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… Ying tossed down, Di Lin was very sad, he had never been busy.

Even when he was in the siege of Machined Danlin, facing the 70,000 elites of Almohad, he could only sleep two or three times in a simple command post under the cold wind, surrounded by Dayu, but Lorraine did not feel so hard as now.

Taxes are not only important, but also extremely cumbersome.

Lorraine has to spend a lot of energy on this every day, because it is related to whether her annual grant of one million dollars can be properly disbursed.

Only the tax was done beautifully, and the finance department of Ruman City signed for it. Lorraine's appropriation for the next year will be written off on time.

You know, it doesn't matter what era it is. The level of corruption and perversion of the law by civil servants is extremely high. In the splendid Ming Dynasty, there was even a professional term to refer to this situation

Drift. Corruption is not called corruption, in other words, it suddenly turns from black income to normal income. Here, for those officials who are proficient in Confucianism, I have to sincerely admire them.

If it weren't for the fact that Baron Roquand and Lorraine had such a good relationship, even if he was the adulterer of Her Royal Highness the eldest princess, the stinking shit officials below would still be able to use all kinds of fair excuses to suppress his appropriation for more than half a year.

Those excuses, even if Catherine had gone to find out in person, would not have found anything wrong.

Therefore, Lorraine had to take charge himself. Command in the center.

In general, humans around cities are better.

As long as the tax collector came to the door, although everyone cried for the poor, they gave back some more or less. A little further away. Where the government's control is weak, it will be a little worse.

And the most troublesome are those elves and dwarves who have opened a few acres of wasteland by themselves.

Those dirt buns only recognize one. The simple truth: I opened the ownerless wasteland by myself, facing the loess and working hard with my back to the sky, digging mountains and stones, and mining and iron. A drop of sweat fell to the ground and fell to eight petals. Earned by hard work through one's own labor. Why should I pay you?

Rao is tax collectors wore out their mouths, saying that "under the whole world, it is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king's minister." "But these guys just don't get the hang of it.

And once they are in a hurry, they will still hold the tax collectors and judge them in a righteous and strict manner.

It's like the father god, the mother god, the ancestral god, the earth or something, and so on, and a series of gods who usually don't know where to hide have gone to the cool gods have made their debuts.

These great gods are merciful and exalted. Invincible or something. Crucially, they don't collect taxes from people who jump off the top of the atmosphere.

Anyway, no matter what god it is, and the earth was not created by your Ruman Empire, why do you take the things made by others to collect money for yourself?

Don't look at them as dirt buns, but at this time, they are all transformed into knowledgeable theologians. Talking about the past and the present, referring to the heavens and the earth. The endless debate came down.

Not to mention those tax collectors, even if Lorraine's subordinates are known as the most outstanding and the most famous, the howling brick family can only grin with their teeth tucked.

Lorraine is different from the Marquis of Marleton, the Marquis of Marleton is a standard soldier, those who evade taxes dare to resist, and the Marquis of Marleton will confront them, and he will not tell them if he has a reason.

If you don't take the initiative to pay taxes patriotically, then we have to let you be taken the initiative. All right.

Therefore, those strangers often went to the governor's palace to ask the governor for an explanation.

And in front of everyone's eyes, even if the Marquis of Marleton is shameless, he can't clean them all up, and he has to be with them. To be reasonable, two or three times the Marquis of Marleton is annoyed. Otherwise, they wouldn't have asked the emperor for troops, and they would have to move all those guys to the central area.

Lorraine, on the other hand, before the start of the tax work. There was also a special meeting to emphasize to the tax officials of Gratan, "We have to reason with them." ”

At the meeting, the future head of the empire, Grandpa Leo. Very very protagonistly, Leo made a deep speech, and jumped into the chair. Wielding his musket, he shouted, "I opened this mountain, I planted this tree, and if you want to live in the Ruman Empire, you will leave the money for your taxes." Orcs don't pay taxes on their territory, so why don't they go to any kind of land?

Such a scene is full of thinkers Jean. Jacques, Rousseau's great "Social Contract Theory" central idea, and concise and profound words, immediately won the unanimous praise of the tax workers attending the meeting.

Everyone burst into tears of excitement. Everyone stood up and slapped for five minutes. Then they said that they must convey Grandpa Leo's speech, and mobilize the majority of taxpayers and taxpayers to carry out study and practice work, and thoroughly implement it, and praised Grandpa Leo for not losing the hope of the Ruman Empire, representing the glorious prospect of the empire's continuous progress and victory.

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Since Leo conveyed the spirit of taxation, the majority of the staff on the front line of the tax system. I heard the Gospel.

You know, in the past, when it was time to collect taxes every year, everyone had a very hard time. I have to work hard to popularize legal knowledge to those dirty buns.

As a glorious Imperial Tax Collector. Everyone strictly follows the tax officer's guidebook. One urging, two scolding, and three snatching back. This is the morning glory steakhouse.

In those who are stubborn and do not look at the body. A large amount of public administrative resources were wasted, and the six strict zhòng delayed the Dalian fox taming. As well as a great opportunity to go to the sauna, observe the people's feelings, and mingle with the people.

