For Lorist, there were only two major events that really deserved his attention in the 1783 calendar year of the Galint Asia Continent. Although the grand ceremony has become a thing of the past, the unhappiness that occurred during the process and the fear expressed by His Royal Highness made the relationship between the four Northland alliances headed by the Norton family and the Second Highness turn from ease and friendship to tension and confrontation. This indicates that the future Krissen Empire will become a arena for two forces. The situation in the empire will not be peaceful until Lorist, the sword master of the country, and the second highness, the emperor of the empire, have no winner. down.
The second major event was the completion of the Xiongwang Palace outside the east gate of Wrath Bear City. After three and a half years of construction, nearly 200,000 laborers worked hard and thousands of skilled craftsmen worked hard, the magnificent Xiongwang Palace was finally completed. In this world of Galintia, there is no such thing as feudal violation of rules and regulations. As long as the nobles of the territory have money and strength, they can build a palace that exceeds the scale of the imperial palace as their own residence. This is not only to show the strength of one's own family, but also to leave a famous family legacy for future generations, and at the same time to engrave one's own reputation in history. For example, the Merchupi Palace of the Handela family and the Summer Palace of the Forendo family.
What makes Lorist dumbfounded is that when he decided to build the Bear King Palace, he did not intend to build a great palace with a long history. His original intention was to solve the problem of overproduction in the factories and mines in the family territory. The transformation of production-style into domestic-demand-style development. At the same time, it is also to allow the residents of the family territory to have a chance to work to earn money during the slack season, and then let them use the money they earn from working to buy the daily necessities that are piled up in the warehouses produced by the family territory, so that the economy and trade of the family territory can be improved. Circulation and development, to change the bad habit of the local people to bury money as soon as they have money to prepare for unexpected events...
Therefore, the stalls of Xiongwang Palace are very large, but in terms of details, its layout and decoration are neither exquisite nor gorgeous. For Lorist, the so-called palaces in the world of Galintia are actually just a combination of several richly decorated castles and several gardens. magnificent. And the construction period is also short. All the famous palaces in the previous life took more than ten years to complete. After all, this is the world of fighting spirit. building efficiency.
Lorist had a hand in the design of the Xiongwang Palace, imitating more of the layout he saw when he took the female secretary to visit the Forbidden City in his previous life. Although it was impossible to copy those palaces in the Forbidden City, the huge layout also attracted Xi Master Luoba praised Lorist for his extraordinary architectural talent, and was good at building layout and clear layers. It's just that when Lorist got the general design draft, he looked at the Gothic buildings arranged according to the layout of the Forbidden City, and he always felt a little nondescript, but he couldn't make any changes.
On the contrary, Master Xiluoba is very ambitious and plans to build this Bear King Palace into the first palace in Galintia, so that his name can be left in history. If Lorist hadn't guarded against him and decided on the name of the palace early, perhaps Master Siropa would be willing to give up all his fame, wealth, and title, just to have his name engraved on this palace. If this palace could be renamed Siropa Palace, then Master Siropa would die willingly.
In the construction of Xiongwang Palace, Master Xiluoba can be said to have put all his effort and energy into it. He kept improving the quality of the project and never missed any omissions. He lived on the construction site. Because the paving was too large, the initial project construction budget was 2 million Jinford, and the construction period was two years. But soon, at the request of Master Xi Luoba, the cost rose from two million gold to three million, five million. In the end, under the instigation of the title of No. 1 Palace in the World, Director Speer approved a huge construction fund of 8 million Jinford. The construction period has also changed from two years to three and a half years, and the estimated 100,000 labor force has also doubled, and all skilled craftsmen who can be called have been called.
For the family's treasurer, Viscount Speer, spending money on the Bear Palace is not a waste, but a business. With the current strength of the Norton family, it really needs such a magnificent palace to set off the majesty of the family. In particular, Lorist's promotion to the Sword Master of the Nation is the greatest honor of the Norton family in the past three hundred years. There must be a palace worthy of his status as his residence. After hundreds of years, the descendants of the family can still live here Looking back on the glory of the ancestors and the pride of the family in this palace.
Lorist was stunned when he got the total cost of the Bear Palace, eight million goldfords, which is more than three times the annual income of the Norton family a few years ago. Speer, who has always been known for being stingy The supervisor even agreed to spend so much. If it wasn't for Lorist's belief that the family's financial supervision has strict regulations, and every expenditure is reviewed by a special person, maybe they are planning to send someone to check whether there is any corruption or false reporting.
