king of the castle

Chapter 252 Conspiracy

Old Wood was sitting in his study, staring at the scroll of parchment sent by the butler with a livid face. 【】The content recorded on the scroll is the income report of the territory last month.

Compared with the previous few months, Terry County's income has almost halved, and the various taxes paid by merchants accounted for the vast majority of the reduced part.There have been very few merchants coming to Karachi recently, and all these profit-seeking vampires have gone to Kent Town. It is said that the town that was almost deserted has become prosperous again, and has once again become the largest merchant distribution center in the eastern part of the kingdom.

Old Wood, whose income had plummeted, was very dissatisfied with the increase in income in the territory some time ago, and the Wood family has gradually become accustomed to a more luxurious life than before.Now that the income is suddenly reduced, it becomes difficult to maintain that luxurious life.The so-called "it is easy to go from frugal to extravagant, but difficult to go from extravagant to frugal" is this truth, and this alone is enough to make Wood hate Roger to the bone.Coupled with the inhumane conflicts between the two before, Viscount Wood decided to drive Roger out of Kent completely.

"Gattuso, come in." The Viscount stared at his confidant butler with gloomy eyes and said, "Notify the crow to start implementing the six-pointed star plan!"

"Obey, my lord!" Gattuso bowed and said, "I will inform the crow immediately."

"Also, ask Feng Ka to take a group of people to Kent County and collect taxes from any pedestrians they meet." Wood said with a murderous tone: "Anyone who resists will be killed!"

After hearing what Wood said, Gattuso hesitated for a moment, and then carefully reminded: "My lord, what we did is in violation of the kingdom's laws, in case we are discovered..."

"Didn't the same thing be done last time, didn't that Roger dare to do anything to me?" Old Wood said disapprovingly: "This action is related to the survival of the territory, carry out my order!"

"Your life." Seeing Wood's attitude so resolute, Gattuso didn't say anything anymore, and immediately left the study to handle errands.A well-planned conspiracy against Roger, enough to shake his entire territory, has begun.

Roger didn't know this at all. Ever since he broke through the last layer of relationship with Bonnie, he became very enthusiastic about the training that he wasn't very interested in before, and every day he took the female knight into the secondary space of the castle for training. "train".

Of course, what really interested Roger was the "cool down" after training.As a knight with good strength, Bonnie can make all kinds of difficult moves, which makes Roger never tired of it while being amazed. Every day, he recalls the various moves of the previous love action movies and communicates with the female knight It was a great time to learn from each other.

Bonnie, who has just tasted the taste of men and women, also knows the taste. Not only can she fully cooperate with Roger in this matter, she even tries to take the initiative in many cases.This is in line with Bonnie's unyielding character, and it also makes Roger very happy. For any man, it is a great thing to have such a partner.

The two of them "trained" to their heart's content again this day, and then reluctantly left the secondary space of the castle.The Cavaliers can have fun with Roger alone, but revert to her former self-possessed self in the company of others, and soon leave to go about her own business.

Roger stayed in the room chatting alone, thinking about whether to design a costume for Bonnie.Roger felt that with the character and figure of the female knight, a tight-fitting combat vest and small hot pants were absolutely suitable for her, just like the heroine Laura in Tomb Raider.

"Well... I have to trouble Linda recently." Thinking of this, Roger couldn't help but whispered to himself, but he frowned soon, as if something irritating had happened.

After the tragedy in Shanglu Village, Roger spent a lot of soul power, trained more than 20 hippogryphs, and let these magic pets patrol the sky over several important areas of the territory in shifts all day long.The arrival of a hippogryph at this time made Roger a little puzzled. A group of heavily armed guys set up a roadblock at the intersection of the two main roads in Kent. They looked like a group of robbers who wanted to block the road and rob.

"You dare to rob my brother's territory. You don't want to live anymore." Seeing this scene, Roger was furious, and immediately rushed out of the baron's mansion, rode the fastest horse, and rushed to the intersection where the accident happened alone.

Thieves haunt the territory, looting and destroying everywhere, destroying the peace and economy of the territory, and they are the group of people that the lord hates the most.Especially in a business-oriented place like Kent, the dangers of highway robbery needless to say.Roger had decided that he must hang them all if he caught them.

But at the same time, Roger was also a little puzzled. When did a group of human robbers appear in the territory?Although there were not no robbers in Kent County before, they were always done by orcs from the Golden Wasteland. Now there are humans joining this line. Obviously, after the territory became rich, all kinds of troubles followed.

"It looks like we need to hurry up and train a guard team." Roger sighed inwardly, and then urged the horses to speed up and run forward.

One-eyed Huck commanded his men to block the road with a few logs, and then he took the bait patiently.He knows that this is one of the most important roads leading to Kent Town, and it won't take long to gain something.

As Huck had expected, a caravan slowly approached the roadblock, Huck and the others, and the guards of the caravan immediately became nervous and drew their weapons to stand ready.

"Are you a caravan going to Kent Town?" Huck didn't mean to do anything, but just stopped in the middle of the road and said carelessly: "I am the tax officer of Kent Town, and I am responsible for collecting taxes from everyone here. Here, this is My ID!"

While talking, Huck handed the forged ID to the caravan leader, who accepted it dubiously, and relaxed after confirming that it was indeed covered with the family crest of Baron Roger Lee, and asked with some doubts: " Didn’t you collect taxes in the town before, why did you collect them halfway this time?”

"Oh, the lord has promulgated a new decree, and the rules have been changed." Huck bragged without changing his face: "In fact, it's the same everywhere, even if you pay in the town, you can't pay half a copper less."

"Hehe, that's what you said." Although the caravan leader was still a little skeptical, he didn't dare to doubt the tax official's statement face to face, so he could only ask with a smile, "Do you want to estimate the value of the goods first?"

"No, no, no!" Huck waved his hand and said, "There are five carts of goods in total, just pay [-] gold coins for each cart!"