Chapter 9: Rabbit skin town

Like other villages and towns around the Black Forest, Rabbit Skin Town exists by relying on various special products of the Black Forest, and the people who established the Rabbit Skin Town in the early days mainly came from a very special fine-pile rabbit in the Black Forest. .
The earliest person interested in this rabbit was a biologist named Ben Shaming in the French Empire. He spent ten years studying this rabbit on the edge of the Black Forest, and recorded his life carefully and everything else. Afterwards, he wrote a book. This kind of fine-pile rabbit, only produced in the Black Forest, is also called Benshaming rabbit.
The original Shaming study documented that this rabbit is to allow people to better protect this unique animal, but he should not describe in detail in the book how the fur of this rabbit is soft and delicate, more than once thought that this kind of rabbit Rabbit skin is one of the finest furs in the world.
　　 When the book written by Ben Shaming spread, he became famous because he became an academician of the Royal Academy of Sciences in France. A large number of fur merchants and hunters immediately saw a lot of gold coins from this book.
　　In just one month, Ben Shaming formed a small town around the temporary house built outside the Black Forest. A large number of hunters and fur merchants poured in here to catch these rabbits.
　　Ben Shaming Rabbit can survive and breed in such a dangerous place as the Black Forest, and naturally has its own way of survival. In the past, hunters in Gaoming could not pose a threat to their ethnic groups, but now Ben Shaming wrote their life habits completely in the book. The hunters easily caught them by arranging traps through the content of the book. These hard-to-grab rabbits.
In less than three years, starting from Rabbit Skin Town, radiating into the Black Forest within a range of 170 kilometers, all Benshaming rabbits have been caught. If you want to capture them, you need to go deeper. Deeper into the more dangerous Black Forest.
　　Although there is no such a huge benefit as Benshaming rabbits, while catching these rabbits, some interested people also found that there are still many hidden specialties in the Black Forest that can be sold at high prices.
　　 For example, the purple grass that is used to make hemostatic drugs and other wound medicine, the rainbow bird with great ornamental value, the black forest leopard cat that every noble child wants, and so on.
　　 Even now, there is a special person who collects the mulch accumulated on the ground of the Black Forest for countless years. It is said that this kind of soil can be used to cultivate some special precious plants.
When the rabbit skin town was built, it was all spontaneously formed by some businessmen, hunters and mercenaries. After several disturbances caused by interests, several big businessmen and powers in the town thought that this kind of management chaos was not a way, so They united and formed a town council to deal specifically with disputes and distribution of interests in the town.
Later, as the benefits created by Rabbit Skin Town and other villages and villages relying on the Black Forest grew larger and larger, the French Imperial Parliament was naturally reluctant to see such a large amount of tax being missed, so it dispatched tax officers and Imperial Militia Corps Settled in these towns.
However, the French Imperial Parliament is very clever. They just take over the taxation and defense of these towns, and do not directly intervene in the administration of the villages and towns. The actual management power of the town is still in the hands of the town council. From a certain perspective This is also the Parliament's recognition that this spontaneously formed town council is a legal administrative organization.
　　 It is precisely because of this clever practice that these towns also defaulted on the empire's control of the town's taxation.
However, in the recent period, the atmosphere of the Black Forest villages such as Tupi Town has been a bit tense, because the militia regiments stationed in the town began to impose martial law on the periphery of the town, and the inspection methods of the caravans have also been tightened a lot. At a glance, the contraband was also searched and seized, even if the goods belonged to some big men.
　　The garrison militia explained their recent actions because the war was nearby, so they imposed martial law on villages and towns near the battlefield to avoid enemy penetration.
　　 After the invasion of the Kingdom of England, the Bretley area, which was engaged with the French army, was not very far from the east side of the Lower Black Forest. It was just over a few mountains.
　　From the map, this place is close to the battlefield, as if the flames of war will be here at any time.
