Chapter 363: Skyrocketing Summer Taxes

Alacosia said, stepped forward, opened the wooden box in the wooden box, and respectfully and carefully held out something.

"This is the statue of the goddess Danu! It was carved by leader Maximus himself according to the goddess Danu who came to him in his dreams many times and gave him enlightenment. I am asked to bring it to you, the sage. I hope that the radiance of the goddess can also shine on the iron. Core Tribe!”

Podamochi took the statue half respectfully, half doubtfully, and looked at it carefully: it was a half-meter-tall wooden female statue. The woman in the statue had her hair tied up in a high bun, with a garland of oak branches, and was dressed in simple clothes. The white dress has delicate patterns, and the skirt hangs down as naturally as flowing water. Her smooth white left hand holds the pottery bottle filled with water on her left shoulder, and her right hand reaches forward, spilling the soil in her hand. Her figure is graceful, tall, and noble. And elegant, with a kind and peaceful face, a pair of deep eyes lowered slightly, gazing at all things in the world with compassion, and the corners of her smiling mouth giving people gentle care...

The more Bodamoch looks at it, the more intimate he feels, and the more he looks at it, the more sacred he feels...

He hurriedly placed the statue of the god respectfully on his seat, took a few steps back, and bowed to it devoutly.

Seeing this situation, Alakosia continued from the sidelines: "We have established multiple temples of the goddess Danu in the territory of Nyx. Almost all the people will go to the temple to pray, and they respect Drew who guards the temple very much. Yi..."

Podamochi stared at the statue, his thoughts swirling in his heart.

Druids believe that there are many gods and spirits in nature, but they respect the sacred stones and the sacred forest more because the gods are unknowable and unimaginable, but rocks and forests exist in reality. They believe that touching and praying to the sacred stones can Being blessed by the gods and believing that the forest is the home of the gods is actually using the sacred stone and sacred forest as a bridge to communicate with the gods.

But the exquisite, sacred and majestic statue in front of him now made Bodamoch have an inexplicable impulse: This is the goddess Danu! We are like Him because we were created by Him! And He is perfect because She is God, above mortals! And He is loving and merciful, because He created all things and hopes that man and nature can coexist harmoniously...

Podamochi took a deep breath and said in a deep voice: "It seems that I need to take time to travel to the Nyx tribe."

Sphili was stunned and asked in surprise: "Sage, you want to go to Knicks in person?!"

Bodamoch looked at him and said firmly: "Traveling and learning is a necessary practice for us druids. I am ashamed that I have not done so for many years. It just happened that this time I took the opportunity of friendly exchanges with the Nyx tribe. , go and see the Danu Temple there, and communicate and learn from the druids there, but I don’t know if Nix will allow me to go there?”

The last words were obviously addressed to Aracosia.

Alakosia, who was also surprised, immediately came back to her senses and responded excitedly: "I think our leader Maximus must welcome Sage Bodamoch to visit the tribe!"

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At the end of September, the golden fields of the Nix tribe have turned into gray and black, and the wheat in the threshing fields of various villages has been collected into the barns. Every household is immersed in the joy of the harvest, and there is laughter everywhere.

In the main hall of Ophidilia, Maximus was listening to the report of Cornelius, the chief of the Ministry of Finance: "...This time, our Finance Department received a total of ### kilograms of wheat from the summer tax, and in addition There are ### kilograms of flax.”

"###Kilograms of wheat! The field tax collected this year has increased six or seven times compared to last year!" Maximus smiled after hearing this.

"Chief, not only has the number of tribal fields increased greatly this year, but the harvest of the fields is even better than last year, so the tax revenue exceeds the previous estimate of our Ministry of Finance." Cornelius said softly: "The Ministry of Finance is in Snodia , Westeni, Ofidilia...the granaries in several towns are full, and there is still a small amount of wheat that has no place to store. We are asking the construction team to step up the expansion of the granaries."

Maximus obviously already knew about this. He said calmly: "How much is this small portion of wheat left?"

"About... there is about one-sixth of the wheat left and there is no place to store it." Cornelius responded in a low voice.

"The Property Department is a department that pays the most attention to accurate data! A small part?" Maximus sneered and criticized harshly: "Is this how you came to be the chief officer of the Property Department with such a careless attitude?! No wonder you didn't Being able to accurately estimate the yield of wheat fields, so many granaries have been built less, and so much wheat is now piled in the open air. If it rains heavily and the wheat becomes moldy, will you pay for it then? "

Cornelius remained silent and did not dare to defend himself for a moment.

