Chapter 407

The wheels rolled on the bluestone paved road, and the light carriage bumped from time to time.

"The roads in Pinghu Town are wide and flat, which is far less than that in brinor city." Tnis gripped the armrest of the carriage and said distressedly, "I like the prosperity of the king's capital, but I especially hate the two wheeled carriage."

The compliment of the former tax official made Victor smile on his face and said in a deep voice: "I often dream of a city. The buildings on the street are arranged neatly, the roads extend in all directions, and two crystal street lamps are set every ten meters. Even if the dark clouds cover the moon, the city will not fall into darkness. Her sewers are complex, like a maze. There are more than millions of residents in the city."

"A city with millions of people... I can't imagine how long its walls should be?" Tenet smiled.

"There are no walls, no castles... Because monsters and beasts are locked in cages for the residents of the city to watch. Of course, they need to spend money to buy tickets."

"There is no wall... The monster is locked in a cage..." tnis muttered to himself and suddenly said, "your dream is a city-state in the golden age."

"No. I dreamed of the future." Victor paused and said tactfully, "my friend, I can see that your marriage brings you trouble, not happiness."

Viscount teness was a little silent and sighed, "my present wife is not Mary, but Susanna of ludwigs."

Victor's sharp ears suddenly stood up. He doesn't want to inquire about other people's privacy, but the Lord can't ignore the intelligence of the Kingdom center. Even if the other party is only a small role, who can be sure that there is no article to do? In particular, teness's marriage also involved the Ludwig family.

After finding an excuse for his gossip, Victor pretended to be surprised and asked, "how can this happen? Aren't you and Mary engaged?"

"My marriage partner changed, and I can only accept... That's the case." Tanis was helpless.

Victor's curiosity was not satisfied. He asked tentatively, "well... Your new wife is not as beautiful as Mary, or her family background is not satisfactory?"

"No, no, Suzanne's beauty is impeccable. Her grandfather, count Petra Ludwig, is not only the brother of the Marquis, but also a noble Silver Knight. The count holds the post of sheriff in northern cantshire, Suzanne's father is his second son, and the Suzanne family has a large hereditary manor."

Seeing a trace of contempt in Victor's puzzled eyes, tnis had to say, "well... Suzanne is a knight."

"A knight promoted naturally, or with the help of energy potion?" Victor asked softly.

"She used the energy potion..." tnis shook his head with a bitter smile and said, "what's the difference to me?"

The marriage between ordinary nobles and knights is doomed to be a tragedy, especially when the wife is a female knight.

Suzanne's aging speed is much slower than that of nice. When they give birth to a legal heir, she will no longer be bound by marriage and can freely pursue a high-level Knight partner. Although tnis will have many young and beautiful lovers in his life, his position in the family is ultimately weak.

In the final analysis, family relations are related to the balance of power between husband and wife. If tnis were a fierce soldier as powerful as Nelson, his knight wife would never dare to ignore her husband's dignity.

Victor sympathized with Viscount teness's future marriage life. He coughed and comforted: "it seems that you are good enough to win the favor of the Ludwig family... It's just unfair to Mary... Of course, it's not your fault... May Mary find a suitable partner as soon as possible."

"You don't have to worry about Mary's reputation." Tanis said expressionless, "she married before I got married. She married my former colleague, viscount hawk Fisher, the current king's tax official. I guess he will visit your Pinghu Town soon."

Victor's eyes were frozen and said in a deep voice, "I remember that Miss Mary's father is the fourth son of the home secretary. He is the tax collector of the kingdom? Mary's engagement is actually that the tax collector is looking for a successor?"

"Indeed." Ternis jaw first.

"In other words, viscount hawk of the Fisher family robbed your wife and future? That's interesting." Victor asked with burning eyes, "my friend, can you tell me why?"

Tnis thought for a moment and whispered: "The Church tried out the new 11 tax in Randall. The news reached brinor cathedral. After our Regent visited Archbishop Lazarus, he asked the tax collector to draft a new tax plan. Viscount Fisher submitted a new tax document in time before everyone else... I don't need to elaborate on the rest."

