Chapter 56 Viscount Leslie's Determination

It wasn't just Archie and Leia who got married without their knowledge.

In the north of Lampari Kingdom, on the Muerto Mountains, which is more than a thousand kilometers away from Xinfei Farm, Viscount Leslie looked at the letter in his hand, sneered, and used his hands to put the letter written on exquisite letter paper. The letter was torn to shreds in an instant, and then tossed randomly into the mountain stream beside him.

In an instant, countless pieces of paper fell, as if a light snow had fallen in the mountains.

Watching the piece of paper fall into the mountain stream and disappear, Viscount Leslie was silent for a moment, then looked back at the other colleagues of the Zhenbei Army around him, thinking that they must be like other ordinary people in their hearts, and they are very envious of being born in the Stark family. This big aristocratic family does not know that as the descendants of the big aristocratic family, there are many places that they can't help themselves.

For example, in this letter sent by the mother, it shows that the family has set a marriage for him, and there is no room for him to refuse.

The girl who is about to become his wife is the youngest daughter of the patriarch of the Aleman family. She is twenty-three years old this year. According to her mother, she is beautiful and has a mild personality. After two years of service in the army, he immediately returned to the city of Anvilmar to get married. Viscount Leslie could only sneer at her mother's evaluation of this Miss Aleman.

Perhaps this Miss Alleman was indeed beautiful and gentle, but Viscount Leslie never believed that Her Lady Mother was going for her. The reason why she was certain that this Miss Alleman would become his wife was just for the sake of it. Just the Aleman family.

It is not uncommon for nobles to marry, and Viscount Leslie has long expected that such a day will happen to himself.

He has resisted this kind of thing for nearly ten years, and now he has finally dragged it on until he is in his thirties, but he can't drag it on any longer.

Looking at another letter in his hand, which is much simpler in comparison. Viscount Leslie showed a wry smile.

"In comparison, Xu Yi is much freer than me, at least he can be with the girl he really likes."

Lord Leslie sighed, opened the letter from Xu Yi and read it carefully.

The letter Xu Yi sent to him naturally didn't have so many parents, but briefly described to him the development plan of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce during this period, and asked him about the current situation of the Zhenbei Army.

The focus of the inquiry was on the armament of the Zhenbei Army. If this question were asked by someone else, it would definitely be charged with spying on the military situation, but Xu Yi himself had a false title of a military position, and the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce and the military logistics department had a very deep cooperation. Xu Yi is qualified to know these situations.

I hope that Xu Yi can also ask Major McConley about these questions, but he can only get general statistical data from Major McConley, as for the specific details. Of course, people like Viscount Leslie who are in the Zhenbei Army know this best.

However, after seeing these questions in Xu Yi's letter, Viscount Leslie smiled bitterly.

"How should I answer him?"

Viscount Leslie glanced back at his colleague who was using a magic kettle that had been smashed to the ground and was boiling water. He thought that if the Army Logistics Department would not supply Zhenbei Army again. , I am afraid that the armament of the Zhenbei Army cannot keep up with the consumption, and it will not take long for the Muerto Mountains to fall again and fall back into the hands of those guys in the Sark Kingdom.

During the offensive and defensive battle of the Murto Mountains from the beginning to the end of last year. Although the Zhenbei Army relies on a large number of high-quality armaments provided by the military. Occupied the Muerto Mountains in one fell swoop, and pressed the Greedy Wolf Army and Tiger Army of the Sark Kingdom to the territory of the Sark Kingdom in the north of the Muerto Mountains. But in the past six months or so, the Greedy Wolf Army and the Tiger Army never gave up the idea of ​​counterattack.

Despite facing the powerful armament of the Zhenbei Army. The Greedy Wolf Legion and Tiger Legion did not achieve any results, and the Muerto Mountains were still firmly in the hands of the Zhenbei Army, but because of frequent battles. The armament of the Zhenbei Army was depleted very quickly.

Since the second half of last year, the military logistics department's supply to the Zhenbei Army has been greatly weakened. After the winter, except for a few cars of cotton jackets, no other armaments have been added.

The other soldiers of the Zhenbei Army could only complain in private without knowing the truth, but Viscount Leslie knew the specific reason.

Very simple, the military is out of money.

In the offensive and defensive battle of the Muerto Mountains, the military department uncharacteristically provided a large number of military departments, which made the Zhenbei Army show great power, but such a huge military department was very expensive.

Although the armor and weapons are all made by the newly built arsenal through the magic machine tool, the cost is greatly reduced and a lot of money is saved, but maintaining such a large amount of consumption still makes the logistics department unable to support it.

Xu Yi mentioned this issue in a letter sent to Viscount Leslie before. He said in his heart that although many of the armaments provided by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce to the military have almost reached their full cost price, the military But still can't get the money to buy it.

Xu also expressed deep concern about this situation.

If the military does not have enough funds, and the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce cannot provide it for free, then there may be problems with the armament supply of the Zhenbei Army.

Once the army of the Kingdom of Sark counterattacks in the spring, the situation in the Murto Mountains will be extremely dangerous.

In the letter, Xu Yi also hinted to Viscount Leslie that if he perceives danger, he must leave as soon as possible to ensure his own life.

Now in this recently sent letter, Xu Yi has clearly expressed his concerns.

The military has not issued any orders to the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce for more than three months, proving that the military has been completely unable to support the armament consumption of the Zhenbei Army.

