Chapter 524 525 Berkeley's Concern

Chapter 524 525. Captain Berkeley's Concern

Padstow City Defense Guard

Captain Berkeley stood on the training ground in a silver standard armor, and a team of half-blood elf warriors were selecting war horses.

Now that the infantry training of the City Defense Guard has been successfully completed, the half-blood elf warriors of this City Defense Guard will receive riding training next. For the elf warriors in the City Defense Guard, a good war horse is indispensable.

Seeing this group of half-blood elf warriors selecting war horses, Roy realized that his mine guard regiment was not equipped with war horses...

The Silver Pegasus Corps has strict control over war horses. It is estimated that even if an application is made, it will be difficult to get approval. On the Padstow Plateau, argali are more adapted to the climate and terrain there than war horses, but almost all argali are in Leishande's hands at present.

If we want to equip the mine guards with mounts, we have to find a way to convince Leishande...

As the guards in the city defense guards have all become half-blood elves, the public security in Padstow City is still very good during this period. It is almost rare to see those idle young half-blood elves wandering the streets.

The residents here are more accepting of half-blood elf guards patrolling the city, and they will not make provocative gestures when they meet the guards.

Captain Berkeley turned around and saw Roy, and asked him:

"How is the investigation team doing in the Pagisto Plateau?"

Roy was stunned for a moment...

If Captain Berkeley hadn't mentioned this, he would have forgotten it.

"They have been wandering around the plateau city for a few days... They should be fine!" Roy said uncertainly.

Captain Berkeley shook his head speechlessly, motioning Roy to go over. He lowered his voice, covered his mouth with his hand, and said to Roy: "Try to leave a good impression on the investigation team. After all, your identity is a bit sensitive, and their evaluation of you is still very important."

"Sometimes, if they just say less, they may save you a lot of trouble!"

Seeing that Captain Berkeley was serious, Roy also responded quickly:

"Got it."

Captain Berkeley motioned his deputy to come over here and watch, and he took Roy to the edge of the training ground.

"The Partington plane is about to open, and a large number of merchants will definitely pour into Padstow City in a while. These merchants will not only have a certain impact on the legion's magic herb business, but it is estimated that your primary magic herb business will also be greatly affected. You have to make some preparations in advance to see how to keep your market share."

"But there is no way. The legion's top leaders can't resist the pressure from the upper elf nobles. It is only a matter of time before the portal is opened." Captain Berkeley sighed and said.

Roy nodded and said:

"I have already negotiated it here, and I don't think the impact will be great."

"That's good!" Captain Berkeley waved to his followers, signaling them to stand farther away, and then whispered to Roy:

"After the plane is lifted, the first thing the Legion will do to make up for the losses is to collect commodity taxes on the portal. All goods passing through the portal must pay taxes, and your goods must also pay taxes. There will be no form of exemption, but! You can use this tax to offset the magic crystals that need to be paid for the mine share."

After speaking, he blinked at Roy, indicating that he must keep it secret.

"Is it still possible?" Roy was a little surprised.

Captain Berkeley waved his hand casually and explained: "The Legion has never provided any substantial help to the Padstow Plateau, so they are also very relaxed about the profit share of the mine. These have been discussed before."

"In addition, although the magic airship route in Padstow City is being established, I hope you'd better keep a low profile as much as possible."

Captain Berkeley reminded Roy.

Captain Berkeley was promoted to the captain of the city defense guard regiment in the Silver Pegasus Corps, and this position has much more power than the captain of the logistics and transportation regiment.

He and Roy have experienced so many things, and they can be regarded as close friends in the Silver Pegasus Corps.

Captain Berkeley said to Roy bluntly:

"Because of the incident with the Abil mine owner, it is not good for some information about you to be spread to Buenos. You have accumulated too much reputation among the half-blood elves in the Partington plane. Now, the Partington plane is about to be lifted. At that time, a large number of half-blood elves will enter the Partington plane. The upper elf nobles don't want to see someone stand up at this time and unite all the half-blood elves together."

