As early as the Northland, when he was busy settling the people, young Knight rookie Carter had already begun his career like no other.

As Carter got the taxes of all the territories for Cologne, he was soon reused by Cologne and became the most powerful person in all the knightly armies in the Knight world. With Basel joining Carter's command, all the regular knights of the original Dragon City army except for the members of the First Legion were directly dispatched by Carter, and even the three knights of Hwaseong also swore allegiance to Carter.

In order to better train the knight army, except for those knights stationed in the territory, all the knights were stationed in Carter's new territory and received Carter's personal supervision and training.

Dimis was rarely involved in the work of the Knights, and he planned to build a new base camp for Carter in Alto's territory, with the goal of allowing Alto to replace Dragon City as the core force of Knight World.

Dimis moved quickly, and in the autumn he began to change the pace, redistributing all of Alto's land and giving it to the landless nobles in Carter's camp who had fled to Dragon City. The purpose of this practice was to make more nobles inclined to be loyal to Carter, so that Carter could gain more support from the aristocratic world.

In order to make the best use of resources, Dimis, at Carter's suggestion, implemented precise land management in the territory to ensure that every tax was paid to Alto's treasury. The new territory of Nedore was relatively barren, and Carter learned from Caldis's experience in cultivating farmland at Alto, and resettled the refugees who had fled to Dragon City into Nedow one after another.

Having secured the maritime trade at Millertown's docks, Carter began to dominate the supply of leather and horses to the Knight world. Coupled with his position as the chief of affairs of Dragon City, basically the entire trade market of Knight was controlled by Carter. Behind these trade exchanges, there was a huge profit differential, and these wealth and goods began to flow into Alto, becoming Carter's capital to confront the Cologne Chamber in the future.

Carter is the most efficient in his work, and when there is no war, he feels that it is a waste to keep these knightly armies empty. Subsequently, he created a new system of cantonment army, allowing the knights to cultivate military farmland while training, so that the knights could achieve self-sufficiency in materials and expenses as much as possible, and better save the expenses and costs of the army.

However, as knights, most of them come from aristocratic families, and they are for the sake of fame and status, and they never think that they will have to farm after becoming knights. Carter's new military system aroused resentment among the knights, and this discontent began to spread rapidly among the knights.

In the days that followed, there were a succession of knight departures from the knights' camp, which had a great impact on the morale of the knightly army.

Assel had always been strict in his army, and he knew what he should do in the face of this situation, so he took this opportunity to decide to suppress the arrogance and laziness of the nobles. After several days on duty, Assel captured dozens of knights who had left the camp without permission, labeled them as deserters, and hanged them all in public.

No one is not afraid of death, not to mention that dying is so notorious, Assel's iron-fisted methods soon had a significant effect, and the knights no longer dared to complain under the pressure. The gallows that were placed in the camp became more and more frightening to everyone the more they looked at it, and from then on the knights became very regular.

For Carter, however, the troubles have just begun, and the implementation of each new policy is always difficult.

Although Dimis repeatedly told the nobles in the realm to collect taxes in strict accordance with the tax policy of Alto's territory, the nobles of Knight are accustomed to a greedy and corrupt life, and in order to seek more profits, they are often more bold than the sky.

When winter came, a group of nobles in the domain of the former Count of Xodor collected a poll tax from the people without authorization, which was a tax in the old kingdom, which was not required to be paid in normal times, but only when the kingdom was in danger. There is no mention of this tax in the tax issued by Dimis. So the nobles took advantage of this loophole, thinking that Knight was in the war, and began to levy a poll tax to fill their pockets.

The protracted war has long caused the people to suffer, and the people have resisted this unwarranted tax. As the nobles and their guards imposed taxes everywhere, a vigorous riot began to appear in Alto's territory.

Popular riots were common in the Old Kingdom, and were the highest expression of popular rebellion against the oppression of the aristocratic class, usually only in desperation.

Carter could not accept a riot in his own territory, because he felt that he was much kinder to the people than other nobles, and that the people everywhere should be very stable.

Soon, Carter, accompanied by Xiao Daocheng, personally rushed to the east side of Alto's territory with his guards to thoroughly find out the cause of the riot.

When Carter and his party arrived at the scene of the incident, they were stopped by a crowd of civilians armed with hoes and sickles, and the clash seemed to break out in an instant.

However, at this time, Carter turned over and dismounted, and came to the angry people alone, and asked them very puzzled: "I am Carter, the Duke of Neddo, and this year's harvest should be good, why are you not living well, and what is the reason for this?" ”

Carter's name has long been spread across the continent, and he is the person people talk about the most at dinner tables, and people respect Carter more than anyone else for this young Knight.

