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On Highway 6, after leaving the confines of Liberty City, there is a large group of people walking.

There was a little clash ahead, and then that little obstacle was easily breached, and the team moved on.

It turned out that this was the case, and the reconnaissance soldiers who were in charge of guarding in front were stopped by the checkpoints on the highway and wanted to collect tolls, so they had to turn back.

However, it was clear that the people at the checkpoint had made a huge mistake, as they did not realize that the person they stopped this time had a whole large army behind them, and it was a regular army from Asturias, which belonged to the Yang Yan Legion, which was originally stationed on the northern border.

The northern frontier is where Asturisias meets the orc realm, where two legions are usually stationed, and at the highest time there were four legions, and the legions that are now stationed there are the two legions of Hokage and Sunfire.

Not long ago, during the Liberty City incident, Regina mobilized the Yang Yan Legion, and after the event, he used the order stamped with King Edward's seal to let the legion commander Claude leave his lieutenant Scott to be in charge of garrisoning the Mithril Mine, monitoring the mining and subsequent escorts.

After Regina returned, the royal family would naturally send someone to serve as a statistician.

The other half of the legion, however, surprisingly did not return to the fortress on the northern border, but all of them followed Regina to the city of St. Quentin.

The Northern Frontier Fortress will now have only another legion, the Hokage, in charge of monitoring and defending against the orcs, all because of the upcoming Dimensional Holy War.

As a result, after getting the report of the scout soldier, Claude's people went up and gave the people on the level a hard lesson, and a few slaps turned the fat man's face into even fatter, and the level was completely destroyed.

The team moved on, ignoring the fat man and his squad of men on the side of the road.

"They are Duke Aldrich's men. The officer reported to Claude that the Marquis of Regina and Wang Qinian were also beside him.

"It's really not a long-sighted thing. Claude snorted coldly and commented.

Setting up checkpoints on the road to collect money is the most common means of collecting money by noble lords everywhere, whether it is pedestrians or merchants will be charged, sometimes even small nobles are no exception, and when they encounter unreasonable, they can only swallow their anger.

The great nobles who had fiefs mainly came from taxes collected in the name of tribute within their domains.

The same is true of the king, when several states of the Terran were established, the nobles pursued the principle that "the king must also reap his own interests", and demanded that the king should use this to demand the king.

The vast majority of the king's income also comes from his own direct domain, and only in his own territory can he have the right to demand tribute from his subjects, and for those nobles who are attached to the sovereign but have fiefs, at the beginning of the state, the nobles' greatest obligation is to perform military service, that is, when fighting against the common threat of orcs, both large and small, nobles must send their own armies to gather under the king's banner and obey the command to fight; When the eldest son is established as the heir, when the daughter is married, or as the talented Franklin has agreed with the Asturian royal family, the sovereign will not agree to the arbitrary collection of taxes if he wants to collect taxes at will.

Nobles without fiefs, usually minor nobles, from the lowest knights in the nobility to viscounts, occasionally there are no fiefs, earls with empty titles and marquises who have lost their fiefs because of war, they have no fixed territorial income, they will join the royal family or the big nobles, and generally hold positions under the lord who swear allegiance to them, to help the lord deal with the affairs of the territory to obtain merits, and then look forward to new fiefs, and the easiest way to obtain merits and fiefs is in war.

The countries were like this at the beginning of the founding of the country, all because of the shape of the time.

At that time, the rule of the High Elves declined, and the Terrans, under the guidance of the Church of Light, rebelled like the orcs.

From the human and animal races joining forces to expel the High Elves to the two races fighting against each other for hegemony, because they faced a powerful opponent at the beginning, and the two races were opponents of each other later, the state of the human race was actually quite loose when it was established. The king did not establish supreme authority, and in order to unite the forces under his command, the king adopted a feudal system, that is, the king divided the common territories to himself and the great nobles according to their contributions, and the great nobles in turn divided the obtained territories to the nobles who were dependent on and loyal to them at the next level.

And this gave rise to the requirement that "the king reaps his own benefit", and the nobles demanded that the king not collect taxes from them indiscriminately, and try to get income from his direct domain, to put it bluntly, you can collect taxes in your own territory, but don't think of collecting them in my territory at will.

Therefore, if you understand this, you can understand why the royal family of Modo and the royal family of Asturias want to turn the city of freedom into a direct territory, and even do not hesitate to go to war, because if it succeeds, every qiē in the territory will belong to the royal family, including the Mithril mine.

And now in the Free City, Franklin's status is a vassal, not a direct domain of the royal family, so he can only pay taxes to the king in the form of taxes.

Of course, as the de facto largest nobles and military lords in a country, controlling the largest military power, and being nominally co-lords, the kings of the countries are certainly not willing to "reap their own interests".