But as long as someone who knows a little military, it is easy to see that the army of the Inge Kingdom cannot march into the Black Forest at all. They will only choose the Great Plains in the Breteyi area, straight north, they can easily advance the army to Lyon Province, near the capital.
　　 Therefore, the martial law excuses found by the garrison militia simply did not hold water.
When the interests of caravans, hunters and mercenaries in these towns were severely impaired by the implementation of martial law, and the garrison militia made a lot of money for selling the seized contraband, everyone considered the so-called martial law It was the garrison militia who made it, but it was this opportunity that was used to scavenge from various Black Forest villages and towns.
　　On the one hand, insisting that their martial law is an order issued by the military department, what they do is reasonable and legal, on the other hand, people with damaged interests do not have any confidence in these garrison militiamen, and only demand that the ban be lifted immediately to allow commercial channels to reopen. Because of these incidents, the two sides have had more than one conflict in the past two days, which has also made the atmosphere of the villages and towns on the east side of the Lower Black Forest very tense, and the rabbit skin town is also among them.
Leo and the other three spent half a day and came to the vicinity of Rabbit Skin Town. The reason why they could traverse several mountains and catch such a long mountain road in such a short time was entirely because Leo was very capable Easily find the easiest path from the details of the surrounding environment, and there is no long way around.
　　If another person leads the way, I am afraid that within two days it is difficult to get from the location of the small river where they set off to the famous Black Forest town of Tupi Town.
"There is something wrong with the atmosphere!" Nelson, who used to come to Rabbit Fur Town, saw the closed wooden gate of the town and the hunters, mercenaries and caravans gathered outside the town, and heard a burst from there. The shouting could not help but say.
　　 "It's still using you to say that I can see that something is wrong." Jason rolled his eyes at Nelson and grinned.
　　Nilson ignored Jason's offense, but looked at Leo, waiting for his decision.
During this journey, Nielsen was accustomed to Jason from time to time, and he was very clear that this was just Jason's character relieved, not really hostile to him, although there was still some displeasure in his heart, but he did not intend to deal with this Thick people care about the bottom.
Leo’s gaze scanned the crowd in the distance, and then told Jason: "Jason will not speak for a while, your English kingdom accent is so strong that anyone can hear it. "
　　 "Aren't you the same as me?" Jason said Leo again.
"I'm different from you." Leo responded, but this time the language he used was not the English language, but the French language, but the language of the Puerto Rican region in southern France. He spoke French to Nelson. The accent is very similar.
　　 "You, how are you..." Jason and Nielsen were very surprised, because they both knew Leo did not speak French.
　　 "On the way, didn't I ask you to teach me French?" Leo said with a natural look, "This is the result of learning the language for half a day."
　　 Hearing Leo’s words, Nelson and Jason could only stare at him stunnedly, not knowing what to say.
　　It is not uncommon for Leo, who has a deputy brain, to learn a new language in half a day. Especially when he also understands another branch of this language, the difficulty of learning is at least halved.
　　 But for the two people around him, especially Nielsen, the learning ability he showed was shocking, even scary and desperate.
Leo ignored the shock of the two and continued to command: "Wait a moment, you pretend to be a doctor who came to the Black Forest to collect special herbs, and Jason and I are your escorts." Then he asked. : "Do you have to go to Rabbit Skin Town? What herbs do you need, can't you collect them on the road in the Black Forest? Now Rabbit Skin Town seems to be under martial law, and it may be dangerous to go there."
　　 Nielsen packed his emotions and replied: "If you want to cross the Black Forest more easily, you have to go to the town and buy some of the medicines I need. Those medicines are finished medicines, not herbs."
　　 Hearing Nielsen’s words, Leo didn’t say much, took a step back, and stood behind Nielsen like a follower, leaning his hands on the waist knife handle.
　　 Because the handle of this war sword has obvious craftsmanship characteristics of the Kingdom of England, he was tightly with cloth strips.
In addition, the more distinctive scabbard was thrown directly by him. The war blade was inserted into the belt around the waist, and the mud and dust standing on the body made him look like a poor mercenary. of.
