Black Iron Crown

There was a sudden tremor in his heart, and the executioner immediately relaxed his movements a lot. Although the sound was still very loud, the pain that Viplin suffered was not as great as before.

Feeling all this, Viplin endured the pain and turned back to give him a thankful expression, which relieved his hanging heart. With his thanks, his life was finally saved.

Soon, the execution was over, and Viplin stood up with the support of his two attendants, and the executioner also showed the whip with traces of blood in his hand to everyone, showing that he did not bend the law for personal gain.

Of course, this is just a routine, of course he is bending the law for personal gain, but even so, so what? Will those residents still ask him to blame?

This executioner is not a smart person, but he is definitely not a fool. He knows who he is serving, so he doesn't care about other people's opinions, and only cares about the baron's thoughts.

Reiner stood up from the chair, slowly walked down from the small high platform, looked at Viplin who had been slapped fifty times and said, "Don't be resentful, because it's your own fault, and you should be grateful, because I will keep it." Your duty! Remember, I don't want this to happen to you a second time, and neither do other tax collectors! No one is allowed to overtax! Whoever dares to do that, I will deal with him just like today !"

"Yes, my lord..." Viprin twitched slightly, but still managed to raise his head to Reiner and replied in a low voice: "Please rest assured, I have already begun to repent! Such things make me feel ashamed , such a thing will never happen again in the future! I swear!"

After saying these words, all the jurors who were close at hand immediately turned their attention to Reiner to see how he would reply.

Feeling these scorching gazes, Reiner sighed in his heart, gently put his hands on his shoulders, and deliberately raised his voice and said: "I believe in you, but don't do such things again in the future! I relatives should set an example for others!"

This is already the limit of what Leiner can do. He deliberately stated his purpose, and everyone in the jury understood that he did this today purely to make a show for others, so that they would not dare to embezzle. It also whitewashed his reputation for being harsh on his relatives.

Seeing Reiner's gentle reassurance to Viplin, the members of the Moreland on the jury seat immediately felt at ease. This kind of thing like shallow bullshit has existed since ancient times, and Reiner knew that if he really executed him or showed impatience or disgust, then this group of people would definitely understand it as something else.

Today's trial, except for Reiner, is almost everyone's satisfaction,

The residents felt that this group of tax collectors who were usually aloof and superior had finally been punished by the baron, and they were very excited.

The members of the Moreland family were satisfied because the baron's attitude was very good and the board was raised high but fell gently.

After appeasing these people, Reiner left here surrounded by a group of followers, and Logan also followed behind him step by step.

He keenly felt that the baron was in a very bad mood today.

Indeed, Reiner is in a very bad mood now, although he can't see any clues from his face, but his heart is extremely depressed.

But just like that, he couldn't find the source of venting at all, because everything today was completely a farce directed and acted by himself.

Not only did he fail to achieve his goal of killing chickens and monkeys, but he also acted so weak in front of these people. Although his prestige had skyrocketed due to several victories, he was extremely humiliated by his performance today.

Those members of the Moreland family and the knights didn't do anything at all, so they had to gently lower the raised board, and they made such a mobilization.

After dismissing the followers, Reiner returned to his bedroom. Two fragrant and soft little maids helped him take off the gorgeous and complicated robe with green fingers, and changed into a bright yellow heroic uniform.

Seeing that their master's expression was not very good-looking, the two of them didn't do much to do anything. After helping Reiner change his clothes, they immediately left in soft voices.

Walking into the study, Reiner rubbed his temples with his fingers, his eyes were tightly closed, and his brows were already squeezed into a Sichuan character.

He deeply felt the constraints. The two factions of knights and relatives were undoubtedly loyal to him. There was no need to have too much doubt about this, but it still made him feel restricted.

Yes, the interests and enemies of these two factions are highly unified to a certain extent. Their class enemies are yeoman farmers, or the class called residents or serfs in the northern border.

Reiner deeply felt the inconvenience of this situation, and he had no way to engage in any faction balance drama, because these two factions can almost be said to be one faction, at least when it comes to the residents, they Stand together most of the time.

"The residents can't make a sound at all!" Reiner slammed his fist on the table, ignoring the pain in his hands, and roared in a low voice.

Withdrawing his fists, closing his eyes, and panting heavily, he murmured, "The self-cultivating farmers must have their own spokespersons..."

At this moment, the door of the study room was knocked politely, and Logan said cautiously outside the door: "Master Baron, I have already pried open the mouths of the two captured robbers! They said everything Are you going to meet them? Or should I just hand over the file to you?"

Reiner immediately calmed down, tidied up his slightly messy clothes, sat at the desk with his fingers crossed, and said loudly, "Come in and talk first!"

Logan pushed open the door with a creak, and walked into Reiner's study.

As soon as he entered, he lowered his head and handed the roll of parchment in his hand to Reiner's desk, and then said with a low eyebrow, "My lord, the two captives have already spoken under our questioning, They didn't resist much, we just beat them a few times, and they all confessed without even using torture tools!"

After Logan finished speaking, he hesitated for a moment, as if he was hesitating whether he should continue to report here. As a sensitive person, he didn't want to show up when the master was in a bad mood.

After hearing this, Reiner nodded, suppressing all his anger and unhappiness in his heart, without revealing the slightest bit, opened the parchment and slowly looked at the contents on it.

In the end, Logan did not choose to leave as expected, but introduced and reported to Reiner while reading the dossier.