Although he is very picky about the forbidden spell magic, the power of the forbidden spell magic cannot be judged. More than a thousand pirates in a nest were killed by the power of the ninth-level forbidden spell thunder explosion technique.

Moreover, the four pirate ships were not seriously damaged. It seemed that a ship could sell hundreds of gold coins. The remaining pirate corpses on it were also a great fortune for Link. Not to mention the part of the wealth hidden by the pirates themselves, they are waiting for everyone to find them on the ship.

Before the sun rose, Link dealt with the pirates' bodies and plundered the pirates' wealth. There were only a few gold and silver coins on ordinary pirates, and they were hidden in the room of the pirate mage group on the uppermost level of the pirate ship. Among the pirate groups, the pirate mage is the group of people who are most pursuing.

If a mage wants to advance, it is absolutely impossible to do without gold coins.

In order to popularize magic in this world, junior magic academy can take out loans to school, and the tuition fees are not very expensive, and the country will also subsidize part of the tuition. However, to learn advanced magic, you have to enter the mage training class with expensive tuition fees.

Generally, those who graduate from the Magic Academy are only genuine mages of level 6. Only those who are at least genuine mages of level 6 are qualified to study. The mage training class teaches various magic arrays from level 4 to level 8, with enough talent and gold coins to upgrade from the training class to a magician.

This is also the reason why there are no legendary mages in this magic world. Most mages upgrade to mages by learning other people's magic circles. They are not so powerful in terms of pioneering thinking. The magic training class only teaches level 8 magic circles at the highest, and when designing level 9, level 11 magic circles by themselves, it becomes doubled.

If you follow His Highness Helena's teaching method, only teach magic theory, magic mathematics, etc., if you want to learn first-level magic, you have to do it yourself and start designing the magic circle yourself from the zero-level magic circle. In this way, the growth rate of the mage may be slower at the beginning. However, in the later stage, the possibility of such a magician who designs the magic circle himself is much greater.

Future growth is also infinitely possible, unlike this small world that also has magic, there are many magicians like magic soldiers, but no legendary wizard can see it.

After the sun rose, Link had already paid for the money at the Harbour Pier.

The first thing I gave was the updaters who were on duty at the port lighthouse at night, each of whom was 100 silver coins. Although the war mercenaries and the employed mage did not participate in the battle, everyone came and they also had to pay. The war mercenaries gave 300 silver coins per person and 500 silver coins per person.

After getting the money, I naturally didn't feel unhappy. Although I didn't participate in the dividend distribution, I didn't have the right to pay dividends without fighting. The mercenaries still understand this.

Moreover, it is basically impossible for the warriors and several mages who are close to these twenty people to defeat four pirate ships, more than 1,000 pirate soldiers and nearly forty magicians. Faced with ten times the enemy, the warriors almost dispersed last time. It was Link, Phoenix, Mary Gith, and Veranika who first got the pirate soldiers, so that the morale of the mercenaries of the warriors did not collapse.

When I just saw the pirate ship, the mercenaries of warships were constantly retreating.

Even the workers who were not involved in the battle at all ran away from the workers' community with their families. Although after the news of rescuing pirates came out, many workers took their families back with their stern eyes, the seafood company had already had Link's order to pay them this month's salary and never hire them.

Faced with the pirate attack, Link did not blame them for escaping their families, and the workers' families were not soldiers. If the workers all ran away, Link would not have someone give orders to never hire him after paying his wages.

It is because some workers did not run away that Link issued such an order. This order not only rewards the workers left behind, but also punishes the workers who escape. The rewards and punishments of a company are not clear, so it cannot be done for a long time.

If the employees who stayed and the employees who came back to work together after escaping, wouldn’t everyone feel a little uncomfortable? The employees who came back after escaping will definitely think that the employees who did not leave are all stupid. Who would work hard for the boss?

The employees who stayed behind would think that they would do the same job and get the same salary as these fence-boys. Next time they encountered something, they would run away. Anyway, it would be useless if they didn’t run away, and it would be useless if they ran away.

