Dominate the Game of Thrones with Mount and Blade

Chapter 37 Just Didn't Pay

"There are no sheep near their farm."

Arthur was about to leave to torture John, but heard Jules say this.

Arthur was puzzled: "You might as well make it clearer."

Jules showed a look of understanding and smiled greasyly: "I have made it clear enough."

The young lord was stunned and suddenly understood what his uncle meant.

"It's you who noticed this detail."

Sheep is a symbol of evil in the West.

The reason is very simple.

Some people use sheep to do bad things, and when they are found out, they lie that they were seduced by sheep.

So a kind of tacit understanding was reached, that sheep are the devil walking in the world.

And Jules suddenly mentioned this to make Arthur pay attention to something.

Suddenly remembering what the ten gamblers said outside the house, he had an idea in his mind.

John is probably a weak man with many tricks.

Maybe the other nine are all the same.

If John's favorite gambler is caught, will the whereabouts of the golden dragon soon be revealed?

He walked into the farm, entered the room, and began to test.

"Whoever I point to, I will drag him out to be beaten." Arthur announced.

The spinach monks on the ground shouted instantly.

"Master, I don't have money."

"Stop beating, the money is in John's hands."

Although John was beaten black and blue, he was in good spirits.

After a while, Arthur found a clue.

Whenever he pointed to two people, John would do some small movements, such as blinking frequently and swallowing saliva.

"It's you two, drag them out, and beat them to death as long as they can't be beaten to death."

The two soldiers received the order and dragged the two designated people out.

Arthur moved a chair and sat next to John.

"Where's the money? Where's my golden dragon?"

John rolled his eyes and didn't answer.

Soon, a scream of pain that shook the sky rang out outside the house.

"John, tell me, someone is going to die."

"Master, it was John's idea. It has nothing to do with me. Master, it has nothing to do with me."

"Do you think our lives are so unimportant? I love you in vain."

At first, John could still hold on and pretend to be calm, but gradually his expression became tormented and ferocious, as if he was wearing a mask of pain.

Until he couldn't help it anymore, "Let them stop, I'll hand over your golden dragon."

The servant's son shouted like this.

After Arthur asked the soldiers to stop, he looked up and said, "Tell me, where is it?"

"In the cowshed behind the house, there is an empty stone slab, and the golden dragon is hidden under it."

Arthur asked Javier and the remaining soldiers to watch over the spinach monks, and he and the two people outside the house went to find the golden dragon.

After getting the hint, the golden dragons wrapped in cowhide bags soon appeared in front of Arthur.

And there were some extra gains, leather shoulder pads, exquisite purses, black velvet cloaks and other unrelated carry-on items.

"You two count them."

Soon, the two soldiers counted their own piles, and the total was 655.

Adding the more than 30 in the house, the total was more than 680.

That is to say, these gamblers spent nearly 20 gold dragons in a month.

It only cost one gold dragon to cultivate land for a young girl.

Arthur converted it and saw 20 young girls in front of him being harassed by these gamblers. He was furious.

We have to teach them a lesson.

Arthur grabbed a handful of gold dragons and stuffed them into his purse, and threw one to each of the two soldiers.

"Thank you, Lord Arthur."

"You can be driven by me from now on, and I will never say no."

They are guest soldiers of Shili City, and they have to be given some benefits from time to time.

Now there are so many gold dragons. If Arthur takes out a silver deer and throws it to them, and then they go back and tell their companions.

I am afraid that when the war starts, few guest soldiers will be willing to fight for Arthur sincerely.

As a lord, in addition to showing his kindness to his subordinates, he also needs to let them get benefits in a timely manner.

Benefits are the most stable glue for power.

After letting the two hold the cowhide bags and unexpected gains, the three returned to the house.

"There are a lot of good things. Where did you steal them from?" Arthur asked after giving each of the remaining guest soldiers a gold royal.

John looked at the personal belongings held by the soldiers, "This is definitely not stolen. Please believe that I just didn't pay, or I haven't paid until now."

"Ah, you have a lot of problems!" Arthur sighed.

