Be A Lord Starting Today

"Understood, my lord, don't worry."

Harlaus nodded immediately, turned and left.

When turning around to leave, Harlaus felt a little disappointed: "It seems that this Lord Don Juan is no different from the previous nobles. He will conduct a census of food, money and population..."

In Halaus's view, Don Juan's census obviously wanted to know how much tax he could get every year and how much labor could be squeezed.

In this era, taxes are still collected on a head-by-head basis. A family can be charged as much as there are people in a family. Even nobles can increase taxes very casually.

The poor commoners of Common are not treated as human beings at all.

Only if they are tools.

"When will we be able to come to a nobleman who can really make us live a good life..."

Harolds sighed inwardly.

Originally, Harlaus thought that this young noble would be different, but now it seems that the nobles are all the same, they are all vampires.

After Harlaus left, Don Juan sat on a wooden furniture chair and took tea from the belongings space of the system.

Without special circumstances, Don Juan would not directly eat and drink things from unfamiliar places. Although he knew that his body was strong and invulnerable to all poisons, in this world, Don Juan had accidentally seen some unscientific and rather magical things.

He has just arrived, and everything is unfamiliar, it is better to be careful, it is always good to be cautious.

Almost three hours later.

At the moment Don Juan is practicing sword in the castle.

"It took three hours of sword practice to improve my two-handed weapon proficiency by 0.1."

Don Juan stopped waving the long sword with both hands.

Sure enough, his strength has reached the bottleneck, and the improvement of proficiency by simple practice is very small.

"Harlaus, what is this for?"

At this time, Don Juan looked at Harlaus and walked into the castle with a few young people pulling a wooden cart.

There are a lot of stone sheets piled up on the wooden cart.

"Master Don Juan, this is the census you want."

Harolds said with a surprised face.

"These slabs?!"

Don Juan looked at the stone slabs with strange expressions on his face.

This shit, the Stone Age! ?

"My lord, the town is too poor, and Lord Russo has taken away a lot of money from the town, and the parchments are also very expensive...we can't afford parchments to write on, so, my lord... .”

Harlaus was obviously ashamed, talking to Don Juan.

"All right...."

Don Juan reacted.

There is no such thing as paper in this world.

The things that are generally used for writing are parchment scrolls, but the cost of parchment scrolls is not low, and only rich commoners and nobles can afford them, and ordinary poor people can't afford them at all.

But a town mayor still uses these things to record, which is unexpected by Don Juan.

"Looks like things are worse in town than I thought."

Don Juan thought to himself.

"My lord, after a new round of census, we have a total of 427 households in Xieyue Town, with a total population of 1,897, including 1,264 men and 633 women."

Harlaus began to read the new census to Don Juan.

"As for the food, because of the autumn harvest, there is still a lot of surplus. Xieyue Town has almost 15,000 mu of land. We use the farming method of planting two crops and resting one. The autumn harvest has a total of 5,000 mu of land. But now we only have more than 60,000 catties of wheat left in the city, and most of the rest are stored in a granary outside the town by the Lasso knights."

Farmers in this world use the mechanism of planting two fields and resting one, that is, the three-field system.

All the arable land is divided into three parts, two of which are planted, and one part is rested to maintain soil fertility.

After two years of continuous cultivation, each piece of land can be left idle for one year.

And the two pieces of land that are cultivated each year are also divided into spring plowing and autumn plowing.

What is harvested in autumn now is the grain planted last autumn.

Hearing this statistic, Don Juan sighed. It was still a pain for the peasants. There were less than 2,000 people in the town. Excluding children and the elderly, anyone with good health had to work as an adult, no matter male or female.

Therefore, there are less than 2,000 people in towns and cities, and there are almost 15,000 mu of land.

"The granary outside the city? How much grain is stored in it?"

When Don Juan heard the words, he asked.

"It's about 300,000 catties."

Harlaus replied.

More than 300,000 catties, plus the 60,000 catties in the city, let's say it's nearly 400,000 catties.

In other words, the average yield per mu is only about 80 catties....

"What was the tax in the past?"

Don Juan asked again.

And hearing this, Harolds trembled in his heart.

Asked about taxes, sure enough, the hateful vampire aristocrats, are taxes going to be raised? !

Harlaus was also from a peasant background, but he had traveled abroad and learned to write from a certain church monk, which is why he became a town.

To be honest, his life as the mayor of the town is not much better than that of the townspeople in Common. The situation in the town is not good, and even he can only eat enough.

And if you want to talk about why he is a little fat when he is full just now, you must know that some people will get fat after drinking water. Constitution.....

Harlaus gritted his teeth, and said, "Generally, 60% is charged, and each household charges an additional amount according to the population."

"Generally speaking, 70% to 80% of a family's food for a year will be confiscated."

"Take away 70% to 80%..."

Don Juan fell into deep thought. For a family of five, if everyone can work, they plant fifty acres of land a year, and the annual yield per mu is uneven. According to the best harvest situation, it is one hundred catties. In the early days, five thousand catties of grain a year, if 70% were taken away, there would be only fifteen hundred catties of grain left.

And for a family of five, the five people get 1,500 catties of grain a year.

Normally, one hundred catties of grain, if you want to be full, is only enough for an adult to eat for about 80 days

In other words, in less than three months, for a family of five, 1,500 catties of grain for a year is enough for them to live through the year without starving to death.

And it's ideal!

Because sometimes the harvest is not good, and it is impossible to reach the yield of 100 catties per mu, and it is more likely to be only about 80 catties per mu.

The real situation may be worse than this.

Thinking of this, Don Juan understood everything he had seen before.

"This year and next year, there will be no taxation."

Don Juan thought of this, and said to Harlaus.

"My lord, if there is an additional charge, then everyone will really starve to death... ah?! What did you say, my lord!?!"

Harlaus blurted out a sentence without even thinking about it, but before he finished speaking, he reacted abruptly, staring at Don Juan in disbelief.

Harlaus was trembling all over his body, his mouth was wide open, and tears glistened in his eyes: "Master Don Juan...what did you say..."

"My lord seems to say...this year and next year...no tax..."

A young man pulling a cart spoke in a trance.

"I said that there will be no taxation this year and next year, and not only will there be no taxation, but in the future, only 40% of the annual harvest will be enough to pay taxes."

Don Juan retracted the two-handed long sword into its scabbard and sat on a chair.

As soon as the young men pulling the cart came to their senses, they knelt down to Don Juan under the leadership of Halaus.

"My lord, you..."

As soon as Harlaus began to speak, he began to cry.

From now on, he no longer has to watch the townspeople go hungry!

How blissful it would be to have no one starving scene....

Several young people behind them also fell into the fantasy of a better life, and some even drool.

For them, they don't have to go hungry in the future, and these seven words are the goal they have been striving for all their lives.

And at this moment, Don Juan clearly saw +30 "Green" appearing on the heads of Harlaus and these young people.

This is loyalty.

And after this word came out, Don Juan also unlocked the loyalty panel.

After opening the loyalty panel, it was clear that Harlaus and these people had a loyalty of at least 80 or more.

Loyalty of sixty is a passing line.

The loyalty of eighty is very high.

And Don Juan knew that there would be a lot of upside in the future.

Later, Don Juan learned about the situation in other towns. It was very bad. There was basically no money left in the town. There was some money before, but when the Lasso knight left, he took it away.

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