Lord of terror

Rousey's accent is not only closer to the captain's, but his style is also more similar to the captain's.However, although Kunz always felt that the captain was molesting him, he didn't feel disgusted, and only thought that the captain was teasing him like a child.This person is a bit too frivolous, plus Versailles.

Kunz admits that he has a fan filter, and he is still at the level of a fan, but if the trend of the nobles of Fanvatina is like this, then there are obviously high and low styles within the trend. The captain is definitely high, and Rosie is Too low.

Rosey walked back to the restaurant, and when Kunz was about to enter, he suddenly turned around and said, "Don't forget to wash your hands, it's right there at the maid at the door, the bellflower in the water is the most popular smell in Fanvatina , don’t just drink it as a drink just because it smells so pleasant.”

A clay basin was placed at the position pointed by Rousey, and beside the basin stood a maid holding a clay pot.

Kunz felt uncomfortable. He really didn't want to be a "guest" in the house of this kind of person who was obviously hostile to him.

"Really? There are no bello flowers in the Northwest. Is it such a high-grade flower? Is the special and elegant aspect of this flower because it has a moldy smell? It smells like mold on cheese." Kunz With all his efforts, he only curled one corner of his mouth, which accidentally made his expression more ironic - he couldn't see his own expression, but Luo Sai's expression was obviously distorted for a moment.

"...You smelled it wrong, my lord. Bello flowers grow on the snowy peaks in the extreme north, but the smell is warm and elegant, and it is a very high-end fragrance."

"Then you should punish your servants. They didn't change the water after soaking the spice once, did they? Of course I don't think that this spice is so expensive that you are reluctant to change it."

"..." Rousey's face was already blue, and he waved his hand to the maid, "If you are not used to the water in Beiluohua, then ask her to change the water for you."

It takes a long time to talk nonsense even if you wash your hands, although it is related to Kunz's own retaliation... But if he doesn't, Kunz will lift his pocket full of magic crystals and slap Rose directly on the face.

Finally able to take a seat, Kunz sat at the edge of the dining table, and Muchel stood behind him with a precautionary measure, they were not qualified to sit.

Rosey: "This is a napkin, you..."

Kunz had picked up the napkin and put it over his left shoulder.While Kunz has his own etiquette most of the time, Moria taught him formal aristocratic etiquette, and he knows how to do it - the cutlery of the Sherfer Empire at the moment is knives, spoons, and... hands, for the most part It's a knife and hands, and the napkin on the left shoulder is for wiping hands.

The servants began to serve, three slices of brown bread, a pot of stew, a small dish of almond paste, half a pie, and a large piece of roast pork.

From the smell, it is still very fragrant.But Kunz had experienced the skills of the cooks brought by the captain and the others—since those cooks had moved with the craftsmen, Kunz had no time to care about those people, and it was up to them to decide what to do.

"I suggest you try the stew first, it's fresh venison, the cook used nutmeg, cloves, cardamom, black pepper, pepper blablabla"

Rousey's introduction to Versailles continues, and it's not venison he's showing off, it's spices.

Kunz started to eat according to his description. Even if there is only one piece of bread, it is enough to pick up. The wheat bran is not too heavy, which means that it is sifted, and it should be baked with beer.Put the stew and broth on the bread and stuff it in your mouth.

Surprisingly, it was still edible.The fishy smell of the meat can still be tasted, but the spices are not as heavy as the cooks brought by the Keeper of the Light, which can be considered to have reached a certain balance with the fishy smell.Uh... that's the problem, right?

The cooks of the Keeper of the Light are used to putting a lot of spices, while the cooks of Rosey are relatively poor, so they hit it right?But it's also possible that this guy's cook is really strong.Looking at Rosey, Kunz dismissed the latter option: No, it's really not because the cook in this family is good, but Rosey is poor.

That piece of pie provided strong evidence for Kunz's point of view. The pie crust on the Blue Star is also a major selling point. It must be crispy and full of the aroma of cream and eggs.

But Tuoxing's pie crust is inedible... The brown flour is hard, and cutting it is like cutting a stone. The function of the pie crust is only to wrap the meat and spices, so that they are still full after baking If you eat gravy, if you bite it with your teeth, you will be in trouble with your own teeth.Anyway, the nobles don't eat it. Generally, this kind of pie crust full of wheat bran and silt is thrown by the nobles to their servants.

Kunz took a bite of the minced meat: Ah... It's been a long time, that stench that makes people want to vomit.

This is not a meat pie, but an animal offal pie.

"It's a pie made of sheep's kidney, liver, and stomach, which is the most popular in Fanvatina!"

