Chapter 32 Guilds
"I can use the genre, but it's bad, so I need someone who is familiar with the local situation."
Zhao Mai finished this passage in a stuttering common phrase and continued to look at the guy in front of him who was nicknamed "Mad Rat".
From the outside, he has nothing to do with creatures like mice. His face is very hard, he has a medium figure, slightly muscles, and his skin is well maintained. From the eyebrows and eyes, he is about the same age as Zhao Mai, and he is an older young man with both maturity and passion in his eyes.
If he could dress up well, he would definitely be an excellent young man. It’s a pity that his current dress of old clothes with patches destroyed the overall image. However, his common language is very clear and his speaking speed is very slow - or deliberately slowed down so that Zhao Mai could understand - which provided him with a lot of extra points.
"I understand. You want to hire me as a servant to help with all kinds of chores," Green said. "Although this is not my main business, I am absolutely competent. According to the agreed price of the guild, the employment price of the whole-day servant in Nebo Town cannot be less than 5 silver coins per day. I can provide better services, so the offer is 8 silver coins per day."
Zhao Mai thought about it and found that he understood what he meant without much effort. This was valuable. He found that Green was very talented in language and knew that some words belonged to important parts of the sentence, so he focused on explaining it clearly. In this way, even if the remaining parts were not fully understood, and by connecting these main words, he could understand the whole sentence. For this reason, it was necessary to pay more money. Anyway, all his money was taken from the dwarf magician.
"The first three days are considered trials. I am willing to pay 5 silver coins every day and then increase them later. How about this?"
"Of course, this is allowed by the guild. If you have no urgent matters now, please come with me to the guild to register so that I can start the service."
Zhao Mai nodded and asked about the situation of the guild. "Crazy Rat" Green took a lot of effort to explain the role of the guild to Zhao Mai.
The so-called guild is a place that specializes in handling matters related to civil contracts, which can provide drafting, review, notarization, storage and accountability, which is somewhat similar to the combination of civil courts, notary offices and law firms. Such a combination has the problem of insufficient division of labor and excessive power, but it is still a very progressive initiative for Graleone's current development stage.
The guild's business involves all aspects. A group of people who specialize in document and text have determined the elements that should be used for standardized contracts. It is said that in this process they have referred many devil's soul contracts to achieve foolproof level, although this is still a dream at present.
Because there are quite a lot of illiterate people, they often suffer losses when signing contracts and documents. The existence of guilds has changed this situation, and the standardized market has brought a larger market. In addition, Neibo Town likes negotiations, guilds' business is getting bigger and bigger. Using the service fees collected, guilds have the ability to hire adventurers and seek compensation for those who have broken contracts.
"The guild only cares about whether the recovered gold coins can make up for the interests of the injured, and does not care about the life or death of the defaulter." Green shrugged his shoulders and reminded Zhao Mai in a very serious tone: "Killing is easier than catching alive, and mercenaries like to work in the most efficient way, so most of the defaulters cannot survive."
"Is there no lord in the local area? He doesn't care?"
"If the defaulter remains local, he will usually go to the guild to explain why the default is broken. As long as you discuss, there will always be a solution." Green said: "Once you escape, you will leave the jurisdiction of the local lords, and other lords are not very concerned about these matters. After all, the one who died was not the one who led the people."
Zhao Mai understood. The autonomy of lords in various places plus a part of "tit for tooth, eye for eye for eye". Although this is still an orderly civilization, it cannot be compared with the world he is familiar with. Every place has its own rules, and every place has its own violent institutions. Judgments and punishments may come quickly and ruthlessly.
There is no unified constitution and no clear judgment system for division of labor. This is a world where security is not guaranteed. Perhaps in villages, neighbors can still watch over each other and protect the most basic order, but after leaving the town, it is a world that uses the laws of the jungle.
"If you do not have the certificate from other businesses in other places and do not have a guarantor locally, you have to pay some fees if you want to register your identity, which is equivalent to one-tenth of the value of the contract." Green asked: "How many days will you hire me at most?"
"The longest should not exceed...two months." Zhao Mai thought for a while and replied.
Through the clock on the car, he knew that Graleone and his world had a thirty-fold gap in time flow rate. This was a stable one month and thirty days, which was equivalent to a day on the earth. He had been there for almost half a month, and it was almost the limit to staying for another half month to one month. He was missing on the earth, and maybe someone would look for him. He didn't want his family to worry too much.
The registered identity he used was "Mike", and the local contacts used the name of the Jungle Ranger Carl, which surprised Green and couldn't help but widen his eyes. Seeing his expression, Zhao Mai asked: "Why, is Ranger Carl very famous?"
"Although he is rarely seen, everyone knows that he is a person trusted by the local townspeo and the druid community. He was the one who helped the druid help Nebo town, and he was less than ten years old that year."
Zhao Mai picked up the reserved grain and showed Green. "This dog was given to me by him, and now he is my good brother."
The reserved grain undone at the right time, and then stuck out his tongue to act cute. Green smiled, but his other thoughts turned to his heart.
After a few hours of contact, he found a lot of doubts. This Mike, who came from outside the town, did not fully understand the common language, but he was not uneducated. When a real country bumpkin first came to the guild, he would be frightened by the complicated procedures and novel concepts here and became at a loss, but Mike looked at his ease and could even point out the shortcomings of some places.
From chaos to order, it requires enough learning, but what kind of learning does not have a common language? This outsider has other native languages. He speaks stumblely and sometimes has grammatical errors, but he can find something unique in his native language. Green himself is also proficient in many languages and has never seen similar grammatical habits.
Considering that the overly obedient dog and the fact that this person was related to Ranger Carl, Green immediately thought of the druid community. The mysterious druid language has never been rumored, and maybe this is Mike's feet.
Things became interesting.
"Why are you registering as a businessman, not an adventurer?" Green asked. "The businessman pays more taxes, which are not appropriate."
"Because I have something to sell, and if I can, I even want to open up a business path, then I have to register as a businessman, right?"
"Actually, you can entrust other merchants to sell on their behalf, which will be cheaper."
The guild's documents raised their eyes and looked at the "crazy rat" without exposing his words. Although Green's words were correct, if the tax was taken into account, the cost of entrusting a merchant to sell on his behalf would be low, but the profit might be reduced even more. However, the person named Mike in front of him was a smart person with his own ideas, and he should have figured out the truth.
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Chapter completed!