Thousands of skeletons and undead, as well as four to five thousand people, followed Lord Vincent and walked mightily on the streets of Silver Dragon Castle.

News of the arrest of the president of the Wenxi Chamber of Commerce and the appalling interrogation methods have spread throughout the city.

The merchants who followed Luke now knew that their doom was coming.

Among them, some businessmen who are relatively upright and have not done any cruel or despicable things have begun to write confessions and confess their crimes in advance.

As soon as the lord arrives, he will honestly admit his guilt and accept his punishment, swear to draw a clear line with Luke, and never do anything stupid that affects business stability again.

Unfortunately, birds of a feather flock together, and the quality of Luke's cronies can be seen from Dalma's numerous crimes.

For commercial interests, they form gangs, monopolize the market, manipulate prices, win over officials, and form an offensive and defensive alliance that no one can shake.

In addition to urban commerce, they also purchased rural taxation rights from the lords. While exploiting poor farmers, they bought agricultural products at high prices in towns and cities, winning twice in and outside the city.

The previous lord was also a demon, so why didn't he take drastic measures against these people like Vincent?

I can't help it, they gave me too much.

What's more, in the view of the 'Red Wing' Count Daculas, who is known for his wealth-raising and blood-sucking, it is better to make the people sad and miserable than to make them happy, which will allow the demons to gain more negative energy.

There was a tacit understanding between the two parties. Although the earl was making money and enjoying himself, the businessmen were making money in private ways.

If the people resist, they will face a double blow of poverty and fear.

If this situation continues, maybe the former lords and merchants will continue to have a win-win situation, leaving only a world where only the people are injured.

However, this situation could not continue. Compared with the relatively wealthy citizens, the farmers in the territory were already unbearably poor and expelled the tax collectors one after another, raising the flag of rebellion.

In the past, the merchants who actually controlled the serfs could have shifted the blame to the lords and told the peasants in an aggrieved tone that these were all orders from the demon lords, asking the peasants to mingle with the lord's monsters.

Unfortunately, they miscalculated this time.

The lord of the coastal territory retreated bravely!

Red Wing Earl Darkuras, who owed merchants 50,000 gold coins through eating, drinking, prostitution and gambling, ran away with his family members!

I don’t know whether he planned to catch all the fish from the beginning, or whether the situation forced him to moisten it. Anyway, the previous lord flapped his wings and left, leaving a piece of chicken feathers in the coastal territory.

The plan to demonstrate to the new lord and continue to control the economy has ended in failure. Now the lord Vincent does not intend to negotiate at all, but chooses to show his cards directly.

This young demon prince, who seemed to have all the fun in his head, showed his fangs of the devil overnight after making a lot of farce for his own entertainment.

The most overwhelming thing is that he easily mobilized all the civilians in the city and turned them into his accomplices.

The method used is very simple, which is to buy people's hearts, use the name of law enforcement to force businessmen to make concessions, and promise to sell food and daily necessities to the people at reduced prices.

For the lords of other races, the lords may not be willing to spend such money, but the high-level demons and low-carbon and environmentally friendly subordinates have no immediate need for the food, so they can be generous to others.

Not long after the moon rose, Vincent ransacked the homes of three merchants, sealed up their shops, and locked everyone in the house without even pulling down the guard dog.

The two businessmen were so frightened that they took out the keys to their warehouses and shops, and swore in public that they would no longer evade taxes and sell goods to the public at low prices.

In fact, this kind of oath cannot win people's trust, but Vincent doesn't care. In addition to the sharp-eyed citizens of Silver Dragon Castle, he also summoned resentful spirits, letting these resentful souls supervise the behavior of merchants around the clock.

The undead who were originally terrifying, under the arrangement of the lord, suddenly transformed from the incarnation of terror into law enforcement officers who do not need wages and cannot be bribed, which made the bullied civilians applaud.

However, everyone is now full of expectations to see how many law enforcement officers will be stationed at the Southern Chamber of Commerce.

