Chapter 220 Taxation Collection

On the 32nd of August, the Flying Fish of Dawn arrived on the island of Hilowas. The voyage from Hornhorn Bay to Hilois Island took a total of seventeen days, and this was because it was the first time to run this sea route, and I did not know much about the sea conditions, so I had to slow down every night to be on the safe side. Old Jack said that if the sailors had completed the road, it would take ten days at most to get from Hornhorn Bay to Hilois Island, at the speed of the Flying Fish of Dawn.

Hilovas Island is the only large island off the coast of the Kingdom of Antinac, about 300 miles from the coast of the Kingdom, and it takes a day for a sea ship to make a round trip. If you calculate the size of the island, Hilovas can be divided into one county and three viscounts, but unfortunately, Hilovas is an extinct volcanic island, two-thirds of the island is volcanic mountains and forests, sandy beaches, and there is not much arable land.

According to the information handed over by Lorist when he received the canonization of His Royal Highness, the original inhabitants of the island of Hirovas were less than 5,000, and there were three villages and a small town called Shiratori Town. Due to the lack of access to the sea from the kingdom, the nobles of the former Cresnesian Empire and the current Kingdom of Andinac regarded the island of Hiloas as a poor country, and there were even incidents where the nobles refused to accept the canonization of the island of Hilois.

After the end of the imperial civil war, the third prince who established the Andinac kingdom was very worried that the second highness with outstanding military achievements would threaten the crown prince of His Royal Highness, who was good at administrative affairs, and he did not want the Antinac kingdom to experience another imperial civil strife such as the three kings competing for the throne, and at the same time he miscalculated the whole situation, thinking that there would be no major war in the future, and the major kingdoms and principalities that split from the empire would be at peace for a long time, and everyone needed time to recuperate, **** the trauma of war.

Based on this judgment, the third prince chose the steady eldest prince to succeed him on the throne in the future. He deprived His Royal Highness of the military power of His Second Highness, who threatened the position of the crown prince of His Highness, and disbanded the White Lion Legion supporting His Second Highness on the grounds that he was unable to maintain the three major legions, and sent the neutral Tempest Legion to the Duchy of Melein to assist the Grand Duke of Mehlain in resisting the invasion of the army of the Iberian Kingdom led by the Second Prince.

In the end, the third prince canonized the entire island of Hilovas as a prince's domain, as the hereditary territory of the second highness, and let the second highness go to the island of Shilovas, and he could not leave without his summons. It's almost the equivalent of exile. In the eyes of the third prince, with him personally guiding His Royal Highness on how to deal with the affairs of the kingdom, and without the threat of the Second Highness, his eldest son should inherit the throne smoothly in the future and ensure the political stability of the Kingdom of Antinac.

But what the third prince didn't expect was that he would be attacked by waves of assassins sent by the eldest prince and the second prince, and he was hit by a poisoned arrow when he couldn't prevent it, and he was finally rescued but paralyzed on the sickbed. And his so-called steady highness has an extremely weak character, and the nobles of the Andinac kingdom who have seen through the reality are jointly riding on the head. The unscrupulous suppression of the Andinac royal family and the division of the royal territories led to a deteriorating and turbulent situation in the kingdom.

And the Second Highness, who has no military power, can only stay on the island of Hilois and do it in a hurry, but he is powerless in the face of the situation of the kingdom and the plight of the royal family. At this moment, His Royal Highness received news that a large convoy had entered the kingdom's territory, and this convoy also had a powerful armed force to escort the convoy. At present, this convoy has faced off against the noble coalition forces of the kingdom in Aonohara.

The second prince left the island of Hilovas by boat overnight. I hope to rush to the battlefield to mediate between the two sides of the confrontation between the convoy and the nobles, and seek a benefit for myself. But what he didn't expect was. When he was still on the road, the news of the Battle of Aonogahara came, and the convoy with a difference of half in number armed to the ground of the noble coalition army, and also hanged all the lords who participated in the aristocratic coalition army to rob the convoy along the way, and the territory was razed to the ground......

The most important news is that the team is flying the flag of the Norton family's furious bears. It is said to be a convoy of the Northland Raging Bears, intending to return north to the family's territory. And the female knight next to His Royal Highness, his lover is named Norton Christian, from the Norton family. So the second prince entered the convoy camp at night, using his lover's family affection and the standard equipment left by the disbanded White Lion Legion. successfully persuaded Shi Fatzi and Bodfinger and others, who led the convoy back to the north, to reach an agreement to help him ascend to the throne, and used the powerful convoy to purge the nobles of the entire Andinac kingdom and turn over in one fell swoop.