Kunz swallowed the mouthful and gave up the pie. Fortunately, the table manners of this world allow nobles to leave food.After all, Kunz, who has eaten so many good things, has already developed his tongue.

In short, Rosie, who is so poor, still tries hard to present himself as a gentleman of Van Vatine, a wealthy person, and a leader of fashion. Such a person...he just needs to be happy.

Kunz ate in silence with a calm face, he just wanted to pay the tax as soon as he finished eating, and leave as soon as possible.

At some point, Rose stopped talking.Kunz didn't care what he said at all. Judging from his calm expression, the food didn't bring him any surprises or surprises. Even when he was eating pie and barbecue, he subconsciously frowned.

Rousey couldn't tell himself that this young lord was just putting on a show. Kunz's every move fully showed that he had received a standard etiquette education. That kind of naturalness and casualness showed that he, like other noble children, had already integrated education into his bones. inside.Not the kind of third-rate country barbaric noble children in remote places, but the noble children of Fan Watina.

Rosey felt unhappy: "As far as I know, Lord Selfie Manton..."

"!" The captain's full name made Kunz turn his gaze to him in an instant, and Luo Sai subconsciously dodged his fierce gaze. When he realized what he had done, Luo Sai straightened his back again, but now he The movement was very unnatural, as if there was an iron bar in his neck, Rossi finished speaking tenaciously: "...Master Selfie Manton is currently living in Monroe."

"Yes, what's your problem?" Kunz looked so vigilant now as relaxed as he was just now. Even sitting in a chair, he looked like a beast ready to go.

"I had the honor to meet Lord Manton once, what a pity that he left Fanvatina, the golden Selfie~ he was so dazzling once, but... now who can appreciate his beauty? "

"Master Manton told me that paying taxes is a very fast thing." Kunz held his breath, picked up the sack beside the chair, and threw it directly on the table. His broken boots came from The opened sack fell out, and the open "mouth" of the boot was facing Rosey.

Rosey was very dissatisfied when Kunz interrupted the conversation in the name of the captain. Seeing the boot, his eyebrows were raised to the top of his head.

"Since you have met Lord Manton, you should have also met Lord Muchel Tavalak, the blood drinker, right?" Kunz stretched out his hand to introduce Muchel.Myu Shelton, who had been standing behind him expressionlessly, like a qualified ordinary follower, suddenly showed a "kind" smile. Seeing his smile, Rosie hiccupped instantly in fright.

Muchel simply stopped pretending, and returned from his serious face to his usual idleness. He sat directly on the chair facing Rosey, and even pulled out the chair on the other side, signaling that he would sit down anyway.He even complained about Kunz: "Why do you expose me, my little lord? This scene of comedy is obviously so wonderful."

Rousey, who was sitting across from Muchelle, couldn't sit still. He stood up and even knocked down his chair. When he stepped back, he almost tripped over the chair, but managed to hold on: "You, you Good Lord Tavalak, I never thought you would..."

Mussel kicked the table with the heel of his boots loudly: "Do you collect taxes? Mr. Tax Collector."

"Of, of course. Your tax is [-] catties of grain, or the equivalent of substitute materials allowed by the empire."

"..." (O_o)!Kunz Qiongbi Meng Luofei thought that two thousand catties was already expensive enough, but found out that the tax had inexplicably increased by another five hundred catties.

"The food must be transported back, my lord." Rosey understood Kunz's expression, "You have to know that I want to hire workers and guards, and they need wages and food."

Although he didn't want to know, but the extra five hundred catties was still within acceptable range, Kunz swallowed back the surge of anger: "Magic crystal, take it?"

"receive."

"It's all over here."

"Please wait a moment." Rousey went out against the wall, the maid hurried in and cleared away the tableware on the table, the manservant carefully brought a box, Rosie opened the box with her own hands, and inside was a set of balances.Someone brought measuring tools—wooden boxes of different sizes, and Kunz poured half of the magic crystals in the sack into one of the measuring tools.

"The lowest level of magical power crystallization." Rousey glanced at Kunz as he spoke, and seeing that Kunz had no objection, he continued, "But it's very fresh, and the magic power reserves are sufficient. Grain is exchanged for one catty of magic power crystals, or you can give me [-] magic power crystals, or a little less is acceptable. Please believe that what I will give you is the lowest price I can offer."

When she said the last sentence, Rose was looking at Muchel.To his regret, Mushell didn't respond, neither agreeing nor angry.

Kunz's expression became more and more ugly as Rosey spoke. The worst preparation he made was only about [-], but it turned out to be five times.

"One thousand, if you want it, if you don't want it, I don't have any."

