Chapter Seventy-Seven: The Posture of a Leader

At last night's grievance meeting, more than 300 people in the village, including the resentful spirits, came forward to accuse the bonded people of their crimes.

The village's tax collector, Ducas, is the largest landlord in the area, and the current village chief is his eldest son.

If he hadn't been tied to a pillar and couldn't move, I'm afraid no one would have dared to say a bad word about him.

The tax collector paid the tax advance to the lord of the territory, so as to take the income of the land for himself, effectively control the land and power in and around the village, and take the person and property of the people.

The demons will not give nobles to other races, otherwise this guy will definitely buy a good-looking baron title.

What about being a dog for the demons, when a few people want to be a can't find a chance!

By taking possession of the land, Dicas, who had mastered the taxes and debts of the villagers, was naturally able to organize force.

In a small village, he had nearly 100 private armed men and relatives and friends as accomplices.

Relying on accomplices and armed thugs, Dicas had turned into de facto petty lords, turning all the peasants into their own personal slaves.

That's right, even slaves, yeoman farmers and tenant farmers still have a certain amount of power, which can already satisfy the tax collector.

For many years, he used tax manipulation and lending methods to reduce the income of the peasants in the village, sell their land, and gradually turn them into serfs.

Serfs are tools, the more tools the better, and the less consumption the better. In the rural areas, where the level of technology is low and agriculture can only be used as the main industry, the cost performance of serfs is the highest.

However, the lord did not think so.

Macroscopically speaking, serfs had no private property, could not consume at all, had low enthusiasm for production, and were only tool men with no hope and happiness to speak of.

Vincent is a demon who pursues and will not take pleasure in destruction, and the serf cannot provide the faith he needs at all, which is the biggest sin of the tax collector.

The lord of the power has given you a tax reduction before he took office, and as a result, you worms not only fill your own pockets in the yang and yin violations, but also turn the lord's peasants into consumables who don't know what happiness is, which is a great crime!

Collusion with cults, killing people and sacrificing people, and daring to fight with arms, this is a crime on top of a crime, and the crime is unforgivable!

If the living have scruples and dare not speak, let the dead speak first.

However, the wraiths are fearless, and they have nothing to lose.

In addition to obeying the summoner's orders, the spirits are most concerned about revenge on those who took their lives.

The originally insignificant power was amplified several times by the necromancer of the demon clan, and spiritism was also used to make them speak, and these resentful spirits could have no taboos.

Originally, people were indignant at such things as oppressing the weak, extracting food, seizing land, and humiliating slaves, but after all, they were commonplace and did not have enough impact.

When a necromancer said that the tax collectors had joined the Freedom Cult and brutally skinned those who could not afford to pay the loan sharks for cult rituals, everyone was completely stunned by the cruelty and tyranny of the cult.

These spirits have no intelligence, and there is no fabrication or exaggeration at all except to state the facts.

However, people soon discovered to their horror that this was not an isolated case at all!

When more than 100 of the spirits told the same cause of their deaths, the villagers present were completely angry, and their grievances turned into revenge on the spot. ….

Just as Vincent was dreaming in his tent that the value of the fortification exceeded 100,000, thousands of villagers beat to death their four sons and sixteen accomplices in front of the tax collectors, and half of the fifty thugs who had already surrendered were also killed.

The monsters looked at this bloody scene and said that they were very useful, and in their eyes, the air was full of joy all around.

Why care, the lord said that the first evil remained, and did not say that the others should also live.

According to Vincent's instructions, these people are already extremely evil, and at the same time, there is no need to reform, so they are kept for the people to vent their hatred, but the first evil may be directly related to the cult, and it cannot be handed over to the people.

This guy might be a big fish at the patriarchal or priestly level, too.

Facing the red-eyed villagers, even the powerful Sadaka took a lot of effort

, so that the tax collectors and a few missionary cultists were not torn to pieces by the people.

Now, as long as they know who their enemies are and who their friends are, it will not be a problem to regain popular support.

The key lies in the long-term peace and stability in the future, the people live in peace and have money to spend, and the lord has faith to brush.

