Lux's Magic Penetration Rod

The Freljord invaders have retreated, and the nobles of Mithril City have also shrunk their tails. The dawn of hope finally appeared in front of the people of Mithril City again.

However, the Yinling River is still full of water, and most of the port area is still submerged in water. Moreover, under the erosion of the water, the walls of the port area, eastern urban area, and western urban area are slightly unstable. Trend, man-made disasters are suspended, but natural disasters are still the Sword of Damocles hanging over the heads of all people in Mithril City.

The aristocratic gentlemen in the main city did not immediately ask the commoners to leave their manors, but in this winter, it is not the same for the noble manors who have been staying in the main city, right?

If possible, the people of Mithril City would like to go home!

The life of "city dwellers" in Mithril City is already so difficult, and the farmers living in the suburbs or villages around Mithril City will undoubtedly have an even more difficult time this winter.

Some of the villages and towns that were plundered by the claws of winter resolutely resisted, and were eventually destroyed and massacred. Others had no choice but to take out the food they had saved. Now they are all starving, and they don't even have seeds after the spring.

Although the haze of the war has dissipated, the people's livelihood in the entire Mithril City still looks like it is in ruins.

Under such circumstances, a difficult question posed before Galen: How can Mithril City be restored to its full strength?

There is no doubt that for Galen, this problem is beyond the scope of the problem - Galen, who has been learning combat skills since he was a child and went to the army to experience before he was a minor, may be a good fighter, but he is not as good as governing a place. This kind of thing, to him, is really like a rolling pin blowing fire, and he knows nothing about it.

However, he was unwilling to leave the reconstruction of Mithril City to his relatives. After a series of previous events, he now had a clearer understanding of his "good relatives".

Let them preside over the reconstruction of Mithril City. Who knows when the reconstruction of Mithril City will be completed.

In fact, Galen's idea is somewhat biased. Although the nobles of the Crownguard family are not reliable at all, at least they are still willing to try their best to rebuild Mithril City, but the direction of their efforts is limited. It may just be more biased toward oneself.

According to their logic, the best way to rebuild Mithril City is to take advantage of this opportunity to acquire all the land in Mithril City at a low price. In this way, all the land in Mithril City will be controlled by the Crown Guard family. With this in hand, we can all sit down and discuss how to rebuild and plan when the time comes, and the efficiency will definitely be much higher!

What, what are you talking about about the peasants who have lost their land and the small businessmen who have lost their shops in the city?

After we acquire all the land, we can still rent it out!

You must know that Demacia has a pioneering law. Any reclaimed wasteland, after being registered, will become private land recognized by the Demacian government. The fiefdoms of Demacian nobles are entrusted with governance rights. , partial income rights, rather than ownership rights. In Mithril City, the Crownguard family does own a large fiefdom, but within the fiefdom, only a small part of the land belongs to the Crownguard family.

As mentioned above, the annexation of all land by lords and then leasing it to farmers is actually widespread throughout Demacia - or in other words, for most lords, they After acquiring the territory, the first thing to do is to annex all the land and turn all the land in the territory into private land. Even for this annexation, the local civilians will not be too resistant to it.

When a newly arrived noble wants to annex land, he or she will usually be given some amount of money. After the farmers get the money, they can rent the land later. Although the proportion of subsequent land rent is higher than the tax as a farmer, there is nothing they can do about it. matter.

At least after getting this amount of money, they still have the opportunity to compete with the next generation, prepare their own armor and war horses for their sons, and try to join the army. If they join the army and make meritorious deeds, they may be able to do it later. Become a noble lord.

In Demacia, most areas are the fiefdoms of nobles, and most of the nobles' fiefdoms are not too large. While the king controls the noble fiefdoms, it also inhibits larger-scale annexation of land to a certain extent. This This grassroots order is an important foundation for Demacia to maintain stability.

However, the situation in the north is somewhat different.

For example, in Forsbarrow, there is not much land that can be cultivated there. Even if there is a pioneering law, the people of Forsbarrow do not have the ability to develop the frozen soil with extremely poor soil quality into fertile farmland.

