This confrontation is almost inevitable; as long as the Eagle Merchant Association expands, this kind of result is bound to happen.
Unless his Eagle Merchant Association does not spread to the West.
However, the West is the most prestigious area in the entire Northern Province.
If it doesn't spread to the West, the Eagle Merchant Association simply cannot develop.
But if it does, then the scene before him is an inevitable result.
Thor just didn't expect these guys to come up with an internal taxation checkpoint method within the Kingdom.
This is indeed very difficult to resolve.
People establish checkpoints to collect taxes within their own territories, which is allowed by the Kingdom's law, unless he can conquer each one, wiping them out or subduing them all, otherwise, it is fundamentally unsolvable.
But if he really does that.
Not to mention whether he can succeed.
Even if he can, doing so would easily provoke public anger.
