Lorist returned to the Northland on January 7th of the new year, and braved the wind and snow to inspect the capital of the Northland. It was originally named Gildusk City, but now it has been renamed the Roaring Bear City. The reconstruction project presided over by Master Si Luoba is progressing smoothly, and a giant bear statue roaring towards the sky was set up on the square ingeniously, so the square was renamed Angry Bear Square.
The reconstruction of Roaring Bear City will take another year. Last year, the infrastructure projects in various urban areas have been re-planned. The water supply pipes and sewers have been arranged, and the city wall defense facilities and road traffic construction have also been completed. The main task that will continue today It is building a house and other civil engineering works. Master Si Luoba is very optimistic that it can be completed before August, but it will take some time for more detailed interior decoration and beautification projects. However, this year's construction of the Roaring Bear City will be in charge of the deputy director of the engineering department, Sang Ben, because Master Siluoba will go to the Southern Province in May to preside over the construction of the Pegasus Castle in the territory of the Felim family.
Lorist only stayed in Roaring Bear City for about ten days. In addition to inspecting the reconstruction of the capital of the Northland, he also met with Sedkamp. One side has internal affairs talents, and the construction of the newly planned Ping An Yuan, Ping Feng Yuan and Ping Kang Yuan in the south of Beidi is proceeding in an orderly manner, and the development will be completed in two years. The only concern is that the land is sparsely populated and requires Populate a large number of immigrants to prosper.
Fatty Shi brought Director Speer to welcome Lorist. Since receiving a report from Tagle in November last year, saying that the mountain barbarians might attack the territory of the Norton family, Fatty Shi has been sitting in Rock Castle. Lorist knew the details of the mountain barbarians and knew that it was impossible for the mountain barbarians to go down the mountain and attack before winter was approaching. Fatty Shi didn't dare to be careless, he was afraid of what might happen, he had to ensure that the family territory was safe and sound.
Now that Lorist is back, the war in the southern province has subsided, the strategy to destroy the Iberian Kingdom has been achieved, and most importantly, the Flying Tiger Legion will soon march back to the Northland. Fatty Shi's heart is finally relieved. He brought good news to Lorist. The east area of Roaring Bear City is the special zone designated for nobles to build their own manors. All sixty-seven plots of land have been snapped up by those nobles. Earned more than 1.6 million gold blessings. Director Sid Speer couldn't keep his mouth shut.
You must know that these sixty-seven plots are bare, without any buildings, and those nobles have to spend their own money to build manors after buying them. As long as the Norton family is responsible for the road traffic between the plots and the construction of public service facilities such as parks and flower gardens, it can be said that the Norton family has made a lot of money this time. Because those nobles have to pay property tax to the Norton family every year after building the manor. According to the area and market value of the land, they need to pay one-thousandth of the land property tax every year, which means that even though you bought the land, it belongs to you privately. But this piece of land is in the Norton family territory. For the safety of the manor you built on this piece of land, sir, come and pay the protection fee...
Lorist was very surprised. He knew that the original price of these plots was only around 5,000 to 8,000 gold fords. How could they be sold for such a high price, reaching a whopping 1.6 million gold fords? This is almost five or six times the expected income. What made those nobles willing to pay such a high price
Fatty Shi proudly told Lorist that he hadn't clearly marked the prices of these plots at the beginning, but ordered someone to draw a map of this special zone first, and mark all the sixty-seven plots with the lowest price, and then It was copied to all the nobles, regardless of their titles or territories, as long as they were nobles, they sent a copy, even those traditional territorial nobles who had just joined the Norton family in Winston Province. It turned out that all who received this special zone map All the nobles expressed their strong interest, so Fatty Shi decisively held an auction. As a result, the supply of these sixty-seven plots was in short supply. .
Fatty Shi said that many aristocrats who haven't bought land are now asking their families to plan another land in a special zone for auction. According to statistics, it is estimated that two land plots as large as two special zones are needed to meet the needs of all the nobles. So Fatty Shi and Director Speer have worked tirelessly to plan two more places next to the Eastern Special Zone, and prepared about 150 plots of land for another auction, and now they are waiting for Lorist to review and approve.
Lorist took the planning document, looked at it, and drew a larger one, leaving only an area with fifty-eight plots planned. Fatty Shi and Director Speer are in a hurry, the crossed out are all shiny gold coins!
"It's too late," Lorist explained, "These two plans can basically guarantee that all the nobles will get a piece of land, so what are they fighting for at the auction? Everyone has it, and at most it's just a good location." , they don’t need to drive up the price for this. It will be very difficult to increase the price of each plot several times like the first special zone. We only have to take out a small number of plots to cause them to loot, so that the price can be kept up Roll and flip up."
