Chapter 358: Chaos in Maro City

When the orcs were not known, the chaos in Maro City was limited to the noble circle, and a small number of nobles.

However, since the traces of the orcs were discovered and the conflicts were transferred to them, this chaos quickly expanded to all civilians.

Because almost all the allies were sure that the orcs were causing trouble in Maro City.

And the attack on the Holy Light Church territory and the subsequent series of assassinations were all attributed to the orcs.

Although Ethan knew that the probability of this was very small, he did not dare to stand up and explain.

Because the allies blamed the responsibility on the orcs, the pressure on him was suddenly relieved a lot.

The result of Ethan's carelessness was that the allies began to search for orcs privately.

Because the orcs who could blend into humans had no difference in appearance from humans, the only difference was blood.

Therefore, the whole city began to bleed, trying to find the orcs hiding in the city.

This matter seemed to be no problem, but in actual operation, there were big problems.

Ethan knew too well that this action was meaningless.

Not only can't we find the hidden orcs, but we will also mess up the order of Maro City.

As for the reason...

Let me put it this way!

In Ethan's previous life, telecommunications fraud was rampant, so some experts suggested a real-name system to cut off telecommunications fraud.

It sounds like there is no problem!

Since the real name is used, who dares to commit fraud?

But what is the result after implementation?

The telecommunications fraud is still fraud, not one less.

And before the real name, you don't know the scammer, but at least the scammer doesn't know you, and it's not easy for the scammers to operate.

But what about after the real name?

You still don't know the scammer, but the scammer knows you well.

Now the whole city is bleeding, which is similar to the real-name system.

The Maro City Council controls four towns, with a total of millions of people.

Millions of people!

When are you going to let it go?

And because there is no unified record, you are bled today, and you will be let go tomorrow.

The result is that a bunch of people are messing around there.

If you just mess around, it will only waste manpower and financial resources at most.

The key is that this group of allies have no interest in messing around.

They are all taking advantage of this reasonable and legal opportunity to suppress their competitors.

As long as they are competitors, no matter whether their blood is red or not, they will all be treated as orcs.

Then they will be arrested and their businesses will be confiscated.

Yes, Maro City is so chaotic now.

In the past, Ethan didn't understand why the country was so afraid of chaos, but now he understands that once there is unrest in a certain place, all kinds of monsters will jump out and then seek personal gain in a reasonable and legal way.

In the end, the ones who suffer are those who like to make trouble and those who like to eat melons and don't mind the big things.

Ethan thinks that this matter can't continue. If these people continue to do it, the whole Maro City will be finished.

Therefore, before the start of the parliament the next day, he communicated with everyone in the lounge about the current known situation.

And clearly asked everyone to stop privately searching for orcs, on the grounds of restoring social order and protecting tax revenue.

Yes, Ethan didn't dare to say that he was responsible for arresting orcs, but only dared to say that it was for protecting tax revenue.

He was beating around the bush, not because he didn't want to take responsibility, but because he couldn't afford it.

However, it was obvious that Ethan's reason could not convince everyone, because they didn't care about the parliament's tax revenue at all.

They only cared about two things, one was to catch those orcs and then kill them all.

The second was to take advantage of the opportunity.

Ethan's proposal had nothing to do with these two points, and they obviously couldn't agree with it.

Especially the Pearman family and the Casillas family, both of which had killed people because of assassination, and they were very important members.

Therefore, they were serious about capturing the orcs.

Now that there was some success, they would never give up halfway.

Charlton, the patriarch of the Casillas family, clearly stood up to express his opposition.

"Senator Ethan, I appreciate your concern for the general public, but you don't seem to care much about the safety of your allies.

My brother was assassinated, and his death was so tragic.

But you told me to give up tracking down the murderer in order to ensure tax revenue.

Can you be so calm and stand there and talk nonsense if there are no deaths in your Lawson family?"

"That's right! Your Excellency the Great Sword Saint, if you don't want to uphold justice, then at least don't stop us from taking revenge." Dorov, the new patriarch of the Pierman family, also came out to help.

"It can be seen that all this was done by the orcs. If we don't kill them all, it will be difficult to relieve the hatred in our hearts."

"Blood debt must be paid with blood!"

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As soon as someone took the lead, everyone began to express opposition.

When Ethan saw this posture, he sneered in his heart.

Except for the Pierman family and the Casillas family, everyone else wanted to fish in troubled waters, and Ethan would never indulge them.

And Ethan dared to talk about taxation, which was naturally not something he thought up casually.

You should know that the staff of the parliament in the fields of public security, administration, justice, finance and taxation now exceeds 8,000.

The salary of these people alone is close to 100,000 per month.

However, the tax revenue of the parliament is less than one-tenth of that during the reign of the Duke's Mansion.

This amount of money is not enough for the parliament to pay salaries to its subordinates, let alone other things.

The current operation of the parliament's funds mainly depends on two aspects, one is the salary subsidy of the Casillas family and the Lawson family, and the other is the tax revenue of each member of the parliament.

Not only is the council now unable to make ends meet, it is also in debt.

And the main income is actually the taxes of members of parliament.

Yes, those who are willing to pay now are actually members of the parliament.

The merchants, commoners, and other nobles outside received almost no taxes.

Of course, the main reason for this is that the parliament was established too hastily and many supporting facilities were not kept up.

For example, there are not enough tax collectors to collect taxes.

Another example is the chaotic tax reporting system, which causes businessmen, commoners, and other nobles to hide, evade, and evade taxes.

In short, many reasons come together to prevent tax revenue.

The consequence was that the parliament was demolishing the east wall to repair the west wall, and Sofia was so worried that her hair almost fell out because of taxation.

If taxes are no longer collected, the heavy taxes paid in advance by members of parliament will not be refundable.

You know, if members of parliament are willing to pay taxes now, it is because of the tax refund system.

In other words, all the money used by the parliament was paid in advance by them.

If they keep messing around and messing up Marlow City, the council will be unable to collect taxes. If there is no money to refund them, they will be the ones crying.

Thinking of this, Ethan stood up and said slowly:

“Don’t worry, I didn’t say we should stop arresting the murderer.

The man behind the scenes dared to attack our parliament and assassinate two of our important members. No matter what, we will demand that man pay with his blood.

But revenge is revenge, and taxes are taxes.

These are two different things, please don't confuse them.

You privately searched for orcs. Although your intention was good, I would like to ask, have you caught anyone?

As far as I know, you have been searching for several days, but you haven't caught a real orc yet!

Not only did you fail to arrest anyone, you also disrupted the entire social order.

Now the entire Maruo City is full of jealousy, and no one has the intention to run it.

If this continues, the council will not be able to collect taxes and the mid-year tax refund will not be implemented. Please don’t blame the council for having no money.

Because all of this is your own fault. "

When everyone heard that they could not get a tax refund, they were immediately in an uproar...