The Swordsman of Faerûn

Chapter 238 This City Is A Little Messy (Part [-])
"You already knew that the coachman had a problem?" Yasuna asked curiously. She felt that she couldn't understand William more and more. The little man in front of him seemed to be buried with infinite secrets. His strength, His character, his resourcefulness, and his belief Yasuna didn't find that there was a problem with Sandro, but William did. This is a very hurtful problem. Yasuna really wants to know how William is found flaws.

William fiddled with the gadgets in his hands a few times, and sighed slightly: "That's right! From the very beginning, I had my doubts. Although he hid himself very well, it was almost flawless, but as far as a groom is concerned, he The qi and blood in his body are a bit too strong, even the thorny rose on the carriage is a bit inferior, do you think there is a problem with this?"

Yasuna couldn't help being at a loss, she scratched her blue hair, and asked with interest: "You often talk about 'Qi and blood', what exactly is Qi and blood?"

William thought about how to explain the word "qi and blood", then paused and said: "You can take it as vitality. The stronger a life's physical energy is, the greater its vitality and strength will be. The more powerful you are." Of course, William also understands that what he said is not completely absolute, and there are also situations where the blood is strong but the combat power is weak, such as some large herbivores.

"Life vitality?" Yasuna's eyes narrowed, showing a puzzled expression, "Then how do you sense the vitality? Why can't I feel it?"

William smiled and did not explain, but turned his gaze to Misha. The little girl was sitting on the big bed with Miluna and playing with the gemstones collected from "debt collection". All kinds of gemstones of extraordinary value, playing the game of "Flipping Stones" with great interest.There is already half a cat the size of a dirt dog squatting on the side looking at the colorful gems, very curious, stretching out its soft paws from time to time to try to fiddle with it, this little thing is definitely a foodie, completely I forgot the misery of being "abused" by a little girl in the past
On the main street of West Combe, the innkeeper Old Cobbs is leading a group of idlers to make a big purchase, and the bakery and butcher shop are one of their destinations.Bakeries are generally not located in outer cities, although their main customers are merchants and travelers from other places, as well as hotels and taverns that serve them.Except for singles or lazy women, local residents rarely visit the bakery, so the business of the bakery is not very good during this season.

"Dom! Get me two dozen (24) of prime toast and 40 of plain bread ASAP before I get back from Gilkin's butcher's. I'll leave Signeri here Wait, don't stand still, if you delay your work, wait until I come back and kick your ass!" After entering the bakery, old Cobbs grabbed a few strings of Taoer coins and threw them on the baker's chopping board, loudly Greeting.Taoer coins are a kind of copper coins that are only circulated in Waterdeep City and a few friendly cities around it. This brass square currency has a hole in the middle, which can be strung together with ropes or other things.Of course, once it leaves the range of Waterdeep City and its allied cities, this currency is worthless.

Not long ago, old Cobbis exchanged a magic gold coin for fifty taurs (a string of a hundred taurs) from the city tax officer. In fact, he didn't really want to exchange it, because if the time changed , Old Cobbis can even exchange at least a hundred strings of Taoer or even more from underground money dealers.

Here I have to talk about the business customs in the Sword Coast region. In theory, these cities do not charge city entry taxes, of course, there are one or two greedy exceptions, such as Luskan.But when a caravan enters a city, according to the number of people in the caravan, the leader of the caravan must exchange a certain amount of local currency with the city tax official.In fact, this is an extremely cheating regulation, why do you say that?For example, buying a pound of gold in the gold and silver shop in Waterdeep City requires fifty strings of taur, but if you take a pound of gold to the tax officer, you can only exchange it for a maximum of thirty strings of taur, and This exchange is one-way (that is to say, you can only exchange taur with gold at the tax official, but you cannot exchange taur with gold).

Especially when Taoer coins could only be used within the scope of Waterdeep City in the early days, only the official currency exchange at the tax official was legal, and any private exchange was illegal. A pile of scrap copper and rotten iron forced people to consume the last Taoer in this city.As a result, almost half of the wealth of many foreign businessmen who did not know the inside information disappeared virtually as soon as they entered the city.

This is an extremely despicable method of plundering wealth. Naturally, the lords of other cities would not allow it to be exploited, so they began to follow suit and took revenge on Waterdeep City.

