Chapter 737
"Stop your dirty behavior. We are collecting aid funds, but you are not qualified to collect, nor are you free to dominate. Eat a tycoon meal and embezzle precious revolutionary funds. I want to arrest you!"
In front of the line at the restaurants, a square-shaped man said in a deep voice with a long sword in his hand.
The words were straightforward and full of righteous indignation. From Kylot's perspective, some people in the team that collected the so-called "revolutionary funds" before turned red. The man outside the restaurant said that he undoubtedly tore off their coats and exposed the sins inside directly to everyone's eyes. This is very embarrassing. Many people always have to find a reason before doing bad things. Now the reason is exposed, and their own character is known to everyone. Unless they are purely evil, people with a little shameful heart will find it difficult to accept.
Besides, if this is arrested today, I will not be able to stay in the revolutionary army in the future.
"Which part of you are? This is the area under the jurisdiction of His Excellency Avery. This is the rule here. Don't you know?"
I definitely cannot admit what I do, so I can only use the rules to make excuses.
"We are the team under Mr. Slytherin, your rules? How could you have such rules? Our revolution is just, and your actions have defiled this sacred cause, and I will never tolerate it!"
"Hmph, don't snatch the shit basin randomly. This is Lazina, a fair and just place. Everything must be based on evidence. If you can't produce evidence, even Mr. Slytherin will not be able to convict me. I just helped the donor to submit aid money. Do you understand? I didn't see that the store is so busy? I paid my own money for dinner. Manager, are you right?"
Everyone's eyes turned to the store manager again.
"This...yes, this gentleman is indeed paying his own money..."
What else can the old man answer? The crime of collecting aid funds privately is to make these people in front of him lose the decent cloak of the Revolutionary Army. Who can guarantee that they will not simply return to their nature at that time? It is him who will be injured.
"You are lying, you are a dishonest person. Sure enough... I thought you could make sense when you are old, but I didn't expect you to be so stupid. I didn't even dare to tell the truth. I will report your affairs to Mr. Mozaff Slytherin, let's go!"
The man outside the restaurant never stepped into the room. After the manager finished speaking, he calmed down his sex for the manager. Then he seemed to see something he disliked, and walked away strode away, not even caring about these people.
"They just left like this? Obviously, the store manager was afraid of being retaliated and didn't dare to say that, so he became a profiteer?"
Bashas looked at the team leaving outside the door in surprise, surprised that these people could not even see such a simple thing.
"Didn't you notice that those people just now didn't mention the store manager from beginning to end. What they couldn't stand is just the act of collecting aid funds privately, and from their words, we can know that the aid funds do exist and are widely collected... I heard that the places occupied by the Revolutionary Army do not collect taxes? I still find it strange, but I didn't expect to wait here."
Taxation can be said to be the core source of income for those in power, and these incomes come entirely from the people in the region. The taxes in this era all depend on the decisions of the nobles or the government. In order to attract more people to settle in, Kylot decided to be completely exempt from taxes in the first year, and to collect half of the general level of the outside world in the second year, and to collect the full amount in the third year. As a revolutionary army that resisted the nobles and the government, of course, this kind of exploitation of the working people at the bottom is not allowed.
But war requires money. If there is not enough funds to distribute military pay and purchase food and weapons, no matter how firm the revolutionary warrior is, he cannot go to the battlefield with his advanced ideas with bare hands and empty stomachs, right?
Aid funds replace taxes and exist in any place occupied by the Revolutionary Army. The lower-level people only need to pay an extremely low part, and even if they choose to join the army, they can be completely exempted from taxes. The big part of this fee completely falls on the heads of merchants in the city, and the restaurant in front of them is one of them.
"Silly policy, the Revolutionary Army is so poor that it is useless... It seems that no nobles can steal it, so they put their ideas on the merchants."
