Why did the lord rebel

Chapter 292 Chapter [-]
Although the winter in the wasteland was so cold that the penguins could catch a cold, Xia Houyan still did not dare to slack off in his busy work the next morning:
After being away from the territory for several months, Shuangfengling has already accumulated countless important matters that need to be handled by him, the lord;
With the improvement of the infrastructure of the entire Frost Maple Ridge and the establishment of the ruling order of the Igor family, it is basically necessary to bother the lord to deal with the territorial affairs. As long as he draws a tick or a cross on the document, there will naturally be subordinates The relevant departments of the lord will implement it according to the intention of the lord;
But when Xia Houyan saw a series of "picking quarrels and provoking troubles" in the judgment records of the territorial court, he still almost collapsed.

And besides these shitty things, there is a more important issue for him to make up his mind:
That is the financial issue.

Since digging the ancestral treasure house of the Great Elf Empire, the entire Frost Maple Ridge has never worried about money, not to mention that in addition to sending Eldridge and three hundred elite soldiers, Grand Duke Rosario also sent Eldridge and three hundred elite soldiers to him in a carriage. Frost Maple Ridge brought a large sum of imperial gold coins;
However, Shuangfengling's "Internet model" construction idea of ​​spending a lot of money and seizing the market with high expenditures has finally begun to show negative effects, which has sounded the alarm for the future financial situation of the territory.

This matter has to be looked at in terms of income and expenditure.

The first is income:
It has to be said that the land of broken souls is the land of broken souls, and it is not without reason that no imperial lord is willing to come——

In this uninhabited land in the south, which is too barren, the resource output is so low that a mouse can go out with a bag of tears. At present, the only relatively reliable industry owned by the Igor family in the entire area around Shuangfengling is the planting industry. , and the output of these agricultural groups, just to feed the people has already consumed more than half, and the rest has to be used as a strategic reserve grain and cannot be used. Revenue;
And the "Wildland Talents Re-employment Training Center" that the lord is proud of, also known as "East Bingku", although the business of the writer studio is indeed in full swing, but in the southern wasteland where it is a problem to have a full meal, pretending to be The potential market demand for slapping face novels is obviously very unreliable;

The only good news is that since the lord went to the imperial capital for a while and became a human flesh salesman for the "Flower of Abundance" novel, many northern nobles have requested to purchase the follow-up serialization of the studio novel from the lord of Shuangfengling Yes, but Xia Houyan clearly knew that this stuff was considered extra money, and it was impossible to rely on buying novels to support an ever-expanding territory;

As for the rest area along Route 66, they took advantage of the peak trade season of 94 Imperial Calendar to make a fortune, and Xia Houyan has every reason to believe that there will be a bigger fortune in the peak trade season next year. of gold coins into the account:

There is no way, the location of the land of broken souls is too dangerous. Human beings and demon merchants traveling from north to south can choose whose territory to take after crossing the Lion Heart River. Had to enter the sphere of influence of the Igor family, and then was slaughtered by the rest area of ​​the highway, and then paid a large toll in Frost Maple Ridge;
However, regardless of whether these incomes can support the territory's finances, this kind of payment method that relies on blocking the road to suck blood without self-production ability is also extremely unhealthy in the eyes of the lord:

Just like no country on the earth can maintain hegemony purely by trade, if the international environment changes and the human demons turn against each other, then with the severance of trade routes, most of Shuangfengling's income will be lost soup!
Xiahou officials who want to consider the long-term development of the territory have to leave a few more options.

Calculated in this way, the only relatively reliable long-term income of Shuangfengling is actually the taxes collected from the towns on the left bank:
Unlike Shuangfengling, which lives in the core wasteland of the Land of Cracked Souls, relying on the superior natural conditions of the Lion Heart River, these towns have developed quite mature local industries in history. As the nominal lord of these townsmen, Xiahou High officials, of course, have the right to take a portion of the income from these industries.

