Chapter 54

From a macro point of view, any human activity is economy oriented.

It is precisely because of economic development that there will be classes and landlords. With this development, there will be nobles and emperors ruling the whole country.

As a royal family, in addition to the dignity of status, the most important thing is to ensure their own wealth.

A poor but empty royal family with titles may be able to survive and be loved at least by the people in its territory. But once such a royal family encounters the aggression of other countries, it will fall down immediately. After all, those farmers will not protect you or even sacrifice their lives because you are a royal family.

Therefore, tax is one of the income of a country's basic property.

Perhaps for some countries, taxes are not the main source of finance. But it's definitely a basic part.

To put it bluntly, it's all about gold coins. Money is easy to discuss. If you don't have money, no matter what royal family you are, even demon or Protoss, you can't have any impact on any human activities in the world.

Since October, arrow has been carefully calculating his guild's property income every day.

After two months of operation, he has been convinced that if he works only with the task entrustment of Pelican Town, his income is very small. Although generally speaking, it can maintain the operation without loss, it is impossible to earn 1000 gold coins in the holy night sacrifice three years later.

These days, he is also worried. He is afraid that some big man will follow the trail of the iron wolf to find here and trouble them.

But he also had some expectations that someone would come, because there was no doubt about the gold bullion Merlin took away. In Merlin... Or, some big master behind the real eye must have started planning some action. Whether we can get a free ride of these actions is the key to our own development!

Unfortunately, no one came these days, whether good or bad. Everything seemed very calm, as if no one cared about the iron wolf and the gold.

While making accounts, arrow looked up at the sky outside.

Or... Organize another adventure into the mine?

The idea had just risen from Arrow's head and was immediately extinguished by his reason.

The level of the mine is still a little high for the mermaid song. At least, if you can go to the nearest big city to build some swords and spears

Forget it, No.

Ello raised his account book again, checked it up and down again, then nodded, closed it, and walked out of the door.

The weather has begun to turn cool. With the decrease of temperature, there are fewer stalls in the central square.

If you really want to sell things, the first month of autumn is enough for people to sell out a lot of things. Next, Pelican town is greeted by a quiet winter. Therefore, the reduction of stalls is also expected.

Cross the square and walk down the street to the mayor's residence of the mayor of round cheese. Arrow gently knocks the door. When the mayor saw it was arrow through the window, he immediately ran to open the door happily.

"Boss, business is booming!"

Arrow smiled, and so did cheese.

"Hahaha! Business is booming, everyone is booming! President arrow, I'm preparing meals for your students this month! "

Of course, ello could hear the subtext. Then he lifted his wallet and shook it. He smiled and said, "of course, isn't this? I'm here to pay for the board, too. "

With money, it's easy to say anything.

Round cheese happily brought arrow into the living room, and his wife handed him a cup of tea.

"Here, here are the meals for the students in October. You see, one iron coin per person per day, thirty days and forty people, a total of 1 gold and 2 silver. "

Arrow took out a gold coin and two silver coins from his pocket and put them in front of the round cheese. The mayor couldn't close his mouth with a smile and nodded again and again. His two hands slightly stained with flour quickly put the three coins into his arms, weighed them gently, and laughed more happily.

"Oh, for the education of Pelican Town, it should be! Did you have lunch? Why don't you go after lunch! Come on, honey! Let's prepare lunch quickly! "

Arrow was not polite either. If he was too polite at this time, he just saw the outsider: "then I'd better obey my orders."

When the mayor's wife went to lunch, ello took out the account book in his arms and spread it in front of the round cheese, saying: "mayor, this is the revenue of our mermaid song since its establishment. According to the tax law, we should pay 15% of all work income, but since the guild is in the initial stage, we can reduce or reduce the tax by five points, so..."

"Oh, don't tell me that!"

When it comes to numbers, the smiling face of round cheese suddenly becomes ugly.

