"One-third of the officers in the volunteer army are indeed very close to the local forces. Odoka reported.

"There are also a lot of people in the new government in South Carolina who are disobedient to the sun, but Your Highness, your method has been proved to be correct, and the low-ranking civil servants promoted by Ralph are still very loyal to the royal family. ”

François pressed two fists against his temples and writhed and massaged.

"Can you assess how much influence Robert has on the new government and the volunteers?"

Seeing that Odoka was a little dazed, François added: "So, if Robert wants to switch to Stuart, will he succeed?"

Odoka thought for a moment, shook his head with difficulty, and said, "Maybe, maybe...... Ralph couldn't stop it. ”

"So, I know, let's continue to send the supplies I prepared before. ”

Odoka was a little puzzled and hurriedly asked, "Ahh......h What if Robert surrenders to Stuart?"

François leaned back in his chair and said, "He won't be for the time being, and the surrender of Stuart is just an excuse to threaten us." But if we ignore it, Ralph's job will become even harder. I hope that in a year or two, Ralph will be able to take full control of South Carolina and let Robert earn it once this time. ”

François waved his hand and asked the master to leave, allowing himself to be quiet.

Master Odoka has always been in charge of intelligence work, and he doesn't know much about the economy, and he decided to block the support for the South Carolina region, in addition to seizing power with local forces, there is another important reason, that is, the royal family is really "poor"!

But François had to think about "money", he had already taken over the finances of the empire, and now he was full of people who reached out to him to ask for money.

However, the financial situation of the royal family has always been poor, and this has been the consensus for hundreds of years.

The royal family ruled the Northern Regions, but it had always had much less revenue than Castile and Stuart.

The main reason for this is that the northern regions are vast and sparsely populated, and there are long winters every year, and the economy has always been much more backward than that of Castile and Stuart in the south.

For nearly 100 years, not only the royal family, but even the traditionally wealthy Castile has fallen into the economic competition with Stuart.

Stuart's industrial products have long been sold all over the world, hitting the local industry with lower prices. To compete with Stuart's industrial products, local factory owners had to lower workers' wages, reduce the quality of their products, or find ways to evade taxes.

The most common practice in the Northern Regions was to rely on factories under the protection of the royal family, and the royal industry was tax-free, and some royal families made money but lost the treasury.

Therefore, the main sources of royal income were the printing of money from the grain trade with the Kingdom of Light, the commercial tax in the Gyeonggi region, the various taxes collected in the New World, and the annual "tribute" of the major principalities.

The "tribute" has never been confiscated, and the five-year Imperial Metropolitan League is the routine collection of tribute by the royal family. After the alliance, the three principalities can pay more than half, and the alliance is considered a success.

Last year, the grain trade stopped, and it stands to reason that the royal family would not be able to print new riffel notes. The three principalities all have their eyes on the royal family, and once the royal family prints money in violation of regulations, they will take the opportunity to make trouble, at least by not paying tribute, and at worst by banning the circulation of the livre in their own countries.

Therefore, the cessation of the grain trade had a great impact on the royal family, and now that the two countries are at war again, it seems that it is becoming more and more difficult to restore the grain trade in the past.

Although he is short of money now, François has given up on restarting the grain trade with the Kingdom of Light!

Because Jacques told him in his letter that the source stone resources of the Kingdom of Light had been depleted, he really believed it.

Forget it, François believed Jacques. Qianqian

As for the business tax in the Gyeonggi area, there is no way to increase it quickly, and it is too difficult to increase the tax in Gyeonggi.

He also forcibly collected some taxes on royal properties in the Northern Regions, but he was always tied up and often hit nails.

Therefore, if the royal family wants to increase its income, it must start with the taxes of the New World.

In recent years, François has been able to establish a large number of factories in the North, research and develop new technologies, and produce new weapons, and its source of funds is not only the old background of the royal family, but also from the New World tax increases.

What François didn't know was that a large part of the independence of the Silver Dragon Divine Kingdom was due to excessive taxation, which intensified the internal contradictions of the Sioux people, otherwise the lake god Terenas would not have appeared.

To be honest, according to the vast land and abundant products of the New World, the impact of the appropriate tax increase is actually not large, and the amount of tax increase in the New World in recent years is really not high, but it has increased by less than half a percent.

However, there are always several economic laws in human society that cannot be avoided.

One is that bureaucrats will always take every opportunity to their advantage.

The other is that any tax burden will always fall on those who really deserve it, and to the extent that it can be afforded.

The tax increase on the New World has given many people the opportunity to enrich their own pockets, and the tax increase in the New World has been increased by 10% on the surface, but the actual tax burden in the New World is 40% higher than that in the Gyeonggi region.

Moreover, the increase in land and commercial taxes did not fall on the big landlords and big factory owners, but on the end consumers, as well as on the small craftsmen and farmers.

Large landowners seized the opportunity to swallow up the land of many small farmers who went bankrupt because they could not afford taxes, and factories gained more cheap labor.

François's greatest impact on the New World was the discovery that the New World was alienating from the royal family.

The upper echelons of the New World tried in vain to free themselves from the influence of the royal family, and the three principalities were their targets. Even Mayor Hoffa, who is a side branch of the royal family, is unreliable, knowing that Stuart's fleet is going to ambush the envoy, he still sits idly by, thinking that he is taking advantage of the royal family and Stuart's bad relations to fish in troubled waters.

The lower strata of the New World were overburdened, lacking opportunities, and losing hope.

You must know that the New World has always been known as the land of hope in the past, where a commoner can become rich and invincible, where an ordinary aristocratic side branch can get a territory to establish a family, and ordinary people with mediocre qualifications can obtain heavenly treasures and break through to become extraordinary, that is a land that can be harvested as long as you explore bravely.

But the city of York, which François saw this time, seemed to become, like many cities in the North, full of poor people staggering in dust, with no hope in their eyes, only poverty and anger.

But without raising taxes, it will not be able to fill the funding gap needed for the arms race with Stuart.

Now he had to fill the gap created by the cessation of the grain trade, which was a headache for François, who had already begun to manage the finances of the Empire.

Now he has to support the South Carolina region that has taken refuge, and he can't "suck blood" from there until South Carolina is stabilized, which makes François feel more and more pressure.

It has to be open source!

Françoine said to himself.

Leaning back in his chair, his thoughts drifted to Tavaré.

Can that person help me?