Unknown Knight

The next day, Aix said goodbye to King Harlaus and left the royal city of Paraven. This was a city that made him feel suffocated, and he was unwilling to stay long every time he came.

On the way back to the territory, Aix kept thinking about who had reported him behind his back, who had spread the unfavorable rumors about him, and the reasons and causes behind it.

First of all, regarding olive oil, there is no doubt that it must be Dilinard and his daughter Lady Anna. In fact, Aix did not lie to King Harlaus in this regard. The current olive oil business is just to maintain a balance between income and expenditure, mainly because of the recent wars among countries and the overall economic depression. The sales of this luxury product will definitely decline.

Those who may have added fuel to the fire are the old nobles in the royal city. This kind of exclusive franchise is very enviable. Who wouldn't want to take advantage of the opportunity? These people may do anything disgusting for the sake of profit.

As for the snow salt, it made him even more worried. Aix's snow salt was sold very carefully in the Kingdom of Swadia. Except for the trustworthy boss Prius in Dehrim City, no other distributors were developed. There were sporadic sales in the warehouse in Suno, and they were still under the guise of purchasing from boss Prius. Paraven City had never supplied the salt, and the main market was still in the Kingdom of Nord and the Kingdom of Vaegir.

The reason for doing this is to avoid attracting the attention of domestic nobles such as King Harlaus. After all, his territory and subordinates are all in the Kingdom of Swadia, which is his root in this continent. Once he is targeted, it will be almost impossible for him to not give a penny.

But he didn't expect that the news, which was originally estimated to be spread in one or two years, would reach King Harlaus' ears so quickly. If no one spread it maliciously, he would not believe it even if he was beaten to death. It's better to be afraid of thieves than to be afraid of thieves thinking about it! Now it feels like not only a thief, but also Aix feels like there is a wolf watching him in the dark, and this wolf is always thinking about swallowing him up.

Maybe there is more than one wolf, like the Lord of Tiha City, Iden, and Chief Attila who sent people to assassinate him some time ago. They are all possibilities. However, he is very troubled about how to deal with this situation, and he can't think of a solution for a while.

After returning to the territory, Aix immediately notified all the leaders to come to the lord's mansion for a meeting. He informed everyone of the situation of the trip to the royal city of Palaven, and then Aix asked everyone to discuss how to deal with these sneak attacks.

As a result, the meeting lasted from noon to night. Everyone talked about many aspects and proposed many methods, but none of them could solve the problem fundamentally. Now that the territory is getting bigger and bigger, the influence will also become bigger and bigger, just like the light in a dark room, it is hard not to attract people.

The most reliable thing is to be strong before you can make a good forge. If you have powerful armaments, you should think twice even if someone covets them. In the end, Aix simply didn't think too much about it. He asked the military leader to strengthen military training and told Yamanti and others in charge of government affairs to speed up the construction of city defense and ensure quality and quantity, especially the defense of the valley. The wall at the entrance of the valley should be built according to the scale of the city wall. Weapons and equipment should also be produced as soon as possible.

After some more arrangements, the meeting ended. However, Aix knew that these measures were just scratching the surface and did not hit the pain point. He could not rest easy. He could not think of a proper solution at the moment, so he had to give up and wait and see how the situation developed.

The next day, Axe got up very late. He didn't fall asleep the night before and was not in good shape. So he didn't do anything but walked around the barracks to see how the soldiers were training.

After a while, the bored guy was about to find where Kress was and catch her to make trouble.

Suddenly, I was attracted by a burst of noise. I looked over and saw that Desaiwei was organizing a shooting competition among archers. Hearing the cheers, I knew there must be something new to see, so I went over to see what was going on.

It turned out that a young man who was no more than 25 years old was shooting arrows. This young man was about the same height as Liu Tang who was guarding Aix, close to 1.8 meters, but he was a little thin, with thick and long arms that hung down to his knees. The yew hardwood bow specially made for the territory was like a toy in his hands.

