Chapter 106: Door-to-door tax collection

The piles of gold coins like a hill still did not make Meng Han clearly realize the huge impact of the new bathroom. Before the advent of the bathroom, there was always a small area in the home of even the noblest nobles that was filthy. At least Meng Han knew that in medieval Europe, the basically legendary fashion capital of Paris was simply a huge garbage dump, and it was not an exaggeration to say that the city was flooded with feces.

The world is a little better than it was at that time, but it is also limited in good, at most it is the level of the oldest rural villages. An open-air manure tank is a convenient place for people.

In the eyes of the aristocrats who have always pursued elegance and taste, the emergence of the new bathroom is simply a revolution, a revolution in hygiene. Meng Han, who had long been accustomed to these things in his previous life, did not expect that kind of top-down impact at all.

Two or three hundred flush toilets can't meet the needs of the huge duchy aristocratic market, and at the same time that Viscount Francis's business is on fire, he directly dropped the same number of orders to Meng Han, and His Excellency the Viscount has made a lot of money because of Meng Han's idea, and in a good mood, all the orders are paid in full directly with gold coins, and he didn't even mention the question of deposits.

For this reason, Meng Han had to dedicate time to the quarry to help the workers who had expanded to mine the stone, and even put the finishing touches on the semi-finished toilet bowl in order to make a high-end flush toilet. Daniel and Dennis are now the directors of the quarry and the makers of high-end toilets. Each time, they always complete the previous process first, and then Meng Han solves the problem of the backwater bend.

"Be a cocoon, be a cocoon!" Meng Han was able to get out of this kind of work after being busy for almost another month. After sighing, I immediately found that in the busy month, the orders actually increased a lot.

"That's what a rare thing is, Mr. Donald. Meng Han had to make an appointment with Donald, the butler that Francis had stationed here, to the lord's mansion, and began to talk bitterly. You can't stay in the quarry every day and do hard labor, can you, your lord, practice magic, but it's too boring.

"What do you mean?" The butler sent by Francis was a very discerning person, before he came here, the Marquis and Viscount Francis told him at the same time, don't treat this Baron Antonio because of his low title, Donald Butler naturally knows what kind of attitude he should use to get along with Meng Han.

"Ordinary toilets, how many or how many you want. Meng Han also knew that it was impossible to completely run out of stock, but he could control the shipment of high-end toilets: "But high-end toilets, since they are high-end, they can't be all over the street, right? There are only a hundred of them every year, so that the difference of high-end toilets can be highlighted, what do you say?"

"No problem, then do as you want, my lord. "Donald Butler is a veteran of business, so he naturally knows whether what Meng Han said makes sense. He immediately nodded in agreement, without even asking His Excellency Viscount Francis for instructions. The Viscount had given him full authority to deal with the affairs here, as long as the results were reported in a timely manner.

Whew, Meng Han breathed a long sigh of relief, so that he only needed to help the quarryman mine the stone regularly, instead of spending too much time making the toilet. As a lord, I can finally have some free time in my territory.

However, Meng Han still underestimated the sequelae of the hot business, and after just two days of leisure, Grace came to report with a strange face: "My lord, there is a guy with a team of people who said he wants to see you." ”

"Who is it?" Meng Han asked casually as he pointed out the techniques of transforming the magic shields of Demi and Diana.

"He said he was the tax collector of Stormwind. Grace still had the same strange look, as if she was very incomprehensible about the arrival of the tax officer.

"Tax officer?" Meng Han was stunned when he heard this, but then immediately laughed. What else can the tax collector do when he comes here but collect taxes? But doesn't he know that he has paid his taxes in full for the next ten years?

"Let's go and meet our lovely tax collector. Meng Han couldn't help but smile and waved his hand: "Bring Qiao and Zhu with you, and in addition, call Donald Butler too." ”

Pulling the tiger skin to make a big banner, Meng Han has done this a lot, and calling Francis's butler is the same reason. Behind Donald, it was not only Lord Viscount Francis, but also Lord Marquis and the entire Marquis's family.

Huangsha Town is under the jurisdiction of Stormwind City, but Meng Han has never paid homage to any city lord since he took office. The only time he slapped Sima Fei, he directly found the lord of the province, Lord Earl, and gave him a sword of the elf clan, as for who the city lord of Stormwind City was, Meng Han didn't know at all.

