League of Legends

Chapter 20 The Big Tree Attracts the Wind
"It's a big deal, let's just leave! I'm fed up with those bastards of the royal family!"

Galen slapped the giant sword on the table with a "bang", as if he was about to run off to be a bandit.

"Huh?" Jiawen glanced at Galen.

"I'm not talking about you, I'm talking about those bastards named Jiawen in the palace!" Galen added.

"That's about the same." Jiawen nodded.

"Now is not the time to talk about this, let's think about how to pay the tax." Lacus said beside her.

"How to pay, we can't afford it at all." Galen said with a finger: "The tax of a commoner is one silver coin a year, a baron is one gold coin a year, a viscount is ten gold coins a year, an earl is one hundred gold coins a year, and there are merchants. Ten silver coins per household per year, 5% increase in education surcharge, 3% increase in sewage discharge fee, 10% increase in road infrastructure fee, and 4% increase in air breathing fee. Earls, 45 viscounts, and more than 200 barons! Add up all these sevens and eights, and you have to pay at least [-] gold coins a year!"

It seems that Galen can do arithmetic?
However, Lux interrupted him: "Wrong, 230 seven barons are worth 237 gold coins a year, and 45 viscounts are worth 450 gold coins a year... (omitted below), plus 4% increase in air breathing costs Lisland County has to pay the empire 350 gold coins a year."

"I don't care if it's 350 taels or 5000 gold coins. Where the hell did I get so much money to pay? Now the entire city lord's mansion only costs more than [-] gold coins!" Galen was furious.

Over the past year, although he sold a lot of money, Galen did not take it all to himself, and also shared a lot of profits with the residents of Risland County. After coming and going, there is really not much money left.

"How about we collect taxes from residents? This is the case in all territories." Katerina suggested.

"No, the residents of Rislan can finally eat, and they will starve to death if they want to collect taxes." Galen shook his head.

"So what?" Katerina said.

"This..." Galen shook his head: "Let's find a way to pay the empire's taxes."

So people frown again.

Although this place in Risland County is not like a lord at all, even the city lord has to do it himself to build a road, but since he became the lord here, Galen has developed a deep affection for Risland County and the people here.

They were Galen's people, and Galen couldn't bear to abandon them.

Like Galen, Xin Zhao and Jarvan are also reluctant to abandon their subjects, so that these poor people will return to their original poor lives.

"By the way, don't we have Kane, Kane may have a solution." Lux said suddenly.

"That's right, why didn't I think of it? Find Kane quickly." Galen stood up.

"I've always been here..." Ye Liangchen, who had no sense of existence, had been standing in the hall for almost an hour, and these people finally remembered himself.

"Aha... so you are here, Kane, did you hear what you said just now? Tell me, is there anything you can do?"

Everyone looked at Ye Liangchen with bullying expressions, as if Ye Liangchen had become their last straw.

However, Ye Liangchen shook his head and pushed them into the abyss of despair: "I can't help it..."

Everyone sat back downcast.

To be honest, Ye Liangchen really had no choice.

He didn't even know that the taxation of the Demacia Empire was so heavy.The per capita income of Lisland County was only a few silver coins in the previous year, and even the tax of ordinary people was one silver coin...

Although it has improved now, and the per capita income has reached about one gold coin, but calculated, the tax payment for the past five years will cost more than [-].

The current total income of Lisland County is only [-] to [-] a year, but it was only a few hundred a year before...

Moreover, Risland County has a population of less than 1, so how could there be so many earls, barons, and viscounts...

This kind of thing has exceeded Ye Liangchen's limit.

If Demacia used banknotes, then Ye Liangchen could consider making some fake ones, but people use gold coins and silver coins, all of which are real gold and silver, how can they make fake ones.

Just thinking about it, Jaina suddenly ran in in a hurry.

"My lord, it's not good, the tax collector is here!"

"The tax collector? Why didn't you come so fast? Didn't we just receive the tax notice!" Galen stood up from his chair.

"Haha, Brother Galen, I'm here to disturb you again." A piercing voice sounded outside the door, and seven or eight people rushed in. The leader was a man in a blue magic robe embroidered with gold old man.

