"Nothing, Lan'er, are you hungry?" At this time, the sun had already set. After staying in the big library for most of the day, Rick's stomach felt empty.

"A little bit, but it's time for me to go back to Summoner Academy now. The servant invited by Instructor Ford has already prepared dinner and is waiting for me to go back." Belle took the initiative to hold Rick's hands and said apologetically: "So I can't have dinner with Kyle."

This was the first time that Rick had been held by Belle on his own initiative. He was very happy. In order not to show his appearance as a pig brother, Rick coughed twice seriously and said calmly: "Well, Lan'er, I'll take you back."

"Yes!" The girl in the white robe still had a beautiful and charming smile.

...

It was completely dark. After sending Belle back to the Summoner Academy, Rick returned to his room alone.

When I pushed the door open, I heard Mihair's voice as if he was a resentful woman, "Have you gone on a date again?"

Rick had goose bumps all over his body and scolded, "Damn, don't talk like Phirus. But how do you know what I'm doing?"

"Look at your smile, has your conspiracy succeeded?" Mihair asked meaningfully.

After watching the magic sword technique in the big library for most of the day, Rick is now lying on the bed exhausted and replied casually: "What conspiracy?"

"Of course it's a historic leap from a boy to a man." Michel said excitedly, shaking Rick's shoulder fiercely.

"No." Rick rolled his eyes, too lazy to talk nonsense to Michelle.

Mihair sat back on his bed like a deflated ball, and said with contempt, "Then you're so happy."

"I'm different from you guys who spend money to find women." Rick lies on the bed and fights back coldly.

"Correction," Michelle came over again and said seriously: "Only that guy Phirus likes the women of the world. I, Diego and Aaron are all serious people."

Rick glanced at him, "Can you not talk about these unnutritional words? It's dark. You haven't gone out to wander around. You must have something to say here, but I've agreed that I'm tired today, so I'll drink next time."

Mihair laughed and said, "Kyle, you are indeed the worm in my belly. You know me so well!"

With a thud, Michelle was kicked under the bed and her face had an intimate contact with the floor.

"Okay, actually Diego asked me to give you a word." Mihair stood up and said honestly.

Diego? As soon as he heard his name, Rick immediately sat up. He frowned slightly and asked, "What's the matter?"

"Hey, why are you nervous? Diego just reminds you that you should go back to your territory and report it." Michel said earnestly: "Although the nobles are not there, there will still be people in their territory that will always be responsible for managing. But people are not sure. If you haven't been to your own territory for so long, maybe your people will not agree with you. This kind of thing is very common in the aristocratic circle."

Rick didn't know so much, he asked in confusion: "But what should I do here at the academy?"

"After completing the mission of Match Wings, there will be half a month's rest time in the middle. You will receive the next mission. And you are a member of Match Wings. The academy has given you great freedom. No one will care about it at all after leaving the Aviation Academy for a while." Mihael explained patiently: "Just tell Angel and Elena the reason for leaving, they will agree."

Rick nodded. Although when introducing himself, he would join "Kyle" between "Kyle" and "Alliya" to prove that he was a noble. But he did not take his identity as a baron at all. It was not because the title was too low, but because Rick was not used to treating himself as a noble.

My territory is called Vinton Town. I almost remember it next to the East Coast... Rick smiled bitterly and said, "Since that's the case, I'll leave tomorrow."

"Oh, don't worry, if you rush over in such a hurry, your subordinates will be very busy to welcome you. Let me write a letter first, saying that you will come to the throne in a few days and give them some preparation time." Mihair is very experienced in this area, and he said calmly.

Rick suddenly realized that with the veteran Michelle, who is a veteran, giving advice for him, he could save a lot of trouble.

"By the way, there is another thing to remind you." Michel said solemnly: "Diago should have told you before that nobles can collect taxes in their territory, right?"

After thinking about it carefully, Rick nodded and said, "That's right, but I'm not in a hurry to use money now, so I'll be exempt from taxes or something."

