Chapter 916 Territorial Construction (4)
The Huang Bing was even more shocked by the strength of the Dam Town, or the Black Lotus Leader. From the checkpoint to the gate of the Dam Town, there were ten groups of ten-man fully armored cavalry patrols on the official road of dozens of kilometers. Each cavalry had the strength of the centurion or above of its own alliance. In other words, although there were only a hundred soldiers exposed in the Dam Town, if these hundred people were destroyed, the alliance would have to be dispatched at least thousands of regular troops!
I hope the number of soldiers in the Black Lotus Leader is not large, otherwise all of them are of this kind of strength. Only one thousand people are enough to make the alliance a headache. And the most terrifying thing is that all these soldiers can be centuries, and as long as the Black Lotus Leader is willing, they can easily expand their troops by a hundred times! Think about how much a thousand people expand by a hundred times, the entire Free Alliance does not have so many troops in total! Why do you have so many troops? You must know that in this year, ordinary people can only be chores, and the only ones who really decide the victory or defeat are those powerful people. If the powerful fails, the others will naturally surrender obediently. How do you need these ordinary people to die? I really don’t know what the new Black Lotus Leader is doing, and they actually prepare so many regular soldiers.
When he saw the city wall of Da Da Town, Huang Bing and others who arrived here for the first time were stunned. Huang Bing couldn't help but point to the building outside the city wall and shouted: "What are you going to do?"
"Hehe, I can't tell this. I'm preparing a new city wall." A businessman interrupted.
"New city wall? Damn it! It's at least a thousand meters away from the city wall? How much has it been expanded? Are there so many people living there?" Huang Bing yelled wide-eyed. Just looking at the city wall that has been halfway through construction, you will know that after the construction is completed, this dam town will directly become such a large area of the county town. It's really a joke. That's a county town! A mere town actually wants to become a county town? Not to mention whether there is so much money and grain to build, even if there is not so much population, right?
"Hey, Da Dam Town. Oh, it should be said that the entire Black Lotus Corps city is being expanded, all of which are expanded to the county level. Central cities like Mitsubishi City will be directly expanded to the capital level. As for whether so many people live in it? Haha, it is said that the Black Lotus Corps is purchasing slaves in large quantities, and it is guaranteed that slaves can get civilian rights after working hard for three years. So as long as the Black Lotus Corps has money, it is not a problem to fill their city. You must know that the well-known and unknown slave merchants nearby regard the Black Lotus Corps as the most favorable transaction object." Another businessman smiled proudly, and he obviously made a big profit from it.
Huang Bing's face was gloomy and silent. He knew how many cities there were in the Black Lotus Territory. These cities were all expanded into county cities, and they also had the real population and resources of the county city. Such a huge Black Lotus Territory, coupled with the Black Lotus Territory's awesome combat power, I'm afraid that the most powerful gang in the Lanshan Basin could not do anything, let alone the Free Alliance he was in. The only thing he could do was to destroy the Black Lotus Territory before it even rose! It seems that after finding out the information, he had to suggest to the higher authorities that Hezhong Lianheng had other forces to destroy the Black Lotus Territory.
With this feeling, Huang Bing followed the caravan to verify the tax at the city gate. Then he received a tax bill with a seal. It is said that with this thing, there is no need to pay taxes for selling goods in the entire Black Lotus Corridor, and there is no need to go abroad tax for purchasing materials. Because the tax has been paid by the seller and has nothing to do with the buyer. After hearing this news, Huang Bing couldn't help but raise his eyebrows. No wonder countless merchants flocked into the Black Lotus Corridor, and there was such tax preferential treatment.
If this is not solved, the merchant will regard the Black Lotus Corner as the best trading place. As long as the merchant always cares about the Black Lotus Corner, the Black Lotus Corner’s materials and wealth will never be lacking. It’s a pity that ordinary people can learn this kind of thing. Think about it, there is no difference between the Free Alliance and the City-Confederate Alliance. They are formed by small forces in groups to keep warm. In this case, where can the border cities be able to travel freely by paying a tax?
These loose alliances are simply impossible to do such things. One is that no one can guarantee that the money received can be distributed fairly to all allies. The other is that the members of the alliance with rich resources and convenient transportation are absolutely unwilling to let other poor allies divide their interests. So in these alliances, the caravans either directly look for a path that will not be intercepted and directly send the goods to the destination, or obediently pay the taxes one by one, raising the goods to prices that are almost impossible to sell.
Perhaps only unified forces can achieve the Black Lotus Leader like this? No, Huang Bing shook his head with a wry smile. He has been to those gang-only territory to inquire about information. He didn't know that the ground of these gangs is sometimes worse than loose alliances. Some cities in a state of fighting for power and profit have to pay taxes across the street, as if they want to cut off business travel. People who don't know the truth think that they are in a situation where the power is collapsed and divided, but they didn't expect that only a few incense masters and the like are fighting for the position of the rudder masters. And the most difficult thing is that you enter the power from the city controlled by Party A, but you are inexplicably troubled by Party B, just because Party B's boss and Party A's boss have competition and revenge, and the businessman is completely inexplicably suffering.
It seems that only with great unification, the entire force has strict rules and absolute suppression and control, can the Black Lotus Colonel be like this? At least it can suppress people from other cities to recognize the tax payment bills issued by Da Da Town?
Huang Bing is too lazy to care whether his goods can be taken or not, and how much he will lose. His attention is all focused on Daba Town. He has been here before, just a standard town, but what he sees now makes him stunned.
The area of Daba Town has not changed. After all, the old city walls are still there, but the buildings have been cleaned up, and the spacious streets are open from beginning to end. Although the city looks a bit messy, Huang Bing and others who are aware of the goods have identified that they are planning to change the current Daba Town into the inner city of Daba Town in the future.
These changes are all the right ones, Huang Bing didn't care. What he cared about was that dozens of carriages gathered outside the square of the city lord's mansion. A group of people dressed in coolies were chatting while staring at the ground that was specially vacated by the carriages and the crowd. This discovery made him raise his eyebrows and subconsciously lead the caravan to walk there.
While moving forward, I suddenly heard those coolies shouting: "The goods are coming!" Some people standing by the carriage, who looked like accounting, stretched their necks and shouted: "Whose goods are first? Is it mine?" (To be continued, please search for astronomy, novels are better and faster!
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Chapter completed!