Like other villages and towns around the Black Forest, Rabbit Skin Town relies on all kinds of specialties of the Black Forest, and the early people who founded Rabbitskin Town mainly came to the Black Forest for a very special kind of fine velvet rabbit.

The first person to be interested in this rabbit was a biologist named Benshamin in the French Empire, who spent ten years studying this rabbit on the edge of the Black Forest, and wrote a book about its life and so on, and this fine velvet rabbit only found in the Black Forest is also called Benshamin rabbit.

Originally, Ben Shaming studied and documented this rabbit in order to make people better protect this unique animal, but he should not have described in detail how soft and delicate the rabbit's fur was in the book, and he did not think that this rabbit skin was one of the finest in the world.

When Ben Chamein's book spread, and he himself became famous as a member of the Royal Academy of Sciences of the French Empire, a large number of fur traders and hunters immediately saw a large number of gold coins in the book.

Within a month, Benhamin had formed a small town around his makeshift house outside the Black Forest, where hunters and fur traders poured in to hunt the rabbits.

The Benshaming rabbit has survived and thrived in such a dangerous place as the Black Forest, and naturally has its own way of survival. In the past, it was impossible for the hunters in Gaoming to pose a threat to their herd, but now Benshamin has written their habits in the book, and the hunters have easily caught these hard-to-catch rabbits by setting traps through the contents of the book.

In less than three years, all the Benshaming rabbits have been captured within a radius of 170 kilometers from the town of Rabbit Skin, and if you want to catch them, you need to go deep into the more dangerous Black Forest.

Although there is no such huge benefit as Benshaming rabbits, while catching these rabbits, some people who are interested have also discovered that there are still many special products hidden in the Black Forest that can be sold at a high price.

For example, purple leaf grass is specially used to make hemostatic medicine and other wound medicines, rainbow birds with great ornamental value, and black forest white spotted leopard cats that every noble child wants to get, and so on.

Even now, there is a special collection of humus that has accumulated over countless years on the Black Forest floor, which is said to be used to cultivate special and precious plants.

When the town was first built, it was all formed spontaneously by some merchants, hunters and mercenaries, and after experiencing several turmoil caused by interests, several big merchants and big forces in the town saw that it was not a way to manage the chaos in this way, so they united and formed a town council to deal with disputes and distribution of interests in the town.

Later, as the profits created by Rabbitskin and other surrounding villages and towns that depended on the Black Forest increased, the Diet of the French Empire naturally did not want to see such a large amount of tax revenue slip out, so it sent tax collectors and Imperial militia regiments to these towns.

However, the Imperial Council of France was very clever, they only took over the taxation and defense of these towns, and did not directly intervene in the administration of villages and towns, and the actual management of the towns was still in the hands of the town council, and from a certain point of view, this was also the council's recognition of this spontaneous town council as a legitimate administrative organization.

It is precisely because of this clever approach that these towns have also acquiesced in the empire's control of the town's taxes, and both sides have taken what they need, and they have been at peace until now.

It's just that recently, there has been some tension in the Black Forest villages and towns such as Rabbit Skin Town, because the militia regiments stationed in the town have begun to impose martial law on the surrounding areas of the town, and the inspection methods of the caravans have become much stricter, and contraband that could have been closed has also been searched and seized, even if the goods belong to some big people.

The explanation given by the garrison militia for their recent actions is that the war is nearby, so they will impose martial law on the villages and towns in the vicinity of the battlefield to prevent enemy infiltration.

After the invasion of the Kingdom of England, the region of Breteuil, where the French army was fighting, was not very far from the eastern part of the Lower Black Forest, and it was only a few mountains away.

Judging from the map, this place is so close to the battlefield that it seems that the flames of war will burn here at any time.

However, anyone who knows a little about military affairs can easily see that it is impossible for the army of the Kingdom of England to march towards the Black Forest, and they will only choose the great plains of the Bretteuil region, and go straight north, and can easily advance the army to the province of Lyon, which is close to the imperial capital.