However, Xia Houyan also understands that the famine that appears to be brought from Faulkner will eventually turn into a mountain pressing on the residents on the left bank. The lord who knows the life of the townspeople is not easy and Huang Zongxi's law must not betray him. With the education I have received, I used a high tax rate to extort a lot of money from a group of poor and lower-middle peasants—if you add in the funds that the left bank town needs to withhold for its own development, the actual tax revenue that Shuangfengling can get is not too large .

Such a bad income situation is logically enough to make any lord become an ant on the hot pot and knock on the door all over the street to borrow money;
Fortunately, Shuangfengling's family background is strong enough, not to mention that compared with the sustainable income of the territory, Shuangfengling made a lot of money from one-time income in [-]:
In addition to digging the treasure house of the elves and prostitution of the Grand Duke Rosario, Shuangfengling launched a campaign to suppress bandits in the land of cracked souls, which actually brought a windfall to the territory:
The bandit villages in the Land of Cracking Souls have been able to operate for many years, and they all have a little surplus food. As a result, these bandit treasures were not passed on to future generations, and they were confiscated by force in the name of the leaders of Shuangfengling——

The market in the wasteland is not very developed, and the gold coins and silver coins that can be obtained are not too many, but all kinds of equipment, supplies, and food have filled the central warehouse of Phoenix Terrace to the brim.

However, considering that the elimination of bandits is a one-shot deal, and it is impossible to do it again next year, the lord has to find a way to find some sustainable sources of income for the territory.

In stark contrast to Shuangfengling's stretched income, there are staggeringly high routine expenses:
As we all know, fighting a war is fighting money, and raising soldiers is burning money;

As for the rapidly expanding Frost Maple Ridge territory of Igor's pioneering army, the amount of military expenditure is so large that it is almost like a group of wealthy fans ranking for their brother, highlighting that a fingerprint payment can make the fingers bald.

You must know that in order to recruit outstanding soldiers from the towns on the left bank, the amount of military pay offered by the lord during the conscription is definitely higher than the average level of the mainland;

Although the soldiers recruited later and the bandits recruited did not get as high a price as the entrepreneurial soldiers, the sum of the numbers is still very scary-not to mention the system established by the lord. There are also a lot of gold coins rewarded for the credit.

In fact, quite a number of territories on the mainland rely on cheap conscripts to fight wars. Those like Shuangfengling who maintain a standing army with super high salaries are rare, not to mention unique.

Such an army, although it is super powerful as Sean Mountbatten said, its daily expenses can quickly empty out a territory.

This seriously unbalanced military expenditure has actually been noticed by the Shuangfengling General Staff and the Ministry of Internal Affairs long ago.

The mayors of Mountbatten and Joel have also taken a series of practical measures to curb the increase in spending figures:

For example, under the education of the Political Department of the Igor Pioneering Army, a considerable number of progressive soldiers joined the secret organization "One Heart Association" under the banner of "One Heart as the Lord" - and the monthly fees paid by these fanatical members were " "Territorial construction sponsorship" can return a considerable part of the military salary.

After all, in the territory, there is often nowhere to spend the money earned. Instead, it is handed over to "Yixinhui", which may prove their loyalty and pave the way for promotion to non-commissioned officers in the future-a considerable number of soldiers in the pioneering army have small plans. very shrewd;

Of course, there are also some soldiers of the people who want to donate their military salary and contribute to the development of the territory purely because of the difficulties in the development of the territory.

For another example, according to the Frost Maple Ridge military regulations formulated by Mountbatten, all weapons and armor issued to grassroots soldiers must be maintained by the soldiers themselves, and the Political Department and the Staff Department will conduct regular joint inspections to avoid loss of territory equipment. The situation occurs:

For the top-level equipment distributed by Shuangfengling, the blades need to be sharpened and oiled, and the armor needs to be repaired and strengthened. A big expense.

For another example, on days when there is no fighting, in addition to daily training, the soldiers of the Igor Pioneering Army are also responsible for farming, patrolling roads, transporting supplies, helping the craftsman team, and going to the East Ice Bank to write with whips. hand code word.

The extra labor provided by the Pioneer Army to the territory can be regarded as slightly recovering the loss in military pay.

