Chapter 424

Slums, which are actually the area of most cities in the world, can be said to be the hotbed of evil and the darkest corner of the city, except for the mess.

Homicide, robbery, smuggling and so on are just common here. Even the gods' churches in the city rarely come here. There are dead people here almost every day. Even the priest of the dawn temple, which is famous for his kindness, will not care about their lives.

However, things began to change with the arrival of the new king. The most obvious change was that many poor people were hired to work. Although they worked hard, they could eat enough and have a salary, which gave many people hope to live.

Who wants to die if he can live? The people in these slums burst out with strong work enthusiasm, and they were grateful to sulun, the king who brought them hope. However, these changes in the slums have also made other people think differently.

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"Head, I've found out. Those mud legs earn almost ten copper nards a day, eight for women, and even five for children." a thin, obscene man with a pair of mouse whiskers said excitedly.

"I calculated that there are more than 200 people in our guild territory alone. If they are all adults, they can get 2000 copper dinars a day, which is equivalent to two gold dinars. This month is 60 gold dinars, which is not a small amount."

The strong man with a fierce face and a scar on his face flashed a trace of greed in his eyes, "it seems that our king is really rich."

Scar face took out a knife and played it flexibly in his hand. Then he said, "mouse, you tell me to go down. All people who go to work must pay 80% of the safety fee every day. This matter will be handled by you. If someone dares to hide privately and doesn't pay money, break his hand!"

"Don't worry, I promise it will be done properly, and the money will not be less." the wretched man with a mouse beard patted his chest.

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With the issuance of health regulations, the city of San ferto has changed at a visible speed. The impact of the war has gradually disappeared, and the city has become more prosperous than before.

"Dong Dong!" a knock on the door sounded.

"Come in." Su Lun said without looking up.

A smell came. Suellen couldn't help sniffing his nose, looked up and said in surprise, "Phyllis, why are you here?"

"Let me see you," said Phyllis, dressed in a lady's dress and carrying a food box in her hand.

"You are going to live here these two days. Although state affairs are important, you should also pay attention to rest. This is the meat soup I asked someone to prepare for you. Try it first."

"Good!" smelling the tempting smell, Su Lun also felt the greedy insects in his stomach ready to move, took up the meat soup and snored.

Phyllis chuckled, then picked up her handkerchief and gently wiped the rice Zi on his lips: "don't drink so fast. No one grabs you. If it's not enough, there's more here."

"That's enough." Suellen patted his belly and put the bowl down.

"What have you been doing these two days?" asked Phyllis as she put away the dishes.

Suellen picked up the papers on the table and said, "I'm busy making laws."

"Make laws? Are there any problems with the previous laws?" Phyllis looked at Suellen with some doubts.

"It's a big problem," said sulun. "The law is too simple and the punishment for crimes is very low. Moreover, many times, it can't maintain justice according to the above."

"In addition to these, the tax issues in these laws are also very vague. For aristocrats and rich businessmen, they collect less tax or direct tax exemption, but for those civilians, they collect poll tax, toll tax, goods tax, land tax, house tax, city gate tax, salt tax and so on."

"It's ok if these taxes are collected in strict accordance with the requirements, but I checked the tax records over the years. The tax revenue is less and less year by year. It's needless to guess that they are all embezzled by those officials."

"Moreover, I asked people to investigate the specific tax situation. The results showed that the state formulated a tax to collect one silver narr, and the tax officials below directly collected one and a half or even two silver narrs. The tax of the common people increases year by year, but the tax of the state is falling."

"The final result is that the state doesn't collect enough taxes, but the civilians pay more taxes. The state loses money, and the civilians also lose money. Only those nobles and officials eat fat intestines." Su Lun sneered and threw the document on the table.

Hearing Su Lun's words, Phyllis was also worried: "what should we do? Should we directly catch the tax officials and those nobles and let them hand over the embezzled taxes!"

"This can be solved, but it doesn't work for the bottom people. We will catch this group of people and replace them with others, which is likely to be the same as before," sulun continued.

"A better way is to improve the law and strengthen the supervision of officials and nobles."

