Chapter 511: Viscounty
The Vyas Business Federation is a magical place, and its magic has been described in detail before, that is, as long as you have money, you can buy anything. For example, hereditary titles and domains can be bought with money.
Of course, if you don't have enough money to buy a title and a title from the ruling government, you can spend a small amount of money and buy a complete set of documents that are exactly the same as the original, even using the same paper and ink, and the same noble certificate from the ruling government's aristocratic administration.
Passports, certificates, seals, and all the corresponding official documents, you name it! Unless someone is willing to go all the way to the House of Lords of the Vyas Commercial Federation and spend a lot of money and time to verify it, no one can be sure whether the person holding these things is really a nobleman or an impostor.
It is precisely because the market of the Vyas Commercial Federation is full of hereditary nobles that only survive in the text, so the other countries of the mainland are very uninterested in the nobles of Vyas, and all the real nobles in the Western continent unanimously believe that the nobles of Vyas are the richest in the world, but the nobles with the lowest value and the lowest gold content.
A true aristocrat could be surrounded by a hundred written nobility, and the group of nobles in Vias is the largest in the world.
As the follower with the strongest earning power around Lin Qi, Arda transferred a little money in the port city of Vias, and it was logical that he spent more than 100,000 gold coins to buy a complete set of the 'Earl of Pink Lily Family'. In other words, the current Arda is His Excellency the Earl of Pink Lily, and is no longer Lord Arda, the Abyssal Half-Blood Demon.
This identity is in Vias, and it is simply a bad street. But in this obviously remote and backward mountain village, when Alda proudly took out his passport and flashed it at the chubby tax officer, the tax collector and the four soldiers immediately fell to their knees on the ground, and respectfully shouted His Excellency the Earl.
Not only the official and his entourage, but also the villagers around the square hurriedly knelt on the ground, almost prostrate on the ground, not daring to make the slightest sound. Only the girl that Alda had flirted with was blushing, and secretly glanced at Alda out of the corner of her eye.
After Alda's order, the fat tax officer immediately came to Lin Qi and introduced the situation here.
In the middle of the continent, between the two powerful empires of Gaul and Caesar, there was a large mountain range that stretched for more than 2,000 miles, the Abenees. In the heart of this mountain range, there is a natural passage that connects the two empires.
Seven hundred miles long, and two hundred miles wide at its widest, there are two small kingdoms, four small principalities, and eight independent marquises. The two empires left the small countries in this valley passage to fend for themselves, acting as a buffer zone between the two empires, and these dozen or so small forces were in full swing one by one without any external pressure, and basically three or five large and small border conflicts broke out between these fourteen large and small forces every month.
Because this canyon passage is so noisy, the Western Continent vividly calls it the 'appendix of the continent'.
The place where Lin Qi and the others are now is a small viscount territory under the Principality of Lanyue, one of the four small principalities. The land area of the Duchy of Lanyue is not large, and one of the subordinate viscounts is even more pitiful, except for a small manor directly under it, only three villages in the deep mountains under the name of this viscount are the territories under his name.
The fat tax officer Aris is the confidant of this Viscount of Churi, who is responsible for the taxes, finances, cashiers and other work of the viscount, in fact, he controls all the financial power of the viscount, because Viscount Churi's annual income is less than 1,000 gold coins, and he can't afford to support too many staff.
Lin Qi couldn't help but crook his mouth, looking at the outfits of the four soldiers behind the fat man Aris, the tattered equipment was not even comparable to the equipment of the militia of the Gallic Empire. It is conceivable how poor this Viscount of Qiuli is, and how embarrassed this Lanyue Principality is.
Is it such a poor principality, but it is still the most powerful force among the four principalities? It even has the power to threaten the borders of the other two small kingdoms? Lin Qi felt that he was listening to myths, and Lin Qi, who was accustomed to seeing elite soldiers and strong generals, could not imagine what kind of life these dozen large and small forces lived in this small appendix valley.
Behind Aris lay a dozen carts of goods that he had levied.
Ten carts of food, these grains are not only the rations of Viscount Churi, but also the rations of a private army of fifty people under his command. In addition, the remaining carts were piled up with some fresh medicinal herbs, some animal skins, animal meat, and village wine. Among them, the highest value is the three low-level demonic beast skins, which are the low-level demonic beasts killed by the hunters in the village with traps and quenched nest bows, and the animal skins of the wind wolf's beasts.
