Even though it's only early summer. But the noon sun has already revealed a bit of viciousness, and the wanton light shines on the river.
This is Enke Port, which is about 30 miles downstream of the imperial capital on the Lancang Grand Canal. It is also an important auxiliary port around the imperial capital.
The Lancang Grand Canal of the empire runs across the east and west of the empire. It took the painstaking efforts of several generations of emperors of the empire and the efforts of generations to open up several major rivers from the east to the west of the Roland Continent, and then open them to the sea, forming the east and west of the empire. aorta. It has become an important channel for blood transfusion to the heart of the empire, the "Emperor Capital".
However, with hundreds of years of peaceful and prosperous life, the prosperity of the imperial capital surpassed that of the mainland. Although the original port of the Imperial City has been expanded for several generations, the capacity is still unable to meet the throughput of the increasingly busy ships. so. In order to alleviate and divide the burden on the port of the imperial capital, such an Enke port was built at a place about 30 miles downstream of the imperial capital decades ago to share the throughput of the imperial capital port.
After decades of development, the tax at the port of God’s Capital is 20% higher than here, so some small and medium-sized caravans are often willing to dock here, although the goods have to be transported from land to the Imperial Capital after arriving here. , But fortunately, the tax here is a little cheaper, and it also eases the cost of land transportation to some extent. And surrounding this Enke port, a small town with tens of thousands of people has been spawned in decades, and there are actually several cargo transport carriage companies near the imperial capital gathered in the town.
At this moment, beside a merchant ship dock in Enke Port, a large ship has just anchored. This is a standard sea ship with a three-masted shape, so that such a ship can be raised to a very fast speed when the wind is strong on the sea. .
The boat was already stable, and two businessmen had already jumped off the boat. He chatted and laughed with the official tax official of the empire who was waiting on the pier for a while. After paying the tax, he took out a gold coin and stuffed it into the tax official's hand under the cover of his sleeve. Saved everything and signed the document directly.
A large group of coolie porters who were waiting for work on the pier had surrounded them, begging loudly for a while, hoping to get a little work.
"Mr. Mr. Hire me! Hire me! My people are too weak! If you have any valuable goods, your goods will never be damaged!"
"Dear sir, hire me! I have twenty people under my command. Each person only needs two copper horns! Two copper horns!"
Amidst the noise, a plank had already been placed on the other side of the ship. Two tall women came down from the boat side by side. One of the two women was wearing light knight armor. Beautiful as a flower, especially a pair of slender and strong long legs, it is even more admirable. The other one was even more surprising. He was actually wearing a set of white mage robes, but he was wearing what should have been a quaint mage robe. She modified it beyond recognition. A robe was changed into a two-part long gown, and a thin leather armor was worn on the body, look at the texture. I don't know what Warcraft land is made of, and there is a bright red cloak behind him. What's more striking is that this female magician has dazzling long silver hair, which shines brightly under the sun. It's just on the face that should have been charming and charming. But his face is indifferent, especially his pair of eyes, which makes people feel cold when they take a look at it!
Such a rare pair of female knight and female magician walked off the boat. It immediately attracted the attention of others, but as the female magician snorted coldly, the people who were close to her couldn't help shivering, and quickly withdrew their gazes, daring not to look again. Joanna, look. It seems like everyone is afraid of you. Ruolin smiled slightly. She looked at the busy scene below. Sighing, she casually summoned one of the ship's men: "Find someone to take a look, and quickly unload the cargo. There are new cargoes to board tonight." Well, so dillydally, if there is no time to load the ship at night, be careful of your legs! "
These two are the first female knight Ruolin under Du Wei, and the violent female magician Joanna. Du Wei sent the replica Captain Jack Sparrow and his newly recruited confidant George Bush to the north to find the Snow Wolf Mercenary Group. The two lived up to expectations, and soon found the Snow Wolf Mercenary Group. On Du Weidi's autographed letter. When the head of the mercenary group, Beinrich, was worried when he received the letter: he had just hunted a batch of goods from the frozen forest, but the smugglers who were willing to take over were so unscrupulous that they lowered the price even more than usual. Even lower by 20%! Beinrich was worrying about this matter, and just received Du Wei's letter. He couldn't help being overjoyed after reading the contents of the letter, and immediately decided to sell all the goods in his hand to Du Wei.
At the same time, Beinrich also contacted a few friends from the small and medium-sized mercenary groups who had a good relationship with him. After discussing with them, they decided that as long as Du Wei's bid can be maintained at this level in the future, then all the prey of the several mercenaries in the future will be They are willing to sell all of them to Du Wei.
