Chapter 18 Choices
The big-shouldered businessman seemed to have some prestige among the 200 merchants, and his words were agreed by most of the merchants, only a few did not speak, but looking at their frowns, they also seemed to disagree with it.
"Haha! This is impossible, how many merchants are here? And how many merchants are there in the whole of Bailey? ”
"There are 300 merchants in Bailey City, and there are about 200 here!" Barak was like a follower of Thunder Tiger, and hurriedly stood up and said.
"Isn't this the end of it, do you know how many God-blessed people there are now?" Lei Laohu waved his hand and continued.
Many businessmen shook their heads, indicating that they did not know.
"I can responsibly say that the number of God-blessed people is 50 million now, and there are more than 3 million in our area alone, not to mention that more God-blessed people will join in succession, and at that time, can you still guarantee that your strength can eat them all?"
As Lei Laohu's words fell, all the businessmen were brightly lit up, they were all smart people, and they didn't know what Lei Laohu meant.
It is true that although there are many merchants here, accounting for two-thirds of the entire Bailey City, if the truth is as Lei Lao Tiger said, there will be more Heavenly Blessed people entering, even if the strength of all of them combined, it is impossible to do it.
But not everyone believed Lei Laohu's words, and the big-shouldered businessman spoke again: "How can you guarantee what you say? ”
"I can't guarantee it, because what I'm saying is true, but I can guarantee that if you can't earn enough money in the City of Rebirth, you can leave at any time, and I vouch for the status of the lord of the City of Rebirth, and the business tax in my City of Rebirth will always be 100 tax 1, and this will not change anything."
As soon as they heard Lei Laohu's assurance, all the businessmen were dazzled, and they cared more about the 100 tax 1 that Lei Lao Tiger said than anything else.
You must know that these nPc merchants are different from players, they have to pay at least 100 tax 10 in transaction tax per transaction, and their profit margins have been compressed a lot, coupled with the increase in transaction tax from the city lord, which makes them very dissatisfied.
It was the big-shouldered and round-waisted merchant who stood up first, only to hear him say in a loud voice: "Okay, everyone earns money, since the lord of the city has made such a guarantee to convince people with virtue, my honorary merchant Maradona will bet on you about this, this is my letter of recommendation." ”
As Maradona handed over the letter of recommendation, Barak followed suit, and with the two taking the lead, other businessmen also came up with their own letters of recommendation.
Soon, Lei Laohu received 150 letters of recommendation, and only 50 of them left the business alliance after hesitating.
Coupled with the 10 letters of recommendation that were harvested before, the letters of recommendation in Lei Laohu's hands have reached an astonishing 160, accounting for more than half of the entire Bailey City, which means that more than half of the merchants agree to Lei Laohu's transfer to businessmen, which is impossible in the eyes of other players, even Lei Laohu himself did not expect that there would be so many letters of recommendation.
If you spread the word about what happened here, you will surely shatter your glasses and make all players cry out that it is impossible.
But this matter is destined not to be passed on, and even if it is, it will only be passed on in a very small circle.
Seeing that there were no more businessmen to hand over the letters of recommendation, Lei Laohu smiled at all the merchants present, walked quickly to the businessman's sideline transfer nPc, and directly handed over the 160 letters of recommendation he received.
It's just that this nPC didn't directly take the letter of recommendation from Lei Laohu's hand, and saw this nPC looking at Lei Lao Tiger with complicated eyes.
This made Lei Laohu feel a little puzzled, so he said: "I'm here to deliver the mission, and this is the recommendation letter I received, a total of 160. ”
"Young man, with so many letters of recommendation, you will be rewarded beyond imagination, but have you ever thought about the consequences of your doing this?" The task nPC is an old man, he took the letter of recommendation from Lei Laohu, and asked very casually.
Lei Laohu was stunned for a moment, this old man seemed to have something to say? But on second thought, at most, it was just offending the city lord of Bailey City, could there be anything else that could not be done?
So he humbly asked: "Please also ask the old man for advice!" ”
The old man waved his hand and said: "Don't dare to advise, you can come up with so many letters of recommendation at one time, it can be said that it is unheard of in the entire mainland, the old man is fortunate to encounter such a thing, and he can also leave a strong mark in the history of the mainland, so I feel very happy." ”
After a slight pause, the old man continued: "It wouldn't be a big deal if someone else brought so many letters of recommendation, at most it would be a bad relationship with Bailey City, but if you were the one who brought so many letters of recommendation, it would be different......"
"What do you mean by that, old man?" The old man's words made Lei Laohu a little incomprehensible.
"Do you have your own city?" The old man did not answer directly, but asked rhetorically.
"Yes!" There's nothing to hide, nPcs have their own channels to get information.
"Do you know that once you hand in their letters of recommendation, you're pulling these merchants from Bailey City to settle in your town?"
"And this?" Lei Laohu was very surprised when he heard about such a thing for the first time.
"Do you know what the consequences of this are?" The old man asked again.
Lei Laohu understood, he had thought that he had only handed in these 160 letters of recommendation to qualify these merchants to trade in the City of Rebirth and become the first batch of merchants in the City of Rebirth.
What he didn't expect was that these merchants saw him as an opportunity, an opportunity to leave Bailey City.
