Chapter 615: Trouble Comes to the Door!
It turned out that Wu Liang was still thinking too simply, although he had been exposed to the dark side of many societies in different worlds, but he was misled by the quiet and peaceful atmosphere in the windmill village, so that Wu Liang from the grassroots class ignored a very troublesome class---- the aristocracy!
There are two aristocratic systems in the world of pirates, the first is the "world nobles" ---- "Draconians" who are extremely disgusted by the vast majority of civilians in the world, but are powerless to resist and can only passively accept! (Of course, the descendants of the Twenty Kings are not all bad, and there are decent people like ---- Naferutali Kobra, King of the Kingdom of Alabastan!) )
And this other is the "ruling aristocracy" of the member countries of the world government that has also been criticized, but has been excluded a little less, most of them can be said to be lackeys and thugs raised by the Tianlong people to maintain their own privileged class, the so-called privilege is just the leftovers of the Tianlong people, and a few ruling nobles with a conscience have either secretly joined the revolutionary army or are using their own meager strength to protect their subordinate people!
And the ruling class of the Goa Kingdom, where the windmill village is located, is obviously a typical example of the opposite.
As one of the most beautiful countries in the East China Sea, this country is a successful example of a "segregated society" that perfectly excludes all unnecessary things from the 'terminal of uncertainties', and even attracts visits from the Tenryu people.
However, everything that made the ruling class of the Goya Kingdom proud was only a façade of hypocrisy, and no matter how prosperous the kingdom's capital was, it could not hide the fact that the vast majority of the common people in the country were extremely exploited, and in order to whitewash this false prosperity, the ruling nobles of the Goa Kingdom trained a large number of tax collectors to raise funds for their own enjoyment.
Regardless of their origins or means, as long as they can collect the full amount of taxes in a long-term and stable manner, outstanding tax collectors may be promoted to a member of the aristocracy, (even if it is only the lowest, it can be regarded as a nobleman who can enjoy privileged treatment!). The extent to which the tax collectors themselves were enriched, or how much bloodshed was caused along the way, is completely ignored.
The consequence of such indulgence is that the power of the tax collectors has become greater and more domineering, and many common people have been miserable but powerless to resist, and can only suffer in this hell.
Due to its remote terrain and proximity to the 'uncertain terminal' where the Goa Kingdom discarded waste, the windmill village, which did not provide much oil and water, was not taken very seriously, so the frequency of tax collectors was only maintained at three months, that is, once a quarter, and a poll tax of 5,000 baili per commoner was collected every quarter.
Although the frequency of tax collectors taking the initiative to collect taxes is not high, you can't stand someone taking the initiative to ventilate the news and fan the flames!
In order to take revenge, or to see that others were doing well, they simply ran out of jealousy, and went to report to Richard Braun, the tax collector in charge of several surrounding villages, ---- the idlers in charge of the surrounding villages.
In order to be able to confirm his statement, he found out from a secret channel that Wu Liang had sold a hundred gold coins in a second-hand commodity recycling shop in the village, and not only used this incident as evidence but also further exaggerated Wu Liang's financial resources, saying that he had spied on Wu Liang counting gold coins in front of the window in the middle of the night from a distance, and at least he had thousands of them hidden in his home, and even framed Wu Liang as a pirate who wanted to wash his name!
There are also five big beauties with Wu Liang who live in the same place, and the big beauties with their own characteristics are also thrown out as bait by idlers.
Under the double temptation of a lot of money and beautiful women, the tax collector Richard was inevitably moved, and after carefully inquiring about Wu Liang from the idle man, he did not act rashly, after all, he should have two brushes to be able to cut off the head of a dead giant tiger with a sword, and since he decided to start it, he must make it an iron case, and it is best to die without evidence and have no way to overturn the case.
Richard, a tax collector who made up his mind in his heart to plant a pirate title on Wu Liang's head, first entertained the idlers who came to tell him, and then took advantage of his full of food and drink and slept in his own house to send his subordinates to find his brother-in-law Daniel, who served as the gatekeeper of the city defense army, and slightly deleted the information he heard (the number of gold coins was reduced from thousands to hundreds, and the fact that there were five beautiful women completely hidden!) After informing his brother-in-law, who was able to command a hundred or so soldiers, he told his brother-in-law.
As soon as he heard that there was a lot of extra money to be made, Daniel, who had long wanted to bribe his boss and then be promoted to the rank of assistant leader of the city defense army, but had nowhere to raise money, immediately agreed, although Daniel needed to be on duty every day, but from his subordinates thirty elite city defense troops armed with flintlock rifles and steel cuirasses, (in fact, it was just a look, the upper beam was not right, the lower beam was crooked, and the guy who just wanted to drill up the camp could bring out something!) It was handed over to his brother-in-law to make a big noise.
Of course, Daniel, who had long known what kind of goods his brother-in-law was, did not forget to tell his henchmen to pay attention to the number of seized property, and if the amount was enough, the city defense army would take over, and if his brother-in-law did not know each other and dared to object, then even the tax collection team would be controlled.
Since it is said that two and one are added to five, then you must not let yourself lose, if you can make more money, it is naturally better, after all, the brother still pays attention to the clear accounting, not to mention that the brother-in-law is just an outsider, and the sister is still a cousin, how can the ethereal family relationship be important to have their own career! (Tsk!) This is not a family that does not enter the door, the jackal, tiger and leopard family is complete! )
Summoned the twenty or so loyal doglegs that were necessary to go to the countryside to collect taxes in the past as minions, and gathered the support team sent by his brother-in-law, and felt that he could eat Wu Liangde with his existing strength, and the tax collector Richard began to act with satisfaction.
Richard, the tax collector, who had already had enough information on the wine table, first rushed home, found two trustworthy subordinates to tell him in the future, and even hoped to get a piece of the pie, and the idle man of the windmill village, who had been poured a lot of wine and was now sleeping like a dead pig, dragged him out of the city overnight, found a remote corner, and killed him with a gangster under the false name of a gangster.
Subsequently, Richard, the tax collector, and the rest of the people gathered together, and rushed along the road overnight to the windmill village that exuded the intoxicating smell of Bailey, all he thought about was to get the property that belonged to Wu Liang and hand over most of it in exchange for aristocratic status, and use the privilege to slowly enjoy those big beauties!
The poor guy just mixed up with a full meal and drank his little life in a daze, and I don't know if this thing will regret his false accusations after he finds out the cause of death in hell!
Wu Liang, who had just gained a firm foothold in Windmill Village for more than ten days, and was leading a group of girls to practice Nian Qi in his own courtyard, didn't know that at this moment, he had been targeted by a group of nobles who had been raised by vampires, and trouble was getting closer and closer to him......!