After tsk a few times, Mihair said disdainfully: "Kyle, you are too naive. Don't think that if you don't collect taxes, your people will thank you."

"Oh?" Rick said he couldn't understand.

Shaking his head helplessly, Michel continued, "I'll give you some knowledge that you should know as a noble."

"Your Majesty rewards his territory to the nobles, and they will manage it with all their powers. Therefore, as long as no major happens, the Holy Capital will not interfere in the affairs of every noble territory." Michel changed his tone and said, "This means that you are a local emperor in your own territory. Similarly, you must bear full responsibility for your people."

Rick nodded and listened seriously.

"Then, the question is here. Take the town of Vinton as an example. If you are the lord, you have the obligation to benefit the residents there. For example, the infrastructure of towns, the payment of emergency funds, etc., this is a lot of money. Are you sure you can afford it?" Michel said sarcastically: "Also, although you are a noble master, there will be a mayor in each town, and there is a large number of small officials who do things for you to open their mouths and ask you to beg for food. After all, a town is so big that you can't worry about everything alone. If you don't pay these people, why do they do things for you? If you don't collect taxes, it's the same as having no money to pay wages. Wouldn't your subordinates rebellion? Once chaos starts, it's your people who suffer, and do you think they will still be grateful to you for not collecting taxes?"

Rick smiled bitterly. He really didn't think so far. After Michel said this, he felt enlightened.

"Think about it, your manor needs to be managed, and the servants' money still has to be paid? Even the baron at the bottom, who doesn't have dozens or hundreds of beautiful maids..." As he said that, Michel began to think wrongly.

"So, tax collection is absolutely indispensable, otherwise I will go bankrupt, right?" Rick laughed.

"That's right, although Vinton is just a small town, there are still many residents. The taxes do not need to be set too high, which is enough to support you and your subordinates." Mihair suddenly thought of something and said solemnly: "I almost forgot, there is a bad news that I didn't tell you."

Rick was slightly stunned. The bad news Michel said must be very bad, otherwise he would not bother to mention it.

"That's right. Before you took office, the lord of Vinton Town was a viscount. But unlike your hereditary system, he only had a lifetime title. So after this guy died, his children could not inherit the title, and then the lord of Vinton Town was replaced by you." Michel smiled wickedly: "But this guy was not dead, but was drinking and having fun in his own manor, and was beaten to death by his own people."

Rick asked in shock, "Why does this happen?"

"That's because this guy is greedy for pleasure. He sets up various taxes and exploits the residents of Vinton Town crazily, which arouses public anger." Michel said with his mouth held back.

"What does that have to do with me?" Rick asked with a frown.

Michel looked at Rick with a smile. "Only the lord has the right to change taxes, and even the mayor has no right to interfere."

"So, the town of Vinton is still in a state of high taxes now?" Rick suddenly realized it and asked hurriedly: "But that guy was dead before, where did he put the extra money?"

"Haha. You are the new lord, and the money is naturally stored in your account. There are probably tens of thousands of gold coins." Michel looked gloating, "The residents of Vinton Town are so pitiful. They finally overturned the brutal rule and waited for a long time. The new noble master has not yet come to succeed him, so they naturally regard you as a villain who exploits the people's wealth."

Rick had the urge to vomit blood.

The town of Vinton is located on the east coast of the Cato Empire, which is also the first place where Rick left the Southeast Archipelago and arrived in the Ero continent.

Because it is very close to the sea, the residents of Wenton Town received gifts from the sea god, and basically fished or transported goods by boats to make a living. In addition, there is a large forest behind Wenton Town, where the highest monsters in it will not exceed three stars, so it attracted many hunters to take root here, so some of the residents there also rely on hunting for a living.

Thanks to the lack of high-level monsters, Wendon Town is very safe and there is no need to worry about the invasion of monsters. Because of this, ordinary hunters are enough to deal with these low-level monsters, so the mercenaries who hunt high-level monsters and seize magic crystals to make money naturally disdain to compete with them. Without mercenaries, the people in Wendon Town are simple and live a peaceful life, as if they are living in a paradise.

