Chapter 579: Freemen

For Lorist, there are only two major events that really deserve his attention in the 1783 year of the universal calendar of the Gelinthia continent, one is the enthronement ceremony of the Second Highness that has been held. Pen~Fun~Pavilion www.biquge.info Although the grand ceremony has become a thing of the past, the unhappiness that occurred in the process and the jealousy expressed by the Second Highness made the relationship between the four alliances of the Northlands led by the Norton family and the Second Highness from ease and friendship to tension and confrontation, which indicates that the future Krisson Empire will become a gladiatorial arena between the two forces, and the situation in the empire will not calm down until Lorlist, the sword saint of the town country, and the second highness, the emperor of the empire, do not distinguish the winner or loser.

The second major event is the completion of the Bear Palace outside the east gate of the Angry Bear City, after three and a half years of construction, nearly 200,000 laborers and thousands of skilled craftsmen carefully carved, the magnificent Bear Palace was finally completed. In this world of the Gelinthia continent, there is no feudal violation of the system, as long as the territorial nobles have money and strength, they can build a palace beyond the scale of the royal palace as their residence. This is not only to show the strength of your family, but also to leave a famous family legacy for future generations, and at the same time to engrave your name in history. For example, the Mercury Palace of the Handla family and the summer residence of the Volendor family.

What makes Lorist laugh and cry is that when he decided to build the Bear Palace, he did not want to build a great palace that will go down in history, but the original intention was to solve the problem of overproduction in the industrial and mining farms in the family territory, simply put, to transform export-oriented production into domestic demand-based development. At the same time, it is also to let the people of the family territory have an opportunity to work and earn money during the slack time, and then let them use the money earned from the work to buy the daily necessities that are piled up in the warehouse produced by the family territory, so that the economy and trade of the family territory can be circulated and developed, and the bad habit of burying the people as soon as they have money for emergencies will be changed......

Therefore, the stalls of the Bear Palace are very large, but in terms of details, its layout and decoration are not elaborate or ornate. For Lorist, the so-called palaces in the world of the Gallinthia Continent are actually just a combination of several richly decorated castles and several gardens, and they do not have the atmosphere and grandeur of those palaces in his previous life. And the construction period is also short, those famous palaces in the previous life are all as long as more than ten years to complete, and here is the world of fighting spirit after all, some craftsmen with fighting spirit have great convenience in opening mountains and taking stones, building houses and roads, which greatly improves the efficiency of the building.

Although it is impossible to replicate the palaces of the Forbidden City, the huge layout has also aroused the admiration of Master Siroba, who believes that Lorist has extraordinary architectural talent and is good at the layout and layering of buildings. It's just that when Lorist got the general design draft, he always felt a little nondescript when he looked at the Gothic buildings arranged according to the layout of the Forbidden City, but he couldn't change it.

However, Master Siroba is very ambitious, and is ready to build this Bear King Palace into the first palace in the Continent of Gaylintia, so that he can make a name for himself. If it weren't for Lorlist's defense and the early decision on the name of the palace, perhaps Master Siropa would have been willing to give up all his fame and wealth, as well as his title, to have his name engraved on this palace. If this palace can be renamed Siroba Palace, then Master Siroba is willing to die.

In the construction of the Bear Palace, Master Siroba can be said to have invested all his efforts and energy, and he kept improving the quality of the project, and did not let go of any mistakes, and the whole person lived on the construction site. Because the paving was too large, the initial construction budget for the project was 2 million Kingford, two years to build. But soon, at the behest of Master Siroba, the cost rose from two million kingfords to three million, five million. In the end, under the encouragement of the name of the first house in the world, Director Speer approved a huge construction fund of eight million Kingford. The construction period has also changed from two years to three and a half years, the estimated 100,000 laborers have also doubled, and all the skilled craftsmen who can be called in have been summoned.

For Viscount Speer, the family's treasurer, spending money on the Bear King's Palace is not a waste, but a serious matter. With the strength of the Norton family now in full swing, it really needs such a magnificent and great palace to set off the majesty of the family. In particular, Lorist's promotion to the Sword Saint of Zhenguo is the greatest glory of the Norton family in three hundred years, and there must be a palace worthy of his status as a residence, and the descendants of the family can still look back on the glory of their ancestors and the pride of the family in this palace after hundreds of years.

