Warlord: King of All Clans

Old Sam, who got the body of the wolf, did not stay at home for too long. The next day, he collected three carts of goods and personally escorted them to Linhai Town, preparing to exchange them for winter supplies, pay taxes and visit his daughter.

According to Hewan Territory’s tax-free policy for land reclamation, Village No. 7 was exempted from land taxes for the first three years, and only two years have passed.

But Hewan not only had land taxes, it also continued to use the labor tax and commercial tax of the Orlantis Empire.

Village No. 7 is the market place for several surrounding villages. The village chief, tax collector and crier are all official members of the lord's mansion and have the obligation to supervise and collect commercial taxes.

Of course, this kind of commercial tax is not strict. It will only be levied on transactions involving large quantities of grain and ironware, and the tax rate is extremely low, so ordinary villagers have no access to it at all.

This is a tax law aimed at smugglers. The commercial tax on normal trade goods is actually collected in towns.

However, the labor tax was very strict. All young and strong subjects had to perform three months of labor service every year. If they did not perform the service, they had to pay the labor tax.

Village No. 7, with a population of more than 300 people, has a total of five or six gold coins each year from agricultural taxes and labor taxes.

Old Sam did not dare to embezzle money at all. After the first snow every year, he would bring the accounts and submit them to the town hall of Linhai Town.

Compared to the past, the taxes in the Riverbend Territory were ridiculously low. If all of this was embezzled, Old Sam himself felt that the civilians deserved to be heavily taxed.

Before their village migrated, the tax collector appointed by the Knight would chop off half of any fish caught by the commoners!

As for the carcasses of the wargs, he already had a stable sales channel.

The wolf head can be sold to a taxidermy shop in Linhai Town and made into a majestic wolf head, which is the favorite decoration of nobles who want to show off their military power.

For every wolf head, Old Sam could earn seventy silver coins.

The wolf skin can be sold directly to the leather workshop, eliminating the fur dealer's profit margin and also bringing him a profit of fifty silver - the price of this intact fur skin will at least double.

The wolf meat is sold directly to the garrison barracks. They will mix this low-level monster meat with herbs to make tonics, and feed them to the regular soldiers who are training their bodies in the barracks, so that their physical fitness can be improved to the level of heavy armored elite soldiers.

Including the wolf's internal organs and claws, the wolf's corpse can bring Old Sam nearly five gold coins!

After he became the official village chief, his monthly salary was only 900 copper coins, but here he could make 50,000 in one transaction!

Because he earned so much money, Old Sam was a little scared. He would always go to the tax officer to carefully calculate the accounts, for fear that he would not pay the business taxes he should pay and would be dragged out of the lord's mansion and shot.

After selling all three carts of goods, Old Sam took his two assistants to the lord's house to pay taxes and visit his daughter.

In the bedroom on the second floor of the Lord's house in Linhai Town, Old Sam's daughter Bessie was using an abacus to calculate this season's revenue.

Her Bessie Bakery has opened branches in the six towns of River Bay, and is planning to open a branch in Isenbol City.

After Agata taught her how to use an abacus, calculating accounts became very simple. The account books that used to make her scalp tingle now became cute.

Especially when the above figures were added up, Bethy, who was just 18 years old, couldn't help but smile.

At this time, Agatha came in with two cups of coffee, handed one to Bessie, and asked with a smile: "Dear little rich lady Bessie, how much money did you make this year?"

Bessie did not hide it, "The six branches have earned a total of 29 gold and 25 silver this year."

Agata was also a little surprised, "Ah! You earn more from selling cakes than I, the mayor, make!"

Bessie quickly flattered, "Sister Agata is a knight of Linhai Town, what's the salary? The fief dividend alone is more than this! What's more, she married the handsome and powerful Knight Solovy. You are a noble lady, why are you competing with me, a little commoner!"

At this year's Knight Enthronement Conference, Linhai Town Mayor Agata was also enthroned as a Linhai Town Knight. In addition to the mayor's salary and dividends from the lord's mansion every year, he also received dividends from Linhai Town's taxes.

Together with the manor given to her by the Riverbend Lady, Agatha's annual income now exceeds one hundred gold coins.

Agatha was flattered by her. She picked up Bessie's account book and helped her check the accounts. She also counted on her fingers, "The shops in Isenbol City are more expensive than those in the six towns of the river bay. If you want to buy a shop first and then open a store as before, the expenses will be huge. Twenty-nine gold may not be enough."

Bessie said, "I saved fifty gold before."

"That's enough. When the store opens, remember to call me."

Bei Xi showed a hint of hesitation on her face, and said, "But I changed my mind. I'm going to..."

"What are you preparing for?"

"I plan to open a branch in Arbroath first..."

Agatha was stunned for a moment, then she reacted immediately, pinched Bessie's face, and laughed, "You are really good, little girl, you chased your husband three hundred miles away."

Beshi's face suddenly turned red, and he put down what he was doing and went to tickle Agata's itch.

After a while of noise, Bessie took advantage of the good atmosphere to implicitly raise her own difficulties, "Alas, Buck Fortress is too far away from here. I can only go there two or three times a year. The owner of the branch there is my cousin's wife. This year, there is a shortfall of more than ten gold coins in the account, and it has already started to show losses."

Agata sneered, "I told you not to be nepotistic in the first place, but you didn't listen. Who can you blame if something goes wrong?"

Bei Xi hugged her waist and said coquettishly, "My cousin's wife has had a hard time too. My cousin's leg was broken during the migration, and his two sons starved to death. They followed me all day and night without a rest. If I don't use her, who else can I use?"

"And if there's a problem with the account, it's not necessarily my cousin's fault. Maybe she made a mistake in the calculation, or maybe the people in the West don't like my wheat cakes?"

Agata has been the mayor for several years, managing tens of thousands of people. She doesn't have to think twice to handle such trivial matters. "What's the problem? Next time you go to Buck Fortress, bring Trantifah with you and ask her to check the accounts with you. We will know the problems clearly and we can do what we need to do."

"Isn't this bad? Chuan Tifa is the deputy security captain of our Linhai?"

"I'll give her three days off and you'll give her a box of cakes. Isn't that the problem solved?"

When Old Sam came over and talked to his daughter, his face suddenly became gloomy, but he didn't say anything.

There were no trains or telephones in those days. The lower-class peasants could not travel more than a hundred miles in their entire lives except following their lords to fight in wars. If a relative was more than fifty miles away, he or she was considered a distant relative.

People like him who come to the town more than 20 miles away every now and then are already considered worldly-wise people in the village.

Run three hundred miles away to open a store?

I dare not think about it, I dare not think about it at all!

This year, Riverbend captured the city of Arbroath. In addition to Rigolav moving into the Lord's Castle of Arbroath, his son Romon also served as the leader of the garrison in Arbroath.

The captain of the patrol cavalry of Hewan, Little Noyce, was also successfully promoted to captain and became the captain of the cavalry security patrol team of Arbroath City.

The function and status of this position are similar to those of a police chief. He has entered the circle of generals from a grassroots officer and has five hundred patrol cavalry equipped with muskets.

In the past, although everyone called little Noyce a knight, he was at most a nameless and proletarian knight.

Only after he became the captain of the Arbroath Cavalry Patrol did his title of knight become worthy of the name, and his status was higher than that of the traditional Knight of the Corner Flag.

Everyone knew that once he completed his service in this position, and if there were no major mistakes, he would be another titled knight of the Reach, and truly promoted to the noble class.

What could old Sam say when such a young and outstanding person was in love with his daughter?