Byron found local traveling merchants and asked them how they got along the path of vain business from Sharizi. These businessmen were very careful when they saw Byron, and their answers were trembling, but at any rate they told him what Byron wanted to know. Amila’s merchants often go directly to Garmizi Fort, and then go east to Sharez to purchase goods, and return to sell them on the long road. This road is already very safe under the perennial control of the Leyland family. Even the bandits in the desert dare not easily wander around here. Merchants can safely travel between the two places, but at the same time they have to bear Salander's tariffs. And the high taxes specified by the Earl of Leyland and the Earl of Tazias. Therefore, although Rhodok East has a good business environment, there has never been a wealthy business family like the Golden Hand family, and no well-known big businessmen.

Byron quickly found a way after he understood the situation. He decided to bypass the area controlled by Fort Garmisch and open a new trade route from the north, and then expand the trade route all the way north to the north. De Herim, originally from Amira Fort to the hinterland of Swadia, it was only because of the hostility between the two countries and the rejection of Swadia by the Leyland family, so this article could have brought a lot of profits. The trade route has not been opened smoothly, and robbers and robbers are indispensable along the way. Now that this piece of land belongs to him, he will definitely make good use of this.

Byron organized local businessmen to organize caravans, invested by himself and sent peony mercenaries to **** him. By the way, Rolf, who had been idle for a long time, went to the north to stroll around. All robbers would bring them back if they were willing to surrender. Just bring your head back when you don’t open your eyes, and a stick on a wooden pole can still calm people’s hearts. Although Rolf is very aggressive, he knows the methods of various bandits and how to deal with them with violence. In this way, the caravan can be much safer when going north. Of course, given that Rolf and the group of bandits adapted from his men were really disrespectful in discipline, Byron sent a team of Swadian cavalry and a few bright-minded sergeants to follow, lest they cause trouble for himself.

According to those businessmen, the spices purchased from Sharetz are much cheaper than those from Turga, and even if tariffs and transportation costs are excluded, the profits are considerable. Only because the eastern market of Rhodok is relatively closed, the demand is not large, and few merchants can get permission from the earl family to go to the west to do business, so the total income is not high. But now it's different. In Byron's control area, he naturally won't let his merchants suffer losses, and Veluga's market is quickly filled with Salander's goods. Byron will let the bulk of the caravan's profits fall into his pockets, and the merchants will definitely agree, otherwise they will wait for the lord to get revenge!

In addition to this income, Byron also issued a new decree. Starting twenty days after the decree was promulgated, all salt and steel transactions in the Amila area will be in charge of officials appointed by the earl, as well as foreign merchants. These two types of goods can only be sold to the earl. Within 20 days, local merchants must handle their own goods and sell them or sell them to officials designated by the earl. After that, if they find private sales of salt and steel, they will be punished severely. , Detention to hanging. In addition, all blacksmiths or those with blacksmithing skills should report to the local elders, consuls, or clerks in order to receive the "blacksmith allowance" provided by Lord Earl, and can accept orders for a large number of weapons and armors.

The salt and iron franchise is an economic method that Byron's hometown has always used in the past. These two necessities can generate more than 30% of the national tax in some eras, and the control of the two commodities can also control prices and suppress the power of private merchants. However, Byron has not yet implemented this law well. After all, he is only the lord of a place, and the area of ​​the directly governed territory is not worth mentioning even when compared with the Rhodok Kingdom, which has almost half the territory, so this is also It can be regarded as one of his attempts to see if it can achieve sufficient results.

While increasing the source of income, the lord who cares about the people also counted the messy taxes in the territory. I have to say that the local taxation is quite complicated, except for the regular poll tax, housing tax, land tax, commercial tax and customs duty. In addition, there are hunting tax, forest tax, river tax, carriage tax, sheep, cattle, sheep, pigs, and horses are all taxed, and each type of animal has a different tax. In addition, if there are more than two windows in a house, a window tax is levied. A marriage tax is required to get married. Landlords must pay a farmer’s tax to increase their tenant farmers. Even farmers who use trolleys must pay tax. Moreover, the tax is different for different wheels. As a result, there are only wheelbarrows in the area. But this is not all. A large number of new taxes have appeared in eastern Rhodok over the past century. Excluding those that have been abolished (such as bridge tax and shipping tax, which were abolished due to statistical difficulties and excessive tax evasion), there are still two types of remaining taxes. Seventeen species, and some of them have branches that are not counted.

Byron just looks at these accounts and feels a headache, and many of these taxes are out of oil and water. With a wave of his hand, he directly cancelled two-thirds of the taxes ~lightnovelpub.net~ and reduced the taxes within two years, so that the tenant farmers who had newly acquired the land had time to adapt. When Byron’s other actions were not rewarded, this initiative received feedback. No one does not like tax cuts. Whether it is the poor or the rich, they praised Byron’s actions from the countryside to the town. People are all happy to discuss that those annoying tax breaks are finally gone. After decades of losing the guts, they immediately save a lot of light on their shoulders.

The farmers are happy, and the people in other industries are also happy. You know, because there are many agricultural areas in the north and south plains in the Amila area, but the area in the east of Rhodok is the most suitable for food production in the Seren area, going south. In addition to farming, there are a large number of people living near the forest, relying on trees and hunting for a living, or serving as a forest ranger for the earl, and collecting hunting taxes from hunters who hunt in the forest of the lord. In addition, the residents of the mountain have long regarded the quarries and pits as their livelihoods. In addition to the stones, some iron and copper ore can be excavated in the mountains. Although the output is not large, the quality is average, but it is enough for the locals. Further south, there are villages near the marshes and fishermen along the coast, but these places are still under the control of Fort Garmizier. Count Leyland’s troops have been patrolling the border. The two sides are separated by rivers and fences. The land, each other sent troops to patrol the border, Byron still can't control there.

Byron’s tax cuts and the abolition of the complicated tax law can be said that these people are beneficiaries. After the pressure is relieved, their lives suddenly have hope. Forgot to do nothing with the king.