Conquering alien worlds starts from the game

Marriage is of course a joke. If getting married can bind someone and make a relationship permanent, then there won't be so many idiots complaining about women in the world.

After teasing Rex, Yang Qiu sent him away.

Unlike Yang Qiu, an "idleman" who squats down to meditate every day in the city lord's mansion, Rex is very busy.

Just after returning to the city hall, Zhao Zhenzhen smeared a report on Rex's face.

"Uh... "Investigation of the Innatrix Serfs"?" Seeing the handwritten title on the report, Rex's mind was immediately withdrawn from the messy guesses about the Otis family, and his expression was solemn.

"This is the result of Detective Monk and his investigation team running more than 20 farms this month." Zhao Zhenzhen's skull face is also quite dignified, "Inadoli's situation of raising serfs is much worse than that of you and me. Assumed to be more serious."

Detective Monk is an ordinary operative under the former magistrate who was not valued. Fortunately, he was reused after the city hall rebuilt the city's law enforcement department and assigned the authority of public security management to the newly established Department of Public Security.

The Department of Civil Affairs in charge of Ms. Shirley found that the number of newborn population in some areas was incorrect when sorting out and filing the population files, so the Department of Justice in charge of Jimmy borrowed the investigation team of Agent Monk to conduct a "census". , the problem came out...

This part of the population who did not enter the file became the "house servants" of the local nobles.

Don't think it's as simple as a family raising dozens of "servants" - there are more than 3000 "servants" registered in Viscount Darcy's family.

And this is only part of the archives of the city hall.

Detective Monk led the investigation team to secretly visit and investigate more than 20 manor farms, including Darcy's, and the results they found were beyond imagination.

"Darcy's family alone has tens of thousands of servants?!" Rex turned to the first page, almost thinking that he misread the numbers.

"They are serfs in the name of domestic servants." Zhao Zhenzhen said coldly, "Darcy's farms, manors, horse farms, and forest farms, except for the deacons (housekeepers) who are earning wages and a few hired workers who decorate the appearance, are all slaves. !"

Rex gasped slightly.

Next, Zhao Zhenzhen opened Agent Monk's report and briefly explained to Rex.

The Kingdom of the Rhine banned the slave trade, but it did not prohibit the nobles from using and raising domestic servants (after all, the Rhine royal family still needs the nobles from all over the country to support their own soldiers to protect the territory), which gave the Rhine nobles a lot of room for manipulation.

For example, the parents of the orc girl Lika, although they were illegal slaves transported from the north by Kenyan businessmen, as long as the farmer and manor owner who received these orc slaves gave these orc slaves a seemingly legal domestic servant status, Then no one would care whether these groups of ostensibly domestic servants did serf work.

This kind of serfs who exist as domestic servants, according to Zhao Zhenzhen's comprehensive information sources, the total number is at least 20 in the territory of Nadli... There are not so many large-scale agricultural machinery in this world to assist in planting However, even if the manors of the nobles have relatively sufficient animal power and basic farm tools, the number of farming manpower required is not a small number.

"Just this farm on the east side of Kane Town has more than [-] serfs." Zhao Zhenzhen said murderously, "What's worse is not only this, Agent Monk pretends to be a passerby and works in the fields After talking with the peasants, I learned that... half of the serfs on this farm come from nearby villages!"

"Nearly half of the land in that village has been merged into this farm in the past 20 years. The farmers who used to cultivate the land were also converted into serfs by the deacon under various pretexts. , far below the average of previous decades!"

Domestic servants do not pay taxes. This is the biggest reason why many short-sighted farmers are unknowingly stripped of their status as free citizens.

If you don’t pay taxes, you won’t get official protection—even in the era of the Bartles family, farmers who paid the agricultural tax every year could get the minimum guarantee of life safety. At least some farmers were beaten to death by the nobles for no reason. Losing money, ranging from a few gold coins to a dozen. (According to the laws of the Rhine Kingdom, the oldest male master in the family can get more compensation when he is killed)

If you don't pay taxes, you won't even have the minimum guarantee of getting compensation after you die.

And... not having to pay agricultural taxes does not mean that these serfs who are cheated or voluntarily wear the title of domestic servants can really have a full stomach-what butcher would be tender to the pork on the chopping board? !