The pirate captain returned with a full load. Anyway, there is a port in the north, so he contacted Ruolin and sent three ships to the north to pick up the goods. After receiving the three shipments, Ruolin was also a little anxious. This kind of trafficking in monsters was illegal after all. We have to wait for the little master Du Wei to find a way to get a legal approval. But Du Wei had already left Luo Linping and came to the imperial capital, so Ruolin had no choice but to set off to the imperial capital to find Du Wei to discuss.
After all, this woman is a person who once traveled all over the world with a small adventure group alone, so she naturally has plans in her heart. She thought: With the banner of Du Wei's Luo Lin family, it must not be difficult to obtain such legal approval documents. If this is the case, why not Simply take a ship of goods along the way and go directly to the imperial capital! Waited until the imperial capital. After getting the approval, in the imperial capital, the price of such things as the magic core and fur bones of monsters is higher than other places, and then they can make a lot of money by the way, wouldn't it be a good thing
Therefore, a total of three ships of goods were bought from the north, two of which went south, and one entered the Lancang Grand Canal from the mouth of the East China Sea. Then head west all the way to the imperial capital.
It's just that things like monster fur and fur are illegal products, and unless there are official documents from the empire in hand, these things are expressly prohibited. In order to deceive people, a batch of ordinary fur goods were deliberately trafficked on board. It was the goods of the fur merchant who had a good relationship with Du Wei on Luo Lin's plain. A lot of shipping costs, and after the ship arrived in the imperial capital. After unloading the cargo, when returning to the voyage, it is an empty ship. It also happens to pass through Kote Xingsheng where the Luolin Plain is located. Ruo Lin agreed to lend the boat to the fur owner to deliver the goods when she returned to the voyage empty, and it happened that he also wanted to buy a lot of things in the imperial capital. In this way, a lot of shipping costs are saved. It's just that those joints that were cleared along the way were handled by the people sent by the fur merchant.
Such a boat. On the contrary, a small half of the goods are the fur and bones decomposed from the corpses of monsters in the frozen forest, and there is a small bag of magic cores that Ruo Lin carried with her.
The two beauties got off the boat, and the unloading of the goods next to it had already been done by the men sent by the leather goods owner all the way, but the sailors on the boat were originally from pirates. Where have you been to the imperial capital? Although it is still more than 30 miles away from the imperial capital, the bustling town of Enke Port has already made everyone dizzy. There are hotels not far from the port, and prostitutes dressed in fancy clothes come and go to solicit customers, which makes a group of pirates look good. My heart is so itchy that I wish I could jump down and have a good time.
Ruolin has been leading this group of pirates for a long time, and knows that these guys are vulgar by nature. Although the management is strict at ordinary times. He also knew that there must be Zhang Youchi under his command. Seeing this, he couldn't help laughing and cursing, and ordered the people on board to disembark in batches and go to the port to rest, but it was strictly forbidden to cause trouble.
After hearing this, the pirates all had green eyes, thanked Ruolin a thousand times, and then took the money as much as they wanted. It takes less than a moment to change clothes. They ran halfway, and only those unlucky guys who happened to be on duty could not help cursing as they watched their happy companions leave.
"Huh!" Seeing the happy faces of a group of pirates, Joanna naturally knew that these guys got off the ship and went to the port town to have fun, and probably they would have to do some underground business like drinking and whoring. Thinking of this, she felt annoyed , if she hadn't been with these pirates these days, and had already gotten used to the vulgarity of these people, she might have been blown away by the "Ice Storm" magic. Even so, she couldn't help but feel cold and whispered Angrily said: "A bunch of dirty men!"
However, Ruolin is already used to seeing the rude guys from the mercenary regiment that she met when she traveled all over the world. And mostly so. She looked at Joanna's face and said with a smile: "Miss Joanna, we are here too. After the carriage is ready, let's go to the capital to meet Master Du Wei."
"Bah!" A strange look appeared on Joanna's face. But he said disdainfully: "Why am I going to see that little bastard! Huh, you can go by yourself! I came to the Imperial Capital with you, firstly to help you press the boat, and secondly, I have something to come to the Imperial Capital myself. Well, that's right... You pass a word to that little bastard for me, just say that I have completed what Joanna promised him! From now on, I will owe him nothing! If I meet him again next time, We must let him suffer a lot!"
Speaking of this, Joanna glanced at Ruolin, and couldn't help but said: "Ruolin, we get along these days, although your magic talent is not good, but your martial arts talent is good, it's a pity that you haven't met any good teachers since childhood. I Although I have taught you a little these days, I know that I am not a teacher, so I can't help you much. Why do people like you follow that little bastard Du Wei? Why don't you just follow me, My teacher is a first-class powerhouse in the world, proficient in martial arts and magic, you follow me back, I beg him to accept you as his apprentice... "
Before she could finish speaking, seeing Ruolin looking at her with a smile on her face, she couldn't help sighing: "Okay, I know you're going to refuse again. If that's the case, let's see you again!"
