Silio still maintained a high prestige among the Golden Eagle people. He quickly called all the Golden Eagle Lords together and expressed Reggie's wishes and his own thoughts in a relatively tactful way.
Reggie wanted them to surrender, and the lords also wanted to surrender. For the Golden Eagle people, it was not a shame to choose a decent surrender when they were unable to defeat the enemy.
What they have to do now is to strive for their own interests as much as possible. According to the tradition of Spike Island, they will collect 50% of the tribute from the civilians, and they will not pay the tribute to the Golden Eagle Country, so they hope that Reggie can respect their tradition and continue
Maintain the existing rules of Spiked Island.
Reggie resisted the urge to kill them and rejected their proposal. After deliberation for an hour, they came up with another plan.
They increased the contribution of civilians from 50% to 60%, and they kept 50% of it and dedicated 10% to Reggie.
Looking at the gentlemen's smiles on the faces of these lords, Reggie felt that his previous behavior was too reserved. These lords interpreted their shamelessness to the fullest, and their shamelessness to an extraordinary level.
Out of the last respect for them, Reggie asked these lords to have dinner in the castle first, and he wanted to discuss countermeasures with Nipoli.
Nipoli asked in a low voice: "Sir, what are you going to do?"
"I plan to push them to the ground, beat them one by one, beat them to death, until they understand the truth." Reggie looked at Nipoli, then looked at Modesa, and asked, "What do you think of me?"
What do you think?"
Modesa nodded and said: "I agree with your idea, and I am willing to do it for you."
Nipoli shook his head and said: "I think what you did is a little too much."
"Am I going too far?" Reggie looked at Nipoli in shock.
"You want to beat these lords. They are all people of status. Isn't this too much?"
"What's your suggestion?"
"My suggestion is to invite them to dinner tomorrow. Dorothy happens to be here too. Let Dorothy poison their dinner so that they can leave this world with dignity."
Reggie and Nipoli looked at each other for a moment, and both of them laughed in unison. They laughed for a long time, even crying.
But Modesa didn't smile, and Reggie and Nipoli gradually lost their smiles.
The three of them are all smart people who can see through the situation. Nipoli's idea sounds like a funny joke, but judging from the current situation, this may be the only way to solve the problem.
This group of nobles are unwilling to give up any of their own interests, and their understanding of interests has gone far beyond the scope of lords, especially Silio. For a long time in the past, he has been at the top of the interest chain.
, he enjoys the offerings from his own territory, and also enjoys the offerings from other lords. Maybe he does not have enough control over Spike Island, but no one has ever shaken his interests, and not even the Golden Eagle Kingdom can take advantage of his pocket.
He took out a gold coin.
In a sense, he has become the king of Spike Island. Although he has now become a defeated prisoner, although he knows how powerful Reggie is, he is still unwilling to give up any benefit.
If the character were placed in any era and any country, the only way left for him would be death.
But do we really want to kill him? Or do we want to kill all the Golden Eagle Lords?
Although this can ensure the stability of Spike Island, when war breaks out again in the future, will anyone surrender to Reggie?
"They will fight you to the death," Modesa said. "You will not escape death if you surrender anyway."
Nipoli said: "Some things cannot be generalized. We do not want to kill the surrenderers. We do not do this out of cruelty, but because these lords do not cherish our tolerance."
Modesa shook his head and said: "No one will care about our reasons, they will only see the results of things."
It was really unlucky that when he met these lords who did not know whether to live or die, Reggie was forced into a life-or-death dilemma by their shamelessness.
"Give them one more night," Reggie sighed, "at least let them understand."
Reggie asked Nipoli to convey his conditions to this group of lords: "They can continue to live on Spike Island, and they can retain some of their identity and status, but they must strictly abide by the laws of Broken Snow, as Broken Snow
In the territory outside the city, the tax on Spike Island must be reduced to 30%, and their status is no longer lords, but just consuls on the territory."
"Thirty percent tax!" Silio still couldn't figure out the difference between a consul and a lord, but the figure of 30% made him feel very harsh. "Is taxation an offering? Or is it something other than an offering?"
Nipoli said: "Taxation is worship, which means that the civilians on Spiked Island only need to pay 30% of their income, and they do not need to pay anything else."
"Only 30%!" shouted a lord, "This means our income has been reduced by nearly half!"
"It's not just half! We also have to pay 20% of the offering to Silio, which means we only have 10% of the offering left!"
"Not even 10%!" shouted another lord, "we still have to distribute the money to our knights. Although they don't get much, they are still gold coins that belong to us."
Nipoli looked at this group of lords helplessly. On this small island, they had been the emperors for too long. They had forgotten their own identities and Reggie's status as a ruler.
"These 30% of the tax revenue does not belong to you!" Nipoli shouted, "All the tax revenue belongs to Lord Victor!"
Everyone exclaimed and looked at Nipoli with horrified faces.
Syrio widened his eyes and said, "Then what can we get?"
Nipoli said: "You can get remuneration from Lord Victor. A consul at your level can get almost thirty gold coins every year."
"Thirty gold coins?" Syrio shook his head and said, "This is not even enough for my expenses for a month!"
"This is simply ridiculous!" shouted another lord, "What does he think of us? Does he think of us as his slaves?"
"We cannot accept it. This is simply an insult to us!"
The three lords roared in front of Nipoli for a long time. Seeing how angry they were, Nipoli thought that there was no room for easing the matter. He was about to report the situation to Reggie, but he heard another young lord say
Voice: "Thirty gold coins is too little. If Lord Victor is really a generous man, he should give us at least forty gold coins."
Wait, things seem to be turning around.
Nipoli paid special attention to this young lord. He should be around twenty years old. He had no servants with him. Judging from the slightly plain dress, he was the same as Cili in terms of status, status or wealth.
Ou was far behind. He always wanted to get closer to Nipoli, but was firmly blocked behind by Silio and the other two lords.
It seemed that Silio didn't want this young man to express his opinion, but Nipoli also noticed another thing. Except for Silio and the two lords beside him, the reactions of others were not that intense. A few middle-aged people were silent.
Without saying a word, several young people stood beside the young man, seeming to want to fight for more rewards with him.
Nipoli smiled, it seemed that this matter had another turn.
He asked everyone to calm down, and then asked his attendants to bring parchment and quills and distribute them to each lord.
"My lords, I know you have a lot of dissatisfaction in your heart," Nipoli smiled, "As you said, Lord Victor is a generous lord. You can put forward your conditions and tell your difficulties.
Lord Victor will reconsider, after all, Spiked Island is different from other places, and I think we will eventually find an answer that satisfies everyone."
"You mean, let us write down the conditions on paper?" Silio frowned, "Why do we do this? Why don't we just discuss it face to face with Lord Victor?"
Nipoli said: "Our Lord has a lot of things to do, and he doesn't have time to meet with you one by one."
"He doesn't need to see everyone!" Sirio shouted, "It's enough to just discuss with me. They all listen to me!"
"Calm down, Viscount Silio," Nipoli lowered his eyes, "You are no longer the owner of Spiked Island. Please pay attention to the identity you speak to. We want to find an answer that satisfies everyone, not just you.
People are just satisfied.”
There is no answer that satisfies everyone. Nipoli just wants to find a group of people who are not so greedy and let them disintegrate this group of golden eagle lords from within, thereby changing the order of the interest chain.