The next day, the tax collector from the town came to Zheng Zhilong's room exclusively for the town center.

"tax rate?"

"Yes, the leader. We now have two thousand urban populations and three thousand rural populations. The head tax in the city has two copper coins a month, and the country people have one copper coins. Ten copper coins are exchanged for one silver coins, and ten silver coins are exchanged for one gold coins. The head tax in total can collect seventy gold coins a month.

As for commercial tax... there are at least a few shops in the town, and they can sell a little, almost all, and they can collect fifty gold coins every month.

In addition, the farmers in your territory are ultimately your serfs, and they also have thirty gold coins to pay the land tax every month.

Total, under the medium tax rate, you can charge 150 gold coins per month.”

"...150 gold coins." Zheng Zhilong knocked his head: "I remember it costs 1,000 gold coins to upgrade to a high-end town center - I did nothing, and I couldn't upgrade a large town in half a year?"

"It's almost like that, but you can also raise the tax rate, the leader. Now it's just a normal tax rate, and there are two levels of high tax rate and extremely high tax rate."

"Forget it." Zheng Zhilong shook his head: "How much money is there in the treasury now?"

"There are almost five thousand gold coins. It was saved by our tribe in robbery everywhere for decades." said the tax collector.

"So, what will be the effect if the tax rate is lowered?" Zheng Zhilong asked.

“First of all, income will drop.”

"nonsense!"

"Secondly, it can attract some refugees to join."

"—Okay, this is enough. Lower the tax rate!"

"In this way, the leader can only earn 100 gold coins per month. Our army needs 300 gold coins to maintain the cost per month. Please pay attention."

"Talk!"

Then, it is the mayor of this town.

"Development direction?"

"That's right, this town is now in a mess. You can choose some buildings to build and develop this town."

“What are the agricultural facilities?”

"The basic farmland requires five hundred gold coins. It takes fifteen days."

"establish!"

"The mill requires ten, five hundred gold coins in total, and fifteen days."

"establish!"

"The livestock fence requires a total of ten, five hundred gold coins, and it takes fifteen days."

"establish!"

"The bakery requires a total of ten, five hundred gold coins, and the time is five days."

"establish!"

In this way, a total of 2,000 gold coins were gone at once. However, Zheng Zhilong didn't care at all. The basic agricultural facilities were all complete and the tax rate was lowered. This would attract more people to join and more people to join. Only in this way could the town be upgraded, and only after upgrading could it be built, stronger troops were recruited, and more power could be expanded.

However, this is not fast enough. Zheng Zhilong spent five days to calculate, and on average, twenty refugees would join Biyad Town every day. Upgrading a large town requires 5,000 people. That is, 150 days and five months. This time is too long. And if you eat nothing, you don’t have enough money to pay military pay to your troops. Of course, you can also use the method of deducting military pay - but that will definitely affect the morale of the army, and in serious cases it will lead to mutiny or something.

"So, I can only go to rob." Zheng Zhilong rolled his eyes like this and made up his mind.

Biyad's army had thousands of people, and was well-equipped, even with a team of twenty knights and fifty medium-sized cavalry. Such troops were counted even if they were placed on the continent. It would be very easy to destroy the surrounding small tribes. Not long after the life of the Viking pirates ended, and each tribe must have caught a lot before this. They were not like Zheng Zhilong, who had such a system like a gold-swalking beast to raise, and they probably had no place to spend the flowers. After destroying their tribe, the elderly, young, sick, disabled, and surrendered young and middle-aged people were also population. After filling in this way, the demand for large towns could be reached.

In this way, you have money and population, and the ambitions you received, it would be unreasonable not to fight Yat-tung.

At the same time, if you don’t use NPC as a person, you will make a contribution again. Zheng Zhilong has no psychological pressure on killing people in this world. Maybe after experiencing a few wars, you will be able to obtain attributes such as cold slaughter and killing.

That's it.

The army went on a battle! Zheng Zhilong wrapped a robe, put on a fur cloak, and rode on a two-meter-high monster-level cold-blooded horse. The generals and guards were usually stationed in the barracks around the center of his town. Zheng Zhilong ordered the servants, and then the bell rang, and the well-trained guard knights quickly grabbed the sword beside them and walked out, lined up.

Zheng Zhilong's cold eyes swept, causing the twenty guard knights to tense up. At the same time, he couldn't help but stand even more straighter.