Hearing Captain Berkeley say this, Roy also sobered up a little, and some cold sweat immediately broke out on his back.

Captain Berkeley continued:

"They don't want the half-blood elves to be completely out of control, they just want the half-blood elves to live in a certain centralized area and be law-abiding..."

"You also know that in recent years, the population of the Silver Moon elves has been shrinking, but the population of the half-blood elves has been growing rapidly. From any perspective, the upper elf nobles don't want the half-blood elves to make a sound. Do you understand what I mean?"

Roy nodded.

After visiting Captain Berkeley, Roy left the camp of the city defense guard.

…

In just half a month, a large number of magic herb shops appeared on the streets of Padstow.

When the herb merchants heard that the plane was about to be lifted, they immediately moved and quickly purchased stores before the lifting of the ban.

As the price of magic herbs continued to rise, herb collectors and merchants all ran to the Partington plane to share the cake. At least seven of the ten shops on the whole street were engaged in magic herb business.

The economy of the Partington plane gradually recovered, and Padstow immediately became lively.

Many idle tree houses have now become the first choice of this foreign businessman.

Moira took Sabrina's arm and looked around the street lined with tree houses, and Woods followed behind them.

Since the entire city is almost full of half-blood elves, Moira and Sabrina feel that this is like the lower city of Castletown. The only difference is that the lower city of Castletown is all brick and tile buildings, and here almost all tree houses are built on the crowns of giant trees.

Many shops here are various unique buildings built around the trunks of giant trees.

Woods kept asking about the price of magic herbs at the stalls. Compared with Castletown, the price of magic herbs here is at least 30% cheaper.

For herbal merchants, as long as they have a teleportation pass, this profit is almost a net profit.

Of course, Roy and the Silver Pegasus military made more money. Before the plane was lifted, only the Silver Pegasus military and Roy could legally transport magic herbs back to the Elf Continent...

Once the ban was lifted, the magic herbs in these shops would inevitably increase in price.

"Why does it feel like Padstow has suddenly become prosperous?"

Woods put down a bundle of magic herbs in his hand and said to Sabrina who was walking beside him.

Sabrina smiled faintly and didn't say anything.

"The plane war broke out in the Green Empire of Roland Continent, resulting in a shortage of magic herbs, so the magic herb market suddenly became hot. Our Partington plane is rich in magic herbs. From no one cared about it, to now merchants from all sides flocking to it, it is also because of the pressure from many parties that the Silver Pegasus Corps opened the plane blockade!"

The owner of the herbal shop is a Silver Moon Elf merchant, who is very well-informed about the news outside.

"Are you here to purchase magic herbs, or are you preparing to ship them?" the shop owner asked.

"I have an alchemy workshop in Castletown City, but the price of herbs here is still a bit expensive. I want to go around..." Woods said casually.

The herbal shop owner immediately shouted to Woods: "If you want to purchase magic herbs, I advise you not to wait. Once the plane is unblocked, the price of magic herbs here will definitely rise."

Woods waved to the herbal shop owner, indicating that he should walk around again.

The three sat in a cold drink shop on the street for a while and drank a glass of iced watermelon juice.

Waiting for Roy to come out of the Silver Pegasus Military Headquarters, Moira quickly stood up from her seat and waved vigorously at Roy across the street.

After Roy signed in at the Padstow Military Headquarters, he took the three of them to the rental warehouse in a carriage and visited Rambo who was guarding there.

Rambo has been living a comfortable life recently, because Roy has given Rambo a lot of authority. He has rented all the thirteen rows of warehouses by the river. This place is close to the river, surrounded by some tall oak trees, and is located on the edge of the west of Padstow City.

The only drawback is that it is a bit far from the airport terminal.

