Fifteen One city's hope is placed on people (2)
Compared with ordinary houses, the city hall of Wildfire City is a very luxurious building, with a three-story wooden structure building, which is very spacious and atmospheric.
In the past few days, because the city lord personally took over here, there were two more fully armed guards standing on both sides of the outer courtyard of the city hall than before.
When the two guards saw Su Ming carrying a long sword and walking over with an orc head in his hand, they were shocked, but they did not forget their mission. They turned the spears in their hands and blocked Su Ming's way.
A guard stepped forward and said in a solemn voice: "Stop the person coming! Civilians are not allowed to bring weapons into the city hall!"
Seeing this, the official behind Su Ming immediately stepped forward to explain to the guards. After hearing this, the guard immediately took back the spear and said with a smile: "It turns out that it is a hero who killed the barbarian orcs alone. Please come in, but the weapon must be left behind. Also, the orc's head is too bloody and ferocious, and needs to be cleaned and dealt with."
Su Ming nodded, took off the long sword on his back and handed it to the guards, and handed the orc head to the servants next to him. Then, under the guidance of the officials, he walked into the gate of the city hall.
The official kept taking Su Ming to the entrance of the hall, then turned around and reminded softly: "It is the city lord Baron Hall inside, don't be rude and don't contradict him."
Su Ming glanced at the official, nodded and replied, "Thank you." After that, he stepped into the hall.
In the hall, two old men, one sitting and one standing, one master and one servant, saw him coming in, they looked at Su Ming carefully.
Needless to say, the old man sitting was Baron Hall, the current lord of Wildfire City.
When the old baron saw Su Ming coming in, he was shocked. The young man had a handsome face, black straight hair, dark eyes, and bottomless. Although his body looked a little thin, he had an unshakable temperament when he walked over.
This temperament was the old baron traveled through the Storm Kingdom when he was young and saw the Storm Knight in the kingdom capital of Saint Pro. This young man had achieved such a achievement when he was so young. Although he was a little immature at this time, what would it be great when he truly became an adult?
But just heard an official say that the Herman Knight was defeated by his sword while riding a horse and taking advantage of his advantage!
This kind of force and this kind of record made Baron Hall feel unspeakable, but he was silent on the surface and asked with a kind face: "You are Su. How could you think of killing orcs?"
Su Ming wanted to roll his eyes, but he accidentally encountered it? If he had a choice, Su Ming would rather not go to the night watch. God knows how much energy it took to kill the damn orc.
However, the Baron had questions and should answer, so Su Ming said respectfully: "The orc stole the corpse. As the night watchman, I will perform my duties and kill him." As soon as he finished speaking, even he felt a chill.
When the baron heard this, he pointed at Su Ming and laughed. If he really had such a dedicated and powerful night watchman, what orcs would he be worried about in Wildfire City?
At this time, the waiter brought up the cleaned orc head on a wooden tray. Even though he had died for a long time, his hideous and violent temperament still remained on his face.
This kind of barbarian orc has always been the main force of robbery. There are no less than a hundred soldiers killed by Wildfire City every year. Just the pension paid to the relatives of these soldiers and the maintenance of orphans and widows they left behind is a large amount, and this is still a money that has to be paid, otherwise no one would have worked for the baron.
It was these orcs who left the vast fertile plains around the Wildfire City, but could not plant food. They made his family the most down-and-out hereditary nobles in the Storm Kingdom. Although they had fiefs, they were better than nothing. The control over the people under their rule was so weak that they could be ignored, and they became the laughing stock of the entire kingdom.
The old baron stood up, walked to the orc's head, looked at it with a complicated expression, and suddenly kicked the head out of the hall with a fierce kick, roaring: "Chop this head and feed it to the dog!"
The excited Baron suddenly turned around and said to Su Ming: "Su, you are very good. I want to give you a reward, a great reward! Are you willing to become a knight of the Hall family?"
As soon as these words were said, not only Su Ming was a little dizzy, but the old butler Ximan also stopped him: "Master Baron, although Su killed a barbarian orc, the process was not seen with his own eyes. I'm afraid the Knight Herman would be dissatisfied."
The old baron waved his hand and said coldly: "If he doesn't accept it, then go and kill an orc for me to see. Don't think I don't know what he has done over the years." As he said that, his eyes still looked at the old butler Ximan meaningfully, with an inexplicable cold light shining inside.
The old butler's face turned pale, he immediately stepped aside and became silent.