After an old farmer heard Carter's words, he fell to his knees with a thud and pleaded with Carter, "Lord Duke, you must be the master for us, we will be forced to live." ”

Carter walked lightly, stretched out his hand to help him up, and said, "Uncle, get up quickly." I, Carter, was originally a farmer's child, and I understand your hardships. You can tell me any difficulties, and I will help you solve them all. ”

The old farmer got up slowly, he stretched out his hand to wipe his tears, and explained seriously: "This year's harvest in our fields is indeed good, but after paying the taxes, the food is just enough for us to live." But the nobles came to our village out of nowhere and said that in times of war we should tighten our belts, and force us to pay another poll tax, and that we should pay 50 silver coins each. Pity us peasant households, how much food is left in a year, where can we get so much money to pay the poll tax, isn't this going to force us to death? ”

Carter was furious when he heard this, and he yelled at the people: "Presumptuous, my Alto territory has never asked for any poll tax, this is the nobleman doing evil, can you point it out for me?" ”

When the people heard this, they immediately came to their senses, and everyone pointed to the south side, and several people rushed to show Carter the way. Carter immediately gestured to Xiao Daocheng and led the guards to walk south with the people.

In a few moments they arrived at a small town and came to the door of a baron's house.

The guard at the gate was stunned at the sight of such a large procession, and he hurried into the courtyard to report it, and soon the baron rushed out with a team of guards.

The baron didn't know Carter and Xiao Daocheng, he asked for it, and said domineeringly: "Who are you, you dare to bring the people to make trouble, are you tired of it?" ”

Carter stepped forward and asked the baron straight to the point, "Are you collecting the poll tax from the people?" Who gave you this right? ”

The baron replied with an unchanged face, "Of course it's Lord Carter, do you think these poll taxes are for me?" ”

Carter's face turned red with anger after hearing this, and he roared loudly at the baron, "Presumptuous, do you know who I am? ”

The baron glanced at him and said indifferently, "I don't care who you are, do you know who I am?" ”

Seeing that the baron was fearless, Carter wanted to know what his identity was, so Carter suppressed his anger and asked, "Who are you?" ”

The baron snorted at Carter, and then said very arrogantly, "You may not have heard my name, but you must have heard the name of Master O'Higgins, right?" Whenever I send a message that someone is bringing a guard to make trouble, Lord O'Higgins will bring a knight to help me, believe it or not? ”

Carter sneered: "Yo, according to what you say, you are even more powerful than Duke Carter, and you can directly mobilize the knights of O'Higgins." ”

The baron was still arrogant, and said coldly: "I can't compare with Duke Carter, but I am definitely better than you." Do you dare to tell me who you are, I promise you won't be able to eat and walk around in the future. ”

At this time, Xiao Daocheng on the side couldn't listen anymore, he rushed over quickly, directly pulled out his long sword and pointed at the baron and said, "Presumptuous, you dare to be so rude to Duke Carter, you are looking for death?" ”

"What?" The baron was a little skeptical when he heard this, and instantly his head was a little dizzy, and he opened his mouth to ask, "Who are you?" ”

Xiao Daocheng roared angrily: "I'm Xiao Daocheng, have you heard of it?" ”

"Xiao ......, Xiao Daocheng?" After hearing this, the baron's legs were a little weak, and then he asked Carter in a daze, "You, you are Duke Carter?" ”

Carter didn't bother to explain at all, he directly reached out and took out an official card from his body, which read: "Carter, Chief of Affairs of Dragon City".

When he saw this official card, the baron immediately collapsed to the ground, so frightened that he couldn't say a word.

Carter put away his official card, stretched out his hand and pointed at him and said, "Who gave you the courage to dare to collect poll tax in private, and stir up the people's lives rather than death." You give me an honest explanation, did Captain O'Higgins make you do this? ”

The baron immediately shook his head and said, "No, no, Captain O'Higgins hasn't seen me for a year. It's just that I'm confused and want to get some money to spend. ”

"Presumptuous." Carter was so angry that he reached out and pulled out the long sword at his waist, and continued to yell at the baron: "Confused? Because of your foolishness, the people were forced to riot, and I was ashamed of the world. It is because of evil people like you that we have come to this situation. If I don't kill you, how can I be worthy of the thousands of people of our Alto, how can I be worthy of our Knights. ”

As soon as the words fell, Carter mercilessly stabbed the baron to death in public.

When everyone saw the baron lying in a pool of blood, everyone fell silent, and the people began to lay down their weapons and knelt silently in front of Carter.

Carter stood still, slowly calming himself down, and finally regained his calmness.

Soon Xiao Daocheng said loudly to the people: "Okay, Duke Carter has personally solved this damn nobleman for everyone, and no one will dare to bully you from now on." ”

However, a young farmer said, "What's the use of killing him, our problem is solved, but East Town and North Town are not the same." ”

Carter, who had finally regained his composure, quickly rose in anger, and he turned around and mounted his horse in a huff, leading the guards to continue running to other towns. Under Carter's own management, a purge of the greedy aristocracy began.

Over the course of a month, Carter personally executed more than 60 nobles, suppressing this evil aristocratic trend and giving Alto people a satisfactory answer.

Since then, Carter's voice in Alto's realm has become louder and louder, and in the hearts of the people, the new lord Carter's prestige soon surpassed that of the previous lord Caldis, and became the most considerate of the great lord in the hearts of the people.

In order to completely prevent this kind of thing from happening, Carter assigned Dirmit to arrange patrol teams around the territory and keep an eye on the security of various places.

Since then, the enthusiasm of the people has been high, and more and more people have rushed to stay in Alto, which has laid a good foundation for the prosperity of Alto's territory.