Roy jumped out of the carriage and was seen by the warehouse staff. Soon Rambo came out of the warehouse and shouted to Roy from a distance:

"Roy, your goods have arrived, those wooden boxes shipped from Sun Island Bay!"

Roy was slightly stunned.

At first, he was going to use the only two sets of floating devices to transport all the three-masted sailing ships to the Sun Island Bay, and then he decided to remove all the floating devices on the first magic airship and secretly transport them to Partington Island.

But now it is completely useless because the Green Empire Merchant Shipping Union has gathered all the remaining floating devices.

Now the airship modification factory on Partington Island is working hard...

Roy walked up, put his arm around Rambo's shoulders and said to him:

"Um, Rambo, help me find a few carriages later, I want to transport those magic devices out."

Rambo immediately agreed: "No problem." Then he called a warehouse clerk and asked him to go outside to hire a few carriages...

"Roy, when will the air transportation service of the magic airship be opened?" Rambo asked curiously.

Roy thought about it and said:

"It's still under preparation. I estimate that it will take at least a month before the cargo route can be opened. There are only two magic airships now, and the transportation capacity can't even meet the needs of the mine guards..."

Rambo pulled Roy's arm and whispered to him:

"The day before yesterday, Leishande came here and complained to me that the demand for various materials in Plateau City was too great, and his caravan simply could not transport so many materials. Some merchant groups had originally set their sights on the Pagisto Plateau, but now that the magic airship is about to open, many merchant groups have given up their original ideas."

Roy smiled and said:

"In fact, you and Leishande don't have to worry. Those merchant groups will slowly find a profit point. Now the economy of the entire Partington plane is recovering, even if they transport green apples to the plateau, they can make money."

...

In recent days, caravans have arrived in Plateau City almost every day, and the materials they brought have greatly alleviated the shortage of materials.

The entire Plateau City is rising rapidly...

The investigators have lived in Plateau City for more than 20 days.

Every night here, they almost live in tents at the corner of the street, and they usually eat whatever they can buy.

The investigators looked a little disheveled at this time, but they finally completed the investigation task on the owner of the Abil mine.

The half-blood elves in the Plateau City had a very bad impression of the Abil Mine Owner.

There were several different versions of the cause of death of the Abil Mine Owner.

After the investigations of the investigators, they were more inclined to believe that the lover of the Abil Mine Owner killed the descendant of the Silver Moon Elf nobles.

The most unlikely version was that the mine owner Roy heard that the Abil Mine Owner had committed many evil deeds and personally beheaded the Abil Mine Owner as a public display.

This investigation was actually completed a week ago, but the investigators could not find a caravan willing to leave with them.

When many caravans left the Plateau City, they would rather not carry all the supplies from the Plateau City than take the three Silver Moon Elf merchants with them.

As a result, the investigation team had to stay in the Plateau City for more than a week.

Finally, they finally reached a cooperation agreement with a small half-blood elf caravan. The caravan would take the three of them back to Padstow, and they would find a stable source of goods for this caravan in the city of Padstow.

Finally left this monotonous plateau city without any life...

The three investigators were excited, but this small caravan had no extra horses, so they could only buy three horses at the market at a high price.

Leaving the plateau city, we walked along the Tolai River.

In fact, it would be faster to go directly through the wilderness and head south along the Caldim Mountains than to take the Sudaso Mountains...

It's just that the road across the Caldim Mountains is more difficult to take.

Just when Roy, Moira, Sabrina and others returned to Padstow City, the three investigators happened to walk into the Caldim Mountains with this small caravan.

During the break, the three investigators gathered together and secretly discussed Roy:

"You two! Do you think Roy is the murderer who killed the owner of the Albeer mine?"

"Although I haven't obtained any clues, I think Boss Roy is very suspicious!" Another investigator said: "I will mark Roy as the key suspect in my investigation report."

"Maybe it was the lover named Olisis who killed the Albeer mine owner..."

"Even if it is true, I will still indicate in the report that Roy is the key suspect."

"..."