After sending the money, Link pointed to the four pirate ships that were temporarily docked on the beach dock and said, "These guys are just trying to find trouble and die when they are not strong enough, and they challenge the strong. Finally, they took themselves. So the knight novels kill people. Even though they know there are high-level mages here, they dare to gather people to rob. This is also crazy about money. If you are outside in the future, remember that killing people will really kill people."

In fact, the most unlucky thing in this pirate attack was the six mages that survived the former Ruf Pirates. They all escaped once, and they advised the Golden Coin Pirates not to rob Link Port, where the mages are very powerful.

The result was that the gold coin pirate group did not go by itself, but instead pulled a group of pirates, but ended up being destroyed.

When the Gold Coin Pirates and other pirates joined forces, they had already clearly analyzed the defense power of Link Port. Level 12 mages are difficult to deal with, but a sufficient number of genuine mages can still defeat a level 12-level mage.

Link did not make any contribution to the three level 6 magic moves, but the strategy of uniting the Pirates was successful. If Link hadn't had more back-ups, he could easily deal with this group of pirates. If Link was just a level 12 mage, he wouldn't be able to protect this Link Port.

The four sea ships were eventually sold. The sailing technology was a bit out of date for Link, who owned two paddle steamers. If the sailing ship was not equipped with enough magicians, he could only travel to and from the New World once a year.

With steam-powered paddle ships and unloading and loading time, it is also easy to travel to and from the New World every two months.

The ticket prices for passenger ships for sailing ships are much cheaper.

The products brought back to the old continent by the sailing fleet were raw ore, logs, etc. with large loads and low profits. Similarly, if paddlefishing ships transport such goods, coal money would not be returned.

After selling four pirate ships, life has to continue. Before Phoenix and others can stand alone, Link dared not leave easily for a long time.

On that afternoon, Link Port drove into a luxury carriage. In Link's world, such a carriage that was made of gold powder was either nouveau riche or aristocratic.

In the living room, Link met with a Baron named Charlie Gerrard. Seeing that the other party was not old, he probably didn't get the title of baron himself.

In the State of Zeland and other countries, as long as you pay enough gold coins to the Kingdom, you can buy a title. The heirs of traditional nobles also have to pay money if they want to inherit the title - but the price is halved. Because the Kingdom is tax-free to the nobles themselves, this money can be said to be a tax-free certificate, and it is the kind that can be used for life.

However, this aristocratic title plus a tax-free certificate is not cheap. Generally speaking, even the cheapest baron title requires 100,000 gold coins. Viscount has 200,000 gold coins and 300,000 gold coins. And at most, it is sold to the Earl.

If you advance to the magistrate and are willing to be the guardian of the kingdom, you can also get the title of Count and tax exemption certificate.

Such policies take care of the emerging business class. A large number of big businessmen will buy a baron title even for tax exemption. Gold coins can always be earned back. When paying tax, they can still make money to buy aristocratic titles. There is no reason not to make money when paying tax exemption.

After meeting Baron Gerald for a while, the two of them talked about the weather for a while.

Finally, Baron Charlie Gerald couldn't help but explain his purpose: "Our Gerald Chamber of Commerce wants to invest in your Link Seafood Company, including Link Port."

Link picked up the tea and said, "The problem is coming, I'm not short of money."

Now anyone who understands it can see that Link Seafood Company is a hen that lays golden eggs. Link has no reason to let others invest in it. If you want to fish, there are actually too many fish in the sea. However, it is still very difficult for the world's technology to make advanced and sturdy marine machinery and fishing nets.

The Gerald Chamber of Commerce was originally in the ocean transportation industry. After seeing Link Port making money selling seafood, it also tried to use a sailboat under the company's name to fish near the coast, but was slapped hard by reality.

First of all, the sailing boats are not fast enough and the fishing nets are not strong enough. Otherwise, for thousands of years, the fishing villages near the coast had developed large ships to fish and sell seafood.

