Lord Highlander

Suldak sat up straight, looked at Viscount Dalton indifferently and said:

"If you come to me and just plead guilty to me, then there is no need. The security team and tax office will punish them accordingly."

From the pile of signed documents on the desktop, he pulled out an executive document and pushed it in front of Viscount Dalton, pointed to the words on it, and continued:

"The leather workshop will be shut down, and the land will be confiscated back to the town without compensation."

Viscount Dalton's pupils contracted, and he placed the parchment execution in front of him, and looked down carefully.

Suldak added: "The tax evading caravan will be sentenced to pay a fine, and the main person in charge will also spend six months in prison. If the fine is not paid, the prison time will be doubled."

Viscount Dalton's face became a little ugly, and the haughty expression on his face was a little distorted.

He propped his hands on the table, leaned forward, and asked Suldak with hatred: "Are you... Are you targeting the Dalton family? I will go to the Wilkes City House of Representatives to complain about you."

Suldak leaned back on the chair, raised his index finger and shook it left and right, and said to Viscount Dalton:

"I'm not targeting a certain person, but the privileged faction who do things against all the uneasy regulations. I need to make them clear that now... the town of Dodan has the final say."

Suldak's gaze became extremely firm. He met Viscount Dalton's gaze and said without flinching:

"If you're not used to living in Dodan, get out of here, even go back to your ranch, or Wilkestown, or whatever, but if you want to live in Dodan, some The regulations and systems must be followed by me, if it cannot be done, I don't mind telling you how to do it..."

Viscount Dalton's face was ashen, as if struggling with some thoughts, he shouted outside the door.

A young nobleman walked in through the door. It was his second son, Derek Dalton.

It was him that Suldak saw the day he went to the leather workshop, and later he ran to the military camp, but Suldak ignored him at that time.

Viscount Dalton stared at his son with a gloomy face, but his voice was very gentle, and he asked, "The mayor thinks that you ordered those merchants to evade taxes when buying leather from the tannery, isn't that true?"

Derek was slightly taken aback. His father asked this in the first sentence. It seemed that he and the mayor had not reached an agreement in private.

He quickly said: "Father, the leather workshop has been sold to Bill, and the transaction contract was completed just yesterday. This matter has nothing to do with me."

Viscount Dalton closed his eyes and squeezed out a sentence from his throat. The hoarse voice seemed dry and bitter: "This matter really has nothing to do with you?"

"Yes." Derek lowered his head, not daring to look into Suldak's eyes.

"Go and call Bill in..." When Viscount Dalton said this, he opened his eyes almost at the same time, and he almost gritted his teeth to say this.

Suldak felt that he was sitting in the mayor's office, almost like an audience, watching Viscount Dalton's wonderful performance alone.

This viscount has a high status, and he is used to dominating the small town on weekdays.

A young man wearing breeches on his lower body, a waistcoat on his upper body, and a ponytail on the back of his head walked into Suldak's office.

"Are you Bill?" Suldak asked him.

"Yes" the young man named Bill said flatly.

Suldak had seen him in the leather workshop, and he was indeed the person in charge in the leather workshop at that time.

At this time, Suldak asked him directly: "Dreek Dalton sold the leather workshop to you?"

"Yes, I bought it, and I organized a leather transaction with local merchants yesterday. In order to avoid paying taxes, I set the transaction to be by the Dodan River at night." Bill sighed as he spoke, and his voice became more and more serious. Low.

"So...you are the owner of the leather workshop now?" Suldak asked again.

Bill didn't understand the meaning of Suldak's repeated question, but he answered honestly, "Yes, I am."

"Are you a nobleman?" Suldak asked him.

Because he didn't see any badges on his chest, neither ones representing the family nor the titles.

"I'm not a nobleman, I'm an official knight of the Green Empire." Bill answered honestly.

Suldak felt that he might have completely forgotten about chivalry.

However, for a formally canonized knight of the Green Empire, even if they violated the law, even if the evidence is solid, as long as they are willing to pay a fine, they can still be exempted from punishment.

But this precondition is that the victim must not be an aristocrat.

Like this kind of tax evasion, it can hardly be regarded as a crime in many places.

Suldak casually flipped through a thick law code on the table, looked up and said to Bill:

"You will be punished by the Duodan Town Tax Office. As a knight, you can pay a ransom in exchange for your exemption from punishment."

At this moment, Bill lowered his head, thought for a while and said, "I am willing to serve the sentence..."

This choice was somewhat beyond Viscount Dalton's expectations, and Viscount Dalton looked at Bill in surprise.

Bill no longer avoided his gaze, raised his head to meet his eyes, and looked back seriously...

At this moment, something seemed to separate them.

"In this case, come and take him down."

Suldak wondered if he drank the lesser invisibility potion, or how could he be so invisible in his office...

After all, Viscount Dalton is a nobleman, and he has a large pasture in the south of Dodan Town, and there are many guards in the manor, so he can be regarded as a noble lord.

