The merchants of central continent who visited Morata had many complaints.
“The transit duty was only 3% before, so why was it raised to 5%?”
“Can he really just raise taxes like this just because he’s the lord?” The merchants gathered and sent in complaints, but they couldn’t get any positive support from Morata’s users.
5% for transit tax was rather cheap. In the Central Continent, 15%, 20%, and even 35% for the transit tax were often the case.
Plus, the transit tax was not for Morata merchants, but only for the merchants of other districts to pay. It was something for Morata merchants to welcome, so they did not support them.
“I can’t understand how he can raise taxes like this.”
“There’s limit to looking down on us. Does the lord of Morata not know who’s behind us? It’s the Merchant Union!” The merchants gathered and caused an uproar. Then, someone shouted.
“We shouldn’t talk amongst ourselves like this. Let’s go to the lord’s castle.”
“Let’s go and talk to him!” The merchants crowded to the lord’s castle. Of course, they were doing this while knowing fully well that the lord of Morata, Weed, was absent.
They complained to the guards.
“To suddenly raise transit tax like this. How could you do this?!”
“We came to meet the one responsible for this.”
The fame and authority of the Central Continent merchants were outrageous.
The guards politely brought them to the department that was in charge of the commerce inside the lord’s castle.
“This is the Department of Commerce where they look out for the merchants staying at Morata.”
Merchants bashed in. But, the floor was covered with straws, and female cows were looking after calves.
“Who the hell decorated the Department of Commerce like this?! Where’s the person in charge?!”
Next to the feeder in the Department of Commerce, there was a nameplate.
Representative of Morata Commerce - Yellowy
Yellowy was currently absent.
“We shouldn’t stand here like this. Don’t we have to complain to the person in charge of transit tax?”
“That would be the one to talk to.”
The merchants came out again and looked for the Department of Finance, but Geuminyi wasn’t present either. And, Wyverns were the ones who had the seat of the 1st deputy head of taxing! Wyverns sat at the top of the towers and sometimes revisited Morata.
Because of that, it was hard to meet Wyverns either.
The merchants tried to use their fame and conversational skill to persuade, but there was no one to persuade. Of course, it was a wonder if Wyverns would actually be patient enough to listen to humans talk.
“To think that all of the people in charge are absent… then how about meeting other directors of Morata? We’ll be able to sway them a bit about Morata’s government.”
“I agree.”
The representative of the merchants came out from the Department of Finance and went to the Department of Military.
Due to repairing and improving the lord’s castle, new departments formed, and there were directors for each of them.
The director of the Department of Military - Bingryong, Phoenix - hunting
Weed gave the seats to the sculpture lifeforms to gain practical dictatorship. Because of that, it was impossible for the merchants to lobby or persuade to pressure the government to change.
This was the true dictatorship! Later, the knights or merchants who stacked up contribution may be promoted into higher places, but currently, Weed ruled with absolute power.