And now, just convey His Royal Highness Leo's words as they are, and then shake the chains in his hands. Most taxpayers will obediently pay their taxes. Then he added a sentence full of complaints: "Isn't it just a protection fee? If you had said it so thoroughly, wouldn't it have been done long ago?"

What's more, at the same time, Lorraine also fully learned the advanced experience of the U.S. Federal Department of Internal Revenue and promulgated the "Land Development Incentive Regulations".

Through the serious preaching of the tax officer, those soil buns know that if they do not pay taxes, not only will they not be able to get the previous bonus, but the land they have just opened will be confiscated. Hence it. can only pay obediently.

Therefore, after everyone's concerted efforts. A joint effort. This year's tax work, although trivial, is still very smooth, at least there are no anti-tax demonstrations.

In the final analysis, it is actually the people of Nayan who have learned to be obedient, and they all know that we are the Governor of Lorraine. The heart is black and bold, and the background is hard, and it is not easy to mess with.

Moreover, it has always been rumored that the Governor of Lorraine has raised the earth, but it has always been "three feet high in the sky, and seven points in thinness." The crane is looking for peas in the belly, and the ants are recording fur under their armpits, and they are masters of scraping the ground.

Everyone is also ready to enlarge the blood, but now I didn't expect him to be scavenged by the old man, and it doesn't seem to be too powerful. On the contrary, everyone was secretly a little happy, so they didn't dare to provoke him again. For fear of provoking him, he became angry, and he really scraped the ground seriously.

At the same time, the integration of the orc tribes was also underway.

The Aquitans completely took refuge in Lorraine and unconditionally chose to attach it, which made Lord Lorraine determined to solve the problem of the orcs on the border once and for all.

Now that the parties have reached an agreement. The next important thing is the implementation work, the stage of the net beginning of the execution, the two sides don't know each other, and the big people who can make ideas are in Nedel City, and the humans have to ask Lorraine quickly if anything happens, and the orcs also have to find Gelba to intervene.

In the first two days of the net, there were several conflicts between the two sides, and a few cannon fodder died.

Lorraine in order to stabilize the overall situation. I had to throw the messy work on my hand to Catherine and Adele. With Gelba and a group of other personnel, they set off on a starry night, and rushed all the way to the southern city of Crony City.

Lorraine hurried south, not just to co-opt the orcs. General Larry had already reminded Lorraine. Originally, at this time, there was already smoke on the border, and the "autumn hunt" of the half-orcs had officially begun, and the two sides were in full swing.

And this year, until now, there has been no movement, only a few dozen orcs and a half-orc-scale harassment, and there is no team of hundreds of people.

This kind of tranquility before the big war further confirmed the news that "the orcs will make a big move".

And the rumors are getting more and more outrageous, like the low pressure before a storm, and the people who are pressed are out of breath.

The people of the south are already a little panicked, and some wealthy and powerful families have begun to transfer their families to Nedel City. And "let the leader's second wife go first." This kind of words have also been shouted.

Lorraine now needs to go down and calm people's hearts.

In two nights and two days, Lorraine and his party came to Crony City as a god, Rao is such a leading elite of the Praetorian Guard, and he has been running all the way like this, and he is also sluggish.

Not to mention the others, Lorraine and they had two days in the carriage. Rao is that the carriage is made by fine craftsmanship, but the whole person is also crispy. The old bones of the great shaman Girba were so suspended that he collapsed weakly on his chair, snorting vigorously.

It's Leo, holding a big bag of snacks all the way to eat and sleep all the way, and he actually looks very comfortable, Lorraine looked at the lively Leo, and for a moment wondered if he had a little kidney loss recently. But only for a moment. Lorraine quickly became convinced that the child must have been sleeping well.

General Larry saw Lorraine's dusty appearance. I was taken aback, thinking that something big had happened, and I was almost going to carry out an emergency mobilization of the whole city.

Fortunately, Lorraine immediately said: "Prepare the room, we have to sleep, if there is no big thing, don't wake me up." The Praetorian Guards also went to sleep, and the following tasks were more important. Gather your energy

When the lord of Cronie City, Nosdako, gave up all the rooms in his residence, Lorraine did not take off his clothes. He fell into bed and died.

The cold smell of autumn wafted into the room, and although it was already dawn, there was still a layer of green mist like a gauze floating outside.

When he woke up, Lorraine only felt a pain all over his body, so he got up and washed up, and called a meeting early in the morning.

The captains of the Naian Legion and the officers of the city defense army quickly gathered together, looking at the room full of people with armored swords, stubble on their faces and the smell of sweat, Lorraine felt like he was back in the Banye Danlin coalition army.

General Larry said to Lorraine worriedly: "Our reconnaissance team has gone as far as the grassland for nearly three hundred miles, and there is still no trace of large-scale orcs, not only that. Not even a slightly larger tribe has been encountered. It seems that the news is true, and the orcs have indeed gathered

The officers below also nodded worriedly, and the border guards were most afraid of this kind of unclear enemy situation. Too passive.

