Magus Tech Chapter 943: St. Louis City
Two days later, near evening.
Li Cha arrived at the outskirts of a big city in a carriage.
Looking from a distance, you can see the outline of the big city clearly in front of you. Under the golden sun in the west, the tall city walls shone like a layer of gold powder, and it was the destination of this time - the city of St. Louis.
While seeing the city of St. Louis, relevant information obtained from the Truth Society and the black-faced old man Oscar quickly flashed through Richard's mind.
The city of St. Louis is located on the edge of the "Rowan Plain" of the Southern Freedom Federation, adjacent to the Soma Empire in the north, and has convenient transportation. It is not only a military outpost, but also a large trading city.
The power that rules this city is the Pangbo family with a history of more than two hundred years.
The Pangbo family made their fortunes more than 200 years ago, starting from a second-level wizard, and slowly gained a foothold in the city of St. Louis, and dominated most of the transactions between the Soma Alliance and the Southern Freedom Federation.
As a result, the Pangbo family has obtained unimaginable profits, and its strength has continued to grow. Today, it has become the unshakable overlord of St. Louis City—there is no one, and the rest of the big and small forces have to rely on their noses to survive.
According to the intelligence content, the Pangbo family has the top personal strength so far, and it is Alan Pangbo. The other party is the younger brother of the eighth generation patriarch of the Pangbo family, and the current patriarch in power is the tenth generation, so he is the grandson of the other party.
It is said that Aaron Pangpo became a third-level wizard when he was very young fifty years ago. After defeating and killing many provocateurs in a row, he was recognized as the leader of St. Louis City and its surrounding areas. The strongest, success makes people dare not be enemies with the Pangbo family.
However, since twenty years ago, Aaron Pangpo has not shown up anymore. The news spread is that the other party is preparing to attack the realm of fourth-level wizards, and it is still unknown whether he will succeed or not. But even so, everyone still maintained enough respect for the Pang Bo family and did not dare to offend them.
This is because, in addition to Aaron Pangpo, the Pangbo family also has two other third-level wizards sitting in the town, nearly ten second-level wizards, and more than twenty first-level wizards. Ten wizard apprentices signed contracts and were hired.
In addition, the Pangbo family also has more than 200 magic knights, including 170 three-stripe magic knights, forty five-stripe elite magic knights, and five seven-stripe magic knights.
In addition, the Pangbo family also maintains a guard army of up to 3,000 people.
The reason why the Pangbo family is so "poor" is that on the one hand, as a military outpost, it is different from Jialan City and Da Delan Town deep in the border. In recent decades, the Ma Alliance has focused on dealing with internal chaos and has no intention of expanding externally. However, it is still necessary to have some vigilance.
On the other hand, only in this way can the Pangbo family maintain its dominant position in the deal between the Soma Alliance and the Southern Freedom Federation, and not be overthrown by jealous challengers...
Thinking about these contents, Richard arrived in a carriage more than 300 meters outside the gate of St. Louis City. At this time, the place was already crowded, surrounded by people who were preparing to enter the city—some of them were from other places in the Southern Freedom Federation. Some came from the Soma Alliance in the north.
Li Cha took a few glances and decided that taking a carriage into the city would not bring any convenience, so he simply sent the carriage back and walked towards the city gate alone.
After walking more than a hundred meters, you can see that there is already a long queue here, moving forward along the flow of people.
At this time, Li Cha noticed the people entering the city, and automatically divided the left and right lines, of which the left line was for people like him, and the right line was for people carrying various goods.
People carrying goods, no matter whether the goods are carried on their backs or loaded in carriages, must be inspected by the soldiers of the Pangbo family at the city gate, and they are allowed to enter after paying taxes.
Obviously, this is an important source of income for the Pangbo family, and it is also a way to ensure their dominant position in the transaction.
