Two months later, in a vacant lot north of Black Rock City, hundreds of carpenters were building small wooden houses, these two-story cabins were built according to uniform standards and styles, one next to the other, at a glance very large and layered. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Claude, you're going to build five hundred wooden houses?" Standing on a hillside in the middle of the city, Bogula, who served as the city guard of Blackstone City, looked at the wooden houses being built below.

"That's right, the first batch of 500 will be built, and these wooden houses will house about half of the refugees. Meng Fan, the lord of Black Rock City, who was standing beside Bogula, looked at the carpenters working down the hillside with his hands behind his back.

"It costs a hundred gold coins to build a wooden house, and fifty thousand gold coins to build a wooden house, and fifty thousand gold coins to build a wooden house, Lord Claude, you should know that these refugees cannot afford to pay for this housing. Tiberius behind Meng Fan said that Tiberius had now been appointed by Meng Fan as the tax collector of Black Rock City and the treasurer of the lord's mansion.

Tiberius was well aware of the taxes in his realm and the financial expenses of his lord's house, and every gold coin in his lord's house needed to be approved by Tiberius, the treasurer.

"It doesn't matter if they can't afford to pay for the house now, I'll build the house and rent it to these refugees, and if they want to live in, they have to sign a contract with me to pay off the debt for the rest of their lives. Meng Fan said with a smile.

Meng Fan's design concept is similar to the mortgage model on the planet, where he repairs the houses for the refugees to live in, and then allows the refugees to earn money to pay off the initial housing payments. This provides a comfortable place for the refugees without losing a lot of money.

"Lord Claude, there are nearly five thousand refugees who have fled to Blackstone, and there are not so many jobs available in Blackstone. Tiberius continued. "Instead of them looking for work in the city, I will arrange for these refugees to reclaim the barren mountains outside the city, open up the barren mountains into urban fields, and grow crops, so that they can find stable jobs, and when the crops grow in the next year, they will increase the food production in the territory. Meng Fan replied.

After listening to the lord's explanation, "Lord Claude, you are closely linked in the measures to solve the problem of refugees in the city, I have great admiration for your wisdom..." Tiberius saluted Meng Fan, first build a house for the people to live in, and then collect the housing payment from the people, Meng Fan opened the housing loan model on the Qinglan Continent for the first time.

"Haha, it's all not worth mentioning. Meng Fan smiled and waved his hand, "I just made a rough plan, and the specific things, Tiberius, have to be completed by you." Meng Fan patted Tiberius on the shoulder and said. "Rest assured, Lord Claude, I will take care of these things. Tiberius saluted again.

"Big brother, how is the conscription going?" Meng Fan turned to look at his brother Bogula, who was the city guard of Black Rock City.

"I put up a conscription notice on my territory, and in these two months I have recruited 1,200 soldiers. Bogura replied, "Then plus the five hundred soldiers before, there are now seventeen hundred soldiers..." Meng Fan touched his chin.

"Big brother, in a territory like Black Rock City, how many territory soldiers are generally more appropriate?" Meng Fan asked. "There are about 70,000 people in the territory of Blackstone City, and the number of soldiers in the territory can be maintained at about 3,000 to 4,000," Bogura said.

"The addition of young and strong laborers to the army will inevitably have an impact on the agriculture and other aspects of the territory, and it will cost a lot of money to maintain a territorial army, Claude, as a territory of Blackstone City, you need to spend eight gold coins on a soldier every year, and if you maintain a territorial army of three thousand people, you will have to take out twenty-four thousand gold coins a year as a military salary. ”

"How many territorial troops does the previous Lord of Black Rock City have in Bahrain?" Meng Fan asked, "Three thousand five hundred." Bogura replied.

"Lord Claude, military pay is your biggest expense as a lord, Lord Claude, you can collect about 80,000 gold coins of taxes from the lords of the manors, merchants and people in your territory every year, and you need to pay 20% of the tax of these 80,000 gold coins to the king, and you also need to donate 10% to the Holy See of Light, and you can only have more than 50,000 gold coins left..."

"Donate the tax to the Holy See of Brightness?" Meng Fan frowned, if it was a matter of course to pay taxes to the king, Meng Fan couldn't understand the taxes to the Holy See of Light, as far as Meng Fan knew, the Holy See of Light had not made any contribution to his territory.

"Yes, Lord Claude, this tax is called the Bright Tax, and the lords of any country on the Qinglan Continent need to pay the Bright Tax to the Holy See of Light. Tiberius said.

Tiberius said that Meng Fan had learned in the book that the nine human kingdoms on the Qinglan Continent all believed in the God of Light, and the Holy See of Light represented the will of the God of Light, and the Pope of Light claimed to be the spokesperson of the God of Light on the Qinglan Continent.

If there is anyone in the Qinglan Continent who is more noble than the king, it must be the Pope of Light, even if it is the king of a country, he is the servant of the God of Light like other people, and the nine human kingdoms of the Qinglan Continent all have branches of the Holy See of Light-Church of Light, and these churches are different in size according to the breadth of the territory.

The Church of Light not only plays the role of absorbing the congregation, but also has the mission of monitoring the territory, and the church will report the list of heretics that appear in various places to the Holy See headquarters, and the Holy See will mobilize the Inquisition to arrest these infidels.

"What if I don't pay this Bright Tax to the Holy See?" Meng Fan didn't have a good impression of the Holy See of Light, on earth, Meng Fan had never believed in gods, and Meng Fan didn't believe in the existence of gods at all.

"Lord Claude, if you don't pay the Light Tax to the Holy See, the Holy See will treat you as a blasphemous, and they may sanction you..."

"That's right, Claude, the power of the Holy See of Light is very strong, and even His Majesty Landry, King of Gilgias, would not dare to disobey the Holy Order of the Holy Pope of Light..."

"Claude, the Holy See of Light not only has the three most powerful guardian legions on the Qinglan Continent, but the Holy See also controls the most powerful of the nine human kingdoms, the Maude Kingdom, King Maude is a puppet in his own country, and the lords and armies of the Maude Kingdom are all under the instructions of the Holy See of Light. ”

After listening to Bogula's words, Meng Fan was silent, "Lord Claude, the lords on the Qinglan Continent are not in awe of the God of Light, the God of Light has never shown miracles to the world, who would believe it just by the things that the Holy See boasted of? The three major guardian legions of the Heavenly Legion have powerful combat capabilities, and the Bright Sect also controls the Maude Kingdom, and no one in the Qinglan Continent dares to openly oppose the Bright Sect..." Tiberius said softly.

After listening to the words of the eldest brother and Tiberius, Meng Fan thought silently for a moment, "Since I don't have the strength to fight against the gods, let's honestly offer my sincerity to the God of Light." Meng Fan looked at Bogula and Tiberius beside him and said with a smile.