Perhaps the stakes were too great, and as soon as Hudson returned from the royal capital, the envoys of the dark elves came with gifts.

All of them are "souvenirs" from the inner world of the earth.

Since the arrival of the tax officer, the gifts prepared for Mr. Ha have become the only goods that can be tax-exempt.

"Elder Lutia, tax rates are a very complex issue.

The formulation of the tax law of Xueyueling was determined after comprehensive consideration of many aspects.

The 70% tax rate in your mouth is not a single tax, but the sum of multiple taxes.

These include Kingdom import duties, territorial import duties, transit taxes, vehicle and vessel taxes, road construction taxes, transaction taxes, Kingdom export duties...... and the rare import tariffs of another world, and the import tariffs of the mainland.

The tax rate of a single tax is not high, mainly because your situation is special and there are many taxes in one.

If we want to make adjustments, we will have to revise the tax law, and it will not be done overnight. ”

For the sake of the gift, Hudson patiently explained.

As a moral aristocrat, he will not charge indiscriminately, and all taxes are based on the law.

Although the law is made by itself, it is also in accordance with the legal process.

Such an explanation fell into the ears of Elder Lutia, and it directly changed its taste.

Just borrowing the Tao from Xueyue once, you need to bear more than 30 kinds of taxes, which is simply life.

Other taxes are just that, there are import tariffs from other worlds, and it seems that there is cross-border trade.

Obviously aimed at them, the tax law was deliberately made.

In addition to this, there are many strange tax laws.

For example, the mainland import tariff sounds like that, but who is qualified to formulate and levy this tax!

Under normal circumstances, it is impossible for transit tax, import and export duties, and transaction taxes to coexist.

It is enough to pay the transit tax just by borrowing it.

Transaction tax and import duties are only incurred when goods are sold within the territory, while transit taxes and export duties are not established.

These detailed issues can only be clarified by people who specialize in tax law.

Although the dark elves have a lot of contact with humans, no one will teach them about tax laws.

In other words, even if they know that there is a problem with the tax collected, they do not know how to complain.

Except for Hudson himself, it is estimated that no one knows that he, the lord, is the lord who strictly abides by the laws of the territory.

In the eyes of the outside world, the tax of the territory is completely up to the lord of the lord. Now the Snow Moon Lord's tax collection on the dark elves was instructed by Hudson.

In fact, Hudson only learned about the ultra-high tax rate of seventy percent after receiving protests from the dark elves.

The previous actions are all decided by the subordinates.

All departments have performance appraisals, and the tax department is no exception.

Most of the property in Xueyue Ling is the private property of Lord Hudson, and when calculating the tax rate, no one dares to stretch out their hands.

Private trading is also protected by tax laws, and once there is a mess, they will also be held accountable.

The fat sheep of the dark elves was quickly targeted.

At first, everyone was just trying, but they never expected that the dark elves would pay the tax without a specific theory with them.

With the success of the first collection, the tax rate enjoyed by the dark elves in the future was fixed at seventy.

Even the most conscientious tax collector has no heart to tell the dark elves that they are paying taxes repeatedly, and they can apply for a tax refund.

After months of making mistakes, the dark elves finally can't stand it!

According to the 70% tax rate, no matter how rich the mineral resources of the inner world are, most of the minerals have lost their mining value.

Especially those bulk minerals, even if they are smelted in the inner world, they are not cost-effective to transport to the surface world.

Against this backdrop, the Dark Elves are subject to a high tax rate, but they do not pay much in kind.

It's just that because of their rarity, these "specialties" are worth a lot of money in the continent of Aslant, which has led to a sharp increase in the performance of the tax department.

"Marshal, that's not how the accounts are counted.

The ultra-high tax rate of 70% is a disaster for both of us.

At this rate, it would be impossible for us to exploit the resources of the Inner Earth on a large scale.

Except for the occasional rare mineral, there is no trade at all.

If you lower your taxes and make it profitable for us, then the exploitation of the resources of the Inner World will certainly go further.

When the total trade volume goes up, even if the tax rate is lower, you will be able to earn more! ”

Elder Lutia said with great persuasion.

The types of taxes, she didn't have the time to delve into.

With her understanding of the human noble lords, these guys only have taxes that they can't think of, and there are no taxes that they can't collect.

Relatively speaking, the snow moon collar is quite normal.

At least there is no food tax, drinking water tax, latrine tax, window tax, door opening tax, closing door tax, and even the Ding mouth tax has been abolished.

To be exact, there are few strange taxes in the entire Alpha Kingdom.

It's not because the lords are merciful, it's mainly that there are too few freemen, and almost all the serfs in the territory are there.

The serfs themselves were the property of the nobles, so naturally they did not have to pay taxes.

When the cost of taxation exceeds the total amount of tax revenue, making taxation unprofitable, the incentive to make strange tax laws is lost.

"Theoretically, there is no problem, but how can you be sure that you will not evade taxes?

It's all too easy to mix precious minerals with commodities and hide it from the tax officer.

After the tax law is revised, the tax that Xueyue can receive will not increase but decrease.

