Wolf King

Elliott Palace is the smallest country in the southeastern region of the southern continent and the only city-state.

The city-state, the city-state, is similar to Singapore on the earth, cough.

The establishment of the country as an independent town, the Elliot Palace naturally has its own special features. This city-state is located at the junction of the southeastern region of the southern continent and the central part. Although it does not have a coastline, it is the core of land transportation; whether it is From the middle to the southeast or from the southeast to the south, Elliott Palace is an extremely suitable transit point, and the premise of this land transportation core hub is that the Elliott Palace is not greedy enough... …

Judging from the open policies of this city-state and the economic vitality that can be seen in the city, Elliott Palace is indeed a rare country in the human kingdom, not excessively greedy, and the overall atmosphere is more enlightened: no head tax, no In addition to the city tax, in addition to marriage tax, cattle tax, water tax, road use tax and other countries, there are more or less harsh and miscellaneous taxes that are more or less present, and there are no unowned foreigners who can take it or drop it. Goods on the ground belong to the nonsense rules like kings (lords).

"Everyone, let's see, Elliott Palace does not collect this tax, and that tax is not collected, so will the royal family be so poor as underwear?" Xiao Yunbian analyzed with the clan while waiting in line to get out of the city Fan may obtain the Elliott Palace policy through public channels and finally ask questions with a smile.

"..." Snake Walker Harris looked back at him silently.

"Of course not." The grassroot patriarch shook his head.

"Oh, why not?" Xiao Yun looked at her encouragingly.

The grassroot patriarch pointed to the flow of people who had just entered the city on the side and the other side of the street: "The truth is the same as that of Valentine. People do not collect money when entering the city. They have to collect the goods. The kung fu we lined up here passed several caravans. Businessmen from neighboring countries all transfer from here, even if they only charge very low goods taxes.

"Well, that's right, the grassroot patriarch is right." Xiao Yun compared with his thumb generously, "Is there anything else, does anyone have anything to add?"

"There are also commercial taxes." The head of the Ari clan calmly raised his hand for the local scones that he had just bought on the roadside. "The higher the flow of people, the more local people can sell. The money and the money spent are earned by the locals. As long as the king collects a certain amount of commercial tax from the locals, it is much more than the sum of the head tax and the entry tax."

"Yes." Xiao Yun clapped. "Just like Ananas accepting adventurers, he doesn't ask the adventurers to earn city tax. It's stupid to keep the customers who spend money just for this small amount of money. Popularity is wealth, and as long as the popularity is gathered, the source of wealth will also come in. No matter whether it is working people or consumers passing by, there is enough popularity to develop a place."

"Eh? What about the underground city to receive city tax?" Mumu blinked.

"That's because the dark elves earn monopoly money. Whether it's adventure, travel or business, going to the underground world, outsiders have only a choice in the dungeon. If you don't want to go to the dungeon, there is no place to buy the goods you brought, nor Ways to replenish." Xiao Yun glanced at Mumu with appreciation. Working in a different place is the most tempering person. Even Mumu knows how to think about problems.

"The location of Elliott Palace is very good, and it is very suitable as a land transportation hub, but in the final analysis, the caravans between the neighboring countries do not have any other choice than to pass from Elliott Palace. If you are willing to detour You can take another route. Because Elliott Palace’s policy is better, people are more willing to choose the nearest one.” Xiao Yun carefully explained the reason and patiently explained to everyone, “The same reason, if the underground world There is one more underground city, and the dark elves cannot monopolize. In order to ensure that the flow of people is not lost, the dark elves will also consider lowering or even canceling the tax for entering the city, such as transaction taxes.

"Oh-" Everyone nodded together.

"Monopoly makes money, but is monopoly a good thing? Everyone thinks about this issue seriously." Xiao Yun said with a smile.

"..." Harris the Snake Walker stopped talking.

"Um... I don't know." The grassroot patriarch thought about it and couldn't figure it out.

Xiao Yun nodded and explained in detail: "First of all, we have to have a consensus that monopolizing a certain field and a certain project externally has a cost. For example, if the dark elves monopolize the dungeon, then they must ensure that in addition to the dark elves. No other force can stand in the underground world. When the dwarf kingdom enters the underground world and tries to open up mining veins, even if the dwarf king guarantees that they only mine and do not build cities, the dark elves can never allow the dwarves to move in the underground world."

"It's not that the dark elves are belligerent, but that the dark elves know that the desire of any intelligent creature is growing. At first, the dwarf king only wanted to mine, but what about the back? The dwarf kingdom has entered the underground world for a few years, ten years, Even a few decades later? Will the dwarf king’s ideas never change?” Xiao Yun spread his hands. “The dark elves will definitely not bet on whether other people’s greed will grow, so to ensure their monopoly, war is theirs. The only choice."

