"I don't know if you can see the wonder of this thing. With the lamp in his hand, Gilbert glanced at the nobles below.

He was naturally aware of the sale of lamps in the Rost shop, but he did not obstruct it, and even bought a batch of lamps himself, which could have an unexpected effect if used in the war.

"My lord, I've been to Rost, the buildings and facilities inside are very strange and weird, and this lamp is as weird as Rost City, which is incomprehensible. ”

"Oh, Clarence, since you've been to Rost, what do you think of Rost?" Gilbert was interested, as the Marquis of Riva, Lei Zhe naturally came to visit him, but at that time he did not go to see Lei Zhe in order to put aside the relationship.

Besides, there is no need for him to sell the face of a count as a marquis, fortunately, Lei Zhe is also self-aware that nothing unpleasant happened, and everyone understands that Lei Zhe has been abolished when he is exiled to Turku, a place where birds don't.

But now a small act by Reich caught his attention, for Riva, there were thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of gold coins traded every day, but the fact that this item alone could cause such exaggerated economic benefits was something Gilbert did not expect.

No, he immediately gathered his subordinates to discuss the matter.

"My lord, Rost's words are naturally inferior to Riva's, whether it is economy, territory or population, Rost will not be able to catch up with one-tenth of Riva's even if it develops for decades. ”

"Aren't you? There's no way you're going to make a moth out of Turku's kind of place. Another nobleman dismissed, this is simply nonsense.

"You continue. Gilbert glanced at Clarence, who he thought his count would not say anything inconsequential, and this passage was clearly setting the stage for the next paragraph.

"But there is a little bit of Riva that Rova can't do. ”

"Oh, what is that?" Gilbert was interested, he didn't know much about Rost, after all, for this neighboring garbage territory, which was nothing but desert and ruins, he naturally didn't have time to put his mind on Rost.

"In their words! That's technology!"

"Technology?" Gilbert didn't quite understand the meaning of the word, and looked at his earl strangely.

"Well, it's simply technology, like Riva's forging technology, Rost's cars, and lights that can be used during the day, automatic water discharge, heat, and cold stones, these are all Rost's unique techniques, even if Riva wants to imitate them, it is impossible to imitate them. ”

"The car, the Cheriva also has it, we have a car driven by a second-order demonic beast!" Speaking of cars, Gilbert is not convinced, Riva's carriage is also famous, they have a specially bred second-order demonic beast, the Sky Swallowing Crocodile.

Although that thing has a brutal character, it is very convenient to use it to pull a cart after being domesticated, and its combat effectiveness is outstanding, and its endurance is not comparable to that of ordinary Warcraft, especially the fast and scary.

"Your Excellency...... Rost's car doesn't need anything, just a crystal nucleus to move on its own. ”

"Crystal nucleus driven, isn't that the same as airships?" Gilbert frowned, airship technology is the core technology of the Empire, this is not announced to the public, airships are generally assembled by the Holy City, and they are only responsible for producing some of the accessories.

"Yes, sir. ”

"Could it be that Leezer has mastered the driving core of the airship? Gilbert naturally didn't believe that these things, Lei Zhe was not treated by the king, how could he possibly master the core of the airship.

"Clarence, Rost is as good as you say, and what are you doing here?"

Clarence didn't look at the guy who spoke, although they were under the same person, there were still some contradictions between them, Riva's economic distribution was very uneven, and there would even be a five-fold or even six-fold economic gap in strength between the counts.

"Shut up, Kramo. Gilbert fell into deep thought.

"My lord, are you tempted by the interests of this lamp?"

"It's a joke to say that I don't care, but I haven't paid attention to this more than 100,000 gold coins, but I'm just a little unwilling to let these gold coins be brought back by that guy from Rost. Gilbert shook his head, he naturally didn't like to watch his neighbors develop too well, which was not good for Riva.

At this time he should have gone to Lancaster, but because the king had told him to defend Riva, he did not send an army.

"My lord, I have a plan to get these gold coins into your pocket. ”

"Oh? Sanchedra, don't choke on something to say. Gilbert was immediately interested.

"My lord, that's right, I've investigated these shops, because they are in the port, and the area is not large, so the rent collected a month is only thirty gold coins, and these thirty gold coins also include taxes, because there is no way to make perfect statistics on the income of these three shops. ”

"Every quarter's tax is based on the area of their store, the items they sell, and then the tax is collected, but the evaluation of these three stores was not high at the beginning, and they only charged three hundred gold coins, so you can't continue to get a scoop from the more than 100,000 now. ”

Gilbert narrowed his eyes, the problem he was thinking about was this, his tax had been collected in advance, this is Riva's consistent style, the new store collects taxes first, so that there will be no embarrassing problem of paying taxes too low, and it can also make Riva make more money.

Although there are many people who are not satisfied, for Gilbert, this rule does make a lot of money, and they have a special person to evaluate the store, and the estimated sales volume can be basically counted to any extent.

Riva has such a large population, and the wealthy families are divided according to proportion, and then classified according to the region, and the sales of a store basically have an approximate figure.

"But have you ever thought about a question?"

"What's the problem?"

"You're the owner of the tiles here, you can change the taxes! ”

"Nonsense! How can taxes be so easy to change, excluding the taxes paid by these three shops in Rost, Riva has paid taxes this year more than 400 shops, if the taxes are re-collected, do you know how many people will be dissatisfied?"

"Could it be that for this only tens of thousands of gold coins, Lord Marquis will lose his credibility?"

Gilbert nodded, it was, he wouldn't lose his credibility for such a few gold coins.