When the Saint comes, she does not collect food

#488 - Where do people come from? Where does money come from?

People and money are indeed two very critical issues.

Firstly, according to the current system, Horn can only collect taxes from Red Maple Township and Ibe Township.

Roughly 13 diocesan monasteries and 2 township monasteries need to be established in these two areas.

According to the personnel configuration, Horn needs 100 to 150 itinerant monks, 60 to 90 administrative officers, 200 to 300 monk assistants, and 30 to 40 members of the Holy Father Society as recording monks.

Currently, Horn only has enough reliable personnel to satisfy Red Maple Township, while Ibe Township in the south is almost autonomous by the centurions.

Where will the missing half of the personnel come from?

"Isn't the personnel problem easy to solve?" In the sound of the rain pattering outside the window, Horn's voice was not loud but very clear, "We have monks from the Brago Monastery, we have various night schools and literacy classes, and the Megedi Merchant Guild can also provide a group of reliable talents.

Miracle priests can also take on positions, and we can also promote some centurions internally to become itinerant monks.

These people are enough to fill our vacancies."

The greatest wealth that Juan Nuo left to Horn and the others was not prestige or land, but ideas and people.

A major reason why Horn wooed Catherine was that she was regarded as Juan Nuo's second successor.

Although her witch identity was exposed, didn't Horn immediately canonize her?

This was to maintain Catherine's influence within the Juan Nuo faction.

The thousands of priests in the Brago Monastery, under the influence of Juan Nuo's pragmatic ideas, all had experience in local governance.

Although this sacrificed the church's rule in Kaxia County, it trained a large number of monks and priests with grassroots experience and even military experience.

Moreover, due to the church's burning of Juan Nuo, all Juan Nuo factions are staunch opponents of the church.

Not only the Juan Nuo faction, but also wizards, the Megedi Merchant Guild, bullied artisans, citizens, and farmers, and low-level monks oppressed by high-level bishops...

Thanks to the church for open-sourcing, Horn doesn't have to spend much effort to get a group of qualified and reliable people to fill the administrative vacancies.

When the empire and Prince Kongdai are enemies, they will definitely not betray.

The moment Horn raises the banner against the church, although he will be met with first-class hostility from the church, once they obtain some victories against the church, they will immediately become a gathering place for church opponents.

Initially, the Juan Nuo faction expanded its power and absorbed a large number of people dissatisfied with the church.

After the Battle of Rapid Stream City, a considerable number of applicants poured into the borders of the Savior Papal State.

They all came with desperate blood feuds, and their only purpose was to resist the church.

This gathering effect is currently only happening in the Thousand River Valley. If one day Horn can make a name for himself throughout the empire.

Then the Thousand River Valley will become a gathering place for rebels, just like Black Snake Bay.

"The Brago Monastery will be visited by the abbot himself leading fifty monks at the end of the month," Catherine said in a timely manner, claiming credit for this.

"Various monasteries in our territory also have low-level monks fleeing to join us, a dozen or twenty every month," Armand followed up.

Madeleine then said: "As for those assistant positions, unemployed accountants and petty citizens will automatically fill them. A few days ago, Sid, the head of the notary guild, was still complaining to me about not being able to find a job."

In this way, the problem of people is basically solved, leaving only the problem of money.

"In that case, this leads to the question of how our new taxes should be collected."

Hearing Horn's words, everyone perked up their ears, and even the dozing officers raised their heads.

This meant that their military expenditure for the next year could not be taken lightly.

"The new tax system will completely overturn the old tax system, abolish all tributes and miscellaneous taxes, and collectively call it the Piety Tax," Horn opened the booklet in his hand, "Please turn to page 29 of the 《Plan》."

The so-called Piety Tax is to uniformly collect 25% of the tax based on the acreage of the field.

Of this 25%, 10% will be converted into monetary tax and submitted to the Imperial Privy Council, and the remaining 15% will be stored in the township monastery's warehouse.

Before paying taxes, the Imperial Privy Council will give a grain guidance price, and then purchase a batch of grain according to the grain guidance price.

After that, grain merchants must not buy grain below this guidance price.

In an ideal situation, assuming each diocesan monastery has 75 centurion districts, and each centurion district has 4,000 acres of land, which can produce 360,000 pounds of grain.

Then each centurion must submit 90,000 pounds of grain to the diocesan monastery, of which 36,000 pounds must be converted into monetary tax.

At this time, the grain guidance price is half a dinar per gallon (9 pounds), which is 2,000 dinars.

A diocesan monastery with 75 centurion districts is 150,000 dinars, which is 1,250 gold pounds.

Then the Imperial Privy Council will ask the diocesan head of Red Maple Township for the tax of 7 diocesan monasteries, totaling 8,750 gold pounds in cash.

As for the remaining taxes and grains, they are all the township monastery's own little treasury.

If the township monastery operates well and the collected grains are converted into more currency, then the excess part belongs to the township monastery itself.

In other words, the Imperial Privy Council only wants monetary taxes, not in-kind taxes.

"This is just the part related to the grain tax, right?" Sisi adjusted her gold-rimmed crystal glasses, took the part marked with a red circle from Catherine, and glanced at it, "How about taxing fruit forests, fish ponds, cash crops, small mines, etc.?"

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Seeing Sisi and Catherine's small actions, Horn couldn't help but smile and didn't expose them.

He knew that Catherine had just joined, and although her status was higher than Sisi, her voice was actually not as good as Sisi's.

Some things Sisi could say directly, but she couldn't.

Even if what she said was right, how many people would be willing to listen was a big problem.

Before she made actual achievements, she could only vote more and speak less.

Catherine was more of a tycoon than a merchant, and she saw the political gaps quite clearly.

"It's very simple, the cost of collecting these taxes does not offset our administrative costs, so it's given to the local area as the Holy Treasury," Horn explained with a smile.

"Holy Treasury?" Sisi raised her head in astonishment. She hadn't heard this term for a long time.

The initial Holy Treasury system was just a wartime system, forcibly eliminating private wealth and collecting all spoils of war regardless of who they belonged to.

This played a big role in their escape route.

However, after the establishment of Autumn Dusk Island, this system was tacitly abandoned by everyone.

In fact, apart from appearing in 《The Holy Grandson's Expedition》 to play a promotional role, it basically had no other role.

But now, Horn is preparing to inherit the holy gene and regain the Holy Treasury system.

Specifically, if the central government finds it difficult to supervise local tax types, and if the income does not offset the central administrative costs, then it will be given to the local area.

As the saying goes, the county magistrate is not as good as the current administrator. For these taxes, it is much easier for the monk chief and the centurion to collect them than for the Imperial Privy Council to collect them.

After all, they are considered their own disposable fiscal income, so they will definitely be more active in collecting them.

Taxes that are difficult for the central government to supervise, including local cash crop output, rural workshops, fruit forests, fish ponds, and other taxes in the centurion district, are taxed one-tenth into the Holy Treasury.

After all, the centurion monks are very clear about what the centurion district produces and who is engaged in what industry.

In addition, since this part of the tax directly collected by the local government comes from industries other than non-agricultural mines, the monks are certainly willing to develop it, after all, it can increase their fiscal revenue, so why not do it?

"But in this case, will the income of the Imperial Privy Council be too little?" Mitne, who had just joined, couldn't help but ask.

Compared to the Gulag's focus on military affairs, those from the Megedi Merchant Guild are more enthusiastic about economic affairs.