"Huh?" Anna was caught off guard, and everyone present was stunned, but Gawain was unmoved, he raised Anna's small hand, stood side by side with Anna, and then summoned Anderodat to come, "Look carefully." ”

The purple-clothed princess wanted to laugh but didn't dare to laugh, but she wanted to run but was caught by Gawain and couldn't run. The confidential officer hurriedly took out the pen and metal rod from the box and looked at it seriously.

Then Gawain sent Anna's middle finger to the confidential officer, "Did you see Her Royal Highness the princess's middle finger?" ”

The confidential officer whined and agreed.

"The distance between the two tattoos is one finger inch!" Gawain decided.

The confidential officer hurriedly measured, and then graded on the metal rod, "Twelve finger inches is one finger ruler, and thirty-six finger inches is one finger yard." Among them, one yard long and one yard wide is 'one yard of land', and 60 yards long and 60 yards wide is 'one acre of land', which is used in engineering and field surveying. Gawain added.

Then he lifted Anna's little hand again, "Do you see the princess's palm?" That's right, this is a ruler, which is used to measure small arms, such as bows and arrows, pikes. ”

The confidential officer didn't question anything, he quickly graded another metal rod and placed it in the box.

Then Gawain straightened Anna's arm, "From the princess's elbow to the tip of her middle finger, it's a wrist ruler." This can often be used in the manufacture of instruments and long-handled weapons. ”

The confidential officer frowned seriously, and used a longer metal rod to measure Anna's "wrist ruler" on the scale.

Gawain then beckoned to Agnes.

Agnes stubbornly walked over and said, "Get your scissors out." ”

After the other party did so, Gawain cut off the princess's thumb nails and little fingernails and placed them on a small plate presented by the confidential officer, "This weight is a grain." is the smallest unit of weight. Five hundred grains is an ounce, sixteen ounces are a pound, fourteen pounds are a stone, and eight stones are a load. ”

The confidential officer's mouth was wide open, but he was still sweating profusely.

Eventually, when Seleucia a brand-new set of weights and measures was established in the monastery of the Caves of Alahan. After it was quickly finalized, Gawain and all the chariots and more than 10,000 pilgrims made their way to Seleucian City, while the confidential officers along the way were still painfully making tedious conversion forms.

And Xiao Nizi's heart is very proud, especially Gao Wen's sentence "Weights and measures should use the most beautiful female body in the world as a reference", which made her heart very sweet, and she still tossed and turned on her couch after going to bed, hehe smirked.

But for the local Jinat landlords in Seleucia and Western Cilicia. The reason why Gawain used Anna as a "reference" was that they quickly revealed the mystery in the way of criticism:

Because Anna is petite, all of her sizes are on the small side!

This is an inevitable result.

"It used to be a finger of length with three barley grains lined up together, but now it's much smaller!" The owners of the castle of Mutter, the two Callegos brothers, Leo and Tiga, roared angrily, "And the ruler and the wrist ruler, all of them are much smaller than before!" ”

This means: There are far more measurements on the re-registration of their fields than before. But there was no change in the amount of the unit tax, which meant that the amount of tax to be paid to Gawain was almost double what it had been compared to the Roman Empire or the Sultan of Konya, although Anna had ostensibly promised their family that "your estate would be privileged with a tax reduction." There is hardly any reduction in the burden.

If the Callegos family is still like this, then the anger in the other Genat nobles who do not have the privilege of tax reduction cannot be contained.

Even worse is not the end of the story: Gawain's unit of weight has increased (Anna's two fingernails have meritorious), so that the unit of land for tax payment has increased, and the unit of measurement for tax payment has increased (whether in kind or in money). In fact, the tax burden of all the Genat nobles can really be described as heavy.

Standing in front of the castle of Ramas Anderodat (the Zephilim region was given to Wright), in front of him were all the stewards of the Genate nobles who were almost kneeling and begging, and all of them had no more than a few demands, "Please let some of the fields be completely exempt from tax", "You can't use the new standard to check the tax, and you can pay taxes according to the old standard", "Can military service replace taxes, and there are preferential treatments?" ”

What's even more powerful is that the original group of Jinat took advantage of the chaos to encroach on the annexed fields, and now all the "generous parties" are handed over, because in this vigorous and resolute land inventory operation, the more they occupy, the heavier the tax burden.

There were also some cunning Jinats, who were still resisting in various ways, and when they saw that the land tax could not be avoided, they began to evade the yoke tax and the human tax: often Anderodat arrived at this manor with armed members of the brotherhood, and the Jinat landlords here secretly transferred their cattle and slaves down the mountain road to hide in the manor of another landlord - and then after they arrived at that manor, they did the same.

This "flanging pattern" was quickly noticed.

So Gawain's new directive was quickly conveyed:

The Brotherhood brought the soldiers of the division, divided the area, and counted them at the same time, the time was temporarily arranged by the heraldic officer, and the matter was kept secret in advance;

During the inventory, Area A went to Area B in the distance, Area B went to Area C, and Area C came to check Area A, and the planning itinerary was also temporarily arranged, and the rules were not clear at all: often the lord of the manor in Area A watched the local army and brotherhood set off, but did not know where to go, and did not know when and from where the people who checked themselves would come;

Finally, during the inventory period, all the manors and fields, herds and people were not allowed to move around at will, and once they were captured by the blocked checkpoints, they were all confiscated!

In the end, not only was the entire area inventory successfully completed, but Gawain also had a few hundred confiscated cattle under his account.

Eventually, Anna stood happily on the colonnade of the Acropolis, looking at the vast fields beneath it, where the German settlers had begun to settle, and Gawain gave most of the cattle to the commune of the "Holy Estate" for intensive use, partly to the Paulician settlements, and a small part to the cattle pens for breeding. Then the elaborate inventory was presented, and Gawain himself was sitting at the reading platform at the intersection of the colonnade and the hall, flipping through it:

The land is divided into upper, middle and lower grades according to the degree of fertility, and the taxes are different, totaling about 900,000 new acres;

Among them, about 17 percent of the Shengfeng real estate, 40 percent of the Jinat real estate, 22 percent of the rural community real estate, and 21 percent of the rest of the small estates of yeoman farmers (all approximate amounts);

Most of the fertile land is concentrated on the first two types of land;

The output of woodland, marshes, and oceans is equivalent to the output of 100,000 new acres of medium fields;

The whole of Seleucia, West Cilicia, the number of people of legal age (plus the new immigrants) was about 194,414, the Romans were 152,028, and the rest were the Ikanati (mixed Slavic and Roman blood), the Isurians (indigenous hill people), the Maldeites (sailors and fishermen of the former military district), the Kurlamites (Saracen Crescent heretics, who converted to Orthodoxy in the 9th century and settled in the service of the Roman Empire), the Turkopoles, etc., Seventy percent of the Romans were dependents who were under the protection of the Genate estate.

"In short, these people, these places, I have really become a county, no, the head of the township" Gawain put down the watch, looked at Anna's back, and sighed. (To be continued.) )