"Bard, do you know why capital is born in this world with the smell of blood?"

Otto looked at his beautiful signature on the document confirming the expenditure, and became more and more satisfied with his signature technique, and asked with a smile as he took out his seal and stamped it.

Bud looked at Otto blankly and shook his head, he couldn't understand what Otto was saying.

"Because, ah, the process of primitive accumulation, it is bloody and cruel and full of oppression. It's hard to oppress others if you don't oppress your own people, and I don't want to. ”

Otto didn't expect Bard to understand, he just wanted someone to talk to. What he wants is that Bard doesn't understand, and if it were someone else, Otto wouldn't say it.

Looking at the confused Bud, Otto smiled even more happily, stood up and handed the signed and stamped document to Bud.

This has been a requirement of Otto since he took power, and any large expenditure and business must be approved by him before it can be acted or put into effect. Although the territory is still small now, there is nothing worth dealing with, but the establishment of the system is also not an overnight thing, from now on, cultivate a good habit for your subordinates, which is conducive to the management after the expansion of the territory.

Otto never imagined that he would always be nested in the acre of land in Aargau.

Watching Bard scratch his head and leave in confusion, Otto shook his head, the cost of repairing Eagle Fort was much more than he imagined.

The main reason is that Otto planned a small town on the basis of Fort Eagle, and also relied on Fort Eagle. This is not Paris or London, which was full of excrement at the same time, but a small city with a well-developed drainage system.

The Allgao collar is located on the plateau as a whole, and the construction is difficult, and the money spent is naturally a lot. Fortunately, the labor in this period does not need money, just take care of the food, otherwise, such a project is not something that Otto can afford now.

However, due to the large amount of work, and now it is the autumn farming season, Otto does not want to delay the autumn harvest, so the current construction progress of the castle is relatively slow, according to the estimate of the amount of work, at most two years, Otto can move out of the Lafite estate and live in the Eagle Castle.

"Young master, the matter is done." Wade knocked on the door and entered the room, reporting to Otto.

"Oh, it's been so long, has it been cleaned up?" Otto nodded.

"Well, it's all settled, and the goods are all shipped back."

"It's hard work, ask Simon's butler to get some money and share it with the soldiers, tell them to keep their mouths shut and don't talk nonsense, I don't want to hear any nonsense, understand?"

"Don't worry, young master, it's not the first time for us, everyone knows what to do."

"It's better to be like that, but shouldn't we do it the other way?" Otto looked at Wade and spoke his mind.

"For example, find some people to disguise themselves as mountain bandits to attack the caravan, and our army will save the caravan?"

"Young master, I don't understand the point of doing this."

"I mean, do you want to save the caravan or something, lest anyone suspect that we did it."

"Young master, the place where we started no longer belongs to the Allgao Collar, what does the mountain bandits in that place have to do with our Algao Collar."

For a while, Otto was asked, it makes sense, the caravan is not led in Allgäu, what does it have to do with him.

"Okay, so be it. Oh, by the way, send some furs to the Old Castle, and say it's my gift to Lady Kaylin. ”

After the autumn harvest, it was time for the peasants to pay their taxes.

When it was time to collect taxes, Otto could not stay in the Lafite estate and enjoy idyllic leisure time, but had to go to the various estates or castles in the territory to collect taxes.

According to tradition, when taxes are collected every year, it is a rare opportunity for most lords to see their lords in a year, and it is also one of the few opportunities for lords to petition their lords.

At this time of the year, the lords handed over most of the harvest they had worked hard for a year to the lord as a tax. Since it was a tax in kind, it was easy to distinguish between good and bad, and the lord would reward some people according to the quality of the taxes paid by each person.

For example, who gives fatter chickens, who provides sweeter apples, who pays more finely ground flour, and so on.

Additional "small gifts", such as hares, boars, or furs from wild animals, are often rewarded for the lord's favor.

Generally, the hard-working lord will personally come forward to collect taxes, and while laughing and taking most of the harvest of the lords' hard work for a year, he exaggerates the diligence of the lords and encourages the lords to continue to work hard for him in the coming year.

Occasionally, you can give something insignificant, and you can also receive words of gratitude from the people, and even tears.

At this time, the lord will ask everyone if they need help and what they need.

Usually at this time, the lords will say their wishes, and if the house needs to be repaired, they will ask the lord to allow him to go to the forest to obtain materials. Some people have little salt and rice at home or want to eat meat, and want to exchange other things with the lord.

But more often than not, it's trivial things like neighborhood disputes.

As long as the harvest is good, the lords usually do not refuse their requests, and everyone can have a pleasant New Year.

As for the lazy lords, they will send their own butlers to do the work for them, and the same effect will be done.

Although Otto has not officially inherited the title of count, judging from the current situation of the count of Allgäu, it is not far from ten.

As the first time he met with the people under his rule, Otto naturally did not slack off and let the butler do the work for him.

This year, the overall wind and rain were good, the harvest was quite good, and Otto greatly reduced the tax, so the people who came to pay the tax showed happy smiles on their faces.

Is there anything more joyful than a good harvest, low taxes, and the opportunity to get your own land? Young Master Otto, what a good lord.

In particular, when Otto gave a small packet of salt as a gift to every family who paid taxes, the lords almost made Otto a saint.

Salt, at this time, was a hard currency comparable to gold and silver, especially for ordinary lords. No one expected that Otto would give them salt for no reason.

After Otto had drastically reduced his taxes, the value of what they had handed over was not much higher than the small packet of salt.

It's not that Otto burned more money, mainly because there was a caravan selling salt before, which was attacked by the mountain bandits, and it happened that Otto's Wade knight saw this scene and beat away the mountain bandits and transported the salt back.

The caravan was dead, and the salt was unclaimed, so Otto reluctantly accepted it. But with so much salt, it is estimated that you can't eat it until you die, not to mention that salt needs certain storage conditions, so you can sell it, and you are afraid that others will misunderstand, but fortunately, it will benefit the people.

After all, it was the greatest honor to be one of his Otto's subjects.

This sentence was not Otto's boasting, but when Otto got the salt and promised to help him and several nearby families build a new mill, the people were excited.

Indeed, Otto also thinks so, a lord like himself who loves his people like a son, not to mention Europe, should be unique in the whole world.

In that case, why not let more people enjoy this honor?