Sword and Sorcery and Martial Arts

Chapter 290 Taxation
The tavern was very lively, men and women filled all the wine tables in the tavern, and they talked happily while drinking.

The maids in the tavern shuttled between the wine tables, and many men with restless hands were not satisfied with the beauties around them. From time to time, they found opportunities to touch those maids, and laughed in response to the maids' angry scolding.

Recently, the tavern has become more and more unscrupulous. The tavern used to be a place for the residents of the town to drink and chat, but now it has become a place for those who work outside to have a good time.

There are also many beauties from other cities who do some flesh and blood business here.

If the price is right, head straight to the tavern's second floor and get a room for some enjoyable exercise.

Rhodes hasn't been to the tavern for a long time, because every time he comes to the tavern, he will be warmly greeted by the beauties in the tavern, but he is a decent person.

Of course, Rhodes' desire to come to the tavern today is definitely not because of loneliness.

He just wanted to see how the spirits were selling. After they ate hot pot and drank in the yard yesterday, Rhodes asked Baron to bring a few barrels of spirits to the tavern for sale.

The price is temporarily set at five times that of ordinary ale, although the cost is less than this price.

If the people in the tavern can accept this price, then Rhodes will sell these wines to those nobles in limited quantities at a higher price than this.

At that time, the tavern will never have the chance to sell that kind of spirit again.

Rhodes plans to open a higher-end tavern by himself and sell spirits exclusively.

After seeing Rhodes and Baron walk into the tavern, the lively tavern suddenly fell silent.

"Go on, just pretend that I haven't been here." Rhodes said, noticing the unnaturalness of these people.

As soon as he finished speaking, the tavern resumed its excitement just now, only some young people still felt a little uncomfortable.

Rhodes looked around, but found no empty space.

"My lord, come and sit here!" A drunken man next to him said, and he offered Rhodes his seat.

Then, without looking back, he walked towards the second floor of the tavern with his arms around a hot, fair-skinned, and handsome beauty beside him.

Rhodes and Baron sat where the man and the beauty sat just now.

"It's been a long time since I've been to this kind of place." Baron said to Rhodes with a smile.

Rhodes nodded.

"My lord, what do you want to drink?" A young and beautiful maid ran over from a short distance and asked, "I suggest that you try the spirits that our tavern has just started selling today. This kind of wine will only be sold for one day." .But because it’s sold so well, each person is limited to one cup, but you don’t have such a limit, my lord.”

While talking, the maid casually rubbed her body against Rhodes, which made Rhodes a little embarrassed.

"Call your boss over, I have something to ask him." Rhodes said.

The tavern maid showed a look of disappointment when she heard it, "I'll help you find it now."

"Do you have any idea of ​​opening a tavern? I think it's very profitable." Baron asked.

"If you want to open it, I can lend you money without charging you interest," Rhodes said.

"Let me think about it for a few days." After Baron finished speaking, he showed a tangled look.

Not long after, the previous maid came over with the tavern owner.

Compared with when Rhodes first met the tavern owner, the tavern owner has grown a lot this time, and has begun to gain weight.

"My lord, what do you want from me?" The tavern owner asked in a panic. He put the two glasses of spirits in the tray of the tavern maid next to him in front of Rhodes and Baron.

"How is the spirits I bought yesterday?" Rhodes asked. He couldn't believe what the tavern maid said. He felt that what she said was more like a sales promotion, so he had to ask the tavern owner himself.

"It's sold very well, and now there are less than ten glasses left. You should know that it's just late at night." The tavern owner replied.

In the evening, the one-hour turnover of the tavern is estimated to exceed the whole day during the day.

"You release this commission for me, and ask someone to help me collect the creatures on this paper. They live in Dawn Province on the other side of the river. Remember that they must be alive. By the way, you sent me the wine How much did you earn after selling them all?" Rhodes took the piece of paper out of the space ring.

"A little more than ten gold coins." The tavern owner replied.

"Then use these ten gold coins as a bounty, and if you catch one, you can exchange it for one silver coin." Rhodes said again.

"Okay, my lord, I have written everything down. There is one more thing I want to ask you." The tavern owner said nervously.

"Ask." Rhodes nodded.

"When will the tax be paid this month? How much do I need to pay for this store?" the tavern owner asked.

"Didn't I promulgate the law on taxation a long time ago?" Rhodes asked suspiciously, and he even wondered if he had forgotten about it.

"What you formulated is a bit complicated, and I didn't fully understand it." The tavern owner replied with some embarrassment.

"Where is it complicated?" Rhodes felt a little strange. Like the earth, he collected taxes in different proportions according to the level of income.

Then different types of industries are charged with different taxes.

It took him several days to ponder over the laws related to taxation.

Also thought of various ways to reduce tax evasion.

All those who pay taxes on time every month and do not evade taxes will be regarded as citizens of the territory by Rhodes and will be protected.

Even those beauties have to pay taxes to him. He stipulates that the beauties on the territory must receive guests in taverns or hotels, and they have to pay a copper coin to the tavern or hotel where they do business. Give it to Rhodes together with the tax that the tavern needs to pay.

This is regarded as the official protection fee. Those beauties who do business in the tavern don't have to worry about encountering customers who don't pay and hurt them with violence.

It is better for them to pay such a small amount of money to Rhodes than to be bullied by street rats in other cities. Those street rats will not only charge more protection fees, but may even use some violence, at least verbally. Insults certainly cannot escape.

In order to prevent this from happening in the territory, Rhodes also specially set up a violence department to fight street crimes.

Anyway, there are no such hooligans or villains in the territory for the time being.

Rhodes plans to train those tax officials after a period of time, and let them teach all shop and tavern owners in the territory how to keep accounts. If they don't keep accounts according to the method he stipulated, they will be fined.

"I don't know how to count, how do I know the turnover of my tavern?" The tavern owner pretended to sigh sadly.

Rhodes felt a little angry when he heard it. Even if he couldn't read, he definitely knew how much money he made this month.

On Earth, those very old people may not recognize the numbers on the elevator, but when it comes to money, they can settle accounts faster than many young people.

"Then how do I know if this tavern belongs to you? Maybe it belongs to someone else?" Rhodes sneered, got up and left the tavern.

Rhodes decided to trouble the tavern owner for a few days and wait until the tax day to deal with it. If the tavern owner didn't know how much money he made, Rhodes would deal with it according to the established tax law.

First send someone to help him figure it out, and then pay the fine. If he can't pay the fine, he will use the store to pay off the debt.Law enforcement must be strict in the initial stage of legislation.

Rhodes felt that he was good enough to them, and the tax he collected was not high compared to other lords. Even if the tavern owner paid all the taxes according to the law, his income would be dozens of times higher than before.

It is not good to be too kind. People like this tavern owner will not only not be grateful, but in the end they will think that many things should be done.

"What should I do?" The tavern owner asked Baron with some fear. Baron always drinks here, so the two are still familiar with each other.

"You can do it yourself." Baron drank the wine in the glass, then patted the tavern owner on the shoulder, turned and left.

Baron felt that the tavern owner was too much, and he had the nerve to ask such a question. He clearly remembered how miserable the tavern owner was when he first came to this town.

Now that he has made money and doesn't want to pay taxes, Baron feels that Rhodes is a little too kind. Not only did he not collect taxes last year, he also didn't collect taxes in January this year.

The tavern owner can live so well now because of Rhodes. If it were any other nobleman, seeing his tavern's business is so good, he would have thought of a way to take his tavern over, and by the way, his family would be ruined.

Baron decided to open a tavern next to this tavern in the future, so that the tavern would have no business...

(End of this chapter)