Proof of the Sun King

? The goods of the dwarves were very popular, and the goods were sold out quickly. The group of dwarves put away the gold and silver coins, left the market, and left directly outside the city of Helmgart.

"Isn't that the rangers of the Angland clan? It seems that Belgar is also there." Ryan said to Suria with great interest: "I didn't expect Belgar to bring his clan here."

"His Majesty King Belgar may be a little bit... concerned about his face, but he is not stupid. He came to investigate the market price and surrounding forces. In fact, he has helped us a lot since he came to your territory and reunited with his clansmen. Dugan doesn't know how to make iron dragon cannons, it was His Majesty Bellegar who taught him Halhave Gold, the chief engineer of the Angland clan," the female knight whispered.

"It's not that I don't know. The dwarf originally planned to give you a set of meteorite iron armor. Later, when I saw that my father sent the armor, I asked them to make a set for my brother." Ryan said in a low voice.

"Brother? Angron?" Suria was a little strange.

"Yuli, isn't your brother my brother? We are a family." Ryan muttered: "It would be a waste to get a set of Meteorite Armor for Brother Angron, I don't think it is of much use, Brother Angron The way to play is chop chop chop, it makes no difference whether it is rune Mithril plate armor or Meteorite Iron plate armor.”

"Pfft~" The female knight couldn't help snickering, and at the same time she was very happy. Although the words "your brother" and "elder brother" both refer to Julius, the meanings contained in them are quite different.

She looked curiously at the dwarves who were leaving the city, and then said, "By the way, why do these dwarves come here to sell? We in Britannia also need dwarves' equipment."

"Because those equipment are inferior or defective." Ryan then complained: "My relationship with Bellegar is still good, he sells us first-class goods, but even if they are dwarves, they are in production. It is still inevitable to make some defective products. These defective products are never used by dwarves. They are sold to humans at high prices. Anyway, in dwarven language, human means 'people who make defective products', but then again , even a dwarf's wreckage is much better than the stuff made by many human craftsmen."

Lane and his party didn't go up to greet the Bellegar group. They wandered the town for a while, and soon checked into the Oliver Hotel in the city.

This is a large three-story hotel. It is located in the downtown area, in a deep alley near the market. Due to the wrong time, the hotel is relatively deserted. Lane and the others greeted the hotel owner, and the hotel owner immediately opened the third floor. The most luxurious suite for Lane et al.

The group put things away, Rudolph and Wagner went to the frontier earl to approve the customs clearance documents, Lane and his group put the things away, the earl looked at the wooden floor and animal skins of the hotel, and nodded: "Oliver's business over the years has been getting better and better. bigger and bigger."

The Oliver Hotel, which is part of the Oliver Chamber of Commerce, with Ryan's support, Oliver opened a number of hotels in Britannia and some parts of the Empire.

There are many uses for running a hotel, the biggest use is not profit, but the collection of intelligence and the internalization of transactions, Helmgart is the border town of the axe bite, diplomatic relations and trade tariffs between the Empire and the Kingdom of Brittany Helmgart was always the first to know about the change.

For merchants, getting information is the most important thing, which is why Oliver opened hotels in Montferre Castle and Helmgart in Axbite Pass, the most important trade between the Empire and Brittany. On the land trade route, Lane was troubled by the surprisingly high tariffs at the Axe Bite Pass, but he also had to admit that with the joint efforts of the Empire and Britania, the safety of the Axe Bite Pass could be guaranteed.

Business is like this, high risk, high return, low risk, low return, people always want to invest with low risk and high income.

Is there a low-risk, high-return trade?

There are only two kinds, one is a scam, and the other is a high-threshold transaction for the upper-level players.

Just like the trade contract signed by Ryan and Tigris, this trade contract has low risks and high returns in the true sense, but this kind of transaction is impossible for ordinary businessmen to complete. Human businessmen go privately to high-precision trade, maybe Oncoming is a stinky face, and even fireball.

"Oliver's business has been getting bigger and bigger in recent years." Ryan looked down at Helmgart's building complex in the sea of ​​clouds. The city looked down on the mountainside overlooking the plains in the distance of Rick Land - a pity now It was winter, and the mountains were filled with clouds and mist, and the distance could not be seen clearly.

