When the carriage of Chen Zeyi's two uncles and nephews left Graystone Village, Chen Xiansong asked Balf to gather the idlers in the village and call himself when everyone was almost gathered.

Balff took the order, and Chan went into the kitchen and saw Alice and Ruth at work. The two of them reacted differently when they saw Chen Xiansong, Ruth seemed a little happy and a little shy, while Alice rolled her eyes and looked impatient: "Go out of the house, is the kitchen a place where you big men should come in?" ”

"Come in and have a look." Chen Xiansong and Alice have been together for a few months, how can they not know that she is an awkward girl with a knife mouth and a tofu heart, and said with a smile: "The milk tea is delicious, I'll come in and see how you made it." ”

Hearing this, Alice's face softened a lot: "Didn't we come across the mountain with a little lord of the Aurora Kingdom, he brought some green tea bricks unique to the Aurora Kingdom, and Sister Qianxin drank it some time ago, and suddenly said that she remembered that there was a way to make milk tea, and said that you might like it, I tried it for several months, and finally made it, and it was cheaper for you." ”

"Thank you." Chen Xiansong said.

Alice's white face was a little flushed, she suddenly pushed Chen Xiansong out of the door, and scolded angrily: "If you see it, leave quickly, the bedroom is not where you men should be." ”

The bronze bell rang outside, which was a signal for the village to summon the villagers, and Chen Xiansong knew that the time should be almost up, so he said: "Alice, help me make a cup of milk tea later, and put less sugar." ”

"I've gotten it, let's go." Alice looked disgusted and waved her little hand at him.

Chen Xiansong left happily, Alice returned to her original position, and when she turned her head, she saw Ruth looking at her enviously, her expression immediately became a little panicked, and she asked, "What are you looking at me for?" ”

"You have such a good relationship with your master." Ruth sighed, "If only I could be so close to my master." ”

"That guy is thick-skinned. It's okay for you to scold him. Alice lowered her head and continued to sort out the ingredients.

Ruth said quietly: "People are different, what you can do, others may not be able to do. ”

Chen Xian Song walked out of the castle, and his eyes swept down to see a group of people focused on the small hillside, with Balf beside him, leading him to a small mound, and below, a large group of villagers, Aslan and the second master were also among them. The bronze bell that rang just now was bought by the villagers spontaneously. And hang on a big tree next to it. Now that the villagers have recognized Chen Xiansong as their lord, according to the rules of other villages, it is convenient for the lord to gather people, so they got such a thing out.

Looking at the black pressure below against a human head, Chen Xiansong coughed. shouted loudly: "Fellow fathers and fellow villagers, His Excellency Chen Zeyi next door told me just now. He hopes to borrow a hundred young men from our village to help him build his territory. The time is about a year, two copper coins a day, five black loaves of bread. I promised to come down, a hundred young people can afford to come out of our village, and we will go there to work tomorrow, and the time is a little tight. Therefore, the second master will decide on the manpower for a while, and try to make at least one man in each family, and everyone will earn money together. Still have any questions? ”

The second master took two steps forward tremblingly and asked, "Lord." Is the foreign tax according to the rules of other villages? ”

"Foreign taxes?" Chen Xiansong heard this word for the first time. Balf walked up to Chen Xiansong and explained in a whisper. After listening to the words, Chen Xiansong smiled and said: "Second uncle, I won't collect foreign taxes, and I won't collect them in the future, but I will collect 20% of the agricultural tax and everything produced on this land, so I have no opinion." ”

"Twenty percent?" The second uncle's eyes widened, and the others were also shocked.

"Most?" Chen Xiansong thought about it, he remembered that in the past, there was no tax in the era of natural persons in the 21st century, but it is recorded in the history books that in the more ancient feudal era, the agricultural tax should be as high as 50% or 60%.

"No, it's too little." The expressions of the second uncle and the villagers seemed to be a little incredulous.

"Twenty percent, that's it, I'm still quite rich now, and when I run out of money, I'll collect more agricultural taxes." Chen Xiansong smiled, now the number of his people, counting infants, is less than five hundred. There is not much land around the village that can be cultivated, and there is no hybrid rice now, the grain production is very low, even if he collects ten percent of the agricultural tax, he can't collect much grain, and the money he receives from the association every month can buy all the grain produced by the whole village, so why care about this grain.

As for what to collect two percent, instead of simply not collecting, the reason is very simple, he doesn't want to break the current rules, even if the agricultural tax is less, it is still collecting, other nobles are at most laughing at Chen Xiansong, but if they don't collect, it is a precedent, many small nobles don't know how to do business, so they live on a meager agricultural tax, if he sets a precedent, whether it will affect the mentality of farmers in other territories, other nobles will see him as an outlier, or a betrayer, at that time he is the enemy of the entire aristocratic class.

