"What? Lord Lord, tell me again? What is the tax rate?" Although Olivera here understood it very well, she absolutely couldn't believe it. The 70% tax rate is simply not a way out. It would be better if there were fewer family members. If there were too many family members, it would be just starving to death without negotiation. If the tax rate was made public, wouldn't the officials force the people to rebel?

"70%, just this tax rate." Li Huailin waved his hand and said.

"Marson... do you really want to charge such a high tax rate?" McCann said immediately, "It is impossible for the people to accept this tax rate. Even when food and grass are needed most during wartime, the tax rate is only 30%. If you collect 70% of the tax, it will definitely cause resistance from the people to collect."

"Really?" Li Huailin was happy, "Then hurry up, it's the effect. Come on, Oliveira, immediately open the tax rate and complete the tax as soon as possible."

"This..." Oliveira hesitated for a moment. The tax collection has nothing to do with her. The people in her family have been cut off by Li Huailin, and she is the only one left. She doesn't have to pay taxes without land, so there is no change in favoritism. However, as the Minister of the Ministry of Finance, she must give advice on Li Huailin's behavior of collecting taxes randomly.

"Lord, I think... wow... Lord Lord, you..." Before Olivera finished speaking, Li Huailin here directly slapped Olivera's chest with one claw.

"Is it because of insufficient loyalty? So much nonsense..." Li Huailin thought that it might be because Oliveira's loyalty was only 57 points and her favorability was not enough, so he always opposed it, so he directly increased his loyalty.

System prompt: Because you have sexually harassed your subordinates without permission, Olivira Plaar's favorability towards you has increased by 45 points. His current favorability: obsession.

System prompt: "The Vulgar Man" curse time refreshes.

System prompt: Because you have forced harassed your subordinate Olivira Prael without permission, the loyalty of your 30 points has been increased.

"There is no problem now." Li Huailin asked while touching Oliveira.

"Lord... Lord... Don't do this..." Olivera held Li Huailin's shoulder with one hand and held Li Huailin's hand with the other, and said with a red face. There were so many subordinates from the finance department behind her watching. Although Olivera here liked it very much, she couldn't do this.

"Marcedes-General, if you collect taxes at such a tax rate, it may cause riots among the people." McCann here pretended not to see it, and continued to say that this matter had nothing to do with him, and his territory was not here. Taxes could not be collected on his head.

"Where did I get the riots here?" Li Huailin waved his hand and said, "Just collect it at this tax rate, it's a must."

"this……"

"I've been doing it in advance. You can follow my instructions and quickly raise the taxes, otherwise everyone will be dying of poverty." Before McCann could finish his words, Li Huailin waved his hand and ran away.

"Marson... Yuan... What should I do?" McCann couldn't help but scream, and asked at Olivera beside him.

Oliveira sorted out her hair and sighed: "I don't know what the Lord Lord thinks... But let's implement it first according to the Lord Lord Lord. If something happens in the end, Lord McCann, you should put the blame on me, the Minister of Finance, and say that I bewitched the Lord Lord."

"Oliveira, you..." McCann was shocked.

"When encountering such a willful lord... we are subordinates, there is nothing we can do. Right?" Olivera said with a smile, "That's it. I'll count the list immediately. You can prepare official documents to notify all lords of our tax rate issues this year."

"That's all... I'll ask the people of the Second Legion to prepare, so that if something happens, you can react immediately." McCann said on the other side, sighing.

To the north of the Principal of Lancaster, a small town called Satumare, the city lord Bacau is in a very good mood recently, because the annual autumn harvest is about to arrive, which is a rare time for him to make money in the past year. Although Satumare is not his direct fiefdom, his taxes still have to be handed over to the lord above. But the difference can be eaten in the middle. For example, last year's tax was set at 12%, but Bacau collected 17% taxes from the people last year, and the extra 5% naturally entered his pocket. For those like him who can only receive fixed wages like the empire, the annual autumn harvest is a rare opportunity to make money. Although the Lancaster region is no longer a direct fiefdom under the empire, and the person who paid his salary was replaced by the newly enfeoffed Duke of Aquitaine, this does not prevent him from making extra money.

