Chapter 151: Lei Zihao's attempt
Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoSome people may wonder, the tax gap between Pylos City and Megara City and Longhan City is so large, can't the people of Pyros go to Megara City to live?
After all, in this era, it is very difficult for people to survive alone away from gathering places and cities, and there is no cultivated land in the wilderness, and they have to face carnivorous beasts such as wolves from time to time!
Wolves are naturally not a threat to large human villages, towns and cities, but they are a deadly danger to small human settlements and family-based survival!
What's more, if you take the initiative to flee the town and avoid the tax burden, the ruler's soldiers can capture them according to the law, or even kill them on the spot!
The tax in Pylos City is so high, it is not only the people in the city who collect taxes, as long as it is the villages and towns around Pylos City, it is this tax standard!
Unless the Pylos people really rebel, they will have to obediently bear the oppression of Lei Zihao, of course, if they sell themselves as slaves, they don't have to bear such a high tax burden, and even if they sell their own lives, they naturally don't have to pay taxes, after all, slaves also belong to Lei Zihao's private property......
However, if it were sold to private individuals rather than to the authorities, the slaves would have to pay the poll tax on the excess!
I believe in Lei Zihao's discipline, this kind of poll tax is definitely not a small amount!
Therefore, under the degree of oppressive taxation, even the wealthy Pylos did not dare to keep slaves, and at most hired some servants, servants and slaves were different, servants had personal freedom and wages, their own income, and their own obligation to pay taxes......
To get back to the point, with such a high tax gap, Lei Zihao naturally won't allow the people of Pyros to run to Megara City and become a part of it to avoid the high tax burden!
This point is actually very good to guarantee, in this era there are no high-speed means of transportation such as automobiles and railways, and the army can travel to the ends of the earth unscrupulously by legs due to its special nature and strong military support, but it is not the same for individuals and even businessmen to travel!
First of all, individuals and even small groups must migrate to avoid wolves and other carnivores, and secondly, in a lawless place like the wild, to ensure that they will not be killed by bandits and refugees, and make food such as 'human barbecued pork buns'!
This is the barbaric and backward era of cold weapons, and some people are hungry and desperate to die, and they don't care if the food they eat is the same kind or not!
That's why humans need to build towns to fence themselves off!
Cities and villages are not only for protection against wild beasts, but in a sense, for the defense of their crazy kind!
The difficulty of migration has caused the population flow between the two cities to become a moat-like distance, coupled with the typical appearance gap between the Seris and the Pylos, it can be said that the Pylos have no third option except to obediently pay taxes, and flee from the human settlement, being a wild man coveted by wild beasts and strangled by Lei Zihao's army!
As for the rebellion, if the Pylos really had the guts, they would not have surrendered in the first place!
The saying that it is better to die than to live will always be more recognized by the world than to sacrifice for the nation......
All people want heroes who dare to sacrifice to stand up, but the vast majority of people don't want to be part of the sacrifice......
Therefore, Lei Zihao's taxes on the degree of oppression issued to the Pylos people are also paid once a month, and they have almost become a talisman and a slave catalyst!
Lei Zihao, who got into the eyes of money, in order to better replenish his wealth, sent people to seal all the ports of Pylos, and wanted to escape to the human main world?
Yes, as long as you have the ability to paddle a canoe across the blue seas......
After all, the canoe is a ubiquitous boat, and Lei Zihao's people still can't completely control it......
In fact, Lei Zihao also had the intention of trying to do this to Pylos City, anyway, the people of Pylos City had great resentment towards themselves, and the people's hearts were actually suspicious!
Since you doubt Lao Tzu's festival, let you people take a good look at how high and bright Lao Tzu's festival is!
Of course, the reason why Lei Zihao dared to do this was that he had more than 10,000 troops stationed in Pylos City, and no matter what the Pylos people did, or what he did to the Pylos people, he could control it!
Besides, it is a matter of course to collect taxes in their own conquered cities, and if there is no such benefit, what war will those noble lords fight? What kind of territory to expand?!
As for the question of whether the people of Pylos could bear such a high tax burden, Lei Zihao didn't bother to think about it at all, he didn't care about the massive expansion of his slave number!
Almost the day after the release of the crushing level tax, the entire city of Pylos was almost boiling, and the people's hearts escalated directly from suspicion to resentment, and the level of law and order also escalated from instability to chaos!
However, the interesting thing is that when Lei Zihao built an execution ground in the city of Pylos, the level of law and order immediately returned from chaos to instability......
The execution ground is not a building that needs to be built, it is more like a special place for Lei Zihao, a bit similar to the beheading place set up by the ancient Chinese court at the entrance of the vegetable market!
The execution ground didn't cost Lei Zihao much money, he just chose a wide field similar to the city center, named it the execution ground, and then cut off hundreds of heads of the Pilos criminals who were cornered by high taxes and began to be vicious to the guts!
The effect was immediate, and the security of Pyrrhos City immediately returned to precariousness......
Instability is already the highest level of security for the degree of oppression and taxation, after all, most of the people of Pylos are facing the anxiety of becoming slaves when collecting taxes, and it is no wonder that the level of security can be stable!
That's a slave who has no human rights and can't even save his life!
Or a slave of the tyrant of Seris!
When you think about it, the future is full of darkness!
Therefore, many people in Pylos are trying to scrape together money just to be able to afford the desperately high tax burden next month......
Of course, the number of Pylos fleeing has also increased greatly, and the lancer troops patrolling outside have harvested a lot of Pylos heads during this time, which has brought Lei Zihao a lot of killing experience!
There were also younger Pylos who fled the crowd and became an honorable Pylos slave without waiting for the day of taxation to have all his property confiscated......
Lei Zihao's attempt was theoretically successful, and when it came to the first month of tax collection, except for the sudden decline in the population of Pylos City, there was no additional impropriety, and Lei Zihao made a lot of money!