Our family is in decline

"Look, then you will say that the store staff deliberately treated customers badly and failed to maintain the firearms. As a result, the goods in your store were unable to be sold and many of them were rusted and scrapped."

"Don't worry, I will give feedback to the college. Anyway, many students have been expelled, including him."

The store manager agreed wholeheartedly, and he was a little excited at this time. He usually started little by little. Now that the business is completed, although it requires a lot of management, the profit is enough to cover his salary for a year.

Lance and the store manager decided a person's future by talking casually.

As a grown man like him, he should take responsibility for his actions~

"Expelling students? Did something happen?"

After the transaction, Lance did not leave in a hurry, but asked the store manager about it.

As expected, the store manager couldn't help but complain when he heard this.

"I heard that the college's funding was cut, but I don't know the specific reason. Anyway, the fact is that the scale of the factory has been reduced, many students have been dismissed, and the remaining students, just like the one just now, need to take on work.

This kid must have good grades to get such an easy job. More students are entering the workshops, because some craftsmen have also been laid off. Fortunately, our firearms side is okay, mainly the people who make cannons. "

Lance understood something when he heard this. No wonder this guy looks down on people so much. It turns out that he is a college student. When the time comes, whether he joins the army or has a good job with his academic qualifications, he will naturally be at a higher level than ordinary people mentally. It seems that he has entered the upper circle.

But now he was forced to interrupt his studies and come here to look after the store. No wonder he acted like someone owed him something.

However, Lance saw deeper information. The battle must have been concealed, at least ordinary people did not know that they were defeated.

However, the artillery regiment, which was originally used as a test and used the best equipment, performed poorly in actual combat. Then the feedback to the top officials of the Eastern Province must be to cut related funds.

Factional struggles exist at all times and everywhere, and there is only so much military expenditure. The increase in funding for your emerging firearms and artillery arms over the years must have touched some other traditional interest groups.

Now the unlucky thing is to go up and bite and take back the piece of cake.

It can be said that the artillery and the academy will definitely be attacked. The reduction in funding will reflect the shrinkage of related industries that were originally flourishing in a short period of time.

Those students and craftsmen are just dust in the political game played by the big shots.

But he became interested in these floating dust.

Lance asked the store manager about the situation of the craftsmen on the grounds that he needed help repairing the weapons.

It's a pity that he didn't know either. He usually had little contact with those craftsmen, but he still left a location for Lance.

It's not a place like a craftsmen's association, but a tavern that craftsmen love to go to.

【Stove Tavern】

Founded by a blacksmith who likes to drink, it was originally just a gathering of friends, but it slowly developed into a gathering place for craftsmen to relax.

After confirming the secret code with the store manager, Lance left here, but he did not go directly to the tavern to inquire.

Now is not the time, it will only become lively at night so that he can find useful clues.

Now he is going to a very special place in Barton's mouth - [Rat Street]

Before the second expansion of Totnes, this middle city was actually the outer city of that year. The environment at that time was naturally not what it is now.

Prosperous business activities will inevitably give rise to dark-side sales channels, which are commonly known as the black market.

Because of its special nature, those people rarely see the light, so it is called the sewer, and most of the people who come in and out are called rat people.

Until the subsequent expansion and urban reform, the officials did not attack. On the contrary, they made certain reservations. One can imagine who is standing behind it.

Anyway, it has gradually developed into a quite special place in Zhongcheng District.

A semi-public black market without a vigilante but very stable.

Barton said that one of the five legends of Totnes is the "Rat Street Treasure", because some good things often leak out, extraordinary items are not uncommon, and some people reach the sky in one step.

This legendary place certainly attracts many people who are curious or have unrealistic fantasies.

Lance is the same today and wants to visit Duobao Street in this Western fantasy novel.

Entering it, the buildings were basically the same as those around them, except for a rat sign hanging on the street to indicate that he had entered the range.

There were more people coming and going on the street than in the business district. Not only were locals, but Lance also found many obvious foreigners among them. There were great differences in clothing and skin color.

I am afraid that this scene of blending can only be seen here in the entire continent.

There are various street stalls on both sides of the street. A piece of red cloth is spread on the ground. The shopkeeper squats aside and bids prices at the passers-by.

If you get closer casually, you will see that the objects displayed on the red cloth are more and more horrifying, as well as some antiques with unknown meanings.

"You see, this is... it's quite exquisite and beautiful. He can't make such antiques by forging. He can make this shape, but he can't make this rust."

"I won't ask you for more." The uncle gestured to the guest and said with a serious face: "Eighty thousand!"

The stall owner was picking up something for a customer and starting to make up a story, while on the other side there was a customer pretending to be a customer who was also chiming in.

"This is a good thing! If it can be resold for less than 100,000 yuan, it's a pity that I don't have enough money. Brothers, why don't we get it together and go to the auction house..."

With the cooperation of the boss and the trustee, people who are not clear-minded may really be fooled.

But you have to know that Lance is a student of archaeology. He just glanced at it and roughly understood that the thing was from last week at most, and was not as old as the red cloth.

Not to mention that hearing those words gave me goosebumps from the top of my head to my heels, and I was so embarrassed that I couldn’t even stand up.

A lot of fake and shoddy products are used to deceive tourists and ordinary people who dream of getting rich.

I was still a little bit novel about Rat Street, but he was wiped out in an instant.

Isn't this just a fake antique scam from a street stall?

What about the mysterious black market in another world that was promised?

Return my fantasy of another world~

Lance didn't say anything and left silently. Smart people will not be fooled. Even if a fool points out the problem, he will only think that he has taken a fancy to him, which will cause trouble.

Not interested in these, I turned to look at the shops on both sides of the street and found that the most popular ones here were various pawn shops.

These shops with shops cannot run around like those street stalls, so they are much more restrained, and most of the items on the shelves and cupboards are genuine.