"Instructing your father to steal the lord's money is disloyalty; killing others is unkind; killing your own father is unfilial; stealing other people's things is unjust. These four points are enough to sentence you to death, right?"

John, lying on the ground, was stunned at first, then sneered, "You nobles are really hypocritical, just kill if you want to, why so much nonsense!"

He was still in pain all over his body and could hardly move.

But after hearing Arthur's hypocritical words, he turned his head and sneered to express his contempt.

"Why, you are not convinced? Doesn't what I said make sense?"

John rolled his eyes, "Yes, yes, it makes sense. Your words have your noble reason, but not our common people's reason."

"Ah? You are a gangster, and you still have reason? Tell me, what is your common people's reason? If you can sleep with me, I will let you see the seven gods with a hammer, otherwise you will be lying in bed for seven days and seven nights before you die."

Arthur said so.

John was jealous and disgusted with the lord's words, "If I had a monk as a teacher, a gray robe Amber as a coach, a master's scholar to treat illness, and people to help you work, I could grow up like you and make people envy me, but I don't have that. I only have a father who lives in the basement and works as a dog for the nobles."

Arthur thought for a while: "Even if you are not as good as others, you can't complain about the world like this. Didn't your father try his best to make you a better person? Didn't he ask you to find monks and wandering warriors to learn? Cyril didn't ask you to hang out with gamblers!"

"Find a monk to teach me how to lick someone's asshole, and find a wandering warrior to teach me how to stick my ass out, right? That's better, I can't afford it!" John said sarcastically.

"What's funny is that the gambler you despise in your mouth and look down on in your heart is the best person to me in the whole river, not the monks and wandering warriors."

Arthur was a little surprised. It turned out that he was treated like that when he was a child. No wonder he was like this.

"But you can't kill your father. He really treats you well."

"He has a bad life, why should he force unnecessary efforts on me? It's such a simple truth that a salted fish will still be a salted fish after a turn?" John said hurriedly, as if he had been holding his breath for a long time.

Arthur thought about it and agreed.

There is really no way for civilians in Westeros to be promoted. In peacetime, they are fat sheep for the lords to fleece.

They can't run away.

After all, other places in the continent are like this, and there is no security guarantee in the eastern continent of Essos.

John took a break for a while and felt that the pain in his body was not so severe. He said slowly: "Before you make hypocritical criticisms, let's see if he has such a superior family conditions as you!"

Although he didn't hurt anymore, John suddenly caught a glimpse of his father's body.

The basement servant who wanted his son to be successful was lying in the corner at this moment. Although his eyes were closed, he seemed to still be staring at his son.

At this moment, the child from another family, the child that his father always compared himself with, was using their noble thinking to humiliate himself before he died.

In the next life, I want to be a father and let Cyril be my son, so that he can see how I educate my children.

John thought so.

"You'd better let me die quickly, and end my life with one hammer, so as not to dirty your eyes and ears."

Arthur couldn't think of a rebuttal to John's words, so he raised the sledgehammer and hit it with one blow.

The other gamblers were silent.

"Sir, are you going to kill them?" Javier asked.

"We don't have so many people. Take them back. At least there are nine adult men who can still move stones." The lord who was not in a good mood ordered this.

"Thank you for your magnanimity."

"Seven Gods bless you!"

The remaining spinach monks expressed their gratitude.

The eight people quickly packed up, put the gamblers who couldn't walk on the ox cart, and took the other gamblers back to the Moulin Rouge.

After all, this is the territory of the Ward family, and the territory of Blackwood is not far away. It is not very safe for Arthur to stay here for a long time.

Most of the money was recovered, but Arthur did not relax.

He is a soul with normal values ​​who has received nine years of compulsory education. Although he sometimes wants to live the addiction of the lord, he has no intention of bullying the people as slaves. However, the peasants who have no way to be promoted are not much different from serfs in nature.

Arthur felt that this conflicted with his own thinking, but he was powerless to change it.

He is just a small lower-level nobleman. How can he change the social form of the entire Westeros continent?

What he can do is to better fulfill his lord's obligations and better protect his more than 2,000 people.

This way he will not let down the taxes they pay.

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