Chapter Seventy-Three: The Greedy Aristocrats (1)

In the loess, a wide highway is interspersed in this earthy yellow wasteland, and an endless stream of merchants pass through the road, and as summer is approaching, the dry wind and sand blow on the face, making people extremely uncomfortable. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

This is a newly built road, following the tradition of the "Greystone Alliance" in the Great Wilderness, from the west of Blackstone Town, this road leads to the "Countlyn Wood's Boer City" on the outskirts of the Great Wilderness.

Riding tall Moss horses, a caravan with more than a dozen wagons and hundreds of guards was heading from the direction of Blackstone to Boer City.

Caravans of this size are rare on this wide road, but compared to the number of caravans coming and going, this scale is nothing compared to the number of caravans coming and going, after all, with the development of this road, many small and medium-sized caravans are happy to enter the Great Wilderness from here to trade with the so-called Greystone Alliance.

The sun was shining high on the earth, and you could still feel a breeze and a hint of coolness on the horse, but for the leader of the caravan's guards, the real coolness came from the black-haired boy beside him.

"Ize, how long will it take to arrive?" asked the black-haired boy, feeling the heat getting higher and higher, lying on his horse's back, a little sluggish.

"My lord, it's almost there. ”

On the young man's side, Ize, who was dressed as the leader of the guard, looked at the surrounding position and quickly replied that Izawa, the former adventurer leader of the Mary's Tavern in Blackstone Town, glanced a little vigilantly at the caravan passing around at the moment.

Thinking of the identity of the young man beside him, Ize couldn't help but secretly complain, he was just the sheriff in charge of the security of Blackstone Town, and he usually managed the hundreds of people under his command to maintain law and order, as Blackstone Town became more and more lively, although he was getting busier and busier, but after all, he was an official, and Ize was also living comfortably.

Just yesterday, that comfort was shattered.

"Izawa, you call your security team tomorrow, go to the armament department to get a hundred sets of spare rune weapons, and protect the adults to go to this place," Buzz stared at Ize with a serious face, pointing to the map in front of him, the nezumi's slightly narrowed eyes were full of murderous aura, and he said coldly: "You have to ensure the safety of the adults, even if the security teams are all killed, the adults are not allowed to lose a single hair!"

Thinking back to yesterday's words of Nezumi Buz, Ize couldn't help but sigh, if the man lying on horseback on his side had a bad pool, the crazy orc was afraid that he would be able to do anything.

"What's going on? Why did you stop? It's such a hot day, hurry up!"

With a depressed face, Wang Xiaotian, who looked like he was almost sticking out his tongue to dissipate heat, was lying on the back of the horse, feeling that the convoy was slowly stopping and moving forward, and immediately asked weakly.

"My lord, it's here. ”

Izawa's eyes narrowed slightly, and one hand had secretly pressed the rune sword at his waist, and his answer was brief and clear.

Hearing Yi Ze's answer, Wang Xiaotian couldn't help but poke his head out with some curiosity, in front of him, a large number of caravans were stuck there, and a simple checkpoint was lying on the highway like this.

A fence of wood and stones, lined with human soldiers armed with spears stood on either side, and a few improvised sheds behind them reflected the cold in the sunlight, apparently with archers on standby.

A large number of convoys were divided into two columns, each exiting and entering was watched vigilantly by spear soldiers, and each convoy had to pay a fee for crossing the checkpoint.

Seeing this scene, Wang Xiaotian's weak dead fish face gradually sank.

"Sure enough, someone dared to set up a tax card on the labor-management road!"

Originally, Wang Xiaotian should have been actively preparing for war at the Goblin Research Institute in Gray Rock City at this moment, but not long ago, he found that the trade volume of this month had dropped a lot, and a large number of merchants asked for price reductions for goods.

In this way, the cost of merchants was increased and the profits of Gray Stone City were reduced, which was unbearable for Wang Xiaotian, who was in urgent need of funds to fill the pit.

