Beautiful Another World Red Tide

"Hmph, what do they know about eating? Mr. Bliss next door doesn't know how to eat."

Master Rojolet returned to the back kitchen with his pipe in his mouth again, without repeating what happened before him.

"The situation this year is not optimistic. I did the math, and I lost a lot of money. Many regular customers and shop owners stopped coming to eat. Look, there are more "beggars" outside. It can be seen that the current situation is difficult. .”

Old Barack sighed again and said.

"It's not easy for anyone in a disaster year, and the tide of monsters is fierce. This year is really a bad year." Tangtou also sighed helplessly.

"I don't think so. This year's taxes are not reduced, but increased, but the money earned is less. It's not an option to continue like this. It won't last until this time next year." Old Barack shook his head and said. arrive.

"Shopkeeper, have you heard? Open a factory to make money? Why don't you open a factory and let us help you?" Tangtou rubbed his hands again and suggested.

"It's a beautiful thing, but you don't know. The factory earns money, but it also costs money. Let's not talk about the wear and tear of those strange things (magic machines), and they have to hire magicians, and they have to find Mr. Sun Boyang to repair them. The worst thing is What matters is the tax, do you know how high the factory tax is? Don't mention it, it's better to open this restaurant with peace of mind." Old Barack stretched out his hand and counted down.

"But it also makes a lot of money. Look, those who run the factory go in and out of that kind of big shop all day, much more frequently than before." Tangtou asked inexplicably.

"That's black money!" Old Barack waved his hand to stop talking.

"Work, don't chat, it's more important to serve the guests." Old Barack stepped aside, sat at the counter, and began to count accounts again.

"Have you heard? The Ropotia region has become independent."

"No, His Majesty still asked General Oleg to suppress it. I don't think General Oleg will go seriously. You see, it has been a few days since the military order was issued, and General Oleg is still in Wangcheng."

"What do you think he is staying in the king's city to dawdle? It's impossible for the group of rebels in Ropotia to be stronger than the tide of monsters, right?"

"Who knows? Eat vegetables! Eat vegetables!"

A table of guests at the side chatted casually and said that the corner of Old Barack's mouth twitched. The low-level people have heard of General Oleg's disagreement with His Majesty. This general is a good fighter, but it is obvious Yes, just like what is written in the novel, when the general is outside, he will be more arrogant.

"The day before yesterday, the body of Minister Nikita was found. I heard that he was killed. You said that whoever has the courage to assassinate the minister is really scary. The royal city is not peaceful."

"I'm afraid the background is not small. I heard from my cousin in the ministry that it doesn't look like a simple robbery or something. I heard that there are many people involved in this matter. It's hard for us to talk about it."

"I'm afraid it's true. Look, the recent search is so strict. The big knight patrols the streets all day long and can't stay here at night. Let me see..."

Tangtou came quickly and bent over with a smile on his face, and bowed his hands to salute the two.

"I said, Master, look at the sign we hang." Tangtou pointed and said.

"Don't talk about the country..." The two diners looked at the direction of the hall and read slowly.

"What's the matter? I said that your restaurant is also an old restaurant. Why are you so scared?" A diner asked disapprovingly.

"Not long ago, a group of great knights came, and he asked us to put this thing on." Tangtou said with a helpless wry smile.

"Oh, it's clear, stop talking, stop talking, drink, drink." The two diners understood, turned around and started eating and drinking mode without talking, and stopped talking about the current situation.

"Hmph! I think, Yondalim is going to be finished!"

After listening to the conversation of the three, a gentleman dressed luxuriously and with a firm face slapped the table and stood up, speaking angrily.

"My lord! What are you doing?" Old Barack hurriedly stood up to dissuade him. Who knows what kind of madness this renter has gone, why he said such things these days.

"You don't even have to talk about eating a duck in a restaurant. I think the big knights are too idle. They know where they are when General Oleg is fighting against the tide of monsters in the Wangcheng nest every day?" The master said disdainfully.

"I am also a nobleman, but I just look down on them!" The master continued.

"My lord! Please don't say a few words!" Old Barack sighed bitterly.

"I'm talking about the shopkeeper! You only want roasted duck... huh? What's this for?"

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"Old Barack's Roasted Duck Restaurant next door is not easy either."

Weikener walked slowly into the antique shop with a wrapped roast duck, and said to the young woman who was cleaning up the antiques.

"What's the matter? Why do I hear it sound like there's an argument?" the young woman asked as she put down the blanket.

