Half an hour later, the large freight magic locomotive slowly stopped outside the west gate of Lalu City.
Khafre jumped out of the passenger seat and trotted all the way to the several Lalu City defense soldiers who were guarding the city gate. He greeted the leading team leader with a smile on his face.
"Hey, Captain Venn, good afternoon. It's really hard to be here guarding the city gate on such a hot day."
As he spoke, he handed over his hand without leaving any trace, and held it with Captain Wayne's hand that stretched out very naturally. The three gold coins in his hand were easily transferred to Captain Wayne's hand.
Captain Wayne gently rubbed the three gold coins in his hand, and a friendly smile immediately appeared on his originally serious face.
"Haha, this is a job assigned by the Lord of the City. Who dares to neglect it?" Captain Wayne said and waved his hand to the two men behind him. "Go and check what's in the car. Move quickly, do you understand?"
The two men didn't understand what he meant. They climbed onto the back of the large freight magic locomotive, pretended to check it twice, and quickly jumped off again.
"Report to the captain, nothing suspicious was found above."
"Well, that's good." Captain Wayne nodded, turned to Khafre and said, "Since everything is normal, let's go in after paying the city gate tax."
Khafre thanked him profusely, took out a small money bag from his arms, and handed it to Captain Wayne.
Captain Wayne took it casually, without looking at it, and threw it directly to the city lord's palace clerk who was responsible for collecting the city gate tax. A wave of hand. He signaled to Khafre that they could go in.
Khafre thanked him profusely. Just as he was about to turn around and return to the large freight magic locomotive, he turned around and suddenly discovered that there were many flowers hanging on the city gate. The area around the city gate was obviously much cleaner than the previous times he came. It had obviously been cleaned up. .
Even the beggars and homeless people who could be seen living near the city gate every time I came here several times before, I haven't seen any of them now.
This situation immediately made Khafre a little strange. After thinking about it, he asked Captain Wayne in a low voice: "Captain Wayne. Look at this, is there any big shot coming?"
Captain Wayne looked around and responded in a low voice: "Someone is coming to inspect the Provincial Governor's Mansion in the past two days, so I have to deal with it. But this has nothing to do with a small businessman like you. Just remember to be honest and don't make trouble. ”
"Of course, of course." Khafre nodded repeatedly, pondered for a moment, and with a touch of his hand, two more gold coins came out of his hand, and he handed them to Captain Venn. "Captain Wayne. If anything happens these days, please take care of me."
Captain Wayne glanced at the glimmer of gold coins in his hand. Frowning slightly, he shook his head slightly: "I'm not good at this, so I can't help you with anything."
"No, no, no, you misunderstood. I just hope that if there is any news, you can inform me in advance. This is a small thing, just treat the brothers to a drink of tea." Khafre still insisted on handing over his hand.
Captain Wayne hesitated for a moment, then accepted the gold coin without any courtesy.
"Okay, go in, I'll take a look at anything."
Khafre then smiled and thanked him profusely, and returned to the large freight magic locomotive.
"Hmph, just now you were saying that the Kandera Empire is not as good as our Lampali Kingdom. Look, there is a ready-made example now. All cities in our Lampali Kingdom have canceled city gate taxes long ago, and the Kandela Empire is still collecting them." As soon as the large freight magic locomotive passed the city gate, Nasus, who was in charge of driving it, complained.
"There's nothing to complain about. You have to abide by the rules wherever you go." Khafre shook his head. Although he rejected Nasus's complaint, he was actually a little dissatisfied in his heart.
The Lampali Kingdom has abolished the system of collecting city gate taxes for all cities in the kingdom three years ago, but the Kandla Empire, one of the two major empires, continues to collect them.
And although the city gate tax of the Candela Empire varies from place to place, it is still not low.
He brought a cart of goods like this, and every time he entered a city, he had to pay a minimum city gate tax of five gold coins.
In order to avoid paying extra city gate taxes along the way, he and Nasus never entered any city except for necessary supplies.
However, even so, he still paid more than twenty gold coins in city gate tax along the way.
In addition to the 30 gold coins tax paid to enter the Candela Empire, he had already paid more than 50 gold coins in taxes before this cart of goods was sold.
If he couldn't sell this cart of goods, he would suffer heavy losses on this trip.
However, his previous experiences made him not too worried about this. At least the people in Lalu City welcomed the goods he shipped this time, and he had no worries about sales.
"Turn left ahead." Khafre reminded.
The large freight magic locomotive made a difficult turn on the narrow alley in Lalu City and entered a street that looked very busy with shops on both sides.