Maybe there is no need for temporary assignment, there are probably many people waiting in line in the chamber of commerce.

At this moment, it was the turn of Mr. Luke, who hated the lord, to take countermeasures.

Unfortunately, he didn't have time to prepare.

Who would have known that Vincent was still bluffing to encourage the people during the day, and in the evening he gathered a huge crowd and headed straight for Nancheng, where the Southern Chamber of Commerce is located.

Mr. Luke no longer cares about the affairs of other business partners. Everyone's butts are dirty. Not only have they evaded taxes and smuggling, but they have also done a lot of murder and get rich. It is impossible to get ashore easily.

Luke was advised to spend money to avoid disaster, and his suggestions to the lords for concessions and negotiations were all rejected.

Ever since the orc slave suddenly disappeared, Luke had an ominous premonition that this time he and the devil would fight to the death.

If the orc leaves the manor too far and escapes the protection of magic, the curse on him will inevitably be triggered automatically.

You can imagine how shocked and furious the lord would be when he saw a brand-new curse that even his clan had never seen before.

Using curses to deal with demons is the same as raising the dragon's reverse scale, which is the most intolerable provocation.

"I can't wait to give that slave to him!" Luke shouted hysterically in the Chamber of Commerce. "Now that the secret has been discovered, he will not let me go no matter whether the curse can be lifted or not."

Behind the curse is an inside story that Luke would never dare to let the demons know. Compared with the terror of the curser, Vincent is just a hot-blooded young aristocratic young man.

Because of the lord's unruly sneak attack, Luke desperately found that he could only use his life to keep the secret.

It was originally a matter of losing money and eliminating disaster, but it has reached this point and there is no turning back.

If he falls into Vincent's hands, this demon will definitely break his bones and suck out his marrow, and torture him with all the demonic tortures imaginable. Even if there is only a pile of brains left, they will find a way to squeeze out the secrets.

Outside the high wall of the Chamber of Commerce, there were already piles of skeleton soldiers holding tattered weapons, surrounding the Chamber of Commerce.

Fortunately, Luke had not agreed to sell weapons to the lord before, otherwise these monsters would definitely use their own goods to slaughter the sellers.

Skeletons are clumsy and slow. Even if they are numerous, they are not the biggest threat.

There are magicians in the chamber of commerce who can use sacred magic. With medicines and props, they should be able to withstand it for a while.

Looking up, Luke saw more than twenty harpies hovering over the Chamber of Commerce outside the window. Not only were they monitoring every move inside, they were also constantly spitting out fragrance and bombarding the people inside.

If Lord Vincent comes later and I cannot satisfy him, those stinky harpies will throw away not small stones and dead rats, but torches and poison.

After the last underground smuggling, the tunnels had been dug long ago, and the wily Luke gave up - he didn't want to fall into the worm's bloody mouth while walking.

It was definitely not an accident that the demons were able to capture half of the continent during the war. Vincent had not yet used the demons' shady tricks, and the conventional troops alone had already made Luke's men in the Chamber of Commerce tremble.

What's more, this time he not only came with his men, but also led thousands of people in the city who were watching the excitement and didn't think it was a big deal.

If he hurt this group of idlers during the conflict and caused public outrage, his business would definitely be completely impossible to do locally.

All he could rely on was the large amount of weapons and armor he had withheld and not sold to the lord, as well as the mercenaries, magicians and armed men who were also besieged.

Luke also had some foresight these days and spent a lot of money to hire mercenaries in the city.

There are more than 200 mercenaries in the Chamber of Commerce, but these people have little loyalty and lack of command, so they are unreliable at critical moments.

If a conflict occurs, you must first stabilize your position and use victory to boost morale.

"My slave, you lead these people to guard the gate, and I will pray to the gods to save us."

Luke asked his personal slave Sadaka to lead the armed mercenaries, and he quickly ran into the depths of the Chamber of Commerce.

Anyway, this guy didn't know that his sister had been rescued, so he just let him go and die first, just for a while.
Chapter completed!