The Hero Who Troubles the Heroes

A feature of feudal countries is that "the vassals of vassals are not my vassals", the king can do whatever he wants in the royal domain, but you can't control what happens in the vassals of other vassals .

For example, in taxation, the king can only collect his own vassals, and tax collection by leapfrogging is not allowed.

If the king needs to introduce some national policy, such as adding a new tax for the whole country, then a three-level meeting must be called to solve it.

On the same day that Mordred and his party came to the real Abyss City, the third-level meeting of the Villingen Kingdom was finally held in Xidai City.

In the venue, sitting on the comfortable single sofa in the front row are members of the Villingen royal family. In addition to the two sons of the current King Barnett I, they also have relatives such as cousins ​​and cousins ​​who have accumulated over the years.

Sitting on the padded chairs behind the members of the royal family are all the first-class counts in the country, as well as some viscounts and barons with a long history in their families.

The last place was the representatives of the towns sitting on the wooden triangular stools. Each city in the Villingen Kingdom had two places for representatives, while the town had only one place.

Barnett I stood on the rostrum with a haggard face. In order to show the king's respect for representatives at all levels, the third-level meeting was the only place where the king stood and the others sat.

"In recent years, heavy dark clouds have been pressing on our heads, and the lightning bolts have hit us unscrupulously." Barnett I said in a very sad voice, "The minions of the demons stretched out before we knew it. Entering our beautiful homeland, greedy monsters took away our proud iron tower, tempted our powerful swordsman to fall, and even shameless human scum colluded with them to try to invade us and enslave us like cattle and sheep."

"We love peace and yearn for a peaceful and beautiful life, but we are not afraid of those enemies who were defeated by us hundreds of years ago, let alone those traitors of mankind!"

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In the following impassioned speech, Barnett I attributed all the problems encountered by the Villingen Kingdom in recent years, such as the disappearance of the iron tower, the disappearance of the summer palace, and the increasingly fierce conflict with the Bischberg Kingdom, to the conspiracy of the demons. .

In fact, this pot is not wrong.

As the saying goes, military issues are the continuation of political issues, and all political issues are basically economic issues.

In recent years, the Bischberg Kingdom on the north bank of the river has benefited from the wool industry, and the Royal Family of Rerik has gained a lot in the cotton textile industry. Along with the Kingdom of Redkin, it has undertaken the garment manufacturing industry. The orc tribes on the above were full of oil because of the effect of the "Big Fat Sheep Project". The Biberach royal family even took the line to the far north of Sherag early. Many things were shipped there and still profited after deducting the shipping cost. rich.

Only the Villingen Kingdom can now only act as a second-hand trader of wool between the Prairie and Bischberg Kingdom, earning a little hard-earned money.

In addition, the world is becoming less and less peaceful now, and the smell of war is getting stronger and stronger, and the beard that Barnett I was so anxious to begin to lose hair.

At the end of the speech, Barnett I spoke out the main topic of this three-level meeting - increasing the anti-magic tax.

At this moment, a civilian representative in the back row suddenly stood on the stool and shouted loudly: "Your Highness, since the anti-necromancy tax was introduced, our family can only eat bacon no bigger than a finger every day. We're going to starve to death!"

The entire venue seemed to be thrown into a pond of boulders, and the sound of "hum" instantly became chaotic.

"Yeah!" Another civilian representative shouted while standing on the stool, "In the past, the gentlemen said that they would have to pay the iron tower tax to build an iron tower. Later, when the undead came, they had to pay the anti-necromancy tax. Lu made the wool truck go fast and send donations often, and now we can't even afford bread!"

With these two people starting, other civilian representatives also dared to shout.

"I haven't added new clothes to my house for three years!"

"My son is starving himself to death trying to save money to buy a motorcycle!"

"My dog ​​and I grew up together, and they were so hungry last month that they learned to catch mice!"

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The representatives of the commoners who can come here are all wealthy people. They can’t be said to be rich or noble, but they can be considered to have no worries about food and clothing. Starvation is far away from them, but this does not mean that they are willing to pay an extra tax.

Compared to the civilian representatives who were scrambling to speak, the noble representatives were as calm as water.

Sometimes silence is also opposition.

The gentlemen all know that once the tax is levied, their wallets will definitely be deflated a little, which is almost like digging their hearts out.

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The helpless Barnett I picked up the hammer and hit it **** the podium a few times.

In the third-level meeting, everyone can speak freely, even His Majesty the King can't make everyone shut up, and can only use the hammer to remind them not to be too messy.