In addition to the economic benefits, there are also political implications to consider.

Orcs are the great enemies of the kingdom, and a large amount of geocentric resources have poured into the orc empire, which is an enemy! ”

Hudson said with a smile.

As long as you want to find the problem, it will naturally exist.

An economic win-win situation is not the same as a political win-win situation. More often than not, the political impact is far greater than the economic benefits.

"Marshal, what do you want?"

Elder Lutia asked with a forced composure.

Reason told her that Hudson must have had an idea since he was able to find time to see her.

If you simply want to refuse, you can just close the door and disappear.

The most serious consequence is nothing more than the interruption of trade, and these losses are not unbearable for the Snow Moon Collar.

"It's very simple, you can directly sell me the resources from the Inner World, and you can avoid all taxes.

After getting the money, you can buy everything you want from Xueyueling, and everyone can truly achieve a win-win situation! ”

Hudson said without changing his face.

Collect taxes, that's only a few dollars!

Keeping the dark elves and turning them into raw material suppliers is the only way to maximize the real benefits.

Frankly, the political risks are gone, but the economic risks have increased.

Monopoly raw material suppliers have a very heavy voice in the downstream.

If something happens, it will immediately affect the development of downstream industries.

Hudson didn't have the perfect solution, but there was a stupid solution, and that was to stock up on a lot of goods.

The industrial level of the Snow Moon Collar is at the middle and upper level in the Alpha Kingdom, but it is nothing when you look at the entire continent.

If you want to stand out from the competition and promote industrial upgrading purely by your own strength, you don't know how many years it will take to toss it.

Instead of consuming on this, it is better to rely on better quality raw materials to stand out from the competition.

Occupy the market, grab profits, and then come back to promote industrial upgrading, the difficulty will be greatly reduced.

"Marshal, I sold them all to you, and this is inevitably ......"

Before Elder Lutia could finish speaking, Hudson interrupted:

"Your Excellency, don't be in a hurry to refuse, this is also a good thing for the nobles.

Just count the distance, and it's thousands of miles from the Cursed Lands to your territory.

Coupled with the distance in the inner world, the transportation cost is definitely not a small number, and the distance seriously restricts the development of your industry.

What's more, the dark elves don't have many mouths in the first place, and if you put a large number of people on this, you will be in danger.

The Orc Empire is not a good place, and if you want to gain a foothold in that place where the weak eat the strong, you can't do it without strength.

By choosing to cooperate with me, your clansmen can get more cultivation time instead of engaging in these meaningless things! ”

Hearing Hudson's deception, Elder Lutia became less determined.

Deep down, she couldn't help but greet the Hudson family again.

The current embarrassment of the dark elves is entirely caused by Hudson.

If it weren't for Hudson's persecution, they wouldn't have fled thousands of miles away and stayed away from the Earth's Core Passage.

Even without exorbitant tariffs and without considering the cost of transportation along the way, the road is full of dangers.

The Orc Empire is not a peaceful realm, and horse bandits and robbers along the way are endless.

The orc tribe in the middle is not a fuel-efficient lamp. If it is really transported on a large scale, it is inevitable to be stripped of a layer of skin.

Theoretically, shortening the distance of land transportation from sea transportation can reduce most of the trouble, but unfortunately the dark elves are landlubbers.

There are a lot of merchants in the fleet of Xueyue Ling, but these people are all pointing to Lord Hudson for dinner.

Without Hudson's permission, no one would have dared to take on the Dark Elves' transportation.

Taken in series, this is clearly premeditated, in order to force them to give up the development of industry.

It's useless to know, the dark elves who fell into the trap from the beginning have no better choice.

Vaguely, Elder Lutia even thought Hudson's proposal was a good one.

Mining is done entirely using slaves, and the raw materials are sold directly to the Hudsons, who only need to send a small number of dark elves to oversee it.

Not only does it save labor, but it also avoids being looked down upon by other orcs.

Compared with the endless fleet of vehicles, this kind of transaction, which only exists between two major forces, is undoubtedly much more confidential.

The follow-up material procurement, that is not a matter at all.

The orc empire has a well-developed smuggling trade, and the volume of transactions in the black market is even larger than that of the legal ones.

If any tribe doesn't trade with the Terran merchants, it only proves that they are a small tribe of dirt buns.

When all the orc tribes traded with smugglers, what was originally illegal trade gradually became a legal industry.

If it weren't for the sake of face, the law prohibiting trading with Terran merchants would have been abolished by the empire long ago.

"Marshal, the stakes are high, this is beyond my authority, and it must be reported to His Majesty before it is decided!"

Elder Lutia said slowly.

She was very embarrassed on her face, but she knew very well in her heart that as long as the transaction price was not too low, the deal would be completed.

The dark elves are just a small clan after all, there is no problem with separating one side, and trying to dominate the continent is purely looking for death.

Affected by the number of clansmen, it is destined that they cannot be involved in any industry, and they must have a choice.

This aspect is somewhat similar to the elves, the difference is that the elves have a large number of junior vassals in addition to themselves.

"Your Excellency, please!"

Hudson said with a smile.

