Chapter 304 Yan Shaozhe: Shrek is big enough to accommodate those persecuted people.
"The little beast who killed Xiaotao and Mei'er two years ago suddenly appeared. Under the instruction of the soul master of the worship hall, he raised the butcher knife to the Sun and Moon royal family, confiscated the family and killed many people."
Speaking of Xu Tianxi, a dark haze surged in the depths of Yan Shaozhe's pupils, and he said coldly: "This little beast without filial piety really killed many royal relatives and threw their bodies into mass graves, leaving them without bones and turning into lonely ghosts!"
The facts described by Yan Shaozhe are correct. Because too many people were killed, Xu Tianxi didn't even need to bury them according to the ceremony, and even lacked a monument. He gave full play to the ability of the fire attribute soul master and cremated them on the spot.
A certain Miss Ye with the sacred fire did not escape the tragic fate of a worker. She was sent to be a tool by a black-hearted boss. When the sacred fire went down, all the bodies turned into ashes.
After burning to ashes, in order to prevent the impact on the environment, it was the turn of Xu Sanshi's water-based fire brigade to go on the scene, raising and washing the ashes to prevent air pollution.
"Afterwards, this little beast confiscated all the property of those princes and nobles. All the living princes who bought property were forced to pay more than 90% of taxes, and the tributes were also cut by 90%; it was simply insane and outrageous!"
As he spoke, Yan Shaozhe felt a little sad for the royal family of the Sun and Moon Empire. They had to meet such a black-handed and cruel person. The dead saw their property confiscated before they died, and the living were more uncomfortable than dying.
What's the difference between asking the princes who have never paid land taxes and business taxes to pay such heavy taxes and asking for their lives?
Hearing this, Zhuang Lao, who succeeded Lin Huiqun and was in charge of Jubao Pavilion and Shrek's foreign business, also sighed:
"Yes, this little beast is so cruel and vicious. I heard that his 90% tax is just the starting point. The more property a royal family member has, the higher the tax ratio is. The highest tax ratio is as high as 995%."
"This is equivalent to him working hard for a year and earning 100 million gold soul coins, but only 500,000 gold soul coins fall into his pocket. Looking at the history of the mainland, there has never been such an appalling thing. This person simply does not understand economics at all and can only rob and plunder!"
"If you don't give him money, he will directly bring people to confiscate the family's property. Tsk tsk, the royal family of the Sun and Moon Empire is really not living a human life. They are simply like pigs and sheep to be slaughtered."
Shrek City is the economic center of the three empires. It has convenient transportation, guaranteed security, and Shrek's golden signboard. Even so, they did not dare to collect commercial taxes to the sky. The annual tax revenue is only a few hundred million gold soul coins.
This little bastard has confiscated the property of so many royal families and robbed so many people. How many billions of gold soul coins must he have earned? Old Zhuang didn't even dare to think about it.
When Old Zhuang opened his mouth, he immediately opened up the conversation. The old and new Sea God Pavilion elders spoke one after another, and they actually sympathized with the Sun and Moon Royal Family.
"That's right. Although we have always had grievances with the Sun-Moon Empire, we might as well put aside our stance at this time. These royal families have really suffered an undeserved disaster..."
"Hehe, I saw that this little beast was a hypocrite when he saved people in Xingluo City two years ago. Now it is true! He can even kill his own relatives, which shows how cold-hearted he is!"
"Such a cold-hearted person who kills countless people will definitely be punished by heaven. Lord Poseidon will never bless him..."
"The Sun-Moon Empire is originally a foreign thief, how can it be qualified to compete with us..."
Almost every old man had a sarcastic and indifferent smile on his face. Their innate stance made them extremely hate Xu Tianxi's "retrograde" behavior, or perhaps... fear.
The people in the Poseidon Pavilion, whose thoughts are still quite backward, naturally did not know that Xu Tianxi's method was not his original idea, but referred to the policy of General Luo during the peak period of the Dish Lighthouse in the previous life.
The main point is to skin the upper class and make every effort to supplement the middle and lower classes, which is very progressive.