Fatty Shi suddenly realized, and patted his forehead remorsefully: "I'm sorry, I was impatient, I forgot this, and thought that the price of the plots planned now could be as high as the plots in the first special zone. the fault of…”
"It's none of your business. It's just that you don't understand why these nobles loot the plots in the special zone." Lorist said with a smile, "To be clear, the high prices of these plots are actually because they are trading to our family. title."
"Certificate of nomination?" Fatty Shi and Director Speer asked strangely.
"Yes, vote for a certificate." Lorist nodded: "At the time of your auction, our four Northland alliances had already annihilated the First Frontier Ranger Legion of the Feisabrun family, captured the Royal City of Windbury, and Feisabrun Grand Duke Lun fled to the southern province. Anyone with a discerning eye knows that our four northern alliances have gained the upper hand. Although the Feisabrun family is the most powerful territorial noble in the Northeast, they have been beaten by us with a single stick. Even if the war No matter how many twists and turns there are, it will be difficult to turn around. Unless the four alliances of our Northern Lands are all fools, the Grand Duke Feisabrun can't turn defeat into victory even if he is the god of war.
Under such circumstances, these nobles bet on our Norton family, because our Norton family is the head of the four alliances in the Northland, and we are now rebuilding the capital of the Northland, changing the city of Gildusk to the Roaring Bear City, indicating that we will regard this place as the ruling center of the family territory. Under such circumstances, these aristocrats buying land in the special zone to build a manor means that our Norton family is the main one. Simply put, they buy tickets to board the boat and are willing to help us in the same boat. Of course, speculative psychology is unavoidable. After all, the closer we are to our family, the more contacts we have, the greater the chance of prosperity.
Now we have reached the strategy of the Iberia Kingdom, bringing Winston Province and Southern Province into the sphere of influence of the four northern families. Nominally, we all belong to the Antinak Kingdom, and from the map, the Antinak Kingdom has already occupied half of the area of the former Krissen Empire. But our Northern Alliance of Four Families is another force in the kingdom. These nobles know very well in their hearts that they would rather rely on us than His Majesty the King..."
Lorist pointed to the planning document in his hand: "Actually, no matter how high the price we sell these two planned plots of land, those nobles will still grit their teeth and buy them to show that they stand with us. But I don't want them to harbor resentment. In addition to making them pay willingly, we have to raise the prices of these plots so that the value of these plots will increase year by year.
For example, I plan to reduce the fifty-eight plots in this plan to forty. The extra plots will be used to build a sepak takraw gym, a racetrack, a fighting spirit training hall, and a medical clinic where senior pharmacists will be in charge. In addition, a small river is dug to connect the lake, where people can row boats and swim, people can take a walk and have a picnic by the lake, there are gourmet restaurants and leisure tea clubs, high-end shopping commercial streets, making this place the place for nobles and their families Favorite upscale living area. Only in this way, the value of the plots in these two special zones will become higher and higher, and they will become areas that everyone wants to enter.
At that time, as long as we add another special zone or a large high-end residential area near these two special zones, the land prices in the new special zone will naturally be higher, and the land prices in the new residential areas will also rise steadily... "
Fatty Shi exclaimed: "Your Highness, you are really calculating."
Director Speer frowned: "Your Highness, don't you think that these two special zones look similar to the rich areas in the capital city according to what you said? Will this lower the housing prices in the rich areas? ?”
"Hehe..." Lorist smiled and shook his head: "The rich area is a rich area, basically the mansions of the nobles and the residences of the rich commoners. Anyone who has money can buy them. And the two special zones only have the status of Nobles, or guests invited by nobles can enter, otherwise no matter how rich they are, they will not be able to enter or leave these two special zones. This virtually makes the nobles feel that their status is more noble. The rich commoners are more envious and Hope to become one of them, then what they can do is to make more contributions to our family in order to get our recognition and canonize their honorary titles of nobles.
From next year, our Norton family will no longer recognize the titles of nobles from other countries. Director Speer, you set a standard. Only the nobles from other countries who have purchased land in the special zone will pay our family a fee. For a small fee, the honorary title on their heads can be transferred to our family's honorary title of nobility. "
"But, my lord, what's the point of doing this? They're all honorary titles, don't they differ from those recognized by the country and our family?" Supervisor Speer asked puzzled.
Fatty Shi laughed loudly: "Your Highness, this is really brilliant. Director Speer, there is a big difference. First, His Highness said that next year he will no longer recognize the status of honored nobles from other countries, that is, It is said that from next year, people who have honored titles of nobles from other countries will not be able to participate in various noble gatherings, dances and banquets organized by our family, and they will not be able to enter the noble circle of our four northern alliances.
