This is an island, an island with an area of more than 10,000 square kilometers.

The scenery here is beautiful, the products are abundant, the plains are vast, the rivers are numerous, the arable land is abundant, and the coast is wide and long......

This is a treasure island where farming, animal husbandry, and fishing can flourish.

"Therefore, it is a miracle that this place will become an island with poor people, no food, no livestock on the grassland, and no fish in the fishing village."

Luo Lan stood in the study of his palace, looking at the map of the island on the wall, that is, the map of his fiefdom, and shook his head repeatedly.

Luo Lan, the eldest prince of Hailing Kingdom, a coastal country on the Norlan Continent, was exiled to Phuket Island by the angry old king because of his evil deeds and lack of progress, and threatened: You will either die with Phuket Island, or govern Phuket Island well and come back.

Of course, the original Prince Luo Lan is dead, and the current Luo Lan is a traverser, coincidentally, also called Luo Lan.

Luo Lan is a civil servant in Huaguo, who has risen all the way with his outstanding political achievements, and has a sharp view on reform and development, and is affectionately called "the successor of true socialism" by the majority of netizens.

Then Luo Lan died in the rescue and disaster relief.

So, Luo Lan crossed over and became the lord of this island.

"It's not bad, but it's a bit bad at the beginning."

Luo Lan rubbed his head and sighed that he was unlucky, although he was a civil servant, he was not rigid, no different from ordinary young people, and even more lively, and now he quickly adapted to it, and he was already an exiled prince in another world.

After shaking his head slightly, Luo Lan walked to the desk and picked up the previous year's Phuket tax record book that his ministers had just sent.

After a few glances, he dropped it, and the island was really miserable.

There are 200,000 inhabitants on the island, almost all of whom cultivate the land, and the tax rate on the fiefdom is 60 percent. However, despite this, the tax revenue of the previous year was only 50,000 gold coins, which was outrageously low.

In fact, after Luo Lan's visits and analysis these days, he concluded that there are two reasons, one is that the peasants are poor and poor, and they can't support themselves, let alone pay taxes to support the prince, and the other is that the feudal lords on the island evade taxes and evade taxes, and they don't take Luo Lan as a prince in their eyes at all.

In the final analysis, this is the biggest drawback of the formation of a semi-slave and semi-feudal system on the island.

Luo Lan was a socialist civil servant, and he was familiar with this system, which was a backward system similar to that of ancient Europe.

The king of Hailing Kingdom is the largest feudal lord, and the land of the whole country is his, and he canonizes the small feudal lords, and the small feudal lords continue to canonize the smaller feudal lords, forming a "feudal pyramid" raised below, which is pressed on the peasants.

Prince Luo Lan is the largest feudal lord of Phuket Island, he took over this beautiful and poor island completely, and then frantically oppressed the peasants, did not know how to govern at all, coupled with the backward system and productive forces, directly led to the collapse of the island - at least it is about to collapse, and some states have rebelled.

"With such a good land, once the productive forces are liberated, it can be rich in three to five years, even if it takes 60 liters of seeds to grow 100 litres of wheat."

Luo Lan touched his chin and thought, as a civil servant, he habitually thinks about how to make a place develop.

"The grasslands of Phuket Island are vast, and farmers have money to herd sheep and cattle, forming animal husbandry. The coast can build ports, build large ships to develop fisheries, and can also trade with the land, which is only a dozen nautical miles away from the land anyway. ”

"However, the feudal land tenure system strictly restricted the development of the island, and the goal of the peasant's life was to feed the feudal lords.

"If the land is contracted to farmers and the household production contract system is implemented, I am afraid that the productivity will increase explosively."

In just a few minutes, Luo Lan had already conceived a lot of things in his mind, and he even thought about "if you want to get rich, build roads first, have fewer children, and grow more trees".

However, when he came back to his senses, there was only the deserted and dilapidated palace in front of him, and the stench of Phuket City wafting in from the window.

Phuket City, the only city on the island, is home to more than 10,000 people, making it a primitive town. The construction of the small town is backward, there are only low stone houses in the city, the dilapidated roads are full of garbage and feces, and it is difficult to find a toilet in the city.

And the port of Phuket, near the sea, is almost flooded with rotting stinky fish.

