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

Chapter 948 Registered Population

"Duke Joltea, you draw up a list! You write the report and I'll approve it!" Roland's eyes lit up and he waved his hand.

"?" Duke Joltea was stunned. What do you mean by writing a report and issuing a note?

"Ahem! You make a list and I'll issue an edict!" Roland coughed to hide his embarrassment.

"As you command! I'll ask Duke Yunfeng to draw up a list right away!" Duke Joltea said, stroking his chest.

"Huh? This thing is outsourced?" Roland's eyes twitched. The concept of outsourcing was shocking! Even government orders were outsourced? Is this the political wisdom of the thousand-year-old noble Vladivostok family?

"But only Duke Yunfeng knows this!" Duke Joltea scratched his head. As the earliest government official to follow Roland, Yunfeng had held the political power for a long time! It was only now that the profits were being divided between him and Queen Nyx!

"Oh no! Duke Yun Feng will have to suffer again..." Roland had to learn to cover up his sadness with a smile at such a young age.

"But your majesty, you are smiling very happily..." Duke Joltea's mouth twitched.

"That's wrong! Your Majesty is worried about Your Majesty Yun Feng, and this is to comfort us!" Marquis Al. Taigran Franz spoke immediately. Is your Majesty smiling? It's obvious that he is extremely sad and angry, and he can only use a smile to cover it up so that we don't worry!

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Roland and Joltea stared at Marquis Al-Tigrand Franz with wide eyes. Roland's expression meant: No! Brother! You really have the potential to be a traitor! Joltea's eyes were full of disbelief. How can you even make up for such a lie? The Franz family is so terrifying! The loyal dogs of the empire are so loyal!

"Well... Joelsteya, go find Yun Feng and ask him to draw up a list. It's time to compensate those warriors who fought for the country!" Roland sighed. The soldiers who fought all the way need to be rewarded. The loyalty of those soldiers is not an excuse to be wasted!

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Duke Joltea nodded.

"What about me, Your Majesty?" Marquis Al-Tigerand Franz asked Roland, touching his chest.

"As for the tariffs, I'll leave them to you! Go and negotiate with Yun Feng and the others. I can give it up, but they can't refuse to pay!" Roland's eyes flashed with displeasure. Although Roland looked down on those small things, the feeling of being taken advantage of was indeed uncomfortable!

"Don't worry, Your Majesty! I will make them vomit out what they have eaten!" Marquis Al-Tigrand Franz said with a grim smile.

"Behave yourself! We are a legitimate kingdom, not a group of bandits!" Roland's mouth twitched. How could he say it so bluntly? It made the Lagrande Kingdom look more like kidnappers than a legitimate regime!

... "King Roland must be crazy!" Yun Feng, who was allocating resources in Jiliu City, looked at the message from Lagrande City with a hint of despair in his eyes. He was the one who held the military and political power of Jiliu City, but he was actually being conscripted into the royal capital!

"I'm busy! Why don't you tell them to let Roland knight every person who starts to follow him? Anyway, honorary titles are not hereditary and they don't include fiefdoms. It's better to take out the gold in the national treasury and distribute it to stimulate economic consumption instead of just leaving it there!" Yun Feng complained in a letter.

"Let Marquis Franz take care of the tariffs himself! His family is good at this! Ask him to calculate it and then send it to me!" Yun Feng said speechlessly.

"So what are you doing?" Duke Joltea asked curiously, puzzled.

"If it really doesn't work, you can come over and play with this magic furnace? You can come and change the clothes of the kingdom's army?" Yun Feng said speechlessly with a twitch of his mouth, and sent a magic letter directly over in his hand.

Soon the magic circle on the opposite side stopped moving, and Duke Joltea was defeated. After all, magic was not his forte. How could a knight who only wielded a gun and a stick possibly operate such a high-end thing as a magic furnace?

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"So let's put this matter on hold and give a bonus of ten gold coins to the Holy Knights and the soldiers who founded our country with us! Although the title of knight is not valuable, granting it on a large scale will make this title lose its value!" Roland looked at Yun Feng's reply and shook his head at Duke Joltea. Although the title of knight is not valuable, it cannot be wholesaled at will, and the title of nobility cannot lose its value!

"Okay, that's it!" Duke Joltea nodded in understanding. After all, it would be crazy for a kingdom with a population of hundreds of thousands to confer thousands of knights at once!

"What do you think about the tariffs?" Roland asked Marquis Al-Tigerand Franz.

"Let's make it 10% tax!" Marquis Al-Tigrand Franz said after hesitating for a moment.

"So low?" Roland raised his eyelids in disbelief. He thought that Marquis Al-Tigrand Franz would call for a 30% tax. After all, although the tax rate when Roland traveled through time was not high, the double taxation was enough to make people's scalps numb! A simple 10% tax is not really harsh!

"The problem is that the goods in the kingdom don't have much profit! Too high a tax rate can easily kill the trade route!" Marquis Al Tegran Franz said with a dark face. Lagran can only sell some special handicrafts and weapons and equipment at present. The main product is enchanted equipment, but this thing will not be sold to traveling merchants. It will only be brought to the south by the royal caravan to sell to the nobles! Therefore, the profit that ordinary merchants can get from Roland is very thin! If Al Tegran Franz is too harsh, it is likely to cause the loss of foreign merchants!

"Okay, whatever you want! You are the experts!" Roland decisively delegated power. After all, you can't expect someone who hasn't even read a few chapters of economics to lead the kingdom's economic development. Being able to give opinions and confirm signatures is already his greatest use!

"Thank you for your trust!" Marquis Al-Tigrand Franz secretly clenched his fist. King Roland's trust was a good sign. As a hereditary court noble, Al-Tigrand Franz knew too well what the royal trust meant to his family. Only if Roland trusted him, the Franz family would have the possibility of gaining a foothold in the kingdom! Obviously, this is a good start!

"No problem!" Roland waved his hand and didn't care about such a small matter. His eyes were filled with the desire for urbanization and the joy of solving the famine problem.

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"Jolstya, you need to speed up the process! If the current houses are not enough, then expand the residential area!" Roland's eyes flashed with a trace of solemnity. Outside the city, there were civilians lined up in neat rows. Because of the large number of people and the need to register, the entire camp would be divided into several days to bring everyone into the city. Therefore, Roland and his team left a large blank area in the city to expand the residential area.

"We have limited manpower! Your Majesty, you have to be patient! It will only take a few days!" Joelstea looked at the long line and nodded to Roland. There were too few literate clerks, so Joelstea could only bring in the collateral population of the Okrian family to temporarily enrich the team. At least as nobles, they could be considered literate!

"This progress is really slow!" Roland sighed.

"For safety reasons! Everyone needs to register. If it weren't for your special status, I would have asked you to go down and help!" Joelsteya joked to Roland, and at the same time took the family information file that was sent to him and stamped it!