Surdak sat up straight, looked at Viscount Dalton with a faint expression, and said:

"If you come to me and simply confess to me, then you don't have to, the security team and the tax office will punish you accordingly."

From the stack of signed documents on the table, he pulled out an execution letter and pushed it in front of Viscount Dalton, pointed to the text on it, and continued:

"The cooker will be shut down and the land will be confiscated back to the town without compensation."

Viscount Dalton's pupils contracted, and he placed the parchment execution book in front of him, and looked down carefully.

Surdak added: "The caravan that evaded taxes would be sentenced to pay a fine, and the main person in charge would be in prison for six months, doubling the prison sentence if the fine could not be paid." ”

Viscount Dalton's face became a little ugly, and the haughty expression on his face seemed a little distorted.

He propped his hands on the table, leaned forward, and asked Surdak in a hateful voice, "Are you...... Is it against the Dalton family? I'll go to the Wilkes City House of Representatives to complain about you. ”

Surdak leaned back in his chair, raised an index finger and shook it from side to side, and said to Viscount Dalton:

"I'm not targeting any one person, I'm targeting all the privileged people who don't have a good idea of what to do, and I need to make it clear to them, now ...... I'm in Dodan Town. ”

Surdak's gaze became extremely firm, he met the gaze of Viscount Dalton, and said without flinching:

"If you're not used to living in Dodan, please leave here, even if it's back to your ranch, or Wilkes City, or any other town, but if you want to live in Dodan, there are some rules and regulations that have to be followed by me, and if you can't, I don't mind telling you how to do it......"

Viscount Dalton's face turned pale, as if he had made some mental struggle, before he shouted out the door.

A young nobleman walked in through the door, none other than his second son, Derek. Dalton.

Surdak saw him the day he went to the decantery, and later he ran to the barracks, but Surdak ignored him at the time.

Viscount Dalton stared at his son with a gloomy face, but his voice was very gentle, and he asked, "Does the mayor think that you instructed the merchants to evade taxes when they bought the leather from the cooked leather workshops?" ”

Derek was slightly stunned, his father asked this first, and it seemed that he and the mayor of the town had not been able to reach an agreement in private.

He hurriedly said: "Father, the cooked leather workshop has now been sold to Bill, and the transaction contract was completed just yesterday, and this matter has nothing to do with me. ”

Viscount Dalton closed his eyes and squeezed out a sentence in his throat, and the hoarse voice seemed dry and bitter: "This matter really has nothing to do with you?" ”

"Yes." Derek lowered his head, not daring to look Surdak in the eye.

"Go and call Bill in......," Viscount Dalton opened his eyes almost at the same time as he said this, and he almost gritted his teeth to say it.

Surdak felt like he was sitting in the mayor's office, like a spectator, watching Viscount Dalton's performance alone.

His Excellency the Viscount was of a high position, and he was accustomed to being powerful in the town on weekdays.

A young man in breeches, vest and a ponytail at the back of his head strode into Surdak's office.

"You're Bill?" Surdak asked him.

"Yes," said the young man named Bill, with a flat expression.

Surdak had met him in the deer, where he was indeed in charge.

At this time, Surdak asked him directly: "Derek. Did Dalton sell you the deer? ”

"Yes, I bought it, and yesterday I organized a leather trade with local merchants, and in order to avoid paying taxes, I set the trade for the night by the Dodan River." Bill sighed as he spoke, his voice getting lower and lower.

"So...... Are you now the owner of a deer? Surdak asked again.

Bill didn't understand the meaning of Surdak's repeated question, but he replied honestly: "Yes, I am." ”

"Are you a nobleman?" Surdak asked him.

For he did not see any insignia on his chest, neither for the family nor for the title.

"I'm not a nobleman, I'm an official knight of the Green Empire." Bill replied honestly.

Surdak felt that he might have forgotten all about chivalry.

However, for a knight officially canonized by the Green Empire, even if they break the law, even if the evidence is conclusive, as long as they are willing to pay a fine, they can still be exempted from punishment.

But the premise of this is that the victim must not be a nobleman.

In many places, tax evasion and the like are almost not culpable.

Surdak casually flipped through a thick code of laws on the table, looked up at Bill and said:

"You will be punished by the tax office of Dodan Town, and as a knight, you can pay a ransom in exchange for your immunity from punishment."

At this time, Bill lowered his head and thought seriously before saying, "I am willing to serve my sentence......"

This choice was somewhat unexpected by Viscount Dalton, who looked at Bill with some surprise.

Bill no longer avoided his gaze, raised his head to meet his eyes, and looked back earnestly......

At this moment, it was as if something had been severed between them.

"In that case, come and take him down."

Surdak wondered if he had drunk a secondary invisibility potion, otherwise how could he be so non-existent in his office......

