After hearing what he said, Lorraine nodded immediately and said: "Very good, you continue to observe those people, and if you have any situation, report it to the deputy general manager of Nadel Flying Eagle Company, and I will inform him. For you
For your safety, do not contact other officials, and we will take action once the time is right."
He paused and then added: "Knight Lieder, you have done a great job. When the work is completed, I will ask the royal family for your credit."
Lie De was stunned at first, and then became ecstatic. Huo De stood up, bowed deeply to Lorraine, his head touched the desk, and said in a trembling voice: "Your Majesty's kindness, our Lie De family will never forget it.
"
When Lorraine said that he had to ask for credit from the royal family, he actually meant that he would get an honorary title. For Lorraine and Catherine, it would completely eliminate the slave trade in Naian, remove the dirt from the officialdom, establish Lorraine's authority, and give him an honor.
The baron's hat is still worth it.
But if you want to be hereditary, forget it.
This is mainly because the Senate has a large number of people and there are many wolves but not enough meat, so there is no way to completely bribe them.
Therefore, their review of hereditary is quite strict. If you don't have unparalleled military exploits or achievements in opening up territories, you won't be able to get the title of hereditary.
But precisely because of this, the title is extremely rare, so it is valuable.
Having an honorary title within a family is also a matter of honor and glory for the ancestors, just like in the past when a family produced a Jinshi.
You must know that the benefits of becoming a Jinshi are huge. If nothing else, I think back then, after Fan Jin won the imperial examination, it was also a house, and all the money was automatically delivered to the door.
Even his father-in-law, Hu Butcher, who used to look down upon him, was a heroic man who used a white knife to go in and a red knife to go out and killed... um... butchered pigs without blinking an eye. After meeting him, he was also very scared.
What's more important is that once you have a title, you will have great tax benefits in the empire. You will even have a say in the formulation of local taxes.
At that time, you can rely on your own power to bang the table with those dog officials in a grand manner, blow your beard and glare. Just thinking about this kind of thing is enough to relieve your anger and is worth the price of admission~!
After seeing off Gretan and Lieder, Lorraine saw that it was getting late, so she hurriedly trotted all the way back to the house in high spirits. This was not because she was happy to deal with the group of people. It was because there were two people at home who were doing nothing.
The beautiful woman is waiting for him.
At the family meeting after dinner, Lorraine told Catherine and Adele in detail about the beautiful things they encountered today, and the family sat together to discuss the next step.
Before Lorraine could say what he was going to do, Leo jumped up first, raised his chest and raised his belly and shouted: "I'm going, I'm going, it's time for my death squad to have a good training."
"No." Catherine rejected it immediately without raising her head.
Leo snorted angrily and said, "You are brutally suppressing my growth and killing my enthusiasm. When I grow up and become emperor, I will become a coward, looking for dozens of little girls every day.
"
Everyone was shocked for a moment.
But Catherine was used to his threats. She looked up at Leo leisurely and found that his belly was bulging like an angry frog. She chuckled and asked
Said: "I wonder what you would do with dozens of little girls every day?"
Then, he glanced at Melina next to him thoughtfully.
Melina lowered her head, walked behind Leo without saying a word, and put one hand on Leo's waist.
Leo raised his eyebrows and said loudly: "The boss said that you can't bend with force, so you can use violence. I will also say it. I will find dozens of little girls and grab their pigtails and play with them every day. Hahaha, how about it?"
?Are you afraid? If you are afraid, just let me go."
Lorraine felt herself being choked and had an urge to vomit blood. Vera stood by and beat her for a long time, and finally recovered.
He looked at the little fat man standing in the middle with a proud look on his face, and immediately shrugged, thinking to himself: Poor kid, I knew it was like this~!
Catherine shook her head, sighed, and said, "Okay, if you really have this ability, I will help you find dozens more."
Lorraine couldn't help but let out an 'ah' sound.
