Chapter 138: The Fusion of Different Ideas
In the restaurant, the busy servants served a sumptuous dinner in an orderly manner, but Samuel always kept silent with a bitter melon face.
"Uncle, what's the matter?" asked Jack, who usually likes Uncle Samuel the most, as he leaned closer to Luna and asked with some concern.
"I don't know......" Luna shook her head as she looked at her father and teacher who were muttering something head-to-head, only to think that her uncle was not in a good mood because he was inseparable from the two of them.
"Big brother, you know what?" Jack turned to look at Charles again.
"Because of the increasing number of displaced people, the lords in various places asked for tax reduction, and in order to determine the amount of relief, my father asked my uncle to go everywhere. Charles said.
"But Uncle has just come back...... Jack doesn't know about government affairs, but he also knows that Samuel, who has just returned, is leaving again, and suddenly feels that his uncle is so pitiful.
"Again?" Luna couldn't help but twitch the corners of her mouth when she heard this.
Speaking of the lords of the snow wolf country, she couldn't cry or laugh, the reasons for the tax reduction she had heard about in the past two years were there, what daughter had to hold a wedding when she got married, asked for a tax reduction, and the elders in the family had to hold a funeral, and asked for a tax reduction, the most strange thing was that because there were more cubs in the family, they also had to reduce taxes.
Anyway, big and small things can be used by the lords as a reason for tax cuts.
But in fact, Luna estimates that taxes everywhere have never changed dramatically, except for major natural disasters.
In other words, the civilians still have so much tax to pay, but in the end, the taxes that were deducted went into the pockets of the lords, and when the disaster relief came, those guys would still ask her father for money.
"Minus again!" Charles nodded helplessly, before adding, "So this time my father asked my uncle to go from house to house." Actually, I want to go too. ”
"Have you discussed it with your father?" Luna looked at her brother, although Charles was only ten years old now, he looked like he was already a fourteen or fifteen-year-old boy, and it should be okay to go on a long trip, right?
"My father said think about it, but Mr. Gotte agreed. Speaking of being able to go outside and see, Charles couldn't help but be a little excited.
When the maids had set the table and everyone was seated, Silas looked at his brother, who was still sullen, and announced, "I'll let Charles go with you." ”
Samuel, who learned that his eldest nephew was also going, not only did not show any happiness, but became more and more sad, and snorted that he knew, so he just buried his head in eating.
"What were you two little ones muttering about?" said Gotte, smiling and patting Samuel on the shoulder, looking at Charles and Luna.
"That's all I have to say, by the way, Granny Darla has been delivering food to the little wandering orcs who have been put into the city every day, and I think she's working too hard to set up a fixed place, what do you think?" Luna told her what she had been thinking about in her stomach for a long time.
"There's no room for the nursery anymore, so that's a solution. However, if food is distributed in the city, the displaced people who are blocked out of the city are afraid that they will make a disturbance. Olivia had thought about it for a long time, but she had more concerns than Luna, and now that Luna had mentioned it, she was just right to talk about it.
No matter how troublesome the displaced people are, but it is also a human life, seeing that the weather is getting colder and colder, it is foreseeable that it is not a long-term solution to just keep people out of the city, once someone begins to die because of cold and hunger, the royal city is afraid that it will not be peaceful.
"Little one, do you know why, every winter, the nobles distribute food to the poor in and out of the city, but this time no one cares?" asked Gotte, looking at Luna after Olivia's words had ended.
"Because they're not from the Snow Wolf Country?" asked Luna, tentatively.
That being said, she really thinks this idea is quite absurd, if it is not her own family, she will not care, what if they harm her own family?
"That's just part of the reason. Another reason is that these people will go back after all, and the north is too cold, which is not suitable for them to live for a long time.
The reason why the nobles in the city were willing to help the poor people in the vicinity was because the land they rented was also nearby, and it could even be the land of these nobles.
Perhaps these commoners needed help because of their poor lives for one reason or another, which was regarded as their own responsibility by the nobles.
And these outcasts can't be kept, no matter how much you give them, they will leave as soon as calm returns to the lands of the Central Empire. ”
Gotte explained.
Luna was stunned at first, but quickly understood what Gotte meant.
Yes, although orcs are people, they are also beasts, and they have habitats, and the animals in the south go to the north, and he can't adapt to the environment, even if he hides for a while, but sooner or later he has to go back.
Although the nobles are willing to do good deeds, they are not willing to care about these exiles who eat and drink for nothing, wipe their mouths and leave when they are done, and can not produce any benefit to their country at all, and even if they are not killed, they may already be considered kind.
"Isn't it possible over there in the border city, will the border city be much colder than the Central Empire?" Luna asked, thinking for a moment, looking at Goth.
Think about the animals she saw in the zoo in her last life, although she heard that there are also people who are not adapted to the water and soil, but they can live in an environment that is artificially created and suitable for tropical animals.
Although the technical conditions here are not up to par, the place in the Snow Wolf Country is big enough!
If it is not in the north, how much worse can it be in the south on the border with the Central Empire?
Luna thinks that as long as it's not the kind of orcs that come from places with perennial heat, it shouldn't be too difficult to place, right?
But if you don't oppress them too much, if you stay for two years, let them have food, drink and a home, you should be able to keep some people, after all, orcs are not simple animals.
"Huh?" Silas and Gotte couldn't help but glance at each other.
Because most of the territory of the Snow Wolf Country has four distinct seasons, and it is the first time they have encountered this kind of thing, so they habitually only consider that those orcs come from the central empire with a mild climate, and they really haven't deliberately considered the climate on the border.
They even subconsciously concluded that those homeless people couldn't adapt to the climate of the Snow Wolf Country, but they didn't think that in fact, the climate near the border city was similar to that of the Central Empire.
I was awakened by the words of my own little daughter (elementary school student).
The two of them didn't eat, so they stood up directly, dragged Samuel, and Charles, who consciously followed, and went straight to the study.
"Mother?" Luna blinked, realizing that she seemed to have been distorted by herself.
"Eat, what you want to do, I'll ask your father for you in the evening." Olivia looked at her bewildered little daughter with a smile and comforted.
"Okay......" Luna sighed, everyone was gone, what else could she do......