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Hearing such harsh and exorbitant demands, many of the villagers fell to their knees and wept, begging Fiobis to raise their noble hands and forgive them and their village for the sake of the Father and the Virgin, "If such a military service is paid, the village will be completely destroyed, and the children will starve to death for the next year." ”

"I am an envoy sent by the Emperor to oversee you!" Fiobis screamed unmoved, "This emperor's edict is to ask His Excellency Myacollinus to keep the city of Prussia, and he will wait for the opportunity to recover Nicaea and other places as soon as possible, so the city of Prusa cannot be lost, it must be used as a base for the assembly and march of the army." Taxes, military service, and grain were to be missing, and the five retinues were to pave roads and build bridges for the army, and the mules and horses were to carry the baggage for the soldiers of the army. ”

The elders of the village came to the tax collector on their knees and pleaded, "How can you tell me to come out of these five men?" In the past few years in the village, how many children have been born and how many have died, almost every family is an only child, plagues, military disasters, heavy taxes, and everyone knows that these five people went to the barracks, and it would be good if they could come back alive next year. ”

"Shut up, my friend, you, you!" Fiobis angrily brushed his oily hair, and with an angry expression, he pointed at the villagers with sad and numb expressions, "You are finished, and there is still the country and the army, but the country and the army are destroyed, and you will all live under the horse's hooves and scimitars of the infidels, and you will all fall into hell after death." ”

"If the infidels also collect taxes, then we will just go from one hell to another, and there is nothing to be afraid of." The elder said indignantly, "I can't get together five retinues and one peasant soldier for military service, and if you think you can, let me report to the barracks in Prussia instead of all of them." ”

Fiobis's face was distorted, and he snatched the whip directly from the hands of the Pecheneg cavalry, raised it high, and shouted, "I am approved by His Majesty the Emperor, appointed by His Excellency the Grand Duke and the county magistrate, and I am also in the city every month to receive double sums of grain and clothing from the county magistrate."

Before he could finish his words, someone from the villagers received, "Blood-sucking locusts and flies!" ”

"Bold!" Fiobis took off his hand with a whip, and a puff of dust suddenly flew on the elder's face, and he fell to the ground with a crooked bang, "Even if it is a locust or a fly, I also flew out of the imperial garden, noble and inviolable, you village hooligans and pariahs, do you understand, do you understand!" As he spoke, he whipped again and again, hitting the elder who fell to the ground.

Gawain immediately threw off the basket, and at this time Peter climbed down from the scaffolding in a daze, and walked to the door, where he saw Gawain walking up, and knew that it was impossible to stop him, so he could only retain the posture of stretching out his hand and shouting.

"What for, what for!" Seeing Gawain step forward, Fiobis screamed timidly like a woman, but he still had to maintain his majesty, holding the horsewhip and jumping back, but Gawain directly grabbed his hair, threw him to the ground, and snatched his horsewhip, Fiobis still wanted to raise his face, Gawain flew up and kicked him to the ground, "You dare to beat the emperor's tax collector, there is no royal law, I will hang you all, hang you." ”

"Stop!" Gawain could clearly hear the hired Pecheneg cavalryman shouting in Turkic he could understand, holding the reins, and his horse's hooves rising in the midst of the villagers' exclamations, as if they were trying to trample Gawain.

There was a crisp sound, and Gawain waved the whip and whipped it directly on the horse's horse, and the horse screamed twice, spun around in a circle, and ran towards the fence with his master, who had almost fallen, in embarrassment. Then, there was another whip sound, and Gawain shook the whip between Fiobis's legs, so frightened that the other party did not dare to move.

Throughout the snow and in front of the church, tall Gauwen stood majestically among the tax collectors and villagers.

Then the thin Peter walked up behind him and said to the tax collector in Greek, "Don't mess with my brother, he killed five Turkic Grum warriors, warriors who escaped from the court of Zahaaz!" ”

"I want civilized negotiations." Fiobis said to Peter, with a sad face.

"What is the minimum amount of military service in the village now, Holy Father is above, you must not lie." Peter asked.

The tax collector secretly rolled his eyes a few times, and finally could only confess to the villagers and Peter, "The county magistrate's roster says that at least one fully armed peasant soldier must be produced. ”

So Peter spoke to Gawain in the Ay language of his homeland.

"Are there still families of two young people in this village? Even if there are young and wealthy people, they have already gone to the city of Prusa to beg for a living. The elders and the villagers pleaded bitterly, "Those who are requisitioned, whether they are peasant soldiers or retinues, will definitely want to be torn apart by the evil wolf, and their flesh and blood will not be left." ”

Gawain threw down the whip at this time, and in full view of everyone, turned and walked into the church, Fiobis hurriedly climbed two steps, took the whip back again, and then stood up again, but when he saw Gawain come out of the church again, he screamed again, and sat down again.

Gawain, who came out, put on the black armor of the Grum cavalry, and took out the black mare from the stable, with a sword hanging from his waist and a Turkic scimitar, but without a shield, a spear, or a helmet, and stood in front of them all like this, and was silent for a while, and said to Peter in a loud voice, "Tell them that I will take the place of this military service!" ”

Peter's expression is one of complete madness, but he finally turns to everyone and says Gawain's thoughts in pure Greek, and the villagers are in an uproar, and then they call Gawain "righteous" with tears in their eyes, "But we can't afford to hire you for the money." ”

"No, it's a reward for the meal." After saying that, Gawain walked up to Fiobis, "I have armor and weapons, I am tall and strong, and I can ride horses, and I should meet the needs of His Excellency Caesar, as you said." ”

"Are you kidding? You alien-looking freak who resembles both Turkic and Varyag. Fiobis quickly asked Peter to translate to him in Greek, "The hillbillies and masons who don't even speak Greek, Caesar and the army won't want you." ”

At this moment the Pecheneg cavalry came again and said loudly to the tax collector, "Are you crazy? Of course I want him, he is the most qualified and strongest guy I have recruited in the past six months, better than ninety percent of the soldiers recruited. Now that His Excellency Caesar has spoken, the rich land-contractors must provide an equal amount of military service, and villages like this, if they can, should jointly provide a qualified soldier, whether he is a native of Greece or a foreigner, and recruit him if he can follow Caesar's banner. After speaking, he didn't fight the cavalryman he didn't know, and waved to Gawain, indicating that he appreciated Gawain.

The tax collector could only take out the roster in a daze, which was divided into four columns, and he put the reed pen on the second column, "Your name?" Yokel. ”