Tacoma's seaport is huge, big.

Hardy had the player 'Life is Short' lead the crew to more than double the size of the harbor and bring in extremely high cargo volumes.

Now, even in wartime, about 60% of the materials that can be transported are as good as before.

Although the income of people related to the port is halved, the average salary is still higher than that of citizens in other industries, but it is not as exaggerated as it used to be.

It's not to the point where you can't survive.

It's just that the vast majority of people are greedy.

When you're full, you want to eat meat, when you've eaten enough meat, you want to hug a girl, and when you have a girl, you want a more beautiful girl.

Then there is more wealth, higher status and power.

It's the same with the harbour today, where people who work are used to having a lot of money coming in their accounts every day, but now that their income is halved, they are very unhappy.

Then the wartime tax was collected four points higher than before, and they were even more unhappy.

Seeing that the money in their hands was so much less, they became agitated.

In the tallest stone building in the harbor, a meeting is taking place.

It was a large round table, and fourteen people sat in it.

The golden throne has its back to a large window with a view of the blue ocean.

From time to time, the sound of seagulls and waves comes in from outside.

The man on the throne was very old, about sixty years old, with a full head of white hair and a white beard.

He looked around at the people around him and said, "Hardy has come to Tacoma City, what do you think he will do to us?" ”

"Why should he deal with us?" A man sitting on the west side shouted, "This is Tacoma, it wasn't his territory in the first place, he secretly grabbed it." ”

Someone next to him also said with a smile: "Indeed, he also occupies other people's orphans and widows, so he doesn't care about it." He didn't know how bad his reputation was with us. ”

Everyone laughed.

But there was a woman next to him who sighed: "He is only of a bad reputation among our nobles, and he has a high reputation among the common people. ”

"What can civilians do?" The man who spoke just now sighed, "Without the help of our nobles and big merchants, would he have been able to run Tacoma as it is now?" What kind of wartime management regulations are you doing, this is not the north, and it will not be threatened by the demons, so everyone has no money to make, he knows how to govern the territory of a fart. ”

Everyone chuckled.

Someone next to him answered: "It's just that he doesn't understand, so he gave the management to the former lord's wife, otherwise there is nothing to do with us." ”

Now everyone laughed even louder.

The old man on the throne pressed his hands and said, "Okay, don't talk nonsense." We now need to figure out how to deal with Hardy. We have finally gotten our hands on the port, and we must not let it out again. ”

Everyone nodded.

"I have brought here four hundred private soldiers, fifty of them in armor." The old man on the throne said in an indifferent tone: "You also have to transfer your own family background, we have to unite as one, so that we can get a bargain from Hadi's hands." ”

"It's nature." One of the middle-aged businessmen with a big belly said, "Hardy is a nightmare knight after all, and I heard that the combat power is very strong, so I still have to be careful." ”

"You really believe those rumors." There was a noble-looking mustachioed man who laughed exaggeratedly: "When we nobles do things, we will always exaggerate and say, if we can hunt only Bibi rabbits, we will say that we have hunted lions, and those who can hunt blue gray wolves will say that we have hunted dragon blood!" At most, Hadi went to the battlefield and killed a few slave soldiers, and then he blew himself up as a strong man who killed the four clans. ”

Everyone leaned forward and leaned back in laughter.

Just as the man in the main seat was about to say something, the door to the conference room was slammed open.

A young man dressed in a fancy costume appeared at the door, his face full of panic: "Grandpa, we are surrounded. ”

The old man on the throne immediately changed his face, he stood up sharply, walked to the balcony opposite, and saw that the entrance to the harbor had been sealed.

A hundred silver-armored cavalrymen stood at the rear, reflecting the sun's glow.

In front of the silver-armored cavalry was a phalanx of archers, and a little further ahead, more than a hundred armored infantrymen.

"Less than 300 people dare to come?" The old man felt a little incredible: "Hardy, this is going to be hard with us?" How dare he! ”

At this moment, his gaze swept to the cliff on the opposite left, where the terrain was almost the same as their floor.

Although the old man was old, his eyesight was good, and he could see clearly at once that there was a young girl standing on the cliff.

And he is very familiar, his maternal niece, a distant relative.

"Gui Verneer?" The old man's expression changed: "Hardy actually only sent a little girl over?" Even Sophia wouldn't want to be sent over to negotiate with us? ”

A sense of scorn welled up in my heart.

And at this time, an attendant came in from outside, holding a letter in his hand, and said, "Your Excellency Schwarnow, this is a letter sent from the other side. ”

The old man walked over, took the letter directly, and after hurriedly scanning it twice, he said angrily: "It's too much of a deception." ”

"What is written on it?" Someone asked.

"Let's surrender at once, and pay three times the tax, or kill us all." The old man Schvano crumpled the paper into a ball and threw it on the ground.

When they heard this, they were angry.

One of the nobles proposed: "Fight, you have to fight." More than 300 people dare to negotiate conditions with us, and they are still so arrogant? Together, we have at least 2,000 troops stationed here, and Hadi's kid has a problem with his brain? ”

In the conference room, everyone was furious.

That said, it also seems to have a bit of a bluff flavor in it.

Schwanor slapped his palms and said, "Concentrate all the forces, we will directly counterattack, occupy the City Lord's Mansion, and capture Hadi alive." ”

Good!

The crowd roared.

Guivernier, who was waiting on the cliff, was condescending, and soon saw that the enemy was mobilizing his forces.

She was stunned, looked at the staff next to her, and said with a smile: "Your strategy is quite powerful, it's just a letter, they really started to counterattack, how dare you!" ”

"A group of merchants and small nobles are just a group of businessmen who don't know what a battlefield is, thinking that whichever side has more people will be powerful." The staff next to him shook his head helplessly and said: "They only have a hundred elite soldiers in armor at most, even if there are two thousand more militiamen, it is useless, not to mention, we still occupy the advantage of the high ground." ”

War science is also a very important knowledge, which is only in the hands of a few people, not to mention ordinary people, and even many small nobles are not qualified to learn it.

Not to mention a group of businessmen.

Gui Wenier sighed and said, "Give the soldiers an order, the archers guard the pass, show me the ships of the Dead Sea, and not let one go." The infantry and cavalry advance to meet the enemy, and those who dare to resist are killed, and they do not need to live. ”

The staff member suddenly said: "Miss, I have to remind you that one of your relatives, His Excellency Schwarneau, is also inside. ”

Gui Weniel groaned and said, "He used to plot against our family, and now he dares to rebel, and Hardy doesn't like him either, so kill him." ”

(End of chapter)