Chapter 204 Territorial Finance

"Boom-" "Boom-"

The roar was bursting, as if Thor was roaring in rage, and two huge ice balls in the sky dragged a long frost like meteors, and finally slammed into the walls of Aldington City, shattering, and the extremely frosty air spread, and even the magma in a radius of several meters was frozen into cold stones! However, the freezing effect only lasted less than three minutes, and the frozen part was melted by the magma flowing backwards from the bottom up, and turned into rolling magma again. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

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"Click!" "Click!"

On the ground, the roaring sound of trumpets was long and long, and the sturdy soldiers in heavy armor held large shields that were one meter and three meters long, and slowly advanced forward next to each other like an iron wall, these heavy shields emitted a bright magical light, obviously enchanted, which could weaken the damage caused by magical attacks!

Behind the sturdy lines of these great shieldmen are followed by lightly armoured rangers who carry long quivers filled with feathered arrows and ornate enchanted longbows with magical brilliance on their bodies and strings!

In the rear of the rangers, there are dense soldiers of all colors—humans, orcs, elves, and even a considerable number of abyssal demons mixed in, and their weapons are also different, including swords and shields, two-handed swords, double-sided axes, sledgehammers, broad-bladed machetes, and even demon blades...... Looking down from the sky, this huge number of soldiers slowly advanced towards the mouth of the funnel (stone bridge) like water in a funnel, giving people an incomparable visual impact.

Leitch also led nearly 2,000 heavily armored soldiers mixed in it -- although the Leman Legion was also mixed with various races, it was mainly composed of human soldiers, accounting for at least seventy percent or more, and this was due to the fact that a large number of demonic mercenaries were mixed in; while the two thousand heavily armored soldiers under Leitch's command were only a handful of humans, almost nine out of ten were abyssal demons! So when they first entered the camp, the other lords looked quite strange when they looked at Leqi......

Within two days of conquering Winged Demon City and Oxhorn City, a rally order from Princeton appeared on his desk. After receiving the assembly order, Leitch did not immediately rush to Aldington City to participate in the battle, anyway, in his opinion, this kind of war at the level of the main city will definitely not end in a day or two, and it is better to deal with the affairs of the territory first.

Before leaving, Leitch appointed Niu Yi as the city lord of Oxhorn City and the head of the Oxhorn Infantry Regiment, and removed him from the position of the former commander of the Black Wind Knight. And in the appointment of the Winged Demon City, Lei Qi is a little hesitant, he has a lot of henchmen, but there are not many people who can really play the big role at present, Niu Yi and a few brothers are also thick and thin, and the others are all fierce generals, anyway, they are typical Minotaurs, let them be the city lord, or the newly conquered Castlevania? Leitch almost extinguished this idea as soon as he first thought about it......

As for Fern and Warren, these two are loyal, but they are too young, not calm enough, and their current ability is slightly insufficient, and they do not have the ability to defend one side.

Leitch admires Short, this guy had a bloody experience like "Xiao Yan's waste material flow" before he was transformed into a dragon's roar warrior, he was precocious and scheming, and he was definitely a general's seed; as for the question of loyalty, Leitch never worried about it at all - he could bless the dragon's roar warriors, but he could also deprive them of their strength! It can be said that the strength and weakness of these dragon's roar warriors are all in Leitch's thoughts! However, the time that Short has joined his command is still too short, and he has not yet established any great credit, so if he appoints Short as the lord of Winged Demon City, it will definitely cause dissatisfaction among many of his subordinates.

As for the three abyssal demons of Norton, Guda, and Peter, who have newly joined his command, they have all shown good personal abilities in the conquest of the Sheep's Head Basin, but these three are definitely genuine newcomers, and it would be too nonsense to expect that their domineering spirit would make these newcomers completely surrender...... So it would be absolutely unreliable to pick one of these three demons to be the city lord.

However, Leitch did not treat the three of them badly - as promised Norton at the beginning, after the capture of Oxhorn City, Richie promoted him to the captain of the Black Wing Flying Corps, with 200 men in charge and promoted to the rank of second-class; Now these three demons are all in the 2,000 heavily armored soldiers led by Leitch.

In the end, only Karl was left. These people are all Leqi's henchmen, but they are also members of the Thor Guild, so in a sense, they have not really entered the power core of the Black Wind Territory. Among these people, Leitch admires Carl the most, who is usually silent, but has great wisdom, even if he is appointed to join the army, it is estimated that he can have fun.

However, Leitch did not force the appointment, but casually consulted a few people, and what Leitch didn't expect was that Carl agreed without much thought. Although Leqi was a little confused, no matter what, as long as Carl agreed, it would be good news for Leqi, and finally Leitch announced his appointment - appointing Carl as the city lord of Winged Demon City, and removing the head of the Black Wing Special Forces Corps from the position of deputy head of the original Troll Mercenary Corps.

In terms of the defense of the two cities, Leitch divided the Black Wind Heavy Cavalry into three parts- Two 1000, plus one 500, Leitch used these two 1000 as the base of the Black Wing Special Forces Regiment and the Ox Horn Infantry Regiment respectively, and told Niu Yi and Carl to expand these two corps to 3000 people on this basis, as for the remaining 500, it was reserved for the base of the Thumb Knights, and on this basis, Leitch recruited 1500 demon recruits nearby, including even 300 Horn Armor prisoners, as well as 500 specially recruited Black Wing Armor Soldiers.

By the time the Blackwing Special Forces and the Oxhorn Infantry Regiment are expanded, then Richie's strength in the Demon Continent will reach 9,500 - 3,000 for the Blackwing Forces, 3,000 for the Horned Infantry Regiment, plus 2,000 for the Black Wind Heavy Cavalry and 1,500 defenders for Thumb City. Coupled with the small number of defenders left behind in Blackwind City, the number of soldiers under Reich's command will surpass that of outsiders, and the number of soldiers will skyrocket to ten times compared to before the expedition to the Abyss!

