After hearing Lorraine's question, Baron Rathmore suddenly became excited. He struggled to take a step forward, and then shouted loudly: "Those aliens, those dirty inferior races, they are not worthy of being with us Naian people."
Juxtaposed.”
"Aliens?" Lorraine was shocked and said, "Are you talking about elves and dwarves?"
Baron Rathmore scratched his throat and shouted in a hissing voice: "Nai'an is a land that our ancestors developed with their lives and blood. The empire has never helped us. Why should we pay taxes? I won't say it anymore.
, you people from Ruman City, in order to take away Nai'an, almost killed all the pioneers of Nai'an in four hundred years. Now, you still want those foreigners to mix openly among us. This is a blasphemy to our ancestors."
Lorraine was very surprised and thought to herself: I know that the rural aristocrats have the most stubborn minds, but I didn’t expect them to be so stubborn. It’s been four hundred years. Why do these people still hold such Nazi views?
Don’t let go of ideas.
Although the dwarves and elves look slightly different in appearance, they did not steal or rob. They just came here to rely on their own hands and work to survive. They want to thrive here. For the economic prosperity of the region,
Make your greatest contribution.
It doesn't matter how many theories these guys concoct, but in essence, they just don't like it when they see money in other people's pockets. They try every means to put that money in their own pockets.
Thinking of this, Lorraine gave him a disgusted look. There was really no need to reason with such a stiff-minded fool.
The best way to deal with such a scumbag is to put a rope directly around his neck and let him hang on a tree like a thief on a swing~!
As the heir to the throne, Leo was born to be extremely angry at the guy who was promoting racist theories, trying to split the country, destroying the stability and unity of the Ruman Empire, and trying to take money out of his pocket, and he immediately became angry.
was furious.
He snorted angrily, pointed at Baron Rathmore's nose, and said loudly: "Your Naian? If there was no imperial navy to protect the southern seas, you would have been killed by the Parthians long ago.
Without the Empire to guard the Eastern Front, you would have become slaves of the desert people long ago.
Your Naian, who allows you to hide here comfortably and sell slaves, is not all relying on the protection of the empire.
You guys, enjoying the barrier that the empire has provided you with blood and sweat, come to poach the empire and undermine national unity, but you are still a noble, ungrateful, and blatantly disobey the laws of the empire, you are still justified~!"
Leo folded his hands, breathing heavily from his nose, and angrily said to the guards: "Search his house~! Search his house~! Run his house clean for me. Let me change my mood, I'm really angry.
Okay. I can't reason with this kind of elm-headed person.
Send it directly to the Grand Court and let the Imperial Ministry of Justice explain the strict Imperial laws to him~!"
Lorraine waved her hand and asked her men to take Baron Lasmore and his family into custody first.
General Philip came over and reported to Lorraine in a low voice, saying: "Sir, a few of the guards who ran away, including the housekeepers and servants, were all caught by us.
He paused for a moment, then glanced at Rasmore, who was being escorted away by the guards, and added: "This baron has two hundred armed men alone. Not to mention anything else, he just sues.
His mere act of 'raising a private soldier with the intention of treason' is enough to get him killed three times."
There are so many~!
Lorraine was also secretly shocked. Although he also knew that these nobles had been secretly raising their own private armed forces, according to the laws of the empire, as long as they were over thirty, it was against the rules.
But since he, a baron, can accumulate so much, I think other nobles will probably have a lot too.
Thinking of this, Lorraine couldn't help but shrugged her shoulders and said with a wry smile: "There is a long way to go! Three cities for dowry, or two. In this situation in Nai'an Province, ugh~"
To put it bluntly, in the past few months since Lorraine took office, his orders have only been effective in the city of Nadel. Outside of the Nadel area, everything has changed.
Either he was not taken seriously by the local nobles and simply took the document to wipe his ass. Or he was used by someone with ulterior motives and hired a few crooked monks who called him beasts to distort the execution of the order.
Then, they made a fortune for themselves, leaving Lorraine as the scapegoat, who was criticized by the common people and bore all the infamy.