"Then do as you say. I support you," said Phyllis, reaching up to her and hugging Suellen.

Su Lun gently stroked Phyllis's hair: "don't worry, it will get better."

Compared with the Northwind principality, the kingdom of Florence has existed for hundreds of years. Although it has more population and wider territory, it is much worse than the Northwind principality in all aspects. As far as taxes are concerned, no one dares to violate the regulations formulated by sulun, let alone embezzle.

There are many successful experiences in Zhenbei City, among which the key is the prison built by sulun and the construction of spiritual civilization and ideological education twice a year. Officials at all levels go to the prison every six months to receive ideological education. Coupled with various systems and supervisors in the north of the town, basically no officials dare to go beyond the minefield. Even if someone wants to do this, they will soon be found out.

Su Lun has given officials at all levels the right to report. There is an office for receiving reports in the city hall, which needs to report in real name. Even ordinary civilians can report officials to the city hall. Of course, if the report is verified to exist, the informant will be rewarded, but if it is a false accusation, the informant will also be severely punished.

This kind of report was originally used to restrain officials. Sulun didn't want to turn this report into a tool for retaliation in the hands of some people. This system has been running in Zhenbei city for more than a year, and now it seems to have a good effect.

There is also a prison in San ferto, but this prison does not have the various attribute bonuses of the prison in the north city of the town. Therefore, if sulun wants to operate according to the north city of the town, he needs to rebuild a prison. Now that he has decided to do it, the sooner the better. After su Lun defined the location of the prison, he asked people to build it according to the drawings he gave.

The manpower is still recruited from the slums. The slums have huge human resources and are very cheap. Since Suellen and Phyllis ascended the throne, the city of San ferto has begun continuous construction. Various construction projects provide a large number of jobs for the city of San ferto.

With work, there will naturally be income, and with income, there will be consumption, which will promote the city's commerce, and the materials required for various projects will be purchased from the market, commercial activities will be more frequent, and the whole city will become prosperous. Now San ferto is more prosperous than it was before the war.

Seeing this prosperous scene, no one can imagine that half a month ago, the city had just experienced a war.

In order to better control the city of San ferto, Suellen also contacted Hathaway through the communication magic array and asked her to send a group of grass-roots officials from Beifeng principality here, as well as a group of domesticated falcons from the north city of the town.

The official training school in Beicheng town has never stopped training. In the past, due to lack of manpower, the training time of the previous batches was one month. Now it has been extended to six months, and the number of trainees in each batch has also increased to 100. Recently, this group of grass-roots officials are just about to complete the training, and now they are all sent to San ferto.

The cost of magic communication is high. Suellen plans to build an eagle's nest in Santa ferto to communicate with falcons. At the same time, in order to strengthen contact with the north city of the town, Suellen plans to build a transmission array. Of course, this transmission array can only be used for emergency communication.

The construction cost of transmission array is very high, and it takes a lot of magic to transmit. The transmission array in the north town has an element pool to provide energy, but even so, it can not be transmitted frequently. San ferto is thousands of miles away from the North Town, which consumes more energy. It also needs to build an element pool.

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There was a sound of footsteps in the corridor, followed by a hurried knock on the door.

"Come in!" the door was pushed, and a servant hurried in.

"Your Majesty, the person who presided over the construction work was killed."

Su Lun suddenly looked up and said, "what are you talking about?"

The Chamberlain quickly said, "several staff members we sent out to build urban infrastructure were killed, their bodies were beheaded and discarded near the city gate!"

"Who did it!" sulun's voice was like the cold wind blowing from the big ice sheet.

The attendant swallowed his saliva: "it is preliminarily suspected that the gang in the slum did it!"

"Gang members? How dare they have such courage to kill my people?" Su Lun's face was cold and his eyes were full of anger.

"It's said to be for the wages of those workers."

"Those workers are in arrears?" sullen's expression became more ugly.

"No, no, the workers' salaries were not in arrears. It was those gangsters who wanted to forcibly take the workers' salaries. As a result, our staff went to argue with them."