Fortunately, the family has opened up a commercial route to the central and southern parts of the mainland. The market with Morente City as the transit wholesale center can provide the family with an income of more than 6 million goldfords every year. The large market in Lingang also has One million harvest. Even if it took three years for the family armed forces to defeat the Merchant Alliance on the Fali Hill Plain, it would cost a lot to expand the family fleet to lease the territory of the Freedom Alliance. But the harvest can still support such a huge expenditure, and there is no need to worry about any economic crisis in the family within a few years.
The Bear King Palace with a cost of eight million... Lorist smiled wryly. He would rather spend all these gold coins on the development of livelihood projects in the family territory, or in the military plan of the family's armed forces, than build such a luxurious palace. A result beyond his expectations. The Xiongwang Palace, originally planned to cost two million yuan, was only to stimulate the domestic demand of the family territory, and did not require much refinement. Perhaps in the future, Lorist can be opened as a public playground and a museum exhibition room, but don't think about it now, such a luxurious palace can only be used as one's own residence.
To some extent, Lorist did not like living in such a luxurious palace. Different from what Princess Sylvia, four concubines, and the children expected, Lorist prefers to live in a simple fortress castle, just like a rock castle, where he can hear the noise of the barracks every morning. The sound of horns, the sound of horses, and the shouting of soldiers during training. For Lorist, this is real life.
A passage I read online in my previous life still fresh in Lorist’s memory. That passage was about the imperial palace, and I thought that a magnificent imperial palace was a gorgeous birdcage. When the emperor lived in it, he locked himself in a birdcage. in the cage. Therefore, few of the descendants of the wise and mighty founding emperors were promising, because when they lived in the birdcage of the palace and pretended to be the son of the sky, they were virtually emptied by a large number of bureaucrats under them, and divorced from reality. Being manipulated like a bird in a cage. For example, in the Song and Ming dynasties, the subsequent emperors were all raised as waste...
In October, Lorist and his family left Shilovas Island and returned to the Northland, and began to prepare to move to the completed Bear King Palace. In fact, Lorist didn't like the name of the Bear King Palace. Although he decided on it, the name was the result of collective praise from his retainers. The Norton family is known as the roaring and furious bear of the North, so the names of the retainers are all related to bears. The Bear King Palace is considered the most suitable name, which is majestic. Lorist thought for a while and decided that it was better than calling it Xiluoba Palace, so he decided on this name.
"Your Highness, there are a total of 3,461 statues of devil bears in the Bear King's Palace, with different shapes and movements. For this reason, we commissioned mercenaries to capture seventeen devil bears in the barren plain to observe their lives. Habits, and then draw it as a reference, and finally choose the appropriate action and image to carve it..." Master Siroba pointed to the naive and different images of the devil bear statues placed on both sides of the road, proudly introducing them to the Lorist family. Own careful design and arrangement.
Well, this is how you spend more and more money. Is labor and capital entering the bear playground? Lorist could only complain silently in his heart. Compared with Lorist's distress, his wife and children have already been moved by the magnificence and grandeur of this bear palace. Princess Silvia is very satisfied with her new residence. As for the children, they have already run wild, surrounded by Watching those devil bear statues began to play a game of chase. And Anderbell, the brat, has already climbed up the largest statue of the devil bear, proudly showing off his ability on it, so anxious that a few personal servants follow him in a hurry...
Busy and tired! Lorist, who returned to the family territory, besides moving to a new house, also planned to hold a New Year's celebration in the Bear King's Palace. Since it was the first time it was held in the Bear Palace, Lorist had no choice but to be lazy and was busy all day welcoming and sending off the guests who came to congratulate him on his housewarming. At this moment, he missed the leisurely and clean days in Yinghualing Villa the year before last and last year...
After the new year, Lorist finally got clean during the rainy season. 1784 has come, and the plan that the Norton family will carry out this year is to prepare to establish a new province in a vast area centered on Liangshan Town in the north of the family territory, under the Dragon Mountains, so that the family One more new direct-controlled territory. The province to be established is named Pangshan Province, which means the province next to the Demon Dragon Mountain Range.
