July is the hottest season in the ancient city of Okuko, and this year is no different, at the end of July, the sky is like a fire, but the rainy season has not yet arrived, and large clouds still linger in the east, where it has already flooded. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

However, such a sweltering weather did not affect the lively atmosphere in the ancient city of Aogu in the slightest, the streets of the southern city are still crowded, brave adventurers and the most industrious merchants gather here to carry out the last round of trading before the rainy season, of course, many people either choose to hide at home, or simply shout at the tavern to drink a glass of rum with ice cubes, to drive away the heavy heat, and by the way, exchange the market prices of various commodities in the market this year.

Outside the bazaar, there were also many people on the main street, the most striking of which was a long procession of emaciated, tattered men lining up on the side of the road, which circled several miles along the streets of the southern city, several miles long, and thousands of people.

There is no doubt that these people are refugees, who have just fled from the north, their homes have been swept away by the orcs, they fled to the south of Capra Pass with their families, and some of the early ones have settled near Tiesong Town, receiving relief from the local government, but the latecomers are not so lucky, although Tiesong Town is large, but the relief capacity is limited, although the local government has done its best, and the kind rich have done everything, but gold coins are not enough, food is the most important thing. The refugees had eaten up the food they had brought with them, sold their cattle and sheep, but were still unable to solve the problem of food and clothing, and finally had to continue south, hoping to get relief in the ancient city of Aogu, the center of the ancient city-state.

Thousands of refugees poured into the ancient city of Aogu at once, which immediately plunged the security of the ancient city into unprecedented chaos, the refugees were forced to take risks by hunger, theft and robbery abounded, and the security team encountered unprecedented challenges. Due to the limited manpower and the inability to take care of the entire city, Sheriff Quentin had to order that the security team members be transferred to the rich district to be responsible for the security of the rich area, and the civilian area of the southern city could only be abandoned, unless there was a major case of murder and arson, otherwise the strategy of turning a blind eye to the petty theft that occurred in the southern city could only be adopted.

Nancheng is a distribution center for commerce, and the behavior of the refugees has affected the normal business order, and the civilians living in it have chosen to swallow their anger, but the merchants will not be so easy to bully, and the behavior of the security team has aroused the anger of the merchants, and they jointly sue the inaction of the security team in front of Hollander's case.

Holancet, who had read the complaint, knew that the situation was already serious, and he had known about the refugees for a long time, but he didn't expect it to deteriorate to this extent, but he didn't blame the sheriff Quentin for his inaction, because there was nothing wrong with Quentin's approach in this matter, and if it were him, he would give priority to protecting the rich area.

However, in order to appease the anger of the merchants, it was necessary to find a person to take the blame, Hollanster thought for a while, and then called the mayor of Aple over with an order, reprimanded him for not doing a good job of resettling refugees, causing the refugees to go south and affecting the security of the ancient city, and ordered him to solve the problem of refugees disturbing the city within ten days, otherwise his position as mayor would be over.

Aple really can't say it, he knows very well that he is a black pot, from the castle of August, Aple went directly to the south city, and knocked on the door in front of an ordinary house in the civilian area.

It was none other than Isa Sterling who came out to greet Aple.

Isha hadn't slept well since Ellen and Harvey left, and this mission was different from the last one. When the last mission set off, everyone only knew that it was a rescue mission, and they didn't know that it was to rescue the elven prince from the Holy See, but this time it was different, the Bols horse bandits were world-famous bandits, and they were an opponent who could helpless an empire.

Although Isha doesn't care about politics, she still has heard of the murderous reputation of the Bolsma bandits, so she even put down the matter of relieving refugees in Tiesong Town for a while, in order to get the news that Alan and their mission was completed one day earlier, Isha simply lived in Curry's house in Aogucheng, and it was precisely because Isha was not in Tiesong Town that many refugees had a famine and had to choose to go south to Aogucheng. So Aple carried the black cauldron on his back, and the first person who thought of being able to help him was Isha.

As soon as Aple saw Isha, he sighed, and said his difficulties with a handful of snot and tears, like a humiliated little daughter-in-law.

Isha was actually worried about the refugees, so she didn't refuse Aple, but the matter of public security was very complicated, and she didn't know how to deal with it, so she simply took Aple to Steven's mansion, and under the leadership of the servant, she met Steven, and told Steven about her difficulties, hoping that he could think of a way for herself.

Steven was busy with other things at this time and didn't have time, so he asked the servant to fetch Kevin Borg, and Steven knew that Kevin had a lot of ideas, so he asked him to give Isha an idea.

Speaking of Kevin, he has been in a hurry lately.

Originally, when Alan came to Aogucheng, Kevin's net worth not only doubled, but also because the weapon store had a relationship with Selena, the eldest lady of the Aogu family, his status in the trade hall also rose, at least no one dared to give him small shoes to wear, so he lived a very comfortable life for more than a year, not only bought a mansion in Aogucheng, but also eased the relationship with the family, and there were more contacts. At the end of last year, in the early stage of the one-sided war, the Holy See and Higg's soldiers and civilians cut down a large amount of wood in the Elven Forest, and at first all these rare timbers were taken away by merchants at a high price, but later as the war continued, the elves gradually gave up their resistance, and the amount of wood cut down became larger and larger, and the price of wood fell again and again. Kevin's family was originally engaged in the timber business, so although he was thousands of miles away, he did not give up his attention to this business opportunity, so when he saw that the price of wood in the Elven Forest had almost fallen to the bottom, he decided to buy the bottom. To this end, he not only took advantage of the family's access to the timber business, but also found Steven to invest together. Steven was also very confident in Kevin's business vision, and immediately handed over all the money in his hands to Kevin to operate, and when he made money, everyone shared it fifty-fifty.

Kevin was proved right once again, as soon as he finished copying, the situation of the one-sided war was reversed, the Holy See and Higg were defeated, and the wood of the Elven Forest became a sought-after commodity again. Agents of the Hepburn family approached Kevin and offered to pay three times the price for his stock of lumber.

But at this time, Kevin became hesitant, because he thought that twice the profit was too low, and as far as he knew, the Hepburn family got these woods and handed them over to some doctors in the Holy See who studied herbs, and through some refining methods, they used these woods to make potions, which was simply a million profits. Among them, the most famous is the pills for the treatment of internal injuries, and it is also because of the large outflow of wood from the Elven Forest, the price of the pills for the treatment of internal injuries has dropped from as much as a thousand gold to only a few dozen gold coins, which is why Bloom can purchase so many pills at once, if it is changed to the previous price, even if he has money now, he will definitely not be able to afford it.

After some deliberation and discussion with Steven, Kevin finally made up his mind to reject the Hepburn family's purchase request and instead wanted to research, manufacture and sell the potion himself.