Pioneer Lord: Starting From Daily Intelligence-Chapter 467 - 187: Iron-blood Chancellor’s Methods and the Rapid Revitalization of the Territory

A short-term, controllable fiscal deficit and debt situation is a healthy state for the territory. After listening, Su Li felt a sense of enlightenment.

He had always been thinking about this issue, wondering what means besides the help of the Dawn Goddess could he use for agriculture and development?

It seems that Oliver’s proposal for this territory investment plan might be a good new growth engine.

Su Li asked, "How do you plan to do this specifically?"

Oliver took out a map bordered with giant troll hide from his waist. After unfolding it, he pointed to the cultivated areas marked with ghoul grease, "The Blood Pine Forest and the Vibranium Ore in the Gray Mountain Range both need fresh blood. Attract vagabonds with loot, tame serfs with tax exemption orders, and buy miners with attendant qualifications—when starving lowly people rush into the wilderness for bread, we can pave a flesh-and-blood path to the gold mine with their bodies."

"My Lord, just talking may make it difficult for you to get a concrete impression. Why don’t we go into the city and take a look?"

Su Li thought for a moment and nodded. After so long recuperating, it was his first day getting out of bed, and he ought to check the state of the Hesse Territory.

Oliver was clearly planning a new policy. After getting Su Li’s assurance of support for his investment, Oliver directly led Su Li to the Festival Square in the south of the city.

Here remained the liveliest area of Hesse Town. A large number of free people gathered here waiting for the territory’s reply. When Minister of the Seal Lauren and the civil servant announced to them that the generous Lord would distribute thirty percent of the spoils to them, the Festival Square instantly turned into a sea of celebration, just like its name suggests.

Apart from the Free People’s Corps members, a large number of the territory’s free people, refugees, and farmers also gathered here. In their eyes, besides envy for these warriors, there was also bewilderment over their future lives.

The Green Dragon’s invasion destroyed their villages. Traces of war ravaged the west side of the town, not to mention their rural villages?

The Minister of Agriculture and the Dawn Church were also powerless in this regard. Vandar remained under the Holy Purple Vine Tree, needing to prioritize ensuring the survival of the territory’s Extraordinary Grain and Extraordinary Spirit Tree.

The nuns of the Dawn Church also needed to prioritize tending to the fertile fields of Lord Bjorn of Jorn Shallow Bay. These disaster-stricken farmers dared not hope for their lord’s relief, so where could they go?

Amid everyone’s confusion and bewilderment, before the morning mist had cleared from the square, Oliver struck the bronze bell with a gilded staff. As the Dwarf Engineer started the steam crane, thirty four-wheeled carts full of seeds began to roll out of the castle slowly, leaving deep marks on the cobbled road, with the banners of the Bauhinia Clan and the noble insignia of the Griffins fluttering on the cart shafts.

Upon seeing the civil servants in front of the carts, the residents immediately gathered around. The notice board of the Hesse Territory was just south of the Bauhinia Palace, located on the east side of the bridge connecting to Bauhinia Town. Important administrative affairs, celebrations, and tax activities of the territory were all publicly posted here.

All the disaster-stricken refugees and landless civilians were eagerly hoping for a bit of mercy and leniency from the lord.

"In the names of Bauhinia and the Double-tailed Comet!" The civil servant unrolled a gold-embossed proclamation: "Whoever voluntarily moves to the new cultivated area in the Blood Pine Forest can receive three bags of winter wheat seeds and two draft horses per household, with a twenty percent tax exemption from the Nineteen Taxes for five years!"

As he spoke, the proclamation shone with golden light; the gold powder mixed with dragon blood burned in the dawn, signifying that this decree, fair and approved by the Divine Spirit, would be valid for everyone. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝔀𝓮𝒃𝙣𝓸𝒗𝒆𝒍.𝙘𝒐𝒎

The ragged free people stirred—heading to the new cultivated area in the Blood Pine Forest! This was indeed a policy previously non-existent, could it be that the Blood Pine Forest had now become a safe area?

More importantly, the lord had granted them a tax exemption again, which meant as long as they diligently cultivated this winter, they had a high probability of surviving the Green Dragon’s military calamity!

And Su Li stood under the Religious Holy Image of the Fiery Sun Goddess, watching the cheering crowd, raising an eyebrow. The content of the tax exemption, he understood well. After all, it was an important means for him to earn virtue. Having just won the war against the Green Dragon, he wasn’t short of money, and since the residents had suffered, reducing their taxation a bit more to help them survive the disaster and winter was a proposal he had agreed to long ago.

But this investment project isn’t minor. Three bags of winter wheat seeds and two draft horses per person?

Su Li turned to Oliver and asked, "Such a generous investment, huh? I feel many families might not even have these assets."

As a lord, Su Li essentially did not concern himself with these details. Having agreed to Oliver’s investment request, he directly handed over 15,000 Golden Crowns to him, the largest amount of wealth he could currently utilize.

After giving so much wealth to the Provincial Affairs Council, Su Li did not care how they spent it; he just wanted results!

Before winter arrives, if the territory quickly heals the war’s wounds and agricultural endeavors flourish, resulting in a bountiful harvest of the last round of crops, all would indeed be well. He could continue enjoying life, and the council officials could receive a hefty year-end bonus. But if there were no results, then they shouldn’t blame Su Li for starting to hold them accountable!

Oliver calmly replied, "My Lord, our Provincial Affairs Council believes all of this to be extremely necessary. Only with such abundant investment and subsidies can we attract a large influx of refugees and immigrants to our territory. With a significant reduction in the territory’s population, only by attracting many refugees can we quickly regain vitality."