"It is true that the welfare of our people has taken up thirty percent of the Empire's expenditures, and now that the Empire has passed its most difficult times, and the people have money in their hands, it is no longer appropriate to continue to provide so many free things. ”

Alice nodded pretendedly.

"I don't think there's anyone to object to. ”

"Well, will the people down there ...... Well, when we give, we will be grateful, and it will be a habit for a long time, and when we give like this, the people will resent us, right?"

This is a question from the head of the civil affairs department, who has the closest contact with the people of all the departments, through which births, deaths and marriages are registered.

"Isn't this a place where we can tell which ones are truly loyal to the Empire and which ones are only joined for the sake of profit? Those who join the Empire for the sake of profit will be a destabilizing factor in the Empire, because when our enemies give them more benefits, they will not hesitate to choose to betray. ”

Alice said lightly, the Baltic Empire has never been a so-called democracy and free country, in this empire, what is advocated is the interests of the empire, what is advocated is the idea of the collective, and in front of the empire, the individual will seem extremely insignificant.

This empire has just laws, when the people violate the law, there is never a statement that can be opened, and there is never an example of the law not being held accountable, the honor and majesty of the empire, and the justice of the law cannot be tarnished in the slightest.

"Your propaganda department needs to do a good job of propaganda in this regard, and I hope that you can make our people understand the difficulties of the empire, and be able to truly see the interests of the empire as your own, and eliminate the signs of individualism as much as possible. ”

"Also, you goblins pay attention to the influence on me, don't make a loud noise about things that shouldn't be said, don't do things that shouldn't be done, and give me obedient immobility if the empire doesn't allow you to touch the cake. ”

Alice turned her head and instructed the representatives of the propaganda department and the goblins to participate in the meeting, no matter what it is, it needs the cooperation of various departments to complete it well, and if it is only done by a single department, there will always be something that will be overlooked.

As for why the goblins were specifically admonished, it was because with the disintegration of the Northland group, some of the goblins who had surrendered in rotation officially joined the Baltic Empire as individuals.

After rejoicing in surviving, the fear gradually dissipated, and the greed engraved in the soul of the goblins forced the goblins to start doing everything they could to collect the wealth into their hands.

Since the Goblins joined the Empire, more than ten Goblin Merchants have been imprisoned for making fakes, fraudulent contracts, etc., and they are waiting for at least a year in prison.

In addition to this, the goblins brought with them a resurgence of hedonism and individualism, which was innocuous to the Empire, but it still had a small impact on law and order, such as a marked increase in crimes such as theft and robbery, and the prison cells were filled with all kinds of prisoners, and even the judges of the courts were suffering from it, and they had to work overtime every day.

"Yes, yes, don't worry, I'll go back and tell them. ”

The goblin took out a tissue made of papyrus from his arms, wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, and said cautiously.

Alice didn't want the goblins' representatives to attend such a meeting if she could, but as a member of the empire, as the master of the empire, she couldn't break the rules and systems she had set up according to her own preferences.

In addition to the representatives of the goblins, there were also representatives of various races such as jackals, centaurs, rhinoceros people, harpies, humans, krakens, and merfolks, who sat quietly in various parts of the conference hall, bowing their heads and whispering from time to time.

"Okay, let's move on to the next topic, open the booklet in your hand, and open the third section, which is still five minutes. ”

Five minutes passed quickly, and everyone present raised their heads with strange faces.

The third part is mainly about taxation, the main source of tax revenue in the Baltic Empire was to tax according to the circulation of goods, because of the geography of the Baltic Empire, countless goods and goods were circulating every day, which brought unimaginable tax revenues to the empire, accounting for almost half of all the empire's income.

However, Alice is not satisfied with this, because in her concept, in addition to increasing the income of the empire, taxes are also used to balance the various classes of the empire and alleviate the contradictions of various classes, or it can also be said to optimize the allocation of resources and redistribute resources.

This time, there is no other change in the type of tax reform proposed by Alice, and it is still mainly taxed on commercial activities, in addition to this, inheritance tax, real estate tax, vehicle and vessel tax and other taxes have been added, but this is only a small change.

Really, to the surprise of everyone present, Alice proposed the concept of a tiered tax rate, that is, the larger the trade, the more taxes will be levied, just as a million transactions will be subject to 30 percent of the commercial tax, and 100,000 transactions will only increase by 10 percent.

This is to the detriment of the big merchants and the big factory owners, on the contrary, it is good news for the small merchants and small factories to further reduce the price of their costs and give their goods a price advantage in the transaction.

If they could, many of the people present were dissatisfied with this policy, especially the goblins, who had come from the Northland Syndicate to join the Baltic Empire, were basically big factory owners and big merchants, with untold wealth, and if they were to pay such a tax, they would lose a lot of profits every year.

However, the goblin representative immediately raised his hand to show his support for the decision, and there was no objection.

The person who can appear here as a representative of the goblins, maybe he is not the richest goblin, maybe he is not the smartest goblin, but he is definitely the goblin closest to the Baltic Empire, and for his own interests, he can not hesitate to give up the interests of the entire goblin race in the Baltic Empire.