The total population of the Innatrix Territory is more than 200 million, and the agricultural population accounts for more than [-]%.

Nearly one-tenth of the population are serfs (domestic servants) who do not pay taxes and have no guarantee of basic human rights... This made Rex, who was holding this report, feel as heavy as a mountain with his arms.

"Can we...do something?" Rex said with difficulty.

Zhao Zhenzhen nodded in relief.

Compassion for "inaudible cries", just ordinary bad people-not good people, don't care about inaudible cries, they will only be satisfied with giving a little cheap to "audible cries" sympathy.

Compassionate and at the same time have the determination to change this unreasonable phenomenon, and have the determination to put it into action, is a good person in the traditional sense.

Only such aborigines have the value of supporting the national team.

Rex was so down and down that when he was waiting to die in the Sorensen Mountains, he still dreamed of becoming a better lord than his father one day, and he obviously showed disgust towards Yang Qiu, who was a black magician. With a subtle and lawful nature beyond Rex's knowledge, and a brazen attack to save the poor people in Westham's red-light district, he may not be willing to bow his head and cooperate.

Combined with his bitter life experience, there is nothing surprising about this... People who are unfortunate in childhood tend to gradually divide after adulthood, and most of them succumb to reality, embark on the same old path as their parents, and pass their misfortune to the next generation ; while a small number of people can achieve self-transcendence spiritually, regard the suffering experienced in childhood as a lifelong opponent, and pursue justice and justice more than their peers with happy families.

Rex knows how his father treats the people, he hates his father and the way his father oppresses the people, he thinks the people are the responsibility of the lord, not the property of the lord, it is this persistence that makes him Being able to frankly accept the impact of ideas from another world has won the recognition of the national team.

"Tax system reform." Zhao Zhenzhen calmly said, "Abolish the income tax system for the male masters of big families, and change it to an integrated tax payment system for nobles and bureaucrats. The population tax will be cancelled, the cities will be taxed according to personal income, and the rural areas will be taxed according to the number of acres of land."

This is not Zhao Zhenzhen's first tax system, it just copied Yongzheng's practice and abolished the tax exemption privilege of noble landlords.

Taxes are not based on the total family income but on individuals. This step is a little "radical"...but it will be beneficial in the long run. Big families will naturally unite to fight against the regime. Dividing up big families is what any mature regime should do. Things to do - the existing "big families" in contemporary China, either behave as people with their tails between their legs, or stay in the "special zone" as mascots. If you want to gather the power of the family like Japan and South Korea to cover the sky with one hand, don't even think about it, dare to think about it It will be "sweeping black and evil".

The Huaxia Kingdom canceled the Sannong tax, but the tax reform system of the Huaxia Kingdom could not be applied to Yinadeli. The reason is still the same sentence. There is an annual payment to the church and the king.

Even peasants cannot be exempted from taxes, but we want to give you nobles the privilege of not paying taxes here and there, so what are we trying to do by laying down Inadoli?

Is it recognized by your aristocratic circle?You deserve it too?

Rex, a native, was obviously taken aback by the tax reform proposed by Zhao Zhenzhen, which was not radical at all and even backward in the eyes of Chinese people.

The long-term experience of being slapped in the face prevented Rex from jumping up and shouting "it won't work". After all, he wasn't shaking M...but frowned and thought about the serious consequences if the local nobles resisted fiercely.

If you think about it carefully... there are really no serious consequences.

The local aristocrats might dare to attack the city hall, but no one in the City Lord's Mansion would go crazy and touch it.

Inciting peasants to rebel... It is impossible to rely on lip service with the credibility of the nobles, but if you are willing to spend money to hire people, you can still hire them.

It's just that the nobles probably don't think that the peasants' rebellion can shake the current Innatrix regime - a hundred strong farmers are not as good as five mercenaries, otherwise they would not be able to raise so many private soldiers. Let these guys rule the country.

Not to mention that the stagecoach launched by the city hall has allowed cheap coal and cheap stoves produced by smelters and coal yards to quickly enter thousands of households. At least in the winter when coal is needed for heating, the "popularity" of the city hall is higher than that of the nobles much.

