In the study of Qingguang Castle, Xiao Wen, who had just returned from the banquet hall, sat alone at his desk, looking at a letter in his hand.

This letter was personally delivered this afternoon by Olaf, the Territory's Affairs Officer.

And the owner of the letter is Barbado, the president of the Goldfinger Chamber of Commerce.

The letter reads as follows:

Honorable Lord Moriki

Chauvin: Lord Baron Cassadine

It is an honor to write this letter to you on behalf of the merchants of East County.

First of all, we thank you for lowering the commercial tax on your territory.

Instead of constantly raising territorial taxes like other lords.

In fact, I am writing this letter to you after consultation with the merchants of the entire East County.

Due to the war with the Kara Empire, the entire East County is now the same, except for your territory, the commercial tax has not changed.

The lords of those territories have adjusted and increased the taxes of their territories, so that the benefits of our business have been greatly reduced.

There are even some merchants who are in a state of losing money, and if this continues, the entire business of Dongjun will be ruined, after all, no businessman is willing to lose money all the time.

So after some deliberation, I decided to form a business alliance, a business alliance in which the entire East County Merchant Chamber of Commerce would participate.

The contemptible man was fortunate to be elected as the first president of the East County Business Alliance.

After the establishment of the business alliance, the first problem we faced was the various tax issues in East County.

Actually, I don't want to hide it, our initial idea was that if the lords in the East County were willing to lower the commercial tax of their territory.

Then in return, in the future, as long as you lords, buy things in our business alliance, we will give you a nine-percent discount.

At first, we thought that the lords would agree to such conditions, after all, we were only asking for a slight reduction in the commercial tax, or a return to the previous one.

But it is clear that we underestimated the greed of those nobles.

Except, of course, adults.

So not only did they reject our offer to lower business taxes.

On the contrary, after knowing that we had established a business alliance, the increase in business tax increased at this time, and I wanted to make a big deal on our newly established business alliance.

I have to say that it is precisely because of our misjudgment of those noble lords that our newly established business alliance not only failed to help everyone get out of the difficulties, but also fell into a greater crisis.

This situation has led to a deep reflection on our part.

After reflection, we finally understood that those noble lords did this because we had a lot of wealth, but we didn't have the corresponding strength to protect it.

If it was in peacetime, it would be fine, but now it is in the time of war, although my Principality of Emma has temporarily ceased war with the Kara Empire, but it is because of the original solidity of the heavy snow.

Sooner or later, the war will continue, and in the war, no one can say what will happen in the future, not even the noble lords.

Because they don't have the strength to protect their territory like you, my lord.

Therefore, they want to extract more wealth from our merchants to make up for the losses in their territory, and there is no doubt that they treat us, who have no great support, as big fat sheep that can be harvested at will.

If we are short of money, or if we lose money in the war, we will make up for our own losses.

Therefore, after renegotiation, we decided that the current Dongjun Middle School still attaches importance to business.

And the only person who has the strength to change all this is you, an adult.

Therefore, I take the liberty of hoping that you can come forward and discuss with the other nobles of the Eastern County to see if it is possible to make a unified adjustment of the commercial tax of each territory.

Of course, we also know that if we don't offer some benefits, those lords will definitely not agree.

Therefore, we are willing to pay 100,000 gold coins to those nobles every year as compensation for their adjustment of the business tax of the territory.

At the same time, if they buy something in our business alliance, we still give them a 10% discount.

Of course, we won't let you run away in vain.

After deliberation, the members of our business alliance decided to give you, Your Lord, 30% of the alliance shares.

At the same time, we have also decided that if you buy something from our alliance in the future, we will give you a 60% discount.

Of course, there is another premise, that is, you, the lord, cannot participate in the operation and management of the business alliance.

However, in order to ensure that your lordship has a share of the thirty percent of the shares in the alliance, we also agree that your lordship will send some overseers to the business alliance.

Finally, if a member of the Business Alliance is in trouble and asks for help from the Lord, or if you need to send troops.

We hope you can agree, and of course we will pay you some fees.

In addition, I wish you good health, Lord Lord, and the territory is getting stronger and stronger.

East County Business Alliance: First President Barbado

I have the highest respect to you, my lord

Principality of Emma, winter 558

hehe

Xiao Wen, who finished reading the letter in his hand, chuckled.

Barbados and the others really made a good calculation, and they wanted Xiao Wen to face the shares of thirty percent, and those lords of Dongjun were really unexpected.

And don't they know that the troops of the Kara Empire stationed in Lord Charilu have not left.

It's ridiculous that there are those soldiers from the Kara Empire here, and they still trade, and it's no wonder they don't rob you of bankruptcy.

Of course, there is another possibility, that is, the general of Barbado, who also sent someone to contact the commander of the soldiers of the Kara Empire, Baron Is, who was stationed in Lord Chariru's domain.

They also cooperated with Baron Iss to ensure the safety of their Chamber of Commerce Alliance's goods.

Thinking of this, Xiao Wen secretly said in his heart: Sure enough, he is a shrewd businessman, and small actions are really okay.

At the same time, Xiao Wen sneered.

This Barbado really thinks he is an idiot, and believes that he is the last person to contact Barbado, and the reason is that the strength he wielded has been rapidly improved and strengthened with the help of the system.

Otherwise, Barbado, maybe he wouldn't have contacted himself, you have to know that the entire East County Merchant Chamber of Commerce Alliance, Xiao Wen didn't even know.

And I haven't even received any news, if there is no cat in it, the ghost will believe it.

Who knows what was written in the letter from Barbadore to Barbaron of the Cala Empire, who was stationed in Lord Chariru's Domain.

After all, as far as Xiao Wen knew, this Barbado president was also a member of the Kara Empire before, and his ancestors seemed to be nobles of the Kara Empire.

It seems that he needs to deal with it carefully, Xiao Wen reached out and put the letter away, and silently told himself in his heart.