The City Lord's Mansion was still brightly lit in the middle of the night.

Although the busiest autumn harvest has just ended, as the lord of Bonta City, Earl Stark has no shortage of work at all.

Unlike the previous Earl of Satsuma who liked to delegate power and let his subordinates do things, Count Stark prefers to take all the power into his own hands, and he decides big and small things.

He loved the feeling of being in control.

However, the price paid for this was that he was much busier than the Earl of Satsuma.

He had just finished a small meeting, and after he returned to his office in the City Lord's Mansion, he didn't take any rest at all, and began to approve the official documents.

Because of the outstanding results of this year's autumn harvest, Bonta City was praised by His Majesty the King and the Department of Agriculture, and the Earl Stark was specially commended by the Kingdom Council, making him famous both in the Kingdom and in the family, and became another political star in the Stark family.

But Earl Stark himself knew very well how much water his achievement contained, and how much falsehood it was mixed with.

So in order to keep this matter from leaking, he must spend more time and energy on the aftermath.

For he also knew very well that although the family and his allies had put him in this position and replaced Count Satsuma as the lord of a city, the burden he was carrying was very important, and there were countless pairs of eyes on him in the other families that were opposed to the family, and if he dared to make the slightest mistake, he would be greeted by a storm.

Before leaving, the patriarch of the family. Duke Stark, who was also his eldest brother, explicitly sued him. If he doesn't handle things well here. If something goes wrong, if necessary, the family will definitely throw him out as a sacrifice.

So Count Stark came to Bonta City and acted extremely strongly, just to ensure that he could make a result that would satisfy the family and those allies behind him, and at the same time silence those who doubted.

Of course, provided that nothing goes wrong.

There are many key aspects of these aftermath that cannot be done by others, and must be handled by Earl Stark himself.

Fortunately, the family also gave him a lot of support in this regard.

For example, the number reported by Bangta City is obviously moisture. However, with the family's control of the Agricultural Department, the Agricultural Department did not conduct an exact and detailed assessment of this number at all, but only went through the motions and recognized this number, which made this number extremely eye-catching among all the cities in the Lampari Kingdom.

With this number, not only did Count Stark's reputation soar, but the faction led by the Stark family that insisted on agriculture also gained the upper hand in the kingdom council.

In the midst of the controversy, the most favorable example of this faction is the number of grain produced in the city of Bonta.

Because according to the estimation of the Department of Agriculture, as long as it is in accordance with the current policy of Bangta City. If it is spread in all cities in the kingdom, the food production of the entire kingdom will be greatly increased.

If they can all reach the level of Bang Ta City. Then it only takes three to five years for the entire Lampari Kingdom to completely get rid of the famine, and even be able to have a surplus of food every year.

Everyone must admit that the most important factor in maintaining the stability of a country is to feed its people.

As long as the people can survive, then there will be no more turmoil in the kingdom of Lampari than ten years ago.

And as long as there is no turmoil in the Lampari Kingdom and it continues to recuperate, it will naturally slowly become stronger.

This is a universally accepted truth on the continent of Sainz, so the other faction opposing the Stark family has no arguments to refute for the time being.

Even His Majesty agreed with the Stark family's view, but made some reservations and did not really say that agricultural development should be the first element.

And to everyone's surprise, just a few days ago, the Lampali Kingdom Commercial Agency suddenly announced a new resolution, saying that in order to promote the development of commerce in the Lampari Kingdom, it was decided to give some recognized chambers of commerce in the kingdom the right to trade freely.

The significance of this right of free trade is to allow these chambers of commerce to trade freely with other countries without special reporting to the Department of Commerce and the Royal Assembly, so that these chambers of commerce can take a more flexible approach to trade with other countries, and can also save a lot of time.

Of course, the goods that are traded must not be on the kingdom's prohibited trade list, and the income from trade must also be taxed to the kingdom.

Because the taxation standards of each city in the kingdom are different, for the sake of convenience, the taxes payable by these chambers of commerce, which have been granted free trade rights, and the trade of other countries will be paid directly to the kingdom's treasury, and will not be included in any city in the kingdom.

As soon as this policy came out, everyone understood that His Majesty was looking for a solution to the country's finances, and tried to collect a part of the city's finances from various parts of the kingdom to fill the kingdom's finances.

However, the commerce in the Kingdom of Lampari is not very developed, and there are only a handful of chambers of commerce that can trade with other countries, so this policy actually has no impact on the vast majority of chambers of commerce and cities in the kingdom, and naturally it has not caused much opposition and backlash.

On this list of chambers of commerce that have obtained the right to trade freely, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is impressively listed.

At first, Count Stark, who was the lord of Bonta City, didn't pay much attention to this, because he knew very well that Xu Yi had always had a close relationship with Her Royal Highness the Queen of Sevigny, and the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce was also deeply respected by Her Royal Highness and even His Majesty the King, so it was only natural that the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce would take care of the policy of free trade rights through Guò.