Victor knew it when he heard this.

The territory has been invaded by beasts and monsters for a long time. The Lord gives the wild resources to the people and only receives some symbolic offerings. The reason why the Lord does this is not only limited by objective conditions, but also to achieve the purpose of tax avoidance by hiding wealth from the people. When the territory encounters disasters, the Lord has the right to collect the materials in the hands of the people.

In the view of the stationed priests, the wild resources in the territory are difficult to count, unfavorable to preservation, and closely related to the livelihood of the people. Moreover, believers will take the initiative to donate part of the materials to the church. Therefore, the church simply does not collect the 11 taxes on wild resources, and the tax officials of the royal capital mainly collect the annual gold tax from the LORD according to the 11 taxes counted by the church. They collect the wild funds hidden by the Lord The source can only ignore it.

It is a tradition not to collect taxes on wild resources.

The army of ant people swept the man horse hills, where the beasts and monsters died and scattered. When the ant tide recedes, the affected lords should certainly seize the opportunity to expand the actual control area to the wild, and try to squeeze their living space before the monsters return.

According to Victor's plan, the York family built new water conservancy, opened terraces, migrated people, established settlements, planted various cash crops, and turned the wild into mature land. The growth rate of territory wealth is amazing, but wild resources have also become territory products.

It seems reasonable for the church and the royal family to ask for a new tax on the human horse hills.

The problem is that the York family doesn't have to pay annual gold tax!

The York family guarded the man horse hills and served as a barrier for Gambis against the ant tide army. The royal family exempted the annuity tax of Renma hill for 20 years, and the church exempted the 11 year tax for 3 years as support for the post disaster reconstruction of Renma hill.

Four years after the end of the ant disaster, the York family began to pay 11 taxes, but they still have 16 years of annuity tax exemption.

In other words, the new tax draft of kite castle is only for the Randall family.

Viscount tenes has a good personal relationship with victor. The coffee supplied by Randall family to brinor city is specially sold by tenes, and the two sides have a deep interest relationship.

In order to clear the way, Duke Williams imposed a new tax on Randall's collar. He first instructed Viscount fisher to draft a new tax plan to replace the post of tax official of King Denis.

However, the proportion of 20% of the Kingdom's annual gold tax will not change. Despite Victor's pain, how much more annuity can a Randall collar levy for the Gambis royal family?

Williams even let Sophia's millions of hidden gold out. Did he slap Victor's face for this little money?

Of course, he left room for turning around.

As a partner of Randall family, Tanis was not killed by kite castle. Instead, he was promoted to the Chief Secretary of the Ministry of the interior and married the female Knight of Ludwig family. Sleep on the floor degradation instead of promotion. No one will dare to treat tnis Lord Ludwig fell.

What is important is that teness can continue to cooperate with Viscount Randall. Kite castle can also conduct informal communication and exploration with Randall family through his channels.

For example, this is the case now.

What on earth did Williams want to do with so much effort?

Victor thought for a moment and said to himself, "unexpectedly, the Regent's first sword pointed at me."

"You can't say that." Tnis smiled: "now many lords have begun to build streams and reservoirs, open up terraces, raise pigs and store fertilizer... Especially your neighbors, the Buryat family and the chebman family, their new farming and pig raising scale is not inferior to other lords in the man horse hills. After all, their territory is also baptized by the tide of ants."

Victor was silent and said, "but they still have three years of tax exemption."

"The new tax collection is the trend of the Kingdom... I'm afraid the Randall family will set an example."

"Well..." Victor turned back and waved to Caligula.

Caligula, like a barbarian, bumped up and down, and tnis's cavalry guard was immediately pushed to the roadside. The roads in the inner city of Wangdu were relatively narrow. In order to maintain the formation, they had to fall behind the carriage. Nelson's swift ride naturally separated them a distance.

"Aka, are you tired from running?" Asked Victor kindly.

"Not tired." Caligula shook his head, and the fat on his cheeks shook

"Then follow."

