"What these two cities need most now is the return of refugees. I believe that as long as the people who have lived here since childhood, our announcement is released, these civilians who have been poisoned by the war will soon return to the city, not to mention that I will cancel the taxes in these two cities, it is nothing more than requiring them to pay their own labor, Finch, if it were you, what choice would you make?"

"I will go back to my hometown. ”

Finch pondered for a moment, and then said slowly, "But in this case, it will inevitably cause a large influx of refugees, and the current Hamp City is almost a ruin except for the surrounding walls, how do you solve the problem of resettlement of refugees?"

"Buy supplies. Ron said without hesitation: "If the Roa Lords don't have it, they will go to the other lords to buy it, and if the other lords don't have it, they will go to the Westhale Empire to buy it, as long as they provide a price that satisfies the seller, they will not let go." ”

"But if you push a tax policy like this, refugees from other territories will flock in, and we can't afford it. ”

Ron sneered and said, "You think they can come if they want to? Vinci, if you were a lord, would you let your people run to other people's territory at will? No way! He would rather kill them all than let them strengthen the power of others." Therefore, if this tax rate is not attractive enough, it will definitely not be able to lure local civilians to take risks. ”

"I've heard Meria say that there are a lot of refugees in the Duchy of Beru, but many of them end up in the army, why? Only by becoming soldiers and invading other countries can they have enough to eat, and the Duchy of Belu has the highest tax rate in the Fjord of Death- If they do this, sooner or later they will lose their country, once the tax burden is too high for the civilians to bear, they will become refugees, and when they are in exile, conflicts will inevitably break out, and there will be bloodshed and sacrifices, and this tax rate will be appropriately raised a little bit later, but it will definitely not exceed 10%. ”

Finch said silently, "Ten percent is too low!"

"No, you calm down and think about it, no matter how you look at this tax rate, we are indeed suffering, and it is indeed difficult for this tax to maintain normal operation, but we should not just see this tax rate, we should see the base. The larger the base, the more taxes will naturally be received. There is much strength in many, and this saying is useful at any time. Ron smiled.

Finch nodded, this man's mind for handling government affairs was not at all like the talent of an adjutant.

"Mr. Ron, I think you need to realize one thing, our army, when fighting, their combat power can indeed be used by one person as two or even three people, but when it comes to managing the city, our manpower is definitely not enough. ”

"I've thought about this before. Ron touched the tip of his nose: "Sometimes, the management of residents does not necessarily have to use the military, we can elect representatives among these civilians to be responsible for the management of a certain area of Mo, of course, this kind of representatives can be elected, and the elected representatives can set up a management organization, perhaps, how about calling it a residents' committee?"

"Elections?Neighborhood Council?" Finch took a deep breath and looked at the man in front of him with some strange surprises, some of his thinking was too out-of-the-box, this kind of crazy idea, only such a person could come up with it, although it was bold, but it was a feasible plan.

"Then there's the traffic aspect. There were no roads built on the Great Plains, and they were basically only suitable for cavalry and horse-drawn carriages, and if they were on foot, including the transfer of refugees, the delivery of supplies and the trade were much slower. Ron's gaze looked at the Great Plains in the distance: "Actually, if we can study a resource called cement, then our transportation situation will be greatly improved." ”

"Cement?" Finch repeated in surprise.

"That's right, cement, a magical resource, with cement, we can build strong buildings, even if it is a huge trebuchet like the Belu siege, throwing huge flying stones at it, we can't smash the houses made of cement, we can also build concrete roads, even if it rains heavily in the great plains, on the concrete roads, our troops, carriages, pedestrians, can rush unaffected. ”

Finch took a deep breath, this advanced information had already made his brain a little insufficient.

"But I'll put the cement thing aside for now, and when the reconstruction of the city begins, I'll find a way to find a craftsman to study it. Ron suddenly patted his head: "By the way, what about the siege weapons that the Beru people left here?"

"Rest assured, the siege weapons are all in the north corner of the city, catapults, and large crossbow machines, there are more than twenty in total, and now all of them are ours. ”

A smile finally appeared on Finch's face, in the war years, such a large war weapon was a very valuable resource, and the manpower and material resources required to manufacture such a batch of equipment were very large.

"After solving the problem here, we must have a group of our own craftsmen. Ron's voice was serious: "We can't rely on capturing enemy equipment all the time, equipment like crossbows, catapults, etc., are relatively backward, I do know some quite powerful equipment, this is a special crossbow machine, it doesn't need a long cow tendon or anything, it can be made of horsehair, leather rope or other animal tendons, its construction is not the same as these bed crossbows, maybe the material can complement each other." Improve the utilization rate of materials. Unfortunately there is no pen and paper here, otherwise I could have drawn it for you to see. ”

The crossbow machine described by Ron Bei was actually a ballista in the ancient West, which was used as a main weapon by the Greeks and Romans at that time, but it was gradually lost. In 399 B.C., Dionysus of the ancient city of the Serra, a Greek subordinate, faced the threat of force from the powerful Carthaginians. The Carthaginians were very capable of fighting, and their armies were warriors who were not afraid of death. The Greeks were no match for the Carthaginians at all. Fortunately, at this time, a weapon that would have been overshadowed by other efforts was born—the Dionysian craftsmen designed and built the first torsional spring ballista in the history of warfare! It was with this torsion spring ballista that the Greeks successfully defeated the Carthaginian attack and won the final victory.

The appearance of the ballista completely changed the balance of power between the two sides, and its tremendous striking power and precision made people shudder: during the siege of Jerusalem by the Romans in 63 C.E., the Jewish general Josephus recalled that one of his companions, who was standing side by side on the wall, was knocked off the head by a projectile fired by a Roman ballista, and a pregnant woman in the city was hit by a stone bullet. The fetus in his womb was thrown a hundred feet away!

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