Catherine looked at his face, showed her white teeth, smiled, and said solemnly: "What's the matter, are you also thinking about asking me to help you find dozens of little girls, and then play with their braids?"
Lorraine was immediately moved and wanted to agree, but when she saw Catherine's sly smile and the murderous intent in her beautiful eyes, she couldn't help but shudder, then she shrank her head and said obediently.
Hiding aside.
Leo looked at it and couldn't help but said "Ah", then turned his head and said to Lorraine with a blank expression: Why aren't they afraid? Boss, you didn't say you wanted them to be obedient, but you just said you wanted to find dozens of them.
Woman, do you want everyone to play together?"
Lorraine was suffocated, and after a long time, she curled her lips and thought to herself: "I didn't say I was playing with pigtails~!"
After hearing this, Catherine couldn't hold herself any longer, hugged Milena, and then laughed loudly.
While laughing, she gritted her teeth and cursed: "Yes... to you two... two... bastards, I... I can't even get angry now... Hahaha..."
Next to that, Adele had already smiled and pressed her flat and smooth belly with her hands, sliding under the table.
Leo looked at it and couldn't help but be confused. He scratched his head. He wanted to threaten him a few more times, but he couldn't think of anything meaningful at the moment. In the end, he could only wink at Lorraine.
Eyes, pitifully begging him for help.
Lorraine originally didn't want to care about him. But looking at his big shining black eyes and launching starlight attacks on himself, he couldn't resist it. In the end, he could only cough twice, and then said: "Don't be busy yet.
We'll go find the deputy general manager of Feiying Company tomorrow and tell him to be responsible for contacting that person. We can't say when we will take action. But by then, Leo may really be needed."
Catherine stretched her arms and stretched, revealing her infinitely beautiful figure, then clapped her mouth and yawned - she and Adele had not slept enough for some reason in the past two days -
Asked: "What other evil ideas do you have?"
Lorraine said: "In a few days, I may have to personally supervise the operation, and you and Del will have to handle these official duties on my behalf.
I'm afraid just relying on the armed tax collectors is not enough, because they are all locals, and no one can guarantee that there are no traitors among them.
In this case, the assistance of the Imperial Guards will be needed, and Leo will have to rely on Leo to take hundreds of Imperial Guards out of Nedel City inconspicuously."
Leo shook his head proudly and snorted at Catherine.
Catherine bit her lip and said, "Okay, but you have to keep an eye on this little ruffian. I know his ability to cause trouble."
Lorraine pretended to doze off and pretended to be listless. In fact, her eyes were shining and she said, "I know, I will keep an eye on Leo. It's very late, so go to bed."
Catherine lowered her head and spat with a slightly red face, but Adele stood up, stretched out her body, and said in a tired voice: "Yeah, I'm tired, I'm tired, go to bed."
After saying that, he gave me a flirtatious look, then walked out the door and walked upstairs gracefully.
Catherine looked at it and couldn't help feeling helpless. Then she also glanced at Lorraine, dropped what she was holding, and followed Adele out.
Leo Qi said: "It's obviously quite early, but why have you gone to bed? Really, your physical fitness is really bad."
The next day, because it was a rest day, Lorraine and the others didn't get up until noon. After lunch, Lorraine, Leo and Vera took the guards in civilian clothes to the Nai'an branch of the Flying Eagle Company.
Headquarters.
This is Vera's paradise. For Vera, who has the right to reimburse funds, this is naturally her home court.
Along the way, the employees below were very respectful to Lorraine and Leo, but to Vera, they were filial. In front of Vera, they all nodded and bowed, and were extremely attentive.
Vera was so happy that her eyes were closed, and she greeted people all the way with a leadership style. Lorraine could faintly see the majesty of her mother, Queen Enrellias, from Vera.
Lorraine and Leo told the manager in charge of daily affairs to pay attention to a local man named Lie. The news he conveyed must be delivered to Lorraine at any time.
