Medieval White Elf Story

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Problems that can be solved with money are not problems, the problem is lack of money.

Flynn now began to worry about money.

Bost was completely destroyed by the war. The previous Earl of Las West, who had gathered his allies, was still beaten to pieces by the angry citizens in the wild. He fled the territory in a hurry. The angry citizens turned their anger on the Earl. castle.

Demolish all the houses, smash all the statues, move everything in the city that can be moved back, and set fire to the remaining things that cannot be destroyed as much as possible.

The peasants vented all their anger and unleashed all their destructive desires, leaving only a ruin for the next earl.

Basically, when the Bain family took over, the only complete building in the small Bost Castle was the church dedicated to the gods. Even the wooden city gate was demolished by farmers who wanted to make the best use of everything. Are you planning to chop up those heavy solid wood door panels and use them as firewood or use them to plug the holes in your thatched house?

The Lord's Mansion was the focus of the disaster. It was basically demolished into a piece of white ground. Only the charred stone walls remained in place, which made Flynn shudder.

The former earl left behind such a mess. Regardless of whether he deserved it or had some other grievances, he ran away anyway, leaving the Bain family to help clean up this mess.

Except for some bold beggars and scavengers who tried their luck in the ruins, no one remained in the castle. They either escaped with the previous earl or ran away when the mob came.

With this level of destruction, Flynn couldn't use the castle as a place to stay. He could only arrange for the mercenaries to find a place to camp outside the castle.

The first question next is what to do with this ruins.

The Bain family, who had just arrived in an unfamiliar place, had no other choice. Bost Castle was the only place to stay. No matter what, at least the city wall was still intact. As long as the city gate was repaired, there would be at least the most basic protection for any unexpected situations. Defense capabilities.

If you want to completely restore the entire castle, it is probably not much cheaper than building a new one. Las West does not produce construction craftsmen except for mobs with special demolition skills, so it also means hiring people from other places at a high price. .

As for the labor needed to repair the castle, there are quite a few mercenaries. Flynn is prepared to make the best use of the resources and let them help directly. Anyway, these Sorel people are idle when they are not fighting, so the money given to them cannot be wasted. salary.

After all the calculations, even if Flynn racked his brains, the cost of initial repairs to Bost could not be reduced to less than [-] gold coins.

Fifty thousand gold coins is not much; the problem is that there are none.

Therefore, except for the most important city gates and the Lord's Mansion, Flynn abandoned all other places. After the territory initially settled down and received the first tax, he would slowly find ways to repair other places.

There is no way, in this backward era, taxes are basically the only long-term stable source of income for the nobles.

Flynn estimated based on the information he had learned before that the entire Earl of Las West could earn about [-] to [-] gold coins in taxes every year. Compared with the previous tax collection by the Bain family through the trade route of Bain Castle, The cramped frame is of course heaven and earth. Who makes it so that almost no caravans are willing to pass by here, and they can only continue to squeeze oil and water from the poor peasants.

Even the tax amount of [-] to [-] is still at the level during peacetime. Now that the earldom is unstable, it is hard to say whether the people will accept the rule of the new earl smoothly. In addition, when you first come here, you will inevitably need to reduce taxes and spend money symbolically. If you win people's hearts, the money you can receive in the first few years will be greatly reduced.

Although Las West is very poor and has a small population, the annual tax of [-] to [-] is a bit ridiculously low.This is because Flynn calculated the final amount that the Bain family could receive. In fact, the nominal amount that could be received could be several times higher.

As for why it was shrunk so much in the end, we have to mention the appallingly low administrative efficiency of this era.

The normal tax collection process in this era would certainly not be for a group of old farmers to drive bullock carts and carry sacks to deliver things to the lord's warehouse. Instead, the tax would be paid uniformly through professional tax collectors recognized by the lord in each village. .The farmers paid the goods in kind to the tax payer, and then the tax payer deducted the necessary losses and the agreed share ratio from the collected items and handed them over to the lord. The higher the level of the lord, the number and level of tax payers required. The more it is, the more will be deducted accordingly.

The biggest advantage of this hierarchical subcontracting taxation system is that the nobles receive exchanged money or designated physical objects, which saves a lot of trouble. The disadvantage is that they have to bear serious "losses".There are often bold tax collectors who directly embezzle all the tax money, forcing the nobles to often appoint their most trusted confidants to check the accounts to ensure that the income they deserve is not embezzled too much.

Of course, the guys sent out to check the accounts may also take advantage of the opportunity to enrich their own pockets. If [-]% of the tax is handed over to the lord and [-]% is considered worthy of the conscience of heaven and earth, it is better than not giving a dime to the tax collector.

Therefore, theoretically, the Bain family can collect more than 20 or [-] in taxes or goods from Las West, but what they actually get can only be [-] to [-] or less, which may also trigger anger among the residents. Anger led to uprisings everywhere.

The nobles are not all fools. Of course they know the loopholes of this system. The reason why they choose to continue to endure it until now is because they really have not thought of a better way.As far as Russ West is concerned, unless Flynn has enough trustworthy manpower and energy, and knows all the conditions in the territory, and can directly kick out all tax collectors and collect taxes personally, otherwise he will have to endure this kind of everywhere. It's a flawed taxation system.

Flynn is very aware of the limitations of his current abilities, so he can only find ways to find other ways to increase his income.

There are not many options available to Flynn. Either go to war to rob others of their wealth, or expand trade routes to collect taxes.The former is simply not something the Bain family can consider at this stage, while the latter still has some room for imagination.

The Zeeland Peninsula is not nothing. The forests throughout the territory can produce high-quality wood, and the silt produced by the swamps can be used to develop pottery. Historically, the pottery of the Zeeland Peninsula was once a hot-selling item on the mainland.

The main reason why it has become a forbidden area for businessmen is the pressure from northern neighbors.

Most of the kings in the Northern Kingdom were either drunkards or lunatics, but 50 years ago, a normal king named Tommen VIII finally appeared.

This man's greatest achievement was to go south and seize the Harhos region in northern Bolencia, opening up a bridgehead to the south for the kingdom. At the same time, he actively developed the local handicraft industry and collected commercial taxes to enrich the national treasury.

For this reason, he issued a ban. All handicrafts circulating in the Northern Kingdom, unless the kingdom itself cannot produce them, must pay huge tariffs.

However, Zeeland pottery, which mainly relied on exports to the north, happened to be outside the scope of the exemption, so it suffered heavy losses and completely declined.

Now that King Tommen VIII has died long ago, the ban he issued has not been taken seriously by subsequent heirs and is in vain. However, the pottery industry in the Zeeland Peninsula has been seized by pottery produced in other regions and has been unable to recover.

Flynn thought about it for a long time and thought that these gadgets made of mud might be his main source of income that he could expand in the future.Medieval White Elf Story