So he didn't even bother to test the new weapon, and came all the way from Greystone City to see who was so unsightly to grab meat from his bowl to eat.

......

As the convoys lined up in front passed one by one, it was soon Wang Xiaotian's turn.

Looking at the scale of Wang Xiaotian's more than a dozen cars, and then at the Morse war horses that Yi Ze and the others were riding, some of the hard-eyed tax card commanders couldn't help but secretly scream a big fish.

The scale of a dozen cars is not very large, but look at those Morse war horses, this is now a hot commodity in the west, the political group led by Felix of the Maple Leaf family and the earl's lineage are inseparable, local conflicts continue, and the entire west is now in chaos, and the price of this kind of war horse that can form high-quality cavalry has more than doubled at this time.

And there are at least hundreds of Moss war horses in front of him, although they are not the kind of Warcraft, but the commander can see at a glance that these war horses are all produced by Morse Territory, and they are definitely good horses, indeed, these war horses were exchanged for Wang Xiaotian and a caravan some time ago, because the gold coins are not enough, so they are mortgaged.

"Stand in a line, don't crowd, you, that's you, brunette boy, your horse back a little!"

Looking at Wang Xiaotian's curious gaze, the commander commanded the caravan queue with a high spirit, and the spearmen on his side also waved their spears very cooperatively, and the iron spears made of fine iron gave people a sharp feeling with a wisp of coldness.

"According to Viscount Wood's "Bill of Pol City Administration", depending on the number of your convoys, and the number of your horses, you have to pay one gold for each car, and one gold for each horse and people!"

A greedy glint flashed in the leader's eyes, and he scolded Wang Xiaotian and the group of people loudly.

"Viscount Wood, do you mean that this belongs to Viscount Wood in Ball City, and besides, can you make such a toll cheaper......

Wang Xiaotian said timidly, the appearance of the young man, and the appearance of submissiveness, the most important thing is that Wang Xiaotian clutched the money bag in his hand, and the money bag made of animal skins sounded a pleasant sound of gold coins.

Looking at the delicate bulging money bag and the sound of the gold coin, a trace of greed flashed in the eyes of the soldier commander, with a hint of impatience, and shouted: "Still bargaining, you think this is a vegetable market! Hurry up and give the money, otherwise you won't think about it." ”

"That's it......" Holding the money bag in a daze, Wang Xiaotian looked at the commander with some embarrassment, when the commander came over a little arrogantly and was ready to rob it, a trace of coldness flashed in Wang Xiaotian's eyes, and he sneered: "Kill me!"

As soon as the words fell, Izawa's hand fell, and the adventurer's boss let his sword slash across the head of the soldier for the first time, and the flying head and disbelief in his eyes made the entire tax card fall into a dead silence.

Rumble!

"Suffocate Uncle Red, let Uncle Ben have a good fight!"

With a rough roar, Red's burly figure split open a truck, jumped out of the truck with a hint of excitement and bloodlust, and rushed into the tax card in front of him.

Boom! Boom!

Three or five orc men rushed out of the trucks, the horses neighed, and the human security team also rushed into the sentry post with a sneer.

In the face of this sudden change, the caravan on the side was dumbfounded, and the soldiers in the tax card immediately reacted and shouted hoarsely and shouted the enemy attack, but it was too late.

Red and the orc soldiers who had experienced the baptism of war rushed into the tax card, like a tiger into the sheepfold, and the slaughter was really unstoppable, although the human cavalry was also very brave, but it lacked that evil spirit.

It's just that Wang Xiaotian suffered, looking at Yi Ze on his side helplessly, Yi Ze at this moment followed Wang Xiaotian with an expressionless face, he didn't care if he killed the enemy or not, he took more than a dozen people to surround Wang Xiaotian, the purpose was very clear, as long as Wang Xiaotian was protected, nothing else mattered.