Volume 1 The Endless Wilderness Section 32 Taxes
After returning to Orchid Town, Chen Xing took people to the mayor's mansion to report as soon as possible.
"Oh, okay, go get busy, don't disturb my work." In the study, Shad Sinclair is holding a paintbrush and drawing on the canvas. According to Xiao Wu, the mayor painted a boat and the sea, but no matter how you look at it, it looks like a child's graffiti. Looking at it, there is a palm print in the lower right corner, and I don't know whose it is.
Leaving the town mayor's mansion, Chen Xing took the people back to the camp of the third team of Orchid Town, and quickly allocated rooms for them to settle down. Here, male and female players are separated from each other. However, since the female members of the entire Orchid Town garrison are less than one-tenth of the total number, they are all concentrated in the dormitory building of the town's female office staff.
The next day, Chen Xing began to take over the territory of the third squad.
There are six squads in the entire Orchid Town, in charge of six districts, and a city defense force directly under the mayor.
In fact, to put it bluntly, the city defense force is used for military purposes, and it is usually for training, patrolling, and protecting the safety of towns and cities. Chen Xing's third squad is managed internally, and except for the basic salary, it is all self-financing. If placed in the pre-cataclysmic social system, the former is equivalent to the "regular army" and the latter is equivalent to the "local police".
The site of Chen Xing can be roughly divided into three parts, namely the middle section of the commercial street, a community and two slums.
The commercial street is a place to open a shop and do business, such as Alia's gun shop and Dog King's motorcycle shop. Every month, Chen Xing collects business tax from the shopkeeper, and then 70% of the tax is handed over to the mayor, and 30% is retained as the team's expenses.
The community is the place where citizens live, and they are generally the family members of the mayor, his followers, or the dependents of his followers, etc. In short, it is a citizen of the Red Dragon Principality who is related to the mayor.
Slums, on the other hand, are places where displaced people gather, with a highly mobile population and poor public security. However, they are the most numerous, and they are the most important source of labor for the marginal towns. For example, there are many homeless people in the mayor's mansion. After a certain number of years of service, or if they have made sufficient contributions, the mayor will submit an application for them to join the principality and enjoy the rights of citizenship of that country.
All in all, Chen Xing's daily job is to collect taxes and maintain order.
However, in such a large place, a dozen or so people are far from enough. At this time, it is up to him to run it on his own. Obtain more benefits and hire more "supernumerary personnel". In a sense, today's Chen Xing can be regarded as a miniature lord.
It's just that this "lord" can be removed with an order from the mayor of the town, and there is no guarantee.
At ten o'clock in the morning, Chen Xing took the team members onto the street. After the personnel are complete, the first thing he has to do is naturally collect taxes.
"Boss, how is business going lately?" Chen Xing walked into the motorcycle shop of the Dog King and greeted with a smile.
"Coming to collect taxes?" The dog king looked at Chen Xing's epaulettes, then at the team members behind him, and asked with a frown.
"It's an order from above, and we're just eating together." Chen Xing said slightly apologetically. The last time I came to buy a car, the other party also gave him a loan. But one yard is one yard, and now the position is different, and the tax that should be collected still has to be collected.
"How much?" The Dog King asked angrily.
"Team Ye, what is the monthly tax for this store?" Chen Xing turned his head to look at Ye Yang Bailiu and asked. Last night, he had three female team members check their books all night and calculate all the business taxes of the twenty-two shops on the site.
Now, in addition to the shortage of funds, he also needs to swear his rights to the people in the territory through the act of collecting taxes.
"9 gold, 2 silver, 6 bronze, 8 li." Ye Yang Bailiu opened the notepad and looked at it, and said expressionlessly.
"Why are there so many!" The Dog King was surprised.
"Wang Bo didn't come to collect it last month, and now it's been another ten days, count it together." Chen Xing said.