"Uh huh!" Everyone nodded again.

"In addition to the monopoly cost, the most important question is whether there will be rigidity and degradation of the team that loses its competitive stimulus." Xiao Yun raised a finger, "There is only one underground city, which manages the ruling team of the city. There is only one management team. This management team has no competitors, and the management of the local lower city has evolved a complete and inertial rule system. Then the management team only needs to perform the management tasks step by step, without additional challenges, and there is no progress. Motivation."

"..." Snake-walker Harris turned silently to the front of the team. The caravan in front of them surrounded several people to eavesdrop, and the moustache standing in front of him almost stuck his face on him.

"I told you countless times that any intelligent creature is inert, and anyone's dream is earned for nothing. When the position under his **** is particularly stable, no one will work stupidly. This is one. "After a pause, Xiao Yun said again, "The second point is that teamwork without competitive stimulus just repeats a single boring management task. Their excess energy must definitely find a place to vent, so where to go? The enemy, of course, can only fight inside, the struggle for personnel, the struggle for power, which is good for oneself and which one to play."

After everyone digested the content, Xiao Yun said with a smile: "The hollow tree can even be pushed down easily by Thrall, and we can imagine how much the infighting team can play. What is worse is this infighting. It is hard to tell from the surface, because this management team has no competitors, the team is doing well, it is not competent, and there is no reference to the level of the underground city’s financial income. The above mother does not know whether the middle level is doing well. The civilians at the bottom have no way to communicate with the mistress if they are dissatisfied, because the middle level will know how to whitewash if they fight again. After a long time, everyone will talk, will there be any problems?"

"Uh..." Mumu turned to look at Xia. Xia hesitated and summoned his courage. "It should have been out. When Mumu and I opened a store in the underground city, the tax officer in the district of Anqiluo just Changed three."

"An Qiluo is a left arm and a right arm that is highly valued by her mother. Her site tax rate can be determined by herself. But even so, some people still want to reach out to An Qiluo's entrainment. Everyone can imagine how the situation is. Xiao Yun nodded. "Take our own people as an example, such as Mumu and Xia's underground city food store. If there is no Elf port food store operated by Ashu, it will be difficult for us to understand. Whether Mumu and Xia are working seriously, the monthly consumption of ingredients meets the daily business needs of the store; then Mumu and Xia want to be lazy, open for three days and close for two days, or embezzle the daily water belonging to the tribe Funds, we don’t have a concept."

"Xia Cai and I haven't done this!" Mu Mu glared.

"It's just an analogy, don't be excited." Xiao Yun smiled and said, "Let's go back to the previous question. Is the monopoly good or not? We only know the answer to this question by looking at the dark elves operating the underground city for thousands of years. But what? No matter what is good, there must be a downside. In order to eliminate the negative impact of monopolizing a certain industry on our own team, we can choose this way: While maintaining external monopoly, establish a competitive stimulus system internally. For example Say our food store isn’t just one. If the Dark Elves draw people to build another underground city, anyway, the underground world is so much of a place, right? The two underground cities that belong to the Dark Elves are competing at the same time. The difference between the city can attract more adventurers, which city's fiscal revenue can reach a new high, and the ability of the management team is obvious."

"Uh huh!" Everyone nodded again like a chicken peck rice.

"It makes a lot of sense. Why does Ayun say something that makes sense?" Primo's eyes brightened. He didn't like to listen to the truth before, but when he taught the tribes, Ayun always explained the complicated truths in a simple, easy-to-understand, clear, and clear way, so that the most impatient struggle walker could listen to it.

"Then Ayun, will our tribe do the same in the future? Get two groups of people to do everything?" The grassroot patriarch not only understood, but also understood Xiao Yun's implication.

"This is inevitable. If you want a certain project to run well and not make mistakes, then no matter whether it can be monopolized externally, there must be a benign competition stimulus internally." Xiao Yun nodded vigorously. "The grassroot patriarch used to control earthworm breeding. If our manpower was not so tight at that time, we could draw the manpower, then let the head of the Ari clan also manage another group of earthworm breeding. With these two sets of controls, you can’t have a result of your labors. Do you understand it more intuitively? In what ways do you start to improve the work flow and increase the output, you can also exchange ideas with the head of the Ari Patriarch instead of just wanting to break your head."

