"Lord Baron!" approached the gate of Shining Gold Town, the guards here saluted Zhang Li respectfully.

"Well, no need to be polite. Zhang Li smiled and nodded with them, and suddenly, as if he had thought of something, he said to the two guards: "I just caught an undead in the forest, you go and buy a coffin for me, I will bring it back to the city to make research materials." As he spoke, regardless of whether the two refused or not, a gold coin flew out of Zhang Li's hand, and a guard subconsciously caught it.

"Take the rest of the money as your hard money, Tom, give them your horses, and be careful when you carry the undead, for it is not good to be infected with the plague. ”

The two guards were overjoyed, how much was a coffin, a few ordinary silver coins were enough, and the rest of the money belonged to them, which was a huge windfall, so they discussed it, and one led the horse to the coffin shop in the town, and the other continued to guard the gate.

"Your Excellency...... You've given too much money, and if you want me to see it, three pieces of silver will be enough. Tom looked enviously at the guard who was leading the horse away, and began to mutter, a gold coin that he was greedy for, if only he could do this.

"Shut up for me!" Zhang Li suddenly roared, Tom and Jerry were both startled, and they didn't know why Zhang Li was angry.

"Look at your performance today, how can you look like a personal guard!? Even ordinary soldiers know how to carry out orders unconditionally, and don't say what they shouldn't say! Don't do what they shouldn't do! What about you? You know all day long that you are crooked and crooked, and you can run faster than me when things happen! What use do I want you to do!?"

In the face of Zhang Li's roar, Tom and the two knelt down at that time, and said with a panicked face: "My lord, we know that we are wrong! Please forgive us this time!"

Although they say that they are relatives of the nobles and have a side with the nobles, in reality they are at best ordinary people with a little money, and it is extremely difficult for ordinary people to become nobles, not to mention that they can't endure hardship.

They know how hard it is to become Zhang Li's personal guard, although Zhang Li's title is only baron, but the baron is not the last nobleman, he can also canonize knights, he also has enough fiefs to canonize, plus his status as a councilor, everyone knows that he must not be a thing in the pool.

Being able to be on his thighs and become his descendants is definitely a big shortcut to success, I don't know how many people envy them, if Zhang Li drives them away, it will really be a dead heart.

No, if they really want to die, their father can beat them to death, even if they pass their father's level, they will be ridiculed by others to death in shame.

Excited, the two of them knelt down for Zhang Li directly on the street, which caused many onlookers.

Zhang Li didn't want to cause traffic jams, and he didn't want to hear any crazy words.

So he quickly made a final judgment: "I'll give you one last chance! You should go to Raven Ridge now and kill a hundred undead for me, kill them with your own hands, don't borrow other people's hands, when you kill enough and come back, and give me a good time to think about my duties as a personal guard, and if you don't pass the test after you come back, I will still let you get out!"

"Yes, thank you, sir!"

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"Deflated?" In one of the largest taverns in Shining Gold Town, Bovar was drinking with Zhang Li, although there was no private room in the tavern in Azeroth, but the lord naturally couldn't sit with the five big and three rough drunkards when he came, so they were now eating in the room on the second floor of the tavern, and when they opened the window, there was a lively street, and there was a small open-air theater not far away, which was also a special taste.

Zhang Li had already eaten and was not hungry, but he was injured, a priest was healing him, and the guard was still putting zombies in his coffin, so he didn't return to Stormwind City for the time being.

"What's there to be angry about, just two related households. Zhang Li drank noncommittally, his eyes fixed on the theater not far away, where the performance had already begun.

"I think tomorrow there will be a rumor in aristocratic circles that a very lucky former pariah, after becoming a nobleman, began to use his subordinates as a prestige, and the poor subordinates were forced to die. Bolval looked at Zhang Li with a wicked smile.

Zhang Li shrugged his shoulders indifferently: "The old nobles will always reject the new nobles, after all, their blood is noble, and it is a blasphemy for them to want to integrate dirty blood." ”

Bolval was speechless, he just wanted to make a joke and liven up the atmosphere, but considering that he was also an old nobleman, he didn't know what to say now.

"Don't mention that, did those people donate again today?"

Bowall, of course, knew who Zhang Li was talking about.

"No, these guys are very cunning, they have already discerned who is the richest and most powerful, since there is no hope for those territories, they will not spend money in vain. ”

"Oh, and how much have they donated so far?"

"Not much. Bolval shook his head: "Now the treasury is only enough for military expenses, and this is only the salary of the soldiers, I checked it today, we still owe 20,000 gold to the Fermorse shipyard, 40,000 to the Azulma factory, and tens of thousands of other forests, they are crowded at the gate of the palace every day to ask for accounts, but we can't afford to pay, it seems that we can only wait for the tax to come up next year before we can start to settle civilians, really, obviously everything seems to be stable when the old parliamentarians were in charge of the government, but now there is a feeling of storm." ”

"......" Zhang Li felt speechless: "How are the two Ma Kelun families, are they still resisting?"

"They have sent people out to negotiate more than once, and the two families have expressed their willingness to give all their wealth to surrender, but the territory will never be handed over, and they refuse to accept punishment, and it seems that there is nothing to negotiate, the Eberlock family and the Solomon family are besieging the two families respectively, and the Eberlock family will not say it for the time being, the Solomon family should be able to win in half a month. ”

"These two are still competing?"

"Yes, because they have a disagreement on the distribution of wealth, it seems that the two families have reached some kind of agreement, they attack the two councillor families separately, and whoever attacks first will get all the property of the councillor's family, and then the one who wins first will go to support the other side, and they will divide the property of the other family equally. ”

"Speaking from strength, it seems that the Solomonic family has the upper hand. ”

"Not necessarily, although they are numerous, but the eldest lady of the Eberlock family has a war airship, driving that one to sprinkle a few circles of white powder on the city, who wins and who loses, it is really not certain, but the two councillor families have been divided, the wealth of the Blackwell family has not yet been decided (the fat family), the losing side in this competition can only get a quarter of the wealth of the two families, so he will definitely bite the wealth of the Blackwell family, I am worried that the two families will turn into a war, we have enough things......"

At this time, the theater outside has attracted a lot of audiences, some children take copper basins and wander around to ask for money, and those who have money and are willing to give will throw in one or two coppers, and then he is qualified to go to the chair and sit and watch, and those who don't give money will not drive people away, you just stand and watch, this is a rule of the open-air theater.

"I have an idea to prevent them from turning into war. At this time, Zhang Li suddenly spoke.

"What is it?"

"How about having them compete in the arena? The two families send representatives to duel, whoever wins takes the lion's share, and we can act as notaries and referees, the duel location can be placed in the square of the cathedral, we can publicize it before the duel, attract some spectators, and if someone wants to see it closely, he will charge him some ticket money, just like the open-air theater, those who can't pay the money will stand and watch from a distance, and at the same time we can also open a market to gamble, and we can also sell some drinks and food or something, so that we can not only solve the affairs of the two families, but also add a sum of income to the treasury, what do you think of this proposal? ？”