Chapter Ninety-Seven: Extortion and Refusal to Pay Back
Emir's oily face was sweating like pulp.
"This ...... This...... You're laughing. ”
Avril smiled. "I'm so busy that I'm not in the mood to laugh right now. The Mullen family pays a pitiful amount of taxes to the royal family every year, and even the military expenses I grant you every year are not comparable.
In this way, this time to help resist Giber, the Malen family is not small, so they set aside a few pieces of grain-rich territory from Giber's territory, plus a few private territories belonging to the royal family, and exchange those mountains and seas in the territory of His Excellency Emir, what do you think of this proposal?"
The emir cried bitterly in his heart, and his fat face wrinkled like a chrysanthemum. While laughing and secretly hating, why was he so careless, he was actually caught by this difficult stinky woman, and now he can't beat it, what should I do?
What he said just now was not entirely prevarication, although the Malen family is rich, its military strength is indeed the lowest among the marquises, not to mention the Giber with a strong family background, even the old Roman can't compare.
Now the queen is threatening herself with a great victory, and if she wants to resist, she will definitely not be able to resist, maybe this cunning woman is waiting for herself to resist, so as to find an excuse to serve it directly, and the only choice is to cut the meat.
The emir bowed down with a fat face. "Your Majesty, you ...... Your mercy on your subordinates, the Mullen family has indeed been a little ...... over the years Slack, but the marquis family under the royal family has been damaged in the past two years, and now there is only me and the old Roman's Anderson family left, you see......"
He stretched out three carrot-like fingers with a painful face and compared them, which meant that the annual tax would rise by another thirty percent.
Avril raised her seductive eyebrows in surprise.
"Is it a three-fold annual tax? ”
"No, no...... I mean."
Her Majesty the Queen's fox eyes narrowed, and she said threateningly: "Could it be four times?
The money that the Malen family has taken out of my hands over the years seems to be worth more than ten years of taxes, and Your Excellency Emir thinks that the royal family needs to compensate for it, right?"
Her Majesty the Queen turned the tide and defeated Giber who wanted to rebel, and in the future she will definitely be able to wipe out all the rebellions and rebuild the flanges.
There are too few soldiers in my Maren family, and there are not many people, so I should pay more money to support you, so I won't bother you, so I'll go back and raise money......"
Avril nodded and turned around, waved her hand without raising her eyelids, and said, "Very good, then I will represent the royal family of France and thank His Excellency Emir for his strong support." ”
"Yes, yes!" said the emir, smiling dryly.
He came round and was squeezed dry, and Her Majesty's pocket "bulged" in an instant, and these threefold taxes, plus Giber's private property, maybe he could pay off the wealth at one time, and there was still money left over from the church.
Of course, it is said that it is absolutely impossible to repay the money, and it is impossible to repay the money in this life.
The collateral when I borrowed the money was the royal family's collection for hundreds of years, and most of those antique sculptures and portraits were probably taken away by Peter, and now they are all in the hands of the Farrell family.
What? The people of the Wealth Church are not happy? Why are they not happy, and I am not happy?
When Peter "escorted" a large amount of property out of the city, just to find them to pay them back, he was caught and cut down by the traitors of the Farrell family, and I haven't asked them for compensation!
Avril was making a small calculation, and even arranged how to spend the money, she turned around with a smile, leaned back her hands behind her back slightly, and her beautiful body bent a seductive curve.
Her Majesty the Queen smiled and said to William, who had a flat face: "William, why did you suddenly become so powerful, this time it is really thanks to you, otherwise I am afraid that I will be succeeded by Jiber, do you have any reward you want?
William looked at Avril Lavigne, who was full of the atmosphere of a local tyrant, and the corners of his mouth curled slightly: "I ......"
Avril suddenly reached out and covered his mouth, the soft palm was softer than William's lips, and she blinked, showing a somewhat naughty expression in a rare way.
"Don't say it yet, I guess. ”
She withdrew her palm behind her back, thought for a moment and said, "I guess you must want a fiefdom, I saw you always look at my map before, so I'll give you ......"
"Cousin, I knew you weren't going to die, hahaha!"
A familiar laugh rang out from afar, and William followed the sound, and the first thing he saw was two...... It's Hans's familiar beard.
At this time, the bearded cousin, who was being carried on the back by a man with well-developed chest muscles, waved his hand to William with excitement on his face.
The sharp-eyed William saw the splint on the back of his right arm, and not only on his arm, but also on the sides of his two legs were tied with thick branches, and he looked like he was not lightly injured.
The woman carrying him on his back was also not lightly injured, the placket and the heart were full of blood, the blood stains on the placket were vomited, and the clothes at the heart were torn, revealing the gauze wrapped underneath, which seemed to be a sword wound.
Avril looked at the two of them covered in surprise and bruises, these two were not ...... Did that go? How could it be so badly injured?
She was puzzled and said, "You ...... You're not...... How did you get hurt like this?"
Although the bearded cousin is old, his face is still relatively tender, and even if he asks such a vague question, he is still a little embarrassed.
He scratched his head and snorted twice, then said hesitantly, "Also...... It's nothing, it was actually quite ...... at first It's good, but something went wrong this morning. ”
Pomona, who was carrying him on his back, didn't care, first nodded to Avril, and then replied helplessly: "Don't mention it, I was sleeping with him in my arms this morning, and that old thing from Jiber didn't know what was crazy, and rushed over with a sword, and I didn't even have time to put on my clothes......"
Even with the presence of the [careerist's face], William was still defeated by this big statement.
His gaze shifted from Pomona to Hans, and he looked at him with a complicated expression, and asked silently with his own gaze, "Son, why did you betray the Order?"
The bearded cousin was stared at by William, and he lowered his head and explained, "It's not ...... It's not that I didn't wear anything, I also wore socks. ”
William's cheeks twitched, and then he asked with some curiosity, "You were in Giber's camp before......?" Who is this brother and sister, and how could Gibb bump into you?"
Pomona raised her eyebrows, looked up and down at the sturdy William with admiration, and said nonchalantly, "Ask me, because I used to be Giber's wife, but from the beginning I seemed to be a widow." ”
William and the middle-aged beauty in the distance froze at the same time, and an inexplicable sense of guilt welled up in their hearts......