Lin Qi noticed that Aris also had a small money bag around his waist, and when he walked around, the coins in it made a crisp sound, in Lin Qi's experience, it should contain silver coins between eighteen and twenty-five, not too many, not too little, and definitely silver coins, there will be no gold coins, because the impact sound of gold coins and silver coins is very different.
These silver coins should have been a little extra money that Aris had gotten for himself, after all, as a tax collector, he had come to this and a poor country to collect taxes, and if he didn't make some benefits, how could he support his family. ?
After a long silence, Lin Qi said slowly, just as Lord Aris saw. ”
Aris bowed flatteringly to Lin Qi: "Oh, please don't use the word adult, just call me Aris." ”
Nodding, Lin Qi smiled and said, "Then Aris, as you can see, I went out with my entourage to play, and unfortunately ran into bandits, very powerful bandits. Luckily, I had a powerful magician by my side to protect me, and we were able to escape with the power of magic. ”
Gawu coughed lightly, and with a casual gesture of his hand, a fist-sized fireball roared out, burning a stone in the square into lava. Gawu frowned unhappily, and was injured by Yun Jun's backshock, and there was a problem with his mana, and he used too much magic.
Originally, Gawu only wanted to blow up the stone, but the temperature of the fireball he condensed was a little higher, and the stone was burned. But the effect was still the same, Aris weakened his legs, and once again fell to his knees in fright, and the villagers lowered their heads in fear. A powerful magician, in such a small place, a magician is a god-like being.
Looking at Aris coldly, Lin Qi said in a deep voice: "I want to go to Viscount Churi's mansion to live for a while, I and several of my retinue have been injured, and we need a quiet place to recuperate." Of course, we will give a reward that is enough to satisfy Viscount Churi. ”
Aris was trembling with excitement, Alda is a noble earl, and he is just an entourage of Lin Qi, that is to say, Lin Qi's status is even more noble! Such an adult face wants to go to Viscount Churi's territory to recuperate! Maybe Viscount Churi can catch this line and develop and grow through Guò Linqi's relationship!
Aris didn't dare to have too whimsical dreams, he just hoped that Viscount Churi could become an earl, and Aris was very satisfied. There are only four counts in the Duchy of Lanyue, each of whom has a large territory, and their annual income is more than a hundred times that of Viscount Churi. Aris only hopes that Viscount Churi can become an earl so that he can embezzle as much as he wants!
"Your Highness, Viscount Churi will welcome you with the utmost warmth!My God, have you been wounded by the abominable bandits?...... I'm sorry, but maybe you'll have to use this humble cart to get to the Viscount's mansion......" Aris's face flushed, he only had a dozen carts for transporting goods, but there was no decent means of transportation.
Don't talk about him, even Viscount Churi only has a few war horses that are not very good at the table, and the Lord of Viscount Churi only has an ordinary two-wheeled carriage. As a small country nobleman with an annual income of only 1,000 gold coins, can you ask for more?
Lin Qi waved his hand generously: "No need, although I am a little injured, I can still walk!"
Taking a deep breath, Lin Qi stood up steadily with pure muscle strength. He was careful not to let his upper body make too many movements, lest the bones of the broken robe rub against each other and cause more damage. The healing potion he had taken was working, and he could feel the itching of the broken bones, a sign that the bones were healing.
This and trauma were nothing to Lin Qi, his body had a terrifying rejuvenating power, and he could heal his injuries if he was given a little time.
The trouble was the strength of the ten green dragons, they sealed a qiē power in Lin Qi's body, which was the most headache for Lin Qi.
So Lin Qi needed a safe, quiet place to heal, a remote territory of the little nobles, and there was no more ideal choice than this and place. As long as Lin Qi was able to destroy the Qinglong Qi that had imprisoned his spiritual power, Lin Qi decided that this time he must gather a large group of powerful followers to protect himself.
Damn Yunjun, Lin Qi won't just settle it with him.
Glancing at Xiong Wanjin, who was crying on the ground, Lin Qi shouted: "Brother Xiong, if you still want revenge, just follow me!"
Xiong Wanjin was stunned for a moment, and then he got up in one go, wiped the tears on his face vigorously, and gritted his teeth and pestle beside Lin Qi.
Lin Qi glanced at Aris and said softly: "There is Lauris, please lead the way, we are really tired, we just want to have a good rest." ”
Aris hurriedly bowed to Linzi, and then led the way with four soldiers in front. Dozens of people were dispatched from the village to drive the cart and follow Lin Qi and his party slowly out of the mountain, all the way to the territory of Viscount Qiuli. (To be continued)