The mayor said with a sad face: "although I, the mayor, do my best for our town, I know everyone in our town and know the family situation of each family. As long as it is the people of Pelican Town, as long as there is something wrong with anyone's family, I will try my best to help you. "

"But ah, my biggest headache every year is this period... It's really hard to calculate taxes! Hey, ello, look over there. Come here and I'll show you. "

Cheese took arrow by the hand, dragged him to the office, pointed to the pile of documents on the desk and said with a sad face, "look, these are the bills and taxes in the town this year. I won't talk about the small liquor tavern. I'll talk about the tailor's shop in Budian and the tool shop with long sticks. There are so many books in these two stores. I have to calculate the accounts inside, and I have to calculate the tax exemption amount and tax. These days, my head is going to explode! "

Looking at so many books on the table, to tell the truth... Ello was very happy.

Look at the round cheese now with such a sad face, and ello was even more happy, as if she was taking a bath and singing loudly in the spacious bathroom!

The accounts are not clear? Accounting chaos? That would be great!

The more so, doesn't it mean that the money laundering account is easier to muddle through?

Therefore, although ello's heart was already happy, his face still showed a very embarrassed expression: "well... But boss, my account book... What should I do? Don't you have to check it? "

The round cheese waved and said impatiently, "what are you doing? I believe you. You can pay as much tax as you say. I don't know my own cheese shop. At this time, I really hope to have a top student to help clear the accounts... "

Speaking of this, round cheese suddenly brightened his eyes! The hands stained with flour immediately grabbed arrow's hand and said with golden eyes, "yes! I heard you're a graduate of old tengshu college, right? It's the old tengshu college in Hanhai City, our capital, isn't it? "

"Ah? Ah, yes... "

"Great! Since he is a top student of laotengshu, he must be very good at accounting! Brother ello, can you help me calculate these accounts? I really have a headache! I really don't have the energy to do a good accounting! If you can, I hope you can figure out the accounts of our whole town in the next few days! Because it is during this period of time that the tax official will come to audit the accounts. I don't want to give the tax official the impression that my mayor is not very competent! "

Ailuo was slightly stunned: "what's the matter, mayor? Was your account clear before? "

Round cheese shook his head confidently: "no, it has always been a confused account. So I have to be scolded by the tax official almost every year. "

The mayor looked around and confirmed that there was no one around. Then he leaned over and whispered, "anyway, I'm also a mayor, but every time I'm scolded, my head is bloody, my neck can't lift up, and I'm always said that I can resign and don't do such words... You think, I don't have any other hobbies, That's the question of face... I hope I can have a little. I also hope that one day I can not be scolded by the tax official as a grandson... "

If you don't want to be scolded, check your accounts and check your accounts. This is not a complicated job. It is purely a matter of patience, care and time. If he is a tax official and sees such a confused account every time he comes to collect taxes, arrow estimates that he will also want to swear.

As the president of the adventurers guild, arrow had no reason to refuse the entrustment, and then smiled and said, "well, in that case, I'll take your entrustment from the mayor. Let me see, although this entrustment is not dangerous, it takes a lot of time, and the tax official should arrive in the next few days? Time is very tight... So the charges are... "

Elobi made a gesture of money, and the expression on the round cheese's face suddenly darkened a little. From this point of view, ello thinks the mayor is quite like himself - he pays so much attention to money.

"Well... How much do you want?"

Arrow thought, "how long would it take you to sort this out by yourself?"

Round cheese with a black face: "if I myself... I can't do it in ten days and a half months..."

Ailuo said with a smile, "well, how about five copper coins a day and a week?"

The mayor's expression was like trying to swallow all these bills. He looked unbelievable: "five copper coins a day?! I said, President arrow, we are all part of the town. We can have business with each other. Do you charge me so much? Three silver and five copper in a week! "

Arrow shrugged his shoulders and said helplessly, "there's no way. I'm the president of the guild. It's always more expensive to ask the president to serve in person."

The round cheese immediately shook his head like a rattle: "this can't do, it's too expensive, too expensive! I've seen the task charging standard in your guild. If there is no life danger, the maximum charge is 1 silver coin, right? And you count me by day? It's too expensive! If it's really so expensive, I'd rather be scolded by the tax official again. A silver coin. I'll give you a silver coin at most. Can you help me? "

Arrow smiled and put the account book in his hand on the mayor's desk: "then, please ask the mayor to help calculate the accounts of our guild and taxes. I'll put it here first."