Collecting less agricultural tax can be called kindness, but not collecting it at all is malicious, and it is not good for yourself and the villagers.

"Lord, if you only collect 20% of the agricultural tax, then the foreign tax cannot be exempted, otherwise it will be too unfair to you." The second master said slowly on crutches, the villagers were completely silent, they had never seen such a ...... Not greedy lords.

"As for the small amount of foreign taxes, I don't care about it yet." Chen Xiansong scratched his head, hehe, and pretended to be angry and said: "Anyway, you lords and I are also a soul contemplative who can run to my treasure chest by himself with a few gold coins a minute, I really don't like your money, if there is nothing to do, just disperse." ”

The villagers and Chen Xiansong have been getting along for a while, knowing that he is kind-hearted, and he is not willing to exploit his own villagers too much, and he also knows that he is joking, and there is a big laugh at the moment, the women and children scattered to do things on their own, and the young and strong people are around the second uncle, and now there are only more than 80 households in the village, there are always a few more than one or two people, these are all money, a year's high-level labor money, and there is no need to pay foreign taxes, and there is one more person in the family to work, and there will be more security in the future life, and fools will not fight for it.

Seeing that the matter was over, Chen Xiansong left the small mound and returned to his home, where he was ready to rest.

On the other side, Chen Silan touched his son Alex's head and asked him, "What do you understand about your teacher's behavior today?" ”

Alex shook his head: "I don't know, I just think the teacher is really a good person." ”

"It's true that Your Excellency Chan Hyun Song is a good person, but you should see something deeper." After all, Aslan has some experience and understands many people's feelings: "The second master has offended His Excellency Chen Xiansong before, but why does he have to arrange such an important person to be distributed to the second master?" ”

Alex shook his head.

"The second uncle is the head of our village, if he doesn't cooperate with His Excellency Chen Xiansong to do things, even if Chen Xiansong is a soul thinker, there is no good way, after all, he is very kind, he will not hurt others casually, and it is impossible to use coercion to force us to comply." Aslan smiled: "So His Excellency Chen Xiansong gave a small part of the rights to the second master, and the personnel distribution is also very important, everyone has to ask the second master, he will feel that he has face, and he will definitely cooperate with the work of His Excellency Chen Xiansong, although on the surface it is the second master who has the right, but in the eyes of others, this right is given by Chen Xiansong to the second master, that is to say, in the eyes of others, the second master is just one of Chen Xiansong's subordinates, you understand!" ”

Alex nodded in understanding.

"Actually, when I was a young mercenary, I heard this thing be said, and it was also used in the management of the mercenary group, so I can understand it." Aslan sighed: "It's just that I don't understand, why His Excellency Chen Xiansong wants to reduce agricultural taxes and cancel foreign taxes, which has no benefits to him, is it really a natural good heart that is causing trouble, I don't understand." ”

This is the root of human inferiority, always thinking about the mind of the superior, and often complicating simple things. In fact, Chen Xiansong really didn't think about so many things, he just simply felt that the second uncle was highly regarded in the village and was familiar with the labor situation of every household in the village, so it should be very suitable for him to arrange the manpower.

Then Aslan took his son home, and as the leader of a mercenary group, he naturally did not lack those copper coins and black bread, so he did not go up to join in the fun.

After resting for the night, Chen Xiansong asked Aslan to gather all the maids the next day.

The morning sun was not too hot, and the breeze was blowing, which was refreshing. Chen Xiansong stood in front of the castle, and behind him were several large iron boxes. The mercenaries already knew what was going to happen at this time, and they were all very excited.

"I said in Emperor Fall City that as long as everyone returns to Greystone Village safely, everyone will have a bonus. For the dead brothers, the family will receive 400 gold coins, and the brothers who are seriously wounded will receive 300, the lightly wounded 200, and the others 100. I do what I say. Chen Xiansong turned around and kicked an iron box to the ground: "The money is here, and the names are called one by one to collect it." No one is missing. ”

The mercenaries let out a frantic shout: "Long live Your Excellency! ”

"Long live Your Excellency Chan Hyun Song."

The mercenaries shared hardships with Chen Xiansong, and saw his magic in the Emperor's Fall City.

Signaling that the matter would be handled by Balf, Chen Xiansong returned to the castle. Spilling so many gold coins at one time will definitely hurt the hearts of other nobles, but Chen Xiansong will not. In his opinion, four hundred gold coins to buy a human life is still too cheap.

Girl Thirteen stood on the balcony, her eyebrows furrowed slightly as she looked at the rude mercenaries with crazy faces on her faces, but obediently waiting in line to receive the gold coins...... Their Chen family raised a lot of dead soldiers, but those were cultivated from a young age, and it took an extremely long time to consolidate their beliefs, but she felt that the following mercenaries seemed to be not much different from the dead soldiers. (To be continued......)