X-Dragon Era-Chapter 493 358-360 Initial Clues_2

Upon hearing this voice, all the experts from the Dragon Head Gang couldn't help but look up, and what met their eyes was a huge Mysterious Yellow bell suspended in midair. Atop the bell stood a man and a woman, and everyone knew that Wang Qiang had just perished at their hands.

In fact, Wang Qiang was far from the first person to die at this couple's hands. Over the past few days, countless experts had fallen to them. Although their own strength was still limited to the crystal tier, even the Amethyst Eight-Star Wang Qiang had died without the power to resist them, hadn't he?

Their strength might not be that impressive, but once they set their sights on someone, not even an amethyst-tier expert would fare well. Their assassination techniques were elusive, and coupled with the endless array of magical artifacts, no one was confident they could escape their assassination.

As everyone pondered, the Dual Assassins in the sky retracted the Chaos Bell, and where the golden light flashed... a golden bridge appeared out of thin air. Under everyone's gaze, the two leisurely stepped onto the golden bridge and disappeared into the sky.

With the gang leader dead and many high-ranking members assassinated, the Dragon Head Gang was left headless and immediately disbanded on the spot. After receiving a warning from the Dual Assassins, most of the gang members left Shoushan City at the first opportunity. Only a small number of die-hards insisted on staying, but... their persistence didn't last long. Three days after the deadline, within a single day, all those who remained were beheaded, their bodies piled up outside the South City Gate, and their heads hung at the four gates as a warning to the remnants of the Dragon Head Gang that transgressors would be killed without mercy!

As the Dragon Head Gang leader Wang Qiang met his end, Xin Yun and Yi Luo Xiang successfully arrived in Great River City, a small city built beside the river with a population of around one million. It was quite inconspicuous, and Godslayer Luo Fu had chosen such an unremarkable small city to live in.

As for Yan Qingying and Ming Xuan, they didn't come this time. They each had their own Angel Envoys and disciples, so how could they have the time to run around with Xin Yun? Besides... there was no need. Even if they came, they wouldn't be of much use.

Until now, Luo Fu had been in seclusion for ten years, with his oldest child being fifteen and the youngest just turning ten. Based on the timing, his eldest son and second son presumably had their incidents recently.

After arriving in Great River City, Xin Yun didn't go directly to find Luo Fu but bought a house not far from Luo Fu's home and settled down, spending his days in closed-door cultivation, quietly waiting for that moment to arrive.

Getting Luo Fu to come out of seclusion to help wasn't a simple matter. Luo Fu was the God of Slaughter from a previous era, with unparalleled strength and an exceptionally volatile temperament. In the entire world, except for his children and wife, he never took orders from anyone. To get such a person to work for others was next to impossible.

If Xin Yun were to approach him now, the likelihood of Luo Fu coming out to help would not exceed 1%. To avoid danger, the likelihood of Luo Fu personally killing Xin Yun would be 99%!

Every day, besides cultivating, Xin Yun also took the time to imprint all seven of Luo Fu's children. This way, even if they died, Xin Yun could immediately replicate their bodies. As long as he could attract their True Spirits, resurrection was possible! This was Xin Yun's bargaining chip for requesting Luo Fu's assistance and was not to be taken lightly.

Time slowly passed, but Luo Fu's seven children remained unharmed, while on the other side... Shoushan City was gradually getting back on track.

According to Yi Luo Xiang's vision, the management of Shoushan City was to be handled by ten local elders chosen by the populace, with taxes set at a mere 10%, remarkably low. Most importantly, this 10% tax was not levied both ways, but only one way.

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In other factions, this 10% tax would be on every individual. For example, if someone bought a piece of bread, the seller would need to pay a 10% tax, and the buyer would also have to pay a 10% tax, with the tax amount decided by the transaction value.

However, Xin Yun's tax system was different. If someone were to buy bread, then only one party needed to pay the tax, which fell on the merchant, not on the buyer. However... when they bought the bread, the price had already included the tax...

If originally bread cost ten copper a piece, then now it would be sold for eleven copper, with ten copper being the price for the bread, and the extra copper being the collected tax.

The benefits of this method were clear. For 99% of the people in Shoushan City, the existence of taxes was imperceptible. Although they bought goods every day, they never needed to pay a single penny in taxes. Even though the cost of taxes was included in the products, as long as the money was not collected from them, the common people were immensely happy.

If it were like before, selling a piece of bread would mean paying taxes once for the seller and once for the buyer, directly taking money from the pockets of the people. For the penny-pinching populace, this was of course utterly unacceptable.

For merchants, such a tax system was also very popular. Not paying taxes was out of the question; after all, someone had to ensure their protection, right? Moreover, they only paid a 10% tax. To find lower taxes than this would be impossible anywhere in the world, and considering that it was a one-way tax, it was already half as low as the lowest taxes worldwide.

With the taxes established, what followed was straightforward—handing over city management to the ten elders elected by all the city's residents. They were free to manage as they saw fit. However, there absolutely could not be any errors concerning tax matters. They were already collecting so little; any mistakes would be unacceptable. How else would they sustain?