This proves from the side that the current situation of the Zhenbei Army is very dangerous.

Seeing Xu Yi hinting again at the end of this letter that if he sees something bad, he must find an opportunity to leave in advance, Viscount Leslie couldn't help sighing and shook his head gently.

Of course he knew that Xu Yi was well-meaning, but he had served in the Zhenbei Army for nearly two years. Even though he was mainly responsible for logistics, he still experienced a lot of blood and rain with his colleagues. I have a very deep feeling for Zhenbei Army.

Although he knew that the current situation of the Zhenbei Army was not good, Viscount Leslie did not intend to abandon this place and escape alone.

But he also knew that his own strength was extremely limited, and with his current ability, he could not solve the real problem of the Zhenbei Army at all—that is, the army had no money.

Thinking of the lack of money, Viscount Leslie developed a deep disgust for Earl Stark, who was far away in Bonta City, his uncle, and even more hatred for the philosophy that his family had always adhered to.

There is obviously a better way to make the entire kingdom rich, but these rotten guys only care about their own interests and deliberately ignore all this. Even severe pressure is required.

In their eyes, the rise and fall of the entire kingdom, the success or failure of all the people, the good or the bad. I'm afraid it's not as important as the long-term survival of your family, right?

"Humph! A bunch of idiots! Now that the world is about to change with the appearance of Xu Yi, you still have to hold on to that old-fashioned concept. If you continue like this, you will become the sinners that will cause the entire family to be eliminated! "

Viscount Leslie narrowed his eyes, pondered for a while, and took out two pieces of letter paper. I wrote a reply letter to Xu Yi first. In the letter, I roughly described the difficulties that Zhenbei Army is currently facing, and I hope that Xu Yi can help solve this problem as much as possible.

Second letter. It was a reply to my mother.

In this letter, Viscount Leslie expressed his willingness to accept the family's arrangement. Returning to Anweimar City to marry Miss Aleman, he also revealed another layer of meaning in a very serious tone.

He, Leslie Stark. We will use our best efforts to fight for the position of the patriarch of the Stark family!

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When Viscount Leslie was writing his reply seriously, Lampari XIII was in the palace looking at the year-end financial report of Lampari Kingdom in his hand, with a smile on the corner of his mouth.

This year's financial statements are much better than last year's. Compared to last year's statistics, the total financial revenue was less than 2 million gold coins. According to statistics this year, all the kingdom's financial revenue has suddenly exceeded 3 million. Gold coins can be said to have made a leap.

However, as the king of a country, Lampari XIII's point of view is of course not so simple.

Two years ago, the annual financial revenue of the Lampari Kingdom was only a mere one million gold coins, but since last year, it has achieved a leap for two consecutive years.

The reason for such an obvious change can be seen from this financial statement that more than 90% of the increase comes from commercial tax.

And if we focus on the commercial tax, we can see from the additional report of the Commerce Department that more than 90% of the increased commercial tax actually comes from the chamber of commerce that produces magic machinery. .

In the report, new pilots will be constantly mentioned.

In the past year, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce paid more than 300,000 gold coins to Bangta City in the first half of the year, of which 110,000 gold coins were turned over to the state treasury.

In the second half of the year, because the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce was transferred to the private territory of Viscount Xu Yi, all the taxes paid by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce will be directly owned by Xu Yi, and finally turned over to the state treasury by Xu Yi, a total of two Seventeen thousand gold coins.

In addition, because the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has obtained the right to free trade, in the trade between the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce and other countries, the tax will not pass through Bangta City, but will be directly turned over to the national treasury.

Although the investment and construction of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce in the Black Rice Wasteland, the Duchy of Standing and the Kingdom of Ruerson have only just begun in the second half of the year, the taxes paid are still as high as 130,000 gold coins.

So last year, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce alone paid a huge sum of more than 500,000 gold coins to the treasury.

This does not include all the taxes of the chambers of commerce related to the production of magic machinery that have sprung up all over the kingdom and are influenced by the New Flying Chamber of Commerce.

If these are also counted together, then even more than 1.5 million gold coins of the more than 3 million gold coins collected by the Lampari Kingdom last year were influenced by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.

Moreover, although the business tax increased by other chambers of commerce is not related to magic machinery, it still reaches out to the influence of the new flying chamber of commerce.

Take the Armani Chamber of Commerce in Bangta City as an example, because with the help of the magic textile machine developed by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, the production capacity of the Armani Chamber of Commerce has increased significantly. Although the clothes sold have been reduced to varying degrees, However, due to the substantial increase in sales, the overall profit has jumped.

According to statistics, the total business tax paid by the Armani Chamber of Commerce last year was as high as 320,000 gold coins.

Another example is the Amri Chamber of Commerce, which is mainly responsible for paving roads everywhere in the kingdom. Last year, it also paid a business tax of 260,000 gold coins.

Another example is the Rexton Chamber of Commerce...

...

After looking at it for a while, Lampari XIII suddenly discovered that the major business associations that originally belonged to Bangta City actually added up to the huge business tax of nearly 1.5 million gold coins in the treasury.

However, the total tax paid by Bangta City this year was only 190,000 gold coins.

Compared to last year, it is undoubtedly far worse.

Looking at this incomparably obvious contrast, Lampari XIII couldn't help but let out a sneer.

"I want to see, those guys still have the face to say what."