Chapter 718 707. Business Group
Mayor Marko is used to being strong in the small town.
He has always said what he says in the town hall, and few people dare to be so rude to him.
Especially the commander of the Cavalry Battalion of the Landon Legion, who had never had any conflicts with Mayor Marko since he came to Dodan Town, made Mayor Marko feel that the commanders of the Cavalry Battalion in the Legion were all so easy-going, Usually in Dodan Town, they basically patrol the border frequently, attacking the indigenous tribes along the border.
As a local dignitary who has already taken root in Dodan Town and is also the town's highest consul, Mayor Marko didn't pay attention to the new cavalry battalion commander of the Luthor Legion from the very beginning. I positively think that Suldak will keep a low profile in front of the local government like the commander of the Langdon Legion Cavalry Battalion. After all, the mayor of Marko will allocate financial funds to the cavalry battalion from the town to ensure the daily expenses of the cavalry regiment. .
Perhaps because of this, the commander of the Cavalry Battalion of the Langdon Legion always seemed to have no confidence in front of Mayor Marko, and even handed over the military power of the city defense guard to the town to manage.
Now Suldak suddenly stood up and asked Mayor Marko for the military power of the city defense guard. According to normal procedures, this is understandable. Even if the lawsuit is brought to the council of Wilkes City, no one will blame Sur Dark.
On the contrary, Mayor Marko will inevitably be asked by the council to report on his duties in Wilkes City.
It will take more than half a month to go back and forth from Dodan Town to Wilkes City, if the horseback riding goes well, and Mayor Marko knows that the senator behind him will not stand down because of such an unreasonable matter. If you come out to speak for him, maybe people will think that he is ignorant and extend his hand to the army.
Although mastering the city defense team can usually reap a lot of benefits, and it is very convenient for the slave catchers who secretly support it to enter and exit the town, but now he has no reason to hold the city defense team in his hands.
"What are you doing standing at the door, making two cups of tea slowly!" Mayor Marko, who had nowhere to vent his anger, yelled at Mrs. Luna who was holding a tea tray and standing at the door.
Ms. Luna quickly lowered her head and placed two cups of black tea on the tea table in the rest area.
Mayor Marko calmed down a little at this time. Although he was destined to hand over the military power of the city defense brigade, he didn't want to be acquired by Suldak so easily.
Thinking of this, the anger and depression in Mayor Marko's heart eased a lot. He motioned for Suldak to sit down, and said calmly:
"I'll go to the city defense team later to check the supplies and check the personnel list of the city defense team. From now on, the city defense team will bother Commander Suldak to take care of the management. They are usually responsible for guarding the northern city wall of Dodan Town. , this is the north gate of our occupied area of the Bailin Plane, and the north city wall of Dodan Town that can be defended is crucial to the situation of the Bailin Plane."
"The city defense team in Duodan Town has always been under the jurisdiction of the town. The main reason is that you don't want to separate finance from government affairs. Since you want to get back the military power of the city defense team, that would be great, but the finances in the town have always been reluctant. Maintenance, now that we can get rid of such a big burden of the city defense team, that would be great."
Of course, the mayor of Marco is unwilling to pay an extra penny for the city defense brigade. Suldak will distribute some supplies from the garrison to the city defense brigade. Now that I think about it, this is probably the commander of the Langdon Legion. The main reason why officials are unwilling to take over the city defense brigade.
Suldak didn't want to hand over the management of the north gate of Dodan Town to others, so he said:
"Then I will go back to the barracks and wait for your news. If you are ready, you can send someone to the barracks to find me at any time."
After finishing speaking, he turned and left the mayor's office without drinking the steaming cup of black tea.
Mayor Marko stood in front of the window, watching Suldak strode out of the town hall, rode on Gu Bolai horse, and walked slowly out of the long street. He fell **** the oak floor.
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Yesterday, when Suldak ran to the town square, he stopped Mayor Marko from executing the execution with a very strong posture, which greatly reduced his prestige in front of the town residents.
