Chapter 777: Price

Powell and Johnson do not know what kind of situation the Butcher family is facing, but it is absolutely irrelevant to ask them to pay 100% tax. All the money from the two of them was taken out for purchase, and they could not pay if they wanted to pay taxes.
Detouring into Banshee Castle became the only option. The two have to hurry up, otherwise the usury's daily interest rate will wipe out all their efforts.
The Butch Tax Police knows that it is impossible to block all traffic areas, so they control all means of transportation along the way. Without tax proofs with magic effects, merchants cannot even rent a bullock cart.
If you want to smuggle, you must rely on two legs.
But even walking is difficult. In order to collect taxes, the Buchi family's tax police team kept patrolling.
From Thick Fog Town to Shitan Town to Banshee Fort, the two hundred kilometers of roads can toss the two to death. If there were no tuk-too warning in the air, they would have been caught.
Over 100 kilometers of wild roads, in order to avoid the tax police, the two of them could not enter the village and town when staying and resting, and could only solve it in the wilderness.
Usually the two respected the Butch family of Banshee Castle, and felt that they were a model of the nobles of the Northland. Patriarch Friedman. Butch is the mainstay of resistance to the monsters of the Black Forest. He is an indestructible hero.
just now.....?
"Damn Friedman, how can he be so mean for money? We are loyal to him, don't we just use some money as a capital to do a small business? Everyone is doing this, why don't we make some money ?"
The two went all the way and scolded all the way, and their hearts were fierce.
The original carriage was two days away. Powell and Johnson walked for ten days, and had to drag a bulky suitcase. When they arrived outside Banshee Castle, both of them lost a circle.
"I've never been so embarrassed and exhausted. Don't let me find an opportunity, otherwise I must retaliate against the Butch family. This tax that violates humanity must be abolished."
It was too hard to hide and hide along the way. Johnson didn't talk about his love and loyalty to the nobility anymore. He thought about the daily interest paid because of the delay, and he was crying in his heart.
When you arrive at Banshee Castle, you have to be inspected when you enter the gate. The wizards of the Buchi family are responsible for squatting, and almost let the two of them work hard in the end.
Relying on Johnson's illusion, barely fooled through. Both of them were exhausted when they entered the city, but they still insisted on going to the wizard's tower in the city and sold the goods to be at ease.
Just entering the city, the situation is even worse.
"Powell, do you notice that the market has slumped a lot?"
On the way to the Wizard's Tower, Johnson felt that the streets in the city were quite deserted. The only pedestrians are also in a hurry, but the guards and the sheriff who maintain order are everywhere.
You can always see some small vendors and peddlers in the streets, now disappeared without a trace.
Beggars and migrants are a city scene. As long as the sheriff didn't pay attention, they would slip out and do begging for theft. I can't see you now.
The few shops in the market are unpopular. The owner shrinks and looks around the door. When he sees a stranger, he has to stare a few times. He seems to be ready to close the door at any time.
Powell and Johnson couldn't help but quicken their pace and hurried a few steps. The two reached the Wizard's Tower in Banshee Castle, and they encountered a group of people before they even entered.
The leader was impressively Inisha, and the princess showed anger and rushed out very quickly. Behind her were many followers of the Principality of Oss, and some people held the sword hilt, or clenched the staff, without a good look.
The two unlucky eggs didn't know what to do and hurried to hide. Even the noisy buzzer shut his mouth and drew his head behind the owner's shoulder to probe the brain.
When Inisa came out, she stared at Powell, paying special attention to the wooden suitcase in her hand. She only glanced at it and asked in a cold voice: "Did it come from Hanfengcheng? What goods? How much?"
Powell was just a spy, and he dared not to answer in the face of a group of superiors in the Principality of Oss. He honestly said that the box is magic material from the cold wind city, as for the price...
Powell turned his head to look at Johnson, and the two exchanged information in an instant. Finally, Johnson gritted his teeth and made a price: "His Royal Highness, if you need it, five thousand gold coins."
Inisa ‘hmm’ yelled and strode forward. Behind her came a follower, took out a bag full of magic gems, weighed them in one or two, and threw them to Johnson, carrying the wooden suitcase by the way.
The entire process took less than a minute, and the hard-won shipments changed hands.
When the princess left, Powell and Johnson were relieved.
The two quickly opened the bag of jewels and cheered loudly after a while-the jewels in the bag should be worth six thousand gold coins, which is more than they expected.
"It's great, great. I didn't make a trip this time and made a lot of money. I'll just say don't buy any iron tools and buy and sell magic items to make the most money." Johnson smiled.
The two were considered to be profitable and were in a good mood. Powell urged: "Go, go and repay the loan sharks, and the daily interest rate will be fifty gold coins. I can't stand it."
The loan shark is borrowed from the wizard of the wizard's tower, and the collateral is Johnson's illusion hut. The two went on to the tower and found the usury wizard who opened the spell shop, and they had to pay off their accounts.
Seeing the two come back with a smile, the wizard of the spell shop was also amazed. First, they asked them what they had bought in Hanfengcheng? Lament again that they can avoid the tax police search, and finally...
"What about the goods?"
"When I first came in, I met Princess Inisa. She generously bought the goods, but she didn't make a bargain, and added a lot."
"How much gold did she pay you?"
"A gem worth about six thousand gold coins."
"Only six thousand? According to the type and quantity of your purchase, I can pay ten thousand gold coins."
What......? !
Powell and Johnson were happy, but at the same time they were dumbfounded.
The wizard of the shop also thumped his chest. "Don't you two fools, don't you feel something is wrong when you enter the city? The city is preparing for war, you didn't find it?"
The two unlucky eggs were even more dumbfounded. Only Dudu plucked out his head and muttered: "The situation was so strange at the time, I found something wrong. But I just didn't say."
Powell hurriedly explained: "We have encountered a lot of troubles on our way back, and we are so exhausted that we want to quickly sell the goods and exchange money. Her Royal Highness is willing to buy, we naturally sell it. How can the city prepare for war?"
The shop wizard shook his head with a sigh, "You two have been away for more than half a month, and many things have happened to Banshee Castle. The Buchi family wants to impose heavy taxes on Shanglu, and the other nobles in the city strongly oppose it.
The exiles of the Principality of Oss also have a lot of transactions with the north, and commercial profits are their important income, and they are very disgusted with tax collection.
Wizards in the city also don't like to collect taxes, because this directly raises the price of spell-casting materials.
But there are contradictions between the forces of all parties. For example, Her Royal Highness hoped to negotiate magic merchandise quotas with the wizarding group in the city, but the wizarding group just rejected her.
In addition, dozens of cities in the North were extremely embarrassed by the dumping of Victor Hugo’s commodities, which consumed a lot of precious metals, not only rising food prices, but also a huge financial gap.
Now in winter, when food is in short supply, a series of problems have set off. The atmosphere in the city was suddenly tense. All of this is caused by Victor Hugo. This guy has done a lot to us without fighting. "