Chapter 439

There are still many nobles in the kingdom of Florence who oppose Suellen and publicly announce that they do not recognize Suellen's throne. Before, Suellen did not care to clean them up because of his limited military strength. As a result, these people became more and more serious.

The northern sulun has let the Marquis of Savoy lead the army to destroy them. The legendary soldier of the Marquis of Savoy is in charge. The rebel nobles are not rivals at all. Now, only one month later, two rebel nobles have been killed, their territory will be recovered, and the property will be divided equally between sulun and the Marquis of Savoy.

After the arrival of grass-roots officials mobilized from the north town of sulun, the city of San ferto began to carry out tax system reform. Sulun has abolished many physical taxes, such as firewood tax and tithing tax. Even the Ding tax has been cancelled. The Ding tax is also called poll tax. In the former kingdom of Florence, all people in the Kingdom, both men and women, had to pay poll tax, Ten copper dinars a month for men and eight for women. Children over the age of five need to pay five capitation taxes until they reach adulthood.

After all these taxes were abolished, only agricultural tax was levied on ordinary farmers. The agricultural tax was 40% per mu of farmland, which was much lighter than that of the former kingdom of Florence. Originally, the tax revenue of Florence kingdom is 30%, but it still needs to pay many kinds of miscellaneous taxes. Finally, the tax revenue is almost equivalent to 80% of the land tax.

This is far beyond the 40% land tax formulated by Su Lun, and Su Lun came to know that these collected taxes will not be handed over to the Treasury, but all parties will work together, and only about 10% is left in the end.

As for the business tax, more was collected. In the past, the big aristocrats collected less or even no tax, while for ordinary caravans, the tax directly increased several times. As a result, the merchants were forced to keep close to the aristocrats.

The reduction of businessmen also led to lower and lower business tax. Sulun had previously decided that the collection proportion of business tax was the same for nobles and ordinary businessmen. In this way, it would be tantamount to moving the interests of those nobles, blocking people's wealth is like killing their parents. Those nobles are obviously very dissatisfied with sulun's forced tax collection.

But the reality is that they dare not take any action. Su Lun's strength is no longer that they can resist. Those who dare to do it have long been cleaned by Su Lun, so even if the remaining nobles are no longer satisfied, they can only accept it honestly. After all, accepting it will only lose part of their money. If they dare to resist, His majesty will not be soft hearted. Since he ascended the throne, dozens of nobles have been killed by him.

The killed nobles will have their titles revoked and their lands and fiefs confiscated. Sulun obtained a large amount of land in this way, and then leased these lands to the landless poor. These lands belong to sulun. After renting to the poor, they will charge 10% of the harvest as rent, 40% of the tax, and they can use the remaining 50% to live.

After renting out these lands, almost all the poor in San ferto have dissipated, and the whole city has become more prosperous and lively.

After the reform of the tax system, the tax revenue of San ferto directly doubled, so that Suellen also had enough money to build more troops. After the formation of the army, Suellen also included several cities around San ferto. Then the cities will be transformed according to the city of San ferto.

It was originally the territory of the royal family, and the transformation was less difficult. In addition, the army sent by sulun was on the side, and the nobles of Santa ferto were the example. Therefore, the transformation of these cities was fairly smooth. Originally, all the officials in these cities were gathered and sent to the prison of Santa ferto for ideological education and transformation. After the transformation was completed, Will continue to hold his previous position.

In addition, while carrying out ideological transformation, Su Lun also trained these people in management to improve their ability, and Su Lun also assigned some grass-roots officials brought by the north town to become officials in the past. These officials not only deal with various government affairs, but also supervise the original officials.

After completing the ideological education of officials, sulun asked them to implement the new tax system. At the same time, sulun also started urban health management in several cities. Now all the nobles in the kingdom of Florence know that the new king has a habit of cleanliness and has very high requirements for all urban health.

In addition to these, I like to demolish the slums. When demolishing the slums, I also solve all the gang thieves. These tasks require a lot of money and force. The two legions established in San ferto have been separated and sent to the surrounding cities. With these troops, various systems can be carried out smoothly.