"I am going to implement a new land private policy in Pangshan Province." Lorist made a decision.
In a sense, the more than three million citizens currently living in the Northland are actually tenants of the Norton family, because the entire land in the Northland is the private property of the Norton family. Although the Norton family armed forces forcibly moved more than two million citizens from other places to the Northland, and also allocated them fields, land and houses so that they could live and work in peace. In fact, the fields cultivated by these people are not privately owned by them, and 50% of the annual output of the fields is the rent they pay. Regardless of whether it is a field or a house, they are not allowed to buy or sell, but they can repair and rebuild and pass it on to their descendants, but this requires the approval of the Norton family and the payment of a tax or handling fee.
In the Northland, except for the manor that the Norton family gave to the family's Golden Knights, the ownership of the other lands, whether it is Dawn Academy or the Noble District, belongs to the Norton family. The land occupied by Dawn Academy was provided to it by the Norton family for free, without a deadline. But if Dawn Academy wants to move to another place, the land it occupies will be taken back unconditionally by the Norton family. This is an undisputed result.
The Noble District is different. The Norton family has sold the right to use the land. The nobles who bought the land can build manors and castles on it, which can be passed on to their descendants in the future, and they can also be bought and sold freely. The Norton family has no right to interfere. However, buyers of these lands must pay a land use fee for these lands every year. Although the amount is not large, if a noble family cannot afford the land use fee, once the unpaid land use fee accumulates At a fixed amount, the Norton family has the right to confiscate the castle and manor on this land to offset the debt.
Of course, the Norton family is not a greedy vampire. They will deduct the debts from the discounted market price of the manor and castle on the land and return the excess funds to the original owner, or find another nobleman to take over and let him and the original owner Make a transaction and let the original owner pay the land use fee in arrears. But for an aristocrat, leaving the aristocratic special zone means that he is excluded from the aristocratic circle in the north. This is an intolerable ending, so even nobles who borrow usury to do business at a loss have to stay in the aristocratic special zone , because that means he still has a chance to make a comeback.
Why did the Norton family develop real estate in the seven towns of Fengleyuan a few years ago, but the supply was in short supply and the price was soaring all the way? It's very simple, because these developed real estates are treated the same as the noble districts, except that no noble status is required. This is a rare opportunity for those wealthy citizens, and these houses are better than those given to them. For example, if a farmer who bought a house developed by the Norton family real estate returned the allocated house, then the production tax on the land he cultivated would be reduced by 10%.
The biggest difference between the territory under the direct control of the family and the territory under the jurisdiction of the family is that in the territory under the direct control of the family, the family is the largest landlord. Jurisdiction over the territory, the nobles of the vassal territories who were canonized are the real landlords, except for these fiefdoms, the rest of the territories belong to the family. Therefore, for some nobles in large territories, they are very unwilling to confer the vassal lords of their subordinates or be stingy with conferring meritorious officials, because for them, the production of the territory is their income, and conferring a vassal lord is It is equivalent to reducing the gold coins in your wallet.
Lorist is planning to implement the land private policy in the newly-built Pang Son Province, which means he is planning to transfer the land ownership. In other words, if Northland is a socialist public ownership of land, then the land policy of Pang Son Province is capitalist private ownership. This is also an impossible solution. The new construction of Pangshan Province requires the leadership of the people. However, these citizens cannot be forced immigrants, but strong immigrants who need force and the ability to fight back independently. After all, Pangshan Province is adjacent to the Demon Dragon Mountain Range and the Barbarian Plain. In addition to guarding against the invasion of the Barbarian tribe from the Demon Dragon Mountain Range, it also needs to guard against the invasion of the ferocious monsters in the Barbarian Plain. Self-preservation.
Although the invasions of the large mountain barbarian tribes and monster groups were escorted by the family armed corps, but for small-scale banditry and invasions in small groups, even the family armed corps could not defend against them. So Lorist put his mind on those mercenaries and family veterans, and the condition to attract them to settle in Pangshan Province is the land private policy to be implemented. Every mercenary who settles in Punshan Province Both veterans and family veterans can have the autonomous power of one hundred acres of land, including ownership and use rights. Ten years later, whether to buy or sell or pass it on to future generations is up to them without the approval of the Norton family.
"Perhaps, these people who own their own land in Pangshan Province will become the first batch of free people in our family territory." Lorist said.
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