As long as he can achieve his goal, he has no interest in aggressive things.

Seeing off Elder Louticia, Hudson threw himself straight to work.

Compared with a few years ago, the quality of talent in the territory has improved a lot, but there are still shortcomings in many areas.

For example, the layout of various industries is miserable.

It's not just that they're blind, but in these areas, the whole continent is in the groping stage.

In order to pay less tuition, Hudson had to go to the field and plan some industries.

Time always flies quickly when you get busy, and the year is over in the blink of an eye.

Hudson was very helpless, originally working hard to be able to lie down as soon as possible, but helplessly found that the struggle was endless.

The effect is also leveraged, and under his painstaking planning, the industrial structure of the territory has undergone earth-shaking changes.

It is appropriate to double the value of industrial output.

If nothing else, it can continue to double in the next year or two.

It's not how fast the development is, it's mainly because of the low industrial base of Xueyueling.

The growth rate of the mountain territory, which is also vigorously developed, is only a quarter of that of the snow moon collar, and this rate will continue to decline.

If compared with agriculture and animal husbandry, Xueyueling's industry is a younger brother, and the output value is not even as high as that of fishery.

The main reason for being able to take it out alone is that Hudson is willing to invest in this area.

The plan is ambitious, and it looks like the future is promising.

Whether it can be realized depends on the opening up of the international trade market.

Since the failure of the reforms, Hudson has lost faith in the kingdom's internal market.

It's just a little bit of size, and there's a bunch of competitors. It would be a lot of effort just to feed the industry of the mountain collar, not to mention the more ambitious planning of the snow moon collar.

According to Hudson's plan, the industrial investment of Xueyue Ling in the next five years will be as high as 5 million gold coins, which is many times higher than the current industrial output value.

Once the production capacity is released, it is almost the sum of the industrial production capacity of the Alpha Kingdom, and even exceeded.

With such a large increment going anywhere to digest, the only option left for the Snow Moon Leader was war.

Taking steel as an example, the annual output of the mountain leader once exceeded 20,000 tons at its peak, and it was cut in half twice immediately after the end of the war.

No one objected to Hudson's big moves, and that was because it was clear to everyone that Hudson was preparing for war.

The destruction of the orc empire is not a matter of words, but of deeds.

Once the war broke out, the heavy responsibility of raising strategic materials fell to the nobles at the front.

The rear will also be hard, but limited by distance, the cost of transportation will be a terrible figure.

In this context, the procuring of strategic goods in the vicinity is the best and only viable option for the kingdom.

Looking at Xue Yueling's industrial planning, you can see that most of the industries revolve around war.

For example, Hudson's big steel plan has a full production capacity of 150,000 tons per year.

In the agrarian era, it was hard to think of a market other than war that could absorb so much steel at once.

In fact, most of this steel production capacity will flow into the arsenal and become a killing weapon.

Including the new cavalry suit combination, it seems to be to make a profit, but in fact it is also preparing for war.

It can be sold to other countries, and naturally it can also be used by one's own people, and there is no racial barrier between the weapons used by everyone and the human race.

Even the humble cavalry ration package is actually a weapon for future cavalry expeditions to the steppe.

Standardized production templates are always better than makeover cakes made in a hurry.

If you start early, you'll be able to spend more time researching nutritional combinations and tastes.

Overcapacity, affecting the economy of the kingdom, that was a problem after the war.

At least for now, the whole kingdom is very supportive of Hudson's industrialization.

With one more reason to "prepare for the orcs", the nobles everywhere not only did not warn of the development of the Snow Moon Territory, but instead supported many of Hudson's technicians.

Glancing at the industrial development plan put together, Hudson's lips twitched into an undetectable smile.

With such a big plan, relying on Xue Yueling to do it alone, it is difficult to see the results for a while.

During the rare honeymoon period of cooperation, it is natural to take advantage of the opportunity.

"Sir José, draft for me an official document on the Preliminary Plan for the Destruction of the Orc Empire, which I will use at the next court meeting.

Focusing on emphasizing the difficulty of the logistics of the army, it is recommended that the royal government put the production of war materials on the front line as much as possible to reduce the logistical pressure of the kingdom during the war! ”

Hudson said with a smile.

The more wool there is, the better, not white.

Knowing the position of the nobles of the kingdom, it is natural to play the card of destroying the orcs.

Once this proposal is passed, the kingdom's industrial capacity will inevitably be transferred to the Near East and the shores of Lake Snowmoon.

If you want to undertake these industrial transfers, it is not easy to do it, and you must first have a complete infrastructure.

There are not many noble territories that can meet the conditions, even if the meat is shared by everyone, the big head will fall on the Xueyue Territory.

Purely calculated in terms of interests, it is certainly unfair to the nobles in the rear, and it is completely cutting their flesh.

If you change the enemy, whoever dares to make such a suggestion will immediately be angry with everyone's wolf ambitions.

The only exception is the orcs, the power of hatred is too deep in the bone marrow, and reason is somewhat insufficient here.

As long as the royal government can promise to convert the contribution of these transferred production capacity to logistics into military merit, most nobles can accept it.

(End of chapter)