His archery skills were amazing. He shot more than ten arrows at the bull's eye eighty meters away. Every time he hit the bull's eye, the onlookers cheered. Maybe he felt that he had shown off enough, so he took a deep breath and shot another arrow. It actually pierced the target, leaving only a fist-sized hole at the bull's eye, which caused another round of exclamations from the people around him.

Aix was in a good mood, so he called the young man and Desevi over, and then said to Desevi with a smile:

"When did you find such a powerful person among your subordinates? How come I didn't know about it?"

Desaiwei smiled, revealing his full mouth of white teeth, looking particularly simple and innocent:

"So that you all know, this young man joined us more than a month ago. I only found out about this after I organized a competition for everyone today."

"Oh, that's great. We can hold this kind of competition regularly in the future. We can also set up some prizes or something. You can decide how much money you need and come to me for approval."

This kind of thing can effectively improve the overall military level of the territory, and Aix is ​​happy to hear it, so he told Desevi his opinion. Then he turned to the long-armed guy and said:

"What's your name? What did you do before?"

Hearing the Lord's question, the young man smiled slightly, but was not timid at all, and replied to Aix openly:

"Your Excellency, I may not mention my former name, but now I am Robin Hood, and I am a hunter in the forest near here."

When Axe heard this, he almost choked. He thought to himself, why don't you call yourself Green Arrow? But this name is also appropriate, since they are both sharpshooters, so he continued to ask:

"Why is it called this name? Is there any significance to it?"

After hearing Aix's question, the sunny-looking young man smiled shyly and said:

"Because in recent years there has been a man named Robin in this forest. He is an excellent archer. It is said that he has also destroyed the rangers who made it difficult for us hunters to live a good life. I decided to be a man like him, so I named myself Robin Hood."

When Aix heard what he said, he was really choked. Wasn't that Robin the bandit who failed to attack the caravan and was killed by him and his men? "You should be called Robin Man, not Robin Hood," Aix thought. But it didn't matter anymore, so he asked him:

"Are you familiar with this Robin?"

"To answer your question, sir, I only heard it from others and I don't know this person."

Aix nodded in relief, thought for a moment and then said:

"This Robin is not a good guy either. He not only attacks the forest rangers, but also robs ordinary people. He is a thief who kills without blinking an eye. However, Robin Hood is a good name. You can continue to call him that, but you can't learn from him and kill innocent people indiscriminately, understand?"

"Ok!"

The young man was greatly encouraged by his words. Aix patted him on the shoulder to show encouragement, and then walked straight to the lord's mansion. He walked and pondered in silence. An inspiration flashed in his mind. He was thinking about the feasibility of this matter. He stopped not far away, turned around and called Desevi to her and said:

"Notify the leaders of the territory to come to the lord's mansion for a meeting."

Soon all the leaders of the territories gathered in the lord's mansion. Aix called them to the meeting because of a legend, the legend of Robin Hood. It is said that Robin Hood was a chivalrous thief in Wales, England, in Aix's original world. He often robbed the rich to help the poor and eliminated violence. Aix liked things of this kind very much and had collected information and studied it.

There are many versions of this Robin Hood. Among them, there is a fantastic legend that says that this Robin Hood was actually a master deliberately raised by the local lord in order to snatch back the taxes collected by the king from him. So the lord disguised himself as a thief and specialized in robbing the king's tax collection team. Aix wondered if he could create such a Robin Hood.

However, his Robin Hood was not out to rob the profits that he should give to King Harlaus, but had only one purpose, which he had implemented when he first moved into the valley. However, after he gained the territory, many facilities were moved out of the valley, and the green forest bandits in the area all submitted to him, so he did not continue to implement this purpose.

The purpose was to blockade, but this time the blockade was not just of the valley, but also of all places near his territory. The specific implementation was to have people pretend to be bandits, and then rob all the people and caravans, even small armies, who wanted to pass through the area.

The purpose is to make the area near the territory a restricted area for outsiders, so that the enemy cannot spy on the territory's strengths and weaknesses. He can then farm peacefully and grow stronger slowly.

After sharing my ideas with the leaders, everyone started a heated discussion. Some agreed, some said it was inappropriate, and it was difficult to reach a consensus. However, no one had any effective solution at the moment, so they had to agree with Aix's suggestion to try it out for a while and see how it goes.