But in the final analysis, the daily wages of the entire Frost Maple Ridge are still not to be underestimated:

This includes not only the military pay handed over to the soldiers of the Pioneering Army, but also the salaries for the clerks of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the craftsmen of the craftsman group——

——Take Master Nicholson, the designer of the dragon-hunting siege weapon, as an example. The high official Xiahou offered him a monthly salary of more than 50 gold coins and kept asking if it was enough, for fear of letting this living Bodhisattva go.

In addition to the infrastructure construction of Phoenix Terrace, Tongque Terrace, roads and rest areas, the finishing project of the captured bandit camp, and all kinds of strange odds and ends, the lord got it from the Dragon Bone Peak elf treasure house. A large amount of wealth has shrunk visibly with the naked eye in the past few months.

According to the report submitted by Mayor Joel on behalf of Frost Maple Ridge’s Internal Affairs Department, according to the current income and expenditure situation, Frost Maple Ridge’s financial surplus can last at most another one and a half to two years——

Unless the Igor family can find a new way to make money during this period of time, after those two years, the lord who is a duke may have to go out and sell his ass...

——The aristocratic lords in the central plains of the empire often have considerable territorial balances, which also gives them sufficient reasons to spend time, wine, and play games;
However, the Shuangfengling of the Xiahou official, just because of the poor land productivity and the excessive military scale, has fallen into a daily deficit crisis that is about to go bankrupt...

A certain ungrateful time traveler began to resent himself again for not wearing it on Grand Duke Rosario.

——Obviously, Ya has completely forgotten that Grand Duke Rosario was injured just now in the Eastern Territory, and he is still lying on the bed in misery...

However, people cannot be suffocated to death by urine, and territories cannot be suffocated to death by financial poverty.

Soon, the lord, who was eager to make a living, proposed a genius economic improvement plan to the stunned senior officials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs:
This program is called "Welf Coupons"!
The lord proposes that the Ministry of the Interior and craftsmen form an empty store called "Manhattan Military Workshop", and build a studio of the same name outside the Manhattan laboratory, which is strictly forbidden to enter, and declares that the studio is constantly improving military technology, and You can receive huge profits in a short time;

At the same time, "Manhattan Military Workshop" will also issue a "Virf Voucher" named after the famous writer "Flower of Abundance" Vilf, which will be distributed to the employees of the territory in place of part of the salary and military pay—

——Of course, the "Welf Coupons" are not empty promises. The lord claims that as long as the results of the "Manhattan Military Workshop" are released, these coupons can be exchanged for a large number of gold coins far exceeding the face value in the future!

By issuing this kind of "Wilf coupon", you can quickly reduce the wages and military expenses of the territory, turn them into debts, and delay the payment until the future-and as long as you fool hard enough, the soldiers will be enough to believe that "Manhattan The benefits that can be obtained in the future by the "Military Workshop", and will not be dissatisfied with receiving "Wilf Coupons" instead of wages.

Regarding this unconstrained plan, while the senior officials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs looked at each other in blank dismay, the senior official Xiahou actually only felt grateful:

Thanks to the years spent on the earth, he was able to use history as a mirror, learn from history, and come up with such a brilliant idea to alleviate the financial crisis based on the experience of cheating and abducting in various countries!

Of course, the national banks in the history of the earth mainly paid their debts by printing money and inflation, but in the Haven continent where precious metal currencies prevailed, it was obviously impossible to do so;
However, Xia Houyan firmly believed that he could always find a way to make money before the "Welf Coupon" expired;

At the very least, it is more important to delay the immediate financial crisis and leave some room for breathing in the short term——

After all, as the famous economist Keynes said, "In the long run, we are all dead".

Therefore, since the introduction of the "Wilf Coupon" plan, Knight Commander Cousins ​​can see the lord get up early every day, and then stand on the terrace of the "Horned Eagle Manor" and look at the Dust Mountains in the east.

"Are you worried about the invasion of orcs?" Knight Commander Cousins ​​asked.

"No." The lord replied, "I'm waiting for the gold coins to be delivered to my door..."

(End of this chapter)