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Smuggling and gang-on-gang violence are issues that the business community can never avoid.

Compared with fighting, Windlow cares more about what the other party is smuggling. If he is willing to risk his life, it must be a lot of money.

The route was winding, and the group had a whole set of anti-tracking methods, including secret passages, alleys, sudden changes of direction, and special slogans that would change.

But all this seems to be a little insufficient for the dark elves.

Mousse was once a noble among the dark elves, so he was well versed in these basic means of self-protection, and was even more skilled than his opponents.

Like children playing house in front of adults, these smugglers eventually exposed their entire route.

After twists and turns, we finally stopped in an open area. It looked like a construction site under construction.

"Is there an explanation? Or is this a trap?"

He started out in business at an early age, and of course he also experienced smuggling and selling contraband.

This kind of behavior was nothing new to Windlow, but he did not expect that in this distant Zhendan, there were similarities with the Empire.

"It is indeed easy to be discovered if you do illegal transactions in an open area, but it is night now."

"Besides, smuggling in such places is very easy. If you are caught, you can escape immediately. The authorities can't catch you, let alone get evidence."

After Wendlow finished speaking, he also put his fingers to his mouth and bit his nails to release the anxiety in his heart.

The other party's behavior was orderly and it was obvious that they were not a simple group, and this kind of thing had been going on for many years.

If one wants to describe the scale, this group, known as a merchant gang in Zhendan, can be likened to an imperial merchant group, a large organization, organized, disciplined, and of course not lacking in violent means.

If you want to attack them at this time, you never know when a muscular man holding two hammers will suddenly jump out from the crowd.

A monthly salary of 300 gold coins is enough for that strong man to hang up an ordinary fear lord like Mousse and beat him slowly until he is crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, with his internal organs broken.

After all, within the empire, if the emperor himself pushed Rick's imperial merchant group into a corner, they could also spend money to get steam tanks, hellstorm rocket launchers and demi-griffin knights.

For businessmen who inherently lack stability and security, hiring powerful fighting forces is basically instinctive.

Although Mousse is capable of fighting, he is completely useless in this situation.

By observing patiently, Windlow soon noticed what the two parties in the transaction were discussing.

An ox cart was also working overtime in the middle of the night, and slowly emerged carrying several large bags of things.

Several strong men also unloaded the goods quickly and handed them to the other party for careful inspection.

The latter opened his pocket, reached in and touched the item carefully, then nodded, accepted the goods, and paid his own money.

That whole bag of gold coins was exchanged for three bags of goods, which surprised Wendlow very much.

After the two groups had completely left, they immediately went to the scene and found the remnants of the exchange between the two parties on the ground.

It’s still those white particles, and that delicious salty taste when you put it in your mouth.

"Salt, but why?"

Windlow was puzzled, but he could judge that the other party had spent at least more than two hundred gold coins.

More than 1 gold coins, just to buy three large bags of salt? In this way, the price of a small bag of salt has exceeded silver coin. Is the price of Aurora salt so expensive?

"Mouse, don't rob your fellow thieves. We can do the salt business."

Although Mousse, a dark elf, and Windlo, an imperial citizen, have lived since childhood in a place where there is no shortage of salt and even salt mines are very cheap.

But I still believe that seeing is believing. This is always the motto of every imperial businessman.

"You never know what kind of exorbitant price the soil can be sold for in a faraway place!"

With a direction, a way forward and a direction to strive for, Mousse naturally calmed down. At this moment, he finally realized the importance of rest.

Anyway, this is a building under construction. I just found an empty corner, spread a blanket and slept on the ground.

The good news is that it is early summer, so there won’t be much rain and we won’t get sick from the cold at night.

She reached out, held Wendlow in her arms, and then put her legs on his body. It turned out to be a good pillow for sleeping.

At this time, outside the city of Hanyu Port, the armies of Zhaoming and Gert had already joined forces and camped far away, not getting any closer.

It’s not that the two of them lacked engineering equipment, nor did they need to waste time building engineering towers or breaking down doors with battering rams.

Whether it is Zhaoming's Yanlin rocket launcher or Gert's Hellstorm rocket launcher, there is no need for any waiting time at all. As long as you want, you can attack the city immediately.

In the military camp, Gert was of course quite puzzled by Zhaoming's inaction.

You must know that speed is of the essence in war. As the attacker, you must attack when the opponent is not yet stable. This is the best strategy.

Now we are not trapped in an isolated city, Hanyu Port can rely on the external canal to provide supply resources at any time.

If they don't fight, the imperial troops on Gelt's side will either lose morale or gradually lack supplies.

Faced with this kind of problem, Zhaoming had no solution. This was a problem that had existed in Zhendan since ancient times, and the distant imperial allies were naturally completely unaware of it.

I can explain it to him slowly.

It is now the early summer of the year, which is June.

For people in other places, it just means that summer has arrived and they are about to face the scorching heat.

But for Zhendan, there was another more important thing happening at this time, that was the imperial examination.

Compared with the Empire's electoral system and Bretonnia's hereditary knight system, Cathay's system is the most civilized and fair of all civilizations.

Considering that although the Dragon Emperor is the common ruler of Zhendan, he no longer has any fellow dragons. Although he can have offspring with the Moon Queen, they are not the same species.

The Nine Dragons of Zhendan are only half dragon bloodline, and the other half comes from one of the Eight Winds of Magic.

As for the dragon sons, although they can mate with mortals and give birth to offspring, the strength of these beings, called dragon descendants, will be further weakened and will not be much different from mortals.

The bloodline becomes increasingly diluted, and even the offspring of dragon descendants born together will become like mortals, and within three generations they will decline to the point where there is no dragon blood at all.

This also meant that the Dragon Emperor was unable to use the most common inheritance system among humans, and was unable to build a ruling class through his own blood-related children.

Therefore, the Dragon Emperor created the imperial examination system, which selected outstanding bureaucrats and generals through competitions and examinations, and distributed power to the selected bureaucratic groups to achieve his planned long-term stability.

This early summer of June was the time when the imperial examinations were held. If the city was attacked at this time, Hanyu Port would definitely suffer varying degrees of damage.

"We can only wait until the imperial examination is over before launching an attack, so as not to harm the future pillars of Aurora."