Throne of the North.

Chapter 51 No One Has Money

Hearing Ryan's answer, Blake's face turned gloomy.

Indeed, he came here specifically because of Ryan's frozen land territory.

As long as he surrenders to Ryan, he can just give the young man a sum of money every year. He can also use the other party's name to continue to control his territory. One is in the northernmost part, and the other is in the wealthy Yinchuan County. As a person who has been fighting in the North Wind Province for more than ten years, can't he control a little kid?

As for the fact that the fall of the fifth-class noble would cause the lord to lose his noble status, Black was not worried about this because he had his own information channels.

Ryan comes from the family of Earl Clayton, and recently after the Earl returned to the empire, he has sent all the things that originally belonged to the baron to him. It can be seen that the relationship between Ryan and Clayton is not as tense as rumored.

Then, with the support of the Earl of Clayton's family, Baron Ryan's identity would be difficult for the Empire to erase, even after Ryan's death.

That way, he could become a lord with peace of mind, and then plan little by little to become a fifth-class noble.

Deep down, Black didn't think that the title of lord was aristocracy at all. In his view, it was just a fig leaf for the empire and the southern nobles.

He must become a baron to keep his family's wealth.

But who could have thought that a little brat would actually refuse his territory that could bring him tens of thousands of gold coins every year.

Thinking of this, Black became a little angry, because there was no baron more suitable for him to rely on than Ryan.

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In the next few days, before Earl Laxul and a group of flattering pioneer nobles returned, the noble mansions in North Wind City were almost trampled into pieces.

The two barons, Ryan and Hutton, are quite idle.

Although he did not come to rely on Ryan, he was very calm in his heart. He even looked down on these pioneering knights.

No one is willing to rely on Hutton, and the lord of Shenma Territory has been very sad these days.

If the Frozen Territory is the poorest and most miserable place in the Borean Province, then Baron Hatton, who is closest to the Frozen Territory, must be in the top five or top ten.

"That kid Walter actually joined Roach!"

Baron Hatton is still brooding over this. His crude plan to deal with the Lord of Knight Water may become extremely troublesome because of the existence of Baron Roche.

Ten days later.

He took a symbolic walk outside, but in fact, he was waiting for those pioneering nobles to raise money to return to North Wind City.

As the barons and lords of the North Wind Province are gradually determined, the roster will return to the imperial capital along with Earl Laxul.

At this point, the Province of North Wind had three earls, nine viscounts, and more than fifty barons, totaling fifty-five. As for the pioneer knights, there were even more, a total of one hundred and ten.

"Nearly twenty pioneering nobles all became barons..."

Ryan was a little surprised. He was sure that among those pioneering nobles, a considerable number of them were not qualified to be classified as barons.

For example, Viscount Miles' second son, March Miles, the pioneer noble who lost his territory, was recognized by Earl Laxul as a baron without any territory. I don't know how much gold coins Viscount Miles paid in this process to get such a result.

Ryan was even more curious about how many promises and wealth this Earl Laxul had received from those pioneering nobles in just ten days.

I'm afraid they've all been emptied out?
The Empire actually gave Earl Laxul such great power. It seems that it is really ready to give up the North Wind Province.

Different people who know the results have different thoughts. Through this incident, Count Weiss saw the answer that made him extremely excited.

If the Empire was not preparing to give up the North Wind Province, how could it allow Earl Laxsu to act so recklessly? Moreover, he also heard that Earl Laxsu had a close relationship with the royal family. With so much wealth, at least half of it would probably fall into the hands of the royal family.

The North Wind Province sent away Count Laxul, the envoy from the Empire, but afterwards, there were still not many nobles in the North Wind City with smiles on their faces.

"Let's talk about it. How should we divide the 1.5 million gold coins per year?"

Count Winter's voice echoed in the hall, but no one responded.

When the one million gold coins were divided up in the past, everyone was very enthusiastic, but now when it comes to dividing up 1.5 million gold coins, they have to take them out.

No one wants to.

"Since no one is talking, then I, as the governor, will take the lead. Every year, the Earldom of Winter will contribute 50,000 gold coins, and North Wind City will also contribute 150,000 in taxes."

Beifeng City is the largest city in Beifeng Province. It has a vast population within its radiating area, and the civilians inside and outside the city are considered to be the best off in the entire province. The annual tax revenue of 150,000 gold coins is definitely not all of it.

However, the Earldom only paid out 50,000 gold coins, which means that Earl Winter was only willing to be responsible for 200,000 of the 1.5 million gold coins, which even included the original tax revenue of the Empire's North Wind City.

After Earl Winter finished speaking, the remaining two earls also spoke. The fifty thousand gold coins of an earl's territory, plus the one hundred thousand of a county, the total of the two was only three hundred thousand.

With a tax revenue of 1.5 million gold coins, there is still a shortfall of 1 million gold coins left. All of it has to be distributed among the 64 fifth-rank nobles below?
Three counties belong to three earls, and the remaining four counties will share the one million equally?

"Mr. Governor, isn't this ratio a little too outrageous?"

Viscount Hogg stood up. He was not the one who cared most about this matter. After all, Yinchuan County was rich and had silver mines. But he represented more than just himself, and if he could pay less, his family could earn more. How could he stand on the side of the three earls?
This was a process of wrangling. As Viscount Hogg stood up, Viscount Landa also spoke up:
"Hanshan County was ravaged by orcs, and all its wealth was lost. It is impossible for them to afford a tax of 250,000 gold coins."

He stared at the three earls. Hanshan County definitely could not pay the taxes. Even this year it would be difficult to come up with 100,000 gold coins. That was the place where the orcs' invasion was most serious.

If it is distributed in this proportion, wouldn't each baron's territory have to bear a tax of 10,000 to 20,000 gold coins?

Then some of the barons also spoke up.

"The wealth that my territory can produce each year is only two to three thousand gold coins. You all have mines, but I can only farm. It is absolutely impossible to collect taxes."

This is also the reason why Ryan stayed here.

"You all know what the frozen land is like, right? I can only take out 500 gold coins every year."

All the nobles of Lingdu County united at this moment, and said that their territories were in a state of disrepair and it was impossible for them to pay so many gold coins to the empire as taxes.

(End of this chapter)