After Austin had given the matter to Gray, he put the church business aside. After all, if you want to fight against the Church, you must at least improve your strength, otherwise, the archbishop is not just what he says.

As for how to improve your strength, haha, as a modern human being, there are methods. However, the most important thing now is that you need to know this place clearly before you can make a strong plan.

As for understanding the affairs of internal affairs, Austin called Hubbard over, and about internal affairs, he can briefly understand through Hubbard, after all, he has only this one civilian official except for the guards.

Through Hubbard's brief introduction, he learned that his territory is centered on the small town of Tarn Ma, with 53 villages and about 33,000 people, of course, the actual population is much less than this, it is estimated that it may be less than 30,000 people, the population is not much, the territory area is about 4,000 square kilometers, and the standard type is vast and sparsely populated. The terrain is mountainous and less landy, because it is right next to the forest, the rain and water flow are fine, and there is no soil erosion. Although the method of cultivation is not slash-and-burn, it is not iron plough ox ploughing, and metal farming tools appeared, but it is still manual ploughing. With such a farming efficiency, and daring to collect such taxes, this makes it better for people to plant any land and wait for death than this.

"Hubbard, how many supplies are in the town's warehouse, and what are they?" After Austin learned about the current situation of the town, he knew that there was no plan that could be carried out smoothly and smoothly, so it was better to put everything into the gamble, so he asked Hubbard.

Hubbard handed a ledger to Austin and said, "Your Highness, that's all, a lot of supplies were consumed in the previous battle in the town. It is estimated that the materials in Ilidako Village are much more than those in our warehouse. ”

Austin looked at the rudimentary ledger and probably had a point in his mind. Although there are not many supplies in the warehouse, fortunately, the expenses will be much less than those of the former lords. First of all, the army has been scattered, and he has no intention of organizing them again, and at this stage his own guards are enough, which can save a large number of supplies. Secondly, a large number of nobles died in the last battle, so if they want to inherit the previous territory, they need to obtain the inheritance through the ritual of allegiance to the lord, and this process will produce a large amount of materials. Finally, and most importantly, the consumption of the lord himself, the previous lord's extravagance led to a large amount of taxation in the end, and this part, Austin can make them all stop. In this way, more than 80% of the expenditure is gone.

The acquisition of such a thing as wealth is nothing more than throttling and open source, and the above method is to throttle, which is considered to be a stop loss, and if you really want to change something, it is to open source. The most important thing about open source is to improve productivity first. Only when the productive forces come up, will there be an influx of wealth, and after the country becomes rich, it will be able to strengthen the army and everything.

If you want to mention productivity, Austin naturally has to think of science and technology, as the so-called science and technology is the primary productive force, and the most important thing in internal affairs is grain and grass. This is true both at home and in a country.

This year, the collection here is average, not good, not bad, if there is no war, it is barely enough, but, compared to the tax, it is still a little worse, pay the tax, probably a little insufficient, and the tax collection has a variety of names, just look at the more official is three or four, taking into account the background of the times, such taxes are considered heavy, not to mention that the tax is not in the official is a little messy, really how to collect, how to collect. No wonder the whole village rebelled, if it was themselves, they were afraid of making the problem even bigger.

Austin picked up the pen, lowered his head and wrote something on the paper, and said to Hubbard: "Hubbard, the archbishop wants me to go to the witch, so I will leave the affairs of the interior to you, and the matter of the construction of the castle, stop, except for the necessary expenses, the expenses of inconsequential matters are stopped." This year's farmland tax will be stopped, and the next tax will be put after the autumn of next year. Focus on appeasing the places affected by the riots, the affairs of Ilidako Village, you should arrange for someone to contact them, prepare for peace talks, don't trouble them, however, if they want to do something, it will be similar to the new lord of the town intends to relief, but the materials have been taken away by Ilidako Village and other rumors will spread, so that their United Village will be more or less affected. ”

For a moment, Hubbard felt that his mind could not keep up with Austin's words.

"Your Highness, wait, what, let me sort it out first. Your Highness, are you going to find a witch?" Hubbard asked suspiciously, "What does this witch have to do with us, our affairs have not been dealt with clearly, and His Highness should not agree to this matter." ”

"I can't refuse, and if I don't find Charlotte to judge her within three months, the church will put me on trial. Austin said helplessly.

After Hubbard listened, he wiped the sweat on his head and said, "Your Highness, the archbishop really only gave you three months to let you capture the witch, if you can't catch it, let you replace it?"

"It's true, but, don't worry, there's always a way to do it. Austin smiled, said something soothingly, and after giving Hubbard what he had just written, he said, "These are some of the things I just said, which you look at and deal with properly, and there are no accidents, or other things, which will almost last until the autumn of the next year." ”

"Wait, Your Highness, this lot of taxes does not belong to you, but to the nobles of the territory, so they may oppose it. If they do not do what they do, we have no way to do it. Hubbard listened to Austin's words and immediately spoke.

"This dead fief noble, we will take back the fief, so that there will be one less group of such people, as for the management of things, I plan to replace the aristocratic management with official management. Those who did not die, warn them that they don't want to go through that war again, just do what I say honestly. Austin said domineeringly, "If anyone refuses, you write it down, and when you're done with it, you'll deal with them." If you look for death by yourself, heaven will not be able to save them. ”

"Your Highness, there is no reason, even if you are a prince, you can't reclaim the territory. Hubbard said.

"It doesn't matter if they will agree to it when the time comes. But these are my basic ideas, you should refine it, not too radical, but not too soft, as long as there are not many people who oppose it, you can do it. Austin said, thought for a moment, and continued, "We have now offended the church, and these local nobles are not with us, and they may use this incident to test us. So, you have to take care of this matter well. ”

"Yes, Your Highness!" Hubbard said with some solemnity, it is true that the current situation is like this, the local nobles are all local snakes, and the prince who came from the royal capital is the lord, and he has been assigned over, not to mention a strong dragon, at most it is only a shallow water dragon.

Therefore, the first decree that came here must be successfully implemented, otherwise, after that, life will be really difficult.