Surdak sat on the terrace, looking at the magician with tortoiseshell glasses on the bridge of his nose, his hairy beard still on his lips, looking eagerly......

"As long as you are willing to temporarily join the cavalry battalion and become a full-time magic apothecary, I will help you find magic herbs as much as possible."

Surdak made a promise, but then said:

"The groups that currently possess the magical herb resources in Invercargill Forest are those tribes and natives in the hills and mountains."

This is something that everyone knows.

He continued:

"You also know how much damage this beast tide has done to Invercargill Forest, and how many magic herbs can be found in the future, to be honest...... It's hard for me to make a guarantee, so I can only try to collect ......."

The glasses male magician nodded and said:

"Of course, I stayed in Dodan Town because I wanted to get in touch with these indigenous tribes personally."

Unexpectedly, the man with glasses was very ceremonial, stood up and stretched out his hand to Surdak solemnly and said:

"Hello, Commander Surdak, please call me Justin...... Thank you for your continued care. ”

Surdak could only get up from his chair on the terrace and shake his hand.

"Hello, Justin."

Next, the male magician with glasses named Justin began to introduce himself in great detail:

He is a junior magic apothecary in the Magic Guild of the City of Highlanza.

Due to the very limited quota of magic herbs in the Hylansa Magic Guild, a magic apothecary who wants to learn professional skills is obviously too small for a pharmacist who wants to learn magic potions urgently.

Unable to find more magic herbs, magic potions can only stay at the theoretical level, and if he wants to continue to study magic herbs, Justin can only try to get out of the ivory tower of Highlanza City and go outside to find magic herbs.

Originally, Justin wanted to try to get out of the city of Highlandsa, find a reliable adventure group, and enter the plane rich in magic herbs for jungle exploration.

Before he could make his choice, his friend Lance came to him with some magical herbs and asked him to refine some healing potions.

So the glasses mage couldn't wait to ask for details, and learned that these magic herbs came from the White Forest Plane, and the owner was a good friend of Lance, so Justin made a decision, that is, to go around the White Forest Plane with Lance.

In fact, the Bailin Plane is not a plane rich in magical herbs.

When they arrived in Wilkes, they registered with the local magic union and did some research in the magic market, but it turned out that there were no magic herbs in the magic market at all.

When their friends in Wilkes heard that they were going to Dodan Town, they only knew that it was the northernmost frontier town on the White Forest Plane, next to Invercargill Forest.

But it is unknown what kind of magic herbs there are.

To say that there are no magic herbs in the Warcraft Forest...... That's not possible, but the Monster Forest there is definitely not rich in magic herbs.

It was with such a feeling of apprehension that Justin came to Dodan Town.

When I arrived in Dodan Town, I found that as the magician friend in Wilkes City said, there was no magic herb to be found here......

In the ensuing period, some encounters changed Justin's opinion, and it was not that there were no magic herbs in the Invercargill Forest, but that these resources were not in the hands of the Imperial settlers at all, but in the hands of the tribesmen.

Everyone talked about the Magic Awakening Ritual again.

For every magician, this ritual is fresh in their memories and is a lifetime ...... A moment of rebirth.

In the city of Highlandsa, Golena is a young Awakening Ritual examiner, and her cold personality is also a necessary condition for her to become an examiner.

She sat down beside Lance, took out a piece of magical parchment from her bosom, unfolded it, and quickly wrote a line of text on it, and then stamped the line of writing, and then rolled it up and tied it firmly with a leaf of marlene.

She pushed the scroll in front of Surdak and said to him:

"The Magic Guild in Wilkes City also has our classmates, if you want to go to Wilkes City, you can take our letter of recommendation to the Magic Guild over there, and find a magician named Combirodi, he walked out from Highlandsa, I think he should take care of you."

It turns out that the group of magicians also talks about human feelings and relationships......

Surdak hurriedly put the scroll in his arms and thanked Gorena, "Thank you so much. ”

Lance sneered, waved his hand, and said:

"I think it's better to forget it, Gorena...... If you write, it can get worse than if you don't write at all. ”

The way Gorena frowned, it seemed to have a very unique charm.

"What do you mean?" Gorena said angrily to Lance.

