Chapter 278 Part1 (2/2)
“You're not going to punish these officials? They occupied your berth despite your payment”
When everyone left, Queen Medusa asked Du Wei: “This doesn’t seem to fit hat I know of your hu” ”
“The nobles doing?” Du Wei ss?”
“Your fiancée” Queen Medusa's tone was very calm: “In the town outside the capital where she acco those days, I had her read a lot of your hu to what I know of your human nobilities, I'm afraid they would have immediately ordered the river official to be hoisted up and whipped”
Du Wei shook his head: “He's a good official My shi+pwhile parked here, but there are sailors and a captain aboard, there's no way he wouldn't have knoho it belonged to Even so, he still did it, matic officer The fault lies not with him, but with me”
The shi+p in question was a Sea Cloud class warshi+p, but for the inland rivers, Du Wei's shi+p could be called very big already That night Du Wei boarded this seaworthy shi+p using a s noas the go ahead from the river official
By early next day, his shi+p finally docks in the berth for loading
The river official and security officer both ca the Duke's about to leave, they both breathed a sigh of relief knowing their worries are about to coh while in their presence, but his status was si, no lowly town official can afford to risk offending such a bigshot
While in the middle of a tea session inside his cabin, Du Wei's leisure time was interrupted by a loud clamor of shouts and harsh words fro his attention Ordering his roup of Northwest Natives dressed in fura ruckus under his boat, and so the sailors souard saw this and rushed up With both sides drawing their weapons, a confrontation ensues
These grassland natives appeared outrageously rude and hard to reason with Seeing Du Wei's guard, although armed with swords, these brutes not only didn't back down, their voices grew even louder
“What’s going on?” Du Wei turned his head back to the river official and security officer behind hi the two to break out in sweat on their foreheads Not waiting for Du Wei to order hiather the soldiers standing vigilantly not far away fron of backing down After another hail of shouts froroup of these unruly brutes ran over and surrounded the pier on all sides, easily outnurassland natives may be traders in name, but they're culturally inclined towards violence whenever they dee arerous conflict, the onlookers all stepped back out of fear of being dragged into the mess
Although the security officer personally intervened, the natives didn't give a care and began cursing at the poor guy in all sorts of manner
“What the hell is going on?” Du Wei turned his head and looked at the river official: “Are these prairie eous here? Even in the face of the imperial security officer, they are so defiant”
Against the bitter expression and hesitant attitude of this river official, Du Wei turns cold: ”And here I was looking well on you fro in front of these grassland foreigners, did you take brides from them?”
“Absolutely not!” The river official bolted at the accusation and poured everything out
So in Mingfan Harbor here, this place acts as one of theto take to the river, and arassland As prairie natives, their personalities are culturally unruly with the tendency to fight To these foreigners, the one with the hardest fist is the boss
In particular are times like this where the harbor's packed full of vessels, no caravan trade group would be willing to abide by the rules and await for proper accommodation from the port officials However, dishonest merchants would only at most quietly try to bribe their way in
Co up to here, Du Wei smirked at him: “Oh, you must have earned a lot recently then?”
“No, of course not!” The river official hurries to explain hilum: ”Your Dukeshi+p, I may hold a small bit of authority in my hands, but I would never accept bribes! My men too, I would often warn the bribes and rando the shi+ps! You can send someone to inquire The people in town all know ofthe rule!”
Du Wei nodded: “He to delay even h based on your actions Well then, let's talk about those prairie people instead”
The river official a made a hateful face: “Your lordshi+p… If it were caravan groups froestures like bribery and such, but these prairie natives don't do that If they are ever in need of a cabin or warehouse for their goods, they would often simply pull out their knives to take by force!”
”Continue” Du Wei went dark, his expression unreadable
“The prairie natives had always done business using these barbaric e profits involved, er involved by dealing with these people Afan Harbor, around ten to twenty percent are frorassland And… And the differences, they are often very united If one group enters into a dispute with anyone else, the other trade groups would co with one blow of the whistle, ar them Even in the face of the local security soldiers, these natives wouldn't hesitate in the least to draw their blades Mingfan Harbor only has two hundred security soldiers, it's fine if we only need to deal with a single trade group froether, it won't just be a dozen or so people anyo up to a hundred”
“During busy times like these, there's bound to be tensions on the harbor If the goods stay in storage for a day, then that's an extra day of profits lost In order to rob a warehouse or spot from others, these natives would often e up to the port to see which berth space was open Or if a shi+p was in the ather enough of theirto leave under any circuo into the river if they are ill teroups coet was the draw of the knife Even if the security soldiers arrive to handle the situation, they would just sit their asses on the deck, refusing coroups here will usually consider it their misfortune and move out of the way if they encounter them Merchants are out to make a profit, not to put their lives on the line While these native traders on the other hand, they are different Regardless of the conflict, they would fight like their lives depended on it They are rogues without any semblance of order”
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