As for Mithril City, the natural environment here is much better, and the Crownguard family's fiefdom is very large. Although it was annexed at the beginning, as more and more land was reclaimed, the Crownguard family's fiefdom was also very large. Within the Wei family, there were more and more divisions between the clan and side branches, and such mergers eventually had to stop.

It’s not that members of the Crownguard family don’t want to annex land. In fact, the entire Mithril City has not reached the limit of land reclamation so far. Even if the Crownguard family annexes all the land, there will still be many people there. Create new land instead of renting existing farmland.

In addition, there are many people in the Crown Guard family, and they are constraining each other. Rather than spending a lot of money to annex all the land in one fell swoop, it would be more convenient to let the farmers cultivate the land and use their brains on the taxes they pay.

However, now with the invasion of the Freljords, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity has been presented to the nobles of the Crownguard family in Mithril City. Now many people within Mithril City have lost their food reserves in the war. , at this time of poverty, if you can take advantage of this opportunity to annex all the land and bring it under your control, and then rent it out later, the income will be greater than raising taxes first and then withholding taxes!

And due to the destruction of a large number of water conservancy facilities, even if civilians want to reclaim new land later, they do not have the ability to do so. In fact, after this flood, many cultivated farmlands in Mithril City have been destroyed. If someone wants to reclaim new land, it will be almost impossible until the water conservancy facilities are restored!

Although Galen and Lux ​​had just jointly robbed this place, many nobles from the Crown Guard branch still gathered together excitedly and began to excitedly discuss the purchase of land again.

In their view, most parts of Mithril City have been hit by disasters, and many people have no food to eat. Now that their warehouses have been taken back, they can just use food to purchase the land from these civilians. Maybe they will sign the contract When signing the contract, you can sign the lease agreement for the store connected to the field. When Mithril City recovers later, everyone can make a lot of money.

How can collecting taxes be as good as directly collecting tenants?

Moreover, not only farmland can be annexed to collect rent, but the Mithril City port area has been completely destroyed. In this case, the entire business district of the port area can also be taken over!

After such a war, the shops of small merchants were soaked and their goods were soaked. If they still have contracts in their hands, the liquidated damages will probably be very large. So why not take advantage of this opportunity and buy at a low price? Their shop, turning them from the owners of small merchants into their own servants specializing in business?

Then, after they reached a certain level of internal agreement, found Galen, and took the initiative to give up the largest piece of cake to the Crown Guard clan, Galen also expressed approval for their ideas.

From Galen's perspective, this is indeed a good idea.

However, in line with the principle that "it is best to consult professionals for professional matters", Galen did not agree immediately. Instead, he found Lux ​​and happily told his sister about the "correction of evil" of relatives from the side branch. "——In his opinion, through this method, the people who were affected by the disaster in Mithril City have a livelihood, and the side nobles will also devote their full efforts to the subsequent reconstruction of Mithril City. It is not too profitable!

As for Lux, after hearing the plans of the nobles from the Crown Guard branch, although her face was expressionless, her heart trembled.

broken!

Although anxious in her heart, Lux remained calm on the surface and said that she wanted to think about it to see if "there is any hidden conspiracy."

Then turning around, she immediately found Kalya.

"What should we do now?" Faced with the current situation, Lux said at a loss, "It seems that Galen is also willing to let those bastards annex the land of Mithril City and take over the shops of Mithril City!"

"This is a good thing for the Crown Guard family." Kalya said in a helpless tone, "Because the fiefdom is located in the north, the Crown Guard family has to bear heavier defense responsibilities and the natural environment is worse. That's why There will be such a large fiefdom, and if we take this opportunity to annex all the internal resources, the Crownguard family will become a great noble that is qualified to compete with the Light Shield family, and your father may even have the opportunity to become Grand Duke Pitt..."

"Ka! Er! Ya!" Lux couldn't help but said anxiously, "You know that's not what I mean - the North is the most suitable place to initiate changes. If we really sit back and watch Mithril City complete its internal annexation, then we will There’s something wrong with the planning!”

