Chapter 386 Real Estate and Tax Rates

Lorist returned to the Northlands on January 7 of the new year, and braved the snow to inspect the capital of the Northlands, formerly known as Gildusk, now known as the Roaring Bear. The renovation project presided over by Master Siropa www.biquge.info Pen & Fun & Pavilion is progressing smoothly, and a statue of a giant bear roaring in the sky has been set up in the square, and the square has been renamed Angry Bear Square.

It will take another year to rebuild the Roaring Bear City, last year the infrastructure works in each urban area have been re-planned, the water supply pipes and sewers have been arranged, the city wall defenses and road traffic construction have also been completed, and the main task today is to build houses and other civil construction, Master Siroba is optimistic that it can be completed by August, but it will take some time for more detailed interior decoration and landscaping projects. However, this year, the construction of Roaring Bear City will be handled by Deputy Director of the Engineering Department, as Master Sirobah will be in charge of the construction of Pegasus Castle in the Southern Province in May.

Lorist only stayed in the Roaring Bear City for more than ten days, in addition to inspecting the renovation of the capital of the Northland, and met with Sedercamp, the little servant who followed the small Locke group has now become a domestic talent who can stand alone, the construction of the three original Ping'an Plains, Pingfeng Plains and Pingkangyuan in the south of the Northland is proceeding in an orderly manner, and it will be completed in two years, the only thing to worry about is that the land is vast and sparsely populated, and it needs to be filled with a large number of immigrants to prosper.

Fat Man arrived with Director Speer to greet Lorlist, who had been in charge of Rock Castle since he received a report from Targer last November that the Mountain Barbarians might attack the Norton family's territory. Lorist knew the ins and outs of the mountain barbarians, and knew that it was impossible for the mountain barbarians to come down the mountain to attack before winter approached. Shi Fatzi didn't dare to be careless, he was not afraid of 10,000, he was afraid of what happened, he had to ensure that the family territory was safe and sound.

Now that Lorist has returned, the war in the southern provinces has subsided, the strategy of destroying the Iberian Kingdom has been achieved, and the most important thing is that the Flying Tiger Legion will soon return to the Northland, Shi Fatzi's heart has finally been relieved. He brought good news to Lorlist, the eastern end of Roaring Bear City, which was designated as a special district for the nobles to build their own estates, and all sixty-seven plots were snapped up by those nobles, and the Norton family received more than 1.6 million gold fords from here. Director Hilspeer's mouth was closed.

You must know that these sixty-seven plots of land are all bare, there are no buildings, and those nobles have to spend their own money to build manors after buying them. As long as the Norton family is responsible for the construction of public service facilities such as road traffic between plots and parks and flower beds, it can be said that the Norton family has made a lot of money this time. Because those nobles have to pay property tax to the Norton family every year after building the manor, according to the area and market price of the land, they need to pay one-thousandth of the land property tax every year, which means that although you bought this land and belonged to your private ownership, this land is on the territory of the Norton family......

Lorist was surprised, he knew that the price of these plots was only about 5,000 to 8,000 gold fords, how could they be sold at such a high price, it could reach more than 1.6 million gold fords? This was almost five or six times more than the predetermined income, what was the reason why those nobles were willing to pay such a high price?

Shi Fatzi proudly told Lorist that he did not clearly mark the price of these plots at the beginning, but ordered someone to draw out the map of the special zone first, mark all sixty-seven plots with the lowest price, and then copy them to all the nobles, whether it is the title or the territory, as long as the nobles have sent a copy, even those nobles in the traditional territory of Winston Province who have just surrendered to the Norton family are no exception, and it turned out that all the nobles who received this map of the special zone expressed strong interest, so Shi Fatzi decisively held an auction, and as a result, the sixty-seven plots were in short supply, the least increased by four or five times, and the highest price increased by more than ten times。

Shi Fatzi said that now many nobles who have not bought the plot have asked the family to plan another special zone of land for auction, according to statistics, it is estimated that two more special zone of land is needed to meet the needs of all the nobles. Therefore, Shi Fatzi and Director Speer have worked tirelessly, and have already planned two more places next to the Eastern Special Zone, and prepared more than 150 plots of land for another auction, and now they are waiting for Lorist to approve after looking at them.

Lorist took the planning document and looked at the one that had been crossed out by the pen, leaving only one area with fifty-eight plots planned. Shi Fat Man and Director Speer are in a hurry, and all they have crossed are shiny gold coins!

