Chapter 138: Widowed
readx;?β The God of Light is above, please forgive the lord for the ignorance below, the lord has not appeared in the Crescent Moon Province for a long time, coupled with the prevalence of banditry, it is also helpless to do this below, please ...... again I'm so sorry I don't know the name of the adult. "The author www.biquge.info is an old nobleman dressed in a gorgeous aristocratic costume, and his movements are meticulous, but his expression is somewhat flattering.
According to the laws of the Kotler Empire, the lord of a province can go to any place in his province to inspect, and he will use any official seal at all, and the ghost is a newcomer, and it is understandable to use the lord's big seal, but his big seal is used for the first time on the Zhao'an announcement, and the second time it is used for the slaughter of the city.
Seeing the big seal of the royal family of the Kotler Empire, even if this old nobleman is not interested, he must obediently open the city gate, otherwise even if the ghost is really slaughtering the city, he will reason anywhere if he wants his life, the ghost is the lord of a province, although he does not have absolute power of life and death for a small nobleman of his kind, but he can be imprisoned indefinitely until death, this consequence The old nobleman can not afford it, so after bringing those wounded soldiers into the house, the old nobleman ordered to open the city gate, let the ghost ugly enter the small city, and he personally welcomed the ghost to his house, and served the best food and wine, and there are even two dancing girls who dance well to add to the fun.
Looking at the food on the table, the ghost ugly only tasted it, and the others were the same, the people sitting at the table were covered with bloodstains, although their faces were marked with slave marks, but none of the other people present dared to despise it, the news had spread, this lord with a mask, young and moody, his favorite thing to do was to put a person's head under the banner of his lord, the old nobleman naturally didn't want to become a member of the cornerstone, so on the bright side, he behaved quite normally.
"You don't have to remember me, because ......" Before the ugly words fell, the big man who came with him suddenly stood up, and then put his hands on the top of the old nobleman's head and chin, and with a slight mistake, all the expressions of the old nobleman were frozen on his face, and the look of some doubts mixed with flattery did not change in the slightest because of the loss of life, this sudden change made everyone stunned, and those servants and maids were already frightened, and the screams instantly covered the entire courtyard.
After the ghost ugly slowly stood up, he looked around, because of his standing, everyone's necks seemed to be choked, and the whole hall instantly fell into the needle, and after a sneer, the ghost ugly said: "Knowing that the master of the ability is coming, there is still some shirk, this is contempt for the royal family prestige and my dignity, come here, demolish this mansion for me, confiscate ninety percent of all property, and issue one percent!" After saying that, the ghost ugly slowly picked up the red wine on the table and walked out, and the soldiers who got the order quickly carried out the ghost ugly's order thoroughly, and that night, the richest mansion in this small city became a ruin, and the original owner of this ruin was placed in the original position of the door like a rag, and the whole town was shocked and mixed with ecstasy, because although the house was demolished, it was to distribute the contents to the inhabitants of the whole town.
However, there is also a condition for this claim, who can provide useful information, as long as it is not repeated, can be claimed.
"Is any kind of information available?" When the ghost ugly inspected the city wall, Yinyue followed him and asked, the city wall is not very high, more than five meters, and they are all adobe walls, no more than three people walking together, you can see the ruins in the city on the city wall, for the arrangement with the ghost ugly, Yinyue is as inexplicable as the previous Zhao'an announcement, the population in the small city is not much, there are only more than 100 households, three or four hundred people, and there are more than 500 people counting the people who defend the city wallγ
"Isn't there no one to come up to get things now?" Ghost Ugly said with a smile, Yinyue nodded and said, "The condition you said is too general, and you killed the old nobleman, who dares to go now?"
"What I want is a general answer, this kind of question itself is no problem, any information can be, I personally think, such statistics, it is still very beneficial to future management. "Yinyue can't deny, up to now, no one has gone to get anything, and at noon, no one has stepped forward, and the ghost ugly seems to be a little embarrassed and casually went on the road to catch a child.
"Son, what's your name, and how old are you?"
The child was only three or four years old, and he had just learned to speak, and he was still ignorant, but he could already feel the same mood swings from other people's expressions, he glanced at his mother, and then burst into tears, "Uh......" I didn't expect this to happen, Ghost Ugly couldn't help but tilt his head slightly to look at the child's mother, this young woman's face was panic, no wonder the child cried, but Ghost Ugly put down the child and asked the young woman:" What is your child's name and how old is it?"
