Werther was at a loss what to do, but the next day, Wile ran into his bedroom in a panic.
"Your Highness, you didn't lock the bedroom door. How many times have I told you that you must lock the door when you sleep at night. What if someone else comes in?"
Wile came in and lay down next to Werther, panting.
Werther, who had woken up, was still lying on the bed but had not yet gotten up. He looked sideways at Wile who was lying next to him, and asked helplessly and doubtfully: "Then why do you still break in?"
"Of course it doesn't matter if I come in. I'm not in danger to His Highness."
"Every time you suddenly break into my bedroom, I either get cold or get scared. I think you are the most dangerous person in the castle..."
"Thank you for the compliment, Your Highness." Wile scratched the back of his head in embarrassment, "This is the first time someone has commented on me like this, and I suddenly felt so powerful."
"What kind of understanding do you have? What's going on?"
"I want to tell you something big!" Wile drew a large arc in the air with his arm to describe the magnitude of the matter.
"What big thing could happen to make you so excited?"
"You will know after you go look outside the castle." Wile took Witte's arm, "Your Highness, get up quickly and I will help you get dressed."
"okay."
Werther got dressed and was dragged outside the castle by Wile.
Finally leaving the castle gate, Werther saw an astonishing scene.
There were two dazzling bags of gold coins on the ground, as well as two large bags of grain and bacon. A man was kneeling next to him, covering his face with his arms. By distinguishing his clothes, Werther could tell that this man was Colin, the financial officer.
Seeing Werther coming out, Colin said loudly: "Your Highness, I have brought you all the remaining taxes of my family. Please take a look."
It turns out that this is the big thing that Wile was talking about. The money to run Daybreak Town has been secured, which is really exciting.
"So many gold coins!" Werther quickly walked down the steps, squatted down and looked at the money, his words were full of excitement, "Colin, you know your mistakes and you corrected them quickly. Send the money and food today."
When I came here, I told you that you must have enough money, and I guessed it right."
"Your Highness, these are part of the taxes collected and should be given to Your Highness for use. However, I only have so much tax money saved there, and I have already given them all to Your Highness."
"How many gold coins are there, one hundred?" Werther asked.
"There are one hundred and twenty in it, one hundred of which are used by His Highness to run Daybreak Town, and the other twenty are used by His Highness as living expenses. I only found out last night that His Highness's living expenses in the castle are almost insufficient.
After using it, these twenty gold coins and this food should be able to help His Highness survive the winter safely." Colin said in a low voice, and the more he spoke, the less confident he became.
Witte thought to himself that based on the doubling of taxes in the past twelve years, the wealth gained by the nobles of Daybreak Town was far more than one hundred and twenty gold coins. Even if Colin's squandered gold coins were added, it should not reach the real tax money.
number.
And Colin is just a small nobleman from Frank City, and his status is completely incomparable with Mrs. Agnes, so he will not get too much money in Daybreak Town. More money will definitely be in Mrs. Agnes.
There.
However, why did Colin suddenly change his mind and want to give me the money? It couldn't be because he had a falling out with Mrs. Alice, and it didn't look like he was repenting from the bottom of his heart. What happened?
Werther reached out his hand, touched Colin's shoulder lightly, and said: "You stand first.
Get up."
"No, Your Highness." Colin's voice was full of sadness and grievance, "I can't get up now. I haven't knelt for eight hours yet."
"Eight hours?" Werther looked at him in shock, "Even if you blame yourself so much that you want to kneel down, why do you set yourself such a long time?"
"Your Highness, it was a dark figure who asked me to bring money and food, and also asked me to kneel in front of the castle for eight hours."
"What shadow? Please explain clearly."
Werther pulled Colin's arm in confusion, unintentionally exposing his face. Only then did Werther see that Colin had a bruised nose and a swollen face.
"What happened to you?" Werther was shocked.
"Your Highness, it's a long story. Last night, there was a loud noise outside my house. I took two servants out to see what was going on. Who knew that as soon as I walked out of the door, a black figure punched me in the nose.
I was blinded and unable to fight back, so the black shadow beat me even more recklessly, only hitting me on the face.
After the black shadow beat me, he left a note and flew away. The note stated the remaining tax amount of my family, and asked me to hand over these taxes to you. Let me kneel for another eight hours. If I don't
If you do as asked, the shadow will come to beat me tonight."
After hearing this, Werther was extremely surprised. There are such chivalrous and righteous knights in this world! Not only did he specialize in fighting such evil-hearted nobles, he also asked them to send money to my castle!
However, the black shadow... feels so familiar. By the way! When I was fighting with Wright on the farm that day, a black shadow helped me. Could it be that these two black shadows are the same person?
Werther was very curious about this mysterious man.
"Do you still have the note Sombra gave you?"
