Eagle Byzantium

"Huh?" Anna was caught off guard, and everyone present was stunned, but Gawain was not moved at all. He raised Anna's little hand, stood side by side with Anna, and then called Andodat over, " Look carefully."

The princess in purple wanted to laugh but didn't dare. She wanted to run but was caught by Gawain and couldn't run. The confidential officer also hurriedly took out the pen and metal rod from the box and looked at it carefully.

Then Gawain showed Anna's middle finger to the confidential officer, "Did you see Her Royal Highness the middle finger?"

The confidential officer agreed.

"The distance between the two tattoos is one finger inch!" Gawain decided like this.

The confidential officer hurriedly measured, and then marked the mark on the metal rod. "Twelve finger-inches are one-finger ruler, and thirty-six finger-inches are one-finger code. Among them, one yard long and one yard wide is called 'one yard ground'. Sixty yards by sixty yards is an 'acre', which is used in engineering and field surveying," Gawain added.

Then he raised Anna's little hand and said, "Did you see the princess's palm? Yes, this is a palm ruler, used for measuring light weapons, such as bows, arrows, and spears."

The confidential officer had no doubts. He quickly marked another metal rod and placed it in the box.

Then Gawain straightened Anna's arm, "The distance from the princess's elbow to the tip of the middle finger is one cubit. This can usually be used in the manufacture of instruments and long-handled weapons."

The confidential officer frowned seriously and used a longer metal rod to measure Anna's "cubit".

Gawain then waved to Agnes.

Agnes came over bravely and said, "Take out your little scissors."

After the other party complied, Gawain cut off the princess' thumbnail and little fingernail and placed them on the small plate presented by the confidential officer. "This weight is one grain, which is the smallest unit of weight. Five hundred grains." One ounce. Sixteen ounces make one pound, fourteen pounds make one stone, and eight stones make one load.”

The confidential officer's mouth was open, but he was still sweating profusely and writing furiously.

Finally, when Seleucia's new set of weights and measures was quickly finalized at the Arahant's Cave Monastery, Gawain and all the chariot teams. More than 10,000 pilgrims headed to the city of Seleucia, while the confidential officials along the way were still painfully making extremely complicated conversion tables.

Xiao Nizi was extremely proud of herself, especially Gawain's statement that "weights and measures must use the most beautiful woman's body in the world as a reference" made her feel very sweet, and she was still on her bed after going to bed. Turn over and over. Hehehe giggled.

However, for the local Ginate landowners in Seleucia and Sicily, the reason why Gawain used Anna as a "reference object" was quickly revealed in a scolding way:

Because Anna is petite, all sizes based on her are too small!

This is the inevitable result.

"In the past, the length of three barley grains lined up was one finger-inch, but now it is much smaller!" The two Kallegos brothers, Leo and Tiga, the owners of Mut Castle, roared angrily. "The palms and cubits are all much smaller than before!"

This means that their properties have been re-registered with much more measurement data than before. However, the unit tax amount has not changed, which means that the tax to be paid to Gawain has almost doubled compared to the previous comparison with the Roman Empire or the Sultan of Konya. Although on the surface, Anna had previously promised their family, "Your land enjoyment privilege of tax cuts”, but come and go, with little relief in the burden.

This is still the case for the Kallegos family. Then the anger of the other Genat nobles who did not have the privilege of tax reduction could not be contained.

What's even worse is not over yet: Gawain's weight unit has increased than before (Anna's two fingernails have contributed), and the number of taxable land units has increased. At the same time, the unit of measurement for taxation increased (whether in kind or money), and the tax burden on virtually all Ginat nobles was increased. It can really be described as heavy.

Andodat stood in front of Ramas Castle (the Zephyrim area was handed over to Wright). In front of him, all the stewards of the Genat nobles almost knelt down and begged. All their demands were in vain. There are a few more, "Please make some properties completely tax-free", "We cannot use the new standards for inventory, but still use the old standards for tax payment", "Can military service replace taxes and have preferential treatment?"

What's even more amazing is that the original group of ginats took advantage of the chaos to occupy and annex the annexed fields, but now they "generally and generously" handed over all the land, because in this vigorous land inventory operation, the more they occupy, the higher the tax burden will be. The heavier.

There are also some cunning Genat who are still resisting in various ways. Seeing that the land tax cannot be avoided, they begin to evade the oxbow tax and the capitation tax: often Andodat brings armed members of the Brotherhood, After arriving at this manor, the landowner of Jinate here secretly moved the cattle and slaves along the mountain road to hide in another landowner's manor - and then stayed in that manor to do the same thing.

This "flipping trick" was quickly discovered.

So Gawain's new instructions were quickly conveyed:

The brotherhood will bring the soldiers of the division, divide the area, and conduct an inventory at the same time. The time is temporarily arranged by the heraldry officer and kept confidential in advance;

During the inspection, the people in Area A went to the distant Area B, Area B went to Area C, and Area C came to inspect Area A. The itinerary was also arranged temporarily, and there was no clear pattern at all: often the manor owners in Area A watched the local army and brotherhood set off, but did not know where to go, and did not know when and where the troops who inspected their own horses would come;

A 6-9 book and a bar with no mistakes!

Finally, during the inspection period, the herds and people in all manors and fields were not allowed to move around freely. Once they were captured by the blocked checkpoints, they were all confiscated!

In the end, not only was the inspection of the entire area completed smoothly, but Gawain also had hundreds of confiscated oxen under his account.

Finally, Anna stood happily on the colonnade of the Acropolis, looking at the vast fields below, where the German immigrants had begun to settle down. Gawain distributed most of the oxen to the "Holy Benevolent Estate" commune for intensive use, some to the Paulist resettlement site, and a small part to the cattle pen for breeding and reproduction. Then the complicated inventory list was presented. Gawain himself was sitting in front of the lectern at the intersection of the portico and the hall, flipping through it:

Land is divided into three levels according to fertility: upper, middle and lower, with different taxes, totaling about 900,000 new acres;

Among them, the holy beneficiary estate accounts for about 17%, the ginat estate accounts for 40%, the agricultural community estate accounts for 22%, and the remaining self-cultivating small estate accounts for 21% (all approximate figures);

Most of the fertile land is concentrated on the first two types of estate;

The output of woodland, swamp, and ocean is also equivalent to the output of 100,000 new acres of medium-sized fields. Out;

The legal-age population of Seleucia and Sicily (including new immigrants) is about 194,414, of which 152,280 are Romans. The rest are Ikanati (mixed-blood of Slavs and Romans), Isaurians (indigenous mountain people), Maldaites (sailors and fishermen from the original military region), Kurlamites (Saracens Crescent heretics who converted to Orthodoxy in the 9th century and settled down for the service of the Roman Empire), Tekopo, etc., and 70% of the Romans are dependents under the protection of the Ginat estate.

"In short, with these people and these lands, I have really become the head of a county, no, a township..." Gawain put down the list, looked at Anna's back, and sighed. (To be continued ~^~)