"The number of villages is uncertain, how can the lords collect taxes from the villages?"

Han Xue'er didn't answer the tavern shopkeeper's question, but directly asked the doubts in her heart.

The tavern shopkeeper didn't care about Han Xue'er's ignorance, he just asked casually.

"The tax collectors of the lords will only be delegated to the town level at the minimum, for example, in our town of Vida, the one in charge of taxation is the treasurer directly appointed by the lord of Leila Fortress, Reizis, and each treasurer will have a different number of Kudin under his hands to help count and collect taxes, the treasurer is directly responsible to the lord Reizis, and the tax collector of Leila Fortress is a higher level of tax officer, with more personnel under his hands, and the level is more clear, divided into tax collectors and tax collectors, tax collectors are responsible for management and statistics, and tax collectors are responsible for armed tax collection.

The towns of the Germanic Empire were basically taxed in this way, and as for the villages, due to their instability, the lords would not collect taxes directly from the villages, which is why a large number of people who evaded taxes went out to reclaim the wasteland and establish farms every year.

However, although the lords did not collect taxes from the villages, they divided the land controlled by the towns under their command into pieces according to their size and barrenness, and divided them among the knights who were loyal to them, who were themselves skilled warriors, and had their own servants and servants, and even some wealthy knights had their own slaves!

In order to save money, the lords often distribute pieces of regional land to the knights under their command, and after these knights receive the land, whether they lead people to reclaim it or attract displaced people to reclaim it, the lord doesn't care, de jure, all the villages in this area belong to this knight, and the knights have the right to collect taxes on the villages in this area, and even execute civilians without identity at will!

Therefore, although you can avoid high taxes by going out to reclaim wasteland, the life guarantee has dropped a lot, and it is illegal to kill people in towns, and no one can do anything to civilians for no reason except Lord Reizis!

But in the villages outside, there is no such guarantee, compared to the outlaws who come and go without a trace, those knight lords are the objects of oppression of the villagers!

In fact, the villages on the fiefdoms that were given to the knights rarely encountered a large number of outlaws, and the knights, in order to ensure their own interests, would regularly purge the outlaws of their fiefdoms to ensure the safety of the village and the stability of financial resources.

Of course, knights only go to their own fiefdom villages when collecting taxes, and they stay in the fortress of Leila or fight beside the lord on weekdays, knights are just soldiers with higher status, and the death rate is not low, a large number of knights will die every year, and a large number of knights will be born, because of frequent wars, knights basically go to their own fiefdom villages to collect taxes before and after the expedition. ”

"I see, how are the knight's servants?"

The tavern shopkeeper glanced at Han Xue'er meaningfully: "Do you want to obtain a fiefdom and become a knight of Lord Fatis?" Of course, if you don't want to, I don't have to know the answer, the number of knights and servants depends entirely on the knight's personal ability and wealth, normally speaking, the knight's servants are often more than ten people, which is the maximum number of ordinary knights who can support on the basis of maintaining their own expenses, after all, knights and servants are going to go to the battlefield with knights, even if the servants have to take up arms to fight at critical moments, which is much more than feeding a civilian.

Many knights are not as good as the leaders of mercenary groups, in fact, in the eyes of the lord, knights are just high-level mercenaries with long-term and loyal guarantees.

Collecting taxes from fiefdoms is not an easy task! ”

"And what if the knight loses the fiefdom village for special reasons?"

"Haha, Ms. Han Xue'er is really thoughtful, after the lords have finished sealing the fiefdom, they basically don't ask, until the knight dies or disappears for more than a certain period of time, he will be sealed to other newly promoted knights, as for the reason for the knight's death and disappearance, the lords have so many affairs, and there are hundreds of knights under their command, but they don't have the time and heart to care about the cause of a knight's death.

The knight is a high-level mercenary, and he is also a bloody warrior who lives with his head pinned to his belt, and his skills are not as good as others and he dies in an unknown corner, and he will not even have a person who collects the corpse......

Although knights decide to live and die in front of the villagers, their survival rate is not necessarily higher than that of an ordinary villager. ”

The tavern keeper kindly reminded him that he didn't want to see such a delicate beauty go out and work hard as a knight, and how safe it would be to be an errand in Vadertown.

After Han Xue'er heard that the knights didn't care about life and death, and the lords didn't care about the belonging of the village, her eyes couldn't help but shine with excitement.

"Thank you for the tavernkeeper's reminder, for the expenses of my adventurous companions, and when I get Fatis's commission, not a penny will be lost to you, hehe."

After Han Xue'er finished speaking in a good mood, she turned around and left, not giving the tavern shopkeeper a chance to ask questions.

"It's really a chaotic world where power is scattered, the power of the emperor of the Germanic Empire can't reach the place, and the real power lord of the place is not interested in ordinary villages and farms, and even doesn't care too much about the life and death of knights, isn't this just a chance for adventurers to rise?"

Han Xue'er glanced at the Nord warriors who were eating and drinking, and the good armament on their bodies, and consciously had no problem dealing with knights with only a dozen people, not to mention, it was still a question of whether there were knights in the village she found to receive the fiefdom!

With the assistance of the riding and chopping system, as long as she is given a certain amount of time to develop, her strength will definitely change dramatically, and as long as she has strength, she naturally does not need to look at other people's faces.

From the mouth of the tavern shopkeeper, Han Xue'er already understood that what the lords really cared about was densely populated places like cities and towns, as long as they did not touch the basic interests of the lords and showed a certain strength base, presumably there would be no real power lord who would have to lose his strength and start a war rashly.

Of course, these are just Han Xueer's theoretical analysis.

In this way, Han Xue'er spent the first night of coming to the Karaouda continent in the tavern of Vinda Town with great peace of mind, and the fighting in the outside world would not affect the tavern, and Han Xue'er didn't care, so she naturally slept beautifully.

However, when the sun rose the next day, Han Xue'er, who had sleepy eyes and fluffy eyes, got up and noticed that something was wrong, and the familiar tavern shopkeeper disappeared!

There are only a few guys in the tavern to take care of, and there are not a single person in the tavern hall!

When Han Xue'er opened the door of the tavern with ten Nord warriors, she vaguely heard the sound of intensive fighting in the distance!