When the Saint comes, she does not collect food

Chapter 621: A street in the Holy Court is enough to shock the entire Thousand River Valley

The first financial meeting in the Holy Court was not held randomly, but was well prepared.

First of all, there is the special status of Langsand County.

Although South Mound County's own tax revenue was less than 2000 gold pounds, in just three months, under the premise of insufficient wool supply, they provided Horn with a profit of 3000 gold pounds.

Since these people’s main occupation was farmers, they did not always have time to spend on spinning.

Therefore, in a year, relying on this wool fabric production chain, Horn's garment workshop in Longsand County is expected to earn about 9000 to 10000 gold pounds per year.

This income is almost the same as that from sugar and grain trade.

Taking into account the original tax revenue of 2 to 3 gold pounds in Langsand County, as well as the wool production chain and sugar and grain trade lines, it is estimated that the annual income of a county can reach about 5 gold pounds.

Secondly, as the superior of all grassroots monks, Horn is not only a religious leader but also the center of local rural administration.

Although the funds that Meliati can mobilize include income from all areas outside Langsander County.

But not all the money needs to be transported to Hotam County. It can be transported back when needed, otherwise the loss will be too great.

Therefore, after the priestly order receives the tax, it will be collected into the national treasury of the county seat, and connected with the two tribunes of the east and the west through double-entry bookkeeping.

The only duties and excise taxes available to the sheriff were those collected directly by the sheriff in the urban area.

If Meliati wanted the sheriff to do something, she would just write a note to the sheriff and ask the sheriff to take the note to the high priest to ask for it.

But the problem is that the chief priest was appointed by Horn. Although the chief priest cannot refuse Meliati's order, if Horn sends a message and blocks you on the procedure, you will feel uncomfortable.

Therefore, in order to eliminate internal friction, Horn also hopes to form a reliable budget system and have sufficient planning for future finances.

If you want to ensure reliable and efficient finances, you have to spend money where it counts.

The two sides get together and decide on priority spending areas based on future development directions. Both sides must have a clear idea of ​​how much they can spend and how much they can give.

It just so happened that Meliati was supposed to visit the Holy See, and it happened to coincide with the financial meeting of the Holy See, so let's just do it together.

After putting away several briefings, Horn walked out of the room while putting on his jacket and holding his schedule.

"Pettier, call the groom over, let's go to the Mechanical Palace and see how Shilov's new peat refining technique works."

"Okay." Pettier quickly walked to a corner of the room, and among the ten brass pipes, he found the one for the stable, opened the lid, and threw in the signed note saying "Ready for the carriage."

By the time Horn and Pettier walked downstairs, the Holy Gun Cavalry responsible for security and a simple carriage were parked in the back alley of the Holy See Building.

The wheels rolled along the brick and mortar road, and soon they came out of the dark alley and onto the central street.

Horn lifted a corner of the car curtain and looked out the window.

With the establishment of the Holy Axis, a large number of alchemists, witch doctors and wizards came to the Holy Court along the Ibe River.

With their help, the entire Holy Court was built at a speed that seemed like a miracle.

Coming out of the Official Residence Square and looking at the end of the Central Street, the first thing you can see is the 45-meter-high Gothic-style clock tower surrounded by thin columns and pointed arches.

Its dial is about 4 meters in diameter, with a copper ring on the outside and mosaic colored glass inside, and behind the glass is a circle of yellow fluorite.

In this way, even at night, people can judge the time by the different colors of fluorescent stones on the pointer and scale.

This thing may look high-tech, but it is actually powered by a set of heavy hammers weighing hundreds of kilograms. Every week, more than a dozen workers have to work together to turn the winch to lift the heavy hammers up.

Looking at both sides through the central street, the few shops that were originally there are now filled. With the establishment of the Holy Monarchy of the Thousand Valleys, the Holy Court and Langsander County quickly became the promised land for refugees and laborers.

It just so happened that the mortar road from the Holy See to Jeanne d'Arc had been completed, and almost every week seven or eight hundred refugees migrated from Black Snake Bay or other places.

Whether from the Nauan River or the Ibe River, their unified route is to disembark at Jeanne d'Arc and then follow the Mortar Road to the Holy See.

Some found jobs in the Jeanne d'Arc workshop area or in the earthen brick kilns in the countryside and stayed there, while others simply worked as construction workers and porters at the docks.

It is estimated that there are only a little over 2000 people who actually arrive at Qiumu Island in Daze Township every month.

Especially in the Poison Witch Swamp in Lujiao Township, a large number of local farmers were relocated to Daze Township.

Because as the dredging of the two rivers is completed, the Poison Witch Swamp is very likely to become a lake area and form a new tributary.

So Horn proposed to demolish the houses and return the farmland, and migrated 6000 farmers living in the Poison Witch Swamp to the countryside of Autumn Sunset Island.

This resulted in a population of more than 3 people gathering on Qiumu Island, while the population of the Holy Court skyrocketed from 11000 to 19000 within half a year.

Thanks to Qiumu Island being the origin of mortar, the price of mortar is low.

In order to supplement municipal revenue and provide jobs, Witte frantically built the four-story Insula Apartments on the outskirts.

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In fact, in Horn's opinion, the Insula Apartments are basically at the same technical level as self-built houses in rural areas, or even worse.

At least self-built houses in rural areas will have bundled steel bars and cast concrete columns. The house designed by Witt Xiaosheng has a foundation of only one meter, the walls are bare and unpainted, and the floor is made of spliced ​​wooden boards.

The last time Horn went to inspect, the people on the third floor could hear everything they saw when they walked on the first floor.

Correspondingly, it only takes 20 construction workers two months to build an Insula apartment like this one.

In four months, Witte built a total of 110 Insula apartments, which could accommodate about 6000 people.

Although the quality of the house was poor, each room cost about 8 gold pounds. It would take five or six years for an ordinary worker to buy it, but only two or three years for a craftsman.

Even if you can't afford it, it doesn't matter. You can rent it for 15 dinars a month. Each room can accommodate two to three people, which averages out to 5 dinars a month.

Nowadays, the minimum daily wage in the Holy See is 1 dinar, and 5 dinars per month is almost one-sixth of the income.

Moreover, if you rent the house for 7 consecutive years, you can buy it directly by paying a low purchase tax.

Therefore, these Insuras are surprisingly full, and can provide the Holy See City Hall with a stable income of about 150 gold pounds every month.

A series of workshops such as mortar workshops, mountain copper workshops, water-powered and gear spinning machines provided abundant secondary industry jobs and attracted a large number of people.

In addition to its special status as an administrative center, the tertiary industry naturally becomes prosperous.

There are job opportunities everywhere in the Holy See, including postmen who deliver letters, newsboys who sell newspapers, cleaners who sweep the streets, and water workers who maintain drainage and public water sources.

Chef, barber, scribe, coachman...even if you are the worst and can't do anything well, aren't there still construction workers?

It is only natural that the number and variety of shops on both sides of Central Avenue have increased.

In fact, it is not just the lower-class refugees. Recently, a group of Kush knights from Ibe Township in Jinhe Township have gradually begun to look for land and farms near the city.

After all, the grandmother of the Alco family has seen how terribly the land prices here will increase once the dredging project of the South Mound County river is completed and wool spinning can be directly transported to Autumn Dusk Island.

As the carriage passed over the narrow wooden bridge, Horn stuck half of his head out of the window and the walls of the Mechanical Palace on the mound and the leather cannon turrets on the four corners came into view.

(End of this chapter)