Cthulhu Gonfalon Chapter 24:

Slightly east to the south of the Gold Coin Federation, there is a place called "Dalling".

This place belongs to the Dahl family. Like most nobles in the Gold Coin Federation, this family is of merchant origin. An ancestor who was about five or six generations ago, relying on a little bit of wisdom and softness in the war-the specifics have not been verified, but fraud, violence and conspiracy are indispensable-won the first barrel Jin, and then began to do some trades such as reverse buying and selling, smuggling, and lending.

The ancestor of the Dahl family was very good at business and had a very good vision. He was always able to stab the former lord at the right time. After stabbing the two lords back and forth, he finally became a man. An aristocrat who is qualified to own a territory.

In the beginning, this ancestor was just a knight with a real estate, and there was a viscount above as his prince. But for some reason, the viscount and his family were ambushed by bandits during a trip, and the whole family was unfortunately killed. The Dal knight who learned of this incident was furious, not only mobilized all the troops in his territory, but even took out a lot of wealth, hired a large number of adventurers, formed a large-scale army, and traced the cause of the death of the king.

Following the investigation, a huge conspiracy slowly surfaced-it turned out that the only baron under Feng Jun colluded with another knight to jointly murder the Fengjun.

The angry Dahl knight and several other knights immediately united and launched an attack on the two conspirators. After a **** battle, the rebels were wiped out, and one of the knights died as a result.

As a great hero in tracing crimes and eliminating rebellion, Dahl Knight has received everyone's appreciation and support, especially the friendship of the big figures from the royal capital. Soon, he became a baron, and together with several other knights who had turned to belong only to the royal capital, he jointly managed the territory.

In the years that followed, this area was calm. Although there has been a dispute over the inheritance rights of a knight family, and the final heir looks a little bit similar to those of the Dahl family, but those are obviously slanders.

Dalling is now a quiet and remote place.

It is a bit far from the "Southeast Avenue" along the seashore, and neither adventurers nor caravans will pass by here. The Barons of Dal also had no interest in attacking the Everglades to open up the territory. Adventurers and mercenaries did not get support, so naturally they would not use this as their logistics base, and set out to explore or invade. Big swamp.

On the contrary, there are some smugglers here, doing the gray business between the Gold Coin Federation and the Everglades. However, this kind of business is elusive, and the scale cannot be fought.

So in general, as Baron Dahl is proud of, Dahl leads to peace and tranquility, full of leisurely breath that makes him comfortable.

Whenever he drinks tea on the terrace on the top floor of the castle and looks at the territory under his feet, his heart is full of peace and comfort, and he often sighs for this: "Ahhhh! What a wonderful life! "

But in recent days, Baron Dahl's mood has become less happy, and even the afternoon tea he liked before has become less palatable.

Because there are a few more unpopular characters in Dal City.

That came from a priest named "Masked Void Church". They have about ten people, three pastors, one priest, and the remaining six are paladins.

Damn it, they are all characters with a formal professional level, none of them are soft-footed shrimps!

After this group of priests came to Dal City, they first bought a relatively remote house. Because the house was dilapidated for so long, it didn't cost much.

In fact, the house and the surrounding area have almost become a place where beggars and thieves live because of the long-term poverty-stricken people. It is really a place to hide dirt. Unless you need to find someone to do something that is inconvenient to say, or you need to find a few objects hanging on the gallows outside the city gate, the fascinating figures in Dal City will never approach it.

A dignified group of priests, the one headed by even has an intermediate level, how could it go to such a place? And also buy a house there to settle down?

Could it be that this is the bizarre hobby of the deity they believe in?

Thinking that the deity they believed in seemed to be a giant jellyfish, Baron Dahl felt that perhaps this guess was correct.

This incident has become a little joke in the upper class society of Dal City, and everyone often tells it at parties. Some people even laughed, saying that these days, they have been pointing to the jokes of this group of people to live their lives.

But those priests are obviously not here to perform jokes. After they settle down, the first thing they do is to take out money and hire the poor to work for them, renovate houses, and build altars.

To be honest, they didn't have much money, probably enough for Lord Baron to have a party. The scale of the party is not that big, let alone luxury. But for the poor, the money is already a lot, at least enough to buy food to prevent them from starving to death.

In addition to wages, the priests of the Masked Void Church also said that the poor people's clothes were too shabby, which violated the teachings of their majesty the jellyfish, and sent them some pretty thick clean clothes.

The clothes don't fit well, and they are worn out. It can be seen somewhere that they were donated by the middle-class people when they were doing good. But at least they are stitched neatly and warm enough to wear on the body.

Moreover, those priests have a morbid pursuit of cleanliness. Every day, two paladins patrol the slums, urging them to do a good job of cleanliness. There is also a pastor who catches prisoners every day, catching the poor people to bathe and change clothes-Baron Dahl heard from a patrolling knight under his command that one time when he was passing by that area, he happened to see a group of poor people taking a bath. The smell makes him sick!

After this period of time has passed, the slums have gradually improved. The poor people wore neat clothes, their houses and streets were cleaned up, and because they were almost able to eat their food, even their faces were a little bloody.

So Baron Dahl sent a tax collector.

Anyone living in the city of Dal, no matter what he does for a living, must pay taxes.

The poor people naturally have to pay taxes. In the past, they had no money, and the tax collectors were too lazy to come. After all, there is nothing to go to that smelly place, and can we still cut off the poor ghost’s meat to deduct tax—— Of course, if they have a little girl, they can be tax deductible~IndoMTL.com~ However, the little girl was bought or abducted long ago, and generally it is not the turn of the tax collector to collect taxes. Most of them follow those buyers. The trafficker came from behind.

Now that this group of poor ghosts have some money, the tax collector will ask them to make up for the taxes they owe.

Well, it's the interest.

It is said that this is a matter of course, but the priests have come forward and said that according to the law of the Gold Coin Federation, these taxes cannot be counted as interest unless the evidence at the time is available.

The gold coin federation, which is based on commerce, attaches the most importance to "evidence."

Can't count interest? ! That's just a few dollars!

The two sides have been arguing over this matter, and there is still no conclusion yet.

And this is what makes Baron Dahl unhappy.

He is not short of money, but the money that should belong to him, even if one copper coin is missing, he will be very unhappy!