Lorraine wailed in her heart. In her last life, she complained about the high housing prices and the inability to marry a wife. This life will be even worse. Do you want me to use all the idle real estate in three cities as a dowry, or the housing prices in second-tier cities?
For a man who is constantly tormented by the huge dowries from his two wives, the hardships of marrying a wife are all revealed in this long sigh.
General Philip glanced at Lorraine sympathetically. How many people only saw Lorraine eating meat, but not Lorraine being beaten. As the Guardsman who is closest to Lorraine's family, everyone felt nothing but the tragic experience of Governor Lorraine.
I have seen it with my own eyes and heard it with my own ears, so overall I sympathize with it.
Although my girlfriend is very beautiful and treats our governor well. However, she cannot have sex with her, cannot have a beautiful female secretary, cannot have an office romance, and must report first when she comes home late. As a man, in this kind of life,
It is really as bleak as a warrior facing the blood...
Although Lorraine continues to live a bleak life here, on the other side, Vera and Leo are extremely happy.
After working so hard for so many days, just waiting for this time, the two of them happily led their men and started a treasure hunt in the manor.
Apart from finding a secret passage and a secret room, Leo and Vera did not gain much. It was at the entrance of the secret passage that Baron Rathmore was captured by the Imperial Guards.
By interrogating Baron Rathmore's butler and close associates, Leo learned that this manor was just a private courtyard. Baron Rathmore and his family usually didn't come here very often, and their old house in Tessier City was where the money was hidden.
place.
Leo was furious and said: "Why didn't you tell us such important news earlier? Don't you know that wasting time is a waste of our president's money?"
At that moment, the team gathered together again and quickly headed towards Tesil under the moonlight.
This place is more than twenty miles away from the city of Texir, and it won't take long to reach it along the highway.
Lorraine and his team were halfway through when they suddenly noticed a large firelight in front of them. A team holding a torch ran into Lorraine and his team.
At the front of the team was a pair of warriors on horseback, wearing armor and holding swords. Behind them, you could see the firelight reflected from the weapons.
The guards in front shouted: "Stop, who are you?"
Someone in the team on the opposite side also shouted: "The Lord of Texir City is here, stop on the other side, otherwise we will release arrows."
Lorraine and Leo looked at each other in confusion. Lorraine turned to ask General Philip: "Have we notified the Lord of Taysil City?"
General Philip shook his head and said: "No, sir, we did not notify anyone locally."
The guards in front approached them cautiously and said, "We are the guards, please come over, your lord."
I heard the people on the opposite side shouting: "Ah? It's the Imperial Guard again."
"Okay, okay, the reinforcements have arrived, this is none of our business."
A knight walked out of the team on the opposite side, talked to the soldiers of the Guards, jumped off his horse, and trotted towards Lorraine's group.
"I am Sabine, the Lord of Seir City. I would like to see the Governor."
Lorraine said to the guards beside him: "Bring him over."
Sabine, the lord of Texir City, followed the guards to Lorraine. After saying anything, he knelt down on one knee, lowered his head and said: "My subordinates are incompetent and lax in their duties, so that this kind of thing happens.
The Governor will handle it personally, and I am willing to take all responsibilities."
Lorraine said: "Please wake up, Lord Sabine. Baron Rathmore is hidden deep. If it weren't for chance, I wouldn't be able to find him."
Lord Sabine stood up from the ground. Lorraine saw sweat on his forehead and his collar was completely wet. Lorraine and the others also ran all the way, but in the cool night breeze, they didn't sweat at all.
"Baron Rathmore?" Lord Sabine said doubtfully, and then Lord Sabine asked cautiously: "My lord, you don't know? I am talking about Baron Rathmore's nephew."
Luo Linqi asked: "Did something happen?"
The Lord of Sabine grimaced, showing an expression uglier than crying, and said: "The soldiers stationed at the checkpoint in front mutinied and detained the Governor. You sent an envoy to arrest the chief. The chief is Baron Rathmore's.
Nephew, sir, don’t you know yet?”
Lorraine was stunned with shock. She stared at the Lord of Sabine in front of her to calm down, and then said sharply: "You mean, your soldiers mutinied?"