The knight was the beginning of the nobles. Although Wildfire City was a little poor, this name would not change. Su Ming naturally would not refuse. He knelt on one knee very well, lowered his head and swore: "Su, I am willing to be loyal to the Hall family."
This action made the people present jealous and itchy. Why was this kid so good at following the situation? Originally, this was just a verbal talk from the baron, but now that he kneels down, the matter is settled.
The old baron laughed so hard that he stepped forward and helped Su Ming up and said, "Very good, the day after tomorrow, no, the formal enthronement ceremony will be held in my castle tomorrow. I want everyone in the city to know about this."
Since the Baron first saw Su Ming, he felt that the Hall family had a chance to turn the tables from being controlled by humans and earth. A powerful figure who was loyal to his family, he threw all his chips on him.
At this time, Su Mingke was a little anxious. His fifty gold coins were not yet settled. How could this baron say that he would not mention the money? It hurts so much emotion.
"Master Baron, the fifty orcs that killed the orcs... are that," Su Ming said illegitimately.
The Baron was a little confused by Su Ming's words. He thought about this and that for a while before he suddenly realized that he could not laugh or cry for a while.
He was ready to spend a lot of money to sign him a knight, and he would still be stingy with the gold coins. He signaled to the waiter: "Go, take the gold coins from the treasurer, and bring a hundred of them."
When the old butler heard the number of 100, he immediately couldn't help it. Wildfire City is poor. The fiscal revenue of a city depends entirely on the consumption of past mercenaries and the money for reselling grain. The net income per year is only about 2,000 gold coins.
This also led to dozens of mercenary forces of all sizes entrenched in the Wildfire City, and behind the slightly larger forces were mysterious agents. These lawless outlaws reduced the baron's control over the territory one step further, almost in a formality.
The little wildfire city was so deep that even the baron was frightened.
All these money have their own uses. They have to raise soldiers, support orphans and widows, and purchase food for the next year. After all, all the expenses can be left to the baron's own control, but only six hundred gold coins. One hundred coins were taken out at once, but one-sixth of them, which made the old housekeeper feel painful to think about it.
However, he was about to speak, but the old baron stopped him with his eyes. The old butler Ximan swallowed hard and swallowed the words back to his stomach.
The waiter quickly took the gold coins back, and the whole wallet looked bulging and extremely attractive. Just look at the waiter, his hands holding the tray where the wallet was trembling. I don’t know if the gold coins were too heavy or he was too excited.
Facing one-twentieth of the territory's income, the old baron didn't blink, picked up the purse and handed it to Su Ming, then patted his shoulder and said, "Hold it, the Hall family will never treat the Knights unfairly."
Su Ming is not a fool. After experiencing the life of the bottom of society in the past two days, he certainly knows what a hundred gold coins mean. In his previous life, it was millions of federal coins, and he could buy the mining rights of an iron asteroid for more than ten years. In this world, it could allow those mercenaries to abandon their human nature and fight for their lives crazily.
"Master Lord, this is a fifty gold coins, you have given you fifty extra." Su Ming said to the old baron calmly with his eyes clear.
Su Ming certainly would not be blinded by this money. When he was traversing the Milky Way in his previous life, his modified private spacecraft alone was worth 100 million federal coins, or the one with no market value. How many people were thinking about the spacecraft?
If he took the gold coins in ecstasy at this time, he would definitely be despised by the baron.
"Not many, the other fifty are rewards to my knights." The old baron was very pleased with Su Ming's performance. He was not moved by external things and adhered to the principles. Only such a person could take on great responsibilities.
"Thank you very much for your generosity." Su Ming saluted again, looking neither humble nor arrogant. At this time, the fool knew that he had been appreciated by the baron and was about to be valued, so of course he had to be like a famous official.
The old baron smiled and said, "Okay, okay, you go down first. Tomorrow morning, someone will come to your residence to pick you up to the castle."
Su Ming immediately took his leave and stayed here and pretended, he would definitely go crazy.
Until the only master and servant were left in the hall, the old housekeeper couldn't help but say, "Sir Baron, one hundred gold coins are missing. I'm afraid the castle expenditure will be greatly reduced next year."
"It's okay, I just want Jasmine not to go to the Mage Tower. I've been studying for so many years and still being an apprentice of a mage, she is afraid she doesn't have that talent. She used to have a thought, always thinking that one day she can become a formal mage and inherit my title. Now I have figured it out, let everything that should come." When the old baron said these words, his face was not desolate, and he looked like he had seen through the world.
For a moment, even the old housekeeper who had followed him for the rest of his life could not understand the old baron's thoughts.
Chapter completed!