Void City is now more and more prosperous, although its location is not too ideal, but as Sean. Connery, the first city of Lord Panda, naturally put a lot of effort into it, and for this reason, Neil even did not hesitate to spend hundreds of thousands of gold coins to build roads, completely opening up the roads in Momiji Town and the Steel Feather Wing Training Camp (formerly Panda Town), and even connected all the way to Date Lord.

Of course, with the exception of Kiraff Territory, any road leading to Void City in Sean's Territory, whether directly or indirectly, has been considered basically completed. To this end, William even specially set up a patrol force to regularly clean up and rectify the potential hazards that may appear on these roads and their surroundings, so that a large number of merchants have flowed into Void City from thousands of miles away.

The only pity is that Void City, or the entire Panda Ring, has not yet received the level evaluation of the Pan-Continental Alliance, so there are no chambers of commerce that have joined the Pan-Continental Alliance to invest here. Invisibly, the income of the Panda Leader is naturally much less, and the current income to maintain the entire territory mainly depends on taxes and some special products transported from a large amount of grain cultivation and Red Leaf Town, if it weren't for Viscount Ruud's good management of the Dayi Territory before, and there are more profits, I am afraid that with Sean's current strength of more than 20,000 people, he would have gone bankrupt long ago.

And the issue of income has really become a top priority for the entire territory.

But in any case, this is only a problem of the entire territory, not a problem of Void City.

As a result, Void City is rapidly prospering in a situation comparable to a deformity.

However, at this moment, there was an extremely fierce quarrel in a certain room of the lord's mansion in Void City, and this quarrel was getting more and more intense, and if anyone who didn't know about it, they would almost think that the fight was about to start inside.

Just look at the accustomed looks of the few soldiers stationed outside the door. It can be seen that the situation may not be so bad.

In fact, on the first day of the incident, the guards did look like they were facing a great enemy, and even broke open the door and rushed in. But as the days went on, the guards were now completely calm, for the quarrels took place almost every day—from the morning until lunchtime, and then from tea time to late at night, and for ten days.

In the past 10 days, the negotiations in the conference room have not gone smoothly.

The guards didn't understand these things, they only knew that those who came to negotiate were members of the Pan-Continental Chamber of Commerce Alliance. Moreover, it was the Void City, which arrived more than half a month ago, and as soon as it came, it unfolded an extremely fierce momentum, which is said to force Commander William to be a little big. And as the negotiations were coming to an end, Officer Neil finally returned, and all the guards and soldiers who had seen Officer Neil that day. I will never forget that scene.

The first rays of the morning sun shine and fall.

When the gates slowly opened, they were greeted by a sickening carriage with a bloody smell - the whole carriage was completely stained red with blood. The purple-black color formed by the coagulation of a large amount of blood after drying up made the carriage extremely hideous and terrifying.

The driver was a black-armored guard with a broken arm. There were also seventeen black-armored cavalrymen guarding the carriage, but almost all of these soldiers were wounded, and the coachman who only had a broken hand seemed to be the least injured among these black-armored guards, because several of the cavalry around the carriage had even fallen into a coma.

When they saw this scene in front of them, the guards at the city gate were immediately shocked.

Because judging by the attire and markings of these black-armored cavalrymen. There is no doubt that it was a new unit of heavy cavalry with dark wings, which had been ordered by Commander William himself only a few months earlier. It's just that in the previous battles that broke out in the territory, the casualty rate of this heavy cavalry unit was too high, and more than 700 people were killed in the whole battle. It almost had to cancel even the number, so after the end of the war, this heavy cavalry unit was actually in a state of rest and rectification.

It wasn't until two months ago that he was appointed by Commander William to escort Archon Neal back.

These guards calculated the time, and the pitch-black wings should indeed have arrived in the Void City in these few days, but they didn't expect to see such a terrifying scene in front of them, what kind of attack would this be like this? But as a mercenary regiment in the past, there was nothing that had never been seen in the days of licking blood from the knife edge, so after a period of shock, the superior commander soon issued an order to start immediately going out of the city to protect the entry of this team and the carriage, and at the same time immediately went to inform Commander William.

The pitch-black wings of a full 300 people, after this battle, I am afraid that the number and establishment will be canceled!

A unit that was established less than half a year ago and was abolished is not a symbol of good luck in any way.

So when Neil got out of the carriage, his eyes were so cold that he couldn't be happier.

And the next situation is even more incomprehensible to many, because when Neil took over the negotiation of the Pan-continental Chamber of Commerce Alliance, he actually showed a completely different indifference and strength than before. He refused to back down even a little bit of small profits, and even added many favorable conditions to many actual trade negotiations, especially in the import and export tariffs of the territory, and directly adopted the system of collecting taxes according to volume, and at the same time imposed road taxes.

