"I really didn't expect that someone could be so conscienceless. He was simply disgraceful!" Kabala, the priest of the Dal City Church of Void Mask, angrily pounded the table. The anger in his eyes was about to burn the cup of green tea in front of him. "These poor people finally lived a few days of personal life, and he immediately sent a tax official... When encountering natural disasters and needed relief, why didn't he move so quickly!"

"You will know it by looking at the camp spirit on him. How could a guy from the evil camp do disaster relief?" the older priest said with a smile. "Although camp spirit is not very reliable, it is not outrageously wrong most of the time. So we shouldn't have any hope for him."

"But I never thought that it would be fine if he didn't help, but he would still make trouble!"

"Many lords are like this," said a young paladin. "That is why your Majesty teaches us to use our own hands to advance the world."

The Priest Kabbalah contemplated for a long time and nodded heavily: "You are right. It is precisely places like this that require us in particular. Look at the poor people, what should they do if we don't come to help them?"

"But the question now is, how should we dismiss those tax officials?" another pastor asked. "I don't think they will take long to find the past tax collection documents. We will not find an excuse."

Kabbalah smiled coldly, and her eyes showed a sarcastic look: "What's the use of looking out the tax collection documents from the past? They must first prove that the poor people lived in the city and did not pay taxes."

"Uh?" the pastor was stunned and asked, "Didn't they always live in the city? And... they don't have money to pay taxes."

"My churchman! Such things are unfounded, there must be evidence!" Kabbalah laughed, "No evidence, who knows whether it is true or false!"

"Isn't there a 'lie detection'?" asked a paladin.

"Catholic, you can tell at a glance that you are not from the Gold Coin Federation!" Before Kabbal could answer, another paladin laughed, "We Gold Coin Federation never believe in 'detection of lies'. There is a famous rule here - as long as there is no evidence, it doesn't happen."

"There is no way, which businessman doesn't do something stealing? How many businessmen in the world do business seriously? Counseling is a common sense for businessmen, as long as people don't catch the evidence." The paladin said, "Of course this situation is not good, but we can now use this tradition."

"One of the arts of struggle is to grasp the situation at any time, use all the conditions that can be used to turn disadvantages into advantages," said the older pastor.

As he said that, everyone laughed.

"Anyway, as long as the lord cannot provide evidence that these poor people lived here and did not pay taxes, they would not owe taxes." After laughing, Kabala said sarcastically, "In fact, tax collection is illegal in this case. The reason why tax officials dare to bully those poor people is simply because there is a lord behind them. The lord relies on nothing more than force, but I want to see if they have the courage to use force with us!"

Baron Dahl really dared not use force.

Although the group of people in the Void Mask Church are actually not particularly strong, the most powerful one is just a mid-level priest, Baron Tadal is also not powerful.

He currently has three knights and two quasi-knights, one of which is intermediate, and the other five are still at the primary level. In addition, he has raised two capable generals, all of whom are promoted from adventurers, and they are all at the intermediate level.

From the books, he seems to have a great advantage. But as we all know, the Void Mask Church is not only with those ten people. Behind them is a huge church, and there are many legendary strong people.

Want to use force? Even if he can beat these ten people, what's the use?

What's more, even if he only faces those ten priests, he has no absolute chance of winning.

His men were numerous, but why did they fight for him? And those priests were different. For the gods they believed in and to maintain their doctrine, they absolutely did not care about death.

The Dahl family has an important family motto, which is "Don't trust others, and don't pin your hopes on others." Baron Dahl won't do anything to count on others? Most lords who make such mistakes will be ruined.

So after listening to the tax officer's report, he was furious, but he did not have an attack. He just had a gloomy face and asked the tax officers to search for information from previous years to see if they could find favorable evidence.

But he knew that most of them could not be found.

Nobles generally do not keep tax records or other things, because they may at some point become evidence against themselves. Baron Dahl, who is so smart, certainly will not make such mistakes.

Moreover, even if you find the tax records of previous years, what's the use?

How could Baron Dahl, a cunning man, not even think of a trick that even priests like Kabbal, could he not think of?

"Oh! I didn't expect that those priests would use this method, which was a bit of a mistake!" He sighed deeply, shook his head, endured the depression in his heart, but pretended to be calm and gentle.

He had to pretend like this, otherwise some servant in the castle might spread the news and then spread it to the ears of other nearby lords, which would lead to some other things.

While not sure what might happen, Baron Dahl’s request is not to let anything unnecessary happen.

For this reason, even if you lose some taxes slightly, it is acceptable.

But this does not mean that he gave up!

A few days later, a new order was issued.

The Lord is preparing to take advantage of this winter when wild beasts and monsters lack food to carry out a sweep of mountains and other places outside the city. All adults without proper professions in the city must be recruited and participated in the sweeping army.

Of course, it is impossible to get a salary for this recruitment, but during the battle, you can book a meal every day.

As for those who refuse to accept the call, they either have to pay a "levied fee" or leave Dahl City - what can be taken away is limited to personal belongings.

This order is not beyond people's expectations. It is also very common to sweep away monsters and wild animals in winter.

But unexpectedly, the city defense officer brought several soldiers to the slums and read out the order loudly.

After reading the order, he looked at the poor people coldly, smiled sinisterly, and left.
Chapter completed!