123 Taxes
Although it is embarrassing, after a period of time, Quanhe Shanaiduo will soon resume his previous intimacy.
If you think about it, they are all adults/elves, and they should have a normal "sex" life, so there is no need to be embarrassed about this.
In this regard, Electrolux can only express regret that the light bulb is back.
On this day, Electrolux took the spring to Clay City and the main villages and towns nearby, although it was a recreation, but it was actually a field trip.
Compared to the prosperity of Tar'an, Kley seems to be very depressed, even in the most crowded street in the city, there are not many shops here, most of the shops are basically buying and selling all kinds of daily necessities, and except for the good business of these shops, the business of other shops that are not essential items is much more deserted.
Moreover, compared to the ruddy faces of the residents of Tar'an, the people of Clayy are much more wilted, and compared to the city, the situation in the surrounding villages and towns is even worse, many of them have a bit of sadness on their faces, their spirits are not very good, and their clothes are a little shabby, and Izumi even saw that the clothes on the clothes of many civilians were patched.
It's hard to see in Tar'an or Corot.
"Life is really not good for people here."
Now that Battleland is developing faster and faster, it is difficult to have such a situation, it is not that the previous Baron Balk did not govern this land well, nor was it the arbitrary exploitation of noble officials (although there are also such cases), but the main thing is that the civilians here in Clay are afraid of being attacked by sea beasts, and they dare not rely on a precious and rich resource, so they can only hide near the villages and towns to farm, but the saline-alkali land near the sea is affected by the tide and the sea breeze every day, and how much food can be grown?
Not only is it impossible to rely on the sea for a living, but it has become a burden, which makes life worse and worse for people here.
"This year's harvest is not very good." Dressed in a disguise and cloak, Electrolux stood in front of a field of crops, the crops in the field were green and yellow, although he didn't know how to farm, but compared to the farmland he saw when he followed Izumi to live on the royal manor in the past few years, he could see that the crops here were really not very good.
"The fields here are skewed towards saline soil, and it's very difficult for ordinary plants to grow on this kind of land, so it's good that they can grow like this." Quan squatted down and looked at the crops in the field, the crops planted here are also rice-like grains, but because of the raging sea breeze, they are shorter, and the rice ears on the top are relatively few, and he reached out and grabbed some of the soil in the field, the land here should have been treated with salt, otherwise it would not be able to grow grain, but it seems that it should have only started to wash salt for a short time, and the salt in the soil has not been well handled, compared to the farmland they saw before, the salinity is higher, So the dealer doesn't look very good.
"This land should be newly opened up for a short time, and if it is processed for a few more years, it will grow good food in the future."
Izumi inquired about the peasants around him, and asked about taxes and the like, and he had a kind smile and good looks, and it was easy for him to get the favor of others, so the peasants who were resting were also happy to talk to him.
So Izumi learned that the people here used to pay a tax of five out of ten per year, which meant that they had to hand over fifty percent of the grain produced in the fields each year to the lord.
In recent years, the tax has been reduced to ten taxes and three, when it comes to this, those farmers are very happy, they all feel that the aristocratic lords who have reduced the tax are very good to them, such a low tax has not been before, and the first three years of the land only need to pay a tax of one percent, so in the past two years, everyone will actively open up the wasteland, and the grain grown is not eaten by themselves, but can also be sold for a lot of money.
But in fact, because of various development and construction in recent years, the treasury has been full and there is no shortage of money to spend, and because the domestic population is too small, in order to attract civilians from other countries to live in Butlans, the country's tax revenue has dropped a lot, and it has reached the ratio of 1 in 10 taxes, which is the lowest land tax in the surrounding countries.
And before it became such a tax, Batlans only levied a tax of three out of ten on the fields, and the land that was cleared was completely exempt from tax for the first three years.
And after this tax is devolved to the lords of various places, of course, there will be a little change, after all, after they pay the tax to the state, they also have to keep a part of it.
Therefore, Electrolux's current tax is ten taxes and two, and in the past it was ten taxes and four taxes, and the tax exemption for the first three years of land reclamation is the same.
And the records in Clay's financial report that Izumi and Electrolux recently read also show that Clay was already aware of these new terms, and that the food and money in the records were also accumulated in accordance with the new terms, and there was nothing wrong with that.