"Yes, yes!" The tribes that followed came out to be unique managers. They especially understood Xiao Yun's supplementary explanation. Even Dahe, the unreliable one, couldn't help but nod in agreement.

Xiao Yun was very satisfied with everyone's response, and encouraged everyone to discuss the pros and cons with each other. They took out their own water bags and drank water-if there were more people, the tribal production structure must be adjusted accordingly, and this adjustment is bound to not affect the "old man" It’s emotional, and it also has the meaning of leading upward, so education must be ahead.

The so-called good communication is half of the success. In the modern army, even the soldiers must know why they are fighting, and the education of the management cannot be put down.

Seeing Xiao Yun finally finished, Harris inhaled silently, staring with the coldest eyes on the eavesdropper who was close to his face.

In the caravan in front of them, a few more well-dressed people are looking for the idea of ​​intercourse with this group of interracials, especially the extremely clever interracial youth, and they are embarrassedly laughed at when they are stared at by snake snake walkers. return to……

To scare away the few who wanted to strike up, Harris exhaled and looked back at the interracial amused, especially the snow wolf cub who didn't insult the sage's name.

The Elliot Palace has a small territory, and the only agricultural land can only guarantee the self-sufficiency of the staple food. Although the climate is suitable, it is not an exaggeration to say that the **** pieces used for soup must be imported from Holmes...

Last year, the sage Ayun of the Snow Wolf tribe announced in his travel notes that the mountain improved terraces, waterwheels, and earthworms to increase production. In addition to the extremely powerful dwarf king and St. Bridge, Elliott Palace is the third The country where the royal family promotes agricultural reforms-the mountains around the city have been transformed into many drylands according to the trend of the mountains, and they have achieved good results in autumn.

Based on the sage’s contribution to the Elliot Palace, it is reasonable to say that Ayun should be able to receive royal courtesy when he comes to the Elliot Palace-for example, the human sage Xavier has always lived in the palace-unfortunately Ayun only came from the Snow Wolf clan sage exiled by the beast emperor, so the identity of the table was not so good that the Elliot royal family was hesitant. After the association reported the news, there was no feedback at all. ...

Fortunately, these Snow Werewolves were in a hurry to hurry up, otherwise the association would be really numb-the big brothers at the headquarters were even ashamed to visit the sage.

If Harris is another tribe, but Harris is also an orc, he is extremely complicated at the moment when he takes the task of serving as a guide for the Snow Wolf Clan... No grand welcome, no royal courtesy, the Snow Wolf Clan sage came in a hurry In a hurry, I could only stand on the street in the gap between the lines and get out of the city to guide the clan. Throughout the Elliott Palace, apart from the snake family walker who could feel the wisdom of this sage, there were only small caravan merchants who lined up just in front of them.

"Fortunately, fortunately he didn't realize it." Harris thought a little embarrassedly in his heart. "Maybe... he doesn't care about it."

"Harris?"

Pushing it back, Harris suddenly recovered, only to find that the caravan in front had walked a dozen meters forward, quickly raised his heels, and turned back apologetically: "Sorry, I'm distracted."

"Oh, I thought you were hungry." Xiao Yun chewed the scones bought by the Ali Patriarch, and carelessly, "Do you want to eat this? The locals' baked goods are quite flavorful."

"...No, thank you."

"This stuff is too dry... Balke, get me a can." Xiao Yun shouted back.

"Wait, stuffing a lot of things in, I have to look for it." Balke put his hand on the space ring, concentrating on the ring's storage.

"It's said that you should sort it out at any time, so how many things are stuffed in? That's it." Xiao Yun was dissatisfied.

"It's not convenient to reorganize. I'm not a forest elf like a bracelet bought by a city. The space in the ring is not big."

"You're too mixed up!"

"Hey! Even a space ring is worth a gold mine!"

"I remember I still have half a can..." The grassroot patriarch sandwiched between the two took his backhand, "Huh, why is it empty?"

"It was eaten by me." Ah Shan raised his hand honestly.

"..."

The goods carried by a group of people are packed in Balke's ring, and the goods are not taxed for space props. There was no wind or waves out of the city, several roads diverged, and pedestrians on the road were not as crowded as before.

"Let's step up some time and try to get into Holmes at night." Xiao Yun reached out to untie the button. "Uncle Ashan, you and I will pack first. Primo, tie that guy tight."

"Relax, my guy can't run off the ground." Primo pulled the rope confidently, and the other end of the rope was tied to the half-dead Viscount Colbert... Considering that it was troublesome to take the road, he lost the class. Deal with Leo and only bring this nobleman out.

Harris understood the meaning of "carrying" under Xiao Yun, and was a little stunned.