In the early days of the development of Waterdeep City, the leaders of the city used the influence of the Temple of the Goddess of Commerce to negotiate with the city lords from all over the world on a recognized currency - the Hong Kong Moon Dollar, which is a currency doped with precious platinum. Mithril is used as the main body, and a flat crescent-shaped currency with special patterns inlaid with amber gold. This currency is attached with a little magic energy (with anti-counterfeiting function), also known as Magic Xun currency, and a Hong Kong dollar is called a currency. Mason.

Because of the unique status of Waterdeep City, almost most of these magic coins flowed to this glorious city.Later, in order to retaliate against Waterdeep City, the lords from all over the world who suffered losses in commercial trade deliberately lowered the value of mana coins. to a little over half a pound.Manason is different from Netheril magic gold coins. Although Manason is made of more expensive materials, it is only a general equivalent with a higher value; while Netheril magic gold coins can not only be used as general equivalents, but also extremely valuable spells media and consumables.

Since Magic Xun is only used in the settlement of transactions in different places, it does not have much impact on the daily life of ordinary people in cities other than Waterdeep City. Only some local merchants and Waterdeep City, where Magic Xun is rampant, are damaged. , this primitive financial war almost destroyed the hundreds of years of development of Waterdeep City. Although the city lords of Waterdeep City finally quelled the disaster, the vitality of the entire Glory City was severely damaged, and most of the accumulated wealth was wiped out.

Nowadays, Waterdeep City and its allied cities (including West Combe) no longer prohibit currency transactions between private individuals, but still retain this function of tax officer, and exchange a certain amount of currency as the city's entry tax.Of course, private coinage, a crime that is almost equivalent to blasphemy, is untouchable. Only the temple of Woking, the goddess of commerce and wealth, is eligible to mint coins.

You ask why William and his group were not charged a city tax (forcibly exchanged for Taur) when they entered the city?Ha, didn't you see that old Cobbs just finished trading with the tax official, otherwise you think why he traded with the tax official when his wealth shrank, instead of going to a coin smuggler with a better exchange rate.

When the idlers under the old Cobbs on the street talked about William's wealth and generosity without restraint, some guys with extremely sensitive senses realized that a rich fat sheep had entered West Combe, so those lurking wolves They began to move after hearing the wind.

It didn't take long for old Cobbis to notice some furtive figures starting to appear around them, and the hotel owner easily recognized the identities of these figures.They have mob spies, believers from various churches, and servants of the nobles. Old Cobis would like to curse: these sons of bitches!The nose is really good!

Although the hotel owner knew what the purpose of these sneaky people was, he knew that he could do nothing, because he was just a small hotel owner and couldn't afford to offend such greedy jackals.

There are nearly [-] people in Xikangbu. Except for a small number of people engaged in handicrafts, commerce and service industries, most of the civilians are ordinary people engaged in farming, logging, fishing and hunting. Under normal circumstances, most of them work at sunrise and rest at sunset. Relying on hard work to support the development of the entire city, and barely maintain their own food and clothing.But there are also a handful of restless individuals who risk death and dismemberment every day, if not every moment, betting their lives for potentially huge rewards.

Exploration, violence, killing, robbery, death, this is not a beautiful world. Compared with years of hard work, there are too many people who want to reach the sky in one step, obtain countless wealth at once, and live a relaxed life like aristocrats And luxury living.The same is true for human beings who worship and believe in gods. They believe that with the help of the power and power of gods, they can make themselves superior to others, and even transcend the sufferings of ordinary people to become omnipotent saints.

There are no noble and desireless people here (on the contrary, if a person fanatically believes in a certain god, it means that he has incalculable ambitions and desires). At the same time, they also harbored hatred and hatred, which was why many great mages were keen to build their own mage towers.

(Since the goddess of magic fell once, the reborn Mystra has been unable to completely control the entire magic network like the first generation of goddess of magic. In the following thousands of years, it is no longer as stable as before. There have been countless turbulences in the magical network of the world, and of course there were a few times that Mystra deliberately did it. And every time at this time, there are always some archmages and other spellcasters who have lost their power and are hated or hated by those who humiliated, bullied, and even slaughtered, only the lucky ones protected by a powerful mage tower survived.)
(End of this chapter)