Chapter 11 11 Taxes

Aslan smiled and helped Goode up, and the two began to chat, halfway through the chat, Wilson couldn't help shouting angrily.

"Gude, you are courting death."

Aslan didn't care at all about it.

Gude came alone this time, and had already handed over the entire Wood Village to Gut, and he came to plead guilty.

From the beginning to the end, Aslan's goal is Gude, a budding fruit planting expert. As for the already weakened Wood Village, as long as the town of Merlot develops and Gude is in the town of Merlot, Gut will come closer sooner or later. .

Aslan has always been very tolerant towards the citizens.

"It's okay, it's enough for Mr. Goode to come. I've heard that Mr. Goode has his own method of planting bract fruit. This time, my target is only you. As for Wood Village, I will use practical actions to let them Surrender to me." Aslan said boldly.

Goode glanced at Aslan very unexpectedly, and then, under the leadership of Aslan, came to the wasteland that was being opened up in the south of Merlot Town. In a few days, this piece of wasteland had been opened up to dozens of acres. And all of them have been planted with bud fruit trees. Based on Gude's experience, I will make a preliminary estimate.

Once the 30 acres of baobao fruit are successfully planted, the high yield of baobao fruit should be able to alleviate the long-standing food problem in Merluo Town.

Goode has worked hard to plant these years.

There is a small piece of bract fruit trees on the back hill of Wood Village, with only half an acre of land, but it can bring him five or six thousand catties of bract fruit every year, which is why he was able to pull a team of people in Wood Village.

In the barren Melo region, food is sometimes worth more than gold coins.

Looking at the bud fruit orchard in front of him, the wasteland is still being developed. It is estimated that at least hundreds of acres of land will be reclaimed, if all of them are planted into bud fruit.

Goode couldn't even think about the output, let alone the town of Melo, even including the big eaters in Wood Village and Leaning Village, it would be no problem to feed them all.

From this point, Goode has seen Aslan's ambition.

"How is it? Mr. Good, my farm is not bad!" Aslan asked with a smile.

Seeing the neatly spaced farmers and each bud, Goode couldn't help but take a breath.

It took him three full years to realize that if the buds were planted too densely, the yield would be affected.

But here, the buds and fruits have been arranged neatly, this is definitely not a coincidence.

Seeing more and more bud fruit trees being planted, many residents of Merlot Town couldn't help but feel excited.

Especially the adults who were assigned to clear the wasteland.

If they can get an acre and a half, then they won't have to worry about having enough to eat in the future.

In the Kingdom of Cleveland today, all the land belongs to the king, nobles and lords, and there is no private ownership of the land, which is equivalent to the well field system in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods.

Distributed by the lord to the common people. It is not allowed to buy, sell or transfer the land, and a certain tax must be paid. The lord will force the common people to farm collectively.

This is also the key reason why no lord in the Melo area is willing to come.

There is wasteland everywhere, and there is not enough land for commoners to cultivate. In the kingdom, as long as the lord is in office, he must pay taxes every year, and the amount of taxes is determined by the size of the territory.

The entire territory of the small town of Melo includes the entire Melo area. This land area is not inferior to a dukedom, but because there is not enough land for cultivation, it is finally reduced to a small town.

In such a small town, after each lord came, he had no choice but to scrape the ground and exploit the common people, otherwise he would not be able to pay the taxes for the next year.

If a lord fails to complete the taxation of the territory for two consecutive years, he will be beaten to the end and demoted to a commoner.

Standing on a protruding hill, Aslan shouted to the onlookers: "I believe everyone knows better than me how high the yield of the bud fruit is, and it's well maintained for three seasons a year. It is no problem to collect 20,000 to 30,000 catties a year."

This point, even if Aslan didn't say it, the people knew it very well. After all, their main food has always been the bud fruit.

"I'm here to announce that each household can get one mu of baobao fruit field, and if they are loyal to the lord, they will get an extra mu of land."

Although the people around were a little bit excited, they didn't show too much excitement, because the most important thing was the tax that had to be paid every year.

It may be because of the different world, the food production is high, so the tax is also terribly high.

Rice beads, the main grain in other areas of the Kingdom of Cleveland, produce 5,000 catties per mu per season throughout the year, and other grains also range from 3,000 to 6,000 catties. Such a high yield naturally leads to terrible land taxes.

For the lords near the royal capital, the land tax can reach up to 107%, which is equivalent to collecting 7/10 of the grain output.

This kind of land tax has little effect on a family of five during the harvest period, but once natural disasters and man-made disasters occur, coupled with the poll tax, the farmer's family will be destroyed.

Aslan had already experienced these things in his previous life, and he had planned them clearly.

"In the name of me, Aslan, all the people in the Melo area can enjoy two taxes and one treatment. At the same time, when there is a surplus of food, the City Lord's Mansion will give priority to buying the excess food from each household." Aslan's words immediately aroused people's attention. Huge sensation.

The tax on half of the harvest is only half of the grain that can be produced for a year with 30,000 catties of grain buds. The family has 15,000 catties left, which is enough to feed a family of five every day.

"My lord, what about the poll tax?" Some people had begun to accept Aslan's identity and began to address the lord.

Aslan also considered this question for a long time, and finally said: "The poll tax is 120 copper coins per person, but if you don't have money, you can use grain as collateral. As long as you take out three hundred catties, you can get 120 copper coins."

A family of five only weighs 1,500 catties of buds. Although the price fluctuates a bit, for a family with an annual output of 10,000 catties, it's only a drizzle.

Aslan pioneered two consecutive kingdoms, low land tax, and poll tax can be mortgaged with grain.

In the past, when the poll tax was levied every year, those nobles and merchants would join forces to lower the price of grain. Even if there was a bumper harvest this year, in order to pay the poll tax, they had to sell the grain at a low price.

After the two policies were issued, Aslan won the support of all the people in the entire Melo town.

Whether in a different world or in that era.

Farmers are the foundation of a country. As for the knights and magicians who master powerful force and magic, who dares to say that he is from the previous generations of the family and not a farmer.