Today he came to the town hall again and directly asked for the military power of the city defense brigade. He didn't care how ugly Mayor Marko looked at that time. This scene happened to be seen by several town officials who passed by the mayor's office.
Before noon, the news that such a powerful garrison commander came to the town quickly spread in the town hall.
The mayor of Marco was unwilling to hand over the power, so he went directly to the city defense brigade to set up a back-up. Nowadays, several important positions in the city defense brigade are almost all of Mayor Marco's cronies. The material warehouse of the city defense brigade is like a Lord Mayor Marko’s private warehouse, usually for the convenience of access, the slave traders under Mayor Marko’s command snatched supplies from the forest and stored them in this warehouse.
These include some shady adventure group armors and weapons, and of course more monster materials. Except for the native slaves of the plane, there are almost everything in the warehouse, most of which are valuable things. Mayor Marko has accumulated wealth in Dodan Town in recent years.
At this time, it is necessary to quickly count it out. Mayor Marko does not want to give Suldak the property he has saved for so many years.
The captain of the city defense brigade, Hans, was promoted by the mayor Marko himself. Hans's sister is the third wife married by the mayor Marko. Among the many wives and brothers of the mayor Marko, Hans is regarded as The most outstanding one, at least as a knight, and has some military talent, was pushed by Mayor Marko to the position of captain of the city defense brigade.
Captain Hans didn't expect that Commander Suldak, who seemed to have no temper, would take back the military power of the city defense brigade without saying a word.
Mayor Marko was sitting in the office of the city defense brigade, and the brigade captain Hans stood beside him with his hands down.
Mayor Marco said: "Let your clerk who is responsible for registering the accounts of the warehouse materials make a new account. Before handing over the city defense team, we must transfer these materials out."
"Aside from these, what else should we do?" Captain Hans asked cautiously.
The mayor of Marko rubbed his eyebrows with his hands, turned his head and glanced at the warehouse under the city wall, and said: "I arranged a team of four-wheeled trucks, found some trustworthy people, and used these few nights to transport these things out overnight .”
"All the supplies?" Captain Hans asked.
Mayor Marco said as a matter of course: "Of course it is all, just don't forget to balance the accounts."
Thinking that the large amount of war reserves in the warehouse would be transported away by Mayor Marko, Captain Hans panicked, walked up to Mayor Marko, and asked in a low voice: "Then what should I do from now on? "
Mayor Marko hates Hans the most, that is, it is difficult to keep calm when things happen, he said in a deep voice:
"What else can I do? Of course, be a man with your tail clamped tightly. Don't let people find an excuse to put you out of the city defense team. As long as you can control the third leg, don't make any major mistakes in the management of the city defense team. I can keep you."
Captain Hans said in a deep voice, "Come in..."
The guard stood at the door and reported: "The tax collector wants to see the mayor."
"Let him in..."
Mayor Marco sat behind the desk and ordered calmly.
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Suldak is not in a hurry to take back the management rights of the city defense brigade on this day.
After leaving the town hall, he was not in a hurry to find Selena. They were going to purchase daily necessities in the small town, so they shouldn't be able to finish so many things so quickly.
Suldak wants to look up information about the Invercargill Warcraft Forest and the Beast Tide.
There is no library in the town, but he found a magical grocery store. The grocery store is not very big, but through the only glass window, you can see the bookshelves inside. There are rows of quaint books on it. It cannot be some precious magic book.
Suldak just wanted to learn about some high-level monsters hidden in the depths of the Invercargill monster forest through some local travel notes and gossip.
Walking into the grocery store, there is an old man copying the pattern of the magic scroll sitting on the counter at the entrance of the store. In the corner of the grocery store near the wall and the window, there are less than half a shelf of books. In addition, this There are also some magic scrolls, metal rune boards, magic ink and magic engraving pens in the bookstore.
Suldak walked into the grocery store, but the owner didn't say hello to him, allowing him to walk around in the store casually.