"You ......" the dog king opened his mouth, but in the end he didn't say anything, and said a little unhappily, "The new official has three fires, okay, you are the boss, you have the final say." ”
"That's it, they're all old friends, I'll give you a discount, 9 gold and 2 silver, and the mantissa will be counted." Chen Xing said with a smile.
"Thank you then." The Dog King smiled and said. Although 6 copper and 8 li is not much money, in business, no matter how small the mosquito legs are, they are also meat.
The dog king lowered his head, pressed the black watch, and was about to transfer money to Chen Xing, but the tall woman who spoke just now greeted him and shook the black watch on his wrist in front of him, the meaning was obvious, it was for him to transfer the tax to her.
"I'm the vice captain and accountant, just transfer the tax to me." Ye Yang Bailiu said, his tone was unquestionable.
"This ......" The Dog King looked at Chen Xing with a hesitant face. The latter smiled crampedly, nodded in agreement. But he muttered in his heart, this Yeyang Bailiu is really getting stronger and stronger, and he has to find a way to suppress her. Otherwise, the financial power is in her hands, and he, the captain of the squad, will be hollowed out.
Coming out of the Dog King Locomotive Shop, Chen Xing took people around in a circle, and all the shop owners honestly paid their taxes. Orchid Town is quite peaceful, so the merchants are relatively stable and willing to pay taxes to ensure safety.
In addition to Aliya's gun shop, Chen Xing received more than 170 gold in taxes, and after handing over 70 percent, there were still more than 50 gold left, which was a good income.
After thinking about it again, Chen Xing asked Ye Yang Bailiu to take people back first, and walked into the gun shop by himself. The reason is very simple, there are many people at all, and it will stimulate the demon girl. You know, last time at the underground water station, the speed at which she killed people was measured in seconds.
It is estimated that his team of people is not enough for her to kill in half a minute, so she still lowered her posture to convince people.
"Don't come to me and ask for money. I haven't done a single business this month, and I'm so poor that I'm about to go bankrupt. As soon as she entered the door, Alia said with a sad face. Of course, it's all pretended.
"If it goes bankrupt, I'll have to go to work as a wandering warbler. Every night, I have to sleep with the old man, alas......" Alia's eyelids raised slightly, looking pitiful, "Brother, you are a good person." You can't bear to watch me live on the streets and be bullied by old men, right? ”
"I'm not here to ask you for money, I'm here to talk to you about business." Chen Xing said.
"Really?" Alia's eyes widened, as if she didn't quite believe it.
"We usually ......," Chen Xing glanced at her and hinted, "We always need to replenish some ammunition, right?" ”
"Oops, I happen to have some coffee from Dragonstone here, let's have some together." Alia's eyes rippled, and she twisted her waist to greet her.
I have to say that this demon girl is graceful and amorous. Sometimes pure and lovely, like a girl next door, with red lips and white teeth, beautiful eyes; Sometimes it is as cold as frost, and no one is allowed to enter, like a thousand-year-old glacier and a 10,000-year-old cold pool; Sometimes it is fierce and vicious, cruel and ruthless, like a machine that kills people without blinking, which makes people feel afraid; Sometimes it is flattering into the bone marrow, more sophisticated than the warbler who has been dry for ten years, as if you can separate your legs at any time and let you pick it.
However, the most surprising thing is not her unpredictability, but that when she switches between various forms, there is no disharmony at all, as if she was born like this.
After a while, Alia finished grinding coffee, brewed boiling water, and walked with two cups of steaming coffee. The waist is twisted and twisted, and it is really flattering. Then he bent down seventy degrees and put it down in front of Chen Xing. That touch of snow-white frightening is still fascinating.
"Captain Chen, please use it slowly." Alia smiled lightly, her eyes like silk. In that voice, there seemed to be a breath of moisture, wet, and people were numb when they heard it.
Chen Xing couldn't help but think that if she was imprisoned, he was afraid that he would not get tired of playing for the rest of his life. The manners and personalities of women in the world, such as the girl next door, the iceberg beauty, the strong royal sister, and the femme fatale, she has all covered.