The Invincible Overlord of Heroes

Xu Lai was choked and speechless. He simply snorted coldly and said:

Don't worry about anything else. Those bullshit knights and nobles will listen to me in my village.

My tax collection is still 37%...

Speaking of this, Xu Lai paused and glanced at Watanabe specifically.

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 resulted in a severe depreciation of the value of food, with 30%, at least he would not be able to starve to death. If he was alone, he might be able to save some money so that he could find a wife in the future.

Moreover, Xu Lai also gave away houses and grain, which were family assets that took 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 are 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 added: My second request is that you must keep the tax issue in your stomach forever and cannot tell anyone without my permission.

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 time of war, it is hard to say whether Count Ani can survive. He probably has 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 73% tax today, and tomorrow Count Aini would dare to come and punish Xu Lai first without even fighting the orcs.

Compared with people in this world, the only thing Xu Lai has more is the countless insights from the information age.

It sounds romantic for one person to fight against the entire aristocratic class, but Xu Lai has never heard of anyone who has succeeded in doing so.

Of course, Xu Lai didn't just want to be taken advantage of and had to go against others.

There must be a reason for the Sanqi tax to be spread to this day.

The nobles can't just recruit an army of monsters. 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 through this method. After all, he was also an outsider, so how could he gain the trust of the aborigines so easily.

The advantage of keeping the secret apart from letting other nobles know about it is that it also makes it easier for 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 situations and situations cannot be transferred by one person's will. .

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 had a way to lead them into the rear through the secret passage and successfully capture the horse thieves' lair, then there would be no problem in exchanging this credit for a free agent.

As a gift of a leg of lamb, Xu Lai originally wanted to let him go out to rest, but was afraid that he would run away, so he just asked him not to dig ore and stayed in the cave for the time being.

While eating, Xu Lai studied the map 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.

Just as the battle on Xu Lai's side was in full swing, and Xu Lai moderately slowed down the pace 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 at the town.

Along the way, Tahan's reticence almost drove Wei Yihong crazy. As a salesperson, even though he didn't like to talk at first, he has now become a talkative person.

Even though 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 still speak and understand.

Therefore, as soon as he arrived in the small town, Wei Yihong felt that he was liberated. Before becoming a refugee, he had 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 where he came 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, and everyone simply interrogated him and let him go after confirming that Wei Yihong was not an orc spy.

The orcs were not really stupid. They bought many caravans to gather information, and 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 want outside the town.

The scene before him was not at all similar to what Xu Lai described.

However, Wei Yihong quickly found out the situation. Xu Lai had evacuated earlier, so there were not many people when he passed by the town.

However, as the 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?

Moreover, the orcs were also hesitant. It was not known whether there were not many troops crossing Pingfeng Mountain or because of 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 fortress, and even send out troops and human scouts. Combat.

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 might show some respect to Tahan, but the knights of the temple didn'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 ran away as soon as they touched them. After taking advantage of something, they immediately fled like the wind. Many new temple knights and knights' retinues who had no experience fighting orcs stayed on this land forever.

Moreover, 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. With one hand on his sword and the other on his shield, he pushed the young knights away 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 did something wrong and violated imperial law. Why do you arrest us?

At this moment, Wei Yihong behind him said: Your Excellency Tahan, we have done nothing wrong. We are not afraid of ghosts knocking on the door. Just 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 bring trouble to Xu. The key is that his riding skills are terrible. If something happens, he won't have anywhere 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.