Sulun has begun to form more legions. Because of the establishment of the relationship between the barracks, the training speed of the army has improved a lot. In only two months, those ordinary people can be trained to be qualified soldiers.

Although he can lead the soldiers of Beifeng principality to kill the rebels easily, how can he manage so many territory alone, so he can only train people and form an army, and then expand his territory. Although this is a little slow, he has very high control over the place.

Those cities controlled by Suellen also began to build prisons and barracks. Suellen can't always recruit soldiers in San ferto. Other cities will also recruit and send these soldiers to barracks for training to form a new army. Among these formed armies, the army of Beifeng principality will also join them and fill the positions above captain. In this way, sulun can quickly control a large number of armies.

Although the combat effectiveness of the army has been temporarily reduced, the strength of these soldiers will be rapidly improved after several times of eliminating monsters and fighting.

In addition to the rapid growth of the army, the strength of the royal guards also began to expand rapidly. A large house near the noble area in the north of Santa ferto city was quietly bought. More than ten soldiers in black uniforms stood on both sides of the gate. A plaque was also hung on the gate, on which the words "Royal Guards" were written.

The gate of royal guards is open. People come in and out from time to time. Civil officials walking in the courtyard, as well as warriors wearing black clothes, with a ring sword around their waist and a black scarf wrapped around their heads, hurried along the road. These are the royal guards established by Su Lun.

A large number of reins are tied on the pegged horse post next to the house. From time to time, several horses come or go at a gallop. On the street around the house, the civilians in the city are surprised by the house, and they don't know what the royal guards do. However, after waiting for some time, the surrounding civilians began to subconsciously stay away from this place.

There are often many people arrested by shackles in this house, dragged in by those royal guards who exude a cold smell. Wailing voices can often be heard around this manor.

Royal Guards is another force of Su Lun. This force was not strong at first, but now it is feared by many people. Royal guards are not only used to inquire about intelligence, but also to monitor the interior in time.

Su Lun looked at the document and asked without raising his head, "how's the preparation of the royal guards?"

Hearing Su Lun's words, Byrne, the royal guards nearby, immediately replied, "at present, there are 130 royal guards in San ferto City, more than 300 spies, more than 400 ears and eyes."

"There are 300 spies. Now in the kingdom of Florence, such spies are almost the same as ordinary people. Among them, the number of Santo filto is the largest, and there are more or less in other cities."

The royal guards said respectfully.

"I heard that the royal guards have been very busy these days. They have arrested more than a dozen nobles in secret connection."

"Yes, they have all been sent to Zhao prison."

Su Lun smiled. He was very satisfied with the royal guards: "however, the information submitted by the detective should be carefully examined and try not to appear unjust, false and wrong cases."

In fact, the functions of the royal guards founded by Su Lun are similar to those of the royal guards in the Ming Dynasty, and there are many differences.

The royal guards of the previous life, sometimes in order to ask for merit and reward, fabricated accusations, unscrupulously expanded the scope of involvement, and created a lot of unjust, false and wrong cases. But Su Lun is very strict now. These royal guards don't dare to do so.

"At present, the royal guards are doing well, but you should also remember one thing. This is not enough. We should develop our ears and eyes not only in the northern provinces, but also in the major cities and settlements in the south. The purpose of setting up the royal guards is to patrol all over the world and monitor the nobles or others who want to subvert our rule."

"In addition to paying attention to domestic affairs, I also need to know more about other countries in the future. I need you to form an intelligence network like a cobweb as soon as possible to collect intelligence and deliver information for me."

"Yes, I'll speed up the construction," Bain nodded.

"By the way, how many Eagle nests have been built?"

"Not counting the eagle's nest in the North Town, we have built four eagle's nests, but there is still a shortage of falcons and the number of Eagle trainers is limited." Byrne said awkwardly.

"The eagle's nest will continue to be built. This is the key to our establishment of an intelligence network. I will let more people join the eagle trainers."

"Yes!"

"When you arrest those nobles who commit crimes in the future, your royal guards can leave one-fifth of their wealth as a development fund. This money can only be used to develop the royal guards. It is not allowed to be used for other purposes. I will send someone to watch."

"Yes!" Byrne looked happy. Although the fund can only be used for development and construction, it is still a high figure.