In this way, the speed of development of businessmen is curbed, and the possibility of businessmen forming companies is avoided, and the resources that capital can control are reduced.

William's approach was completely different from the approach of his previous capitalist state, which encouraged large capital enterprises.

Those capitalist countries encourage large capital, mainly to increase their competitiveness, after all, the more they produce, the lower the cost, so that the competitiveness will be stronger, and the more taxes will be paid to the state.

However, in William's case, he is precisely trying to curb the scale of capital, and now the competitiveness of the merchants in his territory is enough, and there is no need to continue to expand, if it continues to expand, even William will not be able to control it.

All he hoped for was the tax revenue that the merchants would bring him, and the small merchants would be able to bring him enough business taxes, and be more stable and secure than the big merchants.

Why not? Therefore, the policy subject specified by William is to increase the commercial tax, to levy more taxes on larger merchants, and to give some preferential treatment to small merchants.

In this way, it not only attracted small merchants, but also made the big merchants dare not expand at will, and the big merchants have not yet developed to the point where they can compete with William.

They do not have any armed forces, and they are not strong enough to influence the normal development of a territory by commercial means.

Therefore, these big businessmen had no way to deal with William's orders and policies.

In the most prosperous area of Denlenburg, that is, the market in the center of the city, there is a sign in the very center where William's big decisions will be posted first, and then spread to other areas.

As a first-hand account of territorial politics, this is the place where every merchant and even nobleman pays the most attention.

So when the steward of William's court came with four guards to put up a notice, a large crowd gathered around.

Among these people are small businessmen, as well as the eyeliner of big businessmen, and a small number of them are literate and hyphenated, and with the loud reading and explanation of the management, they understand the meaning of it.

The faces of small businessmen are happy, because it says that as long as the assets are less than a standard, then there is a series of preferential treatment for them, and many small businessmen are below this standard, and they are the targets of support.

And the eyes of those big businessmen quickly ran to their masters to report this urgent news.

"What? Why is this happening! "Basically, all the big merchants in William's Territory raised such questions the moment they saw the news.

They can see that such a policy is purely aimed at them, and the bigger the merchants, the more taxes are levied, isn't this suppressing them?

"Could it be...... Is it the earl who was busy with the request for a knighthood? He issued this decree in a fit of rage? ”

A stupid businessman thought to himself, because several big businessmen jointly asked William for the title canonization before.

But the Earl did not give a positive answer to this matter, and it must be seen that this is the attitude of the Earl now.

A bearded merchant in a gorgeous robe has a sad face in his upscale single-family villa, and the maids next to him are trembling and walking on thin ice.

Ever since he received the news, his mood has taken a sharp turn for the worse.

"I knew I shouldn't have asked for a knighthood in the first place! It's good now, I've been targeted by the Earl! ”

The bearded man looked at the luxurious clothes with the coat of arms on his body, and couldn't help but be even more annoyed in his heart, he liked luxury for his life, and everything he used was the most expensive and gorgeous, as could be seen from his clothes.

Among the edicts issued by William, there happened to be an order prohibiting merchants from wearing noble colors and prohibiting the wearing of coats of arms.

In addition, the sons and relatives of merchants were strictly forbidden to join the army and become officials, which also cut off the possibility of merchants controlling politics.

Of course, the most sad thing for him is that he has to pay more taxes than before, according to William's decree, his assets are very large, and he will have to pay at least forty percent of his profits as taxes this year.

Although even after handing over the forty percent, it is still a huge fortune, but the loss of the forty percent also makes him extremely heartbroken.

Several other merchants with similar assets to him were also very distressed, but they had nothing to do, and no one spoke on their side.

Their strength is no different from ants to William, after all, without an army, they have no ability to resist in the face of the nobles who are the supreme military leaders.

Their role in the whole of Denlenburg was not so great, after all, they had not yet developed to the point where millions of people depended on them for food, like the big capitalists of later generations.

Their workers were in the minority, after all, and the land in the realm was still distributed by the people, and those workers could turn back into farmers at any time, without any effect.

With William's strength, trying to deal with them is like crushing an ant, if it weren't for William's lack of wanting to destroy the commercial atmosphere of the territory, these merchants who hoped to get the title would have been uprooted by William.

As for the nobles, they were more hostile to these merchants, although they also had more taxes due to the movement of merchants, but the request for a knighthood from William completely touched their bottom line.

To be honest, if it weren't for William's strong bullet pressure, I'm afraid those nobles would have to do it directly.

"Your Excellency the Earl is merciful, may the Holy Father bless him forever, and may his reign be long and prosperous, and the family will continue for generations to come, let us toast to the merciful and generous Earl!"

A number of small merchants gathered in the tavern established by William to celebrate the promulgation of this policy.

And after these decrees were issued, William's powerful propaganda department also became operational.

The workers who had been recruited by the merchants were instilled with ideas that William wanted them to know.

The workers were organized to watch the performances of the propaganda department, whose propaganda had performative propaganda in addition to brainwashing and linguistic indoctrination.

At this time, in the middle of the city, in front of William's castle, a play was being played.

It is nothing more than the scene of the merchants exploiting the workers, and then the words from the mouths of the "merchants" say, you have no land, so you have no way out, you must be my hired laborers and so on.

Then the fair, benevolent, and dignified and generous, wise saint of the time, the owner of the titles of Count of Denlenburg and Count Issamdenburg, Count William, with the title of Kingdom Eagle, issued a decree to save the workers.

Then the official representing the Earl came out and punished the black-hearted merchant.

The play immediately resonated with many workers, who had already discovered that the seemingly generous bosses had begun to oppress them.

The salary that was promised at the beginning is getting lower and lower, but they are also a little angry and dare not speak, after all, they have no way back without land, and they can only hope that the employer will not exploit too ruthlessly.

However, after the success of this performance, the workers immediately recognized the faces of the merchants, and understood that only the Earl was the one who was really good to them, and while hating the merchants, they were also grateful to the Earl, and William was still very good at buying people's hearts.