Chapter 1621: ""

The strong may destroy morality, and the weak may be caressed by morality, and those who suffer moral persecution are often between the strong and the weak.
Kanagawa Ryusuke (Japanese novelist)
Salamanca is the most important city in the central geographical area of ​​Castilla, and the lord of Salamanca is the Count of Bustro, the old noble family of Castilla; as an old noble The contemporary head of the family, Count Bustro without much political ambition, the only hobby is to accumulate the wealth of his family, which seems to be the common hobby of most nobles on the mainland.
However, wealth is not so easy to accumulate. Earlier than half a year, Count Bustro spent most of his life before accumulating two or three hundred thousand gold coins for his family; of course, this is not to say that Buster Earl Low's family had only two or three hundred thousand coins of property, but after inheriting his own family, he accumulated another two or three hundred thousand coins of property on the basis of his family's original assets.
The two or three hundred thousand gold coins are not a small amount, but they don’t seem to be a lot for the family of the Earl of Bustro, because the previous owners of the Bustro family are the owners of Salamanca. As long as they are not Too bad a family, before the death of the family can accumulate two or three hundred thousand gold coins of the family property; the accumulation of so many generations, the total assets of the Bustro family is still considerable.
The good mentality of Earl Bustro mixed eating and waiting to die changed immediately after he learned what the nobles of the king capital did in the king capital; as the city master, he sent in the name of raising redemption money for the kingdom The City Guard looted a chamber of commerce in Salamanca.
A medium-sized chamber of commerce has brought Earl Bustro an income of more than half a million gold coins. Even if he needs to send a symbolic one hundred thousand gold coins to the king capital, he still has the remaining more than 400,000 gold coins. More than twice the assets accumulated as a city owner for more than 20 years!
Looking at the gold and silver treasures that piled up in a warehouse in his mansion and a dozen of the deeds that originally belonged to this chamber of commerce now belong to his own family, the last remaining reason of Earl Bustro was swallowed by endless greed; The two thousand city guards in Salamanca became the sharpest knife in his hand, slashing towards two large chambers of commerce, four medium-sized chambers of commerce, and twenty-three small chambers of commerce.
In just ten days or so, Salamanca, which was originally economically prosperous and commercially developed, became a dead city with the extinction of the declining chamber of commerce in the industry. Being robbed by the City Guards, they still watched the show with a grief and misfortune, but slowly as more and more chambers were robbed, they also felt afraid and worried.
When all the chambers of commerce in the city have been robbed, panic has inevitably spread in the city. Everyone who is in danger of the business has closed their shops that are getting better business, so as not to attract the door of the city guards; But even then, the city guards who came to the door still came to the door, because Count Bustro, who snatched out all the chambers of commerce in the city, held the mosquitoes with small legs and flesh.
Two large chambers of commerce, four medium-sized chambers of commerce, and twenty-three small chambers of commerce brought a total of more than 7 million gold coins of direct income and fixed assets worth more than 10 million gold coins to Earl Bustro. He has sent someone to send the redemption of the three million gold coins to the capital; it is no exaggeration to say that only ten days, the total assets of the Bustro family have tripled or tripled on the original basis many!
With such a crazy increase in assets, the stimulating Count Bustro is even more crazy; just two days without additional income, he can’t wait to start the businessmen in the city of Salamanca who don’t have a chamber of commerce. The City Guards, who had gained a lot of benefits, continued to willingly act as a sharp blade in the hands of Count Bustro, and slashed to the small merchants who were not very rich in the city.
In the days of crazy search, the total assets of the Bustro family will increase a lot every day, and the two thousand City Guard soldiers are about to become rich men with hundreds of gold coins; in short, this is an official The gluttonous feast with the nobility, even ordinary city guards and soldiers who are not even officials and nobles, can get a slice of it. Only the wealthy businessman has become a loser.
Just when the city of Salamanca fell into the final frenzy, the large grain transport caravan organized by the Santander Chamber of Commerce came to Salamanca City; Salamanca City is the province of Castilla In the trade transit station in the central part, the caravan of the Santander Chamber of Commerce is too large to get enough supplies in other small cities. It is normal to come here to replenish some living supplies.
As everyone knows, they did not have the protection of the army. From the moment they entered the city, they became the lambs to be slaughtered in the eyes of Count Bustro; of course, Count Bustro, who had not been completely mad, could not be the prince of the king. The caravan of the Santander Chamber of Commerce started. After all, the caravan transported the military food to the garrison. It was a taboo for anyone who dared to move, and Count Bustro would not be stupid.
The military food transported by the Santander caravan cannot be moved, which does not mean that the Santander Chamber of Commerce vassal can not move, especially when the Count Bustro found that some of the caravans transported by these caravans are completely Kingdom Law Don't allow things to be bought and sold without permission.
What does this mean? This shows that these caravans are smuggling! Smuggling is explicitly prohibited by the laws of every country. Every businessman suspected of smuggling is a criminal who ignores the interests of his country; Count Bustro, who has the Kingdom Law as his foundation, does not belong to the Santander Chamber of Commerce. The caravan started to do it, that is, it should be grabbed and collected, without the slightest softness.
The head of the Santander caravan, who was crying without tears, could only swallow his teeth and swallow his stomach, and quickly took his caravan full of military food to the front border; at the same time, knowing that he would definitely offend Prince Bustro, the Crown Prince, split half of the commodities worth nearly ten million gold coins collected from these caravans, named them the smuggled goods seized, and sent them to Wangdu.
Earl Bustro, who is well versed in the rules of aristocratic survival, did not forget to contact the Holy See and the people of the Dragon Empire when sending gifts to please the king. The Great Holy See, the Dragon Empire, which is only tens of kilometers away from Salamanca, can be a retreat for the Bustro family. When it is really necessary, he does not mind the family migration.
Like all other nobles, Count Bustro has never been loyal to the White Horse Kingdom, which his family swears allegiance to, but his own family; putting the family interests above the national interests, this is what the nobles will do As the typical nobleman, Count Bustro is naturally no exception, so he has no pressure to do such things as treason, and even looks a little vaguely expecting.
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