"Okay, just stop here, you can't get in from the front." Khafre explained again.
Nasus stopped the large freight magic locomotive, and Khafre jumped out of the car and quickly walked into a shop on the left side of Lalu City's commercial street.
After a while, Khafre led several strong men and a middle-aged man out of the shop.
Without saying a word, the strong men climbed directly onto the back compartment of the magic locomotive and began to move the goods downwards. Their movements seemed very skillful. It was obviously not the first time they had done this kind of thing.
When Nasus saw the middle-aged man next to Khafre in the car, he immediately jumped out of the car, rushed to him, and shouted: "Uncle!"
This middle-aged man is Khafre's eldest brother, Nasus' uncle Prado.
More than twenty years ago, due to the great famine in the Lampali Kingdom, Prado, who was almost 20 years old at the time, begged for food and left the Lampali Kingdom in order not to burden his family. Finally, by chance, he ended up in Lalu City in the Kandra Empire. settled down and after more than ten years of hard work. Now there is a small shop here. Life was pretty good.
As early as six years ago. After his life stabilized, Prado reestablished contact with his family members who were still in the Lampali Kingdom through letters, and even returned to the Lampali Kingdom to meet with his family.
After that, the two parties communicated frequently through letters, but because of the distance, they rarely met in person.
It wasn't until the new agreement signed between the Lampali Kingdom and the Kandra Empire that the Kandra Empire opened its domestic market to the Lampali Kingdom. Khafre had an idea and thought of transporting Lampali Kingdom's goods to the Kandra Empire for sale. It was like having a real connection again.
"Yes. Good boy. When I went back last time, you were not even close to my chest. I didn't expect that in just a few years, you are already taller than me. And you are so strong, not bad..." Looking at Nasus Prado nodded approvingly.
"Hey, uncle, it's been six years. I'm almost eighteen now. Of course I'm taller." Nasus touched his head. Somewhat embarrassed. "Besides, I eat meat every day now, so I will certainly grow faster."
"Eat meat every day?" Prado was a little surprised. "Do you have meat to eat every day?"
"Yeah." Nasus glanced and curled his lips. "I haven't eaten any meat for two days in a row. My mouth is almost pale."
Prado looked at Nasus with a strange expression, then turned to look at Khafre.
"Is life at home really getting so good now?"
Khafre nodded with a smile: "Well, life in our Lampali Kingdom is completely different now. Brother, if you have time, you should go back and see more. I guarantee that you will be surprised."
"Yes, uncle, the Lampali Kingdom now is completely different from what it was six years ago. Comparing this, I feel that the Candela Empire is different in many places..."
"Ahem..." Khafre suddenly coughed heavily, interrupting Nasus. "Brother, what I just said is serious. You should go back and see more when you have time. Your parents are old now and don't know how many years they can live. They will be very happy if you can go back and see them more. Besides, now With this magic motorcycle, it doesn’t take much time to go back, it’s very convenient.”
"That's right, it only took us two days to get here from the Lampali Kingdom this time. It's not as exaggerated as the last time you went back, when it took nearly a month along the way." Nasus interrupted again.
"This..." Prado blinked, looking a little confused, as if he couldn't accept what Khafre and Nasus said for a while.
But after thinking for a while, he was finally awakened by the family affection in his heart and nodded heavily.
"Okay, in this case, after selling this batch of goods, I will go back with you to see my parents. Anyway, Khafre, you always said that there are many business opportunities in the Lampali Kingdom. I will go back and take a look. , it would be better if we could see any opportunities by the way.”
Seeing Prado agree, Khafre and Nasus immediately showed excited smiles.
Prado has been away from home for more than 20 years, and he only went back six years ago. His old parents at home miss him very much.
If he could go back, the old people would be very happy.
"Haha, brother, let's work harder to sell out this batch of goods quickly and go home early!" Khafre said happily.
"It also depends on what you are transporting this time. If the goods are not good, it will not be easy to sell." Prado shook his head.
Khafre smiled confidently: "Don't worry, every time I deliver some good stuff, I guarantee it will be sold quickly. Just look at it if you don't believe it."
After speaking, Khafre pulled Prado to the back compartment of the magic locomotive, took a package of goods from a worker responsible for transportation, and tore it open with both hands to reveal the goods inside.
Prado glanced over and immediately gasped.
"By God! Khafre, where did you get the money to buy so many good products like this?"
Khafre chuckled: "Brother, if I told you that all these goods cost me less than a thousand gold coins, would you believe it?"
Prado glanced at him in surprise, his expression full of disbelief. (To be continued...)