Therefore, the pretext of martial law made by the garrison militia is simply untenable.

When the interests of the caravans, hunters, and mercenaries in these towns were seriously damaged by the implementation of martial law, and the garrison militia made a lot of money by selling the seized contraband, everyone thought that the so-called martial law was made by the garrison militia themselves, and that they were taking this opportunity to loot money from various Black Forest villages and towns.

On the one hand, they insisted that their martial law was an order issued by the military headquarters and that what they did was reasonable and legal, but on the other hand, those whose interests were damaged did not have the slightest trust in these garrison militias, and only demanded that the ban be lifted immediately and that the trade routes be reopened. The two sides have clashed more than once in the last two days over these events, which has also made the atmosphere very tense in the villages and towns on the eastern side of the Lower Black Forest, including the town of Rabbitskin.

Leo and the other three of them spent half a day to come to the vicinity of Rabbitskin Town, and the reason why they were able to climb several mountains and chase such a long mountain road in such a short time was entirely because Leo was able to easily find the easiest path from the details of the surrounding environment, and did not detour any long way.

If a different person led the way, I am afraid that it would be difficult to get from the location of the small river they set out from to the famous Black Forest town of Rabbitskin in two days.

"There's something wrong with the atmosphere!" Nelson, who had been to Rabbitskin Town before, couldn't help but say when he saw the closed wooden gates of the town and the hunters, mercenaries, and caravans gathered outside the town.

"I can tell something is wrong with you. Jason rolled his eyes at Nelson and grinned.

Nelson didn't bother with Jason's offense and instead looked at Leo, waiting for him to make a decision.

Along the way, Nelson has been accustomed to Jason's words against himself from time to time, and he also knows very well that this is just Jason's relieved personality, not really malicious to him, although he is still a little unhappy in his heart, but he has no intention of dealing with such low-level rough people.

Leo's gaze swept over the crowd in the distance, and then commanded Jason, "Jason, don't talk later, your Inge Kingdom accent is so thick that anyone can hear it." ”

"Aren't you like me?" Jason snapped at Leo.

"I'm not like you. Leo responded, only this time the language he used was not the Chinese language of the Kingdom of England, but Franic, but the language of the Bodo region of southern France, very similar to Nelson's accent in Faranic.

"Y-what are you ...... about&" Jason and Nelson were both surprised, as they both knew Leo Fudo Fran.

"Didn't I ask you to teach me French on the way?" said Leo, with a look of course, "This is the result of half a day of learning the language." ”

Hearing Leo's words, Nelson and Jason could only look at him in a daze, not knowing what to say.

For Leo, who has an ecstasy, it is not uncommon for him to learn a new language in half a day, especially if he also knows another branch of the language, which is at least half the difficulty.

But for the two people around him, especially Nelson, his ability to learn was shocking, even terrifying and hopeless.

Leo ignored the two of them's shock, and continued to command, "Wait a minute, you pretend to be a doctor who has come to the Black Forest to collect special herbs, and Jason and I are your guards. As he spoke, he asked, "Do you have to go to Rabbitskin? What herbs do you need, can't you collect them on the road in the Black Forest?" Now that Rabbitskin Town looks like it's under martial law, it might be dangerous to go there. ”

Nelson collected his emotions for a moment, then replied, "If I want to make it easier to cross the Black Forest, I have to go to the town and buy some of the medicines I need, which are finished medicines, not herbs." ”

After hearing Nelson's words, Leo didn't say anything more, took a step back, and stood behind Nelson like an entourage, his hand on the hilt of the war knife at his waist.

Because the handle of this war knife has obvious characteristics of the production process of the English Kingdom, it was tightly bound by him with strips of cloth.

In addition, the more obvious scabbard was thrown directly by him, and the sword was stuck in the belt around his waist, which, combined with the dirt and dust standing on his body, made him look like a destitute mercenary.