But now that the peasants are telling them that this is not the case, then the less tax revenue is not sent to the city lord's mansion, so where will it go?
After discovering this, Izumi's face became very bad, Clay's people were already not doing well, but they still had to be exploited so much personal property, no wonder they were so miserable.
But it's all like this, but they still feel that the officials and nobles here are very good to them now, which shows how bad their lives were before.
"We must get these hateful guys out, and not one of them will be left."
"Well, I'll get rid of them." A cold light flashed in Electrolux's eyes.
Although he also hates this kind of thing, he is not as angry as Izumi, but these people make Izumi angry, so there is no need to live.
But this kind of thing, there is no need for Izumi to intervene, how soft-hearted Izumi is, Electrolux knows very well.
This kind of thing that takes a lot of time and thought, Electrolux will only use it on Izumi, and he doesn't have so much patience with others.
Not giving those who stretched out their hands too long a chance to shrink their hands, Electrolux wrote the announcement at the first time, had people transcribe a few points, and sent people to paste it all over Elek, not only that, but he also sent literate people to read these announcements aloud next to the announcement, and told the real taxes that the Clay people did not know.
At the same time, he also told everyone that starting this year, all the people who collected taxes in the past will be dismissed, and in the future, there will be a special person to re-measure the land and collect taxes, and the original people, if anyone knows who has violated the law and discipline, as long as they go to the city lord's mansion to report them, as long as it is confirmed to be true, the illegal property of these people will be divided into 1 percent as a reward and issued to the whistleblower.
But if it is a false report, then the whistleblower will be punished, not only will he go to jail, but he will also pay a fine.
Although such an announcement shocked the commoners at the beginning, and they suddenly realized that they had been deceived, but the people who did such things were nobles and their subordinates, and the commoners did not dare to report them at all.
But soon Electrolux proved his ability to the others - he directly arrested a nobleman who had been too high-profile and did not hide his crimes at all, sent his entire family to prison, and confiscated all his property.
And the whistleblower really got one percent of the stolen money, and suddenly went from a civilian with nothing to a rich man.
This whistleblower was of course privately arranged by Electrolux, and he knew that as long as someone started, it would be easy for others to follow suit.
Sure enough, as soon as the whistleblower's matter was publicized, many people who knew the inside story but didn't dare to speak for various reasons began to actively cooperate with the report.
And those moths who were caught off guard also wanted to fight back, but although they had a good force in Clay, their force alone was not as good as Electrolux alone, not to mention that there were elves such as Shanaiduo that Izumi actively lent - even after the royal side learned about this, they also sent a team of the Warcraft Legion to let Brand lead the team to support Electrolux.
So before the greedy nobles could contact their networks, they were all arrested, and even their minions were thrown into prison.
"Lord Duke, the prison is overcrowded now, and we can't fit any more." The new warden reported to Electrolux that his predecessor was currently in prison and would probably not have a chance to come out for a long time.
When Electrolux began to liquidate the moths in his territory, he was secretly relieved when he was the deputy warden, but fortunately he didn't get involved in those things because he didn't merge with the previous warden, otherwise he would have become a permanent resident of the prison now.
"We don't raise waste that we don't produce, and after careful investigation, the death row inmates with serious circumstances will stay in the prison first, and all the other men and women will be sent to work in the salt works, and when the sentence expires, they will be released, and the women will ......" Electrolux groaned as he touched his chin.
The female dependents of the nobles are actually not easy to deal with, many times they don't know what their family members have done, but with the current criminal law, it is easy to implicate the female dependents when the family breaks the law.
"The female relatives will investigate their usual words and deeds, and if they don't commit a crime, let them go, and then return some of their property to them." Izumi said, "But if there is inappropriate behavior in itself, then the male prisoners will be sent to the manor to serve their sentences, and there will be people who happen to be sent there." ”
The manor mentioned here is the private property of the Clay family, that is, Electrolux, as the lord, it can be said that the entire land of Clay is actually Electrolux's, and everything and taxes in the territory are determined by him, so there is no problem in sending female prisoners to serve in his manor.
"Just do as Your Highness says." Electrolux said this to the warden.
"Okay, I'll do it right away." The new warden saluted the two and then took his leave.