It is important to know that in the trade system reached by the Pan-continental Chamber of Commerce Alliance with any country, the tariffs are proportioned by vehicles. That is to say, no matter how much goods a wagon carryed, only one wagon would be charged customs duties, and if it only passed by and did not conduct any trade or commerce in the territory, then the territory or country would not even charge any fees to the Union of Chambers of Commerce for returning to the mainland.

It is precisely because of this that since Neil's return, negotiations with the Pan-continental Chamber of Commerce Alliance have immediately reached an impasse.

"Your demands are too harsh for me to observe." A middle-aged man with a mustache roared in the conference room, "At present, the territories and countries that have signed trade cooperation contracts with our Chamber of Commerce Alliance are almost all over the continent, and none of them have adopted the practice of collecting taxes according to volume. Now I have agreed to your request, but you have to charge 10% of the market purchase price for each kilogram of goods! ”

If the purchase price of a kilogram of goods is one gold coin, then ten percent of the charge is one silver coin. This amount may not seem like much. However, it is absolutely impossible for a carriage carrying goods to put only one kilogram of materials, and usually at least five kilograms to one ton of materials can be loaded, which is equivalent to paying five silver coins to one gold coin, but the problem is that the purchase price of many important materials and goods per kilogram can never be just one gold coin, and may even be ten gold coins or one hundred gold coins, so this tax is very terrible.

In other places, for trucks returning to the mainland chamber of commerce, regardless of the size and what kind of goods they carry, they usually adopt the tariff of one gold coin for small trucks, five gold coins for medium-sized trucks, and ten gold coins for large trucks.

"You can say no." Neil stared at each other with a cold expression. sneered, "Anyway, there are really no good materials to produce in our territory at present, so you don't need to trade with us." ”

"You!" The bearded man's eyes instantly turned red.

"We agreed to this request." At this moment, a middle-aged man who did not look younger than the bearded man spoke in a deep voice.

Neil turned his head. stared at each other coldly.

For the past ten days, the middle-aged man has been in charge of watching and taking notes. Never interjected. And he has always been very low-key, so much so that Neil has almost forgotten his existence in the last few days, but he didn't expect that he is actually the person who can really decide everything in this negotiation. This kind of loss of judgment due to emotional interference has not appeared in Neil's life for a long time, and he certainly knows that he is likely to have missed a lot of important information and clues because of this, and it can even be said that if it were not for the fact that he simply did not care about the trade negotiations with the Pan-continental Chamber of Commerce Alliance. Then he would have lost completely in a series of negotiations.

However, as long as the thought of the death of the dark wings of the troops who protected him, and the fact that so many of them were crippled and seriously injured, Neil could not calm down no matter what.

That day, after talking to Abyss. Neil came up with a plan, anyway, with the protection of these two people, and they also showed absolute strength, so Neil let the black wings rush back to Void City first, to avoid the possibility of attrition due to possible dangers and accidents. However, he never thought that the Pan-Continental Chamber of Commerce Alliance would be so mad that it would directly slaughter the entire pitch-black wing, if it weren't for the smell of blood and strong fluctuations that Dix smelled later, I am afraid that the pitch-black wings would not even be able to stay with the eighteen people in the bottom.

Thinking of this, Neil naturally couldn't give these Pan-Continental Chamber of Commerce Alliances any good looks.

"We've agreed to this condition, so can we ask Archon Neil to back down as well?" The middle-aged man put down the quill in his hand and said politely, "Maybe there are some people within the Chamber of Commerce Alliance who have gone too far, but we don't have any malicious intentions. ”

"Businessmen are all profit-seeking, and if there is not enough profit, it is impossible to adopt some radical means." Neil sneered, "Anyway, my requirements and conditions are already here, if you find it unacceptable, you can completely avoid signing a contract with us." ”

The middle-aged man took off his glasses and wiped them to hide the anger that flashed in his eyes: "Is this what Sir Connelly meant?" ”

"Your Excellency has already entrusted me with full authority, so Your Excellency does not need to worry, Your Excellency will support my decision." Neil replied coldly.

"I see." The middle-aged man put his glasses on, and his voice had become a little cold, "I don't know when Sir Connelly will come back, there are some things I want to discuss with him face to face." The impact of this matter is very large, and I am afraid that it is not something that Archon Neil can represent, after all, it is related to the interests and layout of the entire Chamber of Commerce Alliance. ”

The middle-aged man particularly emphasized the "interests and layout of the Chamber of Commerce Alliance", which was in response to the four words "pursuing profits" that Neil said before.

"I'm afraid it will take another month or two for my lord to return." Neil whispered, "But I don't think there's any need to continue the talks about the Savage Lands. The lord is very interested in that land, and after all, someone broke the rules first. ”

"Oh?" The middle-aged man raised an eyebrow.

Neil didn't speak, just clapped his hands, and soon someone brought in two boxes. (To be continued......)

PS: This is to make up for the arrears, and there are still eight chapters owed.