Chapter 112 A Different Town
Xu Lai was choked and speechless. He simply snorted and said:
“Don’t worry about anything else, what nonsense. Knights, nobles, all listen to me in my village.
I also collect taxes..."
At this point, Xu Lai paused and glanced specifically. He glanced at Watanabe.
Watanabe's expression did not change much, but in general he could still accept it. Although the taxes in this world were heavy, under the influence of magic, the food matured very quickly.
Although this has led to a severe depreciation of food, with 30%, at least he will not starve to death. If he is alone, he may be able to save some money so that he can find a wife in the future.
Besides, Xu Lai also gave away houses and grains. These are family assets that take a long time to save.
"What I mean is that you pay 30% and keep 70% for yourself."
As soon as Xu Lai said these words, Watanabe almost stared out of his eyes and said in horror: " We seven?”
Xu Lai nodded and said: "Of course I have other conditions. When the village is in danger, all villagers must stand up and protect their homes."
Watanabe swallowed and said: "Of course, It's like this everywhere."
Xu Lai said again: "My second request is that you must keep it in your stomach forever. You cannot tell anyone without my permission. People.
If you tell others, I will confiscate all your property in the village and drive you out of the village. Can this be done in this war? During this period, it was hard to say whether Count Ani would survive. He probably had no intention of going to remote areas to collect taxes.
Even if taxes are collected, there are only a few farmlands in Xu Lai anyway, and the annual harvest is nothing but worthless grain.
But these taxes are worthless, and the rules passed down from ancient times to this empire cannot be bought with thousands of dollars.
Xu Lai dared to announce his seventy-three taxes today. Tomorrow, Count Aini would dare not even fight the orcs, but come and punish Xu Lai first.
Compared with people in this world, the only thing Xu Lai has more is the countless insights from the information age.
One person fighting against the entire aristocratic class sounds romantic, but from ancient times to the present, Xu Lai has never heard of anyone who has succeeded.
Of course, Xu Lai didn't just want to be taken advantage of and had to go against others.
There must be a reason why the 37-7 tax has been passed down to this day.
The nobles cannot only recruit monster armies. They have people to support and the nobles' pomp and pomp. In the absence of other stable sources of income, they can only focus on the little wealth in the hands of farmers.
Xu Lai just wanted to gather people's hearts in this way. After all, he was also an outsider, so how could he gain the trust of the aborigines so easily.
The advantage of confidentiality is not only to prevent other nobles from knowing, but also to facilitate him to adjust the tax rate in the future. He himself does not like the three melons and two dates in the hands of farmers, but sometimes the situation and situation are not the same. Human will can be transferred.
Xu Lai really doesn't like people like Watanabe, but one thing is that as a superior, he must keep his word.
If Watanabe really has a way to lead them into the rear through the secret passage and successfully capture the horse thieves' lair, then there is no problem in exchanging this credit for a free body.
Given a leg of lamb, Xu Lai wanted to let him go out to rest, but he was afraid that he would run away, so he just asked him not to dig ore and stayed in the cave temporarily.
Xu Lai studied the map while eating and chose a relatively open location as the battlefield.
There are 7 fixed harpy colonies scattered around here. If some mobile harpy colonies are added, there should be more than 500 harpies.
If this was done yesterday, the scale should be in the thousands. If it were done today, time must be controlled. The harpies in the distance must be killed in time before these harpies try to kill themselves. Bring over.
This kind of battle is similar to yesterday's, except that it requires more tacit cooperation, and the task of attracting monsters has been transferred from Yu Lan to Giselle.
While the battle on Xu Lai's side was in full swing, Xu Lai appropriately slowed down the rhythm of his own attacks, allowing the archers who kept firing their bows to take a break from time to time. Wei Yihong and Tahan also Successfully arrived in the town.
Along the way, Tahan's reticence almost drove Wei Yihong crazy. As a salesman, even though he didn't like to talk at first, he has now become a talkative person.
Although he hesitated when Xu Lai recruited him before, in fact, as long as he ignored him, he could really drive himself crazy.
But along the way, no matter how Wei Yihong ran out of things to say, the tin can next to him would only answer words like "um", "ah", "oh" and the like.
If Tahan simply didn't speak, Wei Yihong could still treat him as a monster soldier, but he could speak and understand.
So, as soon as he arrived in the small town, Wei Yihong felt that he was liberated. Before becoming a refugee, he also wandered between several villages and towns.