"But... it always feels a bit risky." Rex said as cautiously as possible, "To collect taxes from these nobles is almost like killing them, and they will definitely fight back violently."

Zhao Zhenzhen smiled slightly, and asked back: "Isn't this good?"

Rex choked.

Indeed... this group of nobles fought desperately and used all their strength to try to overthrow the mountain of Nightmare Butcher on the battlefield.

And this group of local nobles took the initiative to launch a war against the city hall, which just gave the city hall a reason to take back those towns and villages that were enfeoffed as fiefdoms...

The Bartleis family needs these local nobles to help them manage the place and collect taxes, but the current city hall no longer needs these nobles to be "second landlords" - Barton's operatives are released and equipped with a national team to guide them. It's not a big problem to manage a town. Haven't you seen Tuttle Joe, that good-looking guy among the ex-thieves, who has done a good job of representing women?

"But..." Rex struggled fiercely in his heart for a while, and said hesitantly, "Will rashly changing the tax system that has lasted for thousands of years attract the attention of the upper echelons of the kingdom?"

Now Inadoli needs space for peaceful development. This is what you and Yang are often talking about, Sister Zhao!

Zhao Zhenzhen's smile was indescribably hearty: "Do you think the king will oppose the tax reform of Intarsia?"

Rex was taken aback for a moment.

Immediately, his face became a little weird...

Would the king refuse to accept money from nobles?

The king's mouth is about to smile crookedly!

Lord Inadoli jumped out and slashed the nobleman's head with a knife, and the king might have turned his face and handed over the title of earl to this [-]-year-old boy in the noble class!

Rex, who recognized the reality, readily surrendered his knees to Zhao Zhenzhen—calling a meeting of civil servants from various departments to discuss the tax reform bill.

When Rex first entered the city, according to Yang Qiu's instructions, he promised all the positions of senior officials in the city hall to the local nobles, but none of the bureaucrats "selected" by these nobles have taken up their posts yet...so the meeting was attended by a bunch of top officials. A civil servant with the prefix "Deputy".

Well, that is, Ms. Shirley, Ms. Siebel, who was promoted from among the clerks, Jimmy from the militia, and Wagner, the former traitor of the city defense army.

They are all from the old team, so they don't let their own people hold back.

All members passed the notice, and the tax reform notice was sent to the noble houses in the central city only one day later.

Viscount Darcy, who had just caught a cold because his ineffective second son lured a vampire into his home, was wrapped in a thick cotton pajamas and took the tax reform notice from the housekeeper. out.

All the citizens of Inadili, regardless of nobles and commoners, pay taxes according to their personal income ladder. The threshold is 40 silver coins per month. The higher the income, the higher the tax payment ratio, up to [-]%. Land that has been cultivated for more than three years is taxed per acre... This is his life!

Phoenix, who was about to spend money on the Gold Coin Church, also got the news on the same day-the city hall did not hide the tax reform plan, and there were propagandists (contract workers) all over the street to explain to the citizens.

In the previous meeting, Phoenix quietly tried to find out that the other party had already sensed that the Otis family had a war tendency through some means, and was willing to support him as long as the price was right. After returning to the hotel, he locked up his brother for interrogation For a long time, he didn't ask if it was his leak. He was thinking about whether to send a telegram to his family and ask his father to investigate the spies.

When he suddenly learned that the city hall had made such a big move, the worries in Phoenix's heart were swept away.

The Nightmare Butcher instigated Charlie Rex to do such a thing that would offend the nobles of the country, and Phoenix was quite happy to see it happen.

"Except for the Otis family, the Nightmare Butcher won't have the opportunity to cooperate with the second great nobleman of the kingdom." Phoenix was in a happy mood when he ordered the maid and secretary to count the goods used to smash Bishop Lee Jean How to use the immortality advantage of Tarantan's undead to the Odis family.

She found many witnesses who witnessed the army of undead defeating the Sun Cult and the city defense army of Bartleth's house, and they already knew the secret of the invincibility of these undead - when they went out, they needed some kind of help from Nightmare Butcher Yang. A device that continuously summons the undead.

Get the gold coin church to express its sincerity, and when it visits Yang again to formally discuss cooperation, Phoenix will definitely get this special device that determines the combat effectiveness of the undead.