Kelot looked down on the collection of this aid fund. It is not enough to exploit the lower-class people. Is it okay to exploit these businesses? Kelot probably knows the idea of the Revolutionary Army. They originated from the lower-class people, and the people who support them the most are also the lower-class people. If you collect money from this premise, it is very likely that your foundation will be unstable. After all, they have only occupied these places for a year or two. If you do the original government, what is the difference between them and the original nobles? Since there is no difference, why should the people support them?
But it is not possible to not collect money. The Revolutionary Army does not have a mature business system. There is no large chamber of commerce under their name. In the past, the funds were obtained by robbing the nobles, including the aristocrats' small vaults, the sales of antiques collected, etc. Qingshu is very clear about this. Because a considerable number of the antiques sold to them by the Revolutionary Army in Lorraine have been sold by them in the black market and sold at high prices, and the funds obtained are continuously invested in the development of Gonza City. However, as the team continues to grow, it is impossible to keep robbing. Qingshu may have occupied a very important part of the development of Yamek and the giant whale, but the real key role is the Black Island and Aoki Consortium, as well as the escort industry at sea. In the future, the tax revenue of Gonza City and the output of crystal veins may also be added.
The Revolutionary Army did not have these things, or they were always fighting and did not have the resources and energy to tinker with these matters, so they chose to collect the funds to support the army and develop their power from the merchants. Of course, there is no problem in a short period of time. In the long run, it is tantamount to drinking poison to quench thirst.
What does it take to develop a city? To put it bluntly, can it be up to those lower-class people who don’t know a lot about it? You ask them to run some small industries. No problem. You let them become the head of the chamber of commerce and control the circulation and sales of some goods. It would be nice if you don’t lose all of it, let alone factory operations. They may be very good workers. Can you still expect them to make more construction in the industry?
After all, commerce and industry are absolutely indispensable for a region to prosper. The current behavior of the Revolutionary Army has given Kylot a clear message. If it weren't for the people in the Revolutionary Army's brain problems, then their current situation had reached an extremely dangerous level, so that even if they wanted to offend the future development of their territory, they would have to hold their noses and fuck them.
After dinner slowly, the night in October came early, around 6:30, the sky was completely dark, but the city of Lazina was still bustling, and the streets were brightly lit. Kelot and Bassas were walking on the road. They were preparing to go directly to the core area of Lazina, which was where the leaders of the revolutionary army gathered. As the envoy of Gonza City, Kelot was going to visit these people.
"Come on, this is your food, save some food."
Behind the simple stall, several people wearing dark green uniforms were constantly taking out bread from the back and putting it on the table. In front of the stall were more than a dozen people wearing worker's clothes, and there were also a large number of various utensils next to them.
The amount of food provided was not much. I had encountered a few before. Kylott compared it in his mind. It seemed that the unity was two palm-sized bread and water bottles. The level was similar to the month when Gonza City was just rebuilt. It was just the initial reality. Now Gonza City has its own business system, and the tourism industry is in full swing. Bread and other things will still be provided, but that was prepared by an outsider and can only be provided for one month with a temporary residence permit. If you can't survive in Gonza City, where jobs are everywhere, it can only be said to be a personal problem.
"Brother, are you free food?"
Kylot stopped, and Bashas guessed his thoughts and decisively escaped from his arms. A roast chicken that he had bought in the restaurant and prepared for lunch for lunch, stepped forward, tore off a chicken leg and handed it over, and found the topic of the conversation and began to inquire about the news. Kylo nodded, and he did have the intention to go up and ask.
Five minutes later, Bashas returned, and the roast chicken in his hand had been divided by several workers there.
According to the information he heard, the stalls were set up by the Revolutionary Army and were found on every street. The principle of setting this thing seems to be based on the fair distribution regulations within the Revolutionary Army, that is, unified and fair resource allocation. If the people who follow the Revolutionary Army live in the city of Latina do not have private jobs, they will get job opportunities in the factory incorporated by the Revolutionary Army. This kind of job cannot be paid. The revolutionary Army distributes houses, food, and clothing for free, so this phenomenon of queuing up to receive food.
