Mad Elf's Diary of a Scumbag

"It's all your fault!"

Karina suddenly jumped into Lance's arms and bit his shoulder firmly.

Lance, who was grimacing in pain, was overjoyed and held Karina in his arms, feeling pain and happiness at the same time.

After all, it was really his fault.

The origin of the tax system began in the city-state era. After thousands of years of development, it gradually matured.

After arriving in the Kingdom of Light, the tax system has been perfected to the extreme.

However, clergy and powerful people above legendary level are exempt from taxation.

It wasn't until Lance discovered the new baby of the Silver Moon family on his [-]th birthday.

Eowyn Silvermoon's full moon banquet was even more luxurious than her one hundredth birthday.

After this investigation, we found out that the assets of the Yinyue family were actually more than ten times that of the Yaori royal family.

Lance's eyes were red at that time, and he asked Cheap Daddy to change the tax system when he got home.

But the Sun Elf King at that time had no good solution. After all, the resistance to collecting taxes from demigods was too great.

Lance originally planned to take action slowly, but the Silver Moon family did not know how to restrain themselves.

When Eowyn Silvermoon turned one year old, the birthday party he held was ten times more luxurious than Lance's centenary party.

It almost made Lance's nose crooked with anger. This was such a mockery!

The elf prophet, elf saint, and elf high priest were summoned on the spot.

As well as the Sunlight Elf King and Queen, and other powerful demigods loyal to the royal family.

They went to the Yinyue family to collect taxes. No matter what, the tax system must be changed anyway!

If the Silver Moon family dares to resist, Lance is ready to fight another civil war.

At worst, the Silver Moon family will be wiped out. Otherwise, if this continues, the Elf Kingdom will be over sooner or later.

At that time, the Elf Kingdom was becoming increasingly powerful, but the taxes collected were getting less and less.

Because as long as one legend is born, the entire family can be exempted from taxes.

After the integration of the Elf Kingdom, legendary strongmen from each family sprung up like mushrooms after a rain.

In order to avoid taxes, many small families will choose to list themselves under the name of a large family.

At the beginning, I gave some token points, but later I stopped giving them.

By the time Lance's [-]th birthday comes, in the entire Elf Kingdom, only the Elf Forest controlled by the Sunri Royal Family can collect taxes.

At that time, money was everywhere in the Elf Kingdom.

The Navy, Army, and Air Force are the three big money eaters.

Education, medical care, and housing are three holes that cannot be filled. .

Yes, elves also need to live in a house, at least a tree house.

He is not a savage. Who wants to be exposed to wind and sun if he can live in a house?

As well as technological innovation, research on the civilian application of magic, the establishment of a national strategic defense system, etc.

These things seem difficult, and they are also difficult to do. The difficulty lies in the lack of money. Without money, nothing can be done.

For the future of the Elf Kingdom, Lance decided to take action on the most popular Silver Moon family at the time.

After convincing his parents, Lance was moved emotionally and rationally.

Convinced some of the strongest bosses in the Elf Kingdom at the time.

After all, everything is for the future of the elves, and with their strength reaching their level, it is difficult for the family's interests to affect them.

They value the interests of the entire race more.

I thought a civil war was inevitable, but I didn't expect that after the Elf Prophet took out the divine arrow given by the Elf Goddess.

The Silver Moon family relented, and once the most difficult Silver Moon family relented, the rest became easier to deal with.

That year, the entire Elf Kingdom did nothing and collected only taxes.

The taxes collected that year were probably more than 30 times more than the previous year, exceeding [-] million coins.

This is also the highest tax rate since the founding of the Elf Kingdom.

Don’t think that this amount is very large, because not even halfway through the second year, all the [-] million gold coins have been spent.

At that time, Lance thought that someone below him had embezzled his money, so he gathered his troops and prepared to solve the case and behead him.

But after some rigorous investigation, we discovered that the people below are still very simple.

It was just because I took too big a step that I was in trouble.

Don't think that these [-] million gold coins are a lot. In the previous life, they were just the amount of tax paid by a certain country's tobacco company for a year.

If it were just to build the army, that would definitely be enough.

But if we want the entire Elf Kingdom to take off, there is still a long way to go.

In desperation, Lance could only temporarily stop many money-burning projects and restart them later when he has money.

Since then, the tax revenue of the Elf Kingdom has been stable at more than [-] million gold coins.

It was not until 200 years later that the tax revenue of the Elven Kingdom exceeded [-] million gold coins.

It shows how rich these big families are and how greedy they are.

If they were not forced to pay taxes by force, they would rather bury their gold coins in the ground than use them to support the construction of the kingdom!

In order to completely drain them, Lance launched the bank as a killer weapon.

But due to the existence of storage rings, large transactions are not that troublesome.

Therefore, although gold coin cards similar to bank cards exist, they do not completely control the market.

After all, it is safe to carry money with you, and real things like gold coins will not depreciate.

Moreover, all banks in Anglia mainland offer no interest, and you have to pay handling fees to the bank.

This also further limits the development of gold coin cards.

Fortunately, the production of storage rings is very low, expensive and the space is limited, so gold coin cards have a place in this world.

After the Elf Kingdom's taxes increased, the strength of the Elf clan reached its historical peak.

The Elf Kingdom's invincible fleet once dominated the southern seas.

Even the sea tribe in the east can't breathe.

The army of the Elf Kingdom, led by the Elf King of Sunshine Sun, also launched a vigorous Northern Expedition.

Destroyed countless cities and countries along the way.

When the territory was the largest, it even occupied the center of the continent.

Then, the elves were warned by the gods, and the goddess also issued an oracle, telling the elves to withdraw their troops.

The reason is very simple, the gods have their own base.

Let’s not talk about the sea area. Anyway, the mainland is divided into three parts: humans, elves, and orcs.

Orcs in the north, humans in the middle, elves in the south.

You can push this line back and forth a little to take advantage, but if you want to unify the continent, that won't work.

This was also the reason why the three of Lance wanted to divide the continent into three parts.

Because the gods will never let a certain race dominate the continent.

What they want is the balance of the continent.

If the elves did not leave at that time, the orcs, sea people, humans, and dragons would form an anti-elf alliance.

Although the elves finally withdrew their troops, they still vigorously expanded their territory.

The battle between the elves also completely awakened all the countries on the continent.