The monsters in the sea quickly tore up several customized large fishing nets brought by the Gerald Chamber of Commerce, which made the senior executives of the Gerald Chamber of Commerce understand what it means to fish for three days and dry the net for five days. It seems that there are not many fish that have been hit, and it is also a lot of money to repair the fishing net.

On the way back, the large fishing boat of the Gerald Chamber of Commerce was also attacked by sea frogs. The sailors and fishermen on the boat and the guards of the Gerald Chamber of Commerce suffered heavy losses.

However, some giant sea frogs were killed, which was the biggest income from going to sea this time. However, the money was not enough for the pensions of these dead guards, sailors and fishermen. The Gerard Chamber of Commerce's fishing trip this time was a disadvantage.

It has been more than a year since the construction of Link Port started, and now it has only encountered three amphibian monster attacks. Another time, Link was not around, but the guards also blocked it.

I can only say that if you encounter a sea monster like the sea frog once you go out to sea, the Gerald Chamber of Commerce is not lucky enough.

Charlie Gerrard calmly opened his five fingers and said, "We in the Gerrard Chamber of Commerce are willing to use 150,000 gold coins to acquire 80% of the shares of Link Port and Seafood Company."

Link asked Phoenix around him: "Phoenix, how much is our port and seafood company's profit in the last twelve months?"

Phoenix found the account book, checked it and said: "In the past twelve months, the total income of our ports and seafood companies is 220,000 gold coins. After deducting various expenses and taxes and fees paid, the balanced profit is 160,000 gold coins and 80 silver coins. Of course, this does not include the cost of the owner buying a boat. Moreover, the income in the past six months has increased significantly compared to the income in the previous six months. Not only has we had more markets, but we have also added one large fishing boat."

Link smiled at Baron Charlie Gerald and said, "Maybe for you Gerald Chamber of Commerce, 150,000 gold coins are a lot, but it is less than the profit of our seafood company in a year. I want to take away 80% of the shares in this amount of money. Actually, I only have one sentence, you really think too much."

Charlie Gerald, whose face turned red, couldn't stand it anymore, so he had to take out his last killer move: "My uncle, Count Peter Gerald, is a magician."

Link: "You said that's your uncle. Even if your uncle comes forward to suppress our trading company, we can go to other countries to make money."

In the end, Baron Charlie Gerald failed to acquire the shares and stood up and left angrily.

After the baron left, Phoenix said: "Master, it's not me that you really should buy a title. Now the commercial tax revenue and management fees are one-tenth of the turnover. You can exempt at least 8.5% of the commercial tax. Now the commercial tax every year is about 20,000 gold coins. There will be more in the future."

"No, this is not suitable." Link waved his hand with cigarettes and said.

Phoenix didn't understand: "Why is it not suitable? Those big trading companies buy titles to be exempt from taxes."

Link: "Because you haven't discussed buying a title in the past, you don't understand the reason. If the trading company wants to be tax-free, in addition to buying a title, you have to hand over 20% of the shares to the local government for free. When I was buying a port, I asked.

Of course, it is not unfavorable to buy a title and give the government 20% of the shares. At least, this kind of Gerald Chamber of Commerce and other things will not dare to buy us."

Phoenix thought about it and was right: "Yes, they bought 80% of the shares, they had titles, and the remaining 20% ​​of the shares were also owned by the government. It was so insidious, and I also said why didn't they acquire them in full? It just invested 80%. Will the remaining 20% ​​of the shares be taken away by the government?"

Link nodded: "That Charlie Gerrard thought I didn't understand. If they invested in the seafood company, the remaining shares would naturally be taken away by the government. Of course, the government may appropriately compensate a little money to buy the remaining 20% ​​of the shares, which is probably only a few thousand gold coins. You know that government acquisitions are always the stingiest."

Phoenix: "So, we only pay 10% of the taxes, which is actually very cheap."

Link: "Of course, I don't really like being a noble person so much. I don't have much interest."
Chapter completed!