The Britannian Empire currently has 36 vassals in China.

Although these 36 vassals have fiefs and have extremely high autonomy in each other's fiefs, not every vassal lives a prosperous life.

More than half of the vassals' living standards are even less than that of some merchants with a little property.

There are two main reasons why the living standards of the vassals are so different and so many poor vassals are so different.

The first reason is that some vassals have not had rich fiefs.

Not all vassals, like Duke Connaught, have such a vast and rich fiefdom.

The fiefs obtained by some vassals were small and poor.

The annual output of the fiefs of a few vassals is not even as good as that of the Duke of Connaught for half a month.

If the fiefdom is barren, it will naturally lead to the poverty of the vassals.

Of course, although these vassals with poor fiefs could not live a luxurious life like Duke Connaught, if they save money, they could still live a wealthy life with a standard of living far above ordinary people.

However, because of the existence of something, the vassals who were originally alive became poorer, and the vassals who were already poor became even poorer.

Such things are also the second reason why so many vassals' living standards are not as good as those of wealthy businessmen with a little property - they have to pay huge tributes to the central government every year.

As vassals of the Britannian Empire, although they had many rights, they also had quite a lot of obligations.

One of the major obligations that the vassals have to bear is to pay tribute to the central government regularly.

The Britannian Empire was one of the countries in the mainland with the largest gap in strength between the central government and the vassals.

The total military strength of all the vassals in the Britannian Empire was only 20,000.

The central central Britannian Empire sent a...half knights to easily pacify all the vassals in the country.

It is precisely because of the huge gap in strength and weakness between them and the vassals that the Britannian Empire always "bully" these weak and bullied vassals in the country in different ways.

For example, five years ago, at the roundtable meeting in the 290th year of the Imperial Calendar, the central government once again raised the tribute tax rate.

Increase the tribute rate from the original 40% to 45%.

"Trial rate" - this is a terrible word that only makes the vassals of the Britannian Empire unable to help sweat when they hear it.

The tribute rate - as the name suggests, is the tribute quota that the vassals had to pay to the central government of the Britannian Empire every year.

After the increase at the roundtable meeting five years ago, the current tribute rate has reached an astonishing 45%.

For every 100 Yingluck income, 45 Yingluck income will be paid to the central government.

No bargaining is allowed.

There were once some vassals who concealed their real income from their territory and wanted to pay less money to the central government.

For the vassals who dared to challenge the authority of the central government, the central government of the Britannian Empire was never ruthless, and directly confiscated the fiefdom, revoked the nobles, and demoted them to civilians.

It is precisely because there have been some fools in China who dare to do such a dying thing that now there are [only] 36 vassals left.

This extremely high tribute rate has made many vassals who originally lived a good life poor.

The vassal, who was already very poor, became even poorer.

None of the vassals in the country did not have any objections to the central government's extremely high tribute and tax rate.

Even the richest Duke Connaut, when he remembered the tribute rate of up to 45%, he could not help but smile bitterly and sigh with helplessness.

After all, for every 100 Yingluck income, 45 of them must be given to the central government unconditionally - not everyone can accept this kind of thing calmly.

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After urinating, Ron once again let out a comfortable moan, then put on his clothes and walked out of his exclusive toilet.

Ron couldn't help but sigh as he left his toilet.

If possible, Ron really wanted to stay in the bathroom for a while.

After all, for Ron, who has the quirk of defecation, his exclusive toilet, which is always fragrant, is like his harbor.

But he couldn't do that, he couldn't stay in his toilet for too long now.

Because his eldest daughter and his younger brother are still waiting for him to come back in his room.

If they were asked to wait for him for too long, Ron would feel sorry for him.

When he returned to the room and pushed open the door, Ron saw the eldest daughter, Boris and his younger brother Nolid, who had been waiting for him to come back in his room after he ran to the bathroom.

Boris McCludill – Ron’s eldest daughter.

Nolid McRudill - Ron's brother with his father and mother.

After seeing Ron come back, the two of them immediately gathered up and continued the topic of being forced to interrupt because Ron ran out to the bathroom halfway through.

"Father!" Boris, who had just turned 15, whispered to Ron, "Don't listen to uncle!"

"Belis!" Nolid shouted in a loud voice that was not inferior to Belis at all, "How many times do you have to say it before you can listen to me!"

"As long as you agree to help the central government with all your strength, I will listen to my uncle obediently!"

"Nothing! Why do we have to devote our efforts to help the central government?"

Looking at the two people in front of him who had a quarrel again, Ron sighed helplessly in his heart.

The eldest daughter is arguing with her own brother - Ron has seen this picture countless times in these days.

When the central central Britannian Empire had some more formal exchanges with domestic vassals, there was always an unwritten practice.

That is, the central government of the Britannian Empire would send a quick horse to report messages and a formal group of envoys.

Because the fast horses are small in number and are all skilled in equestrianism, they use the best horses, so they will definitely arrive at the vassals who are about to start exchange activities before the formal envoys.

After arriving, Kuaima will roughly inform the vassal of what content the Central Committee intends to exchange with him this time, and then prepare the vassal and slowly wait for the arrival of the formal envoys.

The Central Committee borrowed troops from Duke Connaught this time, and also continued this convention and sent a group of fast horses and envoys.

The fast horses sent by the Central Committee this time arrived at the Duke of Connaught before the 3rd and informed Ron and the others that the Central Committee planned to borrow troops from them.

Before waiting for the arrival of the official envoys in the central government, there have been countless quarrels between Ron's eldest daughter, Berrys and his younger brother Nolid.
Chapter completed!