I saw the two snow werewolves undressed and turned into a huge wolf body...

"Plimo, you take the nobleman to sit with me, and the grassroots patriarch, you come to sit with me." Xiao Yun arranged for the group to be divided into two batches and climbed on their backs and uncle Ashan, "Harris, you too, Good way."

Harris: "Uh..."

"Relax, I run relatively stable." Xiao Yun said. The older grassroot patriarch didn't let him sit in Uncle Ashan's lest Ashan would run happily and forget that he was still carrying someone.

...Not a question of instability!

Harris struggled for a while, seeing that the others didn't care whether the packman was the sage Ayun, so he squeezed up.

"It's too crowded to sit like this, and I have become a wolf myself." Mumu felt uncomfortable.

"Not allowed!" Xiao Yun immediately turned around and scolded, "Honestly sit down and rotate in the next batch." How many people come and go on the road, what does the big girl's undress look like on the street!

How many people have been attracted to the big change living wolf!

Mumu couldn't help, pouted to look at Qingyan sitting in front of him, and suddenly stretched out his hand... He picked up the man and laid it on his thigh: "Aha, it's not too crowded!"

Qingyan: "?"

Xiao Yun: "..." Although it's still unsightly... Anyway, it's better than letting her expose her buttocks in public.

Sitting on the back of Rosemary on Asan: "..." Looking back at Dahe seriously, "If you are too crowded, just say, I will squeeze a little bit forward, don't you be as dry as Mumu."

"Huh?" Dahe, how stupid you have to look, "I don't want to do it, how tired my hands are." Then he leaned back lazily, pressing his weight to Ah Li a little bit politely. The patriarch.

The head of the Ari clan was disgusted.

Rosemary: "..." I always feel like I lost to Dahe in some way...

The two giant wolves spread their legs and ran, quickly leaving the caravan that had just queued out of the city gate behind.

After they ran away, the caravan that had no chance to talk before boldly sighed:

"It's so big, it can run so fast with several people. No wonder if any knight wants to find a companion of the Snow Wolf, even I want to have such a mount...friend!"

"Hahaha...don't even think about it, you can't buy a thousand gold coins on the black market."

"Just talk about it-by the way, the young Snow Wolf tribe was just called Ayun, wouldn't it be the Snow Wolf tribe Ayun who wrote the travel notes?"

"How is it possible, the snow wolf clan Ayun is the same sage as Xavier, if he really came to the Elliott Palace, he was already invited to the Royal Palace as a guest."

"That's right... It's the snow wolf clan Ayun who doesn't carry the talents in the original form."

Harris, who was sitting tightly at the base of Xiao Yun's neck, was a little nervous at first, and his nervousness eased down. Not to mention, Ayun ran really stable, stable than horseback riding...

Realizing that his thoughts were not polite, Harris quickly shook his head and sat down decently.

Gradually, Harris began to be less tense again-mainly here it was quite close to the Elliott Palace. From time to time, he could meet pedestrians on the road. The two huge white wolves running past were really too conspicuous. Even if Ayun and Ashan both run by the side of the road and try to bypass passers-by, they can always hear yelling and screaming from the back after running...

Harris shuddered, and found that he had overlooked a very important issue—mainly the attitude of Xiao Yun becoming a wolf pack was too natural, and even Harris's natural attitude affected him!

That’s right, there are many orc clan in the human kingdom to ask for life, but no matter what race the orc basically does not light up the body like the Snow Wolf clan...such as Harris, he does not remember his last time How long ago was the snake body.

"Oops... The Snow Wolf tribe hasn't left the cursed land for too long, how can I forget to remind them?" Harris was annoyed...

The area of ​​the Elliot Palace is extremely small. Xiao Yun and Asan ran for a few hours and bypassed a few mountain ranges, and almost ran through most of their land; Xiao Yun, who began to gasp, found a place with a relatively flat road to stop Next, as a vehicle, Harris saw the opportunity, and jumped behind the wolf and hurriedly persuaded: "Mr. Ayun, you can walk to Homs in another two hours, you see, are we Just walk over?"

Xiao Yun put on his clothes, and looked up at the other person's face: "How to say, Holmes is not very friendly to our orcs?"

"Well..." Harris was a little poor. "Actually... we orcs who are living in the human kingdom do not like being seen by humans."

"Eh? Do you mean you never change? How uncomfortable is that?" Mu Mu, who was about to undress, said curiously.

"Actually... if you are used to it, there is no problem." Harris reluctantly.

Xiao Yun understood: "Harris, don't you like being seen as a beast, but human beings will make a fuss. Do you think that the orcish family is really alien, right?"

