total war rise of empire

Chapter 122 Lei Zihao's Attempt
Some people may wonder, the tax gap between Pylos City, Megara City, and Longhan City is so large, can't the people of Pylos go to Megara City to live?
After all, in this era, it is very difficult for people to live alone away from gathering places and cities. There is no cultivated land in the wilderness, and carnivorous beasts appear from time to time, such as wolves!
Wolves are naturally not a threat to large human villages and cities, but they are a fatal crisis for small groups of human gathering places and family-based survival methods!
What's more, if he voluntarily escaped from the town to avoid the tax burden, the ruler's soldiers could capture him openly according to legal principles, and even kill him on the spot!

The taxes in Pylos City are so high, not only the people in the city collect taxes, but also the villages and towns surrounding Pylos City have this tax standard!
Unless the people of Pylos really rebelled, they would obediently bear Lei Zihao's oppression. Of course, if they sold themselves as slaves, they wouldn't have to bear such a high tax burden. Even if they sold their own lives, they wouldn't have to pay The tax burden, after all slaves also belong to Lei Zihao's private property...

However, if it is sold to private individuals instead of to the government, then the person who bought the slave would have to bear the poll tax of the excess population!
Believe in Lei Zihao's integrity, this head tax is definitely not a small amount!

Therefore, under the level of taxation, even the wealthy Pylos dare not keep slaves. At most, they hire some servants. Servants are different from slaves. Servants have personal freedom and wages. Duty to pay your own taxes...

Closer to home, with such a huge tax gap, Lei Zihao would naturally not allow all the people from Pylos to go to Megara City and become part of it to avoid the high tax burden!
This is actually very easy to guarantee. In this era, there are no high-speed transportation tools such as cars and railways. Due to its special nature and strong military support, the army can travel all over the world with its legs. It's different!

First of all, when individuals or even small groups migrate, they must avoid carnivorous animals such as wolves, and second, they must ensure that they will not be killed by bandits and refugees in such a lawless place in the wild, and make food like "human meat barbecued pork buns" !

This is the barbaric and backward era of cold weapons. Some people are suffering from hunger and want to die. They don't care whether the food they eat is of the same kind!
This is also the reason why humans need to build towns to surround themselves!

Cities and villages are not only used to defend against wild beasts, but in a sense, they are also used to defend against crazy creatures of the same kind!
The difficulty of migration has caused the population flow between the two cities to become a natural distance. Coupled with the typical appearance gap between the Seres and the Pylos, it can be said that the Pylos people can not only pay taxes obediently, but also escape from human settlements. , when a wild man is coveted by wild beasts and strangled by Lei Zihao's army, there is no third option!

As for the uprising, if the people of Pylos really had the guts, they wouldn't have surrendered in the first place!
The saying that it is better to die than to live is always more recognized by the world than those who sacrificed for the nation...

Everyone is eager for a hero who dares to sacrifice to stand up, but the vast majority of people don't want to be a part of the sacrifice...

Therefore, Lei Zihao's oppressive taxes on the Pylos people were paid every month, which almost became a reminder and a catalyst for slaves!
In order to better replenish his wealth, Lei Zihao, who got into the eyes of money, sent people to seal up all the Pylos ports, and wanted to escape to the main world of mankind?
That's fine, as long as you have the ability to paddle a canoe across the blue waters...

After all, Lei Zihao's men still couldn't completely control the canoes, which can be seen everywhere...

In fact, Lei Zihao also wanted to try this with Pylos City. Anyway, the people of Pylos City harbored great resentment towards him, and the people's hearts turned out to be suspicious!
Since you doubt my integrity, I will let you Pylos people take a good look at how noble and honorable my integrity is!

Of course, the reason why Lei Zihao dared to do this was that he had more than 1 troops stationed in the city of Pylos, no matter what the Pylos people did or what he did to the Pylos people, he could control them!

Besides, it is only natural to collect taxes in the cities you conquer. If there is no such benefit, why would the noble lords fight?What site to expand? !

As for whether the people of Pylos could bear such a high tax burden, Lei Zihao didn't bother to think about it at all. He didn't care about the large increase in the number of his slaves!
Almost on the second day after the squeezing tax was released, the entire city of Pylos was almost in a state of excitement. People's hearts directly escalated from suspicion to resentment, and the level of public security also escalated from instability to chaos!
But what's interesting is that when Lei Zihao built an execution ground in Pylos City, the security level immediately went from chaotic to unstable...

The execution ground is not a building that needs to be built, it is more like a place specially set up by Lei Zihao, a bit similar to the beheading place set up by the ancient Chinese court at Caishikou!
The execution ground didn't cost Lei Zihao much money, he just chose a spacious place similar to the city center, named it the execution ground, and chopped hundreds of them there. The head of the offender of Pylos!
The effect was immediate, and the law and order in Pylos City immediately returned to instability...

Instability is considered the level of law and order with the highest degree of taxation. After all, most Pylos people are faced with the anxiety of becoming slaves when collecting taxes. It is no wonder that the level of law and order is stable!
That's a slave who has no human rights and can't even save his life!

Still a slave to the tyrant of Siris!
Just thinking about it makes the future full of darkness!

Therefore, many Pylos people tried their best to raise money, just to pay the hopelessly high tax burden next month...

As a matter of course, the number of Pylos fleeing has also increased greatly. The Lancers patrolling outside have harvested many Pylos heads these days, which has brought Lei Zihao a lot of killing experience!
There are also younger Pylos who escaped from the crowd, and all their property was confiscated without waiting for the tax day, and they became a glorious Pylos slave...

In theory, Lei Zihao's attempt was considered a success. On the tax day of the first month, apart from the sudden drop in the population of Pylos City, there was nothing wrong with it. Lei Zihao made a lot of money. Profit!
　Thanks to Xiao Benca for the reward of 20 yuan, and thanks to Geraint·wang, Qidian Reading iOS for the reward of 5 yuan. When the reward reaches [-] yuan, more will be added!
　　
　
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