But for Roncodo, he succeeded. Pen~Fun~Ge www.biquge.info he led out 50,000 Northwest Army, and these armies are almost the entire strength of the entire Moxi!

Although there are still some pedantic generals of the Northwest Army loyal to the empire in the pass who are reluctant to follow him, these guys are just some standing army corps, with few troops and far less combat effectiveness than their own main battle corps.

The Sistine learned a lesson and took the opportunity to control the more than 10,000 garrisons and put them in the hands of the Empire, which barely stabilized their position. It's a pity that this matter is still a pity, because in his opinion, any official position such as an imperial marquis or acting governor is a fart, and only with an army in his hand can he speak in Moxi. If it weren't for the scruples that Mo Xiguan finally fell into the hands of the Sistin, although he had more troops than the Sistin, but he was afraid that he would lose a lot of troops if he attacked it, he wouldn't mind leading the troops to capture Valen City, and he would be the acting governor himself!

But he also knows that although he has not yet torn his face with the empire, it is tantamount to a rebellion. Although he didn't know why the empire didn't make any big moves on this, it was also in line with his own heart, it was best for the empire not to do anything for three or five years, and let himself train a powerful northwest army outside the gate that was enough to protect himself or even deter the empire.

So when he learned that Joseph had taken office, he held back the dissatisfaction in his heart and let Sadland take the initiative to let Joseph serve as the county guard. His attitude is undoubtedly a statement to the empire, at least for now the two sides are still maintaining this tacit understanding, and although he has some doubts in his heart, he is also happy to see such a situation.

"Whether that Sadran meant it or not, now is not the time to tear up with the Empire, we only lost two thousand ordnance, so we don't have to worry about it. It's just that if you don't say anything like this, it's inevitable that you'll be too aggrieved, hum, Sadlan, if you eat these things, you can't swallow them too easily......!"

Naturally, Jose didn't know Roncodor's reaction, but he had done everything he could, at least now neither side wanted to tear his face, so Jose wasn't too worried that Roncodo would fall out with him because of this matter. He has now focused on training his troops, and his three hundred slave warriors have been handed over to Gould along with the broken quilt, and he has been training for more than half a month before he knows it.

The secret barracks were set up in a small town outside of Sadland, and there was an abandoned barracks to the south of the town, which had been transformed by Gould and Aloke, and was now home to a banner regiment and a private army of 300 slaves. Jose's goal is to distribute all the weapons of these newly captured horses and weapons, so that he can train an army as soon as possible.

Of course, Jose himself was not idle, during this time, in addition to being busy negotiating with the Northwest Army, he also had to arrange tax exemption decrees and the promotion of spring ploughing with Shire. In addition, he also contacted Temur a little, and spent 5,000 gold coins to buy nearly 10,000 cattle and sheep from Temur's tribe, which he directly arranged to distribute to various towns under the county town.

Because Jose himself strictly counted the household registration and population of all towns, and when it was implemented, he also sent a group of cronies such as Charles to strictly crack down on those local officials who took advantage of corruption, although no one dared to guarantee how effective it would be, but this was also the best way José could think of.

After half a month of busyness, news came from various towns and cities that satisfied Joseph, both in terms of population and household registration, which had increased a lot compared to before Joseph's arrival. In particular, the population of Sadrand County immediately increased from 50,000 to 80,000 or 90,000, almost doubling the population. Most of these people are recent influxes of displaced people from the county town of Sadeland, and many of them are young adults, most of whom have come to the county town with the intention of finding a livelihood. For a time, the streets of the slave market in the east of the city were quickly overcrowded.

Naturally, these Josephs saw it, and Sophia, who was far away in the pass, also received news that the first batch of recruited young men had been sent back with the convoy under Martin's arrangement. Sophia is in Valen City these days, and she is openly negotiating with Sistine about food and salary, but secretly she is quietly recruiting young and strong homeless, and at the same time opening the way with a large amount of gold coins that Joseph has thrown out, which naturally has achieved remarkable results.

The first batch of young and strong people transported back was 500 people, which was already a lot of people, and after the war in the northwest, a large number of displaced people almost all poured into the slightly larger counties in Moxixing Province. Even in the city of Valen, there are a few homeless people who starve to death every day, and in this case, as long as there is something to eat, it is natural that there is no need to recruit people. These are things that people like Joseph can't pay attention to, and it is these ordinary people who suffer the most from the war.

However, José didn't have time to be sentimental now, whether it was military pay, disaster relief, tax exemption or recruiting young people, José spent a lot of gold coins. There were almost no hundreds of thousands of gold coins left from Kayi, and he finally felt the truth that money is not spent again. However, in a place like Moxi, it is not as big as a metropolis like Gilliat, even if there are high-end magic items such as magic dossiers, I am afraid that no big business house can have any purchasing power.

Moxi is located in the western frontier of the empire, it is not a prosperous place in the first place, and even the capital Valen City is just a second-tier city or something like that, although the chambers of commerce of various large trading houses are also distributed, but José may not be able to buy any gold coins with high-end magic props.

Does Lao Tzu still want to go to the city of Gilliat and earn money by selling magic props?!

In such a realistic situation, Jose couldn't help but set his eyes on the city of Saddland. Since the war in the northwest, the trade routes in the northwest have also been opened again, and many caravans have set off from Turan Province. The caravans of those alien races have also crossed the Gelqin Grassland and the Tadam Desert and headed east towards the prosperous Bright Empire. In the past few days alone, there have been a large number of caravans and populations, and the increase in commercial taxes has quickly been put on the agenda.

However, although the imperial decree does not explicitly stipulate the amount of commercial tax, after all, the actual situation in each province is different, but there is also a maximum and minimum limit as a reference. When Joseph considered this, he also fully investigated the commercial tax collection standards under the Northwest Army. However, with Joseph's understanding of these reckless guys, even the agricultural tax has been raised to such a high level, and I am afraid that the commercial tax will not be low!

Sure enough, the Charles soon sent back the tax standards for the entire Moxi and even Turan provinces, except for Sadland.

According to the imperial standard, the tax standard is based on the province, so the tax revenue outside and within the customs should be the same, but now the situation in Moxi is that the inside and outside the customs are separated, and even the taxes of each county inside and outside the customs are different.

The Northwest Army has fully withdrawn the standard of heavy taxation in this regard, and the commercial tax has reached almost more than 30 percent, and in some places the commercial tax has even reached 50 percent!