Chapter 359: As the old saying goes, fortune and misfortune go hand in hand

"That's right! Your Majesty the Great Sword Master is right. Revenge and taxation are indeed two different things. The current chaos should stop."

"It is true that the orcs must be captured, but they must not disrupt social order. I firmly support Mr. Ethan's opinion."

"I support it too!"

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After knowing that it might affect their tax refund, most lawmakers immediately changed their attitude. After all, no one will have trouble with their own money.

However, they are still worried that they will not be able to refund taxes normally.

After all, they also know that the parliament has no money now, and they have strong doubts about whether the parliament can collect taxes normally.

Regarding this, Ethan is not worried and is very confident.

Of course, this is not because he has any unique tricks, but...

How to say it?

Recently, many people have inexplicably started to take the initiative to file tax returns to the council.

At first, Ethan was confused as to why the world suddenly changed its nature. After finding out the reason, he felt a little bit dumbfounded.

It turns out that the parliament was unable to collect taxes before. In addition to its own reasons, the main reason was that those businessmen and other nobles concealed and evaded taxes.

It's useless to have a good chat with them and ask them to take the initiative to file and pay taxes.

In addition, the parliamentary system and personnel are imperfect and it is impossible to find out their true property status, so nothing can be done to them.

But this time the whole city was searching for orcs. Although the allies were messing around, their main targets were businessmen and nobles who did not sit in the parliament.

Because in the name of righteousness, those people can only be slaughtered by others.

In just a few days, several businessmen and nobles had already been ruined by them.

Seeing this situation, those people thought that the Parliament was preparing to kill people with a borrowed knife, just to deal with those who did not pay taxes.

Therefore, everyone is vying to take the initiative to file tax returns truthfully, fearing that the butcher's knife will fall on them.

In just five days, the tax collected by the parliament was much more than the total collected in the previous months.

And once you file your taxes truthfully, your subsequent income will become stable.

In other words, the future tax revenue of the Parliament has been greatly guaranteed.

This is also the main reason why Sofia knew that Maro City was in chaos, but pretended not to see it. Recently, because of the tax, Sofia got rid of her worries and smiled even in her dreams.

Ethan also found this funny.

It's useless to tell them nicely, unless they are forced to go under the knife.

It's money that should be paid in the first place, so why do you have to be cheap?

And this incident further confirms the theory that blessings and misfortunes are interdependent.

Of course, if something is not handled properly, blessings can also turn into disasters.

Now that the harvest has been achieved, this matter should stop.

After receiving support from most people, the matter was finally resolved.

However, the Pillman and Casillas families did not accept it.

For this reason, Ethan chatted with the heads of the two families alone.

After assuring the two of them that the murderer behind the scenes would be found out, and that the parliament would come forward to provide certain compensation to the two families, the two families finally reluctantly agreed to end the arrest of the orcs.

As a result of the unified front, the Parliament issued a statement that day, suspending the search for orcs in order to restore order in Maro City.

This came as a relief to many.

The same was true for Ethan, who finally calmed down the storm smoothly.

As soon as he calmed down the turmoil, news came from Mrs. Champs, asking to talk to Ethan alone.

Ethan agreed.

The location is at Bertner Manor.

That night, a dozen people took advantage of the darkness and rode in three carriages. Under the escort of Embiid and others, they quietly arrived at Bertner Manor in Ethan's territory.

Ethan didn’t go to the door to greet them, and he didn’t even prepare tea.

After the dozens of people got off the carriage, they were asked to search their bodies and have their blood taken to confirm their identities.

As a result, they both disagreed, so a fierce conflict broke out between the two parties before they even entered the door.

Ethan didn't care about this, and just sat in the living room, watching his men and the dozen or so people pushing and insulting each other until both sides drew their swords at each other.

When a fight was about to begin, an old man who was the leader of the group stopped both sides.

And agreed to a blood test to identify himself.

After a while, Embiid walked in first with the results to report.

"Master, there are eleven people here, seven of them are orcs.

Especially the old man at the head, who is also a half-orc named Livingston. "

Upon hearing this, Ethan shook his head helplessly: “I don’t need his name, what I need is his identity.

Why does he represent the orcs?

Is he a leader?

Or is he just a small role sent to negotiate?

Please clarify this! "

Embiid looked a little ugly after being scolded by Ethan.

"I'm sorry, Master! He insisted on seeing you before he would say anything."

"Tell him I'm busy!" Ethan shouted angrily: "Either identify yourself or get out.

I don't have time to talk nonsense with the little minions who can't make the decision. "

"yes!"

Embiid responded and immediately ran out the door.

After a while, he came back to report: "The man said that he was the second person in charge of the Illuminati, and the Illuminati is a survival organization composed of wandering orcs.

Their president was unable to come because of illness, but he gave the old man full responsibility, and his words had full effect. "

Ethan and Papalia laughed when they heard this.

"Let them in!"

As soon as these words came out, Ethan's financial officer Wharton on the side was very anxious.

Wharton was the personal financial officer who handled Ethan's repayment last time. At that time, he felt very guilty for not handling the repayment well, so he wanted to perform well.

As a result, when he saw Ethan beating the head of the Iris Society, he thought about how to make up for Ethan.

The sheriff said that someone assassinated the Great Sword Saint and even prepared a fruit knife. It was his idea.

Ethan saw that he was quite smart, so he brought him along for the negotiation this time.

He saw that the other party's boss did not come, but only sent the second one, who was not sincere, so he was not happy at the time, so he said anxiously:

"Lord, he is only the second person in charge, you can't see him."

Ethan smiled when he heard it, and didn't care.

Wharton became more anxious when he saw this. Equal status has always been the basic requirement for negotiations, and this rule must not be broken.

Just when he wanted to persuade him again, Paparia said: "It doesn't matter, the old man is the highest person in charge."

Wharton was a little confused and didn't understand what this meant.

I wanted to ask the reason, but neither Ethan nor Papalia was willing to explain it to him.

Because the real owner was here.

An old man with a square face and white hair and beard walked into the living room hand in hand with Lady Champs-Elysees.

"It's an honor to meet you, Your Excellency the Great Sword Saint."

As they said that, the two bowed to Ethan together.

Obviously, both of them were very polite, but Ethan did not return the greeting, and even sat on the chair without moving.

He narrowed his eyes slightly and looked carefully at the old man not far in front of him.

In fact, it seems a little inaccurate to say that the other party is an old man.

Because in addition to the white hair and beard, the other party's skin did not have the wrinkles that an old man should have, but showed the vitality of a young man.

This is very similar to Lady Champs-Elysees's anti-aging skin.

However, compared to this weird point, Ethan is more concerned about the other party's hand.

The other party's left hand is full of thick calluses, obviously often holding things.

"I'm curious about what job you do among humans." Ethan finally spoke.

The half-orc named Livingston also noticed that Ethan had been staring at his hands.

Seeing the other party asking this question, he knew that the other party must have guessed something.

"I specialize in helping human women get pregnant."

Upon hearing this, Ethan was sure of his thoughts.

Sophia once said that Lady Champs-Elysees was once kidnapped by a group of bandits. I guess this man is the bandit leader!

"So, a bandit?"

"No, no!" Livingston waved his hand: "I am a doctor who specializes in treating infertility.

Sometimes I also help deliver babies.