After seizing the ruling power of the Kingdom of Antinac, His Royal Highness recruited back the Tempest Legion, reorganized the Royal Guard Legion, and used the large number of displaced people in Antinac to pit the northbound convoy, and threw the package of the displaced people to the northbound convoy, but he himself made great efforts to stabilize the situation in the kingdom and restore agricultural production.

At that time, the northbound convoy was intercepted by a strong enemy in front of it, and then faced a food crisis, and was trapped at the border and could not move, and the situation was critical. If it weren't for Luster rushing to the northbound convoy, I am afraid that the convoy would have separated and collapsed after a while, and there would be no way out except to fill in a bloody road with a sea of corpses and blood.

In order to win over Lorist, the Second Highness canonized Lorist as an earl, promoted the seat of the Norton family, and gave Lorist the hereditary territory of Hiroas as a seal and compensation to Lorlist.

Immediately afterwards, Lorist led a convoy to smuggle across Egret Lake, attacked the Bread Hill military camp at night, besieged the fortress of Liechdana, opened the road to the north, swept through the principality of Madras, occupied the city of Kebo on a snowy night, and finally took the northbound convoy back to the northland. And the Second Highness also cooperated with Lorist to force the Iron Guard Corps of the fortress of Liechtana to occupy the province of Yungshandra in the Duchy of Madras.

After Lorist led the family convoy north, the Second Highness built the Mountain Road Fortress as a defensive barrier to defend the province of Yungeshandra, and used the largest commercial city of the Principality of Madras to cause infighting between the Archduke Madras's Seamount Army and the Iberian Kingdom support army led by the Second Prince, so that the two sides fought and successfully avoided the danger of being attacked on both sides.

Then the second palace concentrated his forces to resist the 70,000 army of the kingdom of Ridlis led by the great prince who invaded the great prince, first ordered the wind army to resist step by step, and lost more than half of the 70,000 army of the great prince with heavy casualties, and then ambushed the remaining more than 30,000 elite troops of the great prince in the Liushui River, trapped and eliminated the 30,000 army. Forcing the eldest prince to disguise himself as an exile and flee.

The battle of Liushuichuan was easy to attack and defend, and the Second Highness led the army to counterattack into the Kingdom of Redlis, forcing the eldest prince to sign an alliance under the city and cede the two provinces to the Kingdom of Antinac. After returning to the army, the Grand Duke of Madras, who was defeated by the second prince, sent people to sue for peace, and ceded the province of Yungeshandra to the Kingdom of Andinac, making the Kingdom of Andinac the largest kingdom in the territory after the division of the former Krissen Empire. The strength has increased greatly, and His Royal Highness has become famous because of this, and is known as the new generation of military gods.

Now, five years later, Lorist has finally stabilized the Northlands, so that the family territory has been greatly developed and developed, and this is the first time he has come to this new territory that has been sealed to him, the island of Hilowas.

The pier of Shirowass Island is located on the shore of its only town, Shiratori, and a somewhat curved wooden trestle sinks nearly 100 meters into the sea, next to a white sandy beach. The water is clear and blue.

To Lorlist's surprise, there were seven or eight sea-going ships moored on either side of the wooden trestle, some of them richly decorated, and the flags fluttering on them were clearly painted with the coats of arms of noble families, and it seemed that this island of Hilovas was not as remote and less visited as the legend suggests.

There were no pilots, and the towns by the sea were silent about the arrival of the Flying Fish in the morning light, and even the people who ran out of the docks to watch the bustle did not appear.

The Flying Fish of Dawn had already put away the white sails on the three masts, and slowly approached the wooden trestle with only the front and rear sails. When they were about far away, several sailors jumped onto the wooden trestle and caught the rope that had been thrown at them. Pull the Flying Fish of Dawn over and tie it to the wooden pier next to the wooden trestle.

Lorist commanded: "Wilson, leave half of the sailors to watch the ship, Dorus, you let the five steel crossbow shooters stay on the ship first. I feel that this White Bird Town is a little weird, how come there is no one at the docks. The rest of me went to town with me to see what was going on. ”

Soon Lorist learns that there is no one in Shiratori Town. Instead, everyone gathered in the central square of the town, and two or three thousand people crowded the small square tightly, and from time to time there were bursts of noise and protests.

Patting a man dressed as a forty or fifty-year-old sailor on the shoulder, Lorist asked, "Friend, can you tell me what's going on here?"

