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Mao Mao just wants to go out to see the flowers and butterflies, who can refuse him?

Anyway, doctors can't do it.

Under the attack of Lucien's eyes, he raised the white flag to declare his surrender within three seconds, "Your body is recovering well, and going out for a walk will also help your health, but please keep warm and avoid strenuous exercise .”

If it was really up to the doctor to speak, he would of course suggest that the patient lie in bed and rest and open the window to enjoy the scenery, but with Lucien's personality, there is actually no need to ask his opinion on this matter.

Years ago when Lucien was still sick at every turn, it was different when Manville Verde ran around, inspected the processing factory and inspected the progress of the project, and there was no delay in any of them, and the days spent honestly staying in the manor did not add up to a few days, and he still watched every day. There is no rest from eye to eye, and the pile of documents on the table is higher than people.

Just like that, Lucien's health has improved a lot, and it's nothing to go for an outing in the manor in front of his house.

After the doctor said so, Lucien immediately shifted his offensive and looked up at Anna who was standing behind him.His head maid is the one who is the most nervous about his physical condition, and he perfectly practiced what is called "Mom thinks you are cold".

Anna's cold expression softened a lot under the attack of Lucien's anxious eyes, "Since the doctor said so," she smiled helplessly, "I have no reason to stop you from going out."

Lucien had a joyful smile on his face, "Yeah!" He raised his hands and cheered like a child, his eyes sparkling with anticipation.

"But it can't be today." Anna gave Lucien one by one to button up his coat, and reminded Lucien, who had already flown to the Rolles Flower Field, that he still had work today, "You are going to attend the Nobel Prize in the afternoon. The afternoon tea party hosted by the lady, and dinner with President Andasi in the evening. And you arranged a meeting later? I see Lawrence and the others are already waiting in the conference room."

The invisible cat ears on Lucien's head drooped down. Although he didn't hate work that much, he had arranged these jobs for himself, but...

Lucien glanced at the beautiful scenery outside the window - the basil flowers were just in bloom, looking out from the window was like a clear and light blue sea, with the soft spring breeze rustling the petals and young leaves, a faint The fragrance rides the wind and flows into every corner of the manor.

I have lived in Rolles Manor for a long time, even if I don’t have the habit of incense, the aroma of Rolles that lasts from early spring to midsummer will slowly soak into the bone marrow day after day, and you can smell the smell if you get close aroma.

That's why some people say that even the fingers of the beekeepers at Rolles Manor are sweet.

Lucien yawned a little and raised his chin slightly so that Anna could tie his bow tie on him.Although the part of his head that belongs to the bear child is vigorously urging him to skip work and go for a happy outing in the flower field, and has even imagined the cozy scene of lying in the flower field and dozing off in the sun with the breeze blowing, but Lucien still Resisting the temptation with the willpower of an adult, he pushed open the door of the meeting room despite the crying and fussing of a brat.

In winter, the bear child was not allowed to go out to play in the snow. He had already been made a fuss, and he was not bad from crying again.

Today is a small meeting without any specific theme. Lucien called Lawrence and the others to find out about their work progress and income and expenditure during the recent period. If they are really busy, they are not required to attend. Instead, they will send a subordinate who is familiar with the situation. It's perfectly fine to come over.

However, under normal circumstances, Lawrence and the others would try their best to attend in person if they could come.

They didn't have the fear of a mouse seeing a cat like the officials below, and this kind of small meeting was not as serious as the year-end summary meeting. Basically, everyone took the information and ate and drank to compare each other's progress. What's the matter? You solve the problem one sentence at a time.

Compared with the pile of pending documents in the office, this kind of meeting can even be called a break.

The maid served hot tea and desserts, and opened the window slightly to let the outside wind blow in. Lucien, wearing a blanket that was slightly thinner than in winter, chose a dessert he liked from the three-story dessert tower. taste.

It is a limited flavor only available during the flowering period of basil. The freshly picked basil petals are soaked in honey and used as fillings. It tastes a bit like a flower cake.

Lawrence added a small spoonful of honey to the tea, and while stirring, he smiled and said to Dalton: "Have you had a good time?"

Doton showed his white lotus and smiled: "Thanks to your care, I can go home once in ten days."

"That's good." Lawrence nodded seriously, and sighed softly, "I haven't been in the house for a month, and the little girl at home will not recognize who I am when they see me. "

"Little girl?" William subconsciously repeated the key words he had captured, and looked at Lawrence in shock, "Do you have a child?"

Lawrence shook his head, "What are you thinking about," he said briskly, adding another spoonful of milk to the teacup and stirring, "It's just a small thing I picked up on the way home, and I gave it to eat when I looked at it poorly, it's nothing Something worth mentioning."

"That's it... It seems that our relief center is overcrowded." Dalton propped his chin up and down with one hand and looked Lawrence up and down. He dragged out the ending sound meaningfully, and didn't say the second half of the sentence. The meaning in it was self-evident. .

Lawrence had no choice but to support his forehead and raise his hands in surrender, "That's still a yellow-haired girl, but my house is too far away and I don't want to make an extra trip. And when I go to inspect it in two days, I will send her to the relief center. Don't worry about it. gone."

He sighed as if he had been given a headache by Doton's gossip, and introduced a new topic to let the topic jump past him, "I have registered a lot of foreigners during this period of time, how is your side? Manpower Can you still hold on?"

