Becoming a lord from a baron

As Oliver said, he took out a piece of rough yellowed paper from a thick folder in his hand, with the information about taxes on it.

Allen took it over and looked at it, and his eyes lit up at 1.7: "That's right, Oliver, the Minister of Finance of the Principality really has something. Before that guy Sparrow didn't classify the taxes so carefully, the specific data of each tax Both."

Allen immediately looked at Oliver with admiration. This has a feeling that Allen has returned to the earth in his previous life, and it is clear at a glance after getting the data.

This Oliver looks like a corrupt official, unexpectedly he has some skills.

"Well, reduce each tax by [-]%, farmers by [-]%, and declare to everyone in the entire principality. This is a gift from me, Alan, to them. From today, I will let everyone have enough food and warm clothes. "

Allen said with a smile.

Oliver's face changed when he heard the words: "My lord, the treasury of the Principality of Shaker is already empty. If you are cutting taxes like this, the Principality of Shaker may struggle in the future!"

Allen was taken aback when he heard the words: "The treasury is empty? What do you mean?".

Chapter 248 Generous and Merciful Monarch, Drought in the South (3)

Allen was in the second half of the previous castle at the moment. After meeting the nobles, Allen came to the second half of the entire castle.

Unexpectedly, the construction here is extremely comfortable, and it seems to be a place specially designed for a little relaxation.

At this moment, Allen frowned and stared at the slightly obese Oliver and said, "The treasury of the Principality of Shaker is empty?"

In fact, after occupying the Principality of Shaker, it took Allen a week to appease the people. He didn't know much about many things in the Principality.

For example, the state treasury.

Trembling, Oliver took out a stack of financial statements from his thick folder.

"This is a lot of money spent on building the fortress here. In addition, Grand Duke Shaker imported the special wine Rose Night of the Principality of Ryan, and various perfumes, maltose and other items also spent a lot of money. In addition, Grand Duke Shaker The extravagance with his children before birth..."

The Minister of Finance Oliver pointed to the statements one by one and said, Allen heard a headache.

Just building the fortress almost emptied the treasury of the Principality of Shaker.

In fact, before Grand Duke Shaker fell, he was even considering raising all taxes by [-]%.

The corner of Alan's mouth twitched: "Show me the list of 25% of the treasury income of the entire Principality of Shaker for the whole year."

Oliver immediately took another sheet of paper from the folder.

Allen took a look at it, and took a breath: "The annual tribute of an earl is only 15 gold coins?"

Tribute is the act of the enfeoffed nobles dedicating most of the pure benefits of their territory to the Grand Duke. This is to repay the Grand Duke for continuing their rights and territory, and it is also an expression of their submission and loyalty.

Allen remembered that he had robbed the tribute ships of the Maritime Principality Blue Moon Principality when he was a baron.

There seem to be hundreds of thousands of gold coins on it, not to mention all kinds of precious materials and potions.

Guaranteed value A ship also has a value of 15 gold coins.

Later, Allen knew that each country was different about the tribute, some once a year, some twice a year, or four times a year.

But roughly the same thing is that the annual tribute amount of the Earl of the Principality should be around 25 gold coins. Unless it is a new Earl, who can enjoy the benefits of not paying tribute for five years, other earls generally have a figure of around 25.

Of course, the Blue Moon Principality is a maritime principality with scarce resources, so the annual tribute of 15 gold coins is also understandable.

But the Principality of Shaker is not a principality of the sea!

Anything below that number is totally out of the ordinary.

Within a year, excluding the daily expenses of an earl and the huge amount of money to train his subordinates, an earl can at least obtain a profit of 40 to [-] gold coins from his own people.

This is normal.

But now, in a land principality, the earls only have 15 tribute in a year, which is too shabby.

Allen was shocked.

"Uh, my lord, you may not know that the geographical environment of the Principality of Shaker is not good. Especially in recent years, the weather in the south has been weird and often extremely dry. The fertile land has been drained little by little, and the crops cannot survive. There is no natural environment. It is difficult for the spirits to grow crops at all, and the income of most earldoms decreases every year, so it would be nice to have a tribute of 15."