"Esther, are you here to buy spices again?" Galen stood up immediately when he saw the old man.

Esther, one of the few eighth-level magicians in the empire, was originally a rune mage in Zaun, and later defected to the Demacia Empire with the knowledge of Zaun's rune magic. The royal family gave him the territory of Salam. As his reward for defecting to the Demacian Empire with knowledge of Zaun rune magic.

Maybe many people don't know Esther, but Ye Liangchen has some impressions.

I remember that when there was no food at home, Xin Zhao, Jiawen, and Galen often went to the territory of Salam to steal the baby rhinoceros raised by Esther.

But later, because the spices were sold for a lot of money, there was no need to steal them anymore.

"No, Brother Galen, I don't need spices anymore." Est shook his head.

"You don't need spices anymore? Do you want to buy magic paper?" Galen asked in confusion.

"No." Esther stood up straight, took out a sheepskin scroll from his arms, and read out: "Decree No. 1574 of the King of the Empire, Gavin Audley, appoints the eighth-level magician Esther as the tax collector to collect taxes on his behalf. Taxes for Risland, Kigali, and Tolanka counties!"

After reading, Esther handed the sheepskin scroll to Galen with a proud face: "General Galen, please check carefully, is there any error in this order?"

Galen took the sheepskin scroll: "Leng Leng, you... are you here to collect taxes?"

"Well, Risland County's tax revenue for the past five years is 14 gold coins in total. However, the king only collected 14 gold coins when he read the economic situation in Risland County. He also asked General Galen to pay the tax to me so that I can bring it back immediately. Go back and send it to the capital."

"I……"

Galen was sweating all over his head, and wanted to say that he didn't have so much, could he be more generous, Esther had turned to Xin Zhao and Jiawen, with a surprised expression on his face: "Hey, it turns out that Manager Xin Zhao and Prince Jiawen are also here, just to avoid sent me to Kigali and Tolanca territory."

As he said that, Esther pulled out two more sheepskin scrolls from his arms: "The tax in Kigali is 15 gold coins, the king waived the mantissa, and only collected 15 gold coins, and the tax in Tolanca is 12 gold coins." For the thousand gold coins, the king does not need the mantissa, and only accepts 12 gold coins, please pay the two lords."

"..."

All of them had black lines on their heads, they glanced at each other, and looked at Esther in embarrassment.

"What? Could it be that the three lords can't pay the taxes?" Este looked at the three of them.

"Hehe...you guessed it right..." Galen laughed.

"Impossible. As far as I know, your magic spices and magic paper in Lisland County are sold at a high price. How can you not be able to pay the tax? As far as I am in the poor place of Salam, I have enough. "Esther said pretending to be surprised.

"You don't know. Although the sales of magic spices and magic paper are very good, they didn't sell much. Now my entire lord's mansion only has a few thousand gold coins, which is not enough to pay taxes. Why don't you take these thousands of gold coins with you?" Shall we go back?" Galen explained with a puzzled look on his face.

"Hey, my Kigali territory is similar. Now I have two to three thousand gold coins, and it's all thanks to Galen." Xin Zhao also sighed.

"It's the same for me, Tolanca. The total is more than 3000 gold coins, which is not enough to pay taxes." Jiawen said bitterly.

"This is difficult. According to the laws of the empire, if you don't pay taxes, you will be deprived of your title and punished." Est shook his head.

"Master Esther, I wonder if you can do anything?" Katerina asked.

Esther thought for a while, then raised her head: "There is no way, I just don't know if you are willing."

Looking at Esther's expression, Ye Liangchen felt that this old man was just an old fox.

However, Galen and the others didn't seem to notice it. When Esther said there was a solution, they immediately said, "What solution?"

Esther nodded and said: "As far as I know, the king is very interested in the magic spices, magic paper and magic writing that you have researched. Maybe you can use the exclusive right to use these three kinds of magic to pay to the royal family. county tax."

I finally understood that this group of people came here for these three things...

Ye Liangchen rolled his eyes.

Sure enough, a big tree attracts the wind, and a lot of money attracts a thief, and the thief still came to ask for it logically...

(End of this chapter)