"In such a dirty city, sooner or later an infectious disease will break out, and if I am unlucky, I am afraid that I will be killed by the virus."

It has been three months since Luo Lan crossed over, and in these three months, he has inspected many places, and found that Phuket Island is really dangerous, and if he does not reform immediately, he will definitely die.

However, he faced the biggest dilemma, which was the obstruction of the island's petty feudal lords.

Although Luo Lan has not yet started the reform, he knows that once the reform is carried out, it will definitely endanger the interests of the feudal lords, and those feudal lords who are usually safe and secure will definitely jump out against him.

And his own reputation is extremely poor, in the eyes of the petty feudal lords is a waste, in the eyes of the peasants is even more vampire, it is impossible to implement effective decrees.

"There are hundreds of small feudal lords on Phuket Island, although they nominally obey me, but in fact they have their own ghosts, and I don't know how much tax I missed in the two years I was the lord of the island, and my prince is completely a single prince."

Luo Lan rubbed his temples, as the lord of Phuket Island, if he allowed the territory to continue to fall, he would be the one who would suffer sooner or later.

"Reform is imperative, it would be nice to have helpers."

Luo Lan sat down at the desk and looked through the roster of officials, unfortunately, except for a white-bearded old man in his sixties, the rest of the officials were useless, let alone helping Luo Lan implement the decree, it was okay not to leave his side.

And the white-bearded old man also didn't have much effect, he was the minister who followed Luo Lan to deal with the finances, although he obeyed Luo Lan, he would only count the gold coins and calculate the taxes.

Luo Lan smiled bitterly again, and then the door rang, and an old voice came in: "Your Royal Highness, the nun of the church, Bina, wants to see you." ”

The person outside was the white-bearded old man, and because his name was too awkward, Luo Lan kept calling him Gandalf.

"Bina wants to see me?"

Luo Lan pushed the door and saw Gandalf pursing his lips nervously, "Yes, Miss Bina of the Holy Church, she is the most famous nun in the Norlan Continent, she has excellent medical skills, has treated many patients, and is known as a divine doctor. And she is kind-hearted and peace-loving, and has always been committed to improving the lives of the common people, although with little success, many of the minor lords she persuaded have lowered their taxes, such as our Baron Gurilla, Viscount Alia, Baron Kuku, ...... on Phuket".

Gandalf named more than a dozen people.

Luo Lan was dizzy when she heard this, and quickly stopped, "What is she doing here?" I remember she hated me."

Bina, from the first day she came to Phuket, hated Luo Lan because Luo Lan was a veritable vampire.

Prince Luo Lan was exiled to the island for two years and did evil for two years, not only raising taxes, but also robbing people's daughters in a reckless manner, and it was not until three months ago that he relented, of course, because "Luo Lan" crossed over.

The Holy Church to which Bina belongs has a very high status in the mainland, and Bina, as a well-known nun, has the confidence to despise Luo Lan. If Luo Lan was not the prince of the Sea Spirit Kingdom, but an ordinary lord, and oppressed the people like this, Bina would have turned her face a long time ago.

"Tell Your Royal Highness the Prince, Miss Bina is probably here for tax matters, after you came to the island, the tax rate was raised to sixty percent, and the feudal lords below followed suit unscrupulously, causing the anger of the heavens and people, and the people in some places have rebelled, and they may attack Phuket City."

Gandalf secretly looked at Luo Lan, he was a little afraid that Luo Lan would be angry, after all, this was the first time he had criticized Luo Lan's behavior.

However, Luo Lan was not angry, he gradually became happy, "Bina wants me to change the tax rate?" Does she have that right"?

Gandalf looked at the smiling Luo Lan in surprise, he didn't understand why the prince was laughing instead of angry, this is the contradiction that the church and the state power are about to have.

"Your Royal Highness, Bina has no right to ask the lord of a country to change the tax rate. But after all, you are an exiled prince, and Bina is the great nun of the church, and her kind advice is still expected to be taken by you, so as not to force her away, you must know that we have only one church in Phuket, and there is only one real doctor in Bina. ”

"Well, why didn't I think of taking advantage of the prestige of the nuns of the Church? This is a world of divine monarchy, and there is a way to reform, which can be regarded as lucky. ”

Luo Lan said something that Gandalf couldn't understand, and walked quickly to the main hall of the palace.