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Lelouch has always felt that going home after school may be one of the few independent times in their childhood, as long as they go home within the specified time at home, then this time is always the best time for them to arrange by themselves, otherwise there will only be a little time after dinner to finish homework.

So when the children go to school, they are uniform, but when they get out of school, the whole street is full of students wearing uniform uniforms and carrying school bags, and students will have a little bit of money in their hands, especially human students, more than ten years of rich life, has made a great change in their attitude to life, and now they are very optimistic about life, coupled with their own wealth, they give their children a ration of pocket money, which allows them to buy a lot of snacks and food on the way home.

Lisa took her younger brother and followed the two cat people on the way home, the streets were full of shops selling snacks, Lisa had two copper plate pocket money every day, these pocket money can actually barely let Lisa buy some snacks, but Lisa said very little, even if it must be spent money, it must be to buy it for her younger brother, but many human children buy food without scruples, most of these human children were born in the era after Lelouch took power, it can be said that they have not worried about food and clothing since childhood, It is a child who lives in an era of affluence, and for them it is really a very distant thing to thrift.

The streets are full of students playing and playing, the children have a good grasp of the little activity time now, Lisa only took out a piece of dried pickled fish from his schoolbag when his younger brother shouted hungry along the way, uh, the cat people's love for fish, that is not covered, the food prepared at home can be said to be mostly pickled fish, very little meat.

Lisa took her younger brother across the street and walked home, and the cat people around her still looked at the human classmates who had the money to buy snacks at will, but their cat people had only been rich for a long time after all, so the family really didn't want to waste money on these things, at least for now, and as for the future, if they get used to it and stabilize, whether they will give their children some money to buy things is another matter.

After saying goodbye to her two classmates, Lisa took her younger brother around a street corner and quickly came to the street in front of her house, familiar streets, familiar buildings on both sides, her father was lying on a rocking chair looking at the road in the distance, and her mother was preparing food in the open door, and the aroma of her favorite fish seemed to be fluttering on the tip of her nose. The abundance of life made them, the cat people who had suffered from poverty and oppression, feel dream-like happiness, and the happiness was so strong that each cat man became a follower of Lelouch no less than the most fanatical humans.

Tom's family would even contribute ten silver coins to the church in the city every month, and Tom would have one gold coin a month, that is, a total of one hundred silver coins, and one-tenth of his income would be given to the church, which was already a very pious expression.

This income of the church is very strictly supervised by Lelouch, and the church can only keep one-tenth of the money when it is injured, and the rest must be handed over to the government, Lelouch is very aware of the fanaticism of believers to contribute wealth, if it is not controlled, the annual income of the empire may not be as good as a grand sacrifice of the church, and the wealth statistics that Lelouch collected from the church are true, the church's contribution accounts for a large part of the empire's income, Almost all of this income was used for the construction and research and development of the Steam City and the Magic Academy.

But these have nothing to do with the Tom family, Tom has already stood up and put away the cigarette gun to prepare for dinner when he saw his two children come back, just like the average family, the children came home with laughter, and when the father asked about their studies and the mother urged them to eat, the family began the most leisurely time of the day, and it was also the happiest time.

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The Tom family is just a microcosm of the life of countless cat people in the empire, after Lelouch gave the cat people legal status, the cat people also showed their talent in machinery, their talents and humans just complement each other, a large number of cat people can quickly take up their posts after training, become a maintenance staff of various mechanical equipment, and in a secret base, a small army completely formed by cat people is undergoing special training, and the flexibility of cat people makes them almost the most perfect infiltrators, At the same time, it can also be the perfect assassin.

However, after all, the number of these cat people is small, Lelouch is still thinking about how to integrate the cat people into the regular army, the cat people must be at a loss in terms of strength, but this does not mean that the cat people are useless on the battlefield, at least in the empire where science and technology have officially begun to develop, if the cat people use the right weapons and the right place, then they will be able to exert their combat effectiveness that is not weaker than that of humans.

It's just that for the time being, Lelouch hasn't figured out how to arrange what kind of combat position for these cat people, and at present, he only thinks of a rapid support musket team, these cat people are equipped with slender swords and one-handed muskets, with large hats embedded with feathers, wearing simple armor, becoming an extremely mobile and flexible support force, and on the battlefield, they can also fight with the people above, they attack from under their feet to attack the enemy's legs and feet, so that the enemy loses the ability to move, this tactic is not whimsical, This tactic was very popular during the Great Voyage of Earth.

(In fact, during the heyday of Spain, that is, at the beginning of the Age of Discovery, when the Spanish phalanx swept the world, it was very popular to send short and lightly armed soldiers to attack the legs and feet under the opponent's formation, and this tactic was also very effective.)

And these nimble catmen also work wonders for large enemy units on the ground, allowing them to dodge most enemy attacks, and finally shoot muskets into the enemy's body almost face-to-face through the gaps in their armor, as the former dwarves did when they first faced the heavily armed trolls, except that instead of muskets, they used axes.