Lorraine only sighed helplessly, "Although Pinshajin also followed Lorraine to Jingroni City, and was about to go south from Fangluohou City to the orc tribe to inquire about the news, but he couldn't guarantee what he could do, and the goblin Shajin himself didn't dare to guarantee what he could do."

Although it is true that Gelba is officially a goblin, his loyalty is not in doubt, and Goblin Shajin once said that "loyalty is also a commodity." And he thinks Lorraine can afford to buy it.

Lorraine looked at the people below looking at him expectantly, shrugged his shoulders, and said, "I can't tell, my staff, the Great Shaman of Gelba, thinks that there are about 120,000 and a half orcs. ”

"Shhh There was a sound of cold air in the conference room, and everyone, including General Larry, looked at each other in disbelief.

"Heaps can level the walls. The officer below muttered with laughter.

Lorraine frowned, glared at the man and said sharply, "What's the matter?"

The officer stood up neatly with a sigh and said loudly: "No, my lord, but I need to prepare two more knives, the half-orc skin is too thick, and the blade is tight, otherwise I can't kill it." ”

The officers below burst out laughing. The Dongfang Dang Ten Year Regiment has always been arrogant, and the King of Heaven Lao Tzu has "but every time they are chased and cut, the Tenth Year of the Oriental Regiment has a slogan: We are not the first in the world, we are the first in the world."

Whether the Naian Legion has defeated or completely annihilated the half-orcs several times, the most powerful warriors of the tribe, the first warrior of the tribe and the like, they naturally have a sense of self-confidence after winning many battles, plus they are familiar with the half-orcs, even if they hear that there are as many as 120,000 people, they only feel troublesome, and they are not afraid.

What's more, they are guarding their own homeland, their relatives, they have no reason to retreat, in order to defend this qiē, even when they are at a disadvantage, they will fight bravely regardless of sacrifice, but they are half-orcs. He often retreated in a hurry when he encountered resistance, and then was chased by the tail and killed by the Naian army.

The officers had this arrogance, and Lorraine was of course very satisfied. Nodding solemnly, he said, "Very good." ”

Then Lorraine untied the saber on his waist, still on the conference table with a snap, and said loudly: "This sword is my personal gift, this time against the orcs, whoever kills the most orcs, this sword belongs to whom."

The officers sitting there stared at the gorgeous saber on the table with burning eyes, this is still the sword that Lorraine knocked out in Freetown City, "Even Catherine has to evaluate it as good, which shows the quality of the sword." Lorraine had changed the scabbard and kept it with him.

Lorraine glanced at the officers below and said loudly, "Everyone, strengthen the investigation and be on guard. This time is different, reinforcements are expected to arrive in twenty days, whether those orcs come 120,000 or 200,000, according to the old rules, kill them all.

Not only that, but after defeating the orc alliance this time, we will take the initiative to attack the grassland. Expand the territory, and the empire will not hesitate to reward the marquis. This is your time for accomplishments, and don't let me down. ”

The officers' eyes were red, and it was every soldier's dream to expand the territory. As Lorraine said, the Ruman Empire did not hesitate to give rewards, especially to these officers, to lay ground. Fief money. Promotions are naturally not a problem, if you do a good job, you will have an honorary title, if you are a legion commander or something, no matter how beautiful you do, it is also possible to be hereditary.

But such an opportunity is not easy to come by, and the border in Nai An has not been crossed south for two hundred years.

Even General Larry was excited. He knew more things than the officers below, and knew that if he really dealt with these orcs this time, according to his position and merits, a hereditary baron could almost do it.

The officer gasped, stood up with a coax, and shouted hoarsely: "Serve the Empire." ”

Lorraine nodded with satisfaction, what he wanted was this effect, Lorraine said loudly: "Go back and tell your people, as long as you kill this group of half-orc coalition forces, we will kill his mother's past, when the time comes, there will be meat to eat, there will be chick bubbles, there will be money to take, and land will be given for free, well done Niu and land two shares." ”

Don't look at the unstable hearts of the people now, as long as the officers pass on the word, the soldiers will feel that this group of orcs is nothing to fear. There is still land waiting for us to grab in the back, so quickly beat them to a dead end and grab things.

Humans are such animals, and it's good to walk in and take hearts. It's okay to talk about greed, but it is this greed that human beings can dominate the continent and drive other races to the edge of the world.

Ghelba picks out a few clever orcs from the Abendan tribe and washes them off their bodies. Follow the goblin Shajin back to the grassland.

Goblin Shajin didn't bring anything with him on this trip, except for a whole boatload of salt, gold coins, and other things. It is of little use in the prairie, but grain and salt are in short supply.

Salt, in particular, was the only one in the savannah that could be protected by the tribes.

Goblin Shakin is now like a "gambler who has put his entire fortune on the table." Either a life or glory and wealth, with an expression of heaven and hell on his face, Lorraine was secretly worried, can this guy do it?

The goblin did not forget to remind Lorraine several times that he could bring news back from the grassland, and Lorraine appointed him deputy general manager of the venture capital company.

Then, with a resolute expression, he said goodbye to Lorraine step by step. With a group of armed guards, he walked towards the vast grassland.