Leo then glared and shouted: "What? This kind of thing actually happened in the hinterland of Naian? What do the local officials do to eat, are they just a bunch of losers?"
Lord Sabine glanced at him and immediately knew the identity of the fat man who was following Lorraine. He knelt down again and said in a trembling voice, dripping with sweat: "Yes, Your Highness, I am incompetent. Please forgive me, Your Highness."
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Leo felt good immediately. He widened his big eyes and wanted to show off his authority for a while longer.
However, Lorraine pulled him aside and glared at him fiercely. Only then did Leo realize that something was wrong and obediently shut his mouth.
Lorraine thought for a while and said: "Lord Sabine, I am also responsible for this matter. I did not think it through."
Sabine hurriedly said: "Yes, yes."
At this point, I suddenly realized something was wrong and quickly changed my words, saying: "I don't dare, I don't dare."
After saying a few words, I felt something was wrong. I wanted to say something more, but I was speechless and didn't know what to say. I was so anxious that I was sweating profusely. I secretly raised my head and glanced at Lorraine from the corner of my eye.
Then he lowered his head again.
Lorraine heard that his words were unclear and knew that he was afraid of being held accountable because of the mutiny among his men. Then he smiled and said: "This time something unexpected happened, I don't blame you."
Sabin was immediately relieved, wiped the sweat from his head, and said in a deep voice: "Thank you, Lord Governor, thank you, Lord Governor."
Lorraine turned his head, looked around, and said, "By the way, where is the outpost where the mutiny occurred?"
"The pass a few miles ahead is an important checkpoint in Texir City. There are usually more than 300 soldiers from Texir City Defense stationed there."
Lorraine said: "Let your people lead the way. Go quickly!"
"Yes." Lord Sabine jumped up from the ground, turned around and ran back to the team. The team in Taysil City started quickly. The soldiers were urged by the officers to speed up to the front checkpoint.
Due to the mutiny, this was the top priority of the empire, and Lorraine had no intention of doing anything else. He led more than a hundred guards under his command and followed them.
Along the way, Lord Sabine explained the process to Lorraine.
The guards sent by Lorraine arrived at the city lord's palace in the afternoon with a warrant and asked the city lord Sabine to send someone to cooperate in arresting the chief of police in front of him. Baron Rasmore was sending slaves out. That checkpoint was an important route.
, Baron Rathmore spent a lot of money to buy that seat for his nephew.
Lord Sabine did not dare to neglect, and immediately sent his capable subordinates to lead a group of guards to arrest people at the pass. Unexpectedly, after the guards detained the chief, the soldiers guarding the pass suddenly mutinied and wanted to arrest him.
Get it out.
The Imperial Guards immediately took the captured chief of police and retreated into the watchtower at the checkpoint. Using their sharp crossbows, they shot down dozens of people in succession and forced the soldiers back.
There were also some soldiers on the checkpoint who were unwilling to accompany them to cause trouble. Knowing that doing so was a capital offense, they sneaked out to report to the Lord of Sabine.
After receiving the news, the Lord of Sabine was immediately stunned. His men mutinied and besieged the team sent by the governor. In any case, he, the Lord of the City, ran away and was irresponsible. If he didn't handle it well, he, the Lord of the City, might be implicated.
On his body, what awaits him is the Imperial Prison.
The Lord of Sabine City immediately led all the garrison in Tessier to fight towards the pass. Unexpectedly, he would encounter Lorraine on the way. Moreover, Lorraine and the others came to capture Baron Rathmore, and they appeared one after another under his rule.
This kind of thing made the Lord of Sabine feel that his future was bleak, and he thought about resigning now. When Lorraine investigates, the trouble will be huge.
Lorraine and the others came to the checkpoint. They only saw that the gate on the checkpoint was closed, and there were no lights on it. They could not see anything. However, they could hear the noisy sounds inside and heard sounds outside. Only a few people ran to the checkpoint wall.
Go up and look out.
The subordinates of Lord Sabine shouted loudly: "Listen to the people inside, you will be beheaded for your behavior now. Open the door quickly and come out to surrender, otherwise..."