Barnett I said feebly: "Now adjourn for three days."

The three days of Gu Jing passed quickly, and the tax increase has been agitated in the country these days, and no one wants to take out an extra small copper plate for the invisible enemy.

During this time, the nobles who came from afar all spent between the bedroom and the reception, and one after another gossip spread among them.

At the same time, some uninvited guests came to the residence of some civilian representatives.

Some people put down a bag and left. When the representative opened the bag and found golden coins inside, a smile brighter than gold coins appeared on their faces.

In the bag some civilian representatives received, in addition to gold coins, there was a sharp dagger, which made their feet go weak.

"Gills," an old man pushed open the door of a civilian representative's room, "are you busy?"

Giles hurriedly got up from the ground, tried to pretend to be calm and replied, "Dad, what's the matter?"

The old man didn't answer, but asked suspiciously when he saw the bag of gold coins in the dagger exposed from the opening on the table: "Where did these come from?"

Giles said hesitantly: "Ah...this...this...this is...this is one of my former audience masters, he...he had been to our town before and saw me perform, and he liked it. Last night...yesterday he Saw me and said it was... give me a travel fee and a self-defense dagger."

When Dad saw him like this, he smiled and said, "Could it be that the woman you hooked up with in the past has met here again. If you want to hook up again, you should be warned now."

Giles only nodded slightly when he saw that his father helped him come up with an excuse.

Dad didn't take it seriously. Giles was the most famous juggler in their town. He looked good and had a smart head, but he was a bit lustful and often hooked up with passing ladies.

However, he is a man of righteousness, and sometimes helps to mediate disputes between neighbors, so he has a good reputation in the town, and he became a representative of the civilians at this meeting.

Dad didn't care about his affair, and said earnestly: "This time the king wants to increase taxes, you must not agree."

"The tax in the village is very heavy now. Do you still remember the cobbler's mother-in-law's house? The cobbler's mother-in-law is ill and the family has no money to buy medicine. Now she is thinking of selling one of the cobbler's mother-in-law's sister."

"Also, remember the drowning father and son we saw when we were by the river on the way? I heard this morning that the family ran out of food and could only drown the youngest child in the family, but both father and son fell into the water. It's gone."

"If there are more taxes, our life will really be over."

The old man was a coachman in the town where Giles was, and he drove Giles here in a donkey cart to attend the third-level meeting.

But at this time, Giles's mind was full of the town's cobbler's wife's twin sisters, the prettier faces of the noble ladies, the big watery eyes, the towering breasts, the snake-like waist, and the peach-like butt. to what daddy is saying.

Giles' eyes were aimed at the bag on the upper table. The money in it should be able to buy their twin sisters home.

Giles swallowed at the thought of a happy life in the future.

The third-level meeting was held again soon. As soon as the meeting started, the nobles suddenly attacked His Majesty the King on the two issues of tax rate and tax calculation method.

A person who is smart enough can see at a glance that the nobles and gentlemen have reached an agreement, skipping the basic question of whether this tax should be collected or not, and directly began to discuss how to collect it.

But today, the representatives of the common people couldn't get the chance to speak. Just after the tax rate was set at ten and one tax, and the tax rate was per capita, Barnett I announced that he would enter the voting session.

Giles took a deep breath when he got the vote, and the figures of the father, son and twin girls who drowned in the river suddenly appeared alternately in his mind.

After his mind stabilized, the white bodies of the girls on his bed took over his mind, and at the same time he blacked out the box before "Agree".

Voting results will be out soon.

After it was reached that the wool industry seized after the capture of the Bischberg Kingdom would be divided among the nobles themselves, and after the royal family followed the previous agreement of the McGarden family to provide wool, the representatives of the royal family and nobles representing 2.5% of the domestic population all voted in favor. .

While an overwhelming majority of civilian representatives voted against, with a small minority voting in favor, the tax increase passed by more than half the votes.

That night, a riot broke out in Xidai City, and the residences of many civilian representatives were attacked by angry crowds dissatisfied with the results of the three-level meeting.

Giles was in a hurry to go back, so he left in the afternoon after the meeting, and the angry people only smashed people to the empty hotel room.

On the second day of returning to town, Giles groomed himself, put on his best clothes, brought golden Ole gold coins, and hired a carriage to go to the cobbler's mother-in-law's house.

However, he was told that the cobbler's mother-in-law was cured by a traveler named White Grouper, and the twin daughters also left with the traveler.