"Oh."

Victor turned his head and whispered, "my friend, do you know the content of the new tax bill?"

"I've read... The specific implementation method has not been determined yet." Tnis came up and whispered, "however, it may be levied quarterly in the future. The tax officials are resident in major cities... There is no Pinghu Town, but Yeliu city."

"Yeliucheng? It's just a town led by a baron..." Victor frowned.

"Now, who still regards Yeliu city as a Viscount's leading town?" Tnis smiled silently and said, "Fisher wants to follow the transaction tax in Pinghu Town and levy a trade tax in yeliucheng."

Vic was as heavy as water and said angrily, "Damn it! Yeliucheng is a low tax free trade city. Does Fisher want to destroy it? The surrounding lords' families will never agree! And the Lords have paid annuities for the goods traded in yeliucheng. Why should the Kingdom levy trade taxes?"

"Take it easy, my friend." Tenet said: "Yeliucheng is very attractive. Its trade takes into account the people and horses, the Lords in the middle and south, the Lords in the south, and even a small number of Lords in the East. But there is no participation of the counties in the west, the middle and the north. The NIM family in the West is OK, and the kings in the middle and the north are the territory of the royal family. You have to admit that yeliucheng robbed the business of the four leaf clover business group. Do you know, four The leaf grass business group obeys the order of the Marquis Sophia, but half of its profits will be handed over to her majesty, who has handed over the personnel placed in the four leaf grass business group to the Regent. "

"Yeliucheng has indeed paid an annuity for its trade goods... For example, marquis Sophia let the four leaf clover Business Group buy out the charcoal around the dark forest, and rented a charcoal yard in yeliucheng. 20% of the charcoal belongs to the Kingdom, but what's the use of the king's charcoal? Marquis Sophia also set the price of charcoal very low and the profit is extremely meager. Is it the Regent's palace Sit down and watch you profit from it? "

Victor had passed on his anger, and he nodded blandly at the moment.

Williams is sure to implement the new tax, and there will be difficulties.

Victor was so distressed to pay taxes that count chebman's Iron Rooster couldn't jump. Kite Castle imposed trade tax on yeliucheng, which touched everyone's interests. Everyone united to resist, and Williams couldn't resist.

But if this problem can't be solved, what Regent will Williams be?

Therefore, the trade tax of yeliucheng is just a cover. The real destination of kite castle is Raven town.

There are barbarians in Raven town. They do the business of Lord dodo and earn money from the glorious knights and temple army. Kite Castle certainly wants to put nails in Raven town.

Kingdom spies can't see the light after all, and they are especially easy to be pulled out by other forces. Tax officials are different. They can not only cover the eyes and ears of the kite castle, but also monitor the material exchanges between the man and horse hills and dodo.

Williams took the interests of the kingdom as the overall situation. He took a step back in yeliucheng. With the nails in Raven Town, the Regent's prestige was preserved, and there was a breakthrough in the implementation of the new tax. He could also sell an adult love to the chebman family. The other lords would not say a word for Victor with the mentality of watching the excitement.

This is really a clever plan of disintegration and four birds with one stone!

Victor couldn't help praising Williams' strategy, but he thought of Raven town for the first time because he was prepared for it.

Since Raven town is open to business, all kinds of people should welcome in. If Victor doesn't even have that mind, does he deserve to be a lord?

The Kingdom's eyes and ears are not in Raven Town, but in Randall. Victor's core secret is the alchemy tower and the golden mission.

As for Raven Town, Victor considered the enclave as bait when he was preparing to build a two headed lizard business group. The Lords of the York family will naturally tangle with various forces in Raven town.

Victor thinks his intelligence is not superior. He adheres to the principle of clumsy birds flying first and makes a good layout in advance, waiting for others to jump in, but he can also take the lead.

However, the acting needs to be full. You should jump twice, you should jump twice, and the benefits you should want... You take advance as retreat, I take retreat as advance... I... what conditions should I put forward?

Victor was at a loss, but the wheels rolled.

The blue amber hotel is near.