Alien High Lord

Seeing Gu Li's expression, Dozina seemed to understand Gu Li's thoughts.

This reminded Dozina immediately, when the bastard leader of the gathering place came back and looked at the empty dwarf gathering place, how tragic would the other party burst into wailing?

"Hahaha……"

Dozina couldn't help laughing at the thought of this.

She felt that she must drink something tonight, after all, today was a good day.

……

Orcs and Terrans are making ancient Roman concrete.

The dwarf built the city gate according to the blueprint exchanged by Li Fan.

The tri-ethnic mixed group is carrying out this infrastructure construction in an orderly manner.

Except for a few guys who cheated, raped and played tricks, everyone was busy, so Li Fan couldn't be idle.

At this time, he is clearing the land behind the sinful town, and the land around here will be reclaimed into farmland.

With the existence of magical crops, the sooner the farmland can be reclaimed, the better.

It's a pity that they have less than 300 people now, which is far from enough.

There was nothing Li Fan could do about it.

There weren't many people in the Sin Forest, and after the winter cleanup in the Year of God's Punishment, they were almost the only ones left.

It is impossible to replenish manpower in a short time unless something unexpected happens.

Li Fan can only let himself act as a farmer temporarily.

It was the first time for Li Fan to do such a thing as reclaiming wasteland, but as an out-and-out rural person, he did not have little contact with the land.

Coupled with his current strength, he cultivated the land almost ten times faster than ordinary people.

After a whole day, I was stunned to reclaim a full twenty acres of land.

Looking at the large piece of land in front of him, Li Fan couldn't help but feel proud in his heart even though his body was limp from exhaustion.

Ruixue is a prosperous year.

In these lands that have experienced severe cold, the insect eggs in the land have been completely killed.

And for many years, the convenient habit of people from outside the world has made the land fertile enough.

They are the best fertile fields.

Just wait for the ice and snow to melt, and after planting the magic crops, there will be a surprising harvest.

Chapter 141 Taxation

Cold Winter City, when the wind and snow in the Year of God's Retribution stopped, the city was almost completely buried by snow.

The beast horde two and a half months ago not only cost half of the city guards and knights, but even the city lord Caton was seriously injured.

After that, although most of the monsters retreated, there were still some monsters left, and they would sneak into Winter City to attack humans from time to time.

At the beginning, the City Lord's Mansion will try to clean up these monsters as much as possible.

After a long time, as the city guards and knights continued to suffer casualties, the City Lord's Mansion resolutely abandoned the civilian area of ​​Winter City, and concentrated its forces to guard the wealthy area near the castle.

Unprepared, the Warcraft unscrupulously searched for "food" one by one in the civilian area.

If it weren't for the great knight Wood who insisted on staying in the civilian area regardless of the danger, I am afraid that the people in the civilian area would have been hunted by monsters long ago.

However, Wood's strength alone is limited, and he can only guard thousands of civilians within a few streets in the end.

As for other places, facing the snow that can overwhelm the houses while facing the hunting monsters, some people may survive, but there must be very few.

……

Qixi and Qimi are lucky in a way, because the street they are on is one of the streets guarded by the great knight Wood.

Inside the snow-buried house, Qixi raised his head while holding Qimi, and stared blankly at the ceiling with his somewhat red and swollen eyes.

The ceiling above my head creaked from time to time.

I don't know when it will collapse.

Qixi thought that if the roof really collapsed, he would definitely stand on his sister Qimi's body. After all, he had promised his mother that he would protect his sister for the rest of his life.

Thinking about it, Qixi looked down at her younger sister Qimi in her arms.

Qimi cried again and fainted. Ever since her mother passed away, she would cry until she fainted whenever she saw her mother.

Qimi had no choice but to take advantage of God's Retribution Day to wrap his mother's body in a blanket and temporarily put his mother outside the door.

Fortunately, the snow was deep enough, and it was also fortunate that the great knight was there, and the monsters did not dig up the mother's body.

Otherwise, when spring came, he would not be able to bury his mother next to his father's grave.

Thinking about it, Qixi was afraid of waking Qimi, so she could only cover her mouth with one hand, and wipe away the tears she wanted to shed with the other hand.

Unfortunately, this tiny movement still alarmed Qimi.

Qixi bit his tongue hastily. Under the stimulation of pain, he finally held back his tears, and then quickly wiped away the remaining tears with his sleeve.

If my sister Qimi saw the tears on his face, she would definitely cry again.

"Brother, where is mother?" Chimi asked weakly.

Even though his mother had been placed outside, Chimi still cried a lot.

The constant crying made Qimi's body extremely weak, and now she is so weak that she can't even tell whether her mother is dead or not.

Qixi could only comfort her and said, "Mother is looking for food, and she will be back soon. You should sleep first, and I will call you when mother comes back."

Qimi nodded obediently, "I listen to my brother, but I'm so hungry, I miss my mother too, can mother come back soon?"

Qixi opened her mouth, but didn't know how to answer Qimi's question.

Just then, there was a noise from their house, and then a strong arm reached through the snow and into the house.

The arm was quickly retracted, leaving only a piece of white bread.

When Qimi turned his head, he saw white bread all at once.

"It's white bread, brother, is it possible that mother is back, but where is mother?" Chimi kept turning his head to look for his mother's figure.

Qixi didn't answer, just picked up the white bread, stuffed it to Qimi, and then said: "Of course, mother is back, but she went to find us food for tomorrow, otherwise we will be hungry tomorrow, you Wait a little longer, mother will be back later."