"My lord!" Seeing Meng Han appear, it seemed that the tax collector already knew who the lord here was, and bowed directly to Meng Han is an elegant nobleman.

Meng Han was not rude, and nodded slightly, which was regarded as a response. He is a nobleman with titles and territories, and he doesn't need to be polite to these people who don't have titles and only positions.

The tax collector of the city lord was a shrewd and capable man in his thirties, and this time, he even brought a team of the city lord's guards with him. If you can't successfully complete the errand arranged by the city lord, you will have to use some violent means at some point.

"Your Excellency the tax collector is here, is there anything going on?" Meng Han looked at the other party with a smile, and he didn't mean to introduce the people around him at all. The scheming Donald butler had already seen what Meng Han had in mind, but he didn't say anything, just stood quietly, anyway, he just cooperated with Meng Han, whether it was the Marquis or the Viscount, they all had the intention of asking him to cooperate with Meng Han at some time, so what he had to do was to cooperate silently.

"My lord, this time the contemptible people have been ordered by the city lord to come to collect the taxes of Huangsha Town. The tax officer also looked at Meng Han with a calm face, and said disapprovingly: "Knowingly, I, a tax officer, can I do anything other than collect taxes?"

Slander is slander, but whether it is the tax official or the city lord, they are all extremely shocked by the changes in Huangsha Town in just one year. Who would have thought that a cursed place, a place that usually can't even collect even a single thread, would change so much in such a short period of time?

The new bathroom has spread among the aristocracy, and everyone is jealous that the door found by Viscount Francis is simply a money-grabbing business, but the red eyes are red, and no one dares to do anything about it. Not to mention that Viscount Francis is a celebrity in front of His Majesty, and he only recently entered the bathroom, which made His Majesty very happy. The support behind Lord Marquis alone can make everyone who wants to use their brains weigh carefully.

However, it is surprising that Lord Viscount's manpower keeps going back and forth between Huangsha Town and the national capital. Especially when the city lord of Stormwind City found out that the most important toilet in the money-making bathroom business was actually produced in Huangsha Town, he was so surprised that he jumped up and asked people to re-investigate without even finishing the meal that day, and he didn't believe that there was such a good thing in Huangsha Town?

The results of the continuous investigation convinced the castle lord that this new style of thing really appeared in his subordinate territory, and the excited castle lord immediately called the tax collector. According to the incomplete statistics of the investigators, there are no less than 100 new toilets installed in the national capital alone, which also means that Huangsha Town has become a fragrant dumpling, waiting for the city lord to take it off easily.

"Taxes, what taxes?" Meng Han looked completely ignorant, as if he hadn't understood what was happening in front of him.

"My lord, Huangsha Town is a subsidiary territory of Stormwind City, and it is obligated to pay taxes to Stormwind City. The tax officer still maintained a smiling expression, he had seen a lot of such people, and in the end he still had to take them out, and not a single copper was indispensable: "My lord, this is the law of the principality." Although the last sentence was still said with a smile, the threat contained in it was already clear.

"Oh, the law of the principality?" Meng Han seemed to be stunned for a moment, and then asked with interest, "Then the law says how much tax should be paid in the dependent territories?"

"It's up to the lord of the castle to decide. The tax officer's heart settled down, since Meng Han asked about the tax, he naturally wanted to bargain, and it was also appropriate to leave him some soup: "The order of the city lord, you must pay eighty percent of the income of the territory as a tax in Huangsha Town." ”

"Eighty percent?" Meng Han's eyes seemed to pop out, looking at the tax officer with a look of ill will.

"Of course, sir. The tax collector was not nervous at all, and explained to himself: "Huangsha Town has owed Stormwind City hundreds of years in taxes, and you must make up for it from your future territory income, this is the order of the city lord. ”

"Is this also under the laws of the principality?" Meng Han asked as if he didn't want to turn his face yet, as if he was dying.

"Of course, sir. The tax collector smiled more and more: "The lord has absolute rule over the territory, this is a provision of the law. ”

"So, Lord Tax Collector. Meng Han said slowly, and asked very seriously: "After paying the tax, do you have to pay the same tax again? Is there such a provision in the law?"

(To be continued)