Under the forceful means of the head of the Velina Army, the entire Shahai Bay Port temporarily lost their voices.
People seem to have never thought that this woman who is the spokesperson of Dane and controls Shawan Harbor can be so tough.
The four businessmen who were severely fined and penniless were directly driven out of Shawan Port. And was warned that anyone who dares to enter Shawan Harbor in his lifetime will be killed.
These four people are undoubtedly the 'chicken' that Verina used to kill the chicken for the monkey to see, but the 'chicken' is not the only one.
On June 28, the day after the four tax-resisting businessmen were dealt with in public, and also the day after Palan led two brigades of soldiers to the dock, something happened again.
It's tax resistance again, and it's two foreign businessmen who 'don't understand the new law of Shawan Port and are very dissatisfied with it'. Palan, who had already received Verina's order, didn't even need to ask for instructions this time, and did it directly at the dock.
Seeing that the situation was not going well, the two businessmen were not stupid enough to confront Palan's soldiers head-on on the spot. One was directly arrested, and the other took advantage of Palan's inattention and boarded the boat that had not completely docked. The ship turned and ran away.
But how fast can a merchant ship fully loaded with cargo go
Not long after leaving the port, the businessman who chose to run was intercepted by a fast boat belonging to the former port guard.
The temporary tax department at the terminal is very efficient. The arrest on the same day, the calculation of the fines required for resisting taxes on the same day, and the punishment on the same day, everything was carried out under the noses of everyone.
The signal released by this is already very obvious: whoever dares to provoke trouble at this time will die.
Verina and Palan felt that the six merchants who chose to resist the tax must be inseparable from the General Affairs Office and the commercial guilds in Shawan Port. They must have been instructed and relied on. Only people will make such a provocative choice.
And under her thunderbolt method, this unhealthy trend was quickly contained.
This kind of punishment for confiscating all property is not too different from the death penalty for businessmen. And after six people were severely punished in a row, in the next few days, logically, no one would dare to take all their belongings to continue to confront Verina.
But things are so strange.
Every day, almost one or more businessmen, after entering the port, clashed with the soldiers guarding the port because of the new tax bill, and then were fined all their belongings.
Once or twice, Velina could feel that it was a temptation from the General Affairs Office. But every day, she realized that those big businessmen and big chambers of commerce had already made moves.
Soon, the intelligence agencies affiliated to Chapple scattered in Shawan Harbor and some other places sent her news.
The 'unreasonable' tax increase bill of Shawan Port is very pitfall, it is completely unreasonable exploitation of businessmen. Meanwhile, Verina, who is now the acting lord of Sandy Bay Harbor, is a moody, brutal, and brutal woman.
This news spread rapidly at an unusual speed, and in the process of spreading, it was obviously demonized intentionally.
This is obviously the trick of the General Affairs Office. According to Verina, these guys are planning to put pressure on themselves by expanding public opinion. And the worst thing is that if this kind of news really spreads all over the sky, it will definitely affect the commercial trade of Shawan Port.
However, Verina is not without means to deal with this trick.
Mingli, she began to increase the intensity of sending her soldiers to patrol Shawan Port, preaching to the people in the whole port that the new tax law is 'serving the people', and further shaping the bright image of Dane and herself. At the same time, the patrolling soldiers also began to look for and arrest rumorers in the city, which more or less achieved some results.
In secret, it took Chapple several months to finally rely on the former intelligence system of White Wolf Castle, and the intelligence department that was rearranged and rebuilt also began to exert its strength. They made a lot of claims that were beneficial to Shahai Bay Port, and they used rumors to fight rumors. At the same time, they secretly tracked down the rumor spreaders of the other party, and handed them over to Verina to deal with.
Swinging both fists together, the spread and influence of these rumors cannot be said to have been completely eliminated, but at least with effective responses, the General Affairs Office's use of public opinion has been contained to some extent.
But before Verina could catch her breath, the opponent's second set of moves came.
It was a riot in the underworld.
There are a lot of gray practitioners in Shawan Port. From legitimate mercenaries, to gangsters and gangsters who collect protection fees and hang out on the streets, to criminals or robbers who absconded, and even pirates who quit their jobs, there are many in Shawan Port.
It is impossible for any city to completely eradicate these things, and Shawan Port is no exception. They hide among the crowd, it is not easy to be caught, and it is quite troublesome to make trouble.
In the following period of time, the number of security incidents in Shawan Port increased significantly. Among them, theft is the main one, a small amount of burglary, and a small amount of street gang fights, which made the security battalion in a state of desperation for a while.
At this juncture, when such a sudden increase in security incidents occurred, Verina directly linked these incidents with the General Affairs Office. Just like those guys who resisted taxes and spread rumors before, even though it was a practice without evidence, she would rather think that the people from the General Affairs Office were messing with her, and she would not naively think that these things were true. It's just by chance.
Since everyone already felt that it was the other party who made the move, why should Velina not respond
When the third regiment was entangled in these matters, she decisively dispatched 600 people from the first regiment of the garrison regiment stationed in the White Wolf Castle and was replenishing troops, and from Rotten Wolf Town 300 people were transferred from here, and they were urgently transferred to Shawan Port to intensify inspections in the port city.
On July 4th, after these dispatched support arrived, she launched Chapple's intelligence department, caught several gang leaders who had always been related to big businessmen, and dealt a thunderous blow.
On that day, there was a lot of chaos in Shawan Port. The three gangsters who had figured out the situation were directly uprooted and all arrested.
At the same time, Velina also continued to explore the traces of the big businessmen in Shawan Port that were related to them through the clues of these gang organizations that were arrested and removed, and directly clung to them no matter whether there was real evidence or nonsense.
Her idea is: you make me feel bad, and I will not make you feel good.
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Crazy coding, finally finished two chapters before twelve o'clock! (To be continued.)