　　 As for Jason's appearance, it is no different from Leo, as long as Jason does not speak, no one will call him an Inge Kingdom.
Nielsen also sorted out the clothes, carried the medicine box on the left side according to the habits of the French Empire doctor, put on his glasses, and packed up the small details on his body. After finding no mistakes, he walked towards the door of the rabbit skin town. Leo and Jason followed.
　　 Soon after, a group of three came to the carriage square in front of the gate. Nelson glanced at the badge on the carriage headlight position on the square, and walked towards a carriage with a bull head badge.
　　 "Good afternoon, Bodo's bull." Nielsen walked a strange-looking courtesy toward a fat man with a wig standing next to the grilled car, and said hello to him in a little French accent.
Hearing the hello, the fat man looked at Nelson suspiciously, and saw the medicine chest and several knots deliberately tied on the medicine chest. The original indifferent attitude immediately changed, becoming respectful and respectful, and also saluted to Nelson: "Good afternoon, Moka's followers."
Nielsen deliberately exaggerated his expression, pointed to the closed door, and said, "What's going on? Isn't Rabbit Skin going to do business with outsiders? How can the door be closed and block all of you big businessmen?" outside?"
　　 "It's not the latest martial law!" The fat man said angrily. Although it was not directed against Nelson, he could hear from his tone that he was very annoyed at the moment.
　　 Nielsen continued to talk from the fat man and said: "Even if there are martial law orders, the door will not be closed. Don't let people go in and do business?"
"Now the town council is negotiating with the tax officer to lift the martial law and restore business order. The militiamen in the town are worried that outsiders will affect the negotiation process, so they will dry out all the outsiders who do not have the status of rabbit skin town and shut the door." The fat man revealed Sorrowful, he said: "It seems that the situation is not good."
"I don't think so." Leo inserted some abruptly into the conversation. When the fat man showed an unpleasant look, he pointed his finger to the town militiamen who patrolled back and forth on the town's stump wall and said, " If the situation is not good, the militia patrolling the city walls will not be so few people, and it will not be so easy, so the negotiations in the town should be carried out smoothly, and nothing like fierce conflicts happen."
Hearing Leo’s analysis, the fat man looked up at the militia on the city wall, and he quickly realized that he nodded in approval, and the displeasure of Leo’s guardian intervention disappeared. UU reading www.uukanshu.com Also dissipated are the tensions that have accumulated since the morning.
A light-faced fat man smiled and asked Zhao Leiou: "Eye-like guards like you are really rare. Are you interested in doing things in our Torun Chamber of Commerce after your guarding mission is over? We The Chamber’s compensation is the highest in the industry."
　　 Leo also imitated the way the Fran people talked, saying: "It is my honor to join the Torun Chamber of Commerce, but unfortunately my mission takes a long time, so I am sorry, please allow me to refuse."
　　 "What a pity!" The fat man showed regret, and then said enviously to Nelson: "You have found a good guard!"
　　 Nielsen responded with a smile: "I think so too."
At this time, the fat man apologized and said that he had something to deal with and must be out of company for a while. Then he took his short legs and walked quickly towards the caravan of another large chamber of commerce. The analysis said to others.
The three Leo did not stay in place, but walked to a temporary bistro on the side of the carriage square, found a small table, ordered a few glasses of beer, and drank while waiting for the negotiation of Rabbit Skin Town to end .
　　 "Why didn't you just accept the invitation of the caravan manager? As far as I know, the compensation for the Torun Chamber of Commerce is really generous." Perhaps it was boring to wait, Nielsen casually found a topic and asked.
　　Leo took a sip of beer from this world, and felt that the taste was not bad. He took another sip and replied: "He just talked casually, and he had no intention of recruiting me."
　　 "Why do you say that?" Nielsen wondered.
　　 Leo glanced at Nelson lightly and said, "He has never introduced himself from beginning to end."