"Don't worry, boss, since I, Gould, follow you, I won't suspect anything of your actions. Pen %fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info even if you really cooperate with the grassland people, as long as you don't do anything to harm the military and civilians in the northwest, Lao Tzu will obey you!"

Gould simply slapped the table and couldn't help but shout.

This guy has been in the northwest for many years, and he has also raised a bit of gangsterism, but he naturally has no disagreement with the people he respects. However, in Gould's view, whether it is the Northwest Army, the steppe people, or even the central part of the empire, it is not his own people.

Only a few people such as Jose Yaroe, as well as this Sadland, this north-western people's soldiers, are their own people. As for the life and death of other people, even if the imperial capital is in chaos, it doesn't matter what happens to him Gould.

Jose smiled slightly, ignoring the fat man's words, and only remembered the events of the past few days since he left. It is estimated that Gould also made some preparations, and told Jose roughly what had happened in the barracks and in the city recently:

First of all, there is the tax exemption for farming in Sadrand County, Alok and Charles have also been away for a few days, and have almost run through more than a dozen towns under their control, and even some inactive officials and mayors have implemented the tax exemption decree in the towns and their respective villages under the supervision of two officials from the county.

However, Joseph was not enough, and in accordance with the system of the Celestial Empire, he integrated a set of performance appraisal systems! In the political system of the Bright Empire, there is absolutely no such system, after all, in the Bright Empire, there is no absolute political evaluation standard. Only those who are particularly outstanding in a few places will be praised, and for those officials whose local political achievements are very average, it is nothing more than standing still.

However, Joseph was determined to change this old system, and he announced that in addition to the quarterly performance appraisal, a system of survival of the fittest had been added! Starting from the implementation of spring ploughing in each town and the performance appraisal at the end of the year, the top three town officials who excluded from the exclusion could be transferred to the county seat to serve in the county, and the last three town officials were also directly dismissed and then reappointed from the town.

According to the political system of the Bright Empire, there are various towns under the county seat, which are roughly equivalent to administrative units such as county seats. Town officials are appointed by the county governor, while the junior officials in the villages below are appointed by the town governor, and they are managed layer by layer. It can be said that in the county town of Sadrand, Chase, without violating the Empire's choice of law, could even issue some local decrees.

Of course, he actually did not have the right to declare the Sadland tax exemption, because even if the empire gave fiefs to the nobles, the nobles had no right to interfere in government affairs. However, this situation is naturally not binding on him, the governor of Sadland, and according to the current situation in the valley corridor, even if he does not pay taxes to Sistine for a year, I am afraid that the acting governor of the province will not care about these details.

At least in terms of restraining the Northwest Army, the sissy of Sistine still has a bit of a sense of selflessness. He probably didn't like José much, but he still wanted to get along with Jose, and even privately approved three hundred sets of infantry armor to equip Jose's private army. In this way, this guy is still very smart, at least he knows when to lower his profile, and Jose's role in the river valley is still not small.

However, neither the Sistine nor Montevideo IV will necessarily trust Jose much, but when it comes to ability, Joseph is indeed a good "pawn", at least in their opinion!

Aloké and Charles' personal inspections have yielded great results - at least Chaucer's tax exemption decree has been implemented layer by layer, and such a move has undoubtedly greatly relieved the pressure on the lower classes. Many civilians were attracted back to Sadrand because of the implementation of the tax exemption and the encouragement of reclamation.

Two days later, Aloch and Charles, who had returned to Sadland from the town below, were all excited, especially Charles, the treasurer, who praised José again and again when they saw him, and the bold character of the people in the Northwest was undoubtedly displayed! Alroke reported to Joseph on the side about the smooth implementation of spring ploughing.

According to Alok and Shire, spring ploughing in Sadrand is well under way, thanks to the tax exemption and encouraging farming regulations. After the war, there was a lot of abandoned land in the entire valley corridor, and with the encouragement of Joseph's two policies, many farmers rushed to cultivate those wasteland as if they had obtained treasures.

After all, the grain planted is his own, and the new county magistrate also announced that he would be exempted from taxes for one year, in this case, only a fool would not rush to cultivate! For a while, the peasants in Sadland County were grateful to Jose, and at the same time, they even trimmed and sowed the previously abandoned fields, and even many farmers in other counties moved directly to Sadland after learning about Sadland's tax exemption policy. In some places, farmers have fought over the fields, but this has allowed a third of the land to be cleared up in Sadrand's fields.

Not to mention, the Empire of Light also has a landlord class, and there are even many small nobles in the county town of Sadland. Although these men claimed to be aristocrats, most of them were just squires and magnates who owned a certain amount of land and slaves, and were a class that had been fighting for land with the peasants.

If it were placed in other counties, as soon as Chase's decree was promulgated, it would have been unanimously opposed by these petty nobles! What did they rely on to enclose the land and enslave the peasants to extract value? But the greatest advantage of Moxi was that after the war, most of the powerful and rich people were more desperate than the poor, and before the Macedonians arrived, most of the rich merchants and magnates moved to the Guannai with their families.

This is also one of the reasons for the abandonment of land, the peasants want to plant and have no money to pay taxes, and the landlords have the money but flee to the Guannai. But as soon as this regulation came out, the other minor nobles who did not leave did not agree, but these forces were very weak, and Jose directly chose to ignore the dissatisfaction of these guys. If it were to change to a southern county town with strong aristocratic power, I am afraid that as soon as a law like Joseph favoring peasants came out, the nobles of the entire county town would regard Joseph as a thorn in their side.

I have to say that the weak power of the landlords and aristocrats in the northwest is an important factor in Jose's smooth implementation of the reform and tax exemption system, and he also saw this point, so he dared to make a big move on his own territory!