However, the town in front of him was obviously different from the villages and towns he had encountered before. The difference is not that one is a prairie town and the other is an inland town, but that this town is full of patrolling knights.
Even though Wei Yihong had a knight by his side, knights were already considered the lowest nobles in the empire. How could they be so easy to meet?
After walking only a hundred steps into the town, Wei Yihong met two waves of knights and a wave of militiamen. Everyone asked him where he came from, but even Wei Yihong himself didn’t know that he was Where did it come from.
He heard from Xu Lai that their village was called Qingfeng Village, but no one in the town knew it.
Fortunately, Wei Yihong was accompanied by a knight. Everyone only briefly interrogated him and let him go after confirming that Wei Yihong was not an orc spy.
The orcs are not really stupid. They bribed many caravans to gather information. The town only became vigilant after suffering several losses.
In addition to the patrolling militiamen and knights, what Wei Yihong saw the most were various merchants hawking.
There used to be a special street for selling goods in the town, but now that street can no longer accommodate the merchants, so they have to set up shop on the ground anywhere they can find a place outside the town.
The scene in front of me was not at all similar to what Xu Lai described.
However, Wei Yihong also quickly found out the situation. Xu Lai had evacuated earlier, so there were not many people when he passed by the town.
However, as villages moved forward, even a small town that was not well-defended was demolished by the people of the temple in order to collect stones and wood from the town.
Coupled with the constant arrival of temple knights and priests from behind, even Count Aini, who had been carefully defending, could not withstand the pressure of the temple and had to send a group of his knights to garrison and support a lot of supplies.
With such a large flow of people, the temple plans to connect the three nearby towns into one and build it into a frontline fortress against the orcs. How can it not attract merchants?
And the orcs were also hesitant. I don’t know whether it was because there were not many troops crossing Pingfeng Mountain, or because there were other considerations.
In short, they don’t seem to be satisfied with occupying nearly one-third of Pingfeng Grassland now. From time to time, they will send spies to the town, bribe businessmen to report on the progress of the fort’s construction, and even simply Send out troops to fight the human scouts.
But they just didn’t send heavy troops, and seemed to be waiting for humans to build this fortress.
Wei Yihong didn't know exactly what it was, and because he was asking for this information, even though he had a knight guard by his side, he was still approached.
The people of the Noble Knights may give Tahan a little face, but the knights of the temple don't care.
Orcs are running around these days. Their warg knights, wolf knights and even frost wolf knights, although their frontal combat effectiveness is not as good as the heavy armored knights of the temple, they move extremely quickly.
They always run away as soon as they touch them. After taking advantage of something, they immediately flee like the wind. Many new temple knights and knight followers who have no experience in fighting orcs will stay here forever. on this land.
Besides, the knights and priests of the God of War are not easy to talk to. They hate the businessmen who are willing to serve as the orcs' spies, and their revenge is extremely cruel.
Wei Yihong finally reached the gate of the town and saw dozens of corpses hanging on the gate that had been enlarged several times. Almost all of them were spies captured by the Temple Knights.
Wei Yihong, who was asking for information everywhere, was quickly reported as a spy, and was then blocked in a corner by the temple knights.
At this moment, Tahan, who had been letting Wei Yihong make the decision, finally stood up. He held the sword in one hand and the shield in the other, pushing away the young knights with his own strength. ‘
Although several young people are also called temple knights, their rank is not enough to be a knight, and the leader is only a knight’s retinue.
They are called reserve knights in the temple. The real knights of the temple must start from the paladins.
Tahan's heavy helmet and armor prevented these young and energetic knights from arresting Wei Yihong like they did with ordinary businessmen.
The leading knight whispered: "Your Excellency, please don't hinder our work."
Tahan frowned, but he was wearing a visor, so others couldn't tell.
He said: "We have done something wrong and violated imperial law. Why do you arrest us?"
At this moment, Wei Yihong behind him said: "Tower Sir Khan, we have done nothing wrong and are not afraid of ghosts knocking on the door. We just need to go with them and explain clearly.”
Wei Yihong knew that if he had a conflict with these people, not only would he not be able to complete the task assigned to him by Xu Lai, but he and Tahan would also have to get involved, which would also cause Xu Lai a big trouble.
It's okay to cause trouble for Xu. The key is that his riding skills are terrible. If something happens, he will have no place to run. He doesn't see a second refuge in this place.
There was a data error in the previous chapter. 3 points of agility only increased 1 point of movement speed and attack speed. It has been modified, sorry.
(End of this chapter)