"Who knows, anyway, the year is not going well, and the quarrel is probably about making money." Wei Kener sat on the counter and unwrapped the package, picked up chopsticks from the side and said while eating.

"You're not in a hurry, just like a normal person, our store hasn't made much money these past few months." The young woman said with a smile.

"What's the rush, oh, I'm so anxious that people come to buy antiques? It's unrealistic. It's normal for people to buy antiques in a catastrophic year. As the saying goes: "Gold coins in troubled times, antiques in prosperous times", It’s normal to lose a lot of money this year.” Wei Kena picked up the public newspapers on the side and said while reading.

"I said, you really don't have a plan? Now that the big knights are getting closer and closer to patrol the streets, maybe something will happen? You pottery, don't you pay attention?" The young woman lay on the side of the counter Asked.

"You're right. I really have my own plan. I really can't keep these pots and tiles. In this year, I don't think it's just a disaster year. I'm afraid something will go wrong." Wei Ke Na put down his chopsticks and wiped his mouth.

"That's what I thought. I don't want this shop anymore. I'll sell it in a few days. As for these antiques, hell, I'm going to find Count Alama tomorrow. He is rich and likes to collect these. I I plan to lower the price a little and sell it all to him, and I will stop doing this business in the future." Weikener unfolded the newspaper and said.

"Then what are you going to do? Don't you plan to open a factory? That's a good relationship! You go to open a factory, and I will be your helper. At that time, I will make a fortune and go back to visit my sister in the country. Bring her to live in the city." The young woman said excitedly.

"Sansa, you can't be more mature." Wei Kener smiled and shook his hand to express his disapproval.

"The factory can't be opened, it's too troublesome and inconvenient. There are enough factories in Wangcheng following the style of Mr. Sun Boyang. Anyone who does anything has to follow the trend and open a factory. I don't think about whether my job is suitable. It's over. , without money, I see, I can't make people laugh like this." Wei Kener shook his head and said.

"Then what are you going to do?" Sansa asked suspiciously.

"Look, did you see the newspaper, looking for people who have visited the great rivers, write notes, and describe the scenery of Yongdalim. This is what I plan to do." Wei Kener smiled and said to the newspaper.

"Do this? You mean wandering around?" Sansa asked in surprise.

"Why can't it work? I don't call it wandering around, but I call it recording the great rivers. I can also earn a manuscript fee and gain a group of readers. What a wonderful thing." Wei Kener enjoyed it infinitely.

"Think about it, watching the sun rise from the clouds on the top of a high mountain, watching the magnificence of the sea at the mouth of the Yongjiang River, feeling the sharp temperature in the fiery molten land, watching the snow-covered plains in the cold northern forest, Or you can see the green fields in the plain, and feel the original appearance in the basin, look! Think about it! How fascinating!" Wei Kener stood up and said excitedly.

"That's good, but it's very tiring. How can a boss like you endure this kind of suffering?" Sansa chuckled.

"Why can't I bear it, I'm a big man, I can't bear this bit of suffering?" Wei Kener said dissatisfied.

"Will you go to the famous Eastern Mountain in the future? If you go, take me with you. I can wash and cook, and I can also watch the road and do things. It will be convenient for you to take me along." Sansa suggested with bright eyes. .

"Bring you? Sansa, don't you still have a disease? The disease is not curable, in case you get worse along the way..." Wei Kena scratched the back of his head and said.

"What's the matter, anyway, if I do other heavy work, it will be easy to aggravate it." Sansa said indifferently.

"Why don't you take me with you? How about taking me? Boss, talk!" Sansa patted Wei Kener's shoulder and asked.

"Oh, the thigh can't twist the arm, if you really want to, it's not bad, don't be too tired!" Wei Kener said helplessly.

"Long live!" Sansa jumped up and hugged Weikener, and trotted back to the second floor.

"Oh, by the way, I heard that other writers have to have pen names. What are you going to call them?" Sansa poked her head out of the stairs again and asked.

"What's it called..." Wei Kener lowered his head and thought.

"Call it, Xiaguang Passenger." Weikener raised his head and looked at the Xiaguang in the sky and said.

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42 Your Majesty and Your Highness

Alexander sighed softly. This is the second time he has stepped into the summer palace gate since he came back. Since that quarrel with his father, he has been shrunk in his bedroom and has never been to the summer palace. He really doesn't want to talk to his father again. When we met, the father was really stubborn to the extreme, and he couldn't listen to any persuasion at all.