The more believers there are, the more useful items Vincent can produce, the more satisfied the populace and the stronger the territory.

It's supposed to be a positive cycle option.,Although it's not a demon.,But it's useful.。

"Ladies of Noor, I want you to assure you that I can execute him in the most brutal way if you wish," Vincent, who walked out of the tent, opened his arms to signal the people to be quiet, and then continued, "However, he is only a cancer, not the root cause, and killing him only solves the immediate problem."

It is said that the lord does not look like a demon, and Vincent thinks that it doesn't matter, as long as he looks like a trustworthy lord.

As long as he stabilizes this territory, he will be worthy of the cheap daddy of the Demon King.

Killing people and setting fires, which are not good at things, are up to you whether you do it or not.

The devil with a big pattern should have a different deed.

"Some people say that it is our demons who make the peasants suffer, but this is pure nonsense." Vincent said to the waiting villagers, "Demons are the same as humans, there are different types, my predecessor was an insatiable vampire who was too lazy to govern, but I am different."

"I am the son of the Demon King Salintas, the most noble royal family of the Demon Clan, I have no interest in vulgar possession and domination, I and my subordinates can live without eating or drinking, relying only on magic, so I will not plunder your food and let you starve and freeze in order to satisfy my selfish desires."

"Before I even came to the realm, I declared that all the peasants would be exempt from the twenty percent tax, and they were them! These greedy and shameless moths, fatten yourselves with my kindness and your blood and sweat!"

Vincent pointed in the direction of the tax collector with a sad and resolute expression, which made all the peasants who had never seen such a great aristocracy feel good and respected.

"These men, by virtue of the position they bought from my predecessors, have wantonly plundered the fruits of your labor, and have collected more than twice as much grain as the lord has demanded every year, and except as a tax for the second year, the rest is either used to lend money to you or sold cheaply to merchants to harm the poor people of the city, like you."

"Next, I will lower your taxes, forgive you the debts and interest that have been imposed, redistribute the land that has been taken away to the poor, free the slaves who have been sold, and bring you fair deals. For this, I will be cursed and retaliated against by all the little ones like Dicas!"

Although the peasants were at first a little puzzled by Vincent's relatively elegant expressions, gradually they understood Vincent's promise to them, and their expressions became full of gratitude.

After praying thousands of times, the gods did not appear, and the leader of the demon clan wanted to free them from their suffering.

There is really no harm if there is no comparison, Vincent doesn't dare to say how good he is, and he is supported by his peers.

"Because I protect the good, the wicked are destined to be my enemies!" Vincent asked the crowd aloud, "Ask yourself, whose side will you be on at that time?"

"On your side!" Someone shouted excitedly, "Don't abandon us!"

"Pledge allegiance to the lord and execute the tax collector!"

"We will not rebel anymore, we will always be allegiant!"

"Sir, you give us land, we give you food and soldiers!"

"Thank you! I am late, and I apologize deeply for your suffering. I promise, don't let this happen any longer, I promise!"

In the end, Vincent made a gesture that no peasant would ever dream of and would never forget, and he actually bent down to apologize to the peasants.

The demons who don't bow their heads are stupid demons, and the ones who will choose the right time to buy people's hearts are good demons, this is the evaluation of the charm witch Kiraya to her brother.

Buying people's hearts?

Who wouldn't be able to point out the country, if it was true

I want to help, so that we can also use the "Fallen Shadow" to control our subordinates!

"Long hair and short vision! To make people obey, you can't rely on charm, you have to rely on patterns. I bent over and got more than you get in a year of tossing in bed! As statesmen, we must distinguish who is our enemy and who is our servant."

It was rare for Kiraya to have a positive evaluation of her younger brother, but Vincent didn't appreciate it, and went back after being promoted.

"The bent brother is taller than the sister lying down!"

Anyway, my sister is thick-skinned, this is his racial advantage, and he will definitely not be angry with her, these succubi are all ...... in their bones

In short, even if you are a demon, you have to be yourself.

Because the real demons are already being done by a lot of people.

Xiao Diankang