"Yes, Your Highness." Colin took out the crumpled paper from his pocket and handed it to Werther, "Please take a look."
Werther took the note and was speechless for a moment after opening it. Well, the handwriting is crooked, not even as good as a child learning to write. No matter how ugly the handwriting is, it cannot be written like this. It seems like it was written like this deliberately to prevent others from discovering his identity.
. What kind of person is this person? It’s really interesting that he goes to such great lengths to conceal himself.
I saw the note saying:
Colin, I have checked the situation of your family. You have a lot of hidden taxes. There are actually two large bags of food and one hundred and twenty gold coins. You must hand these things over to the lord in person tomorrow morning.
And consciously kneel in front of the castle for eight hours, no matter the wind, rain or scorching sun, and you are not allowed to get up before the time! If you can't do it, just wait until tomorrow night to be beaten again!
"Although the words are difficult to recognize, the sentences can be understood," Witte said. "This black shadow is really powerful."
"Your Highness," Colin begged, "You must help me find out the origin of this dark shadow and avenge me."
Werther thought to himself, it's too late for me to thank the black shadow. How can I avenge you? You should be punished. Besides, you obviously don't really repent. Since you have defected to other forces before, there is no need for me to be with you again.
.When the time comes, I will definitely hand over the job of financial officer to someone I can trust.
"Ahem, then I'll go back. Colin, please pay attention to your own safety. I'm grateful to you for sending the taxes."
"Your Highness, you must help me take revenge!" Colin reminded again.
Although Colin's expression looked pitiful, his eyes as he glanced at Werther were filled with hatred.
Werther captured this detail easily, and of course it was expected that Colin hated him. Although this black shadow was not sent by Werther
He went there, but he clearly sided with Werther and even beat up Colin. It would be strange if Colin didn't hate Werther.
"We'll talk about this later. Wile, Ivan, you move the grain to the warehouse, and I'll put the gold coins into the vault."
Werther happily picked up the money bag and smiled at Colin: "When you have knelt for enough time, you can go back by yourself. There is no need to report to me."
"Yes, Your Highness."
After being settled properly, Werther was in a good mood.
"Once I know who that mysterious black shadow is, I will definitely thank him and accept him as my subordinate. However, what I am curious about is, is he a boy or a girl?"
"Your Highness, it must be a man who can do this kind of thing." Wile said, "It's not convenient for women to wear skirts."
"That's not necessarily the case. Women can also wear convenient clothes and move around."
"That makes sense."
"Thanks to the help of this dark shadow, I was able to solve the trouble in front of me."
"His Highness can finally relax a little bit from now on."
"It won't be too easy." Witte looked at Wile and said patiently, "Now the people of Daybreak Town are living in poverty, and the farm will have to wait until next year to resume large harvests. It is impossible for me to collect taxes from the people at this time.
.Before the tax is levied next year, twenty gold coins and two bags of food will probably not be enough to cover the expenses of the castle. Maybe we will have to be self-sufficient."
"Self-sufficient?" Wile's eyes widened in shock, and his mouth couldn't help but open wide.
"We can farm our own fields and weave our own clothes." Werther said enthusiastically.
"Your Highness, your ideas are as bold as ever!" Wile exclaimed, "I have only heard of some lords living a more comfortable life than those in the palace, but I have never heard of a lord leading his men to farm and weave.
Cloth."
"Well, who doesn't want to live a life of fine clothes and fine food?" Witte sighed, "But my current situation is like this. Perhaps only in this way can we revitalize Dawn Town and have a chance to defeat Duke Dark's power. But I am just mentioning it.
I had an idea, if there was a better way, I wouldn’t have to do this.”
"Your Highness said that, I seem to understand it a little bit."
"By the way, Wile, how much are your wages? If these twenty gold coins are not enough for your wages, I will pay out of the one hundred gold coins first."
"Your Highness, you still need to use the one hundred gold coins to run the town."
"We can do business first, just take out the money we need, and then figure out how to make the money we need later."
"Well, the servants' wages are twenty-five silver coins per month, and the housekeeper and doctor's wages are one gold coin per month. York's wages are paid by Margery. Calculating, you have to pay us four dollars per month.
Gold coins, you need to pay us four months' wages before next year, which means His Highness will give us sixteen gold coins."
"Okay, okay. Then how much is the monthly expense of our castle?"
"Our castle is probably the simplest castle. In addition, coffee, black tea and other items are distributed by the court, so the average daily expenses are not much, only ten silver coins."
"Well, then it costs three hundred silver coins, which is six gold coins, every month. Including your wages, it will cost more than thirty gold coins in the next winter. It's not a lot, and I can still do it.
bussiness plan."
"Your Highness, that's great." Wile excitedly took out his handkerchief and shed tears of emotion.
Werther couldn't help but sigh in his heart, Wile is really a young man who is easily impressed.