Historically, kings have used the Terrans to face the threat of orcs, and the lower nobles urgently need to unite under his command to resist the barbaric attack, and the help of the church to suppress the nobles,

In this process, the king and the nobles finally reached a compromise, following the ancient imperial senate system of the High Elves, and established a noble council system on the basis of the Council of the Magi who helped the king govern, and all nobles with fiefs automatically became councillors, and a few nobles who did not have fiefs but were famous enough or had special power were also among them.

The king took the power of convening a council of nobles into his hands, and used the council to negotiate with the nobles to produce some fixed tribute items, or to turn some income that had not been customary into a fixed name, which formed a tax.

For example, the nobles were forced to agree that in the face of the threat of orcs, in addition to their own military service, their non-noble subjects would have to pay a certain tax according to their number, which was called the poll tax.

For the aristocracy, the formation of a parliament could at least curb the ambitions of the king and the greed of the royal family, and the will of the nobles could unite through the guò parliament to resist the royal family. For example, the land tax that the kings wanted to collect was resolutely resisted by the nobles, although the king declared at the noble council that he would resolutely collect it, but until now, the income of the royal families on the land tax was actually very small, and if it was implemented seriously, I am afraid it would cause a civil war.

In different countries, some nobles, although resolutely resistant to land taxes, were willing to pay a portion of the tax in kind to ease relations with the crown when agricultural products were commercially distributed from their own domains to the king's direct domains.

In this complex situation, the power in the hands of the royal families of mankind is also different.

Like Modo, because there are few big nobles in the country, and at the same time facing the threat of sea tribes, orcs, and Asturias, the nobles are closely united under the royal family, and the royal family has a very high ruling power.

The royal power of Aurora in the east is also very strong, but it is the result of the continuous expansion of the royal family under the leadership of the nobles, and their territories are taken from the orcs, and in the process, the prestige and rule of the royal family have been greatly consolidated.

The royal power of the Titanian Empire was also very strong, but the headquarters of the Church of Light plus the Holy Messiah was also within its borders, and the royal family and the church were in a very tense state.

The royal power of the Saxon Kingdom is far inferior to that of Titania, the royal power is on the sidelines, and several nobles control the domestic form.

The power of the Asturian royal family is not as powerful as that of Modo and Aurora, but it is far stronger than the Saxons, and the royal family suppresses the major giants, forming a situation of mutual containment.

But even so, it was very difficult for the royal family of Asturias to collect more taxes, except that the poll tax was fixed, that is, the tariffs were recognized by the nobles as attributed to the king, and it had to be recognized by the nobles when each king ascended the throne, for life, but not necessarily in the next king, this power was not necessarily recognized in the next king, it depended on the efforts of that king. Other taxes depended entirely on the outcome of the battle between the king and the nobles, and when the royal family had the upper hand, some chattel taxes could be added, such as taxes on the lord's military and civilian weapons, and at the most absurd time, there was an additional shield tax.

Each nobleman is obliged to lead troops to participate in the war in the name of the sovereign, but it is not unlimited, and it is generally sixty days in a year, and if sixty days pass, the nobles can return to the territory, and if they stay to continue the war, the sovereign will have to bear the cost.

Historically, a king of the royal family of Asturias used this as an excuse to claim that if the nobles wanted to build a private legion, they could only be exempted from paying taxes on weapons and armor for 60 days in a year, because those 60 days were the cycle of serving the lord, and at other times their private legions did not need weapons and armor, otherwise they would have to pay taxes.

The fundamental purpose of this decree may be to curb the nobles from expanding their military power rather than simply wanting to collect taxes, but it caused a great backlash among the nobles, and in the end, although the nobles were under the pressure of this powerful king, they would rather swallow their anger and use the shield count as the basis for paying taxes, and resolutely retain the size of the private army in their hands, but after the king and a legendary orc hero died together, this tax known as the "additional shield tax" actually existed in name only.

As for the so-called tariff, it was formed by the voluntary payment of tribute by merchants for convenience and protection when selling goods from foreign countries, but if they were scattered among each lord with fiefdoms, it would be too troublesome and would most likely be collected twice.

Of course, the merchants were not willing, so they were willing to hand it over to the king, and gradually it became a common practice, and it became a regular source of taxation.

Although the nobles were red-eyed, they finally lost to the royal family at this point, and had to give it to the royal family, because whether the king and the royal family were strong or weak, but in the end they were nominally co-owners, known as the biggest protector of a certain country, and there were also contradictions between the nobles, they all wanted the merchants to give it to themselves, but the merchants were unwilling to hand it over to each lord and nobleman in a decentralized form, and finally they could only compromise and recognize the power of the royal family.

It is so difficult to collect tariffs, so the struggle and containment between the royal family and the nobility have never stopped.