Lance slouched on the wicker chair and said disapprehantly: "Don't you know that that fellow Combirodi thinks about you, of course he will be dishonest with you, but this does not mean that he will see your letter of recommendation and will help Surdak, maybe it will still be a disservice." ”

Gorena raised her delicate eyebrows and questioned Lance:

"You're hinting at it in the sand...... My suitors are all over the province of Bena? ”

Lance sat up lazily, put his arm around Surdak's broad shoulders and said, "I'm just worried about Surdak, but if I come forward as a recommender, that fellow Kambi shouldn't make things difficult for you out of jealousy." ”

"Boring!"

Corina leaned back in her chair, staring at the snow on the peaks of the towering Thorny Mountains in the distance, and stopped talking.

……

With the influx of caravans, mercenary groups, and adventure parties into Dodan Town, many businesses in the town have exploded like a blowout.

Especially when many people come to Dodan for the first time, whether they buy baked wheat cakes at a bakery or eat sliced white bread in a restaurant, they have a surprising discovery, and that is that the prices of scones and bread in Dodan are almost outrageously low.

Many people try to buy flour at home and make some bread by themselves, which is definitely not as cheap as the bread sold in the bakery.

At first, these outsiders will suspect that maybe the bakery can buy cheap wheat flour, or maybe the owner of the bakery has added some other cheap thing to the flour, or maybe the bakery here is engaged in malicious promotion...... Hit other bakeries with prices.

In fact, there is only one bakery in the town of Dodan, and it is trusted by the townspeople, who come here to buy scones and bread from almost all the common and poor people in the town.

Occasionally, some nobles can be seen carrying a bag of white bread to board a magic caravan parked on the side of the road.

As a result, many adventurers and mercenary groups will buy some scones in the bakery and carry them with them before entering the hills and mountains, occasionally go to the blacksmith or leather shop to repair weapons or leather armor, and they will also go to the magic market to learn about the price of local leather and monster materials.

There was originally a magic market in the town of Dodan, but it has not been very prosperous, and few merchants have traded in the magic market.

But now there is a commercial tax on all trade in the town of Dodan, and every transaction must have proof of payment in order to transport large quantities of goods out of the town.

Therefore, it is obviously inconvenient to go to the tax officer to file a tax return for a private transaction.

But if you're trading on the Magic Market, there's a dedicated tax clerk waiting for you when each transaction is completed.

At this time, as long as you take out 3% of the transaction amount and pay taxes, you can get a voucher to leave the town.

Of course, there are times when you don't need a tax collector in the magic market, as long as you can consume goods in the town, you don't need to pay taxes......

For example, the owner of a new leather shop in the town does not need to pay taxes when he buys hard armor, but if he makes these hard armors into leather armor and sells them outside, he needs to pay taxes.

Hathaway had already helped Surdak set up the tax office, headed by the Batra Tax Officer, with four tax officers under his command.

Now there are basically no large-scale workshops in the town, and the industrial base is zero.

So the tax collector of Batra only needs to have two of his men staring at the magic market all day to collect a large amount of taxes.

The only shops in the town are blacksmiths, tanners, tailors, and grocers.

Originally, these shops were for local mercenary groups and adventure groups, but now that the number of adventure groups and mercenary groups is increasing, these shops have become busy.

For mercenary groups and adventuring groups, Surdak issued a decree in the town prohibiting the killing of the indigenous tribes of the hills and mountains, and listed several indigenous tribes who were already willing to establish ties with the town of Dodan.

Even the approximate locations of these indigenous tribes are clearly marked on the map, and harassment is prohibited.

If there were any more slave hunts or massacres of local natives, the town would immediately send a garrison to investigate.

Once any adventuring party is found to have dared to violate the town's edicts, the ensuing punishment will be at least the expulsion of the entire team from Dodan Town.

There are a lot of magical materials on the ghost red ants in Dodan Town, and there are a lot of types.

You can find everything from the belly leather of worker ants to the thick and sturdy armor of ghost males, so even if you have to pay a tax, merchants are willing to trade here.

In the beginning, I always met businessmen who evaded taxes.

After a series of penalties, this imagination has now been largely eliminated.

The tax collector of Batra was in charge of the town's vault, which now piled up every day at a rate that was visible to the naked eye.

