A little east to the south of the Gold Federation, there is a place called "Dahl Territory". Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

This place belonged to the Dahl family, which, like most of the nobles of the Gold Federation, were merchants. An ancestor about five or six generations ago relied on a little wisdom and a soft hand in the midst of war—what is impossible to verify, but it is indispensable to fraud, violence, and conspiracy—to get the first pot of gold, and then began to do some scalping, smuggling, and lending and the like.

The ancestor of the Dahl family was very good at business and had a good eye, and he was always able to stab the former lord at the right time, and after stabbing two lords in the back before and after, he finally soared to prominence and became a nobleman who was qualified to own a territory.

Originally, the ancestor was just a knight with a real fiefdom, and there was a viscount above him as his lord. But somehow, the viscount and his family were ambushed by bandits during a trip, and the whole family was killed. The Knight of Dahl, who learned of this, was furious, and not only mobilized all the troops in his territory, but even took out a large amount of wealth, hired a large number of adventurers, and formed a large army to track down the cause of the feudal king's death.

As the investigation progressed, a huge conspiracy slowly surfaced - it turned out that the only baron under the command of the feudal monarch had colluded with another knight to conspire to kill the feudal monarch.

The enraged Dahl Knight and several other knights immediately joined forces and launched an attack on the two conspirators. After a bloody battle, the rebels were wiped out, and one of the knights was killed.

As a great contributor to the pursuit of crime and the elimination of rebellion, the Knight of Dahl has been appreciated and supported by everyone, especially the friendship of the big names from the royal capital. Soon, he became a baron, and together with several other knights who had turned to the royal capital, he ran the territory together.

In the years since, the area has been uneventful. Although there have been trivial incidents where there has been a dispute over the succession of a knightly family, and the eventual heir looks a little similar to the Dahl family, these are clearly slanders.

The current Dahl Territory is a quiet and remote place.

It is a bit far from the "Southeastern Boulevard" along the seaside, and neither adventurers nor caravans pass through here. Baron Dahl was also not interested in attacking the Swamp to open up territory, and the adventurers and mercenaries were not supported, so they naturally did not use this place as their logistical base, so they set out to explore or invade the Swamp.

Instead, there are some smugglers here, doing the grey trade between the Gold Federation and the Swamp. However, this kind of business is not visible, and the scale is not large.

So on the whole, as Baron Dahl was proud of, Dahl was calm and calm, full of a laid-back atmosphere that made him comfortable.

Whenever he drank tea on the terrace on the top floor of the castle and looked at the territory under his feet, his heart was filled with a sense of peace and comfort, and he often exclaimed: "Ahhh

But in recent days, Baron Dahl's mood has not been so pleasant, and even his favorite afternoon tea has become less palatable.

Because in Dahl City, there are a few more undesirable characters, and some unpopular things have been done.

It was from a priesthood called the Church of the Void Mask, and there were about ten of them, three priests, one priest, and the remaining six were holy warriors.

Damn, they're all characters with official career levels, and none of them are soft-footed shrimp!

When the clergy arrived in Dal City, they first bought a relatively remote house. Because the house was old and dilapidated, it didn't cost much.

In fact, the house and the surrounding area have become almost a place for beggars and thieves because of the long-term poor population, and it is really a place of filth. Unless you need someone to do something inconvenient to say, or you need to find a few objects hanging from the gallows outside the gates, the people with heads and faces in Dal will never come near it.

How could a group of clergy, led by even those who were already at the intermediate level, go to such a place? and buy a house and settle there?

Could it be that this is the quirky of the god they believe in?

Remembering that the god they believed in seemed to be a large jellyfish, Baron Dahl thought that perhaps the guess was correct.

This incident became a joke in the high society of Dahl City, and everyone often brought it up at parties. Some people even laughed, saying that these days they are living by the jokes of this group of people.

But the clergy were obviously not here to make jokes, and the first thing they did when they settled down was to pay for the poor to work for them, to renovate the houses, to build the altars.

To be honest, they didn't have a lot of money, probably enough for the Baron to have a party, and the scale of the party was not very large, let alone luxurious. But for the poor, this money is already a lot, at least enough to buy food and keep them from starving.

In addition to their wages, the priests of the Church of the Void Mask also said that the poor people's clothes were too tattered and contrary to the teachings of their jellyfish majesty, and they were given some fairly thick clean clothes.

The clothes didn't fit very well, and they were old, so I could see that they were probably donated by those middle-aged families somewhere when they were doing good deeds. But at least they're neatly sewn and warm enough to wear.

Moreover, the priests also had a pathological pursuit of cleanliness, and every day two paladins patrolled the slums, urging them to do a good job of cleanliness. There was also a priest who took the poor people to bathe and change their clothes every day, as he did the prisoners—Baron Dahl heard one of his knights on patrol say that once he was passing through that area, and happened to see a group of poor people bathing, and the smell made him sick!

After such a period of time, the slums gradually improved. The poor were dressed neatly, their houses and streets were cleaned, and even their faces were a little bloody because they were almost fed.

So Baron Dahl sent a tax collector.

Whoever dwells in the city of Dhar, whatever he does for a living, has to pay taxes.

Of course, if they had a little girl, they could have paid the tax, but the little girl had been bought or abducted a long time ago, and it was not the turn of the tax collector to collect the tax, and most of them followed the traffickers who bought people.

Now that the poor have some money, the tax collector will have to find them to make up the amount of money they owe.

Well, the interest.

Supposedly, this was a matter of course, but the clergy came forward to say that according to the laws of the Federation of Gold Coins, these taxes could not be counted as interest if there was no evidence at the time.

The most important thing for the gold coin federation is "evidence".

Can't you count interest?! That's only a few bucks!

The two sides have been arguing over this matter, and there is still no conclusion on it.

And this is what makes Baron Dahl unhappy.

He is not short of money, but it should be his money, and even if he loses a copper coin, he will be very unhappy! )