Chapter Seventy-One: What I Saw and Heard in the Horse Ear Department Store

After the initial chaos, in addition to the two assassins who were knocked out by the Lucky Cat sailors' battalion, three other assassins were also brought over, only to see that these three assassins with their arms cut off have been looking at the Governor of Matouxing and Princess Wenfei angrily, and when these three people were escorted to Zhang Hai and the others, they shouted like crazy: Please do us a favor to the poor people of the surrounding empires! Be sure to ask the righteous division of the Kunlong Empire to come and rescue the people of our Blackbird Empire as soon as possible! We have endured the shameless and merciless oppression of the commoners of the Blackbird Empire by these royals and noble councillors who are inferior to pigs and dogs!

Zhang Hai and the others looked at the words of the three extremely crazy assassins in front of them, and their hearts were inexplicably touched, only to see Zhang Hai immediately say to the other four: In any case, this matter cannot be revealed so easily, let's immediately contact the Marquis of Guo Rong to deal with this matter! The other four agreed, so Zhang Hai and the five of them resolutely refused the request of the Governor of Matou Star to ask for these five assassins, and at the same time contacted the Marquis Guo Rong, the consolation envoy, and after briefly explaining the situation, it only took five minutes for Marquis Guo Rong, the consolation envoy of the Kunlong Empire in the Seahorse Star Domain, to arrive at the scene with a battalion of the Maritime Corps of the Seahorse Star Domain.

When Marquis Guo Rong arrived at the scene, Zhang Hai and the five of them first informed them of the ins and outs of the matter, and after knowing the whole process of the incident, Marquis Guo Rong immediately put away the five assassins and claimed to conduct an independent investigation. When Marquis Guo Rong made this decision, there was no doubt that he was opposed by Princess Wenfei and Hu Chunshan, the governor of Matouxing, but the actual situation now is that a small empire like the Blackbird Empire has no right to speak in front of a large empire like the Kunlong Empire, not to mention that the Blackbird Empire is now on the verge of a full-scale civil war. and went straight to the escort of the assassins in the Seahorse Star Domain Comfort Division, the first battalion of the Marine Corps, to the Kunlong Empire's headquarters in the Seahorse Star Domain.

After the Marquis Guo Rong left, the Mecha Weapons Expo continued to open, and the Lucky Cat and his party had no intention of staying at the scene any longer, so they refused each other's kindness in the formulaic fake retention of Princess Wenfei and Hu Chunshan, the governor of Matouxing, and boarded the assault boat early to return to the Lucky Cat.

After returning to the Lucky Cat, Zhang Hai and the five of them first came to the command room, and after they sat down at the table of the Eight Immortals, Feng Qi first said: I really didn't expect us to encounter such a thing today.

Subsequently, Zhang Hai said: The internal situation of the Blackbird Empire is bound to be turbulent now, and it is normal for this situation to occur, but what I am thinking about now is that we have made an appointment with Marquis Guo Rong to meet with Hu Chunshan, the governor of Matouxing, tomorrow, I think after today's incident, let's not go to join in this excitement for the time being, so as not to make it difficult for Marquis Guo Rong.

When Zhang Hai made this proposal, it was immediately approved by the other four, and then they sent an email to the Marquis Guo Rong to explain the situation, and five minutes later, Zhang Hai and the five of them proposed to be approved by the Marquis Guo Rong, and after the Marquis Guo Rong and the Marquis Guo Rong decided to cancel the meeting with Hu Chunshan, the governor of Matouxing, Zhang Hai and the others began to plan their next trip.

After drinking tea and discussing for 20 minutes, they immediately decided to go to a large market called "Horse Ear Department Store" in the afternoon called "Horse Ear Department Store", which is the closest to the ground airport where the Lucky Cat is docking, to have a look and investigate the business and people's livelihood on this horse head star, after all, the more information they know, the more correct judgments they can make.

In a blink of an eye, the time came to one o'clock in the afternoon, and at this time, Zhang Hai and the five of them were ready to set off with sixty soldiers from the second company and one platoon of the Lucky Cat Sailor Battalion.

The Lucky Cat everyone put on a uniform of the Lucky Cat Security Transport Company in the interstellar navigation suit this time, and the words "Lucky Cat" were also printed on it, only to see the Lucky Cat everyone walked out of the airport dock area with unparalleled momentum, five minutes later, they stepped into the large wholesale market with the words "Horse Ear Department Store" written on the signboard from the south gate of the market, Zhang Hai and others came in, and found that the population in this large wholesale market was surprisingly scarce, The gap with the scene of various crowds rubbing shoulders with everyone's imagination is a bit big.

Then the beckoning cat people went around the market, and the sharp-eyed power chief He Suji first found a bookstore selling paper books in the northeast corner of the market, which made Zhang Hai and others feel very surprised, after all, in this era, basically books are stored on the Internet, and this kind of paper physical book store is really rare.

However, the first mate, Wang Kang, believes that this bookstore must sell some more expensive ancient books, or the kind that can be collected permanently, and those books with very gorgeous packaging that can be used as gifts.

So with some questions and curiosity, Zhang Hai and the five of them asked the sixty soldiers in the second company and one platoon to wait at the door of this bookstore, and then Zhang Hai and the five of them strode into this bookstore.

The owner of this bookstore was sitting at the cash register at the door at this time, he was very happy to see someone coming in, only to see that the bookstore owner greeted Zhang Hai and the five people very warmly, but He Suji asked the bookstore owner directly: Boss, what type of books are you selling?

I saw the middle-aged bookstore owner holding a pipe in his mouth, touching his beard, and smiling and saying to Zhang Hai and others: I'm selling some ancient books, of course, including other latest well-packaged books.

As soon as the boss said this, the first mate Wang Kang raised his eyebrows proudly, because he guessed correctly. Then Zhang Heng picked a few ancient books and took them to the cashier to pay, taking advantage of the boss's time to pack, the captain Feng Qi asked the boss: Hey boss, ask, your large wholesale market is close to the large airport next to it, it stands to reason that business should be very good, why didn't we see a few people all the way in?

The bookstore owner paused after listening to Feng Qi's question, then sighed and said, "You must have just come to our Matouxing not long ago, right?" It is true that our large market used to be very prosperous, but with the continuous withdrawal of various bills by the aristocratic legislators in the past ten years, these business bosses on our horse head star now have to pay a large part of the taxes to the pockets of the nobles and royals every year.

By the time of the year before last, it was completely impossible here, there was no money to be made, almost all the bosses took their company properties and stores and other assets to the royal family members and nobles, the way is very simple, just let the royals and noble parliamentarians be the major shareholders, and we, the original bosses and entrepreneurs, can only be a small shareholder by ourselves, and then usually help the royals and noble parliamentarians to do things, manage and manage the business, and it is good to be able to support the family.

Of course, there are some hard-boned people who can't swallow this breath, so they have to block the door of the parliament to make an explanation, and as a result, they basically end up ruined, and of course, there are some more fierce people who directly unite with some other big merchants to go out to be pirates.

Speaking of this, the boss stroked his beard with emotion, and helped his round-framed glasses, and then said a little depressed: Like us, who are not so bold, and the family is in the local area of Matouxing, we really don't have the capital to take risks to be pirates, so we can only hand over the majority of the shares of our chain bookstore to a powerful local aristocratic councilor. We, the original shareholders, can only help the nobles to look at the store, alas.