After all, Joanna took a deep look at Ruolin. He whispered: "Although I have a younger sister, I have never had the same temperament as her. Every time I see her, I get angry. It is you who make me like it very much. It must be very good if I have a sister like you."
Hugging Ruolin vigorously, Joanna bid farewell and left. She is a magician and has always been arrogant by nature. He did whatever he wanted, and regardless of the people around him watching, he flew up and turned into a breeze towards the direction of the imperial capital. It disappeared in a moment.
This time, the surrounding crowd immediately got up. The people on Roland's continent are most in awe of magicians. Suddenly a magician flew up into the sky, casting magic and flying away. Can't help yelling. Ruolin frowned and looked at the direction where Joanna left, sighed softly, and raised her head. He shouted to the stunned sailors behind him: "Haven't you seen Joanna magician cast magic! Why are you so dazed! Go to work!"
Afterwards, Ruo Lin spoke a few words with the men sent by the fur trader. The fur dealer in the Luolin Plain seemed to be determined to hug the big tree Du Wei. Among the people in charge sent to deliver the goods this time was his younger brother, a middle-aged man in his forties.
This man's name is Hebang, and he has traveled far and wide for half his life. He is a very shrewd and capable guy. He has done everything in front of Ruolin along the way, and he is extremely considerate. Without waiting for Ruolin's order, he had already found a cheap warehouse in Enke Port (because it is backed by the big port of the imperial capital, and there are many low-cost leased warehouses around the port town). Arranged for someone to unload a ship of goods and transport them into the warehouse, and then found a car dealer without stopping, and negotiated the price.
Ruolin was very grateful to him, but Hebang smiled and said: "When I came here, my brother had already given orders. Miss Ruolin is a knight, so honorable, how can she do these mundane things with her own hands. Naturally, I will do it for you." land."
Ruolin thanked a few words, and Hebang asked again: "All the goods on the ship have been taken down, Miss Ruolin, are you going to enter the Imperial Capital today? It just so happens that I also want to enter the Imperial Capital to purchase from several commercial firms. I have already sent someone to rent Get into the carriage, let’s get on the road.”
"Just in time, I'm going to see our young master too. When the young master gives orders, the goods here will also be shipped out, otherwise we can't stay in the warehouse."
The two were walking on the pier when they suddenly heard the sound of horns coming from the canal!
Ruolin looked back. I saw that on the broad river, the main channel was occupied by a fleet of more than a dozen merchant ships. This mighty fleet loaded with cargo. Apparently different from the scattered merchant ships that kept coming and going on the river, the leading ship of this fleet hung a flag embroidered with green oak leaf branches, occupying the main channel like no one else, and even the surrounding merchant ships recognized the flag Well, they all avoided it from a distance.
On top of this fleet, there is actually a regular imperial army in uniform and armor. Looking at it like that, it is actually a regular imperial guards! This is obviously a merchant ship, and it is not an official flag. How can it be escorted by the imperial guards? Such a wide river has to be occupied by itself. Don't let people go side by side with them, so domineering! " Ruolin frowned.
"Miss Ruolin is coming to the imperial capital for the first time, right?" Hebang glanced at it and said in a low voice, "Don't talk too much! The history of this fleet is not simple!"
"oh?"
Hebang secretly pointed to the oak-leaf flag on the leading ship of the fleet, and said in a low voice: "Did you see it? That is the flag of the Solomon family. This is the merchant ship of the Solomon family. It is an official merchant with the back of the royal family. His Majesty the Emperor is involved in the business, earning a large sum of gold coins for the royal family every year, and helping to take care of a lot of royal property! This kind of background is not comparable to others!"
Hebang looked at it intently for a while, and said: "The waterline of the ship is very deep, it seems that there are a lot of heavy goods on it, and the summer festival will be soon, probably Solomon's family brought offerings to the royal family from various places. .”
But Ruolin shook her head: "It shouldn't be an offering. The summer festival is coming soon. If it was an offering, I'm afraid it should have been prepared a month ago. It's too late to send it now..."
But Hebang laughed and said, "Whatever he gave away, it has nothing to do with us."
Ruolin nodded, but couldn't help but look at the fleet twice more. She is a warrior, and she could tell at a glance that the fleet was far away. Except for the guards, even the sailors were One by one is strong and strong. He is full of energy and looks fierce. Ruolin couldn't help feeling a little weird...
It was already afternoon when I came to the imperial capital in a rented carriage. Naturally, the rented carriage was far less luxurious and comfortable than Luo Lin’s carriage. , There was a salty smell in the carriage. Ruolin is used to going out to sea these days, so it doesn't matter. Hebang couldn't bear it, he was the boss's younger brother. He is also a noble in the family property, and he is usually served by others, and he is bored in the carriage for a long time. Almost didn't spit it out. When they arrived at the east gate of the imperial capital, Ruolin sighed as she saw the mighty people queuing up at the east gate to enter and exit the imperial capital, "We're here, there are just so many people, how long will we have to wait?"