It's not stingy, it's really not. The magic power crystals absorbed by Butler J support the entire system, and must be fed back to players and supplied to Kunz.Even if Kunz's talent does not improve, and he is even willing to return all his magic power to the system, the remaining magic power will definitely not reach [-] magic power crystals.

Muchel still didn't respond, just looked at Kunz, he would be his backer, but he wouldn't talk too much about specific matters, Kunz made up his own mind.

"In this way, you will owe taxes to the empire, are you sure?" Rousey frowned and looked at Kunz dissatisfied.

"Eight hundred."

"...You are simply ridiculously arrogant!"

Kunz stood up, clenched his fists, and leaned forward slightly: "The empire requires me to pay [-] catties of grain or equivalent items. The exchange price of grain and magic power crystals should be based on the grain price of this year's imperial capital. ?” Although he didn’t know the price of grain in the imperial capital, Muchel said enough, and he believed Muchel.

"Please stand still, are you going to attack the emperor's envoy?"

It is indeed the emperor's envoy, but the envoys are also divided into levels.This guy is the kind of little guy in the center, who was assigned an errand, so he took a chicken feather as an arrow.

"You're not even a superhuman, are you?"

"you!"

"Your family's status is not high." Butler J started to give him a science popularization on the nobles of the Sherfer Empire yesterday, and Moria also did a rough science popularization. They didn't mention the Beltan family, "or Say, are you of noble birth?"

"!!" Luo Sai didn't even make a sound, his eyes widened, his chest heaved rapidly, and he glared at Kunz angrily.

"Don't be too greedy, Beltan, five hundred."

The corner of Rosey's mouth curled down, and he wanted to refuse, but Kunz's hand was on the sword. Even though he was not afraid of Kunz, the blood drinker stood up with a playful smile on his face.Rosey had already retreated to the corner, and finally he chose to compromise, and looked at Kunz viciously: "Of course, Lord Baron Monroe." Kunz's momentum weakened, and after Muchel sat back, Luo Sai Sai finally dared to straighten his chair, "Five hundred."

He pushed the box half filled with magic power crystals: "Please give me the rest. But, can't you even take out [-] magic power crystals? Monroe is really a poor place Lord Tavalak, when I came, Prince Yatesina personally asked me to bring a message to Lord Manton, 'I will always have a place for you by my side'."

"Bang!" Muchel, who had been watching the play happily, slapped the table and shattered the table. The small box that Kunz had just filled fell to the ground, and the magic crystals scattered all over the floor.Rosey, who had just shown a little complacency, was so frightened that she fell to the ground this time.

"The tongue is a good thing, if you think it's redundant, I don't mind tearing it off for you to make a bow tie."

"No! I, I..."

"Quick count!"

"Yes, it is!"

Kunz looked at Muchel, who glanced at him and shrugged indifferently.

The loud noise in the room attracted the servants and guards, Rosie called them in, picked up and counted the magic power crystals together with him.The next thing went smoothly. What Kunz poured out was calculated by Steward J, a total of five hundred.After finishing the calculation, Rosey still wanted to satirize Kunz, but when he saw Muchel behind him, he managed to keep his mouth shut.

After the calculation, he handed over this year's tax payment document to Kunz—this thing must be signed by both the emperor's tax official and the tax paying nobles before it will be effective.Moreover, it did not state at all how much tax the person who received the document paid, which gave the tax official a huge room for manipulation.

This is different from Blue Star's Western Middle Ages. The kings of the Western Middle Ages could only collect taxes from the territories directly under the royal family, and did not have the power to tax the lords and nobles. The emperor of the Sherfer Empire obviously had stronger jurisdiction.

"On purpose." Finally leaving the unpleasant place, Mussel answered Kunz's question, "The tax collector was originally a dog released by the emperor, either a small nobleman or a wealthy businessman. Son, most of them are bullying waste. A very small number of them are really capable and have a promising future. If they only greedily tear up fat, they will be harvested by the emperor when they are fattened up."

Kunz frowned slightly.

"Strange why I didn't tell you before I came?"

"Um……"

"I forgot." Muchel replied decisively, "This is common sense among the nobles, and all the tax collectors know it themselves, but they all think that they are the few capable people."

"..."

"Do you want to go back? I still want to take a stroll here." Muchel looked at Kunz, and at Wandian who had been obediently following him.

[If you want to do business with people here, what are the requirements? ]

"Are you sure you want to do business with this place?" Kunz asked helplessly. "Before I came here, I was also looking forward to doing business, but now I see the appearance of Tarian City...it's better to focus on stimulating domestic demand."