When Lorist got the total cost bill of the Bear King's Palace, he was stupid, eight million goldfords, which was more than three times the annual income of the Norton family a few years ago, and Director Speer, who had always been known for his stinginess, even agreed to spend so much. If it weren't for Lorlist's belief that the family's financial supervision had strict regulations, and that every expenditure was reviewed by a special person, perhaps they would have been ready to send someone to check whether there was corruption and false reporting.

Fortunately, the family has opened a trade route to the central and southern part of the mainland, and the market with the city of Morent as the transit and wholesale center can provide the family with more than 6 million gold fords every year, and the market in the port of its forest also has a harvest of more than 1 million. Even though the Family Armed Forces spent three years defeating the Merchant Alliance in the Falcan Hill Plain, it was expensive to expand the Family Fleet and lease the territory of the Free Alliance. But with such huge expenses, there is no need to worry about any economic crisis for the family in a few years.

The Bear King's Palace, which cost 8 million...... Lorist smiled bitterly, he would rather spend all these gold coins on the development of livelihood projects in the family domain, or the armament plan of the family army, rather than build such a luxurious palace, which was really an unexpected result. The Bear Palace, which was originally planned to be built at a cost of two million, was only to stimulate the domestic demand of the family territory, and did not require much refinement. Maybe in the future, Lorist can be opened up as a public amusement place and a museum exhibition room or something, but now don't think about anything, such a luxurious palace can only be used as his own residence.

In a way, Lorist didn't like to live in such a luxurious palace. Unlike Princess Celivia, her four concubines, and the children, Lorist prefers to live in a humble fortress castle, like a rock castle, where you can hear the trumpets of the barracks, the sound of horses, and the shouts of the soldiers during training and training every morning. For Lorist, that's real life.

In his previous life, he read a passage on the Internet that made Lorist remember it vividly, that passage was about the imperial palace, thinking that the magnificent palace was a gorgeous birdcage, and when the emperor lived in it, he locked himself in the birdcage. Therefore, few of the descendants of the wise and martial founding emperors are promising, because when they live in the birdcage of the palace and pretend to be the son of heaven and pretend to be mysterious, they are also invisibly overturned by a large number of bureaucrats under their hands, detached from reality, and are at the mercy of people like caged birds. For example, in the Song Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, the emperors who followed were raised as wastes one by one......

In October, Lorist and his family left the island of Hilovas and returned to the Northlands, where they began to prepare for the relocation to the completed Bear King's Palace. In fact, Lorist didn't like the name of the Bear Palace, although he decided on it, but it was the result of the collective admiration of his retainers. The Norton family is known as the roaring and angry bear of the Northlands, so the names of the retainers are related to bears, and the Bear Palace is considered the most suitable name, which is magnificent. Lorist thought about it and felt that it was better than calling it Siroba Palace, so he decided on this name.

"Your Highness, there are a total of three thousand four hundred and sixty-one statues of demon bears in the Bear King's Palace, with different shapes and movements, so we commissioned the mercenaries to specially capture seventeen demon bears in the barbarian plain to observe their living habits, and then draw them down as a reference, and finally select the appropriate actions and images to carve them down......" Master Siroba pointed to the cute and cute statues of demon bears placed on both sides of the road, and proudly introduced his elaborate design and arrangement to the Lorist family.

Well, the money is spent more and more by you like this, is this a dog and bear playground? Lorist can only complain silently in his heart. Compared with Lorlist's distress, his wife and children had already been touched by the magnificence and grandeur of the bear palace, and Princess Celivia was very satisfied with her new residence, and the children had already gone wild and started to play a game of chase around those demon bear statues. And Anderbell, the bear child, had climbed the largest statue of a demon bear, proudly showing off his abilities on it, so anxious that a few personal servants were in a hurry below......

Returning to the family domain, Lorist has to prepare for a New Year's celebration in the Bear King's Palace, in addition to moving to a new home. Because it was the first time it was held at the Bear Palace, Lorist was not lazy, and was busy welcoming guests who came to congratulate the housewarming all day long. At this moment, he missed the leisurely and clean days at Sakura Ridge Villa the year before and last year......

After the New Year, during the rainy season, Lorist finally cleared up. The year 1784 came, and the plan for the Norton family in that year was to establish a new province in the north of the family territory, under the Molong Mountains, with the town of Two Mountains as the center, so that the family would have a new direct domain. This province to be established was named the Province of the Mountains, meaning the province next to the Magic Dragon Mountains.

