I miscalculated in the previous chapter, my pot. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info counted one less zero, my fault, but please believe that the economic system of this book will never collapse. Gold coins are more often a symbol of wealth, symbolic more than they are worth. Hundreds of thousands of gold coins, that is, about five or six billion RMB's purchasing power, in addition to the land price, the nobility's decoration, antiques, treasures, history and inheritance also account for a large part of the proportion. The golden aristocratic manor of millions of gold coins is definitely not excessive.

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The vast majority of people choose to post a testimonial or simply upload the video. There's nothing wrong with showing off, it's just a very common way to be self-satisfied.

"The goal of businessmen is actually the same as that of most people, which is to make money. Rossi faced only three of his subordinates, and Blair, Alma, and Richard lightly revealed secrets they couldn't even think of, "There are many ways to make money, but in general there are two categories, the first is war money. Manipulating wars, selling weapons, grain, and slaves. The dividends of every war far outweigh what they do on a day-to-day basis. Such people are brilliant madmen, and they can also be called geniuses, and not every rich person can provoke a war and get rich. ”

"The second type is peace money, ordinary, long-term trading, not seeking one-time support, only seeking to eat for a long time. They want peace in the world more than the first type of businessmen who make war money, and peace means no risk, which means that labor costs can be reduced, and more benefits can be increased. For example, those guys who sit in the chamber of commerce hall not far away for a meeting, they make a fortune on peace money. ”

"Every movement of caravans will bring them good profits, and once war breaks out, militarized martial law and swarming bandits will cut off their financial routes. So when they find that there is a controllable danger expanding, they will intervene and snuff out the sign!"

Wren tapped his index finger on the table and made an aggressive voice, "They have come together to join the game as strong men and rewrite the rules. He laughed, "But here, in Oltlenburg, it's up to me!"

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"In any case, Ortrenburg must not be chaotic!", the president of the Bell Provincial Chamber of Commerce rushed to Ortrenburg the day before yesterday, and what happened here shows that everything is going bad, especially the underground forces that are constantly clashing, so that the "dark order" here is rapidly collapsing. He stood on the throne, raised his hands in the air, and let out a high-pitched roar, "No one, no one!

He was explaining to some businessmen the reason why the Chamber of Commerce suddenly intervened in the local forces this time, the Chamber of Commerce is a very neutral organization, and the existence of the Chamber of Commerce is not only for mutual communication, but also for a certain degree of commercial monopoly. Most businessmen don't like to interfere in local things, which can cause them big trouble. This time, the chairman suddenly intervened, which already made some businessmen a little unhappy. Neither Harvey nor the city's mercenary group is a target to mess with.

Now it seems that they have indeed suppressed them, but as long as they are given the slightest chance, they can gather hundreds of corpses to kill all over the field, so that the caravan does not dare to go out alone.

"Brains are a good thing, I hope you all have this good thing, use your brains more and think about it carefully, if several of the most powerful forces in the country die together, what will be the outcome?"

Someone interjected, "Isn't that right? I'm tired of the protection money I have to pay every time I pass by." When they're finished, it means a savings, and that's a good thing. ”

The president glared at the man and spat out, "Shit! Shit, do you know?! The collapse of the big forces means chaos, and without the suppression of those wolves, the wolf cubs will break the rules unscrupulously." You can imagine countless small forces fighting each other, and in order to grow stronger, they need money, and who is the symbol of wealth in this city?

"In order to plunder our wealth, they will do whatever it takes to plunder our caravans in the wilderness, and even if you hand over a force protection fee, there will be ten, a hundred forces that will jump out. With every step, bloody footprints will be left behind. If the convoy is strengthened, it means that we need to take on more supplies, and the transportation capacity of goods will be reduced, and at the same time, a part of the expenses will be spent to maintain the size of the convoy and the pension!"

"It's no exaggeration to say that the earnings of each of you will be at least half, or even more. This is the disadvantage of chaos. At the same time, some Byron merchants who are willing to take the initiative to trade with Bell will also choose to wait and see, which also means that if we want to get what we can get without leaving our homes, we must go to Byron. Calculated by a sum of expenses, tens of thousands of hundreds of thousands of gold coins will be wasted every year. ”

"And!", the guild squinted his eyes and snorted coldly, "Someone is obviously manipulating all this behind this, and the idiots outside haven't noticed it at all!"

There were bursts of exclamations in the conference room, not to mention the fools outside, even among the businessmen here, only a few of them saw that something was wrong. It's just that everything happened so naturally, so coincidentally, so seamlessly that no one had time to think about the ins and outs of the whole thing, and they were attracted all the attention by the title deed that claimed to be a million gold coins.