Of course, the cat people need to join the imperial army, and there is no such thing as a peaceful rise of any civilization, in Lelouch's view, no matter which force is only doing two things in their lives, one thing is to fight, and the other thing is to prepare for war, which is indisputable and understandable, so there is no problem in army building among the cat people, and the cat people themselves are also very cooperative.

But instead of building up the army for the small and somewhat small number of cat people, Lelouch was more concerned with another issue, that is, the welfare system.

Lelouch only reacted after seeing the living conditions of the cat people, his steps were too big, so that he forgot some very important things, such as the welfare system, the current human beings or the citizens of the entire empire are working overtime, which is not only the impact of the golden decade after the civilization stabilized, but also because life has changed too much, and the influence of the theocratic civilization system, even if it is a high-intensity work, it has not made anyone dissatisfied, but this is nothing, Because almost in the case of a scarce population and a high demand for work, everyone has a very high return on brains, but what if someone doesn't have those considerable returns on labor?

For example, the cat people in the Fog Gray Province, Lelouch believes that there must be such a group of people around this empire, the empire is very large, before the telegraph came out, the only way Lelouch could rely on the local government to strictly enforce his orders was only one way, that is, the church overseer at the bottom, but even so, Lelouch could not guarantee whether every citizen of the empire would be able to use the Tao to meet the level of treatment of their living standards.

Lelouch could almost have met the end of the golden decade, or some individual policy mistake that led to large-scale labor exploitation, or an economic crisis, and perhaps the time would have come for the land to really break out in the great revolution that had erupted on the earth, a revolution that originated from the main productive forces of society, a complete system of half-cut parts of its own political system.

So Lelouch feels that he should take advantage of the fact that the empire is still in a stable period, officially start the construction of the welfare system, and completely prevent the recurrence of such a situation as cat people, Lelouch does not need a good welfare treatment, not that some people must be given free houses, money or something, Lelouch must at least ensure that the lowest people can be given endless food and a place to shelter from the wind and rain, this place can be a cheap house built by some governments, or it can be said that some private low-rent housing, but in any case, Lelouch's welfare system must meet the needs of the people to at least be fed, clothed, and have a place to live.

When Lelouch told his ministers about his plan, the ministers were completely stunned, because Lelouch meant one thing in their opinion, a huge financial investment, and it was a financial investment without any report, which made the ministers completely incomprehensible, and Lelouch did not expect them to understand, although he would slowly explain it to him in the future, but now, it is necessary to start implementing the construction of the welfare system, anyway, there is a surplus of food every year, There's no need to save these things yourself.

"Your Majesty, if we follow your plan, we will invest a total of more than five billion silver coins."

In the Shrine of Augulis, Decres evaluates Lelouch's welfare system, and then adds:

"This is mainly because our population is now constantly exploding all the time, the population estimate has exceeded the 100 million mark, we have made an investment estimate of 50 silver coins for each person, the total is 5 billion, of course, this is mainly the reason why the initial investment is relatively large, and in the later stage, I expect that only one billion silver coins will be invested every year to maintain."

"Well, a billion silver coins, the entire garrison doesn't have so much military expenditure!"

After De Cress finished speaking, he looked at the other ministers, and Al added the second sentence, although they did not dare to directly disobey Lelouch, but they also expressed their meaning euphemistically, there is no need to pay so much for these people, you know, just the maintenance fee has exceeded the total military expenditure of the garrison, they hope that Lelouch will reconsider his plan, maybe they can invest the money in the construction of the army that every king wants.

But Lelouch shook his head very firmly:

"You don't need to say it anymore, I have made up my mind, from today on, the empire must start to officially implement the welfare policy, I know you don't understand what the point of doing this is, but I want to say, you will understand that this is the real millennium plan, if the empire wants long-term peace and stability, this kind of thing must be vigorously promoted, there is no room to talk about, you go down and make a detailed plan, you must come up with a detailed plan within a month, and next month, officially start to implement it gradually."

Lelousau's resolute attitude made all the ministers look at each other completely helpless, although they didn't understand why they did this, but Lelouxiu's policy has always been to constantly bring the power of the empire to a new level, although this expenditure is very huge, but it is not completely unacceptable, and the main consumption is the rich grain of the empire, anyway, the empire's food production is surplus every year, and now it is just a matter of consumption, at least these grains are already crazy population growth, and they will increase again.

In the end, the helpless ministers officially began the construction and planning of the welfare policy, and the early propaganda also officially began to spread overwhelmingly, the citizens of the empire heard about this good thing that they never thought of, and the practice of giving them food and shelter for free felt completely incredible, but at the same time, they also had infinite identification with the imperial government in their hearts, and even those old perverts who had been in the Academy of Magic Sciences did not ask about the world, and they were also asking about the details of these welfare policies. There are actually many foreign mages from the Academy of Magic Sciences who have joined the empire and become citizens of the empire.

It may seem inconceivable that they chose to put aside their arrogance and become a citizen of the empire because of these worthless food and cheap housing, but for these mages who are used to living a hard life, this is a good thing they dare not think of, at least, they no longer have to worry about having a place to retire in their old age, and they don't have to worry about their descendants not knowing magic and needing to suffer from hunger and poverty.

The role of the welfare system began to slowly front his role.

(End of chapter)

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