amaotonovel Chapter 210 Dealing with the Nobles.
Chapter 210 Dealing with the Nobles.
The new tax law has little impact on most people.
But it made all the nobles on Bailing Island very uncomfortable.
Because this new tax law, although it did not change the iron rule that is basically recognized throughout the extraordinary world that all citizens must be taxed.
But there was an obvious favoritism between the nobles and the common people.
The more land and population there are, the higher the tax rate will be.
Abolish all exorbitant taxes and levies, and calculate different tax rates based on the population, land resources, amount of farmland, grain output, etc.
Only death and taxes are inevitable.
This is a sentence that Arden regards as his own motto after learning from the outstanding lords in history.
You can kill people, you can burn people, you can even bribe people, you can do whatever you want.
But no matter what, you cannot evade taxes.
As a noble lord, you must cherish every hard-earned gold coin as you would your own eyes, and even silver coins should be cherished equally.
Even though the entire empire is corrupt, various forces are constantly attacking each other.
As long as the taxes of all classes can be fixedly collected into the national treasury through stable and powerful means.
No matter how corrupt it is, it will not affect the strength of the empire.
What Arden is doing now is trying in this regard.
For those who produced no more than a dozen silver coins a year, the new tax had little impact on them.
But, those are rich in income.
However, there were always nobles who used various methods to lie about the amount of land they owned and the number of people and their total income.
This undoubtedly blocked their way to sucking away the upper class through various means.
The land of the White Wind family.
A remote corner.
A room filled with magnificence, warm and fragrant wine, and various maids and attendants who kept smiling.
In a secret room beneath a seemingly normal banquet.
A wealthy nobleman could no longer bear it and smashed a vase in anger.
"Now how to do?"
"What do you want to do? Are you planning to evade taxes, or break the laws of our newly appointed lord in front of him, so that he can kill you like a chicken to scare the monkeys?"
"Ah."
All the nobles present had grim expressions on their faces, and the atmosphere suddenly became gloomy.
"You can't do it openly, and you can't just give in so obediently."
One of the nobles broke the oppressive atmosphere, and all the nobles nodded at what he said.
Putting aside other things, this matter is absolutely unacceptable, but it must not be done openly.
They have no advantage either in terms of strength or name.
It seems that as a silver dragon, Arden still abides by the rules.
In this case, we must never lose face.
They were the ones who watched the fall of Bailing Port and wanted to make a show of force next time.
They were shocked by the strength shown by Arden.
Legendary! I didn’t expect that the silver dragon had already reached the legendary level in such a short time.
Thinking about how the other party had won a great battle with the famous Lord Schfink of the kingdom.
The nobles present understood that they would never win if they fell out with each other.
In this case, we can only do things within the "rules" and in an orderly manner.
This is very frustrating, but there is no way, the cruel reality forces them to sit down and abide by the rules.
"Since this freak has taken action, we can only resort to some despicable means."
Until this time a sinister voice sounded.
Everyone looked at a viscount in a remote corner. Facing the crowd, he showed a sinister smile.
"As far as I know, Bailing Port was attacked before, and a lot of places in the port were ruined. There are still many people who don't have enough food and rely on government relief. In order to stabilize the foundation and consolidate people's hearts from the beginning."
"So they used precious food to help the untouchables, and even killed some generous gentlemen in the port and used their money to buy food."
"Since we cannot use force, we can only use force on the rules. Shipping food across the ocean is very expensive after all. Most of the food in Bailing Port is provided by the nobles around us."
"In this way, we can work together to ensure the food supply is cut off. In a few months, without food, riots will surely break out in Bailing Port."
"At that time, we were compromising with our new lord, and both sides took a step back. Everyone was happy."
"That's a good idea."
After listening to this, many people had relieved expressions on their faces, as if they had breathed a sigh of relief.
Faced with a legendary dragon that was so powerful that it ignored most of the world's attacks.
If Arden really takes action and breaks all the rules, everyone on their island will be wiped out immediately.
How could they not be under a lot of pressure?
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"Next, we will enact the land lease bill."
"In all the territories under my jurisdiction, I allow the original serfs and tenants to buy land. If that doesn't work, they can temporarily buy the land on credit, which nominally belongs to the serfs."
"But the buyer must transform the land into farmland that can produce stable food within three years, and the maximum limit for one person is 50 mu. Otherwise, the land will be invalid after the deadline and the original money will be returned. The land will still belong to the lord's mansion."
On the other hand, Arden once again issued a bill that was shocking to most nobles.
In this extraordinary world, some aspects can be said to have reached the pinnacle of exquisiteness.
But in most places you can still see feudal life like in the Middle Ages.
"Yes."
Gorman had never dealt with dragons before, so he couldn't think about the attitudes of dragons from a human perspective.
However, he was shocked and even worried that the law would put his life at risk if he harmed someone.
He still intended to comply.
After all, the lord in front of him has already proven his strength.
What does he want to do? There is nothing on the White Spirit Tree Island that can stop him. In this case, he can only listen obediently.
Gorman has already discovered the silver dragon's attitude towards his origin.
These days, a large number of civilians were born in the entire port, and the civil servants who were previously treated coldly were re-evaluated by him. Even Goman was transformed from a secretary who could only be in charge of the affairs of the Governor's Office to a person with real power who could truly influence the port.
Who doesn’t want to be a big shot?
Having tasted the exhilarating pleasure of power, Gorman simply couldn't let it go.
Now he has an attitude of almost unconditional obedience towards Arden.
"very good."
Arden nodded in satisfaction.
After everyone left, he sneered.
Cut off the food trade? Ridiculous.
What he wanted to establish was a powerful empire with absolute monopoly and dictatorship.
Are you trying to play tricks on him?
It's ridiculous.
As a lord, what did he want to do? Every step he took could make his vassal lords and nobles half dead.
What can they use to resist themselves?
This group of people are partly law-abiding, while some of them are pests that can be described as black sheep.
Controls more than 70% of the land of Bailinglin Island.
Arden will naturally have to take action, and there will be bloodshed in the end, to take back most of the land.
Otherwise, how can we give the lowest-level civilians the motivation to move forward, revitalize the entire corrupt society, and enable the upper class to generate a large amount of wealth?