Three days later.

Lormine and Grant entered the city again, their faces neat and tidy, their spirits still vibrant, and their bodies smelling clean, except for a slight dirt on their clothes.

The swordsman's body is better than that of any normal healthy person, so he basically doesn't sweat unless he encounters extreme heat or a lot of exercise.

As for the dirt on the clothes, it was just some dust, and the two of them were very careful, and there was absolutely no blood.

This time, the two were not going to sneak around, but went straight to the city hall to visit the city hall.

Naturally, the city hall did not dare to slack off on the arrival of the Qin mission, and first held a banquet to entertain the two, whether it was the mayor, the judge, the sheriff or even the merchant leaders, they all arrived to toast the two together.

Then the town hall arranged a small vacant cottage for the two to stay in temporarily, and lent them a few maids, and all the room and board—and Lomin also found a money order in his bedroom, with which he could receive thirty gold coins in a gold shop in Brandon. This is probably the first step in bribery.

Luo Ming naturally didn't believe the clichés they kept saying about "respecting the Grand Duke", and he was definitely not treated favorably for this reason.

If it weren't for Luo Ming's "inadvertently" revealing that he was a sword master, maybe someone would have gone crazy and even done something to kill Qincha.

It is not possible to kill openly, but what if you "stumble and fall" or "get drunk and knock over a candle and catch fire"? What if you are bitten by a snake? Or if you are greedy for merit, you will encounter a large group of gnolls and there will be no bones left?

This is really not Luo Ming's delusion, and there is a lot of evidence in history.

"The Tombstone of the Five" is a famous article that can be selected into some language textbooks of the Celestial Empire, and it is said to commemorate the five martyrs who fought against the eunuchs.

But behind the background of its story, there are dirty things that can be scolded for three days and three nights: the Ming Dynasty scholars and officials evaded taxes seriously, and they also turned all the "state-owned enterprises" such as mines into their own private property, and there were often hundreds of thousands or millions of taels of family property, and the treasury was so empty that it could not support the rats.

At this time, there were many enemies on the border, and under the internal and external troubles, the scholars still shouted for tax reduction, and the emperor had to send the only eunuchs to go to various places to check the properties that had been usurped by the scholars, and collect taxes again.

A certain magistrate, Zhou Shunchang, did not cooperate at all, and even arrested these eunuchs. Enraged, the emperor sent people to arrest him with a holy decree, but his fox friends and dogs, the Donglin Party, incited the citizens to beat the Qincha to death, and afterwards casually handed over five small people to go out to confess the crime, and these five people were also whitewashed as martyrs after their deaths, and some people publicly erected monuments to him.

However, the wicked have their own evil grinding, and these corrupt masters of the Ming Dynasty can certainly deal with their own emperors, but they immediately lost their temper in the face of the severe torture of Li Zicheng, the leader of the peasant army, not only their bodies were killed, but their family property of tens of millions of taels of silver was also taken away - obviously if they paid one-tenth of the silver to the Ming Dynasty treasury early, they could suppress it while providing disaster relief, and successfully quell the peasant uprising.

If Luo Ming's identity had been revealed three days ago, although he would have been warmly entertained, he would definitely not be as enthusiastic as he is now.

Speaking of which, thanks to his own actions in the past three days, the so-called "pay" means that there is a return, as long as the effort is used in the right place, it will even get twice the result with half the effort.

What he did was to settle the two caravans.

There is not much arable area around the city, partly because it is surrounded by mountains, and partly because most of the citizens prefer to do business.

Therefore, it was necessary to transport grain to the city, and the goods of the city had to be transported out by caravans.

The defeat of two caravans was not a small blow to the city of Bajina.

In addition to this, Luo Ming also placed the corpses of the gnolls he killed at the scene of the caravan attack.

The merchants and the guards were left with nothing but rags and blood, and the occasional scrap of flesh or severed arms—it looked as if they had been taken by the gnolls, as if they had been carried away by the caravans. After all, human corpses are also food for gnolls to feed their stomachs.

Some of the corpses and goods were actually dumped near the gnolls' lair, and presumably the gnolls would not let go of this great gift, which is the evidence of this.

Of course, it is certainly not only tax evaders who die in this process, but also innocent people.

But Grant was quick to convince herself—even to justify herself and Romming's actions by taking out the Church of the Dawn's "preferring to kill a thousand by mistake" during the Holy War.

Luo Ming was very satisfied to see that his subtle transformation was still effective, but he didn't want to rush for quick success, but asked her to put these ideas aside for the time being, and she could think slowly when she looked back.

"Order is to be maintained by iron and blood. He just added.

Granty went to sleep for a while while with the help of alcohol, perhaps trying to shake off the trouble.

At this time, Luo Ming spent an hour exhaling and expelling the alcohol from his body.

At first, in order to paralyze those guys, he drank with them vigorously, and he definitely drank a lot of wine himself.

Although ordinary alcohol does not have much effect on you, it is better to eliminate this effect at this time.

When all this was done, Lormin bathed and changed his clothes, called a maid, and went out to visit the powerful houses of Bajina City from house to house.

Or rather, a wealthy family. Because in this city, the right to speak is directly linked to financial resources.

"Although I am a sword master, I have limited energy, and the time I can stay here is also limited, and it is impossible to stop the scourge of the jackals.

Therefore, I hope that you can donate some money, and I will hire someone to clean up the gnolls, preferably to break their nests and exterminate them with the cubs.

In this way, I have done a good job, and I have been praised by the Grand Duke and the Princess, and you have solved the big headache. ”

Luo Ming said frankly, going door to door to fight the autumn wind and rip off bamboo poles.

Although not every family has donated money, and even some rich families have donated, but the little bit of donation is extremely shabby...... But there are also people who were frightened by the attack on the caravan, or who wanted to break the bank and feed Luo Ming, a ripper, so someone also donated a lot.

Luo Ming wrote down all these details on a piece of cloth, looked at all this, and showed a satisfied smile.

Of course, this is not just an ordinary autumn breeze.