"It's not too much," Lorist explained, "these two plans basically guarantee that all the nobles get a plot, so what are they fighting for at auction? everyone has it, at most it's just a good location, and they don't need to raise the price for it." It would be difficult to imagine that the price of each plot would increase several times as in the first special zone. We have to take out a small amount of land to cause them to scramble, so that the price can roll up. ”

Shi Fatzi suddenly realized, and patted his forehead regretfully: "I'm sorry, I was in a hurry, I forgot this, and I thought that the price of the planned land plot now could be as high as the land plot in the first special zone, this is my ......"

"It's none of your business. It's that you don't understand why these aristocrats are looting the land plots in the Special Administrative Region. Lorist smiled and said, "To put it bluntly, in fact, the price of these plots is so high because they are making a name for our family." ”

"Vote?" said Fat Shi and Director Speer curiously.

"Yes, vote. Loris nodded: "At the time of your auction, our four alliances in the Northland had annihilated the Fisabrun family's First Frontier Ranger Legion and captured the royal city of Windbri, and the Grand Duke of Fisabulun fled to the Southern Province. Clear-eyed people know that our four alliances in the Northland have gained the upper hand, and although the Fisabrun family is the strongest territorial nobles in the northeast, they have been crippled by us with a stick, and it will be difficult to turn over even if there are twists and turns in the war. Unless our four alliances in the Northland are fools, Archduke Fisabulun, even if he is a god of war, will not be able to turn defeat into victory.

In this case, these nobles are betting on us in the Norton family, because we are the Norton family in the four alliances of the Northlands, and we are now in the process of rebuilding the capital of the Northlands and renaming Gildusk City to Roaring Bear City, indicating that we will make this the ruling center of the family domain. In such a situation, these aristocrats buying land in the SAR to build a manor means that we Norton family are the mainstay, simply put, they buy tickets and get on the ship, and are willing to be in the same boat with us. Of course, speculation is inevitable, after all, the closer we are to our family, the more we deal with, the greater the chance of development.

Now that we have reached the Iberian Kingdom Strategy, we have included Winston and the Southern Province in the sphere of influence of the four Northlanders. Nominally we all belong to the Kingdom of Antinac, which occupies half of the former Crisian Empire. But our alliance of the four northlands is another force in the kingdom, and these nobles know very well in their hearts that compared to the second highness, they would rather take refuge in us than deal with our majesty the king......"

Lorist pointed to the planning document in his hand: "In fact, no matter how high the price we sell for the land plots on these two plans, those nobles will still grit their teeth and buy them to show that they stand with us." But I don't want them to hold a grudge. In addition to making them pay willingly, we also want to increase the price of these plots of land, so that the value of these plots will increase year by year.

For example, of the fifty-eight plots in this plan, I plan to reduce them to forty, and the surplus plots will be used to build a rattan ball hall, a racecourse and a Douqi cultivation hall, as well as a medical center where a senior pharmacist is located. In addition, a small river is dug to connect the lake, where people can go boating and swimming, the lakeside can be used for walks and picnics, there are gourmet restaurants and casual tea clubs, and high-end shopping and commercial streets, making this a favorite high-end residential area for those nobles and their families. Only in this way will the value of the land plots in these two special zones become higher and higher, and they will become areas that everyone wants to enter.

At that time, if we add another special zone or a large area of high-end residential areas near these two special zones, the price of land in the new special zone will naturally be higher, and the price of land with the new residential area will continue to rise......"

Shi Fatzi exclaimed: "Your Highness, you have really calculated home." ”

Director Speer frowned: "Your Highness, don't you think that these two special districts are similar to the rich areas in the capital city according to what you say, will this lower the housing prices in the rich areas?"

"Hehe......" Lorist shook his head with a smile: "The rich area is a rich area, basically the mansions of those nobles and the residences of rich commoners, as long as there is money, anyone can buy it." The two special zones can only be entered by nobles or guests invited by nobles, otherwise no matter how rich they are, they will not be able to enter and leave the two special zones. This invisibly made those nobles feel that their status was more noble. The wealthy commoners are more envious and want to be one of them, so all they can do is to contribute more to our family in order to be recognized by us and canonize them with titles of nobility.

From next year, our Norton family will no longer recognize the titles of honorary nobles from other countries, Director Speer, you set a standard, only the honorary nobles of other countries who have purchased the plot of land in the D.C., and pay a fee to our family, can transfer their titles to our family's honorary noble titles. ”

"But, my lord, what's the point of doing this, it's all honors, isn't there any difference between what the state and what our family recognizes?" asked Director Speer, puzzled.

Shi Fatzi laughed: "Your Highness, this is really too clever. Director Speer, it's a big difference. First, His Highness said that next year he will no longer recognize the status of the nobles of other countries, that is to say, from next year onwards, people with titles of nobles from other countries will not be able to participate in the parties, balls and banquets of the various nobles held by our family, and they will not be able to enter the noble circle of our four alliances in the Northland.

