Dark Fairy Tale: Tyrant, Conquer Cinderella at the Beginning

The Eagle Castle does not look majestic or spectacular.

It is completely incomparable to the dukedom where he grew up and lived before he was granted the fief.

But at least this is his own kingdom.

There is still a lot to be done. Richard has a lot to do.

As soon as he returned to the castle, Harvey, the city’s tax collector, came to see him.

“Let him in!” Richard waved his hand casually and walked towards the reception room.

The reception room was very simple, with a few rattan chairs and sofas, a few round tables, and a few potted plants on a wooden table against the wall. That was all.

This viscount’s territory used to belong to another viscount. A few years ago, this viscount was killed on the battlefield. Since he had no descendants, the territory was confiscated.

Of course, this place originally belonged to the territory of Richard’s father, Duke Gewen. After confiscation, it was returned to the direct jurisdiction of Duke Gewen.

The castle has been unattended in the past few years and has been abandoned. Richard didn’t have time to deal with these details for a while.

The most important thing in front of him at the moment is to gain killing points through hunting.���Improve your own strength.

Secondly, quickly grasp the situation of Changying Territory and formulate a reasonable development plan.

So my office and residence will be moved back.

Just enough for daily use.

As the servant brought the juice, a middle-aged man with brown hair and a gray shirt walked in quickly.

“”Mr. Viscount!”

Richard took the information handed over by the other party, glanced at him, and finally stretched out his hand to signal him to sit down.

“Tell me about the situation!” Richard flipped through the information and said,”Have you figured it out?”

Harvey nodded with a flattering smile:

“Right! The population of our territory is about 4,000 to 5,000.……”

“Probably?” Richard frowned, and reached out to tap the vague number written on the document.”Do you think this is the result I want?”

Harvey was sweating profusely:

“Lord Viscount, we in Changying Territory have never conducted a detailed statistics, so it is really difficult to count them clearly at the moment.”

Richard was speechless, took a deep breath, and calmed himself down:

“go on!”

“Yes, yes!” Harvey wiped the sweat from his forehead, thankful that he had escaped the disaster for the time being,”I have found five or six people who can read that you asked me to find.……”

“Five or six? You can’t tell?” Richard interrupted.

“Six, but one of them can read, which is not too many.……”

Harvey stopped talking here, and when he saw that Richard ignored him, he continued:

“The rest were serfs, tenants, some freemen, a blacksmith, and a tailor.”

Richard frowned:

“In such a big territory like Long Eagle, there is only one blacksmith and one tailor?”

Harvey lowered his head, not knowing what to say. He thought that this was not his fault. After all, who was willing to be a blacksmith and who was willing to be a tailor was the people’s own business.

“By the way, Lord Viscount, according to rumors, there are dwarves in the forest. If we can gain their loyalty, we may not lack blacksmiths!”

After saying this, he even looked at Richard with an expectant look, as if waiting for praise.

Richard was completely speechless and said coldly:

“From now on, I don’t want to hear words like”probably”,”five or six”,”rumors”, etc., understand?”

Can these words really come from a tax officer’s official report?

It’s really amazing!

Harvey was stunned, blinking his eyes, nodding with difficulty, thinking that the new viscount was too difficult to serve.

But let alone the fact that the other party was the second son of a powerful duke, even if he had no other background, a powerful viscount alone would not make him feel arrogant.

But Richard didn’t finish his words, and continued:

“In five or six days, you can’t even count the number of people. When you collect taxes, do you just collect them casually?

If I were such a tax officer, would no one be able to find out even if I took some out and put it in my pocket?”

Harvey, who was already nervous, heard this and slid off the chair with fright, his face pale.

“My Lord Viscount, I, I, I didn’t do that! I would never dare to embezzle anything, please understand!”

“Get up! Look at what you look like now!”

Richard was fed up with these idiots around him, and was too lazy to talk to him, so he scolded:

“I wasn’t there for the past, so I won’t investigate how you did it then. But now that I’m the lord of this viscountry, you have to do things strictly according to what I say. Do you understand?”

Harvey quickly stood up and nodded tremblingly:

“Yes, sir!”

“Gather all the people in the territory in the square tomorrow. I will give them a lecture. Also, pay attention to your image in the future. You are a tax collector, not a butcher. Don’t come to see me if your clothes are not neat and your hair is not washed!”

Richard looked disgusted.

Harvey saw Richard’s disgust, took a step back cautiously, and then bowed his head and said:

“Yes! I will follow your instructions!”

“”Get lost!”

Richard waved his hand to drive him away.

As Harvey left, Richard picked up the juice on the table and was about to drink it, but when he thought about the place where Harvey just sat not far from the juice, he suddenly lost his appetite.

He waved and called a maid:

“This glass of grape juice is for you. Change it for a glass of apple juice.”

The maid didn’t know why the lord, who usually loved grape juice, changed his taste today, but she didn’t dare to ask more. She took it and went down.

When they reached the back where Richard couldn’t see, the other maids showed envious eyes:

“That was the grape juice that the Viscount had brought. You are so lucky!”

The maid carrying the grape juice left happily, fearing that it would be snatched away by the sisters.

In the living room, Richard walked to the balcony, took a deep breath, and dispelled the previous negative emotions. He turned around and saw Cinderella still standing outside, so he called three maids.

“You two, take her to bathe and change clothes! Make her look nice!”

“Yes! Lord Viscount!”

Two maids came forward and took Cinderella away, with envy in their eyes that was much deeper than when they saw their colleagues being rewarded with grape juice, plus jealousy of Cinderella’s beauty.

Although Cinderella had not been completely cleaned up at this time, the figure she showed and the face that had been washed clean by the river before were enough to make her, a pearl covered in dust, shine.

At this time, Richard asked the remaining maid to call the chef over. He planned to let the chef roast the elk he had just hunted.

Deer meat is a good thing, it can replenish qi and blood, replenish deficiency and weakness, and replenish the kidneys and essence.

He planned to eat Cinderella today. After holding back for more than ten years, this bloody body was really going to be broken.