The atmosphere in Stormwind City started to get weird that day.
When Varian opens meetings every day, he can always find evidence of the crimes of many nobles and officials.
At first, the charges were against officials with no status and background, and then slowly, some low-level nobles were involved.
He originally planned to stop there, because the imprisonment of some officials with no identity background had caused the administrative system of Stormwind City to become slow.
There is no way around this. In this era, there are only so many people who are qualified to be officials.
In an era when it was difficult for civilians to read and count, how could it be possible to create so many grassroots officials in one fell swoop?
Without grassroots personnel, no matter how powerful your empire is, it will collapse.
But things were out of his control.
The two groups of nobles were completely stunned. Although under his warning, no more evidence of crimes that could lead to death appeared, but...
"Sorry, but if you want to handle business, I'm afraid you will have to wait for a long time."
A Stormwind City official looked helplessly at Mr. Howson who came to pay taxes.
"Because our tax director was arrested for corruption, you can't pay the taxes now, and you can't put these things into the warehouse."
But for Howson, what he heard now felt like fantasy.
He spent a lot of experience and led people to transport the taxes out of his town. During the process, he even encountered many people who came to rob him. They killed three bandits alone.
As a result, tell him now that no one can accept it!?
"What are you talking about? This is taxes!"
But the clerk was also helpless.
"I know, Mr. Howson, but I'm just a union administrator."
The red-haired woman was very helpless.
"And it's the kind of person who is only responsible for receiving union leaders. I'm not a professional accountant or tax person. If I accept it, my end will be ugly. Our entire department was seconded to carry out this project.
Notice, after all, taxes are still very important.”
She couldn't help but sigh.
She also thought this kind of thing was weird, because the tax chief resigned because of a bunch of irrefutable evidence, so no one could come to collect the taxes. But because the taxes were important, some people were transferred to let the tax officials go back the same way, or they kept the taxes themselves.
To be honest, she has never seen this situation before.
"So please keep your taxes for now, and we will notify you as much as possible when the next tax collector arrives."
Howson opened his mouth, but in the end he didn't curse, he just asked.
"So our accommodation during this period..."
But the female clerk helplessly spread her hands.
"Sorry, I don't have any solution. No one tells me what to do."
After hearing this, Howson was so angry that he wanted to draw his sword and kill someone.
And coincidentally, there is now someone who wants to kill people just like him.
"Are these people trying to piss me off?!"
Varian subconsciously picked up the sword beside him. Although he kept telling himself to calm down and not to kill those bastards, the facts told him.
He can't.
As a king, he naturally has the power of life and death, but the consequence of killing at will is disunity and the collapse of the entire kingdom.
He doesn't want to see his kingdom collapse - mainly because he doesn't want to see the civilians suffer.
So he had to be patient.
Because without the rule of the aristocracy, the scattered civilians would indeed die on a large scale.
Whether they are gnolls or trolls, they are all eyeing this land.
Without the nobles and noble knights, he alone cannot save Stormwind City.
This is a very objective fact.
"Calm down, Your Majesty, there is nothing we can do."
Bolvar quickly hugged Varian's strong body to ensure that his king would not rush out in an instant and hack the nobles to death.
"But those bastards also stole the food that Li Ke gave to the common people and continued to raise prices! Let me go! Bolvar! I'm going to kill them!"
Varian kept trying to break free from Bolvar's restraints, and Bolvar felt that he was not holding a human now, but a crazy giant bear.
"Calm down! Varian! Li Ke's action is out of line! If you go out of your way again, things will be even more difficult to handle!"
Bolvar insisted bitterly. Varian was his master. He couldn't slap his king in the face, right? So although he was wearing full armor and tried his best to delay, Varian still took him.
Then walked to the door.
This paladin in his prime years found helplessly that no matter before or now, he was still no match for Varian in terms of strength.
It is obvious that he is the one who has been blessed by the Holy Light and is much more powerful than ordinary people, but Varian's power is still greater than him, which makes him very helpless.
Although in a real fight, he could completely knock Varian down with one blow thanks to the protection of the Holy Shield, but this was not a battlefield after all.
"Do you think I care about this?!"
Varian said it word for word.
So what if Li Ke had bad intentions? He actually allowed the common people to have food!
After seeing this information, his first reaction was that he should kill these bastards.
The second reaction is——
Chop it into pieces finely.
"But the nobles care!"
What you can get from betrayal depends on how loyal you were before!
Bolvar was very sure of this, so Bolvar tried his best to delay Varian. Varian was a good king and he didn't want to change the king.
Therefore, when Li Ke was invited to the palace by Bolvar's men, what he saw was this funny look: Bolvar's body was constantly rubbing on the ground, while Varian was held by the other party around the waist, constantly
Go forward, looking like you're going to kill everyone.
To be honest, Li Ke found it quite interesting.
"I can give it out again, Your Majesty Varian. There is no need to get so angry, right?"
Li Ke stopped in front of Varian, and Varian finally stopped in his tracks, and Bolvar was finally able to get up from the ground.
"Your food is not unlimited, Li Ke, what can you do? No matter how much the output of the Western Wilderness is, there is a limit. I cannot allow some people to suffer because of the suffering of other people.
Man once again has more serious suffering on his hands.”
Varian sighed, his tone full of exhaustion.
"So sometimes I really feel that I might as well kill these people and then confiscate their property."
