Reborn As a Pirate

It is only natural that the talks are over and the results are positive.

After all, since Carmen provoked the selfish desires in Sir Tussela's heart, the patriot's golden body has been opened a big hole. Lorraine drilled along this hole, and successfully touched it without much effort. The heart of the hero's real scruples.

The so-called...status and respect.

Respect comes from status and makes status stable. These two are two sides of the same coin. As a high-level concept of demand, it is the precipitous wall that a commoner hero like Tussela strives to climb, but can never reach the top.

Lorraine's father, Alia, once taught Lorraine that a century of upbringing can produce a qualified nobleman.

In short, it is only the beginning of a family's transformation that a commoner obtains a title by chance and then enters the upper class.

European high society is a closed and exclusive social circle. This circle has been running for thousands of years, and has its own unique cognition, customs, customs and even language, which is completely different from the common people.

Even if a commoner is promoted to a noble, he will still be regarded as an outsider, and even if he has no noble heir, he will still be in the circle. The root of this strange closed loop is the difference between the two classes.

Because of differences, heroes of commoner origin must greedily pursue a higher status, which allows them to more fully recognize the differences between the two sides and have a clear direction for improvement.

Generation after generation, when they have completely faded away from the color of the common people, they can be regarded as truly gaining a firm foothold in the upper class and becoming the real noble class.

As for Tussela specifically, the status of the governor allows him to get the attention he deserves even if he is not recognized. Spain also cannot bear the long-term absence of a powerful person in the top social occasions of the New World. The fastest and most robust way to go.

But if he really finished his term with no achievements as Lorraine said, with his background, the result waiting for him can only be to return to China sadly, with the title of major general and medals all over his body, waiting to die in an idle position.

His life is over, and the transformation of the family is also over. When he is inspired by God, the family will end their short trip to the upper world and fall back into the quagmire of the common people.

He definitely doesn't want to see such a future, so when Lorraine misinterpreted Miami as his only hope for his career, he lost the right to choose.

Baron Falby von Tussela, Governor of Florida, officially decided to build a new colonial town at the mouth of the Miami River. The construction will start on August 12, 1785, and it is expected to be completed on a medium-sized administrative scale before September 15 of the same year, and at the same time complete at least Immigration of 2,000 people.

Named after the river, this new city that is about to be born from the wilderness is called Miami.

As the legal property owner of the predetermined town site, the Drake Chamber of Commerce in England will fully assist this colonization operation in the stand of spreading human civilization regardless of national boundaries.

Assistance includes but is not limited to:

1. Planning for the new city is free of charge, and the first-phase planning shall be submitted to the Governor's Office for review before August 15.

2. Provide free land for the Florida Governor's Office, including the City Hall, the Assembly, the Church, the Court, the Sheriff's Office, the Customs Office, the Tax Office, and the Prison, as well as the related buildings attached to the land, which will be handed over before September 15th.

3. Bear the immigration expenses, undertake the transportation of immigrants, complete the resettlement of immigrants before September 5, and assist the city hall to complete the household registration of immigrants.

4. Provide complete housing and other living facilities for the first phase of immigrants free of charge.

5. To provide the Governor's Mansion with the land and anchor ports needed for the garrison for free, including 1,000 acres of land and 1 kilometer of coastline in the northwest of the mouth of the Miami River, as well as the entire island of Virginia.

The construction of military barracks, anchor ports, coastal defense batteries and other military facilities is undertaken by the Governor's Mansion after the Liting Hall.

6. Carry out comprehensive commercial development of land other than military and administrative purposes according to the plan...

This contract is a common method for the transfer of colonial strongholds from private to government. Gathered devout believers from all over the world.

But what Lorraine really needs to do is to deliver some administrative facilities, provide military land and assist the city hall to complete the household registration of Hekou Town.

In addition, the first mayor of Miami has been identified, the current mayor of Fort St. Augustine, Mr. Di Puyani.

Tussela seems to have misunderstood Lorraine's intentions, thinking that he chose to be introduced by Di Puyani because he hoped that Di Puyani could become the helm of Miami.

Fortunately, this is not the point...

At the same time, the policy has also been roughly finalized.

The biggest difference between Miami and the private strongholds in history is the ownership of the land.

According to the normal process, adventurers land on unfamiliar lands, plant national flags, declare national ownership, and then return to the mainland or nearby relatively prosperous colonies to find investment and poor settlers who are willing to relocate, and send money and people. Farming under the national flag is colonization.

So the concept of colonization has always been.

When the colonial stronghold develops to a certain extent, the real secular forces will intervene and take everything away by establishing a town, and only compensate the developers, investors and the first batch of pioneers to a certain extent.

That is to say, everything in the government-run town should belong to the country, to the king and the governor's office.

But that switch simply doesn't work in Miami.

Lorraine did not declare his sovereignty through the brutal and barbaric way of planting flags. His land transactions with the Indians had complete records and tax payment certificates in Britain, Spain, and the United States, which completely complied with the rules of the operation of a civilized society.

This means that even if he is transferred to the official camp, Spain cannot deprive him of his legal property rights to this land.

Planning, construction, development, operation, and all land-related rights are firmly in the hands of the Drake Chamber of Commerce. If Miami is compared to a mansion, the city hall is no longer the general sense of the owner, he is more like a butler hired by Lorraine, and his salary is Miami's taxes.

For example, Miami Beach.

The Port Authority is independently operated by the Drake Chamber of Commerce, and charges for various services related to it belong to the Chamber of Commerce.

If someone wants to buy or lease first-hand real estate such as land, properties, berths, etc., they also need to connect with the Port Authority, which is also the income of the Chamber of Commerce.

In contrast, customs and tax stations belong to municipal institutions, so regardless of customs duties or other taxes, they are the income of the city hall and do not need to be shared with Lorraine.

At first glance, this revenue model looks like two parallel lines, the chamber of commerce and the city hall earn their own money without interfering with each other.

But in fact, because of the need to borrow Drake's land to collect taxes and develop the population, the city hall must pay attention to Lorraine's opinions in the formulation of tax rate benchmarks, and the town council has full power to make decisions on details. In time, it will be Lorraine who has the final say.

This is the unique characteristic of people under the roof.

On behalf of both parties, Carmen and Dipuyani had a verbal battle on the tax rate issue, and finally decided that the agricultural tax in Miami is based on 10%, and the commercial tax fluctuates between 5-10% according to the type. Two-way collection, adhere to the characteristics of the free port, Exemption from customs duty and personal consumption tax, and the sum of other additional taxes shall not exceed 5%.

Carmen also added special tax exemptions related to tax refunds, especially in terms of tax refunds. Anyone with an annual tax amount of more than 20 octagonal gold coins and an organization with an annual tax amount of more than 500 octagonal gold coins can enjoy a step-by-step tax refund. The highest 50% will be reached when 2,500 coins are organized, and the settlement will be unified in March of the following year.

Lorraine did some calculations.

Under this tax rate, the tax paid by the citizens of Miami after tax rebate correction generally does not exceed 15% of the total income, and the burden of the chamber of commerce is controlled at 7% to 13% of the local revenue, which is lower than the average burden of the contemporary commercial port. nearly half.

In this way, Miami might become the most livable town in North America. Lorraine sipped his coffee and muttered, Population, Chamber of Commerce, factories, farms...

Agriculture may not be able to achieve large-scale prosperity. After all, Florida does not allow slave trading, and labor costs are too high compared with other colonies.

So what the chamber of commerce should do next is... sell the land?