"Send the order, the army gathers and prepares for war!"

After such an order was issued, the guard knights, who were also messengers, quickly divided four people and rode on horseback towards several barracks scattered around the town. More than ten minutes later, thousands of Viking warriors gathered in the square in the center of the town.

Seeing the army assembled, Zheng Zhilong ordered: "Go to fight! Let me burn, kill and loot!"

Afterwards, the Viking soldiers who had been holding back for a long time cheered. The army quickly left the town and advanced towards the target.

Although it was the first time to lead a war, some novels that I read in my previous life also had some references. I had never eaten pork and saw pigs running. In addition, when choosing the character attributes, the natural generals given by the system and the attributes of cavalry and infantry generals were also decent when Zheng Zhilong commanded them.

The tomahawk cavalry scattered into a team of five people as scouts, scattered everywhere - although there is a systematic map, if it is an ambush army, it will not be displayed on the map. So this is very necessary.

Then, there is the main force. The four teams of Viking infantry at the front lined up in a square formation - it is called a square formation, but in fact it is similar to the scattered formation... And behind, there are two teams of Nordic archers, carrying some homemade rocket oil, and rockets can be used to face the enemy if necessary. Walking in the third formation, the elite general guards surrounded by two teams of Viking warriors in the center. Zheng Zhilong, who was very afraid of death, decided that if it was unnecessary, the elite troops of 320 people would not have to do anything else besides protecting his safety.

Looking at the map given by the system, there is no need to go wrong. However, the Scandinavian environment is really too bad. It is still sunny during the day, but it starts to blow wind and snow at noon. In addition to the snow that had fallen on the ground before, the snow on the entire ground is almost knee-breaking. Even though it is under the leather armor, there is another layer of fur coat and gloves outside, Zheng Zhilong still feels trembling. Looking at the Viking warriors next to him, they are all lively and don’t wear much, but none of them are called cold. Instead, they joke that such wind and snow are conducive to covering sneak attacks, which makes Zheng Zhilong blush.

Forget it, consume a little health to exchange the intermediate physique and primary cold resistance. Zheng Zhilong thought this way, but the system elves said that they had entered combat mode now, so they could not perform system operations. They had to wait until the battle was over before talking.

Then forget it. Wait for the next time.

After two hours of march, the army arrived at the first destination, a typical and distinctive Viking tribe, with a total population of nearly a thousand people, and nearly 300 young and middle-aged people who could go to the battlefield. If necessary, add the old, weak and remnants, and even dozens of people could be gathered. However, when it really reached that point, resistance was basically useless.

"Stay a break and eat something."

After Zheng Zhilong gave such an order, the Viking soldiers sat down on the spot, took out the hard jerky meat from their arms, and dried the dry black bread, and ate it bit by bit. The soldiers stopped after eating at least 60% full, and then rested for a while. Similarly, Zheng Zhilong also jumped off the horse's back and moved his arms and legs. Although the food was difficult to swallow, he could at least fill his stomach. After eating six or 70% full, he began to close his eyes and rest.

"It's OK. Leader." After more than ten minutes, the guard knight next to him whispered.

"Well." Zheng Zhilong opened his eyes, nodded, then stood up and raised his battle axe and shouted: "War! Kill! Plunder! We are the Vikings! The strongest nation in the whole of Europe! The incarnation of death that came out of the storm of Nordic Europe! The manifestation of the rage that loves fighting the most! Now, in the name of the leader, I command you to follow me with the authority given by God! Blame those wastes that are less than one ten thousand of us! Use the battle axe to chop off the enemy's heads! Plunder their wealth and women! Let's go! Warriors! Come with me!!"

After this passionate speech, the morale of the Viking warriors was high. At this moment, after resting and eating, the Viking warriors' physical strength was also restored, and one kilometer away from us was the enemy's tribe settlement!

"Put on the armor! Get on the horse!" With the help of the two guard knights, Zheng Zhilong put out his entire set of Renaissance plate armor, and then turned over to the horse: "Go forward!!!"

At this moment, the targeted Viking tribe did not know that it had been targeted by stronger predators. And because of the previous blizzard, most people hid in the long house and roasted the fire. Most of the soldiers gathered together to drink, and complained that the current climate was really not good. Your sister's Vikings had been around the world. The bones in England were so hard to chew, and so on...
Chapter completed!