Outside Monet, Li Mo raised his head and looked at the city gate in front of him.

As mentioned earlier, Monet City is similar to a commercial transit station. There are many inns in the city, and there are also various stalls to supply to other trade groups to display and sell their goods.

Most of Monet's economic resources consisted of the taxes collected by Monet when the caravans traded.

According to Li Mo, outside Monet City, there is a large wasteland, and if you trade there, you don't have to pay a single copper coin tax. If it were him, he would trade outside the city of Monet.

In fact, if a caravan was willing to do so, Monet would not stop it. They have no need and no way to stop such underground dealings.

However, even though Monet doesn't have any restrictions on this, almost all merchants like to trade in Monet, even if they have to pay high taxes.

After all, there is a word in the world called black eats black.

Under the threat of these shady forces, trust between people must be guaranteed through a third party.

And Twilight Hills is a central point for caravans. Because of the strange trading rules of Twilight Hills before, all the merchants who did not calculate the time and arrived early had to stay in Monet City and wait for the arrival of Twilight Hills trading time. Invisibly, Monet City has a large backlog of merchant groups.

Therefore, in this case, the merchant group also chose to sell their goods here. If in the past, the trade groups in various places were to sell their goods to customers, then in Monet, it is time for the trade groups to communicate with each other.

To some extent, Monet City can also be said to be the B2B merchant of the Onisek continent. However, their radiation range is only as far as the barren plains. In the Human Alliance, there is another city that performs this function.

However, when Li Mo came to Monet's city today, he found that it was already the season for merchant groups, but there was no busy scene in Monet's city.

From the gate of the city, you can see that on the very wide streets specially built for the merchants, rows of stalls are empty, like lonely children, waiting for someone to notice them.

After entering Monet, this feeling became more and more obvious.

In the inns on both sides of the road, the innkeeper and the guys who worked at the inn leaned against the counter together, looking bored at the empty street. When Li Mo's figure appeared, it was obvious that there was an expression of surprise and expectation in their eyes.

However, when they found that Li Mo and his party were only a few of them, their eyes obviously dimmed again, and they returned to their original laziness.

It can be seen from the number of Li Mo's people that they are not the merchant group passing through here, and it is still early, so the travelers of such a group generally do not choose to stay overnight here.

Although I don't know why, Li Mo has already noticed from such a scene that Monet City at this time is unusually depressed. As if overnight, the whole city lost its vitality.

Walking down the street, in the very center of the city, is the town hall of Monet. If Li Mo wants to find someone who can be the master of Monet City, then he must come here.

The origin of Monet's city has already destined that it is not a city where one family or one race can have the final say. Unlike Mackenser, a city where the Tiger people have the final say, Monet is owned by several families.

Since the establishment of the city of Monet, a multi-ethnic model has been formed to determine the development of the city. In the earliest days, the canine people and rabbit people who participated in the establishment of Monet City were the races with the greatest right to speak.

However, others, such as the dwarfs and the pig people, also have a certain right to speak. It's just that, most of the time, the power they hold does not determine the direction of the city.

Walking in this city, Xue Rui beside Li Mo had mixed feelings, if he hadn't met the Thor Business Group, then at this time, he should also be a member of the city.

Yes, except for the two rabbit people who were kicked out of Laurel Town, the Cat People and Xue Rui were originally destined for here.

This is the kindest place for outsiders. Monet will never refuse strangers to join, as long as you don't violate the rules of Monet, then the gates of Monet will always be open to you.

And as long as you can prove your worth in the city, the inhabitants will quickly accept your presence.

However, at this time, the situation in Monet City seems to be a little bad.

This is not only evident in the innkeepers of the city, but also in the town halls.

The town hall is not the castle lord's mansion, and it is not the residence of a family. So, on weekdays, there will be no residents here.

However, the city of Monet built this building that can be called glorious, and naturally it cannot be allowed to play a role only when it needs to be discussed, and other times it will be wasted.

Therefore, other official duties of Monet City have also been concentrated here. The city of Monet is divided into functional areas in the form of halls to meet the needs of daily office.

Among them, the tax office is the largest. After all, taxes are at stake in Monet's economy, as well as its future development.

Last year, when Leon and Slovy arrived with the Thor Merchant Group, there were countless merchant groups waiting to apply for their own sales permits at the tax office.

At that time, the newly established Thor Merchant Group also had a small confrontation with other merchant groups.

Of course, in the end, those merchants who looked down on the Thor Merchant Group were all slapped in the face by Slovey using the works of the Blood Clan.

If it were now, nothing like that would happen again. This year, the Thor Merchant Group, which has supplemented the latest goods, has gone all the way along the already familiar trade routes of last year, and the reputation of the Thor Merchant Group has been completely launched. The current Thor merchant group, no matter where it goes, will be looked at differently by other merchant groups.

However, the city of Monet is excepted.

It's not that the merchant group in Monet City doesn't know the name of the Thor merchant group. But when Li Mo came in, he found that there was no merchant group in the tax hall of Monet, and there was no bustle and busyness that Slovey had talked about.

In the tax hall, a tax officer was lying on the table, bored looking at a pot of plants on the table, completely unaware of the arrival of Li Mo and his party.

"Monet, why did you become like this?" this question rose in Li Mo's heart.