However, when Earl Stark was reminded by his staff to liquidate the financial revenue of Buntar City, he was shocked to find that the New Flying Chamber of Commerce had obtained the right to trade freely, but it had a great impact on Buntar City.

According to the financial statistics of Bangta City's tax revenue made by the city lord's office, in the past two years or so, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce can only pay a few hundred gold coins in taxes every month at the beginning. It has been in a state of rapid growth.

within this year. The New Flying Chamber of Commerce pays more than 200,000 gold coins in taxes every month. In June, the tax paid reached an astonishing 430,000 gold coins, which even exceeded several old chambers of commerce in Bangta City, and accounted for a very considerable proportion of Bangta City's entire financial revenue.

Since July, the taxes paid by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce have plummeted, from 430,000 gold coins in June to 260,000 gold coins in July, 190,000 gold coins in August, and barely more than 100,000 gold coins in September and October.

The new flying chamber of commerce is evading taxes? Of course, this is impossible.

The reason for this is that the New Flying Chamber of Commerce is under the persecution of Count Stark. Almost all of his business has been relocated to the Rainfall Valley.

And because His Majesty the King assigned the Falling Rain Valley and the surrounding land to Xu Yi as his viscountdom, according to the rules of the Council of the Nobles of the Kingdom, any income from the private domain of the nobles belonged to the nobles personally, and the nobles only needed to pay a certain amount of taxes to the kingdom treasury, and did not need to be responsible to anyone else in the kingdom.

Therefore, after the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce moved to the Rainfall Valley, except for a part of the business reached through Guò Bangta City, most of the other income no longer needs to pay taxes to Bangta City.

And now that the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has obtained the right to free trade, then according to the interpretation of the free trade right by the Department of Commerce, the income and taxes generated by the commercial trade between the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce and other countries and regions on the mainland are also directly handed over to the kingdom's treasury, and Bangta City is also not qualified to interfere.

So to sum it up. Although it is still nominally a chamber of commerce in Bang Ta City, only the product service center and the new concept modern life magic house set up in Bang Ta City are required to pay taxes to Bang Ta City. Nothing else needs to be done with the Bonta City Lord's Mansion.

The development speed of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is obvious to all, and it has recently reached a lot of commercial cooperation with the Ruerson Kingdom and the Duchy of Stantin, and even cooperated with the orcs in the Black Rice Wasteland.

If nothing else, the future development of the new flying chamber of commerce will only get faster and faster, and the profits will be higher and higher.

Correspondingly, Bonta City will have a very important and increasingly important tax revenue.

Although Count Stark implemented the policy of suppressing commerce and promoting agriculture, he actually knew in his heart that for Buntar City, the vast majority of taxes were still paid by the major chambers of commerce, and if it were not a matter of position, after he became the lord of Buntar City, he would definitely continue to vigorously develop commerce and agriculture like the previous Count of Satsuma.

However, now, because of his own position and the help of the Stark family and allies, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce was forced out of Bunta City, so this bitter fruit planted by his own hands can only be borne by him.

In addition to the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, there are many chambers of commerce in Bangta City who have also lost confidence in Bangta City because of the policy of suppressing business and rejuvenating agriculture, and there are constantly chambers of commerce that have withdrawn from Bangta City to other cities, and there are also chambers of commerce like the Amrley Chamber of Commerce and several other big chambers of commerce who have followed the footsteps of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce to invest in the Black Rice Wasteland, the Kingdom of Ruersun, and the Duchy of Stantin.

In the first batch of chambers of commerce announced by the Commerce Department to obtain free trade rights, in addition to the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce in Bonta City, the Amrli Chamber of Commerce, the Armani Chamber of Commerce, and the Sarank Chamber of Commerce were also included in it.

Earl Stark asked his staff to make a rough count of the business of these chambers of commerce, and finally came to a conclusion.

The withdrawal of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce from Bang Ta City has reduced the monthly tax revenue of Bang Ta City by 300,000 gold coins, and now that these four chambers of commerce have obtained the right to trade freely, Bang Ta City's tax revenue may be reduced by a minimum of 200,000 gold coins.

Last month, the total land tax revenue of Bangta City was just over 500,000 gold coins, which is equivalent to a direct loss of half now, and the blow is undoubtedly extremely heavy.

The current city of Bonta is almost a return to a few years ago, and can no longer be called the fastest growing city in the Kingdom of Lampari.

What's more, the large reduction in taxes proves that Bunta City has regressed greatly under the rule of Earl Stark, which is a heavy blow to the conservatives led by the Stark family.

Therefore, while dealing with the aftermath of the autumn harvest, Earl Stark is also racking his brains on how to increase the tax revenue of Bunta City to avoid this situation.

The hectic work continued, but at this moment, Count Stark saw the next official document, and his eyes shrank sharply. (To be continued......)