Although it is a bit of a big step to jump directly from the mixed period of slaves and feudalism to the peak period of capital, this is a fantasy world after all. Xu Tianxi thinks it can be done, and the effect is very good; the primitive accumulation has been accumulated.
The princes and nobles who were skinned did not have any opinions, and Xu Tianxi didn't hear them.
In Xu Tianxi's plan, it will take three years to clean up the termites in the Sun and Moon Empire, from the royal family to those powerful nobles with fiefs, to the big landlords, big wealthy businessmen, and small nobles, all of them are targets for surgery, step by step, and none of them can be missed.
Don't think about the death penalty, just pay attention in the next life; those who are not guilty of the death penalty, if they want to live, they will pay money to save their lives, and those who don't want to live will all be sent to the execution ground; plow the courtyard and sweep the holes, and kill them all.
In this extraordinary world where the great power belongs to oneself, am I still afraid that you will counterattack or write a small essay to ruin my reputation? Have you ever heard of the Dark Age next door? Rather than you rebel against me in the future, I might as well chop you all off first.
In the past, I was a junior soul master, and I could only turn a blind eye to you guys who sucked blood from the masses and acted recklessly. Now I can kill Super Douluo. If I don't operate on you, wouldn't I have practiced for so many years in vain?
After staying in Mingde Hall for a while, Xu Tianxi knew that the funding problem was a huge limitation on the technological progress of soul guides. To develop productivity, money is necessary.
Because of the rapid development of soul guides, the Sun and Moon Empire is generally much stronger than the three major empires in terms of infrastructure, but it is not so transcendent. It also takes money to build national channels, water conservancy facilities, national information base stations, and invest in the construction of soul guide malls and other infrastructure.
Various types of civilian soul guides have not been able to enter thousands of households, which means that the people have no money in their hands, and they still need money to invest in creating a better environment and stimulate vitality.
So many places need money, and Xu Tianxi also likes money. He earns money from whoever has money, so these old things from the old times will go all the way. He told Xiao Hongchen that it is not an empty talk to use their blood to build a more powerful empire.
Later, large-scale infrastructure construction can reduce taxes, but now we have to collect taxes from the sky; compared with the civilians who have been violated by them and are in debt for several lifetimes, what is this little bit of suffering? He just let these people experience what they like to do.
Of course, many people are double-standard. The elders of the Sea God Pavilion can tolerate the nobles who share the same interests with them lying on the civilians of Douluo Continent and sucking blood for 10,000 years, 20,000 years, and forever, but they absolutely cannot tolerate that someone would impose such a thing on them.
What made them even more angry was what Yan Shaozhe said next, that there was also a traitor in their original Three Kingdoms!
The Xingluo Emperor Xu Jiawei, who started to make trouble internally a year ago, did not learn from the good and learned from the bad. He actually learned from the opposite Sun and Moon Empire and sent the Imperial Guards to search and confiscate hundreds of nobles in Xingluo City in one breath. He took the strong men of the Worship Hall with the dignity of an emperor and killed people all over Xingluo City!
Afterwards, he implemented a tax rate of 80% in the country, which was 10% less than that of the Sun and Moon Empire.
Although Xu Jiawei publicly sentenced the nobles for their numerous crimes after killing people, and the core nobles of the empire such as the White Tiger Duke's Mansion were not passive, the Shrek people still found it unacceptable.
The most infuriating thing is that Xu Jiawei actually announced in public that 30% of the money obtained from the house confiscation would be used for military expenses, 20% would be used to repair Xingluo City and appease the people, and only 50% would be returned to the national treasury.
This led to the most powerful military in the Xingluo Empire collectively agreeing with Xu Jiawei's actions. Representatives from all the major legions were almost going to fight for this military expenditure, and "loyalty" was shouted louder and louder.
At the same time, some military leaders with great ideas simply "fighted the enemy according to the order" and allowed the army to clear out the nobles nearby. Many old nobles in the Xingluo Empire were directly tormented to death.
