Game of Thrones: Catastrophe

When Robert saw Leonor agreeing to Ed's words, his expression relaxed a little, but he still didn't look good, and scolded him again:

“Look at the good things you do.”

"Yes, yes, my Majesty, I have you, and your King's Hand have bothered me." Leonor beat Robert.

"If you want to thank your king, prepare a martial arts competition for your king!" Seeing Leonor surrender, Robert also made a request.

"The competition is great!" Leonor responded.

"I want to give the first place in the competition 50,000 Golden Dragon as a reward." Robert continued to ask.

"A generous king, there are too many 50,000 golden dragons." Leonor rolled his eyes.

"Petir never said something like you." Robert was unhappy.

"Yes! He didn't spend your money for you. Have you ever thought about whether you are carrying the debt of 8 million Golden Dragons now? Those creditors will come to you for any time." Leonor explained to Robert that he explained to Robert. Pros and cons.

This time Robert did not speak, but instead a mean voice came from beside him, holding the queen of Joffrey Cersei. She sneered and attracted everyone's gaze, and then spoke slowly:

"Mr. Petyr never lets debt disturb his king."

"His Queen, it is better for the Lannister family to forgive their debts from King's Landing and to fund the martial arts competition of His Majesty the King. How about it? After all, the Lannister family brings gold." Leonor also sneered at the same slightest harsh retort. , the Lannister family is also one of the creditors of King's Landing.

"Why?" Cersei's face turned gloomy.

"Aren't you our queen? Not your wife of His Majesty the King? If you can't make these masters, why bother saying such unpleasant words? You seem to have no education and you want to teach our future crown prince." Leono turned his eyes toward him. Joffrey, who was held in Cersei, smiled slightly at him, which made Joffrey pull his hand out of his mother's hand calmly.

"What do you mean?" Cersei was so angry that her body trembled, and she didn't feel her son's movements.

"Enough!" Seeing Leonor quarreling with Cersei in public, Robert felt his scalp explode and shouted in time.

"Sorry, my Majesty." Leono stopped provoking in time and apologized as a minister.

"You must handle financial matters in time. I will talk to you another day." Robert glared at Cersei fiercely, threw a sentence to Leonor, and then held the long sword at his waist and left. Ed also followed in time.

Leonor waited for Robert to leave, giving Cersei a provocative look, and then turned around and left with a scepter, regardless of her reaction. As for the situation where Renly and others looked at the scene, they stopped in place. Don't know where to go.

The celebration ceremony that was supposed to be lively was dissatisfied by a quarrel, but this effectively stopped Robert's idea of ​​holding a competition.

Leonor left everything aside and returned to Red Fort to continue his financial affairs.

Littlefinger used to have two financial measures for King Landing. They were crazy about the happy service industry and used women's bodies to make money. The other was to borrow money for Robert and to borrow money from the families of Lannister, Iron Gold Couplet and Tyriel. While borrowing money frantically to maintain his expenses, he also earned a lot of money and occupied a large number of production materials such as salt farms, mines, mills, etc.

Now that the finances have been transferred, he naturally cannot do it like Xiaowei. He has made a plan for the country's taxation and is ready to re-plan the financial resources.

The main source of wealth in Junlin City is taxation, which is also the head tax and commercial tax for residents in Junlin City, and the other is the tax collected from the princes of the seven kingdoms of Westeros in a high position.

Leono decided to re-collect taxes beyond these two taxes, and his targets were salt and iron.

The Targaryen dynasty had only commercial taxes on the salt and iron industries, and did not have special control measures, which made many people not aware of the profits of salt and iron, and also gave him a lot of room for operation.

When he was young, Leono had already seen the profits of iron, and even reviewed the theory of salt and iron in his memory in the Han Dynasty. He wanted to take advantage of these two benefits very early, but unfortunately he had no suitable iron ore and salt ore as capital. , it is easy to imitate the gameplay without capital, so he does not do anything randomly.

This time, Leonor collected a lot of salt farms from Pettier's property, and it occupied most of the salt sources around Junlin City, which can be regarded as the largest salt capital.

The salt tax that Leonor intends to collect starts here. He first sent people to major salt farms and spent a lot of money to restore the production of those salt farms. Then he asked Lanli to issue a law to prohibit the sale of private salt and salt fish, and let the national salt farms. The salt becomes the only legal salt.

With the iron fist of the specialist, tens of thousands of pounds of salt were sold out in just half a month. The net profit of the manpower and transportation costs was enough to be tens of thousands of golden dragons.

At this sales speed, the national treasury can earn a salt tax of 20,000 Golden Dragons every month, and 240,000 Golden Dragons in a year, which is two to three times higher than the taxes paid by the past seven kingdoms.

With such profits, Leonor also let go of the competition that Robert had been longing for, and after he pushed the first prize to 20,000 Golden Dragons, and extorted several iron ores from the kings, he agreed to let Robert A martial arts competition to welcome the Prime Minister was held.

Just as Pischil used ravens to participate in the competition, Leonor began to use his own iron ore to plan the iron tax.

Compared with the salt tax classified into the state's vault, Leono intends to directly classify the iron tax as himself, because it concerns the development of forging technology and the quality of military armor, and cannot be allowed to handle it by others.

In order to facilitate one's own business, it is not appropriate to be a single-minded franchise. Therefore, he plans to go hand in hand with private business to control iron prices and collect taxes, and use private business to promote technological development.

"That's right, that's it." Leonor wrote the last word with a quill pen, nodded with satisfaction, and turned his head, and saw Dorret standing beside him, looking at him.

"What's wrong?" Leono asked his guard captain, as he seemed to have something to say.

"Sir, the registration for the martial arts competition will be over until tomorrow." Dorret said.

"So what's wrong?" Leono lacks interest in fighting and killing. For the army, courage is not the most important thing. What the army needs is cooperation, military expenditure and technology.

"We have a lot of brothers who want to participate!" Dorret was careful.

"Yes! Sign up for the competition in your personal name. Those who can get the first place will be rewarded with fifty households; those who are the second place will be rewarded with fifty households; those who are the second place will be rewarded with fifty households; those who are the third place will be rewarded with fifty households." Leono smiled He agreed and gave a reward. He ruled centralized power, so he did not enfeoff. However, in order to win over his subordinates, he adopted a system of food seal and distributed fiefs to his subordinates.

According to the cap tax, the fief is calculated according to the counting tax of the family of three, each with 2 silver deer. One household is 6 silver deer. Fifty households have fiefs equivalent to 300 silver deer. Knights with fifty households can get from him every year. I will receive 300 silver deer here, and I will take it for a lifetime until I die of old age, but it is not allowed to be licensed and cannot be hereditary.

The harvest of the territory depends on the knights themselves, and the fief is available when distributed and will never fluctuate. Therefore, everyone is very happy to accept this system. The soldiers in the Midsummer Hall also default to having fiefs as a symbol of becoming a knight.

"Yes, my lord!" Dorret was very happy to see Leonor agreeing and gave a reward.

"If there are many people who sign up, we will conduct an internal selection to allow outstanding people to participate." Leono did not forget to remind him that there are many soldiers under his command who want to become a knight!