Ella clenched her fists in anger and huffed:
"That Aigard, he disgraced the nobility for a few gold coins, how despicable!"
After thinking for a while, Xu Milu offered a different interpretation:
"No, if we follow your line of reasoning, I'm more inclined to believe that the new lord acted this way intentionally. You just mentioned that Xike County has just experienced a change of lord. If I'm not mistaken, the new lord deliberately increased taxes in order to quickly take control of Xike County and create a large number of slaves."
Adventurers have no fixed abode or assets, but compared to some untrained knights, adventurers who have experienced life-or-death crises are far more powerful in combat. A new lord only needs to use the pretext of a financial crisis in his territory to acquire a group of thugs bound by slave contracts. Besides this, I can't think of any other reason why he would formulate such a self-destructive policy.
This world is somewhat like medieval Europe, even more barbaric than that era. Here, wealth is everything. With enough wealth, even a slave can become a nobleman. Similarly, if you cannot pay enough taxes, you will only face two paths: becoming a vagrant or becoming a slave.
No wonder the monsters in the Grebari Forest are so active, even starting to invade villages and devour livestock—without adventurers regularly clearing them out, these monsters are like rabbits without their natural predators.
This newly appointed lord is bold and ruthless; he's truly unafraid that the adventurers might unite and let him taste the iron fist of the proletariat.
Xu Milu took a sip of tea and thought quite calmly.
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