"This is already considered a good place." Hebang covered his nose and smiled wryly, "I heard that the city gate tax of the imperial capital has been raised again... Alas, where we do business, the goods cannot be directly shipped to the port of the imperial capital, but can only be transported to the port of Enke After disembarking, we have to transport it to the imperial capital by horse-drawn carriage. Originally, there was an additional shipping fee, and if the city gate tax is raised again, we will lose another sum... This business is becoming more and more difficult to do."
When entering the imperial capital. It was already evening, and Ruolin really didn't want to ride in a carriage anymore. She insisted that she was a knight, so how could she always ride in a carriage? Don't wait until Earl's Palace. So I took people to buy a few horses at the horse market in the city. After tidying up his appearance, he took two old subordinates with him. They were also accepted by Du Wei at the beginning. Ruolin's former adventure team had two followers, an archer and a bull warrior. The three of them rode three horses, inquiring all the way, and arrived at the Earl's Mansion.
The servants outside the Earl's Mansion saw someone coming. Seeing that the three of Ruolin were actually wearing the armor style of the Luo Lin family's own private army. It's just the appearance, but I've never seen it before, so I can't help but feel strange.
Ruolin strode forward and revealed her identity, she is the direct subordinate of Master Du Wei. The people inside made a notification, and after a while, Made ran out and immediately brought Ruolin and the three of them in.
Du Wei was hiding in the room alone and studying a pile of World of Warcraft bones. After returning from the room, Du Wei stayed behind closed doors and only fiddled with his things in the room.
He got a lot of good things from that old lunatic Eric. At home, I silently wrote out the formula that is said to be able to replace "Mithril", and checked my own inventory, and found that I had gathered more than twenty kinds. It's just that there are seven or eight things left. There is no land in hand. It is estimated that there may not be any stock in Arico. If you want to get it, you have to find another way.
Du Wei didn't worry about anything else, as long as he could get a seed, he could successfully cultivate it by relying on the magical "time passing".
While carefully studying the mystery in the formula, Made had already reported it, and then brought Ruolin in.
Du Wei put away his things, closed the door, and met Ruolin in the reception room outside.
I haven't seen her in a few months, and Ruolin seems to have lost the fearful look she had when she faced her, and she has become more mature, with a tall figure showing a bit of exquisite curves, and her full chest is becoming more and more curved. Round and round, especially those long legs that Du Wei admired unceasingly, more and more showing a youthful and unrestrained breath.
Living at sea made her skin tanned to a sexy tan color, and although her face was slightly thinner, she was more energetic.
"Sit down." Du Wei dragged his chin with one hand, leaned lazily on the chair, looked at Ruolin, and smiled: "You have worked hard. I will remember your credit. Tell me, how did you run all the way?" Did you come to see me in the imperial capital?" Ruo Lin sat on the first chair next to Du Wei, and reported the matter with a calm expression. When it comes to the Snow Wolf Mercenary Group and several other mercenary groups, they are willing to sell the goods to themselves. And when he hoped for long-term cooperation, Du Wei immediately said: "Accept it! Why not accept it, there is no hesitation. We now have ships and people, and the shortage is goods. Captain Beinrich and I experienced it together. A good friend who has lived and died, and someone I respect, and moreover, I have saved more than a hundred of their lives, so he is someone I can trust."
"Yes." Ruolin nodded: "I think so too. Before coming here, I have drafted an agreement. Please read it. If there is no problem. I will send someone to the north this time. There is one more thing... "
After Ruolin said that she brought a ship of goods to the imperial capital this time, Du Wei frowned slightly and thought for a while, then said: "This is a problem, but it should not be difficult to solve. You wait for two days, and I will find a way to get it out of the way." This thing is done."
"There is also the issue of money." Ruolin smiled wryly: "At the beginning you didn't have much money to bring Jack Sparrow to the north. This time you bought so many goods. We don't have cash at all. But Snow Wolf servant The Beinrich ship of the Corps trusts you very much. With his help, we only left a deposit of 10,000 gold coins. We shipped the goods back first. Therefore, I am also asking you for money this time. "
Du Wei immediately called into Made, and asked Ruolin to follow Made to pay the money. After thinking for a while, Du Wei said: "All the goods this time. Pay 10% more to Commander Beinrich. He is my good friend, and I would like to thank him for his help this time. I have to pay back this favor!"
Ruolin immediately nodded and thought for a while, the female knight suddenly said: "Master Du Wei, when I was in Enke Port, I saw the Solomon family's fleet on the canal... But that fleet seems a bit weird..."