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As a businessman, what Windlow is best at is exchanging interests.

Moreover, politics is essentially an exchange of interests.

As soon as Karl Franz's words came out, he understood everything.

"No, I have never told anyone about this or even this parchment."

After all, this kind of thing can be regarded as physical evidence of the rebellion of the Glenburg nobles.

However, from a political point of view, the Glenburg nobles have not yet rebelled, so it seems a bit groundless to call them traitors now.

If word of this gets out, it will definitely affect other cities' feelings toward Altdorf.

If the Elector can prove that a city may rebel with just one sentence, does it mean that the Elector can easily declare war on other cities?

So this cannot be known to anyone else.

Even though there is evidence of the Glenborg Rebellion, as long as they have not launched an uprising, they cannot be defined as rebels in name.

Fortunately, the businessman Windlow was smart and did not spread the matter.

Otherwise, Karl Franz could only choose to hang him on the wall of Altdorf to shock and appease the emotions of the Grunberg nobles.

"Well done, keep your mouth shut."

Karl Franz waved his hand, signaling that Windlow could leave.

Since this guy is so honest, the spies of the Emperor's Eye have not heard any substantial rumors.

Besides, this guy had made great contributions when he was in charge of Mute, so there was no need to make things difficult for him.

It is also to thank him for his contribution to Rick County and let him go.

But Windlow still stood there. He couldn't just work for nothing while taking such a big risk.

Karl Franz also realized that he was so busy with government affairs that he had forgotten about this matter.

He casually took out a handful of gold coins from his side pocket and put them in Windlow's hand.

But, Windlow was just wondering why the Elector himself had such small hands.

I walked out of the office and counted the gold coins in my hand. This was a good deal.

Although he only said a few words, he still earned 8 gold coins from the Elector himself at the risk of his life.

The saying that the greater the risk, the more money you make is not necessarily true.

Because there are always people who monopolize all the businesses that have low risks and high profits.

When he thought that Mousse had done nothing but still had to give her 4 gold coins, Wendlow felt a little unhappy.

It just so happened that the dark elf was still outside, so he secretly put the four gold coins into the endless wallet, and there was no visible difference from the outside.

Holding 4 gold coins, he came to Mousse, who was already a little tired of waiting.

"Old rules, fifty-fifty, two for you and two for me."

Mousse looked up at Wendlow with some suspicion.

"Are the Electors of the Sigma Empire so stingy?"

"Well, that's about it. Think about it, when he was in Mutt Territory, he didn't pay anything."

Mousse just clicked his tongue and then put his own gold coins away.

With the sharpness and intuition of the elves, she instantly snatched away Wendlow's always empty purse.

I didn't even bother to take it out. After all, the purse was so thin that there could only be a little bit of money in it.

After picking it up, he started pouring it out and shook it a few times, but not a single gold coin fell out, not even a bit of precious metal debris.

It seems that Windlow's life is not easy, and the Imperial Elector is really stingy.

Then he threw the worthless purse to Windlow and never thought about it again.

"So where do we go next? You don't have the money to buy warehouses in Rickland to stock up and make a fortune from the war."

Mousse was right. For businessmen who had warehouses and were able to stockpile goods, it was indeed possible to make money by knowing about a war in advance and inducing it to happen.

But for traveling merchants and travelling traders, war means the severance of trade routes.

Windlow held the gold coin tightly in his hand, remembering the business he had done when he first set out from Altdorf.

It just so happened that agriculture in Altdorf came to a complete standstill throughout the winter, but the pottery factories, which were not affected by the season, were still operating at full capacity.

A large amount of pottery appeared on the market at very favorable prices.

The two gold coins I got from the Elector, plus the gold coins I earned before.

All were replaced with Altdorf pottery, and a donkey cart was also purchased.

Winter had just passed, the donkey cart was not expensive, and all the pottery was loaded.

Just like when they first set out to do business, the two once again left this place where war was about to break out.

Heading west, through the city of Ehrhart, we successfully crossed the duty-free border outposts of Marienburg and Rick County and entered the land of Marienburg.

You can even see the giant port city located at the mouth of the Rick River from a long distance away.

Due to convenient sea and river transportation, the size of Marienburg seems to have even surpassed Altdorf.

"A creation of the high elves."

Mousse snorted. Even from a distance, she could feel the magical aura coming from the high elves.

Marienburg is full of human-built bridges and canals, but according to the dwarves, the entire city's foundation is made up of the ruins of ancient elven ports and elven cities.

Even though four thousand years have passed since the High Elves left the Old World, the Waystone magic still protects the city from tsunamis and hurricanes.

Humans took advantage of the opportunity and completely took over the city.

However, one thing they did do well was inheriting the original glory of the elves and developing such a city according to human methods.

There was even one place that surprised Windlow.

"No taxes, no city entry tax. As for commercial tax, you only have a cart of pottery, which doesn't even meet the tax threshold."

The Marienburg guards at the gate easily let a small group of merchants enter the city.

After all, the highest ruling group, the Merchants Council, came to a conclusion in its investigation and research that reducing business taxes for self-employed individuals and small and micro enterprises would be more conducive to the prosperity of Marienburg.

The Merchant Council, which is mainly composed of the Kuppermans family, the Winkler family, and the Underdrek family, manages the entire Marienburg. The Merchant Council is composed of the ten richest merchant committee members.

They were not nobles who could rise to power by relying on their bloodline. They certainly knew that the best way to develop the economy was to reduce the rulers' interference in business and let the invisible hand promote wealth growth.

Just the clause of exempting self-employed individuals and small and micro enterprises from commercial taxes, as well as the inclusive attitude towards merchants of all countries and races.

Merchants from across the empire flocked to Marienburg, so the city was populated by both elven merchants from the westernmost elven kingdom of Ulthuan and dragon merchants from the far eastern Cathay Empire.

There were even fur traders from Norsca and exotic traders from the Araby region.

Here, it doesn’t matter your background, status or aristocratic bloodline. As long as you have a desire to make money, you can get rich through your own efforts and wisdom.

So for Windlow, there are all kinds of ways to make a lot of money in Marienburg.