Chapter 547: Debate

"Ledos, you are not so bold as to privately persuade El to turn his back on the Norton family! Don't you take me seriously?" Lorist shouted at Ledos and Gary Lando, who had come to visit him by the way to attend a military meeting. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Ledos shrugged his shoulders and spread his hands in a helpless gesture, not speaking out to defend himself. And Garry Lando beside him blew his beard and glared: "What's the matter, can't I let my own nephew come back to help his own brother? Rock boy, don't think that you are great if you become the Grand Duke and the Sword Saint, why are you so capable, why are you still dragging El to prevent him from returning to his hometown? Now that there are no big chambers of commerce in Moldant City, and his brother Ledos is in charge of the Freedom Alliance, is it reasonable that El will not come back to help his brother?"

Ledos looked at Garry Lando and smiled bitterly again, and Lorist immediately understood, daring to think that all this was Lao Jia's ghost. Remembering that one night last year, Lorist invited the old cadets from the Dawn Academy to meet in the Red Raven Tavern in Lao Jia, which can be regarded as reliving the old dream, and El and Reddy also went. Lao Jia chattered that night, saying that El and Reddy had gone to the remote Northland to start a family, and they didn't miss him as an uncle at all, and hoped that El and Reddy would return to their side and live with Meimei.

And El and Reddy mean that they want the Lao Jia family to move to their territory to live, so that it is convenient for them to visit and take care of the Lao Jia family. But the stubborn old man died and did not agree to leave the city of Moldent, Lorist and Shi Fat also persuaded a few words on the side, but the old man who drank too much said angrily: "He will not become a loyal lord of a certain lord if he dies, even if it is Lorist, don't want to climb on his head, he is a free man, a glorious and independent person of Moldant City, their family was born a free Lorde City, and will never become anyone's servant and vassal......"

The atmosphere was a little awkward, and Lorist laughed at himself and said, "Okay, Lao Jia is a real person from Morent City, a real liberal, we don't advise you to leave Morent City......

That night, because of this incident, the final outcome was unhappy. But what Lorist didn't expect was that Lao Jia didn't give up and wanted to recruit El and Reddy back.

Lorist also smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Lao Jia, don't make trouble, okay, everyone has their own ambitions, El and Reddy have developed very well in our Norton family, El has already started a family in the Northland, and Reddy has a kid although he has not officially started a family." In two years' time, El will be promoted to viscount, and then I will change a large territory for him. What can you do now to let him go back to Molent City? Back then, El was the boss of Ledos, and now Ledos has become the governor of the Freedom Alliance, have you considered El's face when you let El come back as Ledos's subordinate......

Lorist is the point to the end, Gary Lando is the elder of Ledos and El, and now Ledos has a future, and I hope that Gary Lando will help him, which is no problem. But El is different, not to mention that he has a bright future in the Norton family, is Lorlist's confidant, and got married and had children in the Northland, let's just say that in Morent City, El was the black boss of the community organization, and Ledos was his deputy and close brother, and now in turn let El give up his title and territory, and go to the Norton family to return to Moldant City as Ledos's subordinate, not to mention the question of whether there is a brain, just a face is a man can't stand it.

"What does it matter, isn't it the same for brothers to go up and down?" Garrylando is still very hard-mouthed, he is a dead brain, his mind is still the set of the mercenary group when he was young, the greater the ability, the heavier the responsibility, for the sake of the brothers: "What's so great about being a viscount, no matter how big the territory is, it's not the same remote and desolate and uninhabited, the city of Moronte is now as it was back then, it's more and more lively and prosperous, and it's his hometown, don't you come back and stay in the Northland to work hard?"

What's more, what's so good about being a nobleman, in addition to bullying the people, it is to intrigue with each other and flatter the superior lord. El is a sincere child, and he is easily deceived by you nobles, and even his bones will be devoured. Don't look at him as a legion commander now, that's what you still use him, and when you don't need it, he will be thrown away like a rag, not that I said you, Locke boy, even if you value Elr all your life and take care of El, but what about your son, what about your grandson, how will you treat El's descendants in the future? Maybe you can deprive El's descendants of everything by making a mistake and excuse at will, so it is better to go back to Morent City and live a peaceful life as a free man sooner......"

Lorist immediately cried and laughed, it turned out that Lao Jiadu considered Eyre's descendants and went there, this brain hole was too big, and Lorist had to express his admiration.