Such an aristocrat, as long as his personality is not too withdrawn, must have his own social circle in Dodan Town.

In doing so, Suldak stood on the opposite side of these nobles, at least it would not leave a good impression in the eyes of many local nobles.

...

Almost everyone in the town hall saw Viscount Dalton angrily leaving with his son, apparently failing to trust the mayor.

Only then did Suldak call Mrs. Luna and Batra the tax collector, and told them to follow up on the construction of the riverside wooden house.

The land by the river is almost leveled, and a large amount of wood has now been transported to the site, and now craftsmen are needed to bring their hands into the site, ready to start building wooden houses.

However, Suldak simply didn't know what to say about the existing wooden house style.

The wooden houses built by the people here are completely square wooden boxes, the difference is that one is bigger and the other is smaller.

After being built, the interior of the wooden house is divided with wooden boards, and all wooden houses have no aesthetic feeling at all.

Suldak felt that after food and clothing were solved, the improvement of people's living standards was mainly reflected in the perception of beauty, so these riverside wooden houses must be made more delicate.

He has some thoughts in his heart, but he is not good at painting and cannot express what he thinks in his heart.

As a result, he began to look forward to it.

I hope that even if Baron Martineau is just talking on paper, he must draw those architectural pictures more beautifully...

Mrs. Luna is in charge of the wooden house by the river, and Selina is in charge of the Temple of the Two Goddesses.

After explaining this, Suldak hurried to the barracks, because the order from the military department came.

...

As soon as Suldak entered the barracks, the herald handed over a transfer order to him, and then he got on Gu Bolai's horse and rushed to the next town.

The transfer order clearly ordered the reinforcement troops here to evacuate Dodan Town within three days and return to the original camp.

After receiving the order from above, Adams and Gallatin smiled wryly. They were indeed a little depressed. They had just started harvesting the wheat, and they were immediately notified to end this reinforcement trip. It is estimated that these soldiers will earn a lot less. money.

The only good thing is that Adams finally got the only magic pattern construction suit before the evacuation, and it was still a primary power type.

The magic attribute on the magic pattern structure is very much in line with Adams' characteristics.

As the reinforcements began to prepare to evacuate Dodan Town, the barracks once again ushered in a wave of exchange.

Although the businessman Malakom had shipped the third batch of merit rewards to Dodan Town a few days ago, facing the large number of soldiers in the garrison, it still couldn't meet the needs of all the soldiers.

Many soldiers who reinforced Dodan Town failed to exchange for the magic weapons they had in hand, not to mention the magic pattern construction alone, there were only a few of them in total, and only first-rank fighters could use them.

Items such as magic scrolls and magic rune plates are not exchange bestsellers.

For these reinforcement soldiers who are about to leave Dodan Town, Suldak repeatedly emphasized only one sentence, that is, before leaving, all merit points must be exchanged for rewards.

Because these merit points cannot be circulated between camps, if you leave without exchanging them, it will become very difficult to exchange them later...

It doesn't matter if you don't have single-product magic pattern construction and magic weapons! Suldak took out crates of magic spar and gold coins this time. The golden Grimm Empire gold coins are hard currency wherever they go, and magic spar is the main currency in the magic market. Exchange of these is more valuable than magic weapons. But the disadvantage is that these achievements cannot be converted into corresponding combat power in time.

The night before the 800 reinforcements left Dodan Town, Suldak took out nearly 40,000 gold coins to wipe out the achievements of these soldiers.

When they left Duodan Town, almost every soldier had a heavy purse around his waist, and the smiles on his face were also full of expectations for a better life tomorrow.

In addition to the large amount of money exchanged by these reinforcements, the young tribal warriors who had just joined the Archer Battalion also received a living allowance this time.

Although not much, only one or two gold coins, but for these young native warriors, it is a considerable amount of wealth.

After the native soldiers got the gold coins, they began to purchase some cheap daily necessities in the town of Dodan, which made them feel the strong purchasing power of merit value. Almost everyone carried a bag of food back to the military camp. Stock up in the barracks, and when you have a chance to go home, you will carry the food back.

Of course, Suldak has also been in close contact with many indigenous tribes in the hills and mountains recently, not only wanting to let the young people of the tribes join the cavalry camp, but more importantly, the business of magic herbs.

Magic herbs are now in the Green Empire, and it is completely a seller's market, and there is no need to worry about selling as many as they have.

The young aborigines who exchanged the gold coins sent the supplies they bought to the temporary shelter of the tribe, which made other tribe fighters who did not participate in the garrison a little excited, so Suldak recruited troops from the aboriginal tribe again and formed a brand new team. Heavy Armored Infantry Battalion, and replenish the Archer Battalion to full strength.

In the garrison camp in Dodan Town, in just one week after the reinforcements left, the total number of people quickly expanded to 2,000.