In the afternoon, Chen Hansheng and Kalanda wandered the streets of the town. In this small town, but with a lot of merchants, the two of them are not very conspicuous. In addition to them, Glade and Leo also brought a group of people to gather information.

It's not enough to listen to the innkeepers, they also have to go deep into the town and get to know the real situation. Chen Hansheng watched while comparing the differences between the two towns with the town of Floro as a comparison.

Obviously, apart from the stout, well-made baron's mansion, most of the houses here are more crude than those in Floro, and many of them can only be described as shacks. The people here are also sicklier than the townspeople of Floro, many of whom have thin cheeks, sunken eyes, loose hair, and a thin body, all of them look typically undernourished. The children, in particular, are mostly short and stunted.

"It seems that the taxes here are heavy, and it is true. Compared with the people of Floro Town, these people are not only physically bad, but also mentally bad, you see the way they look at us, they are really devastated by life. Chen Hansheng sighed.

"Floro is a special case. In order to show that he had no intention of governing the land, the Count of Carlos had left it for many years, specifically for the inspectors who came to the royal capital. Karanda was more accustomed to this kind of small-town scene, "But it's really very squeezed here, and you can see that there are several residents who don't have pants to wear, but only a rag around them." There are not many towns in the kingdom that are as free as Floro, and not many are so embarrassed as this. ”

"Hey, to put it mildly, the worse it is, the better it is for us to do our job. If they don't do it badly enough, how can they show that we are good?" Chen Hansheng shook his head slightly, "Obviously, it is a world that has magical powers, can increase food production, and can make it simple. When I arrived, it was mixed up like this bird. ”

"Still, these ...... Can these inhabitants really be changed? I sympathize with them, but you look at them as if they don't think about anything......

Chen Hansheng put his arm around Kalanda's shoulders and said, "You, you still haven't left the position of a noble lady to see the problem. Didn't really experience what they were like. ”

"I'm not a noble lady. Kalanda said with a straight face.

"Yes, yes, you're not, but you're not worse educated than they are. ”

"In the past, there were always people in us who criticized these people at the bottom for being insensitive, ignorant, and short-sighted. At first, I thought it made sense. But then I went to more places and saw more people, only to find out that this person is standing and talking without backache.

When he sees the old man, will he not love his grandson? When he sees the girl, will she have no one in his heart? When he sees the child, will he not have the idea of what he wants to do?

If you have been in contact with them carefully, ripped off their defenses, and talked to them, you will find that each of them has their own ideas. But the problem is that they don't have the money, they don't have the ability, they don't have the vision, they can't do it.

They are numb because they don't understand, they are ignorant because they don't know, and they're short-sighted because no one tells them what will happen after they climb a mountain in front of them. However, here we are, everything will be different. ”

After Chen Hansheng finished speaking, he saw that there was a trace of admiration in Kalanda's eyes looking at him, not to mention the smugness in his heart.

The two of them bounced from one end of town to the other and back again, and no one cared about them. Chen Hansheng said: "I originally thought that the baron would come to contact us soon when he got the news of our coming. I didn't expect him to stand still. ”

"You're quietly watching this town, and he must be secretly watching you. ”

"After a long time with me, you are talking more and more like a poet. ”

The two of them passed by a place that was apparently a small square, and he saw from a distance that there were quite a few people gathered, and he thought that he would find some vendors selling things here, but in fact there were no stalls here. The people who gathered together were waiting for the two people to be tortured.

Two men were tied to the torture rack in the square.

A man who looks like a steward is announcing the guilt: "...... Tuchin, and his son Sova, evaded the Baron's transit and commercial taxes, and each received fifty lashes. ”

The steward was obviously in no mood to explain anything to the serfs, and beckoned the two guards to whip up. Both men's mouths were gagged, but even then they let out a muffled scream.

"This whip is not right, it is fatal. "It only took three strokes over there before Kalanda noticed the problem.

Chen Hansheng saw that there was an old man at the end of the crowd who shook his head and sighed again and again, and said, "Old man, do you think this father and son are wronged?"

The old man glanced at Chen Hansheng and saw that he was a simple middle-aged man, dressed as those merchants and mercenaries, although he looked a little strange, he was not suspicious, covered his mouth, and whispered: "Tuchin is a well-known good man, and he is willing to help anyone in trouble." Do business honestly, how can you evade taxes. He must have offended the baron, and he was arrested by a random name. Alas. ”

"Is there a lot of this kind of thing?" Chen Hansheng asked.

The old man turned his head to look at him, and said strangely: "Don't you know how much?

Chen Hansheng nodded in agreement, and then gave Kalanda a look.

Kalanda flexed her fingers a few times in understanding. I saw a few wisps of qi that could not be distinguished by the naked eye shoot out from her fingertips, and they were ejected on the two executing guards, only to see their bodies shake, the direction of the whip naturally changed, and each of them was whipped on the steward standing aside.

"Ah~~" The steward covered his face and let out a scream, and then fell to the ground.

"What's the matter!" The captain of the guard behind the steward rushed over with his long sword in his hand, and Kalanda popped out a wisp of fighting spirit and hit him in the leg, the captain of the guard softened at his feet, his body staggered, and the long sword happened to poke the steward's thigh, and the steward let out a short howl, and then simply fainted.

This steward had a lot of status in the baron's palace, and the guards were so frightened that they surrounded the steward to stop the bleeding and bandage, and the two guards removed a door panel from the door of a nearby house, and a group of people carried the steward and hurriedly sent it back to the baron's palace for treatment.

Tuchin and Sova had been whipped seven or eight times, and their skin had already been torn apart. The two of them were left on the execution platform unattended, and Chen Hansheng and Kalanda stepped forward unhurriedly to split the ropes and let them down. None of the onlookers came up to stop or question them, so Chen Hansheng and Kalanda carried the two of them on their backs and headed for the hotel.