william was the only one who didn't scream he looked at the others and spoke " calm down the lord must have a reason he never made a mistake "

las looked at william [hmm he is trusting me now this is good , i will need this for the future ideas like muskets ] las spoke " gentlemen please sit down i will explain " everyone sat down and looked at las

"first our food production is weak if i give to the people the land they can feed themselves and i can get all the support i need from the people but the main reason is that if i give to the people the land and organize them i can reduce the power of the landowners "

"gentlemen i wish to abolish the system that is used to tax and punish the commoners if i do this i can centralize the political power now if i want to pass an important law i need to ask them but if i can get rid of them i will have all the power "

"and i don't like them either they use their power to force the commoners to give them the land and they are making them slaves i can't let them do this any longer i must protect my people "

old oliver spoke with hesitation " but my lord this is how it always works if we get rid of them how are we going to govern the region ?"

las spoke back " i will teach commoners how to do it we will run tests to see who can really govern the land "

oliver " my lord you will teach the commoners how to govern the land ? and you are going to let them do it isn't this Ridiculous "

"oliver " scream alfread "look at your words don't talk like this in front of the lord "

las looked at alfread he raised his hand a little "its fine ,oliver the people are not stupid if we teach them how to govern the land they will do it as good as we nobles " oliver was sceptical but the lords order is the law

"so alfread can you do it faster ?" alfread gave a nod and spoke "if i hurry i may be able to do it in 1month and half "

samuel spoke " my lord use the people from my village they are ready , i had taught them how to write and read they only learn some math , so if you let them have some experience they can help "

alfread smiled and he looked at las " my lord if i use them i may be able to do the job in just a month or less "

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las spoke " i will allow it but they are woman so take some trusted soldiers with them "

las looked at oliver and he ask him " oliver i heard that our territory has some benefits in trade and diplomacy "

"yes my lord we have, first the helstain territory can have diplomacy with other lords kingdoms and empires besides war and we have reduced tariffs for trade with other lords its half the normal "

when las heard this he smiled brightly "hahhahaha this is good our paper can make more money than i thought , but is this law enforced by the imperial family "

"yes my lord this law is enforced this is why our land was rich before the fall of our house "

"good the meeting is over go to your jobs i'm going to announce the tax to the people myself ready some knights "

the soldiers in the city spoke about the announcement so many of the commoners were outside the castle

"what does the lord wants to talk about ?"

"is he going to raise the tax ?"

"i saw the knights of the lord going at james castle "

"he is just going to raise our tax or ask as to go to war for him "

"yes yes your right the nobles only care for themselves "

the people were wearing damaged clothes most were as thin as paper some woman had Newborn in their hands hoping for a better future , a young boy around 16 with white hair and purple eyes the child was thin and weak

"is this boy the lord ??"

"this child is the lord we are doomed we are over "

"that boy will rule us "

"we are going to die " the people were screaming all over the place at this moment the knights draw their sword the weak boy spoke in a strong tone "silence !!!!!" no one dared to speak

"greetings my people i'm the new lord las von helstain as you saw james and the bandits are no more i killed them " the people were scared some children hide in the legs of their parents the weak boy was like a lion ready to bite

"now i can govern the land as a lord not a soldier , so i made 2 decisions first the tariffs for merchant is 15% now " no one dared to speak this was something good but the commoners didn't care most of them weren't traders but then he spoke

"and there will be only 1tax this is the income tax things like child tax marriage tax and anything else will be deleted " the people were surprised

"what we are going to pay only tax ?????"

"did i hear correctly??"

las spoke again " and the tax will be ...." something cut the words of las it was the cry of a child the woman with the child fell to her knees " my my my lord i am sorry please forgive my child please spare my boy " the woman was crying she was trembling her husband got in front of her " my lord take my life spare my wife and child i will take punishment for them "

las looked at him he smiled a little then he started to laugh the man was scared he thought that the lord was going to rape his wife and kill his child but then las spoke " hahahahhahahah its fine the child must be hungry take it home i won't punish you for this " the people around were surprised "thanks my lord thanks for sparing my life "

las looked around and spoke "as i was saying the tax will be reduced to 20% from the 70% it was before "

"what the tax will be reduced ????"

"a noble is caring for us "

"long live the lord " was heard from someone , silence stayed for some time and then the people started to scream

"long live the lord " "long live helstain " "long live lord las " everyone was happy