The Lord of the Rings: Lords of Middle-earth.

Chapter 946 "Loss of sovereignty and humiliation of the country"?

"Ahem... My dear, please feel free to speak!" After Roland received a legacy from the empire, his eyes became much clearer. As the saying goes, if you gain something, you will definitely lose something else. Roland gained food and lost his worries! Now Roland was in a good mood and was willing to listen to anything.

"I'm afraid there are big problems with the kingdom's current economic system?" Al Tigrand Franz raised his eyelids and said reluctantly with a twitching mouth.

"Life will always find its own way!" Roland said with a blush, because the entire kingdom's current commercial activities only exist in a small part of the commercial activities in the City of Rapids. Who would have thought that the capital of the North would actually take on the position of the kingdom's commercial core?

"..." Marquis Al-Tigeran Franz's eyelids twitched. Do you want to see what you are talking about? The shepherding business management is a genius!

"Ahem, it's not a big problem. After all, business is not a necessity for the kingdom... The kingdom still has many important things to focus on!" Roland coughed. The main reason was that the broken land of the Kingdom of Lagrande was a place of four wars. The wasteland that no one cared about quickly attracted everyone's attention after Roland led people to establish the country. Soran found that his north-south passage was blocked by someone! The two southern countries found that they had backup! The dwarves found that they had a backer to support them! The wasteland that no one cared about suddenly became lively...

Roland himself almost became the Great Western King of Middle-earth, saying "Kill, kill, kill!" to everyone he met. The remaining business was entirely for the purpose of exchanging some wheat for the people to fill their stomachs, and Roland did not deliberately care about the rest of the spontaneous business activities. Although dragon coins were circulating in the kingdom, the circulation speed and efficiency fluctuated very little. By the way, the two countries that used the most dragon coins were the Valley State and the Kingdom of Akvia. It can be said that Roland inadvertently used the currency to bind the two kingdoms to himself.

"Yes! That was the truth before! It's different now! The Rapids Avenue is open again! Rapids river transportation can also be developed! Cities and towns are springing up relying on the Rapids River! Now the kingdom needs business to drive the kingdom's blood circulation!" Marquis Al Tigrand Franz said solemnly, land and agriculture are the foundation of a country, and business is the blood! A country without business is bound to fall into a dead state! During the days when Marquis Al Tigrand Franz disappeared, he was busy looking for people to conduct offline research, but he found that this makeshift team had bigger problems than he thought!

At first glance, the Kingdom of Lagrande is strong and powerful, and has emerged as a rising star! There are many knights under its command, and two dragon riders are in the lead! This lineup would be a T0-level army in the War of the Ring, but if you look closely, you will find something wrong! Putting aside the vibrant appearance of all things, you will find that under the appearance is a shabby and makeshift team!

If a country is compared to a person, the Kingdom of Lagrang is currently a paraplegic tin can with a broken leg, a broken left arm, and a sword wielding in the right arm! It can only be said that it looks intimidating, but it really hurts to be caught by it! However, once the opponent jumps out of Lagrang's game rules, the entire kingdom will fall into a passive position! After all, what kind of fighting power can a paraplegic have?

"Hmm..." Roland nodded without comment. You wouldn't expect a child who traveled through time and space before entering society to become a business genius, right? Roland realized this problem very early, but he had no time or ability to solve it. The nobles also tacitly avoided this sensitive matter. Even nobles like Yun Feng who didn't like Roland didn't get involved in the business. The meaning was self-evident!

For a kingdom that has a lot of work to do, business is undoubtedly the most important thing as the blood of a country! Lagrande's fragile business environment can't stand the nobles' tossing. What's more! You guys are going to go before the king has done anything? Want to control the market and the economy? What's your intention? Even the Swift Hand family deliberately avoided the tricks. The messy interest relationship made Duke Joltea shudder! So no nobles would take the initiative to enter before Roland went down. After all, economic factors are easy to solve, but political factors are hard to explain!

"Interesting! What do you think?" Roland smiled. As a qualified ruler, he at least possessed the most basic qualities of a ruler, which is to leave professional matters to professionals!

"..." Duke Joltea frowned at the reckless Marquis Al-Tigrand Franz, but soon his frown relaxed and a thoughtful expression appeared in his eyes. Duke Joltea found that there was really no better executor than the Franz family. As a family dependent on the royal power, it was impossible for the Franz family to have an ambitious person who would cause chaos. Loyalty is the label of the Franz family. As an extension of the king's will, Marquis Al-Tigrand Franz was obviously qualified, so Duke Joltea, who was about to speak, fell silent again.

"Agriculture is the foundation and cannot be abandoned, but commerce is the upper limit of the kingdom! The economy only works when materials are circulated, otherwise all the materials sitting in the warehouse are waste!" Marquis Al-Tigrand Franz said firmly, which was in line with the Franz family's ancestral motto of investing every penny in the right projects!

"I heard that except for the royal merchants, all other transactions are spontaneous among the people? That won't do. How much tax revenue will be lost unintentionally? I know you don't rely on taxes to support your army at present! But what about your descendants in the future?" Marquis Al-Tigrand Franz saw that Roland was hesitant to speak.

"Domestic business taxes can be delayed, but you don't care about tariffs at all!" Marquis Al-Tigrand Franz complained. This behavior of throwing tariffs aside is quite remarkable!

"It's mainly because it's too small. It's a bit early to consider it now!" Roland said in an awkward voice.

"Small? The kingdom's snowflake salt, steel equipment...are these things considered small? And if you ask me, we paid the same amount of tariffs when we imported grain..." Marquis Al Tigrand Franz glanced at Duke Joltea and complained to Roland again.

"???" Roland turned his head and looked at Duke Joltea, who still didn't understand what was going on.

"What this means is that except for Lonely Mountain, the other two countries are collecting customs duties from us... otherwise how could Dragon Coins be widely circulated in their two countries?" Duke Joltea explained.

"Ah? I am the one who lost my sovereignty and humiliated my country?" Roland was shocked. Isn't he more abstract than the old Buddha? He just lost his autonomy, but I lost it all!

"Why don't you make a plan?" Roland looked at Duke Jolestea in shock. After all, Jolestea and Yunfeng, the two pillars of the kingdom, had been stationed in Jiliu City before. Logically, this should be a convenient thing to do!

"?" Duke Joltea was stunned. Do you want to listen to what you are talking about? Yun Feng and I will discuss and formulate the tax? It's not spring yet! The two of them don't "miss each other". If they do this, they will be able to detect the attacks from other nobles in the future!

"Where's Nyx? Isn't she handling this?" Roland rubbed his brows, and suddenly remembered that his wife was also in the River Rapids! As the queen of the kingdom, she naturally had the power to make decisions.

"Shouldn't this kind of thing be decided after everyone discusses it together?" Marquis Al-Tigeran Franz said awkwardly. If you don't come to the table, who dares to make the final decision? The nobles are not fools. You can use this excuse to disgust everyone and make things difficult for them. No one will be angry. You sit high in the court and say: No one discussed the tax with me at the beginning! You can suppress a top family and make them silent. Who else dares to do this thing that obviously hands you a knife except the "licking dogs" of the Franz family? Others who want to do it either don't have enough status, and those who have enough status don't want to do it! After all, whose shareholders' meeting to divide the spoils do you exclude the absolute controlling shareholder from?