Chapter 710 Are You... a God? Traveling, Refining the Heart

"It's difficult!" Jiang Yi sighed. "According to the business rules of the seven countries, you must abide by the laws of each place you go. There is no better way except not doing business."

Before traveling through time, the Indians in a certain country would confiscate all assets of foreign companies for unreasonable reasons, killing the goose that lays the golden eggs. The businessmen had no choice but to swallow the bitter fruit and go back next time.

As long as there is profit to be made, businessmen will not give up; this is their way of survival.

"Trying to change a country's laws is like interfering in its internal affairs and sovereignty..."

"We are outsiders after all. Taxation is a major national issue, involving many Inazuma officials from top to bottom. Not to mention, this tax only oppresses foreigners and has nothing to do with locals."

"If you want to change this unreasonable taxation, you can only meet with the governor or the general."

"And Fengxing... this lord, does he really not know?" He smiled sarcastically, "The latter may not be without his instructions."

"Inazuma took the initiative to play badly, so even if they face condemnation from other countries, it won't hurt them."

"At this point, we can only hope that the supreme ruler can see the pros and cons and pay attention to foreign businessmen."

Ying and Paimon understood: "That is to say, we still have to meet General Lei Dian and find a way to make him see the situation below."

"However, will this general, who is so domineering in enforcing the 'Eye Hunting Order', really listen to the advice?"

Jiang Yi remained silent.

Ying and Paimon scratched their heads in distress.

"There are still things we can do..." Jiang Yi said, "Let's investigate that businessman and why the 'tax' turned into 'crystallized bone marrow'... We don't know how to proceed, so let's take it one step at a time. With more experience, things may turn around."

"Yes! I think there is something fishy about that businessman." Ying nodded. "I don't want to eliminate the whole problem, but it would be good to change the businessman's situation a little bit."

The three of them went back to ask for information from the merchant.

"That merchant..." Kurisu said, "Actually, I used to have dealings with him, but he cut off contact with us later. I don't know where his goods come from..."

"If you want to go find him... Hmm! This is a good idea. As people outside the Chamber of Commerce and new foreigners on the island, if you try to get information from him, he should be less vigilant."

"Usually, our meeting place is under a tree by the sea in a residential area. Can you go and have a look?"

Ying looked at the sky: "It's so late, will the other party still be there?"

"Sometimes, sales are better at night." Kurisu smiled bitterly.

"It's okay. If he's not here, we can go directly to his residence and lure him out." Jiang Yi asked the other party's name from Kurisu, so that he could tell the fortune and perform the circular light mirror technique.

"Oh, right! You're good at finding people." Paimon suddenly realized, "Then let's go quickly."

The merchant who sells crystallized bone marrow is named Werner.

At night, I still stay there to do business.

"I haven't seen you before. Are you new here? What do you want from me?" Werner was a blond man with an arrogant attitude.

Jiang Yi looked at the wooden box next to him, and saw several large blue-purple crystals in the box.

A deep and ominous power emanates implicitly.

"Crystallized bone marrow..." He looked at several boxes.

Ying, Paimon and Werner talk.

"Yes, I just arrived on the island recently. As for the source of your goods..." Ying went straight to the point.

Werner had never seen such a person before: "Go away, do you understand the rules? I have told you the source of goods, so I can't do business anymore. Business secrets, business secrets, do you understand?"

Paimeng snorted. Even though she was not right, she still said: "This person has a bad attitude..."

Jiang Yi glanced at Werner and began to read his mind, observing his strongest emotions and past.

"As for the price...can it be cheaper?" Ying asked.

"Are you asking about the price just because you want to buy it?" Werner responded quickly, "Oh, I see. Did the people from Kulisu ask you to intercede?"

Ying didn't expect that her purpose would be seen through at once.

"Oh, it's not up to them. I'm not paying any less." Werner waved his hand to drive them away. "Go, go, tell Kulisu and the others that they should thank me for buying the goods from me. Without me, they can't even complete the task. You still dare to bargain?"

"You are from Mond, right?" Jiang Yi looked for a while and found that it was most appropriate to play the emotional card as in the plot.

Although he asked the question, his tone was affirmative.

"Hmm?" Ying and Paimon looked at each other's hair color and pupils, but they didn't look like native Inazuma people.

"So what..." Werner sneered. You are not from the same hometown as me, so why do you want to ask me for a discount?

"I have lived in Mondstadt for a long time. I have only heard of Mondstadt's spirit of freedom and the heart of chivalry, but never heard of ingratitude." Jiang Yi said, "You were born in Mondstadt, and later did business between Liyue and Inazuma, doing shipping business. After the country was closed, you became one of the foreigners stranded on the island. You had nothing and fell to the point where you could only pick up shells on the beach to make a living."

Werner looked at Jiang Yi with an unpleasant expression. Where did this guy get so much information from? "Who are you talking about? Ungrateful?"

"He used to be a member of the International Chamber of Commerce. The International Chamber of Commerce treated you well and often helped you when you were in trouble. But later, due to the influence of various laws, all members of the Chamber of Commerce could not protect themselves. You withdrew from the Chamber of Commerce and became a running dog of the Kande Bugyo. You exploited the merchants of the Chamber of Commerce. Isn't that ungrateful?"

Jiang Yi used the round mirror technique to peek into his past, and easily learned the secret by combining the plot. "If someone doesn't know, then don't do it yourself. You are now working for Inazuma as a foot soldier who is responsible for collecting taxes, right?"

Werner took a step back: "You...you want to threaten me?"

"It's still Jiang Yi who has to take action. The art of divination is really convenient." Paimeng said excitedly, "It turns out that he has found a backer to bully the people who helped you in the past."