However, the increase in the number of soldiers that can fight also means that military spending will also increase geometrically - according to the situation of the Dawson Federation, the salary of junior soldiers (first order) is 1.5 gold coins, intermediate soldiers (second order) are 15 gold coins, and senior soldiers (third order) are 150 gold coins. In this regard, Leitch is not unconventional, and he can't stand up either......

According to Reich's conception, the ratio of 10,000 soldiers, junior soldiers: intermediate soldiers: senior soldiers, is 12:7:1, that is, 6,000 first-order, 3,500 second-order, plus 500 third-order. In this way, just by paying the soldiers' salaries, his monthly military expenditure will reach 129,000 gold coins! In a year, he will spend at least 1,548,000 gold coins! This does not include the repair and replacement of weapons and armor, military consumption, rewarding soldiers, and so on.

Seeing this data, even Leitch himself was taken aback, thinking that he had scavenged the thousand-year-old accumulation of the Turner clan, and the movable and immovable property added together was about five or six million gold coins, which was only enough for him to pay three years' military salary? No wonder the guards of Thumb City, Winged Demon City, and Oxhorn City were only about 1,000 people, not that these city lords did not know how to guard as much as possible, but that this military expenditure and his mother's bottom pit were at all! This indiscriminate expansion of the army could only dig a big pit and bury himself in the end!

Of course, you can't just look at the expenditure, as the lord of a land, there are all kinds of income - the tax of the Dawson Federation in the Dawn Valley is relatively low, as far as the Lei Man Territory is concerned, the tax of the Awakened is ten percent of personal income, while ordinary people only receive two silver coins a year, and the Black Wind Territory is also according to this standard.

There are three medium-sized cities in the Sheepshead Basin, each with a population of about 100,000 people, of which the unawakened abyss demons account for about ninety percent (from this ratio, the awakening ratio of the abyss demons is obviously stronger than that of humans), among which the small devil (first order): demon (second order): big demon (third order) is about equal to 90:9:1, and the monthly income of the first, second, and third orders is about 1 gold coin, 10 gold coins, and 100 gold coins, so the tax brought by these three cities to Luck every year is about 960,000 gold coins- Damn, it's not even half of the military spending......

Of course, this is only the population of the city, and there are still a large number ......of abyssal demons scattered in the sheep's head basin, and the number is hundreds of thousands;

On this issue, Leitch absolutely cannot tolerate the continuation of this status quo in his territory, because it is not only a matter of taxation, although population is the productive force, but only the gathered population can really burst into combat effectiveness! He rules the 100,000 square kilometers of the Sheep's Head Basin, how can he do it without manpower? Where does manpower come from? Of course, it is these scattered demons!

Lucky's plan is to use the large tribes of these countless demon tribes as the base, forcibly relocate the other scattered demons together, form a large tribe, that is, a village similar to the Dawson Federation, and then establish the corresponding governing body and appoint relevant governance personnel - in this way, this scattered and chaotic population can be regarded as truly in his own hands, and it is conducive to indoctrination and administrative decrees, which has great benefits in strengthening his own rule. The most obvious point is that the tax revenue will also skyrocket, at least by half!

Of course, this work will not be completed in a day or two, the tax revenue in that plan is still far away, and there is still a gap of millions in military spending!

Of course, personal income tax is only a part, or even a small part of the territorial tax, and the real bulk is the commercial tax plus transit duties. In particular, the geographical location of Thumb City, Ox Horn City and Wing Demon City is quite unique, and it is an important checkpoint, so there are many transit business trips. Moreover, in Leqi's economic plan, it is committed to building the Sheep's Head Basin into a trading point in the northern continent, and the commercial taxes and transit duties brought by these three cities will increase exponentially!

In this attack on Winged Demon City and Oxhorn City, in fact, Richie really didn't get much loot, because unlike Thumb City, which was the territory of the Turner clan, Bartley Teuton and Bazel were only the city lords of Winged Demon City and Bullhorn City respectively, but they were not lords, so in addition to the need to withhold military expenses, in fact, the two of them had to give most of their income to the big lord who really ruled the Sheep's Head Basin every six months!

Fortunately in the misfortune, when the two cities were conquered, the income of the past half a year had not had time to be handed over, so it naturally fell into the hands of Leitch - 420,000 in Wing Demon City and 480,000 in Oxhorn City, which does not include the military expenditure of 40,000 gold coins (from this point of view, the treatment of soldiers in the abyss is obviously much worse than that of the Dawson Federation, and the military salary is only about half);

Whew, this adds up to the huge military expenditure, plus the commercial tax and transit duties of Thumb City, and even brings Leitch at least two million gold coins a year!

The annual input of two million gold coins is indeed an astronomical amount for Leitch, who used to only rule this small black wind territory, but now his territory has skyrocketed to 100,000 square kilometers, and all kinds of expenditures are indispensable, especially Leqi has roughly formulated a large number of reforms, although if these reforms can be fully implemented, it will greatly stimulate the economic growth of the Sheepshead Basin, and at the same time strengthen Leqi's rule, but at least for now, each of these plans represents a large investment! So in the first few years, as long as the finances are not in deficit, Leitch will have to thank the entire family of the Abyss Ancient Gods from all sides......

However, in addition to the income brought by the territory, the Hellfire Demon Gold Vein and the Black Wind Chamber of Commerce, which has absorbed five thousand gray goblin blacksmiths, will become Leitch's "money printing machine", which is another considerable amount of investment!

In any case, in the end, it is still a "money" word - money, money, money, what a gold coin to fuck you!

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