Chapter V The Second Territory High-level Plenary Meeting
At dawn in early summer, the sky seemed to be painted with various colors, red and yellow.
On May 3rd, the village chiefs of each village in Qinghuang led their way to Qinghuang Castle while there was still a hint of coolness in the air at dawn.
The meeting chaired by the Baron himself will be held this morning. Although the village chiefs do not know the Baron's intention of holding the meeting so early, there is no fool who dares not to come.
At Belia's urging, Allen washed up and started to rush to the parliament hall. At this time, he couldn't help but regret that he had booked the meeting too early.
The members of the meeting were sitting at attention, and all nine village chiefs were present.
Jinmai Village, Village Chief Fal
Carp Village, Village Chief Hod
Shangmai Village, village chief Wilfa
Xiamai Village, village chief Dika
Fengguo Village, Village Chief Binge
Kondo Village, Village Chief Willy
Zipu Village, Village Chief Xia Li
Gumai Village, village chief Sharla
Gaomai Village, Village Chief Foss
Administrative Officer, Fabia
Political Adjutant, Tinsi
Vice-captain of the Knight Squad, Antonio
Housekeeper, Carey
This can be regarded as the 14 generals in Allen's territory.
"Now I declare the meeting to begin."
"For the rapid development of the territory, I will make some changes to the territory. If you have any questions about my words, you can ask directly." Allen said.
Allen then began to tell his plan.
"Starting from today, the Government Affairs Office will be split. Territory tax revenue will be separated from the Government Affairs Office, and a Finance Department will be organized. Butler Kaili will be the financial officer. Fabia will continue to be the Government Affairs Officer." Allen said expressionlessly.
"Yes." Butler Kaili said.
Everyone present was shocked, but their faces suppressed their emotions to prevent them from showing.
On the contrary, the political officer Fabir looked relieved and did not mind at all that his rights were being divided.
"Each village will make different changes due to different circumstances."
As Allen continued, the village chiefs listened nervously.
“Since the common people in Jinmai Village, Shangmai Village, Xiamai Village, Fengmai Village and Gaomai Village all grow wheat, each household needs to leave 5 acres of land for planting and driving after the wheat harvest in June.
Cordyceps and lavender.”
"Since most of the people in Liyu Village and Kondo Village make a living by fishing, each household only needs one acre of land to plant insect repellent and lavender. In Fengguo Village and Zipu Village, each household has two acres."
After Allen finished speaking, the nine village chiefs all looked doubtful.
Finally, the head of Jinmai Village bit the bullet and asked: "Lord Baron, insect repellent and lavender are weeds that can be seen everywhere, and they are worthless..."
"I know what you are worried about. Don't worry. After the villagers plant it, in addition to 40% of the tax, the other six cost barons will be purchased by Kaili Finance Officer. Yes... you heard it right, I am going to increase the tax rate
From 50% to 40%.” The village chiefs were in disbelief at the information they heard.
In order to develop the territory rapidly, Allen decided to find another way. The economic development of the territory based on farming alone was too slow, so it was better to lower the tax rate and increase the enthusiasm of the villagers.
It happened that there were too many mosquitoes in summer, which made Alan tire of them. Then Alan thought of making mosquito coils.
Taking advantage of the luck he had accumulated over the past few days, Allen purposefully searched for plans for making mosquito coils and plans for cultivating flame wheat.
In this world, before mosquito nets appeared, there were only some primitive plant insect repellent methods. In summer, the rooms of nobles were filled with insect repellent potted plants.
Unless you become a high-level knight, possess a huge strength of two thousand kilograms, and use elements to block bugs, no one will be able to get rid of the nasty bugs.
Therefore, mosquito-repellent incense is an opportunity for territorial development. The most important thing is that the core adhesive formula for making mosquito-repellent incense is in Allen's hands, so even if others know that the formula of mosquito-repellent incense contains insect repellent and lavender, there is nothing they can do.
"I hope you will implement this matter thoroughly. This is a major event related to the development of the territory."
"Also, starting from today, each village must build at least three public toilets, and open defecation is prohibited. Fabia, Qinghuang Town must build at least ten!"
"Well... if you don't urinate in the prescribed place, if you are caught once, the tax rate will return to 50%. Reporting is encouraged. If the report is successful, the tax rate will be reduced by another 10%."
Allen couldn't stand the stench anymore. Civilians in this world didn't care much about cleanliness and excreted waste everywhere. This was also the reason why there were so many diseases in this world.
"Next is the military aspect. The army will not be expanded for the time being, but expansion is certain. The village chiefs will spread the news and let the young men train hard and prepare in advance."
Antonio's depressed expression flashed away, but he was also happy to hear that there was hope for expanding the army.
Allen is preparing to expand the army to break through the knights, and now the territory has no money to expand the army.
The old baron only left 3 small boxes of gold coins for Allen, about 300 gold dragons. At first, Allen thought it was a lot, but after careful calculation, he found that it was very little.
The currencies used in this world are divided into gold, silver, and copper. They are all extracted directly from metal mines and forged into bull's-eye-sized coins.
Gold coins are called golden dragons, silver coins are called silver deer, and copper coins are called copper fish. One gold dragon is equal to one hundred silver deer and ten thousand copper fish.
A soldier consumes 1 kilogram of grain a day and 365 kilograms of grain a year. Now one kilogram of grain costs 3 copper fish. A soldier consumes 1095 copper fish a year. The cavalry consumes 3 kilograms of grain a day.
Calculated in this way, the 200 people in the territory now spend about 32 gold dragons on food alone every year, not counting the replacement of weapons and equipment and the loss of horses.
Allen was originally planning to expand the army by another 300 men, but just thinking about it made Allen weak in the knees.
Allen has no plans to expand the military until the tax is confiscated this year.
Allen would not blame the old baron for spending all his money in previous years. After all, low-level knight training requires elemental crystals, and one would cost a hundred gold dragons. In the past, the money was probably used by the old baron to buy crystal flowers.
Gone.
After the meeting, Fabia shook her fat body and walked out of the castle gate.
"Lord Administrative Officer, wait!"
Fabia looked back and saw that his deputy Tings was walking towards him.
"Your Majesty, the Government Affairs Office, the Government Affairs Office has been split. Does the Baron have any dissatisfaction with the Government Affairs Office?" Ting Si whispered.
"Don't worry, why would I be worried if we don't split it up?" Fabia said with a smile and narrowed eyes.
Looking at the confused Tingsi, Fabia raised her head proudly. "When you understand, you can take my place."
Fabia ignored him and continued to walk home unsteadily.
Although Allen wanted to replace Fabia very much, after all, the position of political officer was very important, and it was best to have it in the hands of someone he trusted.
Fabia is too slippery and not my favorite candidate, but for the sake of Lady Lisa, I can't go too far, and Fabia won't be able to do it for much longer given her age.
Complex matters are distributed to subordinates.
Allen came to the location of Flame Wheat and dug out all the buried fire element crystals. During this time, Flame Wheat showed no change, and the same was true for the fire element crystals.
In fact, Allen should have thought of it a long time ago. If it were that simple, the magical plants in other noble territories would not grow so slowly.
Of course, Allen was very lucky that he had the ability to look up the origin beads, otherwise he would not have been able to obtain the formula for cultivating flame wheat.
Most of the ingredients in the formula are very rare, but only the ten fire element crystals are relatively valuable, and I have exactly twelve of them.
With the materials collected, Allen began to prepare the liquid medicine called "Fire Element Essence".