Seeing the goblin's statement, the others couldn't help but swallow the words of dissent, and in this way, Alice's tax reform won the support of all departments and representatives of all races, and passed unanimously.

The so-called fiscal is just two methods: open source and throttling, the choice of open source is to turn exports to domestic sales, as well as reform tax rates, raise taxes, and throttling is to reduce welfare expenditures, so that people can spend money to buy goods to buy the services they need.

After talking about the income aspect, the topic shifted to the expenditure aspect, in Alice's concept, money is only real money when it is flowing, if it is only placed in the treasury, then it is just a collection, it will not increase in value, and it will bring harm to the whole empire.

If the people of the whole empire are not willing to spend money, and they want to be frugal, then no one will buy what the factories produce, and they will not be able to sell the goods, and they will not be able to make a profit, the factories will go out of business, a large number of workers will lose their jobs, and a large number of raw materials will be backlogged in the hands of the suppliers of raw materials.

At that time, there will be a series of social problems in the entire empire, impacting the order of the empire and all aspects, if at that time, it is not a simple matter that can be solved in a few words, and with the implementation of the solution, a large number of people will definitely be sacrificed.

Just like getting sick, if you don't treat it in time in the early stage and don't take preventive measures before the disease appears, when the disease enters the middle and late stages, you need to risk death to undergo surgery, and the success rate of this surgery is also problematic.

Look at Part IV below. ”

"Schools were established in the districts of Jutland, Schleswig, Les and Zealand, divided into primary, secondary and university sections, in which not only the basics were taught, but also the knowledge of warriors, assassins and spellcasters. ”

"Universities are only established in Schleswig, Jutland and Lys, and don't worry, they are also built in the Baltics. ”

Looking at the representatives of the sea tribe such as merfolk, mermaids and krakens who seemed to be restless when they heard the news, Alice added.

"These schools are all wholly funded by the Empire, and the personnel are arranged by the Empire, and the primary school is open to all children of the right age, provided that the child and his family are loyal to the Empire, of course. ”

"There needs to be an assessment from primary school to middle school, and only qualified people can enter secondary school for further study, and the same is true from secondary school to university, but the assessment will become more stringent, and maybe only one person in a hundred people can pass that assessment. ”

Education has always been something in the hands of the ruling class, and the existence of an imperial strategic weapon like the spellcaster, which can be called an imperial strategic weapon, has always been a role that only the ruling class can call, because as a ruler, such a force is needed to maintain their rule, to maintain their interests.

However, now that the empire has wrested the right of education from the hands of various vested interests, and allowed the common people who once despised it to obtain such an opportunity, it is conceivable that if such a policy can be implemented, then the interests of the current vested interests will be affected.

This is something that all people don't want to see, but this kind of thing, they clearly understand that they have no way to prevent such a thing from happening, everything is operated by the empire, and now it is brought up at this time, just to inform them, and then nominally listen to their opinions, in fact, no matter how many reasons they have, this policy will be implemented, and forcefully crush all the self-indulgence in the way of this policy, trying to be a car man.

"Your Highness, are you all the inhabitants?"

The representative of the fish-man stood up excitedly and asked.

If anyone supports this policy, it must be the most populous fish-men, and the current fish-people are the new generation, because their old ruling class has been wiped out in the last war, so there is a fault line in the inheritance of their knowledge and power.

The implementation of this policy of establishing schools to develop education and disseminate knowledge will definitely allow the fish-people to gain knowledge, even if it is only one spell caster among a thousand fish-men, a truly powerful warrior, which is a very terrifying number in the terrible population of the fish-people.

It is foreseeable that the Fishmen will swell dramatically in the coming period, and gain more say in the Empire, and then use these voices to fight for more benefits for their clan from the Empire.

"Yes, the primary school is for all the residents of the empire, but because it is a primary school that has just begun to be established, a simple screening is still necessary, and the education of our empire still has a big gap in terms of teachers, and there are not so many teachers to teach so many students. ”

Looking at the fish-man representative, Alice also remembered the desperate population of the fish-people, of course she understood the fish-people's dissatisfaction with the status quo, and looked forward to getting an opportunity to change their current situation, so that their clan could return to their heyday, at least back to the time when they were in the same position as the Kraken and the merfolk.

However, Alice is not optimistic about this, because the strong fecundity of the fish-people allows the fish-people to successfully survive and develop in this cruel world, but the strong fecundity is also limiting the growth of the fish-people, because almost ninety-nine percent of the fish-people's intelligence is extremely low, only a little better than the uncivilized beasts.

Part of the knowledge in primary school teaches some simple knowledge and teaches them to read, and the wisdom of most fishmen can only reach this level, and it is impossible to pass the assessment of further middle school, so in terms of students, Alice does not limit the fishmen.

Similar to the fish-people, there are also jackals, and their race actually has such a problem, after all, in the history of the gnolls in the Northland for so many years, among so many gnolls in the Northland, there is only one Hogg, and there can be no plural, wise gnolls like Hogg.

This may be a curse from the gods, or it may be a rule from the world, races with poor fertility are extremely strong in individual strength, and races with strong fertility and large populations will be limited in individual strength, and no matter which direction they develop, it will become extremely difficult.