"Lao Jia, are you thinking too much? Even if I am a Sword Master, there is no guarantee that El will develop in a hundred years. In addition, the aristocratic circle is not as chaotic as you might think. I admit that there are a lot of scum among the nobility, but many more are still clinging to old traditions and virtues, such as our Norton family.

In addition, I regret that your vision is so narrow, the Northland is not as remote and inhospitable as you say, and the Northland alone now has a population of more than three million, which is equivalent to three Moldant cities. Also, El's territory is not in the Northlands, but in the province of Delemk, which is known as the granary of the Empire, where the land is no less fertile than the Plains of Falli, and El and Reddy do not need to exploit his people, and the output of the territory alone reaches more than 10,000 gold fords per year. ”

Lorist had to cite detailed data to show that El and Reddy were not used by the Norton family and threw away rags: "El and Reddy's territory currently has more than 13,000 people, and they have each formed a garrison of 100 people. El already has three knights of his own family, and Reddy already has two squires. However, they have entrusted the management of the territory to our family, according to the fifty percent tax, after handing over the family's one percent of the donation, they can also get forty percent of the territory income, that is, more than 10,000 gold fords, plus their salary and welfare subsidies in the family army, the total annual income can reach about 20,000 gold fords, which has exceeded the total income of many earls of the territory.

When El and Reddy retire from the family forces in the future, they can return to their own territory to live out their old age in peace. As for their children and grandchildren, according to our family's regulations, they must also start to receive traditional aristocratic education from a young age, and they will also go to Nicol Academy and Dawn Academy to receive more than six years of cultural knowledge and quality education, and the children and grandchildren who have become successful can enter the armed and administrative system of our Norton family, and even better, they may be directly accepted by me as a disciple, just like Reddy. So Lao Jia, you don't have to think too much about it and think crookedly......"

"What do you say, only fifty percent of the tax?" even Ledos was surprised at this time, this can be said to be the lowest field tax in the Gelinthia continent. Generally speaking, it is sixty or seventy percent, that is, the lord collects sixty or seventy percent of the output of the field, and the lord who farms only takes forty or thirty percent, which is still a benevolent and kind lord, many of them are eighty-two shares, and the people get less than the whole family after a year of hard work. Last year, the Liberty League reclaimed farms around Thomas and Gypsys, and the tax revenue from the farms after the sale reached 60 percent of the land produced.

A few years ago, the business alliance called on everyone to do everything for the alliance, and the tax revenue of the farms on the Falliqiu Plain reached a frenzied eighty-two, and the planting was not food, but the high-priced cash crops needed by the various chambers of commerce. As a result, in less than three years, more than half of the independent farms on the plains of Faliqiu had gone bankrupt, and most of the farmsteads had fallen into the hands of the Fude Chamber of Commerce......

"Yes, the tax on the fields of our family domain is fifty percent, and it will always be fifty percent. As long as it is the domain of all the nobles within the jurisdiction of our Norton family, the tax on the land shall not exceed sixty percent. In addition, the miscellaneous tax on our family territory is 10 percent, and the tax on commerce and workshops is basically only about 5 to 10 percent, and there are even tax rebates and subsidies. Only some luxury goods will exceed the tax of more than ten percent. Lorist replied in the affirmative, originally he wanted to reduce the land tax to less than thirty percent, but he was persuaded by Shi Fatzi, after all, the nobles of the whole continent are taxed like this, and the Norton family is not easy to implement this maverick tax policy, so as not to be isolated by the aristocratic circle.

"Why?" asked Dorres with interest.

"Very simply, the people can buy the daily necessities produced by the family with more income, and only by being fed and clothed can they get a sense of happiness and satisfaction, and they will work harder to produce labor to increase their income. Our family treats the people as human beings, not as oppressed products that consume labor and wealth. Lorist said.

"It's not the same, that's nice, now you can be a benevolent lord, but what about your descendants? As long as there is a tyrannical and greedy lord, everything will still be restored to the way it was, not to mention the poor lords, like El, who can confiscate everything he has without a word from your Norton family. So for a person, freedom is the most important thing, to create a better future with their own hands, not to rely on the gift of the lord to get a happy life......" Garilando said with a sneer.

