Alkins felt aggrieved.

His big eyes were full of mist and his expression was extremely resentful, and he was a deeply resentful woman.

"Boss, how can you say that about Alkins? Look at me, like a corrupt man?"

Alkins pointed to his nose with great grief and indignation.

Yifeng paid attention to this, it has only been a few months, and Alkins, who used to be personable in Atlantis, has become like this. I saw that his skin had become dark and rough due to long-term exposure to the wind and sun, and the slender and white hands that used to operate the keyboard were now full of coarse calluses, coupled with patched clothes, and the cuffs and elbows were full of worn patches, was this completely a rude farmer?

Yifeng was suddenly shocked.

"Alkins, how did you get to be like this? Could it be that you are poor and have to go to the ground yourself?"

A word that struck at Alkins' heartbreak.

"Isn't it?"

Alkins' eyes were red.

"Boss, you said that. It's a place where you can show your ambitions!"

Alkins couldn't cry, pulled Yifeng's sleeve, and pointed down the mountain.

"Look at what kind of place this is? The mountains are full of high mountains and dense forests, and there is very little arable land to cultivate. It's hard to even feed your stomach, and you usually rely on hunting and fishing to barely make ends meet. There are no minerals, except for the trees and stones on the mountain, iron and other agricultural tools need to be purchased from outside, and the trade routes are even more impassable, and there is a rich city next to it. ”

Yifeng knew that the territory of Toulon was located in the border area and the property was barren, but he did not expect that it would become such a point. This is like some extremely poor areas in later generations, agriculture is not good, there are no resources in the industrial and mining industries, and the only trade routes in the border area have been robbed by Ping'an City, which is simply useless.

"But you are also the chief civil affairs officer of our own people, so there is no need to go to the ground yourself!"

Yifeng was also moved. Looking at this posture, Alkins must have suffered a lot here.

"What you said is light, if you don't take the lead yourself, who will be willing to say your words?"

Alkingston was full of bumps.

The northwest is a place where the people are fierce, most of the people are unruly, and the former lord Billy governs it, and the lord's mansion is useless, if no one takes the lead, no one will obey the executive order issued by Alkins. That's why Alkins went down to the ground himself.

"Thank you!"

Yifeng was a little moved, but his next sentence was not so good.

"Look, I'm right, right? It's a place where you can make a big difference. Look, it's not been a few months, haven't you already used your punches?"

Alkinston rolled his eyes with difficulty.

If working in the field is a good exercise, then I Alkins really had a lot of work.

"Don't talk so much nonsense. Have you brought any money, hurry up! Pay the money first!"

It can be seen that Alkins has a deep resentment towards Yifeng, and at this time, he can't care about honorifics, so he spreads out his big hands and starts asking for money.

"What? That's not enough money?"

Yifeng was also shocked. You must know that in the West City of Atlantus, they looted a lot, and now most of it is handed over to Alkins to bring for the construction of the territory.

"Boss, you don't know how expensive firewood and rice are!"

As soon as Alkins said it, he was furious. He tugged at Yifeng, and counted his fingers one by one.

"You see, it's the busy farming season, so let's call for people to reclaim the wasteland and ask for money. This new lord takes office, and he will give everyone a little welfare to promote the kindness of Her Royal Highness the princess, and he also needs money. Winter seeds and farm tools also cost money. And there is food to reserve for the winter, where is the money?"

Following the direction of Alkins' finger, Yifeng did see several palm-sized pieces of newly cultivated wasteland on the side of the hill at the foot of the mountain, and several farmers were working, presumably plowing the land in preparation for the next year's spring ploughing.

"Collect taxes!?Are you kidding!?"

I don't know who whispered a word, and it was heard by Alkins at the tip of his ear. His eyes widened.

"Do you know how many people there are in the whole territory of Toulon?"

Collecting taxes is the specialty of the major lords of the entire continent. Once they are short of money, they always change their methods and collect taxes in the name of money. For example, the king is going to war, and he has to collect war taxes. There are other stamp duties, and the amount of entry taxes is simply staggering.

Alkins held out a slap and shook it in front of Yifeng's eyes.

"50,000 people! How much tax do you think is better? 5 silver coins or 10 silver coins? Everyone can't even eat, do you think you can still afford to pay taxes? If you don't subsidize everyone, it's okay!"

Collecting taxes is a quick way to get money. But there are some prerequisites. One is the large population base. According to the population of 50,000, one gold coin per person is only tens of thousands of gold coins, so what can be used? Second, the local residents have the ability to pay taxes. Obviously, the Toulon Collar did not have either of these things.

Yifeng rubbed his forehead in distress and said.

"Didn't the former Viscount Billy leave anything behind?"

What Yifeng said was actually a layman. Generally, the major lords, everything in their territory belongs to the lord, it is their personal private property, it is not the same as being an official at all, and it will be left to the successor. Viscount Billy's departure from the Toulon domain was replaced by King Gast elsewhere.

"He thought? ”

When it comes to this, Alkins is just angry.

"At the beginning, after Viscount Billy heard the news. Alone on horse, with two servants, he went straight to Atlanta. At the time, I thought that this viscount was a rare good man. As a result, I rushed to the storehouse to see that it was empty, in disrepair, and there was nothing at all!"

As soon as Alkins talked about bitter water, he couldn't finish talking about it for three days and three nights.

"Don't talk about that yet. Is there any money? Otherwise, my army will mutiny!"

Alkins pointed to the hundreds of troops he had brought with him, looking forward to it. I saw that although their equipment was rudimentary, and most of their armor was old, they had not moved at all since Ah Alkins and Yifeng reported for half a prayer, and they did not see any contact between them, which shows that Alkins has put a lot of effort into it.

Yifeng finally knew what Alkins was spending his money on. The army is a money-burning game. In the past, Yifeng had the support of His Majesty the King to form an army, which was naturally different from forming it himself.

Yifeng suddenly had a huge headache.

"Alkins, what are you recruiting so many people for?"

Looking at this posture, there are four or five hundred people here, so isn't the whole of Toulon an army of several thousand people? You know, in this era, 10 people supporting one soldier can be regarded as a poor army.

"More, my Excellency Yifeng, don't you know that the orcs are about to go south?

Referring to the population and the military, Yifeng stopped Alkins from further complaints.

"It's easy to talk about money! Look, isn't this the population? Isn't this the army?"

He pointed to the large group of elven people behind him who were curious about the place where he would live in the future.

Alkins' eyes lit up suddenly.

"It's elves! It's still so many elves! Boss, you're amazing! With so many elves joining, ......"

Now Alkins has fully integrated into the role of a civil affairs officer, and has automatically begun to wrench his fingers, calculating how much revenue can be increased, as well as collecting taxes and food.

Megan coughed heavily and reminded Yifengdao.

"Yifeng, don't forget. The elves are also members of your clan! You promised not to pay taxes! Besides, we didn't have any land just now? Where did you get any taxes?"

Yifeng put his arm around Alkins' shoulders and bit his ear.

"Introduce, this is the patriarch of the elven race, Your Excellency Megan. Now he has given me his two daughters. I promise not to collect taxes from them forever. But other than that, you know?"

Alkins was so happy that he laughed like a fox who had stolen a chicken.

I'm afraid that if you don't come, since you've already come, what's the point if you don't collect taxes?

There are ways for you to help!

I heard that Yifeng had already run to Meghan to beg for a good sale.

"My husband, this is our future political officer. Take your people with him, I've already said hello and picked a good territory for you!" )