Fel doesn't lie to you

"What's going on this year? Why are so many people unable to pay taxes? We have exempted some exorbitant taxes as much as possible."

The tax officer Halson frowned, looking at the list in front of him, with an obvious worried look on his face.

The original nobles of this piece of land had martyred their entire families with the invasion of the orcs, so now this piece of land is directly under the jurisdiction of the Stormwind Kingdom, so taxes are directly responsible to the Stormwind royal family.

Therefore, compared with those terrible tax officials, these people are relatively milder and have much less corruption.

After all, in this world, it's not a big deal to rub your hands with oil. Even if you take a little something, as long as it's not too much, no one will say anything.

But the problem now is that many people's taxes can't pay enough taxes even if he doesn't work hard.

Thinking of this, Hauersen touched the gold coins in his pocket, which were given to him by some merchants, which was twice as much as last year, and the richness made him feel incredible, making him want to give it to his wife Buy some jewelry that I didn't dare to think about before.

But another thing worried him.

A full [-]% of the people in these towns and villages cannot pay taxes.

This is a very serious problem. The local taxes have been investigated to ensure that the people here can afford to pay taxes even if they are sick. This scale and proportion does not mean that there are natural and man-made disasters, or that some people are going to be The bandits are gone.

As for the bandits, although most of them would not want to rob them tax collectors, this is the land managed by Varian, King Varian of Stormwind City. If such a thing happens——

It's just too much!
However, although the past two years can't be called smooth weather, it can also be said that there are not too many storms, and it can barely be regarded as a year of bumper harvest.

So what's up with these farmers?

Halson looked at the accounts in front of him and couldn't help asking.

At this moment, the wife, who was making them clothes from a roll of brand new woolen cloth, spoke.

"I think maybe it's because of the new cloth?"

His wife's words immediately alerted Halson.

"cloth?"

He flipped through the file quickly, and he found something that impressed him very much.

'Boutique Wool Cloth'.

This land tax is almost three times that of last year, and it can be said that it is the largest item other than grain and iron ore land taxes during this period.

But Mr. Howlson was even more puzzled.

This is the tax of several small traders. Generally speaking, small traders go to farmers’ homes to buy woven woolen cloth and then sell it. It should be no problem to increase this value, and it will not prevent farmers from paying taxes. .

Then, it was still his wife who reassured him, the daughter of a former garrison officer, a woman who was not very beautiful, but very gentle and skilled.

She took a piece of woolen cloth that she bought that looked very delicate, and put it in front of Halson.

"Look, this is obviously not woven by local people. They don't have such a good craftsmanship. You see, there are embroidery on it. And it's surprising that these embroidery are exactly the same. It can be said to be amazing."

Halsen took a look, and sure enough, he found the embroidery of redbud flowers on it, but it was exactly the same as what his wife said. The patterns and distribution of these flowers were exactly the same, which was amazing!

And it feels extremely smooth to the touch, and the weaving is very good, basically no flaws can be seen!

This is at least three gold coins a yard of high-quality cloth, right?

He couldn't help but glanced at his wife, wondering why she bought such an expensive woolen cloth, because three gold coins were enough to buy silk and brocade.

And her wife smiled slightly and told the price she paid for the cloth.

"Twenty-three silver pieces, but for the sake of being the tax collector's wife, they gave me 23 silver pieces."

Mr. Howlson stood up straight away. He looked at the cloth in front of him in astonishment, and he immediately understood why.

No wonder those farmers couldn't sell it!The cloth they weave can't compare with this kind of high-quality cloth, and it's not as cheap as these cloths!
He immediately felt numbness in his hands, because this meant that countless farmers would lose part of their income!
The price of wool is very different from the price of woolen cloth!Many farmers will not be able to pay taxes!

If these things are allowed to gradually erode the entire Stormwind Kingdom, there will be countless families in the Stormwind Kingdom who will not be able to pay taxes because of this!
This must be reported to His Majesty the King!

But his wife pressed his hand again.

"I know what you're thinking, but are you going to father our children?"

His wife's voice was unusually calm, which made Howlson stand still in astonishment.

"Although it is true that some farmers have to change their means of livelihood, correspondingly, the taxes they have to pay are naturally reduced. My dear, you asked them to pay taxes based on their income in previous years, so you Only then will you find many people who cannot pay taxes, but if you count their actual income, they will not fail to pay taxes. And the most important thing is that the taxes on these woolen cloths are comparable to those paid by farmers It's a lot more, do you think your chief will care that farmers pay less taxes?"

This is a commonly known matter. After all, it is impossible for tax officials to calculate too many things every year, especially items with stable prices like woolen cloth.

"So relax, dear, although this is indeed not a good thing, everyone's interests have not been damaged, and even more have been gained, right? So don't do unnecessary things, you are just a tax collector, and only Twenty people, what can you solve? What can you affect?"

His wife's words made Halson calm down. He thought for a while, touched the gold coin bag in his arms, and then sighed dejectedly.

It was exactly as his wife had said.

Although he still felt that this matter was a little strange, but...

But it is true that as his wife said, he can't affect anything.

His chief is now worried about the lack of money in Stormwind City, and so is His Majesty the King, so although he feels that something is not right, there is no doubt that the total tax has increased.

Except for those farmers who can't sell their woolen cloth...

What's more, if a product is completely controlled by the Chamber of Commerce, there will be problems.

He didn't know what would go wrong, but he knew that no one could put all their eggs in one basket. He always felt that something would happen in the future, but he didn't know how it would go wrong.

"Your biggest job is to recalculate the taxes of those farmers, and tax those farmers' woolen cloth as wool, dear, I think they pay you more because of this, people don't want things to become very ugly."

His wife sighed again.

"OK, dear."

Halson sighed too, then smiled.

"Let's go to the goldsmith another day. I plan to make an ornament for my sword."

Actually not, he wanted to buy his wife the tiara they saw last time.

As for the ornaments on the sword, he didn't care.

"You bastard... if you have money, spend it recklessly... that's right."

The wife sighed helplessly.