Chapter 11： 11: Taxation

"It's okay. Mr. Goode is enough to come. I heard early on that Mr. Goode has his own method of planting buds, so this time my goal is only you. As for the village of Wood, I will let actual actions They themselves surrendered to me." Aslan said boldly.

Goode took a very unexpected look at Aslan, and then under Aslan’s leadership, he came to the wasteland that was being developed in the south of Merlot. Within a few days, dozens of acres of land had been opened up in this wasteland. In addition, they have planted fruit trees with buds, and use Goode's experience to make a preliminary estimate.

Once these 30 acres of ground bracts are planted successfully, with the high yield of bracts, Goode has worked hard to plant this kind of grain with a yield of more than 10,000 catties in these years.

There is a small piece of bract fruit tree in the back hill of Wood Village, only half an acre of land, but it can bring him five or six thousand catties of bracts every year, which is why he can pull out a team of people in Wood Village.

In the barren Merlot region, food is sometimes worth more than gold coins.

Looking at the buds orchards in front of me, the wasteland is still being developed. It is estimated that at least hundreds of acres of land will be reclaimed, if all are planted into buds.

Good can't even think about the output, let alone the small town of Merlot, even if all the big stomach kings in Wood Village and Lai Anning Village are added to feed it, there is no problem.

From one point, Goode had seen Aslan's ambitions.

"How is it? Mr. Good, my farm is not bad, right!" Aslan asked with a smile.

Goode could not help taking a breath as he watched the orderly farmer and each bud neatly spaced apart.

It took him three full years to discover that if the buds were planted too densely, it would affect the yield.

But here, the buds have been arranged neatly, which is definitely not a coincidence.

Seeing more and more fruit trees planted, many residents of Merlot couldn't help but be moved.

Especially those adults who have been assigned to open up wasteland.

If they can be allocated one and a half acres, then they will no longer have to have a headache to feed their stomachs.

In the Kingdom of Cleveland today, all land is owned by kings, nobles and lords. There is no private ownership of land, which is equivalent to the well-field system in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period.

Assigned to civilians by the lord. It is forbidden to buy, sell and transfer fields, and pay certain taxes, and the lord will force the civilians to cultivate collectively.

This is also the key reason why no lord in the Merlot area is willing to come.

There is wasteland everywhere, and there is simply not enough land for the civilians to cultivate. In the kingdom, as long as the lord is in charge, he must pay taxes every year, and the amount of taxes depends on the size of the territory.

The entire territory of the small town of Merlot includes the entire Merlot area. This land area is no more than a duchy, but because there is not enough land to cultivate, it eventually becomes a small town.

In such a small town, after every lord arrives, he can only scrape the ground and exploit the common people, otherwise there is no way to deal with the tax for the next year.

If a lord fails to complete the taxation of his territory for two consecutive years, he will be smashed to the end and demoted to a commoner.

Standing on a protruding hill, Aslan shouted to the crowd onlookers: "I believe everyone knows better than me about the output of the saplings, and the three seasons a year are well taken care of. There is no problem collecting 20,000 to 30,000 catties a year."

Even if Aslan didn't say this, the people knew very well, after all, their main food has always been saplings.

"I hereby declare that every household can receive one mu of field of buds, and for the lord's allegiance to the family, they will receive one more mu of land."

Although the people around were a little excited, they did not show too much excitement, because the most important thing was the tax that they had to pay every year.

It may be due to a different world, the food production is high, so the taxes are also terribly high.

Like the rice beads, the main grain in other parts of the Kingdom of Cleveland, the annual yield is 5,000 catties per mu per quarter, and other grains are also between 3,000-6,000 catties. With such a high yield, the land tax is naturally terrible.

The lords near the capital have a land tax of up to two taxes and one tax, which is equivalent to one-half of the harvested grain output.

This kind of land tax has little effect on a family of five during the harvest period, but once natural and man-made disasters occur, coupled with the head tax, the farmer will surely destroy the family.

Aslan has experienced these things in his entire life, and he has made these plans clear.

"In the name of Aslan, all the people in the lower territories in the Merlot area can enjoy five taxes and one treatment. At the same time, when there is a surplus of food, the City Lord's Mansion will give priority to buying the extra food from each household." Aslan said. It immediately caused a huge sensation.

One-fifth of the tax, for the annual production of 30,000 catties of grain and fruit, only 6,000 catties of grain are paid, and there is still around 24,000 left, which is enough for a family of five to feed every day.

"Lord Lord, what about the head tax?" Someone has begun to accept Aslan's identity and began to call the lord.

Regarding this issue, Aslan also considered this issue for a long time, and finally said: “The head tax is 120 copper coins per person, but when there is no money, you can use grain as a mortgage. For example, the market price of this year’s scallops is about 40 copper per hundred catties. As long as you take out three hundred catties, you can get 120 copper coins."

A family of five is only 1,500 catties of fruit. Although the price fluctuates a bit, it is drizzling for a family with an annual output of 20,000 catties.

Aslan opened the first two kingdoms in a row, low land tax, poll tax can be used as collateral for grain.

In the past, when the poll tax was levied every year, those nobles and merchants would work together to lower the price of grain. Even if this year is a bumper harvest, in order to pay the poll tax, the grain has to be sold at a low price. The result is the same as the amount of grain left when there is no harvest.

After just two policies were issued, Aslan won the support of all the people in the small town of Merlot.

Whether in another world or in that era.

Farmers are the foundation of a country. As for knights and magicians who master powerful force and magic, who dares to pat his chest and say that he is from the previous generations of the family and not a peasant.

Goode looked at the cheering residents of Merlot, and he was in a daze.

This lord is really completely different from the previous lord.

Although there are more than 500 people in the entire Merlot town, it actually counts as less than 60 households. Before there was no land to divide, many families used to group together for warmth. This way, family power was generated over time, and now there are fields to divide. Many families have begun to become independent, just to be able to get an extra acre of land.

In the end, a full 80 households were divided, except for a few bachelor, widows or widows who were unified on a farm by Aslan and worked collectively as tenants. After deducting the land tax and head tax, each person can also be assigned up to three per year. Thousand catties of food.