pertwk Chapter 141 Taxation
Chapter 141 Taxation
Cold Winter City, when the wind and snow in the Year of God's Retribution stopped, the city was almost completely buried by snow.
The beast horde two and a half months ago not only cost half of the city guards and knights, but even the city lord Caton was seriously injured.
After that, although most of the monsters retreated, there were still some monsters left, and they would sneak into Winter City to attack humans from time to time.
At the beginning, the City Lord's Mansion will try to clean up these monsters as much as possible.
After a long time, as the city guards and knights continued to suffer casualties, the City Lord's Mansion resolutely abandoned the civilian area of Winter City and concentrated its forces to guard the wealthy area near the castle.
Unprepared, the Warcraft unscrupulously searched for "food" one by one in the civilian area.
If it weren't for the great knight Wood who insisted on staying in the civilian area regardless of the danger, I am afraid that the people in the civilian area would have been hunted by monsters long ago.
However, Wood's strength alone is limited, and he can only guard thousands of civilians within a few streets in the end.
As for other places, facing the snow that can overwhelm the houses while facing the hunting monsters, some people may survive, but there must be very few.
...
Qixi and Qimi are lucky in a way, because the street they are on is one of the streets guarded by the great knight Wood.
Inside the snow-buried house, Qixi raised his head while holding Qimi, and stared blankly at the ceiling with his somewhat red and swollen eyes.
The ceiling above my head creaked from time to time.
I don't know when it will collapse.
Qixi thought that if the roof really collapsed, he would definitely stand on his sister Qimi's body. After all, he had promised his mother that he would protect his sister for the rest of his life.
Thinking about it, Qixi looked down at her younger sister Qimi in her arms.
Qimi cried again and fainted. Ever since her mother passed away, she would cry until she fainted whenever she saw her mother.
Qimi had no choice but to take advantage of God's Retribution Day to wrap his mother's body in a blanket and temporarily put his mother outside the door.
Fortunately, the snow was deep enough, and it was also fortunate that the great knight was there, and the monsters did not dig up the mother's body.
Otherwise, when spring came, he would not be able to bury his mother next to his father's grave.
Thinking about it, Qixi was afraid of waking Qimi, so she could only cover her mouth with one hand, and wipe away the tears she wanted to shed with the other hand.
Unfortunately, this tiny movement still alarmed Qimi.
Qixi bit his tongue hastily. Under the stimulation of pain, he finally held back his tears, and then quickly wiped away the remaining tears with his sleeve.
If my sister Qimi saw the tears on his face, she would definitely cry again.
"Big brother, where is mother?" Chimi asked weakly.
Even though his mother had been placed outside, Chimi still cried a lot.
The constant crying made Qimi's body extremely weak, and now she is so weak that she can't even tell whether her mother is dead or not.
Qixi could only comfort her and said, "Mother is looking for food, and she will be back soon. You should sleep first, and I will call you when mother comes back."
Qimi nodded obediently, "I listened to what big brother said, but I'm so hungry, I miss my mother too, can mother come back soon?"
Qixi opened her mouth, but didn't know how to answer Qimi's question.
Just then, there was a noise from their house, and then a strong arm reached through the snow and into the house.
The arm was quickly retracted, leaving only a piece of white bread.
When Qimi turned his head, he saw white bread all at once.
"It's white bread, big brother. Is mother back, but where is mother?" Qimi kept turning his head to look for his mother.
Qixi didn't answer, just picked up the white bread, stuffed it to Qimi, and then said: "Of course, mother is back, but she went to find us food for tomorrow, otherwise we will be hungry tomorrow, you Wait a little longer, mother will be back later."
Maybe it was because he was too hungry, but Qimi didn't doubt it, broke off a third of the white bread, ate it with big mouthfuls, and fell asleep again before he knew it.
Qixi looked at the remaining two-thirds of the white bread, and her eyes were red again.
In the end, he only broke off a small piece, and after eating two bites, he carefully hid the rest of the white bread despite the hunger.
Qixi knew very well who the person who sent the white bread was, if it wasn't for the great knight who guarded the street under the demonic beast, if he didn't bring some food to their brothers and sisters from time to time, if he didn't give them a glowing Stone, the two of them have died long ago.
Qixi knew all this, so he wanted to save food and try not to cause trouble to the great knight.
With such thoughts in mind, sleepiness hit Qixi at some point.
In a daze, Qixi remembered the great knight who helped him shovel the snow back then, and he muttered to himself.
"They are all knights? Why are most of the knights in Winter City different from the Great Knight?"
"But the Great Knight is so... handsome."
"The great knight is the real knight, can I become a knight in the future?"
"If I can also become a knight, I will definitely be able to save people like my mother, at least I can protect my little sister Qimi..."
...
In the castle of Winter City, Caton sat at the desk in the study, and a man dressed as an official stood beside him.
The man dressed as an official is a tax collector.
At this time, the tax officer took out a piece of parchment, handed it to Caton, and said, "My lord, this is a tax collection order from the imperial capital. This year's family tax."
There are three types of taxes on the surface of the human empire.
1: Land rent tax.
2: income tax.
3: Family tax.
Land rent tax and income tax are literal meanings, while family tax is a tax that everyone living in the human empire has to pay.
Household tax is distinct from ground rent and income taxes.
The biggest beneficiaries of the land rent tax and income tax are the local lords, and this family tax is paid directly to the imperial treasury.
It can be regarded as a tax set up by the empire to ensure the filling of the treasury.
Usually, the household tax is not paid together with the land rent tax income tax until after the autumn harvest.
However, this Year of God's Punishment caused heavy losses to the human empire and the treasury was empty. The king finally ordered the collection of family taxes in advance.