Listening to these numbers, Linn felt like his head was spinning. He had personally participated in the entire incident and had guessed that there would be many deaths, but he did not expect that there would be so many.
"In addition, during the follow-up investigation, the security team also discovered a strange thing. On the day of the catastrophe, nine wizards in Harbor Town were mentally severely damaged inexplicably. Five of them have been confirmed dead, and the remaining The four people suffered severe brain injuries, which are no different from death." Orlando continued to report.
"After searching these wizards' mansions, the security team found some books on psychic magic, and this thing..."
Orlando took out a small box and placed it in front of Linn. Inside were nine rings.
"Each of them carries this thing with them. Judging from the runes on it, it may be a kind of magic for mutual communication, but the magic spell on it has long since expired and cannot be traced."
"Leave this matter to me. I will ask Master Raphael to study it in depth when I have time." Lin En nodded calmly, put away these [Rings of the Faceless Man], and prepared to arrive. At that time, it was directly reworked and made into the [Ring of Secret Magic].
Orlando nodded, without thinking much, and talked about another thing again.
When the news of Hellram's death was exposed, more than thirty wizards chose to leave the port of Iyetta, and some of them directly changed their sects to join other schools, and also took some apprentices with them.
"Do you need me to send someone to invite them back? I think these people will be very happy." Orlando said with a smile.
He felt that most of these wizards were filled with regret after learning that Linn had received the Order of the Sun.
They would never have imagined that, instead of declining, the Iyeta School was on the rise.
"No, since it was their own choice, let them go." Lin En shook his head, not regretting that these people had no sense of belonging to Iyetta, and staying here might not be a good thing.
You must know that sometimes internal ghosts are more difficult to deal with than external enemies. It is true that he is in short supply now, but he does not need everyone...
On the contrary, Lin En felt that although the entire seaport city had gone through a lot of hardships, it was not all without benefits. At least most of the unstable factors within the school had been eliminated.
"Where are the poor people and their families who were affected by the disaster? Have all arrangements been made? Have the pensions been paid?" Lin En asked with concern.
Although the whole story had little to do with him, it was caused by Hellram. The Parliament concealed this information for the sake of the stability of the wizarding land. At least they had to settle these innocent people who were affected by the disaster.
The total population of the entire Iyetta Harbor is not large. The poor living in Nancheng District are dispensable waste in the eyes of wizards, but in Linn's eyes, they are a very good working population.
"This... I'm afraid Ietta can't afford that much money now." Orlando said with a look of hesitation on his face, rather helplessly.
Lin En was stunned. As the largest seaport city in the Wizarding Land, it also monopolized part of the foreign trade, so it should be very rich.
He couldn't have secretly spent all the reserve funds in Iyetta Harbor while he was secretly studying psychic magic, right?
Linn quickly found some financial reports from a pile of information. After reading it for a few minutes, he discovered that the entire economic situation of Iyeta could only be described as weird.
First of all, wizards and civilians are completely two economic systems. Except that the latter needs to supply the former with food, there is basically not much connection.
After all, it is common for precious magic materials to be sold for a few or even a dozen magic gold coins, and a laborer without magic will not be able to make so much money in his lifetime.
Wizards are basically not engaged in ordinary production activities. They make alchemy equipment and magic potions that only wizards can afford.
Therefore, thousands of wizards and a large number of apprentices throughout the wizarding land formed a unique cycle, building an economic superstructure and completely disconnected from the civilians.
The most important thing is that as a privileged class, they don’t even pay taxes!
In the past, the finances of seaport cities basically did not rely on taxes. There was little money to be gained from plundering civilians, and it was basically just a symbolic collection.
The real big deal is relying on foreign trade, taking advantage of the geographical advantage of the Iyetta seaport close to the outside world, and continuously transporting various ores and scarce products from the Wizarding Land through merchant ships, and then they only need to turn around and sell them to Greenriel City. You can make a lot of money.
Yes, just making a lot of money... Although this is a near-monopoly business, foreign trade also means taking the risk of exposing the entire wizarding land.
In exchange for the acquiescence of the parliament, the prices of the scarce materials transferred have been set in advance. It is impossible to make huge profits through this. The annual income is about 30,000 magic gold coins, which is enough to supply the entire seaport. The functioning of the city.
Thanks to him, one of the three lines has been cut off, and the largest financial source is likely to shrink.
Lin En immediately felt that the tens of thousands of magic gold coins he earned from selling glass, paper pages and even airships didn't seem like a lot.
I can still make a lot of money every day now, but that won't be the case in a few months.
The entire wizarding land has a combined population of only hundreds of thousands. The market is too small and will be saturated quickly, so we must consider continuing to expand foreign trade.
Many of his next big moves will basically require money, and appeasing the families of the poor people in Nancheng District who died in vain will also cost a lot of money.
Linn thought for a long time and already had a rough idea in mind, then looked at Orlando. "I probably already know the situation at Iyetta Harbor. I will take out 10,000 magic gold coins to replenish the treasury and settle the innocent people in Nancheng District first. We can't delay it any longer."
"As for the remaining funds, they will all be used to purchase these materials." Linn handed over a thin piece of paper that had been written on.
Orlando took it, no matter how many times, when he saw this kind of paper as white as snow, he could not help but feel some emotion in his heart. Who would have thought that this thing was actually made of wood.
"Well, saltpeter, charcoal, sulfur, brass..." Orlando glanced at it. The page was filled with various raw materials, including very common things like saltpeter and charcoal, as well as some ores that he had never heard of. Linn also specially marked many characteristics of these ores and asked him to find anyone who knew these things.
