Chapter 31: Caravan

Following the envoy group came a huge caravan, they were behind the previous team a few days, swaggering around, the most hateful thing was that they didn't know how to pay taxes according to the law. This time Bran is going to give these people a class to pay taxes according to the law.
Disorder and chaos is the impression that Northland gives to most people, and Bran wants to make some changes. Bran borrowed all his sister and brother's attendants, and borrowed a bunch of people from the castle. Most of them were the sons of the knight and the nephew of the knight. After the coming-of-age ceremony, he went in and out of the castle every day. After that, except for the daily martial arts, he is basically in a state of doing nothing. As the reserve force of the Northland's high-end armed forces, things on the table are basically irrelevant to them.
What Bran did was to delineate a clear area, charge some management fees according to the boundaries, and let the idle young men and women in these castles do something. With such a backward transportation environment, Bran does not expect much benefit. Commercial Rijindoujin is based on sufficient population resources and convenient transportation. It is difficult to accumulate funds quickly with limited capacity like this primitive cow-pull horse. Most of the merchants who enter here are bartering things. These broken-hearted merchants trade cheap fabrics for fine furs, and they are also picky. Bran must set the rules for them, and the goods will die when the goods arrive.
The Duke will not deal with these merchants. In fact, most people in the North will not deal with these merchants. This also makes every caravan that enters the North with the mission not open for 3 years, but 10 years after opening. . The caravans that can enter the Northland with the mission have some noble backgrounds, so it is inevitable that there will be some arrogance, especially in the body of some caravan guards.
This group of guys traveled all the way, the laziness in the north, there was no tariff or city tax at all, so this group of caravans ran in with ease, but the good days ended here. Today, the caravan encountered the checkpoint set by Bran. There was a big flag on the side of the road, with a few simple characters on it, "Taxation by card". Under a table and a chair, Dany and three other attendants were separated around him. Twenty young men and women from the Northland stood behind him with arms folded. Oh, and his cat is lying on the table, seemingly enjoying the sun now.
Habits are always very powerful and difficult to contain. Even if they are reasonable or consistent with local practices, they still attract huge dissatisfaction and resistance.
A steward in the caravan walked up to Bran and agreed, and then said: "The Northland has never collected taxes. I don't know how to collect this tax?" Bran looked up at this man who had been subjected to the past. The polished and sleek middle-aged man, even in the face of a child, still maintains sufficient caution.
"10 closes 1." Dany replied instead of Bran.
The steward bowed and carefully returned: "I'll go back and prepare."
Soon after the steward retired, the crowd gradually became confused, and then, under the arrangement of the caring person, some caravan guards gradually gathered in front, and people began to shout.
Someone yelled: "This is not fair, we have never been taxed."
Someone shouted: "Big deal, let's go back!"
No matter how the other side clamored, Bran was silent on this side. Bran pulled Dani’s hand, and when she saw Dani leaning over, he asked softly: "How many can we fight?" After all, facing the huge joint caravan, more than 20 northerners seemed too much. not enough.
Dany smiled. It was the kind of smile that was peculiar to Northlanders, full of disdain and contempt for life and death. She didn't bother to answer Bran's question and straightened up.
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It may be the silence on Bran’s side, or it may be Bran’s cowardly act of pulling Dani’s hand just now, giving the other party a wrong signal. With a loud shout: "Come on!" A brawny man with a naked torso and scars rushed towards Bran with a shield in his hand, followed by several figures behind him.
Dany stepped out, swinging a single knife on her waist, with a slight whistling sound. The brawny man who was rushing had good skills and used a shield to block the light of the knife in time, but the expected impact did not appear, like a phantom. , The knife light flashed by. Danni kept walking, the sword beamed across several people, and appeared behind them. Then, Dany drew another single knife, and walked towards the caravan with double knives.
After a breath, the silhouettes that were rushing towards Bran gradually separated, and the screams of immortality also spread to everyone's ears.
Facing the tall Northland woman who had already arrived in front of her, everyone in the caravan took a breath of air and retreated. The scene began to be chaotic, and everyone desperately wanted to stay away from the evil star.
On Bran’s side, the one holding his arms is still holding his arms, and the one protecting Bran’s side is still standing still watching the excitement.
The crowds of onlookers made it very difficult and impossible to stand in front and want to retreat. Several caravan guards in the front felt the danger. Their years of licking blood made them instinctively raise their swords. However, this brave behavior did not win a chance to breathe or survive for themselves and their partners. Instead it became a reminder...
Finally some cowardly and cowardly abandoned their weapons and crawled on the ground. Someone finally thought of the legend about the Northland. After the battle began, the Northlanders would kill everyone who dared to take up a weapon, and everyone who dared to stand. The person in front of you. Over the years, they have been following the mission too smoothly, forgetting the lessons of their predecessors and the warnings of their predecessors. Now that the killing was approaching, everyone finally remembered, so more and more people were lying on the ground, until no one stood up in sight.
These years they have been rampant everywhere, seeming to forget why they had to follow the mission to enter the North. Time can smooth everything out and make everything a habit. As a result, it became a routine habit to enter the Northland with the mission every three years, but completely forgot the original intention.
Seeing no one standing in front of him, Dany put away the knife, and paced back calmly like a lioness patrolling the territory.
Looking at Dani who was not far away, and then looking back at a group of men and women who were holding arms and watching the excitement, Bran felt that there were a lot of people today. And another thought also arises in the heart. Is this the power gained from the coming-of-age ceremony?
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The people in the caravan were still lying on the ground, and Bran decided to let them lie down for a while, to remember.
At this time, Bran was looking at the corpse with a group of men and women from the north. It was not that Bran was abnormal, but out of curiosity about the structure of the human body in this world. As a result, Bran finally supplemented his human knowledge of the world today.
Under the guidance of many young anatomy masters in Northland, Bran personally participated in the anatomy and study of several human bodies. Under the guidance of the instructors, I have a more comprehensive understanding of the structure of the human body and the fragility of life. At the same time, the mentors fully affirmed that Bran is worthy of being the baby of the Northland, and will surely become the man of the Northland.
And everyone in the caravan was lying on the ground at this time, very quiet, the huge crowd seemed to be a mass grave at this time, only the noise of mules and horses occasionally heard.