Chapter 47 The Salt Tax
Seeing that emblem, the leader of the Polaris Chasseurs turned pale and said, "This is impossible! ”
The lord was surprised and said, "Oh, I didn't expect you to be such a big person, Styri, what a noble name, I don't seem to know what your last name is." ”
Duchamp replied, "Duchamp, full name is Stellary S. Duchamp." ”
The lord exclaimed, "What a noble name, I didn't expect you to be able to climb the four famous gates." ”
Duchamp spread his hands and said: "This is the way it is, thanks to the daughter of the Marquis of Rogner's family, funded by her, my teacher, Ashley Yangchu, a professor of the Department of Guidance at the Lulei University of Technology, and I also have a part in the establishment of a new Guiding Civil Office in Lulei." At that time, industrial standards will be used for the production of refrigerators and other household conductive equipment, and the power source used will also be the standard synthetic conductive crystals, rather than the current expensive natural magic crystals.
As for the local products some time ago, when I was training in Pvennis, I hit a lot of water-based magic crystals, and under the inspiration, I took their designs and inlaid the local magic crystals. This kind of excessive handmade products, because of the high cost, will soon be replaced by industrial products, standard crystallization will replace the expensive and low-work magic crystal, the price of the refrigerator, will also fall from the current 60,000 meters, to 5,000 meters to pull one. ”
The lord was greatly struck and suddenly froze.
Duchamp added: "Of course, my design concept, is not without merit, expensive magic crystals, there is a natural guiding circuit inside, if they can be successfully inlaid induced, and maintain the beauty, or can make a lot of useful jewelry accessories, such as wearing water magic crystals in summer, you can be cold all over, wearing fire magic crystals in winter, you can warm the whole body, many ancient jewelry, before the emergence of the theory of conductivity, has been able to get such an effect, this is my next topic." ”
Looking at the leader of the hunters, whose face was as if he was sinking into the water, Duchamp said: "That's the way it is, I'm very sorry to let you run away in vain, and if you can tell me by the way, the recent movements of those friends I have ventured on the Gobi, then I would be even more grateful." ”
The leader of the hunters was filled with chagrin and regret. In this matter, he went down behind the orders of the regiment commander himself, and he wanted to do it beautifully and add another fixed income to the regiment, but he didn't expect to act rashly, the information was asymmetrical, and he faced an object that he couldn't afford to provoke at all.
In the Northland, the hunting regiment is unscrupulous, doing whatever it wants, and as long as they have money, they dare to do anything. But in the eyes of the aristocracy, they are just vicious dogs bred and have no status at all.
A behemoth like the Four Famous Sects, even the No. 1 hunting regiment in the Northland, would never dare to rebel against a single step, because that would only bring disaster.
"You seem reluctant to answer? Have you done something you shouldn't have done? Seeing that the head of the hunters did not answer, the lord asked angrily, he also did not want to leave any leverage for the bull family.
The leader of the hunters hesitated for a moment and said, "I have only conveyed some simple instructions to some of my capable men to keep an eye on them, and I will order my men to withdraw the surveillance." ”
Duchamp said: "Then please, I hope you don't get into a misunderstanding because of this." ”
The leader of the hunters said proudly: "Our North Star is a well-organized corps, and we will not act rashly without orders. In front of a hunter next to him, he said, "Larry, go to the Gobi in person and bring back the people of the eighth team." The subordinate obeyed.
The leader of the hunters made amends to the lord and Duchamp and said: "I only misheard the words of the owner of the Sparrow Hotel before, so I caused today's misunderstanding, but fortunately, the old finch is dead, which is enough to make up for his sins." Afterwards, Polaris will definitely give a generous gift as reparation. With that, let his subordinates take away the corpse of the old sparrow, and several people hurried away.
Seeing that several chasseurs were gone, Duchamp said a few words of thanks to the lord, but he was absent-minded.
Baron Teresa saw that Duchamp was not in a good mood, raised his voice and said, "Oh, I have helped you so much, I didn't even say anything, not even a cup of tea." ”
Duchamp hurriedly asked the waiter to bring the tea, drinks, and desserts to the table.
Seeing that Duchamp was still sitting with a sad face, Baron Theresa said, "Are you worried that the people of Polaris will come back to make trouble after I leave, that's very simple, as long as I give a message to the head of Polaris." ”
Duchamp also did not hide it, saying: "I am afraid that the people of the North Star have now made a move on Andrew them. This group of chasseurs are all murderous without blinking, and they are called surveillance in person, but they may have been killed behind their backs. ”
Baron Theresa comforted: "Things are not as bad as you think, they just want to profit from you, they will not be in such a hurry." But for the sake of peace of mind, I'll tell the head of the regiment myself. He instructed his bodyguard, "Go and talk to Fried, and say that this matter involves the safety of the realm, and I hope he must handle it carefully." ”
Duchamp had the intention of using the agitation method, sneered and said: "Are people willing to listen to what you say?" ”
"What?" The lord jumped up with excitement like a cat whose tail had been trampled on. "Have you heard any strange remarks, those foolish people are not enough to hear, I am a great fief noble, a mercenary group like Polaris, the reason why I keep them here is that on the one hand, I can use him, and on the other hand, it is completely out of pity that I handed over this pitiful tax to them."
"Mercy?" Duchamp's face was full of mockery, "I can't see that you are still a philanthropist." ”
"Hmm." Baron Theresa sat down and said solemnly, "Although not many people in the local area are paying attention, people like you must know about the tragedy of Nosampulia on July 1, 1178. A prestigious principality, most of which has been reduced to salt. ”
Duchamp nodded, of course he had heard of such a big event. At 5:45 a.m. on July 1, 1178, on the outskirts of Harriasco, the former capital of the Duchy of Northumburia in the northern part of the Semria, a huge stone pillar rose into the sky, and the appearance of the large pillar stirred the vision of heaven and earth, and began to assimilate everything on the earth, including land, trees, animals and people. It was not until after dawn on July 3, after the intervention of the Church, that the force of the stone pillar ceased.
In two days, half of the territory and nationals of the Duchy of Northumburia were reduced to the Salt Sea. This was the most astonishing natural disaster in Semria, and it is well documented in various history books.
Subsequently, the Duchy of Northumbria, due to the desertion of the Grand Duke, lost its authority, and soon a mutiny occurred and the regime collapsed. Later, its suzerain, the Altrian Codex State, carried out the aftermath and merged the remaining two counties into an autonomous state. The core of that pillar, which was eventually recovered by the church, was identified as the Pile of Salt and believed to be a relic of God.
Baron Teresa saw Duchamp nodding, and then said: "This place is not far from my territory, crossing the Lianyun Mountains and passing by boat from the North Sea, but it is only a day or two voyage. In the aftermath of the disaster, the people of Northumburia who had lost their homes wandered around. Although they were so far apart, my uncle, Viscount von Theresa, took pity on them, and since there were many demonic beasts in the Northland, they also needed people to hunt them, so they allowed the country's mercenaries to enter and leave the territory of Gatapunia freely. Later, the nobles of the empire continued to quarrel with each other, and they continued to hire these people, and over time, the strange phenomenon of the so-called 'Northern Hunters' was formed. ”
"In my small town, there was no oil and water, and I was too lazy to do government affairs, so I let it go so far. The little tax in the city was said to be used to help the victims of the disaster in Northumburia, so it was called the salt tax. But today, it seems that it is too laissez-faire, and many people are not only grateful, but also do not know the master. ”