After all, Viscount Dalton is a nobleman, and he has a large ranch in the south of Dodan Town, and there are many guards in the manor, so he can be regarded as a noble lord.

Such a nobleman, as long as his personality is not too withdrawn, must have his own social circle in Dodan Town.

By doing so, Surdak is standing on the opposite side of these nobles, at least in the eyes of many local nobles.

……

Almost the entire town hall saw Viscount Dalton leave angrily with his son, apparently touching the head in front of the trust of the mayor.

Surdak summoned Lady Luna and the tax collector of Batra and told them what to do about the construction of the riverside cabin.

The land along the river has almost been leveled, and a large amount of timber has now arrived on site, and it is now necessary for craftsmen to enter the site with their hands and prepare to start building wooden houses.

However, Surdak simply didn't know what to say about the existing wooden house style.

The wooden houses built here are completely square wooden boxes, the difference is that this one is bigger and the other is smaller.

After they were built, the inside of the wooden houses was separated by wooden planks, and all the wooden houses had no beauty at all.

Surdak feels that after the food and clothing are solved, the improvement of people's living standards is mainly reflected in the perception of beauty, so these riverside wooden houses must be made more exquisite.

He has some ideas in his heart, but he is not good at painting and cannot express what he thinks in his heart.

As a result, he began to look forward to it.

I hope that Baron Martino, even if it is on paper, must draw those buildings beautifully......

Lady Luna is in charge of the riverside cabin, and Selena is in charge of the Temple of the Two Goddesses.

After explaining this, Surdak hurried to the side of the military camp, because the order from the military headquarters came.

……

As soon as Surdak entered the barracks, the herald handed him a warrant, and then turned over and rode to the next town.

The order clearly ordered the reinforcements to withdraw from Dodan Town within three days and return to their original camp.

After receiving the above order, Adams and Gallatin smiled bitterly, indeed a little depressed, just began to harvest wheat, and immediately received a notice to end this reinforcement trip, it is estimated that these soldiers will make a lot of money.

The only thing to be thankful for was that Adams finally got the only Demon Pattern Construct set before he could evacuate, and it was also a junior strength type.

The magical attributes on the magic pattern construct are very much in line with Adams's characteristics.

As reinforcements began to prepare to evacuate the town of Dodan, the barracks were once again greeted with a wave of exchange.

Although the merchant Malacombe had already shipped the third batch of merit reward items to Dodan Town a few days ago, it was still unable to meet the needs of all the soldiers in the face of the large number of soldiers in the garrison.

There are many soldiers who have reinforced Dodan Town who have not been able to exchange for the magic weapons they have in hand, not to mention the magic pattern construction alone, there are only a few in total, and they can only be used by a first-turn warrior.

Items such as Magic Scrolls and Magic Rune Boards are not redeemable for bestsellers.

For these reinforcements who were about to leave Dodan Town, Surdak repeatedly emphasized only one sentence, that is, before leaving, all merit points must be exchanged for rewards.

Because these merit points cannot be circulated between battalions, if you leave without exchanging them, it will be difficult to exchange them later......

If you don't have a single item magic pattern build and magic weapon, that's okay! Surdak took out boxes of magic crystals and gold coins this time, the golden gold coins of the Grimm Empire are hard currency wherever they go, and the magic crystals are the main currency in circulation in the magic market, and the exchange of these is more valuable than magic weapons, but the disadvantage is that these achievements cannot be converted into corresponding combat power in time.

The night before the eight hundred reinforcements left the town of Dodan, Surdak took out nearly 40,000 gold coins to smooth out the merits of the soldiers.

When he left the town of Dodan, almost every soldier had a heavy money bag on his waist, and the smile on his face was also the expectation of a better life tomorrow.

In addition to the large sum of money exchanged for these reinforcements, the young warriors of the tribe who had just joined the archer battalion for a short time also received a living allowance this time.

It's not much, just one or two gold coins, but it's a lot of money for these young native warriors.

After the indigenous warriors got the gold coins, they began to buy some cheap daily necessities in the town of Dodan, which made them feel the strong purchasing power of merit, and almost everyone carried a bag of food back to the barracks, which they prepared to hoard directly in the barracks, and when they had the opportunity to return home, they would carry the food back.

Of course, Surdak has been in close contact with many indigenous tribes in the hills and mountains recently, not only to get the young tribes to join the cavalry battalion, but also to trade magic herbs.

Magic herbs are now in the Grimm Empire, and it is completely a seller's market, and there is no need to worry about selling them.

The young natives who exchanged for gold coins sent the supplies they bought to the tribe's temporary shelter, which made the other tribal warriors who did not join the garrison a little excited, so Surdak recruited from the indigenous tribe again, formed a new heavy infantry battalion, and replenished the archer battalion to full strength.

The garrison camp in the town of Dodan quickly grew to two thousand men in just a week after the reinforcements left.