"Oliver, when we met him in Nord, he was a small businessman." Teresa was wearing a Brunswick graceful gray shoulder scrub dress, and her long black shimmering hair was hanging down. Behind her head, the sorceress tightened her white bear fur coat, holding a black crocodile leather bag in her hand: "Do you remember? Ryan?"

Both Suria and Veronica were very interested in this matter and kept asking.

"Of course I do, I still remember Oliver's outfit at the time, it was very strange." Ryan touched his chin: "I still remember his very strange outfit, wearing both gold and silver, and forcibly wearing armor. , when I said 'time is money' when we were still marching on Scarville Hills."

"Mr. Oliver? I rarely see him wearing gold and silver." Suria also said.

"That's because this guy Oliver is rich now, Mrs. Surya, you know, businessmen are not like nobles, they come the other way." Veronica wore a classic layered corduroy hip-packed skirt, There was a slight smile on her sweet and charming face: "Is it your impression that merchants in Wenford's court are all dressed in plain clothes, and they look docile?"

"Indeed, there are several businessmen doing business with my father. Every time I meet them in the palace, they are dressed simply and cleanly." Surya nodded thoughtfully, the female knight since childhood Raised in the court.

"The smaller the capital and the smaller the size of the merchants, the more they have to wear gold and silver to show that they have financial resources and ability, and conversely, the more businessmen with a large trade network and sufficient size, the more low-key they are." Veronica smiled, and Witch Garland explained to Suria, "Otherwise, once the nobles are upset, even if they are not killed, they can easily be replaced. How can businessmen fight against nobles?"

"I see. No wonder when my father saw those businessmen, they were all trembling and whispering." Su Liya nodded again and again: "I remember that the first time I met Mr. Oliver, he was very luxuriously dressed. Now he wears no jewelry except a gold ring and a silk dress, like an ordinary courtier."

"The knight is different, Veronica, I heard that when Ryan first met you, he was just an elite warrior?" Teresa asked with interest.

"Yes, Ryan was just a ranger knight at the time, wearing a breastplate and looking ashamed. I still remember that I was in a very bad mood at that time. When I raised my hand, it was a fireball technique, and Ryan was only in his early twenties and was hit by a fireball. His face was charred from the surgery, revealing a mouth of white teeth." Veronica said casually: "The face that was originally a little handsome burns like a dog."

"Hahahaha~" There was laughter in the room, only Ryan's face was flushed.

"Me too, when my mother and I went to the Nord Royal Court to participate in the ceremony of Ryan's promotion to a kingdom knight, at the banquet, Ryan actually pretended that something fell under the table and peeped secretly..." Teresa's face was a little red, but The dark history of Big Shake Lane.

"That's right! Ryan likes him very much..." Suria also joined the topic.

Ryan was blushing when he was said, and quickly said that you should talk first, and I'll go down and have a look.

The Count hurried downstairs, even so he could hear the occasional laughter from upstairs.

Three women in one play.

The hotel owner was doing the accounting, and when he saw Ryan coming down, he immediately bowed and motioned: "Your Excellency, what is your order? Is there a problem with the room?"

"There's no problem with the room, I just want to ask you something." Ryan stood in front of the bar and whispered.

"Your Excellency the Count, please." Of course, the hotel owner knew who was behind the big boss Oliver. He looked around at the environment. This time was not the peak season for business, and there were not many guests.

"Don't be so nervous, I'm just asking, how is Hemgart doing?" Ryan waved his hand to indicate that he didn't want to inquire about any secrets: "Trade, security, etc.?"

"It's not very good. Since Helmgart was invaded by the Duke of Casven, although the Empire and Britania have not affected the alliance, more businessmen still take a wait-and-see attitude, or take a sea route from Marienburg trade, Count Reinhard von Mackensen, uneasy about the slow decline in trade, recently tried to negotiate with Vercard, Duke of Montfort, to impose a little tariff to encourage trade." The boss said: "Of course, my count, there are still many caravans trading through the axe bite."

"What about the law and order?" Ryan asked after hearing the news without any surprises.

