Chapter 497

It is a matter of course that the talks ended with better results.

After all, since Carmen provoked Sir tutsela's selfish desire, the patriot's golden body had been ripped open. Lorraine drilled in along the hole and successfully touched the core of the hero's real scruples without much effort.

The so-called... Status and respect.

Respect comes from status and makes the status stable. The two are one and two sides. As a high-level demand concept, it is the high wall that civilian heroes like tousela strive to climb, but can never climb to the top.

Lorin's father Elijah once taught Lorin that only a hundred years of education can give birth to a qualified aristocrat.

In short, it is only the beginning of a family transformation that civilians get the title by chance and become part of the upper class society.

European upper class society is a closed and exclusive social circle. This circle has been running for thousands of years and has its own unique cognition, customs, customs and even language, which is very different from the civilian class.

Even if civilians are promoted to rank, they will still be regarded as outsiders, and your descendants will still be in the circle even if there is no rank. The root of this strange closed loop is the difference between the two classes.

Because of the differences, heroes of civilian origin must greedily pursue a higher status. Status can enable them to more comprehensively recognize the differences between the two sides and have a clear direction for improvement.

Generation after generation, when they completely fade out the color of civilians, they can really stand a firm foothold in the upper class and become the real "aristocracy".

When it comes to tussela, the governor's identity allows him to get due attention even if he is not recognized. Spain's top social field contract in the new world can't stand the long absence of a powerful person, which is the fastest and most stable way for tussela family to change.

But if he really finished his term of office without achievements, as Lorraine said, with his background, the result waiting for him can only be to return home sadly, hang the title of major general and full of medals, and wait to die in an idle post.

His life is over and the transformation of his family is over. When he is inspired by God, the family will stop its short trip to the upper world and fall back into the quagmire of the civilian class.

He certainly didn't want to see such a future, so when Lorraine interpreted Miami music as the only hope of his career, he lost the right to choose.

The governor of Florida, Baron farby von tussela, officially decided to build a new colonial town at the Miami estuary. The construction will begin on August 12, 1785. It is expected to build a medium-sized administrative scale before September 15 of the same year, and complete the immigration of at least 2000 people at the same time.

Named after the river, this new city that is about to be born from the wilderness is called Miami.

As the legal owner of the scheduled Town site, Drake chamber of Commerce in England will put aside the national boundaries in the position of spreading human civilization and fully assist in this colonial development.

The contents of assistance include but are not limited to:

1、 Planning for the new town is free, and the first phase of planning shall be submitted to the governor's office for review before August 15.

2、 Provide the Florida governor's office with the land of city hall, Parliament, church, court, public security office, customs, tax office and prison and relevant buildings attached to the land free of charge, which will be handed over before September 15.

Three, to pay the immigration fees and undertake the transfer of immigrants, to complete the resettlement before September 5th, and assist the city hall to complete the registered residence of the immigrants.

4、 Provide perfect housing and other living facilities for the first phase of immigrants free of charge.

5、 Provide the governor's office with the land and anchor port required for the garrison free of charge, including 1000 acres of land and one kilometer of coastline northwest of the Miami estuary, as well as the whole island of Virginia island.

The construction of military barracks, anchor ports, shore defense forts and other military facilities shall be undertaken by the governor's office after the legislative hall.

6、 Carry out comprehensive commercial development of land other than military and administrative purposes in accordance with the plan

This contract is a common means for the transfer of colonial strongholds from private to official. The content is full of fantasy. If someone takes it seriously, they will certainly think that God has shown miracles on earth. Overnight, they not only built perfect towns, but also gathered devout believers from all over the world.

But what Lorin really needs to do is to deliver some administrative facilities, provide military land and assist city hall to complete the registered residence of Hekou town.

In addition, the first mayor of Miami was identified as the current mayor of St. Augustine, Mr. dipyani.

Tussela seems to have misunderstood Lorraine's intention, thinking that he chose to introduce dipyani in the hope that dipyani can become the helmsman of Miami.

Fortunately, this is not the key

At the same time, the policy guidelines have also been roughly finalized.

The biggest difference between Miami and private strongholds in history lies in land ownership.

According to the normal process, the adventurer lands on a strange land, inserts the national flag, declares the state-owned, and then returns to the native land or a relatively prosperous colony nearby, looks for broken settlements willing to move and invest by means of deception, and sends money and people to farm under the national flag. This is colonization.

Therefore, the concept of colonization has always been "agricultural production in ownerless land".

When the colonial stronghold develops to a certain extent, the real secular forces will intervene, take everything away by establishing a town, and only compensate the developers, investors and the first batch of pioneers to a certain extent.

In other words, all official towns should belong to the state, the king and the governor's house.

But this conversion doesn't work in Miami at all.

Lorraine did not declare his sovereignty by inserting a flag. His land transactions with Indians have complete filing and tax payment certificates in Britain, Spain and the United States, which are completely in line with the rules of the operation of civilized society.

This means that even if he is transferred to the official camp, Spain cannot deprive him of his legal real right to the land.

Planning, construction, development and operation, all land related rights are firmly in the hands of Drake chamber of Commerce. If Miami is compared to a luxury house, the city hall is no longer the master in the general sense. He is more like the housekeeper hired by Lorraine. His salary is Miami's tax.

For example, Miami Beach.

The port authority is independently operated by Drake chamber of Commerce, and the charges for various services related to it belong to the chamber of Commerce.

If someone wants to buy or lease first-hand land, properties, berths and other real estate, they also need to connect with the port authority, which is also the income of the chamber of Commerce.

In contrast, customs and tax stations belong to municipal institutions, so whether customs duties or other taxes are the income of the city hall and do not need to be shared with Lorraine.

At first glance, this revenue model is like two parallel lines. The chamber of Commerce and the city hall earn their own money and do not interfere with each other.

But in fact, because of the need to borrow Drake's land to collect taxes and develop the population, the city hall must attach importance to Lorraine's opinions in the formulation of the tax rate benchmark, and the details float to the town council's decision making has the final say that Lorraine will have the final say in a long time.

This is the unique characteristic of people under the eaves.

Carmen and dipyani, on behalf of the two sides, had a verbal battle on the tax rate. Finally, they decided that the agricultural tax in Miami was based on 10%, the commercial tax fluctuated at 5-10% according to the type, and was levied in two directions. They adhered to the characteristics of free port, exempted from customs duties and personal consumption tax, and the sum of other surcharges should not exceed 5%.

Carmen also added special tax exemption related to tax rebate, especially in terms of tax rebate. All individuals with an annual tax of more than 20 octagonal coins and organizations with an annual tax of more than 500 octagonal coins can enjoy the treatment of stepped tax rebate. This treatment reaches the highest 50% when individuals have 100 and organizations have 2500, which will be settled uniformly in March of the next year.

Lorraine did some calculations.

Under this tax rate, the tax paid by Miami citizens who are corrected by tax rebate generally does not exceed 15% of the total income, and the burden of the chamber of commerce is controlled at 7% to 13% of the local revenue, which is nearly half lower than the average burden of contemporary commercial ports.

"In this way, Miami may be the most livable town in North America." Lorraine murmured with his coffee. "Population, chambers of Commerce, factories, farms..."

"Agriculture may not prosper on a large scale. After all, slavery is not allowed in Florida, and the labor cost is too high compared with other colonies."

"So what the chamber of commerce should do next is... Sell land?"