As for Jason's appearance, there is no difference between him and Leo, as long as Jason doesn't speak, no one will call him a native of the Kingdom of England.

Nelson also tidied up his clothes, carried the medicine box on his left side according to the custom of the doctors of the French Empire, put on his glasses, cleaned up the small details on his body, and after finding nothing wrong, he walked towards the gate of Rabbitskin Town, followed by Leo and Jason.

Soon the group of three came to the carriage square in front of the gate, and after Nelson glanced at the badge at the position of the carriage headlight in the square, he walked towards a carriage with a bull's head badge.

"Good afternoon, Bull of Bodo. Nelson gave a strange-looking salute to a fat man in a wig standing next to the pickpocket, and greeted him in French, with a hint of accent.

Hearing the greeting, the fat man looked at Nelson suspiciously, and when he saw the medicine box and the deliberately tied knots on the medicine box, his originally indifferent attitude immediately changed and became respectful, and he also saluted Nelson and said, "Good afternoon, follower of Moka." ”

Nelson deliberately showed an exaggerated expression, pointed to the closed door, and said, "What's going on? Isn't Rabbitskin ready to do business with outsiders? Why did you close the door and keep you big businessmen out?"

"It's not the fault of the recent martial law order!" the fat man said angrily, although it was not aimed at Nelson, but it could be heard from his tone that he was very annoyed at the moment.

Nelson continued to say from the fat man's mouth, "Even if there is martial law, you won't close the door and don't let people in to do business, right?"

"Now the town council is negotiating with the tax collector to lift martial law and restore business order. The town's militia was worried that outsiders would affect the negotiation process, so they shut down all outsiders who didn't have the identity of Rabbitskin Town. The fat man frowned and said, "It seems that the situation is not good. ”

"I don't see it that way. Leo intervened into the conversation with some abruptness, and when the fat man showed a displeased look, he raised his hand and pointed to the small town militiamen who were patrolling back and forth on the wooden stake walls of the town, and said: "If the situation is not good, there will not be only a few militiamen patrolling the city walls, and it will not be so easy, so the negotiations in the town should go smoothly, and there will be no violent conflicts or anything like that." ”

Hearing Leo's analysis, the fat man looked up at the militia on the city wall, and quickly figured it out, nodding approvingly, and the displeasure at Leo's guard interjecting also dissipated, as well as the nervous worry that had been accumulating since the morning.

The fat man, who had become much more relaxed, asked Leo with a smile on his face: "It is really rare to find a guard with eyes like you, are you interested in coming to our Toruń Chamber of Commerce to work after your escort mission?" ”

Leo also imitated the tongue-twisting way of the Franco, and said: "It's my honor to be able to join the Toruń Chamber of Commerce, but it's a pity that my escort mission will take a long time, so I'm sorry, please allow me to decline." ”

"What a pity!" the fat man looked regretful, and then said enviously to Nelson, "You have found a good guard!"

Nelson smiled and responded, "I think so too." ”

The fat man apologized at this time, saying that he had something to deal with and had to be absent for a while, and then walked quickly towards the caravan of another large chamber of commerce with his small short legs, apparently preparing to tell the others Leo's analysis just now.

Instead of staying where they were, the three of them walked to a makeshift tavern on the edge of the carriage square, found a small table, ordered a few beers, and drank them while waiting for the negotiations in Rabbitskin to be over.

"Why didn't you just say yes to the caravan master's invitation? As far as I know, the Toruń Chamber of Commerce is really well paid. Perhaps the wait was a bit boring, Nelson casually picked up a topic and asked.

Leo took a sip of the beer of this world, felt that it tasted good, and took another sip before replying, "He just said casually, he has no intention of recruiting me at all." ”

"Why do you say that?" Nelson wondered.

Leo glanced at Nelson indifferently and said, "He didn't introduce himself from beginning to end. ”