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Chapter 39 - 39. Baron Harvard [3].

The first hour went by smoothly.

Most households that had been called out were able to pay instantly.

They were households that either had fifty gold coins stored safely at home or could scrape it together by combining everything their family owned.

Harvard watched them come forward one by one as they placed their coins on the collection table and retreated back into the crowd with the expression of a person who had just lost something they couldn't afford to lose but couldn't do anything about it anyway.

Harvard didn't really care about these people.

Yes, he was happy to see them contribute what he needed, but he was more interested in those who wouldn't be able to pay, and he didn't have to wait too long before he finally encountered his first victim.

It was an old farmer who walked with a hunched-over back, and the old man's hands shook slightly as he spread them in a gesture that said he didn't have any gold coins with him.

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