Lorist patted his forehead with his hand in distress, Lao Jia is a deep liberal patient, and these views he said are the ideas that the millions of residents of the city of Morent usually accept, which is also the most taboo point of Lorlist. Ironically, while they denigrated the territorial aristocracy that had been practised on the continent of Gelinthia for thousands of years, they liberals forgot the deceptive oppression of them during the reign of the commercial alliances, and they were just another form of the people, who did not know it, but took pride in it.

Is there real freedom in this world? Lorist was very suspicious, just as recorded in the history of the Gelinthia continent, after the end of the era of the law is a dark millennium, without the sword saints and sword gods created by those magicians, human beings have been at a disadvantage in the fight against demonic beasts, until human beings have regained the use of fighting energy and gradually become the master of the continent. In the late Dark Millennium, those humans who had awakened their bloodlines and had a fighting spirit became heroes one by one and became the support of the people, they were the first group of territorial nobles.

The history of the continent after a dark millennium is the history of the hegemony of these territorial nobles, who fought each other to annex and submit, and finally formed one kingdom after another, which has reached the current pattern of the Galinthia continent. From a critical point of view, it was these territorial nobles who brought war and sacrifice to the people, but if we put it another way, it was these territorial nobles who brought order and development to the people of the mainland, and established the virtues of rules and traditions for later nobles for more than a thousand years thereafter.

"Old Ga......" Lorist shook his head and sighed, "I don't know how you came up with your prejudice against the nobility and the ridiculous conclusions you came up with. In fact, the territorial aristocracy system practiced on the mainland for more than a thousand years has long put an end to the things you think of as the superior lord being able to deal with the lower lord at will. For example, our Norton family, which has many subordinate domain nobles, will never arbitrarily deprive the nobles of their subordinate territories of their titles and territories, nor will it be possible to arbitrarily deal with the safety of the lives and property of the nobles of their subordinate territories. Unless the subordinate domain nobles have committed unforgivable crimes or there is definite evidence to prove their intention to rebel, and they have been confirmed and supported by other subordinate domain nobles to punish the domain nobles.

In a sense, the aristocracy is the champion and guardian of the camp of order, and we want more order and development than chaotic anarchism. Besides, you liberals, have you forgotten the period when you were ruled by the merchant league before our family forces landed in the Gulf of Zangjin and captured the city of Molent, do you think that the system of rationing is the real freedom?

I believe that it is only within the framework of an orderly administration that the individual can have what he thinks of freedom, as the Liberal Alliance is now doing, with regulations and rules that guarantee the freedoms that you city dwellers have. This is actually similar to the territorial aristocracy, where the lord is more merciful and treats the people as if they were free alliances. The lord is harsh, and it becomes a business alliance. No matter how much you boast of your freedom, you are still living under a system, nothing more than nominally having no lord, in fact you are also another form of lord......"

Lao Jia stopped talking, although Lorist said it bluntly, but it was not without reason. Instead, Ledos asked a question: "Brother Locke, I have always been worried about one thing, that is, the Freedom Alliance was first established, and there is no problem now, but if it continues to develop, will it be like the business alliance, will the people who have wealth and get ahead be dissatisfied because of the mediocrity of their status, and will once again go to the old path taken by the business alliance and become another business alliance?"

Lorist laughed, and he understood what Ledos meant by the question: "Of course it is very possible, but it may be many years later. The solution to this problem is actually very simple, and that is to implement the lord system. ”

"Lordship?" Ledos was anxious: "Isn't that the same as a business alliance again?"

"No, I'm talking about the fact that lordship is not the same as that of the business alliances. Lorist waved his hand: "The lord system practiced by the commercial alliance is actually the feudal system of the territorial nobility, which is the biggest mistake of the commercial alliance and the root cause of the decline of the city of Moldon. And the lord system I am talking about should actually be called the honorary title system, so that the title becomes a symbol of honor and status, for example, each kind of title has a fixed financial income every year, and establishes his manor residence within a specified range, each title has a different way of courtesy, except for the absence of a territory, there is no difference between the other aspects and the territorial nobles, so that it will not be like the commercial alliance to disperse the power to their respective chamber of commerce territory, but will inspire more people to work hard to obtain the title of the free alliance. ”

Ledos was a little confused and confused, and he muttered as he thought, "Is this possible?"

"You can go back and talk to someone about it and see what they think," Lorist said. ”

At this time, Genorio pushed the door in and reminded: "Your Highness, the time has come, you and the two adults, please move to the conference room, the meeting is about to begin." ”

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