"Sawyer, three-and-a-half-year-old, adult. The young mother curled back as far back as she could, and the bodies of both mother and son trembled together, evidently terrified.
The ghost pursed his lips and said: "Two people, a total of two questions, two messages, distribute rewards to their mother and son, just be more pragmatic." This sudden change made the mother and son stunned, and before they could react, the soldier next to them had already brought a kitchen knife and a bag of about ten catties of grain, according to the ghost ugly's request, this should be considered a more pragmatic thing.
"I don't care if the man of your family has become a bandit or not, if you can bring him back, the grain will be doubled, and in addition, the master will give you a piece of land for labor, and the master will guarantee your safety, and you will give the master one-thirtieth of the harvest. After saying that, as soon as the things were released, the ghost and the ugly took people away, and this scene was seen by everyone, so finally someone began to tentatively go to the collection point.
"My name is ......" The first to come up was an old man, and it could be seen that he was elected by everyone, and if this old man was killed because he received something, it would be no loss to everyone.
However, when the old man reported his name and wanted to receive something, he was blocked, "Old man, the information of the name has been provided, and in addition, the age has also been provided, if you don't have other valid information, then I can only say sorry." β
"But, I'm a bad old man, what effective information can I have?" The old man was immediately anxious when he heard that he couldn't get anything, but just like he was chosen, how could he have any useful information on him, even his name and age had been taken up, what other useful information could he have?
It was Bakis who was in charge of the registration, but it was another soldier of the 10th Guards Regiment who was in charge of the inquiry, and the soldier with the mark of a slave on his face said with a smile: "Old man, you are thinking about it, you are also a person who has lived a lot of age, there should be a lot of useful news, right?"
The old man was already anxious and burst into tears, and after listening to the soldier's words, the old man said with some grievances: "Child, since I beat my son and my wife died, I don't have any thoughts in my life, since I can't get anything, can you let me go?"
"No, you can't. β
The old man's face was instantly filled with fear, but the soldier still smiled and took out a pair of boots and said, "Of course you can't go, because you need to get something, and when you're done, you can go." β
"But...... But I didn't provide any useful information?" The change came so suddenly that the old man's frightened expression was still frozen on his face...... Can...... Didn't you just say you couldn't get it?
"You said it!" the soldier tucked his boots into the old man's arms, still smiling.
"Child, you confused me, what did I say?" The old man was relieved to feel the truth of the boots, but he still couldn't understand why, what did he just say to get these boots?
At this time, Bakis, who was on the side, said while writing: "Widowed, bereaved child, the record is complete, the next one." β
The old man turned around and was about to leave, but was stopped by the soldier again, but this time the soldier did not face him, but shouted to the outside: "The item has belonged, as long as the owner of the item has no mortgage, sale, gift, etc., the item belongs to the owner, if someone maliciously encroaches, or forcibly buys and sells, the person will be punished, the snatcher, the whipping five, loot to the dead, beheading, conspire to leave the goods ownerless to the dead, slaughter the city!"
After shouting the soldiers, the old man let the old man leave, in this small city, the old man is absolutely weak, after the ghost gave the order, the 10th Guards Legion already knew what to do, seeing the old man return safely, and it seemed that the items he got could still be guaranteed, for a while, the people in the whole town were fluctuating, and the people who came to receive it began to increase more and more, but the information they could provide began to become less and less, because the information they thought of others could also think of it, and the repeated information was not counted.
"So, in this way, you can not only win the hearts and minds of the people, but also count the population of this small town, and have some useful and useless information, and you are really clever in this trick. Yinyue watched more people go to collect items on the city wall, and she sincerely admired Ghost Ugly's strategy, but Ghost Ugly just smiled absently and motioned for her to look into the distance.
A thin, young figure was leaving the city, and this person was the woman who had begun to be asked questions by the ghost, but now the child named Sawa was not by her side.
"She's ......"
"Lord Silvermoon, she's the woman who is the leader of the bandits' den nearby, and I think she's here to report the news. The tall man didn't seem to want to answer, so he told them what they knew.
Yinyue's face changed, and she shouted in surprise at the ghost, "You want to lure those bandits here......?"
"Well, Meada has already gone to count the nearby land, and they have been recruited, so naturally they will be honest farmers, and I can count on them to give me more taxes. Of course, Ghost Ugly knows what Yinyue is thinking, but is she as unbearable as she thinks?
Maybe her idea could be tried as well.