Tower of Babel

A total of more than a thousand people were left behind by the Umbrella Company, the vast majority of whom were scientists. Those company managers, as well as the professional managers of RDA Company later captured in the world of Avatar, were all business talents, not politicians.

Although in capitalist countries, these people can run for mayor, governor, or even president, but that requires a corresponding team of political elites to prepare documents. It will definitely not work for them to fight alone, not to mention that even if there is a professional team, the West cannot Qualified politicians, they promote democracy and freedom! Those who advocate universal suffrage advocate sexual orientation freedom; those who advocate gender freedom advocate sexual freedom. The result is chaos and moral decay in modern society, and that's it! It's better to manage their own country. If they manage other people's countries, it's called a colony. Don’t even think about the peace and prosperity of the country and the people.

Their favorite thing is genocide, and these people all have criminal records. What the RDA company did in Pandora is no different from their ancestors. If they are asked to manage this world and manage foreign races, then the native race will definitely be the same as the Indians. People, one fate. And the Umbrella Company launched a zombie annihilation plan. Even his own people do it! Just a bunch of lunatics.

As for robot AI such as Red Queen, although they are loyal, engage in scientific research, and perform big data calculation and analysis, they are far better than humans, but when it comes to emotional intelligence and interpersonal communication. Definitely a flaw. Just like Xiaoci, even if she faced ten Jelina head-on, she would be no match for her, but in the dungeon, she would be defeated by a sneak attack. The Red Queen herself was kidnapped with just a few words. The White Queen was abducted by the Red Queen, and Tianwang's psychological quality is extremely poor. They are asked to manage government affairs and stick to the law. In politics, they are scumbags who adapt to changes in politics..

This is one of the reasons why Zhang Cheng has repeatedly valued Victoria. After all, she is a native of the royal family, so Zhang Cheng can only retain the original officials first, and then find ways to train his own team. , after the people's hearts are initially set. Zhang Cheng called the small lords of all parties and officials at all levels in Annan City to meet with him through the radio.

At the scheduled time, Zhang Cheng discovered that only the lords and nobles attended the meeting. As for the officials at all levels in Annan City, there were no officials at all, because they were all dead. Zhang Cheng did not expect that they were the eunuchs who resisted desperately yesterday!

The difference between the feudal system and the county system. Hermann was a feudal serf. Without the institutions of the county system, there would be eunuchs and maids within the Xiaoqiang, and feudal nobles outside the Xiaoqiang. There were no officials or ministers in the county system, and there was a direct personal dependence relationship between serfs and lords.

There are three forms of tax burden. Blood tax means direct military service. A soldier can be exempted from the tax of the whole family, including taxes for parents, wives and children when they are minors, but does not include brothers and sisters. Labor tax. If two people work with the lord, you can It is a man and a woman (both of them work for you). Just like military service, the family is exempt from tax. The serfs mainly bear the in-kind tax. Each family is very small, because when a man reaches a certain age, he has to separate a household and receive a share even if he is not married. People worked on the farmland and paid taxes, but there was no such thing as land rent in serf society. However, since there is no need to go to school, children can work at a very young age, more children means more hands, and there is no need to pay taxes, which is also a benefit, so the Herman people are really good at giving birth. The average family has seven or eight children.

The serfs paid taxes to the small lords, and the small lords paid taxes to the big lords, instead of the serfs paying taxes directly to the big lords. Penal proceedings were also directly managed by the nobles. There was no unified judicial system that ran up and down. Zhang Cheng certainly did not plan to send robots from house to house. Why bother the people when they go door to door to collect taxes? Just go to the lord directly.

Zhang Cheng came to the rostrum and sat down and began to lecture, saying: You are all lords and nobles in Annan City. Being here means that you accept the rule of my new master. I am very happy. This is very good. I don’t ask for much. Just pay the full amount of this year's tax burden, and that's it for this year.

The lords from all sides stared at each other for a long time, and then someone took the lead to speak up. It was a middle-aged greasy uncle with a fat head and big ears. He cupped his hands and said:"Your Majesty the Governor, I am Vychlov, although you are The new owner here, but you know the war just broke out. We people have contributed money and people, and this year's tax burden has been collected. We are really powerless. I hope the new owner can reduce it."

Although Zhang Cheng doesn't care This is a small amount of tax, but as a former enemy, Zhang Cheng has nothing to do with the casualties in this war. Besides, if you don’t want to pay taxes when a new official takes office, this is definitely not a friendly attitude. Taxation is an important symbol of sovereignty. Zhang Cheng smiled coldly and said:"We were all enemies in the past. What does your tax burden have to do with me? You contribute money and effort to my enemies. Who can explain why I lose my troops and lose my generals?" Go ahead, let’s do this without paying taxes. Isn’t there a saying that tells you to share half of your property when you meet me? Give me half of your property, and I will grant you no tax for five years." Although Herman has a 11-tax system, It was not about handing over one-tenth of the family property, but one-tenth of the income. This was absolutely nerve-wracking. Everyone was shocked and said that they could still collect this year's taxes.

Agricultural social productivity is very low, doubling taxes is not easy, and the losses in this year's war are indeed quite embarrassing. Zhang Cheng doesn't know how much of these pressures will be directly passed on to ordinary people. But he didn't want to make the people resentful. Seeing that everyone was subdued, he said:"You don't have to be downcast. You can only get it if you are willing to give it up. I have a big project here, demolishing the city wall of Annan Mansion, and I need manpower. I provide money and food, how about you contribute people and we can make a fortune together?"

This is called work-for-relief. Zhang Cheng finally relented. He didn't want to see the people in dire straits, and he didn't want to do any disaster relief in the eyes of everyone who looked at them like fools. Cash-for-work is the best option.

Tear down the city wall? What does this new lord mean? Don't want to live anymore? Or do you want to run? Judging from yesterday's combat effectiveness, it doesn't look like it! But no one cares about this.

The fat man Vichrov thought for a while and said: How much do you pay?

Use long-range firepower such as the air force to support the defense circle. Defend the enemy outside the country's gates. In modern society, city walls are useless. Zhang Cheng smiled and said: According to normal labor prices, a worker earns twenty silver coins per month. You are the organizers and managers. I will give you one gold coin for every meter of city wall demolished. Annan Mansion The length of the city wall is about 200,000 meters, which is about 200,000 gold coins. If you don't want money but want food, cloth, food, clothing, housing and transportation, and all kinds of goods, I am willing to pay you in kind.

When talking about real wages, everyone immediately buzzed and became excited. Two hundred thousand gold coins is nothing at all. Although there are various high-priced alchemy products in other worlds that are very valuable, they can easily cost thousands of magic crystal coins and thousands of magic coins. Crystal coins are equivalent to tens of thousands of gold coins, but the actual market holdings are not large, due to low productivity. Just like antique trading, which can easily reach hundreds of millions, the actual total transaction volume cannot be compared with ordinary commodities. Real food, cloth and daily necessities are of real value and can actually increase the population and improve life. Everyone was very happy.