"I am ready to implement a new private land policy in Phun Son province. "Lorist made a decision.

In a sense, the more than three million lords currently living in the Northland are actually tenants of the Norton family, because the entire land in the Northland is the private property of the Norton family. Although the Norton family forcibly relocated more than two million people from other places to the Northlands, they also gave them land, land and houses, so that they could live and work in peace and contentment. In fact, the fields cultivated by these lords were not their private own, and 50 percent of the annual production of the fields was the rent they paid. They may not buy or sell land or houses, but they may repair and rebuild them and pass them on to their descendants, subject to the approval of the Norton family and the payment of a tax or fee.

In the Northlands, except for the manor given to the family by the Norton family to the family's Golden Knight, the ownership of the land of the Dawn Academy or the Noble District belongs to the Norton family. The land occupied by Dawn Academy was provided to it by the Norton family for free and indefinitely. But if Dawn Academy wants to relocate somewhere else, then the land it occupies will be unconditionally repossessed by the Norton family, which is an indisputable result.

Unlike the aristocratic district, the Norton family sold the right to use these lands, and the nobles who bought these lands could build estates and castles on them, and they could also pass them on to their descendants in the future, and they could also buy and sell them freely, and the Norton family had no right to interfere. However, the purchaser of these lands must pay a small amount of land use money every year, but if a noble family cannot afford to pay this land use fee, once the unpaid land use money has accumulated to a fixed amount, the Norton family has the right to confiscate the castle and manor on the land to offset the debt.

Of course, the Nortons are not greedy vampires, they will discount the market price of the manor and castle on the land, deduct the debt, and return the excess funds to the original owner, or find a nobleman to take over, let him trade with the original owner, and then make the original owner pay the arrears of land royalties. But for a nobleman, leaving the aristocratic district means that he is excluded from the aristocratic circle of the Northland, which is an intolerable outcome, so even the nobles who have borrowed usury to do business at a loss must stay in the aristocratic district, because that means that he still has a chance to make a comeback.

Why did the Norton family develop real estate in the seven towns of Fengle Yuan a few years ago, but the supply exceeded the demand and the price went all the way? Quite simply, because these developments were treated the same as the aristocratic special districts, but they didn't need to be noble. This was a rare opportunity for the wealthy lords, and these houses were better than the ones that were given to them. For example, if a farmer buys a house developed by the Norton family and returns the house he has allocated, then the land he cultivates is reduced by 10 percent in taxes.

The biggest difference between a family territory and a territory is that in a territory under direct jurisdiction, the family is the largest landlord. Governing the territory, those canonized vassal realm nobles are the real landlords, in addition to these fiefs, the rest of the territory belongs to the family. Therefore, for some large territorial nobles, they are very unhappy to canonize their subordinate vassal lords or stingy meritorious ministers under the canonization, because for them, the production of the territory is their income, and the canonization of a vassal lord is equivalent to reducing the gold coins in their purse.

Lorist is preparing to implement a policy of private land ownership in the newly established province of Punshan, which is to transfer land ownership as well. In other words, if the northern land is a socialist public ownership of land, then the land policy of Punshan Province is capitalist private ownership. There's no way to do it. The province of Punshan is newly built and needs to be retained. But these people cannot be forced immigrants, but tough immigrants who need to be armed and able to fight back on their own. After all, the province of Panshan is adjacent to the Demon Dragon Mountain Range and the Barbarian Plain, in addition to guarding against the mountain barbarian tribes of the Demon Dragon Mountain Range from going down the mountain to plunder, it is also necessary to guard against the invasion of the fierce demonic beasts of the Barbarian Plain, which requires the people themselves to have a certain amount of force to protect themselves.

Although the invasion of the large mountain barbarian tribes and the demonic beast herd is escorted by the family armed legion, even the family armed legion is unable to prevent small-scale bandit behavior and invasion in groups of three or five. Therefore, Lorist hit the idea on those mercenaries and family veterans, and the condition that attracted them to settle in Panshan Province was to prepare for the implementation of the land private policy, and every mercenary and family veteran soldier who settled in Panshan Province as a citizen could have the autonomy of a hundred acres of land, including ownership and use rights. Ten years later, whether it is to buy and sell, trade, or pass it on to future generations, it is up to them to decide without the approval of the Norton family.

"Perhaps, these people who own their own lands in Punshan Province will become the first free people in our family domain. Lorist said.

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