Second, the honorary nobles of other countries who have now purchased the plot of land in the Special Administrative Region can be transferred to the honorary nobles in the name of our family as long as they pay a sum of money, and those people can't ask for it, and the honorary titles of our Norton family are worth much more than those honorary nobles in other countries who rely on Jinford's wholesale. We are a new territorial aristocrat with strong strength, if it is a noble title recognized by our family, going out will be looked down upon in the noble circle outside, and no one will easily offend them, because we will stand up for the honorary nobles of these families.

Finally, after this news is released, the price of the upcoming second special zone plot will increase again, and those nobles with honorable titles will go crazy to grab a piece. I suspect that the price of the 40 plots launched this time will most likely exceed the total value of the 67 plots in the 1st District......"

Well, if there is a large number of Kingford in the account, Director Speer will also close his mouth, ready to make a fortune in a muffled voice.

Lorist smiled bitterly and said, "If it weren't for the great losses of the family forces in this war, I wouldn't have made such an idea, but it's better to scrape money from those nobles and wealthy commoners than to raise taxes on those poor lords...... By the way, Baron Schreid, the casualties of the Flying Tiger Legion and the Cavalry Hunting Legion this time are somewhat heavy, and the pensions of those soldiers who died and those who were discharged due to disability must be implemented in every household. In addition, I have decided to reduce the tax rate for the families of these casualties and to maintain the preferential treatment for the families of these soldiers, and their tax rates will be reduced to 30 per cent. ”

The tax rate collected by the lords of the countries of the Gelinthia continent is basically maintained at more than 50%, that is to say, a lord allocates a piece of land to his subjects, and the harvest of the field must be handed over to the lord for half, in addition to the house tax, water tax, ship tax, toll tax and many other miscellaneous taxes, and the lord only needs to pay ten percent of the tithes of the field harvest to his superior lord, and the rest of the harvest from the lord is his own income. Therefore, many harsh lords even raised the tax rate to 70%, making the lords destitute and forcing the lords to pay their taxes only with labor and blood taxes.

Labor was free work for the lord, and he had to bring his own dry food, usually one to three months a year. The blood tax is to bring his own weapons and equipment to fight for the lord, and the lord only needs to take care of the meal, two meals a day, and the food is basically pig food. And there is no salary, and only after the victory is to get permission to plunder to loot, but most of the loot must be handed over to his lord. In the unfortunate event of a death in battle, the lord can inform your family that there will be no compensation or compensation, but it will be more difficult because the family has lost its main labor.

The Norton family's tax rate has always been fifty percent, which is already the lowest tax rate for a lord. After returning to the family domain, Lorist originally felt that the tax rate was too high and wanted to reduce it to 30%, but was unanimously opposed by the knights and stewards of the family. Shi Fatzi also privately advised that he should not appear so different, so that he could easily become an outlier in the eyes of all the nobles of the territory. So Lorist never changed the tax rate, but most of the miscellaneous taxes were reduced, and the only one was reduced to 10 percent for fishing and hunting.

Although the tax rate cannot be reduced, the Norton family has a preferential tax rate for the families of soldiers who join the family armed forces, and the tax rate is only 30% for the families who become members of the garrison, and only 40% for the harvest of the fields. Even if they are discharged from the military, the tax rate for their families is reduced to 40 percent.

In the past, the family members of soldiers who died for their families were permanently exempted from the tax rate of 10 percent, but now Lorist has to exempt them from another 10 percent, and he is very resolute, despite the opposition of Director Speer.

"In fact, Director Speer, the lion's share of our family's tax revenue has never been the harvest from these fields, but the industrial and mining farms, and the commercial income is the biggest input. In the four places where the family territory was developed, the total annual tax income from the land did not exceed 1 million goldfords, which is equivalent to the real estate income of the town of Hogakuhara Kitano Town, which is equivalent to the real estate income of the town of Horakuhara. Therefore, these taxes on the fields do not have much significance, and a reduction of 10 percent will make the lords more loyal and grateful to the family.

This time, the total number of sacrifices and disabled retirements of our family's armed forces is close to 40,000, and the annual pension amount in the future will be nearly 100,000, so we don't need to quarrel over less than 10,000 yuan in land taxes, this 10,000 is 10% exempted, and let the families of those sacrificed soldiers know that our family has not forgotten the blood shed by these soldiers for the family. Lorist said with some sadness.

"It was my mistake, and I obeyed His Highness's decision. Director Speer bowed his head,

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