"The law and order is alright. The green-skinned orcs and the beastmen have been less active recently." The hotel owner let out a sigh of relief and continued, "However, it is rumored that the sewers and the depths of the mines in Helmgart are very unsafe, and there are many Traces of rats, and rats the size of people! These rats often appear from sewers and mines, attacking livestock and kidnapping people."

"A rat as big as a human... Skaven rat man?!" Ryan's face changed slightly, and he frowned: "Didn't Earl Helmgart send an army to clean it up?"

"Shh~ my earl." The hotel owner quickly looked around and confirmed that no one was paying attention, and then whispered: "Lord Ryan, the empire knows that there are not many Skaven rat people, only limited to the upper-class nobles. ."

Ryan's brows furrowed even tighter.

In Brittany, everyone knows the dangers of the Skaven. Since the establishment of the Knight Kingdom for a thousand years, the intermittent war with the rat people has not stopped, especially in the southernmost Duchy of Carcassonne.

The Rat Man has never been able to invade on a large scale. Thanks to the Wood Elves, the wood elves in the Athel Loren Forest are the nemesis of the Rat Man. After the Rat Man came several times, the Wood Elves beat them all over the place.

The Empire is different. The last time the Empire and the Rat Man fought was hundreds of years ago. Under the deliberate low-key of the Rat Man, the commoners have forgotten the existence of the Skaven Rat Man, and only the records of the great nobles are recorded in the classics. Written by the Skaven, and a lot of it is obscure.

"What can Count Reinhardt do to deal with it?" Reining in the country, Ryan knew that it was inconvenient for him to publicize the threat of the Rat Man. After all, he was not an aristocrat of the empire.

"The Count attaches great importance to this matter. He not only used part of the family wealth to recruit a group of sewer cleaners, but also sent an army into the depths of the mine to check the situation, but the army has not returned yet." The hotel owner continued. .

"Understood." Ryan thought to himself that the Skaven might be infiltrating the city, and he planned to discuss with the two Rick Guard recruits when they returned.

After waiting for a while, Rudolph and Wagner, the recruits of Rick's guards, came back. They were sullen. They entered the hotel and sat down directly in the lobby: "Boss, have two glasses of fine black malt beer, hurry up."

"Hey! Yes, your two gentlemen." The innkeeper quickly took two glasses of dark beer from the beer barrel and brought them to them. He asked cautiously, "Excuse me, what happened?"

"Have the customs clearance documents been approved?" Ryan also asked curiously.

"No, Count Reinhardt is not in the Count's Castle." Rudolph drank a few sips of dark beer and said quite dissatisfiedly: "Those attendants stopped us for a long time~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Under our questioning I just told us that Count Reinhardt is not there, and they don’t know where they went. The customs clearance documents can’t be stamped until the count comes back, and the count won’t be able to come back until at night, which means they can’t stamp their seal until tomorrow, and then apply, the day after tomorrow. to go."

"That's fine, we'll just stay here for one more day." Ryan shrugged, everyone has troubles, and staying one more day is not a problem.

"It can only be like this." Wagner was very open. The Rick guard recruit regarded this trip as a tour, and he played with the runner pioneer in his hand. In the center of the city saw a cow that was completely gnawed..."

Lane chatted with Rudolph and Wagner for a few minutes in the lobby. Suddenly, the strong vibration of the ground and the sound of the house shaking came, and the beer in the hands of the guard Rick was directly sprinkled on his face.

The Oliver Hotel was shaking violently, and dust was falling from the ceiling.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!" An earth-shattering explosion sounded in the distance outside the hotel.

"What's going on? What happened?" Ryan and others were shaken and fell to the ground, but these people were professional soldiers, they immediately got up, and Rudolph and Wagner's knights immediately began to fight for the two Ricks Guards wear equipment.

Ryan got up from the ground with hands and feet, he ran to the hotel door, opened the door, and then, the oncoming scene made him open his mouth in surprise.

In the distance, where Helmgart's barracks was located, a thick plume of smoke was burning.

On the streets, swarms of rat-men approaching human size are pouring out from sewers, sewers, and corners of buildings, slaughtering the civilians of Helmgart!

"skaven~yesyes!"

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