I, the prince in distress, send money

Chapter 322 The Price of Crime

Vladimir was a Bohemian, but not a smuggler; they were bait, followers of the players.

The real Bohemian smugglers were apprehended two days ago by a patrol team of tax bureau players in the mountains about twenty kilometers from Highland.

These smugglers are a group of very capable hunters who rely on their own two legs to traverse mountains and valleys with only a pair of big feet.

Cross the Casro Mountains, the super mountain range that separates the Bohemian Empire and the Kingdom of Miniesia.

Furthermore, they didn't cross the mountain by themselves, but led a large group of pigs across it, which is quite impressive. It clearly demonstrates that they found, or created, a relatively safe mountain path.

This is a group of talented people.

The head of the tax bureau immediately decided to recruit these Bohemians.

The government's guaranteed job is a good thing, and these smugglers know that too, but some of them are not so happy about it, such as the smuggling leader. He may be hostile to Bagnia, or he may believe in the principle of "better to be a big fish in a small pond than a small fish in a big pond".

In short, the smuggling ringleader and his cronies were somewhat resistant.

Then they died.

Don't get me wrong, it wasn't the tax bureau players who did it. They wouldn't bother killing those who don't know what's good for them. Since these foreigners are involved in smuggling, tax evasion, and illegal border crossings, they're already guilty enough to keep them working in the mines for ten or eight years.

Given the long duration, it's unlikely that two out of ten of them will survive their sentences. Furthermore, the smuggling routes they established will inevitably fall into disrepair and become unusable due to lack of maintenance.

The tax bureau had no reason to eliminate the smugglers. The death of the smuggling boss was orchestrated from within the smuggling gang. He didn't want his job, and the others didn't share that sentiment. They voted with knives against this fool who went against their interests.

As a result, Vladimir, the newly recommended smuggling boss, became the captain of a tax inspection team under the tax bureau.

This fishing operation was also proposed by Vladimir.

If it weren't for official support, how could Vladimir and his group of Bohemians have found the no-man's land of the Hegland walls and then scaled the walls with just a rope?

Unfortunately, Tu Daoqianren at the time was only thinking about his own advantage and didn't think too much about it.

If he had any sense at the time, he should have realized that if the defenses of Hegland were so weak, how come it hadn't been breached by the Bohemians in the previous war?

Therefore, Butcher's Blade fell, and fell hard.

Inside the tax bureau, he will not only have to pay all the taxes he owed, but he will also receive a huge fine as punishment.

Tax officials are very proactive in tax audits because of the reward system Chris created for the tax bureau... After catching a tax evader, the tax official can impose a fine of one to ten times the amount of tax evaded.

The specific amount of the fine is determined based on the severity of the offender's crime, and the fine is the legitimate income of the tax officer who issues the ticket and his entourage... They can freely allocate this money after paying a personal tax.

Therefore, being a tax officer is a very lucrative career. In addition to the already high personal salaries in the tax bureau, if you can catch those fools who evade taxes, you can also legally make a fortune.

Therefore, locals consider the tax office a good place to go, and players also feel... money aside, the main thing is that they can play a cat-and-mouse game with other players. People like Tu Dao Qian Ren, who were entrapped by players at the tax office, are not the first, nor will they be the last.

Being issued a hefty fine wasn't the only misfortune Tu Daoqianren encountered. Two days later, after he finally left the tax office, he was stopped at the entrance of the Highland Tax Office.

They are military police from the Ministry of Military Affairs.

Fully armed military police, equipped with flintlock pistols and short swords, and dressed in dark green uniforms, arrested Butcher Thousand Blades with the most brutal methods, escorted him to the military camp, and imprisoned him.

Tu Daoqianren had anticipated his fate, but it wasn't until the next day, when he appeared before a military court, that he learned what his crime was: producing and selling counterfeit and substandard products to the military.

The defense forces paid a high price to buy his premium canned pork from Butcher Thousand Blades, which was made from pork from good pig farms and had no off-putting smell.

To save costs and increase profits, Tu Daoqianren used smuggled wild boar meat to make inferior canned goods, which he disguised as high-quality pork canned goods and sold to the defense army.

As Tu Daoqianren did this, he was prepared to be discovered... He would simply bow and admit his mistake, explaining that an intern in his factory had mishandled the situation, confusing the superior and inferior canned goods.

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The outcome of the operation was uncertain, but he wanted to give it a try because the potential profits were substantial.

However, Tu Daoqianren only thought about the benefits and did not anticipate the punishment for failure.

In a military court, Tu Daoqianren was ordered by the military judge to immediately cease the production and sale of canned meat, his illegal gains were confiscated, he was fined, and his food factory's business license was revoked.

Tu Daoqianren had already lost most of his savings due to tax bureau fines, and now, after he finally left the court and the military camp, he discovered that his pig farm was gone too.

Because Tu Daoqianren failed to deposit his money on time, the "kind-hearted" tax official assumed that Tu Daoqianren had no money left, so he helped him auction off the former's pig farm and used the proceeds to pay the fine.

And coincidentally, the amount raised at the auction was exactly the same as the deposit.

Now things are much better. Butcher's Blade has no worries about fines, no savings, and no pig farm, which is its foundation.

Enraged by the news, he stood at the gate of the military camp, so furious he was practically fuming, and died on the spot... literally died of anger.

This unique way of dying is the first time it has ever happened among players.

This situation dealt a heavy blow to the arrogance of many unscrupulous merchants who were committing crimes, especially those individual players who also provided supplies to the army and were preparing to do some small things to increase their profits. They also began to weigh their options.

It's fine to have fun, but it's not good to become the fun yourself.

However, this matter is destined to be only temporary. Players always like challenges, and they will not give up so easily, especially Tu Dao Qian Ren, who was so angry that his character died and had to be resurrected with another character. He will not let it go so easily.

After his resurrection, he will definitely continue to challenge the tax bureau. He also hates Bagnia's military department with a thousand blades, but he is also straightforward and knows that what he did was wrong and that he deserves to be punished.

The thing that Tu Daoqianren hated most was the tax bureau's entrapment of him and their forced auction of his pig farm. This was the main reason why he became so angry that he died of anger.

(End of this chapter)