However, since a viscount became the lord of the town of Vinton, there has been no peace here.

The man was originally a lazy and fat man. One day he was lucky and accidentally saved a loyal imperial minister who was robbed by bandits of wealth. In order to repay him, the man used his personal relationship and appointed him as a viscount.

At first, the fat man was very grateful, but after living the comfortable and comfortable life of the noble master for a long time, he began to become greedy and lustful. When the fat man thought that he only had a lifetime title, he wanted to get the greatest benefit in his lifetime. So he even more severely exploited the residents of Wenton Town. The road and bridge fees and food taxes were outrageously high, and even more ridiculously some ridiculous taxes such as lighting lamps and eating, and even fined them for sleeping in.

Under the trouble of the Fat Lord, Vinton Town became a poor man. The mayor, who was admired by everyone, made many suggestions, but was ignored and even beaten up.

The public grievances accumulated day by day, until one day when their lord fell in love with the mayor's beautiful granddaughter and planned to force her into the door, some young men who had been secretly in love with this girl since childhood finally couldn't stand it. They rose up and immediately aroused the response of the local resentment. Almost all the strong men in Wenton Town rushed into the Fatty Lord's manor, rescued the imprisoned maids one after another, and tied their lord to the pillars in the center of the town, and were beaten to death by the angry residents.

It was a big deal that the nobles were killed by civilians, and the Saint Capital immediately sent someone to deal with the matter. The mayor of the Vinton Town took all the responsibility on himself, but he received the strong guarantee of all the residents and went to the Saint Capital to wish His Majesty. After the Emperor of the Cato Empire learned about it, he personally sent someone to investigate the truth of the matter and confirmed that their previous lords were inhumane, so he released the arrested mayor.

But the empire had many procedures, the new lord had not decided for a long time, and the high taxes had not been reduced. The residents of Wenton Town were still gritting their teeth and living a life. They prayed every day, hoping that the next lord would be kinder and let them, the ordinary people, live a normal life.

Not long after, Rick got the procedures for becoming a noble from Diego and learned that he was the lord of Vinton Town.

However, Diego had never investigated the town of Vinton at that time, so he didn't know that the situation would be so complicated, and just asked Rick to stay in the Mingx Higher Education College for a good retreat.

By chance, Aaron saw the memorial about Vinton Town at His Majesty the Emperor. However, at this time, Rick had joined the Wings of Mickey and headed to the Ice and Snow Empire. The residents of Vinton Town were already desperate about this new lord and lived indignation, and some even began to curse Rick.

So as soon as Rick came back, Diego quickly informed him and rushed to Vinton Town. However, Michel was a slow man, and what he said seemed to be no big deal.

The result was that although Rick had already thought about the matter seriously, he underestimated the public's anger.

The carriage parked at the entrance of the town. When Rick looked helplessly at the stone walls on both sides of the gate, he couldn't help but think: "This is what Michel said, the people are simple, stable and peaceful? It's not harmonious at all. These people are not welcoming me at all, but wanting to eat me!"

Before leaving, Michel told Rick that as a nobleman, he should have the noble demeanor and dress. So Rick put all the Mithril armor in the Aerial Academy, no longer dressed in a swordsman, but instead wore a gorgeous noble dress. However, Phirus forced his face to rub the powder on his face, but it had been washed off.

Thinking that he did not deliberately delay his appointment and exploited the residents of Vinton Town, Rick took a deep breath and walked over with his head held high.

"This person looks like he is not very old last year, and he looks like he is just in his early twenties."

"Hmph, I am so smart at such a young age. I look like a vicious guy. I dare to come to our Vinton Town with confidence!"

"Sister, look, our noble master is so handsome."

"Yes...oh, no! This guy is a bad guy. Sister, don't be deceived by his appearance!"

The residents on the door wall were talking for a while, and except for the children, most of them looked at Rick with extremely bad eyes.
Chapter completed!