This will be good, though it was a bit dragged out this chapter. I suppose he will somehow steal their ore to pay the tax and then they will be the ones with nothing. Or if he could somehow invent evidence that his people were attacked and killed and the ore stolen, only to then find it in the other peoples warehouse... or perhaps he will switch out the ore so the ore they brought will all be of poor quality, with them framed they would lose their mining rights? or some mix of all of this...