The manager accepted the order simply and knew the rules without asking a word. They had done such sneaky things before when they were following Lorraine and Leo. Now they were doing it with ease.
Even the manager is looking forward to it. Every time Lorraine and Leo Ouyin come together, the business of Feiying Company will always improve significantly.
On the surface, everything is normal in the Governor's Mansion in Naian. Governor Lorraine even attended the mid-year summary and commendation meeting of the Naian Taxation Bureau, commending the tax personnel who had outstanding work in the first half of the year, and also invited senior officials from Naidel City to visit the seaside.
The sanatorium is open to these people as a bonus.
Recently, Catherine and Adele often chaired the government's daily work meetings on Lorraine's behalf when Lorraine went out for inspections.
Leo closed the door and stayed in the Governor's Mansion, training his squad of death squads.
Lorraine was afraid that Leo wouldn't be able to bear his temper, so he took the people out for training and specially got a special forces skills training manual from a previous life and threw it to Leo.
As if Leo had found a treasure, he trained the guards like dogs every day. Not only that, he also built the backyard of the Governor's Palace into a training ground, creating a filthy atmosphere.
Leo understands that if he wants to go out and grab territory and make big money, he must first have his younger brothers be good.
For this reason, Leo spared no expense in equipping his Imperial Guards. Heavy armor made it difficult to move, and chain mail was not enough for defense. So he bought scale armor, which was expensive and easy to break, but was both convenient and strong.
To engage in special operations, weapons must be handy, so everyone has a fine steel hand crossbow. It is made by dwarf craftsmen and assembled by the skillful hands of elves. It can penetrate heavy plate armor within a hundred feet and hit with perfect accuracy.
Not to mention other hooks, long swords, daggers, flying knives and the like.
Now, Leo is ambitious and wants to take his team to show off his skills and then come back with a big loot.
A few days later, an unsigned text message was forwarded to Lorraine from the manager of Soaring Eagle.
Later, Young Master Leo got tired of staying at the Governor's Mansion and wanted to go out for fun and fulfill his responsibilities of visiting Naian for investigation and research. He took hundreds of followers out of Nadel City to relax.
At the same time, the tax system employees who were vacationing at the beachside villa also had a sudden idea to go fishing in the sea. Hundreds of people took their packages and boarded several transport ships to go to sea.
The flat water potential and wide water surface of the Beni River created the province of Nai An.
As the artery of Naian, the Beni River is always busy at all times, with ships constantly passing by.
Even at night, the lights lit by the ships are comparable to the stars in the sky. The lights along the river flow continuously, complementing the Milky Way in the sky.
Lorraine and Leo stood on the top floor of a long and wide transport ship, looking at the stars in the night sky and blowing the cool night breeze. They felt extremely comfortable.
Leo raised his head impatiently and kept looking at the river, muttering: "Why haven't you come yet? Why haven't you come yet?"
Lorraine looked at the ships plying the river and thought to himself: "Those slave traders are really shrewd. They stay out day and night. In a situation like this, it is really difficult to investigate and deal with it, especially after they bribed the guards who were tasked with inspecting the ships.
After that, they had a smooth journey on the water.
Moreover, without detailed information, it would be impossible to investigate so many boats on the river.
The lights on the top of the masts of the two ships below flashed twice, and the Guards soldier standing behind Lorraine said: "Sir, the brothers have discovered the target, and they are coming."
Lorraine nodded, Leo put his fingers together, waved forward boldly, made the main theme gesture that officers always used, and said: "Action~!"
The helmsman immediately changed course, and the five large ships spread out and slowly approached the two transport ships that were moving upstream.
The ship Lorraine and his friends were on remained calm, and the ships on both sides moved closer first.
On the targeted ship, someone suddenly shouted: "Why are you sailing the ship? You don't have eyes. It's going to hit you."
The ships on both sides suddenly lit up with lights. Under the bright firelight, tax collectors holding shields and wearing mail stood in a row on the bow of the ship, shouting: "Stop the ship for tax inspection!"
