Be the Mayor From Today

In the study room in Xiyang Castle.

An Li was sitting in front of the desk with a small wooden stick in her mouth. Holding a water-based pen in her small hand, she was correcting the government affairs in the territory. As she wrote, she suddenly put the pen down and scratched the fox ears in annoyance.

"Enri? What's wrong?"

Nicole put down the notepad next to her and asked with concern, "Are you bothering those businessmen again?"

"Yeah!" An Li nodded and said helplessly, "Those businessmen feel like lunatics, pulling their money bags and coming to the City Lord's Mansion every day to ask when the purchase restrictions can be lifted."

"Isn't this very good? There are merchants who come to buy our goods, which means we have income. Didn't you always worry about the decline in sales in the big market?" Nicole asked a little puzzled.

An Li frowned and pouted, "I thought so before, but then I realized something was wrong."

"Ah? Did something happen?" Nicole was a little worried. When the young master is away, you must not have an accident.

"Those merchants swept away the goods in the big market the day after the young master left Xiyang City." An Li opened the notepad, pointed to the things she had recorded, and said solemnly, "Those merchants are hoarding goods. , the next day is to buy out the goods in the big market."

"This...what's the problem?"

Nicole is still a little confused, isn't it good that the goods are sold out? Many shops have also paid taxes. These days, the City Lord's Mansion has a large amount of coin revenue.

"Alas!" En Li sighed, her fox ears were all soft, she said weakly, "Of course there is a problem, a big problem."

An Li began to explain, "The price of goods in our big market is very cheap. If the merchants keep stockpiling goods like this, and they organize caravans to transport the goods for sale, then the existence of the big market will be weakened by half. Moreover, our Xiyang City will become the kind of sweatshop that the young master said."

Nicole understands that the biggest beneficiaries are those businessmen, and the City Lord's Mansion can only get a little income from labor.

"What should I do? Do you want to raise the price?" Nicole shook her head halfway through. If the price is raised, what will happen to the civilians in Xiyang City?

"I'm thinking about whether to let those merchants also pay taxes. In this case, it will create an extra income for the city lord's mansion, and more importantly, it will restrict such merchants from hoarding goods."

An Li grabbed the fox's ears, the big market must not be out of stock, otherwise the follow-up merchants will not be able to keep them.

"But, will they pay?" Nicole worried, "I'm afraid it will be difficult to pay taxes, after all, they are all buyers."

"Ah... yes!" En Li shrugged her head, and said with a look of decadence, "If I go shopping and have to pay taxes, the other party is afraid that I will call Mina to beat him to death."

"..." Nicole rolled her eyes and asked softly, "Is there no other way?"

"I haven't thought of a solution for the time being. I can only limit the amount of purchases made by the merchants." En Li lay on the table. It was only after the past few days of work that she knew that it was not easy for the aristocratic young master.

No, it is not easy to be a noble in Xiyang City. Like other nobles in other territories, they are either eating, drinking, and having fun all day long, or sleeping a lot.

"Don't worry! Today should be the day when the young master comes back. The young master will definitely find a way."

Nicole reassured her softly, knowing that An Li was under too much pressure these days, and she was usually reluctant to eat the lollipop given by the young master, but now she has eaten one.

"Yeah! The young master is back today." En Li became active as soon as she heard this, closed the notepad, shook the shoes on her feet, tucked her little feet without shoes on the chair, leaned her back against the chair and exhaled. .

"Huh... Uncle Niu Ben has already arranged for someone to pick up the young master, so leave this matter to the young master to worry about!"

Nicole shook her head amusingly, her gray eyes were filled with longing, and the backbone of the castle was absent, which made the two of them a little nervous at ordinary times.

"Young master has been out for five days. He must be very tired. I'll go get some food and prepare it."

After speaking, Nicole walked briskly. Recently, she was researching new cakes. The kind of cakes the young master said was a crucial step away.

An Li sat for a while, picked up the notepad, and turned to the notes of the young master's lecture at the back. She frowned and looked like there were many uncommon words in it, such as dumping, anti-dumping, etc.

"Can't the supply of goods be swallowed up in the market? How can we change it?" En Li bit the stick with her teeth, and felt that her smart head used to be so stupid now.

"Forget it, I don't want to, wait for the young master to come back and ask for advice."

An Li threw the notepad, stood up from the chair, and looked at the scene of Xiyang City outside the window.

The main street of Xiyang City, the wide streets are full of golden pieces, that is the wheat drying, each household is allocated an area to dry the wheat, take advantage of the scorching sun to dry the water, and do the work before storage. .

An Li pinched her chin, imitating Liu Feng's tone, and said in an old-fashioned manner, "When you see so much wheat, people will calm down and don't panic if the family has surplus food."

"Hee hee hee……"

En Li was amused, she put her hands by the window and looked at the neatly planned houses in the city. She thought there was only one such city in the world.

The wheat in the territory has been harvested for five days, and the first to dry has been put into the warehouse, and those civilians are also happy to hand over 30% of the wheat tax.

"Master is still too kind."

Ann Li said quietly, she thought of other noble territories, when the wheat harvest was bumper, the nobles collected 80% of the wheat tax, leaving 20% ​​of the wheat to the commoners.

The better nobles will collect 60-70% of the tax, leaving only the amount of wheat that will not let the commoners starve to death, and the family has surplus food? If it doesn't exist, let's all work for the lords and nobles.

Liu Feng, on the other hand, only charges 30% of the wheat tax. If the commoners have no place to store them, they can also sell the wheat to the City Lord's Mansion. The commoners can exchange them for coins and go to the big market to buy them when needed.

An Li remembered what the young master told her, saying that to make the commoners rich and to let the commoners have surplus food, then Xiyang City will develop and the market will circulate, and as a result, more wealth will be created.

"Ugh!"

All right! An Li still didn't quite understand it, she just thought that the young master was too kind and made an excuse not to let the commoners go hungry.

"Young master doesn't know what time you'll be home. I haven't slept well these days."

An Li touched a pimple on her cheek and said angrily, "You have a small pimple at a critical time, no, you have to deal with it, or the young master will think I'm ugly when he sees it."

"But, how do I do it?" An Li pressed her fingers against the pimples on her cheeks and worried. When people reached her age, it was the time to love smug beauty, especially when Liu Feng was coming back.

Chapter 0154 of the otherworldly version of the rental house.

"Crash..."

The sound of breaking the water waves sounded, and the fleet finally reached the territory of Xiyang City, which is the dock of Xiyang City.

Standing on the bow of the boat, Liu Feng looked at a small part of the cement-built pier not far away, and chuckled, "The speed is quite fast."

If this pier is fully constructed, it will be a T-shaped pier, a super-large pier that can dock thousands of large ships.

Of course, Liu Feng didn't want to get it all out in one go. It's enough for now. It can be built slowly in stages, and there is also a warehouse.

"Wow! What is that? Has the huge stone been flattened?" Dessy shouted in surprise, pointing to the concrete floor in the direction of the pier.

If you don't know cement, you will definitely mistake it for stone after seeing the cement solidify. Many people who come to Xiyang City now think that the houses they build are all made of stones.

No one has to explain this. Cement is already a first-class secret in Xiyang City. No one knows how the cement came out of the workshop.

"No!" Mina rolled her eyes and didn't explain, saying too much that Tis didn't understand, and she didn't understand very well either.

"Oh!" Tis only needs to know the result. She is too lazy to think about the process. She is very excited and looking forward to it, and she is very curious about everything.

"Master, are there really orcs and humans living together in Xiyang City?" This question is what Tiss is most concerned about now.