For example, cloth, pottery, handicrafts and other trade goods that the Pangbo family does not operate, the taxes paid when entering the city are relatively low, and people are encouraged to trade more. As for trade goods operated by the Pangbo family, such as grain, woodware, and ironware, the taxes paid in the city are relatively high, and people are resisted from conducting such transactions to prevent the Pangbo family's profits from being affected.
There are also some goods, such as weapons and equipment, which are directly listed as prohibited goods. Once found, it is not a question of how much tax to pay, but will be directly confiscated and confiscated, and the relevant personnel involved in the transportation will be punished.
On the one hand, these goods belong to the core business of the Pangbo family's complete monopoly, and no one else is allowed to get involved. On the other hand, for security reasons, to reduce the number of uncontrolled and unregulated weapons, these things are used against the Pangbo family.
This is a bit like customs... Li Cha blinked and walked forward, because the team he was in didn't need much inspection at all, and he arrived at a place less than 50 meters away from the city gate after following the flow of people. place.
The other team on his right was much slower. He saw a four-wheeled carriage stopped by the guard soldiers more than 20 meters outside the city gate, and opened the carriage to check the goods.
There were five people in the four-wheeled carriage, and they were all driven off at this time.
One of them looks like the chief, about forty years old, not tall, wearing gray clothes. Seeing the soldiers opening the boxes and inspecting them carefully, he said with a bitter face: "Master Guard, these are all normal goods, nothing fancy. I have prepared all the taxes to be paid, and they are right here. How about you Just let me go. I am in a hurry, and I have to go to the city to unload the goods before dark, or I will have to pay a penalty for breach of contract."
The soldier inspecting the goods was a tall, thin man wearing light armor painted with red paint. He glanced at the man in charge and said with a stern face, "You think you are the only one in a hurry? You are the one who is in a hurry? I have seen a lot of people, but when you arrive in this city of St. Louis, you have to be obediently accepted for inspection, you know! You said that you must enter the city before dark, so why don't you hurry up and play with me now. Hmph, something happened , are you responsible?"
The man in charge was reprimanded, his head drooped, and he tried to squeeze out a smile at the tall and thin soldier: "I dare not be responsible. Since you want to check, sir, you should check, I won't talk too much .”
"That's about the same." The tall and thin soldier glanced sideways at the man in charge, then bent down and entered the depths of the compartment ~IndoMTL.com~ to open more boxes and check.
In a full minute, the tall and thin soldier finished checking, jumped out of the carriage and made a final confirmation with the man in charge: "Your carriage is filled with cloth and a small amount of cotton that will be sold in the city, right?"
"Yes, yes, yes." The man in charge nodded repeatedly.
"According to the regulations, you have to pay a tax of five silver coins and thirty copper coins, you know?"
"I know." The man in charge stretched out his hand and handed a money bag to the soldier, "It's been prepared a long time ago, my lord, just take a look."
"That's right." The man in charge stepped forward and whispered to the soldier, "My lord, there is also a small bag containing some scattered money. It's my little thing, please accept it."
The soldier raised his eyebrows when he heard what he said. He weighed the purse and found that it was indeed much heavier than expected. Put it away silently, without saying anything, waved to the fellow soldiers blocking the way, "Let go!"
"Swipe!"
The guard soldiers at the front gate quickly moved away the wooden barricades to allow the carriage to pass.
The man in charge grinning and nodding to the tall and thin soldier, beckoning his men to drive forward.
Among his men, two were clearly dressed as grooms, one with brown eyes and one with gray eyes. The two jumped into the carriage, swung their snow-white whips, and hit the two horses pulling the cart from left to right, leaving two blood marks immediately.
The horse suffered from pain, let out a "hiss" sound, and exerted all its strength. There was only a "squeak" sound of the carriage, which made deep ruts on the ground and headed towards the city gate.
The man in charge in gray waved goodbye to the tall and thin soldier, and led the other two guys in blue to jump into the carriage and enter the carriage.
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