In the past, when the tax collector of Batra walked down the street, he saw the merchants rushing up to them, licking his face and collecting taxes from them, and when he met some good-tempered merchants, he would give some symbolically, and when he met a bad-tempered businessman, he would inevitably have a sneer.

Because at that time everyone knew Josie. Baron Golding is the man of commerce in Dodan Town.

As the tax collector of the town hall of Dodan Town, Batra was like a stinky man in front of these merchants.

Now when the tax collector of Batra comes home every day, he always receives invitations from many merchants to banquets......

……

The tax collector and Mrs. Luna stood by the river on the southern outskirts of the town, chatting casually as they watched the river flow westward.

A group of aboriginal migrant workers, led by the overseer, are cleaning the thatched hut at the base of the river, and the rotten timber and thatch are piled together, and they are set on fire in an open field by the river, and completely burned.

The land along the river in the slum has been initially cleared, and square timber with a coat of varnish has begun to move in.

Only the leather workshops of the leather makers and the printing and dyeing workshops of the tailors still stand by the river, and these two shops, which are not much better than thatched huts, stand out on the edges.

At Surdak's request, all buildings in the area were to be removed.

However, according to the decree of the Grimm Empire, all private property is protected by the Empire, and no matter how dilapidated the cooked leather workshops and printing and dyeing workshops here are, if they are to be completely removed, they must have the consent of the owner of the leather shop and the owner of the tailor shop.

Those poor people received a demolition money, and Xi Zizi took all his belongings and ran to another corner of the slum to continue to live a poor life.

Lady Luna gave each family five gold coins at Surdak's request, enough to buy a small house elsewhere in Dodan Town, and even three gold coins if they built it herself.

But the merchants were not willing to move their property by the river for a few gold coins, and now the tax collector of Batra and Lady Luna stood by the river, and it was Surdak who invited them to meet here.

Suddenly, the neighing of war horses sounded on the other side of the river, and I saw Surdak riding a Gubolai horse and actually rushing across the river more than ten meters wide.

The river did not pass the horse's belly, and it did not slow down the Gubolai horse in the slightest.

It wasn't until the horses carried Surdak ashore that Lady Luna and the tax collector Batra breathed a sigh of relief.

After the war horse landed on the shore, he didn't care who was standing next to him, and shook the water stains on his body vigorously, and countless splashes of water drenched Surdak's face all over his body.

When the river was just crossed, Surdak was the greatest. The legs are also immersed in the river, and the leather boots are full of river water, and walking on the grass by the river makes a cooing sound in the boots......

"Sorry! I'm late......" Surdak came with his horse in hand, but there was no arrogance at all.

"Mayor Mare, we just arrived!" Lady Luna smiled and said to Surdak.

"You're in trouble with those riverside workshops?" Surdak wiped the water stains from his face with his hands, lifted his chin, and looked in the direction of the printing and dyeing workshop.

Mrs. Luna didn't expect Surdak to go straight to the point as soon as they met, she was slightly stunned, and immediately entered the state and said, "Ah...... It's just that these two workshops are not satisfied with our relocation subsidy for the time being, and they are not willing to move downstream, saying that it is too far from the town! ”

"I'll talk to them about ......"

Surdak didn't even know anything else, let go of the reins of his horse, let it graze by the river, and walked alone to the decorated leather workshop by the river.

Tax Collector Batra and Lady Luna and the two clerks hurriedly followed.

Everyone could hear the sound of water in Surdak's boots, but no one dared to laugh at him at this time......

Surdak strode to the doorway of the cooker's workshop and stood outside the rotten plank wall.

'Bang'.

Surdak kicked open the wooden door of the courtyard with a direct kick from his leather boots, and the workers inside who were boiling leather in a large pot were startled in the courtyard.

Everyone in the courtyard stopped what they were doing and stared at Surdak standing in the doorway with wide eyes.

Greeted by a stench that was more disgusting than the smell of sourness, Surdak strode into the courtyard filled with animal fat and leather, and looked at the large square iron pots in the courtyard, and countless hard carapace soaked in the boiling hot water.

A steward walked out of the dilapidated wooden hut and saw Surdak's pupils suddenly shrinking.

Barely squeezing out a stiff smile, he walked over tremblingly and stood at Surdak, the expression on his face more ugly than crying......

"Commander-sama......"

He knew Surdak.

Of course, no one in the town of Dodan dared not know him.