Ten thousand years of family and generations of nobles? Sorry, let's talk about the soul skills of the soul masters and the battle formations of the army. Now whoever doesn't take action will have no military expenditure, and the brothers under him will have to eat meat in exchange for equipment.
The Tianhun Empire, who had no idea what was wrong with them, also followed suit, and invited the assholes from the Body Sect to help. As a result, the nobles of the Tianhun Empire, which had the strongest soul master among the three empires, had no power to resist the royal sword and were forced to increase taxes by 90%.
The Body Sect's style of doing things was even more brutal than Xu Tianxi's. Many times, they even skipped the process of arresting people in jail, gathering evidence, and killing people on the execution ground. If they didn't bow their heads, they would lead the army to attack, and the blood inside and outside Tiandou City was stained for thousands of miles.
At the same time, the Tianhun Empire announced that families with Titled Douluo would not have to increase taxes, and families with Soul Douluo and Soul Saint could apply for tax reductions. The noble alliance became vulnerable to collapse,
and those who could not escape could only obediently offer their property. As for the nobles who could escape... those adjacent to the Douling Empire naturally went to Douling. Most of the nobles fled in the direction of Shrek City. Many nobles in the Xingluo Empire also greeted them secretly, hoping to move their families to Shrek City.
During this period, the elders of Poseidon Pavilion received hundreds of letters of complaint and nostalgia, almost collapsing the roof.
These elders were born in noble families. After becoming Shrek people, their relationship with their families became much shallower, but there were always some relatives, even Elder Song was no exception.
"In short... this is the situation. I tell you with a heavy heart that the royal families of the two empires have gone crazy. They have no ties to the old times, have become mean and ungrateful, and wantonly eliminate dissidents. They have forgotten that their ancestors ascended the throne with the support of these old nobles..."
Yan Shaozhe's eyes were shining with tears, and he hated these guys for taking the initiative to follow the Sun and Moon Empire to smash the pot. Shouldn't the nobles be passed down for thousands of generations? How could you do such a thing?
Old Master Song had a sorrowful look on his face, and said in a sad voice: "Shaozhe is right. These days, the letters from those kind-hearted people have almost broken my heart."
"The children in the inner and outer courtyards have also received letters from their families. During this period, I saw many children petitioning us to move their families here and get the protection of the academy."
Xian Lin'er hesitated and reminded: "But mom, the royal families of the two empires are also informing us, asking us not to intervene. How should we deal with it?"
Old Master Zhuang said compassionately: "We can't let the children down! Our Shrek Academy is certainly not as good as before, but it is still the number one academy on the continent! It's okay that we are unable to organize an inspection team to protect the continent, but can't we even protect the children's families?"
"You know, these children will be our Shrek people in the future. If Shrek Academy can't even protect Shrek people, is it still Shrek Academy?"
"Shrek City is very big, it can accommodate thousands of new families! If it's not enough, we can expand it. Let's work together to build our new home where we can live and work in peace and contentment!"
Money has never been a problem for Shrek. With so many nobles, it is enough for them to build a new Shrek City!
Yan Shaozhe nodded heavily and agreed: "Not only that, we should also accept more people with lofty ideals who have been persecuted and displaced. Shrek can accommodate them!"
"I think these two empires are already on the verge of destruction. We Shrek must preserve the fire for Douluo Continent!"
"Shaozhe is right!"
"That's right!"
"I agree!"
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The Sea God Pavilion voted, and Yan Shaozhe's proposal was passed unanimously.
Who doesn't like a blood bag delivered for free? Shrek certainly won't charge such a high tax, but since everyone is building a new home together, there must be no problem with selfless dedication to the new home, right?
But at this moment, Beibei, who had been listening in the corner of the Sea God Pavilion, suddenly spoke up:
"Elders, if the Sun Moon Empire continues to do the same thing after launching a war and forcibly expands it to the entire continent, how should we respond?"
"This..." The excited elders suddenly froze on their faces.
Yes, what should we do after the war breaks out? Will the Sun Moon Empire accept conditional surrender?
(End of this chapter)