If you poke me, I naturally have to pay you back.

Dalton couldn't laugh when he heard Lawrence talking about this, so he had to throw a snack into his mouth to relieve the pressure, "It's just overtime, let's do the tax first, and then wait for the rest. It will be done eventually."

A large number of foreign populations also brings a large number of miscellaneous taxes. For example, if an adventurer wants to enter the territory of Velvet, he has to pay poll tax, road tax, and entry tax. If he wants to enter the Moon Mountains, then He also has to pay adventure tax and gathering point maintenance tax. When he brings monsters or medicinal materials down from the mountains for trading, transaction tax, contract tax and other taxes will be incurred. If he is still a believer in the Church of Light, then After paying the above taxes, the church will also collect tithes from them for worshiping the gods.

In the same way, mercenaries and merchants also have their own corresponding taxation systems, as well as various taxation indicators and taxation ratios. It can be said that tax officials are the most burdensome in the financial department, and their work requires a lot of It is difficult to find someone to help them temporarily.

In addition, Doton is still gradually implementing the double-entry bookkeeping method this year. Although the tax department is too important to get started immediately, it still takes extra time to take notes in class and study hard.

At last year's year-end summary, the tax officer had already been tossed about by the taxation of the trade fair once, and when he made the report, he also expressed some opinions on Velveer's various miscellaneous taxes. As the lord, Lucien really has The right to adjust the tax policy, but this affects a wide range of interests. If you want to make a large-scale adjustment, you have to go around the palace, so Lucien just started with some trivial things and deleted some. It is the miscellaneous tax items that the consul set up privately in order to collect money, and some tax reduction or tax exemption policies for adventure tax, employment tax, and business transaction tax.

I hope that I can get something out of the little bits and pieces of the adventurers every year. If I want to make a lot of money, I have to look in the long run. Now only Velveer in the entire empire is recognized as the entrance to the Moon Mountains. It’s so good. Its monopoly business, if you do it casually, there will be oil and water to scrape.

Although Lucien's "casual messing around" has already made his three main cards plus a group of Rs sleep in the office every day and hang themselves on refreshing potions.

No, Dalton and the sheriffs under him are so tired that they can fall asleep on horseback every day.

As the head of the rule of law department, Dalton actually didn't read all the thick and large laws and regulations of the empire. He simply left all the work related to the trial to Sheld as a bachelor, and concentrated on leading the security team under him to patrol around.

On the one hand, it is to clean up the sporadic monsters that have been missed in winter on the road, and on the other hand, it is to clear up the robbers and thieves that appear along the way.

At this time of the year, not only adventurers and merchants will appear in Velvet, but also bandits who want to take the opportunity to make a fortune from these people.Velvet's place is poor and dilapidated, as long as the consul gets enough money in the end, there is no big commotion that will be noticed by the surrounding area, and no one offends the group of pampered gentlemen and wives in the manor, it will be fine. No one cares if someone has been robbed by robbers on the road.

Velveer's civilians are rarely willing to take in strange adventurers, and many of them are also for this reason.They were not sure whether they were taking in real adventurers or villains with ulterior motives.

Besides, even a true adventurer...

Anyone who is capable of this job, who has never had blood on his hands, is ashamed to say that he is a good person without deceit.

Adventurers are just more disciplined. As long as they are strong enough, there is gold everywhere in the Moon Mountains, so they think that there is no need to earn those little money with a dirty reputation on the way.

Those thieves and robbers generally do not dare to attack adventurers. Their main targets are merchants who come from other places. These merchants carry a lot of cash in order to purchase goods. The team leader used to transport the goods has poor mobility. You can't catch up even if you run, and even if you are caught as a merchant, you won't kill people rashly. If you save your life, there is still room for change wherever you go.

——Isn't it a coincidence that Lucien's main targets are those businessmen who came from other places.

He spread the news through the trade unions of the merchants: "As long as you trade at the place designated by the lord, the transaction tax can be reduced by [-]%, and the land tax will be exempted." "The lord guarantees the safety of every merchant in his territory."

As soon as this kind of news spread, most of the cheap merchants came with more funds than in previous years. It was impossible for William to let the lord break his promise. Daoli repeated it over and over again, assuring that even flies who only wanted to do bad things were slapped to death by them.

And those robbers, thieves, and even individual slave traders who were caught were all tied up and sent to the mine for labor reform-as the lord Lucien, he still had this little right, let alone the courage to run away from Velvet. They are all veterans, and careful digging of the case is estimated to be a gallows.

The addition of new criminals also alleviated the shortage of manpower in the mine after Lucien had to leave a group of writers to create for him, and the newcomers were not weak literati who could only wield a pen. Top three.

So the merchants arrived at the [trading place designated by the lord] with fear but no danger.

In all fairness, that place was not difficult to find, the road signs along the way were very clear and easy to understand, and there was no monster attack or robbery along the way, and the destination was reached smoothly.

But because it is so smooth, it makes people feel uneasy that there are rocks hanging on their heads and they will not fall. The business on this road is very clear about the nature of Velvid's business road. Even if they are attracted by the tax reduction policy promised by the lord, they still have no idea about this policy in their hearts.

Can the promise spoken by the noble lord be called a promise?

That's called talking without proof, as long as I don't admit it, I'm making it up.