Oliver wiped the sweat from his forehead and said helplessly.

Allen was stunned when he heard the words. He only saw heavy snow and fertile land in the north. He really didn't expect that there was a severe drought in the south of the Principality of Shaker.

He glanced back at the three Alberts beside him.

The three nodded: "He is right. There is a large area of ​​land in the south of the Principality of Shaker that has lost its fertility and is even desertifying. This is very scary. Although it is covered with heavy snow, we have also seen it. It is indeed true." However, the traces of desertification are not serious for the time being, only one earldom has this tendency, but I dare not say whether it will spread across the country in the future, after all, although only one territory is desertifying, there are many arid areas." Albert frowned slightly. As he said, this is what he has been worried about for a long time.

The most important thing for a lord is the territory and the people.

If the territory has been abolished, then the lord is a joke. "Is the land desertified?"

Allen sighed slightly. He looked at the financial statements. Most of the earldoms on it seemed poor, with some paying 15 yuan and some paying 20 yuan.

Northern territories generally pay 25 gold coins, and wealthy territories pay 30 gold coins.

But the territory in the north is about one-third of the principality's territory after all.

"It's also because of this reason that Grand Duke Shaker may not be worried. He went to check it himself, but he didn't find any reason." Oliver sighed slightly.

The reason why Grand Duke Xia Ke spied on the Principality of Ryan on one side is also for this reason.

Apart from ambition, it is the worry of a king.

Grand Duke Xia Ke has no way out. If things go on like this, the Principality of Xia Ke will be completely lonely in a short time. As the Grand Duke, he will naturally find a way to solve the problem.

And at this time, if we can have another piece of fertile and rich land, all problems can be easily solved.

Allen probably understood the mind of the old duke. "The tax has come down, and the earl's tribute has also come down." Allen decided after thinking about it. "You... alright." Oliver didn't say much, he was just a courtier, and it was fine to provide advice, and the decision was made by the Grand Duke.

However, Oliver was taken aback by Allen's words. After all, without what he had already said, lowering taxes would mean that Allen's quality of life would decline.

As nobles, they are used to extravagance and waste, and they are used to living extravagantly.

This was the case with the previous Grand Duke Shaker. Even if the country had problems, even if the fortress was built, his life was still lavish and extravagant, which was the reason why the national treasury was quickly depleted.

Compared to Grand Duke Shack, Alan, the new dragon knight, is simply too wise!

This allowed Oliver to see a different side of 813 Allen. Apart from being cold-blooded and bloodthirsty, this lord was too generous and kind to his subjects.

"Don't worry, I can solve the problem of the treasury for the time being. Shaker is such an idiot. The country is already in dire straits, and he is still building fortresses."

Allen said lightly, there is an essential difference between him and Shack. After all, he is the lord of four major industries, and gold coins have never been difficult for him.

The difficulty is that the problem of drought in the south must be solved.

Otherwise, if the land becomes desertified and the entire Principality of Shaker becomes a desert country, then Allen feels that all his efforts will be in vain.

"You have a solution? Oh, yes, you were the Earl of Sirius before!"

Oliver slapped his head immediately. Every principality has its own intelligence network. As the most famous young Earl of the Principality of Lane, Alan has long been in the eyes of the Principality of Shaker.

Some information about Allen has been collected in the Principality of Shaker, including the fact that he created the Rose Night spirits, perfume and other industries.

This lord is not short of money.

Oliver looked slightly excited.

"Well, Oliver, tell me about the drought in the south first."

Allen smiled and sat on a sofa. He picked up an unknown fruit and took a bite, then said.

"Yes, my lord, this is how it happened."

Oliver began to bow his head and tell Allen the whole drought from the beginning to the present. .

Chapter 249 Principality-level side mission, Allen's intelligence channel! (4 ask for subscription!)

"Ding, trigger the side mission: Burning Heart!"