Volenus bravely interjected: "Chief, the Ministry of Property failed to accurately estimate how much summer tax there will be. It is... our Ministry of Agriculture is responsible!"

Volenus looked at Maximus, who remained calm, and said apologetically: "Although the weather has been good this year and the wheat has grown very well, we have judged in advance that there will be another bumper harvest.

But... after the tribe's territory expanded, the population increased greatly, from more than 11,300 households and more than 47,000 people to more than 52,900 households and more than 194,500 people. The number of fields also increased greatly, from the original nearly 15,000 people. Ten thousand acres increased to more than 2.17 million acres, and the population and land increased several times, but the number of personnel in the Ministry of Labor did not increase much.

To estimate the field yield in advance requires them to go to various towns, villages, and fields to carefully observe and calculate, in order to obtain more accurate data.

But there are too few people in our Finance Department. It is already very difficult to inspect the wheat fields in the Ofidilia area. The conditions of the wheat fields along the Kupa River can only be determined by a few agricultural deployment personnel stationed there. To complete this work, and there are a lot of wheat fields along the Kupa River, it is impossible for them to complete such a large amount of statistical work alone, so they can only focus on Todlido, and Snotti The wheat field situation in Asia and Westney relies more on last year's statistics.

But after the autumn harvest, we found that the ethnic people in these two towns harvested much more food than we estimated, and their average yield per mu reached 100 to 140 kilograms—"

"It's at least 20 kilograms more than last year's agricultural output!" Maximus exclaimed with some emotion.

Volenus felt relieved and his voice became louder: "Our Ministry of Agriculture specially sent people to conduct a survey and found that the main reason why the output per mu of these two urban peoples increased so much this year is because of their farming technology. I have become more skilled, the land is plowed deeply, the weeds and debris are removed very cleanly, the fertilizer is applied very fully, and the grains are carefully selected from the wheat harvested last year, with full grains..."

"What's the yield per mu here in Ophidelia?" Maximus asked with interest.

"The average yield per mu is about 100 kilograms." Volenus said without thinking: "It is 30 to 40 kilograms more than their previous yield per mu. The village chiefs of each village are more serious and responsible in teaching the tribe's farming techniques. The Preparatory people studied very seriously, and because they had acquired so much newly acquired land, they worked very hard in farming...

It is a pity that there are far insufficient farm tools, not enough cattle, and not enough manure. I believe that there will be greater improvements in these aspects next year, and the yield per mu can be increased by then. "

After hearing these words, Maximus nodded with a slight expression.

Volenus took the opportunity to say: "Chief, our Ministry of Agriculture made a mistake in estimating the farmland harvest this time. Since the northern territory was completely stabilized only a month ago, our Ministry of Agriculture was busy inspecting the Austrian territory at that time. The situation in Fidilia's fields meant that we really couldn't spare any manpower to go to the northern territory. I also heard that some villages and villages had been destroyed after the war, so I felt that there wouldn't be much harvest from the fields there. And at that time, I felt that there wouldn't be much harvest. We have just acquired that land, so it is unlikely that we will get the people there to pay taxes so quickly.

But in fact, it may be because the main purpose of the Yabod people's invasion of the northern territory was to obtain food, so they basically did not destroy the fields there. And although the area of ​​the northern territory is not large, the fields are relatively fertile. The key is that the administrator of Silinos finally made all the people in the northern territory pay taxes, and the taxes paid were quite a lot...

In short, this was a mistake made by our Ministry of Agriculture, which resulted in the fact that the grains handed over by the tribal people exceeded the initial estimate by a lot, and the Ministry of Property was caught off guard. "

Cornelius looked blankly at Volenus, who lowered his head and admitted his mistake. He did not expect that this old guy who he usually resented would speak for him at this time.

Maximus thought for a while and said in a deep voice: "There is a shortage of personnel, not only in your Agriculture Department, but also in other departments. Last time you raided the tribal schools and recruited so many students, Kefi Sofeng followed me Urgent.

This time, don't think about expanding your department. Even if I agree, there is no one. It will take time for tribal schools to cultivate students who can do things. In short, you have to think of your own ways and try your best to do things well. I don't want the same mistake to happen next time! "

"Yes, chief!" Volenus and Cornelius bowed in response at the same time.

Cornelius then explained: "Chief, we have obtained the consent of Cyclops, the administrator of Ophidilia, to temporarily store the remaining grain in the vacant houses in the East Village. This ensures that food security.

Lord Capito has sent a lot of additional manpower to the construction team. In a month, two more large granaries will be built near Ofidilia, which will be more than enough to store the grain. "