. Janet, who used to be a little adventurer, now seems to be under Adam's command.
"Don't worry, they're all people I trust, and they won't talk nonsense." Adam knew what Martin meant, and said that they were all his own people, and directly said that it didn't matter.
Since Adam said so, Martin naturally didn't insist and began to state his purpose.
"Actually, I currently have a task on hand, and I hope to get your help."
It was the first time Adam had seen such a solemn expression on Martin's face.
"Oh, what mission?"
"Obtain the head of a silver-rank dark elf!"
Silver Rank, Dark Elf, Head. Adam, Arras, and Janet all looked at Martin with incomprehensible expressions, he was just a businessman, why did he have such a strange task.
The elves are a well-known long-lived race in this world, good at natural spells, and some of them have fallen into the dark regions of the underground world, becoming today's dark elves, a brutal and murderous race.
Their appearance is not much different from that of ordinary elves, they are very handsome and even more bewitching, but their skin has become dark, which is also the source of their dark elf name.
"Elaborate." Andrew, who has always acted as a background board, rarely speaks.
Martin saw that it was Andrew, the silver knight, who spoke, and hurriedly explained the task in detail.
"I've been tasked with going to the first dark region of the underworld to hunt down a dark elf and get his head."
Hunting the dark elf Adam didn't mind at all, but he didn't want to be involved inexplicably.
"Martin, I want to ......"
"Don't worry, my lord, in return I will support a large amount of money for your territory as construction costs, and if there is anything you need to come to my place in the future, I will do my best to help you." Martin promises benefits.
"No, no, no." Adam stretched out his index finger and shook it, "This is a very dangerous mission, I wonder why you, a businessman, have been given such a strange task and don't tell me that it is a strange request from a customer." ”
Martin was very hesitant, but in order to gain Adam'......s support, he could only choose to accept the explanation.
"It's a secret, and I hope no one else knows about it." Martin had no choice.
"Don't worry, no one else will know." Adam looked at the few people present, Andrew, Arras, and Janet were all trustworthy people who wouldn't talk nonsense.
"Okay. Here's the thing, I accepted the assignment in order to join an organization. ”
"What kind of organization would come up with such a strange mission?" Adam blinked, a little strange.
Then a familiar word fell into everyone's ears.
"Buffyson Business Alliance."
"Wait, weren't you originally a member of the Buffetson Business Alliance?" Arras couldn't help but ask.
Martin gave an embarrassed look.
Now everyone understands.
"It turns out that you have never been a member of the Buffetson Business Alliance, and you have always been a fake!" Alas is called a big fire, if it weren't for the identity of the other party's Buffyson Business Alliance, he wouldn't have chosen to become Martin's mercenary, and almost died at the hands of vampires and ogres.
"You know, I'm just a small merchant with some money in my hands, and if I don't have enough status, where can I trade between Celts and Yupler, I have long been exploited by those greedy city lords to the point that there is nothing left. Only by being a member of the Buffetson Business Alliance can you earn wealth safely. ”
Sounds like it makes sense.
"And then this task is the assessment of you by the Buffetson Business Alliance?"
"Yes, I don't know how many people on the mainland want to be a member of the Buffison businessmen, and correspondingly, it is very difficult to assess the businessmen who apply to become a member of the business alliance."
For the Buffetson Business Alliance, Martin has great illusions and longings, which are the goals he has been striving for over the years.
"In fact, hunting the dark elves is my last mission, and I have passed all the previous exams."
"Oh, what's the other mission?" Adam is a little interested in the assessment of this Buffison business alliance.
"There are two main parts to the assessment, the first part is the assessment of the business talent of the businessman, and I have no problem with this. You must know that there are already enough caravans and chambers of commerce under my name, and even the person in charge of the assessment is very satisfied with me. ”
Martin said this with a very smug expression, and even he himself was proud of his extraordinary business talent.
"But there's another part, and it's about strength." Martin himself was just an ordinary person who was reluctant to even be a beginner in Black Iron, "so I had to hire adventurers to help me do things." ”
"The rebel you mentioned last time to capture the Bloodlines in the Ash Forest was one of the missions?" Adam remembered the first time he met Martin.
"Actually, it's almost ......," Martin stammered, "I changed the content of the character last time, but my mission was not to capture the rebels, but to hunt down a Silver Blood. ”
Adam was really impressed by Martin at this time, and led a large group of adventurers deep into the ashes forest of the Johnson family's base camp to hunt down a silver-blooded clan, it was too daring.
"No wonder we were attacked by BloodClan and vampires after you returned, and it turned out that you killed a Silver Blood." It dawned on Aras why they had been inexplicably attacked by BloodClan and vampires last time.
"Hunting the Silver Blood Clan, and then hunting the Silver Dark Elves, as long as you complete these two tasks, you can become a member of the real Buffyson Business Alliance."
"That's right, I hope the lord can help me."
Adam glanced at Andrew and felt that there was no problem.
"Where?"
"Yuppler!"