Some people's expressions have changed, and they have realized that Wren is not as unbearable as he imagined, but much more insidious. At the same time, they also realized that a strong, skillful, and courageous lord was a heavy blow to Ortlenburg's somewhat distorted business. He is like a roadblock falling from the sky, blocking everyone's way to prosperity.

The Orlando Imperial Commercial Tax and Agricultural Tax were the backbone of the Empire's economy, and the lords of Ortlenburg were not very powerful people in the past, and their decrees could not be issued out of the castle lord's mansion. Merchants chose to give the business tax to the big men in the form of protection fees, and the percentage was very low, sometimes less than one percent. Once Wren has cleaned up the forces outside, his next step will inevitably be to restore Ortlenburg's taxes, which is tantamount to a hard bite on you.

People here may not be very sensitive to other things, but when it comes to money, they all become shrewd. Twenty percent taxes and one percent taxes don't need to be compared at all to make a choice.

Someone gritted his teeth viciously and said, "Why don't we scrape together a sum of money and let the Black Priest kill Wren, so that everything will be settled!"

The chairman couldn't help but scold again, "Are you **** in your brain? That's the golden noble! Does the golden nobleman know? If you kill him, tomorrow all of us, you, me, all of us will be hanged on the official road outside the city, fool!"

Someone else said: "Then what if we choose one of the local forces who has no ambition to support him and let him fight against the City Lord's Mansion?"

The president almost ran away after hearing this, the most taboo thing for businessmen is to meddle in such things, if businessmen can't do it purely, they will soon be swallowed by a big fish called "nobles" and there will be no scum left. Those aristocrats have long been interested in the wealth of the merchants, but they have never had any handles, and they can't handle the merchants, so they can only salivate at the walking mountains of gold and silver. Now this group of stupid fools who are not even as good as the black barbarians actually took the initiative to hand the handle of the knife to the nobles, and the nobles jumped up with absolute joy, and then hanged them one by one, and plundered their wealth with red fruits.

Two proposals in a row have been rejected, and everyone knows that this is the time to shut up, and the president must have made up his own mind. What they need to do is no different from what they used to do, the Chamber of Commerce draws up a plan, and then they execute.

The president patted the table, "I will officially visit the City Lord's Mansion tomorrow, and before there is a clear answer, you will all clamp my tail and be a man." ”

"How can the dispute between Harvey and the mercenary group be resolved? It involves a title deed involving millions of gold coins, and we can't hold them down for too long, and once they find help, they may swallow us all. A businessman said the heartfelt words of many businessmen here, tonight did make everyone show off, but it also means that the contradiction is transferred to themselves, if there is no perfect solution, I am afraid that everyone will not sleep well at night.

The president rubbed his temples and chopped his butt on the chair, he was really tired in the face of these idiots.

"If you're not stupid, from the moment you leave the door of this room, go and tell me that the title deed is actually only worth tens of thousands of gold coins, not millions of gold coins. In three days at most, the matter will subside. ”

The reason why Wren was able to stir the nerves of the whole of Ortlenburg in a very short time was because the concept of "millions of gold coins" was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people at the first time, and people were willing to believe that it was true, and they were willing to give everything for this rumor. But if this rumor shrinks to a tenth or even less, including the dead Hutter and Rice, they will reconsider whether it is worth paying too much for it.

Every year, when the merchants of the Chamber of Commerce pass by Ortlenburg, the protection fee handed over to the mercenary groups of all sizes is about 3,000 gold coins, and they don't need to do anything to get this money. If the goods transported are very valuable and rare, this number will increase a lot.

Harvey's slave business was one of the largest in the entire province of Bell, first, he was dark enough, and second, he was bold. Other slave traders could catch one or two thousand slaves a year, and Hano could catch at least seven or eight thousand slaves a year. Each slave costs less than one silver coin to catch, but it can be sold for more than ten to dozens of times the price, and the slave trade alone earns more than 3,000 gold coins a year. And his business is not only the slave trade, they will also plunder like bandits in the Byron Empire, which is also a lot of income.

These incomes are very stable, so the title deed of tens of thousands of gold coins is a bit chicken. In order to fight for this thing, pay the savings of the year, and flee for this, to avoid the pursuit of the same underground forces, as well as the pursuit of the aristocratic class, it is not very cost-effective, how can it be the joy of being the emperor of the soil?

Besides, the president also has a trick, a trick to draw wages from the bottom of the kettle.