On that day, Aix asked Desevi to take the lead and select some family-loving, reliable and obedient people from all the sharpshooters to form a secret team with a total of twenty people.

Aix had Desevi and Ran Hu give these team members intensive training in archery, and also had Fatis and Niza teach these team members close combat skills, so that they could all become special combat elites with extraordinary force. At the same time, Aix also had craftsmen make special weapons for them.

Soon, in the wilderness and black forest near the territory of Aix, a mysterious group of outlaws appeared. They wore green cloaks with hoods, wore brown leather armor, held large yew longbows, and carried recurve swords on their waists.

They are elusive, have scary patterns painted on their faces, and specifically attack anyone who comes near the area.

Shepherds from other villages in the territories nearby would have their sheep stolen if they approached this area. If the villagers refused to listen and insisted on grazing their sheep here, not only would their sheep be stolen, but they would also be beaten. The same was true for loggers and hunters. Not only would their tools be confiscated, but they would also be beaten.

As for caravans passing through this area, if they showed any signs of trying to get close, they would be robbed of all their goods. If they dared to resist, they would be shot mercilessly, so many caravans simply didn't dare to leave this area anymore. Especially the caravans from Suno City and Dilinard's subordinates, they would be robbed as soon as they saw them, even if they were far away.

Passing travelers and unidentified pedestrians were also threatened and intimidated by them, and even those who disobeyed them were robbed of their belongings and then severely beaten.

Later, Lady Anna of Sunuo City, together with several nearby lords, sent more than a hundred people to encircle and suppress this group of green forest bandits. As a result, they were led into the Black Forest by these people, and dozens of people were killed or injured by cold arrows and traps. They had to flee back to Sunuo City in disgrace, and never dared to attack again.

To the extent that later on, these mysterious green forest bandits became notorious, and no one dared to approach this place easily. The forest was full of deadly traps set by them. They also set up terrifying warnings on many paths leading into the Black Forest. Sharpened wooden spears were pierced with scary sheep heads, wild boar heads, and even human heads, making this area a well-known restricted area.

There is just one thing, these people never leave this area to commit crimes, and they have never robbed villages in other nearby territories. As long as you don't try to get close to this area, you don't have to worry about them at all.

Moreover, the lonely elderly and poor families in the nearby villages often received assistance from these bandits. The villagers believed that they were chivalrous thieves who robbed the rich and gave to the poor, but they didn't know much about them either. They only knew that their leader called himself Robin Hood, and that he was a tall man with very good martial arts skills.

The one who suffered the most was the lord of this area, Earl of Aix. It was said that the earl now dared not leave his village without fifty soldiers. For this reason, he issued a reward for Robin Hood's head, and the reward soared from 100 silver coins to 300 silver coins. The reward notice was posted on all the roads leading to the territory, and even on the notice boards in Suno, Paraven, Tihar, and Uxhall.

Also issuing bounties were Lady Anna and Count Dilinard in the name of Marquis Craggs in Suno City, but their bounties were very meager, only a mere 100 silver coins each.

The total amount alone was five hundred silver coins, a huge sum of money in that era, which attracted many bounty hunters. Soon, under the leadership of Ramon, a big slave trader in Tiha City, a team of more than thirty bounty hunters came to capture Robin Hood.

As a result, they were also led into the Black Forest and killed. None of them escaped. Their heads were piled at the gate of Tiha City a few days later. After this battle, no bounty hunter dared to come to this area anymore.

More than a month later, the mastermind of all this, Count Aix, was meeting at the lord's mansion with Robin Hood, the world's greatest thief whose bounty ceiling was five hundred silver coins, and his immediate superior, Desevi. He warned them once again that they were doing this for the livelihood and safety of all the people in the territory, and that they must not be too murderous and kill people easily, and must not kill innocent people and harm the people.

After some education and explanation, the lord listened to their recent work results and gave great affirmation and recognition to their work. At the same time, he encouraged them to make persistent efforts and resolutely protect their common home.