Harris was silent and mentioned Primo Primo with a sneer and said with a sneer: "Despite what they do, some ignorant villagers in some places will also make tauren into child-eating monsters."

Xiao Yun thought for a while and said, "I don't think the orcs are shameful or shameful. Our Snow Wolf family is able to quickly expand agricultural production because of the more efficient farming of wolves. But since we came to humans On the ground of the kingdom, no matter how proud and proud we are of our race, it is also a proper etiquette to enter the village and follow the customs. After all, we are not here to find trouble, but to come to our friends’ homes, what do you think?"

Xiao Yun is always very reasonable. If it makes sense, everyone can hear it. Mumu, who is preparing to relax, regrets to put on his clothes. The Patriarch Alish also took the Viscount Colbert to his shoulders wisely... …It's not that Primo can't carry it, but Primo's body is not too tall and it's not easy to walk.

Before coming, Xiao Yun also considered that there might be a need to hide his identity, so he took out the headscarf prepared in advance-er, yes, the kind of headscarf that the uncle farmer used to wrap his brain and prevent ash and sweat , Rustic to rustic, practicality is also very appropriate...

Wrap your hair with a turban, cover your ears and continue on the road, only relying on two legs, the speed is a lot slower than before...Fortunately, there is no burden in the team, and the worst body of Ashu is not a problem. At dusk, a group of people crossed the valley that was the border between the two countries and stepped on the land of the Kingdom of Holmes.

Just across a valley, the territory of the Kingdom of Holmes is much better than the Elliott Palace by the naked eye-out of the valley, the continuous mountain ranges that are annoying and broken are interrupted, and the plains are all in front of them. Occasionally, the mountainous area is also far away from the hill, and even so close to the border can see the harvested farmland.

"The town here has not been implicated in territorial wars, and only occasionally will the noble army come to supply." Harris led the way, and walked back to Xiao Yun to explain, "We spent the night in the town, from the southeast tomorrow morning Walk and enter St. Bridge along the coastline. The coastline of Holmes is not good. There is only one port city, and most areas are relatively safe."

"Yes, the materials we bring are relatively sufficient, and it will be no problem if we don't supply them for a while." Xiao Yun nodded.

Harris stopped talking and led the group around the village and drove all the way to the town.

For aliens, the village of the human kingdom is definitely not a good place to rest. Because the human kingdom generally adopts a closed policy that prohibits population movement, basically villagers who have not lived out of their lives, and even the scope of activities is limited to the surrounding countryside. Nobles all regard aliens as monsters.

There may be simple folk customs, but only "locals" can be "enjoyed".

When there was only a touch of sunset in the sky, a group of people finally saw the building complex over the horizon.

"I'm hungry. I want to drink hot soup and eat a bowl of hot and sour powder." Mumu said with a tongue.

"Just go to the place. This small town specializes in the business of travelers and caravans. There are many good small yards that are specially rented to passers-by." Harris looked relaxed.

"Dahe, let's cook incense pot at night!" Ah Shan's eyes were bright.

"I just started to feel annoyed when I heard you mention this word..." Dahe said blankly.

"Ayun, you can make it for me." Ashan turned his head madly.

"It's okay, everything will do." Xiao Yun gasped.

"I wanted to say long ago, Ayun, are you particularly good at talking only when facing Ashan?" Dahe squinted.

"Ah, otherwise?" Xiao Yunli stared at him sternly.

"Patriarch Patriarch and Patriarch Ali, look at Ayun!" Dahe was angry.

"Hahaha..."

"Don't just laugh! Ayun is so eccentric!"

Harris was envious of the harmonious atmosphere of the Snow Werewolf. He couldn't keep looking back. Suddenly, the Snake Walker's face changed, and he raised his hand and made a pause gesture.

Primo, who was behind, didn't know when to appear at the front of the team, and surprised Harris who was preparing to remind everyone.

"A lot of footsteps... It's messy, it's erratic, it's not an army, it's like an ordinary person." Primo looked at the woods ahead, and said slowly.

Harris: "..." Forgot that this is the most powerful person.

"Nineteen... twenty-five... thirty-three smells." Ah Shan sniffed. "Two people bleed and they bleed a lot."

"..." Harris turned his head stiffly, looking at A Shan who came to the front when he didn't know when.

"Isn't it the bandit group?" Xiao Yun stepped forward strangely.

"It's unlikely to be so close to the town." Harris shook his head.

"Come," Primo said.

After a while, a row of torches appeared in the woods, and slowly walked out of the path.