Chapter 1278: Hidden Arrows Are Hard to Defend Against!
"Although...... But you have three children after all!"
Sui Yu really didn't know how to persuade Joseph at this time, he was so miserable!
And that guy named Yuga has no news so far, so it's like he's dead!
After all, the intelligence network established by Joseph was too shallow, and the intelligence of the Stefan Kingdom could only obtain some information that was currently circulating.
For example, a nobleman marries a nobleman, and a nobleman forms a legion to attack a city in the Lawrence Empire.
Or maybe someone who won the Arena tournament has officially joined the Stefan Kingdom system, and soon he will be on the front lines.
That Yuga seems to have kept a very low profile in the past three years, and there is no information related to it at all.
To tell the truth, with the blessing of the evil god on his body, if Joseph really had the ability to find out where the territory of Youjia was, Sui Yu would dare to take a hundred cavalry to the rescue.
Anyway, with the blessing of the evil god in his body, he will not die, so he just took the opportunity to create a good story, and by the way, greatly increased Joseph's loyalty.
Although Joseph is just a good tool man in Sui Yu's eyes, Sui Yu still values him very much on the surface.
If he could get Pauline back, Joseph would be absolutely grateful to himself!
It's a pity that many things can really only be realized in fantasy, but in reality it is not so simple.
Even......
Nine times out of ten, unsatisfactory things in reality.
No, the day after receiving the news that Pauline was pregnant with her third child, when Joseph was still in extreme depression, Sui Yu found that the tax in Muse City had dropped significantly when he regularly checked his income.
After all, now that the family business is getting bigger and bigger, and not long ago, Oliveira was given a salary increase, so tax revenue has become very important.
But......
Now taxes are clearly starting to fall!
That's not a good situation!
At this thought, although he knew that Joseph was in a bad mood, Sui Yu still found the increasingly capable city lord of Muse City and asked what was going on with the tax.
"I'm also investigating, and I only know that the reason for the drop in taxes is that there are fewer and fewer caravans coming to our Muse City to do business."
"However, the tax revenue of our Muse City and nearby villages is still very stable, so the situation is not very critical."
"Be prepared for danger in times of peace!" Sui Yu thought that three years of peaceful life had made Joseph relax his vigilance, so he reminded him: "As the lord of a city, you can't be careless about anything!"
"If you find a problem, solve it as soon as possible, and don't let it go further!"
"A lot of things may seem like small things now, but once you leave them alone, maybe small things will become big things after they drag on!"
"If there are more small problems, it may become a big problem that can bankrupt us!"
And Sui Yu can actually feel how turbulent the city of Muses is behind the calm on the surface in the past two years!
Because his name of killing gods has spread in the kingdom of Stefan, so that the enemy has not dared to set foot in the territory of the city of Muses for the past three years.
Therefore, the tax revenue of the city of Muses naturally makes many people blush.
Especially in the nearby territories that have suffered from war all year round, the mentality of their lords is even more unbalanced!
Don't suffer from widowhood and suffer from unevenness!
In the past few years, while Joseph was managing Muse City, Sui Yu actually silently withstood wave after wave of pressure from all sides!
Those red-eyed nobles offered to form a legion at every turn to invite Sui Yu, a fierce general, to join, in a vain attempt to use the territory of a few castles to let Sui Yu help them occupy more cities!
Otherwise, the proposal that "safe cities should subsidize dangerous fronts" requires all "currently safe" cities to regularly provide various subsidies including gold and soldiers to those territories that are on the front lines and are very dangerous.
Naturally, this matter was rejected by Sui Yu on the grounds that his side was also the front line.
even helped Sui Yu
When Count Elias, who entered the Lawrence Empire, personally approached Sui Yu and persuaded him to know how to make concessions, Sui Yu also said, "As long as you are not blind and can read the map, you will know that my Muse City is currently in the core of the border between the two countries." I refused.
Although Sui Yu knew that Elias was judging from his position and cognition, it was normal to persuade Sui Yu to make a slight concession and ease his relationship with the other nobles of the Lawrence Empire.
It's even common sense for the aristocracy.
But Sui Yu just couldn't swallow this breath!
I obviously have enough capital and don't need to compromise with others, so why should I make concessions?!
There's a good saying!
The more I think about it for a while, the more angry I get, and the more I think about it when I take a step back, the more I lose!
And man's desires are endless!
Today, I, Sui Yu, take a step back, and tomorrow those greedy nobles will definitely gain an inch!
If it is said that Muse City is in a difficult situation in the face of internal and external troubles, and if it does not compromise, it will soon lose Muse City, then Sui Yu will admit it even if he compromises!
Although Sui Yu thinks that he is also an impulsive and emotional young man, all kinds of extra time spent through time and space finally made Sui Yu gradually become sensible.
He knows when and how to choose to get a better outcome.
Therefore, it is not impossible to tolerate at the right time.
But......
At present, there is really no reason to tolerate that group of greedy nobles, so Sui Yu directly refused.
And now, combined with the reduction in tax revenue caused by the reduction of caravans, Sui Yu really doubts that this is not the group of nobles of the Lawrence Empire who are doing something again!
After being reprimanded by Sui Yu, Joseph immediately picked up his spirits and sent someone to investigate.
I don't know if I don't check, and I'm shocked when I check it!
After Joseph sent someone to secretly find a few caravans who had often come to Muse City to do business before, he found out that they had been threatened by many nobles, either explicitly or covertly, asking them to stay away from Muse City as much as possible!
Although the ceramics produced around Muse City, as well as various artistic silk and fabrics, were very popular, they had to give up the trade route of Muse City in order to survive.
Yes, for the sake of a small life!
After continuing to inquire, I found out that several bandits with combat ability and extremely rich combat experience have recently emerged, and the main task is to rob the caravan heading to Muse City!
These bandits not only have a very strong fighting ability, the caravan guards are not opponents at all, but they are ruthless, basically killing all the people and robbing the things as much as possible, and they don't think about what profits their bandits will make in the future if this trade route is broken.
Especially if those caravan leaders encounter this group of robbers, they will be extremely humiliated and brutally killed by the other party!
The HP system only has a probability to ensure that you don't die, but if the opponent keeps killing, you can still kill it completely!
So after the reputation of those bandits came out, there were fewer and fewer chambers of commerce that dared to come to Muse City to do business!
And hearing Joseph's report on the robbers, he can be sure without investigating Sui Yu that this is definitely the action of the nobles of the red-eyed Muse City!
Nine times out of ten, the lead is that Count Knicks!
"In that case......
Sui Yu put on the armor that he hadn't put on for a long time and said to Joseph, "It's time to go out and move your body!"