"The change in this place is really earth-shaking."

Barrett, the Empire's high-ranking tax collector, was shocked by the seismic changes in Bloodstone.

"I clearly remember that a year ago, this was a desolate land, a large area was a primeval and dangerous forest, and no one would come here except those adventurers who made money by hunting Warcraft and farmers who could not leave."

"But a town that belonged to humanity was built here, and more and more displaced people came to this Bloodstone town, making it very prosperous."

"Perhaps, in the near future, this place should not be called Bloodstone Town, but Bloodstone City!"

A high-ranking tax collector affiliated with the Rhaegar Empire, Barrett praised the changes in Bloodstone Town so much, but Xin Yu was not sure if his praise was sincere or intentional.

At this time, a guest was welcomed in Xin Yu's castle, it was the high-ranking tax collector, Mr. Barrett.

Xin Yu knew that this high-ranking tax official was a person directly loyal to Ivan II and was directly appointed by the emperor.

Moreover, this high-ranking tax collector must have come to his territory, he must have intentions.

Why put the word "high-rank" in front of the position of tax collector, because these tax officials are specifically to collect taxes from those nobles.

Xin Yu could feel that this high-ranking tax collector named Barrett actually had gold-level strength.

A strong man of such strength can be a general on the battlefield, or as a sharp knife in the army, able to destroy the enemy's formation at a critical moment, fight against an entire army, or behead local generals in a large army.

But such a strong man, now his identity is a tax officer, to be precise, a high-ranking tax officer.

But Xin Yu thought about the relationship between the emperor of the Rhaegar Empire and the nobles in a blink of an eye, and felt that this was indeed reasonable.

If the tax collector responsible for collecting taxes from the nobles was not strong enough, he would have died many times.

Of all the positions in the Rhaegar Empire, the emperor's tax collector was consistently one of the most fatal.

The reason was simple: the tax collectors had to tax not only the commoners, but also the nobles, but the nobles would not let the emperor take away the proceeds from his domain.

Absolutely not!

Although the nobles never openly rebelled against the emperor, in the face of the emperor's various taxes and orders, the choice of the nobles was to be able to fool the past, and fool the past.

In the past, the death rate of tax collectors loyal to the emperor in the Rhaegar Empire reached a staggering eighty percent, half of whom died from inexplicable accidents, such as suddenly falling into the water and dying, or killed by thieves and monsters on the way.

In short, the way these tax collectors died was very unexpected, but everyone who started it knew that the nobles everywhere were like soil emperors in their own territories, how could they endure the emperor's tax officials to collect taxes in their own territories, so they created all kinds of accidents against tax collectors.

As for the other half of the tax collectors who died, all of them were killed by order of the emperor, and the taxes collected by these tax officials were obviously wrong, and after investigation, these tax officials accepted bribes from nobles everywhere and secretly concealed the taxes paid by those nobles.

The emperor of the Rhaegar Empire at that time was very angry and killed all the tax collectors who had been bribed.

But such an embarrassment came, in the entire Rhaegar Empire, no one was willing to become a tax collector, and everyone knew that once they became a tax collector, the end was death, the difference was only to die in the assassination of the nobles, or because they were bribed to be killed by the emperor.

For those tax collectors, there are only two choices, one is to refuse bribes from the nobles, insist on collecting taxes, and then they will be assassinated by the nobles, of course, on the surface, they will only die in accidents, such as falling into the water, or bandits fighting, resulting in the violent death of the tax collector and so on.

Another option was to accept bribes from the nobles, and then help the nobles reduce the amount of taxes collected, and then they would be discovered by the emperor and sentenced to death.

In short, during that time, the tax collector became a position that everyone in the Rhaegar Empire avoided.

But Ivan I, the previous emperor of the Rhaegar Empire, chose to make those powerful transcendent people as tax collectors, these tax collectors are basically from the army, on the one hand they are more loyal and will not be bribed by the nobles, on the other hand, their strength is also very strong and will not be assassinated.

It is impossible that a gold-level powerhouse will fall into the water and die, right?

Therefore, the tax office of the Rhaegar Empire has always been a place where dragons and tigers are hidden, and some high-ranking tax officials are all strong people from the army.

After this reform, the tax agency of the Rhaegar Empire can operate normally, and in the face of a group of tax officials whose strength has reached the silver level and gold level, those nobles really cannot easily let these tax officials "die accidentally".

"Then may I ask Your Excellency Barrett, what did you come to my territory for, as a high-ranking tax collector, I remember that the day of paying taxes will be in the second half of the year." Xin Yu said that a gold-level powerhouse loyal to the emperor would not be a good thing to say when he came to his territory.

"Ah, it's like this, according to the order of His Majesty the Emperor, the empire decided to raise taxes, and because the orc royal court has always been eyeing us, there may be a war between the borders at any time, His Majesty the Emperor decided to launch a war order and recruit all nobles." Barrett held an order on conscription, on which was impressively stamped with the seal of Ivan II.

War order, in the event of war, the emperor is qualified to recruit any noble, and no nobleman can refuse, otherwise it will be regarded as a treason.

No wonder even the high-ranking tax collectors came, Xin Yu knew that if it was not the high-ranking tax collectors who came, those nobles must also be obedient and obediently accept the conscription.

"Your Excellency Count Veronica, as a nobleman loyal to the empire, we need you to provide at least three thousand soldiers in the war." Barrett said three thousand soldiers, which was the number of soldiers a count needed to provide the emperor in war.

But in fact, it is more than that, because these soldiers are equivalent to being handed over directly to the emperor, completely scattered, and entering the troops directly under the emperor.

This meant that the nobles could no longer command these three thousand soldiers, because they were directly scattered and separated into different troops.

But the nobles themselves also need to go out with the emperor, and as for the soldiers when they go out, this needs to be solved by the nobles themselves, and if they bring less, and the nobles die on the battlefield, then it is the problem of this nobleman himself.

Three thousand soldiers, Xin Yu thought about it, for the current Bloodstone Town, it is indeed possible to send out three thousand soldiers, but the troops in Bloodstone Town itself will be empty for a while.

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