Second, the honorary nobles of other countries who have already purchased the special zone land can be converted into honorary nobles under our family name as long as they pay a sum of money. It is much more valuable than those honorary nobles who rely on Jinford wholesale in other countries. We are new and powerful territorial nobles. If we are nobles with honorary titles recognized by our family, we will be regarded as high-ranking among the noble circles outside, and no one will easily offend them, because we will do it for them. The honorary titles of these families are from the beginning of the nobility.
One last point, after this news is released, the price of the upcoming second special zone land will increase again, and those honored nobles will go crazy trying to grab a piece. I suspect that the price of the 40 plots launched this time is very likely to exceed the total value of the 67 plots in the First District... "
Well, if there are a large number of Kingfords in the account, Director Speer will shut his mouth and prepare to make a fortune in silence.
Lorist smiled wryly and said, "If it wasn't for the great loss of the family's armed forces in this war, I wouldn't have made such an idea, but it's better to take money from those nobles and rich commoners than to raise taxes on those poor people. …By the way, Baron Schreider, the casualties of the Flying Tiger Legion and the Chaser Cavalry Legion are a bit heavy this time. The pensions of the soldiers who died and the soldiers who retired due to disabilities must be paid to every household. In addition, I decided to reduce these casualties The tax rate for the families of soldiers will maintain preferential treatment for the families of these soldiers, and their tax rates will all be reduced to 30 percent.”
The tax rate collected by the lords of the various countries in Galintia is basically kept at more than 50%. That is to say, if a lord allocates a piece of land to his subjects, half of the harvest of the field must be handed over to the lord. There are many miscellaneous taxes such as house tax, water tax, boat tax, road tax, etc., and the lord only pays 10% of the tithe tax for the field harvest to his superior lord, and the rest is collected from the lords. his own income. Therefore, many harsh lords even raised the tax rate to 70%, making the people impoverished, forcing the people to use labor and blood tax to offset the lord's tax.
Labor is to work for the lord for free, and you have to bring your own dry food, usually one to three months a year. The blood tax is to bring your own weapons and equipment to fight for the lord. The lord only needs to take care of the food, two meals a day, basically eating like pig food. And there is no salary, only after the victory is obtained by obtaining the permission to rob to rob, there will be gains, but most of the plundered things must be handed over to their own lords. If unfortunately you die in battle, the lord can inform your family members that there will be no compensation or compensation, but it will become more difficult because the family has lost its main labor force.
The tax rate of the Norton family has always been 50%, which is already the lowest tax rate for a lord. After Lorist returned to the family territory, he thought the tax rate was too high and wanted to reduce it to 30%, but he was unanimously opposed by the family knights and stewards. Fatty Shi also privately advised that he should not appear so different, as this would easily make him an outlier in the eyes of all the nobles in the territory. So Lorist did not change the tax rate, but reduced most of the miscellaneous taxes, and the only fishing and hunting tax was reduced to 10%.
Although the tax rate cannot be reduced, the Norton family has a preferential tax rate for the family members of soldiers who join the family's armed forces. One member of each family becomes a member of the garrison, and the tax rate is reduced by 10%. When the fields are harvested, they only need to pay 40% to become a family member. For soldiers armed with regular regiments, the tax rate is only 30%. Even after retiring from the army, the family tax rate is also reduced to 40%.
In the past, soldiers who died for their families were exempted from the family tax rate by 10% permanently, but now Lorist wants to exempt another 10%, and his attitude is very firm, regardless of the opposition of Director Speer.
"In fact, Director Speer, our family's biggest tax revenue has never been the harvest from these fields, but the industrial and mining workshops. The commercial income is the biggest income. Fengleyuan, which developed the family territory, In the four places of Xing'anyuan, Hongheyuan and Taichuanyuan, the total income from land taxation does not exceed one million goldford each year, which is equivalent to the real estate income of our development of the town of Beiye Town, Fengleyuan. Therefore, in the field These taxes are not of much significance, and the 10% reduction will actually make the people more loyal and grateful to the family.
This time, the total number of our family’s military sacrifices and disabled retirees is close to 40,000, and the annual pension amount will be close to 100,000 in the future, so we don’t need to argue about the land tax of less than 10,000. Just let it be 10% free, and let the families of those sacrificed soldiers know that our family has not forgotten the blood these soldiers shed for the family. "Lorist said a little sadly.
"I was wrong, I obey His Highness's decision." Supervisor Speer lowered his head,
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