Everyone receives bread of about the same size, and only those who work hard will occasionally receive rewards for meat.
"Is this method a solution to the problems of employment and factory operations? The factory that is included... should be the industry of the nobles. Bashas, please ask what the products produced by these factories are, how to sell them, especially the direction of their sales, and ask them as much as possible."
The Revolutionary Army is currently in a state of war with the Government Army of the Principal of Rhone. Acquisition of their goods means helping the Revolutionary Army. The Principal of Rhone’s policy on this behavior is the same as the Revolutionary Army of the Lorraine Empire targeted Lorraine. Anyone who is found to trade with the Revolutionary Army will be regarded as treason, raiding the house, and shooting it!
Bashas asked again, the result was not ideal this time. The workers only knew that the things they produced included steel, machinery, and some arms, which were key industries, which were once controlled by the nobles, but now there was no problem in the hands of the revolutionary army. As for whom they sold, the workers had their own opinions, but most of them were imaginations without any basis.
"Hey! You two, hold your head in your hands and squat down!"
Bashas was reporting the situation to Kellot, and a dozen revolutionary soldiers holding weapons suddenly rushed over next to him. The goal was clear, that was the two of them. Bashas' first reaction was to counterattack, and there was gravel on his hands. He wanted to kill these ordinary people without five seconds!
But the next moment he was pressed down on his shoulder by Kylot, who was not ready to clash with the Revolutionary Army in such a place.
"We have no malice. Why do you guys arrest us?"
Raising his hands, Kylot tried to communicate with them.
"No malice? Then you are here to inquire about the news about our Revolutionary Army! Humph, in the afternoon, someone reported you two to sneaky, but we were still stubborn when we found out, saying, Who sent you spies!"
"I think you misunderstood."
The other party regarded himself and Bashas's inquiry about information as stealing intelligence.
"Misunderstanding? Is it a misunderstanding? Just go with us and I will know it. I'll be handcuffed!"
"Sorry, I have not been tied up with handcuffs, and I don't want to try it. Go back and tell your leader that I am an inspection mission sent by Gonza City. I just want to see your situation. This is my identity certificate. Please submit it directly. Someone will know. You can also go to the people in Gonza City to verify."
The certificate that Kylot gave was naturally that Channing had prepared long ago, with the stamp of the Gonza City government on it.
Not to mention the authenticity of these two certificates, at least they did not let these people directly take Kylot and Bashas into prison, but instead allowed them to go to the core area of Lazina under the siege of Revolutionary soldiers.
It is said to be the core area, but it is actually a street that includes the mayor's mansion. Before the Revolutionary Army occupied this, the place where the nobles and government executives lived in Lazina. Most of the buildings inside were very exquisite small villas, and now it is the place where the leaders of the Revolutionary Army lived.
While they were waiting outside the core area, the Revolutionary Army also discussed the two certificates. In the conference room, six members of the National Assembly sat down respectively.
"What do you think of these two people who call themselves the messengers of Gonza City?"
Mozaff Slytherin, with her tan short hair, deep eye sockets and high nose bridge, gives people the impression of being capable and calm. The most prestigious person in the revolutionary army sits in the main seat to ask questions.
"Can their documents be confirmed? The information we received some time ago said that the government forces sent people to contact Gonza City... Why did they come to us?"
The upper part of the left is an old man with gray hair. The gleam in his eyes proves that others are old, but their brains are very flexible.
"Did they say anything?"
The woman on the right turned her head and asked the soldiers who were reporting to her.
"He said he was here to investigate our situation."
"Inspection? Why should we inspect us... help the government military find out the news? How about locking up for a few days first!"
"Silly, you haven't watched that documentary? What if they are really an envoy of Gonza City and do nothing, you put them into prison, why do you think the enemy of the government army is not strong enough, and you will find one for yourself?"
Chapter completed!