"The Burning Heart: After being silent for endless years, a burning heart has revived, and it comes from a distant and unknown world..."

"Collect this fiery heart, solve the problem of drought in the south, and reward experience points * 100000!"

After listening to Oliver's narration, Allen fell into deep thought.

Of course it was contemplation on the surface, but in fact, he was looking at the system interface.

I was lucky today, and a total of two side missions were triggered.

The difference between a country and a territory is that anything can become a side mission, and the rewards are generous. Alan has already discovered that the larger the territory and the higher the status, the richer the rewards for the missions that he comes into contact with. At present, Alan is completely The present task could be called national.

The first side task is: to cultivate the Earl (Golden Knight).

The rewards of this side mission are also quite good, but it is a long-term mission.

The basic rewards are: experience value * 100000, which activates primary rune knowledge.

"Elementary rune knowledge: from the top knowledge of ancient magic weapon manufacturing, the peak technology of magic weapon craftsmanship!"

This surprised Allen slightly, and it was also the reason why he attached great importance to this side mission.

Weapons and armor in the modern continent are all carved with magic circles in order to obtain magical effects. Of course, this kind of weapon does have magical effects, and the effect is good.

Even the dwarves use this method to add magical properties to weapons.

For example, Allen's golden knight armor and the golden knight sword that is about to break, etc.

These are all good works in modern magic weapon science.

Allen thinks so too, after all, the dwarves are recognized by the mainland as the most capable race in making weapons.

The weapons they produce, whether they are ordinary weapons or magic weapons, are enough to be called high-quality goods.

And now, the system gave him another surprise.

Runes are known as the pinnacle technology of ancient magic weapon craftsmanship.

This proves that magic circles are not the best knowledge for weapon enchanting.

And the runes are.

This is equivalent to giving people in ancient times the technology to make firearms, which is surprising.

And this is just a basic reward, it only needs Allen to cultivate fifteen golden knights within a year to complete the task.

And if Allen can cultivate thirty golden knights, then the rewards will rise to another level. The system did not fully explain what rewards there will be, but they are definitely no worse than rune skills.

If Allen can cultivate fifty golden knights, then this task is considered perfect, and the rewards are estimated to be so generous that it will make people drool.

Compared with the task of cultivating the golden knight, the task of the burning heart mentioned by Oliver is a bit intriguing.

This task is only to give [-] experience points.

Compared to the task of cultivating golden knights, this is really not worth mentioning.

But in terms of the nature of this task, it is more important than training golden knights.

If the problem is not resolved and the entire Principality of Shaker is completely deserted, the result will be terrible.

"Just [-] experience points, it can't be the style of the system, shouldn't the system give it all the benefits, r?"

Allen murmured in his heart that when he needed something for the development of his territory, the system came to send him warmth.

Now there are only [-] experience points, which Alan thinks is unscientific.

There was a problem with this task, and Allen felt that maybe the task itself was a huge reward.

Burning heart?

"grown ups?"

Oliver called Allen tremblingly.

At this moment, Allen did not declare himself the Grand Duke, but just took over the Principality of Shaker.

Moreover, the Norton Kingdom did not go through the proper procedures or procedures.

If Allen did not call himself Grand Duke for the time being, this is why nobles and ministers have always called Allen Lord, or Lord Dragon Knight.

"Huh? Oh, I know the situation in the south, Oliver, I will let my subordinates meet with you in a few days. In the future, you will jointly assist me in managing the duchy. At the same time, he will also bring enough technology and wealth. .”

Allen said to Oliver, he was talking about Sparrow naturally, it was time for the financial officer to be promoted, and regarding financial issues, it was enough to leave it to him and Oliver.

"Praise my lord, you are truly the good lord of the Principality of Shaker! A benevolent and great lord."

Oliver's eyes lit up immediately, and the smart finance minister had already understood what Alan meant.

Allen's technology and wealth are enough to make him jealous.

If the four major industries held by Allen can be transferred to the Principality of Shaker.

Oliver is confident that the economy will take off within five years!