"The lord should have to please the lords and the little lords in the first year of his new office. In this way, the tax rate will not be too high, and the extra money this year will look like there will be more." Bacwu said happily here.

"Sir, sir, the official documents have been released." A master man at the door rushed into his room in a hurry.

Bucku looked up and saw that it was his aide Chris, and smiled and said, "Is it a tax letter? What is the tax rate this year?"

"This... sir, you'd better read it yourself..." Chris here wiped his sweat and handed the official letter in his hand to Bacwu.

"Oh?" Bucku was a little surprised, because Chris' expression seemed to be constipated and felt like he couldn't speak. So he took a look at the official document. Immediately, Bucku's expression turned into Chris's expression.

"70%?" After a long time, Bacwu here realized, what's going on? The 70% tax rate is not a tax payment, it's a robbery. What is the new lord, Duke Aquitaine, doing? Don't talk about his income this year. If the tax rate is announced, it's a question whether he can do his position. The 70% tax entourage will not be in the opposite direction. Maybe he will be caught by the mob tomorrow and beheaded.

"Sir, what should I do?" Chris was also panicked. What did you say about the 70% tax rate? This is not a question of whether they can make money or not. It is a question of whether they can continue to live.

"Is this the official letter true?" Bacwu said calmly, "Are you right? 70%? What does the Duke want to do?"

"Really," said Kris here, "I asked the soldiers who came to send the official letter. This is true, and it is not for us. The entire territory is charged this tax rate."

"Hiss..." Bucku took a deep breath. This is not a joke. What can be predicted is a huge riot waiting in front of him. Bucku here immediately changed his attitude. The extra income this year is gone, but he must choose himself. If the leaders riot, they will go to this new Duke and don't cause trouble for themselves.

"Chris, quickly post this official document and the original document to me on the bulletin board next to the city gate, and then notify the guards to ask them to go to various places to notify all the leaders to go to the city gate to read the announcement." Bacwu said immediately.

"Original? Sir, you are..." Chris here was shocked. According to the previous practice, Bacwu usually put the tax announcement himself, and then wrote a tax announcement for his territory, and then notified the person below. This time, he directly posted the original, which means that Bacwu here wanted to choose himself. The original was stamped with the Duke's Mansion, and it was not that Bacwu himself would charge 70% of the tax. The leaders saw that even if they rebelled, they would not do anything to Bacwu. They would only target the Duke who charged them 70% of the tax rate.

"Yes." Bucku knew that Chris also saw his purpose and immediately admitted, "This matter is not small. If it is not done well, the people will think that I am full of my personal pockets. I don't want to become a target. Since this Duke dares to collect such a tax rate, he has already prepared his mind compared to this matter. This matter has nothing to do with us. Let's take a look at the Lord's methods next to you this year."

"Method? What are the means?" Chris asked here, "As soon as this thing is announced, the people below will definitely rebel. What means can this be done?"

"I don't know..." Bucku said, "I don't know what the Duke thought. It's because of this that I feel strange. Do you think even if you don't understand, will you charge this tax rate?"

"No." Chris here immediately replied. Even if he just caught someone on the street to be a lord, he would not charge such an outrageous tax rate. Isn't it forced a rebel?

"That's why I feel strange. I don't know what the Duke means..." Bucku said, "Chris, after the man below rebelled, should we help the Duke bombard the Duke together or stand on the Duke's side to suppress the Duke?"

"This... I heard that this Duke is the right and right hand of His Highness the Emperor, and is very favored... But I don't know if His Highness will protect him for this behavior..." Chris also said with a headache, "Sir, the current situation is unknown. I think we should wait and see and stop taking sides."

"It makes sense." Bacwu here thought for a while and said, "Anyway, let the official documents be published first and all the guards be prepared. There will definitely be a big deal this time."

"Yes, sir." Chris nodded.

The same situation also occurred in various places in Lancaster. Most of them didn't understand what their new lord was going to do. Most of them chose to choose themselves and directly published the official documents they sent out.
Chapter completed!