A few days ago, even if his father asked him to participate in the family banquet, he didn't go, but just avoided it for the reason of inspecting the army's city defense. Both Alexander and His Majesty Ivan knew this, but they didn't expose it.

His Royal Highness Alexander still didn't have any plans to go to the Summer Palace this time, but his arms couldn't hold back his thighs. Under the forceful request of his father, he could only go to the Summer Palace to discuss matters. What can he discuss?What is there to discuss?The father always imagined all this too optimistically, and always felt that as long as he summoned the brave, everything would be fine, but who knows what kind of person the brave is?

In the past few days he has been observing and contacting, coupled with what he knows in the army, Alexander is now very resistant to destroying the bourgeois faction in the form of war. Once a war breaks out, the consequences will be disastrous, and may even directly lead to Yongdalim The destruction of the kingdom, the resources and force controlled by the bourgeois faction have now become a climate, not to say that it can be erased, the senior directors of Wangcheng Magic Academy are all bourgeois, the senior director of Wangcheng Magic Academy is What kind of concept, that is to say, in the entire Yongdalim Kingdom, almost the best magician seedlings are under the control of the bourgeoisie, let alone General Leonid of the Military Department, what are the changes in the kingdom's military? , all have to go through the hands of General Leonid. It can be said that for the bourgeoisie, the royal family and the nobles have no secrets at all.

In this situation, once a war starts, Alexander doesn't know anything else, but he can at least be sure of one thing, the capital of the kingdom will definitely evolve into the earliest and largest battlefield. By then, how many members of the royal family can survive is not what he can say up.

"His Royal Highness Alexander is here!"

The door of the main hall opened slowly, and Alexander looked into the hall. His Majesty Ivan was sitting at the highest point, his eyes shone with majesty, and his expression seemed to have been waiting for him for a long time.There are nobles on both sides of the carpet where the ministers should have been standing. Even the old Count Isiris and the Count Karashov are sitting next to them, sick and dying. His Royal Highness Alexander's heart skipped a beat. , I'm afraid I have to mention something very important.

"Father." Alexander walked forward and bowed to salute His Majesty Ivan.

"You still know? I thought you were busy making carrot cake." (Carrot cake, a kind of food that soldiers in the Yongdalim army like very much, here His Majesty Ivan is mocking Alexander for staying in the barracks all day .)

His Majesty Ivan put his hands together, fumbled for the ring on his finger and said.

"Father, taking over the city defense is a very complicated job. I must do my best to take over the city defense with General Shivanov. This task will take time." Alexander did not refute or get angry, but explained calmly.

"Hmph, that's a good excuse." His Majesty Ivan didn't continue to say anything, but just snorted coldly and lowered his head to think about things.

"You should know about summoning the brave, right?" His Majesty Ivan raised his head and asked after a while.

"Father, my son thinks this is inappropriate." Alexander stretched out his hand to object.

"Now the situation is very good. The demon king's army has retreated to the south. It has been nearly a hundred years since they dared to take a step beyond the thunder pool. They must have been torn apart and have no motivation. The tide of monsters has also been suppressed. When the next spring begins, the tide of monsters will gradually disperse. Our Rapotia region is full of mobs who are making rebellions, and with the bravery of General Oleg, it won't take long to suppress it successfully, according to Elchen, there is no need to summon the brave." His Royal Highness Alexander said.

"Is the summoning of the brave for these things? Alexander, you are speaking as if you are older than me." His Majesty Ivan said disdainfully, and the other nobles couldn't hold back, and accidentally laughed out loud .

"Are you really planning to use force? A civil war?" His Royal Highness Alexander asked a step forward.

"It's not my plan, but their plan." His Majesty Ivan said slowly.

"In order to defend the kingdom, I can only do this."

"There must be a way to solve all this, there is no need to go to the step of resorting to force!" Alexander raised his voice.

"Then tell me how you think it should be solved?" His Majesty Ivan asked with great interest.

"Reduce land tax, lower merchant tax, ease the restrictions on officials to a certain extent, and give them a safe space. The reason why fathers, merchants and officials have reached the current point is that they are completely controlled too much. Yes, when my grandfather was still alive, he tried to ease the relationship, so he made great concessions to the bourgeoisie. What happened? The result was that the bourgeoisie strongly supported his grandfather, and the country was peaceful. It was not without disasters at that time It's not that there hasn't been a wave of monsters in the past year, but my grandfather easily resisted, father, you..."