Standing next to the bookshelf, Suldak found a biography of the ranger, and flipped through a few pages. Most of the pages were about the heads of high-level monsters and beautiful girls that the ranger had captured during his travels around the world. heart.
It was hard to find the chapter about the Invercargill Forest of Warcraft. Unfortunately, the ranger didn’t seem to spend a lot of time documenting the Forest of Warcraft. He just said that he chased a ghost leopard into the depths of the forest, and found it in the depths of the forest. Hippogryph lair.
He wanted to steal a Hippogryph egg, but was unfortunately discovered by the alert Hippogryph, and escaped from the Invercargill Forest of Warcraft under the pursuit of the Hippogryph.
Suldak didn't think that there would be such a third-order flying monster in the Invercargill Forest of Monsters, but there was no trace of Hippogryph in the Bena Province. This rare monster is likely to be found in the Forest of Monsters in Invercargill The edge is also gone.
When it was almost noon, Suldak ran to the rented house and settled for lunch in a small restaurant on the street with Selena, Signa and Nika.
Selena said that she told Suldak during the meal: The owner of the tailor shop should know that the commander of the garrison rented his small building. In the morning, he personally ran to the small building with two exquisite vases. Selena proposed to halve the rent, but Selena refused.
Suldak rubbed his nose, and said to Selina self-deprecatingly: "Why do you think he thinks I'm the kind of person who can't pay the rent? No matter what, I'm at least a noble lord with a private army..."
Selina hid her mouth and said with a smile: "It's not that you noble lords are used to exploiting the townspeople, making him feel that if you don't come over and take the initiative to give some gifts, you 'big shots' will make trouble for them!"
This restaurant is very small, even at noon there are not many customers dining, so Selina dared to mock Suldak so brazenly.
She was a maid at the Hoyle Manor when she was a girl, and she knew a lot of dirty things among the nobles.
There were bursts of horse bells outside the window, and when four-wheeled carriages passed by, they made the sound of "squeak, creak". This harsh sound.
Suldak couldn't help but look out the window. The four-wheeled carriages on the street drove by one after another, almost all of them were fully loaded with goods.
He remembered that these carriages were parked at the trading house in the morning, but he didn't expect that they were already full of goods at this time, and they were preparing to leave Dodan Town.
Recently, the adventure group was unable to enter the Invercargill Forest of Warcraft to hunt, and the trade group could still gather so many supplies.
After waiting for a while, the convoys passed by one after another.
No need to guess, probably in order to avoid unnecessary losses, the commercial bank is transferring materials.
Of course, it is not known whether it was affected by the "robber group's looting of the slave group incident".
But before the convoy left Suldak's sight, a group of guards wearing hard leather armor hurriedly chased after them, holding fine spears in their hands, and quickly surrounded the convoy. live.
The convoy of the business group was forced to stop, and the coachmen didn't panic. They just parked the four-wheeled carriage slowly on the side of the street to be inspected by the guards.
An armed group wearing leather armor suits, alloy bows and long swords, led by two knights, rushed here quickly. The two sides confronted each other almost without saying a word. Although the atmosphere was a little tense, it could be seen that Neither side was ready to do it.
Suldak and Selina sat by the window of the small restaurant, just sitting there to watch the excitement.
Some town residents who passed by on the street also stopped and stood on the side of the street to watch curiously.
A series of horseshoes sounded in the distance, and Captain Hans of the City Defense Brigade arrived at the scene on a Gu Bolai horse. Before he got off the horse, a person in charge in gorgeous clothes came out of the team .
He frowned, looking up at Captain Hans...
Through the glass window, there is still a not-so-short distance to the other side. What they are talking about, Suldak can't hear at all.
The caravan leader and Captain Hans didn't talk for long, and a group of city guards began to search these four-wheeled trucks. Some supplies on the trucks were also unloaded from the compartments, and some unpacking inspections were done.
The city guards made the street a mess, and they left the street under the leadership of Captain Hans.
(end of this chapter)