Lord Harland.

Chapter 193 Special Operation One
The reason why Richard formulated the low tax policy is to promote the development of productivity and to store wealth among the people.

Only when people's lives are rich and they have savings can they have consumption power and a market.

Whether a territory is developing well or not depends on whether there is a market.

Otherwise, the brown sugar, white wine, and steel products produced would not be sold.

How can you make a profit without a consumer market?

Although the goods in Harland's territory have a certain degree of monopoly, many of them are unique, such as hemostatic ointment, brown sugar, and so on.

But the market is under the control of outsiders. Once they block you, they can immediately expel you.

The Dawn Plane is not an earth where free trade prevails, and local protectionism here is extremely serious.As long as the goods can be produced by themselves, the goods outside are considered to be of high quality and low price. The lords will use violent means to prohibit the outflow of gold coins.

It is very dangerous for a territory to control the market in the hands of outsiders.

Only by cultivating the market by ourselves can we gain a firm foothold and promote the progress of the industry.

Today, the main income of the Harland Territory actually comes from the sale of various commodities, and it does not rely heavily on taxes.

Li Cha believes that releasing water to raise fish and cultivating the market will be of great benefit to the economic development of the territory, so he will formulate a lighter tax policy.

Li Cha has the common sense of economics from his previous life, and knows that there are many ways to collect taxes.Directly increasing taxes is the most stupid way, which can easily arouse the resentment of the local people.

The best way is to enrich tax sources and add new types of taxes, such as tariffs, property taxes, business taxes, and so on.

If there are 1000 households in Harland's territory, the property tax alone can collect tens of thousands of gold coins every year, which is enough to expand the territory by [-] people.

In addition, the territory can also engage in material monopoly, and earn profits from the people through the franchise of salt, steel, and brown sugar.

When there is a shortage of money, a [-]% increase in the prices of salt and brown sugar can also greatly increase fiscal revenue.

Discussed the tax policy with Rogge, and added new taxes this year.Li Cha decided to deploy staff to deal with the competition in the liquor market.

Heihe Fort and Flame Fort Richard will send additional manpower to attack the liquor sellers of Viscount Cisse.

Since Viscount Cisse dared to send someone to steal his wine-making craftsmanship, Richard would certainly not let him have a good time.

Although Richard can't start a war, punish Viscount Xisai.

However, it is still feasible to send people on a small scale to attack important figures and important targets in Viscount Xisai.

If Li Cha didn't take revenge, he might be looked down upon by the nearby hereditary nobles.There will be more and more commercial spies of all kinds, and the pressure on the intelligence agencies will become heavier.

More and more people will touch the interests of the Harland family.

In order to ensure the safety of the operation, Li Cha and Sophia personally sat in charge.Although they will not personally participate in the attack, they hide behind the attackers to ensure the success of the operation.

For this attack on Viscount Xisai, Richard carefully selected 60 people.

These 60 people are basically from the first, second, and monster cavalry squadrons. The number of professionals exceeds 20, and the rest are advanced fighter students.

The soldiers participating in the operation all carried enchanted armor, including ten pieces of brute force armor, ten pieces of light spirit armor, thirty pieces of snake scale armor, and ten pieces of monster leather armor.

Light Spirit Armor is the latest enchanted armor developed by Li Cha. The manufacturing idea of ​​this armor is the same as that of Brute Force Armor.

All of them can release a light spirit magic by consuming the fighting energy of the warrior.However, the cost of manufacturing light armor is [-]% higher than that of brute force armor.

In the army of Harland's territory, the number of brute force armor has increased to thirty, and the number of light armor has also increased to ten.

The brute force armor combined with the light spirit armor has improved the combat effectiveness of the first squadron.

Although only 60 people, the raiding team is the elite of Harland's territory.

There are mainly two officers leading the team, Lost and Jennings.

Because according to Li Cha's observation, these two people are the most loyal to him.

Lost believes in chivalry, and once he swears allegiance to Richard, he will basically not change his master.Because of his special experience, Jennings' loyalty to Richard also comes from the heart.

It is a serious crime to send someone to attack the noble lord. Once someone seizes the opportunity to report to the noble council, Li Cha will also encounter great trouble.

Therefore, for this operation, the most loyal person to the territory must be selected.

In order to prevent the mission from failing, Li Cha and Sophia also wore star necklaces to ensure that the mission would be successful.

Sixty people disguised themselves as mercenaries, received a mission to escort a caravan through Soros' old connections, and infiltrated the Viscount Cisse.

Li Cha and Sophie pretended to be a traveling noble couple, accompanied by a few guards, and followed the caravan.

The weapons, equipment, and alchemy bombs for the action are all hidden in the bottle of starlight on Li Cha's body.

Viscount Xisai is very close to the Fortress of Flames, walking about six kilometers west from the Fortress of Flame, you will enter the range of Viscounty Xisai.

The Cisse family has been promoted to Viscount for more than 30 years. The previous Viscount Cisse was a powerful eighth-rank golden knight.

It's just that the old viscount, who lived 110 years old, died of illness seven or eight years ago.

The current Viscount Cisse is his grandson, Boy Cisse, who is 60 years old and a sixth-rank knight.

Boye was originally not the first heir of the Cisse family, but because he was the strongest, he won the support of most members of the Cisse family. On the contrary, he forced several of his uncles and elder brothers to give up their inheritance rights and become the second viscount.

The inheritance of titles among nobles is often bloody.

Although the order of succession is important, one's own strength and influence are far more important than the order of succession.

For example, if William is old, he must hand over the territory to Ron to inherit. Other members of the Harland family, the officers in the territory, will not agree.

If it is not handled well, it will be a bloody conflict. Ron's whole family will die, and the elderly William will suffer an accidental death.

When a person dies, he naturally has no inheritance rights. In many cases, the succession of nobles is determined by internal conspiracy and killing.

A shrewd and capable nobleman will handle this kind of matter well while he is alive, forcing the son who is higher in the succession order to give up the right of inheritance, and designate the most capable child as the first heir.

Aristocrats who are old, frail, and fainting in old age often fail to handle successors well, and bloody conflicts will inevitably erupt when inheriting the title.

The northern border area is better, because of the strong pressure of the orcs, many times there will be no internal fighting.For the aristocrats in the south, every succession to a title is almost always accompanied by swords, intrigues, and bloody killings.

Even for the Grant royal family, every succession to the throne is often accompanied by conspiracy and war.

The Duke of Brenner has been in charge all these years. He has enough prestige to suppress conflicts, and no serious internal fighting broke out.

After coming to the Fort of Flames, Li Cha did not look for his old comrades from the Eighth Brigade.

Seven years have passed, and Li Cha's old partner Diarra has become a fourth-tier fighter, serving as the deputy captain of the eighth brigade.

Dida, Li Cha's old subordinate, also became a Tier [-] professional and served as the captain of the First Squadron of the Eighth Brigade.

Ron is still serving in the Eighth Squadron, and his professional level has also been raised to the second level, serving as the captain of the Seventh Squadron.

Although he has often written and communicated with some old friends over the years, the relationship has been maintained very well.However, this operation was an attack on Viscount Cisse, which is legally dishonorable. Of course, Richard will not reveal his whereabouts in the Flame Castle.Leave a handle.

The Cisse family has been in the Gascoigne province for hundreds of years, and they have offended many people because of various conflicts.

Even if he was attacked, as long as he was not caught, it would be difficult to find out for a while.Even if the investigation is clear and there is someone to suspect, it is still useless without evidence.

(End of this chapter)