[Baron, you have also seen those chambers of commerce. If there is no profit here, they will not open a cargo station here. There must be something that is needed elsewhere.Our financial resources in Mengluofei will also gradually increase. In the future, even if we have no money, we will still have food. Even if we have Muchel's channel, we must at least establish a new channel on the surface. ]

Kunz still has the shopping mentality of ordinary people. If I don’t need something, I won’t buy it. But as a regional leader, I can’t think like this. Some things have to be paid for in the early stage even if they lose money.

Kunz was still a little ignorant, but he knew that in case he was right, he could think about it carefully, or ask in more detail in private: "Thank you for the pointer, I understand."

Muchel could only understand what Kunz said, but from his rhetorical question just now, he knew what the two were talking about. Now that Kunz was "taught", the result was obvious: "Pull the goods to the gate of Tarian City Show the goods to the guards, pay the entrance tax, road tax, beast excrement tax, poll tax, and commercial tax, and then you can sell them at will."

"..." At least six kinds of taxes are still sold casually? "Don't need to see Duke Huerta?"

"No, you probably won't see Duke Wenerta. In addition, the tax in Tarian City is not low. Only the commercial tax will hand over [-]% of the goods, and the other taxes will probably account for the value of the goods. Thirty percent or even forty percent."

Hearing the tax, the panda face under the hood is a little wrinkled. With the bad environment around, it is really too difficult to develop.

"Why can't I see Duke Huerta?" Although he is a duke and he is a baron, how can we say that the two families have been neighbors for thousands of years, and Kunz wants to get a discount on business taxes or something... It's even okay to do business and let him participate in the shares.

"Let's talk about it after we leave here."

"Okay." It's really not good to talk about others on their territory, "Then let's go to the Big Bob Chamber of Commerce just now?"

"well. ]

Kunz took two steps ahead and suddenly stopped, turning his head to look at Muchelle—he didn't know his way...

Kunz is not a road idiot, but Tarian City obviously doesn’t know what urban planning is. Buildings can be said to be beautified if they intersect with each other. It is simply the most messy maze. Kunz has no confidence to go back to the “main road” "superior.

"Look at it."

Just in case […] What the hell is Wanwan?

Not everyone has the captain's ability to control the tongue. Muchel thinks these Gejigeji's names are too difficult to call, so it's more convenient to call them nicknames.Although the "Wan Wan" he said is closer to a doll in pronunciation...

Kunz could also feel that besides them, there were other people with malicious intentions spying on them, but in other people's territory, snooping did nothing, so they couldn't do anything.

In case he felt bad at all, he walked obediently between the two of them. It seems that he is an old man with old arms and legs. He has to practice leveling when he goes back, otherwise in this barbaric world where strength is respected, weakness is the original sin.

After walking for a few minutes, Kunz heard the loud sound of horseshoes. At first, he didn't pay attention to the sound of horseshoes, but the sound of horseshoes was getting closer. Someone is coming towards them.

Then the guy who took the lead suddenly rushed out from behind on a white horse: "Welcome to the city of Tarian, little Monroe. Victor Huerta, the descendant of the blue-armored Wenerta, Ace Huerta's second son."

He proudly introduced himself, his horse kicked in place, and even neighed and raised its front hooves.The pair of hooves were still a few meters away from Kunz, but a normal person would have the feeling that a huge horse hoof was right in front of them.

Kunz was expressionless: "Is there something wrong? Victor Huerta?"

Others call him little baron, little lord, which is a pet name, but this guy calls him little Monroe, which is obviously an insult.

The horse's hooves fell back with a bang, and two holes were smashed into the ground. Kunz's unresponsiveness turned Victor's pride into displeasure, and he got off the horse: "After inheriting the title, this is the first time I come here. Tarian City? How about I show you around? I heard that Selphie Manton lives in your place? In return for being your guide, let me go and see how he is? Don't worry, I will bring my own food, servants and tent."

"It is indeed my first visit to Tarian City, but thank you, there is no need." Kunz was still expressionless, but this time he was not a social panic attack, he was dissatisfied, with 12 points.

This guy actually has a faint fragrance similar to that of the captain.So the breath on the captain's body is really Beiluo flower. This kind of flower scent is very popular in the emperor, and it has spread to places like the Northwest.

But when these guys smoke or sprinkle this aroma on themselves, shouldn't they think about it: Is it better to match? !

The author has something to say: Captain: →_→Although I did not appear on the stage, my legend is everywhere

Kunz: _(:з」∠)_ Not happy!You are not allowed to use the same taste as the captain!No!No!

Just in case: ...you agreed to come here for a business investigation?