"So you plan to prevent the merger after this disaster?" Kalya continued, "Even if this merger is beneficial to the Crown Guard family?"

"But this kind of annexation is harmful to Demacia!" Lux said firmly, "Stop making such jokes, Kalya, you understand that I am serious, even though I am indeed from the Crownguard family, and I love you very much. My parents, aunts and brothers, but I really don’t want this to happen in Mithril City.”

"As I told you, annexation is very easy to occur after a disaster because civilians have poor risk resistance and they have no choice in order to survive." Kalya's tone finally became serious, "Then, if you want to avoid In this case, the best way is to give the people of Mithril City a choice not to accept the annexation."

"But I can't think of this option!" Lux said helplessly, "Currently, Misilver City is in short supply of food and materials. The floods have not receded and the water conservancy facilities have been completely destroyed. Next year's spring plowing has also been seriously affected. The impact, to be honest, if those bastard relatives of mine don’t come up with money and supplies, the civilians of Mithril City may suffer a terrible disaster.”

"So, the current situation is that if the civilians of Mithril City want to survive, they can only rely on the food and supplies in the hands of the nobles of Mithril City." Kalya concluded, "And let the nobles of Mithril City come up with The way to get food and supplies in hand is to allow them to annex them freely."

"Yes." Lux nodded helplessly, "That's what I'm worried about."

"It seems that the two are completely closed and there is no choice." Kalya chuckled, "But we can make something out of nothing and create an extra choice!"

"Create one more choice?" Lux obviously didn't understand what Kalya meant, "How to create it?"

"You also have leverage." Kalya reminded, "You are the lord of Forsbarrow!"

"Forsbarrow relies heavily on imports of food and supplies!" Lux spread her hands, "I can't let Forsbarrow starve just because I am saving the civilians of Mithril City! And the population of Mithril City is at least It is ten times that of Fosbairo. Even if I mobilize all the food and supplies from Fosbairo, it will only be a drop in the bucket!"

"That's good, but the title of Lord of Forsbarrow actually gives you a lot of room for maneuver." Kalya continued, "Think about it, Lux, the people of Mithril City are more willing to believe you now. Or would you rather trust your bastard relatives?”

"They should be more willing to believe me." Regarding this point, Lux is still very confident, "Their performance before was really bad."

"So, if you're willing to lend them a loan, would they rather sell the land store to your asshole relative, or would they rather borrow from you?"

"Then they must be willing to borrow money from me." Lux continued to nod, "But I have no money, and what they lack is not money, but food and tools!"

"Yes, you don't." Kalya's tone became dangerous again, "But those bastard relatives of yours do!"

"!!!"

At this moment, Lux's eyes widened in shock, with disbelief written all over her face.

"What are you going to do, Kalya!" She suddenly raised her tone, "The situation in Mithral City is not yet violent, and it can no longer support a war here -"

"What are you thinking about, Lacus." Facing the suddenly excited Lacus, Kalya finally laughed, "Don't think of me as a war madman! I mean, you can make something out of nothing. Borrow the food, tools and supplies from your bastard relatives, and then resell them and lend them to the victims to help them survive this difficult winter!"

"How is this possible?" Lux was confused. "Although my relatives are bastards, they are not fools after all. How could they give up the annexation at this juncture and instead lend me supplies?"

"Maybe they don't look stupid." Kalya said in a meaningful tone, "But, under the temptation of greed, many people will become stupid-I have a very interesting plan..."

Kalya's Little Classroom Demacia's Land System:

As a country founded by refugees who fled during the Rune Wars, Demacia has maintained a pioneering law, and any reclaimed wasteland is registered as privately owned.

The nobles of Demacia were just the more prestigious people among a group of refugees at the beginning, so at the beginning, they had no ownership rights to these new lands. They only had jurisdiction and partial income rights, and could collect them within their own territories. As long as you give part of the tax to the king, the rest will be yours.