In wartime, knights need to be subordinate, otherwise after wearing such heavy armor, how to ride on a war horse? Of course, it is necessary to be supported by someone, and a temporary wooden ladder with three steps must be prepared, otherwise there are knights who can not get on the war horse, and a knight needs two or three servants, and then these people have to eat, for the knights who do not have a fiefdom, raising military rations on the front line, it will be stretched in terms of financial resources, so the Holy Odin Empire gave the knights the right to temporarily levy taxes in wartime. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Knights can add a "war tax" to the village where they live, and when the "war tax" is levied, the knight will get the title of the head of the village to facilitate the collection of taxes, which is of course appointed by the empire, this temporary collection of "war tax" is often more, often requiring the villagers to hand over one-third of their own food, and when they are paid, it must be a grain of white grain, not potatoes, which is not easy to pariah food, but this "war tax" It is often levied less than once in ten years, because either the knight dies in battle or the war ends, so the war tax is not onerous for the civilians who are taxed.

Therefore, the "war tax" is a kind of exorbitant tax within a reasonable range.

But why did the old man say that their village could no longer afford to pay the "war tax"?

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"This is our village's Daddy Chuck. The young villager who came out with the old man introduced the old man to Zigger, and it seems that this old man Chuck is actually one of the more prestigious old men in Grizzly Village, or the village elder.

"Daddy Chuck, I'm not here to collect taxes. Whatever the reason for Daddy Chuck to say that he could no longer pay the "war tax", Ziggy was keenly aware that the villagers of Grizzly Village did not welcome him, and it was likely to have a lot to do with this so-called "war tax", and at this point, Ziggy chose to dissociate himself without hesitation.

"Whether you're here to collect taxes or not, we don't need you in Grizzly Village! We can protect ourselves! You weak and incompetent little nobles can only make trouble for us!" Daddy Chuck shook his white beard and chopped the gravel road ground under his feet with his cane, and the crutches were inserted into the stones and splashed some small pebbles, making a loud noise, and then walked back.

What is this?

How can these old men love to button people's hats at every turn? Young people nowadays are really unlucky, they are always called young in this world, and they are called weak and incompetent little nobles in the other world, and they have to be educated by old men and old ladies wherever they want! Personal attacks! Ageism!

"Wait!Daddy Chuck, you have to make this clear to me! Otherwise, you will insult the nobles of His Majesty the Emperor!" This scolding can't be in vain, even if Ziggy has a good temper, he can't bear it, how can he be angry with the old man everywhere, grab Daddy Chuck's hand and let him make his words clear, besides, who wouldn't button his hat, insulting nobles is a punishment for the poor!

It is estimated that Old Man Chuck was also a little scared when he heard the charge of insulting the nobles, so he told Ziggy what he wanted to know and what he didn't want to know.

After Daddy Chuck finished speaking, Ziggy realized that he had come at a bad time, but he also understood why the position of village chief of Grizzly Village was vacant!

Because Grizzly Village has already been levied four "war taxes" this year!

As we all know, the northern frontier of the Holy Odin Empire has been harassed by the steppe orcs, of course, "harassment" is just an official statement, in fact, the raids of the Holy Odin Empire by the steppe orcs have been very frequent!

In order to defend against the steppe orcs, the local garrison must raise a large number of soldiers and knights, of course, Grizzly Village will also be assigned a knight, but these assigned knights do not do a good job, in the name of preventing the attack of the steppe orcs to the villagers of Grizzly Bear Village "war tax", but as soon as the "war tax" is collected, it will slip away, and then another knight will come over to collect a "war tax" in the name of beauty, and take turns to garrison.

Three knights in a row did this, and these three knights were all the highest military and political chiefs holding the Holy Sword Pass, and the Marquis of Lancaster came to Grizzly Village to be the village chief.

It is said that the Marquis of Lancaster led his own private army and the Swift Wind Legion stationed at the Holy Sword Pass to repel the attacks of the savage steppe orcs several times, and had a good reputation, so the villagers of Grizzly Village were fooled again and again.

In this way, the already poor Grizzly Bear Village is even poorer.

Fortunately, the eastern part of Grizzly Village is a tall mountain range in the San Michel Mountains, called Grizzly Ridge, when the steppe orcs came, the villagers hid in Grizzly Ridge and it was fine, at best, some things in the village were robbed, and the most important thing was that people were okay, anyway, there was nothing to grab in the village.

Didn't you say that the "war tax" in Grizzly Village was collected four times?

Yes, the fourth knight also collected the "war tax" when he came, but he did not leave like the three knights in front of him, but used the collected money and food to lead the villagers to set up a fence around Grizzly Village, and buy weapons for the young men of Grizzly Village, ready to resist the raids of the steppe orcs.

As a result, the steppe orcs were forty or fifty orc soldiers, and in the face of forty or fifty tall and strong steppe orc soldiers with well-developed chest muscles and half-body animal skins, it was this knight and a dozen simply trained armed villagers, and the result was certainly conceivable.

Orcs were much stronger than humans, and the young noble knight shouted "Long live His Majesty Emperor Zachary Baigraves", and rode his horse to rush towards the group of orcs with his knightly honor, and at the same time piggybacked on four villagers to accompany the burial, if it weren't for the other armed villagers who ran fast and followed Daddy Chuck into Grizzly Ridge to hide, the young adults in the village would have died.

"Idiot!" Ziggy couldn't help but curse secretly when he heard this, the charge of the heavy armored knight was supposed to be a group charge to work, a knight charged, people dodged it by flashing to the side of the road, Zig had never fought but was on the Internet, what military commentary articles did people in the Internet era have?

That knight was simply an aristocratic boy who didn't know how to learn and was full of fantasies, and thought that if he rushed forward with a knight's spear, those orcs would be stupid enough to line up and let him be strung together as rock candy gourds? Chivalry only exists in the love stories that noble ladies like to hear, okay?

Therefore, the consequences of the fourth knight who came to be the village chief were even worse than the first three, the first three just collected the money and ran away, and the fourth knight village chief also killed four young and middle-aged villagers.

It's no wonder! These Grizzly Bear villagers would stone Ziggy, the fifth village chief!