"Shut up!" His Majesty Ivan's face changed suddenly, and he said furiously.

The faces of the great nobles on both sides were not very good-looking, and they all sullenly did not give His Highness Alexander a good look. It can be seen with the naked eye that they do not agree with His Highness Alexander's thoughts.

"You mean the nobles don't have any credit? Alexander! How did I give birth to a son like you!" His Majesty Ivan continued to curse.

"The merits of the nobles..." Alexander glanced at the nobles around him, full of disdain.

"Yes, you sirs have indeed contributed a lot." His Royal Highness Alexander said calmly after a moment of silence to recover.

"All I know is that aside from customs duties, you Sirs provide [-]% of the kingdom's annual tax revenue, merchants, workshops, factories, and other businesses provide [-]% of tax revenue, farmers and other common people provide [-]%, yes, everyone The jazz deserves credit for his hard work, but he never thought that the tax he paid was almost half of that of the peasants." His Royal Highness Alexander said in a neutral tone.

"Alexander! What do you mean!" His Majesty Ivan was angry again, clapping his hands and saying.

"I don't mean anything, I'm just explaining a fact." His Royal Highness Alexander looked at the furious father and sneered in his heart.

"Your Highness, the territories of the nobles have suffered a lot in recent years, and they are really unable to provide higher taxes. You should know that we usually pay a lot of taxes, and we have to organize territorial troops to maintain the stability of the kingdom. , and various things. When the environment improves in a few years, we nobles will still bear most of the taxes."

Count Alama stroked his chest and saluted the king.

"Yes, our land is clearly owned by nobles, but why do we pay less land tax than peasants (including landlords)? This is indeed a problem." His Royal Highness Alexander said contemplatively.

Twenty-five percent of the nobles, sounds like a lot, but that’s not how the accounts are calculated. If readers think about the amazing wealth and terrible land and human resources owned by the nobles, they will find how little taxes they pay, alas Earl Ma can safely use [-] gold coins to buy furniture, but for a big businessman or official, [-] gold coins are a very important property that should be kept strictly.

In fact, even if this [-]% is preserved by a few serious monarchs, without their toughness and wisdom, the aristocratic territory is now completely a country within a country.

"You go out." His Majesty Ivan said in a deep voice.

His Royal Highness Alexander froze for a moment. He glanced at the nobles for the last time, and finally looked at his father. At this moment, Alexander's heart was hard to describe, but he didn't say anything in the end, just bent down and stroked his chest.

"Retire." Alexander turned around abruptly and walked out of the hall.

The hall fell into silence again, and no nobleman wanted to be this early bird, and they all tried their best to keep silent.

"His Majesty."

In the end, it was Count Karashov who spoke in a weak voice.

"I think His Royal Highness Alexander is still not easy to take on the important task of receiving the brave." Count Karashov looked at His Majesty Ivan with his dim old eyes and said slowly.

"His Royal Highness Alexander shoulders the important task of city defense. He holds an important position and is busy with tasks. I think it is better for His Highness Alexander to take a break so that he does not have to take part in such complicated activities."

The old Earl Isiris also said in an unquestionable tone.

"The two sirs are right." His Majesty Ivan nodded in agreement.

"The three princesses are general-minded, gentle and elegant, intelligent and alert, beautiful in appearance, and noble and elegant in temperament." Earl Alama continued.

"In my opinion, the three princesses are very suitable for receiving the brave. Presumably, with the wisdom of the three princesses, they should quickly establish awareness for the brave and let him understand how severe our situation is." Earl Karashov said again.

"It's really a good idea, I think it's okay." His Majesty Ivan continued to nod in conviction.

"It should be composed of the most honest, kind and virtuous nobles. One is the knight Sandora, and the other is the three princesses. It is best to find a few more, and try not to let the brave man come into contact with those hateful profiteers and corrupt officials." Karashov The count also nodded and continued.

"Your Majesty, I have to say something." The old Earl Isiris said with his hands clasped in front of his stomach.

"His Royal Highness Alexander is a very qualified general."

His Majesty Ivan was taken aback, and he soon realized that there was something in Earl Isiris' words, yes, Alexander is indeed a very qualified general...

"Yeah, this kid is indeed a qualified general now, but..." Before His Majesty Ivan could finish his sentence with a sigh, Earl Isiris interrupted him again.

"The third princess is a very qualified princess." Earl Isiris said lightly.

His Majesty Ivan looked at the other nobles, and the other nobles bowed their heads silently and did not make any remarks.