Awakening ability

Chapter 210 Taxation Ambassador
The Seventh Prince's team did not move fast. They walked on the road for more than a month before reaching the first disaster-stricken province.

At this time, the disaster relief tasks of the Disaster Relief Office have been completed.

The construction including the resettlement sites for the victims has also been completed.

It was approaching the Chinese New Year at this time, and they did not celebrate the New Year in a foreign land. After completing the task, they set foot on the way home.

It was too late to return to the capital to celebrate the New Year, so they could only celebrate the New Year on the road.

It is a bit hard work, but when thinking about what they have done during this period, every member of the disaster relief office is filled with pride.

They participated in a great cause and saved many lives.

This kind of sense of accomplishment cannot be achieved by pointing out the country and stimulating words in the study.

And they also learned from the directors that the National Teacher has a greater cause to do in the future, as long as they want to, they can continue to participate in it.

With a direction in the future, life is no longer confused. Everyone feels that they have found a career that realizes their own value, and they are full of energy.

During their return trip, Fang Hao welcomed people from the Xuandu sect.

The Chinese New Year is approaching, and the taxes of that year have already been put into the treasury, and it is time for Xuandu to send them to collect taxes.

The Xuandu faction has four taxation ambassadors in the southeast, the north, and the west, responsible for going to various countries under the rule of the Xuandu faction to bring back the taxes collected by the Guoshifu to the sect.

The most important duty of the National Teacher's Office is to collect taxes.

On the one hand, the tax details of the treasury for one year are organized into a book, handed over to the ambassador who collects the tax, and put in the file for inspection.

On the other hand, [-]% of the national treasury's income is packaged, so that the ambassadors who collect taxes can take it away.

In principle, the packaged taxes need to be converted into gold and silver in kind, so that they are easy to carry.

In the case of lack of gold and silver, some special items can be used instead.

For example, some preliminary smelted metals, some named elixir, and some materials obtained from monsters.

Those can be used for refining weapons, or can be used for alchemy, which can be used by martial arts, so they can be converted into gold and silver.

This time, such materials accounted for about [-]% of the total value of the supplies from the Taiqiu State Treasury to the National Teacher's Office.

After all, if they all want gold and silver, they don't have that much gold and silver.

And the Xuandu faction doesn't need so much gold and silver.

After they brought gold, silver and other items back, they distributed them to the big guys in the sect who had large families in the secular world.

Compared with gold and silver, they need materials useful for cultivation more.

It's just that it will be more difficult for secular countries to obtain such materials, and there is no way to meet their needs.

The Taiqiu Kingdom's annual treasury income is about 8000 million taels of silver, and the four achievements given to the Imperial Preceptor's Office are 160 million taels of silver, or [-] million taels of gold.

This time, 20 taels of gold and 3000 million taels of silver were packaged for the National Teacher's Mansion.

In addition, there are various rough-processed special metals, elixir, and monster materials worth 4000 million taels of silver.

There are several large warehouses in the National Teacher's Mansion, all of which are already full.

After the taxation ambassador comes, everything in the warehouse needs to be moved out to be inspected by the taxation ambassador.

Because the land area controlled by the Xuandu faction is too large, the task of the tax ambassadors is also very heavy, and they need to run around from various countries.

This has relatively high requirements for their cultivation base, at least they must start with Nascent Soul.

Those with low cultivation bases are simply not competent.

The ambassador in charge of taxation in the west is a monk in the late Yuanying period, named Gui Conggang.

It was afternoon when he arrived at the capital of Taiqiu.

Before that, he had put the taxes of the two neighboring countries into the storage ring.

Before the person arrived at the State Teacher's Mansion, his voice had already passed: "I am the taxation ambassador sent by Xuandu, who is the State Teacher here? Hurry up and move out the things in the warehouse, I have to rush tonight Go to another country to collect taxes."

The sound was so loud that it enveloped the entire National Teacher's Mansion, and everyone in the National Teacher's Mansion could hear it clearly.

However, no one outside the Imperial Prefect's Mansion could hear his voice.

Fang Hao was copying books at that time. Hearing this voice, he hurried out of the study and ordered the people in the National Teacher's Mansion to take out all the things that were piled up in the warehouse and open the packed ones so that the tax ambassador could come to check if there were any. Cut corners.

Just after the order was issued, a sword light had already appeared over the capital, and the tax ambassador came.

The ambassador didn't know Fang Hao, and Fang Hao didn't know the ambassador, but they both knew each other's identity.

The energy in his body cannot be hidden from anyone.

After the ambassador landed, they introduced themselves to each other, and then Fang Hao handed him the compiled tax roll for him to review.

There are more than a dozen copies of the roster, and it will take a long time to review them carefully.

Of course Gui Conggang didn't have the time to take a closer look.

I just looked through the total number of statistics and found that it was wrong:
"Your number is a little less than in previous years."

"It's like this," Fang Hao explained, "This summer, the southern part of Taiqiu Kingdom suffered a catastrophic flood, and five provinces in the middle and lower reaches of the Qiulong River were severely affected, and the tax revenue could not be collected. Post-disaster reconstruction also requires treasury funding, which cannot be followed by previous years. Therefore, when the former national teacher was here, he had already applied for tax relief and got the sect's approval."

Such a thing is in line with the rules formulated by the Xuandu sect. Gui Cong just heard that the sect had agreed, so he didn't say much.

Just looking at those big and small bags, his brows frowned, and he couldn't help muttering: "It's so much silver again, I brought ten storage rings, and I don't know if it's enough."

Fang Hao paid attention to his hands, there were ten rings on each finger.

They are all magic weapon level storage rings, so the space is not small.

However, considering that he is responsible for the taxation of dozens of countries, the ten storage rings really don't know if they are enough.

Among them, the least valuable thing is silver.

3000 million taels of silver, 1000 taels per box, that is [-] boxes.

Some special metals that have undergone primary processing are much more valuable than the equivalent silver, and almost all of them can be compared to gold.

And the price of elixir and monster materials is much more expensive than the same weight of gold.

With a thought, he asked Gui Conggang: "Ambassador, if you think gold and silver take up too much space, can you use Lingshi instead?"

In fact, gold doesn't take up much space, but he is tied together on purpose.

He was worried about how to exchange the spiritual stones for gold and silver. If it could be replaced, it would be a big deal and save him time to find exchange channels.

Although according to the exchange rate of the system, silver is not as cost-effective as gold, but no matter how you say it, it has ten times the profit.

The most important thing is that there is a lot of silver.

(End of this chapter)