Vol 2 Chapter 943: St. Louis City

Two days later, it was near evening.
Richard rode in a carriage and reached the outskirts of a large city.
From a distance, you can see the outline of Ayutthaya clearly visible in the front. Under the golden yellow sun shining westward, the tall city wall shimmered and gleamed, as if painted with a layer of gold dust. It was this destination-St. Louis City.
While seeing St. Louis City, relevant information obtained from the Society of Truth and Oscar of the Black-faced Old Man quickly flashed through Richard's mind.
St. Louis City is located on the edge of the "Rowan Plain" in the Southern Free Confederation, and is close to the Soma Empire in the north. It has convenient transportation. It is both a military outpost and a trading city.
The power that ruled the city was the Pangbo family with a history of more than 200 years.
The Pompo family started its career as a second-level wizard more than two hundred years ago, slowly gaining a foothold in St. Louis, and dominating most transactions between the Soma Alliance and the Southern Free Confederation.
Therefore, the Pompo family has achieved 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 forces must rely on the nose to survive.
According to intelligence content, the Pangbo family has the top personal power so far, which is Alan Pangbo. The other party is the younger brother of the eighth generation head of the Pangbo family. The current head of the family is the tenth generation, which counts as the grandchild of the other party.
It is said that Alan Pompo became a third-level wizard when he was very young fifty years ago. After successively defeating and killing multiple provocators, he was recognized as the strongest in St. Louis and its surrounding areas. The success made people dare not to be hostile to the Pangbo family.
However, since twenty years ago, Alan Pompo has stopped showing up. The news came that the other party was preparing to attack the realm of the fourth-level wizard. But even so, everyone still has enough awe to the Pompo family to dare to offend.
This is because, in addition to Alan Pompo, the Pompo family also has two other third-level wizards sitting in the town, with nearly ten second-level wizards, more than 20 first-level wizards loyal, and dozens of wizards. The apprentice signed a contract and was hired.
In addition, the Pangbo family also has more than 200 magic wear knights, including 170 three-weave knights, forty five-weave knights, and five seven-weave knights.
In addition, the Pangbo family also maintains a guard army of up to three thousand people.
The reason why the Pompo family is so "poor soldiers for redemption" is, on the one hand, it is used as a military outpost. Unlike the Jialan City and Dadelan Town deep in the border, it is necessary to always prevent the invasion of the Soma Alliance-although the Soma Alliance has recently Devoted to dealing with internal chaos for decades and not expanding to the outside world, but some vigilance is still necessary.
On the other hand, this is the only way to maintain the dominant position of the Pompo family in the Soma alliance and the southern free federal trade, and not be overthrown by the jealous challenger...
Thinking of these contents, Richard arrived in a carriage more than three hundred meters outside the city gate of St. Louis. At this time, it was already overcrowded and surrounded by people who were going to enter the city-some from the rest of the Southern Free Confederation, Some are from the Soma Alliance in the north.
Richard glanced for a few times and determined that it was not convenient to enter the city by horse-drawn carriage. He simply repatriated the carriage and walked alone towards the city gate.
Walking more than 100 meters, you can see that a long line has been discharged here, following the flow of people.
At this time, Richard found that the people who entered the city automatically divided the left and right lines. The left line is for people like him, and the right line is for people with various goods.
People who carry the goods, whether they are carried on their backs or in the carriages, must be inspected by the Pangbo family soldiers at the city gate, and they are allowed to enter after paying taxes.
Obviously, this is an important economic source of the Pangbo family, and it is also through this way to ensure his dominant position in the transaction.
For example, cloth, pottery, handicrafts, and other trade goods that are not operated by the Pangbo family, the tax paid for entering the city is relatively low, encouraging people to trade more. For example, trade goods operated by the Pangbo family, such as food, wood, and iron, pay relatively high taxes when entering the city, resisting such transactions and preventing the profits of the Pangbo family.
Others, such as weapons and equipment, are directly listed as prohibited goods. Once it is discovered that it is not a question of how much tax is paid, it is directly confiscated and confiscated, and the relevant personnel for transportation are punished.
On the one hand, because these goods belong to the core business of the Pangbo family, they are completely monopolized, and others are not allowed to get involved. On the other hand, it is for security reasons to reduce the number of uncontrolled and unregulated weapons. These things are used to deal with the Pompo family.
This is a bit of customs... Li Cha blinked and walked forward, because his team did not need much inspection at all, and went to the place that was only 50 meters away from the city gate after a short time of people.
On the other side of his right hand, the team was much slower. He saw a carriage being stopped by guards more than 20 meters outside the city gate, and opened the carriage to check the cargo.
There were five people on the carriage, and they were all driven off at this time.
One of them looked like a principal, in his forties, and was not tall, wearing a gray suit. Seeing the soldiers open the boxes carefully, they grumbled and said: "Senior Guard, I am all normal goods, there is nothing good-looking. I have prepared all the taxes paid, right here, do you Just let me go. I'm in a hurry to get into the city to unload before dark, or I will pay a penalty for breach of contract."
The soldier inspecting the cargo was a tall, thin man, wearing lightly painted red armor, glanced at the principal man, and said with a cold face: "Do you think that if you are in a hurry, you will be anxious? People who are more anxious than you, I have seen more, but when you arrive in St. Louis, you have to be obediently inspected, you know! You said you must enter the city before dark, then why don’t you hurry up now, and now you are talking to me. Well, something happened, you are responsible ?"
The principal man was reprimanded, his head was pulled down, and he tried to squeeze out a smile at the tall soldier: "How dare I take responsibility. Since you want to check it out, sir, then check it out, I won't talk."
"It's about the same." The tall, thin soldier glanced at the principal man and bent over into the depths of the carriage ~ EbookFREE.me ~ opened more boxes to check.
In a full minute, the tall and thin soldier finished the inspection, jumped off the carriage and the principal man to make a final confirmation: "Your carriage is filled with cloth to be sold in the city, and a small amount of cotton, right?"
"Yes, yes." The principal man nodded again and again.
"Then according to the regulations, a total of five silver coins and thirty copper coins will be paid, you know?"
"I know." The principal man reached out and handed a purse to the soldier. "I've already prepared it, sir, please take a look."
"That's right." The principal man stepped forward and whispered to the soldier. "Adult, there is also a small bag with some scattered money in it. It's my little politeness. Please accept it."
The soldier listened, raised his eyebrows, and picked up the purse and found that it was indeed much heavier than expected. Silently put away, not much to say, waved his hand to the companion of the soldier who was blocking the road: "Let go!"
"brush!"
The guard soldiers in front of the city gate quickly removed the wooden barricade and let the carriage pass.
The principal man in gray clothes nodded to the tall, thin soldier with a grin, and greeted the men under his rush to drive forward.
Two of his men were obviously dressed as grooms, one with brown eyes and one with gray eyes. The two jumped into the carriage and lifted the snow-white whip, hitting the two horses pulling the cart from left to right, and immediately printed two blood marks.
The horses ate painfully and screamed, violently. I only heard the wriggling sound of the carriage, rolling a deep rut mark on the ground and heading towards the gate.
The principal man in gray clothes waved goodbye to the tall and thin soldiers, jumped into the carriage with two other cyan-clad men, and entered the carriage.
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