The man didn't look back. scolded with some resentment: "What else can I do, that Viscount Aslan, who was raised by a dog*mother*, came over to collect taxes again......"

"Collect taxes?" Lorist was stunned, isn't this Shiloas Island the new territory of the Norton family, how could someone come over to collect taxes?

"You make it clear! Who is here to collect taxes? Who is he collecting taxes for?" When it comes to collecting taxes and money, Shi Fatzi is already furious, this is the territory of the Norton family, and no one has come to take care of the family for five years, and now he finds out that someone is collecting taxes here, this is not just offending the Norton family, this is almost a slap in the face of the Norton family! He grabbed the man dressed as a sailor in front of him and pulled him directly to the front.

The man just wanted to scold, but when he turned around, he saw more than a dozen family guards wearing standard armor around Lorlist, and he immediately became dumbfounded, and the man who had seen more of the world immediately understood that these people were not provoked by himself, so he hurriedly bowed his head and forgave him, as long as he knew everything, he would tell the truth and never hide it.

"That's right, today Viscount Aslan brought a small group of soldiers to collect taxes, and our mayor Daddy Hugo refused his unreasonable request for a tax increase, and Viscount Aslan was so angry that he wanted to hang Daddy Hugo in the square and give him fifty lashes. The garrison of White Bird Town has been dispatched, but this time Viscount Aslan brought a gold-rank knight over, although the garrison is large, none of them can be defeated, and now the two sides are deadlocked. We all rushed here when we heard the news, hoping to rescue Daddy Hugo......" The man quickly explained the reason why so many people had gathered in the square.

"Isn't this island of Hiloas the domain of the Norton family, and on what basis does the viscount of Aslan collect his taxes?" asked Schward.

The man did not despise Schward because of his young age, and explained: "This Viscount of Aslan has come to collect taxes on the commission of His Royal Highness the Second Regent of our kingdom. ”

"Commission?" Shi Fatzi asked angrily: "This is already the territory of the Norton family, why did His Royal Highness send someone over to collect taxes?"

"Well, I don't know about this, but I've heard that five years ago, Viscount Aslan only collected ten percent of the tithes when he first came, and then twenty percent when he came the next year, saying that His Royal Highness had raised the tax rate and had to collect a poll tax. In the third year, it was necessary to collect 30 percent, and it was said that His Royal Highness was going to expand the army, and it was raised by 10 percent, in addition to the poll tax, there was also a wine tax, a wharf tax, and so on. The year before and last year, they collected 50 percent of the tax, as well as the property tax, the transportation tax, the mountain forest tax, and the fishing boat tax, which are said to be the ...... collected for the unification and revival of the Krisson Empire," the man recalled.

"My day!" Shi Fatzi is about to have a seizure, is there such a tax collection?

"And what did he add to the name of his tax collection today, and why did the mayor refuse?" asked Lorlist.

"I don't know much about this, I don't know about this. However, I heard the previous rumors just now, it seems to say that this Norton family, who have never seen a human figure and never been to the territory of Hilowas, still has a family territory in the Northlands. Because it was too far away, the taxes of that family territory were never handed over to His Second Highness. Viscount Aslan decided to make up the unpaid taxes of the Norton family over the years. In this way, it is not enough to hand over all the accumulated property in the public treasury of Shiratori Town, and each family still owes a huge debt, and I heard them say that each person has to hand over more than three kingfords to pay it off, so everyone gathers here to save the mayor of the town, and secondly, to protest......" the sailor man muttered.

"Hehe, hehe......" Lorist is already angry, very good, even think of such a tax collection name, it is really a long insight. In a territory like the Northlands, which was separated by enemy nations and was not connected to the kingdom, the kingdom was not only not allowed to collect taxes, but was generally given subsidies in recognition of acts of loyalty and martyrdom.

Lorist was furious, he didn't know if this was the order of His Royal Highness or the Viscount Aslan's own initiative. Originally, he didn't come to take care of the new territory, and there was no need for the second highness to send someone to collect tithes, but he could first record it in the account and wait for the lord to arrive in the new territory and then settle the accumulated taxes, which was originally a practice among nobles. Lorist can believe that the Second Highness does not know, so this Viscount Aslan will have to suffer.

"Blow our trumpet, show our banner, and let everyone on the island of Hiloas know that the Norton family is here, their lord is here!" Lorist commanded the guard behind him, turning around.

"Yes, sir!"

...... (To be continued.) )