The dirt roads in the Hebron countryside were dusty.

Inspector Ulm rode on a tall horse, and his team consisted of ten elite hussars and more than twenty lightly armed cavalry from the city guard.

More than 30 horsemen galloped on the avenue, fluttering double-headed eagle flags, full of shocking power.

In this era of "village chiefs' armed fights" in this county, this is already an armed force that should not be underestimated.

Many bandit gangs are terrified.

Except for a group of robbers who blocked the road and robbed the caravan on the first day of his patrol, Ulm and his knights and cavalry never tasted blood again.

The group stopped by the side of the road to prepare for lunch.

Ulm complained: "The Earl has appointed me as a Patrol Officer, and has given me the responsibility of forming a circuit court, but no one has come to complain. ”

Pi Ping sighed: "Yes, I can't even understand those laws, which are things that only a priest who has graduated from a church school can understand. ”

Ulm agrees.

At this moment, a Saracen man suddenly popped out from the side of the road, his face was bruised and the corners of his eyebrows were cut.

The cavalrymen immediately raised their weapons and aimed them at him.

"How!"

Ulm rebuked angrily: "Sentinel, you actually let such a big living person in without warning? When you go back, take ten military sticks! ”

The faces of the cavalry of the city guards who chased them out of the woods suddenly collapsed, they were not the elite of the system that had been transferred, and their quality was uneven, but Lothar had limited strength at hand, so they could only be used for the time being.

The Saracen man opened his hands to indicate that he was not carrying a weapon, and his mouth could not stop crying.

Ulm shouted: "Senmut, come out and explain to me what this heretic is talking about." ”

The cavalry of the city guard named Senmut replied, "My lord, he said that he had heard that you were going to form a circuit court, and that he wanted to ask you for help!" ”

"The infidels are asking me for help?"

Ulm and Pi planes looked at each other.

If it weren't for the statue of an angel, they probably would never have thought of asking a pagan lord or his officials for help.

The Saracen man's face was full of sorrow, and he couldn't stop saying something.

Senmut listened for a long time before he said sympathetically: "He said that his name was Aziz and he lived in the village of Abdu, and that the village lord Adnan raped his wife, and his wife was so humiliated that he committed suicide by jumping into a well. ”

Adnan?

Ulm pondered for a moment, and remembered that this was also a local tycoon not inferior to Hussein, and that he was responsible for the taxes of the entire village of Abdu.

"You are accusing a decent person with status and status, and I can't arrest Adnan because of your words."

Aziz looked desperate.

"Well, then, Semmut, tell him that in order to avoid reprisals against him, you want him to return to Hebron with us tonight."

This is a big deal, and he doesn't dare to act rashly.

...

And at this time, in the mansion of Hebron.

Moder was leading a group of guards to meet Lothar.

"My lord, we have caught a group of poachers, who have set a trap in your private woodland, and caught a caracal and some hares."

The hunt for poachers is not of course for the sake of protecting the ecology, but legally, all the ownerless lands and the products on them in the county belong to the lord of Lothar.

In other words, the word stealing for poaching refers to the fact that they stole Lothar's property.

Lothar nodded and said, "Bring them up." ”

The guards escorted the prisoner over.

As soon as they saw Lothar, they fell to their knees, wept bitterly and prayed:

"Sir, we are all tenants who farm for you, and we never thought of stealing your property before."

"It's just that Old John's wife has just given birth, and she can't produce milk by eating only porridge and cabbage every day, and besides, we've never seen you hunt in the hunting grounds, but..."

The wrinkled old man drew a cross on his chest: "For the sake of the Father, please be merciful." ”

Lothar stood up and looked at the clothes of the people present, who were not dressed in rags, at least patched.

Slightly emaciated, but not skinny, on the whole, they should be quite poor, but they can barely make ends meet, in line with the status of a tenant.

They shouldn't be lying.

He paced back and forth for a moment.

The poachers were so nervous that they could hear their breathing.

A benevolent lord may be open to poachers, but a brutal lord can cut off the hands and feet of poachers for this reason.

After a long time, Lothar finally spoke:

"As we all know, I am a very generous lord, and I have planned to lower the tax on all tenants who cultivate my land to thirty percent."

The poachers looked at each other.

They then fell to their knees and thanked Lothar for her kindness and kindness.

"But!"

Lothar shifted gears.

"You have broken the law, and you must pay the price."

With a wave of his hand, he motioned for the city guards to pull them out: "Send them to Novo-Habsburg to build the city, and the treatment can be the same as that of the rest of the city construction workers, but it cannot be offset by the servitude." ”

The construction workers were not treated badly, and when they really realized it, they realized that it was not a punishment at all.

The poachers were pushed and taken away by the guards.

Andreas was a little puzzled, "My lord, since you have decided to forgive these poor people, why do you want to recruit them to build a city?" The treatment you gave is not short of manpower at all. ”

Lothar explains:

"Andreas, I can forgive them, in fact, I don't think it's a big deal for the beasts in the territory to be 'stolen'."

"But the sanctity of the law must be defended, and before I change this law, they have sinned and deserve to be punished."

Andreas's face changed slightly, and he said solemnly: "Thank you for your teachings. ”

At this time, a summons hussar entered the mansion and reported to Lothar: "My lord, Madame Jeanne has led her troops to break through Hussein's mansion, killed more than 30 enemies, and captured Hussein, his three wives, seven sons, and more than ten servants. ”

"Ms. Jeanne is taking stock of Hussein's belongings and presiding over the distribution of the land to all the tenants."

Lothar bowed slightly: "What about casualties?" ”

The hussars said with a smile on their faces: "There were no casualties, only one unlucky man who was hit in the toe by the enemy's hammer. ”

"Good!"

"Good!"

Lothar was very excited.

Jeanne was only a matter of course, but the absence of casualties was a bit outrageous.

Not to mention anything else, if Hussein had been prepared and had prepared rolling stones, hot oil and other things on the courtyard wall, and the city guards who did not carry siege weapons, they might not have been able to capture it so easily.