There was a sudden chaos on the originally orderly river. As soon as the other boats heard the words "tax spot inspection", they immediately turned around and ran as far as they could, just like the hawkers who heard the urban management coming.
How far are they.
The people on the two transport ships were still in a daze, wondering why they were so unlucky to be randomly inspected by the tax collectors?
However, these people are also confident. Tax collectors generally do not check the goods. They have complete procedures in hand, and the slaves are hidden in the dark room where the goods are piled.
At this time, the tax collectors had already thrown the grappling hook onto their ship, pulled the two ships in, then set up the gangplank and nimbly stepped onto their transport ship.
Several senior tax officials in uniforms, seemingly as usual, walked onto the transport ship with dead faces as if everyone owed them thousands of gold coins.
Lorraine and Leo were watching their actions from a dark place not far away. Leo said nervously: "Boss, you can't go wrong. We don't have many opportunities."
Lorraine frowned and looked at the group of people on the deck of the transport ship, and said: "Don't worry, there is our mage on top. People hiding on the ship cannot be detected by the mage."
Leo said "Oh" and turned to the Imperial Guards and said: "Send a coded signal and tell the brothers to get ready. We will catch them all in one fell swoop. Anyone who escapes will be shot to death."
"Yes, Your Highness."
Lorraine saw that the people on the deck talked for a while, and the tax collectors waved their hands and walked into the cabin. The ship owner quickly followed.
In less than five minutes, the tax collectors returned to the deck. Several people huddled together and started making noise again. The tax collector on the outermost side made a gesture behind his back. Several tax collectors stepped back and made preparations to return.
The shape of the ship.
At this time, several magic flares suddenly rose from the sides and the ships below, illuminating the area near the two transport ships as if it were daytime.
A tax collector disguised as a mage suddenly took action, and a bright electric net covered the ship owner and others. With a chirping sound, these people screamed and fell on the ship and twitched. Lorraine had given orders to try to catch as many people alive as possible, but he could not let them go.
To run away from a person, the mage chose the electric shock technique that can temporarily paralyze the person.
Lorraine looked at the blue arc flashing in the night, and suddenly thought of Lorraine, who should be still in Maple Leaf Danlin at this time.
Maybe it was because of her lust, maybe because she was a bit mean, Lorraine suddenly felt like she missed this numb and itchy feeling.
At this time, the tax collectors shouted, raised their weapons, and bravely rushed onto the transport ship. They quickly surrounded the exit of the cabin and attacked inside.
I saw several black figures coming out of the window and jumping into the water.
The Imperial Guards who were waiting on both sides threw their hands and pulled the triggers of their crossbows. There was a clanging sound, and not only did the people who jumped off were shot into hedgehogs, but even a crossbow arrow was inserted into the boat.
After Leo saw it, he felt extremely distressed. He jumped on the boat and yelled: "I told you to practice more, but you just don't listen. The hit rate is so low. How many crossbow arrows have been wasted. You think you are from the Unite Kingdom?"
Soldiers, it takes half a ton of bows and arrows to kill someone. If this continues, I will bankrupt you sooner or later." (During World War II, the U.S. military consumed an average of 20,000 rounds of ammunition to kill an enemy. Up to now, the war in Afghanistan has consumed 250,000 rounds.)
The Guards soldiers behind Lorraine immediately lowered their heads, looking shameless in front of others. These guys had lived a good life under Leo and were used to being lavish.
Under the light of the flares, the nearby water surface was extremely clear, and those who jumped had no chance of escaping from the guards' fire.
After seeing the miserable condition of their companions, they followed the man who climbed out of the window and wisely threw down the thing in his hand, raised his hands and surrendered obediently.
The tax collectors quickly dragged out a group of people on the boat from the cabin. Some of them had been hacked to death for resisting, and others were injured, and their wounds were bleeding.
After tying up all these people, the tax collectors rescued the hidden slaves from below the cabin and brought them to the deck.