Maybe it was because he was too hungry, but Qimi didn't doubt it, broke off a third of the white bread, ate it with big mouthfuls, and fell asleep again before he knew it.

Qixi looked at the remaining two-thirds of the white bread, and her eyes were red again.

In the end, he only broke off a small piece, and after eating two bites, he carefully hid the rest of the white bread despite the hunger.

Qixi knew very well who the person who sent the white bread was, if it wasn't for the great knight who guarded the street under the demonic beast, if he didn't bring some food to their brothers and sisters from time to time, if he didn't give them a glowing Stone, the two of them have died long ago.

Qixi knew all this, so he wanted to save food and try not to cause trouble to the great knight.

With such thoughts in mind, sleepiness hit Qixi at some point.

In a daze, Qixi remembered the great knight who helped him shovel the snow back then, and he muttered to himself.

"They are all knights? Why are most of the knights in Winter City different from the Great Knight?"

"But the Great Knight is so... handsome."

"The great knight is the real knight, can I become a knight in the future?"

"If I can also become a knight, I will definitely be able to save people like my mother, at least I can protect my little sister Qimi..."

……

In the castle of Winter City, Caton sat at the desk in the study, and a man dressed as an official stood beside him.

The man dressed as an official is a tax collector.

At this time, the tax officer took out a piece of parchment, handed it to Caton, and said, "My lord, this is a tax collection order from the imperial capital. This year's family tax."

There are three types of taxes on the surface of the human empire.

1: Land rent tax.

2: income tax.

3: Family tax.

Land rent tax and income tax are literal meanings, while family tax is a tax that everyone living in the human empire has to pay.

Household tax is distinct from ground rent and income taxes.

The biggest beneficiaries of the land rent tax and income tax are the local lords, and this family tax is paid directly to the imperial treasury.

It can be regarded as a tax set up by the empire to ensure the filling of the treasury.

Usually, the household tax is not paid together with the land rent tax income tax until after the autumn harvest.

However, this Year of God's Punishment caused heavy losses to the human empire and the treasury was empty. The king finally ordered the collection of family taxes in advance.

Chapter 142 Celebration and Commendation Ceremony 1

In the human empire, every time a family tax is paid, the emperor will send a central tax collector.

In the end, the central tax collectors worked with local officials to record the family taxes paid by the common people, so as to ensure that the family taxes would not be double charged by local officials.

Caton is not very interested in such things that are completely useless.

"At that time, it will be up to you to complete the collection of the family tax with the central tax collector."

Caton gave a casual order to the tax officer beside him, and stopped paying attention to this matter.

Seeing this, the tax officer asked with some uncertainty: "My lord, the City of Winter has just experienced the winter of the year of God's punishment, and almost all the residents in the city have lost their deposits. Will the family tax continue to be collected?"

"Continue to accept," Caton replied without any emotion.

"But now they can't produce anything of value at all!" the tax official couldn't help but said.

After hearing this, Caton raised his head and glanced at the tax official. His sharp and ruthless eyes made the tax official shudder on the spot.

"Why, the family tax is a tax collected by the king. You don't let those common people pay it, but you want me, the city lord, to pay it?"

"No, that's not what I meant..."

The tax official was so scared that he almost fell to the ground.

Seeing this, Caton withdrew his gaze, and suddenly grinned, and at this moment, his mouth said something that seemed to freeze people into ice, "Since the common people can't afford the family tax, let them sell themselves as slaves. "

"Ah?" The tax officer was frightened again, and looked at Caton in disbelief.

He is one of Caton's confidantes, otherwise he would not be able to sit in the position of tax officer in Winter City. He thought he knew Caton, but he didn't expect the real Caton to be so ruthless.

That's thousands of civilians, and they are all going to be turned into slaves.

The tax officer could see clearly that Caton didn't hesitate at all when he made this decision.

For a moment, the tax officer looked at Caton with fear in his eyes.

Caton didn't care about the eyes of the tax officer. The human empire suffered a huge loss this winter, so there was no loss in Winter City?

On the contrary, the loss of Winter City this time is extremely astonishing. Apart from the destroyed city, what makes Carton really heartbroken is the countless city guards and knights who died.

These city guards and knights are the foundation of his stagnation. He doesn't know how much time and money it will take to replenish the lost manpower.

Not only is the king short of money, he is short, a lot of money.

Since there is no way to bring him any benefits from the family tax, then turn those civilians who cannot pay the tax into slaves.

In this way, the oil and water in it will become bigger.

Thinking of this, Caton suddenly showed a happy smile.

The tax officer at the side looked at the cold smile on Caton's face, and he seemed to have seen Caton's plan, so he couldn't help reminding him.

"But Lord City Master, after Winter City has experienced the winter of the Year of God's Retribution and the tide of beasts at the same time, it is not bad if three out of ten civilians in the city can survive. There are not many civilians left in Winter City now. If civilians who can’t pay the tax are allowed to sell themselves as slaves, Cold Winter City may become an empty city.”

How could Caton have not considered the tax official's concerns.

While looking at the snow-covered civilian area outside the window, he said confidently: "Don't worry, I have received news that the river above the city of Chambord next door has condensed into ice because of the snow. In this winter, Those ice blocks hold back a horrific amount of water."

"As soon as the ice and snow melt, a terrifying mountain torrent will erupt above Chambord City, and the mountain torrent will completely submerge the entire Chambord City with countless ice blocks."