If you really hand in these letters of recommendation, you will be pulling these merchants from Bailey City to settle in the City of Rebirth and become merchants of the City of Rebirth.
From now on, they will have the mark of the City of Rebirth engraved on their bodies, and wherever they go to run the business, they will tell each other that they are from the City of Rebirth, not the City of Bailey.
If there were only 10 or 20 of them, maybe there would not be any problem, because there were a lot of merchants in Bailey City, there were 300 people, and the lack of 10 or 20 might have some effect, but this effect could be solved in a very short time.
At most, his relationship with the city lord of Bailey City has deteriorated to a certain extent, but because it has not hurt his roots, the other party will not have much opinion.
But if more than half of the merchants of Bailey City were pulled at once, this is very problematic.
You know, what is the concept of a town famous for commerce suddenly losing more than half of its merchants?
How much damage was done to this town? How much of an obstacle will it be to the development of the town? How much less tax would this have been for the money-hungry city lord? ……
These reasons can cause a substantial blow to Bailey City, if taking away one or twenty merchants is just a bad fight, pulling away 160 merchants is a provocation to Bailey City, this is a declaration of war.
Thinking of this, cold sweat flowed down Lei Laohu's back, and he was a little inconsiderate.
If the city lord was targeting him, Lei Laohu would not frown, at most he would be killed a few times, but because he was the lord of a city, this kind of public move to pull people was undoubtedly a matter between the two cities.
What can happen between cities? It's nothing more than a war, how can the weak strength of the Reborn City withstand the powerful attack of Bailey City?
Taking a deep breath, Lei Laohu turned around and looked at the more than 150 businessmen behind him, 300 expectant eyes, and a sense of pride suddenly emerged in his heart.
Isn't Heroes a war game? Who's afraid of whom? If you want to fight, I will fight, even if the reborn city fights to the last soldier, Lao Tzu will accompany him to the end.
Fight, how can the fat that has reached the mouth be thrown out casually.
Thinking of this, Lei Laohu turned around, looked at the old man in front of him with a serious face, and almost gritted his teeth and spit out three words.
"I'm sure!"
It's very strange that as soon as these words came out, Lei Laohu's heart suddenly calmed down, and it seemed that there was something more in his heart, but he couldn't figure it out for a while.
"Good! Just for the arrogance of the city lord, the old man is also willing to gamble, I, the senior businessman Bergkamp, recommend to convince people to officially become a businessman! The old man took the lead in clapping and shouted loudly.
I saw that with a flick of his hand, there was another letter of recommendation, and he casually threw it into the 160 letters.
With Bergkamp's movements, the 150 businessmen behind Lei Lao also applauded.
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Veteran businessman? There are also levels of sub-classes, such as the level division of merchants, there are 6 levels, of course, level 6 only exists theoretically, because its conditions are almost impossible for players to reach.
The lowest-level merchant is called a trainee merchant, and after accumulating a certain amount of reputation and gaining the approval of 10 successful merchants, he can be officially promoted to a merchant, and so on, followed by a successful merchant, an honorary merchant, a senior merchant, and finally, the king of merchants.
Each level of the merchant also has different permissions.
Trainee merchants can only pass freely in the main city of their own system, which doesn't make much sense to current players; However, if the Trainee Merchant is maliciously attacked by a player in the city, the city's guards can help the Trainee Merchant unconditionally.
Merchants can pass freely through the main city of the system in their faction; Players of the same faction and different races need to pay a certain entry tax to enter the system cities of other races, while merchants are exempt from the entry tax and will also be blessed by the city.
As for successful businessmen, they can set up their own chambers of commerce; The Chamber of Commerce has a certain role, and the members of the Chamber of Commerce can share resources, especially the president has the right to temporarily mobilize the resources of all members of the Chamber of Commerce; Of course, this must be based on the consent of the other party, and the greatest use for the player is to recruit nPc merchants to join the Chamber of Commerce and use the resources of nPc to develop their own strength.
Honorary Merchants can travel freely in the main city of the system that is not hostile to the faction, and can also be protected in the city.
The game is divided into three camps, neutral, dark, and light, and among the three camps, darkness and light belong to the opposing camp, while the neutral camp does not participate in the struggle between the two sides.
For example, Lei Laohu, as a player of the light camp, under normal circumstances, if you want to enter the city of the neutral camp, you must not only obtain a certain prestige of the camp race, but also pay a large amount of entry fee, and you will not be protected if you are maliciously PK by the players of the neutral camp.
From this point of view, it seems that players in the neutral camp have an advantage, but in fact, they can only choose one of the two factions to enter when they reach the Honorary Merchant, and the other is still not good.
Veteran merchants can move freely through the main city of the hostile faction's system, and they can also be protected by defending nPcs in the city, which is especially important for players, especially those in the Light and Dark camps.
Normally, players cannot enter the city of the opposing faction, and if they get close, they will be attacked by the nPC guards of the city.
As for the legendary king of Shang, he can freely cross the border and travel freely in any of the main cities of other countries.
However, the king of Shang only exists in theory, after all, the player simply cannot find a merchant with a higher level than the king of Shang Wang, unless he is lucky and is directly promoted to the king of Shang through the task.