Suddenly someone shouted at the checkpoint: "We are the Guards, where is the team below?"
Phillip said loudly: "I am the leader, how is the situation inside?"
"We couldn't get out because our heads were coming, but we could withstand it. Two people were injured."
Sabine's subordinates then shouted: "Hurry up and put down your weapons and come out..."
Leo ran up to him, kicked the man, pointed at his nose and cursed loudly: "You're still called Mao. Even my boss and I dare to block him, protect criminals, and openly mutiny. Why do we leave them?
There are so many troubles in your place, please solve them as soon as possible, Master, I still have very important things waiting to be done."
Lord Sabine looked at Lorraine, who had always had a dark face next to him, gritted his teeth, and loudly ordered his subordinates: "Crash the door, rush in, and no one is allowed to escape."
Lorraine said: "Don't bother, Vera, just blow the door open. We still need to ransack the house."
Vera had been impatient for a long time. She had been struggling all day and night, but she hadn't gotten a single gold coin yet. Vera had long been on fire in her heart.
Hearing what Lorraine said, he immediately nodded in agreement and said, "Okay, Master. Just keep an eye on it."
Vera jumped out of the team and raised her extra-large wand. A fireball as big as a tabletop gathered in front of Vera, and the fire illuminated the surrounding area in bright yellow.
Vera flicked her wand, and the fireball flew out with a roar and hit the gate of the level. Then there was a loud bang. The explosion of fire covered the entire city wall of the level, and the smoke and dust flew in all directions.
It fell from the sky with a crackling sound.
The people in Taysil City were all shocked.
They looked at the level in front of them stupidly, and saw that the entire gate had disappeared, and there was a large circular hole connected to the wall. At the same time, there were still stones falling down, making a rustling sound.
There was a loud sound, and it looked like it would collapse at any time.
Lorraine looked at the dazed Lord Sabine and said angrily: "What are you doing standing still? Rush in."
"Ah, yes, sir," Lord Sabine finally came back to his senses. He glanced at the little maid next to him who was almost wagging her tail proudly, and realized with fear that this girl looked innocent and cute, as beautiful as a doll.
The girl is actually as dangerous as a three-headed dog from hell.
He quickly turned his head and shouted to his soldiers: "Come on, everyone, rush in."
The team from Tesil City shouted and rushed through the blown-away gate and rushed into the level.
Lorraine and the others only heard the shouts from inside the checkpoint outside, but never heard the sound of fighting. For almost a quarter of an hour, they saw the soldiers from Taysil City beginning to escort the soldiers inside the checkpoint out of the checkpoint.
A group of Imperial Guard soldiers and Imperial Guard attendants escorted a man in military uniform in the middle and supported two wounded people as they walked out of the checkpoint.
This group of guards and attendants came to Lorraine and General Philip. After saluting, the captain said: "My subordinates are incompetent, let the master and the general make this trip."
Lorraine nodded and said: "Brothers, thank you for your hard work. You are worthy of being a member of the Imperial Guard. You have done a great job."
General Philip also nodded and said with a smile: "You guys, if you still can't handle this little scene, go back and practice hard."
"Mainly with the attendants, otherwise with these third-rate soldiers, we will all go back to Naider now." The captain said depressedly.
The group of imperial guardsmen at the back all glared at the captain.
"Okay, okay, the matter is settled, now it's time to get down to business, it's almost dawn." Leo shouted.
Lorraine sighed and said: "It's really difficult to do something serious. From top to bottom, they are all bad guys. No wonder everyone likes to be a fool."
Leo sighed, nodded with deep sympathy, and counted on his fingers: "Business tax, transaction tax, consumption tax, income tax, Nicole said they would add my resource tax, and she kept saying they would take it back.
State-owned, is it easy to be a good businessman?"
How much money can you make from selling slaves? Just look at Leo and Vera's current mood.
On the boat back to Nidel, Leo kept saying "The hard work on this trip was not in vain", while shouting next to Lorraine, "Boss, this slave trader has finished copying, what business should we do next."