Chapter 108: The Lord Who Uses Wine to Kill His Sorrows
Spelty's suggestion was unanimously approved by all the staff members present, and Stannis hurriedly set about formulating incentives to attract surrounding peasants to move into his territory.
First of all, of course, the free gift of land, which is the only resource that Stannis can supply in unlimited quantities at this stage, he has set up an allocation of 15 acres of land for each family, and at the same time provides each family with an initial capital of ten gold coins and free farming tools, as well as seeds that can be used for the last two seasons and a house.
Of course, this was not enough to discourage the peasants from abandoning the land they had cultivated for generations, so Stennis introduced a blockbuster condition, which was to exempt the peasants from paying taxes for three years. However, when formulating the policy, he secretly kept an eye on it, and the 10% rate for the use of water-powered mills was not exempt.
After throwing out so many favorable conditions, Stanis felt that a steady stream of peasants would enter the territory early tomorrow morning.
With this thought in mind, the lord sweetly closed his eyes.
Stannis opened his eyes early in the morning, and like a child looking forward to his birthday present, he hurriedly dressed and ran outside the castle without even eating breakfast, eager to see the peasants surrounding the castle and shouting "Long live".
He pushed open the door expectantly, only to see two hillbillies squatting there to, a custom in this poor rural place that at the door of the highest ranking person in the territory brings good luck for a year, so Stanis smells a foul smell every morning when he goes out.
Seeing that the lord came out so early, the two shit guys who were on the rise didn't even wipe their buttocks, and hurriedly ran away with their pants.
"Oh my god! You bastards don't talk about personal hygiene, if I have to cut off a few heads, you will be afraid!"
Stannis shouted angrily, and he felt as if no one was adding to the territory.
What was the situation? He had prayed silently all night last night, how could he say that his genius plan could increase the population by 100?
"Old man!" he shouted in a raised voice.
A barefoot figure appeared, and Master Romone, who was still shaving just now, hurriedly ran out.
"What's wrong? ”
Stannis pursed his lips and made a fuss like a bear child, "Go and see what's going on!
Master Romon wiped his mouth and looked at him helplessly, "Your Excellency, no matter how fast it is, those farmers can't just get the news and run over overnight, even if the news is spread, it will take some time to spread." ”
But the wayward lord didn't care, he used his tried and tested tricks again, and rolled on the ground, "I don't care! I don't care! You can count it for me now, I don't believe that no one could wait to move into my territory all night yesterday!"
Master Romon sighed, even though he was a handful of years, the lord's orders he had to obey.
In the afternoon, he brought back the information that Stannis needed.
"How's that?" Stannis asked anxiously.
Master Luo Meng opened his notebook and said seriously: "After the population statistics sent by the three villages below, there was no increase in one person last night, but one peasant family may have felt that the taxes were too heavy now, and they didn't even want property with their families, so they disappeared overnight. ”
"......" Stannis almost spat out a mouthful of blood, and a great sense of frustration crept over him, and he felt that his life was meaningless.
Robert on the side comforted him and said, "Boss, don't you have to be so sad, just one night, those farmers don't say that they haven't received the good news, they just have to prepare well, don't they?"
These words relieved Stannis a little, and it seemed that he had not yet failed to penetrate the surface. After thinking about it, he felt that there was still a problem with the publicity, which caused many people to be unaware of his preferential policies, so he called the merchant Albert and asked him to inform the merchants who did business in his territory that from now on, every other lord's village should vigorously publicize his policy.
Albert didn't care, he also hoped that the more people in Stennis' realm the better, so that he could buy and sell more goods.
Soon, Stannis's propaganda machine began to kick in and spread his preferential policy throughout the East Mirror of the Tanis Kingdom.
But even so, Zivinie's population growth curve did not rise by leaps and bounds as Stannis had expected, and for three days in a row, only a few peasant families moved in every day, and two of them felt that the living conditions were too bad and moved back directly.
The desperate Stannis soaked in the 'Chen's Entertainment Club' every day, using 'bubble wine' to dispel his sorrows, and his tragic appearance made those girls sympathize.
"Don't drink it, Stan. Hypatia snatched the glass he was holding and motioned to the bartender Korodov not to pour him any more wine.
Stannis raised his head, his decadent eyes revealed a sense of lovelessness, he grabbed Hypatia's snow-like wrist and refused to let go, and said vaguely, "You say, what am I doing all day long for the development of my territory? Is it for me!"
"It'......" Hypatia was just a pretty maiden, and these things were never something she should have considered.
But the lord gave the answer, "Of course it's for me! Not for myself, who will be planning all day long to build this and get that in order to grow this broken place, and recruit you here, I have done so much I thought I would stride forward towards my dream, but what!"
"Stan," Hypatia clasped his hand in both hands, "I'm a trickster and I don't know how to tell the truth, but I just know that hard work will pay off." ”
"Return?" Stannis sneered, he let go of his hand and greeted Korodov drunkenly, "Bartender, make me a drink, I want to see if your skills have risen, what? no! Hell, just get me the alcohol mixed with water!"
Suddenly, the door to the clubhouse was slammed open, and Robert's panicked expression appeared from outside the door.
"Boss, I've been looking for you for a long time, but I didn't expect you to hide here and drink flower wine!"
Stannis waved his hand impatiently, and he almost fell to the ground due to his physical disorder, "Don't bother me! I don't want to take care of the affairs of the territory! Those people don't even want to come, don't you really take my dignified Count Stennis Justinian seriously!"
Robert saw that he was already drunk, and hurriedly patted his face with his hand, "Boss, I came to you for this matter!