In Weng City, any trade must only remit half a percent in national tax and half a percent in noble tax, and only transaction tax is required, not customs tax.
If a trade is conducted outside of Weng City, then it must follow the Daqian Law, paying two percent in transaction tax, and at the ti of entry, an additional one percent "customs tax" must be paid to the Changning Wang Family as a reward for establishing this pass.
Because of this rule, most loose cultivators choose to sell their items directly in Weng City unless they are truly valuable.
Thus, this Weng City has beco an extrely bustling trade center and distribution center for goods, every day countless loose cultivators co and go here, setting up stalls to sell goods, and nurous noble family stewards co here to purchase supplies.
Even in the entire Xin’an Town, there is hardly a place more bustling than here.
At noon.
The dazzling sun hangs high over the top, emitting blazing high temperatures, with Shouzhe Pass casting a shadow that only covers a small part of Weng City, leaving most areas exposed to the sunlight.
Now is the hottest ti of the day in Weng City and also when there are the fewest people in Weng City.
After a busy morning, the stall-owning loose cultivators rarely have ti to relax, and so they simply closed their stalls and gathered to chat casually.
"Speaking of this ’Shouzhe Pass’, it’s really remarkable." A square-headed, big-eared loose cultivator wiped his fine steel long saber with oilcloth, sighing repeatedly, "I’ve stayed here for over thirty years, witnessing four beast tides. Tsk tsk tsk~ those were blocked so easily~~ if I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes, I’d never believe that a beast tide could be stopped so easily."
"Isn’t it just that the beast tide itself wasn’t big~" the loose cultivator beside him replied indifferently, "I heard that this ’Shouzhe Pass’ took only ten years from construction to completion. Built so quickly, how sturdy could it be?"
"Hey~ Do you really think I haven’t seen a beast tide?" The big-eared cultivator sneered and rolled his eyes at him. "Speaking of scale, the last two beast tides had over a hundred ferocious beasts, and their scale was no small thing, yet they didn’t even break through the city gate. If this isn’t sturdy, then what is?"
"Moreover, the ferocious beasts involved in these beast tides were not of low rank, with three or four Tier Five ferocious beasts that I saw with my own eyes. In other places, this would be a major disaster."
Saying this, he couldn’t help but fall into reminiscence.
"The most recent ti, I stood on the city wall and saw a Tier Five Earth-Splitting Giant Tiger roaring and charging up the city gate. I was holding a bow and arrow issued by the Wang Family, scared to the point of forgetting to dodge."
"Then I saw a figure descend from the sky, effortlessly striking with a sword, directly freezing the Tier Five Striped Tiger into an ice sculpture and slicing it in two."
As he spoke, he gestured dramatically, fully imrsed in the excitent and shock of that mont.
The loose cultivator beside him was initially skeptical, but seeing his genuine expression, he started to believe a bit.
Among the other loose cultivators, soone suddenly realized: "Ice elent bloodline is rare, let alone having the power to freeze a Tier Five ferocious beast with one sword. Tsk! Could it be you saw the ancestor of the Changning Wang Family?"
"That one?"
"Who else could it be? Of course, it was Ancestor Longyan!" ntioning the gossip, the loose cultivator imdiately perked up, "You don’t even know, that ancestor was seriously injured once. Many said she wouldn’t live for a few more years. Guess what happened? Just then, the Wang Family produced Patriarch Shouzhe..."
Just as he was speaking.
A young master accompanied by so guards appeared in the loose cultivator market.
The young master was exceedingly generous, buying any decent item without haggling, and stuffing them into a bottomless storage ring.
Such behavior clearly marked him as the arrival of the spendthrift noble.
The stall owners stopped bragging and eagerly brought out their best goods, crowding around the young master, offering treasures and saying: "Young Master, this horn of the Tier Four Ferocious Beast, the Moon-Gazing Rhinoceros, is a rare material for crafting spiritual artifacts or dicine, priced at four, no three thousand Qian Gold."
The loose cultivator intended to call out a fake high price, but was imdiately stared down by the Spirit Platform Realm household general accompanying the young master and promptly swallowed back the inflated price, quoting a more honest yet slightly higher price.
As soon as he spoke, the young master took the Moon-Gazing Rhinoceros horn and another servant paid the bill.
In a short ti, he had purchased tens of thousands of Qian Gold worth of goods, while still pondering how to gather quality alchemy materials for his seventh great-grandfather.
He already had a gift for his maternal grandfather, but for his great-great-grandfather... sigh, it’s a headache.
Longzuo County has a ton of relatives, how can he, the Seventh Young Master, visit empty-handed? Especially since whenever he visits, doesn’t he always return with ninefold the gifts?
Not far away, several Spirit Platform Realm loose cultivators with sowhat fierce expressions witnessed this scene, exchanged glances, and seed to make a certain decision.
"Little Master, this is an egg of the Tier Six Water Elent Spiritual Bird, Yuan Water Spirit Crane, which we bravely retrieved from a lake in the Outer Domain... This item should be destined for you, you can have it for thirty thousand Qian Gold."
These loose cultivators, though anxious, were determined to finish this job and then flee at the fastest speed, never to return to Xin’an Town for the rest of their lives.
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