For Hucaro City, Hardy has big expectations.

I want to make it a bustling city, and I don't plan to surpass Boris, but it's not too bad.

The crowd looked at Hardy, amazed at his youth.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that Hardy is still a teenager, and he is only about sixteen years old.

But he is already a viscount, and he has made a great reputation.

When they knew that Hucaro City had a new owner, many people had already begun to inquire about Hadi's news and intelligence.

The more I inquired, the more scary I felt.

This is also the reason why Hardy was able to invite so many 'gentry' here for a meeting at one time.

"I recently looked at the financial statements for the last sixteen years." Hardy glanced at the treasurer and continued, "I found something very interesting. ”

And they all listened quietly.

"In the past 16 years, the population of Hucaro City has increased from about 150,000 before to 240,000 now." Hardy's gaze swept over several industry leaders: "But the tax revenue in Hucaro City is still the same as it was sixteen years ago, and there is no growth. This does not make sense, the population has increased by 90,000, but the tax revenue has not risen. ”

It turned out that the atmosphere was relatively relaxed, but with the landing of this sentence, the atmosphere here became very heavy.

"I know that everyone loves money." Hardy said in an indifferent tone: "I like it too, without gold coins, you can't do almost anything." It was Lady Sissi you owe before, not me. So I'm not going to pursue this anymore. ”

In everyone's hearts, they were secretly relieved.

In particular, several industry leaders.

It would definitely hurt their bones to let them spit out all the taxes they had accumulated over the past 16 years.

"But then, I will strictly monitor your tax situation, especially the luxury goods and spice shops." Hardy looked at the other person: "As for the monopoly of salt, the lord's mansion will take it back." ”

"It's not fair." A middle-aged man stood up and shouted loudly, "This is the permission given to me by Miss Sissi, and you have no right to take it back, Viscount." ”

"As I said, it's not like I haven't done anything for the past month." Hadi sneered: "I have checked the records of the Lord's Mansion, it is a better thing to have money, it can at least ensure that there is enough paper to record some important things." ”

The middle-aged man squinted his eyes and said, "Your Excellency, I respect you very much, but this is not a reason for you to disobey the Jeanne family, and I don't understand what you are talking about. ”

"Huso-Knapp. Marrying a distant relative of the Jeanne family, using this as a pedal, successfully related to the Jeanne family. Hardy looked at the middle-aged man and chuckled, "When Lady Sisi was eleven years old, she came to live in Hukaro City, and when she was twelve years old, she entrusted you with the salt monopoly. And what you do is to only pay about two gold coins to the lord's mansion every month. ”

Everyone looked at Huso-Knapp in amazement.

And Husso-Knapp's face turned blue.

Hardy didn't get used to him, and continued: "It sounds like a lot, but the profits generated by the salt monopoly are very exaggerated, and the city of Hucaro at that time already had a population of more than 100,000. With two gold coins a month, are you sending beggars away? ”

Except for Hu Suo, everyone else showed expressions of watching the play.

"Twelve-year-old Mrs. Sissi is not sensible yet, and she doesn't know much about common sense." Hardy sighed and continued: "She may think that the salt monopoly is not profitable, but as long as the people who have investigated a little bit know that the salt monopoly in control of a city, or even this territory, is so profitable, don't you say?" The current richest man in Hucaro City, Mr. Knapp. ”

There was an uproar.

A well-dressed old man couldn't help but sigh: "It turns out that this person is such a black-hearted person." ”

Hardy continued: "After Lady Sisi gets married and leaves Hucaro City, you don't even want to give those two gold coins to the Lord's Mansion anymore. ”

Husuo sat down angrily, but did not dare to say anything more.

Hardy is not just a reckless teenager, but behind him, there is an army to support him.

And he is also substantial, the new owner of the city of Hucarlo.

"You're a distant relative of Jeanne's family, I don't want to make things too stiff, now you have two choices." Hardy leaned back slightly, leaned back in his chair, and said, "First, I went to Boris by myself and confessed to Lady Sissi. The second is that I will let people tie you up. ”

Huso-Knapp gritted his teeth and asked, "What about the salt monopoly in Hukaro City...... How? ”

"Naturally, the Lord's Mansion has to be taken back." Hardy said in an indifferent tone: "There is no reason why a domestic servant should be more profitable and richer than his master." ”

"If I Don't ......"

At this point, he could not continue, for he suddenly felt a wave of fear.

Fear wells up in my heart.

Very suddenly.

Not only him, but everyone present was affected, but the depth was different.

The weakened version of the fear aura is naturally not as strong as in Nightmare Knight, but it can also play a certain role in ordinary people.

But this fear comes and goes quickly.

This salt monopoly, Hardy must take it back.

Recently, he has not only been consulting records and information in the lord's palace, but also walking around the city to gather information.

Overall, the security in Hucaro is okay.

Because there are no real nobles at the head to 'mess around', they are 'self-governing' quite well.

Edible salt is on the expensive side.

At least about 20 percent more expensive than the surrounding cities.

Now the taxes in the lord's mansion are not high, and a lot of expenses are down, and the net income is only between seven and eight gold coins per month.

This money is more than enough to live, but it is far from enough to raise an infantry army of two hundred people, and a knight order of more than a hundred people.

After the salt monopoly is recovered, the military budget should barely be enough to spend.

The rest is to do a good job in the matter of taxation and prevent those businessmen from evading taxes, and it is not difficult for more than 200,000 people to raise an army of two or three hundred people.

At the same time, if the salt is monopolized by the lord's house, Hardy can set a relatively low price.

Let ordinary civilians also get certain benefits.

After all, salt is also an indispensable 'daily necessities' for human beings.

"Put the salt thing aside." Ignoring Husso-Knapp, Hardy continued: "We have another very important thing, which is about the appearance of the city. ”

Everyone felt that the atmosphere was much more relaxed, and then showed puzzled expressions.

Hadi continued: "I found out that we have no drainage canals in Hucaro City, and the other day it rained and the whole city was like being immersed in water. That's it, the water was full of human and animal excrement, the whole city stinks, and then I heard that many poor people are sick and dead. ”

Everyone had puzzled expressions, they didn't understand why the death of the poor had something to do with the rain!

Looking at the puzzled expressions of these people, Hardy sighed, "Don't you know that this is how the plague came? ”

(End of chapter)