"I...I..." Werner wanted to argue, but he couldn't say it. After all, that was the fact, wasn't it?

Ying stared at him, her hands on her hips.

"I'm not threatening you when I tell you this." Jiang Yi said, "Do you miss your hometown? The wind in your hometown, the dandelion wine in your hometown, and the songs of the bards in your hometown."

Werner looked at Jiang Yi, and suddenly found that the entire outlying island had disappeared and he was in Mondstadt.

The gate of Mondstadt, the Adventurer's Guild of Mondstadt, the Cat's Tail Tavern of Mondstadt, the Deer Hunter Restaurant of Mondstadt, the statue of Barbatos, the god of wind, the gift of angels... the bard, the dandelion, the fine wine, the windmill...

"This... this is..." Werner suspected that he was dreaming. He grabbed a flying dandelion with his hand. The dandelion fell directly into his hand, and the touch felt so real.

In my ears, I hear the language and poetry of my hometown.

"This is the scene in your heart!" Jiang Yi's figure appeared in front of him, "Your hometown Mondstadt."

"Want to watch this year's Wind Flower Festival?"

Werner's heart was beating and his eyes were a little blurry.

The lively Wind Flower Festival appeared before our eyes.

"Look again, this is Liyue."

The waves crashed against the bedrock of the pier, and thousands of sky lanterns rose up.

Fireworks filled the air. "Zhongyuan offal, delicious and inexpensive!" "Fresh grilled tiger fish!"

The shouting continued.

"May the flame of virtue be passed on..."

"This is last year's Liyue Lantern Festival."

Jiang Yi looked at the fireworks exploding in the sky.

"Liyue Harbor." Werner ran subconsciously and found that he seemed to have really traveled through time and space and came to Liyue. There really was a grilled tiger fish in his hand, and he could eat, smell and see it.

"You...are you a god?" He stood on the street in shock.

"I'm not a god yet..." Jiang Yi took out the badge of the Honorary Knight, "But in Mondstadt, I have the title of 'Honorary Knight'."

The surrounding scene once again turned into Mondstadt's Wind God Square.

"Honorary Knight?" Werner looked at the man in feathered clothes who brought the Thousand Winds of Mondstadt.

"Let the wind take its course." Jiang Yi pointed ahead, and the scene changed completely. The merchants from the International Chamber of Commerce who were struggling under the high pressure of Inazuma appeared.

"The merchants of the International Chamber of Commerce are all people who have left their homes like you, and they share the same suffering as you."

"Will you come forward?"

"Help them."

Only the words and witnesses obtained without the use of mental suggestion or hypnosis can be used as reasonable evidence in the future.

The surrounding scene disappeared.

Werner found that the dandelion seeds in his hand were still there.

"This is for you." Jiang Yi said.

Werner couldn't help it any longer, his eyes moistened: "Dandelion, I can't remember the last time I saw this thing."

"Mondstadt, my hometown... I really want to go back... the free city..."

He wiped his face and looked towards his hometown: "I often sneak to the beach at night to listen to the sound of the waves, thinking it is the sound coming from my hometown."

"At that time, I encountered those people from the Chamber of Commerce more than once, but I could only cover my face and leave secretly..."

Ying and Paimon looked at each other, and the other seemed to be ready to speak.

"I really want to have a heart-to-heart talk with them to relieve my long-standing depression, but they are too strong. A group of people who were originally helpless united together to find a way to survive... But I, I dare not..."

Werner burst into tears, "Give me a little promise, a little benefit, and I will...I am willing to do anything for those guys. They have brought shame to my hometown..."

"Thank you for letting me see my hometown." He said to Jiang Yi, "I am willing to tell you the source of the goods, and I am willing to testify when needed."

"I've had enough of this inner torture."

"The foot soldiers in charge of collecting taxes, Keijiro and his companions, told the merchants that the tax rate was raised, and the extra 'crystallized marrow' that replaced the tax was stored and given to me. When the merchants had no other place to look for it, they asked me to sell it back to them at a high price."

Paimeng was extremely angry: "What a sinister method, it's a huge profit without any investment."

"It's completely opaque as to what the Inazuma tax rate is," Ying frowned.

Jiang Yi was also speechless. The tax rate was completely determined by the higher-ups notifying the lower-ups how much tax to collect, and there wasn't even a notice.

The upper and lower levels collude with each other, and after something happens, the lower level can still take the blame.

It's unfair! It was the people below who raised the tax rate on their own initiative. When we discussed it, it was just a certain amount.

Even if we get evidence, we can't bring down these guys who are eating greasy food.

Unless someone can reorganize the entire Kande Bugyo.

"Governing a country, governing a place, both are knowledge... From being a single strong man to building a power, I should also learn from it. Don't forget to bow your head." Jiang Yi is very clear that his position is changing now.

If you stand high enough, unless you remain in seclusion, forces will naturally gather around you.

Before the time travel, immortals did not rule over the people, but they often played in the human world, saw the mortals in the mortal world, punished evil and promoted good, educated everyone, and led the wrong paths to the right path. At the same time, it also allowed themselves to remember their original intentions and not lose their humanity.

If one still has empathy and sheds tears for the suffering of all living beings, he is an immortal. If one does not have empathy, he is already a demon.

Although I only have one Lingshan Sect now, but in the future there may be more than just one Lingshan Sect.

"Always wipe it clean, don't let it collect dust."

"Compared to the cultivation of strength, the cultivation of the mind is the most difficult thing. The stronger you are, the further away you are." Jiang Yi also didn't know whether his future self could remain unchanged for thousands of years.

Can you still see the living beings below?